The memorial history of Boston : including Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1630-1880, Vol. III, Part 26

Author: Jewett, Clarence F; Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897
Publication date: 1880-1881
Publisher: Boston : J.R. Osgood
Number of Pages: 770


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1 Recollections of Samuel Breck, pp. 33-37.


2 [Lafayette was not personally unknown in Boston; he had been here more than once be- fore. It will be remembered that after the fail- ure of the Rhode Island campaign, in 1778, he had come to Boston to use his per- suasion with the commander of the French fleet not to desert the cause. After York- town, when he hastened to France to carry despatches to the French king, as well as from tenderer impulses, he had come to Boston to embark, reaching here on Dec. 10, 1781. Here he had been enthusias- tically received ; a committee of the town, of which Samuel Adams was chairman, had pre- sented an address to him; and a subscription taking place to rebuild the Charlestown meeting- house, burned during the battle on Bunker Hill, Lafayette had placed his name on the list for twenty-five guineas. The officers of the Massa- chusetts Line also presented an address. Hc sailed, December 23, in the French frigate "I.'Al- liance." It was Aug. 4, 1784, when Lafayette again landed in New York ; and after first visiting Mount Vernon, he began that triumphal progress through the country which evinced the love the people bore for him. As he approached Boston, in October, the officers of the army met him at Watertown ; then in a procession he made his entry over Boston Neck, through throngs of people, while he was conducted to a tavern, where he returned their compliments in a speech from a balcony. In the evening the street lan-


terns were lighted for the first time since the peace. On the nineteenth, the anniversary of Yorktown, Governor Hancock received him formally. Five hundred gentlemen dined with


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their guest in Faneuil Hall. Thirteen decorated arches surrounded the room, and Lafayette sat under a huge fleur-de-lis. Thirteen guns in the market-place accompanied as many patriotic toasts. When that one proposing the health of Washington was drunk, a curtain fell and dis- closed a picture of the General, crowned with laurel, and wearing the color of America and France. Lafayette led off the response with " Vive Washington !" In the evening, Madam Haley, a sister of the notorious. John Wilkes (see Vol. II. p. xliv), and a leader of fashion in the town, gave a great party, and there were many illuminations throughout the streets. Some days later, after he had made excursions along the coast, he embarked in the French frigate "La Nymphe," and sailed for Virginia. Magazine of American History, December, 1878. - ED.]


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THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON.


is done in a general assembly of the people.' The Marquis, glad of the opportunity, consented to attend my father. By and by the great bell of the celebrated Doctor Samuel Cooper's church, with a dozen others, BOSTON March 29, 1783. called the inhabitants together. I forget what Laft night Colonel Jolin Trumbull arrived in this town ; and brought with him the following very important the business was, but it inspired universal in- terest, and drew to the hall an overflowing INTELLIGENCE, house. The Marquis was of course well ac- commodated, and sat in silent admiration at viz. the demure manner in which the moderator Philadelphia, 23d March, 1781. Half paft Six o'Clock. was chosen and inducted to the chair, and the meeting fully organized. Then the debate Dear SIR, opened. One speaker affirmed, another de- T EN minutes fince, the Captain of the Hyder Aly came to Mr. Morris's, where I d'ined, with an account of a French packet being arrived at Chefter, in Thirty days from Cadiz, with the news that a nied, a third rejoined; each increasing in vehemence, until the matter in debatė was changed into personal sarcasm. Gibe fol- lowed gibe, commotion ensued, the popular GENERAL PEACE mass rolled to and fro, disorder reached its height, and the elders of the town were glad was figned the Twentieth of January ; and that Hoftilities were to ceafe, on this conf, the 20th of this month. to break up the stormy meeting, and postpone the discussion. My father led the Marquis out Juft now a meffenger arrived from Monficur Vallogne, to the Minifter, with the lame news : and that the Captain of the packet was on the road with the difpatches. in the midst of the angry multitude. When fairly disengaged from the crowd he said to the illustrious stranger : 'This is not the sam- ple which I wished to show you of our mode God bless you } Your's, of deliberating. Never do I recollect to have CARTER. seen such fiery spirits assembled in this hall, - J. Wadfworth, Bfq, and I must beg you not to judge of us by what PEACE EXTRA.1 you have seen to-day ; for good sense, mod- eration, and perfect order are the usual char- acteristics of my fellow-townsmen, here and elsewhere.' 'No doubt, no doubt,' said the Marquis laughing ; 'but it is well enough to know that there are exceptions to the general rule,' or words to that effect, - meaning to make a joke of the matter, which was, indeed, very often afterward the occasion of mirthful remarks upon the forbearance, calmness, decorum, and parliamentary politeness ever to be found in deliberative assemblies of pure democracy." 2


