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1Winthrop's Journal, volume II, pages 171 and 174.
2Winthrop's Journal, volume II, pages 84 and 85.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE BRIDGE.
HE first bridge constructed in Salem, and early known as the town bridge, was that over a branch of North River, at Blubber Hollow, so called. Before this time the only way leading out of Salem by land was that in the rear of the high school, crossing Highland Avenue, down Pope's lane, following the railroad, between the river and the ridge to Putnam Street and thence by way of Putnam Street to Boston Street. The original way was not only circuitous, but ledgy and hilly. The laying out of a highway, now Boston Street, from Essex Street, at what was afterwards known as Buffum's corner, to the ancient road at the junction of Boston and Putnam streets, with a bridge over the river would afford a direct way by land out of town; and this was decided upon. A "timber bridge" was accordingly made in 1640, by John Picker- ing. October IIth of that year, the town ordered "that Philip Verin or any other shall make the fence that leadeth to the bridge of one side from the bridge to the highway that is by Richard Norman's house and that the town will pay him."
No vote of the town was formally taken as to the location of Boston Street between the ancient roads until Nov. 29, 1642, when the town "ordered that the high way by the bridge shalbe laid out through the lotts of goodman Moulton &c not round about."
March 25, 1644, the town agreed with John Pickering to keep the bridge in repair for sixteen years, except the finding of the plank for the new planking of it should be at the expense of the town, but he agreed to mend the planking and set in a plank or two where and when it became necessary at his own charge. Through defect in construction, the bridge soon became danger- ous to travelers, and there arose a dispute between Pickering and the town as to which should repair it. Finally, Nov. 10, 1645, the town ordered that if Pickering did not repair the
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bridge within ten days, it would take the matter to the local court. The repairs were not made within the time specified and com- plaint was made to court, which did not sit, however, until the next February. The bridge must be made safe, however, before the sitting of the court, and apparently Pickering agreed to repair it if the town furnished the plank. Samuel Eborne and Henry Skerry went into the common land of the town and sawed two hundred and forty feet of two-inch plank for the bridge, and carried them to "the water side." This recalls the method of producing plank at the time, before saw mills existed here. The log to be sawn was rolled over a hole in the ground, called a saw. pit, deep enough for a man to stand under the log. One man stood upon or over the log and held one end of a large splitting saw and the man in the pit held the other end of the saw. In this slow and arduous manner plank and boards were sawn from the log similarly to the old upright saw mills, but worked by manual power. These sawyers were paid by the town for this service twenty-five shillings Jan. 23, 1645-6. When Pickering's presentment was called in court, he was discharged, as the bridge had been repaired.
The town concluded that the bridge required constant over- sight and expense to keep it in repair, and that its construction was defective. It was agreed, Feb. 16, 1645-6, "That the timber bridge at the townsend shall be pulled down, or so much of it as shall be needful when the causeway is begun to be made which is upon the last second day of the third month and that the timber of the said bridge shall serve to pile and plank as far as it will go the causeway next to the sea. And it is further agreed that for the better expediting of the work, that all the hands of the town that are fit to work in that kind shall be employed as they are called forth by the overseers. And therefore power is hereby given to such as are hereafter named, to appoint the said persons that are to work and to proportion their wages, accord- ing to their work. And it is further agreed that the charges of all shall be borne by a rate of one hundred pounds which is to be. rated equally according to men's estates by the raters chosen for rating of the country rates. The men chosen overseers are Emanuel Downing, Esq., Capt. William Hawthorne, Captain Trask, Mr. Sharp, Mr. Henry Bartholomew, Wm. Lord, Mr. Garford, who also have power to distrain by the constables three shillings upon the head of every one that shall fail to come forth at his work after due warning and likewise three shillings for every beast. And the said distresses shall be gathered within ten days after the several neglects."
The town decided that Mr. Pickering had built the old bridge defectively, and that therefore he should pay toward the con-
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struction of the new bridge eight pounds and four shillings, for which he gave the town a bull and a cow, which the town could sell unless he paid in some other way.
