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JOHN CROADE"; merchant, joiner and innholder; married Deborah Thomas Dec. I, 1692; children : I. Elizabeth3, born Aug. 21, 1693; 2. John8, born Aug. 20, 1695; 3. Thomas3, born April 18, 1697; 4. Ruth2, born May 8, 1699; 5. Mary3, born March 18, 1700-I.
"ALLISTER MACKMALLION3. (Mackmallen, Mackmallon and Mackmillen) ; married Elizabeth before 1658; died in the autumn of 1679; she
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1658, and lived at 49 St. Peter Street. John Lambert1 came to
married, secondly, John Baxter Sept. I, 1679; she was living in 1694; chil- dren : (I. ; married Mathew Dove before 1669?) ; 2. John2; 3. Alexander2.
JOHN MACKMALLION"; carpenter; married Mary Gilson Dec. 11, 1684; living in 1694; children : 1. John3, born Sept. 5, 1685; 2. Joseph2, born Sept. 24, 1687; married Elizabeth Taylor of Boston. (published June 30, 17II). ALEXANDER MACKMILLION2; chairmaker and turner; married Rebecca
; he was living in 1720; she was living in 1734; children: I. Elizabeth3, born March 16, 1702; married Harbutt; 2. John3, born March 9, 1704; died July -, 1705; 3. Abigail3, born Dec. 25, 1706; married Russell; 4. Jonathan3, born Aug. 23, 1708; 5. Kezia 3, born March 9. 1710; married Clough; 6. Hannah3, born July 11, 1713; unmarried, of Boston, in 1734.
JOHN MACKMILLION3; house carpenter ; married Sarah ; she was his wife in 1736; he was of Salem in 1743; child: I. Timothy4; of Salem, house carpenter, in 1770; died in 1778. JONATHAN MACKMILLION3; chair- maker; married Rachel Procter July 20, 1732; died before December, 1739; she survived him; child: I. Eunice4, baptized Sept. 16, 1733; married John Peirce of New Salem before 1784.
1JOHN LAMBERT1; his wife never came to America and was living in 1684; he died late in the autumn of 1685; child: 1. John2, born in 1629.
JOHN LAMBERT"; fisherman, mariner and shoreman; married Preserved Gaskill; died in the winter of 1710-I; left a widow; children; I. Daniel", born Oct. 3, 1658; 2. Sarah3, born Feb. 7, 1660-1; living in 1684; 3. Ezekiel3, born March 3, 1661; 4. Samuel3; died July 7, 1662; 5. Samuel", born March 16, 1664-5; 6. Mary3, born April 26. 1667; living in 1684, unmarried; 7. Jonathan3, born Dec. 23, 1669; 8. Hannah3, born Dec. - , 1671; died Dec. - , 1671; 9. Ebenezer3, born April 2, 1674.
DANIEL LAMBERT3; shipwright; married, first, Mary Gray June 5, 1682: she died Aug. 29. 1693; married, second, Elizabeth (Croade), widow of Edmund Bridges; died in the winter of 1694-5; she survived him in I7TI; children: I. Mary4, born Feb. 20, 1683; of Boston, unmarried, in I7II; 2. Elizabeth4, born April 9, 1684; of Boston, unmarried, in 1711; 3. Daniel4, born Dec. 7, 1686; 4. Samuel4, born Feb. 5, 1688; 5. Preserved4, born April 21. 1691; died Sept. 24, 1691; 6. Joseph4, born April 12, 1692; 7. Rachel1, born about 1694; living in 1710. SAMUEL LAMBERT3; mariner, shoreman and weaver; married Margaret Browne before 1690; died in the spring of 1732; she survived him; children: 1. Margaret4, born Jan. 14, 1690; married Joshua Tyler; 2. Preserved4, born April 30, 1692; married Thomas Mason; 3. Samuel4, born Jan. I, 1693-4; mariner, of Salem, in 1720; 4. Hannah4, born Nov. 17, 1696; married Benjamin Manning; 5. Jonathan4; living in 1733; 6. Joseph4, born Aug. I, 1702; tailor; married Lydia Ropes before 1738. EBENEZER LAMBERT3; shipwright; married Mary
; died in the winter of 1727-8; she survived him; children: I. Margaret4, born July 26, 1696; 2. Ebenezer4, baptized Aug. 24, 1701; 3. Mary4, baptized Aug. 24, 1701; 4. Mary4, baptized March 26, 1702-3; 5. Eunice4. born April 3, 1706; 6. Benjamin4, baptized July 3, 1709; 7. Sarah*, baptized June 24, 17II; 8. Seeth5, baptized Sept. 6, 1713; 9. Ebenezer4, bap- tized June 9, 1717; IO. Ezekiel4, baptized June 9, 1717; II. Jehoaden*, baptized Oct. 25, 1719.
