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Masconomo's possessions extended from the Merrimac River to Salem on the south, and from the sea to Cochieewick, now Andover, on the west. He was friendly to the English ; and when the fleet which brought over the settlers of Boston anchored at Cape Ann, in 1630, he gave the people welcome, and spent some time on board of one of the ships. "In the morning," says Gov. John Winthrop, "the Sagamore of Agawam (Masconomo) and one of his men came aboard our ship, & staid with us all day." But in July of the year follow- ing it was ordered by the Court that "the Sagamore of Agawam is banished from coming into any Englishman's house for a year under penalty of ten beaver skins." This was probably done through fear of the Tarratines, with whom he was at war, and who, on the 8th of August following, attacked him and his friends in his wigwam at Ips- wich. He himself was wounded in the affray, seven of his men were killed, and the wife of Montowampate was taken captive. She was, however, ransomed, and sent home in September. The few English settlers were at this time saved from the tomahawks of the Tarratines by information given to them by an Indian named Robin, who said that armed Indians in forty canoes would lay in wait for them under "the brow of the hill," while four of the enemy were leading them
down to the water's edge to trade. Aware of the stratagem, the English, by the aid of an old drum and a few guns, frightened the Tarratines away. The warning of their hostile intentions was given by Robin to John Perkins, "living then in a little hut upon his father's island on this side of Jeoffrey's Neck."
Masconomo sold, March 13, 1638, "his fee in the soil of Ipswich" to John Winthrop, Jr., for the sum of £20. The record of the deed has been preserved : "I Masconnomet, Sagamore of Agawam, do by these presents acknowledge to have received of Mr John Winthrop the sum of £20, in full satisfaction of all the right, property & claim I have, or ought to have, unto all the land lying & being in the Bay of Agawam, alias Ipswich, being so called now by the English, as well as such land as I formerly reserved unto my own nse at Chebacco, as also all other land, belonging to me in these parts, Mr Dummer's farm excepted only ; and I hereby relinquish all the right and interest I have unto all the havens, rivers, creeks, islands, huntings & fishings ; with all the woods, swamps, timber, and whatever else is, or may be, in, or upon the said ground to me belonging : and I do hereby acknowledge to have received full satisfaction from the said John Winthrop for all former agreements, touching the premises & parts of them; and I do hereby bind myself to make good the aforesaid bargain and sale unto the said John Winthrop, his heirs & assigns forever, and to secure him against the title and claim of all other Indians and natives whatsoever. Witness my hand. 28th of June 1638. MASCOUNOMET his + mark.
" Witness hereunto, John Joyliffe, James Downing, Thomas Cayti- more, Robert Harding."
We learn from the colonial records, March 5, 1639, that Masconomo was to have his gun, broken by the governor's servant, mended, and that he had permission to kill fowl and deer. On the 5th of Novem- ber, the town was required to pay Jolin Winthrop, Jr., the amount which he paid the sagamore for his land. Soon afterwards, the Indians of Agawam were disarmed, through fear of treachery on their part ; but in September, 1642, it was ordered that their arms should be restored to them. On the 8th of March, 1644, Masconomo and other sachems appeared in a Court, held in Boston, put themselves under the protection of the government of Massachusetts, and desired to be instructed in respect to the principles of Christianity. When they had answered the questions proposed by the Court, they presented to it "twenty six fathom of wampum," and the Court in turn "gave each of them a coat of two yards of cloth and their dinner; and to them & their men, every one of them, a cup of sack at their departure; so they took leave, & went away very joyful." In 1646, Masconomo received 10s. from the government for killing wolves.