Perhaps, if Mr. Breck had been philosophically disposed, he might have reminded his guest that the town-meeting offered an opportunity for the escape of feeling, and was thus a safety-valve. The newspaper had not yet taken the place of the public assembly as the clearest reflection of the life of the day.


1 [This reduction of the Extra announcing the conclusion of a general peace is made from an original owned by Colonel W. W. Clapp. The general celebration came later. William Bur- beck rendered his bill, Feb. 28, 1784, to the


State for building a stage to exhibit the fire- works for celebrating the peace, amounting to £16 175. 3d. - ED.]


2 Recollections of Samuel Breck, pp. 39, 40.


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LIFE IN BOSTON IN THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD.


SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES BY THE EDITOR.


THE LOYALISTS. - Sabine, in his American Loyalists, estimates that some two thousand ad- herents of the King left Massachusetts. It is also stated that of the three hundred and ten who were banished by the State, over sixty were Harvard graduates. John Adams was inclined to believe that in the Colonies at large not more than two-thirds were against the Crown, and some of the Colonies were about equally divided. " The last contest in the town of Boston, in 1775, between Whig and Tory, was decided by five against two."-Works, x. 63, 87. Without aiming to make it complete, we offer the follow- ing list of such of the Loyalists as may claim, either as inhabitants or by official residence or association, to have some connection with Bos- ton. In making it we have used, besides Sabine, the list of the proscribed in t778, as given in Vol. II. 563; the "list of the inhabi- tants of Boston who on the evacuation by the British removed to Halifax with the army," which is printed in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., Dec. 18So, p. 266 (see also Curwen's Journal, p. 485) ; the address to Hutchinson and its signers, June 1, 1774, given in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., Feb. 187t, p. 43, and on p. 45, the " Solemn League and Covenant," reported by Warren on the fifth of June, and sent out to the towns as a circular, which occasioned a " pro- test " and a " proclamation " from Gage, likewise printed in the same place.


The names of the " protesters " against the " Soleinn League and Covenant," and of the addressers of Hutchinson in 1774, are printed in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., Oct. 1870, 1). 392. The signers to the address to Hutchinson in 1774 is also in Curwen's Journal, p. 465. The two volumes marked "Royalists," in the Mass. Ar- chives (vol. i. 1775-84, and ii. 1778-84) have also been examined. They are made up very largely of returns from town committees to the Provincial Congress, respecting suspected per- sons, confiscated estates, with the accounts of the agents of such estates, the doings of the Committee of Sequestration, conveyances of the property, etc. In the first volume, pp. 333 and 338, is the return June 13, 1782, of the Com- mittee on Confiscated Estates in Suffolk County, showing whose estates were settled by an agent of the Province, and to whom the different lots and buildings were sold, and for what sum; the whole amounting to £32,062 Ss. 2d. Numerous papers relating to absentee's estates, 1782-89, are in Mass. Archives, cxxxix. and beginning P. 470, are the bonds of persons "supposed to be royalists." The confiscation acts of Massa-


chusetts are printed in Curwen's Journal, p. 475. and the banishment act of 1778, in Ibid. p. 479. The Journals and Letters of Samuel Curwen give the best account of life among the Loyalists in England, and numerous notices of Loyalists are appended to it, as edited by George A. Ward, Boston, 1864. A New England club of Loyalists was formed in London in 1776, consisting of the following : - Thomas Hutchinson, Richard Clark, Joseph Green, Jonathan Bliss, Jonathan Sewall, Joseph Waldo, S. S. Blowers, Elisha Hutchinson, William Hutchinson, Samuel Sew- all, Samuel Quincy, Isaac Smith, Harrison Gray, David Greene, Jonathan Clark, Thomas Flucker, Joseph Taylor, Daniel Silsbee, Thomas Brinley, William Cabot, John S. Copley, Nathaniel Cof- fin, Samuel Porter, Benjamin Pickman, John Amory, Kobert Auchmuty, Major Urquhart, Samuel Curwen, Edward Oxnard,- most of whom were associated with Boston.


