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Our next stopping place is Ponakin, where lives the only man, so far as known, who owns and occupies the land which has come down to him in direct male line, from one of the first proprietors of Lancaster. "Knight's pasture," often re- ferred to in former pages, was between the Concord road, and the Penacook river, but where Knight lived is not recorded. His descendant, William Knight, claims, that among his possessions was the Ponakin estate, including the water privilege, where some of his descendants have improved the power. East of the house, at the upper end of the intervale, is Squantum, where the Indians had a temporary, and perhaps a permanent home. The hill north of the house was formerly called Beman hill.
Keeping up the road, and turning to the right through the woods,-one of the charming sylvan roads of Lancaster,- the traveler comes to the Knight place, once the home of Manasseh Knight; farther along on the same side of the road, resides Mr. Colburn. Back of his house, in the field, once stood the house of James Rugg, a man still held in
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FATAL ACCIDENT.
good repute, though he died many years ago. He was the father of Josiah N. Rugg, who resides on the road some twenty rods east, and of other sons and daughters, among whom was one whose sad and tragic fate filled the family and the neighborhood with sorrow. Miss Martha K. Rugg was on her way to Detroit, to visit a sister, in August, 1844, in company with a friend who was a partner of her sister's husband. The accident which cut short her journey and her life, at the same time, is told in these words : "On the morning of August 24, whilst approaching Table Rock, she stepped upon the bank, about fifty rods below the Museum, letting go the arm of the gentleman who accompanied her, in order to pluck some evergreens, when the earth, giving way with her weight, she was precipitated down a perpen- dicular height of one hundred and twenty feet, falling on a bed of sharp rocks! The poor girl gave one piercing shriek ; her companion grasped her shawl, which gave way, and she descended ! A doctor from New York, who was near at hand, hastened with others down the stairs, and after much labor and fatigue, reached the fatal spot, where they found Miss Rugg on the pointed rocks, still alive." She was bled, and reviving, said faintly to those around : " Pick me up." She was borne down to the river side, and con- veyed in a boat to the ferry landing. Being taken thence to the Clifton House, she survived about three hours from the time of the accident. Her remains were taken to De- troit for burial, the means of transportation at that time making it very difficult to bring them to Lancaster. The sudden death of one so young and so much beloved by her friends, excited mingled grief and sympathy.
Crossing the fields, north by west, we reach the "old Sam. Rugg place," but the mill is gone. Here lived an original genius who not only made improvements in machin- ery, but is said to have invented new combinations which enabled others to make fortunes out of patents that of right belonged to him. He was a man of strong mind and good
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sense, and did much to enrich other men without any great benefit to himself. He will be remembered from the speech in town meeting on the subject of education, in which re- spect he is like the more famous " single speech Hamilton."
If the traveler is on foot, and the time is winter, the best way will be to go through the woods and across Spectacle pond. This route is very pleasant, and will take him to the north end of the eastern bow of the Spectacles, where lived the Cleverly family, in a little neighborhood of four or five families. The houses are all gone, and only a few ragged apple trees, and garden shrubs remain to show that human hopes and fears, griefs and joys once centered there. The last of the Cleverly family was recently brought from the insane hospital to be buried in Lancaster. One of a former generation was a queer genius, somewhat "allied to mad- ness," who was addicted to writing doggerel verses. These by their cynical tone, hard hits, and apt personalities, had currency from mouth to mouth, and gave him a certain local fame. "Mobtown," one of his longer poems, is quoted still by aged persons.
It was through this section, from the west to the east side of the town, that Mother Ann Lee swept like a tempest, revolutionizing the whole region. But there were some fam- ilies on which she made little or no impression ; as the Far- wells, Ruggs, Whites, and others. Paul Willard, who built and carried on the Brick tavern, and Col. Henry Haskell, whose daughter was Willard's first wife, were untouched by her fervid appeals.
It is almost incredible to what an extreme the credulity of some people reached, in those days. It is said that the noted Ireland, living in Harvard, gave out that he should never die; and there were some who believed him. But he did die, and then his friends tried to conceal the fact by burying him in a field of growing corn. The intention was to report that he had mysteriously disappeared, without " tasting death." Mother Ann was opposed to this folly.
