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1814 Samuel K. Glover
1728-1729
Ephraim Tucker
1815-1816 Jason Houghton
1730
Oxenbridge Thacher
1817-1819 Jolin Ruggles, Jr.
1731
Ephraim Tucker
1820
Voted not to send
1732-1733
John Wadsworth
Constitutional Convention
1734-1737
Jonathan Gulliver
1820
Barney Smitlı
1738-1739
Nelemialı Clap
Jedediah Atherton
1740-1742
Benjamin Sumner
1821
Voted not to send
1743
Samuel Miller
1822
Barney Smith
1744
Samuel Swift
1823
William Pierce
1747
Samuel Swift
1824
\William Pierce Voted not to send
1752
Samuel Miller
1826-1828
Francis Davenport
1753
Joseph Bent
1829
John Swift
1757-1758
Jazaniah Tucker
1830-1831
John Ruggles
1759-1764
Andrew Belcher
[ James Campbell
1765
Stephen Miller
Thomas Hunt
1766-1768
Jazaniah Tucker
1832
Josiah Bent
1772-1773
Josiah How
1833
Voted not to send
1774
David Rawson
Jason Houghton
1775
Daniel Vose
Jason Houghton
1775
Capt David Rawson
Nathaniel Thomas
Capt Daniel Vosc
1837
James M. Robbins
1776
Joseph Clap
1838
Ebenezer G. Tucker Ebenezer G. Tucker
1779
Seth Sumner
1841-1842
Charles Breck
State Convention
1843
Thomas T. Wadsworthi
1779
Edward H. Robbins
1844
Voted not to send
Samuel Henshaw
1845
Simeon Emerson
1779
Representatives to Concord Amariah Blake Allen Crocker
1847
Jason Reed
1780
Samuel Henshaw
1849-1850
Jason Reed
1781-1782
Edward H. Robbins
1851
Albert J. Moshier
1783
Seth Sumner
1852
No choice
1784-1785
Edward H. Robbins
1853
Jason Reed
1786
Voted not to send
Constitutional Convention
1787
Hon James Warren
Joseph M. Churchill
1788-1789
James Blake
1854
J. Wesley Martin
1790-1791
Seth Sumner
1855
Samuel Babcock
1792-1802
Edward H. Robbins
1856
Amos Poole
1745-1746
Samuel Miller
§ Barney Smith
1748-1749
Samuel Miller
1750-1751
Voted not to send
1825
[ John Ruggles
1754-1756
Samuel Miller
1831
f John Ruggles
1769-1771
Benjamin Wadsworth
1834
[ Jazaniah S. Foord
f at Watertown
§ Moses Gragg
Provincial Congress
1836
Nathaniel Thomas
[ Ebenezer Tucker
{ Nathaniel Thomas
1777
Ebenezer Tucker
1778
Daniel Vose
1839-1840
1846
Voted not to send
1848
George W. Greene
1698-1707
Thomas Vose
[ William Pierce
1710-1716
Ephraim Tucker
John Wadsworth
{ Asaph Churchill
1812
f William Pierce
1853
§ Edmund J. Baker
§ Stephen Miller
1835
{ Barney Smith
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CENSUS OF MILTON.
Eleventh Norfolk District.
1857
Joseph M. Churchill
1865-1866
George Vose
1858-1859
None
1867-1868
None
1860
James M. Robbins
1869
John Sias
1861
Samuel Cook
1870-1871
David W. Tucker
1862-1863
None
1872-1873
None
1864
George W. Greene
1874-1875
Edward L. Pierce
Fourth Norfolk District.
1876-1877
None
1882
Henry B. Martin
1878-1879
Horace E. Ware
1883-1884
J. Walter Bradlee
1880-1881
None
1885-1886
None
CENSUS OF MILTON.
Year.
No. of Inhabitants.
Year.
No. of Inhabitants.
