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We may, therefore, accept as a fact that our colonists resembled the best elements of the country parishes of England. The squire, the minister, the ycomen, were the three representative portions of society there and here. Two of these classes, removed from a chance of a renewal here, remained constant during the whole Colonial period. Our gentry were the descendants of the few who came with the first colonists, as our great body of citizens was of those who were yeomen when they left England. The distinction was felt, though not offensively; and precisely as in England the aristocracy is constantly renewed from the commoners, while its younger branches steadily revert to that lower class, so here a constant intermingling of these two ranks occurred. Able men here, in each generation, rose to
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the privileged positions, while poverty or decay removed the favored families which preceded them.
It is a strange fact that no attempt has been made to prepare any record of the families of the settlers at Boston. The first and most flourishing genealogical society in the country was founded here, and for thirty-four years it has published a magazine here; but, as yet, few Boston families have been traced, even in special histories. Our town records are, indeed, very imperfect, but an carnest and quite successful effort is now making to supply the deficiencies from church records. But since the field has remained unexplored so long, it is very difficult for any one to attempt to select with certainty all of the leading men or leading families of any century of our history. It can be safely said that those of our colonists who were of the gentry at home, kept to the traditions of their class here, in a measure. They lived in better style than the others, they held most of the offices, and they intermarried so as to constitute an allied section of the community. The clergy and other graduates of Harvard were generally admitted to the same circle, and naturally the richest part of the merchant class could not be excluded.
This tendency towards a local aristocracy increased during the eighteenth century, and just prior to the Revolution social affairs here were probably as they are to-day in the English colonies. The Governor was an English- man; his council was made up from the local gentry, and all eyes were turned to the mother country as the source of honor. Officers of the army and navy stationed here contracted marriages with our native damsels; capital was increasing, and was seeking the truly British form of investment in land.
All these developments were stopped by the Revolution, when the great portion of our leading citizens, in a social sense, emigrated. That part of the story must be postponed to another volume, but it adds to the difficulty of reproducing the history of the early days of Boston, that its chief personages have left no descendants here to preserve the tradition of ancestral glories.
It is proposed, therefore, to place before the reader certain authentic sources of information in regard to the settlers here, with such fragmentary notes as contain the writer's estimate of the more prominent families. As it is a first attempt by any one to deal with the subject, omissions at least will not be surprising.
An important source of information is the Book of Possessions, com- piled about A.D. 1645, and containing the names of the owners of land at the time. It has been published by the City, being the second report of the Record Commissioners. The following alphabetical list of the proprietors will be sufficient for our present purpose : -
BOSTON FAMILIES PRIOR TO A.D. 1700.
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LIST OF PERSONS DESCRIBED AS OWNERS OF LAND IN BOSTON IN THE BOOK OF POSSESSIONS.
Anderson, John Arnold, John
Cotton, John
Hawkins, James
Cranwell, John
Hawkins, Thomas
Aspinwall, William Baker, John Barrell, George
Croychley, Richard
Hawkins, Thomas
Cullimer, Isaac
Hibbins, William
Bates, George
Davies, John
Hill, Valentine
Baxter, Nicholas
Davies, William
Hogg, Richard
Beamont, Thom.is
Davis, William, Sr.
Hollich, Richard
Beamsley, William
Davis, William, Jr.
Houtchin, Jeremy
Beck, Alexander
Deming (or Dening), William
Howen, Robert
Belchar, Edward
Dennis, Edmund
Hudson, Francis
Bell, Thomas
Dinsdale, William
Hudson, William
Bellingham, Richard
Douglas, William
Hudson, William, Jr.