Oct. 26, 1646, the town agreed "that Thomas Wheeler1 shall work at the bridge work which he is contented to do, and he is to have two shillings and sixpence a day till the bridge work be ended if he work so long. But the said Thomas Wheeler doth bind him-
self to work there ten days together if weather will permit and to begin upon the sixth day of this week: and is to be paid in corn or cattle at the merchants' price."
Dec. 10, 1661, the Salem court "ordered that the bridge or causeway at the western end of the town of Salem be sufficiently repaired and a stone wall built against the side at the county's charge.
The bridge and causeway were improved in 1663 by the town, under a vote of Jan. 13, 1662-3, by which the town agreed with William Flint and John Neale to repair the bridge by making "a sufficient wall of stone on the east side of three feet thick at the bottom and twenty inches at the top and the founda- tion of it to be laid one foot within the ground and in height it is to be as high as the highest bank of the bridge near the sluice and according to the height of the wall they are to fill up the whole bridge level with sand and on the top of it to lay good hard gravel three or four inches thick all over the whole bridge and to cover the wall with good turf of English grass from end to end for the which work being sufficiently performed they are to be paid twenty pounds." The county treasurer paid this twenty pounds to the town. The bridge was not entirely finished in 1666.
At a town meeting, Nov. 29, 1642, John Pickering was granted four poles of ground near his house; Goodman Lawes sixteen poles of marsh by the water next to his ten-acre lot; Lieutenant Davenport and Thomas Lathrop eighty acres of land which was formerly given to Richard Waterman, who deserted it : Alexander Field twenty-five acres of land which was formerly granted to Thomas Lathrop, who resigned it to said Alexander Field in lieu of the former grant of forty acres. The town sold to Henry Skery an acre of land that was Nicholas Draper's for
1Thomas Wheeler was born about 1605; had wife Mary in 1663; re- moved to Lynn in 1649; was living there, a miller, April 1, 1653, when he bought the windmill then standing in Salem; and was apparently of Stonington in 1680. Perhaps the two Wheeler children, who were bap- tized in Salem in 1648, Isaac and Ziporah, were his.
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twelve shillings. It was ordered that a highway be laid out through Daniel Ray's lot and he was given the old way before, over in the ten-acre lots in the North field.
John Bulfinch1 lived in Salem in 1640 and as late as 1643. He returned to Eng-
John Buffing
land, and died at Chatham, in Kent, in 1679. Richard Cooke lived in Marblehead in 1640, at the age of thirty, and as late as 16452. John Hart3 came to Marblehead as early as 1637, and died there in 1655. Robert Elwell4 came to Dorchester in 1634 and to Marblehead in 1640. He removed to Gloucester in 1642.
1John Bulfinch's daughter, widow Katherine Bell, was of Charlestown in 1680. In 1642, there was a Goody Bulfinch here.
2Richard Cooke had a wife in 1644, and lived in Boston in 1650.
3JOHN HART1 had wives Mary and Florence, and the latter survived him; children : I. John2; lost at sea in 1673; 2. Jonathan2; 3. Elizabeth2; married Edward Flint; 4. Sarah2; married Jeremiah Neale; 5. Deborah2; married Joseph Morgan of Beverly; 6. Florence2.
JONATHAN HART2; lived in Salem; married Lydia Neale Nov. - , 1671; they were living in 1682; children: I. Lydia3, born Jan. 5, 1671-2; married Nehemiah Stone; 2. Jonathan3, born April 14, 1673; 3. John3, born June 6, 1675; 4. Sarah3; married Joseph Balch of Beverly.
JONATHAN HART3; seaman; married Sarah Maule Jan. 24, 1705; died in 1720; she died in 1732; children: I. Lydia4, born Sept. 22, 1706; married William Browne Dec. 5, 1727; 2. Peleth4, born Sept. 10, 1708; 3. Jonathan4, born April 18, 17II; mariner; lived in Beverly; married, first, Rebecca Massy Dec. 20, 1733; second, widow Abigail (Anne) (Baker) Ober of Beverly Nov. 12, 1741; was living in 1744; she died in Beverly Dec. 6, 1768; 4. Sarah4, born Aug. 31, 1713; married John Webber of Marble- head Jan. 8, 1733; 5. Margaret4, born Oct. 13, 1717; married Clement English.