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It is also related that his disciples in Lancaster undertook to play the role of raising the dead. It was given out that on a set day, towards evening, a dead man would be raised to life, on the top of a certain hill. It was "training day," and one Butler, a member of the company, having done his duty as a soldier, was on his return home, about tipsy enough to be up to a rough joke, and yet sober enough to do it well, as the hour of resurrection drew nigh. He came up to the fence where he could see the pine coffin in which the dead man lay. Loading his gun with powder and ball, he announced that he also would raise the dead to life. In a loud voice he said, "I shall count one, -two, - three, and at the word three send a bullet through that box." Then taking aim, he cried out " one, - two "- when a man sprang from the coffin and ran down hill as fast as his legs could carry him. But the community long since worked clear from these vagaries, though the "lying spirits " seem still to "re- visit the glimpses of the moon," and mix with other forms of credulity.
We cannot leave the north end without feeling a touch of sadness at the sight of so many old cellars, and fragments of chimneys, where respectable families once dwelt, and of such a large area, formerly yielding good crops, but now comparatively barren. Surely the hand of skillful industry would make these acres smile with a bountiful harvest. If the wholesome influence of our spirited Farmers' Club, whose annual fair and cattle show is the only occasion which brings all the people -old and young - of the town together, could be felt here more potently, there would, without doubt, be a happy revival of the farming interest, and these waste places would be rebuilt.
With our faces towards the sun, and passing the slate quarry and Cumbery pond, we come through the pine woods and skirt the hill, until the very ancient Willard house, marked - 7 - on the "Map of Lancaster" is reached. Among others, here once lived John Willard, or "Old
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Beeswax," which was his familiar name. Of all the queer geniuses ever raised by the town, perhaps he was the queer- est. Only by accident or design did he think, speak or act like his neighbors. When following his natural bent he was always singular. Some said he was crazy ; but if so, there was "method in his madness." There are men of fertile minds, full of thoughts, fancies, projects, and prophecies of the future, who have little practical judgment, or effective industry. John Willard appears to have belonged to this class. He is the man who set the town meeting in a roar, by sportively proposing to put a patent wrench under the meeting-house, so that any man approaching it from what- ever point of the compass, might, by seizing the handle, turn the front towards his face. More than fifty years ago he amused himself, and excited the ridicule of other people, by predicting that Lancaster would, some day, become a great thoroughfare of travel and traffic. Sometimes he foretold a ship canal beside Pine hill, and reaching to Providence. Then his mind fixed on a railroad as a medium of transit. He even went so far to impress his notions upon others, as to begin cutting the brush in the swamp, thus making a pas- sage for the surveyors. Careless of the present, he could project his mind into the future, and revel in bright though distant prospects.
Ascending the road we find ourselves on Ponakin hill, and at the end of our walks. Standing here and looking north- ward, the eye covers the sylvan home of one who trained successive swarms of children in the rudiments of education, and taught them to " mind their manners." This was Con- sider Studley, kindly remembered to this day by elderly people. He was also known by another name, because of his love for the fermented juice of the apple. It does not come down to us that he was an intemperate man, or that he was unfit to be the teacher of the boys and girls, the young men and women, of those days. It is rather to his credit, that when most people drank rum, he solaced himself with
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WHITTEMORE.
" mild October." He served in the Revolution as a good soldier, but afterwards made teaching his special calling, and in that way was a public benefactor.
The modern name of this fine elevation is Whittemore hill, so called from a prominent family which has occupied its summit and eastern slope since 1792 until 1877. But Ponakin is the ancient name, which, while pleasant to the ear, connects us with the original lords of the soil.
" It has been established," writes Ebenezer S. Whitte- more, Esq., whose law office is in the old state house, Bos- ton, that the names " Whitemore, Whitamor, Whittamor and Whitmore, originate from John, Lord De Whytemere, who was born previous to the year 1200, and resided at a place now called Whitimore, in the county of Salop, England." The Anglo-Saxon of Whytemere is white meadow or lake, and the inference is that the "name of the place gave the surname to the family." The name now takes the two forms of Whitmore and Whittemore.