Bendall, Edward
Douse, Francis
Hull, Robert
Bennett, Richard
Dunster,
Hunne, Anne, widow of George
Bishop, Nathaniel
Eaton, Nathaniel
Hurd, John
Blantaine, William
Eliott, Jacob
Hutchinson, Edward
Blott, Robert
Everill, James
Hutchinson, Richard
Bosworth, Zaccheus
Everill, James
Ingles, Maudit
Bourne, Nehemiah
Fairbanks, Richard
lyons (otherwise Irons), Mathew
Bowen, Griffith
Fawer, Barnabas
Jacklin, Edward
Brisco, William
Fish, Gabriel
Jackson, Edmund
Browne, Edward
Fletcher, Edward
Jackson, John
Browne, Henry
Fletcher, Roger
Jephson, John
Browne, William
Flint, Mr.
Johnson, James
Browne, James
Flint, Mr.
Joy, Thomas Judkin, Job
Burden, George
Foster, Thomas
Busbie, Nicholas
Fowle, Thomas
Keayne, Robert
Buttolph, Thomas
Foxcroft, George
Kenrick, John
Button, John
Franklin, William
Kirkby, William
Carter, Richard
Gallop, John
Knight, Sarah
Chaffie, Matthew
Gibones, Edward
Lake, John
Chamberlaine, William
Gillom, Benjamin
Langdon, John
Chappell, Nathaniell
Glover, John
Lawson, Christopher
Cheevers, Bartholomew
Goodwin, Edward
Leger, Jacob
Clarke, Arthur
Greames, Samuel
Letherland, William
Clarke, Christopher
Gridley, Richard
Leverit, John
Clarke, Thomas
Griggs, George
Leverit, John
Coggan, John
Grosse, Edmund
Leverit, Thomas
Cole, John
Grosse, Isaac
Lippincott, Richard
Cole, Samuel
Grubb, Thomas
Lowe, John
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Gunnison, Hugh
Coleborn, William
Hailestone, William
Lugg, John Lyle, Francis
Compton, John
Hansett, John
Makepeace, Thomas
Cooke, Richard
Harker, Anthony
Marshall, John
Copp, William
Harrison, John
Marshall, Thomas
Corser, William
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Mason, Raph
Davies, James
Hill, John
Biggs, John
East, Francis
Bourne, Garret
Fanes, Henry
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Mattox, James Maud, Daniel Meeres, Robert Mellows, John Merry, Walter Messinger, Henry
Pen (or Penn), James
Sweete, John A
Perry, Arthur Phillips, John
Phippeni (or Phippeny), David
Phippeni, Joseph
Mitchell, George
Pierce, William
Pope, Ephraim
Thwing, Benjamin Townsend, William
Nanney, Robert
Reinolds, Robert
Turner, Robert
Nash, James
Rice, Joanes
Tuttle, Anne
Nash, Robert
Rice, Robert
Tyng, Edward
Negoos, Benjamin
Rowe, Owen
Tyng, William
Negoos, Jonathan
Richardson, Amos
Usher, Hezekiah
Newgate (or Newdigate), John
Roote, Raph
Vyall, John
Salter, William
Waite, Gamaliel
Odlin, John
Sanford, Richard
Waite, Richard
Offley, David
Savage, Thomas
Walker, Robert
Oliver, James
Scott, Joshua
Ward, Benjamin
Oliver, John
Scott, Robert
Webb, Henry
Oliver, Thomas
Scott, Thomas
Werdall, William
Page, Abraham
Seaberry, John
Wheeler, Thomas
Painter, Thomas
Sedgwick, Robert
White, Charity
Palmer, John, Sr.
Sellick, David
Wiborne, Thomas
Palmer, John, Jr.
Sherman, Richard
Willis, Nicholas
Parker, Jane
Shoare, Sampson
Wicks, William
Parker, Nicholas
Shrimpton, Henry
Wilson, Johan
Parker, Richard
Sinet, Walter
Wilson, William
Parsons, William
Smith, Francis
Winge, Robert
Pasmer (or Passmore), Bar- tholomew
Spoore, John
Woodhouse, Richard
Pease, Henry
Stanley, Christopher
Woodward, Nathaniel
Pell, William
Stevenson, John
Woodward, Nathaniel
Pelton, John
Straine, Richard
Woodward, Robert
We now return to such evidence as we can obtain in regard to the social standing of the various persons named.
