The history of Wenham : civil and ecclesiastical, from its settlement in 1639, to 1860 , Part 13

Author: Allen, Myron O. (Myron Oliver)
Publication date: 1860
Publisher: Printed by Bazin & Chandler
Number of Pages: 254


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agency, or attributed to their influence the novel and unaccountable manifestations of disease. These errors they shared with the profoundest philoso- phers and wisest statesmen of their day. I have adverted to the fact that four Wenham men were upon the jury, which tried the cases of witchcraft in this county, and that Thomas Fisk, the patriarch of the town, was their foreman. We wonder at their superstition ; but in this age of Millerism, and Mormonism, and Spiritual Rappings, have we much right to blame or ridicule our forefathers ?


We boast of our liberality and enlightenment, but let us beware lest we mistake indecision and indifference for liberality and toleration in religious things. Let us remember, " that if controversy is a sign of imperfect development or distempered action, indifference, whether in philosophy or religion, is death." Christianity has never assumed the attitude of compromise ; it has never aimed to establish a patchwork alliance of right and wrong, of truth and error. While therefore we renounce the application of force, and allow to every one the utmost freedom of conscience, let us hold fast the love of truth with a sincerity and devotion not inferior to that of our noble forefathers.


The history of Wenham has not been marked by any great and striking events, nor even by any startling incidents. The changes which have been described have resulted from the slow and silent progress of time. They have been effected by


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those gradual and scarcely perceptible, yet mighty influences which are often unnoticed by the common observer and even by the historian, but which are yet most powerful in determining the destinies of individuals and communities, as well as of nations.


The inhabitants of this town have been characterized by industry, prudence, and love of order. They have generally been cautious and frugal, rather than bold and enterprising. Thus while they have not shared largely in the gains of speculation, they have been free from its losses and reverses. It has also been characteristic of them in former times to live soberly and peaceably. Religious quarrels have been seldom known. Cases of litigation have been so few and unim- portant that no member of the legal profession has ever thought it worth while to take up his abode here. In old times, vagabonds and worthless characters from abroad were often warned from town. "So far as we can learn," says Rev. D. Mansfield, " no one of the original settlers, or of their descendents, has ever been charged with a capital crime, and no citizen of Wenham has ever been a tenant of a state prison."


The generations who have lived here before us were a strictly pious people, blending the religious sentiment with all their purposes and actions. In times of trial and calamity, they resorted to fast- ing and prayer. They loved the house of God. The Sabbath was to them a day of sacred rest, and


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observed with a strictness and severity now almost unknown. And they diligently trained up their children to follow in their footsteps and to imitate their example.


We boast that we are better than our fathers, and as a people, we are undoubtedly more numerous and wealthy, more intelligent and re- fined. But have we more of the elements of real life, of energy, and of heroism ? Could we endure the trials which they endured, and come out of them so little scathed ? With more of elegance and polish have we not lost something of their stern virtue, and rugged native strength. In the progress of luxury and refinement, let us beware that we dopart not too much from the simplicity, earnestness, and intensity of faith and action, which charactized our fathers.


A feeling of profound melancholy naturally steals over the mind in perusing the names and actions of those, who once lived and labored like us, but whose only memorial is now contained in the scarely legible and fast decaying pages of our records. Our fathers where are they ? The early settlers of the town and all who were conspicuous in the first century and a half of its history, are sleeping in the grave.


Thus generation follows generation, while in turn each lives and bustles,


" And struts and frets its hour upon the stage, And then-is seen no more."


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In a few years we too shall be with them, while another generation shall move over these grounds and occupy our places.


Yet the general lesson of history is not that of despondency and gloom. From the earliest settle- ment of Wenham till the present time, we believe there has been a steady course of progress and im- provement. Let is be our effort that this onward march be continued. History does not repeat itself ; the Puritan of 1640, and the Patriot of 1776, will never return. But it is possible for us to live nobly and manfully as well as they. While we honor their virtues and cherish the noble institu- tions of freedom, of education and religion, which they left us, let us seek to combine with their simplicity, sincerity, and intensity of purpose, a finer taste, a higher culture, an increase of know- ledge, and a more intelligent faith. It remains for us to finish the glorious temple of which they formed the noble plan and laid the firm foundation.


