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From the time of King John, fairs had been held in England, as well as other European countries, usually semi-annually, at . which people procured their supplies for a half-year. These fairs " were markets infrequently held and purchases were on a much larger scale. Animals, supplies, goods and merchandise were - brought from distant places in great variety and quantity. A fair was the sole emporium of domestic commerce, and was on a scale proportionate to the number and needs of purchasers.
Not only were there pens for domestic animals, filled with . respective kinds, but booths and stands for the sale of articles of food, apparel, dress materials, wares and other merchandise.
There were many means of amusement, such as exhibitions . of trained animals, magicians, gamesters and acrobats to draw from the visitors what small coin they might have with them. There were also various shows, performers on tight ropes, lot- . teries, stage plays and dancing. Refreshments were beer and gingerbread. To the confusion and excitement were added strange sights and a medley of noises. Trumpets called attention to certain performers, fiddles marked the place of the dancing and hawkers cried their goods. Flying flags and banners with the bright clothing of the people made the occasion very attractive.2
1Page 278.
2In a tract published in 1641, is a description of a Bartholomew fair, and Brand's Popular Antiquities, page 556, quotes a portion of it.
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Not only were there sales of corporal things, but labor was offered for sale at these fairs. At the places set apart for this purpose stood the carter with his whip, the cowherd with a lock of cowhair in his hat, the shepherd with his crook, laborers and mechanics each with an implement of his labor. They stood there from an early hour in the morning.1
In England, at the time of the settlement of Salem, no fair could be held without a grant from the sovereign power ; and officers were appointed to cause peace to be maintained and to examine the quality of goods exposed for sale, with power to confiscate those that were unfit for use. Sales at fairs were free from taxes. This was the complete substitute for modern free trade.
The general court, Sept. 6, 1638, authorized fairs at Salem, Watertown and Dorchester. The fair at Salem was ordered to be held twice each year; on the last Wednesday in May and September. The spring fair was appointed on election day, which was almost a holiday. Those days were usually selected for fairs as the people were then freer to give it their time and attention. The fairs were similar to those of England, to which the people here had been accustomed when living in the homeland.
In England, as well as in New England, the attendance at fairs diminished as the towns increased in number, and the dis- tance between them lessened and better roads and other means of communication enabled goods to be brought in more freely and easily. Commerce by water also assisted in this. In Northumber- land, at least, fairs were the chief centers of country traffic as late as the sixteenth century. English fairs had greatly declined by the middle of the eighteenth century.
In Salem, the growth of commerce and local production by which most of the needs of the people were supplied, caused the change from fairs into more modern systems of markets and stores.
In New England, the word fair has completely lost its old- world meaning, and is now almost exclusively applied to in- dustrial and agricultural exhibitions, the latter being generally county fairs.
Election week continued to be observed as a holiday season, elections were held (until 1831), also, and generally trainings.
1Such a market as this is thus referred to in the New Testament: A
householder "went out early in the morning to hire laborers And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing in the market- place. . And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us."-Matt. 20 : 1-7.
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Places of amusement were at Fort Pickering, on Winter Island, or Juniper point, at Castle Hill, at Bell Tavern, in what is now Peabody, and at Danvers Square. At these centres refreshments were sold, coppers were pitched and props thrown, and jumping and wrestling entertained the crowd. There were also the negro fiddler and dancing.
Owners of slaves almost universally gave them the privileges of election week in Salem and its vicinity at least, and it, too, became their annual holiday season. Fun was rampant from Mon- day morning till Saturday night, being at its height on Wednesday, election day, when they, too, elected a governor to be the director of the holiday week the next year. Election cake is still made in some old-fashioned families, but the gingerbread of the ancient days has long ago disappeared from refreshment booths.
Sept. 6, 1638, the general court ordered "intimation to be given to the elders of each church of the desire of the Court to keep the last Thursday of the eighth month a day of thanksgiving for the safe coming of so many ships this year, and the seasonable weather in the spring, and now to ripen the harvest."
At the same time, the general court ordered that excom- municated persons, appearing in other assemblies and boldly speaking lightly of the ordinances and their censure, should be fined and imprisoned, and after six months probation, be banished, if they continued in so doing. This law remained in force only a year, however.
