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ISAAC COOK2; husbandman; married Elizabeth Buxton May 3, 1664; died in the autumn of 1692; she was his widow in 1713; children: I. Eliz- abeth,3 born Sept. 23, 1665; married Wilson about 1685; 2. Isaac,3 born Jan. 9, 1666; died April 6, 1671; 3. Mary,3 born Nov. 12, 1668; living in 1692; 4. Abigail,3 born April 12, 1670; living in 1692; 5. Hannah,3 born Oct. 15, 1671 ; married William King June 4, 1695; 6. John,3 born Dec. 23, 1673; probably died young ; 7. Isaac,3 born Sept. 3, 1674; died Oct. 8, 1679; 8. Rachel,3 born Feb. 20, 1675-6; died Oct. 15, 1679; 9. Ebenezer,3 born Dec. 24, 1677; died Oct. 20, 1679; 10. Samuel,3 born Oct. 1, 1679; II. Henry3; 12. Sarah3; living in 1692; 13. Lydia3; under eighteen in 1692. JOHN COOK2; blacksmith; married Mary Buxton Dec. 28, 1671; died in the summer of 1716; she survived him; children: I. Mary,3 born Nov. II, 1672; died Aug. 23, 1691 ; 2. John,3 born Aug. 20, 1674; 3. Elizabeth,3 born April 7, 1676; married John Chapman; 4. Samuel,3 born Nov. 3, 1678; died Oct. II, 1679; 5. Joseph,3 born March 9, 1680; 6. Hannah,3 born Sept. 9, 1684; married Thomas Purchase; 7. Lydia,3 born March 1, 1687; un- married in 1716; 8. Isaac,3 born April 16, 1689; 9. Ebenezer,3 born Aug. 24, 1691. HENRY COOK2; husbandman; removed to Wallingford, Conn., about 1680; married Mary Hale "last of September, 1678;" child: I. Mary,3 born July 15, 1678.
SAMUEL COOK3; husbandman; married Mary Small Jan. 21, 1702-3; died in the spring of 1718; she survived him; children: I. Isaac,4 born in 170 -; 2. Charles,4 born in 170 -; 3. Mary,4 baptized April 18, 1708; pub- lished to Jasper Needham Nov. 30, 1731; 4. Samuel,4 baptized Dec. 10, 1710; 5. Daniel,4 baptized Sept. 23, 1716. HENRY COOK3; married Rachel Dyer April II, 1722; died in the summer of 1743; she survived him; children : I. Sarah,4 born about 1732; married Thomas Whittredge of Beverly June 10, 1753; 2. Rachel4; of Danvers, unmarried, in 1755; 3. Mary4; of Dan- vers, unmarried, in 1755. JOHN COOK3; mariner; married Hannah Dean June II, 1701; died in the autumn of 1721; she died in 1745; children : I. John,4 born April -, 170 -; died young; 2. Samuel,4 born in 170 -; 3.
Joseph,4 born April 1, 170 -; 4. Benjamin,4 born in 170 -; 5. Mary4; married Joseph Glover; 6. Elizabeth4; married Joseph Henderson; 7. Hannah4; married Nathaniel Archer; 8. George,4. born March 5, 1719; died between 1731 and 1745. JOSEPH COOK3; blacksmith; married Margaret Cox Aug. 14, 1706; they were living in Salem in 1718; children: I. Joseph,4 born April 17, 1707; 2. James,4 born March 22, 1709-10; 3. William,4 born Jan. 14, 1711-2; 4. Margaret,4 born Aug. 20, 1714; married Edward Diamond Dec. 7, 1733. ISAAC COOK3; blacksmith and fisherman; married Martha Anniball Oct. 17, 1717; died in the early summer of 1754; she was his widow in 1757; children: I. Robert,4 baptized May 17, 1719; 2. Isaac,* baptized July 31, 1720; 3. Jonathan,4 baptized - Sept. 2, 1722. EBENEZER COOK3; married Margaret Webb Oct. 22, 1718; she married, secondly, John
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inhabitant. Mr. Cooke was a butcher ; and lived on Washington
Darling of Mendon in 1749; children: I. Ebenezer,4 born Aug. 25, 1719; 2. John, born April 20, 1721; 3. Daniel,4 born Oct. 12, 1722; cordwainer ; lived in Salem in 1749, and in Mendon in 1765 and 1779; yeoman in 1779; married Abigail - -; she was of Mendon, his widow, in 1803; 4. Samuel,“ born July 12, 1724; 5. Jonathan,4 born May 23, 1727; died young; 6. Ben- jamin,4 born July 12, 1729; 7. Jonathan, born Sept. 19, 1731.