On the 21st of February, 1655, the town allowed the "seven men" to grant six acres of planting land to Masconomo, and on the 18th of June, 1658, the town permitted his widow "to enjoy that parcel of land which her husband had fenced in." The noble chieftain had died in March preceding, and his gun was buried with him, on Sagamore Hill, at the Hamlet. "Idle curiosity, wanton, sacrilegious sport," says Dr. Felt, "prompted an individual to dig up the remains of this chief, and carry his skull on a pole through Ipswich streets. Such an act of barbarity was severely frowned on, and speedily visited with the retributions of civil justice." The red faces gradually dwindled away before the civilization of the white men. In 1671, two or three acres of land were granted by the town to Ned, " to plant during his life, in some convenient place, if he fence it sufficiently with stone wall"; and Dee. 23, 1678, the town granted provisions to "several Indians living in a wigwam." On the 27th of February, 1683, a small quantity of land was laid out for Ned and his family, and "the old sagamore's daughter & her children." As late as 1690, Ned was still living, and, with another Indian by the name of Robert, assisted by the town. Three Indian families were living at the Hamlet as late as 1726, after which but little is said of the aborigines in this place. Their remains are sometimes exhumed ; and tomahawks, gouges, pestles and mortars, and arrow-heads, all made of stone, are from time to time discovered in digging cellars and wells, or in making similar excavations. The Indian forts were on Tilton's Hill, Treadwell's Island, and at Jeffrey's, or Great Neck ; but nothing now remains of them. The Indian had but little art or care to perpetuate himself; and, even if he had effected it, no very important service would have been rendered by it to man- kind. His story is a sad one ; and its lesson is that something above nature is demanded for the civilization of the world.
In the year 1611, Edward Hardie, or Harlic, and Nicholas Hobson, who came to New England on a voyage of discovery, landed at Aga- wam, where they remained a few days, and were hospitably enter- tained by the natives. They were the first Englishmen who visited
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Essex County. Three years later, Capt. John Smith thus deseribed Agawam : "Here are many rising hills & on their tops and descents are many eorne fields and delightful groues. On the east is an isle [Plum Island ] of two or three leagues in length ; the one halfe plaine marish ground, fit for pasture or salt ponds, with many faire high groues of mulberry trees. There are also oakes, pines, walnuts and other wood, to make this place an excellent habitation."
In his " New England Prospeet," William Wood, who returned to England, Aug. 15, 1633, speaks of Agawam as " one of the most spa- tious places for a plantation ; being neare the sca, it aboundeth with fish, and flesh of fowles and beasts, great meads and marshes and plaine ploughing grounds, many good rivers and harbours, and no' rattlesnakes." He says, also, that " as yet searce any inhabitants."
It was probably from the circumstances above mentioned, the abund- anee of fish, the extensive salt marshes, the exeellenee of the timber, and the pleasantness of the situation, that the English were induced to seleet Agawam for a place of settlement. This was permanently com- menced in March, 1633, by John Winthrop, son of Gov. John Win- throp, and twelve others, whose names, with the exception of three unknown, are as follows : Mr. John Winthrop, Jr., John Biggs, Mr. William Clerk, Robert Coles, John Gage, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Howlet, William Perkins, William Serjeant, and Mr. John Sellan. Thomas Sellan was permitted by the Court, June 11th, to join them. Other settlers, by the permission of the Court, soon followed, some of whose descendants still remain in the place.