1765
743
1850
2,241
1776
1,213
1855
2,656
1790
1.039
1860
2,669
1800
1,143
1865
2,770
1810
1,264
1870
2,683
1820
1,502
1875
2,738
1830
1,576
1880
3,206
1840
1,822
1885
3,555
So great was the draft on the men and resources of Milton during the long and perilous war of the Revolution that the loss in population was only recovered in thirty-five years. The cost of war, with the depreciation in the currency, reduced the people to the most straitened circumstances. In August, September, and October of 1780 one dollar in specie was equal to seventy- one and seventy-two dollars in Continental money.
Hyde Park was incorporated April 22, 1868, taking from Mil- ton about four hundred acres of land and one hundred and fifty of the inhabitants, -leaving the census of 1870 less than that of 1865.
The annual increase of the town for one hundred years, 1776- 1875, inclusive, according to the census, is 1525%. The greatest relative increase in population is from 1875 to 1880, which period records an increase of 468, or 93 per annum. The in- crease from 1875 to 1885 is 817% per annum.
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CHAPTER IX.
MINISTERS OF MILTON.
THE inhabitants of Unquity held religious services among themselves many years before the incorporation of the town of Milton.
Stephen Kinsley, a resident of Braintree, who in 1653 was ordained as ruling elder of the Braintree church, removed to Unquity at an early date, and instituted religious worship in the east part of the town in connection with some of the inhabitants of Braintree. The services may have been con- ducted by himself, or by some clergyman of whom there is no mention in our records. There is no doubt that meetings were held in Unquity, and also that there was a meeting-house, or what served as a meeting-house and was so called, fifteen years, at least, before the house was erected on the Robert Vose land.
It may also be inferred, from some points in the Dorchester records, that this meeting-house was in the easterly part of the town, on Adams street, near Churchill's lane. (See chapter on Highways and By-ways.)
Dec. 11, 1657. The question being moued vpon the former vote, whether our brethren and neighbours at Vnquitie should pay ore not p'por- tionable to the one hundred pond to the ministry - in regarde they had a minister ther, therevpon it was voted the same time as followeth. That those aboue the riuer of Naponsett (except Mris Glouers farme and Mris fens farme) are exempted for payinge vnto Mr Mather for this yeare if they Desire it. - Fourth Report of Record Commissioners, p. 89.
REV. JOSEPH EMERSON.
The first regularly licensed clergyman officiating in Milton, of whom we have any account, was Rev. Joseph Emerson. He was here in troublous times, commencing his work in 1666 or 1667. Extreme poverty prevailed. Great difficulty existed in the currency. The whole town, with the help of that part of Braintree lying nearest our borders, could with difficulty raise £53 per year, -his stipulated salary. At first he seems to have " boarded around," as school-teachers used to do, passing a week in a family. At length he married the daughter of Rev. Edward Bulkley, of Concord, and commenced " keep-
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ing house," and receiving his pay in the various commodities of the farms, with only occasional instalments of money. This led to embarrassments and misunderstandings. His position became uncomfortable ; he received a call to settle at Mendon, and removed from Milton in 1669.
The first mention of Mr. Emerson in our town records is as follows : -
At a day of humiliation on the third day of Feb. 1668 when the Town met to speake how the Lord did bow their hearts concerning Mr. Emer- son's settlement: after reading the writing of revered and honored men who met in Boston the 19th of the 12th mo. 1667, they did declare them- selves unsatisfied with Mr. Emerson and did send 3 men, namely, Anthony Gulliver, Samuel Wadsworth and William Daniel to acquaint Mr. Emerson with the mind of the people, and also to tell Mr. Emerson that they were willing to pay him for a quarter of a year, whether he did preach or not.
In March, 1669, Robert Badcock made an acknowledgment before the Church in Dorchester for taking up and divulging reports against Rev. Mr. Emerson. - Dor. Records.
We are not able to decide definitely when Mr. Emerson came to Milton. He was here in 1667 and 1668, and left after August, 1669.
REV. MR. WISWALL.
In Feb. 1669 a committee was sent to Sandwich to treat with Rev. Mr. Wiswall to be helpful with us in the ministry, offering him £60 per year and the use of house and lands and liberty to cut wood for his own use.
