DECEMBER MEETING, 1920

A Stated Meeting of the Society was held at the house of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, No. 28 Newbury Street, Boston, on Thursday, 23 December, 1920, at three o’clock in the afternoon, the President, Fred Norris Robinson, Ph.D., in the chair.

The Records of the Annual Meeting were read and approved.

The Corresponding Secretary reported that a letter accepting Resident Membership had been received from Mr. Alfred Lawrence Aiken.

The President announced his appointment of Messrs. Edward Channing and Archibald Cary Coolidge as delegates from this Society to the annual Conference of Historical Societies to be held in Washington this month in connection with the meeting of the American Historical Association.

The President also announced that Mr. Morris Gray was unable to accept his election by the Society at its annual meeting as a member of the Council for three years, and that the Council had filled the vacancy by the choice of Mr. Allan Forbes.

Mr. Percival Merritt read a sketch of the Rev. Stephen Christopher Lewis, rector of Christ Church, Boston, from August, 1778, to October, 1784.

Mr. Albert Matthews made the following communication:

WRITINGS OF GEORGE WARE BRIGGS (1810–1895)

The first volume of the Plymouth Church Records contains a bibliography of the writings of the settled pastors and associate pastors of the church from 1620 to 1859.226 Dr. Briggs227 was associate pastor from January 3, 1838, to the end of 1852.228 The list of his writings included in that bibliography229 necessarily ended with the year 1859. Inasmuch, however, as various books, pamphlets, and articles published during the years 1835–1859 have been brought to my notice since that list was printed last summer, and inasmuch as Dr. Briggs published much during the years 1860–1891, it seems advisable to print in our Transactions a complete list of his writings. In the preparation of the present list I am under the deepest obligations to his daughter, Mrs. George G. Barker of Bournedale, but for whose assistance the list could not have been made.

In addition to sending me two pamphlets (nos. 7 and 81 in the list) of which the libraries here contain no copies, Mrs. Barker also sent me four volumes, as follows:

(A) A small memorandum book in Dr. Briggs’s own hand labelled on the cover “Account of Sermons &c. printed,” the first page being headed “List of Printed Sermons.” This contains sixty-six titles. Some of these have been difficult to run down; but all have now been identified except two,230 in regard to which even Mrs. Barker is unable to render help. Dr. Briggs’s list is by no means complete, and to the 64 identified titles given in (A) have been added 19 others, making 83 in all.

(B) A leather bound blank book with the word “Records” printed on the back, containing a list (wholly in Dr. Briggs’s hand) of sermons preached during the years 1853–1867 when he was settled at Salem. On a fly-leaf is written “Catalogue of Sermons, Jan. 1853.” Each sermon is numbered and the time and place of preaching it entered. Thus no. 1 was preached at Salem on January 9, 1853, and at New Salem on April 18, 1855, and had been preached at Plymouth on December 26, 1852; and no. 474 (the last one in the book) was preached at Salem on December 23, 1866. If a sermon was printed, the fact is stated, the place where printed is given, and the entry is crossed out. Whether Dr. Briggs kept similar records during his pastorates at Fall River and Cambridge has not been ascertained, but he certainly did while at Plymouth, for no. 1 in (B) is labelled “Plymouth, No. 577.” Hence while there he must have preached 577 sermons. It does not follow that during the years 1838–1867 Dr. Briggs wrote 1051 sermons, for many of those entered in (B) had been previously preached at Plymouth.231

(C) A scrap-book bound in half leather with the word “Miscellanies” printed on the back. In it are pasted several of Dr. Briggs’s pamphlets, which have of course been cut up for the purpose, but chiefly newspaper clippings extending from 1825 to 1870. Some of these clippings contain addresses and articles by Dr. Briggs which have not been found elsewhere; but as the name of the paper and the date are not always given, several have been difficult to run down.232

(D) A volume bound in half calf with the label “Miscellanies G. W. Briggs” printed on the back, and a list of the contents in Dr. Briggs’s hand on fly-leaves at the beginning. The volume contains twenty-nine pamphlets and articles printed during the years 1835–1871, though sometimes a pamphlet is not complete.233

George Ware Briggs was born at Little Compton, Rhode Island, April 8, 1810; in 1821 at the age of eleven entered Brown University, graduating in 1825;234 graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1834; was ordained pastor of the Unitarian Society at Fall River September 24, 1834;235 was installed associate pastor of the First Church in Plymouth January 3, 1838;236 was installed pastor of the First Church in Salem January 6, 1853;237 received the honorary degree of D.D. from Harvard University in 1855; was installed minister of the Cambridgeport Parish (later the Third Congregational Society) April 3, 1867;238 and died at Plymouth September 10, 1895.239 Of him his son Professor LeBaron R. Briggs has written:

He was naturally diffident, especially in his own home, and so fearful of taking a place too large for him that he refused several calls to more important pulpits and to higher salaries. His strength showed itself when people were in trouble, and quite as much in what he did not say as in what he said. . . . As a preacher, he was earnest and at times eloquent; but his greatest strength in and out of the pulpit was in seeming less a minister than a man. His every-day intercourse with his parishioners was altogether free from professional affectation. It was also devotedly faithful. . . . Though of small conversational skill and of unyielding principle, he made friends everywhere, and kept them always. He was not a learned man, and was still less a pedantic one. He read much, but showed few of the ordinary effects of wide reading, whether good or bad. What he read sank into him somehow, and rarely came out again. For theology he had little regard; and when a reporter asked him whether he was radical or conservative, he answered, “Both.” His habit of life was simple; and his heart — in some ways like that of a little child — could yet feel intensely without expressing what it felt in words. . . . He was a strong, loyal, single-hearted man.240

Though Dr. Briggs’s writings are chiefly concerned, as one might expect, with the various aspects of his profession, their character being generally sufficiently indicated by their titles, yet this is not always the case, and in a few instances the titles convey no adequate idea of the contents. Hence it has seemed advisable to quote extracts now and then. These will abundantly show Dr. Briggs’s detestation of slavery, his hatred of war, his earnest advocacy of peace, and his ardent approval of total abstinence. On the outbreak of the Civil War Dr. Briggs espoused with enthusiasm the cause of the North, though not failing to see the discrepancy between that attitude and his former diatribes against war. At a war meeting held at Danvers Plains on October 23, 1863, he alluded to this discrepancy in words thus reported:

The duty of responding to the maintenance of the country and the honor of its flag is just as imperative to-day as at the time of the first great uprising at the opening of the rebellion. Before the opening of this war, he should have thought this the last place where he would have been. He thought he was a peace man, and had never supposed there was as much barbarism in the world as that which has attacked the existence of this government. When the question came whether we maintain the principles at stake in the opening contest, there was but one response. The cause is just as sacred to-day as it was at first. If we do not feel the same enthusiasm it is not because there is less interest in the cause, but because it has gone down deeper into the heart. There is a determination to carry this contest through to the end whatever sacrifice it may cost. . . . If, in pursuing this work, that systern gets rooted out which has almost made men forget that the government was founded upon liberty, and has caused one section to try to build up one based on human servitude — if, out of the war this gets abolished — then we accomplish one of the greatest works men ever accomplished.241

In the bibliography which follows it is understood, unless otherwise stated, that Dr. Briggs’s name is given as that of the author. The authority for attributing to him books or articles published anonymously is found in (A), (B), or (C). The opportunity has been taken to correct in this list a few errors or misprints that crept into the previous partial list.242

Bibliography

I CHRONOLOGICAL243

1

A Sermon, preached at the Dedication of the Unitarian Church, in Fall River, Mass. January 28, 1835. . . . Published by request. Fall River: . . . 1835.

This was published together with the sermon preached by Mr. Farley at Dr. Briggs’s ordination, with continuous pagination but with separate half-titles and title-pages. The cover reads: “Mr. Farley’s Ordination Sermon, and Mr. Briggs’s Dedication Sermon.” The first half-title reads: “Mr. Farley’s Sermon.” The second half-title (p. [23]) reads: “Mr. Briggs’s Sermon.” The title to Mr. Farley’s sermon reads:

A Sermon, preached at the Ordination of the Rev. George W. Briggs, as Minister of the Unitarian Society, Fall River, Mass. September 24, 1834. By Frederick A. Farley, Minister of Westminster Church, Providence, R. I. Published by request. Fall River: . . . 1835.

Half-title, 1 leaf; Title, 1 p.; Imprint, 1 p.; Sermon [by Mr. Farley], pp. [3]–22; Half-title, p. [23]; Title, p. [25]; Sermon [by Mr. Briggs], pp. [27]–49.

The following note is printed at the end of Mr. Farley’s sermon:

“The delay in publishing Mr. Farley’s Sermon was owing to unavoidable circumstances. The Society, from the first, intended to publish the services of the Ordination and Dedication together; expecting the church would be dedicated within a few weeks after the ordination. In this expectation they were disappointed; causes not anticipated, delayed the completion of the building, and the dedication was of necessity deferred for several months” (p. 22).

2

‘Obey God rather than Man.’ In The Liberator, December 2, 1842, xii. 192.

The sermon is preceded by this note:

“The following is the able Discourse of brother Briggs, of Plymouth, delivered on the occasion of the last annual fast. In the note which accompanied it he far underrates its value, in saying— ‘Those of the congregation who approved its sentiment, requested its publication then. I declined to comply with their wish, because I did not think it worthy of publication. But the case in Boston244 now moving all our sympathies, and pressing the same doctrine I stated then upon our attention, gave me a desire to make my protest again. I send it as it was preached, excepting a few verbal alterations.’”

The sermon was preached, presumably at Plymouth, on April 7, 1842. The concluding paragraph reads:

“Four years ago, my brethren, I gave you my convictions on this question of slavery. In another particular, with a persuasion only the deeper for that lapse of time, I do the same thing to-day. I cannot dream that my convictions are also yours. But you would justly scorn me did I stoop to be your echo. I could no longer honor you if I thought you could even wish it. I only ask that the spirit of wisdom and love may guide you and myself alike, in the way of eternal righteousness.”

3

An Address delivered before the Total Abstinence Societies in Plymouth, July Fourth, 1842, . . . Plymouth. 1842.

Title, 1 p.; Note, 1 p.; Address, pp. [3]–16.

The note on the verso of the title-page reads:

“The following hasty Address is published, not in accordance with the writer’s judgment, but in compliance with the request that has been made. So great a change would have been required to make it a discussion or an appeal appearing to his mind to have any permanent value, that it is printed as originally delivered, and his only hope is, that it may serve in some slight degree to keep alive in this community the interest in a reform whose progress he regards with the deepest sympathy.”

4

An Address delivered at the Funeral of Deacon William P. Ripley, In the First Church, at Plymouth, Sunday Afternoon, Nov. 13, 1842. . . . Plymouth: . . . 1842.

Title, 1 p.; Note, 1 p.; Address, pp. [3]–16.

The note on the verso of the title-page reads:

“William Putnam Ripley was bom in Plymouth, Feb. 4th, 1776. He joined the First Church, Jan. 1st, 1809. He was chosen its Deacon, March 9th, 1818. After a long and painful illness, he departed in peace, Thursday Evening, Nov. 10th, 1842, in the 67th year of his age.”

5

The Inward Appeal of Christianity. A Sermon. In The Monthly Religious Magazine, June, 1844, i. 191–199.

6

Timely Thoughts. In The Christian World, December 28, 1844.

An introductory note, signed “G. W. B.,” explaining the occasion of the Timely Thoughts, reads in part as follows:

“The town clerk at Ephesus in dismissing the angry multitude, gathered in tumult on account of the Apostles’ preaching, declared the law to be open, for all matters to be determined in a lawful assembly. One would have rejoiced to find the sovereign authorities of South Carolina, manifesting an equal reverence for the supreme tribunals of the land, in their legitimate authority, with the mob at Ephesus. The unparalleled outrage committed against the Agent of Massachusetts,245 who went thither in due reverence for the law, peacefully to institute a process to test the legality of certain enactments infringing upon the constitutional rights of one class of our citizens, demands some expression of the feeling of the State befitting its ancient name, and the memories of other days. When the Legislature of South Carolina votes to expel from the State, an Agent so happily selected by our own Executive, — a man so venerable in years and character, — clad in the dignity pertaining to his own person, and to the State he represented, for the offence of appealing to Constitutional courts in a Constitutional way, silence seems criminal.”

7

The application of the principles of Religious Freedom to the practical problems of the passing time. A Sermon preached In the First Church, in Plymouth, Sunday, March 9, 1845. . . . Printed: not Published. Plymouth: . . . 1845.

Title, 1 p.; Note, 1 p.; Sermon, pp. [3]–16.

The note on the verso of the title-page, signed “G. W. B.,” reads:

“Peculiar circumstances, which none but the members of my own Congregation may fully understand, made it proper to allude to the various topics to which this discourse refers. It is not printed for its merit, but to enable those to whom it was addressed, to understand precisely what it affirms; and of course, I have therefore made only a few, merely verbal corrections.”

8

The Real Duty of a Christian Society to its Minister. In The Monthly Religious Magazine, September, 1845, ii. 303–309.

Signed “G. W. B.” (p. 309). A footnote on p. 303 reads: “This address, kindly furnished by the author for our pages, was delivered at a recent Ordination. Ed.” The address begins “Brethren of this Society,” but no hint is given as to when or where or at whose ordination the address was delivered. In (A), however, Dr. Briggs gives the place as Fall River.246

9

Jesus our Master. In The Monthly Religious Magazine, October, 1845, ii. 325–332.

Signed “G. W. B.” (p. 332).

10

Hymns for Public Worship. “Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him according to his excellent greatness. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.” — Psalm cl. 1, 2, 6. Boston: . . . 1845.

Title 1 p.; Copyright and Imprint, 1 p.; Preface, pp. [iii]–vi; General Arrangement, p. [vii]; Index of First Lines, pp. [ix]–xxiv; Index of Subjects, pp. [xxv]–xxviii; Hymns, 388 pp. There is no regular pagination, the numbers of the hymns serving for page-numbers. Thus, the second page has “3, 4” at the top because hymns nos. 3 and 4 are printed on that page; the fourth page has “7, 8” at the top because hymns nos. 7 and 8 are printed on that page; the sixth page has “11” at the top because hymn no. 11 is printed on that page, etc. The hymns are numbered from 1 to 601.

Dr. Briggs’s name does not appear on the title-page, but the Preface is signed “George W. Briggs” and is dated “Plymouth, Mass., Oct., 1845.” The book was reviewed in the Christian Register of November 15, 1845, xxiv. 182–183, and in The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany for January, 1846, xl. 29, 41–42.247

11

The Bow in the Cloud: Fifteen Discourses. . . . “Behold the rainbow’s form, Hung on the brow of heaven! The glory of the passing storm, The pledge of mercy given.” Boston: . . . 1846.

The above title is conjectural, since no copy of this (the original) edition has been located, and is based on an advertisement in the Christian Register of December 27, 1845, xxiv. 207, and on the title as given in The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany for March, 1846, xl. 233 note. The book was advertised in the Christian Register of December 20, 27, 1845, and January 3, 1846, xxiv. 203, 207, xxv. 3. It was reviewed in the Christian Register of December 27, 1845, xxiv. 206, and in The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany for March, 1846 xl. 233–247. The latter review is signed “C. R.” — presumably the Rev. Chandler Robbins of Boston. See nos. 12 and 30.

12

The Bow in the Cloud: Fifteen Discourses. . . . Second Edition. Boston: . . . 1846.

Title, 1 p.; Copyright, 1 p.; Dedication, p. [iii]; Preface, pp. [v]–vi; Contents, pp. [vii]–viii; The Bow in the Cloud, pp. [9]–216.

