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That the Lord hath giuen vs the Scriptures of the old and new testament for the only perfect and perpetuall Rule of our Faith and Life.
That all that truly beleiue in Jesus Christ & repent of all their sinnes haue by faith a right to all the benefitts of Christs purchase as the only Righteousnesse of Christ imputed to them for their Justifi- cation the priuiledges of addoption, & sanctification by the spirritt, man being vtterly vnable by any worke or righteousnesse of his owne or light from within himselfe to please God.
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Also that those who in this life walke before the Lord in the faith of the gospell & sincere obedience to the Law (the rule of holi- nesse) wherin euery true beleeuer ought & certainly shall perseuere · vnto death, when their soules being then & not before made perfect in holinesse, shalbe received into glory, till the resurrection when their bodies being vnited to their soules & raised vp againe immediatly be- fore the gennerall Judgment they shall there be openly acquitted & so be eternally glorified in heauen.
That then allso all that beleeued not in Christ shall be publiquely Condemned & cast into hell for euer.
Allso wee beleiue that all true beleiuers make vpp that one body the Church of wch. Christ is the head who for the gathering in and perfecting of his saints hath appointed his Word, prayers, singing of pslames, Sacraments of baptisme & the Lords Supper : Church officers & discipline in particular churches, and that it is the Duty of euery Christian orderly to attend thereunto.
The covenant was as follows :-
Wee doe in the presens of the Eternall God & for our owne com- fort renew our couenant with God, Joyning our selues to the Lord in a perpetual couenant that shall not be forgotten wherin wee doe hartily accept & Auouch the Lord this day to be our God, & to walke in his waies, desiring to turne to him by vnfeignd repentance for all our sinns, & by faith receiuinge Jesus Christ for our only Lord and Sauiour, and his spirritt for our comfort, doe take him for our portion accord- ing to the tennour of the couenant of grace wherein hee hath promised to be a god to the faithfull & their seed after them in their generations, promising through the grace of God a constant & sincere endeauor of obedience to all Gods commands delivered vs in his written Word, and to resist the temptations of Sathan, the world, and our owne deceitfull harts : and this vnto the death :
Wee doe allso in the feare of the Lord and presens of his people, ingage to giue vpp our selues, & ou" seed to the Lord, and to one an- other by the Will of God in our Fellowshipp together as a particular church of Christ : or congregation of the faithfull : promising each of vs to continue faithfull & stedfast in our communion together in the publique worship of God, & to submitt to the order, disipline & gouerne- ment of Christ in this his church, and to the ministeriall, Teaching, guidance & ou" sight of the Elder, or Elders therof, and to the brother- ly watch of fellow members: promising to walke towards them in loue & faithfullnesse, and in all offences to follow the rule of Christ, to beare and forbeare, giue and forgiue as hee hath taught vs, so long as by the rules of Gods Word wee shall continue in this our relation together, desiring allso to walke with all regular & due communion with other churches of Christ, for the Glory of God, our furtherancs & growth in Christ : and mutuall Edification :
And all this not by any Strength of our owne but by our Lord Christ assisting vs, whose blood wee desire may sprinkle this our coue- nant made in his name. Amen.
