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In memory of Mrs Mary Vose, wife of Dean Wm Vose, who died Oct. 25, 1792, in the 38th year of her age.
And their children, viz. :
Edward Roger, died July 5th, 1783, At. 4 years.
Ebenezer, died July 25th, 1783, Æt. 9 months. Philena, died Oct. 20th, 1792, Æt. 11 days.
Here lyes ye body of Thomas Vose, son of M' Josiah and Mrs Ruhamah Vose, died May 26, 1778, aged 2 months.
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To the memory of Mrs Lucy Vose, the second wife of M' Ebenezer Vose. She died May 30th, 1797, aged 58 years.
Religion against decay can arm, And ever lend mortality a charm.
Here lyes buried the body of Esther Vose, daughter to Benjamin & Mrs Esther Vose, who died Jan. 28, 1771, age 1 year & 2 months.
Happy the babe who priveledged by fate To shorter labor and a lighter weight, Receives but yesterday the gift of breath, Ordered to-morrow to return to death.
In memory of Mr William Vose, who died May 13th, 1776, in the 44th year of his age.
Charles Vose, son of Mr Benjamin & Mrs Esther Vose, died August 3d, 1793, aged 6 years.
Here lies the body of Mr Elijah Vose, who departed this life Nov. 5th, 1766, in the 58th year of his age.
" Great God, I own thy orders just, And nature must deeay, I vield my body to the dust, To dwell with fellow clay. Hoping to see Thy lovely face, With strong immortal eyes - To feast upon Thy wondrous grace With pleasure and surprisc."
Ilere lies buried the body of Mr Edward Vose, who departed this life May ye 31, 1770, in ye 50th year of his age.
In memory of M' Ebenezer Vose, who died Oct. 2d, 1788, aged 55.
The sweet remembrance of the just Shall flourish when they sleep in dust.
Here lies buried Mrs Eunice Vose, wife of Mr Ebenezer Vose, who died June 20, 1707, in ye 31st year of her age.
A meck and quiet spirit she possessed, And practiced the religion she professed.
In memory of Miss Polly Howe Vose, who died Dec. 7th, 1797, aged 21 years.
Though early made a sacrifice to death, With cheerful hope she could resign her breath ; Iler siekly form she now has left behind, And freed from all that could disturb her mind.
In this grave lies buried Esther Vose, the late virtuous & amiable eon- sort of Mr Nathan Vose. She departed this life Feb. 28th, 1775, in the 23 year of her age.
A soul prepared needs no delay, The summons comes, the saints obey ; Short was her life, but well improved, She elosed her eyes and saw her God. Her flesh rests here till Jesus come, And claim the treasure from the tomb.
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Here lyes buried ye body of Lieut Henry Vose, who died Mch 26th, 1752, in ye 87th year of his age.
Here lies buried ye body of Capt. Thomas Vose, he departed this life y® 9th day of March, 1760, aged 62 years, 11 months & 8 days.
Stand still, reader, and spend a tear, Over the dust that slumbers here ; And, while you're musing here on me, Think on the glass that runs for thee.
Fanna Vose, daughter of M' Daniel & M's Rachel Vose, died Sep. 9th, 1775, aged 3 months and 6 days.
John Vose, Jun., son of Mr Joseph & Mrs Ruhamah Vose, died Sep. ye 11th, 1775, aged 10 months & 6 days.
Here lies buried ye body of Mr. Lemuel Vose, who died Oct. 1st, 1764, in ye 34th year of his age.
Here lies the body of Peter Vose, son of Capt. & Mrs Patience Vose, died Feb. 9th, 1764, aged 18 years, 5 months & 26 days.
In memory of Mrs Patience Vose, Relict of Mr Thomas Vose, of Mil- ton, and daughter of Joseph & Ruhamah Billings. She died April ye 3d, 1800, aged 85 years.
Here sleeps a Christian, full of faith and love, She lived in cheerful hope, resigned her breath To join her kindred spirits blest above - Reader, be such your life and such your death.
Here lies ye body of Mr Jonathan Vose, who died February, 1760, in ye 50th year of his age.
