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I will begin by giving some official lists which will serve as a guide in estimating the social position of certain families : -
REPRESENTATIVES FROM BOSTON, 1700-74. - Cap! Tim. Clark, 1700. - Isaiah Tay, 1700, 1716, 1718-20, 1722-25. - James Barnes, 1700, 1708-10. - Cap! Bozoon Allen, 1700.
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THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON.
- John White, 1701, 1702. - Cap! Sam"! Legg, 1701, 1702. - Nath"! Oliver, 1701. - Cap! And: Belcher, 1701. - Cap: Samuell Checkly, 1702, 1704-7. - D. Thomas Oaks, 1702, 1704-7 .- Cap! Ephraim Savage, 1702, 1704-8, 1710. - Elizur Holyoke, 1703-7. - John Clark, 1708-12, 1720-23. - Cap: Thomas Hutchinson, 1708-12. - Cap: Thomas Fitch, 1709, 1711, 1712. - Addington Davenport, 1711, 1712. - Cap! Oliver Noyes, 1714-16, 1719, 1720. - Co. Adam Winthrop, 1714, 1715. - Edward Hutchinson, 1714-16, 1718. - John Ruck, 1714. - Elisha Cook, Jr., 1714-16, 1719-23, 1727-37. - William Payn, 1715, 1716. - Anthony Stoddard, 1716. - Cap! Habijah Savage, 1717, 1718, 1732. - Cap! Joseph Wadsworth, 1717, 1718, 1726, 1727. - William Clark, 1719-22, 1724, 1725. - William Hutchinson, 1721. - Ezekiel Lewis, 1723-31. - Thomas Cushing, 1724-31. - John Ballan- tine, 1726. - Nathan" Green, 1727. - Samuel Welles, 1727-34, 1745, 1746, 1753, 1754, 1756, 1760. - Oxenbridge Thatcher, 1731, 1733-36, 1763-65. - Thomas Cushing, Jr., 1731-45. - Timothy Prout, 1735-37, 1740-44. - Thomas Hutchinson, Jr., 1737, 1738, 1740, 1742-48. - John Wheelwright, 1737. - John Read, 1738. - Major Samuel Sewall, 1738. - Edward Bromfield, 1739-42. - James Allen, 1739-42, 1747, 1748, expelled ; re- elected 1748-54. - Christopher Kilby, 1739. - Cap! Nathanael Cunningham, 1739. - Andrew Oliver, 1743-46. - Thomas Hubbard, 1746-59. - Samuel Adams, 1746, 1747, 1765-74 ; Oct! session, 1774. - John Tyng, 1748-52, 1755-59. - Samuel Waldo, 1749. - Harrison Gray, 1750-52. - James Bowdoin, 1753-55. - William Cooper, 1755. - Thomas Flucker, 1756-60. - Benjamin Prat, 1757-59. - Royal Tyler, 1760-64. - John Phillips, 1760-62. - James Otis, 1761-69, 1771. - Thomas Cushing, 1761-74; Oct! session, 1774. Thomas Gray, 1764, 1765. - John Hancock, 1766-74 ; Oct! session, 1774. - James Bow- doin, 1770. - John Adams, 1770. - William Phillips, 1772-74 ; Oct. session, 1774, 1776. In 1776: William Cooper, John Pitts, John Brown, Benjamin Austin, David Jeffries, Oliver Wendell, Nathaniel Appleton, Dr. Joseph Gardner, Caleb Davis, Henry Hill, Allen Otis.
DELEGATES TO PROVINCIAL CONGRESS, 1774. - Thomas Cushing, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Dr. Joseph Warren, Dr. Benjamin Church, Oliver Wendell, John Pitts.
SELECTMEN OF BOSTON, 1700-74. - Daniel Oliver, 1700, 1701, 1703-8, 1711, 1712. - Joseph Prout, 1700-8. - John Marion, Jr., 1700, 1701, 1703-5, 1714-25. - Tim. Clark,
Ephraim Savage
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SELECTMEN, 1696.
