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Daniel Noyes, born Oct. 23, 1673, son of John Noyes and grandson of Nicholas Noyes, has a quaint old headstone, bearing this inscription :-
Here lyes ye body of Mr. Daniel Noyes, who died March ye 15th 1715-16, aged 42 years 4 months and 23 days.
As you are, so was I. God did call and I did dy. Now children all, Whose name is Noyes, Make Jesus Christ Your only choice.
Timothy Noyes, born June 23, 1655, son of Nicholas Noyes,
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and a nephew of Rev. James Noyes, has an epitaph similar in style and sentiment : -
Here lies ye body of Mr. Timothy Noyes, who died August ye 21st 1718, aged 63.
Good Timothy in His Youthfull days He liued much
Unto Gods prays.
When age came one,
He and his wife
They liued a holy
& a pious life.
Therefor you children
Whos nams are Noyes Make Jesus Christ Your only Choyse.
The oldest gravestones in this burying-ground were prob- ably brought from England, and are noticeable for their great width and thickness. They are similar in design and work- manship, and were undoubtedly imported with the winged cherub's head carved at the top, and the scroll-work or border extending down each side, leaving a blank space for inscriptions that were inserted by stone-cutters here. A hard, dark, flinty slate stone from North Wales was much used, though occasionally supplanted by a native granite bowlder or slab in its rough state, inscribed with name and date only.
The lettering upon these tombstones does not seem to have been executed according to any known rule ; and the curious mixture of large and small letters, with now and then an omission or abbreviation, gives them the appearance of having been carved with hieroglyphics.
The modern hearse was unknown to the early settlers of New England. The dead were usually borne to the grave by friends or kinsmen. "Two sets of bearers were appointed : under-bearers, usually young men who carried the coffin on a bier ; and pall-bearers,-men of age, dignity, or consanguin- ity,- who held the corners of the pall which was spread
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over the coffin and hung down over the heads and bodies of the under-bearers. As the coffin was sometimes carried for a long distance, there were frequently appointed a double set of under-bearers, to share the burden."
The Church of England provided in the Book of Common Prayer a service for the burial of the dead ; but the men who organized the colony of Massachusetts Bay, in their desire to ignore the rites and ceremonies of the mother church, forbade the reading of the scriptures as well as prayers at funerals. Now and then a sermon was delivered at the burial of some distinguished person ; but the first prayer of which special mention is made was offered at the funeral of Pastor Adams, of Roxbury, in 1683. The Boston News Letter of Dec. 31, 1730, commends a recent burial service at which prayer was said, and speaks of it as an uncommon and noteworthy Christian observance. Still, the innovation gained ground very slowly, and was not generally adopted until the begin- ning of the nineteenth century.
Judge Sewall, in his Diary, mentions several instances where the committal service of the Church of England was read at the funeral of some distinguished friend ; but he condemns the practice in unmeasured terms.
Having attended the funeral of a daughter of Colonel By- field at Dorchester, he comments on the exercises at the grave as follows : -
Augt 28, 1708. Mrs. Taylor is buried in Mr. Stoughton's Tomb : Bearers, Col. Foxcroft, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Newton, Mr. Mico; Mr. Pain, Mr. Harris, Col. Byfield there, and Mr. Lyde with three children, Mr. Leverett and wife; Mr. Angier and wife. Mr. Sargeant and Col. Hutch- inson were there with their wives as Relations. Gov" and his Lady, Maj. Gen1 Winthrop and his Lady, Mr. Secretary, Sewall, Mr. Em Hutchin- son, Belcher, Mr. Bromfield there; and many others. There was no Prayer at the House ; and at the Grave Mr. Myles read Comon Prayer ; which I reckon an Indignity and affront done to Mr. Stoughton and his Friends : There apears much Ingratitude and Baseness in it because twas Mr. Danforth's Parish, and Mr. Danforth's wife is Cousin German to Col. Taylor : and Col. Byfield and his deceased daughter discenters as I supose. I was much surpris'd and grieved at it, and went not into the burying place.