At the Salem court, Sept. 25, 1638, William Poole, a servant of Col. John Endecott, was sentenced for running away from his master to do twelve months further service for him. He was before the same court, March 30, 1641, for stealing stockings from Thomas Rood (Root?) and taking away a canoe belonging to Mr. Emery, and was ordered to return the stockings, and be whipped for lying. In the Salem town meeting, March I, 1655-6, his request to become an inhabitant was refused; and his name disappeared from the local records.
At a town meeting, Oct. 29, 1638, appeared George Curwyn,1 a young man of twenty-nine years, who had come to Salem with
1CAPT. GEORGE CORWIN1; merchant; married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of John Herbert and widow of John White, in 1636; she died Sept. 15, 1668; married, second, Elizabeth, daughter of Gov. Edward Winslow of Plymouth and widow of Robert Brooks, Sept. 22, 1669; he died Jan. 3, 1685; she was his widow in 1696; children: I. Abigail,2 born Aug. 1, 1637 ; died young ; 2. John,2 born July 25, 1638; 3. Jonathan,2 born Nov. 14, 1640; 4. Hannah,2 born in 1642; died young; 5. Abigail,2 baptized Nov. 30, 1643; married, first, Eleazer Hathorne; second, James Russell; 6. Hannah,2. baptized Jan. 4, 1645-6; married William Browne; 7. Elizabeth,2 baptized July 2, 1648; died before 1685; 8. Penelope,2 born Aug. 7, 1670; married
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his wife and two children. He was born in Workington, Cumber-
Josiah Wolcott Feb. 19, 1684-5; died Nov. 28, 1690; 9. Susanna,2 born Dec. 10, 1672; married Edward Lyde of Boston Nov. 29, 1694; died before 1701; IO. George,2 born in 1674; died before 1684.
CAPT. JOHN CORWIN2; merchant; married Margaret, daughter of John Winthrop, jr., May -, 1665; died July 12, 1683; she removed to Boston in 1693, and died Sept. 28, 1697; children : I. George,3 born Feb. 26, 1666-7; 2. Elizabeth,3 born April 28, 1668; of Boston, unmarried, in 1709; 3. Lucy, born May II, 1670; married, first. John Elliston Sept. 24, 1696; was his widow in 1709; married, second, Thomas Guinn March 20, 1710; and was his widow in 1733; 4. Hannah,3 born April 4, 1672; married Rev. Peter Thacher Oct. 14, 1708; 5. Samuel,3 born Oct. 12, 1674; 6. Mary,3 baptized Sept. - , 1676; married Thomas Smith of Boston May 9, 1701; 7. Mar- garet3; married Abiel Walley of Boston June 27, 1710. HON. JONATHAN , CORWIN2; merchant; one of the judges of the witchcraft court, court of common pleas, probate court and superior court; married Elizabeth (Sheafe), widow of Robert Gibbs of Boston March 20, 1675-6; died July 25, 1718; she died Aug. 29, 1718; children : I. Elizabeth,3 born May 5, 1678; married James Lindall; 2. Margaret,3 born April 15, 1679; died Nov. 5, 1679; 3. Sarah,3 born Aug. 12, 1680; died Dec. 19, 1689; 4. Jonathan,3 born Oct. 2, 1681 ; died Aug. 12, 1682; 5. George,3 born May 21, 1683; 6. John,3 born July 9, 1684; died Sept. 10, 1684; 7. Margaret,3 born Nov. 30, 1685; died Feb. 23, 1685-6; 8. Anna,3 born Aug. 1, 1687; 9. Jonathan,3 born Sept. 15, 1689; died Dec. 25, 1689; 10. Harbert,3 born Dec. 15, 1690; died Feb. IO, 1690-I.