In Testimony of our Consent to this Confession of faith and Coue- nant wee subscribe our names,
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JOHN HALE
WILLIAM DODGE Senior
RICHARD DODGE Senior
HUMPHRY WOODBERRY Senior
WILLIAM WOODBERRY Senior
HUGH WOODBERRY
RICHARD BRACKENBURY
NICKOLAS PATCH
JOHN STONE Senior
JOHN HILL
JOHN DODGE Senio"
SARAH CONNANT deceased
ELIZABETH DODGE
PEETER WOOLFE
MARY LOVETT
JOSIAS ROOTES Senio"
ELIZABETH HASKELL
EXERCIZE CONNANT
SARAH LEACH
EDWARD BISHOPP
FREEGRACE BLACK
ANNA DIXSY
ELIZABETH CORNING
ANNA WOODBERRY Senior
ELIZABETII WOODBERRY
ELIZABETH WOODBERRY
ELLEN BRACKENBURY
MARTHA WOOLFE
ELIZABETH PATCH
HANNAH BAKER
HANNAH SALLOWS
MARY HERRICKE BRIDGETT LUFF
SAMUELL CORNING
MARY DODGE Senior
ROBERT MORGAN
ANNA WOODBERRY Junior
JOHN BLACKE Senio"
EDEE HERRICKE
LOTT CONNANT
MARY DODGE Junio"
RALPH ELLENWOOD
ABIGAILE HILL
WILLIAM DIXSY
LIDIA HERRICKE
After this confession of faith and covenant was signed, the assembly proceeded immediately to the ordination of Mr. Hale2 as pastor of the church. This was performed by the laying on of hands of Rev. John Higginson, pastor of the Salem church, Rev. Thomas Cobbett, pastor of the Ipswich church and Rev. Antipas Newman, pastor of the Wenham church. This people was then "owned" to be a'distinct orderly Congregational church by the elders and messengers of the neighboring churches who gave their approval and right hand of fellowship.
Within two years, about thirty more of the people had united with the new church. Feb. 24, 1667-8. Humphrey Woodbury, sr., was chosen deacon.
1Cancelled.
2Rev. John Hale remained in this pastorate as long as he lived. His wife Rebecca died April 30, 1683, at the age of forty-five. He married, second, Sarah Clark of Newbury March 31, 1684; and she died May 20, 1697, at the age of forty-three. He married, third, Elizabeth Clark of Newbury Aug. 8, 1698. He died in Beverly May 15, 1700, at the age of sixty-three. His children were born in Beverly as follows: Rebecca, born about 1666; died May 7. 1681, aged fifteen; Robert, born Nov. 3, 1668; physician; died Jan. 12, 1718-9; James, born Oct. 14, 1685; Samuel, born Aug. 13, 1687: Joanna, born June 15, 1689; and John, born Dec. 24, 1692.
REBECKAH HALE1
RODGER CONNANT
HENRY HERRICKE Senior
MARY WOODBURY
BERTHIA LATHROPP
HANNAH WOODBERRY
THOMAS LATHROPP
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May 27, 1668, the people of the new parish of Cape Ann Side again petitioned the general court that they might be in- corporated as a town. As early as 1661, the town of Salem had recognized the separation of the people of Bass River Side, as is shown by a vote of the town, November 18th, of that year : "Granted to Will Mappor so much land as the inhabitants on Cape Ann Side shall be willing to give out of the common on the east side of Bass River"; and this position of Salem is again recog- nized by the vote, at the previous annual meeting, in March, upon the motion of the petitioners, "that we think it the best expedient for them to be a township of themselves; if they desire it, and there-to do consent if content with ye present bounds al- ready set them." On said May 27th, the general court, "In ans" to the petition of the inhabitants of yt part of Salem comonly called Basse Riuer, humbly craving the favour of this Court to invest them wth power to choose yearely wthin themselues a fit number of persons who may haue power, as selectmen haue in other places, to rajse those charges that are to be defraied by & wthin themselues, & for the admission of those poore or others yt desire to inhabitt wth them, (they being to mainteyne them if they fall into want, & ffor what other Smale causes and buisnesses, arising properly wthin themselues, fall vnder the cognizance of selectmen; also, that they may choose their constable & surveyo's for the highway, & what other officers or persons the afaires abouesayd may neces- sitate & occasion them to imploy ; yet they would be vnderstood that their desire is still to continue with y' part of the towne of Salem, vizt, in bearing wth them, & they wth us, comon toune & country charges in comon interests & concernements, as chojce of deputjes for the Generall Court, & such like, as hitherto they have proceeded together. The Court, on pervsall of their peti- tion, & hauing heard wt Salem deputjes sajd, judge meet to grant their request, prouided the towne of Salem doe fully concurr therewth & agree thereto, wch if they shall not, the Court judg- eth it meet that they manifest the same at the next session of this Court." The town of Salem did not see cause to vary their former vote, stating "that wee doe not see cause to consent ffurther. Wee say, that if our brethren & neighb's of Basse Riuer desire to be a touneship by themselues, & are content wth the lands already set out to them, wee consent to that." Nov. 7, 1688, "The Court, on perusall of this returne, judge it meete 'to grant that Basse Riuer be henceforth a touneship of themselues, referring it to Salem to accomodate them wth lands & bounds suitably for them, & that it be called Beverly."
