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Allow me to suggest that the discipline and training of the Choir have suffered for want of a more decided organization than now exists, and to
* Son of Hon. L. Saltonstall.
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advise that its immediate Director be intrusted formally by your Com- mittee with the power to engage the several members, as well as to apportion salaries and disburse the same by drafts on the Treasurer, not exceeding the limits of the annual appropriation.
I am, respectfully yours, J. FRANCIS TUCKERMAN.
These suggestions were adopted by the Committee, and full power in the premises delegated to him as Director.
At a meeting of the Committee, Oct. 3, 1855, after the ordination of Mr. Charles Lowe, the following vote was passed :
"That the thanks of the Committee be presented to Dr. Tucker- man and other members of the Choir, and to those who volunteered their services in the orchestra, for their highly acceptable perform- ances at the installation of Rev. Mr. Lowe on the 27th September ultimo. John H. Nichols, Clerk."
Votes of thanks to Dr. Tuckerman were also passed by the proprietors at their annual meeting of April 28, 1857, and May 3, 1858. At their meeting of May 7, 1860, on motion of Mr. H. L. Williams, it was
Voted, " That the members of the North Church desire to place on record their high sense of the valuable services rendered by Dr. J. Francis Tuckerman, for many years, in conducting the Choir of the church, and at the same time to express their sincere regret at the discontinuance of his connection with the church, offering their best wishes for his present and future welfare."
The Secretary was directed by vote to forward to Dr. Tuck- erman a copy of the above. To this a reply was received ex- pressive of a grateful sense of the recognition of his services, and cordially reciprocating the good will of the Committee.
The aid of Dr. Tuckerman was invaluable in the musical ser- vices of the society. It was rendered wholly gratuitously on his part. Himself an amateur of most uncommon taste and skill, a composer of much merit, with a sweet, well-trained and command- ing tenor voice, and admirable administrative capacity as a leader,
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he brought the music of the church to the highest order of ex- cellence, and his loss from the parish was very deeply regretted. He afterwards took charge of the Choir at "Grace Church," (Episcopalian).
He wrote for the Choir the tunes known as Danvers, Beckwith, Contrition, Supplication, Chelsea (L. M.'s) ; Lambeth (S. M.) ; . Ashburton, Saltonstall, 7s; " The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want;" and several chants, all possessing very great merit. He married Lucy, daughter of Hon. Mr. Saltonstall.
At the annual meeting of May 1, 1861, the charge of the music was placed in the hands of Gen. Oliver (who had returned from Lawrence to Salem), Caleb Foote and Joseph Cloutman, the former of whom took charge of the Choir, as successor to Dr. Tuckerman. His new service as Organist and Director he ren- dered gratuitously.
At the annual meeting of April 28, 1862, it was
Voted, "That the thanks of the society be presented to Gen. Oliver for his successful efforts in lessening the expenses of the music, and in instructing the members of the Choir and the children of the parish during the past year." A similar vote was passed at the annual meeting of April 28, 1863.
At a meeting of the proprietors, April 26, 1864, Gen. Oliver proposed, that if the proprietors assent, he will continue in charge of the musical affairs of the church, provided full power be given him to hire and discharge singers, and to control the general or- ganization and management of the Choir, doing all without charge for personal services. His proposition was accepted. Committees on music were elected in 1865 and 1866, the same power, however, being with Gen. Oliver who was chairman of the several Com- mittees chosen.
In 1865, though no record to that effect is found, the parish adopted Congregational Singing.
During the time of his officiating in the management of the
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Choir, he wrote many Hymn tunes for its use. Among them Fed- eral Street, Harmony Grove, Chestnut Street, Merton, Norman, Frothingham (on occasion of Rev. Mr. Frothingham's ordina- tion, to a hymn written by his father, Rev. N. L. Frothingham, of Boston),* Chadwick, Walnut Grove, Salisbury Plain, Walgrave, Vesper, Downing, Morning, Elkton, Algernon, several Chants, and the Motets, "Lord of all power and might," "The Lord shall comfort Zion," "How manifold are thy works O Lord," "Holy Lord God of Hosts," with other compositions, most of which were subsequently published and used elsewhere. Some of these were written before his removal to Lawrence in 1848, and some after his return.
His organ-blower for many years was Philip Frye, now dead, a most skilful inflator of the bellows. This, in the old Organ, was a double apparatus with two handles, between which, in the rear of the instrument, the blower stood, alternately working one handle up and the other down, somewhat like the beam of a steam engine. Dr. Holmes well describes the labor of this " brother-player" in his humorous "Organ-blower," which is so exact and true that it is inserted here.
