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"Read and Committed to the Committee for Petitions." 1
The original petition cannot be located, so the names of four of the seven signers can only be guessed at. The third was beyond question Ebenezer Fales, whose name is given prominence in subsequent proceedings. And tradition has it that Thomas Clap, Peter Fales, Sr., Joseph Hartshorn and Ezra Morse completed the list.2 But in the case of Morse we can put down the tradition of being wrong. Instead of favoring the petition, he and his sons opposed it. This is clear from contemporary documents, as we shall show. Furthermore, in 1738 they appealed to the legislature, saying that they had been in- cluded in the new town of Walpole "contrary to their wills and much against their interest," and asking to be set back to Dedham again.3 As
1 House Journals, June 2, 1724. 2 Lewis, 57.
3 Legislative Record of the Council, XVII, (1), 308, 376.
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Walpole made no effort to stop them, they were accordingly set off and Walpole's north boundary was changed. 1
Ten days after the petition was first recorded, Col. Chandler, of the Committee for Petitions, reported that "The Committee are of Opinion that some suitable Persons at the Charge of the Petitioners, be appointed by this Court to repair to Dedham, view the Land Petitioned for a Township, and report their Opinion to this Court at their next Session, for what they think proper to be done relating to this Petition. And inasmuch as the Petitioners expressed their desires to this Committee that a suitable place might be assigned whereon to Erect a Meeting- House, The Committee are humbly of Opinion, that if the Persons who may be appointed to view the proposed Township be directed to propose or state a suitable place for the same, it may prevent Trouble and Charge for the future.
"Read and Accepted, And "Voted, that Mr. Speaker, Col. Spurr, and Major Quincy, with such as the Honourable Board shall appoint be a committee to repair to the Lands Petitioned for to be erected into a Township, and view the same, and report their Opinion to this Court at their next Session
1 House Journals, Dec. 8, 1738; Jan. 9, 1738/39.
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what may be proper to Order thereon. Sent up for Concurrence."1
The upper house or Council was too busy with other matters to pay attention to the appeal of the saw mill people, and the petition lay pigeon- holed until the legislature was prorogued for the summer. It was not brought up for action until November 11, when the Council approved the action of the Representatives, and named William Tailer as its representative on the joint committee to investigate and report.2
The committee found that sentiment was not unanimous among the residents of the territory proposed for inclusion in the new town. The matter of bounds was probably one bone of contention and the location of the meeting house very clearly another. To judge from the report of the investigators, Ezra Morse was one of the chief complainants. Whatever the differ- ences of opinion may have been, they doubtless contributed to the unfavorable opinion formed by the committee and led to the filing of an adverse report.
According to the judgment of the committee, submitted to the Council November 27, 1724, "there is a Sufficient Quantity of Land within the Bounds petitioned for to be a Township,
1 House Journals, June 12, 1724.
2 Legislative Record of the Council, XII, 234, 235.
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but that it will not be proper to Constitute them a Town until further Settlements are made, That therefore at Present they be Sett off as a Distinct & Separate Precinct & Vested with such Powers and Privileges as by Law are Al- lowed to other Precincts, The Bounds to Extend from Wrentham Bounds by Dorchester line to Hawses Brook, Then that Brook to be the Bounds until you come to Bubbling Brook, Then by Bubbling Brook Streight to Medfield Road, & by Medfield Road to Medfield Line, That Never the less Mr. Ezra Morse who dwells on the South Side & near unto Hawses Brook with his family & Estate be taxed unto the North Precinct, If he Continues to Desire it That the Inhabitants of the Said Pre- cinct be Obliged within eighteen Months at their Charge to Build & finish a Suitable House for the Publick Worship of God on a Piece of Rising Ground, twenty Rods or thereabouts to the South West of Mr. Thos Claps Dwelling House, where three Roads Meet, Which Piece of Ground is said to belong to the Said Clap, Who offered the Committee to give freely for the Use Above Mentioned: ... That they Provide as Soon as May be a Learned Orthodox Minister to Preach the Gospel to them, and to be freed from all Charges towards the Maintenance of the Present Minister of the Town of Dedham. That they Procure a School Master to Instruct
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their Youth in Writing & reading And so doing, to be exempt from all Charges towards the School in the Northern Precinct; That they be Allowed to Assess the Charge of Building a Meeting House & Settling & Maintaining a Minister there, All Which is Humbly Sub- mitted." 1
The Council approved the recommendations and ordered the precinct set off. The costs of the investigation, £5, 13s were to be paid by residents of the new parish.