INDEX


Abby, John, 28, 33 Abbott, Dr., 186


Adams, Mr., 150 Addington, Isaac, 25


Agriculture, 14-15, 22, 23, 31, 34, 48, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 60, 88-89, 100, 101, 105, 141, 144, 146, 150-151 Alewives, 17, 91-92


Allen, Andrew, 84


Allen, Daniel, 174


Allen, Rev. John, 156


Allen, Dr. Myron O., 126


Allen, Samuel, 41


Allen, Rev. Wilkes, 32n, 158


Anderson, Rev. Rufus, 92, 94, 115, 185-187


Andrews, Gen., 142


Andros, Sir Edmund, 43, 44, 45


Auditor, Mr., 102 Appleton, James, 177 Appleton, Priscilla, 177 Archibald, Rev. Thomas, 207


Baker, Cornelius, 83


Baker, Lieut., 89


Baker, Thomas, 174 Balch, Sarah, 129


Balch, Skipper, 129 Barr, John, 51


Batchelder, Amos, 83, 84 Batchelder, David, 51, 103


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Batchelder, Ebenezer, 52, 61, 83


Batchelder, Ebenezer, Jr., 84


Batchelder, Israel, 83, 141 Batchelder, John, 33, 52


Batchelder, Joseph, 28, 29, 52, 83, 102, 141


Batchelder, Josiah, Jr., 83


Batchelder, Mark, 33, 38, 141 Batchelder, Samuel, 174


Berry, John, 51


Beverly bridge (Beverly Ferry), 87-88


Blacksmiths, 101


Blanchard, Francis, 142


Blanchard, Samuel, 102, 103, 142


Bounds, 13, 23, 41-42


Bradstreet, Simon, 40, 45


Bragg, Nathaniel, 197


Brock, Mr., 157


Brown, Abraham, 83


Brown, Charles, 125


Brown, Moses, 84


Brown, Nathan, 84


Brown, Nathaniel, 103


Brown, Pelatiah, 84, 103, 201


Brown, Samuel, 83


Browne, Thomas, 174


Burgoyne, Gen., 76


Burial grounds, 126-132


Burnham, Francis, 97


Cabot, George, 88


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INDEX


Capen, Mr., 176 Caswell, Elizabeth, 206 Cedar Pond, 13, 14, 18: canal, 18, 19 Chaffin, Rev., 209 Champney, Rev., 179 Chipman, Rev., 173, 179 Choate, J., 212n Choate, Stephen, 82


Church, 27, 28, 32, 33, 56, 62, 67, 68, 89, 140, 152-204; Baptist, 190, 204-212; and Ipswich Hamlet, 61, 162- 163, 169, 195; meetinghouses, 61, 160, 162-163, 191, 194-204; music, 200; seating, 89-90 Clafling, Daniel, 174 Cleaves, William, 74, 84 Cleveland, Rev., 184 Cole, Andrew, 83 Commerce, 144 Committee of Convention, 71 Committee of Correspondence, 71-74 Committee of Safety, 46, 78 Common lands, 26, 27, 30-31, 49-53 Cook, J., 98 Cook, Jonas, 92 Cook, Joseph, 102 Cook, Joseph P., 20 Cornwallis, 149 Cowen, Robert, 28 Coy, John, 51 Coy, Richard, 33, 162 Coye, Caleb, 197


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Coy's Pond, 20 Crowell, Rev., 191, 192


Cue, Widow, 52 Currency, 56, 67, 80, 81, 85, 86, 114, 180


Curtis, John W., 211 Cushing, Thomas, 82 Cutler, Rev., 86, 184


Dana, Rev., 185, 192


Danforth, 44


Dark day, 82


Davison, Newel, 83


Day, Joseph, 140


Deborah, 90


Dennis, John, 52


Dodge, Abel, 84


Dodge, Abram, 84


Dodge, Amos, 84


Dodge, A. (Andrew), 98, 102, 103


Dodge, Bartholomew, 83


Dodge, Benjamin, 83, 84


Dodge, Daniel, 110, 111, 203


Dodge, David, 206


Dodge, Elizabeth, 137


Dodge, Francis M., 121 Dodge, George, 142


Dodge, Hannah, 206


Dodge, Hannah, 2nd, 206


Dodge, Israel A., 83, 84


Dodge, Israel, Jr., 83


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Dodge, Isaac, 103 Dodge, Jacob, 78, 79, 81, 84 Dodge, John, 33, 65, 83, 84, 102, 103, 174, 204 Dodge, John, Jr., 104 Dodge, John, 3rd, 84


