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NOTE. On page 109, a line was inadvertantly omitted between lines twelve and thirteen from the bottom of the Putnam footnote, namely : "March 26, 1657; 4. Joseph,3 born Oct. 29, 1659; 5. Elizabeth.3 born"
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William Browne, jr., John Corwin and Stephen Haskett had their licenses renewed for the year ensuing; and Henry Skerry was licensed to draw wine and liquors and retail it out of doors for the ensuing year.
John Keyney died in the autumn of 1670, leaving a wife Sarah. Peter Harvey1 came to Salem in 1670.
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GEORGE GARDNER HOUSE
The ancient Gardner house on Bow Street, in West Peabody, was probably built by George Gardner about 1670. Originally, the house was a plain two-story building, and the leanto was probably added about seventy-five years later. Mr. Gardner died Aug. 20, 1679, having devised the estate to his son Samuel. The farm was leased to Thomas Gould by George Gardner, and Mr. Gould continued to occupy it until after 1685. The house re- mained in the possession of the Gardner family until Oct. 18, 1871, when Mary A. Gardner, widow of Asa Gardner conveyed
1Peter Harvey was a shipbuilder, according to Savage; married Hannah, daughter of Humphrey Gilbert Jan. - , 1670; children: I. Peter, born Feb. 10, 1670; 2. David, born Sept. 20, 1672; 3. Hannah, born July I, 1674; 4. John, born April 14, 1676; 5. Mary, born March 25, 167 -; 6. Sarah, born April 15, 1680; married John Burton of Topsfield Feb. 7, I704-5.
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MANSFIELD HOUSE
it to Bowman Viles, in whose family the title and possession remain.
The old Narbonne house, as it is popu- larly called, at 71 Essex Street, was probably 0 BRO: gres. built by Paul Mansfield who conveyed the house and lot to Thomas Ives about 1670. He died in 1695, and the administratrix of his estate conveyed it to Capt. Simon Willard March 27. 1699. Captain Willard conveyed it to his son Josiah Willard of Salem, innholder, Jan. 6, 1728-9. Soon afterward the house became divided, and its POST title was united in Capt. Joseph Hodges in 1757. He conveyed it to Jonathan Andrew March 6, 1780. Mr. Andrew died April 18,
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1844, having, in his will, devised the house and land to his niece Mrs. Sarah Narbonne, in whose family the title has since re- mained. Mr. Ives1 lived here until his decease. The picture of
1THOMAS IVES1 first appeared in Salem in 1668; slaughterer; married, first, Martha Withe April I, 1672; second, Elizabeth Metcalf of Ipswich about 1679; died in 1695; she married, secondly, John White Jan. 16, 1695-6; children: I. Elizabeth,2 born Feb. 12, 1672-3; died July 21, 1673; 2. Thomas,2 born March 31, 1674; settled in Marblehead; had children; 3. Deborah,2 born Dec. 8, 1675; living in 1683; 4. Joseph,2 baptized March -, 1683; 5. John," baptized March -. 1683; 6. Elizabeth,2 baptized Dec. 4, 1687; married John Philpot Dec. II, 1718; 7. Benjamin,2 born about 1692. CAPT. BENJAMIN IVES;" tanner and master mariner; married Anne Derby Jan. 2, 1717-8; died in 1752; children: 1. Anne,3 born March 20, 1719; living in 1752; 2. Benjamin, born Nov. 2, 1720; 3. Samuel," born Dec. 22, 1722; 4. Elizabeth,3 born July 5, 172 -; married, first, Richard Lee May 31, 1761; second, Josiah Gilman of Exeter, N. H .; 5. Mary,3 born about 1728; married John Crowninshield; 6. Abigail ;3 living in 1752; 7. John,3 born about 1732; 8. Martha ;3 married Daniel Cheever Nov. 23, 1760; 9. Margaret;3 married Peter Cheever.