Dr. John C. Warren, in 1800, speaks of the visits he paid in England to the Tories, Harrison Gray, the Vassalls, and others, who were then living there "very comfortably." Life of John Collins Warren, i. 48.


The enumeration below is confined in the main to heads of families : -


Acre, Thomas Berry, Edward


Allen, Ebenezer Berry, John


Allen, Jeremiah


Bethel, Robert, Cl. Col.


Allen, Jolley 1 Bethune, George 11


Amory, John Black, David


Amory, Thomas ? Black, John


Black, William


Anderson, James ª


Blair, John, Baker


Apthorp, Rev. East ‘


Blair, William


Blowers, Sams'n Salter t2


Asby, James


Borland, John 13


Ashley, Joseph


Borland, John Lindall 14


Atkins, Gibbs 7


Bouman, Archibald


Atkinson, John, Merch. Boutineau, James 15


Auchmuty, Robert 8


Bowen, John


Aylwin, Thomas


Ayres, Eleanor


Badger, Rev. Moses 9


Bowman, Arch'ld, Auc.


Boylston, John 17


Barclay, Andrew


Boylston, Thomas 18


Boylston, Ward Nich's 19


Barnard, John Barrell, Colburn


Bradstreet, Samuel


Barrell, Walter, In. Gen. Brandon, John


Barrick, James, Cl. Ins. Brattle, Maj. Thomas 20


Barton, David


Birattle, William


Beath, Mary


Bridgham, Ebenezer


Bernard, Sir Francis 1' Brinley, George 21


Andros, Barret


Blair, Robert


Apthorp, Thomas 5


Apthorp, William "


Auhard, Benjamin


Bowers, Archibald


Bowes, William, Mer.16


Bowles, William


Baker, John, Jr.


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THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON


Brinley, Thomas, Mer.22 Cooley, John


Gamage, James Hooper, Jacob


Broderick, John


Copley,John Singleton 42


Gardiner, Dr.Sylvester64 Howe, John 83


Brown, David


Cotton, John 43


Gay, Martin 65 Hubbard, Daniel


Brown, Thomas, Mer.


Courtney, James


Gay, Samuel 0% Hughes, Peter


Bruce, James 28


Courtney, Richard


Gemmill, Matthew


Hughes, Samuel


Bryant, John


Courtney, Thomas


Geyer, Fred'k William67 llulton, Henry


Brymer, Alexander


Cox, Edward


Goddard, Lemuel


HIunt, John


Bulfinch, Samuel


Cox, Lemuel


Goldthwait, Ezekiel


Hunter, William


Burch, Willianı 24


Crane, Timothy


Goldthwait, Joseph 68


Hurlston, Richard


Burroughs, John


Crow, Charles #


Goldthwait, M. B.


Hutchinson, Eliakim 9,


Burton, Mary, Milliner Cummins, A. and E.


Gookin, Edmund


Hutchinson, Elisha 91


Burton, William


Cunningham, Archib'd 45


Gore, John 69 Gore, Samuel


Hutchinson,Gov.Thos.93


Butler, James


Cutler, Ebenezer 48


Gorman, Edward


llutchinson, Thos. Jr.94


Butter, James


Danforth, Dr. Sam'] +7


Gray, Andrew


Hutchinson, William


Byles, Rev. Dr. Mather 25 Danforth, Thomas 48


Gray, Harrison 70


Inman, John


Byles, Mather, Jr.20


Davies, William


Gray, Harrison, Jr.


Inman, Ralph 95


Calef, Robert 27


Davis, Benjamin


Gray, John 71


Jackson, William 96


Campbel, William


Davis, Edward


Gray, Joseph 72


Jarvis, Robert


Caner, Rev. Dr. Henry 28 Deblois, Gilbert 49


Gray, Lewis


Jeffrey, Patrick 97


Capen, Hopestill


De Blois, Lewis 50


Gray, Samuel 73


Jeffries, John 98


Carr, Mrs.