Here lies interred the remains of Mrs Abigail Vose, widow of Lieut. Robert Vose, who departed this life Decem" ye 28th, 1769, in ye 72d year of her age.
The graves of all his saints he blessed, And softens every bed, Where should the dying members rest But with the dying Head.
Here lyes buried ye body of Lieut Robert Vose, who departed this life April 20th, 1760, in ye 67th year of his age.
Here lyes the body of Mr Edward Vose, Decd Jan. yo 29th, 1716, in ye 80 year of his age.
Here lyes ye body of Abigail Vose, wife to Edward Vose, aged 65 years. Decd May ye 18th, 1712.
Here lies buried the body of Mrs Waitstill Vose, widow of Capt Thomas Vose, died Jany ye 8th, 1727, aged 84 years.
Joseph, son to Elijah & Sarah Vose, died Sep. ye 29, 1735, in ye 4th year of his age.
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Rufus Vose, son of M' John & M" Mary Vose, died Sep. yo 18th, 1750, aged 18 mon. & 20 days.
Here lies buried the body of Nathaniel Vose, Junior, who departed this life December 18th, 1756, in ye 52 year of his age.
Here lies ye body of Zebiah Uoce, dafter of Wm Uoce, aged 17 years, dicd March y® 26th, 1718.
Here lies ye body of William Uose, aged 44 years, died Dec. 7th, 1717.
Here lyes buried the body of Rubin Vose, son of Mr Nathaniel & Mrs Rachel Vose, died May ye 9th, 1760, in ye 21st year of his age.
Here lyes buried the body of Mrs Elizabetli Vose, wife to Lieut Henry Vose, who died Oct. ye 18th, 1732, in ye 66th year of her age.
In memory of Mrs Miriam Vose, relict of Robert Vose, who departed this life Oct. 25th, 1785, in ye 57th year of her age.
In memory of Rachel Vose, daur of Mr Nath1 & M's Rachel Vose. She died Sept. ye 1st, 1775, aged 32 years.
The sweet remembrance of the just Shall flourish when they sleep in dust.
Here lyes buried the body of Mr John Vose, son of Mr Nathaniel & Mrs Rachel Vose, who departed this life Oct. 27th, 1752, in ye 27 year of his age.
Here lyes buried the body of Mr Thomas Vose, son of Capt. Thomas Vose, deceased Aug. 16th, 1722, in ye 55 year of his age.
IIere lyes ye body of Eli Vose, son to Mr Thomas & M's Patience Vose, he died Feb. ye 8th, 1749, aged 3 years.
Mary Vose, daugr to Mr Jonathan & Mrs Mary Vose, died Nov. 10th, 1744, in ye 4th year of her age.
In memory of Mr Zephanialı Walker, who died July 8th, 1775, aged 21 years.
Come hitler, mortal, cast an eye, Then go thy way, prepare to die. Here read thy doom, for die thou must, One day, like me, be turned to dust.
IIere lyes the body of Mrs Elizabeth Wadsworth, the widow of Dean John Wadsworth. She departed this life May 6th, 1766, in the 89th year of her age.
In memory of Rev. Mr John Wadsworth of Milton. Educated at Har- vard College. Ordained at Canterbury Sep. 17th, 1728. Died at Milton June 15th, 1766, aged 63 years.
Here lies buried, waiting for the coming of the Lord, the body of Mr John Wadsworth, only son of Mr John & M's Abigail Wadsworth, who was
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suddenly removed (not without hope) from his lamenting friends into the invisible state, May 27, 1752, in the 21st year of his age.
Young man, your bones shall flourish as an herb.
Reader, art thou also ready ? At such an hour as you think not the Son of Man cometh.
Here lyes ye body of Deacon Ebenezer Wadsworth, aged 56 years & 5 mos. Decd Augt ye 1st, 1717.
[The Oldest Stone in the Cemetery.]
Here lyes ye body of Christopher Wadsworth, aged about 24 years, died ye 4th of December, 1687.