Thomas Whittemore, born in Hitchin, Herts, England, about 1595, came to this country between 1638 and 1645, in which year he bought a piece of land in Chelsea. He settled in what is now Everett, and died there in 1660. His son John was baptised in Hitchin, February 11, 1638. He came with his father, and married Mary Upham of Weymouth. His fourth son was Lieut. Benjamin, born in 1669, married in 1692, Esther Brooks of Concord, where he settled, and which he represented in the general court, six years. His son, Nathaniel, born December 11, 1698, removed to Har- vard in 1758, where he died in 1769. He had one son, Nathaniel, jr., who was born in Concord, in 1741, lived in Harvard, and came to Lancaster in 1792. " He was intended for the church, and began to study with Rev. Mr. Emerson, of Harvard, to this end, but this object was finally given up."
This Nathaniel, of the fifth generation, married Martha Farnsworth. All their children were born in Harvard. One of the sons was named Nathaniel, and was born February
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18, 1774, he died in Lancaster, August 5, 1856. Prescott, his youngest, resided on the homestead, and cared for his father until his decease in 1822. He then removed to Rindge, N. H.
Among the children of the last Nathaniel, was Benjamin, who was born in Lancaster, May 3, 1801. He married, June 4, 1823, Mandana, daughter of Rev. Hosea Ballou, of Boston. This brings us to the Rev. Dr. Whittemore, whose venerable form was familiar to all until the last year, when he sold his homestead, and removed to Boston. He began to preach in 1821, and was ordained as a minister, in the Universalist denomination at West Scituate, May 21, 1823. He after- wards preached at Troy, N. Y., and South Boston. In 1843 he was invited to settle in his native town, where he officiated as pastor of the Universalist church several years. His last pastorate was in Norwich, Conn., whence he returned to Lan- caster. His sons are Benjamin B., and Nathaniel H., of Boston, and Murray W., of Norwich.
The youngest brother of the above Nathaniel, was Prescott, born July 28, 1787. He married Lucy Rebecca Gear, of Worcester, October 14, 1811. His death occurred at Bea- trice, Nebraska, June 4, 1865. Six of his thirteen children were born in Lancaster, and the last seven in Rindge, N. H. The ninth child and sixth son is Ebenezer Stowell Whitte- more, who was educated at Michigan University, and received the degree of bachelor of laws at Cambridge in 1855.
Just beyond the Whittemore place, at No. 9, lived Rev. Aaron Burbank, a respectable Baptist minister, and father of two sons who deserve honorable mention as men of sci- ence, and gifted with the faculty of teaching.
And here two other clergymen of the Baptist denomina- tion, by the name of Willard, claim notice, though their early home has not been ascertained. Rev. John Willard, son, as is supposed, of John Willard, was a faithful and use- ful man in his sacred calling. Rev. Erastus Willard, born in the year 1800, left Lancaster early in life. He became a
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man of note in his connection, was learned in ancient and modern languages, and at one time was at the head of the Baptist Mission in France.
Down the southeast slope of the hill, where the barn of Cyrus K. Goodale stands, at No. 2, was the house where Samuel Damon, the father of Jonas M. Damon, lived, and where the sister of the latter, Martha, known as " Myra Dana," from her sprightly auto-biographical romance, was reared. Before her birth, the family moved to Leominster, but re- turned soon after, so that she considered Lancaster as her home. Besides the work just named, she wrote, in connec- tion with a near relative, " Life Scenes in Our Native Village." She was employed in Lowell, in early life, when nearly all the operatives were native born, and she was the spirited lead- er when the girls, by thousands, struck for higher wages, and left the mills. Her present name is Mrs. M. W. Tyler.