The Representatives, however, were of a different mind. Possibly the saw mill residents had been doing a little lobbying. Or one of the periodic scraps between the two houses might have been in progress, and the Representatives proposed to demonstrate their power. At any rate, when the vote of the Council came up for action in the House, it was amended to authorize the creation of a new town instead of a mere pre- cinct, and the petitioners were instructed to bring in a bill to that effect.2 But the Council insisted on its original vote and would not accept the amendment; and the House insisted on its vote, and would not bend to the will of the Council. An apparent deadlock on December 3 3 ended when the Council gracefully surrendered
1 Leg. Rec. of Council, XII, 268, 269.
? House Journals, Dec. 1, 1724.
' House Journals, Dec. 3, 1724.
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and sent along on December 4 to be engrossed "A Bill Entitled, An Act for Dividing the Town of Dedham, and Erecting a New Town by the Name of Walpole." It is the first mention of the name. 1
Robert Walpole had been prime minister of England for three years, and already had dem- onstrated those peculiar capabilities which en- abled him for many years thereafter to hold his post and wield tremendous powers. He had, furthermore, proved himself a friend to the American colonists. Filled with a spirit of independence from the early days of the settle- ment, the Americans had been in almost constant conflict with Parliament; and in 1721, when the Royal Governor of Massachusetts, Samuel Shute, returned to England, it was to report to the King that the inhabitants of the Bay Pro- vince "are daily endeavouring to wrest the small remains of Power out of the hands of the Crown, and to become independent of the Mother Country." It seemed in 1723 as if the Massachusetts Provincial Charter would be vacated and that the people here would be stripped entirely of their governing powers. At this juncture the unwillingness of Walpole to intervene-his constant rule of action was "Quieta non Movere" (don't stir up the animals while they are quiet)-prevented serious charter
1 Legislative Record, XII, 278, 280.
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troubles.1 Matters were still acute when the new town was set off; and it is not too much to believe that a potent argument used for setting it up as a town rather than a mere parish was that by naming it for Sir Robert the friend- ship of that powerful minister might be main- tained. Through all his years as head of the government in England he let the Americans strictly alone. Urged to place a heavy tax upon them (as did his successors, with the Revo- lution as a result) he remarked that he already had old England set against him and had no de- sire to have New England added to his difficul- ties. 2
With its name decided upon, the bill setting up the new town was speedily passed, final action being taken by the House December 10, 1724.3
At the same time, the Council acting on the 8th, and the House on the 10th, the following order was passed:
"Ordered, That Mr. Ebenezer Fales, a prin- cipal Inhabitant of the Town of Walpole, be and hereby is directed and impowred to Notify and Summons the Inhabitants duly Qualified for Voters, to Assemble and meet together for
1 Revolutionary N. E., 131-132. 2 Ibid., 210.
' House Journals, Dec. 7, 8, 9 and 10. Mass. Acts and Resolves, II, 342. Mass. Arch., Ch. XIV, Acts of 1724. Leg. Rec. of the Coun- cil, XII, 289, 290.
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the Chosing of Town Officers, and stand unto the next Annual Election according to Law."
Thus was Walpole formally ushered into the world. Its birth was publicly proclaimed at the State House on King (now State) street, in Bos- ton, December 28; and the people of the Province read of it, as follows, in the Boston News-Letter of December 31:
"On Thursday the 24th Instant, His Honour Our Lieut Governour and Commander in Chief, was pleased to Prorogue the Great and General Court or Assembly of this Province, to Wednesday the 20th of January next, having first given Assent to the following Acts . . An Act for Dividing the Town of Dedham, and Erecting a New Town there by the Name of Walpole."
In spite of the inference in this notice, it is probable, as was the custom unless otherwise recorded, that the Lieutenant Governor's signa- ture was affixed to the engrossed act on the day of its passage. So December 10-December 21 in our present system of dating-may be fixed upon with reasonable certainty as Walpole's natal day.
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THE FOUNDERS1
THE THE earliest known list of representative Walpole residents is a tax roll dated Sept. 15, 1726.2 The town was then more than a year and a half old; and it is certain that in the months that had passed since the territory had been set off from Dedham, newcomers had come in and established homes. In the absence of any earlier listing, those residents whose names ap- pear on this first tax roll will be regarded as the founders of Walpole for the purposes of this account.
