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Daniell gains to ye meetinge house -- 00 - 00 - 08 & 0-05 - 04 0- 8 0
Simon & Thomas gatts 00 - 03 - 03 & Adm' Major Willard 00 - 05 - 02 & Mr Robinson 00 - 01 - 01 & for William Lewese 00- 03 - 03 &
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John Lewes 00 - 00 - 08 & Christopher Lewes 00 - 00 - 06 & for Mordeca Mukload 00- 00.08 & for John Divole 00- 01-00 & Thomas hares 00 .00-08 & 00-02- 11 & 00 - 02 - 02 &
2 - 01 - 04 0 - 08 - 04 1 - 06 - 04 0-16- 0 0 - 05 - 01 0-16- 0 0 - 04 - 00 0 - 05 - 04 0- 5- 6 0 - 08 - 04 0 - 05 - 00 0-10- 0 1 - 03 - 04 0-19-10 I - 17 - 04 0 - 05 - 00 0 - 03 -08 0- 4- 6
Jeremiah Rogers Jonas fairbank
George Adams for ben allin
Lauranc Waters
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By order of ye Towne. JOHN HOUGHTON
DANILL HUDSON
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To the Honoble Generall Court assembled in Boston the 10th September. 1684.
Josiah White, in behalfe of the Town of Lancaster, now vpon a re- setlement, humbly Prayeth this Honoble Courts order (if it may seeme good, ) for the confirmation and strengthening of the vote passed by the Town as aboue written, That all those who are Proprietors of Lands lying within sd Town although not dwellers there, may be assessed in propor- tion to ye value of their Estates as the Inhabitants are, towards the erect- ing of a meeting house. maintenance of a minister & other publique charges, the rate for this yeare being made as aboue: And that you please to order the levying of the same.
The magists haue voted that In answer to the Request of the present Inhabitants resident at Lancaster, this court doth order that all psons or their heirs executors or administrators that are propriters of lands there being grants of that towne, shall pay their proportion to a town Rate, for erecting a meeting house, & maintenance of A minster in yt towne according as other, the inhabitants yt are prsent ther do pay for the same sort of lands.
The magists haue past this their Brethren the deputyes hereto consent- ing 15 September 1684. EDWARD RAWSON Secretary
Consented hereto by ye Deputics, prouided that all persons & estates, be assessed by a due proportion to said Rates
L HAMMOND p order.
[Massachusetts Archives, CXI1, 366.]
We must rely upon so late an authority as Reverend 'Timothy Harrington for the information that, "after the resettlement, divers gentlemen for the space of seven years supplied the pulpit." He names in a note "Mr. Carter, Mr. Wooddroffe, and Mr. Oakes." The last was perhaps Edward Oakes who was graduated at Harvard college in 1679. William Woodrop was a non-conformist deprived of his benefice in England, A. D. 1662. Samuel Carter, graduate at Harvard, 1660, was the son of Reverend Thomas Carter of Woburn, and a teacher there. He mar- ried Eunice Brooks in 1672. In 1688 Henry Kerley deeds his lands on George Hill to him, but he may have been resident here at an earlier day. In 1692 he was settled in Groton, and died there in 1693, aged fifty-three, leaving four sons and three daughters, whose numerous descend- ants figure prominently in the town's history.
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1684. Henry Kerly, beretofore leiftefint at Lancaster, now removed. & married at Marlborow, is appointed ensigne to the trajne band there in ye roome of his brother, deceased there.
[Massachusetts Records.]
1688. Josiah Wbetcomb is allowed 20 shillings to be paid by the County for killing one growne wolfe in ye Towne of Lancaster.
Nathaniel Wilder is allowed forty shillings to be paid by the County for killing two growne wolves in the Towne of Lancaster.
John Womsquam Indian is allowed ten shillings to be paid by the County for killing one growne wolfe in the Towne of Lancaster.
[Middlesex Records. Court of Sessions.] .
A law of 1653 established a bounty of 30 shillings for each wolf killed by a white man, 20 shillings if killed by an Indian ; the county treasury refunding io shillings of this amount to the town in either case. For one hundred years this Jaw was little modified except by an increase in bounty, though after 1718 the Indian hunter was placed on an equality with the Englishman. For whelps and cubs the premium was commonly half that paid for full grown beasts. The head of the animal whether wolf, wild cat, catamount. or bear, had to be brought to the local consta- ble, who cut off the ears and buried them to guard against fraud.