" O brother, with the supple spine How much we owe those bows of thine ! Without thine arm to lend the breeze, How vain the fingers on the keys ! Tho' all unmatched the player's skill, Those thousand throats were dumb and still. Another's art may shape the tone, The breath that fills it is thine own."-
Not all the preaching, O my friend, Comes from the church's pulpit end !
* At the ordination of Mr. Frothingham the musical performance was conducted by Gen. Oliver at the Organ, Miss Frost, of Boston (for the occasion), Soprano, Miss Swan, Alto, Mr. B. S. Whitmore, Tenor, and Messrs. William Brown and B. F. Baker, Bassos. The tune " Frothingham " was then first sung, and a Motet by Charles Zeuner to the words " How beautiful upon the mountains," a composition of very great merit.
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Not all that bend the knee, and bow,
Yield service half so true as thou ! One simple task performed aright, With slender skill, but all thy might. Where honest labor does its best, And leaves the player all the rest."
Gen. Oliver always made it a point to thank his faithful helper at close of service ; for what were the player without the blower, as the former was once made to feel, when, in the midst of playing a Hymn tune, the Organ ceased, with a dying wail ! On running to the rear to find the cause, he found his helpmate, wearied with rising and sinking [the Hymn was a four verse, six line Long Metre, with the thermometer at 90° and a summer after- noon ], had dropped into " sound " slumber - and,
In sleep serene and calmly laid, Oblivious of the needed " blows ;" With deep-drawn breath and full, he played The diapason of the nose ; - So full, so rich, and all so clear and strong, The echoing pipes the snorting strain prolong .- H. K. O.
The Choir of the North Church has always been fortunate in its members, having had among them many persons from the best educated and most prominent families of the parish. As well as the writer can recollect, there have belonged to it at various times down to the year 1873 : -
Ichabod Tucker, Esq., Tenor, H. Coll., 1791.
Dr. Nathaniel Peabody, Tenor. Father of Mrs. Nath'l Hawthorne, Mrs. Horace Mann and Miss Elizabeth Peabody.
Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, Bass, H. Coll., 1802.
Oliver Parsons, Esq., Tenor.
* Dr. Charles G. Putnam, Bass, H. Coll., 1824.
* Mrs. Joseph Augustus (Putnam) Pea- body, Soprano. * Mrs. Charles G. (Putnam) Loring, So- prano.
* Mrs. Francis B. (Putnam) Crownin- shield, Soprano.
Joseph Richards, Esq., Tenor. Father of Mrs. Theodore Tilton, of New York. Nathaniel J. Lord, Esq., Bass, H. Coll., 1825.
* Son and daughters of Hon. Samuel Putnam, Judge of Sup. Court of Massachu- setts (H. Coll., 1787). His house was No. 138 Federal street.
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George Peabody, Esq., Bass, H. Coll., 1823.
Gen. H. K. Oliver, Bass and Organist, H. and Dart. Coll., 1818.
Benjamin Tucker (nephew of Ichabod, Esq.) Tenor, H. Coll., 1821.
Dr. Edward S. Lang, Bass.
Mrs. Soprano.
Sisters.
Mrs. Edward Brimmer,
Solomon S. Whipple, Esq., Bass.
Mrs." " Soprano.
John Chadwick, Esq., Bass, Cashier Ex- change Bank,
Mrs. John Chadwick, Soprano.
Samuel B. Buttrick, Esq., Counter Tenor.
Col. Joseph Sprague, Bass, Aid to Gov. William Eustis.
Hon. Caleb Foote, Bass, Editor Salem Gazette. Mrs. C. Foote, Soprano.
Henry Lemon, Esq., Baritone.
Edw. H. Payson, Esq., Bass.
Mr. Benj. Shillaber, Bass.
Mrs. Horace Mann (daughter of Dr. Nath. Peabody), Soprano.
Miss Elizabeth Peabody (daughter of Mrs. J. A. Peabody), Soprano.
Mrs. H. Lemon, Soprano (sister of Miss S. Mallet, organist). Mr. Adrian Low, Bass.
Miss Ellen M. Swan, Alto.
Mrs. Harriet M. Buffum, Alto.
Miss Elizabeth Donaldson, Soprano.
Mrs. John C. Lee, Soprano.
