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Tradition says that the wife of John Heard was wounded and tried in vain to remount her horse. She begged her husband
'A full account of him, by Miss C. Alice Baker, was published in The Gazette and Courier, Greenfield, Mass .. I March. 1902.
"See Old Eliot. Vol. IV. p. 88.
"A letter found in Massachusetts Archives, dated 5 July 1697, was written by Richard Waldron to Lt. Gov. Stoughton. in which he says, speaking of Major Charles Frost. "himself & seven or eight in company yesterday in the afternoon coming homeward from Meeting at Necho- wonke were ambushed by ye enemy. The Major and one Heard's wife were shot down dead. Heard and young Downing wounded, the latter mortally. They discovered about 8 or 10 Indians." This Dennis Down- ing. Jr .. had a grant of land. 16 March 1694. which was laid out, 21 Dec. 1700. to his brother. Joshua Downing, at Beaver Dam.
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to leave her and save the children at home. The Indians chased him and shot his horse under him near his garrison. He escaped and saved his house and children.
Hon. Mark Dennett left on record a tradition concerning this John Heard. While out in the woods he, was discovered by sev- eral Indians. He at once fled and the Indians pursued. Heard knew of an old hollow log in the woods, which he gained unper- ceived by the Indians, having killed his dog that he might not be
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betrayed. There he lay concealed. The Indians in their pursuit came and sat down on the log for rest. Heard listened to their conversation and heard them threaten what they would do to John Heard if they should catch him. He had previously dis- tinguised himself in the Indian wars. In due time he emerged from his hiding place and returned home in safety.
Pike's brief account of Frost's death is as follows: "Major Charles Frost slain by the Indians (as returning from meeting betwixt Smith's garrison and his own ) also Dennis Downing and Phebe Heard slain at the same time and John Heard wounded."
Pike's Journal says, "29 July 1697, James Gooden with two soldiers slain by the Indians as they were at work in the meadow,
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and William Gooden wounded." These were sons of the first Daniel Goodwin.
"9 May 1698, Enoch Hutchins was killed by the Indians at Spruce Creek, as he was at work in his field, and 3 of his sons carried away. The same day Joseph Pray of York was wounded." Tradition says the wife of Hutchins was also taken. Two of the sons were Jonathan, aged 14, and Samuel.
This long war reduced the population of Kittery to extreme poverty. The houses and barns of many were burned and their cattle killed. The schools were discontinued for fear that the children in going and coming would be exposed to hostile attacks. If religious services were held, they were attended by armed men. Petitions were sent to the General Court every year from 1694 to 1697, asking for relief from taxation and aid in paying the min- ister at Berwick. The following represents as well as any the sad conditions of the inhabitants.
To the Right Honorable William Stoughton Esqr Leiftt Governr & Commandr in cheif of his Majties Prouince of the Massachusetts Bay in New-England, Together with ye Honorable Council of the said Province.
The Selectmen of Kittery humbly Petition That yor honors would Condescend to take thought concerning our poor Estate and accordingly be helpful to us. Tis more difficult abundantly plainly to represent our Calamity to yor Honors than solembly here to groan under it; the latter during Gods good pleasure we must endure : which we hope by your sensible acquaintance there- with may in some measure be alleviated, if it might please yor Honors to abate the whole set proportion in that Province Rate which was Granted Novbr 18 1696 amountting to 36 lbs accord- ing to ye Treasurers Warrant Mar. 17 1696/7 which (severall things considered ) we think scarce possible to be collected within our precincts
I. May it be thought on the Town in Generall are allmost overcome & discouraged by the tediousness of the Warr finding their Estate daily decaying and Expecting Poverty to come upon them like an armed man.
2. As indeed (blessed be God) some and those very few that can wth much adoe Get a Comfortable livelyhood, so very
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many are in the greatest extremity not having a days Prouison to live upon nor any thing where by to procure sustenance inso- much that it's wonderfull yt some do not perish for want, and they are destitute of money wherewithall to assist ymselues with things necessary, so we yor Honors humble supplicants cannot (with conscience) impose any burthen upon ym except yor honors after Consideration of ye Circumstances are pleased not to release yr Taxes.
