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UPSAL, NICHOLAS, freem. 18 May, 1631 ; first Bayliff of D. 1634; wf. Dorothy ; joined Ist ch. Boston, 28: 5: 1644; he d. 20 : 6: 1666. estate app. 3: 7 : 1666, £543 10s ; ch. Anna, b. 12: 1635; Elizabeth, 12: 1637, m. Wm. Greenough, 4 July, 1652 Susannah, b. 7 : 12 : 1639, m. Joseph Cocke, 10 Nov. 1659 ; Experience, b. 19: 1 : 1640 d. 2 Aug. 1659 ; 27 June, 1636, the town licensed him to keep an ordinary, and again the next year. In 1656, the general court fined him £20 and imprisoned him, for his countenancing and befriending Quakers. In 1661, " on occasion of his drawing many Quakers & others affected to that sect thither," [to the place of his imprisonment ] he is removed to Castle Island, " there to remain vpon his own charge." "His wife peti- tioned for his release soon after, upon which the court ordered that he " be moued ovt of prison forthwith to ye honse of John Capen, in Dorchester, and there be confined a prisoner vutill ye latter end of ye Stb moneth next." How long his confinement lasted we cannot state, but the next year, 1662, the court record recites, " Nicholas Vpshall
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being formerly sentenced to perpetual Imprisonment, & obteyning a Reprivall, hath greatly abused their lenity, doe therefore Order him to be Confined again to ye house of John Capen." By " a reprivall " we are to understand banishment ; for he was sentenced to remain in prison until the fine was paid, or if he would not pay it, his effects were ordered to be seized by the marshal ; but, they say, " ye fine being paid, he shall de- part this Jurisdiction wthin one moneth, & not returne Vnder ye poenalty of Imprison- ment," &e.
In that no less singular than rare book. " Perseentors Maul'd with their own Weap- ous," is this passage about Nicholas Upshall, which agrees well with our records.
" Nicholas Upshall, an old Man full of years, seeing their [ the authorities of Boston ] Cruelty to the harmless Quakers, & that they had condemned some of them to dye, both he & ehler Wiserell, or otherwise Deacon Wisewell, Members of the Church in Boston, bore their Testimonies in publick against their brethrens horid Cruelty to the sail Quakers. And the said Upshall declared, That he did look at it as a sad fore-runner of some heavy .Indyment to follow upon the Country ; Which they took so ill at his hands, that they fined him Twenty pounds, & three Pound more at another of their Courts, for not coming to their Meeting, & would not ahate him one Grote, but imprisoned him and then banished him on pain of Death, which was done in a time of such extream bitter weather for Frost, Snow and Cold. that had not the Heathen Indians in the Wil- derness Woods taken compassion on his Misery, for the winter season, he in all likeli- hood had perished, though he had then in Boston a good Estate in houses & Land, Goods & Money, as also Wife & Children, but not suffered to come unto him, nor he to them." p. 41.
WALES, NATHANIEL. freem. 2 Nov. 1637 ; will 20: 4: 1661 ; ch. Timothy, John, Nathaniel : bro-in-law Humphrey Atherton ; d. 4 Dec. 1661.
WAYE, HENRIE, d. 1667, a: 84 years; Elizabeth, wf. of Henry, d. 23 : 4: 1665, a: $4; Jonathan, son of Richard, b. 29: 10: 1657. d. 6 : 9 : 1658 .- Henry, will, 2 Dec. 1674 ; sis. Elizabeth, bro. Richard : Vnckle Aaron, and Vnekle James Green.
WEEKS, GEORGE, freem. 13 May, 1640; wf. Jane, d. [perhaps the same] 27: 8: 1659 ; sons Ammiel and William .- The name of Weeks or Weckes, is said, by good authority, (MR. LYsoxs) to have been originally Wray, but took the name of Wyke, on settling at North Wyke, Co. of Devon, in the reign of Richard II. 1377-95. Fran- eis Weeks, the last male heir of this family died in 1611.