DANIEL LAMBERT4; shipwright; of Newport, R. I., in 1734; married Margaret Horne (Orne) May 6, 1708; she died in June, 1714; child : I. Sarah®, born May -, 1714; married John Mathews of Boston. SAMUEL LAMBERT4; married Mary Squire May 4, 1710; died in the spring of 1742; children : I. Patience5, baptized Aug. 13, 1710; 2. Eunice5, baptized July
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Salem as early as 1660, and lived on the site of the city hall, in Beverly. He was a fisherman .
FORT ON WINTER ISLAND
A fortification was made on Winter Island as early as 1643; and at least two small cannon were there, as Capt. Thomas Breadcake was permittted by the general court in 1664 to take two small guns from "Winter Island by Salem" for his cruise against Turkish pirates.
In 1652, the town of Salem voted to build a "form" on the southeast point of Winter Island, toward which the general court gave one hundred pounds ; and the town voted, May 27, 1654, to pay one hundred pounds out of the country rate or "the re- mainder towards our fortification."
May 17, 1655, the town "Ordered that the fort upon Winter Island shall be finished with all speed: Mr. Corwine, Leift. Lawthrop, Edmond Batter are appointed to order the work about the fort together with those formerly appointed." It was also "Ordered that the island where the fort is, is appropriated for the vse and maintaining of the fort." It was also "ordered that those men appointed for the ordering of the fort have power to warn men to work about the fort to the finishing of it, according to the proportion of each man's rate."
May 29, 1655, the general court granted to John Endecott, Esq., Catta Island, of about two acres, near Marblehead. The name became abbreviated to Cat Island, and for many years has been known as Lowell Island because a number of families from Lowell spent their summers there.
March 13, 1655-6, Mr. Browne and Mr. Corwine were ordered by the selectmen to "take care to see the great guns speedyly mounted," and April 23, 1657, the selectmen appointed Mr. Price to "see the work about the great guns to be speedily done as also to get them mounted."
May 7, 1656, the selectmen ordered that Jeffery Masey and Edmond Batter should speedily remove the planks of the town that are now on the North neck to the fort upon Winter Island.
June 18, 1666, the town voted that the work to be done at the fort, under the order of the general court, be carried on by a day's work of every man in the town above the age of sixteen
13, 1712; married William Steward. JOSEPH LAMBERT4; shoreman; mar- ried Mary Williams Feb. 2, 1726-7; died in 1764; she survived him, and died in the spring of 1796; children: I. Joseph®; 2. Margaret5, born in 1729; married William White May 22, 1754; 3. Mary", born Feb. 2, 1732-3; married Andrew Preston Feb. 4, 1753; 4. Sarah5; married Under- wood; 5. Priscilla5, born in 1739; married Daniel Ropes; 6. Elizabeth5; married Henry Phillips May 28, 1771.
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years, and so round the town, from day to day until the work should be finished, notice of each man's turn to be given to them by Capt. George Corwin, who was also to decide how many should be employed each day.
His Majesty first required fortifications in this country, the general court impowered Captain Corwin about it with the advice of Major-general Leverett, who likewise ordered it, and Captain Corwin acquainted the town with it. The town voted that it should be done and the manner of it.
About July 27, 1667, Captain Corwin hired a team or two of oxen and John Pickering, Edward Flint, Nathaniel Pitman and Samuel Pitman for the work. The guns were in Town- House Square, near the house of Mr. Batter. As the oxen began to move one of the guns, the axle-tree canted out of the notches of the carriage, not being fastened, and the oxen were stopped for fear of drawing the gun off the wheels. The men told Corwin that the guns were not fit to be carried as they were, but they could take them out of the carriages and draw them with a chain. He said, "No, that would make double labor," and that he would wait until the day after the next day, because he had heard that the way over the gut was worn so narrow that they could not go over, and it should be mended on the morrow. While the attempt to carry the guns was in progress, Batter appeared and twitched Corwin by the arm, saying that he would never pay a penny for the charge if the guns were removed without the selectmen's con- sent, and Batter told the men that it would not be safe to transport the guns without the consent of the selectmen.