Dechezzan, Adam 51


Gray, Thomas


Jennex, Thomas


Carver, Melzer 29


Demsey, Roger


Greecart, John


Johonnot, Francis


Cary, Nathaniel


Dickenson, Nathaniel


Greene, Benjamin 74


Johonnot, Peter 99 Joy, John


Caste, Dennis


Dickinson, William


Greene, Richard 76


Kerland, Patrick


Caste, Dr. Thomas Dickson, William


Green, Francis 77


King, Edward


Cazneau, Edward 81


Dougherty, Edward


Green, Joseph 78


Knight, Thomas


Cazneau, William


Doyley, Francis


Greenlaw, John


Knutton, John 100


Cednor, William


Doyley, John


Greenleaf, Stephen 79


Knutton, William


Ceely, John


Draper, Margaret 62


Greenwood, Isaac


Laughton, Henry


Chadwel, Samuel


Draper, Richard 53


Greenwood, Nathaniel Laughton, Joseph


Chandler, John, Esq.32


Dudley, Charles, Col- lector, Newport.


Gridley, Benjamin 8 '


Lazarus, Samuel


Chandler, Rufus, Law. Duelly, William


Grison, Edmond


Lear, Christopher


Chandler, William


Dumaresq, Philip, Mer.54


Grozart, John


Lechmere, Richard 101


Cheever, Wm. Downe


Duncan, Alexander


Hale, Samuel


Leddel, Henry Lee, Henry


Church, Dr. Benjamin 34 Duyer, Edmund


Hallowell, Benjamin 82


Lee, Judge Joseph 102


Clark, Benjamin


Edson, Josiah


Hallowell, Robert 88


Leonard, Daniel


Clark, John


Elton, Peter Emerson, John


Harper, Isaac


Leslie, James


Clarke, Isaac Winslow Erving, George 56


Harrison, Joseph 8+


Lewis, John


Clarke, Jonathan 35


Erving, John 58


Harrison, Richard A. 85 Lillie, Theophilus


Clarke, Richard 36


Erving, John, Jr.57


Haskins, John


Linkieter, Alexander 108


Clemmens, Thomas


Fall, Thomas


Hatch, Christopher


Linning, Andrew


Clement, Capt. Joseph Faneuil, Benjamin 58


Hatch, Hawes


Lloyd, Henry 104


Clementson, Samuel


Faneuil, Benjamin, Jr. Field, John


Hatch, Nathaniel 86 Ileath, William


Lloyd, Samuel


Coffin, Ebenezer 37 Coffin, John 88


Fisher, Turner 59


Hester, John


Loring, Joshua 107


Coffin, Nathaniel


Fisher, Wilfred


Hewes, Shubael 87


Loring, Joshua, Jr.108


Coffin, Nathaniel 89


. Fitch, Samuel


Hicks, John 88


Lovell, Benjamin 109


Coffin, Nathaniel, Jr.


Fleming, John 60


Hinston, John


Lovell, John 110


Coffin, Sir Thos. Aston+? Flucker, Thomas 61 Coffin, William 41 Forrest, James 62


Hodges, Samuel


Lush, George


Coffin, Wm. Jr. Merch. Foster, Edward


Hodgson, John


Lyde, Byfield 111


Colepepper, James


Foster, Edward, Jr.


Hodson, Thomas


Lyde, Edward 112


Connor, Mrs. Frankland, Lady 63


Holmes, Benjamin M. Lyde, George


Cook, Robert


Fullerton, Stephen


lomans, John


Lynch, Peter


Case, James


Dickinson, Francis


Greene, David 75


Cazneau, And'w, Law.8) Domette, Joseph


Green, Hammond


Greenwood, Samuel


Lawler, Ellis


Chandler, Nathaniel


Chipman, Ward 88


Dunlap, Daniel


Hall, James 81


Halson, Henry


Leonard, George


Codner, William


Fillis, John


Henderson, James


Loring, Dr. Benjamin 106


Hirons, Richard


Lowe, Charles


Lloyd, Dr. James 106


Clark, Joseph


Kirk, Thomas


Butler, Gillam


Cushman, Elkanah


Hutchinson, Foster 92


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LIFE IN BOSTON IN THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD.