Who suggested the name of Beverly is unknown, but it was not by the people who were most interested. Just three years later, Roger Conant presented to the general court a peti-
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tion requesting that the name of Beverly be changed to that of Budleigh, in the parish of that name he having been born. This petition wrought no change in the name of this new town, and Beverly it is called to-day. The following is a copy of the peti- tion :-
To the honorabel generall Court, consisting of magistrates & deputies.
The humble peticion of Roger Conant of Bafriuer, alias Beuerly, who haue bin a planter in new England, fortie eight yeers and vp- ward, being one of the firft if not the very firft that refolued and made good my settelment vnder god, in matter of plantation wth my family in this colony of the maffachufet bay, and haue bin inftrumentall, both for the founding and carrying on of the fame, and when in the infancy thereof, it was in great haffard of being deferted, I was a means, through grace affifting me, to ftop the flight of thofe few that then were heere wth me, and that by my vtter deniall, to goe away wth them, who would haue gon either for England or moftly for Vir- ginia, but thereupon ftayed to the haffard of our lives. Now my vmble fute and request is vnto this honorable Court, onlie that the name of our towne or plantation may be altred and changed from Beuerly, and be called Budleigh. I haue two reafons that haue moued me vnto this requeft the firft is the great diflike and difcontent of many of our people for this name of Beuerly, becaufe (wee being but a male place) it hath caufed on vs, a conftant nickname of beggarly being in the mouths of many; and no order was giuen or confent by the people heere to their agent for any name vntill they were fhure of being a town granted in the first place.
Secondly, I being the firft that had houfe in Salem, (and neuer had any hand in naming either that or any other towne, ) and myselfe wth thofe that were there wth me, being all from the weitern part of England, defire this weftern name of Budleigh, a market town in Deuonfheer, and neere vnto the fea as we ar heer in this place, and where myself was borne. now in regard of our firftneffe and antiquity in this foe famous a colony, we fhould requeft this littell priuelidg wth your fauors and confent, to giue this name abouefaid vnto our town. I neuer yet made fute or requeft unto the Jenerall Court, for the leaft matter, tho I thinke I might as well haue done, as many others haue, who haue obtained much without haffard of life, or p'ferring the publick good before theire own intereft, weh I praife god, I haue done. Ife this my fute may find acceptation wth your worfhips, I fhall reft vmbly thankfull, and my prairs fhal not ceafe, vnto the throne of grace for gods guidance and his bleffing to be on all your waightie pceedings, and that iuftice and righteoufnes may be euerie where adminiftered, and found doctrine truth and holiness euery where taught and practifed throughout this wildernes to all pofterity, weh god grant. Amen.
your worfhips vmble peticioner and feruant ROGER CONANT
The 28 of the third moneth 1671
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It is likewife the vmble defire and requeft of vs whofe names ar heervnder written. that the name of our town may be changed as abouefaid.
WILLIAM DODGE fen" CURNELIES BAKER
HENRY HERRICK
WILLIAM DODG iun'
EXERCISE CONANT
JOHN BLACK
PETER WOODBERY EDMOND GROUER
IfACK HULL
JOHN DODG JOHN HILL
RICHARD HAYNS
EPHRAIM HERRICK
JOHN GROUER
JOHN LEECH iun'
EDWARD BISHOP
JOHN CHEEUER ( ?)
JOHN GALLY
LOT CONANT
ROBERT MORGAN
THO: WOODBERY
THOMAS BAYLY
OÍMOND TRAÍKE
ZACKARIE HERRICK
JOHN RAMONT
JOHN SAMPION
JOHN BENNET .
JOHN LOUET
WILLIAM RAYMONT
JOHN CONANT
WILLIAM DODG
ROBERT HIBBARD
JOHN LOUET iun"
BENIAMIN BALCH
Ist June 1671.