CAPT. GEORGE CORWIN3; merchant; sheriff, who executed the witches; married, first, Susanna Gedney April 23, 1688; second, Lydia Gedney before · 1693; died in 1696; she died, his widow, Dec. 23, 1700; child: I. Bar- tholomew,4 born June 21, 1693; lived in Westerly, R. I .; married Esther Burt; died in 1747; had children. REV. GEORGE CORWIN; H. C., 1701; pastor of First Church; married Mehitabel Parkman July 27, 17II; died Nov. 23, 1717; she died Nov. 13, 1718; children : I. Jonathan,4 born May 26, 1713; died Nov. 6, 1718; 2. Samuel,4 born Dec. 17, 1715; H. C., 1735; · esquire; married, first, Sarah - second, Abigail Russell of Charles- town May 27, 1750; she died March 31, 1793; he died April 10, 1802; 3. George,4 born Dec. 4, 1717.
GEORGE CURWEN4; merchant; married Sarah Pickman March 18, 1738; died April 10, 1802; she died Jan. 5, 1810, aged ninety-one; children : I. George," born June 4, 1739; drowned at sea Jan. - , 1761; 2. Mehitable,5 born Jan. 23, 1741; married Richard Ward Nov. 8, 1764; had son Samuel Curwen Ward,6 born June 29, 1769, who had a son Samuel Curwen Ward," born Nov. 26, 1795, who had his name changed to Samuel Curwen, at the request of his great-uncle Samuel Corwin (see below) ; 3. Sarah," born Jan. - , 1742-3; died, unmarried, Feb. 26, 1773, at the age of thirty years.
SAMUEL CURWEN [WARD]1; married Priscilla Barr March 22, 1818; clied near Bellona Arsenal, Va., July 3, 1831; she died Nov. 27, 1863; children : I. James Barr,8 born Dec. 20, 1818; 2. Samuel Ropes,8 born Dec. 28, 1820; 3. George Rea,8 born July 4, 1823; died, unmarried, March 17, 1900.
JAMES BARR CURWENS; married, first, Rebecca Hovey Endicott Feb. 3, 1848; she died Aug. 11, 1883; married, second, Mary Shepard Osgood; she died Aug. 24, 1885; he died March 23, 1894; children: I. Samuel En- dicott,' born Nov. 8, 1848; died July 6, 1849; 2. Caroline Endicott,ª born Jan. 7, 1852; married James Henry Davis of North Andover Nov. 17, 1875; 13. James Endicott, born Jan. 14, 1856; died March 19, 1857; 4. George
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land County, England, Dec. 10, 1610. This new comer was a man of education and property and became a merchant. He wore a seal ring which was cut with the following coat of arms. He requested of his townsmen accommodation, that is, a grant of land. For a similar purpose, Robert Buffum1 also appeared at the meeting. He was of about the same age as Mr. Corwin. He lived at the west- erly corner of Essex and Boston streets, and many of his descendants were zealous Quakers. At the same town meeting, Richard Dodge was ad- mitted an inhabitant, and desired to be accommodated with land. He was brother of William Dodge. in
Endicott, born March 8, 1861; lived in Andover; married Helen Haven Dana Oct. 18, 1882; died in 1896; she died June -, 1918. CAPT. SAMUEL ROPES CURWEN8; shipmaster; married his cousin Mary Smith Holman May 15, 1846; died Nov. 1I, 1870; she died May 9, 1902; children: I. Henry, born Sept. 9, 1847, in Wenham; merchant; lived in Salem; died, unmarried, July 13, 1872; 2. Samuel Holman, born Aug. 5, 1849, in Salem; 3. Caroline Rea,9 born Sept. 16, 1851, in Salem; died Jan. 6, 1852; 4. Charles Frederick, born July 18, 1853, in Salem; 5. Betsey Holman,9 born June 2, 1856; lives in Salem, unmarried.
SAMUEL HOLMAN CURWEN9; jeweler; married Abbie C. Merrill Nov. 4, 1874; died July 22, 1895; she died, his widow, Dec. 31, I9II; children : I. James Henry,10 born Oct. 29, 1875; is in the navy; 2. Ernest Worcester,10 born April 23, 1877; 3. Richard Brown,10 born Feb. 17, 1891. CHARLES FREDERICK CURWEN9; founder ; married Ada L. Perkins May 19, 1880; died Dec 29, 1909; children: I. - 10 (son), stillborn Oct. 24, 1886; 2. George Barr,10 born June 30, 1888; graduated at Columbia College; married Helen Marguerite Deppler of Asbury, N. J., Sept. 8, 1915; died Feb. I, 1918; no children.