McAlpine, William 113 McClintock, Nathan Macdonald, Dennis McEwen, James


Patten, George


Patterson, William Paxton, Charles 188


Pecker, Dr. James 184


Scott, Joseph


Townsend, Gregory Townsend, Shippy


Mackay, Mrs. Mckean, Andrew MacKinstrey, Mrs. 114 Mckown, John


Pelham, Henry Pemberton, Rev. Eb- enezer 185


Pepperell, Sir William (the younger) 136


Perkins, Houghton 187


Perkins, James 188


Perkins, Dr. Nathanlel


Sewall, Jonathan 160


Vassall, William, Jr.18o


Perkins, Dr. Wm. Lee 130


Perry, William


Sheaffe, Nathaniel 16t


Waldo, Joseph INI Walter, Rev. William 182


Magner, John


Pettit, John Sam


Sheaffe, Roger 162


Sheaffe, Thos. Child 163 Warden, James


Malcom, John 117 Marston, Benjamin


Phillips, Ebenezer


Sheaffe, William 164


Warden, Joseph


Martin, William


Phillips, John 14?


Shepard, Joseph


Sherwin, Richard


Warren, Abraham


Massingham, Isaac Mather, Samuel Mein, John 118


Phips, David 141


Silsby, Daniel


Waterhouse, Samuel


Meserve, George


Pitcher, Moses 142


Simpson, John


Welsh, James Welsh, Peter Wendell, Jacob


Mewse, Thomas


Pollard, Benjamin


Simpson, Jeremiah


Wentworth, Edward 188


Mills, Nathaniel 119


Powell, John


Simpson, William


Wheelwright, Job


Minot, Christopher Minot, Samuel


Price, Benjamin


Smith, Edward


Wheelwright, Joseph


Mitchel, Thomas Mitchelson, David


Prince, Samuel


Smith, Richard


White, Gideon 184


Moody, John


Prout, Timothy


Sparhawk, Samuel


Whitworth, Nathan'] 196


Moody, John, Jr.


Putnam, James 144


Spillard, Timothy


Whitworth, Dr. Miles 187


Moore, Augustus


Quincy, Samuel 146


Spooner, Ebenezer


Morrison, John 120 Morrow, Col.


Ramage, John Rand, Dr. Isaac 147


Stayner, Ahigail


Willard, Abe] 199


Mossman, William


Randall, Robert


Stearns, Jonathan 168


Willard, Abijah 191


Mulcainy, Patrick 12t


Read, Charles


Sterling, Benj. Ferdin'd Williams, Job 191


Mulhall, Edward 122


Reeve, Richard 118


Sterling, Elizabeth


Williams, John 192


Murray, James


Rhodes, Henry


Stevens, John 109


Williams, Seth 198


Murray, Col. John 123


Rice, John


Steward, Adam 170


Willis, David


Murray, William


Richards, Owen


Story, William Stow, Edward


Wilson, Joseph


Nevin, Lazarus


Roberts, Frederic


Sullivan, Bartholomew


Winnet, John, Jr.


Norwood, Ebenezer Nunn, Samuel Ochterlony, David 124


Rogers, Nathan


Taylor, John


Winslow, Isaac 199


Oliver, Andrew 125


Rogers, Samuel


Taylor, Joseph 171


Winslow. John 197


Oliver, Judge Peter 123


Rose, Peter


Taylor, Nathaniel 172


Winslow, Joshua


Oliver, Dr. Peter 127


Rowth, Richard 151


Taylor, William


Winslow, Pelham 196


Oliver, Thomas 128


Royall, Isaac 152


Terry, Zebedee


Terry, William


Wittington, William


O'Neil, Joseph


Ruggles, Richard


Orcutt, Joseph


Ruggles, Timothy


Rummer, Richard


Paddock, Adino, Jr.181


Russell, Ezekiel 154 Russell, James 155 Russell, Nathaniel


Page, George Paine, Samuel


Parker, Rev. Samuel 182 Saltonstall, Leverett 158


Parker, William


Pashley, George


vol. II. - 23.