The Preface is dated “Plymouth, Mass., December, 1845;” the book was copyrighted in 1845; and the Dedication is to Dr. James Kendall. See nos. 11 and 30.

13

Response to Peace Address, February 26, 1846. In The Advocate of Peace and Universal Brotherhood, for the Year 1846. Edited by Elihu Burritt. Worcester: . . . March, 1846, i. 78–79.

The heading is supplied by me. Under the heading “Universal Brotherhood. Great Social Movement,” Burritt printed in the March number (pp. 69–80) documents relating to the Oregon dispute. “An Appeal to the Merchants of the Realm” had been issued in England, and the Cambria, which arrived at Boston on February 18, brought addresses from individuals and from public bodies; among others an address to the “Esteemed Citizens of Boston, in New England” from “the inhabitants of Boston, in Old England” (p. 75), and from “the inhabitants of Plymouth, Great Britain, to the Citizens of the United States of America, for the purpose of averting War between the two Countries” (p. 77). “As a ready response to these Friendly Addresses seemed desirable,” wrote Burritt, “as an evidence of the cordiality with which they were received in this country, we wrote to several persons in Boston and other places, particularly addressed in these friendly communications from abroad, suggesting an effort to send back a response, if possible, by the same steamer. Among others, we addressed a letter on this subject to the Rev. Geo. W. Briggs, of Plymouth, Mass. His letter in reply is so apposite to the history of this social movement, and so replete with warm sentiments of universal brotherhood, that we cannot refrain from giving it to the public.” Dr. Briggs’s reply, dated February 25th, is in part as follows:

“Yours of the 23rd was received last night. We were moving in the special matter you propose, before your letter came. Monday evening, the 23rd, we had a large Peace Meeting, when different gentlemen discussed the general subject. The Chairman,248 who had just seen these Addresses, — I had not seen them then, — communicated them to the Meeting. And a Committee was raised to respond to the Plymouth Address, consisting of myself, Rev. R. Tomlinson, and J. Russell, Esq. . . . We shall report a brief reply to-morrow evening, to send it back by the same packet as you suggest. I agree with you, that nothing is more beautiful and hopeful than this peculiar movement. When Men send over lands and waters the song of Peace, once sounded through the sky by the Angels, we may well thank God and take courage. I will send you a paper containing an account of our Meeting” (p. 77).

Burritt then reprints, from the Old Colony Memorial, an account of the meetings held February 23 and 26, and also “A Response To the friendly appeal from the inhabitants of Plymouth, Great Britain, to the citizens of the United States of America, for the purpose of averting war between the two countries, by the inhabitants of Plymouth, Massachusetts” (pp. 78–79).

14

Report of the School Committee of the Town of Plymouth. Read in Town Meeting, April 5, 1847. Plymouth: . . . 1847.

Title, 1 leaf; Report, pp. [3]–23.

The only copy of this I have seen is the one pasted into (C), which has been cut up for that purpose: hence the number of pages is conjectural. The School Committee consisted of “Geo. W. Briggs, R. Tomlinson, W. Warren, C. S. Porter.”

15

Obituary, Rev. Zephaniah Willis.249 In The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, May, 1847, xlii. 466–467.

The heading is supplied by me. It is not mentioned in (A), (B), or (C), but is signed “B.” (p. 467) and is attributed to Dr. Briggs by William Cushing in his Index to the Christian Examiner (1879), p. 129.

16

Two Sermons preached in the First Church in Plymouth, Mass. Sunday, July 4, 1847. . . . Published by request. Plymouth. . . .

Half-title, 1 leaf; Title, 1 leaf; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, pp. [5]–17; The patient waiting for Christ, pp. [19]–31. The half-title reads: “Two Sermons, preached in Plymouth, Mass. July 4, 1847, by George W. Briggs.”

These sermons were preached during the Mexican War. The extracts are from the first and the second sermon respectively:

“Who will defend the action of this day? We stand in a Christian temple now, and try our cause by the Christian law. We must not dissemble, or cloak our transgressions, before the face of Almighty God, or the judgment-seat of his Son. My Country is dear to me, as to those who boast of her dominion and outward greatness, but are silent over her sin. But I will not defend her call to her unholy battle-fields, though Liberty be written on her banner, while, as I judge, every blow is struck for Slavery. I will not fail to condemn her wars, or to try her oppressions by the spirit of that Christ in whom she claims to trust” (p. 14).

“A lamentation is heard because the spirit of Peace makes so little progress. How small its influence upon the spirit of War! Not only are the base and lawless ready for the battle. The conscientious also call it glorious, and go out to its murders. No lofty Statesmanship, no power of Intellect or Genius, can receive one tithe of the honor instantly given to the victorious warrior. We dwell in an almost Heathen darkness, in respect to this vital principle of the spirit of Jesus. The reformation is too great to be accomplished yet. I do not expect the reign of Peace between the nations, until the individuals that compose them ascend more nearly to a Christian love. Individual hearts must subdue their contentious spirit, by gazing upon the Cross, and the home must have no bitter strifes around its hearth-stone, and societies must hush their bickerings, and the Life of the forgiving prayer of Jesus must win many victories, before Governments will disband their armaments” (pp. 23–24).

17

First of August. In The Monthly Religious Magazine, September, 1847, iv. 412–420.

“Thirteen years have passed since this day was made memorable by the commencement of emancipation in the English West India Islands. Nine years ago that work was finished and the day was consecrated forever by the complete liberation of 800,000 slaves” (p. 412).

18

A Discourse delivered before the Autumnal Unitarian Convention, held at Salem, Mass., Wednesday Evening, October 20, 1847. . . . Boston: . . . 1847.

Title, 1 p.; Imprint, 1 p.; Note, p. [3]; Discourse, pp. [5]–31.

The note is dated “Plymouth, Mass., Octo. 23, 1847.”

19

Bushnell on Christian Nurture. In The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, November, 1847, xliii. 435–451.

Signed “G. W. B.” (p. 451). A review of Horace Bushnell’s “An Argument for ‘Discourses on Christian Nurture,’ addressed to the Publishing Committee of the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society” (1847).

20

Faith the Child of Life. In Sermons on Christian Communion, designed to promote the growth of the religious affections, by living Ministers. . . . Edited by T. R. Sullivan. Boston: . . . 1848.

Dr. Briggs’s contribution is “Sermon VIII,” and fills pp. [85]–96. The Preface is not dated, but the work was copyrighted in 1847.

21

Address to the Society. In The Modern Pulpit. A Sermon preached at the Ordination of Samuel Longfellow, at Fall River, Mass., February 16th, 1848. By John Weiss, Minister of the Unitarian Church, New-Bedford. With the Right Hand of Fellowship, and Address to the Society. Fall River: . . . 1848.

Title, 1 leaf; Sermon, pp. [3]–20; Right Hand of Fellowship, by John F. W. Ware, pp. [21]–24; Address to the Society, by George W. Briggs, pp. [25]–33; Appendix, pp. [35]–36.

22

Report of the School Committee of the Town of Plymouth. Read in Town Meeting, April 3, 1848.

The above is the heading on p. [1] of the Report, taken from a copy pasted into (C). Presumably there was a title-page, but if so it was not preserved by Dr. Briggs. The pamphlet probably filled 16 pages. The School Committee consisted of “Geo. W. Briggs, R. Tomlinson, C. S. Porter, A. Harvey.”250

23

Sermon, May 28, 1848. In Christian Register, June 3, 1848, xxvii. 90.

The heading is supplied by me. The column is headed “Anniversary Week in Boston. Book and Pamphlet Society,” and begins: “The public exercises in which Unitarian Christians are more particularly interested, on Anniversary Week, were opened with a sermon by Rev. J. W. Briggs, of Plymouth, before the Book and Pamphlet Society, at Federal st. Church, on Sunday evening May 28. Mr. Briggs took for his text, 2 Cor. iv. 13 — ‘We believe, and therefore speak.’” Then follows a report of the sermon filling nearly an entire column, after which are the words: “Mr. B. then concluded his very eloquent sermon, of which his rapid utterance enabled us to take only the above partial and imperfect sketch, and a collection was taken up in aid of the funds of the Society.”251

24

Lessons upon Religious Duties and Christian Morals. Boston: . . . New York: . . . 1852.

Title, 1 p.; Copyright, 1 p.; General Directions, pp. [iii]-vi; Preface, pp. [vii]–viii; Contents, pp. [ix]–x; Lessons upon Religious Duties, etc., pp. [11]–175.

This was one in a series of eight Sunday School books, all published anonymously. In the General Directions (pp. iii, v–vi) it is stated:

In this course of Christian instruction, there are eight text-books, bearing the following titles: — Early Religious Lessons; Palestine and the Hebrew People; Lessons on the Old Testament; Life of Christ; Books and Characters of the New Testament; Religious Duties and Christian Morals; Doctrines of Scripture; Scenes from Christian History. . . . The names of the writers, arranged alphabetically, and not according to the order of the books in the course, are as follows: —

Rev. Geo. W. Briggs,
“S. G. Bulfinch,
“Rufus Ellis,
“Edward E. Hale,
“F. D. Huntington,
“John H. Morison,
“Ephraim Peabody.

25

1st Series. No. 283. Experimental Religion. Printed for the American Unitarian Association. Boston: . . . In Tracts of the American Unitarian Association. First Series. Vol. XXV. . . . Boston: . . . 1852.

Title, p. [1], [83]; Imprint, p. [2], [84]; Experimental Religion, pp. [3]–11, [85]–93.

This was published anonymously. There is a double pagination.

26

1st Series. No. 284. Method of Christian Salvation. . . . Printed for the American Unitarian Association. Boston: . . . In Tracts of the American Unitarian Association. First Series. Vol. XXV. . . . Boston: . . . 1852.

Title, p. [1], [95]; Imprint, p. [2], [96]; Method of Christian Salvation, pp. [3]–22, [97]–116. There is a double pagination.

27

A Legend and its Lesson. In The Unitarian Congregational Register for the Year 1853, pp. 66–68.

This is anonymous.

28

Homage to Christ. A Sermon. In The Monthly Religious Magazine, July, 1853, x. 310–318.

29

Address to the Middlesex Sunday-School Society. Delivered at East Cambridge, Oct. 12, 1853. . . . Reprinted from the Monthly Religious Magazine. Boston: . . . 1853.

Title, 1 leaf; Address, pp. [3]–14.252

30

The Bow in the Cloud: Discourses . . . New Edition Enlarged. Boston and Cambridge. . . . M DCCC LIV.

Title, 1 p.; Copyright and Imprint, 1 p.; Dedication (to Dr. James Kendall), p. [iii]; Preface, pp. [v]–vi; Contents, pp. [vii]–viii; Sermons, pp. [1]–280.

The Preface is dated “Salem, (Mass.,) December, 1853;” and the book was copyrighted in 1853. The Preface states that “The fifteen Discourses which were published in the first edition of this work, have been revised for re-publication. Those which bear the following titles, . . . are now printed for the first time.” The volume contains twenty-four Discourses. See nos. 11 and 12.

31

Character of Rev. Dr. Flint. . . . Extracts from a Sermon preached at the First Church in Salem, Mass., March 11, 1855, on the Sunday after the death of Rev. James Flint, D.D.253 In The Monthly Religious Magazine, April 1855, xiii. 213–218.

32

The Living Ministry: its Preparation and its Work. An Address Delivered before the Graduating Class in the Theological School at Cambridge, Sunday Evening, July 15, 1855 . . . Cambridge: . . . 1855.

Title, 1 p.; Imprint, 1 p.; Correspondence, p. [3]; Address, pp. [5]–24.

33

The Unchanging Christian Message. A Sermon preached at the Ordination of Rev. Alfred Porter Putnam, as Minister of the Mt. Pleasant Church in Roxbury, December 19, 1855. . . . Boston: . . . 1856.

Title, 1 p.; Note and Copyright, 1 p.; Sermon, pp. [3]–23; Right Hand of Fellowship, by Rev. J. H. Phipps, pp. [25]–28; Order of Exercises, pp. 29–31.

34

Remarks, May 31, 1856. In Salem Gazette, June 3, 1856, p. 2.254

The heading is supplied by me. The remarks were made at a meeting in Salem called to protest against the attack by Preston Smith Brooks of South Carolina on Charles Sumner, May 22, 1856. A passage reads:

“We are to look far beyond personal or narrow considerations when we consider this atrocity. I do not simply see my friend Mr. Sumner, bleeding and almost murdered, upon the floor of the Senate chamber — for I am proud to call him my friend; I do not merely see the rights of Massachusetts beaten down in the person of her Senator; I do not merely see the letter of the Constitution broken; but I see the right of free speech in legislative halls, one of the most sacred rights of man, — a right which has been gained as the result of long ages of struggle amidst sacrifice and blood, — profaned, and trampled in the dust. And so, too, I look beyond the individual who was the instrument to commit this outrage. I do not merely see a coward stealing upon a defenceless man, sitting by the very Altar of Liberty, but I behold a conspirator against the dearest rights of the race. I see the spirit of that institution which would not permit you or me to say, above a whisper, in South Carolina, that slavery is a sin, — which seeks to crush all opposition in Kanzas by fire and sword, — stalking in upon the Senate floor to wield its bludgeon upon the head of one who arraigns its usurpations, and becomes the champion of Freedom.”

35

The Christian Law of Self-Culture. In The Monthly Religious Magazine and Independent Journal, December, 1856, xvi. 368–376.

Signed “G. W. B.” (p. 376).

36

Civilization not Regeneration. In The Monthly Religious Magazine and Independent Journal, May, 1857, xvii. 297–307.

Signed “G. W. B.” (p. 307).

37

Protest in Piedmont. In The Christian Examiner, November, 1857, lxiii. 411–430.

The article under this title extends from p. 404 to p. 431, but not all of it was by Dr. Briggs. It is no. 217 in (B), where Dr. Briggs has written: “The Waldenses. Lecture. Boston, Chauncy St., Jan. 4, 1857. Salem, Feb. 8, 1857. Young Men’s Ch. Union. Plymouth, July 26, 1857. Printed. Ch. Examiner, Nov. 1857. Embodied in the Article ‘Protest in Piedmont,’ begin, p. 411, line 18, ‘The ancient Waldensian &c.,’ ending p. 430, line 21.” The other portion of the article was apparently written by Edward Everett Hale.255

38

Providence touching our Eyes. — The Central America. In The Monthly Religious Magazine and Independent Journal, November, 1857, xviii. 301–308.

Signed “G. W. B.” (p. 308).

A report in the Boston Daily Advertiser of September 18, 1857, reads in part: “The very sad intelligence was received last evening, of the loss of the steamship Central America, (formerly the George Law,) with about four hundred and fifty passengers independent of her crew. The steamship foundered at sea on the 12th inst., four days out from Havana” (p. 1/4).256

39

Scepticism and Superstition. In Christian Register, March 6, 1858, xxxvii. 38.

This is an unsigned editorial.

40

Christ’s Doctrine of Repentance. In Christian Register, April 10, 1858, xxxvii. 58.

This is an unsigned editorial.

41

Religious Revival. Part of a Sermon preached in the First Church, in Salem, April 11th, 1858. In Salem Gazette, April 27, 1858, pp. 1–2.

42

Practical Nature of Christian Penitence. In Christian Register, May 8, 1858, xxxvii. 74.

This is an unsigned editorial. It is no. 112 in (B), where the date is wrongly given as May 9, 1858.

43

Jewish and Christian Ideals. In The Monthly Religious Magazine and Independent Journal, January, 1859, xxi. 9–17.

This has neither name nor initials attached to it, but it is no. 21 in (B).