See volume I, page 449.
ROBERT ELWELL1; married, first, Joan -; she died March 31, 1675; married, second, Alice, widow of Robert Leach of Manchester May 29, 1676; he died May 18, 1683; had children, baptized in Salem, as follows : I. Samuel2, born in Dorchester about 1636; married Esther Dutch; lived in Gloucester; died about 1697; she died Sept. 6, 1721; had children; 2. 2, baptized Aug. 28, 1639; died at age of six months; 3. baptized Aug. 28, 1639; 4. John2, baptized Jan. 23, 1639-40; 5. Isaac2, baptized Feb. 27, 1641-2; married Mehitable , lived in Gloucester ; had children; 6. Josiah2; was dead in 1683; had children; 7. Joseph2; 8. Sara2, born April 20, 1651, in Gloucester ; 9. Sarah2, born May 12, 1652; 10. Thomas2, born Nov. 21, 1654; II. Jacob2, born June 18, 1657; 12. Richard2, baptized April II, 1658; 13. Mary2.
JOHN ELWELL2; fisherman; removed to Gloucester about 1673; married Jane Durin Oct. 1, 1667; she was living in 1688; he died in captivity among the Indians Feb. - , 1710; children: I. John3, born Oct. 14, 1668, in Salem; master mariner; lived in Gloucester; married, first, Mary Robinson; second, Mary Joslyn, Jan 7, 1709; had children; 2. Jane3, born Jan. 23, 1671-2, in Salem; 3. Susanna3 (twin), born April 24, 1678, in Gloucester; 4. Samuel3 (twin), born April 24, 1678; 5. Mary3, born Feb. 9, 1680-1; 6. Christian3, born May 16, 1683; 7. Penelope3, born Aug. 6, 1688.
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At the Salem court, Dec. 27, 1642, William Goult, for re- proachful and unseemly speeches against the rule of the church was ordered to sit in the stocks an hour and be severely whipped next lecture day. Henry Bulflower, servant to Thomas West, was in court. Some cattle belonged to a brother of Walter Price, "a poore man gone for England & his wife heare." A post with a pillory to it was ordered to be set up by the constables. The punishment afforded by the pil- lory is very ancient; and at first consisted of putting an iron collar about the neck of a de- linquent, the collar or ring being fastened to a post or wall. This was called a jugg1 from the word meaning the neck. Later, the ring was changed to a hole cut in the plank for the recep- tion of the head and hands of a culprit, as shown by the illustration. The word pillory was given because of the pillar or post. PILLORY.
Thomas Cole2 lived in Salem as early as 1642, was a husbandman and lived on the easterly side of Beckford Street.
1From the word "jugg" came the expression of jugging a criminal when he is put into jail, the Latin being "juggum". 2THOMAS COLE2 married Ann about 1635, probably in England; died in the spring of 1679; she died in the spring of 1680; children: I. Abraham2, born about 1638; 2. John2.
ABRAHAM COLE2; tailor; married Sarah Davis June II, 1670; died in the autumn of 1715; she survived him; children: I. Samuel3, born May II, 1671; died June -, 1671; 2. Sarah3, born Aug. 29, 1672; married Benjamin Odell Nov. 20, 1701; 3. Abraham3, born Jan. 6, 1674-5; died young (?) ; 4. Isaac3, born Aug. 4, 1677; died young (?); 5. Elizabeth3; married Simon Jeffords; 6. Susanna3, baptized Aug. 31, 1684; died young ( ?); 7. Samuel, born May 19, 1687; 8. Thomas3, baptized March -, 1690. JOHN COLE2; cooper; removed to Malden about 1677, and then to Lynn about 1684; married, first, Mary Knight May 28, 1667; second, Sarah Alsbee about 1675; died in Lynn Oct. 8, 1703; she died in Bradford, his widow, Jan. I, 1740-I; children: I. John3, born May 18, 1668; lived in Lynn and Boxford; married Mary Eaton of Lynn; died in Boxford Feb. 5. 1736-7; she died there Oct. 7, 1746; had children; 2. Thomas3, born Nov. - , 1669; died in 1669; 3. Mary3, born Sept. 1, 1671; living in 1703; 4. Hannah3, born Dec. 12, 1674; living in 1703; 5. Samuel3, born Dec. 27, 1687, in Lynn; lived in Lynn and Boxford; 6. Anna3, born Aug. 5, 1690, in Lynn.