Savage, Abraham


Thompson, George


Thompson, James Timmins, John


Selby, John


Selkrig, James Troutbeck, Rev. John 17%


Selkrig, Thomas


Trowbridge, Edmund 17€


Semple, John


Tufts, Simon 177


Semple, Robert Tull, Thomas


Semple, Thomas


Turill, Thomas


Vassall, John 178


Service, Robert


Vassall, William 179


McMaster, Daniel 115 McMaster, James 116 McMasters, Patrick MeMullen, Alexander McNeil, Archibald McNeil, William Madden, Richard


Phillips, Benjamin


Pine, Samuel


Simmonds, William


Miller, John


Porter, James 148


Simpson, Jonathan 166


Wheaton, Obadiah


Powell, William D.


Skinner, Francis


Whiston, Obadiah


Prince, Job


Smith, Henry 166


Snelling, Jonathan 167


Whitworth, Dr. Miles,


Moore, John


Spooner, George


Jr. 188


Newton, Richard


Richardson, Ebenezer 149


Sullivan, George


Winslow, Edward 194


Winslow, Edward, Jr. 195


Taylor, Charles


Winsinw, Mrs. Hannah


Oliver, Wm. Sanford 120 Ruggles, John 158


Thayer, Arodi 173 Woolen, William


Thomas, Jonathan


Worral, Thos. Grooby


Thomas, Nath'I Ray 174 Wright, Daniel


NOTES.


I See his account of his own tribulations io Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., February, 1878.


2 Brother of John. See Sabine, who shows how their descendants are well known among us now.


3 Washington speaks of him during the siege as com- manding the Sentch Company in Boston.


Saltonstall, Richard 157 Sampson, John


Savage, Arthur 154 Scammel, Thomas


Pecker, Jeremiah


Serjeant, John


Sewall, Samuel 10) Vincent, Ambrose


Warden, William


Phillips, Martha


Putnam, James, Jr.143


White, John 185


Wilson, Archibald


Rogers, Jeremiah Dum- mer 150


Paddock, Adino 180


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THE MEMORIAL HISTORY OF BOSTON.


4 Of Christ Church, Cambridge ; the antagonist of Jonathan Mayhew.


5 Estate settled by Martin Brimmer. Inventory in Mass. Archives, " Royalists," i. 425.


6 Estate settled by John Scollay.


7 Died in Boston in 1806.


8 Estate settled by Saml. G. Jarvis. See Vol.11. and IV. index. His house is shown in Vol. 11. p. 343.


9 Connected with the Saltonstalls. See Sabine.


10 Estate settled by Joseph Smith. See Vnl. 11. index. Governar Bernard had left the country in 1769, but his estate was confiscated ten years later. It comprised filty acres.


II His wife was a daughter of Benjamin Faneuil. He died at Cambridge in 1785.


12 Went to England in 1774 ; returned in 1778 ; was im- prisoned ; but being released went to Nova Scotia, where he attained distinction and died in 1842.


13 Estate settled by Richard Cranch. loventory taken April 9, 1776 ; sold March, 1778. Mass. Archives. " Royal- ists," i. 423. See Vol. 11. index. See Sabine.


14 Estate settled by Israel Hutchinson. Died in Eng- land in 1825.


15 See the chapter on the Huguenots in Vol. 11.


16 Died in England in 1805.


17 John Boylston, son of Dr Zabdiel Boylston, left Boston in 1768, and lived afterward in London and Bath, whence his letters through the war evinced his kindly feel- ings for his townsmen, and he did much to relieve the sufferings of the American prisoners at Forton. In his will dated at Bath, in 1793, he makes a bequest "to the poor and decayed householders of the town of Boston," and for " the nurture and instruction of poor orphans and deserted children of the town of Boston, until fourteen years of age." The City Auditor's reports show that these funds now exceed one hundred thousand dollars. N. E. Hist. & Geneal. Reg., April, 1881


ra Diedio London in 1798, ruined in fortune and broken in heart.


19 Name changed from Hallowell; was the son of Benjamin Hallowell, named below. He returned to Bos- ton in 1800, and died at Roxbury in 1828.