44

A Sermon delivered at Plymouth, at the Funeral of Rev. James Kendall, D.D., Senior Minister of the First Church, in Plymouth, Sunday Afternoon, March 20, 1859. . . . Published by request of the Society. Boston: . . . 1859.

Title, 1 leaf; Note, p. [3]; Sermon, pp. [5]–31; Appendix, pp. [33]–38.

45

Obituary. Rev. James Kendall, D.D. In The Monthly Religious Magazine and Independent Journal, May, 1859, xxi. 342–346.

Signed “G. W. B.” (p. 346).

46

The Conditions of Ministerial Power: An Address delivered before the Graduating Class in the Theological Seminary at Meadville, Penn., Wednesday Evening, June 29, 1859. . . . Published by Request of the Class. Boston: . . . 1859.

Title, 1 p.; Imprint, 1 p.; Address, pp. [3]–24.

47

A Sermon . . . At the ordination of Mr. Wm. B. Smith, as pastor of the Unitarian Society in Fall River, Thursday evening, Jan. 12th, In Christian Register, February 11, 1860. xxxix. 21.

Reprinted from “Fall River News.” It is no. 62 in (B), where it is stated to have been printed in the Fall River News of January 31, 1860.

48

The Calamity at Lawrence. In The Monthly Religious Magazine and Independent Journal, February, 1860, xxiii. 83–93.

“Delivered in Salem, January 15th” (p. 83 note). It was occasioned by the fall of the Pemberton Mill on January 10, 1860.257

49

Faith like a Grain of Mustard-Seed. In The Monthly Religious Magazine, April, 1861, xxv. 217–225.

Signed “G. W. B.” (p. 225).

50

Address, April 2, 1861. In Salem Gazette, April 4, 1861, p. 2.

The heading is supplied by me. The address was delivered at the funeral of Judge White. See no. 63.

51

Address, November 27, 1861. In Salem Gazette, November 29, p. 2.

The heading is supplied by me. Report of an address delivered at the dedication of the Home for Aged and Indigent Women, in Derby Street, Salem.

52

An Address delivered before the City Authorities in Salem, at the celebration of the Birth-Day of Washington, February 22, 1862. . . . Published by request of the City Council. Salem: . . . 1862.

Title, 1 leaf; Address, pp. [3]–24.

53

Address, March 8, 1862. In Salem Register, March 10, 1862, p. 2.258

The heading is supplied by me. The address was delivered at the funeral of Brigadier-General Frederic W. Lander.259

54

Address to the People. In Services at the Ordination of Mr. James De Normandie, in Portsmouth, N. H., October 1, 1862. Sermon by Rev. Ezra S. Gannett, Pastor of Arlington-Street Church, Boston. With Charge, Right Hand, and Address to the People. Boston: . . . Portsmouth: . . . 1862.

Title, 1 p.; Imprint, 1 p.; Introductory Note, pp. [3]–4; Sermon, pp. [5]–29; Charge, by Rev. E. E. Hale, pp. 30–36; Right Hand of Fellowship, by Rev. C. Y. De Normandie, pp. 36–40; Address to the People, by Rev. George W. Briggs, D.D., pp. 41–48; Order of Exercises, pp. 49–52.

55

Lessons from the Lives of the Apostles. In The Monthly Religious Magazine, October, 1862, xxviii. 252–261.

Signed “G. W. B.” (p. 261).

56

Address, February 23, 1863. In Salem Register, February 26, 1863, p. 2/2.

The heading is supplied by me. Report of an address delivered on Washington’s birthday.

57

Address, March 10, 1863. In Salem Gazette, March 13, 1863, p. 2/1.

The heading is supplied by me. Report of an address delivered at a meeting held to organize the Salem Union League.260

58

Address, March 19, 1863. In Salem Register, March 23, 1863, p. 2.

The heading is supplied by me. The address was delivered at the inauguration of the Salem Union League.

59

Despondency a Sin. In The Monthly Religious Magazine, April, 1863, xxix. 199–206.

Signed “G. W. B.” (p. 206).

60

Experience opens the Book of Life. A Sermon delivered in Salem, June 21, 1863. In Memorial of Pickering Dodge Allen.261 By his Father. Boston: . . . 1867.

Title, 1 leaf; Poem (by Emerson), p. [iii]; Memorial, pp. [5]–157; Half-title, p. [159]; Sermon, pp. [161]–174.

61

Review. In Salem Register, October 5, 1863, p. 2/4.

The heading is supplied by me. A review of Warren Burton’s Helps to Education.

62

Address, October 23, 1863. In Salem Gazette, October 27, 1863, p. 2/2.

The heading is supplied by me. Report of an address delivered at a war meeting held at Danvers Plains.

63

Memoir of Daniel Appleton White, . . . Prepared by request of the Essex Institute, and read at the meeting of January 11, 1864. (From the Historical Collections of the Essex Institute.) Salem: . . . 1864.262

Title, 1 leaf; Memoir, pp. [1]–47.

See no. 50.

64

Sermon by Rev. George W. Briggs, D.D., Salem, Mass.

This is the title of an eight page leaflet owned by the Massachusetts Historical Society, the text being printed on the recto of each leaf. The second line reads: “Daniel V. 27. ‘Weighed in the balances, and found wanting.’” It is no. 384 in (B) and was first preached at Salem on May 18, 1862, and for the thirteenth time at Marblehead on January 24, 1864, and is marked “Printed” and crossed out. An entry in (A) explains the peculiar leaflet: “1865 Weighed in the balance. Printed by the Type Co. as a Specimen.” Finally, a complete copy of the leaflet is among the pamphlets in (D). It consists of six leaves, the verso of each leaf and the recto of the last leaf being blank. On the recto of the first leaf is printed the following:

Dear Sir:

The subscriber has taken a contract with the Type Setting and Justifying Machine Company, and will furnish TEN COPIES, like the enclosed, of any sermon of ordinary length, for THREE DOLLARS.

The work will be done in the School of Instruction, and, therefore, copy difficult to decipher, will not be objectionable.

☞ By a recent provision of the Post Office laws, printer’s copy may be sent at newspaper rates.

GEORGE L. SKERRY,

Salem, Massachusetts.

P.S. The printed copies will be found very useful in preventing the necessity of loaning manuscripts.

65

Remarks on Reconstruction, May 4, 1865. In Salem Gazette, May 9, 1865, p. 2/2–4.

The heading is supplied by me.

66

Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln, . . . June 1, 1865. [Seal of Salem] With the proceedings of the City Council on the death of the President. Salem, Mass. 1865.

Title, 1 p.; Imprint, 1 p.; City of Salem, pp. [3]–7; Correspondence with G. W. Briggs, p. [8]; Address, pp. [9]–45; Correspondence from Washington, p. 46; Order of Exercises, pp. 47–48.

67

Words of Welcome . . . addressed to the returned Soldiers and Sailors of Salem, July 4, 1865. In Salem Register, July 13, p. 2/5.

68

Report, Salem Freedmen’s Aid Society, November 6, 1865. In Salem Register, November 9, 1865, p. 2.

The report of the Executive Committee is signed by Dr. Briggs.

69

The Lessons of the Pilgrims. A Sermon preached at the Boston Theatre, Sunday Evening (Forefathers’ Day), Dec. 22, 1867. In The Christian Register, December 28, 1867, p. 4/1–3.

70

Address to the Congregation. In Faith and Freedom in America. Sermon at the Consecration of the Church of the Messiah, Park Avenue and Forty-Fourth Street, April 2, 1868. By Rev. Samuel Osgood, D.D., Pastor. With the Address to the People, By Rev. George W. Briggs, D.D. New York: . . . 1868.

Title, 1 leaf; Sermon, pp. [3]–35; Address to the Congregation, pp. [36]–45; Appendix, pp. [46]–57.

71

Address, April 23, 1870. In A Memorial of Anson Burlingame, late Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Chinese Empire to the Treaty Powers. [Seal of Boston] Printed by order of the Committee of Arrangements of the City Council of Boston.

Title, 1 leaf; Proceedings of the City Government, pp. [3]–23.

The heading is supplied by me. Dr. Briggs’s Address is printed on pp. 8-21, being preceded by these words: “Reverend George W. Briggs, D.D., of Cambridge, Pastor of the Church which Mr. Burlingame formerly attended, then delivered the following address.”

72

Address, May 30, 1870. In Salem Register, June 2, 1870, p. 2/2–3.

The heading is supplied by me. The account is headed “Memorial Day in Salem,” and begins: “For the third time the day sacred to the memories of the soldiers and sailors who died in defence of their country and liberty has been observed.” (p. 2/1.)

73

A Sermon Preached to the Cambridgeport Parish, May 28, 1871, On the First Sunday after the Ratification of the Treaty with England, by the Senate of the United States. . . . Published by request. 1871.

Title, 1 p.; Note, 1 p.; Sermon, pp. [3]–18.

74

True Faith in Jesus. A Sermon preached to the Cambridgeport Parish, Jan. 28, 1872. . . . [Printed by Request.]263 In The Christian Register, February 10, 1872, p. 1.

75

Death a Revealer of Life. A Sermon. In The Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, December, 1875, iv. 602–610.

“Preached at Dorchester on the Sunday after the Funeral of Rev. Nathaniel Hall” (p. 602 note). See no. 76.

76

Sermon. In A Memorial of the Rev. Nathaniel Hall, late Pastor of the First Church, in Dorchester, Mass. Boston: . . . 1876.

The Rev. Nathaniel Hall died October 21, 1875, and Dr. Briggs’s Sermon, which is printed on pp. 33–48, was preached the following Sunday, October 24. See no. 75.264

77

Right Hand of Fellowship. In Services at Installation of Rev. Edward Augustus Horton as Associate Pastor with Rev. Calvin Lincoln, of the First Parish in Hingham, April 25, 1877. Hingham: . . . 1877.

Title, 1 p.; Prefatory Note, 1 p.; List of churches and persons invited, p. [3]; Delegates present, etc., p. 4; Order of Services, pp. [5]–9; First Parish in Hingham, Names of its Pastors, p. [10]; Sermon, by the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, pp. [11]–26; Charge to the Pastor by Rev. Henry A. Miles, D.D., pp. [27]–30; Right Hand of Fellowship, by the Rev. George W. Briggs, D.D., pp. [31]–33; Address to the People, by Rev. George L. Chaney, pp. [34]–37; Hymn, by James H. Wilder, p. 38.

In the Order of Services (p. 7) the Right Hand of Fellowship is assigned to the Rev. William Ladd Chaffin, but the following note is printed on p. 4: “In the absence of Rev. William L. Chaffin, who was to have given the right hand of fellowship, the Council chose the Rev. George W. Briggs, d.d., of Cambridge, to extend the fellowship of the churches.”

78

Man. In Unitarian Affirmations: Seven Discourses given in Washington, D. C. By Unitarian Ministers. Boston: . . . 1879.

Title, 1 p.; Copyright, 1 p.; Preface, p. [iii]; Contents, p. [v]; Unitarian Affirmations, pp. [1]–175.

The Preface is dated “Boston, May 1, 1879.” Dr. Briggs’s Discourse fills pp. [107]–126.

79

None other Name. In The Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, December, 1884, xxii. 548–555.

Signed “G. W. B.” (p. 555).

80

Sermon. In Third Congregational Society in Cambridge. Exercises in commemoration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Rev. George W. Briggs, D.D., Wednesday, April 6, 1887. Cambridge, Mass.: . . .

Title, 1 leaf; Sermon, pp. [3]–11; Hymn, written for the occasion by Miss C. F. Orne, p. 12; First Church in Cambridgeport [cut, with description], p. [13]; Reminiscences of the Cambridgeport Parish, An address delivered by a member of the Society, April 6th, 1887, on the twentieth anniversary of the settlement of their Pastor, Rev. George W. Briggs, D.D., pp. [15]–32.

81

A Centennial Sermon preached the Sunday before the celebration in New York, April 28, 1889.265 . . . Boston: . . . 1889.

Title, 1 p.; Note, 1 p.; Sermon, pp. [3]–16.

The note on the verso of the title-page reads: “This sermon is especially inscribed to the children and youth of the congregation, with the hope that the lessons of this Centennial celebration may be an inspiration throughout their lives.” The opening sentences show the occasion of the sermon:

“The time prescribes our theme. Next Tuesday the nation, by the presence of its official representatives, with a great military display and imposing ceremonies of every sort, will commemorate the inauguration of this Government in New York, where Washington took the oath of office as the first President just a century ago. It is the latest, and, as I regard it, the most important of our great centennial celebrations; the one most worthy of recognition by religious observances as well as by processions and songs, and all the usual demonstrations of joy.”

82

Channing. In Unitarianism: its Origin and History. A Course of Sixteen Lectures delivered in Channing Hall, Boston, 1888–89. Boston: . . . 1890.

Title, 1 p.; Copyright, 1 p.; Preface, p. [iii]; Introduction, pp. [iv]–ix; Contents, p. [xi]–xxviii; Half-title, 1 leaf; Origin and History of Unitarianism, pp. [1]–373; Index, pp. [375]–394.

The book was copyrighted in 1889. Dr. Briggs’s lecture is printed on pp. 178–195. The subject is of course William Ellery Channing (1780–1842).

83

Sermon delivered by Rev. George W. Briggs, D.D. Senior Minister of the Third Congregational Society, Cambridge, (Austin Street Unitarian), Sunday, October 4, 1891, on his return to his pulpit after a prolonged illness. Cambridge: . . . 1891.

Text, pp. [1]–8. There is no title-page and the above words are printed on the paper cover.

II ALPHABETICAL266

3 Address, July 4, 1842
4 Address, Nov. 13, 1842
21 Address, Feb. 16, 1848
29 Address, Oct. 12, 1853
50 Address, April 2, 1861
51 Address, Nov. 27, 1861
52 Address, Feb. 22, 1862
53 Address, March 8, 1862
54 Address, Oct. 1, 1862
56 Address, Feb. 23, 1863
57 Address, March 10, 1863
58 Address, March 19, 1863
62 Address, Oct. 23, 1863
70 Address, April 2, 1868
71 Address, April 23, 1870
72 Address, May 30, 1870
- 7 Application of the Principles of Religious Freedom, March 9, 1845
11 Bow in the Cloud, 1846
12 Bow in the Cloud, 2nd edition, 1846
30 Bow in the Cloud, new and enlarged edition, 1854
19 Bushnell on Christian Nurture, Nov., 1847
48 Calamity at Lawrence, Jan. 15, 1860
81 Centennial Sermon, April 28, 1889
82 Channing, 1889
31 Character of Rev. Dr. Flint, March 11, 1855
40 Christ’s Doctrine of Repentance, April 10, 1858
35 Christian Law of Self-Culture, Dec., 1856
36 Civilization not Regeneration, May, 1857
46 Conditions of Ministerial Power, June 29, 1859
75 Death a Revealer of Life, Oct. 24, 1875
59 Despondency a Sin, April, 1863
18 Discourse, Oct. 20, 1847
66 Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln, June 1, 1865
60 Experience opens the Book of Life, June 21, 1863
25 Experimental Religion, 1852
49 Faith like a Grain of Mustard Seed, April, 1861
20 Faith the Child of Life, 1848
17 First of August, Sept., 1847
28 Homage to Christ, July, 1853
10 Hymns for Public Worship, 1845
- 5 Inward Appeal of Christianity, June, 1844
- 9 Jesus our Master, Oct., 1845
43 Jewish and Christian Ideals, Jan., 1859
27 Legend, A, and its Lesson, 1853
55 Lessons from the Lives of the Apostles, Oct., 1862
69 Lessons of the Pilgrims, Dec. 22, 1867
24 Lessons upon Religious Duties and Christian Morals, 1852
32 Living Ministry, July 15, 1855
78 Man, 1879
63 Memoir of Daniel Appleton White, 1864
26 Method of Christian Salvation, 1852
79 None other Name, Dec., 1884
- 2 ‘Obey God rather than Man,’ April 7, 1842
45 Obituary, James Kendall, May, 1859
15 Obituary, Zephaniah Willis, May, 1847
42 Practical Nature of Christian Penitence, May 8, 1858
37 Protest in Piedmont, Nov., 1857
38 Providence touching our Eyes, Nov., 1857
- 8 Real Duty of a Christian Society to its Minister, Sept., 1845
41 Religious Revival, April 11, 1858
34 Remarks, May 31, 1856
65 Remarks on Reconstruction, May 4, 1865
68 Report, Salem Freedmen’s Aid Society, Nov. 6, 1865
14 Report of the School Committee, Plymouth, 1847
22 Report of the School Committee, Plymouth, 1848
13 Response to Peace Address, Feb. 26, 1846
61 Review, Oct. 5, 1863
77 Right Hand of Fellowship, April 25, 1877
39 Scepticism and Superstition, March 6, 1858
- 1 Sermon, Jan. 28, 1835
23 Sermon, May 28, 1848
44 Sermon, March 20, 1859
47 Sermon, Jan. 12, 1860
64 Sermon, 1865
73 Sermon, May 28, 1871
76 Sermon, Oct. 24, 1875
80 Sermon, April 6, 1887
83 Sermon, Oct. 4, 1891
- 6 Timely Thoughts, Dec. 28, 1844
74 True Faith in Jesus, Jan. 28, 1872
16 Two Sermons, July 4, 1847
33 Unchanging Christian Message, Dec. 19, 1855
67 Words of Welcome, July 4, 1865

The Rev. Dr. George F. Moore spoke as follows:

In a paper read before the Massachusetts Historical Society in May, 1919,267 I gave some reasons for believing that Judah Monis, the first instructor in Hebrew in Harvard College, came of a Portuguese Marano family that had established itself in Venice, where the name had been found in epitaphs dated 1642 and 1644. Professor Alexander Marx, of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, in New York, in a recent letter informs me that he has had in his hands a legal document drawn in Venice in 1739 in which four brothers of the name Monis appear. The probability that our Judah was a member of this Monis family is thus increased.