Dodge, John T., 87, 95, 103


Dodge, John T., Jr., 104 Dodge, Josiah, 51 Dodge, Lucy, 206


Dodge, Lydia, 206 Dodge, Mary, 51


Dodge, Nancy, 206


Dodge, Nicholas, 206, 212


Dodge, Nicholas, Jr., 206 Dodge, Peter, 79, 84


Dodge, Prudence, 206


Dodge, Richard, 28, 30, 51, 81, 83, 88, 90n, 103, 141, 179, 197, 206, 212


Dodge, Richard, Jr., 75, 206


Dodge, Robert, 67, 84


Dodge, Rufus A., 103, 122


Dodge, Ruth, 51


Dodge, Samuel, 125, 126


Dodge, Simon, 83, 84 Dodge, Skipper, 83


Dodge, Stephen, 74, 76, 78, 82, 84, 103, 104, 204


Dodge, Sukey, 206


Dodge, T. P., 202


Dodge, Thomas, 174


Dodge, William, 51, 84, 198, 204, 206


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Dodge, William, 3rd, 206 Dodge, William P., 206


Dodges, the, 53


Downing, George, 156


Dunstan, John, 22, 172n


Dwinell, George, 83 Dwinell, Rev. I. E., 194


Edwards, 179


Edwards, Abram, 84


Edwards, Asa B., 206


Edwards, Benjamin, 51, 84, 102, 197, 206, 212 Edwards, C. L., 121 Edwards, Ezra, 206


Edwards, Hannah, 3rd, 206


Edwards, Jerusha, 206 Edwards, John, 51 Edwards, Joseph, 206 Edwards, Mary, 206 Edwards, Mary, 2nd, 206 Edwards, Thomas, 51 Egypt, 13 Embargo Act, 92


Emerson, Rev., 191


Emerson, Rev. Joseph, 173


Endicott, Gov. John, 23, 161


Endicott, Zerubabel, 161


English, Joseph, 48 English, Samuel, 48 Enon, 24-25 Essex Agricultural Society, 151


INDEX 229


Fairfield, Benjamin, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 102, 124, 136


Fairfield, Daniel, 174


Fairfield, Elizabeth, 136


Fairfield, Ensign, 46


Fairfield, John, 28, 136


Fairfield, Joseph, 104


Fairfield, Josiah, 103, 181, 182


Fairfield, Matthew, 75, 83


Fairfield, Sarah, 129


Fairfield, Walter, 40, 46, 47, 51, 84, 102, 129, 136


Fairfield, William, 62, 74, 102, 103, 111, 132, 136, 203


Fairfield, Dr. William, 124


Fairfield, Mrs. William, 74


Fairfields, the, 53 Felt, J. H., 123


Fire department, 122-123 Fishing, 17, 21, 24, 91-92 Fisk, Benjamin, 51


Fisk, Ebenezer, 204


Fisk, John, 25, 28, 29, 33, 39, 102, 134, 157


Fisk, Rev. John, 31, 32, 124, 133, 135, 139, 154-158, 159


Fisk, Jonathan, 84 Fisk, Phineas, 28, 29, 30, 33, 102, 134


Fisk, Rev. (of Salem), 178 Fisk, Samuel, Jr., 51 Fisk, Samuel, Sr., 51 Fisk, Theophilus, 52 Fisk, Thomas, 33, 39, 40, 46, 47, 48, 51, 102, 103, 108,


109, 110, 134, 162, 217 Fisk, Thomas, Jr., 102, 103


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Fisk, Thomas, Sr., 51


Fisk, William, 28, 29, 47, 51, 102, 103, 134, 203


Fisk, William, Jr., 52 Fisks, the, 53, 134-135


Fitch, Mr., 176


Fitz, Rev., 191 Food, 57


Forbes, Rev., 184


Foster, Mr., 150


Foster, Moses, 102, 104, 204


Fowler, Joseph, 51


Freeman, York, 84


French Acadians, 64


French, Rev., 189


Friend, James, 51, 203


Friend, John, 72, 73, 74, 78, 84, 103, 203, 204


Friend, John, Jr., 83


Friend, Nathaniel, 84


Friend, Richard, 89 Friends, the, 53


Gage, Gov., 149 Gardner, John, 88


Gardner, Mrs., 142


Gerrish, Rev. Joseph, 22, 52, 55, 87, 99, 128, 129, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169-173, 176 Gerry, Elbridge, 82, 147 Giddings, Isaac, Jr., 83 Giddings, John, 84 Goldsmith, Rebecca, 205