We do not know that Mr. Wiswall was prevailed upon to accept the invitation, but we have evidence that the committee waited upon him, as in the treasurer's account there appears a charge of twelve shillings each for Robert Badcock and Samuel Wadsworth "for going to treat with Mr. Wiswall."
REV. MR. BOUSE.
At a town meeting the 19th of July, 1670, it was agreed by vote that Mr. Bouse should be desired to be helpful to us in the ministry by way of trial.
Mr. Bouse evidently came to Milton for one Sabbath, if no more. Goodman Daniel, who kept a tavern at his place on Milton Hill, had a charge against the town of Milton, 1670, "for bread and wine for Mr. Bouse 0. 1. 6."
REV. THOMAS MIGHILL.
On the 23d of December, 1670, Mr. John Gill and Thomas Swift were requested " to go to Dedham as soon as they should
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hear that Mr. Mighill was come from the East, and see to get him to preach the next Sabbath after." They succeeded in securing him. He preached on the 8th of January, 1671, and remained until the end of April. His services were retained still longer.
Sept. 22d, 1671, it was voted by the Town inhabitants, their full and free desire of the settlement of Mr. Mighill among them, and Elder Kinsley, Robert Vose, Anthony Gulliver and Robert Badcock were desired to acquaint Mr. Mighill what the Town's desire was.
Mr. Mighill remained as minister of the town until Feb., 1678, but without regular settlement. He was a graduate of Harvard College in 1663. It appears that his labors here were arduous and faithful. The meeting-house on the Vose lot was built during his ministry, after long and persistent effort. "Twenty-two cords of wood were cut and sold to pay for clothes for the minister."
There was, however, a division of feeling among the citizens with regard to Mr. Mighill. A portion of the town did not harmonize with the movement in his favor, and engaged in worship in a separate company; but the great majority earnestly desired his settlement, and petitioned the General Court to assist them in securing this end.
The petition,1 which is found in the State Archives, is here
1 To the honored Counsell sitting in Boston. The humble petition of Generall of the inhabitants of Milton.
Humbly sheweth that whercas we have been under the various changes of God's Providence towards us in respect of those that have been by God's Providenee employed amongst us in the ministry in their removal from ns.
We have for four years past enjoyed Mr. Thomas Mighill in that work; in which timc he has been desired by our Town several times to continue with us in order to a settle- ment which doth appear in our Town Records, by which we consider the Town standing obliged to inform whatsoever they have promised lim.
And concerning Mr. Mighill in special he continued with us in the time of our greatest danger in respect to the warr, which was a great comfort to us that we had the worship of God enjoyed amongst us on the Sabbath day ; also he took great pains with instructing and eatechising our children, both publicly and privately and praying with them; but by unsettlement of the times and things with us, Mr. Mighill having removed his family by reason of the trouble, so being in some doubt we should lose him, the Town made a new address to him, to continue with us in order to settlement; whereupon he brought his family again into the Town looking at the manifestation of the love of the people judging that he had a call of God so to do; but notwithstanding the Town's obligation on their part and Mr. Mighill's acceptance on his part, we consider that he is more likely to bc removed from us, than to settle among us.
Inasmuch as there are several of our neighbors that are about to carry on Church work in our Town, in which work Mr. Mighill is left out, and we consider the reason is not in him.
Now if Mr. Mighill is removed from us on this account we consider it will be a dishonor to God and will bring us under the dearth of promise, and also be a means of continual division amongst us.
By consideration whereof we humbly crave your honors to afford us your advice and assistance herein.
Which we hope will conduce to the glory of God and our comfort.
Dated, Milton, April Ist, 1678.
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subjoined, to show the earnestness of religious feeling among the early residents.
It will be noticed, by a reference to the signatures to the petition, that only those on the west side of Balster's Brook, which in those days was the dividing line of the town, appear as favorable to Mr. Mighill.
Mr. Mighill, though urged to remain permanently, accepted a settlement at Scituate, and removed from Milton.