ISAAC COOK4; cordwainer, shoemaker and shoreman; lived in the Danvers part of Salem; married Elizabeth Waters Jan. 17, 1726-7; died in the winter of 1752-3; she lived in Danvers, his widow, in 1757; children : I. Hannah, born about 1728; married Samuel Darby Dec. - , 1753; 2. Abigail," born about 1737; married Daniel Felton Dec. 12, 1765; 3. Lydia,5 born about 1740; married Daniel Reed of Danvers Nov. 19, 1765. CHARLES Cook4; blacksmith; married Hannah -; died in the autumn of 1750; she was his widow in 1751; children: I. Charles5; aged under fourteen in 1751; 2. Hannah5; married Ebenezer Pike of Woburn (published March 29, 1777). SAMUEL COOK4; lived in Peabody part of Salem; married Elizabeth Douglass July 28, 1735; children : I. Henry, baptized April 22, 1739; lived in Danvers; mariner; married Sarah Mansfield Nov. 12, 1761; died in the summer of 1771; she died in Danvers March II, 1810; had children; 2. Thomas,5 baptized April 22, 1739; 3. Mercy," baptized July 27, 1740; 4. Samuel,5 baptized Feb. 28, 1741-2; killed at the battle of Lexington April 19, 1775; 5. Desire, baptized April 1, 1744; married John Reed Jan. 18, 1774; 6. Elizabeth," baptized in 1745; married Jonathan Tarbell. SAMUEL COOK4; fisherman and cordwainer; married, first, Abigail Hender- son Oct. 22, 1730; she died about 1748; he married, second, Abial Burton Aug. 22, 1751; they were living in Salem in 1771; children: I. Abigail,5 baptized Sept. 18, 1737; married George West April 28, 1751; 2. Samuel," born in 1731; married Elizabeth Symonds Dec. 8, 1754; died Dec. 21, 1813; had a daughter; 3. Margaret," baptized Sept. 18, 1737; married William Gray March 16, 1760; 4. Mary," baptized May 7, 1738; married Samuel Symonds Aug. 10, 1760; 5. John, baptized July 19, 1741. JOSEPH COOK4; fisherman; married Eunice Pope Nov. II, 1728; they were living July 18, 1769, and his will was proved Feb. 6, 1770; children : I. Eunice,5 born Sept. 6, 1729; married George Beckford; 2. Hannah, born June 19, 1732; mar- ried Benjamin Deland Sept. 20, 1752; 3. John,5 born July 22, 1735; married Susannah Burton (Buxton?) Dec. 1, 1762; 4. Joseph," baptized Dec. 18, 1737; died young ; 5. Abigail," baptized June 22, 1740; 6. Joseph,5 baptized Sept. 5, 1742; victualer in 1775; married Susannah Cook Oct. 1, 1768. BENJAMIN COOK4; fisherman and mariner; married Elizabeth Phippen Dec. 24. 