The magists hauing Pervied & Confidered this Request see no caufe to alter the name of the place as defired their brethren the EDW : RAWSON Secrets
deputjes Confenting
Confented to by the deputyes
WILLIAM TORREY Cleric1
The lots on the map of Beverly which are marked by num- bers were each owned by the persons given in the following list, those having houses upon them at the date of the incorporation of Beverly being so marked. This list is probably not entirely accurate as the records in several cases do not furnish sufficient information to identify every owner or lot at that early date. I. William Dixsy ; 2. Nicholas Patch (house) ; 3. Richard Dodge ; 4. Roger Conant; 5. Isaac Hull; 6. Henry Herrick; 7. John Rayment (house) ; 8. Benjamin Balch; 9. Exercise Conant (house) ; 10. Henry Herrick; II. Roger Conant (house) ; 12. One thousand acres (and some other lots) ; 13. Benjamin Balch (house) ; 14. William Dodge; 15. David Thomas; 16. David Thomas; 17. Robert Hibberd; 18. Nathaniel Wallis; 19. Wil- liam Dodge; 20. Richard Haynes; 21. Henry Herrick ; 22. John Dodge; 23. Mark Haskell; 24. Edmund Grover; 25. Andrew Elliot ; 26. Robert Hibbert; 27. John Lambert: 28. William Hoare 29. Richard Haynes; 30. Richard Stackhouse (house) ; 31. Ralph Ellenwood (house) ; 32. William Dixie: 33. Josiah Roots : 34. Hugh Woodbury (house) ; 35. Thomas Tuck; 36. John Porter: 37. William Woodbury (house) : 38. Christopher Croe : 39. Thomas Roots: 40. Josiah Roots; 41. John Lambert (house) ; 42. William Hoare (house) ; 43. Unknown owner ; 44. Thomas Pickton : 45. Parsonage of Rev. John Hale (house) ;
· 1Massachusetts State Archives, volume 112, leaf 217.
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46. Thomas Savage; 47. Henry Bayley (house) ; 48. Jeremiah Butman (house) ; 49. John Solas (house) ; 50. John Sollas; 51. Samuel Beadle : 52. Z. and J. Hill (house) ; 53. John Black (house) ; 54. Thomas Lathrop (house) ; 55. Z. and J. Hill; 56. Peter Wolfe; 57. Humphrey Woodbury; 58. Paul Woodbury (house) ; 59. John Thorndike; 60. Nicholas Patch (house) ; 61. Jeffry Thissell ; 62. William Woodbury (house) ; 63. William Dixie : 64. Nicholas Woodbury; 65. Jeffry Thissell (house) ; 66. Mary Lemon; 67. Nicholas Woodbury (house) ; 68. John West; 69. William Pitt and Moses Maverick; 70. John West (house).
WADSWORTH BURYING GROUND.
CHAPTER XXII. NEW MEETING HOUSE.
ANUARY 4, 1668-9, the selectmen allowed Joseph Houghton seven acres of land next his own, in con- sideration of a highway laid out through his planting ground.
Jan. 28, 1668-9, the Salem court licensed John Horne, sr., to sell strong water at retail for the ensuing year ; and the same court renewed his license the following November.