Of the GOVERNORS prior to Andros the following lived in Boston : John Winthrop, Richard Bellingham, John Leverett, and Simon Brad- street.
Of the ASSISTANTS we can claim also Atherton Hough, John Win- throp, Jr., William Hibbens, Edward Gibbons, Humphrey Davy, John Richards, John Hull, Thomas Savage, Elisha Cooke, Elisha Hutchinson, Samuel Sewall, Isaac Addington, John Walley.
The Boston REPRESENTATIVES to the General Court were, during 1630-40: William Hutchinson, John Coggeshall, William Brenton, William Colbron, Henry Vane, William Coddington, Atherton Hough, William Aspinwall, John Oliver, John Newdigate, Robert Keaync, Edward Gib- bons, William Tyng, Edmund Quincy, John Underhill, Richard Bel- linghanı.
Symons, Henry Synderland, John Talmage, William Tapping, Richard Teft, William Thomas, Mr.
Millard, Thomas Milom, John Munt, Thomas
Rainsford, Edward
Rawlins, Richard
Truesdale, Richard
Smith, John
Winthrop, Deane
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During 1640-60: William Hibbens, James Penn, Anthony Stoddard, John Leverett, Thomas Clarke, Thomas Savage, Edward Hutchinson, William Tyng, Thomas Hawkins, Thomas Marshall.
During 1660-80: Edward Tyng and John Richards, in addition to those before named.
During 1680-1700: The new names are those of Elisha Hutchinson, Elisha Cooke, John Fairweather, John Saffin, Isaac Addington, Timothy Prout, Adam Winthrop, Thomas Oakes, Penn Townsend, Theophilus Frary, Dr. John Clarke, John Eyre, James Taylor, Timothy Thornton, Edward Bromfield, Nathaniel Oliver, Nathaniel Byfield, Samuel Legg, John White, Andrew Belcher, David Allen, and Joseph Bridgham.1
The SELECTMEN of the town, as the uniform custom of New England witnesseth, were chosen from the citizens of the highest repute. They exercised very considerable powers. They were chosen by the free vote of the governed, and it is evident from many sources that they were the recognized leaders of the community. As no list of them is elsewhere avail- able, it seems judicious to print one here.
1 See 2 Mass. Hist. Coll. x. 23-29, for detailed possible to make of all holding office under the lists. [Mr. Whitmore's Massachusetts Civil List, Charter, or local government, during the Colonial Albany, 1870, is as complete a record as it is and Provincial periods, 1630-1774 .- ED.]
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Prior to the date when the seven selectmen became regular officers, similar officials had served. The earliest entry preserved in the Town Records is dated Sept. 1, 1634. We cannot, therefore, learn when the custom began of choosing selectmen, or townsmen. We find at that date, however, a board of ten citizens in office, - John Winthrop, William Coddington, John Underhill, Thomas Oliver, Thomas Leverett, Giles Firmin, John Coggeshall, William Peirce, Robert Harding, and William Brenton.
Oct. 6, 1634. - Richard Bellingham and John Coggan were chosen in place of Firmin, deceased, and Harding, now in Virginia.
March 1, 1636. - Chosen : Thomas Oliver, Thomas Leverett, William Hutchinson, William Colburn, John Coggeshall, John Sanford, Richard Tuttell, William Aspinwall, William Brenton, William Balston, Jacob Eliot, and James Pen.
Sept. 16, 1636. - Hutchinson, Oliver, Leverett, Colborn, Coggeshall, Sanford, Brenton, and Balston re-elected, and two new men added, - Robert Keayne and John Newgate.
March 20, 1637. - Eight re-elected ; Eliot and Pen returned in place of Keayne and Newgate, and Robert Harding added. In all eleven.