WEEKS, AMIEL. freem. 6 May, 1657, d. 20 April. 1679, æ. 46; ch. Elizabeth, b. 18 : 8 : 1657. m. Timothy Mather, 20 Mar. 1678-9; Thankfull, b. 24 : 2: 1660; Ammiel, 15: 7: 1662. m. Abigail Treseot, 21 Nov. 1682; Ebenezer, b. 15 May, 1665 ; Joseph, 3 Sept. 1667 ; Supply, 26 Aug. 1671; Thomas, 20 Nov. 1673 ; Hannah, 14 May, 1676.
WEEKS, WILLIAM, freem. 3 May, 1665 ; " Clerk of the Writs " about two years ; d. 1677 ; ch. George, b. 26: 9: 1658; Renew, 12: 6: 1660; Samuel, b. 25: 11: 1669.
WEEKS, JOSEPH, freem. 7 May. 1673, m. Mary Atherton, 9: 2: 1667; ch. Mary, b. 20 : 3 : 1668 ; Joseph, 26: I: 1670; Repent. 22 Feb. 1675, and perhaps others ; d. 31 Oct. 1690: inventory, 30 Jan. 1691, £122 3s. Mary, widow.
WHITE, JAMES, " son of Edward who came from England," m. Sarah Baker. 22 : 12 : 1664, who d. 13 Oct. 1688: ch. Sarah, b. 8 : 10 : 1665. d. 2 : 11 : 1665; Thankfull, b. 18 : 6: 1667; Ichabod, 26 Apl. d. 12 May. 1669; John, b. 7 : 4 : 1670; Martha, 28 Aug. 1675 ; James, 29 May, 1679 ; Richard, 2 Mar. 1681 ; Edward, 4 Ang. 1683 ; Ebenezer, b. 3 July, 1685 ; JJames. (the father) d. 11 Nov. 1713.
WILES, MICHAEL, probably the same name as Willis & Wills ; freem. 2 May, 1638 ; cutler; will dated Boston, 21 June, 1669; bot. land of Edward Tyng on or near Union St .; wf. Mildred ; dau. Temperance, bap. at Ist chh. 13: 12: 1647; dan. Ad- ingstil, d. 6 Sept. 1658; grand-ch. James Phillips : sons, Experience and Michael; the latter b. 11 Nov. 1652 : both cutlers; his wid. (Mildred) will. 20 Sept. 1680, says, dans. Abigail Bill, Lydia Nowell, Joanna Ellis, - - Pollard ; grand-ch. Michael and Marah Willis.
WILKINS. BRAY, freem. 14 May, 1634 : in 1638 " hath liberty " granted by the General Court, " to sett vp a house & keepe a ferry over naponset ryver. & to haue a penny a pson to hee directed by mr. Saughton & Mr. Glover ;" went to Lynn, though from Mr. Lewis it might be inferred that he was living there in 1630. " a farmer, on the western side of Flax Pond." Hist. Lynn. 69. Coffin finds him in Lynn, 1660, and that he had his house burnt in 1664. and the inventory of John W. 1672. Essex Abstracts.
WISWALL. JOHN. freem. 14 Mar. 1638-9 ; deacon at the gathering of the new chh. in D). the records of which were commeneed by him ; he was also a Ruling Elder. He lived in that part of Dorchester afterwards called Stoughton. " beyond ye Blue Ilills near Dedham ": removed to Boston, according to Farmer, where he was rul- ing eldor of the 1st ckh. : will 9 Jaly. 1657 : son John. da. Ilannah Overman ; da. De- borah : da. [Esther. wf. of Dauiel] Fisher ; son and da. Cutter ; son and da. Johnson ; da. Lydia Ballard's ch .; da. Mary Emands : son Henry Mountfort and Ruth his wf. ; son Matthew Johnson.
WISWALL, THOMAS. freem. Fcb. 1652-3 : settled in Newton. d. there 6 Dec. 1685; Noah Wiswall, of Newton, b. 1640, a Captain in the Indian wars, killed in the desperate
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fight with Indians near Whelewright's Pond in Lee, N. H., July 6th. 1690, was his son. The wife of Capt. W. was Thedosia, da. of John Jackson of Newton, whom he mar. 1664. See Ward Family, p. 29. He left a son Noah, living in 1733, and perhaps other children.