[Thacher's Journal] "Oct. 15, 1684, Mr. Mighill was ordained at Scituate."
REV. SAMUEL MAN.
In the spring of 1676, Rev. Samuel Man, driven from his parish in Wrentham, by the Indian war, came to Milton, and, in 1678, took the position made vacant by the removal of Mr. Mighill. Mr. Man was born in Cambridge, July 6, 1647. He graduated at Harvard College, 1665. He married Esther, daughter of Robert Ware, May 13, 1673. Died at Wrentham, May 22, 1719, in the 72d year of his age, and 49th of his min- istry. He taught school in Dedham five years. In 1670 he removed to that part of Dedham now Wrentham, where he preached until March 30, 1676, when the inhabitants were obliged to withdraw, and desert their homes by reason of King Philip's war. All the families left town.
The record says: "Rev. Mr. Man went to Milton, where he stayed over four years." His son Nathaniel was born in Mil- ton, April 9, 1677, and his son William, May 1, 1679. While at Milton he had an invitation, Nov. 16, 1677, "to be helpful in the ministry at Rehoboth."
Rev. Joseph Bean's "Century Sermon," preached at Wren- tham, Oct. 15, 1773, says :-
After the war was over, the inhabitants returned, and chose a com- mittee to go to Milton and ask Mr. Man to return to Wrentham.
He was then preaching at Milton, or already had a call to preach there, or Milton people were about to give him a call.
He resumed his duties at Wrentham Aug. 21, 1680, and soon
This petition was presented to the Council by Thomas Vose and John Kinsley, April Ist, 1678.
Signed, - Robert Vose, Robert Badcock, Henry Crane, William Daniell, John Kinsley, Thomas Vose, John Daniell, Teague Crchore, Samuel Badcock, Daniell Hen- sher, Benjamin Badcock, Edward Vose, Jonathan Badcock, Steven Langley, Humphrey Tifinay, John Walliston, Walter Morey, Ephraim Newton, William Denison, Robert Redman, Nathaniel Pitcher, Samuel Pitcher, John Pitcher, John Henry, Richard Smith, Thomas Horton.
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removed his family there. In 1692 he was ordained and in- stalled pastor of the church in Wrentham, preaching his own ordination sermon, from 1 Cor., chap. 4.
Chief Justice Sewall visited him Sept. 16, 1697, and said he had eleven children. All of his eleven children were married. Just before he died he called his family around him and divided his property among them, giving to each his share, as had been designated in a will which he had written in 1718, but had never executed.
The legacies of the dying father were regarded as satisfactory and sacred, and were carried out with all the exactness of a legally executed testamentary document. His brother Beriah Man was made administrator of his estate, which amounted to £471 1s. 11d.
His funeral sermon was preached by Rev. Peter Thacher, of Milton, and was printed.
The first mention of Mr. Thacher is the following entry in the Town Records : -
At a Towne Meeting in Milton, Aug. 13, 1680, it was then desired that if any pssons in the Town had anything to aleadg why Mr. Peter Thacher might not be the minister of Milton, they had fre leve to declaire them- selves, and if that they did not then speak, it was to be taken for grant, that ther was a willingness of the Town for his coming in.
This was proposed 3 times, and ther was no man did oppose.
ORIGIN OF THE THACHERS.
The origin of the Thachers of New England was probably Queen Camel, Somersetshire, England.
Rev. Peter Thacher, the supposed great-grandfather of the first pastor of Milton, was instituted vicar of the parish of Queen Camel in 1574, and continued in that office till his death, in 1624, -a period of fifty years.
It is believed that he was the father of Rev. Peter of Milton Clevedon, of John of Queen Camel, and of Anthony, one of the three grantees of Yarmouth, Mass.
Rev. Peter Thacher, the grandfather of Milton's first pastor, was born in 1588; he entered Queen's College, Oxford, May 6, 1603; took the degree of A.B. Feb. 4, 1608, and became Fellow of Corpus Christi College, March 20, 1613. August 9, 1616, he was instituted vicar of the parish of Milton Clevedon, Somer- setshire, and remained in that office till 1622, when he accepted the rectorship of the Church of St. Edmunds, in Salisbury, Wiltshire.
