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PEARCE.
DAVID PEARCE was the son of David Pearce, Esq., of Gloucester, Mass., and was born in Gloucester, January 18, 1766. He graduated at Harvard University in 1786, and was afterwards a merchant in Boston, and ship owner. He married Rebecca, daughter and co-heir of Dr. Charles Russell, of Charlestown, Mass., M. D.,* by his wife Elizabeth, only daughter and heir of Colonel Henry Vassall, of Cambridge, Mass. He died in Boston, May 1807, æt. 41, having had two sons, one of whom died a bachelor, the other, Charles Russell Pearce, Esq., resides in Bal- timore, Md.
LINEAGE.
ABRAHAM PIERCE, or Peirce, came to Plymouth, Mass., circa 1623, removed to Duxbury prior to 1643, and died there before 1673. By Rebecca, his wife, he had two sons, the eldest of whom,
ABRAHAM PIERCE, was born in Plymouth, January, 1638, and died in Duxbury, January, 1718, æt. 80. He had issue by Hannah, his wife, three sons, one of whom,
SAMUEL PIERCE, married Mary, daughter of John Saunders, one of
* Dr. Russell was a Loyalist, and removed to Antigua, where he died in 1780. He was brother of the Hon. Thomas Russell, of Boston, who died in 1796. They were sons of Judge James Russell, of Charlestown, nephews of Judge Chambers Russell, grand- sons of Judge Thomas Greaves, and great-grandsons of Judge James Russell and Judge Charles Chambers. Rebecca, sister of Dr. Charles and the Hon. Thomas Rus- sell, married Judge John Lowell, Chief Justice U. S. Circuit Court, who died in 1802.
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the Selectmen of Cape Porpoise, Me. He removed to Gloucester, Mass., circa 1710. His son,
DAVID PIERCE, born October 5, 1713, married Mary, daughter of Samuel Stephens, and niece of Colonel John Stephens. He died A. D. 1759, æt. 46. His eldest son,
DAVID PEARCE, born October 26, 1736, altered the spelling of his name to Pearce. He married first Bethia, daughter of Captain Josiah Ingersoll. He wedded secondly Mary, sister of his first wife, and es- poused thirdly, Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Baldwin, of Brookfield, Mass. He had two sons, one of whom died unmarried ; the other, David Pearce, settled in Boston, as before stated. He had also a daughter, Abigail Pearce, who married Benjamin Parrott Homer, Esq.,* of Bos- ton.t He died March, 1818, æt. 81.
* Vide Bridgman's King's Chapel Epitaplis.
t For a full account of this family, vide N. E. Hist. Genealogical Register, Vol. vi. p. 276, and vii. p. 94.
JUDGE WADSWORTH.
JUDGE WADSWORTH was the son of Captain Samuel Wadsworth, of the Colonial service, by his wife Abigail, daughter of James Lindall, or Lendall, and grandson of Christopher Wadsworth, one of the earliest settlers of Duxbury, Mass., and many times one of the Selectmen of that town and Representative to the General Court.
He was born in Milton, Mass., February 11, 1667. He was Trea- surer of the town of Boston for thirty years, from 1719 until 1749, and Justice of the Court of Sessions from 1725. He died November 20, 1750, æt. 83.
Judge Wadsworth was brother of the Reverend Benjamin Wads- worth, President of Harvard University. Another brother, Deacon John Wadsworth, one of the Selectmen of Milton and Representative to the General Court, was maternal grandfather of the late Benjamin Par- rott Homer,* Esquire, of Boston.
* Vide Bridgman's King's Chapel Epitaphs, p. 202.
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INSCRIPTIONS.
HERE LIES THE BODY OF
MR. BENJAMIN COUELL, AGED 23 YEARS, DIED APRIL YE 19TH, 1752.
HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF
MR. ROWLAND HOUGHTON,
AGED 66 YEARS. DYED AUGUST YE 7TH, 1744.
JOHN WHITE,
SON TO BENIAMIN AND MARY WHITE,
AGED 4 DAYS, DIED DEC'R 31, 1716.