1730; she was living in 1766, and he in 1799; children : I. Benjamin.5 baptized April II, 1736; 2. Elizabeth, baptized April II, 1736; married Jonathan Buxton of Danvers June 27, 1757; 3. John, baptized March 27, 1737; 4. Susannah,4 baptized Sept. 30, 1739; married John Tarrant May 6, 1757; 5. George," baptized May 23, 1742; 6. Hannah," baptized April 17, 1748; married Cain. JOSEPH COOK4; fisherman; married Rachel Britton April 18, 1734; living in 1750; children: I. Joseph5 (twin), bap- tized Aug. 13, 1738; 2. William6 (twin), baptized Aug. 13, 1738; probably married Damaris Marston June 18, 1774; 3. Mary,5 baptized Sept. 21, 1740; 4. Edward," baptized Aug. 15, 1742. JAMES COOK4; fisherman, mariner and shoreman; married Rachel Phippen Sept. 18, 1732; both were living in 1768: she died before 1782; children : 1. James," baptized Feb. 9, 1734-5; 2. Margaret,5 baptized April II, 1736; died young; 3. Rachel,5 baptized Sept. 17, 1738; married Nathan Offat Sept. 6, 1764; 4. Margaret,“ baptized Oct. 19, 1740; died young ; 5. Ebeneser, baptized Oct. 17, 1742; 6. Hannah," baptized Jan. II, 1746-7; married Edward Cox Oct. 17, 1769; 7. Joseph,
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Street, on the southeasterly corner of the site of the Masonic
baptized March II, 1748-9; 8. Benjamin," baptized Sept. I, 1751; 9. Mar- garet,5 baptized April 21, 1754. WILLIAM COOK4; shipwright; married Lydia Frost Nov. 17, 1737; lived in Salem in 1754; was dead in 1765; she was his widow in 1770; children: I. Mary5; married Benjamin Clifton April 16, 1767; 2. Margaret®; married Joseph Hovey of Boston May 20, 1766. ROBERT COOK4; cordwainer; married widow Margaret Dimond June 17, 1743; they lived in Salem in 1768; children: I. Martha,5 baptized April 8, 1744; married John Morong; 2. Robert, baptized April 12, 1747; 3. Susannah," baptized April 8, 1753; married William Luscomb; 4. Elizabeth,5 baptized Aug. 24, 1755; married John Daniels April 1, 1780. ISAAC COOK4; mariner, laborer and yeoman; married Sarah Masury July. 9, 1747; he was living in 1783; she died, his widow, before Dec. 22, 1801; children: I. Isaac,5 baptized April 30, 1749; died in the fall of 1751; 2. Sarah,5 baptized Feb. 24, 1750-I; lived in Danvers; married Joseph Foster; 3. Stephen,5 baptized Oct. 8, 1752; married Mary Carriage of Marblehead July 4, 1776; 4. Benjamin," baptized Nov. 28, 1754; married Elizabeth (Webb), widow of Joshua Beckford (published March 28, 1778) ; 5. Martha,5 baptized June II, 1758. CAPT. JONATHAN COOK4; mariner and shoreman; married Mehitable Grant Dec. 26, 1745; they were living in 1780; children: I. Jonathan, born Dec. 27, 1746; died young; 2. Mehitable,5 baptized Aug. 20, 1749; married Benjamin Blyth; 3. Jonathan," baptized June 16, 1751; died young ; 4. Mary," baptized May 20, 1753; died Dec. I. 1756; 5. Jona- than," baptized Sept. 18, 1757; shoreman; married Love Herron Sept. 18, 1781; died in 1804; she died, his widow, Feb. 6, 1818; 6. Mary,5 baptized before 1761; 7. Orchard,5 baptized March 27, 1763.