Here lies the body of Esther Wadsworth, wife of Benjamin Wadsworth, She departed this life July 2d, 1777, in the 61st year of her age.
She constantly manifested entire trust in God, through the merits of Jesus Christ, and the most animating and agreeable apprehensions of the eternal world.
A lovely face can smoothe the face of death, Bid youth and beanty sacrifice their breath ; Can tread the gloomy valley without fear, And part with all below without a tcar.
Here lies buried the body of Deacon Benjamin Wadsworth, who departed this life Oct 17th, 1771, in ye 64 year of his age, having served in ye office of deacon in ye Church at Milton, 28 years; he lived respected and died lamented.
How rich ye stores of grace lay hid behind The vail of modesty, no hnmand mind Can search, no friend declare, nor fame reveal - Nor has this mournful pillar power to tell. Yct there's a hastening hour, it comes, it comes To rousc ye sleeping dead, to burst ye tombs And sct ye saints in view. All eyes behold, While ye vast records of ye skies unrolled Rehearse his deeds yt spread his worth abroad, Ye Judge approves & Heaven & earth applaud.
Here lyes ya body of Elizabeth Wadsworth, ye daughter of Deacon Benjamin Wadsworth & M's Esther his wife. She died Feb. ye 14th, 1750, in ye 14th year of her age.
Here lies buried the body of Deacon John Wadsworth, son to Capt. Samuel Wadsworth, who died Jany 31st, 1734, in ye 60 year of his age.
In memory of Abigail Wadsworth, daur to ye Rev. Mr Jon & Mrs Abigail Wadsworth of Milton. She died Jan. yo 1st, 1758, aged 23 years.
When this you see, remember me.
Sarah, daughter to Recompense and Sarah Wadsworth, aged 12 years, 8mns & 28 days. Decd April ye 17th, 1728.
Here lies inter'd ye remains of Lieut. Samuel Wadsworth, who departed this life Nov. Anno Dom. 1754, in ye 69 year of his age.
Here lyes ye body of Mrs Mary Wadsworth, Relict of Deacon Ebenezer Wadsworth, Decd Mch ye 8th, 1739, in ye 77th year of her age.
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In memory of Mrs Sarah Weston, wife of Mr Abel Weston, who died Jan. 15, 1797, in the 20th year of her age.
Swift as the sun revolves the day, We hasten to the dead : Slaves to the wind we puff away, And to the ground we tread. 'Tis air that lends us life when first The vital bellows heave, - Our flesh we borrow of the dust, And when a mother's care has nursed
The babe to manly size, we must With usury pay the grave.
Erected in memory of Mr John Willson, who deceased April 17th, 1790, aged 19 years.
IIere lyes ye body of Mr Peter White, who died Jan. ye 23d, 1739, in ye 77 year of his age.
Here lyes ye body of Mary Wyat,1 wife to Edward Wyatt, aged 92 years, Decd Feb. y ® 6, 1705.
Sally Young, daughter of Mr John & M's Miletiah Young, who died Jan. 4th, 1791, aged 5 years, 9 months and 7 days.
1 The following, from the Dorchester Town Records, refers to Mrs. Wyat : -
" The Old widow wiate Bing 94 years of age and on that had Layd So many women that she was instrimintall for the brinin into the world on thousand on hundred and on Children."
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CHAPTER XV.
TRANSACTIONS OF THE TOWN RELATIVE TO THE SMALL-POX INFECTION.
O NE of the greatest terrors in the life of the early inhabit- ants was the frequent invasion of that fell disease, the small-pox.
It is not improbable that this was the malady that swept off the Indian tribes before the advent of our fathers.
That it was sorely felt in our town appears by frequent allusions to it in the records. The following extracts from the journal of Rev. Peter Thacher, Milton's first pastor, will show its prevalence in this town two hundred years ago : -
Nov. 15. 1689. Margaret Reeding being with us on a visit was taken with the small-pox, and we put her to bed in the chamber next the study, it was very surprising to us.