CAPT. BENJAMIN IVES;3 master mariner ; lived in Beverly and Salem; married Elizabeth Hale of Beverly Oct. 12, 1743; died Dec. 26, 1757; chil- dren: I. Robert Hale,4 born in Beverly July 18, 1744; master mariner ; lived in Beverly; married Sarah Bray March 20, 1766; died at sea on a passage from the West Indies Oct. 19, 1773; she died in Beverly Sept. 27, 1782; had children; 2. Rebecca,4 born in Beverly June 23, 1745; married Joseph Gilman of Exeter, N. H., Sept. 22, 1763; 3. Benjamin,4 born in Salem in 1749; died Feb. 27. 1762. SAMUEL IVES;3 shoreman and mariner ; married Mary Berry July 4, 1745; died Oct. 15, 1750; she survived him; children : I. Benjamin;4 2. Anna;4 living in 1752. JOHN IVES;3 married Sarah Ward March 13, 1755; both died Oct. 18, 1801; children: I. Wil- liam,4 born Nov. 25, 1755; 2. Sarah,4 baptized Oct. 2, 1757; married William Brewer Sept. 30, 1777; 3. John.4 baptized July 22, 1759; married Elizabeth Newhall May 19, 1781; she married, secondly, Jeremiah Emmerton Aug. II, 1785.
CAPT. BENJAMIN IVES;4 master mariner; married Elizabeth Giles March 17, 1768; died in 1801 ; she moved to Beverly ; children: I. Hannah,5 baptized April 2,9 1770; married Thomas Woodbury Ober Jan. 20, 1793; 2. Elizabeth," baptized Nov. 15, 1772; married Hezekiah Lovett (published Dec. 9, 1792) ; 3. Mary;5 married John Adams of Beverly Feb. II, 1798; 4. Charlotte," born Feb. 17, 1784; married Benjamin Larcom of Beverly Jan. 10, 1804; 5. Samuel," born Aug. - , 1786; shipmaster ; lived in Pep- perell, Mass., and Mobile, Ala; married Mary Dyson of Beverly April 20, 1817; 6. Sarah ;5 died, unmarried, in Pepperell April -, 1852; 7. Ben- jamin ;5 died young; 8. Benjamin ;5 died young; 9. Benjamin ;5 died young. CAPT. WILLIAM IVES;4 sea captain; married Mary Bradshaw Sept. 12, 1790; died at Savannah, Ga., April -, 1814; she died Dec. 3, 1820; chil- dren : I. William, born Feb. 15, 1794; 2. John Mansfield," born July 8, 1799; 3. Stephen Bradshaw, born April 12, 1801; 4. Mary,5 born May 14, 1803: died Jan. 31, 1887; 5. Benjamin Hale, born Nov. 7, 1806.
WILLIAM IVES;5 with his brother Stephen he established the Salem Observer in 1823; married Lucy Gardner May 12, 1824; died Dec. 12, 1874; she died at Riverside, Ill .. Oct. 19, 1882; children: I. Mary Bradshaw,6 born Feb. 4, 1825; married Jesse Mayne Richards Dec. -. 1854; 2. Lucy Gardner, born Oct. 15, 1826; married William Porter March 7. 1849; 3. William Hale,6 born Jan. 17, 1829; married Mary Walker of Chicago,
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the house presented herewith was photographed in 1925. The in-
Ill., Jan. 17, 1854; lived in Taylorville, Ill .; had children; 4. Susan Shilla- ber,6 born Feb. 3, 1831; married Emmons Raymond Spear March 17, 1854; 5. Franklin Gardner," born Jan. 26, 1834; died at the age of nine months ; 6. Anne Warren Brazer,6 born April 27, 1836; married, first, Thomas Palfray Cole; second, Samuel Pierpont Richardson of Assumption, Can .; 7. Benjamin Franklin,6 born Dec. 3, 1837; married, first, Sarah L. Boer- stler; second, Emma J. Boerstler ; lived in Riverside, Ill., in 1886; had children; 8. Helen May," born July 26, 1843; married Edward Augustus Saunders June 2, 1866. JOHN MANSFIELD IVES; horticulturist; married Lois Alley Southwick Sept. 23, 1827; she died