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Goldsmith, Richard, 28, 33, 35 Goldsmith, Zaccheus, 51, 174 Goldsmiths, the, 137 Goodhue, Jonathan, 84 Goodrich, Samuel, 103 Gooland, John, 33 Gore, William, 33 Gorges, Ferdinand, 40 Gott, Charles, 28, 29, 33, 39, 47, 102, 135, 139, 157, 159


Gott, Charles, Jr., 51 Gott, John, 51, 102, 103, 129, 135, 179, 181, 182, 197


Gott, Martha, 129 Gott, Nathaniel, 83 Gott, Samuel, 90, 103


Gotts, the, 53 Gould, Amos, 102 Gowen, Robert, 30, 33


Grape-vine bridge, 30, 49


Great Awakening, 179-180


Great Pond, 23 (see Wenham Lake)


Great Swamp, 15, 49 Greene, Gen., 149 Greenleaf, Jona., 82


Hadley, F. (Franklin), 98, 102, 122 Haggett, Abner, 84 Haggett, Henry, 33, 51 Hale, Mrs., 166 Hale, Rev. John, 166


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Hancock, John, 82 Harris, David, 83 Harris, Robert, 28 Harvard College, 39, 104 Henchman, Thomas, 32n


Herrick, Daniel, 84 Herrick, Jacob, 88 Herrick, John, 51


Herrick, Joseph, 51, 90


Herrick, Joshua, 84


Herrick, Josiah, 83, 103, 197


Herrick, Robert,174


Herrick's Corner, 64


Higginson, Rev., 35


Highways, 24, 30, 54, 68, 88, 89, 195


Hilliard, John, 83


Hobby, Mr., 181


Hocker, Joseph, 52


Hoddy, John, 23, 24


Holden, Charles, 190


Holten, Samuel, 82


Holyoke, Dr., 145 Hood, John, 190


Hood, Richard, 90n, 201


Hooker, John, 84, 92


Houses, 58-60


Hubbard, Ebenezer, 187, 188 Hull, Mr., 52 Huston, Richard, 28


Hutton, Richard, 33, 38, 51


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Ice industry, 16, 17, 18, 97, 101; Gage & Co., 153 Indians, 23, 29, 30, 40, 48, 214: wars, 34, 35-39, 46-47, 56, 163-164


Jay, Mr., 91 Jefferson, President, 146, 147 Johnson, Capt., 37 Jones, Nathan, 126 Josselyn, 33-34 Judson, Rev. Adoniram, 184-185; Adoniram (son), 185


Keely, Josiah, 207 Kemball, Abraham, 174 Kemball, Daniel, 174 Kemball, James, 174 Kemball, John, 174 Kemball, Josiah, 174


Kemball, Nathaniel, 174 Kemball, Paul, 174 Kemball, Thomas, 174


Kenney, Rev. Joel, 207 Kent, Joseph, 135 Kilham, Austin, 28, 33, 144, 145 Kilham, Charles A., v, 98 Kilham, Daniel, 33, 51, 83 Kilham, Daniel, Jr., 72, 73, 76, 145


Kilham, Dr. Daniel, 93, 145-148 Kilham, John, 33, 52, 84 Kilham, Jonas, 84 Kimball, Asa, 83, 84