20 Recovered his patrimony by act of the Legislature in 1784, and died in 1801.


21 Died in Halifax in 1809.


22 H. C. 1744 ; died in England in 1784.


23 Perhaps the captain of one of the tea-ships.


24 Commissioner nf Customs.


25 See Vol. II. index, and Mr. Scudder's chapter in this volume.


26 See Vol. 11 index, and Mr. Goddard's chapter in this volume.


27 Estate settled by Samuel Partridge ; son of John Calef, of Ipswich ; died in Virginia in »Sor.


28 Estate settled by Levi Jennings. See Rev. Dr. Brooks's chapter in this volume. This estate is now covered in part by the building of the Mass. Hist. Society.


29 A refugee in Boston ; embarked in 1776.


30 Returned to Bostan in 1788, and died in Roxbury in 1792. His property escaped confiscation.


31 Returned after the war; settled in South Carolina, and died in Boston.


32 From Worcester ; took refuge in Boston in 1774, and embarked in 1776. Died in 1800 in London. George Ban- croft is his grandson. The three oames following are those of his brothers.


33 He fled into Baston in 1775 ; and left with the troops ; became distinguished in Nova Scotia.


34 See a previous page in this volume.


35 Son of Richard.


36 One of the consignees of the Tea, and father-in-law


of Copley the artist. Died in England in 1795. 37 Son of William, Jr.


38 Son of Nathaniel, the Receiver-General.


39 Died in New York, in 1780; Father of Sir Isaac Coffin. See Editorial Note to chap. I. of Vol. IV.


40 Son of William, Jr. ; graduated at Harvard College


10 1772. No evidence of his right to the title Sir.


41 Son of Nathaniel, the Receiver-Geoeral.


42 See Mr. Arthur Dexter's chapter in Vol. 1V.


43 A great-grandson of the first minister of Boston; died in Boston in 1776 : was royal deputy secretary.


44 Carted to the British lines in Rhode Island in 1777.


45 Died respected in Nova Scotia in 1820.


46 Of Northborough : sent into Boston by General Ward; left with the troops in 1776.


47 Remained in Boston after the siege. See Dr. Green's chapter in Vol. IV.


48 Of Charlestown.


49 Lived where the Horticultural Hall stands ; died in England in 1791.


50 Died in England in 1779.


$1 Sabine says " Deonezzan."


52 Widow of Richard ; died in England in 1800.


53 See Vol. 11. 392.


54 Married a daughter of Dr. Sylvester Gardiner. See Vol. II. 268.


55 Merchant ; embarked in 1776; died in Loodoo in 1806 ; married daughter of Isaac Royall.


56 An eminent merchant ; died in Boston, in 1786. See Vol. IT. index.


57 H. C. 1747 ; embarked in 1776; died in England in 1816; married a daughter of Governor Shirley. His son, Dr. Shirley Erving, died in Boston in 1813. See Vol. II P· 539.


58 An eminent merchant ; died in Cambridge in 1785 See Vol. 11. index.


$9 Son of Wilfred.


60 Printer ; partoer of Mein. See Mr. Goddard's chap- ter in Val. TI.


61 Estate settled by Joseph Pierce. Ot his family there is some account in Drake's Life of Knox, appendix. Died in England in 1783.


62 Commanded the Loyal Irish Volunteers ia Boston during the siege.


63 See ante in this chapter. and Vol. II. index.


64 Estate settled by Nathaniel Gorham. Banished, 1778. Perkins's Copley, 56 ; Heraldic Journal, iv. 98 ; Sabine, i. 461 ; see also Vol. 11. p. 558.


65 Son of Rev. Dr. Gay, of Hingham ; left with the troops in 1776.


66 Son of Martin ; H.C. 1775 ; went to New Brunswick.


67 Returned and restored to citizenship in 1789 ; was grandfather of Capt Marryat, the novelist.


68 Born in Boston, 1730; banished 1778; Major of British army. See Perkins's Copley, 57.


69 Left with the troops in 1776; citizenship restored in 1787 ; died in Boston in 1796 ; father of Governor Chris- topher Gore.


70 Estate settled by Joseph Henderson. Perkins's Copley, p. 68. See Harrison Gray Otis's defence of the character of his grandfather, Harrison Gray, in Loring's Boston Orators, p. 191.




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