SAMUEL COLE3; corwainer; married Elizabeth Hibber dof Beverly (published April 28, 1711) ; died in the autumn of 1733; children : I. Elizabeth4, born April 15, 1712; died June 26, 1713; 2. Ruth4, born Feb. 10, 1713-4; died young; 3. Abraham4, born about 1716; died between 1733 and 1743; 4. Abigail4, born about 1718; married Increase Whiston of Andover and Brookfield; 5. Ruth4, baptized Oct. 4, 1719; married Thomas Peabody of Boxford and Lunenburg; 6. Samuel4, baptized Oct. 9, 1720; blacksmith; lived in Boxford and Methuen; married Mary Peabody of Boxford May 20, 1748; she died in Methuen Nov. 1, 1767; had children ;
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Jan. 23, 1642-3, the town granted to Esdras Read, brother Bulfinch, old goodman Scudder, brother Ralph Tompkins, John Kitchen,1 Theophilus Down- ing,2 ye fisherman, Nicholas John Lithin Heyward,3 a fisherman, Wil- liam Bowdiashe and John
7. Jonathan4, baptized Oct. 5, 1729; probably died young. THOMAS COLE3; married Mercy Vealy July 10, 1710; died in or before 1760; children: I. Mercyª, baptized May 10, 1719; married, first, Benjamin Lambert (published Oct. 25, 1732) ; second, Peter Smith Jan. 18, 1756; 2. Thomas4, baptized May 10, 1719; 3. Mary4, baptized May 10, 1719.
1JOHN KITCHEN1, born about 1619; embarked at Weymouth, England, March 20, 1635; cordwainer; married, first, Elizabeth ; she died; married second, Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Grafton and widow of John Saunders about 1643 (?); died in the spring of 1676; John Saunders, seaman, was called "son-in-law" to John Kitchen in 1661; children: I. Hannah2, baptized March 12, 1643-4; 2. Elizabeth2, baptized March 12, 1643-4; 3. Joseph2, baptized April 20, 1645; probably died young ; 4. John2, baptized June 12, 1646; probably died young; 5. Mary2, baptized April 23, 1648; married Timothy Robinson; 6. Abigail2; married John Guppy ; 7. Priscilla2; married Nathaniel Hunn of Boston Oct. - 1672; 8. Robert2, baptized April 15, 1655; 9. Benjamin2, born Aug. 28, 1660; died Sept. 15, 1660.
LT. ROBERT KITCHEN2; merchant; town clerk; married, first, Mary Boardman of Cambridge; second, Bethiah Weld; died Oct. 28, 1712; children : I. John3, baptized April -, 1683; lived in London; 2. Elizabeth3, baptized April -, 1683; died before 1712; 3. Mary3, baptized May 27, 1684; married John Turner; 4. Robert3, baptized July 17, 1688; died young ; 5. Bethia3, baptized Nov. 10, 1689; married Timothy Lindall; 6. Robert3, baptized June II, 1699; died Sept. 20, 1716, when a student at Harvard College; 7. Edward3, baptized Aug. 18, 1700.