Oct. 16, 1637. - Eleven chosen : ten re-elected, and William Aspinwall in place of Brenton.
April 23, 1638. - Seven chosen : Oliver, Leverett, Keayne, Colborn, Newgate, Pen, and Eliot, - all having served before.
Nov. 5, 1638. - Seven chosen : six re-elected, with Robert Harding in place of Newgate.
April 29, 1639. - Nine chosen : Oliver, Leverett, Keayne, Colborn, Harding, and Eliot ; Pen dropped ; Edward Gibbons, William Tyng, and John Cogan added.
Dec. 16, 1639. - Nine chosen : Colborn, Harding, Eliot, Gibbons, Tyng, and Cogan re-elected ; Gov. John Winthrop, Richard Bellingham, and William Hibbens, new members.
Sept. 28, 1640. - Nine chosen for the next six months : Colborn, Eliot, Gibbons, Tyng, Winthrop, Bellingham, and Hibbens, old members; with John Newgate and Atherton Hough added.
May 27, 1641 .- Nine chosen : the seven old members, with John Oliver and James Pen for Newgate and Hough.
March 6, 1641-42. - Nine chosen : eight re-elected, and Valentine Hill in place of Hibbens.
Sept. 2, 1642. - The same nine re-elected for six months.
March 20, 1642-43. - Winthrop, Bellingham, Tyng, Gibbons, Colborn, Eliot, Hill, and Oliver re-elected ; Hibbens put in place of Pen.
Sept. 25, 1643. - Same nine re-elected.
May 17, 1644. - Eight re-elected, with Pen for Bellingham.
April 10, 1645. - Eight re-elected, with Edward Tyng for William Tyng.
Dec. 26, 1645. - Winthrop, Hibbens, Gibbons, Colborn, Hill, Eliot, and Pen re-elected ; Oliver and E. Tyng dropped ; Robert Keayne and Thomas Fowle added.
No election is recorded in 1646, though all but Fowle were serving Feb. 25, 1646-47. Probably some change had taken place about this time, as March 13, 1646-47, we find a board of seven acting, and the same seven were chosen five days later at a "general town's meeting warned from
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house to house." From this time it seems to have been a settled custom to elect seven selectmen in March for the year ensuing.1
The following lists of the clergy prior to A.D. 1700 will give us that element in our social life :
FIRST CHURCH.
John Wilson
1630-1667
John Cotton
1633-1652
John Norton
1656-1663
John Davenport 1668-1670
James Allen
1668-1710
John Oxenbridge
1671-1674
Joshua Moody
1684-1692
John Bailey
1693-1697
Benjamin Wadsworth
1696-1725
SECOND CHURCH.
John Mayo
1655-1673
Increase Mather
1664-1723
Cotton Mather
1684-1728
OLD SOUTH CHURCH.
Thomas Thatcher
1670-1678
Samuel Willard
1678-1707
Samuel Myles
1689-1728
The fact that church-membership was long a necessary preliminary to 'recognition as a citizen makes it very desirable for us to know who were the early members of our First Church in Boston. The list is often referred to by Savage and others, but has not been printed. We therefore present all of the record of admissions prior to A.D. 1640, believing that no more valuable document can be offered to the genealogist. We prefix numbers to the names for convenience.
The first covenant is dated at Charlestown, Aug. 27, 1630,2 and is as follows : -
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" In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in obedience to His Holy will and Divine Ordinance :
" Wee whose names are hereunder written, being by His most wise and good Providence brought together into this part of America in the Bay of Massachusetts, and desirous to unite ourselves into one Congregation, or Church, under the Lord Jesus Christ our Head, in such sort as becometh all those whom He hath Redeemed, and Sanctified to Himselfe, doe hereby solemnly and religiously (as in His most holy
volume. - ED.]