BENJAMIN COOK5; married Sarah Cook (daughter of Samuel) Nov. 8, 1764; child : I. George,6 baptized Oct. 22, 1769. CAPT. JOHN COOK5; fisher- man and mariner; married Margaret Webb Sept. 23, 1760; drowned at sea in the spring of 1787; she married, secondly, Isaac Mansfield of New- bury July 19, 1801; children: I. George6; mariner; living in 1805; 2. Samuel,6 born about 1784; living in 1805; 3. Anna,6 born about 1786; living in 1805. EBENEZER COOK5; fisherman; married Hannah Downing Dec. 10, 1767; they were living in 1782; children: I. Hannah,6 baptized Nov. 12, 1769; 2. Lucy,6 baptized April 21, 1771; married Jacob Martin July IO, 1785; 3. Elizabeth,6 baptized Sept. 12, 1773; married William Carlton ; 4. Richard,6 baptized April 5, 1778. JOSEPH COOK"; mariner; married Lydia Peel July 26, 1772; was dead in 1810; she was living in' 1825; children : I. Joseph,6 baptized April 27, 1776; 2. James,6 baptized April 27, 1776; 3. Lydia,6 baptized Jan. 17, 1779; died, unmarried, July 27, 1823; 4. Ebenezer,6 baptized Aug. 25, 1782. BENJAMIN COOK5; married Anne Clough (pub- lished Sept. 17, 1774) ; children: I. Benjamin,6 baptized June 30, 1776; mariner ; married Lydia Chapman July 25, 1801; they were living in 18II. ROBERT COOK5; fisherman and mariner; married Elizabeth Luscomb Sept. 15, 1775; died between 1806 and 1821; she died before Feb. 20, 1821; chil- dren: I. Elizabeth,6 baptized Dec. 29, 1776; married Samuel Barnard May 30, 1799; 2. Robert,6 baptized March 29, 1778; 3. Benjamin,6 baptized March -, 1780; died before 1806; 4. Benjamin,6 baptized April -, 1782; died before 1806; 5. - _6; died Feb. - , 1784; 6. John Morong,6 baptized Nov. - , 1785; 7. Martha6; married Leonard Barnard Oct. 13, 1805.
JOSEPH COOK6; mariner; married Catherine Brown Sept. 10, 1797; died in 1814; she survived him; children: I. Joseph,7 born about 1800; yeoman; lived in Reading in 1828; 2. Mary T.", born about 1802; married Alden Kittredge; 3. George Trask," born about 1804; cordwainer; lived in Reading in 1828; 4. Sally7; married George Smith; 5. James,7 born about 1809; living in 1828; 6. Catharine,7 born about 1811; living in 1828.
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Temple. He bought the house and land of Edmond Thompson Jan. 17, 1645 ;1 and died there in 1665. His widow, Judith Cooke, conveyed the property to Walter Price Jan. 13, 1663 ;2 and he gave it to his son Theodore Price. The latter died in 1672; and the administrator of his estate conveyed the house, barn and land to Hilliard Veren July 9, 1672.3 Mr. Veren lived here until he conveyed the estate to Ezekiel Cheever March 4, 1677-8.4 Ezekiel Cheever's brother Thomas Cheever of Malden conveyed the same to Rev. Nicholas Noyes April 14, 1684.5 The latter lived here during the witchcraft period, and died in 1717. The administrator of his estate conveyed the property to Rev. Samuel Fisk, his successor in the ministry, July 18, 1718;6 and Mr. Fisk conveyed it to Benjamin Pickman Dec. 15, 1762.7 Mr. Pickman took the old house down in 1764.
Governor Winthrop came to Salem, by water, about Nov. I, 1638, having had a boisterous trip. He wrote to his wife on the eighth the following letter :-
To my Dear Wife, Mrs. winthrop at Boston
My Deare,- I prayse God we came safe to Salem, thoughe we had very stormy windes. We found all well. I doubt I shall not re- turne before the 2: daye next weeke, & then my broth: P: will come wth me. The Lo: blesse thee & all or familye, & send us a happy meetinge. I kisse thee & rest
thy faithfull husband,
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Salem : ober: 8: 1638.8
He was entertained at Salem with all the respect the people could show him, and on his return to Boston on the twelfth, six of the chief military officers, with carbines, were sent to guard him.