Dec. 26. 1690. There hath died in the Town in sixteen months last past 30 men, women, and children, 13 of the small-pox, and 17 of other dis- tempers, most of them of the fever, 14 were communicants, 12 were in full communion with the Church, and there hath been sixty six visited with the small-pox in the Town in about a year. The small-pox hath been three times brought into the Town in the compass of a year ; the two first arrows were shot, as it were God's warning pieces - the first was into one family whereof one died, and it was out of the Town for a good while, then one person was taken and sent to the family which was first taken and it pleased God that no more had it; and about four months ago it was sent into Daniel Ellen's, and since 12 have died with it, and it is now in four- teen families.
Rev. Thomas Thacher, of the Old South Church, published a treatise on small-pox in the early part of his Boston min- istry. It prevailed with great fatality there in 1702. In 1721 eight hundred and forty-four died; in 1730 four hun- dred died; between 1752 and 1764, seven thousand six hun- dred and sixty-nine had the disease, and five hundred and sixty-nine died in the latter year. So great was the panic produced by its virulence that many families left the town for safety.
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Rev Peter Thacher D.D., great-grandson of Rev. Peter Thacher of Mil- ton was born in Milton March 21, 1752, the family having retired from Boston on account of small-pox, which, during that season, spread through the town. - Mass. Hist. Coll., VIII., 82.
INOCULATION.
In 1721, when death seemed to follow in the track of the destroyer, Rev. Dr. Cotton Mather, of Boston, called the attention of the physicians to the accounts of inoculation, as presented in the " Transactions of the Royal Society." The idea was at once rejected by the medical faculty as unwise and danger- ous. But one of their number, Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, a native of Brookline, an eminent physician of extensive practice, saw in the suggestions a gleam of hope. With great courage, but with the utmost secrecy, he inoculated his own son, Thomas, six years old ; his negro man, Jack, thirty-six ; and a little negro boy, two and a half. The experiment was successful, and, in 1721 and 1722, he, and others emboldened by his success, inoc- ulated two hundred and eighty-six, of whom only six died ; while of the five thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine who had the disease in the natural way, during the same period, eight hundred and forty-four, or nearly one-seventh, died. This was done in the face of great opposition, the selectmen of Boston passing an ordinance to prohibit it. But success caused it to prevail. It was gradually adopted in this coun- try, even before it became common in England.
INOCULATION IN MILTON.
A few years after its introduction into Boston we see refer- ence to it in the Milton Records, and fifty years later is the following item : --
March 17, 1777 Dr Amos Holbrook petitioned the Town for liberty to open an Inoculating Hospital for small-pox in this Town : Voted that the prayer of said petitioner be granted provided the petitioner can procure a house that, in the judgment of the Select men, is suitable.
We are informed that Dr. Holbrook procured for this purpose the house of Col. Elijah Vose, on Gun Hill street ; the Went- worth house, now the Alfred Crossman house, in the woods, between Canton avenue and Hillside street; and the house of George Tucker, on land now owned by heirs of Elijah Tucker, Brush Hill.
At a still later date the action of the town was more decisive and far-reaching.
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Sep. 1. 1792. The second article in the warrant was to see if the Town will grant liberty for inoculation of the small-pox under such regulations as they may direct. The Town granted liberty accordingly. Capt. Bad- cock, Capt David Tucker, Daniel Vose Esq. Mr. Timothy Tucker, Joseph Billings, John Swift, Henry Vose, Dr. Holbrook & Dr. Sumner, were appointed to decide what regulations or restrictions are necessary and to report to the Town in half an hour. The said committee reported as follows: your committee having attended to the vote of the town report that the within named houses be licensed to inoculate in with the small- pox, through the month of September and longer if the Select men think it necessary. The whole business to be under the direction of the Select men.
The houses are as follows : - Mr Enos Blake's, Mr Peletiah Raw- son, Mr Briggs work house, Mr Nathan Vose, Mr William Vose, Mr Jeremiah Crane, Dea. How, Mr Benjamin Henshaw, Widow Henshaw, Col. Elijah Vose.