Here are the names, as they are written on the roll:
Serg Joshua Clap, Serg Ezra Morse, Ebenezer Falles, Joseph Hartshorn, John Boyden, Joshua Fisher, John Hall, William Robins, Thomas Clap, Timothy Morse, John Guild, Barnerd Firuntun, Ebenezer Robins, Thomas Harts- horn, Ezra Morse Jun, Samuel Pety, Daniel Sanders, William Fisher, John Marsh, Roburt
1 This chapter is chiefly the work of Mr. Pierce E. Buckley of Scituate, Mass.
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To this must be added the name of Peter Fales, husband of the Abigail mentioned, and William Robbins the pioneer (father of William mentioned), both of whom died soon after the town was established.
Other names are given on this list, but they are those of non-residents owning property in the town.
Following are brief genealogical sketches of the founders, running back wherever possible to the immigrant ancestor. They are mere out- lines, intended chiefly to guide those who may care to go further into the subject.
ROBERT and JOHN ALLEN were brothers, grandsons of Lewis Allen of Watertown Farms (Weston) who appears first in 1665, supposedly from Wales. He married 1st, Sarah Ives of Watertown; 2d, Mary (Sherman) Freeman, widow of Henry Freeman. She died 1703 and he in 1708. Abel, son of the second marriage,
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was born at Watertown Farms, Sept. 15, 1669. He married first, Sarah who died 1736, and by whom he had Robert, born Jan. 21, 1694, and John, born Nov. 15, 1699.
ROBERT ALLEN bought in 1722, a farm of James Fales in Dedham, later Walpole. He married Elizabeth Fales on Jan. 4, 1727. She died in 1737 and he married second, Ruth Fisher, April 20, 1738. Ruth died Nov. 3, 1770 and Robert died Oct. 13, 1778. He had children by each wife.
JOHN ALLEN followed Robert to Walpole. He was a resident of the town in June, 1725, when he gave notice of intention to marry. He married Elizabeth Hastings of Weston on June 22, 1725, and settled in Medfield, on the Wal- pole road. 1
JAMES BARDEN. The earliest record to be found of James Barden is of his marriage to Mehitable Clapp at Medfield in 1717. We know that he resided in that town for some time, for three of his children were born there: James in 1718, Mehitable in 1720, and Elizabeth in 1722.2 He was at Walpole when it was set off as a town in 1724. His wife died at Walpole on April 16, 1758, and he died on December 23, 1745.3
1 Bent, Allen H. Lewis Allen of Watertown Farms. Boston, 1900.
? Tilden, W. S. History of the Town of Medfield. Boston, 1887.
$ Walpole Vital Records.
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There was a James Barden of Walpole married at Wrentham to Sarah Hill on February 22, 1776,1 evidently a grandson of the first James. The name Barden appears next in 2 Attleboro. Thomas Barden, in 1757, settled in that town. This branch of the family removed to Yates County,3 New York, in 1789.
JOHN BOYDEN was born in Groton on Decem- ber 6, 1672. He was a grandson of Thomas Boyden who was born in England and sailed for America on the ship "Francis" from Ipswich, Suffolk County, England, in April, 1634. Of the parentage, birthplace or history of Thomas, nothing has been found. He resided in Scituate, Watertown, Boston, Groton and Medfield.
Captain John's father was Thomas Boyden, son of the immigrant, and was born in Water- town and died in Groton. He had six children and John was the third child. Captain John was married to Hannah
In the Probate Records of Boston, John Boyden's will was executed on October 28, 1754, as late of Walpole. Another item shows, "We have viewed the Real Estate of Captain John Boyden, late of Walpole, deceased, died possessed of, and have set off to his Relict, Widow Hannah Boyden, now Everit."
1 Wrentham Vital Records. 2 Daggett. History of Attleboro.
* Cleveland, S. C. History of Yates County, N. Y. Penn Yan, N. Y., 1873.
' Thomas Boyden and his descendants. Boston, 1901.
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JOHN BOYDEN, second of the name on the list, was a first cousin (once removed) of the other Thomas, and a great-grandson of Thomas Boyden, the immigrant. The latter had a son, Jonathan, born in Boston in 1652, and he also had a son Jonathan, born July 30, 1674, in Med- field. Jonathan of Medfield married, first, Rachel Fisher, on Nov. 17, 1698. She died in 1712. He married again and died March 3, 1719. Their son John was born Sept. 30, 1702. He married Prudence, daughter of Ebenezer and Prudence Leach, of Bridgewater, Oct. 19, 1728. They had nine children, all born in Wal- pole. 1
MOSES CHAMBERLAIN first appears as a resi- dent of Dedham in 1720. He married, first, Mary Clapp of Dedham, in Boston on Septem- ber 22, 1722. His wife (Mary) died at Walpole on July 27, 1725, and he married the second time at Dedham on September 8, 1726, Deborah Onion. Chamberlain, who was one of the ten original members of the First Church at Walpole, died October 13, 1766.2
JOSHUA and ELIEZER CLAP or CLAPP were brothers, grandsons of Thomas Clap who came to America from England July 24, 1633. He resided for a few years at Weymouth and then
1 Thomas Boyden and his descendants. Boston, 1901.
2 Chamberlain Association of America. Annual Meeting, 1903.
Vital Records of Walpole. Boston, 1902.