A few weeks ago, in looking for another book in the Andover Harvard Theological Library, I came upon a volume bearing on its title-page in his own hand the name of John Martyn and the date 1764. Martyn was Monis’s brother-in-law, in whose home in Northborough he lived after resigning the instructorship in the College, and where he died in 1764, leaving all his books to Martyn. The book is a cabalistic work of 375 folio pages in Hebrew, and it was safe to infer that it had belonged to Monis, whose predilection for the Cabala is well known. The assumption was immediately verified by the discovery, on the margin at the top of one of the first pages, of an inscription in Hebrew as follows: “This book is a present to the learned Rabbi Judah Monis, the Sephardi,268 from me, the insignificant Solomon Ithiel Halevi, for letting me copy all the manuscripts that belong to him.”

I have not been able to ascertain anything about the donor. The inscription is written in Hebrew cursive of the German variety, widely different from that which Monis himself wrote, or that in which the manuscripts in the College Library formerly belonging to him are written. This would suggest that the book was presented to Monis by a German or Dutch Jew, perhaps during his residence in Amsterdam. It may further be surmised that the manuscripts in the possession of Monis which the giver wanted to copy were cabalistic writings such as are contained in the Harvard College collection.

The volume is entitled Eshel Abraham (in allusion to Gen. 21:33), and was printed at Fürth in 1701. The author, Mordechai ben Judah Loeb Ashkenazi, who lived in Amsterdam in the early seventeenth century, embodied in it the teaching of his master, Abraham (ben Raphael) Rovigo,269 under whose name the work is commonly cited.

On the margins are a few corrections of misprints in the same hand with the dedication, but there is nothing else of any interest. The volume came into the possession of the College Library, as is noted upon the book-plate, through “the gift of the Rev. John Martyn of Northborough, 1764–67.”

Mr. William C. Lane stated that a chair which had belonged to Judah Monis is now in the College Library, having been recently given by the widow of Professor Crawford H. Toy.

Mr. Matthews also communicated the following note:

In the list of the settled pastors and associate pastors of the First Church in Plymouth, prefixed to the first volume of the Plymouth Church Records,270 appears the name of George S. Ball. At the time the list was printed, his full name had not been ascertained; but as this has now been run down, a brief sketch will not be out of place. George Sumner Ball, a son of Micah Ross and Rachel (Lincoln) Ball, was born at Leominster May 22, 1822; graduated from the Meadville Theological School in 1847; was ordained pastor of the First Unitarian Church at Ware October 13, 1847, remaining there for two years; married Hannah Barnard Nourse at Bolton June 18, 1848; was called to the First Unitarian Society at Upton on September 22, 1849, and installed February 9, 1850, remaining there until March 3, 1855; from April, 1855, to April, 1857, was associate pastor of the First Church in Plymouth; from April 8, 1857, to April 12, 1892, was again pastor of the First Unitarian Society at Upton; was chaplain of the Twenty-First Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers from November 11, 1861, to December 3, 1862; served in the State Legislature, both in the House and in the Senate; and died at West Upton September 6, 1902.271

Mr. Henry H. Edes made the following communication:

Mr. Appleton P. C. Griffin has sent from Washington photostats of a document in the Library of Congress containing a list of the freemen of Plymouth Colony for the year 1675. The document consists of six long narrow leaves, the second and twelfth pages being blank, in the handwriting of Nathaniel Morton. The manuscript is torn in a few places, the missing letters where possible being conjecturally supplied within square brackets. The pagination of the original is indicated within square brackets.

[1] The List of the Names of the freemen of the Jurisdiction of New Plymouth Ann^o Dom̄ 1675

[3] Yarmouth

Thomas ffalland	Joseph howes
Emanvell White	John Thacher
James Matthews	henery vincent
M^r Edmond hawes	Judah Thacher
M^r John Vincent	Leift Thomas howes
Jeremiah howes	John hawes
Edward Sturgis seni^r	Kanelme Winslow
Richard Seares	Sergeant Joseph Ryder272
Yelverton Crow	Samuell hall
John Miller

Barnstable

M^r Thomas hinckley	m^r Thomas dexterseni^r273 deceased
M^r Thomas Walley	henery Bourne
M^r Thomas Allin	James hamblen seni^r
M^r Wilƚam Serjeant	John ffinney seni^r
Elder henery Cobb	Wilƚam Crocker
Elder John Chipman	m^r John Gorvm274 deceased
John Cooper	Roger Goodspeed
M^r Isacke Robinson	Thomas huckens
Capt: Mathew ffuller	Abraham Blush
Leift: Joseph Laythorpe	Austine Beirse
Ensigne Barnard Lumbard	John Jenkens
Robert Shelley	John ffiney Juni^r
John Scudder	Jabez Lumbert
Thomas Laythorpe	John huckens
Gorge Lewis	Nathaniel Bacon
John howland	Joshua Lumbert
Wilƚam dexter	Edward Lewis
James Cobb	m^r Barnabas Laytho[rpe]
James hamblen Jun^r	Samuell Allin
Tho Lewis	Mellatiah Laythor[pe]
James Lewis	Samuell hinckley
Job Crocker	John hinckley

[4] Marshfeild

Josiah275 Winslow Esq^r	John Caruer
m^r Samuell Arnold	Wilƚam ffoard Juni^r
m^r Thomas Beskeith276 deceased	Jonathan Winslow
Leift: Perregrine White	m^r Nathaniel: Thomas
Elisha Besbey	John Rogers
John dingley	Samuell Sprague
Robert Caruer	Arther howland Juni^r
Anthony Snow	John ffoster
John Bourne	Nathaniel: Winslow
m^r Anthony Eames	Jacob dingley
Wilƚam ffoard seni^r	Micaell ffoard
M^r Resolued White	ffrancis Crooker
Timothy Williamson	Ephraim Little
John Rouse	hopestill Besbey
Morrise Trewant	Josiah Crooker
Wilƚam holmes	Iacke Little

Rehoboth

m^r Noah Newman	Daniel Smith
m^r Steven Paine	Nicholas Pecke
m^r Thomas Cooper	Phillip Walker
Leiftenant Peter hunt	Nathaniel Paine
Ensigne henery Smith	John Read
Nicholas Iyde277	Wilƚam Carpenter
Wilƚam Sabine	Gilbert Brookes
Samuell Sabi[ne]	Steven Paine Juni^r
Enoch hunt	Jonathan Bosworth seni^r
M^r Thomas Cooper	Preserved Abell
[5] John Pecke	John Read Juni^r278
Anthony Peirey	John Perram
John Woodcocke279	Thomas Wilmote
Samuell Newman	Jonas Palmer
Samuell Carpenter280	Joseph Carpenter281
Samuell Pecke	Israeli Pecke
John Titus	Peter hunt Juni^r
Jonathan Blisse	Jonathan ffuller
Robert ffuller	Wilƚam hall282
Gorge Kenricke	Nathaniel Cooper

Eastham

m^r John ffreeman	Gorge Crispe
m^r John done	Jonathan Banges
Edward Banges	John Banges
Nicholas Snow	Thomas Rogers
Leift: Joseph Rogers	Joseph harding
Job Cole	Jonathan higgens
Daniel Cole	Benjamin higgens
Robert Vixon	Steuen Snow
Steuen Wood	John ffreeman
Ensigne Wilƚam Merrick	Thomas ffreeman
henery Atkins	John Mayo
Marke Snow	Joshua Bang[s]
Wilƚam Walker	Steuen hopk[ins]
Samuell ffreeman	Josia Cooke
Thomas Paine	W^m Thomas283
John done Juni^r	daniell done
Jonathan Sparrow	John Rogers

[6] [Bridgewat]er

m^r James Keith	m^r Nathaniel Willis
m^r Wilƚam Brett	m^r Nicholas Byram
Thomas haward seni^r	Ensigne John haward
John Willis	Samuell Packer seni^r
Samuell Tompkins	John Eames
John Carrey	Samuell Allin
Joseph Aldin	John Washburne Juni^r
Leift: Thomas haward	m^r Samell Edson

Dartmouth

John Cooke	Wilƚam Spooner
John Russell	Daniell hickes
serjeant James Shaw284 deceased	Wilƚam Palmer285 deceased

Swansey

m^r James Browne	Samuell Luther
John Allin	M^r John Myles Juni^r
m^r Nicholas Tanner	Leift John Browne
Nathaniel Pecke	Gedion Allin
hugh Cole	Thomas Easterbrook
Zacheriah Eedey	m^r James Willett

Middleberry

Jonathan dunham	John Nelson
ffrancis Combe	Samell Wood
John Tompson	Wilƚam Nelson Juni^r
John dunham Juni^r	Gershom Cobb286 deceased

[7] [Josi]ah Winslow Esq^r Gou^r Ann^o dom [ ] A list of the names of all the ffreemen of the Collonie of New Plymouth Transcribed out of t[he] Records of the Court for the Jurisdiction of Plym[outh] aforsaid; by Nathaniel Morton Secretary

Plymouth

Capt. Wilƚam Bradford	Gyles Rickard seni^r
m^r John Cotton	Richard Wright
m^r Thomas Cushman	John dunham
m^r Thomas Clarke	Andrew Ringe
Gorge Watson	Robert ffinney
Robert Bartlett287	Leift: Ephraim Morton
Samuell Eedey	Ensigne Joseph Bradford
James Cole seni^r	John Wood288 deceased
Wilƚam hoskins	Jacob Cooke289 deceased
Nathaniel: Morton	Samuell dunham
Samuell ffuller	James Cole Juni^r
serje Wilƚam harlow	Serjeant Ephraim Tinkham
Thomas Lettice	m^r Edward Gray
Gyles Rickard Juni^r	Jonathan Pratt
Benajah Pratt	daniell dunham
Thomas Morton	Gorge Morton
John Rickard	Ephraim Tilson
Steven Bryant	Jabez howland
William Clarke	Thomas Cushman
James Clarke	John dotey
Gorge Bonum	John Waterman290
Joseph howland	John Jourdaine
Joseph dunham	Joseph Bartlett
Jonathan Shaw	M^r Ammy Corlett291
Wilƚam Crow	M^r ffrancis Billington
Samuell Ryder	Nathaniel Southworth
Abraham Jackson	m^r Ammy Corlett

[8] [D]uxburrow

m^r John Alden	ffrancis West
m^r Constant Southworth	Benjamine Bartlett
m^r John Holmes292 deceased	John Tracye
m^r Christopher Wadsworth	Ensigne Jonathan Aldin
Leift Samuell Nash	Joseph Wadsworth
Experience Michell	Benjamine Church
Phillip delano	John Rogers Juni^r
Moses Symonson	Samuell West
henery Sampson	Rodulphus Thacher
John Rogers seni^r	Samuell hunt
Wilƚam Tubbs	John Sprague293 deceased
Gorge Partrich	ffrancis Barker
Gorge Soule seni^r	m^r Samuell Saberry
John Washburne seni^r294 deceased	John Wadsworth
m^r Alexander Standish	Edward Southworth
m^r Josias Standish	Nathaniel: Brewster
m^r John Aldin Juni^r	dauid Aldin
Wilƚam Payboddy	John Symons
Edmond Weston	Josiah holmes
Wilƚam Clarke	Samuell Sampson;295 deceased
Robert Barker	Wilƚam Brewster
Abraham Sampson

[9] Scittvate

Capt: James Cudworth	Wilƚam Brookes
m^r Wilƚam Witherell	Richard Curtice
m^r Nicholas Bak[er]	Walter hatch
m^r Thomas Kinge	Mathew Gannett
Leift Isacke Bucke	m^r Micaell Peirse296 deceased
Cornett Robert Studson	Samuell Witherell
Joseph [ ]297	John Cushen
Edward Jenkins	Peter Collimore
Walter Woodworth	John hanmore298
Thomas Clapp	John Bryant Juni^r
Wilƚam Wills	John daman299
Samuell Jackson	Moses Symons300
Ensigne John Williams	Joseph Barstow
Gorge Russell	Joseph Silvester
serjeant John Bryant	Thomas Roes
henery Ewell	Joseph Woodworth
John Turner seni^r	Theophilus Witherill
John Turner Juni^r	John Witherill
Thomas Pencen	Thomas Kinge Juni^r
Steven Vinall	Thomas Wade
John Vinall	John Burke
Jeremiah hatch	Ensigne John Allin
Rodulphus Elmes	James Torey
Walter Briggs	Wilƚam Torrey
John hollett301 deceased	Willam hatch

[10] Sandwich

m^r Edmond ffreeman seni^r	Thomas Tupper Juni^r
m^r Richard Bourne	Steven skiffe
Thomas Tupper seni^r	Joseph Burge
James Skiffe seni^r	Wilƚam Swift
Thomas Burge seni^r	John Blackwell
m^r Edmond ffreeman Jun^r

Taunton

m^r Gorge Shoue	James Walker
Walter deane	John Tisdall seni^r302 deceased
Richard Williams	Wilƚam harvey
Leift Gorge Macey	Wilƚam hailston
Wilƚam Witherill	James Phillipps303
John hathwey	John Cobb
Thomas Linkolne	Jonah Austine304
Peter Pitts	Nathaniell Williams
ffrancis Smith	m^r John Poole
Samuell Smith	Joseph Williams
Ensigne Thomas Leanard	Encrease Robinson
Samuell Williams	John Richmond
John Tisdall Juni^r	William hall
Israell dean	James Tisdall
Edward Babbitt305	Thomas deane
John Bryant

[11] these stande P[ropounded]306

daniell Re[ad]
Jeremiah S[abin]
Abraham Pe[rrin]
Richard Whittacar
John Wilmouth
Eliezer Churchill
Thomas ffaunce

1 Mr. Greenough’s paper, together with the illustrations, will appear in the Transactions of a future meeting.

2 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, viii. 258.