LANCASTER DURING KING WILLIAM'S WAR. 1689-1697.
The deep scars left by Philip's war had not disappeared before the outlying towns of New England were again menaced with the horrors of savage warfare. Among the New York colonial Manuscripts is a letter from Capt. Francis Nicholson, of which the following is an extract :
BOSTON August the 31st 1688.
. Soe next day I went through Groton and Lancaster where the people were very much afraid (being out towns) butt I told them as I did other places that they should nott be soe much cast down, for that they had the happinesse of being subjects of a victorious King who could protect them from all their enemies. . .
LANCASTER ye 3ª of July : 1689.
Whereas we ye Inhabitants of sd Lancaster being under som fears of being surprissed by ye Indians we being by foremer experience sencsible of theire mallice and crueltie : and being at present destitute of any officers in power to order ye millitary afairs of ye towne they doe mutually Nominate Mr Thomas Wilder for a Leauten' and sergeant John Moore to be ensigne and doe hereby adress our selues to our hon'ed Councill for allowance and confirmation of ye same.
By order of y Towne
JOHN HOUGHTON Cler
The above nomination of officers are allowed in their Respective offices by the Representatives July : 5 : 1689 Attest EBENEZER PROUT Clerk
Consented to by the Governor and Councill.
IMA ADDINGTON Secry [ Massachusetts Archives, CVII, ITI.]
1689 34 July. An Order was despatcht to Cap" Tho Prentes rallying his Troop this day at Cambridge to send out two partys of twenty each out of his Troop well appointed wth armes and Amunition, one party for
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Dunstable and ye other for Lancaster for the Reliefe and succor of those places, to scout about the heads of those Towns and other places adjacent to discover and observe the Enerays motion, and to take surprise or de- stroy them as they may have opportunity.
[ Massachusetts Archives, LXXXI.] LANCASTER May 6 1689.
The Inhabitance of sd Lancaster meeting together according to ad- vice from ye honted Councill giuen at Boston May 2ª 1689 doe accordingly chuse & impowre Mr Ralph Houghton to serue with ye Council! on ye Townes behalfe as occasion shall Require, which was confirmed by a voate of ye Towne :
as attests
JOHN HOUGHTON Towne Cler
2dly The Townes desire and expectation is that our hon'd Gour and Assistants that were ellected by the fre men of this colloney, in May 1686 or so many of them as by ye said hon'd gour and Company shall be Judged meete to gether with the Deputies that shall be sent downe from ye seuerall Respective Townes shall Reassume and exercise ye gouern- ment as a gen'll Court according to our Charter for the yeare Insuing or untill that orders from his highnes ye Prince of Orange appeare for the setlement of our affaires, which was declared by a voate of the Towne :
as attests JOHN HOUGHTON Town Cler
[Massachusetts Archives, CVII, 15.]
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 1690.
A church is gathered & Mr John Whiting ordained Minister at Lan- caster. Mr Sam Whiting gives him his Charge, Mr Estabrooks gives the Right hand of Fellowship : Mr Brinsmead and others there.
[Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1. 337.]
John Whiting was the second son of Reverend Samuel Whiting, minister of Billerica for fifty-five years. He was, when ordained here, twenty-six years of age, having been graduated at Harvard college in 1685. His wife was Alice Cook of Cambridge. Timothy Whiting, the head of the family that came to Lancaster from Billerica nearly a century later, was the direct descendant of Oliver, the brother of Reverend John Whiting. According to Rever- end Timothy Harrington, " In Feb., 1688, Mr. John Whit- ing was invited to preach on probation." Joseph Willard, Esq., from some original source not now accessible, quotes the additional information that at the same date the town voted to build a parsonage to be paid for :
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one eighth in money ; the rest, one half in work, and one half in corn, viz. Indian, one third, and English two thirds, at country price, or other merchantable pay . . At a town meeting Jan. 3, 1690 agreed to make conveyance to Mr Whiting of the house and land formerly granted by the town. And the town the same time went out of the house, and gave Mr John Whiting possession thereof in behalfe of the whole above written, formerly granted by the town.