Looking southward as far as Phelps street, the eye rests on the spot,-No. 32-where the old sexton, Elijah Coburn, lived forty-six years. He was a character, as is quite often the case with sextons and grave diggers. One anecdote about him must suffice, but it shows the practical turn of the man's mind, though he talked as if possessed of supernatural power. The case was this. He had buried a woman, but could not get pay for his work. After dunning till his patience was exhausted, he met the widower one day, and threatened to bring up his deceased wife. The man was incredulous, when Coburn said : " If I am not paid before Sunday morning, you will find your wife on the front door-step, coffin and all." The debt was paid. :
The same spot was the home of the Beaman family during four or five generations. Their farms were on both sides of the road, and one of their homes was on the spot now owned by Charles Safford, No. 38. Gamaliel was the first of the name in Lancaster. His son Joseph, born in Dorchester, in 1651, succeeded him. He was followed by his son John, who was a member of the First church in 1708. In 1710 the
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latter had a son John born to him, who was the father of Joseph Beaman. The latter was the grandfather of Rev. C. C. Beaman, of Boston, who was educated, in part, in this town, as appears from the interesting reminiscences on pre- ceding pages.
Our walks and our history here come to a close. From this height the whole goodly township of Lancaster is in sight, except a narrow outskirt concealed by wooded hills on the north and west. The northern plateau rises before us like an almost unbroken woodland. On the east is the fer- tile slope of the elevation on which we stand. Beyond is Pine hill, and still farther, the ever lovely valley of the Nash- ua. Westward we look out upon Ballard and George hills, and the pleasant valley and intervale of the North branch. Below us, at the south, lie the four villages, which include a large majority of the people of the town, and which adorn one of the most beautiful landscapes in the commonwealth. It is a delightful prospect, suggesting the words of the sweet singer of Israel : " the lines have fallen to us in pleasant places, and we have a goodly heritage." Of this fair heritage of every child of Lancaster, we may gratefully use the inspired words addressed to an ancient patriarch. "Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, and for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the pre- cious things put forth by the moon, And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills, And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush."
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ERRATA.
A few errors in names and dates will be noticed. The varia- tion in the spelling of names, in the volume, is the result of following the records. And generally, the orthography of quota- tions has been preserved.
On page 268, line 8,
329, “ 28,
" Elnina read Elmina M.
" is read in.
" May read Mary G.
" Headley read Hoadley.
" A. D. read A. W.
527, “ 6, add Charles Mason, Isaac F. Woods.
66 547, “ 5, for Dodd read Dadd. insert Daniel Bemis.
623, " 8, 36, 40,
James D. Farnsworth, 1814, 1818.
" Williams, 1854, 1858.
66
624, “ 692, “ 12,
for Rufus read George.
1852 read 1862. 66 K read H.
is read are.
1789 read 1689.
726, “ 18, 66
28, 761, “ 13,
1797 read 1697. " middle read close.
insert Calvin W. and Levi S.
353, “ 1,
398, " 10,
66 481, " 20 & 22,
486, “ 12,
706, " 37, 713, “ 13,
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717, “ 22,
66 784, “ 29,
for Wheeler read Wheelock.
GENERAL INDEX.
This Index refers to names and topics. When names occur in masses, they are not repcated here, but will be found under proper heads. In many cases, names occur in the work, when there is no reference to them in the Index, as when they are used merely to indicate locality.
A.
Abbott, Joseph, 384. Absentee ownership, 78. Abutments of stonc, 454. Academy, 512-15, 521-2. Adams and liberty, 326. Adams, John, 276, 282. Addition to town, 18, 153. Admission of new families, 83. Affecting incident, 109. Alarms, 122, 135. Allen, Ebenezer, 301, 320. Almshouse, 489, 492. Ames, Rev. Marcus, 593, 615, 703, 747.
Ammunition, 287, 407-8, 411. Andalusite, 31. Anderson, Miss M., 700. Andrews, Ferdinand, 427. Andros, Sir E., 121. Anecdotes, 198, 310-11, 451. Animals, wild, 33.
Anne, queen, 121, 130, 164. Annals, 153, 265, 400-3, 406- 12, 426. Arbitrators, 79. Arched bridges, 450. Archives, state, 118, 175, 411. Ardent spirits, 453. Argyle, 164. Arms, supply of. 289. Articles of Confederation, The, 317. of covenant, Y. M. So- ciety, 278-81. Artillery company, 411. Ashuelots, 223.