MARY, DAUT. TO BENJ'N AND MARY WHITE,
AGED ABOUT 4 YEARS, DEC'D NOV'R YE * * 1721.
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MISS ELISABETH PHILLIPS,
DAUGHTER TO CAPT. BENJ'N PHILLIPS, AND MRS. MARY, HIS WIFE,
DIED OCT. 5TH, 1782, AGED 26 YEARS.
HERE LIES INTERED THE BODY OF
MR. JOHN PHILLIPS,
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE NOV'R THE 5TH, 1765, AGED 44 YEARS.
HERE LIES THE BODY OF
MRS. ELISABETH PHILLIPS,
THE WIFE OF MR. BENJAMIN PHILLIPS,
AGED 23 YEARS, DIED MARCH 22D, 1755.
MRS. LUCY PHILLIPS,
WIFE TO CAPT. BENJAMIN PHILLIPS,
DEPARTED THIS LIFE JUNE 21ST, 1783,
AGED 55 YEARS.
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INSCRIPTIONS.
HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF CAPT. HENRY BARLOW, WHO DEC'D DECEMBER 18TH, 1739, AGED 45 YEARS.
HERE LYES YE BODY OF
MRS. MARY WINOCK,
WIFE TO MR. JOSHUA WINOCK, AGED 25 YEARS, DEC'D APRIL YE 4TH, 1728.
HANNAH,
YE DAU'T OF MR. JOHN AND MRS. ELIS'TH PINCKNEY,
AGED 18 MONTHS, DEO'D OCT. YE 25TH, 1729.
ANNA MCNEILL
HERE LYES YE BODY OF MRS. JOSEPH BERREY,
AGED 39 YEARS. DEC'D SEPT. THE 25TH, 1721.
THE VICTIMS
OF THE
BOSTON MASSACRE.
(From Loring's Hundred Boston Orators.)
THE Boston Athenaeum overlooks the cemetery where were deposited the remains of our fellow-citizens martyred in the cause of liberty, March 5, 1770. Here repose the ashes of Hancock and Cushing, the latter of whom was lieutenant-governor during the administration of the former. Though Sumner speaks of " Hancock's broken column," the idea is merely poetical, for no monument has ever been erected over his remains. It is stated in the Boston News Letter that four of the victims were conveyed on hearses, and buried on the eighth of March, in one vault, in the Middle Burying Ground. The funeral consisted of an immense number of persons in ranks of six, followed by a long train of carriages belonging to the principal gentry of the town, at which time the bells of Boston and adjoining towns were tolled. It is supposed that a greater number of people of Boston and vicinity attended this funeral than were ever congregated on this con- tinent on any occasion. In this procession emblematical banners were displayed. The following effusion appeared in Fleet's Post, March 12, 1770 :
" With fire enwrapt, surcharged with sudden death, Lo, the poised tube convolves its fatal breath ! The flying ball, with heaven-directed force, Rids the free spirit of its fallen corse.
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THE VICTIMS OF THE BOSTON MASSACRE.
Well-fated shades! let no unmanly tear
From pity's eye distain your honored bier.
Lost to their view, surviving friends may mourn, Yet o'er thy pile celestial flames shall burn.
Long as in Freedom's cause the wise contend, Dear to your country, shall your fame extend ; While to the world the lettered stone shall tell How Caldwell, Attucks, Gray and Maverick fell."
On the fourteenth of March, Patrick Carr, who died of the wound received in the massacre, was buried from Faneuil Hall, in the same grave in which the other victims were deposited.
The poet who wrote the effusion above quoted predicts that the let- tered stone shall tell the tale of the martyred sons of liberty ; but no stone appears on the spot where they were buried. Indeed, if any stone were ever erected over their remains, it may have been destroyed by the British regulars, or removed in making repairs on the ground. Let the prediction be realized by the erection of a beautiful marble monument on the site to the memory of this event, which, with the battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill, insured our independence.