ROBERT COOK"; painter; married Hannah Gowan Feb. 2, 1800; died in July, 1815; she survived him; children: I. Mary Ann,7 born about 1805; married Hazleton Page of Hampstead, N. H., Nov. 13, 1835; 2. Robert," born about 1807; lived in Salem in 1834; 3. - "; died before Oct. 20, 1815; 4. Benjamin." born June or July, 1815; probably died young. JOHN MORONG COOK"; painter; married, first, Sally Brown March 30, 1809; and second, Susan Herron Sept. 6, 1818; his wife Susan died May 26, 1822; he died March 31, 1826; children: 1. William,7 born about 1813; living in 1831 ; 2. Sally B.", born in 1819; married Daniel S. Lawrence June 4, 1816.
1Essex Registry of Deeds, book 8, leaf 70. "Essex Registry of Deeds, book 2, leaf 76. 3Essex Registry of Deeds, book 3, leaf 156. 4Essex Registry of Deeds, book 4, leaf 190. 5Essex Registry of Deeds, book 6, leaf 123. "Essex Registry of Deeds, book 33, leaf 222. "Essex Registry of Deeds, book 112, leaf 115. 8Winthrop's Letters, page 231 ( 1867 edition).
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At a meeting, Nov. 12, 1638, the town granted to Mr. Hugh Peter, "our present pastor," a farm of upland, containing two hundred acres, lying near the head of Frost Fish River, and twenty acres of fresh marsh next to Mr. Endecott's ten acres in the great marsh near Mr. Sharp's farm. It was also agreed that Marke Vermais, Robert Penny, Joshua Verine, Thomas Trusler, Richard Dodge, Robert Adams,1 Henry Bayley and William Nichols2 should each have a ten-acre lot. Mr. Adams was a tailor, from Devonshire, England, and thirty-seven years old. He came to Salem from Ipswich and lived at what is now num- bered ninety Washington Street, opposite the city hall. Mr. Nichols was a husbandman, about thirty-nine years of age and probably lived near the pound, on the easterly side of what is now known as North Central Street, just above Gardner Street, in Peabody.
The town of Salem, having formerly granted several portions of land at Marblehead, laid the lots out Nov. 14, 1638, as follows : To Mr. Walton on the main, eight acres; Moses Mavericke at the same place, ten acres; John Coitt on the Neck, three acres; Will Keene3 and Nick Liston on John Peach's neck, three acres, and more to them on the Great Neck, five acres; Rich. Sears, four acres where he had planted formerly ; John Wakefield, four acres on the Neck; John Gachell and Samuel Gachell, six acres on the Neck; Tho Sams,4 three acres on the Neck; John Lyon, four acres near his house; the widow Blancher, six acres on the
1Robert Adams, born in 1601, came to Ipswich in 1635; removed from Salem to Newbury in 1640; married, first, Eleanor ; and, second, Sarah. (Glover), widow of Henry Short of Newbury Feb. 6, 1678; died Oct. 12, 1682; she died Oct. 24, 1697; children: I. John (eldest son) ; married Woodman; 2. Joanna, born in 1634; married Launcelot Granger Jan. 4, 1654; removed to Suffield, Conn .; 3. Abraham, born in Salem in 1639; lived in Newbury; husbandman; married Mary Pettingell Nov. 10, 1670; she died in Newbury Sept. 19, 1705; he died there June 14, 1714; had children; 4. Robert; 5. Elizabeth; 6. Mary; 7. Isaac; 8. Jacob, born April 23, 1649; 9. Hannah, born June 25, 1650; 10. Jacob, born April 13, 1654; cordwainer; removed to Suffield, Conn., about 1686; represen- tative in 1711-1714 and 1717, and died at the general court in Boston in November, 1717; had children.