Jim Clarkley Daniel Oliver Thomas Savage Giles Lyon To Fitch
SELECTMEN, 1703, 1704.
1700-7, 1709, 1710. - Elizer Holioke, 1700, 1701. - James Barnes, 1700, 1701, 1706, 1709, 1710. - Robert Gibbs, 1700-2. - Isaiah Tay, 1701, 1709-12, 1719, 1720, 1722-25. - John
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BOSTON FAMILIES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
Barnard, 1701, 1703-6 .- John George, 1701, 1713; Gyles Dyer, 1701-4; Richª Draper, 1701, 1709 (in room of Messrs. Tay, Holyoke, and Oliver for 1701). - Robert Howard, 1702, 1704. - Major Thom- as Savage, 1702-4, 1712. - Ephraim Savage Isaiah Pay Barnes Thomas Fitch, 1703-5. - Thomas Jackson, 1 704, 1705. - Elias Heath, 1705, 1706. - Daniel Powning, 1705- 10 .- Thomas Cushing, 1707, 1708, 1711, 1719-22, 1724- 26. - Cap: Thomas Hutch- inson, 1 706, 1707 .- Stephen C Minot, 1707, 1708, 1723-25. - Abraham Blish, 1707. - Francis Thresher, 1707, 1708. - Cap! Oliver Noyes, 1708, 1711, 1719-21, decª - Jonas Clark, 1709, 1710. - Samuel Marshall, 1709,1710. - Cap! Ephraim Savage, 1709, 1710. - Joseph Wads- worth, 1709-14, 1716-18. - Cap: Edward Martyne, 1710. -Edward Hutchinson, 1711-14. - Paul Dudley, 1712 .- Francis Clark, 1712, 1713. - John Ruck, 1713, 1714. - John Colman, 1713. - William Payn, 1713. - William Welsteed, 1714, 1715, 1717, 1718. - Grove Hirst, 1714. - Cap! Edwª Winslow, 1714. - Cap! Ha- bijah Savage, 1715-18. - SELECTMEN, 1709. Samuel Greenwood, 1715- 18. - John Charnock, 1715-18. - John Baker, 1715-18, 1726.28. - Elisha Cook, 1719-23. - William Clark, 1719-23. - Eben: Clough, 1719-23. - William Hutchinson, 1721. - Cap: Nathaniel Green, 1721-26. - Ezekiel Lewis, 1724-26. - Henry Deering, 1724-26. - Jona" Waldo, 1726-28 .- Timothy Prout, 1726-29. --
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Oxenbridge Thatcher, 1727-30. - John Hunt, 1727-
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SELECTMEN, 1720, 1721.
SELECTMEN, 1734.
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THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON.
29. - David Farnum, 1727-29. - Jona" Williams, 1727-29. - Sam! Adams, 1729-32. - Jon: Loring, 1729-31. - Samuel White, 1730-32. - Joshua Cheever, 1730-32. - Andrew Tyler, 1730-32. - Benjamin Fitch, 1730-32. - Cap! John, Osborn, 1730, 1731. - Edward Bromfield, 1732, 1735. - William Downe, 1732-35. - Edward Bromfield, Jr., 1733, 1734. - Jonathan Armitage, 1733-39. - David Colson, 1733-39. - John Jeffries, 1733-43. - Joshua Winslow, 1733-35. - Cap! Alexander Forsyth, 1734-43. - Cap: Caleb Lyman, 1736-42 .- Jonas Clarke, 1736-46 .- Cap: John Eastwick, 1736.
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SELECTMEN, 1744.
SELECTMEN, 1750.
- Thomas Hutchinson, Jr., 1737-40, 1743, 1744. - Thomas Hancock, 1740-46, 1748, 1749. - Middlecott Cooke, 1740-45, 1748, 1749. - Cap! John Steel, 1741-49. - William Salter, 1744-49. - Samuel Adams, 1744-47. - Cap! Henry Atkins, 1745, 1746. - Abiel
Thomas Justing) John Scollay Samuel Sewall Sum The Savage Ezek Lewis
SELECTMEN, 1761.