Our venerable native citizen of Boston, the Hon. Thomas Handy- side Perkins, probably the only survivor who has any remembrance of the Boston massacre, stated to the editor of this work, at an interview with him on Jan. 3, 1851, that at that period he was five years of age, and asleep at home on the evening of its occurrence. His father, James Perkins, a wine-merchant, resided in King-street, on the present location of Tappan's stone building, opposite Mackerel-lane, now Kilby- street. On the next day, his father's man-servant, being desirous that he should witness the effects of this occurrence, imprudently, as Mr. Perkins remarked, went with him to the Royal Exchange Tavern, located on the opposite side of the custom-house, now the site of the Messrs. Gilberts, brokers, kept by Mr. Stone. Alexander Cruikshank testified that when he was at the head of Royal Exchange-lane, he stopped at Stone's tavern, and the people were abusing the sentinel, and showed him the dead body of Crispus Attucks, one of the victims. He
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then pointed to him the frozen blood in the gutter, opposite the Ex- change Tavern, and proceeded with him to the residence of Tuthill Hubbard, on Cornhill, a short distance from the north side of Queen- street, where lay the dead body of another of the victims; and this is the whole of his recollection of the tragical event, which has never been effaced from his mind. Colonel Perkins is unable to state which of the victims he saw at Mr. Hubbard's residence ; but, as Joseph Hinckley testified, according to the trial, that, after the regulars had fired, he assisted in the removal of Samuel Gray, who had fallen, to the apothe- cary's shop of Dr. John Loring, which was adjoining or very near Mr. Hubbard's dwelling, and could not find admittance, as it was closed,- doubtless, that was the name of the other victim whose remains were exhibited to his youthful eye.
In order to a further elucidation of this matter, we have recurred to the papers of the day, by which it appears that Gray was killed on the spot, as the ball entered his head and broke the skull. He was a rope- maker, and, on the day of interment, his body was conveyed from the residence of Benjamin Gray, his brother, on the south side of the Exchange Tavern. Now, Col. Perkins is either mistaken regarding the house where he saw the pale corpse, or else it was removed from Mr. Hubbard's dwelling on the next day. James Caldwell, also killed on the spot by two balls entering his breast, was måte of Captain Morton's vessel, and his body was removed from the captain's residence in Cole- lane on the day of interment. Crispus Attucks being a stranger, his remains were conveyed from Faneuil Hall. He was killed by two balls entering his breast, and was a native of Framingham ; and Samuel, a son of widow Mary Maverick, a promising youth of seventeen years, an apprentice to Mr. Greenwood, a joiner, was wounded by a ball that entered his abdomen and escaped through his back, which caused his death, and his remains were removed from his mother's house on the day of interment. Patrick Carr, who died a few days after, of a ball that entered near his hip and went out at his side, was in the employ of one Mr. Field, leather-breeches maker in Queen-street, and aged about thirty years. Among other matters in the warrant for the annual town-
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meeting of Boston, March 12, 1770, is the following clause :- " Whether the town will take any measures that a public monument may be erected on the spot where the late tragical scene was acted, as a memento to posterity of that horrid massacre, and the destructive consequences of military troops being quartered in a well-regulated city." We notice, on turning to the records, that no action was taken on this point; but the town voted their thanks to the towns of Roxbury, Cambridge, Charlestown and Watertown, for their kind concern in this deplorable event. As the precise location of this scene will ever be a point of great interest to Bostonians, we gather, from the deposition of Samuel Drowne, that it occurred between Crooked, now Wilson's-lane, and Royal Exchange-lane. He states that he was standing on the steps of the Exchange Tavern, being the next house to the Custom-house; and soon after saw Captain Preston, whom he well knew, with a number of soldiers drawn near the west corner of the Custom-house, and heard Preston say, "D-n your bloods ! why don't you fire ?" after which they fired.