Assessment, 307-8. Association, league,. etc., 288. Atherton, Benjamin, 173. C., 545. Israel, 317, 342, 364-5, 402, 427. James, 41-2, 54, 58, 72. Jonathan, 312. Joshua, 58. Phinehas, 258.
Attack, on Joslyn family, 126. on Sawyer's garrison, 127-8. on Lancaster, 135, 178. Authors, 601. Awakening, The Great, 241.
B.
Ball and cartridge, 326. Ball, Jacob, 229.
John, 38, 40, 41, killed, 104. Ballard, 21. Capt. Benjamin, 253, 256, 260. Samuel C , 260. Josiah, 272.
Bancroft, George, 562-3, 729. Dea. Tarbell, 469. Banks, 609-10. Baptised children, 236, 469. Baptismal bason, 467. Baptisms, 245. Baptists, 88, 412. relations with, 467-8. Bare hill,134.
Barns, Matthew, 40. Barrett, H. D., 116. Bartol. Rev. G. M., 116, 567- 9, 718, 767. Ordination of, 568. Bass, Edward, 267. Beasts, wild, 211. Belcher, Gov., 197, .216-17, 248. Belknap's Collection, 466. Bellingham, Richard, 77. Bells of London, 216. Bell, ringing of, 421. Beman, C. C., 523, 759. Ebenczer, 207, 213. Gamaliel, 59, 72, 200, 205-7, 523, 661. John, 59. Joseph, 224. Bennett, George, 61, 101. John, 211-12. John, 515. Berlin, 18. Bible, read by all, 99. .Bi-centennial, 488. Bigelow, brothers, 768. Luke, 427. Biglo, John, 144, 667. Billings, William, 59. Bill nuisance, 411. Birds, 33; wild, 211. Black list, 303-4. Bliss, Rev. Mr., 243. Block houses, 200. Bolingbroke, 164. Bolton, 18, 142, 199, 201. Boocore, Monsieur, 135. Bond, William, 118. Books, 601.
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Boundaries, 17, 19, 20, 43. Bowers, Josiah, 485. Boylston, 19, 211. Dr. Zabdiel, 364. Braddock, Gen., 251. Bradstreet, Col., 251, 259. Brattle, Thomas, 157. Brattleboro', 223. Bravery of the garrison, 107. Breck, Edward, 42-3, 46-7, 58, 72. Joseph, 58. -
Riehard, 173. Robert, 58, 73. Breed, Franklin P., 757. Brewer, Moses, 314. Bridges, 24, 70, 202, 212, 269- 70, 272. Atherton, 185, 361, 402, 441-2. earricd away, 445-6, 450. iron, 455, 500-2. stone, 413.
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Bridgman, Samuel, 147. Brooks, 25.
Brooks, Wells S., 224.
Broughton, Edward, 188-9. Brown, Col. Josialı, 252. N. Porter, 616. . Rev. Cotton, 244. Rev. Mr., 514, 575. Thomas, 333.
Buckminster, Lyman, 528. Bulfineh, Charles, 417, Burbank, Levi, 26. Burnctt, Gov., 164, 197. Burying field, Old, 182. ground, Old, 633-4, 675-6. places. 343. yard, North Lancaster, 674. yard, Old Common, 182, 664. yards, 374, 402. Business, 601.
C.
Caley, Widow, 196 .. Call of Mr Thayer. 339. Canada expedition, 125. Canal, 426. Candidates, in 1792, 338, 457. Canoe brook, 22, 197. Cape Breton, 148. Captives, French, 251-2. Capture of Sawyer, etc., 144.
Carleton, Mrs. Naney, 35, | Church, Committee of, 463. 756. Carnes, Lord, 742. Carter, Charles, 746.
Dea. Horatio, 469, 530, 594, 746. Dr. Calvin, 425, 763, 768. Dr. James, 410.
Ephraim, 167, 319, 333. 336.
George, 530, 594, 746.
George P., 757.
James G., 427, 429, 439, 497, 528, 535-6, 756-7.
James C , 757.
Jolın, death of, 141, 252.
Joseplı, 167-8.
Nathaniel, 222.
Oliver, 222, 341-2, 746.
Rev. Samuel, 124.