2William Nichols was born in 1599, and removed to a house he had built within the limits of Topsfield, which became a part of Middleton upon the incorporation of the latter town in 1728. He died in the winter of 1695-6, at the age of ninety-six, being known as "old Nichols;" his wife Mary survived him; children: I. John, born in 1640; married Lydia -; lived on his father's homestead in Topsfield; died in 1700; had children; 2. Mary; married Thomas Cave of Topsfield; 3. Hannah; married Thomas Wilkins May -, 1667.
8William Kieney lived in Marblehead as late as 1645. He had a servant named John Colever in 1643.
4Thomas Sams lived in Marblehead as late as 1646.
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Neck; Ralph Warrin, two acres on the Neck; George Ching,1 three acres on the Neck; Philip Beare, three acres near the widow Tomson's ; John Bennet, four acres upon John Peach's neck ; and Rosamond James,2 four acres upon the main.
At a meeting, Nov. 26, 1638, the town granted to Robert Wheaden ten acres of land; to Richard Stackhouse3 ten acres ; and to -, a gardner, ten acres. John Cook desired five acres to be added to twenty acres formerly granted to him. There were granted to Lt. Davenport (which the town desired him to seek out, as before) two hundred acres of upland and twenty acres of meadow, lying on the east side of the great meadow where Mr. Endecott hath his ten acres of meadow. Ten acres were granted to Mr. Veryn, if there is any not already granted to others out of the land which was formerly Mr. Thorndike's; also, the hay that grows upon a slope of ground near to the pond which Mr. Clarke hath the half of, and it is about two acres of meadow, until the land be disposed of to some other man; to Samuel Archer one neck of land lying out against the sea near Jeffry Creeke Island, containing about twenty acres, and eight acres of meadow in Kettle Island Cove; to Henry Harwood+ a ten-acre lot and a half-acre lot, which were formerly granted to Michael Lambert near Winter Island; to John Holgrave one hundred acres of land next to Mr. Peter's farm, and ten acres of meadow lying in the great meadow, he resigning up the land granted to him in Marble neck; to John Leech a ten-acre lot on the great north neck; and to William and Richard Dodge eighty acres of land lying on the easterly end of the farms of Mr. Conant, John Woodbury and John Balch, whereof twelve acres are meadow.
1George Chin died in Marblehead in the winter of 1653-4; his wife Elizabeth survived him.
"Erasmus James ?
"Richard Stackhouse lived in Salem as late as 1678 and in Beverly as late as 1693; married Susanna - -, who was born about 1617; children : I. Jonathan, baptized May 14, 1648; 2. Hannah, born about 1647; married Harris before 1677; 3. Abigail, baptized May 14, 1648; 4. Ruth, baptized July 8, 1649; married Roger Haskins; 5. Samuel, baptized Feb. 13, 1652-3; 6. Mary, baptized June 25, 1654.
A Sarah Stackhouse was baptized in Salem July 17, 1670.
4Henry Harwood (Harod, Harrod, Hayward, Haywood and Herod) is said to have come to America with Gov. John Winthrop in 1630, and lived at first in Boston. He came to Salem in 1638, and had his house at the foot of Beckett street, being a shoemaker. He married Elizabeth -, who was probably a widow, as she had a daughter Elizabeth, wife of Mathew Nixon. Mr. Harwood called Jane, wife of Richard Flinder, "kinswoman"; and Mr. Flinder called him "uncle." Mr. Harwood died in February, 1663-4; and she died, his widow, in 1670. Child: I. John, baptized in Boston in 1632; married Em- - July II, 1659; children, John and Jonathan, died last week of April, 1662.
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At a quarterly court, in Boston, Dec. 4, 1638, John Holgrave was found guilty of contempt of court, for drawing wine against an order of the court and for causing his daughter to deliver a paper to a juryman out of court, adjudging him "to have broken the rule of hospitality & the peace;" "Richard Greaves & Peter Bussaker, for quarrelling and fighting, are refered to the Court at Salem"; and Richard Hollingsworth, for prophaning the Sabbath in traveling, was censured to be set in the stocks upon a lecture day, at Salem."