[History of Lancaster, 63.]
April 7, 1692, Jonathan Prescott of Concord conveyed a piece of intervale land "on ye west side of North River near to ye bridge in y" County Road" (Atherton's) to the town, acknowledging this consideration :
Promoting the ministrie of the Gospel in ye Town of Lancaster, De- siring & Endevoring the settlement of Mr John Whiting Pastor There by Enlarging His accomodations There in st Lancaster, & 5% p by John More Sen' Thomas Wilder & John Houghton in ye name of Inhabitants of Lancaster.
[Middlesex Registry.]
1690. Lancaster was represented among the sufferers in Sir William Phips' mismanaged and disastrous expe- dition against Canada. Endorsed on a list of Phips' cap- tains, in Massachusetts Archives, XXXVI, 134, is "Lt. Willard of Lanchaster" [Benjamin ], and the names of five soldiers are known from a petition of their heirs, in 1738, for land grants. viz :
Joseph Atherton, John Pope,
Jonathan Fairbank, Samuel Wheeler,
Timothy Wheelock.
1690. To the Hourd Lift Gourny & Counsell of Massachutts Province New England, Grace Mercy & peace le multiplied to ye worthy Gentlmn of ye Assembley.
The humble Petition of Cyprian Steevens humbly sheweth that being Constable in year 1690|f that yeare sevrall psons moued some to Canady & to other parts & no estate to be found, my Humble Request is that yor Hon' will Consider yor Petitin' that he may not pay out of his own Estate. for that weh was other men's dues. Yor Petitin' also Relating to his office that yeare has been a great suffrer, haueing two Ratts to colect namely tweenty Ratts wch was Graine, & two & a halfe money, the scarcity of ye on & not haueing the other, y& Loss in a great meashur became ye Con-
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stabl, now yor petition' humbley Cranes yo' Hon" favour that you will please to Graunt him a clearence from Mr Tayler Treasure so shall be bo obliged to pray for yor Hon's peace & prsprty Yor supleant serv! CYPRIAN STEEVENS
LANCASTER June 4th, 1695.
A List of y^ names of those prsons that moued from y Town of Lan- caster of weh sum are Dead, in ye yeare 1690.
Also ye Loss of 16 wolues by a mistake of Major Phillipses Clarke
Empr Joseph Watters, 18 " Cyprian Steevens 17 I 15 4
Cyprian Steevens 7 - 3
Willa Hattson 4 - 3
Sam". Wheeler 4 - 1
Benjamin Willard 4 - 4
Joseph Watters 6 - 6
Nath" Harwood 3- 10
Sam" Sumner 5 - 4 Arthur Tooker 4 -
A true Acount as Atests 1,,19 , 7
CYPRIAN STEEVENS Constable for Lancaster We whose names are vnder written do Atest to ye mouall or death of y* prsons Aboue written & wer in sd Constables Rates in ye yeare 1690 JOHN MOORE Sen! Selectmen for ye Town JOSIAH WHITT Sen!
JOHN MOORE Jun' of Lancaster June 8: 1695 Read in the house of Representatives.
[Endorsed.] June 8th : 1695. The Selectmen of the town of Lancaster baueing sent under their hands to excuse the Constable, severall being dead & Removed that the Rate was laid on Voted-that it is due from the Towne and that the Selectmen Assess the said Town for said Sumin
WX BOND Speaker
[Massachusetts Archives, CI, 33.]
1691. Simon Davis & Ensign Humphrey Barrett of Concord, John Howton & Nath" Wilder of Lancaster & Boaz Brown & Thomas Williams of Stow, are by this Court appointed a Committee to lay out a convenien- high way from Concord according to Law, for theire direction in the mat- ter, and to make theire report to ye next Inferior Court for ye County of Middx.
[Middlesex Court Records.]
George Nube being called into Court to Answer for horrid wickedness . and profaneness laid to his charge he appearing & ye witnesses sworn ya case was committed to ye Grand Jury.