The incorporation of Wenham, Manchester, Marblehead and Beverly reduced the population as well as the area of Salem greatly ; and now, immediately after the loss of a large part of the town by the establishment of Beverly, the attention of the people of Salem was turned to the institution of burial places in what is now Danvers and in what is now Peabody. March 9, 1668-9, the town considered the "Conveniency for a burying place about the glass house and what charge is needful to be allowed the town to pay for it, and also for the farmers about Ipswich River." The first burial place intended, near the glass house, is the old Trask burial ground on Boston Street, in Salem, though the cemetery is in Peabody, the bounds of the two cities running along the inner side of the sidewall the whole length of the burial place. This was then common land. The other ceme- tery, for a burial place for the Farmers, is the old Wadsworth burying ground, on Summer Street, in Danvers. The northerly portion of the latter was practically the old Salem Village parish burial place; and at the time of this town meeting the land be- longed to Serg. John Porter, with whom there was at least a tacit agreement with the neighbors for its use as a cemetery. It may be that it was first used by the Porters as a private burial place before that time. The title to the cemetery remained in the Porter family and their successors until it was purchased with the adjoining land on its south and west sides by Rev. Benjamin Wadsworth April 8, 1825, and the same day he conveyed the
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present area, which contains in the whole one acre and nine square rods, to the inhabitants of the North Parish of Danvers. In his deed he provided that it should be called "the Wadsworth burying ground."1
The Trask burial ground was so called because it was next the Trask homestead, and Capt. William Trask was prob- ably buried in it. Reverends Nathan Holt, Samuel Walker and Jones Very are also buried there. This cemetery is most famous for its being the resting place of Elizabeth Whitman, who, under the name of Eliza Wharton, came to the old Bell Tavern, on Main Street, now in Peabody, a stranger, and kept her identity a secret, finally fading away in 1788, at the age of thirty-six. Friends erected a gravestone at the head of the mound under which her remains were placed, but little is left of the stone, as visitors have broken off pieces of it as souvenirs, and a worn path to her grave indicates how many feet must have trod it in the old days. Her story is told in the famous novel of the olden time, entitled, "Eliza Wharton, or the Coquette," of which she is the heroine. The mystery of her life, which was then wholly unknown, but which has since been partially revealed, wrought a veil of romance about her history.
In the old burial place on Summer Street, lie the remains of Reverends Joseph Green, Peter Clark and Benjamin Wads- worth. The oldest stones. whose inscriptions are intelligible, are those of Mrs. Elizabeth Putnam, who died in childbirth, Aug. 24, 1682, at the age of twenty-two, and her son Samuel who survived her, and died in the latter part of November following, aged fifteen weeks.
James Brown,2 a glazier, born about 1604. came from New- bury to Salem about 1668, having bought a house and lot of Christopher Jawor Browns Waller, at 28 St. Peter Street, in 1664, and lived there until his death in 1676.
1Essex Registry of Deeds, book 238, leaf 27.
2JAMES BROWN1 married Sarah Cutting of Newbury ; died Nov. 3, 1676; she married, secondly, William Healy of Cambridge; children : I. James ; 2. Abraham;2 living in 1682; 3. Anna;2 under eighteen in 1674; 4. Sarah;2 married - Beazely; 5. John ;2 died Dec. S, 1690; 6. Samuel ;2 died at sea Nov. 15, 1690; 7. Mary," born May 25. 1663; living in 1674; S. Abigail." born Oct. 24, 1665; living in 1674; 9. Martha,2 born Dec. 22, 1667; mar- ried John Tappan Sept. 3, 1688, in Andover.
JAMES BROWN ;2 glazier ; lived in Charlestown in 1672 and 1673, in Salem 1677-1679, in Newbury 1680-1707; married Hannah -; died in Newbury Feb. 26, 1707; she died there Nov. 18, 1713; children : I. James ;3 glazier ; lived in Newbury ; married, first, Mary Edwards April 28, 1695; she died in Newbury May 5. 1700; married, secondly. Rebecca Kelly Jan. 1. 1701-2; he died in Newbury May 17. 1745: 2. Sarah,3 born Aug. 10, 1678. in Salem ;
TRASK BURYING GROUND.
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March 19, 1668-9, the selectmen granted to John Burton a small plot of land near Colonel Read's meadow, to improve in his trade of tanning, as long as the town should please.
On the same day, the selectmen granted to Jonathan Pick- ering liberty to build shipping next beyond the causeway at the end of the town, provided that he does not hinder the highway nor cattle from coming to the salt water. This land was a piece of marsh, lying on the easterly side of Grove Street, between the railroad crossing and Boston Street.
July 21, 1669, the selectmen appointed John Pickering, Josiah Southwick and William Traske to repair the bridge at Strong- water brook, to make a foot bridge at the brook near Thomas Gouldthwait's and about Mr. Gardner's. The latter is the brook which runs around the South Church meeting house. Strong- water brook bridge was repaired by John Smith, the tailor, in 1673.