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His son Thomas, the father of the Milton Peter, was born May 1, 1620, while his father was vicar of Milton Clevedon, and this was doubtless the place of his birth.
He arrived at Boston in the ship "Beero," in company with his uncle, Anthony Thacher, minister at Marblehead, June 4, 1635, when he was fifteen years old.
He was brought up and educated by Rev. Charles Chauncey, afterwards President of Harvard College. He married, first, May 11, 1643, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Ralph Partridge, minister of Duxbury. She died June 2, 1664. He was or- dained pastor of the church at Weymouth Jan. 2, 1664. He married, second, at Boston, Margaret, daughter of Henry Webb, and widow of Jacob Sheaffe, to which place he removed in 1677-78, where he issued from his own pen the first medical document ever published in America. This document can be found in the "Memorial History of Boston," Vol. 4, p. 536.
On removing to Boston, he united with the First Church. About this time, by reason of internal dissensions, twenty-eight members seceded from the First Church of Boston and organ- ized the Third Church. Mr. Thacher, wishing to join the seceders, and failing to secure a letter of dismission to the new organization, was dismissed to the church in Charlestown, and from this church united with the Third Church, and on the 16th of Feb., 1670, was installed as pastor over the Third Church of Boston (called the Old South Church, after the building of the New South, on Summer street, in 1717), where he remained until his decease, Oct. 15, 1678.
He is spoken of by contemporary writers as "the best writer of his time."
His children were, Peter, born at Salem, Mass., July 18, 1651; Ralph; Thomas, died at Boston, April 2, 1686 ; Patience, married Wm. Kemp; Elizabeth, married, first, Nathaniel Daven- port, killed in the Narragansett fight, Dec. 19, 1675; she married, second, Samuel Davis.
REV. PETER THACHER, OF MILTON,
was born at Salem, Mass., July 18, 1651, and graduated at Harvard, 1671. "June 15, 1674, he was chosen third fellow of the colledg."
Judge Sewall writes, July 1, 1674: -
Sir Thacher Common placed. Justification was his head. He had a good solid piec. . . . stood above an hour & yet brake off before he came to any use. By reason that there was no warning given none, [after ye undergraduates] were present. Save Mr Dan. Gookin Sr., the President, & myself.
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In 1676 he accompanied his classmates, Judge Samuel Sewall and John Danforth, to Europe, where he remained for a year or more pursuing and perfecting his studies in prepara- tion for his life-work, giving much attention to the science of medicine, in which he made eminent attainments, so that his opinion in critical cases was often sought for.
After returning to America he preached for nearly a year at Barnstable, Mass., with great and general acceptance, gaining the confidence and affections of the church and community to such a degree that when called to Milton his people were unwilling to consent to his removal; Governor Hinckley and Barnabas Lothrop, in behalf of the church and town, joining in a petition to the Rev. Messrs. Allen, Mather, Torrey, and Willard to use their influence and persuasion in securing his continuance at Barnstable.1
The journal of Mr. Thacher contains the following entries regarding his invitation to Milton and his removal from Barn- stable : -
June 28, 1680. A committee of eight persons, among whom was Thomas Swift, came to request me to settle among them.
In his reply to the call of the church, dated May 18, 1681, he says : -
I was persuaded so far to comply withall, as to remove myself and my family to this place, yt so I might the more clearly discern, and faithfully follow divine guidance and direction in my future settlement amongst you, or remove from you, according as God should unite ye hearts of ye Chh. and Congregation unto me and mine, and ours unto you or otherwise dis- pose.
REMOVAL TO MILTON.
In September, 1680, he removed with his family to Milton.
Sep. 10, 1680, we came safe to Milton that night with our goods, and Quarter Master Swift got them all into the house that night.
We lodged at Mr. Swift's, our whole family.