March 24, 1873; he died Aug. 29, 1883; children: I. Rebecca Southwick,6 born Oct. 14, 1828; mar- ried Gilbert Lewis Streeter; 2. Mary Louisa," born May 7, 1830; died June 20, 1830; 3. Mary. Ellen, born Jan. 23, 1832; married George Lathrop Hawkes of Wakefield Jan. 19, 1858; 4. John Southwick,6 born Dec. 25, 1833; 5. Harriet Vaughn,6 born Oct. 17, 1835; died Nov. 14, 1839; 6. Louisa Mansfield,6 born Feb. 26, 1838; married Lewis Pierce Sept. 19, 1872; 7. Charles Frederic,6 born Sept. 4, 1848. STEPHEN BRADSHAW IVES ; printer and bookseller; with his brother William he established "The Old Corner Bookstore;" married, first, Mary Perkins May 16, 1826; she died July 4, 1873; married, second, Harriet Perkins March 31, 1876; he died July 31, 1883; she died in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 23, 1886; children : I. Stephen Bradshaw," born March 9, 1827; 2. David Perkins,6 born July 13, 1828; married Sarah Shreve Calef Dec. 21, 1854; living in 1887; no issue; 3. Henry Perkins,6 born April 15, 1830; 4. Edward Perkins,6 born Oct. 13, 1832; died Sept. 8, 1834; 5. Mary Elizabeth,6 born April 7, 1835; unmar- ried in 1887; 6. Margaret Perkins,6 born Aug. 26, 1836; married Charles Sewall; 7. George Augustus,6 born Sept. 13, 1839; lived in Boston in 1886; married Clara Thorndike Rand Oct. 10, 1866; had children: 8. Cornelia Allen," born July 27, 1844; married Frederick Manton Osborne ; 9. Caroline Louisa, born Oct. 27, 1847; married Frank Augustus Langmaid; 10. Ed- ward Lang, born April 19, 1849. BENJAMIN HALE IVES ;5 bookseller and stationer ; married Lydia Ann Harraden Oct. 29, 1833; died Oct. 27, 1837; she died Feb. 23, 1881 ; children: 1. Sarah Ellen, born Nov. 17, 1834; mar- ried William Cleveland Henderson; 2. Benjamin Hale,6 born Sept. 18, 1837. JOHN SOUTHWICK IVES ;6 married Mary Buttrick Jan. 24, 1855; died June --- , 1915; children : 1. Charles Edwin, born Oct. 6, 1855; 2. Alfred South- wick," born Nov. 7. 1857; 3. John Southwick," born June 22, 1860; 4. Sam- uel Buttrick," born May 25, 1862; 5. Henry Merritt,7 born March 29, 1865; 6. Mary Ellen," born April 16, 1867; living in 1888; 2. William Lincoln, born Jan. 29, 1871; 3. Emily Ashby.7 born Jan. 1, 1873; living in 1895. CHARLES FREDERICK IVES ;6 lived in Malden in 1887; married Ida Marion Washburn Aug. 24, 1876; children: 1. Frederick Washburn," born July 26,. 1877; 2. Lois Southwick," born Aug. 1, 1880. STEPHEN BRADSHAW IVES. EsQ. ; " H. C., 1848; lawyer; married, first, Mary Elizabeth Burnham Jan. - , 1848; she died Jan. 4, 1870; married, second, Mrs. Constance (Telford) Farmdale, in England; he died Feb. 8, 1884; children : Edward Lang, born April 19, 1849; lived in Calcutta, India, in 1886; married Sophie De Terreno Feb. - , 1879; had a child; 2. Mary Perkins,7 born Oct. 17, 1850; married Charles Patterson Abbot April 12, 1874; 3. Arthur Burnham, born in 1854; died in 1855; 4. George Burnham,7 born Oct. 18, 1856; 5. David Otis,7 born Nov. 28, 1858; unmarried in 1886; 6. Alice Peirce,7 born Dec. - , 1862; died July -, 1863. HENRY PERKINS IVES; bookseller ; married Ada Simes Jones Oct. 2, 1856; living in 1887; children: I. Etta Molineux," born Dec. 24, 1857; married Charles Francis Quincy Oct. 20, 1878; 2. Augustine Perkins,7 born April 17, 1859; died Sept. 12, 1859; 3.