Dr. Felt gives the following names of settlers, up to 1652, withont changing the original orthography. The date refers only to the name immediately preceding it.
Andrews, Robert, 1635 ; Appleton, Samuel, 1637 ; Avery, William, Archer, Henry, Andrews, John, 1639 ; Annable, John, 1639 ; Adams, William, Andrews, Richard, 1643 ; Averil, William, 1648 ; settled at Chebacco ; Appleton, John, Ayres, John ; Braeey, Mr. Thomas, 1635 ; Bradstreet, Dudley, Bradstreet, Humphrey, Bradstreet, Mr. Simon, Bartholomew, William, Bishop, Thomas, 1636; Bishop, Nathaniel, 1637 ; Bixbey, Nathaniel, Browining, Thomas, Boreman, Thomas, Brown, Edward, 1638; Burnam, John, Baker, John, Button, Mat- thias, 1639; Bird, Thomas, Belcher, Jeremy, Bellingham, Mr. Rich- ard, Bosworth, Nathaniel, Bird, Jathnell, Boreman, Samuel, Bachellor, Mr., 1640 ; Brown, John, 1642 ; Beacham, Robert, Bitgood, Richard, Bachellor, Henry, Brower, Thomas, Buckley, William, 1643; Brid- ges, Edmund, 1644; Burnam, Thomas, 1647; Bosworth, Haniel, 1648 ; Bragg, Edward, Betts, Richard, Birdley, Gyles, Bishop, Job, Bixbey, Joseph, 1649; Carr, George, 1633; Currin, Matthias, 1634 ; Cross, John, 1635 ; Cogswell, Mr. John, settled at Chebacco; Cov- engton, John, Clark, Daniel, 1636; Clark, Thomas, 1637; Cross, Robert, Challis, Philip, Colebeye, Arthur, Comesone, Symond, Coo- ley, John, 1638 ; Cartwright, Michael, Cacharne, Henry, Crane, Ro- bert, Comings, Isaac, Caeharne, Edward, 1639 ; Chute, Lionel, Cas- tell, Robert, Cowley, John, 1642; Chelson, Robert, 1644; Chap- man, Edward, Chute, James, 1648; Catcheame, John, Clark, Malachi, Choate, John, settled at Chebaceo; Cogswell, William, do. Colborne, Robert, Dillingham, John, 1634; Dudley, Mr. Thom- as, 1635 ; Dudley, Mr. Samuel, Dennison, Mr. Daniel, Dorman, Thomas, 1636; Dix, widow, 1638; Dane, John, Davis, John, 1639; Dane, John, Jr., 1642; Duglas, William, Davis, Rieh- ard, Dane, Francis, Day, Robert, Dennison, John, 1647; Dutch, Robert, 1648 ; Dix, Ralph, Elliot, -, 1634; Easton, Mr. Nieho- las, Emerson, Thomas, 1638; English, William, Eppes, Daniel, Mr., Emerson, Joseph, Emerson, John, Franklin, William, 1634; Fuller, John, Fawie, Mr. John, Fuller, William, 1635 ; Fowler, Philip, Fos- ter, William, Firman, Mr. Thomas, French, Mr. Thomas, French, Edward, 1637; French, Thomas, Jr., 1638; Filbrick, Robert, 1639; Firman, Dr. Giles, Farnum, Ralph, Fellows, William, 1642; Foster, Abraham, 1648; French, John, Goodhne, William, 1635 ; Gardner, Edmund, Giddinge, George, Graves, Robert, 1638 ; Gibson, Thomas, Greenfield, Samuel, Gilven, Thomas, 1639; Green, Henry, 1642; Gutterson, William, 1648; Granger, Lancelot, Gilbert, Humphrey, Greene, Thomas, Griffen, Humphrey, 1651 ; Gillman, Edward, Hub- bard, Mr. William, 1635 ; Hassell, John, Haffield, Richard, Hall, Sam- uel, 1636 ; Hart, Nathaniel, Harris, Thomas, Heldred, William, 1637 ; Hayes, Robert, Hovey, Daniel, Hauchet, John, 1638 ; Humphrey, -, 1639 ; Huttley, Richard, Hadley, George, Hodges, Andrew. Hart, Thomas, 1641 ; Hoyt, John, Howe, James, 1642; Hunter, Robert, 1647 ; Heard, Luke, Heiphar, William, 1648 ; Harris, Anthony, Har- ris, Thomas, Harindin, Edward, 1651 ; Jeffrey, William, before 1633 ; Jackson, John, 1635 ; Johnson, John, Jordan, Francis, Jacob, Rich- ard, Jennings, Richard, 1636 ; Jordan, Stephen, 1637; Knight, Alex-