3. As many of oure Inhabitants are very poor so we are very much charged by the maintenance of others who are not capable of getting yr necessary sustenance, as some aged some maimed and severall whose livings ( further toward the East ) the Enemy has ruined wch makes our own Town taxes not a little burthen- some.
4. No small charge considering our Poverty is expended in repairing of Garrisons whereby yet we are more disenabled.
5. We have disbursed this year already more for ye Publick than doth well consist with our Living especially seing tho we are for the most part husbandmen yet the greatest part of ye Town haue had little or no help by yr Summer Labr for Grain wch has occasion the disbursements of most to be large and of many Greater then their Incomes.
6. We are daily in expectation of the Enemies invading us (The Good Lord prevent them), We beg yor Honors would Con- sider our condition and be mindfull of our hard Circumstances, and would see Cause to release us from wt Publicq charge your honors Prudence shall think fit, especially the fore-mentioned Tax: However we humbly signify our Case (resting in Yor Judgint ) which if yor Honors Please to pitty in this regard we shall be very thankfull. We rest, praying, &c
Yor Honors humble Petitioners and Seruts1
Kittery Apr. 13
Daniel Gooding, James Emery, James Warren, John Shapleigh, Elihu Gunnison, Joshua Downing. William ffernald,
Selectmen of Kittery.
1Coll. of Me. Hist. Society, Vol. V. 482-4.
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In view of the fact that three similar petitions had been granted the foregoing one was refused, and a few months later the parish of Berwick sent up an independent petition, saying that the greater part of the parish had been wholly wasted by the Indians, that the mills had been burned or made useless by the war, that the people were closely confined to garrisons and could not attend to ordinary occupations without extreme danger, that the last corn crop had failed. insomuch that severall families might have perished, had not the charity of Connecticut neigh- bors prevented, that they were forced to expend much in caring for the poor and in repairing garrisons, and that lately the enemy had killed and wounded severall. Therefore they begged for twenty pounds a year while their calamity lasted, hoping thus to be able to pay the arrears of the minister.
From 1699 to 1703 there was peace. Then broke out Queen Anne's War, lasting till July. 1713. Kittery became at once a point of attack. Pike again is our chronicler. He writes under date of 30 Oct. 1703, "One Christopher Patrick, a soldier, was slain by the Indians betwixt Quamphegan and Salmon Falls, above half an hour after sunset. He had five guns discharged upon him and was shot with many bullets."
"28 Jan. 1704. about 9 or 10 in the morning. the Indians to the number of 30 or 40 made an attack upon Andrew Neal's gar- rison in the lower part of Berwick, killed a poor maid, wounded a lad who made his escape, burned three houses, killed many cattle, had one of their own crew sorely wounded, if not slain, and so drew off." Samuel Penhallow in his History of the Indian Wars gives a different account of this affair. He says, "At Ber- wick they killed one, wounded another, and burnt two houses. After that they made a descent on Andrew Neal's garrison, where they were vigorously repulsed by Capt. Brown, who killed nine on the spot and wounded many more, which so enraged those wretches that at their return they executed their revenge on Joseph Ring, who was then a captive among them, whom they fastened to a stake and burnt alive, barbarously shouting and rejoicing at his cries." Penhallow perhaps got his information from the captain's report of the engagement, and it seems to be somewhat inflated, when compared with Pike's record. There was an Amie Nell [ Neal] of Newichawannock among the cap- tives in Canada in 1699.
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Pike records the following. 4 May 1705: "Many persons sur- prised by the Indians at Spruce Creek and York. John Brown, H. Barns, a child of Dodavah Curtis and a child of Enoch Hutchins slain .- rest carried captive by ten or a dozen Indians. Also Mrs. Hoit [ Hoel it should be ], running up the hill to discern the outcry, fell into their hands and was slain." Penhallow speaks of Mrs. Hoel as a "gentlewoman of good extract and education." He says also. "The greatest sufferer was Enoch Hutchins in the loss of his wife and children." The Dennett manuscripts afford further particulars. This Mrs. Hutchins is called the great-grandmother of Col. Gowen Wilson. The family were surprised by the Indians, her husband shot at the door and she was ordered to prepare to march with them. She pulled her husband's body into the house and shut the door, and then with her two little boys was compelled to march. One of the boys was soon unable to keep up, when one of the Indians, thinking per- haps that the boy would be killed, kindly caught him up in his arms and ran away with him. Several days afterward the mother and boy were under the care of this kind Indian. One of the Hutchins boys is said to have split a wooden shoe from his foot with a hatchet, which feat won the admiration of the Indians. The other shoe was brought home from captivity and is still pre- served. It was in the possession of Col. Gowen Wilson in 1869.