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JOSEPH HOULTON HOUSE
set cut shows the ornamentation of the shoulder of the posts which support the summer beams.
The house built by Joseph Houlton upon land of his wife, on Center Street, in Danvers, nearly opposite Walnut Street, about
Augustine Perkins, born May 31, 1861; married Katherine Cowan Browne Jan. 27, 1886; 4. Nathan Frye," born Aug. 5. 1863; 5. Richard,7 born Sept. 30, 1867; 6. Lucy Perkins, born Dec. 7, 1872. BENJAMIN HALE IVES ;6 married Sarah Elizabeth Safford Kimball June 6, 1865; children : I. (son), stillborn June 6, 1867; 2. Francis Safford," born Dec. 12, 1869; died Sept. 18, 1870; 3. Benjamin Hale,? born June 20, 1874; died April 13, 1877; 4. Mabel,7 born May 17, 1878.
CHARLES EDWIN IVES; moved to Malden in 1887; married Catherine Augusta Allen May 13. 1880; children: 1. Charles Allen® (twin), born April 17, 1882; 2. Mary Ashby8 (twin), born April 17, 1882; 3. George Wilkins,8 born July 26, 1883; 4. Edith Lynwood,8 born July 13, 1887. ALFRED SOUTHWICK IVES;7 married Anna Maria Connacher Nov. 25, 1880; died May 6, 1916; she died May II. 1921; child: 1. Samuel Southwick,8 born Aug. 17, 1884; married Martha D. -; living in 19II. JOHN SOUTHWICK IVES .7 married Anna Gardner Symonds Dec. 16, 1884; child: I. Chester Symonds,8 born April 4, 1887. SAMUEL BUTTRICK IVES ;7 cabinet maker ; married Lillian Morse Feb. 11, 1885; moved to Lynn in 1888, and to Revere in 1908; child: 1. Lillian Gower.8 born Nov. 13. 1885. HENRY MERRITT IVES ;7 married Florence Alice Rogers Oct. 13. 1884; child: 1. Jessie St. Clair,8 born Dec. 20, 1881. WILLIAM LINCOLN IVES ;" married Laura Brown; died May 20, 1922; children : I. Leonard B.,8 born Sept. 26, 1898; gardener ; living in 1922; 2. Esther M .. 8 born June 9, 1902; unmarried in 1922; 3. Richard M .; 8 4. Emily Bertha.8 born March 8, 1907. GEORGE BURNHAM IVES ;7 lawyer ; married Mary Manley Creamer April 10, 1879; children : I. Frederick Manley,8 born Jan. 10, 1880; lawyer; lives in Winchester ; 2. Oscar Jackson,8 born May 28, 1881.
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1671. remained in the possession of the family until April 4, 1732, when Joseph Houlton conveyed the estate to Bartholomew Rea. It was in the possession of the Rea family until 1805, when Daniel Rea sold it. Since then it has been owned and occupied by Sam- uel Small, 1805 to 1826, and Moses Gould, 1826-1828. It was bought by Isaac Dempsey in 1832, and remained in the family until 1911. Edwin Dutcher now owns and occupies the house.
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JOHN DAY HOUSE
John Day1 built the ancient house, which was lately the grocery store of Francis T. Berry, 43 Essex Street, about 1671; and conveyed it to Joseph Grafton before April 2. 1679, when the latter sold it to Pasco Foot. On the next day. Mr. Foot con- veyed it to Zachariah White, who lived here a while, and the house was occupied by Capt. Zachariah Fowles and his family. He prob- ably conducted an inn in the house. He conveyed the title to the es- tate to Josiah Willard March 3, 1710-I, but continued the inn in the house until his death. July 10, 1718. Captain Willard then con-
1John Day, son of Thomas Day, married Ann Colman July 16, 1668; died in the spring of 1680; children: 1. Ann, born Oct. 18, 1669; 2. John, born Jan. 24, 1670-1; 3. Stephen, born Oct. 16, 1672.