George Nube of Lancaster being Indicted by Grand Jury for high
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handed contempt of God's Word, Reproaches of ye ministers & calling them liars Drunkards and Whoremasters, and for a practice of high handed. Debauching as by his own confession & profane neglect of Gods Publick worship on ye Lords daies, & Appearing before ye Court to make answer thereto dos stand Legally Convicted thereof: Is sentenced to be severely whipt on his naked body twenty stripes & to give bond in aoC for his good abearance & appearance ye next Court to be held for their Majties in Cambridge & to stand committed till this sentence be performed & to pay costs.
The documents in the case of Lancaster vs. George Newby are quite voluminous, including two piously peni- tent petitions of the culprit, praying to escape the whipping post. Much of the evidence is unfit for print. The accu- sation of the town fathers was as follows :
The Declaration of Jno Moore Sent, Against George Newby Humbly Sheweth to this Honerd Court, this sd Newby since he came to our Town, he has endeavm to Pervert all thats Good and has been a Leader to all maner of evill, Paying nothing to church nor state, Greatly wronging most men that Deale with him. but that weh I most would signifie to yor Hon" is, sd Newbys most profainly spaking & sliting of that most worthy Peice of worke the Asembly of divines, even the Catechism, sliting the holy Bible & the Embasingers of Jesus Christ, saying that they were Drunkerds. Lyers, & whorem ters, with many other Gross Villineys which Inlarges my heart to Pettition yor Honr as you are our fathers & soe wayt- ing on you for support, that such a felow may be Removed from us Un- der which Protection & Blessing our Little Israel here in Lancaster may be Ingaged to pray for yor Hon's peace & properity from your Humble servt. [Middlesex Court Files.]
1692. The following letter from Maj. Thomas Hinch- man. at the time in command of all forces in this part of the Province, gives a clear view of the unhappy condition of Lancaster and her sister towns ; daily expecting inva- sion by savage enemies and almost powerless for defence against them, yet forbidden by a special act of legislature from removing. The document is in Massachusetts Arch- ives, XXXVII, 340 :
May it pleas your Honors.
Yor advice of the 14th Instant of ye probable Advancing of ye Enemy westwd I have Received & Render humble thanks for the same. Yo" con-
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cernednes for ye security of these parts Intimated will quicken vs to speciall vigilancy & also Incorages mee earnestly to pray yt souldrs to y numbr of at least Go may, (if yo" Honom see meete) be speedily sent vp. for without such a supply of men I cannot conceive how wee can be de- fended in case of an Attack by ye enemy : our men must work this sumer or starve in winter. & yr hard labour in ye day renders ym verry vnfit to watch every 3 or 4 nights as many must do if they go to Garrison, & if they stay at y' house they must expose to be made a sacrifice : I Hope ye Hon" Councill will consider yt whereas yr are but to small towns in my Regiment 6 of ym are frontiers & as for Sherbon I can procure no men fro yr, my ord's will not be obey", becaus yr is no militia setled, Among ym, & no settlement or directions how I may procure sould" fro ye seuerall Towns, & also prov. [provisions.] I hope ye Councill will also remember yt seuerall souldy in this Regmt are sent Eastwd. Or people groan vnder ye Burden they ly vnder for want of souldes fro ye Bay parts, & yrs. I Intreat o' case may be Considered as yor wisdom shall direct & Compassion to vs shall Incline you. All ye Inhabitants of dunstable excepting 2 familys desire to draw off, viz Jno Sollendine & Thos Luff whose Garrisons are nere to each other, these seem wiling to ---- themselves with 10 or 12 souldr. I desier an ordr to Capt. Parker for sum shott who hath a Quantity of ye Country's stock in his hand. I am advised yt Lancaster hunters hane lately seen a copany of Indians near Wachusett ye number of yt is reported to be about 300. yy report themselves to be Albanians, Senecas Maquas wth ya western or Connecticut Indians. This vnusual Confluence of so many Indians makes many to suspect & fear a design agst vs. I doubt not but ye Councill will satisfy themselves about it. The souldr yt I Desier will be needed in Chelmsford, Groton & Lancaster. Thus Hd Gentlemen I haue been bold to craue at yo' hands wthout ye least Intention to dictate to my superiors but humbly to submit all to yor pleasure, & craue pdon of my simplicity & plainnes. I am not capable at present of a personall waiting vpo you, otherwise I could more pticularly spread before you of nakedness & ye extream danger of destruction yt wee are in if not better defended then at present wee are.