Ebenezer Shillaber, Esq., Bass. Mr. Samuel N. Glover, Bass. Dr. Edward Barnard, Tenor.
Miss E. M. R. Brooks (sister of Rev. Chs. T. Brooks, H. Coll., 1832), Alto. * Mrs. John Webster, Soprano.
* Mrs. Stephen Field, Soprano.
* Mrs. William F. Nichols, “
* Mrs. John Frost, Soprano. George Francis Chever, Esq., Tenor, H. Coll., 1840,
Mrs. Benjamin S. Whitmore, Soprano.
Horace P. Farnham, Esq., Bass, H. Coll., 1843.
Miss Emily P. Farnham, Soprano.
Mr. Benj. S. Whitmore, Tenor.
Stephen Wheatland, Esq., H. Coll., was leader of the music in the years 1816 and 1817.
Dr. J. Francis Tuckerman, Tenor, H. Coll., 1837.
Mrs. J. Francis Tuckerman (daughter of Hon. Leverett Saltonstall), Soprano.
Mrs. Benjamin S. Whitmore, Mezzo So- prano.
Col. Henry Merritt (Mass. Vols. Killed at Newbern, 1852.)
Mrs. S. F. Govea, Soprano.
Mr. J. A. Newcomb, Bass. " E. A. Bennett, 66
Jos. Newell, 66 Leverett Saltonstall, Esq., Bass. Mr. Stephen P. Driver, Tenor.
" Geo. A. Fuller, Cyrus L. Hayward, "
" Charles H. Stanton, Bass. Mrs. Mary E. Dixey, Alto.
Miss M. E. Smith,
Fanny E. Paine, Soprano. {
Eleanor V. Paine, 6 Sisters.
Miss Elizabeth S. Merritt (daughter of Col. M.), Soprano.
Mrs. William L. (Nichols) Kinsman, So- prano.
Miss Mary E. Aldrich, Soprano.
The present Choir, 1872-73, consists of
Misses Lucy B. Willson, M. Louisa Webb, | Gen. Henry K. Oliver, Ex-Adj. Gen. and Mary M. Brooks and Mrs. Anna B. Richardson, Sopranos. Treas. of Mass. Solomon Lincoln, Jr., Esq., Barrister. Augustus J. Archer, Esq., Merchant. Mr. Francis H. Lee. Prof. Edward S. Morse. Mr. Henry M. Brooks, Treas. F. R. Lead Co. Mr. Arthur W. Foote, H. Coll., 1874, Bassos. Miss Louisa A. Goodwin, Organist.
Mrs. F. H. Lee, Miss Mary E.Webb, Altos. Hon. Lincoln F. Brigham, Dart. Coll., 1842, Chief Justice Superior Court of Mass. Hon. George B. Loring, President Mass. Senate, 1873, H. Coll. 1838. Mr. Robert W. Willson, H. Coll., 1873, Tenors.
* Daughters of Capt. James Buffington.
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The several Organists have been
John Hart from 1808 to - -
Henry K. Oliver,
1829 to 1848.
Thomas Cooper, - to 1821.
George J. Breed, 1848 to 1857.
Rev. Joseph Muenscher, 1821 to 1823.
Frank Upton, 1857 to 1866.
Marshall Pratt, 1823 to 1824.
Manuel Emilio,
1867 to 1868.
Peter C. L' Ouvrier,
1825 to 1826.
Sarah Mallet,
1826 to 1829.
Louisa A. Goodwin,
1868 to - -
The several Music Books used have been
Salem Collection, edited by John Apple- ton, of the firm of Cushing & Appleton. Village Harmony.
Bridgewater Collection, edited by Judge N. Mitchell and Bartholomew Brown.
Handel and Haydn Collection, edited by Lowell Mason.
Boston Academy's, edited by Lowell Mason.
Ancient Lyre, edited by Charles Zeuner. American Harp, edited by Charles Zeuner. Carmina Lucia, edited by Lowell Mason. Greatorex, compiled by Greatorex.
Massachusetts Collection, edited by Geo. J. Webb.
Mozart Collection.
Beethoven Collection, edited by Ives, Al- pers and Timms.
Church and Home, edited by Gould and White.
Kreissman's Anthems, August Kreissman. Songs of Zion.
Baumbach's Motets, edited by Baumbach. Oliver's Collection, compiled by H. K. Oliver.