At a town-meeting, Boston, March 19, 1771, Hon. Thomas Cushing moderator, the committee appointed to consider of some suitable method to perpetuate the memory of the horrid massacre perpetrated on the evening of the fifth of March, 1770, by a party of soldiers of the 29th regiment, reported as their opinion that, for the present, the town make choice of a proper person to deliver an oration at such time as may be judged most convenient, to commemorate the barbarous murder of five of our fellow-citizens on that fatal day, and to impress upon our minds the ruinous tendency of standing armies in free cities, and the necessity of such noble exertions, in all future times, as the inhabitants of the town then made, whereby the designs of the conspirators against the public liberty may be still frustrated; and the committee, in order to complete the plan of some standing monument of military tyranny, begged leave to be indulged with further time. Their report being accepted, it was voted unanimously that the town will now come to the choice of an orator. A committee was then appointed ; Samuel Hunt and James Lovell were nominated as candidates to deliver the oration.
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The inhabitants then voted, and the latter was elected. A committee was appointed to wait on James Lovell, and invite his acceptance.
In regard to the location of the site where the victims of the Boston massacre were deposited, the editor has the evidence of the venerable Col. Joseph May, a warden of King's Chapel, possessing great integrity and a tenacious memory, stated previous to his decease in 1841, and who witnessed their interment, being then ten years of age, and a scholar in the public Latin school. Pointing to the spot which is the site of a tomb once owned by the city, in the rear of the tomb of Deacon Richard Checkley, an apothecary, Col. May stated that was the place where he saw them interred. A beautiful larch-tree flourishes at the side of the city tomb, which is opposite Montgomery-place. When, during the mayoralty of Jonathan Chapman, an iron fence was erected on the Granary cemetery, in the month of June, 1840, an excavation was made over this spot, for the erection of this city tomb, human bones, and a skull with a bullet-hole perforated through it, were discovered, which probably were remains of these victims; and we have the evidence of the late Martin Smith, sexton of King's Chapel church, that he assisted in throwing the skull and other bones into the earth near the larch-tree.
RETURNS OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED IN THE BOSTON MASSACRE.
SAMUEL GRAY,
JOHN CLARK,
CRISPUS ATTUCKS,
EDWARD PAYNE,
JAMES CALDWELL, JOHN GREEN,
SAMUEL MAVERICK, ROBERT PATTERSON,
CHRISTOPHER MONK, PATRICK CARR,
DAVID PARKER.
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INSCRIPTIONS.
HERE LYETH YE BODY OF
JOSEPH SKINNER,
AGED ABOUT 35 YEARS,
DEO'D JUNE YE 14TH, 1704.
HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF
MRS. ANNE RATHBUN, WHO DIED NOV'R YE 13TH, 1753, AGED 30 YEARS AND 6 MO.
HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF
JOSIAS BYLES, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH THE 28TH, 1752, AGED 70 YEARS.
HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF
MRS. SARAH BYLES,
WIFE OF JOSIAS BYLES,
WHO DIED JUNE YE 8TH, 1752, AGED 41 YEARS.
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HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF
MRS. SARAH BYLES,
DAU'R OF MR. JOSIAS AND MRS. SARAH BYLES,
DEC'D MAY 12TH, 1754, AGED 20 YEARS.
HERE LYES YE BODY OF
MRS. ELISABETH BYLES, WIFE OF MR. JOHN BYLES, JUN'R, DIED JUNE YE 18TH, 1730, IN YE 21 YEAR OF HER AGE.
IN MEMORY OF
MR. DANFORTH PHIPPS, WHO DIED OCTOBER 19TH, 1783, AGED 22 YEARS.
.
YE SON OF JOSIAS AND SARAH BYLES,
AGED 32 DAYS,
DIED APRIL YE 22D, 1694.
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INSCRIPTIONS.
HERE LIES INTERED YE BODY OF MR. JOTHAM BUSH, OF SHREWSBURY,
WHO DIED WITH THE SMALL POX,
FEBRUARY YE 15TH, ANNO DOM. 1778, IN YE 49TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.