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tinued the business, the house being called "The Crown Tavern." He died in 1731, when the upper rooms of the house were called the best chamber, east chamber, west chamber and south old cham- ber. His widow removed to Boston, and sold the estate to Rich- ard Bethel of Salem in 1735. Mr. Bethel conveyed the house to Osman Trask of Beverly in 1747. The next owner was Sarah, wife of Edmund Whittemore. She died before July 2, 1788, when her heirs began to dispose of the estate; and the title had become fully possessed by George E. Berry in 1853. It has been in the Berry family ever since. Doctor Bentley, in his Journal, July 9, 1790, called it "The Old Tavern, alias College, alias Becket's House." The house is now greatly changed, the great chimney and partitions of the body of the first story of the house having been removed.
THE SAWMILL AT BEAVER DAM, IN DANVERS.
This mill was on Beaver brook on the easterly side of Nichols Street, on land of John Porter, who agreed with John Hutchinson and Joseph Hutchinson that they might construct a sawmill there, provided that the meadow should not be injured by flowing and the dam should not be allowed to flow back the water ex- cept from the first of November to the tenth of April; and the mill men agreed that as long as they continued a mill there, they would maintain and preserve the dam and sluice at their own charge, etc. This agreement was dated Dec. I, 1670.
The mill was built immediately, and the water was raised so much by the dam that the highway became submerged and unsafe and impassable for travelers. The gravel on the causeway on either side of the bridge was so washed away that Lieutenant Putnam's horse fell in with his hind legs, and he could not pass over it with a cart as a part of the bridge had been carried out of place. There was no foot path over it, except by wading, as the water was nearly a foot above the timber of the bridge. Those persons living above the mill had to go to Salem to have their grists ground past John Putnam's (through .Putnamville) as there was no other way to go. Complaint was made at the Ip- swich quarterly court, and, after a hearing, March 26, 1672, the court ordered that the dam be pulled down, so as to make the way passable, or else sufficiently repair it.1 The mill was probably removed down stream about thirty rods at this time or soon after.
March 27, 1674, the selectmen engaged Henry Kenny to make a sufficient cartway over the bridge at Beaver dam, and to make the way sufficient at both ends of the bridge.
1Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, volume V, pages 25-29.
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NEW MEETING HOUSE
After the addition was made to the first meeting house, in 1638, it had received numerous repairs, the largest sum expended at one time being in 1657, when, under the dirction of the town, William Browne spent fifty pounds for that purpose. A new bell was also added that year, at an expense of eighteen pounds, and for the raising of it five pounds. March 2, 1666-7, the selectmen voted that Edmond Batter "order who shall sit in the seats at the south end : both above and below the gallery, where the chim- ney was formerly." So, the chimney had been removed.
In the call of the annual meeting held March 7, 1669-70, the selectmen inserted a clause to consider the building of a new meeting house; and at that meeting the town voted that it is left to the selectmen to "consider and prepare their thoughts in order to the building of a new meeting house or to fit up the old," and to at once make necessary repairs upon the present building. At an adjourned meeting of the town, April fifth, it was ordered "that there shall be a new meeting house built for the worship and holy service of God in public, and that it be about sixty feet long, fifty feet wide and about twenty feet high in the stud and to be set up at the west end of the old meeting house towards the prison"; and William Browne, sr., Capt. George Corwine, Edmond Batter and Mr. Bartholmew were impowered to agree with carpenters and other workmen to build the house and finish it, but not to exceed in expense one thousand pounds. Two week , later, the town voted that the cost of the meeting house should be raised by taxation. John Fiske of Wenham, a car- penter, contracted to build the meeting house. Nothing was done the next year toward taking the old house down or building a new one ; and, Nov. 20, 1671, the town ordered the selectmen to repair the old building.