ERNEST WORCESTER CURWEN10; married Cecelia Biron of Revere July 24, 1901; children : 1. Helen,11 born May 8, 1902; 2. Dorothy,11 born Feb. 17, 1905; died Aug. 20, 1905. RICHARD BROWN CURWEN ;10 married Helen Mary Frohock Sept. 19, 1920; child: I. Robert Worcester,11 born June 13, I92I.
'ROBERT BUFFUM1 may have come from Yorkshire; farmer; married Tamazin ; died Aug. 6, 1669; the stone which formerly indicated his burialplace is in Harmony Grove Cemetery and marked "R. B."; she died, his widow, in May or June, 1688; children: I. Sarah2; married William Bean; 2. Joshua,2 born April 22, 1635; 3. Deborah2; married Robert Wilson; 4. Margaret2; married John Smith; 5. Lydia,2 born Feb. 19, 1644; married, first, John Hill Aug. 26, 1664; second, George Locker ; 6. Mary,2 born about 1648; married Jeremiah Neal; 7. Caleb,2 born Sept. 29, 1650.
JOSHUA BUFFUM2; builder of vessels; married Damaris Pope in or before 1663; died in 1705; children: 1. Mary,3 born Nov. 27, 1663; 2. Damaris,3 born Sept. 30, 1671; married John Ruck; 3. Joshua,3 born May 10, 1681; 4. Samuel,3 born Aug. 21, 1683; removed to Newport, R. I., be-
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Salem and of Michael Dodge in England. His house was not
fore 1708; cooper; married Amy (or Anne) . CALEB BUFFUM2; husbandman; married Hannah Pope March 26, 1672; lived in Salem in 1715; children: 1. Caleb,3 born May 14, 1673; 2. Robert,3 born Dec. I, 1675; 3. Tamasin3; married Lawrence Southwick; 4. Hannah3; married John Osborne; 5. Benjamin3; 6. Jonathan.3
JOSHUA BUFFUM3; yeoman ; married, first, ; second, Hannah, widow of Eleazer Pope; died in the winter of 1761-2; children : I. Joshua4; 2. Elizabeth,4 born Nov. 6, 1703; married : Britton; 3. Mary,4 born July 8, 1723; married Stephen Pope; 4. Lydia,4 born Oct. 10, 1726; mar- ried Enos Pope; 5. Damaris4; died, unmarried, about 1781; 6. Abigail4; married Reed. CALEB BUFFUM3; married Mary -; died before 1730; children: 1. Mary,4 born July 5, 1705; married Thomas Nichols; 2. Caleb,4 born June 22, 1710; removed to Newport, R. I .; 3. Joshua,4 born Oct. 15, 1713; 4. Hannah,4 born about 1716; 5. Samuel,4 born in 1721. ROBERT BUFFUM3; blacksmith; married, first, Elizabeth Farrar of Lynn May 13, 1700; she died June 23, 1702; married, second, Sarah Blaney of Lynn Dec. 20, 1703; married, third, Susannah , he died about August, 1746; she probably died about 1775; children: I. Hannah,4 born Aug. 9, 1701; died June 28, 1702; 2. Sarah,4 born Oct. 4, 1704; died Nov. 22, 1704; 3. Sarah4; published to Daniel Needham Oct. 7, 1727, in Marblehead ; 4. James4; hatter; probably never married; died in Salem about 1766; 5. Robert,4 born June 12, 1709; 6. Joseph,4 born Feb. 23, 1711-2; 7. Eliz- abeth,4 born Dec. 4, 1713; died Nov. 26, 1714; 8. Elizabeth,4 born in 1717-8; married Ebenezer Pope. BENJAMIN BUFFUM3; blacksmith; married Eliz- abeth Buxton; removed to Smithfield, R. I., in 1739; children: I. Eliz- abeth,4 born June 26, 1709; 2. Hannah,4 born Sept. 1, 17II; 3. Esther,4 born Sept. 16, 1714; 4. Joseph,4 born Sept. 20, 1717; married Margaret Osborn March 29, 1737; removed to Rhode Island; 5. Lydia,4 born May 26, 1722; 6. Benjamin,4 born March 15, 1725-6; 7. Rachel,4 born Dec. 24, 1727. JONATHAN BUFFUM3; married, first, Mercy second, Mary
died about 1729; his widow married John Southwick; children: I. Jonathan.4 born Dec. 8, 1713; died Dec. 8, 1713; 2. Mercy4; 3. Deborah,4 born Feb. 1, 1716-7; 4. Jonathan,4 born Sept. 16, 1719; 5. Mary4; living in 1729; 6. Mehitable4; unmarried in 1749.