Sam Hewes John Scollay
Samuel Sewall Mozek Lewis
SELECTMEN, 1 762.
Walley, 1746, 1747. - John Tyng, 1747, 1748. - Jeremiah Belknap, 1747. - Samuel Grant, 1747-49. - Thomas Hill, 1748. 1749. - John Gardner, 1749. - John Gardner, 1750. - Thomas Hancock, 1750-53. - John Steele, 1750-53. - Samuel Grant, 1750-57. - George Holmes, 1750-52 .- Joshua Henshaw, 1750-60, 1764-70. - Thomas Hill, 1750-57. - Joseph Jackson, 1752-60, 1764-72. - Thomas Cushing, 1753-63. - Samuel Hewes, 1754-63. -
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BOSTON FAMILIES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
John Scollay,1 1754-64, 1773, 1774. - Andrew Oliver, Jr., 1758-60. - Benjamin Austin, 1758-60. - Samuel Sewall, 1761-68. - Samuel P. Savage, 1761, 1762. - Ezekiel Lewis, 1761-63. - Nathaniel Thwing, 1763-
65 .- John Ruddock, 1764-72. - John Joshua Henshaw Hilackson Joseph Jackson, John Scollay John Ruddock Benj austral eny John Hancock
Samuel Sewall James emberton Hendulon Inches
Filmen of Boston
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SELECTMEN, 1764.
Hancock, 1765-74. - John Winslow, 1766. - William Phillips, 1766-78. - Timothy Newell, 1766-74. - John Rowe, 1767, 1768. - Samuel Pemberton, 1769-72. - Hender- son Inches, 1769-71. - Jonathan Mason, SELECTMEN, 1770. 1769-71. - Ebenezer Storer, 1771, 1772. - Samuel Austin, 1772-74. - Thomas Marshall, 1772-74. - Oliver Wendell, 1773, 1774. - John Pitts, 1773, 1774.
Joseph Prout Town Clerk.
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William Cooper Juin Clark
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TOWN CLERKS.
1 [John Scollay was chairman of the board, owned by the late Dr. Jacob Bigelow. Perkins, 1774-90. A portrait of him by Copley was Copley's Life and Paintings, p. 105. - ED.] VOL. II .- 68.
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THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON.
TOWN CLERKS. - 1701. Joseph Prout. - 1720. Samuel Checkley.1 - 1733. Samuel Gerrish. - 1741. Ezekiel Goldthwait. - 1761. William Cooper ..
TOWN TREASURERS. - 1704. Joseph Prout. - 1719. Joseph Wadsworth. - 1749. David Jeffries.
We may well begin our sketch of the newer families with -
41. Sir William Phips, Knt.2 He was not born in Boston, but came here to enjoy his strangely-acquired fortune; and he was the greatest ex- ample of a sudden rise from poverty. He left no children, but his wife's nephew, Spencer Bennett, became his heir; and as Spencer Phips, Lieut .- Governor for many years, was fairly to be considered a Bostonian. He resided mainly at Cambridge; and his daughters married Andrew Board- man, John Vassall, Richard Lechmere, and Joseph Lee. His only surviving son, David Phips, married Mary Greenleaf, of Boston, in 1753, and was later a refugee with his family of three sons and three daughters.
42. Lieut .- Governor William Tailer, Jr., was the son of William Tailer, a great Boston merchant who committed suicide in 1682, and Rebecca, sister of Lieut .- Governor William Stoughton. This William Tailer left the son above noted and a daughter, Elizabeth, wife of John Nelson, Lieut .- Gov- ernor. The Lieut .- Governor married, first, a daughter of Nathaniel Byfield, and secondly Abigail, daughter of Benjamin Gillam, and widow of Thomas Dudley. The cousins of Lieut .- Governor William Tailer were Elizabeth, wife of the Rev. John Danforth, and Mehitable, wife of Thomas Cooper; these being the daughters of James and Hannah (Stoughton) Minot.