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A few days later he writes : -
At 3 P.M., Sept 1, 1708, the Council meets, from thence they goe to the Funeral of Mrs. Lyde, Col. Byfield's eldest daughter. Remember- ing what I had met with at her Sister's Burial at Dorchester last Satter- day, I slipt from the Company up to my daughter's, and so went home, and avoided the Funeral. The office for Burial is a Lying, very bad office : makes no difference between the precious and the vile.
Town's Common
Road
BENAIAH TITCOMB
SOMLADY Anul
HENRY SOMERBY
JAMES SMITH
CAPT. EDWARD SARGENT
Road
EDMUND GREENLEAF
Common Land
JOSHUA MOODY
Frog Pond
Country
PENUEL TITCOME
CAPT. EDWARD SARGENT
CAPT. STEPHEN GREENLEAF
The
ANTHONY MORSE
PENUEL TITCOMB
JOSEPH TITCOMB
THOMAS BARTLETT
Pine Swamp Owned by
PENUEL TITCOME Y' JOHN STICKNEY
RICHARD BROWN
Pendi
JOHN STICKNEY
Road
BENJAMIN COKER
JOHN STEVENS
BENJAMIN COKER
Land
JOHN WEBSTER
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TRISTRAM COFFIN
JOHN WEED
WILLIAM NOYES
HENRY LUNT
RICHARD BROWN
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HENRY LUNT
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JOHN BARTLETT
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South Street
Estate of RICHARD BARTLETT
JAMES ORDWAY
Lane
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A PORTION OF THE TOWN
Country
JORN BARTLETT
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EDWARD RICHARD SOM
JOHN BADOER
BENALAN TITCOMCB
AS IT WAS IN THE YEAR 1700 BY SIDNEY PERLEY
SCALE 600 feet to an inch.
TITCOMO
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STEPHEN GREENLAAP
EDMUND GREEN LEAF
JORN GREENLEAF
RICHARD DOLE
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EDTUS SANGIT
HATHORNE COMER
JOHN BARTLETT
FAWN CLEMENTS
EDWARD RICHARDSON
THOMAS MOODY
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BENJAMIN COKER
WILLIAM CHATDLEG
HENTY HALZ
Chandler's Land
Country
HIGH MARCE
JOSEPH HALE
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WILLIAM JOHNSON
Estate of
BENJAMINI PEIRCE
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HENRY LUNT
BENJAMIN C'OKEA
THOMAS MOUDY
COL DANIEL PELack
NATHANIEL CLARK
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JAMES BROWN
CAPT. PETER COFFIN
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Merrimac River
and
MAP OF
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EDWARD RICHARDSON
WATTS' CELLAR AND FROG POND.
The land grants made by the proprietors of Newbury and the subsequent conveyances recorded in the Essex Registry of Deeds indicate that the territory from "Trayneing Green " to Bartlett's Cove, and from South and Low Streets to the Merrimack River, was divided into house lots of four acres each, and assigned, between the years 1642 and 1646, to the ninety-one original freeholders whose names are given on page 292 of Coffin's History of Newbury.
The map that accompanies this sketch gives the size and shape and name of the owner of every lot of land in the vicinity of Watts' Cellar and Frog Pond, and also the loca- tion of every house known to be standing in that portion of Newbury, in the year 1700. The map is drawn upon a scale of six hundred feet to an inch, by Sidney Perley, Esq., of Salem, Mass., from measurements taken from recorded deeds, and is, therefore, reliable and accurate.
The titles from the original grantees in 1645 can, in most cases, be clearly and distinctly traced to the owners of the property in 1700. The changes in the ownership of the four-acre lots, included within the limits of High Street, Ord- way's Lane (now Market Street), Merrimack River, and Chandler's Lane (now Federal Street), are given in detail on subsequent pages of this book from memoranda furnished by Mr. Perley.