EDWARD KITCHEN"; merchant; married Freake Walcott in 1730; she died Jan. 17, 1746-7; he died in 1766; children: I. Mary6, born Oct. 2, 1732; died Oct. 28, 1738; 2. Robert4, born Oct. I, 1735; died Dec. 20, 1736. 2Theopilus Downing had wife Ellen, and was living in Salem in 1647. "NICHOLAS HAYWARD1 was a husbandman and fisherman; died Feb. 24, 1682-3; children : I. Nehemiah2; 2. Nathaniel2, baptized Nov. 13, 1642.
NEHEMIAH HAYWARD2; married Anna Dixcy; died in the summer of 1665; she married, secondly, Judkins ; children : I. Sarah3, born March 3, 1658-9; 2. Hannah3, born Aug. 1, 1661; married Coit. NATHANIEL HAYWARD3; carpenter ; married Elizabeth ; she was his wife in 1719; he died Dec. 19, 1720; children: I. Elizabeth3, baptized Aug. 26, 1666; married James Kettle; 2. Abigail3, baptized May 5, 1667; married Joseph Flint; 3. Nathaniel3, baptized May 30, 1669; lived in Beverly; married Hannah -; had children; 4. Nehemiah3, baptized July IQ, 1670; yeoman alias carpenter; lived in Beverly and Hingham; married Bethiah ; had children; 5. Sarah3, baptized Nov. 19, 1671; married Edward Coburn March 29, 1694; 6. Jonathan3, baptized July 6, 1673; 7. Nicholas3, baptized Oct. 10, 1675; 8. Samuel®, baptized May 26, 1678; 9. Hannah3, baptized May 16, 1682; married Vickery; 10. Stephen3, baptized Aug. 24, 1684; currier and yeoman; lived in Beverly ; married Bethiah ; had children.
JONATHAN HAYWARD3; potter; married Mary ; she was his wife in 17II; "Abigail, second wife of Jonathan Hayward, died at her father's in Salem Village April 13, 1716;" children: I. Mary4, baptized
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Abby ten acres each ("all these 10 acre lots are to be laid out nere to brother Kings lott"). William Bowditch1 was a young
May 19, 1700; died Jan. 26, 1718-9; 2. Jonathan4, baptized Feb. 14, 1702-3; lived in Beverly ; had children. NICHOLAS HAYWARD3; lived in Salem Vil- lage; yeoman alias tailor; married Jemima Rea; died in the spring of 1748; children : I. Diadem4, born Feb. 19, 1701-2; married Israel Eaton of Reading; 2. Paul', born Oct. 25, 1705; 3. Mehitable4, born July 9, 1708; married Samuel Hayward of Reading. SAMUEL HAYWARD3; leather dresser and set-work cooper; married Mary Hardy of Beverly June 15, 1699; lived in Reading, 1724-1728; she was his wife in 1728; he died in 1748; children: 1. Mary4, born March 16, 1700; married Benjamin Young Jan. 17, 1722-3; 2. Elizabeth4, born Oct. 1, 1702; 3. Hannah4, born April 29, 1705; married John Chapman; 4. Samuel4, baptized Nov. 24, 1706; lived in Reading; married Mehitable Hayward in 1730; weaver ; 5. Robert4, baptized Feb. 20, 1708-9; lived in Reading; 6. Lydia4, baptized Aug. 16, 1713; married William Flint July 25, 1734; 7. Sarah4, baptized Feb. 12, 1715-6.
PAUL HAYWARD4; yeoman and cordwainer ; married Hephzibah ; children : I. Israel5, baptized June 4, 1727; 2. Daniel5, baptized Jan. 12, 1728-9; 3. John®, baptized April 25, 1731; died before 1748; 4. Dudley5, baptized Aug. II, 1734; 5. Archelaus", baptized Oct. 9, 1737; 6. Daniel5, baptized Jan. 16, 1742-3; lived in Beverly; 7. Israel Porter5, baptized Dec. 25, 1748.
ARCHELAUS HAYWARD5; married Elizabeth children : I. Hannah®, baptized Dec. 9, 1764; 2. Archelaus6, baptized Sept. 8, 1765.