43. Lieut .- Governor William Dummer was one of the three sons of Jeremiah Dummer of Boston. Of these, Jeremiah was agent for the colony in England, and died unmarried, in 1739; he was one of the very few pro- vincials who attained to any position in the mother country. Samuel, the second son, seems to have made a fortune in Jamaica, settled at Wilming- ton, Mass., and died in 1737, leaving an only daughter, Elizabeth, who married the Rev. Daniel Rogers, of Littleton. The third son, William, for many years acting-governor of the Province, left no children, but devised JohnPowell most of his property to the children of his sister Anne, wife of John Powell. Through this line the family has been con- tinued in Boston, though not in the name ; but the endowment of Dummer Academy has perpetuated the memory of the charitable governor.3
44. Lieut .- Governor William Shirley 4 was born in England, descended from a family settled at Ote Hall and Wiston in Sussex, cadets of the family · raised to the peerage as Earls Ferrers. By his wife Frances (Barker), born
1 [Colonel Samuel Checkley, born 1653; arrived 1670; married, 1680, Mary, daughter of Joshua Scottow; had eleven children, one being the Rev. Samuel Checkley ; and died Dec. 27, 1738. See Sewall Papers, iii. 231 .- ED.]
2 [See his portrait, p. 36. - ED.]
3 [See Mr. Whitmore's note on this family in Sewall Papers, i. xxi. - ED.]
4 [See the frontispiece of this volume .- ED.]
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at London in 1692, he had four sons and five daughters. Only one son survived him, Thomas, made a baronet in 1786, whose only son died s. p. in 1815. Of the daughters, Elizabeth married Eliakim Hutchinson, Frances married William Bollan, of London, Harriet married Robert Temple, and Maria married John Erving.
45. Lieut .- Governor Thomas Hutchinson.1 We have already (see Vol. I., No. 13, p. 579) given the early history of this family. Elisha Hutchinson had two sons, Thomas and Edward; Thomas married, in 1703, Sarah, daughter of Col. John Foster.2 His sons were Governor Thomas John Foster and Foster; 3 his daughters mar- ried the Rev. William Welsteed, John Davenport, William Merch- ant, the Rev. Samuel Mather, and George Rogers. Edward Hutch- inson married Lydia Foster, and left Edward, Sarah, and Elizabeth, wife of the Rev. Nathaniel Robbins. Foster Hutchinson married Margaret Mas- carene, and was a refugee. His children were Foster and Elizabeth. Governor Thomas Hutchinson married Margaret Sanford, granddaughter of Governor Peleg Sanford, of Rhode Island, and had three children. They were refugees, and their marriages will be explained under the next number.
46. Andrew Oliver (see Vol. I., No. 14, p. 580), son of Daniel Oliver,4 was Lieut .- Governor. By his first wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Fitch, he had a son Andrew, who married Mary, daughter of Benjamin Lynde, and had the Rev. Thomas-Fitch. This branch of the Olivers remained here, and two grandsons of the Rev. Thomas-Fitch are Dr. Fitch-Edward Oliver of Boston, and the Rev. Andrew. A third brother of these last was Peter, a well-known author, who died here in 1855. Lieut .- Governor Andrew Oliver married, secondly, Mary Sanford, and thus became brother-in-law of Gov- ernor Hutchinson. He had by her fourteen children. The daughters mar- ried Samuel Waldo, Edward Lyde, John Spooner; and Sarah married her cousin Thomas Hutchinson. Their daughter, Mary Oliver Hutchinson, mar-
1 [See his portrait, p. 68. - ED.]
2 [Colonel Foster died Feb. 9, 1710-11. See Sewall Papers, ii. 300; also see New England Historical and Genealogical Register, October, 1863, p. 325 .- ED. ]
3 [Foster and Thomas Hutchinson had a dry-goods store below the Swing Bridge, in 1765 .- ED.]