The old house that formerly stood on the southeasterly corner of Ordway's Lane (Market Street) and the country road (High Street) has been supposed, by those who were somewhat familiar with its history, to have been the residence of William Morse in 1679, and the scene of the witchcraft delusion described on pages 122 to 134, inclusive, of Coffin's
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History of Newbury. A thorough and careful examination of the deeds of conveyance and probate records made for the purpose of ascertaining the actual facts for publication in this volume proves conclusively, however, that the residence of William Morse in 1679 was on the southeasterly side of Market Square, as will be seen by reference to the sketch descriptive of that locality.
The land on the corner of Ordway's Lane and High Street was first granted to Thomas Browne, and came into the pos- session of John Bartlett, Sr., previous to the year 1660, as will appear in the abstract of title to be given on a subse- quent page. Joseph Morse bought the land April 3, 1701. In the deed of conveyance no house is mentioned. He re- tained possession of the property for forty years, and is the first person of that surname who is known to have lived there. He probably built the house that was standing on the land at the time of his death.
The division line, running nearly east and west, between the land of Stephen, Edmund, and John Greenleaf and John Bartlett, Hannah Morse, and others, is nearly, if not exactly, the centre of the street afterward laid out and now called Green Street.
Benjamin Dole and John Dole, owners of the land at the foot of Greenleaf's Lane, on the westerly side of what is now Market Square, were grandsons of Richard Dole, merchant, who came from Bristol, England, and settled in Newbury in 1639. They inherited the estate from their father, Dr. John Dole, who was a physician, and the eldest son of Richard Dole. The following deposition, recorded in the Essex Registry of Deeds (Ipswich Series, book 3, page 131 (98), has some historical interest, and is especially worth noting in connection with this description of Dr. Dole's old home- stead : -
The deposition of Thomas Rawlings, aged about 28 years. This deponent testifieth that about seven years & foure months past, being at the house of Richard Dole, heard Mr. ffuller profer and engage to Richard Dole, that if he would lett his Sonn John Dole be with him, as long or as little while as his ffather pleased, and did also engage to
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teach and instruct the sayd John Dole in his art & calling wch he did practice, what he could, and maintain him freely as a child of his owne, exsept clothing, all which the sayd ffuller did engage to doe out of love & respect unto Richard Dole and his wife for the curtisies that the sd ffuller did owne he had received from the sayd Dole, and further this deponent saith not.
Sworn in Court held at Ipswich the 28 day of September, 1669.
As attest
ROBERT LORD, Cleric.
Recorded 6 (8) 69.
From 1725 to 1801 the Third Parish meeting-house occupied the triangular piece of land designated on the map as common land, and now known as Market Square.
Watts' Cellar was probably in existence long before the settlement of Newbury. It was on the northerly side of the highway, near the bank of the Merrimack River, and was originally used for the storage of fish by the few brave and intrepid fishermen who occasionally visited the New England coast at that early day. The earliest deeds and grants men- tion this old landmark, and Greenleaf's Lane is at first desig- nated " the way to Watts Cellar." March 26, 1642, the town of Salisbury " granted to Robert Ring two acres of upland upon the island over against Watts' Sellar to be em- ployed about fishing for two years," thus indicating that the inhabitants of Salisbury were familiar with the name and location of Watts' Cellar, although the house that once stood there had disappeared.
The middle shipyard, for many years after the settlement of the new town, was used as a landing-place for boats and for the unloading of hay, wood, and timber. It was con- venient and easily accessible ; and, when the river lots were divided in 1707, it was allowed to remain undisturbed. Vessels were probably built there previous to that date, although no record of the fact exists. March II, 171I, the town voted "that Major Henry Somerby, Captain Sergant, and Lieut. Titcomb shall have power to let ye building yard near Watts' cellar (so called) unto Col. Partridge, Mr. Clement, and Mr. Hodges on such terms as they may agree for."