Aug. 27, 1669, at the town meeting, "The Town house and ground next to Edward Wharton's is left to the select men to dispose of to Capt. Corwine or else to buy Capt. Corwine's"; and, October 7th, the selectmen sold it to Mr. Wharton.
Aaron Reade was accidentally shot by Joseph Small, two young men of the Farms (Danvers Highlands), while they were gunning, each being about twenty years of age. While fitting his gun to shoot at fowl, Small's gun went off suddenly before he was aware of it, and shot Reade in the back. This was the verdict of the jury of inquest, before whom several witnesses appeared. Just before he died, Reade was questioned by Samuel Eborn as to whether they went forth as two brothers, and he replied, "Yea, yea" : and also whether there was at any time any private grudge between Small and himself, and whether or not Small did not shoot him wilfully, and Reade answered with a voice indicating great affection, "Oh, no, no, no!" These were some of the last words he spoke. The verdict was returned Oct. 5, 1669. The jury consisted of Edmond Batter, John Browne, Joseph Grafton, William Flint, Richard Prince, Samuel Gardner. Eleazer Ha- thorne, Joseph Hardy, Hilliard Veren, sr .. Edward Mowle, Sam- uel Pickman and John Pickering.1
Oct. 7, 1669, the selectmen appointed John Corwine, Bar- tholmew Gidney, Serg. John Pickering and Edmond Batter "to settle and bound out the highway at the head of the River and what ground either of upland or salt marsh that lyeth at the Cow house River of the town Comons."
married Richard Lowle April 8, 1695; 3. Benjamin,3 born March 21, 1680-I, in Newbury; 4. Abraham,3 born March 17, 1682-3; died Jan. 13, 1683-4; 5. Joseph,3 born May 19, 1685; 6. Hannah,3 born Nov. 16, 1687.
1See Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, volume IV, page 211; and Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 99.
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Salem was summoned into court Nov. 2, 1669, for not having a convenient watchhouse.
Nov. 17, 1669, was appointed by the general court as a thanksgiving day, "The Lord having been very gracious unto us, hearing our prayers when we cried unto him this last summer, for his sparing and pardoning mercy and compassions to be to- wards us in stopping the bottles of heaven, that by excessive rains that seemed to threaten a grievious famine among us, and to- gether therewith hath mercifully lengthened out the harvest season."
Nov. 19, 1669, the town appointed Lieutenant Gardner and John Corwine to lay out "the small spot of land that doth belong to the widow Reade lying without the North Neck fence near to Samuel Ebourne sen house."
The Salem court granted, Nov. 30, 1669, licenses to William Hollingworth and Samuel Gardner to retail strong waters out of doors to their customers for the year ensuing ; and John Gidney, sr., had his license for retailing strong waters renewed.
Dec. 20, 1669, the town granted to Eleazer Hauthorne. two acres of swamp land, lying near John Keyney's, in consideration "of the land which now maketh the highway from the said Hau- thorne's house to the burying place" (now Liberty Street) ; and also to Samuel Ebourne, jr., about ten rods of ground lying near his house.
Jan. 7, 1669-70, the selectmen allowed John Best to be in the town to make use of his trade of burring so long as he lives busily.
The general court appointed June 16, 1670, as a fast on ac- count of "a selfish spirit, minding more our own things than the things of Christ, and of private before public good : too much slighting and negligence in prizing and improving the govern- ment and order, both civil and sacred, in church and common- wealth ; a great and general neglect of instructing and governing the rising generation, both in families and churches : a cooling of former life and heat in spiritual comunion ; too great neglect in some places, of a comfortable upholding and providing for the outward subsistance of sundry faithful ministers ; too much decay of love to God and one to another, and harboring ground- less jealousies."
At the Salem court, June 28, 1670, Theodore Price was licensed to still and retail strong waters out of doors; Thomas Gardner, sr., had his license for retailing strong waters out of doors renewed : John Gedney, sr .. John Ruck. Eleazer Hathorne,
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