1WILLIAM BOWDITCH is said to have come from Devonshire, England; wife Sarah; children: 1. William2, born about 1641; 2. Nathaniel2, bap- tized Feb. 12, 1642-3; settled in Newport, R. I., before 1674.
WILLIAM BOWDITCH3; married Sarah ; died Oct. 12, 1681; child: 1. William3, born Aug. - , 1663.
CAPT. WILLIAM BOWDITCH3; master-mariner and merchant; representa- tive ; married Mary Gardner Aug. 30, 1688; she died in 1724; he died May 28, 1728; children: I. Mary4, born Aug. 2, 1689; died Oct. 2, 1689; 2. William4, born Oct. 31, 1690; died Oct. 12, 1706; 3. Mary4, born Dec. 18, 1693; married, first, James Butler of Boston Sept. 8, 1715; second, Capt. Samuel Barton; 4. Sarah4, born Jan. 10, 1695-6; married Joseph Hathorne; 5. Thomas4, born June 5, 1698; died Nov. 30, 1702; 6. Joseph", born Aug. 21, 1700; 7. Ebeneser4, born April 26, 1703; 8. Eunice4, born June 8, 1705; died July 2, 1705; 9. Eunice4, born March 22, 1707; married William Hunt; 10. Daniel4, born June 19, 1709; mariner ; died about 1730; II. William4, born Jan. 18, 1712-3; died Nov. 1, 1715.
CAPT. JOSEPH BOWDITCH4; clerk of the courts; esquire; married Elizabeth Hunt June 22, 1725; died Oct. 6, 1780; children: I. William5, baptized Feb. 12, 1726-7; died June 26, 1729; 2. Joseph“, baptized Nov. 29, 1730 .; 3. Mary', baptized Dec. 17, 1732; married Capt. Jonathan Orne; 4. Elizabeth"; married William Jeffrey; 5. Sarah5, baptized Jan. 23, 1736-7; died Oct. 2, 1764; 6. Eunice", baptized May 20, 1739; died June II, 1765; 7. Daniels, baptized May 2, 1742. CAPT. EBENEZER BOWDITCH4; master- mariner and merchant; married Mary Turner Aug. 15, 1728; died Feb. 2, 1768; she died, his widow, May 1, 1785; children: I. Ebenezer5, born Sept. 28, 1729; 2. John", born April 3, 1732; 3. Thomas", born about 1733; 4. William®, born in 1735; died Dec. 29, 1752; 5. Habakkuk5, baptized March 5, 1737-8; 6. Mary®, born about 1741; died April 22, 1757.
CAPT. JOSEPH BOWDITCH®; merchant; married Sarah Gardner March 3, 1757; living in 1793; she died Dec. 8, 1797; child: I. Joseph®, baptized Nov. 20, 1757; merchant; died, probably unmarried, in the summer of 1800.
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man and the ancestor of the long line of master mariners of that
CAPT. EBENEZER BOWDITCH5; married Elizabeth Gilman of Ipswich July 17, 1755; died Aug. 3, 1771 ; she died, his widow, Feb. II, 1824, aged ninety- one; children: I. Elizabeth6, baptized May 2, 1756; died young ; 2. William6, baptized July 9, 1758; died young; 3. Eunice6, baptized June 15,
1760; died, unmarried, Dec. 3, 1841; 4. Elizabeth6, baptized Sept. 5, 1762; died, unmarried, Nov. 4, 1845; 5. William6, baptized Aug. 12, 1764; 6. Ebenezer®, baptized Nov. 23, 1766; 7. Andrew6, baptized June 4, 1769. CAPT. JOHN BOWDITCH; master-mariner; married Mary Carlton July 12, 1759; died April -, 1793; she died, his widow, Dec. 24, 1805; children: I. Mary®, baptized June 15, 1760; married Lewis Hunt; 2. Hannah6, baptized Dec. 13, 1761; married John Ingersoll; 3. John6, baptized March 4, 1764; 4. Deborah6, baptized Oct. II, 1767; married Thomas Moriarty of Danvers Oct. 