James Tobey and his son James were slain by Indians in the woods 21 May 1705. John Rogers was badly wounded the same day, but escaped and recovered. Lieut. John Shapleigh was killed 6 June 1706 "near the northeast corner of the Dennett farm on the hill about a dozen rods from Shapleigh's bridge so called" from this circumstance. His son Nicholas was captured at the same time and carried to Canada. Penhallow says that "in their march they were so inhumanly cruel that they bit off the tops of his fingers and to stagnate the blood seared them with hot tobacco pipes."
Again Pike records that. 16 June 1707, "Philip Carpenter, a Jersey man, with his wife and three or four children, was slain at Spruce Creek, about the middle of the day. The Indians being seven in number were met with by the English three or four times and fired upon. Some packs were taken, but the enemy got all off and escaped." A daughter. Mary, escaped or was ran- somed, and twelve years later became the wife of John Deering.
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30 Sept. 1707, "James Ferguson and his wife, members of the church at Berwick and worthy persons, were slain by the Indians as they returned from meeting. Nicholas Smith at the same time was wounded but escaped and got cured."
19 Sept. 1708, Robert Reed, a schoolmaster, and David Hutchins, ventured too far into the woods at Spruce Creek on the Sabbath, fell into an ambush and were slain. A lad, who was with them, escaped.
We learn from Penhallow that I June 1712, the Indians came again to Spruce Creek and shot James Pickernell "as he was lock- ing his door and going to the garrison ; they also wounded his wife and knocked a child on the head, which they scalped, yet it afterwards recovered." The tradition has come down in this family that both husband and wife were killed by Indians and their graves are still pointed out on Pickernell Hill. "They had been to the barn to milk their cows and the Indians shot them while passing between the barn and the house." So Hon. Mark Dennett records the story in 1866, as he received it fifty years before from Esther and Hannah Pickernell, aged members of the family.
In consequence of the ravages of the Indians in the first year of Queen Anne's War the people of Kittery sent up to the General Court a petition that the taxes of 1704 be abated. It is dated 28 Dec. 1704 and is signed by the Selectmen, William Pepperrell, John Shapleigh, John Leighton, John Hill, and Charles Frost. They say, "We have tried to raise it by all lawful means, but the people are utterly unable to pay it in money.
. We have offered their Goods and Chattels at an outcry according to directions in the Treasurer's Warrant, but find none of abilitie to buy. . . Considering the seat of Warr is with us, and ye Burden exceeding heavy as we are a poor Scat- tering People Necessitated to watch, ward, Scout, build Garri- sons and fortifications, and one halfe of us to be furnished with Snowshoes and Mogginsins and all at our own charge,-and at every alarm Driven from our employment."
The Court resolved, "that the Sum of Thirty-eight pounds be abated to the poor of the town of Kittery, according to the Dis- position of ye Selectmen and Representatives of sd Town,-they being most capable to relieve such as they Know have met with most sufferings by the Heathen. Provided that the names of
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P'sons and Sums respectively abated to them be by the Selectmen and Representatives laid before this Court at their next Session."
The following apportionment shows who had suffered most.
Edmund Gage
£o-6-0
Elisha Clark 1-6-0
Widow Mitchell
0-5-0
Lewis Tucker
0-10-O
John Ford
0-5-0
Rogr Thomas 0-4-0
John Amee
0-5-0
Henry Bencent
0-15-0
James Foy
0-5-0
John Tinny
0-IO-O
Thomas Hooper
0-5-0
Jedidiah Jordan
0-10-O
Joseph Cradover
0-10-O
Widow Palmer & Daughter I-8-0
Wm Roberts, Jr.