I am yr Hon's Humble Servtt Chelmsford, 12 April, 1692. THO HINCHMAN
Of the murder of the Joslin family by Indians, July 18, 1692, no contemporary mention is discovered. The victims were :
Killed. Mrs. Hannah Whitcomb. widow of Jonathan. Mrs. Sarah Joslin, wife of Peter. Three young children of Peter Joslin,
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Caplive.
Elizabeth Howe, sister of Mrs. Joslin. Peter, son of Peter Joslin, aged 6 years ; killed shortly after.
April 17, 1701, a resolve was passed in General Court allowing three pounds eighteen shillings to Mr. Thomas Howe, "he haveing Paid so much for the Redemption of Elizabeth Howe who was Captive to the Indians." She returned from Canada in 1696, being then about twenty years of age, and married Thomas Keyes Dec. 23, 1698.
1694. To his Excelency ye Gour Sr Willin Phipps Kut &c the Honrd Coun- cill &- Representatives conveaned at Boston : ffeb : 14##: 1693 4.
The Humble Petition of Jno Houghton in behalfe of the Inhabitants of y" Towne of Lancast': Humbly Sheweth, That wheras y" sd Inhabi- tants of Lancaster haue both formerly and of late been expossed to very great troubles & charges by Reason of y" Long continued war with ye In- dians : seuerall persons being killed by them & others haueing Lost great part of theire estate by them : & also by being so long Nessessitated to liue in Garison where neither men nor women can doe but very litle towards ye supply of theire familyes ; theire being so mutch time spent in watching warding & many allarrums that have been amongst us & that which is more ye dayly feares we were expossed to in ye Dangers which atended us in our labours, being for so long a time constrained to get our bread with ye perill of our lives : wherby many are brought to extreame poverty, not knowing how to get either food or cloathing for themselues or famillys : also ye great charge expended in building Repairing & maintain- ing so many Garissons : eight of which being allowed by order : ye charge of sd Garissons being very considerable : also in ye midest of theese troubles we have beene at great charges in ye setlement of our towne : it being wholly Destroyed ye last warr : & and yet we are in great feares notwith- standing ye present peace we being so few in number & so unable to defend ourselues.
Your Petirs Humble Request to yor Honrs is that you would consider the prmisses & Relieue sd Inhabitants by Granting them som considerable allowance for ye charges expended in ye building & Repaireing sd Garis- sons, acording as you' Hon's in wisdom and Justice shall see meet & heerby your Petr together with ye Rest of the Inhabitants of sd Lancaster shall be the beter Incouraged to conflict with ye many Diffucaltyes we are Inci- dent to & farther oblidged as in Duty bound euer to pray : &c :
JNO HOUGHTON in behalfe of the Inhabitants of Lancastr
March 3ª, 169314
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In answer to the above Petition & for the incouragment of the Inhab- itants of Lancast", referring to their great charge in fortifiing themselues in this Troublesome time the house of representatives do vote that the said Town be allowed them Twenty pounds out of ye next assesment & sent up to his exly y" Gouer" & Councill for theire Concurrence & Consent. NATH : BYFIELD Speaker. Octbr 20"! 1694. Votd a Concurrance by the Council. IsA ADDINGTON Secret. [Massachusetts Archives, C, 466.]
1695. On a certain Sabbath of this year, the date of which is not on record, Abraham Wheeler, when on his way from the garrison to his own house, was mortally wounded by an Indian lying in wait for him. It has been stated that Wheeler lived upon Wataquadock. This loca- tion of his home is proved an error by these items in the inventory of his estate, presented in Middlesex Court, Nov. 6, 1695, by his widow Tabitha :
To House Lott 12 acres & houseing upon it.
To three acres of Intervale swamp at ye Riner by ye house. [Middlesex Probate Files.] 1697. 12th May. Haffah Dustan came to see us. . . . She saith he! Master, whom she killd, did formerly live with Mr Roulandson at Lan- caster.
[Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1, 453.]
Sabbath Sept: 12. We hear of the slaughter made at Lancaster yes- terday.