ander, 1635; Kent, Richard, Kinsman, Robert, Kemball, Richard, 1637 ; Kingsbury, Henry, 1638; Knight, Mr. William, Kemball, Henry, Knowlton, John, 1639; Knowlton, William, 1642; Knowl- ton, Thomas, Knight, Aleph, Kemball, Richard, Jr., 1648 ; Laneton, Roger, 1635; Lord, Robert, 1636; Lamson, William, 1637; Ladd, Daniel, Lord, Katherine, widow, Lumkin, Richard, 1638 ; Lee, John, 1640 ; Lee, Thomas, 1642 ; Lumas, Edward, Lumas, Richard, Low, Thomas, 1643 ; Lovell, Thomas, 1647 ; Long, Samuel, 1648; Lane- ton, Joseph, Long, Philip, Layton, John, Leigh, Joseph, 1651; Man- ning, John, 1634 ; Moody, William, 1635 ; Metealf, Joseph, Massey, John, Mussey, Robert, Merriall, John, 1636; Mosse, Joseph, 1637; Morse, John, 1638 ; Medealf, Thomas, Miller, William, Mohey, Ro- bert, 1639; Newman, John, 1634; Norton, Mr. John, 1636; Nor- ton, Mr. William, Northe, John, 1637; Newmarch, John, 1638 ; Nich- ols, Richard, Newman, Thomas, 1639; Osgood, Christopher, 1635 ; Perkins, John, 1634; Perkins, John, Jr., Parker, Mr. Thomas, Proc- tor, John, 1635 ; Perley, Allen, Pebody, Francis, 1636 ; Pike, -, Mr., 1637 ; Purrier, William, Perkins, Isaae, Paine, William, 1638 ; Perry, Thomas, 1642; Pitney, James, 1639; Preston, Roger, Paine, Robert, 1640 ; Pettis, John, Pingrey, Moses, Pinder, Henry, Podd, Daniel, Perkins, Jacob, 1648 ; Pinder, John, Pingrey, Aaron, Podd, Samuel, Pearpoynt, Robert, Pendleton, Mr. Bryan, Prichard, William, 1649 ; Palmer, George, Potter, Anthony, Quilter, Mark, 1637; Ro- binson, John, 1634 ; Rogers, Mr. Nathaniel, 1636; Reading, Joseph, 1637 ; Rawlinsone, Thomas, Robinson, John, 1638 ; Reddin, John, 1642; Roberts, Robert, 1644; Ringe, Daniel, 1648; Rawlinsonc, Thomas, Jr., Roffe, Ezra, Roffe, Daniel, Shatswell, John, 1633 ; Sy- monds, Mark, 1634; Spencer, John, Sewall, Mr. Henry, Saltonstall, Mr. Richard, 1635 ; Short, Anthony, Short, Henry, Symonds, Wil- liam, Sayward, Edmund, Saunders, John, Sherrat, Hugh, Scott, Thomas, Sherman, Samuel, 1636 ; Seaverns, John, Sawyer, Edmund, Symonds, Mr. Samuel, 1637 ; Silver, Thomas, 1638 ; Sherman, Thom- as, Scott, Robert, Stacy, Lianon, Swinder, William, Smith, Thomas, 1639 ; Story, Andrew, Safford, Thomas, 1641 ; Scofield, Richard, 1642; Setehell, Theophilus, Smith, Richard, Silsbee, Henry, 1647 ; Smith, George, 1648 ; Story, William, Staey, Thomas, Stone, Na- thaniel, Seott, Thomas, Jr., Satehwell, Richard, Smith, Robert, Sal- ter, Theophilus, Tuttle, John, 1635 ; Treadwell, -, Mr., Tread- well, Edward, 1737; Turner, -, Capt., Thornton, John, Tread- well, John, 1638 ; Treadwell, Thomas, Taylor, Samuel, Thomson, Si- mon, 1639 ; Tingley, Palmer, Varnum, George, 1635 ; Vincent, Mr. Humphrey, 1637; Ward, Mr. Nathaniel, 1634; Williamson, Paul, 1635; Wyatte, John, Wainwright, Francis, Wells, Thomas, Web- ster, John, White, William, said to be the first English settler at Che- haceo ; Whityear, John, Wade, Mr. Jonathan, Woodmansee, -, Mr., Wythe, Mr. Humphrey, Wilson, Mr. Theophilus, 1636 ; Wedgwood, John, 1637 ; Whitred, William, Williamson, Michael, Warren, Wil- liam, Wattles, Richard, Whittingham, Mr. John, Whipple, Matthew, 1638 ; settled at the Hamlet ; Whipple, John, Wilkinson, Henry, Whitman, Robert, Wallis; Robert, 1639; Warner, Daniel, 1642; Windall, Thomas, 1643 ; Wood, Daniel, Capt., 1644; Whittingham, Mr. Thomas, 1645 ; Woodman, John, 1648 ; Warren, Abraham, Wal- derne, Abraham, Ward, Doct. John, Whipple, John, Jr., Whitred, Thomas, Walderne, Edward, West, John, Wooddam, John, Warner, John, Wood, Obadiah, 1649; Walker, Henry, 1651; Younglove, Samuel, 1635.