31, 1782; 5. SamuelG, baptized May 7, 1769; 6. Ebenezer6, born Sept. 22, 1771; 7. Benjamin6, born in 1772; died at sea (buried at Martha's Vineyard) Dec. 2, 1794. CAPT. THOMAS BOWDITCH; mariner; married Sarah Bancroft of Lynn April 21, 1760; she died Feb. 26, 1808; he died July 29, 1808; children : I. Thomas", born in 176 -; 2. Daniel6, born March 5, 1765; 3. Joseph5, born July 5, 1767; drowned Aug. 26, 1774; 4. Sarah®, born Sept. 9, 1769; married John Brindley May 12, 1793; Jane6, born March 13, 1774; died, unmarried, July -, 1838; 6. Joseph®, born May II, 1776; 7. Ebenezer6, born July 5, 1778; 8. Richard®, baptized April -, 1783; 9. Elizabeth®, baptized April -, 1783; 10. George®, born April 5, 1783. CAPT. HABAKKUK BOWDITCH; mariner; married Mary Ingersoll July 23, 1765; she died Dec. 14, 1783; he died July 28, 1798; children: I. Mary6, baptized March 30, 1766; married David Martin; 2. Habakkuk6, baptized May 15, 1768; 3. Elizabeth®, born May 16, 1771; died Dec. 9, 1791; 4. Nathaniel®, born March 26, 1773; 5. William6 baptized in 1775; died at Trinidad about Jan. 1, 1800, aged twenty-four ; 6. Samuel Ingersoll6, bap- tized Sept. 12, 1779; 7. Lois®, baptized April 1, 1781; married Joseph Bowditch Sept. 28, 1806; she died July 29, 1809, aged twenty-eight.
CAPT. EBENEZER BOWDITCH6; married Mary Appleton July 25, 1797; she died May 16, 1819; he died July 24, 1830; child: I. Ebenezer'; suicided at the almshouse. Aug. 21, 1825, aged twenty-five. JOHN BOWDITCH"; mar- iner ; married Polly Cook March II, 1791; she died, his widow, April 29, 1844; child : I. . Mary7, born Feb. 19, 1792; married Michael Pitman Sept. 25, 1814. SAMUEL BOWDITCH6; mariner; married Ann (Nancy) Welman Aug. 15, 1790; perished off the Texell, on the brig Harriette, March 21, 1791; she married, secondly, William Richardson Nov. 9, 1793; child; I, Anna (Nancy)7, born in 1790; living in 1806. CAPT. THOMAS BOWDITCH6; master-mariner ; married Lucy Mansfield Sept. 17, 1786; died on his pas- sage from Calcutta, on the ship Boston Packet, of which he was com- mander, April -, 1807; she died, his widow, Dec. 16, 1831; children : I. Lucy7, baptized July 1, 1787; married Robert Collins Feb. 15, 1807; 2. Betsey Mansfield", baptized Aug. 9, 1789; died Sept. 9, 1790; 3. Thomas', baptized Nov. 27, 1791; 4. Sarah", baptized May 26, 1793; 5. Ann Hend- field", baptized Dec. 6, 1795; married William Osborn Sept. II, 1816; 6. John7, baptized Dec. 31, 1797; 7. Mary Pickman", baptized May 14, 1800; married William Archer April 6, 1823; 8. Daniel", baptized July 3, 1802; carpenter. CAPT. JOSEPH BOWDITCH"; master-mariner; married Lucinda M. -; died Aug. 30, 1824; she was his widow in 1837; children: I. Helen Maria7, born about 1813; married Luther Upton Sept. 29, 1836; 2. Sarah Morse7, born Jan. - , 1815; living in 1822; 3. Joseph Henry™, born Dec. - , 1816; living in 1822; 4. Francis Morse™, born Jan -, 1821; mariner ; married Rebecca Leavitt July II, 1855. EBENEZER BOWDITCH6; goldsmith ; married, first, Rebecca Felt Oct. 21, 1800; she died May -, 1805; married,
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