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Kimball, Benjamin, 103


Kimball, Caleb, 52, 76, 78, 84, 92, 204


Kimball, Ebenezer, 83, 84


Kimball, Edmund, 84, 96, 102, 140, 197, 202


Kimball, Elizabeth, 113


Kimball, Ephraim, 52, 83, 103, 203


Kimball, Henry, 33


Kimball, John, 197


Kimball, Jonathan, 103, 198, 204


Kimball, Jonathan, Jr., 103


Kimball, Joseph, 83


Kimball, Nathaniel, 127, 204


Kimball, Richard, 28, 33, 139, 181


Kimball, Samuel, 51, 84, 102, 103


Kimball, Samuel, Jr., 52


Kimball, Thomas, 38, 51, 76, 79, 84


Kimballs, the, 53, 139


King, Rufus, 146


Knight, Rev., 209


Knowlton, Abraham, 83, 84


Knowlton, Amos, 83


Knowlton, Caleb, 83


Knowlton, Richard, 51


Knowlton, Thomas, 83


Knowlton, William, 51 Knox, Gen., 150


Lander, Charles B., 97 Lane, 135 Langmaid, William, 49


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Langstol, Prudence, 206 Laream, Mordecai, 51 Lee, Aaron, 84 Leech, John, 52 Lefavour, Amos, 84 Library, public, 118 Liquor, 30, 62, 96, 198 Lord's Hill, 13, 49 Low, Jonathan, 83 Lowe, A. & J., 150 Lyceums, 119-120


Mansfield, Rev. Daniel, 190-192, 201, 202, 218 Manufacturing: shoes, 100, 101; vehicles, 101 Marietta, O., 86-87 Mason claim, 40-41 Mason, John, 40 Massachusetts Bay Colony charter, 43-46 Massachusetts Constitution, 95-96 Mather, Cotton, 154, 156, 158, 171 Maxey, David, 52 Meetinghouses, 25, 26, 33, 89, 92, 98, 109, 197-199, 201, 203 Messervy, Eli, 84 Mildram, M. (Moses), 98, 102 Mildram, Orin, 102 Miles' River, 20, 21, 91 Militia, 47 Miller, Mr., 157 Miller, Rev. Charles, 207


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Minute Men, 75, 83-84 Moulton, James, 28, 33, 135, 139, 157, 159, 203


Moulton, James, Jr., 33 Moulton, John, 84, 174


Moulton, Jonathan, 51, 84 Moulton, Samuel, 38 Moulton's Hill, 13 Moxey, Alexander, 33 Muddy Pond, 19 Murray, Rev. J. O., 194


Negroes, 84, 90, 199, 200 Newman, Rev. Antipas, 32, 33, 35, 128, 129, 135, 139, 159, 160, 161 Newman, John, 102, 103


Norris, Anna, 206


Ober, Josiah, 89


Ober, Josiah, Jr., 83


Ober, Nathaniel, 83 Ober, Samuel, 83, 84


Ober place, 135 Oliphant, Rev., 189


Ordinary (public house, tavern), 30, 62, 94 Ordway, Abner, 33 Orme, John, 103


Page, Jona., 67 Park, Rev., 191 Parker, Thomas, 170


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Parsonage, 97, 98, 202-203 Patch, Abram, 204 Patch, Rev. George W., 207, 209 Patch, Isaac, 84 Patch, Reuben, 83


Patch, Samuel, 61 Patch, Stephen, 51 Patch, Thomas, 40, 46, 51, 102 Patch, Timothy, 52 Peat, 15 Perkins, Daniel, 48 Perkins, Rev. Daniel, 173 Perkins, Jeremiah, 174 Perkins, John, 51, 83, 84 Perkins, Jonathan, 112 Perkins, Rev., 181 Perkins, Thomas, 84 Peters, Hugh, 18, 24, 96, 152, 152n, 154


Peter's Pulpit, 18, 153 Phillips, Samuel, 82-83 Pickering, John, 82 Pickering, Timothy, 93-94, 103, 142, 147, 148-151 Pitt, 70 Plaisted, Ichabod, 64 Plaistow, Josias, 29 Pleasant Pond, 19, 20, 143 Poland, James, 83 Poland, Margaret, 61 Poland, Nathaniel, 83 Poland, William, 84