Thomas Oliver,1 a calender, came from Norwich, England, in 1637, and lived in a small house which stood on the southern corner of Washington and Church streets. His wife Mary, who was then thirty-five years old, came with him. She was a strong Puritan, and before coming to America had suffered for refusing to bow at the name of Jesus, during the exercises of the Estab- lished Church, though she was conformable to all other orders. They were poor, and had made few acquaintances. Apparently, she had not become a member of the church in Salem, but attended its services, and in 1638, at the celebration of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, without giving public satisfaction to the church of her faith and without covenanting or professing to "walk with them according to the rule of the gospel," she stood and asked for the privilege of partaking of it. She remained standing, and when denied her request, she plead her right until Governor Endecott threatened to send the constable to put her out. She was arrested for disturbing the church, and brought to the court in Boston. In her examination, Dec. 4, 1638, she , gave such peremptory answers that she was sent to the prison until she procured sureties for her good behavior. After about three or four days spent in prison, she submitted herself to Governor Winthrop, and acknowledged that she was in fault in disturbing the church. Upon her husband giving a bond for her good behavior, she was discharged from confinement. Winthrop afterward learned that she still held to her former opinions, which he deemed very dangerous, as, first, "The church is the heads of the people, both magistrates and ministers, met together, and that these have power to ordain ministers, &c."; second, "That all who dwell in the same town and will profess their faith in Christ Jesus ought to be received to the sacraments there; and that she was persuaded, that, if Paul were at Salem, he would call the inhabitants there 'saints' "; and, third, "That excom- munication is no other but when Christians withdraw private communion from one that hath offended." Mrs. Oliver appar- ently held that every one who believed in the Savior was a member
1See volume I, page 443.
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of the body of Christ, as stated in the Bible, and that it was unnecessary, in order to partake of the elements of the Lord's Supper, that one should be a formal member of an organized church; also, that the law of the Sabbath was not now binding upon any one as a religious institution. It is remarkable that any one in those times should have worked out ideas of their own concerning the real constituency of the church.
She was not always choice in her language, and was probably unlettered ; but she had strength of character and great force. Governor Winthrop wrote, in his Journal, Dec. 13, 1638, that "for ability of speech and appearance of zeal and devotion she was far before Mrs. Hutchinson, and so the fitter instrument to have done hurt."
Sept. 24, 1639, Mrs. Oliver was sentenced to prison at Boston indefinitely for her speeches at the arrival of some new comers. She was ordered to be taken by constables of Salem and Lynn to the prison in Boston and answer at the next court there.
Governor Winthrop also states that when she was whipped she "stood without tying, and bare her punishment with a mas- culine spirit, glorying in her suffering. But after (when she came to consider the reproach, which would stick by her, &c.) she was much dejected by it."
For saying that all ministers in the country were blood-thirsty men, the Salem court ordered her, July 1, 1646, to be tied to the whipping post with a slit stick on her tongue. Robert Cotty, who heard her make this statement, told her that she spoke blasphemy ; and she replied that her blood was too thin for them to draw out.
March 2, 1647-8, the Salem court fined her for working on the Sabbath in the time of church services, and for abusing Cap- tain Hathorne, uttering mutinous speeches. She also denied "the morality of the Sabbath." The witnesses against her were John Robinson and John Bayllis. She was also ordered to sit in the stocks one hour, if the weather be moderate; also for saying, "You in New England are thieves and robbers." Robert Gutch testified that she came into his house in such gladness of spirit that he could not understand it, and said to some persons who were there, and were not church members, "Lift up your heads, your redemption draweth nigh." She was advised to remember what she was punished for, and she said that she came out of that with a scarf and a ring; upon which Gutch asked her if she remembered this passage: "That there were some whose necks had iron sinews and brows of brass."1 She replied by saying that
1"Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck an iron sinew, - and thy brow brass."-Isaiah 48 : 4.
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