At present (1872), the only book used is the " Hymn and Tune Book," published by the American Unitarian Association, and used for Congregational Singing (the only music now in vogue in the service) by both Choir and congregation. It was formerly the custom at the opening of the service, for the Choir to sing a short anthem, motet, or chant, generally from the books of Zeuner, Baumbach, Oliver, or Gould & White. This was continued until the introduction of the "Hymn and Tune Book," published by the American Unitarian Association, Jan. 1, 1869. The service (held in the forenoon only) now consists of a Voluntary on the Organ, a Hymn tune, Prayer, Reading of Scripture, Hymn tune, Sermon, Prayer, Hymn tune, Benediction, Voluntary. The afternoon is given to the Sunday School, at the Vestry in rear of the church.
THE CHURCH:
COVENANT ; EARLY MEMBERS AND OFFICERS; MINISTER'S LIBRARY ; SUNDAY SCHOOL; EXTRACTS AND NOTES FROM THE RECORDS.
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The above engraving represents the PICKMAN HOUSE, as it appeared in 1832, then owned and occupied by the third Col. Benjamin Pickman, a grandson of the first Col. Benjamin Pickman, who built the same in 1750, who took so pron- inent a part in the founding of this church and society, and is frequently alluded to in this memoir.
On its site once stood a house built by Henry Bartholemew, soon after the settlement of the town, and which was purchased in 1680, by Timothy Lindall, a prominent merchant in his day - Mr. Lindall died in 1699 and gave it to his widow, who, about the time of her death in 1732, gave it to her daughter, Sarah Lindall. In 1749, Sarah Lindall (then Mrs. Morehead) gave the house and land to her nephew, Benjamin Pickman, who, in 1750, pulled it down and built the house above alluded to. The house stands on Essex street, opposite the head of St. Peter street, and is now owned by Mrs. Lemaster, who has erected stores on the front extending to the street.
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COVENANT
ADOPTED AND SIGNED JULY 19, 1772.
"WE, the subscribers, late members of the First Church of Christ in Salem, but regularly dismissed therefrom, humbly sensible of the frowns of God upon us, in this separation from our brethren with whom we are still desirous of living in all christian fellowship and charity, being desirous to form ourselves into a complete organic church, and to enjoy the institutions and ordinances of the Lord Jesus Christ and have them regularly administered to us,
Do now, in the first place, humbly and solemnly renew the dedication of ourselves and offspring to the great God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and we do hereby profess our firm belief of the Holy Scriptures con- tained in the Old and New Testaments, and taking them for our sole and sufficient rule of faith and practice, we do covenant and engage to and with each other, that we will walk together as a christian society, in the faith and order of the gospel, agreeable to the laudable practice of the congregational churches in New England, and we do hereby engage for ourselves (and as far as in our power, for all under our care) that we will live as becomes the true disciples of Jesus Christ, in all good carriage and behaviour, both towards God and towards man, hereby recognizing and renewing the substance of the first covenant entered into by our pious ancestors at their first founding a church in New England, in this town, Aug. 6, 1629, professing ourselves nevertheless, to be in charity with all men who love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity and truth.
And all this we engage faithfully to perform, not in our own strength, but by the assistance of the divine spirit which we are encouraged to hope for, relying upon the atonement purchased by the blood of the great mediator for the pardon of our manifold sins, and praying that the glori- ous Jesus, the great Head of the Church, would strengthen and enable us
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to keep this, our covenant, inviolate, and establish and settle us, and at last present us faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy."
The following is the covenant referred to above as "the sub- stance of the first covenant entered into by our pious ancestors at their first founding a church in New England, in this town, Aug. 6, 1629 ;" and which the subscribers to the covenant of the North Church, "recognized and renewed " and made a part of their own. It was not strictly the first covenant, as adopted Aug. 6, 1629 : that was gone : but it was that covenant as "renewed " in 1636. For the age of this covenant, therefore, we cannot, with historical accuracy, go beyond the last-named date.
"We, whose names are here underwritten, members of the present church of Christ in Salem, having found by sad experience how dan- gerous it is to sit loose to the covenant we make with our God: and how apt we are to wander into by-paths, even to the losing of our first aims in entering into church fellowship: Do therefore, solemnly, in the presence of the Eternal God, both for our own comforts and those which shall or may be joined unto us, renew that church covenant we find this church bound unto at their first beginning, viz :- That we covenant with the Lord, and one with another; and do bind ourselves in the presence of God, to walk together in all his ways, according as he is pleased to reveal himself unto us in his blessed word of truth, and do more explicitly, in the name and fear of God, profess and protest to walk as followeth, through the power and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1. First we avow the Lord to be our God, and ourselves his people in the truth and simplicity of our spirits.