Froni Braintree line in Scotts woods to Stoughton line; Mr Nathaniel Davenport, Capt. Bradlee, Nathaniel Gay, Cornelius Gulliver, Deacon Tucker, Mr Robbins house at Brush Hill, Mr Thacher's, Mr Shepard's, Moses Vose, Stephen Horton's, Jonathan Vose's widow's house.
VACCINATION.
In the closing years of the eighteenth century Dr. Edward Jenner, an English physician of note, in extensive practice at Berkeley, Gloucester, England, had his attention awakened by the fact that his attempts to communicate small-pox by inocu- lation to sundry individuals among his patients in the rural districts were unsuccessful. On careful inquiry he learned that these persons had been affected with the cow-pox, a dis- ease not uncommon among farmers, caused by specific sores on the udder of the heifer communicated to the human system by accidental contact, in case the cuticle happened to be broken.
With remarkable ingenuity he pursued the subject, and de- monstrated the fact that this malady could be introduced from the animal into the human subject, and propagated from one human subject to another, by inoculation, rendering those skilfully and successfully treated secure from small-pox.
The great idea was accepted. Vaccination was introduced into the English metropolis, was adopted in the army and navy, and spread over the world, waking a thrill of joy in all hearts.
MILTON FOREMOST.
The year 1809 is rendered memorable in the history of Mil- ton by reason of the intelligent and liberal spirit manifested by the town in the treatment of this subject.
John Mark Gourgas was the originator and the leading man in this movement, and, as such, should receive a brief memorial notice here. He was of Huguenot descent. His ancestors left
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France soon after the repeal of the Edict of Nantes, and settled in Geneva, where he was born March 9, 1766. In 1783, when he was seventeen years old, he went to London and entered the counting-house of Mr. Francis Lucadon, a German, and a friend of his father. He remained here several years, acquiring a thorough business education. When he left Mr. Lucadon he formed a partnership with Mr. Daniel Hoofstetter, a wholesale dealer in Mediterranean products, and this connection remained unbroken as long as Mr. Gourgas resided in England. In 1798 he married Miss Peggy Sampson, of Radwell, Hertford- shire. After this marriage he lived in Camberwell, then a dis- trict of London, and while there formed the acquaintance of Dr. John Lettson, through whom he became very much in- terested in vaccination for small-pox. The climate of England had always been injurious to him, and, finding that his health became steadily worse, he resolved to leave England and make the United States his future home. He sailed with his family Aug. 5, 1803, and arrived in Boston Sept. 17. He lived a few years in Milton, in a part of the house of John McLean, now the Hollingsworth house, at Mattapan, and then removed to Dor- chester, and in 1817 bought a farm in Weston, where he died Dec. 8, 1846. While a resident here he succeeded in interest- ing the citizens generally, and in arousing the whole town to the magnitude of the blessing discovered in inoculation. Under his leading Milton led in the Commonwealth and in the country.
Milton was the first town in a corporate capacity to extend the benefits of vaccination to all its inhabitants. The town was thoroughly in earnest, and acted with the utmost unanimity. Numerous meetings were held, at which carefully prepared papers were presented, and methods for extending and per- petuating the blessing were discussed and matured.
In the end a complete record of these meetings, embracing the papers read, and a detailed account of all the transactions of the town, was printed in a pamphlet of forty-eight pages, copies of which were sent to the selectmen of every town in the Commonwealth, and were otherwise widely circulated.
This pamphlet is now rare, but occasional copies are found among our oldest citizens. A letter was recently received from one of our early citizens, now residing in Wisconsin, directing attention to these papers, and offering to send a copy which he had.
Portions of this pamphlet will here be introduced, with the pur- pose of showing, more than anything else, the noble and benevo- lent spirit which characterized the town in these transactions.
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Early in the movement the following circular was sent to every town in the Commonwealth : -
To the Selectmen of each and every town in the Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts : -
The security of our families within our homes, and the safety of the state of which we are members, collectively constitute private and public happiness.
If that happiness can be disturbed by the sword of an invading enemy. is it not also exposed to be blasted by the deadly breath of pestilence ? Who has been witness to the desolating scourge of the small-pox but knows that its terrors are not in vain ?