0-5-0
Aaron Phares
0-6-0
James Braddeen 0-5-0
Joseph Crockett, Sr. John King
0-5-0
Widow Haley
0-5-0
John Frink
0-5-0
Widow More
0-5-0
Richard Endle
0-6-0
Old Goodman Leiten
0-5-0
John Fennicke
O-IO-O
Saml Johnson
I-O-O
Widow Hammons
0-6-0
Paul Williams
0-15-0
John Ball
0-5-0
Danl Jones
0-5-0
John Shepherd
O-IO-O
Walter Deniford
0-5-0
Hezekiah Elwell
0-5-0
John Gear
0-15-0
Silvanus Tripe
0-5-0
John Moggeridge
O-IO-O
9-5
5-8
Richard Cutt
Jos. Wilson
Elihu Gunnison
Ichabod Plaisted
John Shapleigh
John Hill
Selectmen for ye Town of Kittery.
s d
s d
Mosses Worster
7-8
William Fry
8-0
John Staples
5-6
John Pall
7-0
James Pickernail
6-6
James Stapell
5-9
The Widow Nelson
3-9
Thomas Musscet
5-0
John Cole
7-6
Samuel Small 10-9
Francis Allen
8-0
Daniel Fog 7-9
0-6-0
Widow Tinny
0-5-0
5-8-0
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Mosses Bouden
5-6
Mathew Libbe 7-8
Samuel Johnson
7-0
Daniel Libbe 7-9
James Tobee
6-9
Thomas Huncum
7-6
John Rogers
12-6
William Blacket IO-0
Nicholas Morrell
9-9
Ichabod Plaisted
John Shapleigh John Hill
Daniel Emery
Selectmen.
s cl
Josiah Goodridge
5-6
Thomas Rodes 7-0
Walter Allen
5-0
Widdow Elizabeth Gowen 1-9
Thomas Gubtail
5-0
Nicholas Turbit 5-3
Samuel Brackett
5-6
Peter Wittome 1 -O-O
Gabriel Hambleton
5-6
Thomas Holmes 6-0
Gilbert Warren
5-3
Thomas Chick
5-0
Robert Gray
7-3
Allen Voz 1-6
John Nason
8-0
Andrew Neal 9-0
William Wadley
7-0
John Key Senr 3-0
Baker Nason
(-0
Richard Chick 6-9
Widdow Martha Lord
8-0
Thomas Butler
5-6
John Cooper
7-0
Joseph Abbot
6-0
Peter Grant
3-0
John Abbot
7-6
Job Emery
6-6
Lemuel Gowen
I-O
Samll Shores
9-0
Daniel Stone
7-6
Edward Waymouth
5-9
Daniel Emery
9-0
Timothy Waymouth
9-0
Henery Snow
5-0
Christopher Banefield
3-0
George Brawn
6-6
John Brooks 6-0
Nicholas Gellison
(-0
Benja Tubbs
5-0
Nichs Goen
9-0
Willm Stacy
5-0
Francis Harlow
8-0)
William Smith
5-6
Walter Abbot
7-6
Bartholomew Thomson
9-0
Vera copia. J. P. Cler.
Ichabod Plaisted John Shapleigh John Hill Daniel Emery
Select Men.
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A list of garrisons in Berwick and the northern part of what is now Eliot, down as far as Sturgeon Creek is here presented. They were reviewed by order of the Governor in Nov. 1711, and the following report was made. Incidentally the population at that time is learned.1
Men
Families
inhabitants Soldiers Souls
Maj. Plaisted
1.4
I7
4
74
Mr. Key
6
6
2
25
Quamphegan
6
7
0
20
Mr. Chadbourne
5
7
I
30
Capt. Hill
8
8
3
21
Mr. Spencer
IO
13
4
100
Mr. Walker
12
2
60
Mr. Emery
7
8
0
14
Mr. Hubbard
6
8
3
19
Mr. Lord
5
6
O
25
Mr. Neal
IO
IO
70
Mr. Neeson [ Nason ]
3
3
-
12
Mr. Whittum
5
5
20
Capt. Heard
2
3
2
10
Lieut. Frost
I
I
2
I2
Hodson [ Hodsdon ]
97
II4
23
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FROST GARRISON HOUSE, The only one of Old Kittery that now remains.
The only Garrison House that remains is that on the farm of Frederick Frost, a cut of which is here shown. The hewn logs of which it is built are still sound. It was erected about 1733
1See Maine Recorder Vol. II. p. 114.