2 [This is the date as given in the Church Records; but the date differs from that of a similar paper quoted in Mr. Winthrop's chapter,
1 [Cf. Mr. Scudder's chapter in the present which was an original draft of the document, signed by a few of the leaders, before the entry was made of it in the Record book. See Mass. Hist. Coll., iii. 75; Bradford, Plymouth Planla- tion, p. 277 .- ED.]
KING'S CHAPEL.
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Priesance) Promisse and bind o' selves to walke in all our wayes according to the Rule of the Gospell, and in all sincere Conformity to His holy Ordinances, and in mutuall love and respect each to other, so neere as God shall give us grace.
1 John Winthrop, Governor
Thomas Dudley, D. Governor Isaack Johnson (dead since) John Wilson
5 Increase Nowell
Thomas Sharpe (gone since) Simon Bradstreete Willm. Gager (dead since) Willm. Colborne
10 Willm. Aspinall Robert Harding Dorothy Dudley, ye wife of Tho. Dudley Anne Bradstreete, ye wife of Simon Bradstreete
Parnell Nowell, ye wife of Increase Nowell
15 Margery Colborne, ye wife of Willm. Colborne
Elizabeth Aspinall, ye wife of Willm. Aspinall
Christian Beecher
Robert Hayle
John Hall
20 Margarett Hoames John Sale
Gregory Nash
John Waters and Frances his wife (dead since)
25 Henry Kingsbury and Margarett his wife (dead since)
Henry Harwood and Elizabeth his wife (dead since)
Henry Gosnall and (30) Mary his wife
James Penne and Katherine his wife John Milles and Susan his wife
35 Willm. Waterbury and Alice his wife Frances, ye wife of John Ruggle Willm. Baulstone and Elizabeth his wife (dead since)
40 Phillip Hammond, widdow
John Haukins, d.
Samuell Cole and Anne his wife (dead since)
Willm. Cheesborough and (45) Anne his wife
Thomas Alcocke
Margarett, ye wife of Jeffrey Ruggle Henry Bright Edward Deekes
60 John Gage Thomas Howlett Thomas Hutchingson, d.
George Hutchingson Francis Hesseldon, d.
65 Richard Garrett (dead since) Margarett Cooke John Underhill Sarah Woolrich Willm. Talmige
60 Edmund Belcher James Browne Edward Ransford John Edmunds
Richard Maurice and (65) his wife
Edward Converse
Willm. Hudson Abram Palmer and his wife
70 Nicholas Stowers
John Dillingham, dead Raph Mousall and Alice his wife
Willm. Frothingham and (75) Anne his wife
Gregory Taylor
Edward Bendall
Sarah Cheesborough, dead
Richard Sprage
60 Ezechiel Richardson and his wife
Myles Reading
Thomas Squire Sarah Converse
Thomas Matson, received by Communion of Churches from a Church in London
Mary Morton
Bithea Joanes, gone to Salem
Isabell Brett, gone to Salem, d.
Richard Wright
90 John Cranwell Elizabeth Welden, gone to Waterton Willm. Coddington Anthony Chaulby John Boswell, dead
95 Joseph Reading Garrett Haddon John Biggs
Zacheus Bosworth
Margarett Wright
100 Anne Needham Thomas Faireweather
567
BOSTON FAMILIES PRIOR TO A.D. 1700.
Raph Sprage and Joan his wife Anne Peeters, received from ye Church of Salem
105 Richard Palsgrave and Anne his wife John Perkins and Judith his wife Ryce Cole
110 John Eliott
Margarett Winthrop Thomas Beecher Edward Gibbons Jacob Eliott
115 John Sampfort Margery Chauner James and Lydia Pennyman Isaack Perry
120 Elizabeth Webbe John Winthrop, Junior Willm. Dady Susan Hudson Henry and (125) Susan Peas John Baker and Charity his wife Thomas French John Ruggle
130 Martha Winthrop Robert Walker Thomas Oliver and Anne his wife, dead Margarett Gibbons
135 John and Jane Willise, dead since Robert Roys John Clarke John Audley
140 Amy Chambers Anna Swanson Alice French Elizabeth Wing Richard Brackett
145 Gyles Firmin, Junior Mary, ye wife of Samuell Dudley Bridgett Gyver Anne, ye wife of John Eliott Thomas and (150) Elizabeth James Willm. Peirce
Hereafter followeth ye Names of those whoe were further admitted and added unto the Church : -