" MY FLESH SHALL SLUMBER IN YE GROUND,
"TILL YE LAST TRUMPET'S JOYFUL SOUND ;
" THEN BURST THE CHAINS WITH SWEET SURPRISE, "AND IN MY SAVIOUR'S IMAGE RISE."
No. 69. SAMUEL A. SHED AND WILLIAM GODARD'S TOMB.
No. 70.
[ARMS.]
THOMAS HUBBARD, ESQ.'S TOMB. 1
" I KNOW THAT THOU WILT BRING ME TO DEATH."
30th chapter, 23d verse Job.
"I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH."
19th chapter, 25th verse.
12
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HERE LYES YE BODY OF
MRS. MARY EMMONS, DAUGHTER OF CAPT. SIMON AMORY, AGED 66 YEARS, DYED OCTOBER YE 8TH, 1740, AND
MARY EMMONS,
DAUGHTER OF BENJ'N EMMONS, JUN., AGED 3 MONTHS, DYED JAN'RY 23D, 1743.
[NOTE.] The above inscription is on a slab covering the first tomb south of the Tremont House.
HERE LYES YE BODY OF
MR. ANDREW TYLER, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AUGUST 12TH, A. D. 1741, IN YE 49TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.
No. 56.
COAT OF ARMS.
NON SOLA MORTALI LUCE RADIOR.
THIS TOMB REPAIRED BY
THOMAS PERKINS, 1796.
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INSCRIPTIONS.
HERE LYES BURIED YE BODY OF
LISLEY PALMER,
1 AGED 38 YEARS,
DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEBRUARY YE 12, 1682-3.
TOMB No. 162. JAMES PHILLIPS.
IN MEMORY OF
JOHN WHEATLEY,
AN INDUSTRIOUS MEMBER OF SOCIETY,
AND A HUMBLE CHRISTIAN,
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 12TH MARCH, 1778, ÆT. 72.
IN MEMORY OF
MRS. SALLY CAMPBELL,
DAUGHTER OF MR. PATRICK CAMPBELL,
WHO DIED DECEMBER 15TH, 1790,
AGED 14 YEARS.
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TOMB No. 51. JOHN HUNT.
IN MEMORY OF
MRS. SARAH TORREY,
WIFE OF MR. EBEN'R TORREY,
DIED FEB'Y 9TH, 1781, AGED 42 YEARS.
MRS. LUCY PHILLIPS,
WIFE TO CAPT. BENJAMIN PHILLIPS,
DEPARTED THIS LIFE JUNE 21ST, 1783, AGED 53 YEARS. [NOTE. ] This monument is 30 feet west of Franklin's.
LHIS TOMB REPAIRED BY
GARDINER GREEN,
GRANDSON OF MR. NATHANIEL AND MRS. ANN GREEN.
- -.
THIS TOMB IS THE PROPERTY OF MR. DAVID FLAGG
AND THE
REV. THOMAS BALDWIN.
JOHONNOT.
ANDREW JOHONNOT, distiller, was the son of Daniel and Susan Sigour- ney Johnson, the widow of John Johnson, and daughter of Andrew Sigourney. Her first husband and three children were massacred by the Indians at Oxford, Mass., in the year 1696. Mr. Johonnot died in Boston, June 1, 1760. His wife was the daughter of Anthonie and Mary Olivier, Huguenots from Rochelle. She died January 23, 1774.
Mary Annie, the daughter of Daniel and Susan Johonnot, married James Bowyer; their children were, Daniel, Peter, Susan, and James. Mr. Bowyer died April 26, 1741. Mrs. Bowyer, May 22, 1747. Both interred in the Granary Burying Ground.
Zachariah Johonnot, whose tomb is in King's Chapel Burial Ground, was a son of Daniel and Susan Johonnot. He was a wealthy merchant, and distiller in Boston, and died in 1784, aged eighty-three years. His tomb is near the School-street gate. Susan, daughter of Andrew and Susan, married Lazarus Le Barron-died August 10, 1774. Martha, daughter of Andrew and Susan, died unmarried February 4, 1774, aged twenty-four years. Daniel, son of Daniel and Susan, born March 19, 1704, died in 1721.