Captain Corwin entered a complaint in the local court against Batter for hindering the work by telling the workmen not to move the guns without the consent of the selectmen. Batter answered by saying that the selectmen had had possession of the guns for thirty-two years and that about eighteen years before, the general court endeavored to take them away, but the efforts of the Salem deputies succeeded in keeping them in Salem, claiming that they' should shortly be fitted for the defence of the country. Corwin replied that the guns did not belong to the town, and the relation of the selectmen to them was this, that the latter were to furnish the supplies for them and make repairs, while the guns were really in the custody of the committee of militia in the town ; also,
CAPT. JOSEPH LAMBERT5; mariner and merchant; married Mary Foot Jan. 9, 1775; died in the winter of 1790-I; she survived him; children: I. Joseph®; (married Abigail -); mariner in 1796; 2. Lydia6; married Moses Townsend; 3. Hannah6; married Matthias Rice; 4. Mary6; married Benjamin Crowninshield; 5. Priscilla6; unmarried in 1794; 6. Elizabeth®; married Thomas Welcome.
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that Major Hathorne had often told him the guns belonged to the country.
Major-general Leverett received no accusation against Bat- ter,-only a letter, stating how things were seditiously transacted in the town, and that apparently a conspiracy existed to hinder the defence of the town when news was brought of the great loss of the English in Virginia. The major-general had charge of the fort and the ordering of all the great guns in the colony, and he commanded Captain Corwin to move the guns. July 26th follow- ing, the selectmen ordered that Captain Corwin should have the great guns carried down to the fort with as convenient speed as he could, and that the town would defray the cost, and also the expense of carriages for them. Edmond Batter and Nathaniel Putnam, two of the six selectmen, dissented from the order.
Captain Corwin concluded his reply to the answer of Mr. Batter, as follows: "and yet this [is] not sufficient to satisfy one man: now likewise it appears, who [hath] hindered all things for the good of the town, wherein himself is not in the first place ; in a word, he it is, who is the occasion of all the troubles and divisions which have been in the town of Salem, and yet would seem to be the only grieved person." He "would lay the blame of these precedential cases (as he terms them) upon military officers being over-impowered whereas the true cause is in him- self ; for had he been chosen captain, when Captain Price was elected, all had been well, and the committee of militia in all things acted to his satisfaction: but he being well known unto this honored Court, It is to be hoped, that your honors will take his case into consideration, and something humor his ambition, for if he were made captain of some remote village in this country, he would (Cæsarlike) count himself happier therein, than to be the second man in Salem."
The court advised them to forget their differences and to study peace, unity, love and concord.
At a joint meeting of the committee of militia and the select- men, Aug. 4, 1673, as they had received an order from the major- general and the major of the regiment to speedily repair the fort, mend the platform and fit up the great artillery and make such provision as the juncture of time required "do conclude all of us, to take our turns, two of us at a time upon each day to oversee the work and to employ workmen to carry on the work as the case requires and do desire Mr. Bartlemew to be assistant with us in his turn in carrying on of this work."
On the twenty-fourth of the next month, the selectmen appointed Mr. Batter, Lieutenant Gardner, Mr. Rucke, John Hawthorne and John Turner to "finish the highway at Morde-
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cay's cut that it may be a sufficient way for cart and horse to go to the fort." This work was done by Francis Collins.
Robert Hibbard did carpentry work at the fort, John Hig- ginson laid the platform, which was plank furnished by John Norman, spiked down, Manasseh Marston and Daniel Rumball did iron work about the fort, Francis Collins, John Marston, John Massey, Francis Skerry and Nathaniel Prece performed labor there, Jonathan Walcot and Thomas Flint made wheels for the guns, and work was also done on the wheels by John Ormes, William Curtis (iron work), Richard Hide and John Beckett. Anthony Needham did carting.
ISLANDS
Baker's Island was known under that name as early as 1630; Tinker's Island was so called in 1659; and the Misery islands were collectively called, in 1658, Moulton's Misery, and, later, The Misery or The Miserys.
The Miserys were originally connected by a sand bar, and the bar was exposed at half-tide, even as late as 1800. This sub- sidence is still continuing, according to scientists.
In 1659, John Ingersoll, Thomas Sallowes and Paul Mans- field signed a petition to the general court, in which they stated that they had "for our furtherance in our trade of fishing settled a stage upon an island (bordering upon the sayd towne) called Morton's-Misery," and had been at charges amounting to thirty or forty pounds ; and they prayed that the islands might be granted to them. The petition1 was denied ; but, in 1663, the petitioners had a stage and house there.