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Peace lasted from July 1713 to June 1722. Then began what is sometimes called Lovewell's War. It continued till 15 Dec. 1725. Not many incidents of this war, so far as the inhab- itants of Kittery and Berwick were concerned, have been put on record. Penhallow states that in May 1724, "Miles Thompson of Berwick was killed and his son was carried captive." He lived on the road which leads from Quamphegan to Wells. at Love's Brook. A man by the name of Stone was mangled and scalped near where Thompson fell, but he survived and lived to be an old man. Sullivan says, "His life was miserable ; he wore a silver caul on his head, went on crutches, and had the use of only one hand. and was subject to strong convulsion fits."
It must have been during this war that a girl named Tamsen Ham was captured. probably in Dover. She remained several years with the Indians. After her ransom or the end of the war she married Thomas Spinney of Kittery and lived to great age.
The following story may be found in the Dennett manu- scripts, and it has been published severall times with many embellishments. A certain Joseph Furbish is said to have married a Miss Hobbs. Twin sisters were born, Dorothy and Phebe. One morning, while the babies were in the cradle, the mother went out to milk the cows. She was seized by Indians, gagged with her handkerchief, and her hands were tied. Then a loud whoop attracted her husband, who seized his gun and ran to the rescue. He was struck down by a tomahawk and left for (lead. The Indians set fire to the house after having plundered it but overlooked the babies in the cradle. The neighbors hurried to the burning house, rescued the babies and restored the wounded man to consciousness. One of the babes, Dorothy, afterward married John Dennet. The other, Phebe, married Elisha Littlefield.
After twenty-five years of absence the wife and mother managed to escape from the Indians. "Her extreme beauty had saved her." An Indian chief wished to marry her but she refused. She, however, nursed his infant son, who grew to man- hood and revered her as his mother, the old chief having died. The Indian women looked upon her as something more than human. She taught them how to cook, nursed them when they were sick, and was considered by them as a sort of magician or medicine woman. Well, she stole away from them at last and
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wandered to the Atlantic coast. One account says she had been to the great lakes; another says she had been carried into the south. After arriving at the coast by selling trinkets she was enabled to get home. She found her husband "on the verge of the grave, both daughters married, each holding in arms her first born, named for the grandfather. Dolly's child was Joseph Dennet : Phebe's child was Joseph Littlefield."
All this is about as near the truth as most historical novels, though a lot of improbabilities have been very clumsily woven into the account. There was no Joseph Furbish at that time, as one can see by referring to the account of the Furbish family in this book. John Furbish married Hannah Littlefield and lived in what is now the northwest part of Eliot on the York road. The baptisms of his children indicate that his wife could not have been long away from home. He had daughters, Dorothy and Phebe, but they were baptized eight years apart. Hannah ( Littlefield ) Furbush may have been captured by Indians about 1725. If so, she returned after a short time.
In 1720 it was ordered that garrisons or places of refuge should be erected at the residences of the following persons ; Andrew Neal. John Gowen, Jonathan Nason, Samuel Small, Jr., Capt. John Heard, Maj. Charles Frost. John Morrell. Senr., Capt. Nicholas Shapleigh, Capt. John Leighton, David Libby, Jr .. Joseph Hill, John Staple, Maj. Joseph Hammond. Widow Spinney, John Dennet, Richard King, Senr., Joseph Curtis, Richard Rogers, John Adams, Robert Cutt. Lt. Elihu Gunnison, Nathaniel Leach, Nathaniel Keen, Rev. John Newmarch, Samuel Hutchins, Nicholas Weeks, Andrew Lewis, Col. William Pep- perrell, Widow Wilson, Ebenezer More, Richard Cutt, Clement Deering, and Robert Eliot.
Agreeably to this order we find the following list of garrisons in the records of the town.
"At a meeting of ve Military officers of ye town of Kittery together with ye Selectmen of sd Town, Sept. 15th & 17th, 1722. for ye Ordering what houses be made Defencible in sd town by virtue of An Act of ye Governmt, passed at their Session ve 7th day of Augst, 1722-
Ordered thet ve several houses following be made Defencible. Vizt ;
Ist. Daniel Furbush. And that Allexander Forguson & Samll Shorey with their family's Lodge therein.