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The river bank below this building place was low and marshy, with rocks extending out into the river, and two narrow inlets between these ledges, called the east and west gutters, through which the tide ebbed and flowed. In 1655 Captain Paul White was granted half an acre of land " about Watts his Cellar for to make a dock, a wharf, and a warehouse upon "; and similar grants were made to Richard Dole in 1675, and to Stephen Greenleaf, Daniel Davison, Nathaniel Clark, and others in 1680.
Tradition asserts that a narrow creek formerly extended from the west gutter through what is now Market Square, and thence through the land owned by Captain Peter Coffin and Thomas Moody to the river at the foot of Chandler's Lane ; but there is no evidence to be found in the Registry of Deeds at Salem to establish the truth of this statement.
Thomas Moody was a son of Caleb Moody, and for many years was engaged in business as a maltster on the eight-acre lot on Water Street, between Greenleaf's Lane and Chandler's Lane. The southern half of this lot, next to Chandler's Lane, was originally granted to Aquila Chase in 1646, and the other half was owned by his brother-in-law, David Wheeler ; and there, on a certain memorable occasion, was committed a very grave offence, concerning which the records of the county court state that in the month of September, 1646, " Aquila Chase and wife and David Wheeler of Hampton were presented for gathering peas on the Sabbath day." For this offence they were ordered to be "admonished," but the fines usually imposed in such cases were remitted by the court. Aquila Chase and David Wheeler remained in New- bury notwithstanding this unpleasant episode, and retained possession of these two lots of land for ten or twelve years, as will appear from an examination of the titles hereafter given.
Colonel Daniel Pierce probably owned, at one time, nearly all the land on the southerly side of Chandler's Lane from Merrimack River to the country road (High Street). His dwelling-house and malt-houses in the year 1700 occupied the lower, or northeasterly, corner of this lot, nearly opposite
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the estate then owned by Thomas Moody, maltster. His will, dated Aug. 12, 1701, and proved May 8, 1704, gives to his grandson, John Wainwright, "my house standing on the north corner of that land my Malt house stands on"; and in the division of his estate this land is bounded on Chandler's Lane, the highway, and land of George Pierce and William Johnson. To his son Joshua he gives "my now dwelling house with the malt house," and to his son Thomas "the house I built for him on Malt house land."
THE MARCH-HASKELL HOUSE.
March II, 1698-9, Colonel Daniel Pierce, for love and other considerations, conveyed to Dr. Humphrey Bradstreet, "who is the husband of Sarah, daughter of my brother Joshua Pierce," one acre and twenty rods of land (Essex Deeds, book 18, page 57), to which Dr. Bradstreet subse- . quently added the adjoining lot purchased of Stephen Jaquish, as shown on the map.
Henry Lunt, Jr., owned land on the southeasterly corner of Chandler's Lane and the country road as early as the year 1680. He sold to Hugh March, Aug. 20, 1694, a lot of two acres, measuring twenty rods on the country road and
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sixteen rods on Chandler's Lane. No buildings are mentioned (Essex Deeds, book 10, leaf 65).
Jan. 15, 1703-4, Hugh March sold to Benaiah Titcomb one dwelling-house, one barn, one shop, and two acres of land "bounded on the highway Southwesterly and against Chandler's Lane Northwesterly " (book 27, leaf 170).
Jan. 27, 1709-10, Cornet Benaiah Titcomb sold to his son Edmund, who was then living there, the house and land " bounded northwest by Chandler's Lane, Southwest by ye country road, Southeast by Henry Lunt, Junior, northeast by John Calef " (book 23, leaf 147).
Aug. 8, 1716, Edmund Titcomb sold to Joshua Beck two acres of land, with "all the buildings thereon except the shop," bounded and described substantially as above (book 30, leaf 152).
Dec. 30, 1724, Joshua Beck sold to Benjamin Peirce the above-described land, " with all the housing now standing on said land " (book 44, leaf 173).
May 17, 1771, Benjamin Pearce sold to Mark Haskell about one and three-quarters acres of land " where I now live in Newburyport, with my now dwelling house," on the corner of High Street and King Street (now Federal Street) (book 129, leaf 163).