Have we not seen at various periods confusion enter our towns, and affliction our families ?
Have we not scen our ablest men, our country's strength and defence, mowed down by the cruel destroyer? Desolation filled our camp, and our frontier left exposed.
Shall we wait for another return of the deadly foe, or by the right im- provement of a most merciful dispensation, testify a grateful sense thereof by securing ourselves and our country for ever ?
The perusal of the papers annexed herewith will open to your view the scheme in contemplation : it has received the fostering support of benevo- lence, from the highest authority in the state, and was countenanced at an early period by our brethren in the five towns of Dorchester, Dedham, Canton, Stoughton, and Sharon, who like us have experienced the facility and safety of the measure.
It is now our ardent wish to sec its benefits extended to every town in the Commonwealth ; our joint endeavors we offer to you in the bonds ot love and peace ; that peace which would depart from us, if this work begunf and so far pursued, under a peculiar blessing, was by us forsaken before its completion.
We bescech you, therefore, by every consideration which is dear to man, attentively to peruse these papers; to invite your respected ministers to consider the contents, and call thercto the immediate attention of the repre- sentatives of your town, that they may be fully acquainted with the subject before their attendance at the next General Court.
Use your best endeavors to spread them amongst your people, and thereby prepare the way soon to establish their security ; in your exertions you will find the way to peace and pleasantness, for the object of the un- dertaking, which we call upon you to join, is to diffuse amongst men one of the greatest temporal blessings ever bestowed on our race, a perfect security against that cruel pestilence the small-pox.
SAMUEL GILE, Minister of the Gospel, Milton.
DAVID TUCKER, WILLIAM PEIRCE, JOHN RUGGLES, JUN'R, OLIVER HOUGHTON, RUFUS PEIRCE, JOHN MARK GOURGAS, JASON HOUGHTON, JEDIDIAH ATHERTON, AMOS HOLBROOK,
Selectmen of said town.
Committee for Vaccina- tion of said town.
MILTON, 27th November, 1809.
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Before issuing the above circular to the towns a communica- tion had been addressed to His Excellency the Governor, a part of which is given below : ---
MILTON, 23d Sept., 1809. To His Excellency CHRISTOPHER GORE, Esq., Governor of Massachusetts : ---
Amidst the important cares of the State, your known condescension to encourage every attempt which may have a tendency to public good, will plead your indulgence for the wish of us, the Selectmen of Milton, to ap- proach your Excellency, and lay before him the details of the transactions which have taken place in our town respecting Cow Pox, or Kine Pock inoculation.
In the carly part of the summer a number of cases of Small Pox having occurred in the neighbourhood of Boston, a considerable degree of anxiety prevailed amongst the inhabitants of our town, and we thought it advisable on the 5th July to issue a warrant to call a special town meeting on the 8th July, to take into consideration the propriety of adopting some measures for a general inoculation of the Cow Pox; the meeting accordingly took place, and by their resolves a committee of five was raised, and the busi- ness referred to them; the cause of humanity will always have to rejoice that its interests were essentially aided on that day by the lucid and phil- anthropie eloquence of our townsman, the Honourable Edward H. Robbins, Esq. Various doubts had been expressed at the town meeting as to the efficacy of the preventive, and the committee, conceiving that faith alone could be the foundation of the work they had in view, procured some medical certificates, got them printed, and on Sunday the 16th July, after an introductory prayer, they were communicated from the pulpit by the Rev. Mr. Gile, and a copy was distributed to every pew ; they appeared to establish that full conviction which could have been anticipated from the respectability of the names affixed to them ; of this printed communication we beg leave to annex a copy.
Dr. Amos Holbrook, whose heart was engaged in this work from its origin, liberally joined with the committee to carry it into execution ; after dividing the town into districts, and warning the inhabitants from house to house, the inoculation begun on the 20th July at the school house on Milton hill, and in the course of a few days it was completed, offering for result three hundred and thirty-seven individuals inoculated, of all ages, from two months to upwards of seventy years; being more than one-fourth of the whole population of the town.
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