2. We give ourselves to the Lord Jesus Christ and the word of his grace, for the teaching, ruling and sanctifying of us in matters of wor- ship and conversation, resolving to cleave to Him alone, for life and glory ; and oppose all contrary ways, constitutions and canons of men in his worship.
3. We promise to walk with our brethren and sisters in this congre- gation with all watchfulness and tenderness, avoiding all jealousies, sus- picions, backbitings, censurings, provokings, secret risings of spirit
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against them; but in all offences to follow the rule of the Lord Jesus, and to bear and forbear, give and forgive, as he hath taught us.
4. In public or private, we will willingly do nothing to the offence of the church, but will be willing to take advice for ourselves and ours, as occasion shall be presented.
5. We will not, in the congregation, be forward either to show our own gifts and parts in speaking or scrupling, or there discover the failing of our brethren or sisters, but attend an orderly call thereunto; knowing how much the Lord may be dishonored, and his gospel, in the profession of it, slighted by our distempers and weaknesses in public.
6. We bind ourselves to study the advancement of the gospel in all truth and peace, both in regard of those that are within or without, no way slighting our sister churches, but using their counsel as need shall be : nor laying a stumbling block before any, no not the Indians, whose good we desire to promote, and so to converse, as we may avoid the very appearance of evil.
7. We hereby promise to carry ourselves in all lawful obedience to those that are over us, in church or common weal, knowing how well pleasing it will be to the Lord, that they should have encouragement in their places by our not grieving their spirits through our irregularities.
8. We resolve to approve ourselves to the Lord in our particular callings, shunning idleness as the bane of any state, nor will we deal hardly, or oppressingly, with any, wherein we are the Lord's stewards : also,
9. Promising to our best ability, to teach our children and servants the knowledge of God and his will, that they may serve him also; and all this, not by any strength of our own, but by the Lord Jesus Christ, whose blood we desire may sprinkle this our covenant made in his name."
The following are the names of the persons who signed this covenant and were gathered into a church on the 19th of July.
John Nutting,
William Browne,
Sarah Curwen,
Benj. Pickman,
Samuel Holman,
Susannah Grafton,
Joshua Ward,
Benj. Pickman, Jr.
Mary Grafton,
Samuel West,
Priscilla Ropes,
E. A. Holyoke, John Lankford,
Love Pickman,
Sarah Gardner,
Elizabeth Field,
James Gould,
Katharine Sargent, Elizabeth Nutting,
Priscilla Field,
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Mary Pickman,
Hannah Watts,
Mehitable Cook,
Mary Gill,
Ruth Holman,
Mary Cox,
Mary West,
Hannah Symonds,
Mary Grant,
Sarah Cook,
Elizabeth Symonds,
Bethiah Ruck,
Hannah Chapman,
Abigail West,
Mary Holman,
Hannah Gillingham,
Elizabeth Holman,
Mary Archer,
Elizabeth Lunt,
Elizabeth Archer,
Eunice Crowninshield,
Mary West,
Mary Blaney,
Mary Glover,
Sarah Foster,
Elizabeth Newhall,
Martha Morong,
Lydia Jane,
Jane Ropes,
Sarah Lankford.
Mehitable Ward,
It was
Voted, On the day that the church was formed "That if any person of sober life and conversation incline to join us previous to the settlement of a minister, they may be admitted by mani- festing their desire to the brethren, and obtaining their consent, and subscribing to the foregoing covenant.""
Agreeably to this vote the following persons became members by signing the covenant within the time prescribed.
Samuel Curwen,
Lydia King,
Abigail Curwen,
Elizabeth King,
Francis Cabot,
Lydia King, Jr.,
James King,
Sarah Pickman,
Rebecca Bickford,
William Vans,
Mehitable Ward,
Martha Gavit,
Richard Ward,
Abial Bright,
Jacob Ashton,
David Mason,*
Sarah Curwen, Jr.,
Susanna Ashton,
Henry Rust,
Margaret Daniell,
Mary Symonds,
Eleazer Moses,
Sarah Pickering,
Jonathan Goodhue,
Jonathan Gavit, Lois Barnard, t
Elizabeth Giles.