Mary Penne John Pemberton John Oliver
155 Barnaby Dorryfall Mary Waters Gyles Firmin, Senior, d.
Mary Coddington, ye wife of Willm. Cod- dington
Anne Newgate, ye wife of John Newgate 160 Thomas Grubbe and Anne his wife Richard Turner Anne Walden Mabell Marport
Members admitted into Boston Church from ye St of ye 7th moneth [1633]: -
165 John Cotton, and on that day Sarah his wife Robert Turnor, our brother Edward Ben- dall's man-servant Grace Lodge, our Pastor John Wilson's maide-servant
In ye St Moneth [1633] : -
Thomas Leveritt and
170 Anne his wife Richard Fairebancke Willm. Brenton Edward Hutchinson Willm. Cowlishawe and
175 Anne his wife and Sarah Morrice, the said Anne's daught".
In the 9th Moneth [1633] : -
Elizabeth Purton, a widdowe Elizabeth Fairebancke, ye wife of our brother Richard Fairebancke Edmund Quinsey and
180 Judeth his wife Atherton Haulgh and Elizabeth his wife
Mary Downing, kinswoman to our brother John Winthrop, Governor.
Frances Hammond, our brother Thomas Leveritt's maid-servant 185 Elizabeth Woodroffe, our brother Ed- mund Quinsey's maid-servant
Richard Topping and Judeth his wife Edward Baytes and
Anthony Harker, our brother Thomas Leveritt's menservants
130 George Ruggell Willm. Letherland, one of M' Roe's men- servants, was admitted on ye 24. of yt Moneth
568
THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON.
Members further admitted upon ye Ist of y'" roth Moneth [1633] : - Samuell Wilbore and Anne his wife
The St of ye same Moneth: -
Nathaniell Woodward and 195 Anne Essex, servants to our brother Willm. Coddington
The 15th. of ye same Moneth: -
Elizabeth Ransford, ye wife of our brother Edward Ransford
Helena Underhill, ye wife of our brother John Underhill
Sarah Hutchinson, ye wife of our brother Edward Hutchinson Robert Scott, late servant to our brother John Sampford 200 Gamaliell Wayte, servant to our brother Edward Hutchinson
The 22th. of ye same Moneth :-
Elizabeth Wybert, maid-servant to our brother John Winthrop, Governor John Button, mylner, and Grace his wife
The 29th. of ye same Moneth :-
Margery Hindes, our brother John Un- . derhill's maidservant 205 Grace Gridley, ye wife of our brother Richard Gridley Rebecka Merry, ye wife of Waters Merry, Ship-carpenter Marie Lukas, our sister Anne Newgate's maid-servant
The 5th. of ye 11th. moneth [1633]: -
John Gallopp, Fisherman, and Cotton Flacke, Laborer
The 19th. of ye same moneth : -
210 Willm. Browne and Thomasine his wife, servants to our brother John Winthrop, Governor.
The 26' of same Monetk : -
Lettysse Button, ye wife of Mathew Butto[n]
Esther Ward, our brother Atherton Haulghe's maidservant
The 2º1. of ye 12th or last Moneth [1633]: --
Elizabeth Ruggell, y" wife of our brother George Ruggell 215 Thomas Mekins and Katherine his wife, servants to our brother Edmund Quinsey Bridgett Peirce, ye wife of our brother Willm. Peirce
The 9th. of ye same Moneth : --
Joan Wilkes, ye wife of Willm. Wilkes Willm. Wardall, one of our brother Ed- mund Quinsey's servants Waters Merry, Ship carpenter 220 John Webbe, a single man
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