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removed to Hingham and later to Scituate. He was deacon of the church there in 1647, and was warmly engaged in theological discus- sion respecting the form of baptism with Rev. Charles Chauncey, later President of Harvard College. He was a deputy to the General Court in 1649.
Thomas, son of Thomas the immigrant, was born in Weymouth in 1639. He is the original Clap who came to Dedham, settled near the Old Saw Mill and married Mary Fisher, daugh- ter of the mill owner. He died Jan. 29, 1691. Of the children of this Thomas and Mary were three sons: Thomas (born Sept. 26, 1663; died Jan. 28, 1704), the father of Thomas of the tax list, and Joshua and Eleazer or Eliezer.
JOSHUA CLAP, son of Thomas and Mary Fisher, married first, Mary, daughter of Jona- than Boyden (she died May 18, 1718), and, secondly, Silence Wright, widow of William Wright, daughter of John Bird of Dorchester. Joshua was a farmer. He died in 1728.
ELEAZER CLAPP was born November 4, 1671. He married, but the name of his wife is not given. They had one child, Stephen, possibly the Stephen of the tax list. Eleazer died Janu- ary 9, 1748-49.
THOMAS CLAP of the tax roll was a nephew of Eleazer and Joshua, son of Thomas and
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married Hannah -? They had several children. He died Feb. 18, 1741.
STEPHEN CLAP was either the brother of the preceding Thomas, born 1700, of whom very little is known, or the previously mentioned Stephen, son of Eleazer. This Stephen was a mariner, married first a Hannah and then a Mary, and died in 1750 leaving an estate worth £8000.1
BENJAMIN ELDRIDGE. The earliest record of the name of Eldridge appears in Yarmouth, Mass.2 Robert Eldridge was a servant bound to Nicholas Simpkins on May 25, 1639.3 Next mention of this family is a Thomas in 1668 and Joseph in 1678, probably sons of Thomas. They both resided in Boston and had families there as late as 1685. The name disappeared from the Boston Records until years later. Benjamin's name does not appear at all in these records, nor is there any record of birth, marriage or death. In a list of soldiers at the siege of Louisburg,4 "Benjamin Eldridge was a private in Captain Lumbards Company, Seventh Massa- chusetts Regiment, Col. Shubel Gorham Com- manding at the siege of Louisburg in 1745." This might have been Benjamin of Walpole.
1 Clapp, Ebenezer, compiler. Records of the Clapp Family in America. Boston, 1876.
2 Library of Cape Cod History and Genealogy. No. 47 and 101.
3 Savage. Genealogical Dictionary, V. 2.
4 N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg., XXV, 260.
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ABIGAIL FALES was the widow of Peter Fales, one of the early settlers who died less than a year after Walpole was made a town. Peter was a son of James Fales, a native of England who settled in Dedham as early as 1651. James married, July 28, 1655, Anne Brock, also a native of England, a daughter of Rev. Henry Brock of the Isles of Shoals. She died in 1705 and James three years later. 1
PETER FALES was born probably in 1668, and married Abigail Robbins about 1689. She probably was a sister of the first William Rob- bins, who came to what is now Walpole in 1691 from Reading. Peter Fales died Aug. 10, 1725. His wife survived him a few years.2
EBENEZER FALES was a grandson of James Fales, and a nephew of Peter. Ebenezer's father, James, son of James, was born in Ded- ham, July 4, 1656. He married Deborah Fisher, daughter of Anthony and Joanna (Faxon) Fisher, and died March 4th or 5th, 1741-2. Their son Ebenezer was born February 1, 1681-2.3 He was one of the seven petitioners for the setting off of Walpole, was moderator of the first meeting, and a deacon of the church. But in spite of his prominence, we do not know the family names of either of his two wives.
1 Fales, DeCoursey. The Fales Family of Bristol, R. I., 1919.
* Vital Records of Walpole.