3 Notes relating to Rawlins, or Rollins, etc., p. 37.

4 Records of Families of the Name of Rawlins or Rollins, in the United States, pp. xi, 303.

5 xxvi. 619.

6 xxvii. 578.

7 ii. 578. The paragraph is headed “Friday, December 16.”

8 Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, ix. 166.

9 College Book iv. 23, 24, 25.

10 Diary, ii. 134.

11 S. Sewall, History of Woburn, p. 586.

12 John Robinson (1650–1723).

13 W. S. Perry, Historical Collections relating to the American Colonial Church, iii. 98–99. On December 11, 1872, Bishop Perry wrote to Sibley stating that he had a copy of this letter and asking for information about Rawlins; and on December 27 he sent Sibley a copy of the letter, adding “I am very much obliged to you for the information you send.” The Massachusetts Historical Society owns Bishop Perry’s letters, but Sibley’s replies have not been preserved.

14 Andover Vital Records, i. 77. Dudley Bradstreet, the father, died on November 13, 1702 (ii. 397).

15 A. Abbot, History of Andover, p. 133; S. L. Bailey, Historical Sketches of Andover, p. 522.

16 Sewall, History of Woburn, pp. 214, 586.

17 Butler, History of Groton, pp. 165, 168. The date of ordination is sometimes wrongly given as June 16, 1706, and even as 1708.

18 Butler, History of Groton, pp. 166–167.

19 2 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, xii. 298–302; S. A. Green, Groton Historical Series, vol. i. no. x. pp. 1–5.

20 Leverett’s Diary, p. 90.

21 Diary, iii. 13.

22 Diary, pp. 90–91. They are headed “m^r Dudley Bradstreet’s Orders. 1. Diaconatus. . . . 2. Presbyter at as;” are entered between Corporations meetings held on July 22 and September 16, 1714; and in the margin is written “Reg. Sept. 1. 1714.”

23 Letter-Book, ii. 32.

24 ii. 32.

25 A Sermon Preach’d before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; . . . On Friday the 18th of February, 1714. . . . London: . . . 1715. Abstract Of the most material Proceedings and Occurrences within the past year’s Endeavours, p. 40. In his History of the Episcopal Church in Narragansett (1847, p. 452; 1907, iii. 63) Updike wrongly stated that Bradstreet was designed “for Marblehead or Narragansett,” and that he “died before ordination.” In the Classified Digest of the Records of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (1893, p. 852) Bradstreet is said to have “qualified for Newbury Mission.”

26 This title is taken from the British Museum Catalogue. The title is not in Sabin, and I have been unable to locate a copy. Mr. Rollins’s statement (p. 3, above) that Rawlins printed “Two Sermons; 1715” may be correct, but no authority is cited.

27 College Book iv. 259.

28 Overseers’ Records, ii. 1.

29 The date 1757 was first attached to Rawlins’s name in the 1848 Triennial Catalogue.

30 The so-called “Gilman-Belknap-Winthrop-Pierce Triennial Catalogue,” now owned by the Massachusetts Historical Society, where the entry occurs: “Episc. min. London. B. — ob^t 1763 aged 76 E. — Epis. min. in London. G. Brit. W.” “B.” stands for Jeremy Belknap, and “W.” for William Winthrop (H.C. 1770). In 1864 Sibley wrote: “To the Doctor’s [Dr. Belknap’s] memoranda are additions by another hand, probably that of the Rev. Dr. John Eliot, of Boston” (1 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, viii. 45). Why Eliot gave that date remains unknown.

31 History of Plymouth Plantation (1912), i. 20–22.

32 In Bradford, History, i. 134.

33 In Young, Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers, pp. 396, 397.

34 History, i. 124–125.

35 Id. i. 191.

36 Laus Deo Optimo Maximo.

37 Peter Bours (H. C. 1747).

38 C. R. Batchelder, History of the Eastern Diocese (1910), i. 482. I am indebted to Mr. Percival Merritt for this reference and for the identification of “Mr. Bass.”

39 Richard Baxter (1615–1691), Thomas Emlyn (1663–1741), Matthew Henry (1662–1714), William Law (1686–1761).

40 Cf. A. H. Clough, Qua Cursum Ventus.

41 Belknap, History of New Hampshire (1792), ii. 169.

42 Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association Proceedings, iii. 392.

43 Temple and Sheldon, History of Northfield, pp. 99, 106.

44 Conant, Vermont Historical Reader (1907), p. 19.

45 New Hampshire State Papers, ix. 382–383, xxiv. 142, xxv. 115–123; Vermont Historical Gazetteer, vol. v. pt. ii. 251, 271, 274.

46 Massachusetts Province Laws, xii. 55–56.

47 xii. 197.

48 xiii. 34–35.

49 xviii. 44, 65. A plan of this grant is in Maps and’ Plans, xxxvii. 5, in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth.

50 John Stebbins’s Narrative, in Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association Proceedings, i. 148; Vermont Historical Gazetteer, vol. v. pt. ii. 275.

51 Massachusetts Province Laws, xii. 275 and note.

52 iv. 466.

53 xviii. 44 (June 25, 1765).

54 Massachusetts Province Laws, xi. 619–620 (October 1, 1731).

55 xi. 664 (June 30, 1732).

56 A perch is equivalent to one rod, or 5½ yards. As a square measure, a perch is equal to 30¼ square yards. 160 perches make an acre.

57 xi. 699–700.

58 xii. 499.

59 Massachusetts Province Laws, xii. 523.

60 Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association Proceedings, i. 148.

61 Cf. Publications of this Society, xvii. 113, 115.

62 Connecticut Colonial Boundaries, 1670–1727, Massachusetts, iii. 12 (December 12, 1695). This is a volume of manuscripts in the Connecticut State Library at Hartford relating to the Massachusetts-Connecticut boundary for the years indicated. It is hereafter cited as “Connecticut Colonial Boundaries, iii.”

63 Connecticut Colonial Records, v. 399. The story of this survey and of the agreements arrived at is a long one. The documentary evidence in the Massachusetts Archives, in the Connecticut Colonial Records, and in the Connecticut Colonial Boundaries (iii), is extensive. Many of the important facts will be found in Clarence W. Bowen’s Boundary Disputes of Connecticut (1882).

64 Connecticut Colonial Boundaries, iii. 34–35c; Massachusetts Court Records, ix. 300–301; Massachusetts Archives, cxvii. 689.

65 Massachusetts Court Records, ix. 338–339; Connecticut Colonial Boundaries, iii. 43a–43c. A list of the tracts south of the line is in iii. 45b.

66 Connecticut Colonial Boundaries, iii. 43–45c.

67 iii. 44, 44b.

68 iii. 45b.

69 As in Connecticut Colonial Boundaries, iii. 54, 81c, 81d; Connecticut Colonial Records, v. 13; Massachusetts Archives, ii. 276–276a.

70 Connecticut Colonial Boundaries, iii. 58c–58d.

71 Connecticut Colonial Boundaries, iii. 54.

72 Massachusetts Archives, xlvi. 437; cxiv. 770.

73 Massachusetts Archives, ii. 277–283.

74 Massachusetts Archives, ii. 278; Connecticut Colonial Boundaries, iii. 194–199.

75 B. Hall, History of Eastern Vermont, p. 106.

76 Court Records, xvi. 70 (November 30, 1734); Massachusetts Province Laws, xii. 58 (December 2, 1734).

77 Massachusetts Archives, xlvi. 528.

78 xlvi. 521–522.

79 New Hampshire State Papers, xxv. i. 51–58, 130–138, 363–369.

80 Massachusetts Archives, cxiii. 425–427.

81 cxiii. 431–433.

82 Massachusetts Province Laws, xii. 142–143 (June 19, 1735), xii. 252 (March 27, 1736).

83 xii. 289.

84 xii. 294.

85 Vol. xxvi.

86 Massachusetts House Journal, 1735, pp. 221, 225, 227; Province Laws, xii. 225–227 (January 15, 1736), xii. 232 (January 16, 1736), xii. 307 (December 17, 1736); Court Records, xvi. 276–277, 282, 373 (January 15, 16, November 30, 1736).

87 Province Laws, xii. 292 (November 30, 1736).

88 For Phinehas (Phineas) Stevens, see Publications of this Society, vi. 260, 260 note, 261 note 2.

89 Cf. Publications of this Society, vi. 137–151.

90 Province Laws, xii. 342.

91 For a memoir of Young, see Publications of this Society, xi. 2–54.

92 The pamphlet is no. 9889 in Evans, under Young’s name; no. 42758 in Sabin, under Lydius’s name; and no. 1405 in Trumbull’s List of Books printed in Connecticut, 1709–1800 (1904), under the title. The title reads:

Some Reflections on the Disputes between New-York, New-Hampshire, and Col. John Henry Lydius Of Albany. Qui ab altero fere tuleris, re inferes ipse.

To these Reflections are added, Some Rules of Law, fit to be observed in purchasing Land, &c. New-Haven: Printed and Sold by Benjamin Mecom. 1764.

Title, 1 leaf; Reflections, &c., pp. 3–21. The copy in the Boston Public Library ends on p. 21, the verso of which is blank. The copies in the New York Public Library and in the Henry E. Huntington Library have an additional leaf, the verso of which is blank, while the recto (in verse) is headed: “From an Old Book. Rules of Law, fit to be observed in purchasing Land, &c.” Cf. Publications of this Society, xi. 26 note 1.

93 It is No. 49 on the map in Documentary History of the State of New York (1849), i. 556.

94 Some Reflections, etc., pp. 12–13.

95 Id. p. 4.

96 Id. pp. 4, 5.

97 Id. pp. 5–6.

98 This boundary was determined in July, 1764, and became known in New York the following February or March.

99 The New York law of 1691 establishing counties left the northern extension of Albany County east of the Hudson indeterminate: “The County of Albany [to containl] the Manour of Renslaerswyck, Schenectady and all the villages neighbourhoods and Christian plantacons on the East side of Hudson’s River from Roeloffe Jansens Creeke and on the west side; from Sawyers Creeke to the utmost end of Saraghtooga” (Laws of New York, 1894, i. 268).

100 Particularly in the Calendar of the [New York] Council Minutes, 1668–1783 (1902), pp. 414–466; and in the Calendar of the Sir William Johnson Manuscripts in the New York State Library compiled by R. E. Day (1909).

101 Calendar of the Council Minutes, p. 452.

102 Calendar of the Council Minutes, p. 452; Calendar of New York Historical Manuscripts (1866), p. 719.

103 Calendar of the Council Minutes, p. 456.

104 Calendar of the Council Minutes, p. 457; Calendar of New York Historical Manuscripts, p. 729.

105 Calendar of the Sir W. Johnson Manuscripts, pp. 136, 169.

106 Province Laws, xiii. 543; xiv. 79, 592; xv. 105, 281; House Journal, 1745, p. 179; 1747, pp. 21, 175, 179; 1748, pp. 14, 56, 67, 114; 1755, pp. 233, 239.

107 New York Colonial Documents, vi. 561, 569, 577, 650; vii. 456; ix. 1019–1020.

108 New York Land Papers, xxxiv. 10–11, in the Land Bureau of the Secretary of State of New York.

109 New York Land Papers, xvi. 396–405.

110 Military Patents, xvi. 418–421.

111 In or near Lincoln, Vermont.

112 Documentary History of New York (1851), iv. 956; Hall, Early History of Vermont, p. 169.

113 At a meeting of the Council held 1 April, 1920, the following minute was adopted:

The Council have learned with sorrow of the death of their honored colleague ANDREW McFARLAND DAVIS, the Senior Vice-President of the Society, and for many years a member of this Board. Although the state of Mr. Davis’s health has deprived us of his presence at our meetings during the past three years, his wise counsel has always been at our service, and his kind and cordial greeting has been sent to us on more than one occasion. We shall long miss him, and we deplore the loss of his advice and cooperation in the varied interests of the Society. Nor can we say farewell to our old associate without an especial tribute of gratitude and appreciation for his unfailing loyalty and help in the early days of the Society before it had attained the recognized position which it now enjoys.

114 Cf. our Publications, xiv. 268–281.

115 Oddly enough, “Ashworth” was also a ghost benefactor, the name evidently being an error for “Henry Ashurst:” cf. our Publications, xx. 201–202.

116 History of Harvard University (1833), p. 50.

117 History of Harvard University, i. 510.

118 Sketch of the History of Harvard College (1848), p. 166.

119 College Book, iii. 60.

120 iii. 83.

121 Donation Book, i. 19. This was compiled about 1773.

122 There was a William Trusedale in England, who never came to this country. He is supposed to have been a brother of Deacon Richard Trusedale and the father of the Richard Trusedale who died in 1676 or 1677: see 2 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, iv. 78.

123 Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, iv. 335.

124 A. B. Ellis, History of the First Church, p. 328.

125 Hill, History of the Old South Church, i. 117–118.

126 Suffolk Probate Files, vii. 176, 177. That this Richard Trusedale was the deacon is shown by the fact that he is so called in several depositions and in the inventory.

127 Suffolk Probate Files, no. 885.

128 Suffolk Probate Records, v. 230, vi. 73.

129 Our Publications, v. 390, 391; W. C. Ford, Boston Book Market, pp. 43, 72; Memorial History of Boston, i. 469.

130 Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, ix. 93, 101, 112.

131 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, Iii. 315.

132 Roberts, History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, i. 209, 210.

133 Diary, ii. 12.*

134 History of Printing in America (1874), ii. 207, 208, 242.

135 Ford, Boston Book Market, p. 12.

136 Suffolk Probate Files, no. 486.

137 Diary, iii. 14.

138 The Greene Family (1901), p. 50.

139 Suffolk Probate Files, no. 5574.

140 Collation: Title, 1 leaf; Dedication, 1 leaf; “Officia Sacrata: or, Devotional Offices. In Three Parts” (half-title), 1 leaf; “View of H. Duties” (half-title), 1 leaf; “A General View of the Christian Duties, the Compiler’s Preliminary to the Retired Acts thereof,” pp. [i]–vii; Contents, pp. [viii]–[xi]; “Daily Offices. Part the First” (half-title), p. [1]; text, pp. [3]–56; Appendix to these Retired Acts, pp. [57]–80; “Eucharistical Offices. Part the Second” (half-title), p. [81]; text, pp. [83]–119; “Occasional Offices. Part the Third” (half-title), p. [121]; text, pp. [123]–224.

141 It is also the book-plate that I have found in all copies of the Elliston books that I have seen. Both book-plates are reproduced in facsimile in A. B. Keep’s History of the New York Society Library (1908), the 1725 one on p. 38, the later one on p. 41.

142 I do not find the name of Robert Elliston in the index to any volume by or about Franklin.

143 For information about this library I am indebted to Mr. Isadore G. Mudge.

144 Before I had an opportunity of examining the copies in the library of this institution, Mr. George Dobbin Brown kindly sent me information.

145 Collation: Title, 1 leaf; Address Dedicatory, pp. iii–vi (misprinted iv); General Matters in the Religious Instructions, pp. vii–xi; Version of the Mottos, pp. xii–xiv; Cognitiones Christianismi, pp. 1–242; Ἐπίλογος φιλοχρήστου, P. 243; Narratus, etc., pp. [244–245].