JOSHUA BUFFUM4; fisherman and mariner ; married, first,
second, Rachel (Bassett), widow of William Bean March 2, 1760; died about 1768; children: I. Jane5; married Amos Mason of Swanzey; 2. Joshua, born about 1752; mariner ; 3. Abigail, born about 1755; married Benjamin Symonds; 4. Samuel.5 JOSHUA BUFFUM4; cordwainer ; married Sarah Lester Dec. 8, 1743; removed to Berwick, Me .; child: I. Samuel," born June -, 1744. SAMUEL BUFFUM4; glazier; married Lucretia Derby ; lived in Berwick, Me., until 1744, when he returned to Salem; died before ' 1782; she died in Ju-, 1815; children: I. Lucretia, born Oct. 31, 1750; married Zachariah Collins of Lynn, where she died Nov. 25, 1801; 2. Lydia,5 born Oct. - , 1762; married Jedediah Johnson Nov. 4, 1781. JOSEPH BUFFUM4; blacksmith; children: I. Robert5; tailor; married Rachel before 1773; 2. Isaac, born about 1737; 3. Elizabeth5; married Daniel Southwick; 4. Joseph, born before 1749; blacksmith; married Jane -; died before 1786; she married, second, Joseph Wadleigh of Kensington, N. H .; 5. Eunice,5 born before 1749; 6. Susannah, born after 1749. JONATHAN BUFFUM4; trader; married Sarah -; died in 1793; she died Oct. 30, 1815; children : I. Mercy, born July 2, 1747; 2. Jonathan, born Oct. 15, 1753; 3. Caleb, born July 16, 1759; yeoman; died, unmarried, June 25, 1847; 4. Peace, born Nov. 10, 1764; died, unmarried, Dec. 30, 1850.
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large, being two stories in height, and having a parlor. It stood
SAMUEL BUFFUM5; sailmaker; married Nancy Lane; died May 23, 1818; child: I. Joshua,6 born March -, 1814; died in Lynn Nov. 24, 1867. SAMUEL BUFFUM5; sailmaker; married Anne Stowe of St. John, New- foundland, June 26, 1771; died May 23, 1818; she died April 17, 1828; children: I. Ann,6 born Feb. 7, 1773; 2. Nancy6; married Osborn ; 3. Sarah Lester,6 born in 1784; died, unmarried, Nov. 12, 1866; 4. John6; probably died between 1818 and 1825; 5. Samuel6; 6. William S.6, born about 1786; 7. Henry6; probably died between 1818 and 1825. ISAAC
BUFFUM'; married Eunice - died March 10, 1830, aged ninety-three; children: I. Ezekiel,6 born about 1772; yeoman; married Sarah - in 1837; died Aug. 9, 1843; 2. Sarah,6 born about 1774; died, unmarried, March 22, 1846. JONATHAN BUFFUM5; tailor and yeoman; married Anne Purington of Lynn April 28, 1778; died March 31, 1835; she died Feb. 5, 1842; children: I. Mercy,6 born April 5, 1779; married John Alley Dec. 23, 1800; died Oct. 29, 1862; 2. William,6 born March 12, 1782; 3. Edward, born Dec. 29, 1784; 4. Israel,6 born Feb. 16, 1787; cordwainer; lived in Lynn; married Ruth Oliver Dec. 19, 1800; she died Aug. 3, 1866; he died in Lynn April 9, 1874; had children; 5. Anna,6 born Nov. 29, 1789; married William Frye of Danvers Oct. 21, 1813; 6. Jonathan,6 born Oct. 9, 1793; shoe-manufacturer in 1836 and painter in 1850; lived in Lynn; married Hannah Breed of Lynn May 15, 1816; she was his wife in 1843; he died in Lynn March 17, 1880.