Sept' 13. At Roxbury Mr Danforth tells me that Mr. Whiting. the Minister, was dead and buried : Indians shot and scalped him about noon. [Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1, 459]
May, 1697. In the latter end of this month a woman the wife of Lief- tenant Willder distrode her self in a fit of mellancholly. She was in her Life time esteemed a truly pious woman By them yt knew ber.
Sept. 1697. On the Saturday following the Indians did a great deall of mischief at Lancaster, they beset the towne about noon. Burned Io houses, killed and captivated about 20 persons of which the chief was the Reverend John Whiting pastor of y" church of Christ there.
[John Marshall's Diary in possession of the Massachusetts Historical Society.]
On September I a party of the enemy came upon the town of Lan- caster then prepared for mischief by a wonderful security, and they did no little mischief unto it. Near twenty were killed and among the rest Mr John Whiting the pastor of the church there. Five were carried
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captives, two or three houses were burnt and several old people in them. Capt. Brown with fifty men pursued them till the night stopped the pur- suit, but it seems a strange dog or two unknown to the company did by their barking alarum the enemy to rise in the night, and strip and scalp an English captive woman and fly so far into the woods that after two days bootless labour our men returned.
[Cotton Mather's Magualia, 11, 639.]
In Massachusetts Archives, 11, 257, is a letter from Gov- ernor William Stoughton to the Governor and Council of Connecticut, from which this is an extract :
BOSTON Sept. 14, 1697. Upon ye II" instant a party of Indians to y number of about Forty as was judged, about twelve o clock the same day, Surprized and kild about 26 persons at Lancaster, of which the minister of the Town was one, burnt two Garrison houses and two Barnes, the Garrisons being left open and y Inhabitants surprized in their Fields: there is a party of men out in pursuit of y Enemy.
A LIST OF CASUALTIES SEPTEMBER II, 1697.
Killed.
Reverend John Whiting, aged 33.
Daniel Hudson.
Mrs. Joanna Hudson, wife of Daniel.
Two children of Nathaniel Hudson, grandchildren of Daniel.
John Scate, Skait or Sheath.
Mrs. Scate, wife of John
Mrs. Hannah Rugg, widow of John, and daughter of John Prescott.
Joseph Rugg, son of Hannah, aged 29.
Mrs. Rugg, wife of Joseph.
Three children of Joseph.
Jonathan Fairbank, aged 31.
Grace Fairbank, daughter of Jonathan.
Jonas Fairbank, son of Jonathan.
Ephraim Roper.
Mrs. Hannah Roper, second wife of Ephraim.
Elizabeth Roper, daughter of Ephraim, aged 14.
Captives. 19
Joanna, daughter of Daniel Hudson, aged 37. Killed (?) in captivity. Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel Hudson, aged 39. do.
Mrs. Mary Fairbank, wife of Jonathan, returned January, 1699. Mrs. Wheeler, Tabitha, widow of Abraham (?).
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Mary Glasier, returned January, 1699. Ephraim Roper, son of Ephraim, aged about .12, returned. John Scates' son.
Hannah Rugg. daughter of Joseph. 8
Rev. Timothy Harrington in his Century Sermon in- cludes among the captured "a son of Joseph Rugg," which is probably an error of gender, as Hannah Rugg is the name of a Lancaster prisoner, 1699. Harrington also names Joanna and Elizabeth Hudson as killed. If killed, their relatives did not know the fact nearly three months later, as will be shown below.
Reverend John Whiting's residence was on the lawn of the Col. Fay estate, a few feet south of the well which is still in use. The house stood until early in the present century, a path bordered with huge button-wood trees lead- ing from the front door to the highway south. The inven- tory of his estate sums £221 95, a large amount in those days; and the articles of household furniture indicate a degree of luxury in living quite unusual in Lancaster. Mistress Alice Whiting doubtless was much envied the possession of "a pair of Blew Curtains & Vallens," valued at I£ 10', -. "a silver cup & three silver spoons 2 £ 10'," --- and "4 blew cloth chaires & 2 plaine great chaires." The "Books" were estimated worth 7 14. Twin children, "Alice & Fanie," nearly three years old, died May 19, 1697 ; and Eunice, aged I year, survived the father but two months. In 1701 the widow married Reverend Tim- othy Stevens.
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