146 P. [244] ends with this word.

147 “Some account of Robert Elliston, gentleman. He was born in Middlesex in the year of salvation 1680, in Haberdashers’ Hall, fourteen full years after the Great Fire of London and on that very day; and at the beginning of the next century he had been for a time one of the clerks under the Hon. Edward Harley, Esq., Royal Auditor; then up to 1742 he was Comptroller of his Majesty’s Customs in the port of New York in America. All praise be assuredly to the Most High!” The building in which Mr. Elliston was born stood on the present site of Haberdashers’ Hall at no. 33 Gresham Street and Staining Lane, behind the General Post Office, and was erected immediately after the Great Fire from designs by Wren. Wren’s building was in turn in large part burned in or about 1840. Cf. Brayley, Londiniana, 1829, iv. 149, 151–152; Wheatley, London Past and Present, ii. 176; W. C. Hazlitt, Livery Companies of London, p. 289; P. H. Ditchfield, City Companies of London, pp. 115–116. For the translation of this inscription and of the dedication below, together with the comments, I am indebted to Professor Kittredge.

148 Collation: Title, 1 leaf; Address Dedicatory, 1 leaf; Contents, 1 leaf; Enchiridium Polychrestum, pp. [1]–[84].

149 “M. & C.” is probably an abbreviation for “Medicinae et Chirurgiae.” “Hinc . . . Plurimae” is unintelligible. Exopatur would be an easy misprint for exoratur, but exoptatur seems more likely, since exoratur means not to “ask” but to “obtain one’s request.” Erint is somebody’s blunder (Elliston’s or his printer’s); sense and grammar require sint. With these corrections it is possible that Elliston’s Latin was intended to signify: “To Mr. John Dupuy, scholarly physician and surgeon, these Instructions of Christianity are inscribed by R. Elliston his father-in-law. Hence it is earnestly desired that very many [of these Instructions] may be acceptable to him.” Ipsimet is so emphatic a word that one is tempted to guess that Elliston meant it to refer to Christ; but it is to be noted that in the other inscription he employs ipse where a mere “he” would be expected in English.

150 This inscription is printed wholly in capital letters.

151 Doubtless a misprint for “Quidam” (see the inscription of 1742, above).

152 Corrected with a pen to “Computatori.”

153 W. Berrian, Historical Sketch of Trinity Church (1847), p. 322.

154 Id. p. 355.

155 Id. p. 340.

156 Id. p. 55.

157 Id. p. 55 note.

158 Id. p. 57; Keep, History of the New York Society Library, pp. 33–35.

159 “Robert Ellison, Esq; Collector of the Customs at New-York” (London Magazine, July, 1732, i. 207). A similar item appeared in the Gentleman’s Magazine for the same month (ii. 877).

160 The New York Weekly Post Boy of July 22, 1745, stated that “Last Night, died . . . Mr. John Dupuy, M.D. and man-midwife; in which last Character it may truly be said here . . . There is none like him” (in C. M. Dupuy, Genealogical History of the Dupuy Family, p. 20).

161 For references to Elliston, other than those already cited, see: New York Colonial Documents, v. 774 (where “R^ll Elliston” clearly stands for “Rt Elliston”); Calendar of New York Historical Manuscripts (1866), ii. 465, 543; Ecclesiastical Records State of New York (1902), iv. 2927; Memorial History of New York City, iv. 113–114; Calendar of [New York] Council Minutes (1902), pp. 288, 316; Abstracts of Wills (Collections New York Historical Society), iii. 97, 283, iv. 327, viii. 254, 295, 369; M. Dix, History of the Parish of Trinity Church, i. 220, iv 575; W. Berrian, Facts against Fancy (1856), p. 61; W. Berrian, Historical Sketch of Trinity Church, pp. 85, 334; Keep, History of the New York Society Library, p. 122; H. B. Dupuy, The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his Descendants (1908), p. 391 (where the name is wrongly given as “Ellister”); C. M. Dupuy, Genealogical History of the Dupuy Family (1910), pp. 16, 19, 21, 22, 24, 26, 155.

My particular thanks are due to Mr. Robert H. Kelby of the New York Historical Society, who has kindly sent me some data which were collected by his brother, the late William Kelby.

162 Pennsylvania Magazine, xiii. 207–215; also separately printed the same year.

163 Sketches of Printers and Printing in Colonial New York (1895), pp. 37–38.

164 These are: E. Pemberton, Sermon Preached . . . On Occasion of the Death of John Nicoll, M.D. (1743); D. Horsmanden, “Negro Plot” (1744); and E. Pemberton, Sermon Delivered at the Presbyterian Church in New-York, July 31, 1746 (1746).

165 Sketches, etc., p. 35.

166 Hildeburn (Pennsylvania Magazine, xiii. 209) assigns to Parker’s press the Rev. John Beach’s “Sermon on Eternal Life” (1745). According to Haven and to Evans this book was printed at Newport, R. I. I have found no copy of the 1745 edition in the libraries about here, but the title-page of a later edition reads in part: “A Sermon shewing, that Eternal Life Is God’s Free Gift, Bestowed upon all Men who obey the Gospel. . . . Newport: Printed by the Widow Franklin, at the Town-School-House. 1745. Newport: Re-printed at the Office of the Newport Mercury 1806.”

167 See J. Nichols, Biographical and Literary Anecdotes of William Bowyer, Printer, F. S. A. (1782), and J. Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century (1812), ii. 1–461. Elliston’s name apparently does not appear in either of these works.

168 A border frequently employed in the Officia Sacrata—it is found on pp. 18, 20, 23, 39, 41, 77, 99, 107, 112, 114, 158, 183, 207, 209 — appears to be identical with a border in Roger North’s Examen, printed by Bowyer in 1740 (Advertisement, signature b). It should be added that no copies of the Elliston books are in the British Museum, nor do I find them recorded in Watt or Lowndes.

169 The paper on which the Officia Sacrata is printed has no water-mark. The paper on which the Enchiridium Polychrestum is printed has a singularly distinct water-mark: a figure of Neptune and his trident, the words “Pro Patria,” and the name “J: Evers Vierevant.” Perhaps Vierevant was a Continental paper-maker. The water-mark of the paper on which the Cognitiones Christianismi is printed is not easy to read, but the words “Pro Patria” are clear.

170 The Enchiridium Polychrestum is entered in Evans’s American Bibliography (no. 4941), doubtless, as Mr. Evans writes me, on the authority of Hildeburn. Mr. Evans now thinks that the book must have been printed in England.

171 See the Columbian Magazine, December, 1788, ii. 673.

172 At this time the Board of Overseers was composed of the members of the Governor’s Council, and the teaching elders of Boston, Cambridge, Watertown, Charlestown, Roxbury, and Dorchester, with the Governor (Samuel Shute), the Lieutenant-Governor (William Dummer), and the President of the College (John Leverett).

173 See no. ii, pp. 89–90, below.

174 See p. 90 note 1, below.

175 See p. 95 note 1, below.

176 See the other plan (reproduced facing page 100) and the note in regard to it, p. 95, below.

177 Among the reasons set forth are that the number of resident students, graduates and undergraduates, amounted to 124, that the studies to receive them when the smaller building was finished would amount to but 116, or eight less than the number of students at that time, while the larger building would accommodate 134, or only ten more than the present number. These figures are puzzling. Why should the building when doubled in size contain only 18 additional studies? One would expect the number to be 32, for the building when actually completed in its larger form contained 64 studies altogether, or two in each of the 32 chambers. The explanation may be something like this. Harvard and Stoughton are supposed to have contained 72 studies. The fifty-foot building then under way, with four large square chambers on each floor, each having windows on two sides, may well have had three studies to each chamber, as proposed in Wadsworth’s draught plan. This would give us twelve studies on each floor, and if in the roof story only eight studies (two to a chamber) were provided, we should have the forty-four which, added to seventy-two, gives the 116 mentioned in the report. On extending the building to the 100-foot length, the plan was in fact changed so far as to give but two studies to each chamber, or 64 in all. This would give 136 for the three buildings, which is only two in excess of the number mentioned in the committee’s report.

178 On July 29, 1720, Judge Sewall recorded (Diary, iii. 259) that he waited “on the President, and Chuse a Chamber in the New-College for Cousin Quincey, and Sam. Hirst,” the latter his grandson. The youths were Edmund Quincy of the class of 1722 and Samuel Hirst of the class of 1723.

179 The address was printed in full, by special vote of the House, in rather handsome typography, in its Journal. It has been reprinted at the Harvard University Press in broadside form, following carefully the style of the original, for the Harvard Memorial Society, in honor of the two hundredth anniversary of the day on which it was first presented.

180 President Leverett’s Diary, p. 133.

181 President Leverett’s Diary, p. 134.

182 In President Leverett’s Diary (p. 135) this phrase reads: “the Slender Authority the College is capable of Exerting in the Town.” Cf. no. iii, p. 91, below.

183 This memorial is entered in Leverett’s Diary, pp. 134–136, but as printed in the text is copied from College Book iii. 164–163, which differs in some minor points of phrasing and spelling.

184 President Leverett’s Diary, p. 136.

185 Court Records, x. 188–189.

186 House Journal (1919), p. 249.

187 Court Records, x. 190.

188 Court Records, x. 195.

189 Court Records, x. 206. The same text is found in House Journal (1919), pp. 261–262.

190 Court Records, x. 207.

191 House Journal (1919), pp. 262–263.

192 House Journal (1919), pp. 263–264.

193 Court Records, x. 210.

194 House Journal (1919), p. 264.

195 A plan, reproduced facing page 94, made apparently by Benjamin Wadsworth, since the words and figures on it are in his hand, still remaining in the Library files (M3454F.4), may well be the draught mentioned in this vote. On the back of the plan is written, also in Wadsworth’s hand, the following:

Some model for a College

A College 98 Feet Long 43 wide. Walls 2 & half bricks thick. Two Entryways, each 7 feet wide. one solid brick afoot thick athwart in ye middle. Three stories high, 8½ feet each, and so 8 foot in y^e clear between y^e floor & cieling. 8 chambers in a story, each of them 20 feet square, excepting what’s taken up by ye chimneys. 3 studies in every front-chamber, by borrowing 3 foot 4 Inches out of y^e Entry way; and two studies in each of y^e Rere-chambers viz 60 in all. Every studie to be five feet long, four & an half wide, or there may be three studies in each of y^e Rere-end chambers, by reason of y^e end-lights, then y^e whole number will be 66. The * or stars are studies. D.L. is a Door way in y^e first story, & Lights in y^e higher ones.

If y^e middle, as well as y^e end, chambers, in y^e Rere, have three studies each, yn y^e whole will be seventy two. And if it be thus contriv’d, each chamber (besides Lights for y^e studies) may have one window 6 foot deep, 4 foot 4 Inches wide, which will have more than 16 square feet of Glass, and yt surely will be enough to Inlighten one chamber.

Another plan (reproduced facing p. 100, below), more like the building finally erected, is in Harvard College Papers, i. 16. On the face of the plan is written in ink “A Plan for the New College,” and in pencil “This is the hand of Thomas Prince J W.” The latter words were written by the late Justin Winsor. On the back of the plan is written in ink “Plan of the New College” — these words being also in the hand of Thomas Prince. Exactly when Prince made these endorsements it is impossible to say, but presumably it was after October 1, 1718, on which day he became an Overseer by virtue of his ordination as colleague pastor of the Old South Church, Boston.

The lettering of this plan is identified by Mr. Albert Matthews as doubtless in the hand of President Leverett. At first glance this plan would seem to be designed for the smaller building, which was all the House would consent to at first. In fact, however, the outline of the whole building is given, but only one half is filled in. The disposition of the chimneys agrees with the building as carried out.

196 House Journal (1919), p. 265.

197 House Journal (1919), p. 269.

198 Court Records, x. 220–221.

199 House Journal, p. 19.

200 Id. p. 21.

201 Court Records, x. 267.

202 House Journal, p. 33.

203 Court Records, x. 283.

204 This relates to the trouble caused by Ebenezer Pierpont in 1718 and the various meetings of Corporation and Overseers held to consider it.

205 Diary, pp. 152–153.

206 For the memorial, see no. xxiii, pp. 101–102, below.

207 William Dummer.

208 Leverett’s Diary, pp. 153–154, 156–159.

209 In regard to the number of studies, see p. 85 note 1, above.

210 College Book, iii. 162–161. The memorial is also given in Leverett’s Diary, pp. 154–156.

211 Paul Dudley.

212 Diary, iii. 402–403.

213 House Journal, p. 45.

214 House Journal, p. 56.

215 House Journal, pp. 3–4.

216 The house in which President Leverett lived was taken down.

217 Court Records, x. 350–352.

218 College Book, iv. 66.

219 Leverett’s Diary, pp. 173–174.

220 College Book, iv. 67.

221 Leverett’s Diary, p. 178.

222 House Journal, p. 10.

223 House Journal, p. 6. The Council concurred on November 5th (Court Records, xi. 41–42).

224 House Journal, pp. 31–33.

225 In a private note of the same date Lord Bryce says: “The Pilgrim Fathers Celebrations have passed off with keen interest and great success in many parts of England, and a remarkable display of fraternal feeling towards America in general, and New England in particular.”

226 Our Publications, vol. xxii. pp. lv–lxii.

227 Though not entitled, strictly speaking, to be called Dr. Briggs until 1855, I have uniformly applied that title to him.

228 Cf. our Publications, xxiii. 600–603, 710–712.

229 Our Publications, vol. xxii. pp. lx–lxi.

230 These two, if I have read them correctly, are thus entered:

1851 Prize Diss. Christ with the Doctors.
1890 Privilege of life to-day in unity.

231 Most of the sermons were preached more than once, many of them several times. Thus no. 238 was preached twenty-five times between 1840 and 1862, no. 3 twenty-seven times between 1852 and 1863, and no. 55 twenty-nine times between 1845 and 1863. Dr. Briggs frequently preached elsewhere than in his own pulpit. He pretty well covered the eastern part of Massachusetts, and sermons are recorded as having been preached in Baltimore, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Keene, New York, Portsmouth (N. H.), Providence, St. Louis, and Washington (D. C.).

232 Many clippings in (C) are taken from The Christian Inquirer (New York) for 1848, and from these it appears — though his name is nowhere mentioned — that Dr. Briggs was editor of that paper for about three months in that year. A brief editorial in the issue of April 15th, headed “Our Present Number,” states that “The present editor has been unable to give as much attention as he hopes to bestow, in future, to the paper of this week. A part of the copy was made up before his arrival. Perhaps it might be proper to apologize for what he has done, rather than for what he has not inserted. The entire charge of the paper, in future, for a few weeks, will devolve upon himself.” Then follows a long “Introductory,” beginning as follows: “The temporary editor of the Christian Inquirer would have greatly preferred to enter upon his brief service, without any special introduction. Indeed, he did not fully realize that he should have any claim to the title of editor until he found himself thus announced. The readers of the paper, therefore, may begin to imagine, though they cannot really apprehend his dismay as he read the Valedictory of his predecessors.” A long valedictory in the issue of July 8th, headed “Editorial,” begins with this paragraph:

“In consequence of the somewhat oppressive kindness of our predecessors’ introduction of us to the readers of the Inquirer, we were compelled to take the editorial chair in form three months ago, instead of sliding into it, unobserved, as we had hoped. The same original sin of our friends makes it necessary, now that our brief engagement has closed, distinctly to state that fact also. Our connection with the paper does not entirely close; but as we cannot be an Editor in New York, while on the sea-shore in Massachusetts, the special charge of its columns will pass into other hands.”

Clippings from every issue of the Christian Inquirer from July 15th to December 30th, 1848, are pasted into (C), but how many of the articles were written by Dr. Briggs himself it is impossible to say, as none are signed with either his name or his initials. But an article entitled “Present Experience of Immortal Life,” in the issue of July 29th, has at the bottom “G. W. Briggs” written in ink in his own hand.