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2d Andrew Neal. And that Daniel Emery, Benja Goold and John Hearl with their familys Lodge threin.
3d. John Gowen. And that Nicholas Gowen, Thomas Weed, and their familys Lodge threin.
4. Jonathan Nason. And that Joseph Goold, Timo Way- mouth, Henry Snow & Benja Stacy and their familys Lodge, therein.
5. Samll Small Junr. And that ye Inhabitants and familys from ye mouth of Sturgeon Creek to Barthow ffrosts with Johnson & Smith Lodge therein.
6. Capt John Heard. And that ye Inhabts & familys from James heards to David Sawyers Inclusively Lodge therein.
7. Nicho Morrell, at ye ferry. And that ye inhabitants and familys from Wm Frys to John Morrell Junr, son of Nicho Morrell Inclusively Lodge therein.
8. Samuel Hill. And that Samll Hill Junr, James Davis, Ebenezer Dennet, Nathl Chapman & their familys Lodge therein.
9 Capt. Nicho Shapleigh. And that ye Inhabitants and fam- ilys from Michael Kennards to his own house inclusively Lodge therein.
10. Capt. John Leighton. And that Benja March, Joseph Pilsbury, John Richardson & yr familys Lodge therein.
II. Mr. John Rogers. And that ye Inhabitants and familys from his own home to Daniel Fogg and Daniel Fogg Junr Inclusively Lodge therein.
12. David Libby Junr. And that ye Inhab & familys from Jas Staples to Thomas Hanscoms Inclusively Lodge therein.
13. Maj Joseph Hammond. And that Stephen Tobey, Samll Tobey, Samll Green, Daniel Green, John Rogers, Abram Cross wth their familys Lodge therein.
14. John Lydston. And that ye Inhabitants and familys from Peter Staples to Danll Pauls Inclusively Lodge therein.
16. Mr. Richard King. And that ye Inhabitants and familys from John Pauls to ye lower end of ye neck called Spinneys point Lodge therein.
17. Mr. John Staple. And that ye Inhabitants anf familys fr Wm Brooks to Jacob Remick Junr, Inclusively Lodge therein.
17. Mr. John Fernald. And that ye Inhabitants & familys from Richd Gowell Junr to Thomas Coles Inclusively Lodge therein.
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18. Mr. John Adams. And that Nathl Fernald, Wm Wors- ter with their familys Lodge therein.
19. Mr. John Newmarch. And that ye inhabitants & familys from James Spinneys to ye Widow Tripes with Walter Denne- ford Lodge therein.
20. Mr. Robert Cutt. And that ye Inhab & familys from Benja Fernald to Francis Winkleys Lodge therein.
21. Mr. Elihu Gunison. from John Pearses ye whole Neck downward with their familys Lodge therein.
22. Nathl Kene. and that ye Inhabitants & familys from Nathl Leaches to Kenes house, Except John Shepard who desires to be posted at Rogerses Lodge therein.
23. Richd Rogers. And that John Shepard, Jerem Spinney. Moses Stevens, Paul Williams, John Manson, ffrancis Pette- grew, Wm Rogers, Wm Stanley, & Richd Pope Lodge therein with their familys.
24. Mr. Joseph Curtis. And that James Stariot, James Stariot Junr. Peter Stariot, Nathll Fernald, James Brideen, Junr. Wm Wilson, John Crocker, Samll Johnson, Junr, and yr familys Lodge therein.
25. Dodavah Curtis. And that Samll Johnson, Withers Berry, Benja Hammons, Nicholas Weekes & their familys Lodge therein.
26. Joseph Wilson. And that John Benson, Thomas Hutch- ins. Enoch Hutchins & John Dealing & their familys Lodge therein.
27. Andrew Lewis. And that Andw Haley. Peter Lewis, John Hutchins, George Fenix, Thos Morgrage & Moses Downer wth yr familys Lodge therein.
28. Danl Hutchins. And that Jonathan Hutchins, John Chapman with their familys Lodge therein.
29. Widdow Wilson. And that Joseph Weekes. Saml Skillin, Gowen Wilson, John Wilson & Wm Haley with their familys Lodge therein.
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