LEE.
ABRAHAM LEE was a chemist, and lived in Dover in 1680, and was killed by the Indians, June 27, 1689. The name of Lee had furnished twenty-four graduates at the New England colleges in 1826, of whom the first, at Harvard College, was Henry Lee, 1722, a merchant of Salem, who died July 14, 1747, aged 44. Joseph Lee, Harvard Col- lege, 1729, was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and died De- cember 5, 1782. John, of Ipswich, 1648, died 1671. John, his eldest son, was a surgeon in the navy. Joseph, another son, married Mary Woodhouse, and settled in Concord as early as 1696. Samuel, minister of Bristol, was born in London in 1623 ; was educated at Oxford; came to New England June 24, 1686, and was settled at Bristol May 8, 1687. After the revolution in his native country, he was eagerly desirous of returning. Just before he sailed in 1691, he told his wife that he had viewed a star, which, according to the rules of astrology, presaged cap- tivity. He was captured by a French privateer, and carried into St. Maloes, in France. After suffering every thing which the prejudices of bigots could add to what national antipathies prompted, he died in 1691, aged 64, a victim to their cruelty, and was buried out of the city, as a heretic. One reason of his leaving England was, that he was afraid of the growth of Popery ; another, that he was invited to be President of Harvard College.
He was never pleased with the state of things in New England. Be- ing eccentric in his genius and extravagant in his speech, he disgusted many who admired his talents and read his books with delight.
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LEE.
He was rich, haughty, and overbearing. He was a man of great learning ; master of physics and chemistry, and well versed in all the liberal arts and sciences. He had studied the astrological art, but, disapproving of it, he burned a hundred books which related to the subject.
His learning was united with charity, and the poor were often re- lieved by his bounty. He was a great writer, and printed a large num- ber of sermons and essays on various subjects.
Samuel Lee, of Malden, was admitted freeman in 1671. Thomas Lee, of Ipswich, brother of John, died in 1662, aged about 82. Walter Lee was among the first settlers of Northampton in 1659. He after- wards removed to Westfield, where it is believed he died. Many of his descendants are now residing in the western part of Massachusetts.
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No. 39.
CAPT. THOMAS ADDAMS TOMB.
MRS. MARY PHILLIPS,
WIFE OF DEACON JOHN PHILLIPS,
DYED AUG'ST YE 15TH, 1742, AGED 39 YEARS.
BENJAMIN PHILLIPS,
AGED 6 YEARS AND 2 MO. DIED APRIL YE 27, 1746.
HERE LYES BURIED THE BODY OF
MR. FREDERICK CLARKE,
SON OF MR. JOHN AND MRS. MARGARET CLARKE, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MAY YE 13TH, 1760, IN THE 22D YEAR OF HIS AGE.
[NOTE. ] This stone stands 30 feet south of the Franklin Monument.
DEBORAH COBHAM, WIFE TO JOSIAH COBHAM, AGED 46 YEARS, DIED JULY YE 15, 1685.
[NOTE.] This stone is but 20 inches high, and stands 16 feet east of the Franklin Monument.
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INSCRIPTIONS.
HERE LYES YE BODY OF JOHN CLARK,
SON OF REV. MR. PETER CLARK, OF DANVERSE, AND MRS. DEBORAH, HIS WIFE, WHO DIED JAN'RY 10, 1756, AGED 19 YEARS.
IN MEMORY OF
CAPT. CHRISTIAN HIGGINS,
OF LYME, CONNECTICUT, WHO DIED OF THE SMALL POX, SEPT. 19TH, 1792, IN THE 67TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.
IN MEMORY OF MRS. SALLY MAY, WIFE OF MR. ENOCH MAY, WHO DIED APRIL 4TH, 1787, AGED 35 YEARS.
HERE LIES MARY BASSET,
AGED X. MONTHS, DIED JUNE, 1691.