Riehard, 746.
Sewell, 722. Solomon, 435, 756-7.
Timothy H., 594, 746. William, 757.
Carter's Mills, 55, 65 Casting lots, 84.
Caution in settling minis- ters, 124. Cellars, old, 66.
Cemeteries, 633.
Cemetery, Eastwood, 678-82. Middle, 675-6. North Village, 677-8. Census, 616.
Centennial of 1776, 494.
Center, The, 213, 247. Chandler, G. F., 725. James, 752. Jolın, 40, 42. Jonathan, 38. Miss Alice G., 560-1. Nathaniel, 731.
Changes in town, 394.
Channing, Rev. Dr., 523. Chapin, Abel, 173. Character, 96. Charles II., 121. Charter of 1689, 121. Child, Dr., 41, 54. Children, baptised, 237. Choeksctt, 19. Meeting-house, 210-11, 238.
Church, additions to, 391, 470. Catholie, 599-600.
Brick, cost of, 421. discipline, 241-3, 381, 384, 465. furniture, 467. Hillside, 575. lands, 47, 74. organized, 93. under Mr. Prentice, 231, 237. Cilley, L. G., 735. Classing the town, 309.
Clergy, educated, 93. Cleveland, Capt. R., 528, 530, William, 743. Clinton, 19, 410, 482-3. Clintonville, 509. Clock, 421.
Clotlı and napkins, 467.
Colburn, Warren, 525.
Colleague, Mr. Thayer, 457.
Cotton, Rev. Jolın, 461.
Commissioners, 75, 77, 81. retire, 87.
Communion, terms of, 236, 465.
Committee of inspection, 303.
Concord, 65. Conditions of settlement, 78. Constitution, State, 302, 487. Continental Men, 306, 312- 14. Corn dance, 152. Couneil, 459-60.
County, new, 191-2. .division of, 483. Course of study, 520.
Courtship, 167.
Covenant of the people, 47. church, 161-2, 464. Cromwell, 88, 231.
Crown Point, 252-3, 255. Cuba, expedition to, 217. Cumbery brook, 481. pond, 26. Cummings, Dr. R., 489, 764 Currency. poor, 214. Cutler, Dorcas, 223.
D.
Dahanto, George, 166. Damon, Jonas M., 368. Samuel R., 102, 269, 368, 759.
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Danforth, Thomas, 76, 81, 482. Dark age of New England, 158. Daughters, educated, 95. Davies, John, 38, 40, 42. Day, Sewell, 750. Stephen, 38, 64, 71. Dead horse, 766. Dead river. 69, 185. Dean, Samuel. 59. Death of Col.J. Willard, 228. Dr. Thayer, 476. first settlers, 113.
Rev. A. Gardner, 138.
Declaration of Indepen- dence, 303. Deer's Horns, 21, 212, 772. Deer reeves, 430 Delegates to general court, 158, 205.
to conventions, 318, 423. Denison, Rev. Mr., 134. Disasters in 1757, 257. Discount on taxes, 488. Disease of cattle, 489. Distractions of Mrs. Wil- lard, 267. Distress, extreme, 214. Divinity, Willard's, 195. Division of land, second, 84, 86. Divoll, Ensign. 107. Josiah. 107. Mrs., 98. Doctrine, change of, 388, 463.
Doe, Rev F. B., 586-7. Dogs at meeting, 343. Dorchester, 58. Draper, James, 59.
Drew, Mrs. captive, 107, 112. Dudley, Gov. Joseph, 130, 164. Gov. Thomas, 164.
Dunlap, J. W., 116. Dummer, Fort, 112, 216, 223- 5, 229. 256. Dummer, Gov., 164, 170-2, 220-4.
Dunsmoor. Dr., 212, 268, 289, 311-12, 319. father, 239. William, 656. Dunster, Pres., 97. Dwelley, Richard, 59. Dwight, Pres., 382.
E.
Eaton, Catharine, 469. Ecclesiastical affairs, 89. Education, 89, 94, 159, 276-7, 395, 434-41.
Edwards, Jonathan, 236. Rev. J. E., 689.
Eliot, John, 88, 382.
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