The house above described was owned and occupied by the descendants of Mr. Mark Haskell until the year 1892, when it was taken down and a new house erected on the site.
Frog Pond, like Watts' Cellar, was evidently well known to the early settlers of Newbury ; and grants of land in the new town, previous to 1646, frequently mention the pond, and prove conclusively that it was then, as now, a natural, and not an artificial, sheet of water.
In the abstract of title to the property owned by Stephen and Edmund Greenleaf on the corner of Greenleaf's Lane and the country road, in the year 1700, the grants and convey- ances to and from John Bond, John Bishop, and Daniel Pierce, furnish all the evidence needed to show that the pond was in existence as early as the year 1646.
MARCH-HASKELL HOUSE .- A CORNER OF THE LIVING-ROOM.
MARCH-HASKELL HOUSE .- FIRE-PLACE IN SOUTHWEST CHAMBER.
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At a later date the records of the town of Newbury con- tain frequent allusions to this old landmark. At a general meeting held March 2, 1667, the following vote was recorded by Anthony Somerby, the town clerk :-
In consideration of Penuel Titcomb his resigning & yealding up to the Town five & twenty rods of his land joining unto land by the Old house and his Aple trees, and so running over part of his garden as it is bounded with stakes, & for the Towns use forever, to enjoy which he doth by these presents, There is laid out to Penuel Titcomb a parcel of land about his house by Frog pond twenty five rod Square, as it is bounded with stakes at the four Corners, to enjoy to him & his heirs for ever.
At a general town meeting held in March, 1667, " William Titcomb proposed for the exchange of a parcell of land neer the well at the frog pond to give land proportionable to set his dwelling house upon. The Towne voted that he should have so much, provided it exceed not a quarter of an acre. Archelaus Woodman, John Bartlett, senior, & Richard Knight were appointed to lay it out."
At this time sheep-raising was one of the leading industries of the town ; and the common land from Parker River to Arti- choke River furnished the pasturage for five flocks of sheep, averaging nearly one thousand to each flock. These sheep were attended by shepherds, and kept within certain pre- scribed limits. The "frog pond flock " was allowed the range of " Aps swamp from James Smith to George Marches bridge and dismal ditch and Robin's pound."
Hill Street was laid out at a very early date, and James Smith owned land on the westerly side of it near the town commons, as appears from the following petition : -
July 15, 1687, the humble petition of Hugh March & Thomas Titcomb to the town of Newbury, Whereas, as our land butteth upon the highway or street called the Hill Street, we humbly request that we may have the benefit of free passage as in other of his Majesty's high- ways.
HUGH MARCH, JUNIOR, THOMAS TITCOMB.
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The town granted the proposition above said, the s'd street to be laid open on the first day of November next, & so to lye open perpetually.
Dissent JAMES SMITH .*
The pond at Pine Swamp, with the land adjoining the same, owned by Penuel Titcomb and John Stickney in the year 1700, was originally granted to William Titcomb and Amos Stickney by an order adopted Sept. 19, 1670, as follows : -
Concerning William Titcomb & Amos Stickney, their proposition for the Little Pine Swamp that is enclosed by their Land. The Towne granted the Little Pine Swamp aforesaid to be their propriety, as they both shall agree, to be to them, their heirs & assigns for ever, wth skirts of ye comon adjoyneing, provided that they make & maintaine a suffi- cient fence about the hole for the safety of the Townes cattle from time to time.
William Titcomb died Sept. 24, 1676, and Amos Stickney died Aug. 29, 1678; and the Pine Swamp came into the possession of Penuel, son of William Titcomb, and John, son of Amos Stickney. The lofty pine trees once growing in that neighborhood have disappeared ; and the area of the swamp is now reduced to a shallow basin, on the southerly side of Oak Hill Cemetery, where the water collects and forms a small pond, as marked upon the map.