The settlers of Ipswich were men of intelligence, and of sterling virtue. They were " of good rank & quality, many of them having had a considerable revenue from lands in England before they emi- grated." Of the ten governor's assistants, no less than four of them,- Bellingham, Saltonstall, Symonds, and Bradstreet, at one time resided at Ipswich. Mrs. Anne (Dudley ) Bradstreet, wife of the last-named assistant, and daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley, was a popular poet- ess in her day, and wrote the first volume of poems ever published in New England. It is entitled " The Tenth Muse, lately sprung up in America," &c. Her favorite authors were Sir Philip Sidney, and Du Bartas, and henee Nathaniel Ward says of her : -
" The Authoresse was a right Du Bartas girle." As a specimen of her poetry, her account of the flowers and the little bird in spring may be sufficient.
" The primrose pale and azure violet, Among the verdurous grass hath nature set, That when the sun [on's love ] the earth doth shine,
These might, as love, set out her garments fine ;
The fearful bird his little house now builds, In trees, in walls, in cities and in fields ;
The outside strong, the inside warm and neat, A natural artificer complete."
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Mrs. Bradstreet had eight children of whom she thus speaks : -
"I had eight birds hatched in the nest ; Four cocks there were, and hens the rest ; I nursed them up with pain and care, For cost, nor labor did I spare, Till at the last they felt their wing, Monuted the trees, and learned to sing."
She died, Sept. 16, 1672, at the age of sixty years.
John Winthrop, Jr., the founder of the town, was born in Groton, Eng., Feb. 12, 1606, graduated at Dublin University, 1625, was, in 1627, in the expedition for the relief of the Huguenots at Rochelle, and came to New England in 1631, soon after which he was chosen a magistrate. He did not long remain at Ipswich. His wife dying, in 1634, he returned to England in the autumn of that year. In a let- ter dated Dec. 12, 1634, his father, Gov. John Winthrop, says to him, then in London : " Mr. Ward continues at your house this winter, and Mr. Clerk (to give him content) in his own. Mr. Cl. finds much fault with your servants John & Sarah, and tells me that they will not earn their bread, and that Ned is worth them all."
He returned the year following, and settled in Connecticut, of which State he was for several years the governor. He was a fine scholar, and one of the founders of the Royal Society of London. His death occurred at Boston, April 5, 1676.
The reasons assigned for settling this wilderness were: "that the ancient faith & true worship might be found inseparable companions in their practice & that their posterity might be undefiled in their religion."
Giles Firmin and John Dane were the first two physicians in the place.
Increasing rapidly in numbers, the inhabitants of Agawam were in- corporated as a town, under the name of Ipswich, Aug. 5, 1634, "in acknowledgment," says Winthrop, " of the great honor and kindness done to our people who took shipping there," i.e., Ipswich, Suffolk County, England.
The style of living of these early settlers may be inferred from the following stanza of an old song written by some poet of those days :
" If fresh meat be wanting to fill up our dish, We have carrots and pumpkins and turnips and fish ; And if there's a mind for a delicate dish, We haste to the elam banks and take what we wish."
A meeting-house was crected in 1634, of which Johnson says, in 1646, that it is "a very good prospect to a great part of the town & beautifully built." He also says : "The Church of Christ here con- sists of 160 souls, being exact in their conversation & free from epi- demicall disease of all Reforming Churches which under Christ is procured by their pious & orthodox ministry."
The early settlers had, at least, one sermon from the governor, the record of which is April 3, 1634, " The governour [John Winthrop] went on foot to Agawam, and because the people there wanted a min- ister, spent the Sabbath with them, & exercised by way of prophesy and returned home the 10th."
The famous version of the Psalms, by Sternhold and Hopkins, was used in public worship, and fire-arms were carried to the church for defence against wild beasts and the savages. None but freemen were allowed to vote in civil affairs, or hold office ; and none but members of the church could be made freemen. The lands were mostly what were called " common lands," which were held by freemen and the right of commonage, or use of such lands, was granted to settlers as their circumstances might require.
" Their houses," says Johnson, in 1646, "are many of them very faire built with pleasant gardens." Robert Andrews was licensed, Sept. 3, 1635, "to keep an ordinary"; and, on the 12th of March, 1638, "Mr Samuel Symonds is appointed to sell 'strong water.'" A court is opened in town as early as 1636, and, in 1638, Mr. Samuel Symonds and Samuel Appleton were appointed to assist in it. It seems, also, that there was a jail here, as early as 1637, for, on the 28th of September of this year, John Williams was hanged in Boston for the murder of John Haddy near the great pond, both of whom had escaped from Ipswich prison.
In 1635, Richard Saltonstall had liberty from the town to set up a grist-mill, the toll being one-sixteenth of the grain.