4 [This Daniel Oliver was for many years a councillor, and he died in 1732. His descend- ant, Dr. F. E. Oliver, owns an excellent likeness of him by Smibert. His will contains the follow- ing provision : " Imprimis, I give and bequeath my house adjoining to Barton's Rope-walk, called Spinning House, with the lands as now fenced in, - about fifty feet square, - with all the profits
and incomes of it, as it now stands in my books (since built), forever to be improved for learning poor children of the town of Boston to read the Word of God, and to write if need be, or any other work of charity for the public good, accord- ing to the discretion of my executors and ex- ecutrix, hereafter mentioned, with the advice of the ministers of the brick South Meeting-house and their successors ; and at the decease of my said executors and executrix, to be put into the hands of the selectmen or overseers of the poor of the town of Boston, as the minister or minis- ters of the said South Brick Meeting-house shall advise, to improve said charity for said public use." The will was signed, Dec. 17, 1731, and proved Aug. 7, 1732. - ED.]
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THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON.
ried her cousin William S. Oliver, and their daughter, Mary H. Oliver, married Frederick Hutchinson; and there were two or three more inter- marriages. Peter Oliver, chief-justice of the Province, brother of Lieut .- Governor Daniel Oliver, married Mary, daughter of William Clarke; his son Peter married Sarah, daughter of Governor Hutchinson; Andrew married Phœbe Spooner, and his daughter Elizabeth married George Watson. All these Olivers were refugees. From another line, branching off in the second generation, was Peter Oliver, who married Sarah Newdegate, and had four sons. Of these, Nathaniel married Elizabeth Brattle, and had Nathaniel, who married Martha Hobbs. This son, Nathaniel (born 1713, died 1769), married Mercy, daughter of Jacob Oliver, and had the Rev. Daniel (born 1753, died 1840), father of Henry K. Oliver, late mayor of Salem (born 1800, and still living). Thomas Oliver, cousin to Daniel Thomas Oliver. Speaker Oliver, was born at Boston in 1646. His mother married, sec- ondly, Edward Jackson, and thus he was brought up in Cambridge. He was representative for eighteen years, and speaker in 1708. He had two wives, and by them many chil- dren, most of whom died young. His son Thomas was of H. C., 1719. One of his daughters married Benjamin Prescott, and was the ancestress of famous men.
47. Sir Charles Hobby, Knt., as one of our few titled natives, may de- serve the next place. He was the son of William Hobby, and was knighted for brave conduct in Jamaica, at the time of the, earthquake in 1692. In 1705 he was urged for the post of Governor of Massachusetts, but being " a gay man, a free liver," etc., he did not succeed. He left a widow but no children at his death in 1715, and his mode of life may explain the small estate remaining to his heirs.
48. Captain Robert Temple came over in 1717, with a number of Scotch- Irish emigrants. He was undoubtedly a descendant of Sir Thomas Temple, of Stowe, baronet, probably through his third son, the Rev. Dr. Thomas Temple of Dublin, who had a son Thomas. Robert Temple married here Mehitable Nelson, who was granddaughter of Robert Nelson, by Mary, daughter of Sir John Temple of Staunton-Barry. Captain Temple owned the Ten-Hill Farms. His children were Robert Temple, who married the daughter of Governor Shirley, and had three daughters, - one married to Christopher Temple Emmett, and another to Hans Blackwood, Lord Duf- ferin, - John Temple (afterward noticed), and William Temple, who was twice married, leaving a son Robert, whose three sons live in New York. John, the second son of the emigrant, was an officer under the Crown, and married Elizabeth, daughter of James Bowdoin, afterward Governor of Massachusetts. This John was acknowledged heir to the baronetcy in 1786, and left a son, Sir Grenville Temple, whose grandson is the eleventh baro- net. A daughter of Sir John Temple married Lieut .- Governor Thomas Lindall Winthrop, of Boston, father of the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop.