' Fales, De Coursey, The Fales Family of Bristol, R. I., 1919.
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The first was Deborah ? and the second Sarah ? He died July 19, 1755, five days after the death of his wife Sarah. 1
BERNARD or BARNOD FARRINGTON. It might be of interest to the historian or genealogical investigator to know that this is the first record printed of this man and his family. Bernard Farrington was the grandson of John Farrington who was in Dedham in 1646, where he married Mary Bullard, daughter of William Bullard, in 1650. John was made freeman and joined the First Church on October 3, 1667. This couple had eleven children, one of whom was John, born on February 25, 1654, at Dedham. He married Mary -? Bernard was their child and he also was born at Dedham on November 21, 1686. Who Bernard married or where he went to live after leaving Walpole is not known.2
JOSHUA and WILLIAM FISHER were third cousins, both descended from Anthony Fisher (1) of Syleham, Suffolk Co., England, who married Mary, daughter of William and Anne Fiske of St. James, South Elmsham, Suffolk.
JOSHUA FISHER was a great grandson of
1 Vital Rec. of Walpole.
2 Hill, Dan G., editor. Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths of the Town of Dedham. 6, 15, 16, 22; Savage. Genealogical Dictionary, II, 146; Essex Institute Hist. Coll., VI, 252; N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg., V, 9; Winslow Memorial, V, 2; Walpole Records.
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Joshua Fisher (2), son of Anthony (1), who was born at Syleham in 1585, married first
? and secondly, in 1638, to Anne Luson, and who came to America in 1639 and settled in Dedham. Their son Joshua (3) (born in England) had been in Dedham for a year or more. This Joshua (3) is the Lieut. Fisher who figures so prominently in the early history of the sawmill settlement, now Walpole. He married first, Nov. 15, 1643, Mary, daughter of Deacon Nathaniel Aldis of Dedham; and second, Feb. 16, 1654, Lydia, widow of Samuel Oliver of Boston. He died in August, 1672. Of Lieut. Fisher's children a son John (4) was born at Dedham Feb. 18, 1652. After the death of his father, John (4) removed to Medfield and was a freeman there in 1684. He married first, Judith -? and second, March 6, 1674, Hannah Adams. He died at Medfield Oct. 15, 1727.
One of the children of John (4) and Hannah was Joshua (5) of Walpole, town Clerk from 1739 to 1747, The latter was born June 16, 1685, and was a resident of Walpole at the time of his father's death. He married Mary
He died Aug. 11, 1749 and she March 11, 1766. They probably had no children. The Joshua who afterwards figured in Walpole was a nephew of Joshua (5).
WILLIAM FISHER was a great-grandson of Anthony (2), son of Anthony (1). Anthony (2)
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1678, and married Mehitabel On Oct. 10, 1736, he was appointed by Gov. Belcher, Ensign in Capt. Eben Woodward's 2d foot company. He died January 28, 1774, aged 96 years.
John Guild was born in Dedham, October 2, 1687, and died at Walpole, June 15, 1767. He married Abigail Robinson of Rehoboth.1
JOHN HALL.2 Out of the mass of Halls it is almost impossible, with the scant records available, to pick the John Hall who first ap- pears in Walpole territory in 1721.3 It is prob- able that he was of the Hall family of Rehoboth, at the head of which stands Edward Hall, an immigrant before 1636, who, after residing in many towns, finally settled at Rehoboth in 1655. He died Nov. 27, 1670. His oldest son, John, born 1651, who married Mary Newell of Rox- bury in 1684, had one or two sons of the name who died in infancy, and another, John, born March 27, 1698, who may have been the John of Walpole. Another son of Edward was Ben- jamin, born at Rehoboth 1668, who removed to Wrentham and married Sarah Fisher. He died there in 1726 and his wife survived him. His
1 Guild, Calvin. Genealogy of the Descendants of John Guild, Dedham, Mass. Providence, 1867. Burleigh, C. Genealogy and History of the Guild Family. Portland, 1887.
? Consult, Hall D. B. The Halls of New England. Albany, N. Y., 1883, pp. 527-531.
' Lewis, 52.
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daughter Sarah married Peter Lyon of Walpole in 1734, and it may have been his son Benjamin who married Ruth Petty in the same year.1 John Hall of Walpole may have been an un- listed son of the Elder Benjamin and his wife Sarah, as it is believed that they had children other than those recorded in Wrentham. The Walpole records are so faulty that we cannot even say for certain that the John Hall who died in Walpole, November 25 1765, was the John of the list .?
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