233 Thus (D) contains only pp. 23–49 of no. 1; only pp. 25–36 of no. 21; and only pp. 41–52 of no. 54. See pp. 126, 132, 139, below.

234 Pasted into (C) is a clipping from the Microcosm of September 9, 1825, giving an account of the Commencement exercises at Brown University on September 7th. From this it appears that no. 7 on the programme was “A Greek Oration on Grecian Literature. By George W. Briggs.”

235 For the title of the sermon preached on this occasion, see no. 1, p. 126, below.

236 See our Publications, xxiii. 591–596.

237 The sermon preached on this occasion was published with the following title:

A Sermon, preached at the Installation of Rev. George W. Briggs, as Pastor of the First Church in Salem, January 6, 1853. By John Hopkins Morison, Pastor of the First Church in Milton. Salem: . . . 1853.

Title, 1 leaf; Sermon, pp. [3]–28; Right Hand of Fellowship, by Rev. Dr. Flint, of Salem, pp. [29]–32; Notices of the First Church in Salem and its Ministers, 1629 to 1853, by a Member, pp. [33]–62; Index, p. [63].

The cover reads: “Sermon at the Installation of Rev. George W. Briggs, as Pastor of the First Church in Salem, by Rev. Mr. Morison, of Milton. Right Hand of Fellowship, by Rev. Dr. Flint, of Salem. With Notices of the First Church and its Ministers by a Member.” The Notices were written by Daniel Appleton White, as appears from Dr. Briggs’s Memoir of Judge White, p. 43: see no. 63, p. 140, below.

238 “On Wednesday evening last, the installation of Rev. George W. Briggs, D.D., as pastor of the Cambridgeport Parish (Austin Street Unitarian Society) took place at the church” (Cambridge Chronicle, Saturday, April 6, 1867, p. 2/1). Dr. Briggs remained sole pastor until April 11, 1889: “The installation of the Rev. John Tunis as associate minister of the Third Congregationalist Society took place Thursday evening at the church on Austin street, . . . Rev. George W. Briggs made the address to the people” (Cambridge Chronicle, Saturday, April 13, 1889, p. 3/1). Cf. General Catalogue of the Divinity School of Harvard University (1910), p. 122.

239 This account is based on Professor Briggs’s sketch of his father cited in the next note. Cf. General Catalogue of the Divinity School of Harvard University (1910), p. 44.

240 LeB. R. Briggs, “George Ware Briggs, 1810–1895,” in Heralds of a Liberal Faith, III, The Preachers (1910), pp. 37–40.

241 See no. 62, p. 140, below.

242 Our Publications, vol. xxii. pp. lx–lxi.

243 In this list, the items are arranged by date of delivery, not necessarily that of publication.

244 That of George Latimer: see H. Wilson, Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, i. 477–480.

245 Samuel Hoar (1778–1856; H. C. 1802) had been appointed agent by Governor Briggs on October 11, 1844: see Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (1883), iii. 113.

246 Possibly this is an error for Fairhaven, where Dr. Briggs delivered the “Address to the Society” at the ordination of the Rev. Thomas Dawes on October 30, 1844 (The Monthly Religious Magazine, December, 1844, i. 427).

247 The book was advertised in the Christian Register of December 20, 27, 1845, January 31, March 7, October 24, 1846, etc., xxiv. 203, 207, xxv. 19, 40, 171. It is described from the only copy I have seen, kindly loaned to me by Miss Catherine E. Russell of Boston.

248 William Thomas.

249 Zephaniah Willis was born at Bridgewater February 24, 1757; graduated at Harvard College in 1778; was ordained at Kingston October 18, 1780; withdrew in 1828; and died at Kingston March 6, 1847.

250 There is pasted into (C) the “Plymouth School Report for 1850,” no doubt taken from a Plymouth newspaper, though the name and date have been cut off. The School Committee consisted of “G. W. Briggs, R. Tomlinson, Adiel Harvey.” Following the Report is a letter signed “G. W. B.,” undated, which begins as follows: “Mr. Editor. —When the School Committee presented their Report for the last year, all of the School Registers had not been returned. Will you permit me to communicate through your paper, some of the statistics of the schools, which have been since obtained, for the information of the town?” Perhaps this Report was written by Dr. Briggs, but it is excluded from the list of his writings merely because it is not included in (A).

251 The Unitarian Book and Pamphlet Society was formed in August, 1827. Its Constitution, with the names of members, was published in Boston in 1829. Nos. 23, 34, 51, 56, 57, and 62, are reports of sermons or addresses.

252 Reprinted from The Monthly Religious Magazine for December, 1853, x. 558–568.

253 James Flint was born at Reading December 10, 1779; graduated at Harvard College in 1802; was settled at East Bridgewater October 29, 1806, resigning in 1821; was settled in the East Church, Salem, September 19, 1821; and died at Salem, March 4, 1855.

254 Also printed in the Essex County Mercury of June 4, 1856.

255 See W. Cushing’s Index to the Christian Register (1879), pp. 88, 139.

256 See also Boston Daily Advertiser, September 19 (p. 1/6), 21 (pp. 1/6, 1/8, 4/1), 22 (p. 1/6, where the “probable number of drowned” is given as 419, pp. 2/1, 2/3), 23 (pp. 1/8, 4/1).

257 See Report of the Treasurer of the Committee of Relief for the Sufferers by the Fall of the Pemberton Mill (1860); Final Report of the Treasurer, etc. (1861); J. F. C. Hayes, History of the City of Lawrence (1868), pp. 99–127; H. A. Wadsworth, History of Lawrence (1880), pp. 161–162.

258 Frederic West Lander was born in Salem December 17, 1822, and died in West Virginia March 2, 1862.

259 Also printed in the Salem Gazette of March 11, p. 2/2.

260 The name originally chosen was apparently Salem “Unconditional League:” see Salem Register, February 26 (p. 2/2), March 2 (p. 2/1), March 9 (pp. 2/3, 2/7), March 12 (p. 2/2), March 19 (pp. 2/2, 2/7).

261 Pickering Dodge Allen was born at Salem May 20, 1838, and died at Brashear City, Missouri, June 2, 1863. His father was John Fisk Allen.

262 Reprinted from Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, February and March, 1864, vi. 1–24, 49–71.

263 The square brackets are in the original.

264 Nathaniel Hall was born at Medford August 13, 1805; ordained at Dorchester July 16, 1835.

265 The centennial celebration in New York of Washington’s inauguration took place on Tuesday, April 30, 1889.

266 In this list, the dates are those of delivery, not necessarily of publication.

267 Proceedings, lii. 285–312.

268 Sephardi is the name by which a Jew of Spanish or Portuguese origin is usually designated.

269 Rovigo is a small city on the present railway between Padua and Ferrara.

270 Our Publications, vol. xxii. p. li.

271 Sketches of Mr. Ball are printed in Hurd’s History of Worcester County (1889), ii. 907–908, 920–921 (where will be found a portrait); in the Unitarian Year Book, 1903, pp. 156–157; and in the General Catalogue of the Meadville Theological School (1910), p. 2. See also our Publications, xxiii. 715, 716; Leominster Vital Records, p. 12; Bolton Vital Records, p. 109; C. F. Walcott, History of the Twenty-First Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers (1882), pp. 16, 50, 92, 167, 235, 430; W. A. Emerson, Leominster, Historical and Picturesque (1888), pp. 95, 110; New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xxii. 86, 87.

272 Actually written “Sergeant Joseph Ryde Ryder.” The name “Ryde” coming at the extreme right hand of the page, there was no room for the final letter and so “Ryder” was written on the line below.

273 To this point the entry is crossed out.

274 To this point the entry is crossed out.

275 “Josiah” is preceded by “Major,” crossed out.

276 To this point the entry is crossed out.

277 This name is clearly “Iyde” or “Jyde.” In the Plymouth Colony Records occur the following: Nicholas Hyde (or Hide), ii. 123, 126, iii. 4, 66, iv. 15, 151, v. 19, 278; Nicholas Ide (or Iyd or Iyde), iii. 158, v. 146, 209, 234, 237, vi. 8, 62, 86, viii. 100, 121, 201, 209; Jyde, iii. 119, iv. 84. According to Savage, there was no Nicholas Hyde in New England in the seventeenth century. On the other hand, there were several persons named Nicholas Ide. Presumably, therefore, “Hyde” as printed in the Plymouth Colony Records, is a misreading of “Ide” or one of its variants.

278 This entry is crossed out.

279 This name is crossed out.

280 This name is crossed out.

281 This entry is crossed out.

282 This name is crossed out.

283 This name is crossed out.

284 To this point the entry is crossed out.

285 This name is crossed out.

286 This name is crossed out.

287 This name is crossed out.

288 This name is crossed out.

289 This name is crossed out.

290 This name is crossed out.

291 This name is crossed out.

292 To this point the entry is crossed out.

293 To this point the entry is crossed out.

294 To this point the entry is crossed out.

295 To this point the entry is crossed out.

296 To this point the entry is crossed out.

297 This name is crossed out.

298 This name is crossed out.

299 This name is crossed out.

300 This name is crossed out.

301 To this point the entry is crossed out.

302 To this point the entry is crossed out.

303 This name is crossed out.

304 This name is crossed out.

305 This name is crossed out.

306 Presumably this word was “Propounded:” cf. Plymouth Colony Records, vi. 42, 62, 86, etc.

307 “For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him Crucified.” On p. 1 the text is wrongly attributed to 1 Cor. ii. 6.

308 Title, 1 leaf; Dedication, pp. i–iv; Sermon, pp. 1–18. The headline on each page reads, “A Sermon Preached in the College, &c.”

309 Our Publications, xii. 220, 227–231.

310 For a sketch of him, see A. C. Potter and C. K. Bolton, Librarians of Harvard College, 1667–1877, Library of Harvard University, Bibliographical Contributions, No. 52 (1897), p. 16.

311 Here the word “thereof” or “whereof” is crossed out.

312 This is a portrait seal.

313 Faculty Records, iii. 42; Boxford Vital Records, p. 21; S. Perley, History of Boxford (1880), p. 353.

314 Faculty Records, iii. 118. Cf. our Publications, xvii. 277, 281.

315 Faculty Records, iii. 100, 150, 152, 155, 173, 183.

316 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xxiv. 56, 59, 60, 61.

317 Faculty Records, iii. 41.

318 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xxx. 34.

319 Faculty Records, ii. 241; Andover Vital Records, i. 161; Ellen F. Barker, Frye Genealogy (1920), p. 54.

320 Faculty Records, iii. 50, 67–68, 105–106, 152, 154.

321 Faculty Records, iii. 41; Grafton Vital Records, p. 75; F. B. Dexter, Yale Biographies and Annals, ii. 122; C. A. Downs, History of Lebannon, N. H., p. 151, etc. In C. H. Bell’s Bench and Bar of New Hampshire (p. 455) it is wrongly stated that Hutchinson was born in Connecticut and graduated at Yale College in 1770.

322 Faculty Records, iii. 118; J. Chapman, Leonard Weeks of Greenland, New Hampshire, and Descendants, 1639–1888 (1889), p. 20; New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xxix. 37. In the last two works Clement Weeks is stated to have died January 4, 1829. This is an error for January 6, 1830. An obituary notice appeared in the New Hampshire Gazette of January 12, 1830, p. 3/3.

323 The last two or three letters are uncertain.

324 Here something is crossed out.

325 Altered from “2^d.”

326 The words “2^d Lieut.” are written above “Ensign,” crossed out.

327 Altered from “Clark.”

328 The first figure is somewhat uncertain.

329 Here the words “Rice ter^t 4 Sargent Lane” are crossed out.

330 P. 347.

331 William Wetmore was born at Middletown, Ct., October 30, 1749; was for many years an attorney in Salem; was in Boston in 1787, and died there November 19, 1830. (2 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, xvi. 313 note.)

332 Solomon Vose was born at Milton February 22, 1768; practised law at Northfield; removed to Augusta, Maine, in 1803, and died there in 1809. (2 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, xvi. 339 note.)

333 Collection of College Words and Customs, ed. 1851, pp. 156–157; ed. 1856, pp. 247–248. Cf. 1 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, viii. 69 note.

334 Harvard Book (1875), i. 42, ii. 375. Cf. A. S. Pier, Story of Harvard (1913), p. 78.

335 Faculty Records, iii. 118; History of Hingham (1893), ii. 23; J. Thacher, American Medical Biography (1828), i. 143–144.

336 Faculty Records, iii. 119; Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, xxiv. 281; Thacher, American Medical Biography, ii. 238–241. Cf. our Publications, xix. 286, 288, 289 note.

337 Faculty Records, iii. 119; Boston Record Commissioners’ Reports, xxi. 149.

338 For a sketch of him, see our Publications, xxi. 280–283.

339 Faculty Records, iii. 118; Haverhill Vital Records, i. 235, ii. 452; I. Osgood, Genealogy of the Descendants of John, Christoper and William Osgood (1894), pp. 46, 91–92.

340 Faculty Records, iii. 169; Newbury Vital Records, i. 378, ii. 682.

341 Faculty Records, iii. 169; Sturbridge Vital Records, p. 110; A. H. Ward, Genealogical History of the Rice Family (1858), pp. 81, 145–146.

342 Faculty Records, iii. 119; Ipswich Vital Records, i. 343; Newburyport Vital Records, ii. 789.

343 Faculty Records, iii. 119; Martha J. Tenney, Tenney Family (1904), pp. 51, 86–87; Biographical Congressional Directory, 1774–1911 (1913), p. 1047; Thacher, American Medical Biography, ii. 117–121.

344 Faculty Records, iii. 119; Wyman, Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, ii. 1007.

345 Faculty Records, iii. 118.

346 Haverhill Vital Records, i. 312; New Hampshire Town Papers, xiii. 434; Biographical Congressional Directory (1913), p. 1105. In the last cited work the date of his death is wrongly given as August 11, 1811. An obituary notice appeared in the Columbian Centinel of June 29, 1811, p. 2/4. This Phillips White (1729–1811) was the son of William and Sarah (Phillips) White of Haverhill.

347 College Book, i. 43, 45; our Publications, xv. 26, 31.

348 C. A. Bristed, Five Years in an English University, 2d ed., 1852, p. 13. See also B. H. Hall, Collection of College Words and Customs, 1856, p. 192.

349 College Book, i. 182–183; our Publications, xv. 135.

350 College Book, iii. 42; our Publications, xv. 209.

351 College Book, iii. 40; our Publications, xv. 207.

352 This name is somewhat obscure: perhaps it is “Langhorn.” So far as it is known there was no Thomas Langham here at that time. There was, however, a Thomas Longhorn (or Longhorne) then at Cambridge, though, since he was a butcher and town drummer, it does not seem likely that he could have been the man. Nor could his son Thomas have been the fellow-commoner, since he died in infancy.

353 John Ven was one of the patentees named in the Massachusetts charter of 1629 (our Publications, ii. 10, 11, 12, 13), and his son Thomas was here in 1644 to look after his father’s interests: see Massachusetts Colony Records, ii. 76, iii. 8.

354 See p. 170, below.

355 Presumably Edward Pelham: see p. 174, below.

356 As there were between 1642 and 1678 no fewer than nine graduates whom these initials would fit, the identification of this I.B. is hopeless.

357 The only alumnus — graduate or temporary student — whose name fits these initials is William Whittingham of the Class of 1660.