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BOSTON FAMILIES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
49. John Nelson,1 above-mentioned, came to Boston and was prominent in the Andros period, and for some years later. By his wife, Elizabeth Tailer, he had two sons; also daughters, who married Captain Robert Temple, Captain Thomas Steele, Nathaniel Hubbard, and Henry Lloyd. His son Temple Nelson married Mary, daughter of Lieut .- Governor John Wentworth, of New Hampshire.
SIR CHARLES HOBBY.2
1 [See his portrait, p. 15 .- ED.]
2 [This cut follows a portrait now belonging to the Boston Athenaeum, and on deposit at the Art Museum. It was bequeathed by Mrs. Wa- terhouse to the Athenaeum as " the picture of my kinsman, Sir Charles Hobby, done by Sir Peter
Lely." As Sir Peter died before Hobby went to England, this authorship has been discredited, and the assignment given to Sir Godfrey Kneller. Sir Charles had been captain of the Artillery Company in 1702, and colonel of the Boston regiment. It is sometimes said that his knight-
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THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON.
50. Samuel Sewall was a prominent man in this century, and his for- tunate habit of keeping a diary will preserve his memory for generations. He was born in England, son of Henry Sewall of Rowley, Mass., grandson of Henry Sewall, mayor of Coventry. Back of this the line cannot be traced, and the emigrant hither does not seem to have taken a very conspicuous place. Samuel Sewall married the only child of John Hull, the rich mint- master, and in 1684 became an assistant. He was made one of the judges of the Supreme Court under the new charter, and was chief-justice from 1718 to 1728, when he resigned. Of his children, Samuel, Jr., married Rebecca, daughter of Governor Joseph Dudley; but the line soon ceased in the name. The Rev. Joseph, another son, married Elizabeth Walley, and had a son who married Elizabeth Quincy, from whom came Samuel, also chief-justice; descendants of the name still reside in Boston and the vicinity. The daughters of Samuel Sewall, Sr., married Grove Hirst, Samuel Gerrish, and the Rev. William Cooper.1
51. Isaac Addington, usually called Secretary Addington, was the son of Isaac Addington and Anne, daughter of Thomas Leverett.2 The daugh- ters of the first Isaac married Captain Samuel Moseley, Nehemiah Pearce, Captain Eleazer Davenport, and Colonel Penn Townsend. Isaac Addington, Jr., was speaker in 1685, assistant in 1686, secretary in 1690 and for nearly twenty- five years thereafter, and judge. He married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Griffith Bowen, by whom he had a daughter, who died young; and, secondly, Elizabeth (Norton), widow of Colonel John Wainwright, of Ipswich.
52. The Davenports in Boston come from Eleazer Davenport, who mar- ried Rebecca Addington. Their oldest child was Judge Addington Daven- port, a member of the Council, etc .; born 1670, died 1736. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Wainwright; her sisters married Adam Win- Adam Winthrop throp and Paul Dudley, The judge had children, - the Rev. Addington, John, Elizabeth, wife of William Dudley, and Lucy, who married the Rev. Ebenezer Turell. The Rev. Addington Davenport, of Trinity Church, married, first, Jane, daughter of Grove Hirst; and, secondly, Anne, daughter of Benjamin Faneuil. John Davenport, the other son of the judge, married Abigail, daughter of Thomas Hutchinson.
53. In the notice, in Vol. I. p. 578 (No. II), of the Savage family we
hood was given for his share in the Port Royal Expedition (see this vol., p. 105), and it has been even alleged that a consideration of £800 had something to do with it. See Hutchinson's Mass. Bay, ii. 153. His sister Judith married John Col- man; their son Benjamin was father of Judith Colman, who married Thomas Lee ; and the daughter of this last, Mrs. Louisa Lee Water- house (died in 1863), left Hobby's portrait to the Athenæum, and that of the Rev. Benjamin Col-
man to Harvard College. I am indebted for this information to Colonel Henry Lee. - ED.]
1 [The family connections of Judge Sewall are elaborately traced by Mr. Whitmore in the Sewall Papers, i., Introduction. A portrait of Samuel Sewall is given on p. 148, and of Joseph Sewall on p. 241 of the present vol- ume. - ED.]