SAMUEL BUFFUM6; sailmaker; died before 1828; child: I. Joshua," born about 1814; of Salem, mariner, in 1828; died in Lynn in 1867. WILLIAM S. BUFFUM6; tailor ; married Frances K. Milod March 14, 1810; died Nov. 8, 1826; she died in Andover, his widow, Sept. 16, 1869; child : I. Emily F. M.7; married Samuel Raymond of Boston and Andover. WILLIAM BUFFUM6; trader, tanner and farmer; lived in Troy in 1835; married Mary Chase of Swanzey Sept. 5, 1809; she died Dec. 8, 1846; he died Jan. 20, 1855; children: I. Jonathan Chase," born Feb. 23, 18II; married Phebe L. Chase May 30, 1836; 2. Sarah Slade," born Nov. 22, 1812; married Alfred A. Raymond of Boston Sept. 19, 1841; 3. Mary Chase," born Feb. II, 1815; married Joseph M. Fuller of Lynn Feb. 16, 1842; 4. Caleb," born Oct. 22, 1816; 5. Peace," born Oct. 22, 1818; married Joseph A. Wood Oct. 2, 1849; lived in Watertown, Wis .; 6. William Penn," born July 28, 1821; married Martha J. Tibbetts Nov. 6, 1853; died Nov. II, 1878; she died Feb. II, 1904; had a child; 7. Israel C.7, born April 25, 1823; housewright; died in Ipswich, unmarried, May 21, 1855; 8. Robert," born July 7, 1828. EDWARD BUFFUM6; chaise and harness maker; removed to Lynn about 1826; married Sybil Chase of Swansey; she died July 24, 1852; he died April 28, 1862; children: I. Edward Slade,7 born Aug. 20, 1818; 8. Martha Slade," born June 22, 1820; married Thomas J. Gifford ; 3. David Chase," born Nov. 7, 1822; probably died before 1862; 4. George," born March 8, 1825; carpenter; lived in Salem in 1862; 5. Anna Maria,7 born Oct. 23, 1828; married Aaron Augustus Kehew; 6. Lydia,7 born Dec. 3, 1831; died Oct. 2, 1832; 7. Lucy Ellen,7 born Aug. 21, 1833; unmarried in 1862.
CALEB BUFFUM™; cordwainer and grocer; married Mary Eliza Barr Feb. 3, 1839; died --; she died, his widow, Dec. 15, 1905; children: I. Caleb Henry,8 born May 31, 1839; 2. Charles Mason,8 born Jan. 17, 1841 ; 3. Mary Eliza,8 born Jan. 20, 1843; died. unmarried, Feb. 8, 1916; 4. James Barr,8 born Feb. 9, 1846; died Jan. 1, 1847; 5. Emma Ropes, born May 7, 1848; died Oct. 27, 1853; 6. Maria,8 born Nov. 20, 1850; 7. Hannah Maria,8 born in 1851; married James Frank Hill Oct. 17, 1872; 8. Franklin B.8, born June 20, 1853; 9. Alice,8 born July 31, 1856; lived in Salem; 10.
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on the south side of Dodge Street, in what is now Beverly, about a quarter of a mile easterly of Alewive brook. He died in 1671,1 having in his will devised the house and land around it to his sons Edward and Joseph. Feb. 15, 1708-9, Edward released his half of the estate to his brother Joseph.2 Joseph Dodge died Aug. 10, 1716; and the title descended to his son Dr. Joseph Dodge of Beverly. The house was burned just before May 29, 1736.3 At the same meeting, Mark Vermais4 and widow Alice
Grace,8 born Oct. 10, 1858; married Joseph T. Ingalls of Lynn Nov. 27, 1879. ROBERT BUFFUM"; married Elizabeth -; child: 1. Annie,8 born Jan. 27, 1862. EDWARD SLADE BUFFUM"; lived in Chelsea in 1862; married Ellen C. -; child : 1. Albert,8 born May 20, 1850, in Salem.