Upon the request of the town of Salem, in 1660, as "the Miserys and Baker's Island" are fit for the employment of fishing, which is a great part of the business of the petitioners, that the general court would grant these islands to the town, the court allowed the petition, providing that it should be lawful for any fisherman to make use of them for curing of fish, and whatever - conduces to it, or building houses, stages, etc., as, also, wood and flaking in fishing seasons.
John Lambert and others requested of the town of Salem the grant of some land on Moulton's Misery Island to plant, March 2, 1662-3, but were refused.2
1Massachusetts Archives, volume 45, leaf 87.
"Bartholomew Gale of Salem secured a deed of Moulton's Misery island from Thomas Tyler of Martha's Vineyard Feb. 12, 1673-4 (Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 106). Tyler released his interest in the island. To this instrument, Thomas Mayhew added that "ye said Thomas Tyler is
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Dec. 27, 1673, the selectmen appointed a committee to care for the preservation of wood and timber upon these islands and to bring away any of it that had been cut by men of Marblehead.
Feb. 19, 1677-8, the selectmen leased the Great and Little Misery islands to Capt. George Corwin for a thousand years and a day, for three pounds a year. Upon Great Misery Island, he built a summer residence, which, according to valuations, must have been costly.
It has been already mentioned that Baker's Island was granted by the general court to the town of Salem in 1660.
In 1670, some persons of Marblehead or others had en- croached on "our commons," in cutting wood and timber on this island, and the selectmen investigated. Trees were allowed to be cut upon the island for house construction in the town. Dec. 27, 1673, the selectmen appointed a committee to care for the preservation of the wood and timber on the island and to bring away any wood found there which had been cut by men of Marble- head. The next spring, permission was given to Francis Skerry to fell thirty trees there for bark.
Feb. 19, 1677-8, the selectmen leased the island to John Turner for three pounds a year, probably for a thousand years and a day. Mr. Turner built a summer house on the island ; and, in 1680, when he died, the house was completed and furnished.
the son of the sagamore of Agawam, a known man in ye country; he sold the town of Ipswich, all or the most part of it; all the old planters knew him that had ought to do with the Indians in those days. George can in- form concerning him, he that hath lost his nose."
CHAPTER XV. QUAKER PERSECUTION
HE disturbed condition of society and government in England during the Revolution and the Common- weath was the occasion of freedom in matters of re- ligion and fanaticism. Among the most prominent of the new orders that had their origin at that time were the Fifth Monarchy and Ranters or Quakers.
The latter sect first came to general notice when, in 1648, George Fox, son of a weaver in Drayton, Leicestershire, England, began to promote it by preaching. Having no creed, no system of ministry, nor practice and government like other churches, their services were conducted as the individual members recognized the impulse or suggestions of the spirit to speak, read or pray in the occasional meetings. If no such suggestions were received, the time was passed in silence. The freedom was so great that it was impossible to know what they generally believed. All other re- ligions of the time and region included outward observances and formulated creeds.
Fox's preaching was primarily of the necessity of repentance, and his insistence upon universality and sufficiency of the light and power of the Spirit. There were so many new movements with zealous followers, that strife between them was frequent, and soon the acerbity of the language used by the sects against each other surpassed anything of the kind in normal times.
The churches of England, especially those of nonconformity, and also the army of Cromwell were affected by the mutability of religious belief, and because of this condition in the mother country the general court, May 14, 1656, appointed June 1Ith to be kept as a public day of humiliation, "to seek the face of God in behalf of our native country, in reference to the abounding of errors, especially those of the Ranters and Quakers, that the Protector may be preserved from the machinations of evil minded
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persons, that the Lord's presence and blessing may be on the naval and land forces of our native country at home and abroad, that the Lord would go out with the Protestant armies against Anti-Christ and his adherents, the settling of unity and peace amongst the churches here, that the ordinances of Christ may be- come more effectual to all, especially to children and servants, the rising generation."
While this fast was being held, a vessel with two women missionaries of the Quaker faith on board was nearing the shores of New England. These women landed in Boston about the first of July, and were put into the prison immediately and their books burned officially in the market place, although there was no law that supported such an action, except the general law against heresy. After remaining in the prison five weeks they were sent away.
August 7th, another Quaker-bearing vessel came into Boston Harbor. There were among its passengers eight of the obnoxious sect. Three of them were Christopher Holder, William Brend and John Copeland. Mr. Brend was nearly seventy, but Holder and Copeland were young and unmarried. The officials took and burned the hundred books they had brought with them, even the Bible. The men were put into the prison, where they were kept about eleven weeks, although no law had been passed against them or their books. When the men were released, they apparently worked their way southward towards Rhode Island.