The call of a special meeting of the town, held Aug. 17, 1672, gave notice that the meeting was called to consider whether the old meeting house should be taken down or sold as it stood ; and at the meeting the town voted that it should be taken down, and the lumber saved for the town's use, to build a schoolhouse and watchhouse; and that every family in town, and which be- long to the town, should send one man of each family to help take it down, and to carry the materials into some convenient place. When to begin to do it and the number of men to work each day was left to the selectmen to appoint. The old pulpit and the deacons' seat were given to the Farmers,1 and the stones of the underpinning and the clay of the old building were given to John Fiske, the contractor.
1Residents of Salem Village.
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On the same day, the selectmen ordered that the work of demolition of the old meeting house should commence two days later (nineteenth) ; and they ordered the constables to warn thirty men a day, to appear to help take it down, beginning to warn them at Strongwater brook, and so downward to the lower end of the town. The liquor bill was quite large in the case of this razing of the meeting house as well as in the raising of the new one. John Gedney, who kept the tavern a little way down Essex Street, was paid five pounds and three shillings for "ex- penses" in taking down the old meeting house, and in this was included the selectmen's "expenses"; and his bill for "provisions" in raising the new meeting house was seventeen pounds.
The rate for the payment of the new meeting house amount- ed to four hundred and sixty-nine pounds and twelve shillings.
The new meeting house stood north and south, the eastern side being on the old site and the western side extended into Washington Street. It faced on Essex Street.1 The bell was put into the new meeting house.2 The contractor also agreed to make a flight of stairs up to the scuttle in the roof of the meeting house, finish the plastering and point the underpinning with white lime. This matter of finish was agreed to be done, in a subse- quent agreement dated Jan. 22, 1673-4.
Now came the matter of pews and sittings in the new edifice. It was agreed by the selectmen and Rev. Mr. Higginson, the pastor, Jan. 13, 1672-3, that William Browne, sr., Capt. George Corwin, William Browne, jr., and Dr. Daniel Weld should, each of them, have liberty to build a pew for each of their families be- tween the east door and the south corner of the meeting house ; that Major Hathorne, Edmond Batter, Capt. Walter Price and John Corwine might build, each of them, a pew for their fam- ilies on the south side of the west door; that Mr. Vearen, sr.,
1March 28, 1676, the town voted "that there is as much land granted upon ye common or pen at ye upper end of W. Bartholmew's or Thomas Root's land for to build a new meeting house for ye worship of God-And it is left to ye selectmen to lay out ye said land."
March 7, 1674-5, the selectmen "Laid out in ye pen or common at ye upper end of Thomas Roots his fence for ye setting of a new meeting house about one hundred feet each way leauing a way of one pole wid be- tween ye meeting house and Thomas Roots his ditch." This lot was in the common, opposite nearly midway between Briggs and Boardman streets. At the time these votes were passed the new meeting house was already erected. Why it was thus voted is unknown.
2The contractor, John Fiske, engaged James Brown, the glazier, to fur- nish and set the glass in the new edifice, at eleven and one-half pence per square foot, it measuring in all four hundred and twenty-four square feet, and amounted to twenty pounds, six shillings and four pence. Nov. 18, 1672, Mr. Browne sued Mr. Fiske for the unpaid balance of eight pounds, and recovered judgment. His son Samuel Browne, aged seventeen, did the glazing.