WISWELL, ENOKE, m. Elizabeth, da. of John Olliver, 25 : 9 : 1657 ; ch. John, b. 10 : 10: 1658 ; Enoch, 10: 11 : 1660, d. 18: 11 : 1660; Hannah, b. 6 : 2: 1662; Elizabeth, 28 : 2: 1667, d. 25 April 1692 ; Esther, b. 28 : 10: 1669, m. Silence Allen ; Susanna, b. 2 : 6 : 1672, m. Edward Breck ; Enoch, b. 6 April, 1675, d. 27 September, 1676 ; Mary, b. 27 August, 1677, m. Samuel Robinson; Samuel, b. 2 Sept. 1679; Enoch and Ebenezer, 25 February, 1682. Mr. WISWELL d. 28 Nov. 1706, æ. 73; wid. Eliz- abeth, 31 May, 1712, a. 75. Estate settled by act of court, 12 June, 1710, his second son Oliver W. " Cordwinder," administrator. Mr. W. left a writing which he probably intended as his will, but the court would not allow it, "there being several Omissions & Defects therein," no executor mentioned, &c.
WITHINGTON, HENRY, will, 8 : 11 : 1664, d. 2 Feb. 1666, a. 79, having been Ruling Elder 29 years; Estate valued, 6 Mar. 1666-7, £850 17s 3d ; wf. Margaret ; das. Faith Baker, Mary Danforth, Ann Batte; son Richard's four sons, John, Ebenezer, Henry and Philip. A Mrs. Elizabeth W., d. 16 : 12: 1660.
WITHINGTON, RICHARD, freem. 13 May, 1640; wf. Elizabeth ; ch. Ebenezer, Henry, d. 2 Feb. 1687-8; Philip, b. 26: 1: 1659; Constant, 16: 9: 1661; Elizabeth, 16: 2 : 1666 ; Joseph, 15 : 4: 1668; will, 18 June, 1690; d. 22 Dec. 1701 ; inventory, 30 Jan. 1701-2, £418 4s ; son-in-law, Jonathan Hall.
WRIGHT, HENRY, freem. 1635 ; Mary, da. of Henry and Elizabeth, b. 1: 2: 1635 ; Samuel, 14 : 12 : 1636.
Additions. - The following matters have been handed in while the preceding part was in the press :-
BLAKE, WILLIAM .- His 5 ch. were, William, b. in England, 1620, d. in Dorchester, 1703 ; James, b. in Eng. 1623, d. in D. 1700; John, b. in Eng. d. in Boston, 1688 ; Edward, b. in Eng. d. in Milton, 1692; Anna, m. Jacob Legare of Boston.
CLAP, EDWARD, son Joshua, b. 12 : 3 : 1661.
CLAP, EZRA, ch. Sarah, b. 20 July, 1677 ; Judith, 6 May, 1680; Elizabeth, 1 Oct. 1682.
ELDER, DANIEL, ch. Lydia, b. 10: 5 : d. 12: 6: 1668; Remember, b. 29: 4: 1669; Andrew, 13 : 1 : 1671; Lydia, 13 June, 1675; Daniel, 1 Jan. 1675.
ERRATA .- On page 5, owing to one of the numerous causes which produce errors in printing, a few variations in the list of names there printed occur; and though but a single error of importance has been discovered, it is thought best to notice all those variations ; as, for Edmund Clap r. Edward ; r. also Clement, Augustene ; ffoster ; Allice Joanes ; Maudesley ; Minott ; Procter ; Sellock; Jeffrey Turner, and Vpsall. In the note on page 8, the name of John Newell is misplaced : it should follow that of John Franklyn, and hence is among the autographs. On page 10, article BLAKE, JAMES, for Ruth -, r. Ruth Bachelor ; the Elizabeth and Hannah in the last two lines of the same paragraph, were doubtless the ch. of James B. Jnn. On p. 14, HALL, RICH- ARD, da. Elizabeth m. - Wood, r. m. John Wood. NICHOLAS BUTLER's da. Lydia m. John Minot. See Gen. Register, i. p. 172. On p. 12, Samuel, son of AUGUSTINE CLEMENT, is mentioned as having had two wives, Deborah -, and Hannah Jugs ; the latter was doubtless his first wife.
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