William Paine,
Saralı Kimball,
Lydia Chapman, Lydia Rust,
Thomas Barnard, Jr., Rebecca, servant of Mr. Ebenezer Ward,
The record of admissions to the church from the ordination of Mr. Barnard to the year 1836, when the society left their first meeting house, is here given. Mr. Barnard did not record the
* " Dismissed from Dr. Boyles church, Boston."
{ If Mrs. Barnard was received into the church in 1772, it must have been as Lois Gardner, as her marriage with Rev. Mr. Barnard did not take place till May 31st of the following year. Her name, however, is found among those who signed the covenant previous to the settlement of a minister.
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dates of admission ; some later hand has supplied various dates, some of them indefinite, beginning with the year 1790; they bear the marks of care, and may be taken, it is believed, as in the main, trustworthy.
Hannah Ward,
Hopestill Hardy,
Sarah Leonard,
Francis Skerry,
Lydia Gray,
Margaret Hiller,
Ann Johnston,
Benjamin Watkins,
Angier M'Intire,
William Pickman,
Warwick Palfray,
Mary M'Intire,
Elizabeth Symonds,
Ann Watkins,
Mercy Gibbs Frost,
Margaret Symonds,
Samuel Field,
Mary Brewer,
Benjamin Symonds,
Benjamin Goodhue, Jun., Margaret Holyoke,
Martha Allcutt,
Rachel Forrester,
Sally Knight,
William West,
Mary Goodale,
Joseph Hiller,
Elizabeth Symonds, Sarah Ward,
Mercy Gibbs,
William Herrick,
Elizabeth Tink,
Samuel M'Intire,
Elizabeth Herrick,
Eunice Symonds,
Elizabeth M'Intire,
Joseph M'Intire,
Nathaniel Holman,
Judith King,
Mehitable Earvin,
Hannah Holman,
Sarah Dorton,
Mary Andrew,
Robert Alcock,
Habakkuk Bowditch,
Sarah Phippen,
Elizabeth Alcock,
Mary Bowditch,
George Earvin,
Abigail Bromfield,
Lois Phippen,
Susannah Johnston,
Elizabeth Ravell,
Mary Skerry,
Sarah Rust,
Eunice Glover,
Mary West,
Sarah M'Intyre,
Mary King,
Elizabeth Henderson,
James Nichols,
Samuel King,
Lydia Needham,
Rebecca Pierce,
Elizabeth Cook,
Nathaniel Symonds, Jun. Sarah Lander,
Betty Ingalls,
Jacob Sanderson,
Nabby Ward,
Isaac White,
Catherine Sanderson, Elijah Sanderson,
Warwick Palfray,
Cæsar-" a black man," Mary Sanderson,
Sarah Gavett,
Susannah Gerrish, Dorothy Goodhue,
Elizabeth Symonds, Mary Austin, Sarah Hales,
Lydia Rust,
Hannah Lampriel,
Elizabeth Dabney,
Mehitable Andrew,
Elizabeth Dodge,
Elizabeth Gavett,
Margaret Ropes,
Lydia Grafton, Lydia Skerry,
Mercy Ashbe,
Katharine Millet,
Mary Ingersoll,
Eliza Benson,
Hitty Williams,
Mary Andrew,
Elizabeth Pickman,
Eunice Sampson,
Caleb Smith,
Sarah Palfray,
Mercy Smith,
Mary Ashton, Jun., Abigail Downing, Eliza M'Coomb,
1790. Abigail Mason Dabney, Abigail Northey, Lydia Pope,
Jonathan Gavett, Jun.,
Ruth Holman, Jun.,
Sarah Hastie,
Jean Skerry,
Hannah Frye,
Anstiss Pickman.
Eliza Carlton,
Sarah White,
Henry Gibbs,
Jonathan Herrick,
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1791 to 1795.
1799 to 1803.
Hannah Cabot,
Samuel Holman, Jun.,
Mehitable Carwick,
Mary Beckford,
Eunice Holman, Mary Bowditch,
Elizabeth Gardner,
Mary Allen,
Thomas C. Cushing,
Benjamin Pickman, Jun. Lois Balch,
Isaac Osgood, Hannah Gardner,
Hannah Clarke,
Catharine Andrew,
Abigail Benson,
Hannah King,
Hannah Taylor,
Eliza West,
Content Skerry,
Nancy Mackey,
Sarah Ward,
Lucy Bright,
Mehitable Cleveland,
Elizabeth Symonds,
Sarah Emery,
Mary Farrington,
Hannah Hiller,
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