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a pew for his wife to sit in at the southwest corner of the meet- ing house, and Mrs. Emery and Mrs. Norrice to sit in the said pew if they were willing. Two weeks later, they agreed that Mr. Endecott should have liberty to build a pew in the first place on the north side of the east door for himself and his family ; James Browne a pew for himself and his family next to Mr. Endecott's on the north side ; John Turner a pew for himself and family next to James Browne's on the north side of the east window; the widow of Joseph Grafton, John Grafton's wife and the widow of Nathaniel Grafton a pew from the northeast corner to the middle of the next window on the north side of the meeting house ; Sam- uel Gardner a pew from the middle of the north window to the stairs on the east side of the north door; Mr. Higginson a pew for his family and relations the first place on the west side of the north door next to the stairs ; Farmer Porter a pew the first place on the north side of the west door; John Ruck a pew to the north side of Farmer Porter's; Mr. Gedney, sr., a pew for himself and wife and John Gedney's wife and his son Barthol- mew Gedney and wife next to Mr. Ruck's pew. April 15th, it was agreed by the selectmen that Joseph Gardner hath allowed him room for a pew next to Mr. John Higginson. Capt. George Corwin was given liberty to take in the pew in the corner next to him, and Eleazer Hawthorne and his wife were given liberty to sit there and Doctor Weld was given liberty to build a pew between that and the pulpit stairs. April 21st, the town voted that the selectmen and the undertakers for the meeting house, with Mr. Higginson, be empowered to seat the people in the meeting house. June 3d, the selectmen gave permission to Benjamin Garish and company to build a seat over the stairs in the meet- ing house. Sept. 8. 1673, as Mr. Gedney, sr., and his wife' were placed otherwise, the seat is granted to Mr. Bartholmew Gedney for his family and his sister Susanna. Eleazer Gedney's wife was given liberty to sit in one of the pews in the west gallery. Serg. John Pickering's wife and Richard Hollingworth's wife were al- lowed to sit in one of the pews in the west gallery. September 24th, the selectmen ordered William Dounton to build up the west end of the two foremost women's seats, as he had begun the east end of those seats. May 18, 1674, Edmund Feberary's wife. John Sanders' wife, John Norman's wife, Robert Hodges' wife and John Sibley's wife were given liberty to build a small pew in one half of the hindermost seats of the women's seats be- low, provided the pew should be set at one end of that seat and for the breadth not to exceed the former seat : and Captain Cur- win was ordered to widen the first of the men's seats below about one foot and finish it up well. Feb. 14. 1675-6, Mary English was given liberty by the selectmen to sit in the seat in the gallery where Jos Ward's wife then sat. April 28, 1676, the selectmen
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ordered that Mrs. Bridge should sit in the next seat behind the women's pews, and the wife of Henry Scerry, jr., to sit with Goodwife Roots. Dec. 25, 1676, the selectmen gave liberty to Mr. Lindall to sit in the fore gallery, where he now usually sits, and his wife in the fore pew where her mother was formerly placed. The selectmen agreed to pay William Dounton nine pounds for building the women's two fore pews. March 25, 1676-7, the selectmen appointed John Proctor to sit in the fourth seat below in the meeting house, and his wife with the wife of Francis Nurse in the women's seats. March 9, 1676-7, the select- men ordered Goodwife Dounton to sit in the seat with Goodwife Gaskin. Sept. 8, 1677, the selectmen ordered that Samuel Phip- peny's wife should sit in the southermost of the women's pews in the west gallery; and, November 5th, that Daniel Eppes' wife should sit in the westermost fore pew. Jan. 7, 1677-8, the select- men ordered that Richard Rowland's wife should sit in the second seat behind the women's great seat. Oct. 17, 1678, the selectmen gave liberty to Capt. George Corwin to build a pew between the pulpit and Capt. John Corwin's pew he making a door out into the street (the pew to range with Capt. John Corwin's), pro- vided that Jonathan Corwine may have the pew which is now Capt. George Corwin's. November 6th, the selectmen gave lib- erty to Mr. Daniel Eps to build a seat for his wife between Capt. John Corwin's pew door and the next short seat, provided there was convenient room. May 13, 1679, the selectmen consented that Edmond Bridges should sit in that seat in the gallery where Sergeant Lake, lately deceased, used to sit; and, August 4th, Goodman Beachum was desired to sit behind the pulpit, and Thomas Flint, son of William Flint, deceased, in the seat where Goodman Beachum sat.
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