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No. 55. MAJOR JOHN WENDELL, HIS DESCENDANTS AND THEIR FAMILIES THIS STONE PLACED BY D. TOWNSEND.
HANNAH,
YE DAUGHTER OF TIMOTHY AND RUTH CONNI" AM,
AGED 6 YEARS AND 8 MO. *EC'D * * TOBER YE 13TH, 1697.
RUTH CONNIGHAM,
AGED 16 MONTHS, DEC'D 1690.
LYDIA WARD,
YE DAUGHTER OF SAMUEL AND IOHANA WARD,
AGED 19 YEARS, DYED AUGUST YE 5TH, 1690.
-
TOMB OF
WILLIAM ALLINE & NOAH DOGGETT.
MARTHA HVNT,
YE WIFE OF IOHN HUNT,
AGED 30 YEARS, DIED YE 22 OF IANVARY, 1686-7.
[NOTE.] This stone is 54 feet north of the Franklin Monument.
HUNT.
EDMUND HUNT, of Cambridge, was an early settler of Duxbury, and one of the proprietors of Bridgewater, in 1645. Forty-one of the name had been educated at the colleges in New England and New Jersey, in 1826.
Enoch Hunt, of Weymouth, 1640. Ephraim, of the same town, 1655, was a freeman in 1671, representative 1689 to 1691, and a cap- tain of the militia. William, of Concord, 1641, died at Marlborough in October, 1667, leaving sons : Samuel, freeman in 1654; Nehemiah; Isaac; and William. Rev. - Hunt, a minister, who had been settled at Wroxall, in Warwickshire, came to New England, but at what time is uncertain.
Jonathan Hunt came from Northampton, England, to Northampton, Mass., in 1660, via Middletown, Conn. His mother was Mary, daughter of Governor John Webster of Hartford, who died in Hadley. He mar- ried Clemence Hosmer (perhaps a daughter of Thomas Hosmer, who died at Northampton). He died September 30, 1691, aged 54. He was a deacon of the church, and a man of much influence. His children were :
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Thomas, Jonathan, John, Hannah, Clemence, Ebenezer, Ebenezer 2d, Mary, Sarah, and one other, Samuel. Two of his sons went to Colchester, and one, Ebenezer, to Lebanon, Conn. He had thirteen children. Si- mon, of Coventry, Conn., son of the last named Ebenezer, was the great- grandfather of George Washington Hunt, of New York. Jonathan, born in 1665, had many descendants in Northampton. Rev. John Hunt who graduated at Harvard College, in 1764, was a grandson. He was pastor of the Old South Church in Boston from 1771 until his death at North- ampton, December 2, 1775. Mary, daughter of Jonathan, was born in 1705. She married Col. Seth Pomroy, who fought so bravely at Bun- ker Hill. Ebenezer, born 1676, left a son and a daughter at North- ampton.
The son was Deacon Ebenezer Hunt, who had twelve children-a son and a daughter survived him. He died February 21, 1788, aged eighty-four.
His son was Dr. Ebenezer Hunt, born 1744, graduated 1764, and studied physic with Dr. Pynchon of Springfield. He was a man univer- sally respected and beloved. He was many times a member of the Legislature, as Representative and Senator; an elector of President of the United States; a magistrate, register of deeds, &c. He died De- cember 26, 1820, aged seventy-six, having practised physic for more than half a century, and in that time never having sued any person for debt incurred by medical attendance. His youngest brother, Col. Seth Hunt, of the Revolutionary army, graduated at Harvard College 1768. He married a Miss Bellows, and had one son, Gov. Seth Hunt. Dr. Ebenezer Hunt married Sarah Bradish, of Cambridge (sister of Mrs. Gen. Cobb), and had eight children. Three sons survived him, viz : Dr. David Hunt, who died July 8, 1837, aged sixty-four. (His wife was a wealthy daughter of Josiah Dickinson, and died September 25, 1838, aged sixty-one. . His daughter, Sarah Mills, married Thomas Merrick Hunt,* of Auburn, New York. He died in October, 1855.) Eben-
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