The next session of the general court was held October 14th, and the following law was immediately enacted directed against this new sect :-
Whereas there is a cursed sect of haereticks lately risen up in the world, weh are commonly called Quakers, who take uppon them to be imediately sent of God, and infallibly asisted by the spirit to speake and write blasphemouth opinions, despising government and the order of God in church and comonwealth, speaking evill of dignities, re- proaching and reviling magistrates and ministers, seeking to turne the people from the faith, and gaine proselites to their pernicious ways, this Court, taking into serious consideration the premises, and to prevent the like mischiefe as by theire meanes is wrought in our native land, doth heereby order that what master of any this jurisdiction any
vessell that shall henceforth bring into
knowne Quaker shall pay one hundred pounds to the countrie, except it appeare that he wanted true knowledg or informa- tion of theire being such; and . that what Quaker soever shall arive . shall be forthwith comitted to the house of correction, and at theire entrance to be severely whipt; and by the master thereof to be kept constantly at worke, and none suffered to converse or speak wth them.
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This law also provided for the burning of Quaker books and writing's concerning their "devilish opinions," prohibiting support of their opinions or their writings to the extent of banishment.
In preparation for the coming of Quaker missionaries to Salem, the selectmen ordered, June 8, 1657, that if any inhabitant should "take in or receive" any foreigner without the approval of the selectmen he should pay twenty shillings every week during the continuance of such entertainment. This order was confirmed by the town twelve days later.
Holder and Copeland went to Salem, where, in spite of this order, they were hospitably entertained by Lawrence Southwick, who lived in the ancient house which formerly stood on the north side of Main Street, opposite Washington Street, in Peabody. Mr. Southwick probably bought three acres of land of Edward Lum- mus of Ipswich, a weaver, and built this house, but received no legal transfer of the title until March 22, 1658-91, when the grantee was in prison in Boston. Mr. Southwick devised this house and land to his son Daniel, who conveyed it to his son Lawrence, both of whom were husbandmen, and lived here. Lawrence Southwick died in 1717. It then went to his son Daniel, who conveyed it to his brother Joseph in 1742.2 Joseph died in 1791, having devised the house and lot to his son Edward. Edward died in 1836; and it then went to his son Philip R. Southwick, a tanner. Mr. South- wick removed to Boston, and sold the estate to David Pingree in 18473. The trustees under a deed of trust of Mr. Pingree con- veyed it to Isaac B. and Lewis W. Elliot in 18564, and they con- veved it to Calvin Pierce. Mr. Pierce took the old house down in 1862, and used the materials of the old house in a new house which is numbered 41 Webster Street, in Peabody. The picture of this house on the opposite leaf is a copy of a miniature India ink drawing, less than two inches square, made by Nathaniel Votin of England about 1810.
For entertaining these Friends (as they called themselves), Mr. and Mrs. Southwick, "an aged and grave couple," and mem- bers of the church, were taken and committed to the prison in Boston, there being at that time no jail in Salem. Mr. Southwick was soon released to be dealt with by the church, but Mrs. South- wick remained seven weeks, and was allowed to return home upon paying a fine of forty shillings.
Holder and Copeland attended the regular services in the meeting house Sept. 20th, and at their close Holder attempted to
1Essex Registry of Deeds, book I, leaf 56.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 88, leaf 235.
3Essex Registry of Deeds, book 390, leaf 143.
4Essex Registry of Deeds, book 533, leaf 76.
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speak. He had spoken only a few words, when Edmond Batter, a member of the church, and a commissioner of the court, grabbed him by his long hair and pulled him backward, and furiously thrust a glove and a handkerchief into his mouth to gag him. Another member of the church, Samuel Shattock, fearing that Holder would be choked to death, rose and pulled away the hand that was trying to stifle him. The two strangers were thrust out, and taken to a house, where they were kept until the next day. Then they were conducted to Boston, where they immediately received thirty stripes a piece, with a knotted whip of three cords, so cruelly that a woman who saw it fainted and fell. The journey from Salem to Boston was undoubtedly made on foot over rough paths and through the forests for twenty miles without refresh- ments. It can be imagined, though slightly, what their bodily condition must have been after enduring the tramp, hunger and the terrible whipping. That night, without food, they were put into a small room, without bed or straw, only the bare boards to lay their torn backs on. For three days, they had neither food nor water. No one was allowed to see or speak to them. Their imprisonment continued for nine weeks, without exercise, fire or bedding, through the chilly months of October and November.
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