This removal was attended with no little ostentation and parade. A delegation of ten members of the church of Milton went forward to Barnstable to bear home the coming pastor. He was escorted out of Barnstable and attended on his way as far as Sandwich by a cavalcade of fifty-seven horsemen; and so the triumphal march was made into the new field of labor.
1 Mass. Hist. Coll., Fifth Series, Vol. 42.
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[Thacher's Journal.] Sep. 8, 1680. This day, my dear, myself, Theo- dora and Lydia began our journey to Milton. Went from Mr. Allines, and had a great company of horse with us, seven and fifty horse and twelve of them double went with us to Sandwich, and they got me to go to prayer with them and I think none of them parted with me with dry eyes.
On the 15th of October following the Milton call was re- newed.
In the evening, Mr. Swift, Mr. Holman, and Brother Newton came as messengers of the Chh. to give me a call.
After a residence among the people of nine months, this invi- tation was definitely accepted, May 18, 1681, and the services of the ordination were attended on the first day of June fol- lowing.
[Thacher's Journal.] May 20. This day the ordination beer was brewed.
May 30. This day the gates were hung. They made an arbor to enter- tain the messengers of the Churches.
June 1, 1681. Tuesday, I was ordained (though most unworthy) Pastor of the Chh. in Milton. My text 2 Tim. 4, 5.
Mr. Mather called the votes.
Old Mr. Elliot, Mr. Mather, Mr. Torrey, Mr. Willard laid on hands.
We sung the 24 Psalm. I gave the blessing. They dined at my house in the arbor.
Our narrative would lack completeness did we not here pre- sent the answer of Mr. Thacher to the call of the church and town for his settlement as their pastor, - a document showing the ponderous thought and language of the times.1
1 Rev. Peter Thacher's answer to the church and congregation in Milton, May 8, I68I : -
" Dearly Beloved in our Lord Jesus Christ, ye serious and solemn consideration of ye all-wise disposing and leading hand of Divine Providence both of yorselves and of me, in respect of your first kind invitation of me unto ye work of ye ministry.
" In order unto settlement with you and taking office amongst you, by which and ye advice ofye, yt most judicious and discerning, I was persuaded so far to comply with-all as to remove myself and my family to this place, yt so I might ye more clearly discern and faithfully follow divine guidance and direction in my future settlement amongst you or remove from you according as God shall unite ye hearts of ye Chh. and congregation unto me and mine and ours unto you or otherwise dispose, and God having in his infinite goodness given me much experience of your undeserved love, kindness and affection of ye Chh. and Congregation to me and mine, not only in your readiness to doe for mc as occasion hath presented, but in your obliging gratitude promised, and in your unani- mous, frequent and affectionate calis unto settlement with you and office engagement amongst you, which unmerited and unexpected, thô much desired unanimous affection hath, doth and (continuing) I hope will much engage, oblige and endear mine to your- selves.
" Ye consideration of all these things, and many more which I might but shall not men- tion, calling aloud upon me for more ya ordinary preponderation, due consultation, fer- vent supplication, and speedy resolution with finall determination. I have diligently weighed, and preponderated, scriously consulted with others, earnestly and extraordi-
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In accordance with the custom of the times, Mr. Thacher seems to have preached his own ordination sermon ; text, 2 Tim. 4: 5.
The journal continues : -
June 5, 1681, first baptism. June 19, 1681, this day I administered the Lord's Supper, which was the first time it was ever administered in Milton, and the first time I ever administered it.
There were about four-score communicants.
This announcement by Mr. Thacher, that a church of more than eighty members had not enjoyed the privilege and blessing of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper until this date requires some explanation. Although the town had then been incor- porated nineteen years, there was no church organization until three years previous to the coming of Mr. Thacher. A new meeting-house was erected on the land donated by Robert Vose in 1672. Rev. Joseph Emerson preached in 1667-8, in the meeting-house on Milton Hill. Rev. Thomas Mighill succeeded Mr. Emerson and remained for eight years; during his ministry the new meeting-house was erected. After Mr. Mighill came Rev. Samuel Man, who immediately preceded Mr. Thacher.
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