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Pomp, 90 Pond hole, 98


Population, 55 Porter, Asa, 83, 84


Porter, Billy, 74, 75, 83, 84, 102, 143


Porter, Ebenezer, Jr., 83 Porter, Francis, 83, 84


Porter, Henry, 144


Porter, Isaac, 83, 84, 90n, 201


Porter, John, 52, 98, 102, 103, 104, 142 Porter, John, Jr., 142


Porter, Dr. John, v, 90n, 124n, 143, 160


Porter, Jonathan, 64, 102, 103, 143, 144, 198


Porter, Nathaniel, 83


Porter, Col. Paul, v, 54, 87, 95, 102, 103, 104, 125n, 138


Porter, S., 103


Porter, Tyler, 72, 73, 74, 76, 78, 81, 83, 84, 90, 103, 124, 143, 144


Porter, Tyler, Jr., 124


Porter, William, 74, 124, 142


Porter's Burning Fluid, 144


Porter's Plains, 142


Porters, the, 53


Powling, John, 33


Prescott, Rev., 173, 178 Privateering, 94 Professions, 123-126


Provincial Congress, 76 Putnam, B. C. (Benjamin), v, 98, 102, 103, 104, 122, 123


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INDEX


Putnam, Dr., 65 Putnam, Elias, 97 Putnam, John A., 104


Quarles, Samuel, 84


Randolph, Mr., 150 Raymond, Samuel, 83 Reade, Esdras, 28, 29, 32n, 102 Redding, Rev. C. W., 209 Redington, Daniel, 84 Representatives to General Court, 29, 47-48, 54, 62-64, 74-75, 82, 83, 102, 132, 143 Rix, James, 174 Rix, Theophilus, 52 Rogers, Daniel, 83, 177 Rogers, John, 174


Rogers, Margaret, 177


Rogers, Nathaniel, 111 Rogers, Rev., 176, 178


Rogers, Samuel, 103 Rogers, William, 51, 102, 103, 110, 137


Safford, J., 97 Schools, 97, 98, 104-118, 120-122, 195 Sewall, Rev. J., 194 Sewall, Rev. J. B., 193, 194 Sewall, Rev. John S., 194 Sharp, 90 Shays' Rebellion, 86 Smallpox, 79-80


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Smith, Mr., 25, 138 Smith, Rev. John, 188, 189 Spalding, Andrew, 32n Sparrowhawk, Mr., 102 Sperry, Rev. Ebenezer, 189-190 Spofford, Isaac, 124 Starrett, David, 104 State Election (first), 82 Stearns, Rev., 189 Stewart, John, 51 Stores, 101 Swain, Rev. Joseph, 56, 64, 68, 81, 114, 161, 181-184 Symonds, Robert, 51, 62 Symonds, Robert, Jr., 51


Tanners, 135 Tarbox, Joseph, 174 Tarbox, Samuel, 84, 103, 138, 204 Tarboxes, the, 53, 138


Tarr, Henry, 26, 160, 195


Taxes, 33, 39, 43, 44, 70 Taylor, Rev. Jeremiah, 192-194 Taylor, Rev. O. A., 192


Taylor, Rev. R., 192 Taylor, Rev. T. A., 192 Thoping, Goerge, 174 Town clerks, 103-104 Town house, 98-99, 120, 203 Town moderators, 102-103 Triker, Israel, 174


INDEX 241


Trow, Tobias, 51 Tucker, Barnard, 125 Turrell, Samuel, 181


Umpee, John, 48


Wade, Col, 86 Wadsworth, Rev., 185-186, 189 Waldo, Cornelius, 32n Waldron, Ebenezer, 197, 204 Waldron, Edward, 28, 33, 72, 84, 103, 174 Waldron, Nath., 51 Waldron, Richard, 173 Waldron place, 137 Waldrons, the, 137 Wallis, Joshua, 52 Walpole, Robert, 70 Walton, Isaac, 21 Ward, Rev. Robert, 62, 173-178 Warren, Rev. John, 56, 178, 180-181 Wars: French, 56, 64-67, 182; Revolutionary, 69-84; 1812, 93-95 Washington, George, 77, 149, 150, 151 Weaving, spinning, 60 Webber, Joseph, 83 Webber, Samuel, 83 Webber, Thomas, 84 Webber, William, 84 Welsh, Phillip, 38 Wenham Causeway, 135


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Wenham Lake, 16, 17, 18, 21, 24, 143, 153 Wenham named, 24-25 Wenham Neck, 20, 30, 62, 97, 141, 205 White, Josiah, 174 White, Ruth, 129


White, Thomas, 28, 33, 52, 129 Whitefield, 179


Wigglesworth, Rev., 176, 178, 181


Williams, John, 23, 24


Williams, Rev. N. M., 208


Winthrop, Elizabeth, 159


Winthrop, Gov., 160 Winthrop, Robert C., 142


Witchcraft, 165-166, 216-217


Womersly, Rev. Thomas, 208, 209, 211, 212n Woods, Rev., 191 Worcester, Rev. S. M., 185, 186, 187, 193, 194 Woodbury, Rev. Isaac, 208


Wyatt, Abram, 84


Young, Christopher, 28





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