On the corner of the country road and the way leading to the town's common stood in the year 1700 a dwelling-house, with twenty-eight acres of land, owned by Henry Somerby. As early as 1648 a portion of this property was in the posses- sion of Anthony Somerby, the first schoolmaster of the town. Among the grants and conveyances recorded in the Proprie- tors' Book are the following : -
May 16, 1648, Anthony Somerby was granted a house lot in the new town, in the upper nine lots, of 4 acres, . . . bounded by Henry Lunt on the east, Samuel Scullard west, Street north & common on the South.
Richard Bartlet did acknowledge May 16, 1648, for and in consid- eration of eighteen shillings already received in work and the plowing
* See Newbury Records.
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and breaking up of four acres of land, to have sold unto Anthony Somerby of Newbury all that four acre lot with the fences thereto be- longing, being in the upper nine lots wch formerly was laid out for an house lot for John Pemberton, wch John Pemberton sold to his brother James Pemberton, and James Pemberton did also exchange wth Richard Bartlet for a portion of land in little north field, the which four acres being bounded wth the land of Mr Snelling on the east, John Bishop land on the west, and the street on the north & common on the South, and to remain unto Anthony Somerby and his heirs for ever.
Witness, WM TITCOMB.
Henry Lunt acknd April 2, 1648, That for 25 bushs of Wheat & 28 bushs of Indian corne to have sold to Anthony Somerby 4 acres in that verge of lots called the upper nine lots in the Newtown on West sd of sd A. Somerby's land, A. Woodman east, street north, common south.
March 25, 1659, Anthony Somerby bought of Gyles Crom- lome and wife Alice four acres of land in the upper nine lots, " bounded west by Peter Godfrey, north by the streete, south by the common, east by the land sold by Richard Fitts to Anthony Somerby." And the same day he bought of Richard Fitts and wife Sarah four acres, " bounded east by Anthony Somerby, west with four acre lot Gyles Cromlome sold to Anthony Somerby, north by street, south by the Common " (Ipswich Deeds, book 4, leaf 238).
Abiel Somerby, born Sept. 8, 1641, only child of Anthony Somerby, died Dec. 27, 1671, leaving several children. An- thony Somerby died July 31, 1686. In his will dated Jan. 22, 1685, proved Oct. 20, 1686, he gives "to his grandson Henry Somerby my now dwelling house, barn and orchard and twenty-eight acres of arable and pasture land adjoining the house."
Colonel Henry Somerby, by his will dated April 5, 1722, proved Dec. 23, 1723, devised to his brother Abiel "my farm house where I formerly lived, with twenty four acres of land adjoining the same."
Abiel Somerby sold to his son Abiel Somerby, Jr., July 30, 1744, house, seven acres of land, east half of barn, etc. (Essex Deeds, book 85, page 201).
Oct. II, 1749, Abiel Somerby, Jr., sold a portion of the
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above seven acres of land to Daniel Farnham (book 102, page 208).
Feb. 20, 1756, Abiel Somerby, Jr., sold to Daniel Farnham about twenty square rods of land on the corner of the country road and the way leading to the town's common, and adjoin- ing the land previously purchased by the said Farnum (book 102, page 277).
Nov. 10, 1768, the heirs and devisees of Abiel Somerby sold to Daniel Farnham a small strip of land in the rear of the two lots previously bought by him (book 122, page 5).
Daniel Farnham, the purchaser of this property, was born in York, Me., in 1719. He graduated from Harvard College in 1739, and in July of the following year married Sybil, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Angier, of Watertown, Mass. After his admission to the bar he removed to Newburyport, and commenced the practice of law. On the land bought of Abiel Somerby he erected a large square dwelling-house a little back from the street. Three large elm-trees stood in front, and the garden was enclosed by a solid brick wall, which gave a substantial appearance to the estate. He was a man of ability, and took an active part in the administration of public affairs. He was one of the prominent petitioners for the incorporation of Newburyport, the person to whom the warrant for its first town meeting was directed, the mod- erator of its first annual meeting, and the chairman of its first board of selectmen. The Hon. Eben F. Stone, in a manu- script sketch of Colonel Farnham, says :-
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