The roads were then merely Indian trails or bridle-paths. "I came to Ipswich," says John Dane, in his diary, about 1638, "alone [from Roxbury] when there was no path but what the Indians had made. Sometimes I was in it, & sometimes out of it." The dwelling-houses were of wood, with gable roofs, the upper story jutting about one foot over the lower one. They were covered with thatch obtained from the marshes.
In 1634, a church was organized, it being the tenth established in New England, and the Rev. Nathaniel Ward, author of the " Simple Cobler of Aggawam," and whose life has been carefully written by John Ward Dean, M. A., became the first regular pastor. The Rev. Thomas Parker, whom Mr. Ward found on his arrival preaching here, was appointed teacher of the church; but, in the ensuing spring, he removed, with about 100 of his followers, to Newbury, where he was chosen pastor.
Of the 175 men raised by the Colony, April 18, 1637, for the sec- ond expedition against the Pequot Indians, Ipswich furnished a quota of 23, and Boston 26.
After the departure of the Rev. Thomas Parker from Ipswich, Mr. Ward had for his colleagues, successively, the Rev. Thomas Bracey and the Rev. John Norton ; but, his health declining, he was soon obliged to resign his pastorate, "that being left to his liberty hee might Preach more seldom." He was, therefore, dismissed in 1636, but did not return to England until about ten years later. He was a man of sterling abilities, and died in Shenfield, Eng., about the year 1652.
Of the morality of the people among whom he lived in this coun- try, he thus speaks : "I thank God that I have lived in a Colony of many thousand English, these twelve years, and am held a very socia- ble man. Yet I may considerately say, I never heard but one oathe nor never saw but one man drunke, nor ever heard of three women Adul- tresses, in all that time that I can call to minde. If these sinnes bee amongst us privily, the Lorde heale us. I would not bee understood to boast of our innoceney ; there is no cause I should, our hearts may be bad enough & our lives much better."
Mr. Ward had inscribed over his mantel-piece the Latin words, Sobrie, Juste, Pie, and Loete, and had, according to Cotton Mather, one godly speech that was worth all his witty speeches, which was : " I have only two comforts to Live upon : the one is the Perfections of Christ ; the other is the Imperfections of Christians."
Mr. Ward preached the election sermon before the General Court, in 1641, and to him the Colony was indebted wholly or in part for the Body of Liberties, which was " the First Code of laws established in New England."
The "Simple Cobler of Aggawam" was a favorite of Robert Southey, and in an old copy of it, once owned by the poet laureate, many choice passages, as the following, are marked in pencil : "The least truth of God's kingdom doth in its place uphold the whole kingdom of his Truths ; take away the least vericulum out of the world & it unworlds all potentially, and may unravel the whole texture actually, if it be not conserved by an arm of extraordinary power." So, in regard to the fashionable style of dress, he says : " When I consider how women have tripe-wifed themselves with their cladments, I have no heart to the voyage, lest their nauseous shapes and the sea should work too sorely on my stomach. I speak sadly ; methinks it should break the hearts of Englishmen to see so many goodly English-women impris- oned in French cages, peering out of their hood-holes for some man of mercy to help them with a little wit, and nobody relieves them. .
I honor the woman that can honor herself with her attire : a good text always deserves a fair margent."
Mr. Ward was something of a poet. IIe calls the following lines for King Charles, and appended to the " Simple Cobler of Aggawam," " Driving in a half a dozen plain country hob nails."
" There, lives cannot be good, There, faith cannot be sure, Where truth cannot be quiet Nor ordinances pure.
No king can king it right, Nor rightly sway his rod ; Who truly loves not Christ And truly fears not God.
He cannot rule a land, As lands shouldl ruled been That lets himself be rul'd By a ruling Roman Queen.
No earthly man can be True subject to his stato ; Who makes the Pope his Christ, An heretique his mate.
There peace will go to war And silence make a noise : When upper things will not With nether equipoise.
The upper world shall rule, While stars will run their race The nether world obey While people keep their place."
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The Rev. Nathaniel Rogers, born in Haverhill, Eng., 1598, was ordained pastor of the church, Feb. 20, 1637-38, the Rev. Mr. Nor- ton continuing to act as colleague. Mr. Rogers was eminent as a scholar and a preacher.
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