CHARLES MASON BUFFUM8; hardware dealer; married Maria Adelia Perley of Danvers Nov. 26, 1868; died May 20, 1885; child: I. Laura Peirce, born May 25, 1873; school teacher; married, first, Albert Vitty ; second, George Harvey of East Weare, N. H.
1RICHARD DODGE1 married Edith -; died June 15, 1671, leaving an estate of the value of seventeen hundred and sixty-four pounds; she died, his widow. Jan. 27, 1677-8, aged seventy-five; children : 1. John,2 born about 1635; 2. Mary2; married Zachariah Herrick; 3. Sarah,2 born about 1641 (baptized July 3, 1641) ; married ; 4. Richard,2 born about 1642 (baptized July 3, 1644) ; lived in Wenham; married Mary Eaton Feb. 23, 1667-8; died April 13, 1705; she died Nov. 2, 1716; had children; 5. Samuel2; married Mary - she died Aug. 6, 1717; had children; 6. Ed- wardª; lived in Beverly; married Mary Haskell April -, 1673; had children; 7. Joseph,2 born about 1651; lived in Beverly; married Sarah Eaton Feb. 21, 1671; died in Beverly Aug. 10, 1716, at the age of sixty- five.
JOHN DODGE2; lived in Beverly; married Sarah -; died Jan. 14, 1722-3; children : I. Deliverance,3 born March 15, 1660-1; 2. John.3 born April 15, 1662; lived in Wenham; married Ruth -; 3. Josiah,3 born June 4, 1665; lived in Beverly; married Sarah -; died Jan. 19, 1714; 4. Sarah,3 born Jan. 13, 1667; 5. Ebenezer,3 born Aug. 1, 1670; 6. Mary,3 born Aug. 15, 1672; 7. Deborah,3 baptized Dec. 6, 1674; died July 8, 1675; 8. Andrew,3 baptized Oct. 29, 1676.
"Essex Registry of Deeds, book 21, leaf 80.
3See Essex Registry of Deeds, book 72, leaf 105.
Mark Vermais was perhaps son of Mrs. Alice Vermais. She was admitted to the Salem church in 1639. He was engaged to be married to Katherine - in 1640, but she forsook him and married Nicholas Pacy of Lowestoft, Suffolkshire, England, merchant. Mrs. Vermais had a daughter Abigail, who was admitted to the church in Salem in 1640, and married, first, Robert Bethune of Boston; second, Edward Hutchinson; and, prob- ably a son Benjamin, who belonged to the Salem church, and married Mercy, eldest daughter of Gov. William Bradford of Plymouth in 1648, and removed to Boston and thence to Plymouth. The Vermais family re- mained in Salem only a few years. Mrs. Vermais conveyed the title to some land in the Northfield in 1655, but had previously removed from the town. She died Feb. 9, 1656. There is a small hill in Danvers, lying south- westerly from the junction of Andover Street and Pope's lanc, which perpetuates the name, though spelled differently. In 1666, it was called Shermaid's hill; in 1699, Scarcemaid's hill; in 1701, Scaremaid's hill; and in 1703, Fairmaid's hill. The family name was sometimes written Fearmayes.
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Vermais desired accommodation of land at Salem; Robert Penn was admitted an inhabitant; Joshua Verin and Thomas Truslar desired a ten-acre lot each; and Henry Cooke1 desired to be an
1HENRY COOK1; slaughterer; married Judith Birdsale June -, 1639; died Dec. 25, 1661 ; she died, his widow, Sept. 1I, 1689; children : I. Isaac, born April 3, 1640; 2. Samuel,2 born Sept. 30, 1641; of Salem in 1673; 3. Judith,2 born Sept. 15, 1643; married John Pudney; 4. Rachel,2 born Sept. 25, 1645; married Elisha Kebee; 5. John,2 born Sept. 6, 1647; 6. Mary2 (twin), born Sept. 15, 1650; married Robert Moulton; 7. Martha2 (twin), born Sept. 15, 1650; living in 1667; 8. Henry,2 born Dec. 30, 1652; 9. Eliz- abeth,2 born Sept. - , 1654; died Sept. - , 1654; 10. Hannah,2 born Sept. - , 1658; married Daniel Canady.
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