2 [See Addington portraits in Vol. I., pp. 576, 577 .- ED.]
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BOSTON FAMILIES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
omitted to trace Thomas, son of the first Thomas Savage. This son mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of Joshua Scottow, and had Thomas, Habijah, and Arthur; also daughters Elizabeth Wadsworth, Faith Waldo, and Lydia, wife of Timothy Prout. Thomas, 3d, married Margaret Lynde, and had two daughters, - Margaret, wife of John Alford, and Elizabeth, wife of John Winslow. Habijah married Hannah Phillips, and had sons Thomas, Ha- bijah, and Arthur. Arthur, son of Thomas Savage, Jr., married Faith Phillips, and had sons Arthur and Samuel-Phillips. This last named mar- ried Sarah Tyler; he presided at the meeting at the Old South which decided that the tea should not be landed. Of his children, William lived in Jamaica and had several children, of whom Hope married Lemuel Shaw. Two other sons of Samuel P. Savage were Major Joseph and Henry, both officers in the Revolution. . Of their sisters, Lucy married Amos Bigelow, Faith married Henry Bass, and Sarah married George Thatcher.
54. The Phillips family has long been known and esteemed in Boston. The founder was the Rev. George P., of Watertown, whose son the Rev. Sam- uel, of Rowley, was father of Samuel Phillips, goldsmith, of Salem. This last married Mary Emerson, a granddaughter of Deputy-Governor Symonds, and had two sons, -the Rev. Samuel, of Andover, and Colonel John,1 of Boston. The first of these had three sons, - Samuel, of Andover, and John, of Exeter (who were the founders of Phillips Academy in Andover), and William, of Boston. Samuel, son of the last-named Samuel, was lieut .- governor, and left one son, Colonel John. William, of Boston, married Abigail Bromfield, and left a large estate to his son William, who was also lieut .- governor. This last William had two sons, Jonathan and Edward. The former, by his wife Rebecca Salisbury, left an only son William, who died a few years ago leaving an enormous fortune to a distant bearer of the name. Edward married, first, Mary Salisbury, and secondly Theresa Henshaw; and by the latter had an only son, Edward B. Phillips, who died in 1848, and left $100,000 to Harvard College. The daughters of Lieut .- Governor William Phillips married Samuel H. Walley and the Rev. Ebenezer Burgess. The other branch, springing from Colonel John, son of Samuel the goldsmith, was more especially Bostonian. By his wife, Mary Buttolph, this John had William, of Boston, who married Margaret, daughter of Jacob Wendell; and had Margaret (who was the wife of Judge Samuel Cooper, of Boston) and John. This last was the first mayor of Boston; married Sarah Walley, and had sons Thomas W., the Rev. John C., George W., Wendell, and Grenville T .; also daughters married to Francis Jenks, Alonzo Gray, Dr. Edward Reynolds, and the Rev. George W. Blagden. The members of this generation are too well known to require any further description.
55. The Wendells are a Dutch family ; settled at Albany, and came here in the last century.2 Abraham Wendell died here in 1734, leaving a son John, who married Elizabeth Quincy, and a daughter Elizabeth, who mar- ried Edmund Quincy. Jacob Wendell, brother of Abraham, colonel of
1 [See p. 468, note .- En.] 2 [The Wendell arms are figured in the Heraldic Journal, i. 49 .- ED.]
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the Boston regiment, councillor, etc., married Sarah, daughter of Dr. James Oliver, and had twelve children. The sons were Jacob, who married Eliza- beth Hunt, John-Mico, who married Catharine Brattle, and Oliver. The daughters married Richard Wibird, John Hunt, Nathaniel Oliver, Samuel Sewall, William Cooper, John Penhallow, and William Phillips. Judge Oliver Wendell, son of Jacob, married Mary, daughter of Edward Jack- son, and had Sarah, who married the Rev. Abiel Holmes; and these be- came the parents of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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