358 Speaking of the Rev. Samuel Parris, of unhappy memory in the witchcraft episode at Salem, Savage says that he “was educated at Harvard but left before graduation” (Genealogical Dictionary, iii. 345–346). No evidence is known to support this notion, and perhaps Savage confused Samuel Parris with the “M^r Parish” for whose study glass was furnished on March 5, 1644 (College Book, i. 3). On the extreme right of the page is written in pencil (of course very much later) “his son 1659.” If this is correct, the Mr. Parish who was living at the College in some unknown capacity was Thomas Parish, father of the Thomas Parish who graduated in 1659. There is some reason for believing that the Rev. Samuel Parris and the Thomas Parish who was in the Class of 1659 were brothers.

359 College Book, i. 79; our Publications, xv. 62.

360 College Book, i. 78; our Publications, xv. 60.

361 This line, and the note after the third line, were evidently written in at a different time.

362 See p. 175, below.

363 See p. 175, below.

364 This was Thomas Shepard of the Class of 1653.

365 See p. 174, below.

366 College Book, i. 85; our Publications, xv. 73.

367 College Book, iv. 192; our Publications, xvi. 651.

368 UAI 3. 5.

369 1 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, x. 403–408; F. B. Dexter, Historical Papers, pp. 1–5.

370 They show, for instance, that the French, German, and Italian instructors were not accommodated in University Hall, but that Francis Sales had his classes in No. 5 Hollis Hall, Charles Follen in No. 7 Massachusetts Hall, and Pietro Bachi in No. 5 Stoughton Hall.

371 The numbers within square brackets indicate the corresponding numbers on the plates accompanying this paper. For an explanation of the numbers within parentheses, preceded by the letters “M. F. A.,” see p. 171 note 3, below.

The plates accompanying this paper, facing pp. 166 and 172, show eleven pieces of silver, which, with the names (where known) of their donors or owners, are as follows:

Plate I

1. 1 Bowl: Edward Holyoke
2. 2 Tea-pot: William Kneeland
3. 3 Cup: Samuel Browne
4. 4 Tankard
5. 5 Tankard

Plate II

1. 6 Tankard: John Vassall. Cf. No. 11
2. 7 Candlestick: Henry Flynt. Cf. No. 10
3. 8 Cup: William Stoughton
4. 9 Salt: Richard Harris
5. 10 Candlestick: Henry Flynt. Cf. No. 7
6. 11 Tankard: William Vassall. Cf. No. 6

372 College Book, i. 3, 10. The earlier account is dated March 5, 1644.

373 Cf. Publications Cambridge Historical Society, iii. 14–15.

374 Cf. p. 89, above.

375 Nearly all of the early silver owned by the College was included in an exhibition of American silver at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1906, and is described and figured in its catalogue “American Silver: the Work of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Silversmiths, exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, June to November, 1906.” The numbers in this catalogue are here noted within parentheses, preceded by the letters “M. F. A.,” after each piece described there.

376 “Item I give to Harvard College in Cambridge, sixty pounds to be Improved for purchasing an handsom piece of Plate for y^e College, with my Coat of Arms on it” (College Book, iii. 105; our Publications, xv. 282).

377 E. D. Hines, Browne Hill and what has happened there, in Essex Institute Historical Collections, 1896, xxxii, 214.

378 College Book, iv. 93.

379 Cf. our Publications, xix. 8.

380 The name of Benjamin Browne is found in the list of temporary students printed in our Publications, xvii. 271–285, but not the names of Edward Paige, Langham, or Ven. Mr. Matthews tells me that the last three names were in his manuscript list but were excluded from the printed list because the facts in regard to them were so obscure.

381 Harvard Graduates, i. 549, 573. I am indebted to Mr. S. F. Batchelder for calling my attention to these references.

382 Peirce, History of Harvard University, pp. 313–314.

383 In the University Archives (UAI 3.200) is a copy of notes relating to the Harris salt and other pieces of silver, written by Librarian Thaddeus W. Harris in 1847 for President Everett’s use at the Commencement dinner of that year; also typewritten notes on the College silver by J. H. Buck, an Englishman in the employ of the Gorham Manufacturing Co., made in 1886. An illustrated article by Mr. Buck was printed in The Curio, September, 1887, i. 20–22.

Thomas’s History of Printing in America (ed. 1874, ii. 383–390) gives various documents connected with the lawsuits between the Glover heirs and President Dunster. In the inventories several pieces of silver are mentioned, but there seems to be no reason to connect any of them with the silver mentioned in the early College lists.

384 Several years ago Professor Le Baron R. Briggs called the attention of Mr. Matthews to a medal which was then owned by the daughters of the late Dr. Jonathan Greely Stevenson, who graduated at Harvard in the class of 1816. The medal, which is now in the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society, is in the shape of a star with fourteen points, and bears on one side the inscription:

Fide et Amicitia

K. P. S.

1809

And on the other side is inscribed:

J. Greely Stevenson M.D.

Boston

b. 1790. d. 1835.

The significance of the letters “K. P. S.” eluded Mr. Matthews’s research, but the book-plate exhibited by Mr. Potter makes it reasonably certain that they stand for “Knights of the Pudding Stick.” The date 1809 undoubtedly indicates the year in which the society or club was started. Dr. Stevenson in 1813 became a member of the Knights of the Square Table —a fact which tends to corroborate Mr. Potter’s conclusion that the older club was merged in the younger one, both being later absorbed by the Porcellian.

385 Parkman became a member of the Knights of the Square Table in 1810.

386 Land in Rowley was bequeathed to the College by the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, who died in 1661. For many years the land was leased, but in 1733 the College obtained from the General Court permission to sell it. The portion sold to Daniel Hale in 1738 consisted of “Four freehold Rights or Com̄onages in Mill Swamp pasture in y^e lower Com̄: in Rowley,” etc. The deed is signed by the President, Fellows, and Treasurer of the College.

387 This is one of the earliest seals attached to such a document now extant.

The impression is unfortunately a poor one, but the word “Christo” is very clear.

388 The Rev. John Wilson (1621–1691; H. C. 1642) of Medfield was the son of the Rev. John Wilson (1588–1667) of Boston.

389 Apparently altered from “4^th.”

390 By cousin is here meant nephew. The Rev. John Danforth (1660–1730; H. C. 1677) of Dorchester was the son of the Rev. Samuel Danforth (H. C. 1643) of Roxbury, who married Mary Wilson, a sister of the Rev. John Wilson of Medfield.

391 This John Wilson (1660–1728) is said (cf. our Publications, xvii. 275, 285) to have been a temporary student at Harvard. He taught school at Medfield, preached at New Haven, returned to Medfield where, owing to the opposition of the town, he failed to succeed his father as pastor, and removed to Braintree, where he practised medicine from 1692 to his death. See New England Historical and Genealogical Register, lxi. 38–41, 127–129; W. S. Tilden, History of Medfield, pp. 520–524.

392 This was the mother of the Rev. John Danforth of Dorchester. After the death of her husband the Rev. Samuel Danforth of Roxbury, she married Joseph Rock.

393 It is a pamphlet of forty-eight pages, bound in a blue paper cover, dated “No. I. August, 1833.”

394 The location of Harvard’s grave is not known, but he was probably buried, with other early settlers, in or near what has since been known as the City Square, in which the first meeting-house was built.

395 Cf. Harvard Book, ii. 201–204; Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, xv. 457–458, 531–533.

396 This paper was read in a somewhat different form at the annual meeting of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of California, held at San Francisco, November 22, 1919.

397 Evidently a misprint for “fruitful.” The Latin verse is: Faelix frugiferis sulcis, simul aequore faelix.

398 Perhaps a misprint for trigonas.

399 He was a son of William Crosby (H. C. 1794).

400 In the preparation of this paper, I have derived much assistance from Mr. Lane and Mr. Albert Matthews, the former of whom has supplied several extracts from the Bernard Papers. The papers here cited as the Bernard Papers, filling thirteen volumes, are among the Sparks Manuscripts in the Harvard College Library. Cf. J. Winsor, Calendar of the Sparks Manuscripts in the Harvard College Library (Library of Harvard University, Bibliographical Contributions, No. 22, 1889), pp. 4–6.

401 For Bernard’s genealogy and family history, see J. Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, ii. 235n–237n; Lipscomb, History of Buckinghamshire, i. 519; Mrs. Napier Higgins, The Bernards of Abington and Nether Winchendon, vols. i and ii. The exact date of Bernard’s birth is not known, but he was baptized on July 2, 1712.

402 Antonii Alsopi Aedis Christi olim Alumni Odarum Libri Duo. Londini, MDCCLII. “This little volume,” says Nichols, “was dedicated by Mr. Francis Bernard, the ingenious editor, in an elegant copy of Verses, to Thomas Duke of Newcastle” (Literary Anecdotes, ii. 233–234).

403 A week earlier the Court had granted also twelve townships east of the Penobscot: see p. 204, below.

404 Lincoln Deeds, iv. 80; Bangor Historical Magazine, vi. 20.

405 Royal Commission on the Losses and Services of the American Loyalists, 1783 to 1785 (Roxburghe Club, 1915), p. 264.

406 Burrage, Maine in the Northeastern Boundary Controversy (1919), pp. 10–18.

407 Gov. Shirley in a letter to Secretary Willard, June 24, 1752, recognized the importance of these works with reference to province bounds. See Massachusetts Archives, liv. 204–207; Documentary History of the State of Maine, xii. 180.

408 Burrage, Maine in the Northeastern Boundary Controversy, p. 16.

409 W. H. Kilby, Eastport and Passamaquoddy (1888), p. 45.

410 Documentary History of the State of Maine, xiii. 391.

411 Bernard was a clever draughtsman and, as Hutchinson says (History of Massachusetts, iii. 105 note), “a very ingenious architect.” He was the architect of the present Harvard Hall.

412 A letter from Abraham Somes to Eben Parsons, dated April 20, 1816, the original of which is in the Boston Public Library, refers to these settlers. In that year Somes, who was the first permanent settler on Mount Desert, was called upon to defend his title and this letter was one of several written to his lawyer. The following is copied from the original:

“sometime before the French War was over I received a letter from Sir Francis Barnard inviting me to go to Boston for in it he wanted to see me — Accordingly I went to see him, He asked me if I did not want a farm on the Island of Mount Desert I excepted the proposal he likewise requested me to procure as many Setlers as I could to go with me to setle the Land. I accordingly came down immediately after the War was over and peace ratified between Great Britain and the French & Indians — so that I could be safe in moving into the Wilderness; I came to this place which was in the Autumn of the year 1761 and made a pitch on this Lot I now live and in June the year following I moved my family and setled on the same lot, . . .

“In the year 1763 or 4 the said Sir Francis came in person . . . to this Island and remained here some Considerable time, and I attended on him, and piloted him and assisted him in making discoveries of Natural privile[ges] if any there might be. At that time he gave me this lot with all the priviledges thereunto belonging, and advised me to build mills and clear up my farm, for said he you never shall be interrupted, I accordingly proceeded, and have been in the peaceable possession of the premises for the full term of fifty two years before any difficulty.”

In another letter in the same collection, also dated April 20, 1816, Somes says that he and Ebenezer Sutton of Ipswich visited Southwest Harbor in 1755 when Somes bought Greening’s Island from the Indians for a gallon of “occopy” (rum), while Sutton’s purchase of the island which still bears his name cost him two quarts. The Indian governor from whom the purchases were made drew the deeds on a piece of birch bark, but Somes and Sutton “not understanding neither the description nor the worth of the Islands, never attended to the Subject nor took care of the birch bark and left them to drink their Occopy and to take the good of their bargain.” To Mrs. Fannie Hardy Eckstorm of Brewer, Maine, I am indebted for deciphering this Indian word for rum. She has pointed out that Somes’s occopy is the aoukoubi as given by Rasle (Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, New Series, 1833, i. 437). Cf. J. L. Locke, Sketches of the History of the Town of Camden, Maine, p. 47.

413 Bernard Papers, x. 21–27.

414 Documentary History of the State of Maine, xiii. 391.

415 Documentary History of the State of Maine, xiii. 391–392.

416 See Bernard’s memorial, pp. 212–215, below.

417 Massachusetts Province Laws, xvii. 168.

418 Cf. Bernard Papers, x. 199–200.

419 Bernard Papers, x. 299–301.

420 The postscript of June 11 is not in the Bernard Papers, and is copied from the Massachusetts Archives, xxii. 246.

421 Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series, iv. 457–458.

422 1 Massachusetts Historical Collections, vi. 186–189.

423 Massachusetts Historical Collections, lxxiv. 69. Cf. Massachusetts Province Laws, xvii. 168, 169–177.

424 Palfrey, History of New England, v. 232 note, 248 note.

425 Originally written “Dec 31 1762,” but the “3” in “31” has been erased. In their letter of March 11, 1763, the Lords of Trade and Plantations speak of Bernard’s “letter to our Secretary, dated the first of December:” see p. 230, below.

426 Bernard Papers, x. 45–47.

427 Documentary History of the State of Maine, xiii. 296–302.

428 Bernard Papers, x. 91–94.

429 This date is somewhat uncertain: perhaps “1729.” Probably the year 1726 is meant: see Publications of this Society, xx. 128–147.

430 Cf. p. 248 note 3, below.

431 Bernard Papers, x. 83–88.

432 Bernard Papers, x. 83–88.

The House Journal for 1762 has at the end, filling pp. i-xix, “Appendix to the Votes Of the House of Representatives, For the Year 1762. A brief State of the Title of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay to the Country between the Rivers Kennebeck and St. Croix.” On p. xix is the following:

The Committee appointed to prepare a State of the Title of the Province to the Country between the Rivers Kennebeck and St. Croix, have prepared the foregoing, which is submitted in the Name and by Order of the Committee.

January 18, 1763. T. Hutchinson.

The report was read and accepted in Council on January 20, and in the House on February 1, and consented to by Gov. Bernard.

433 For the second letter, see pp. 228–230, below.

434 Documentary History of the State of Maine, xiii. 308–311.

435 Bernard Papers, x. 37.

436 Bernard Papers, x. 38–39.

437 Id. x. 41–42.

438 Bernard Papers, x. 67–73.

439 This copy is in Bernard Papers, x. 89.

440 Bernard Papers, x. 75–81.

441 See p. 210 note 3, above.

442 Bernard Papers, x. 63–65.

443 Bernard Papers, x. 163.

444 Id. x. 175.

445 Id. x. 179–180.

446 Id. x. 189.

447 Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series, vi. 359, iv. 614.

448 Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series, vi. 369–371.

449 Id. iv. 615.

450 G. E. Street, who prints the document in full (Mount Desert, 1905, pp. 118n-120n), says that the appeal was “dated October, 1764” (p. 118), but the document is undated.

451 In the Bernard Papers are two interesting documents. One (x. 226–228), dated September 8, 1764, is entitled “Proposals for settling a Colony of Germans at a Town in the Island of Mountdesert,” and has been printed in the Bangor Historical Magazine, v. 1–2. The other (x. 207–208) is as follows:

Proposals for a fishery at Mount Desert, October 5, 1764.

The Governor at the desire of some of the Settlers there, has undertaken to provide two small Schooners & two large Whaleboats, with all proper fitting, To be employed in a fishery in the following Manner.

There shall be ten people employed in fishing, that is; two on board each Schooner, & three on board each Whaleboat, & one Shoresman with such assistants as he shall want & procure, who shall live at the flakes.

The Flakes with a house for the Shoresman, & a Storehouse for the fish, shall be built on a point of land which forms the West Side of the Strait which leads out of the South West harbour into the long Sound; all the persons concerned in the fishery shall assist in erecting the Same; The Governor finding doors Windows & Nails & boards & Slate for the roof, & therefore having the property of the building.

All the fish that shall be caught in the said Boats, shall be brought to the flakes, there to be cured & kept in common; or in such Divisions partnerships as the fishermen shall choose to divide themselves: provided, that every boat at least shall be in partnership.

Towards the Close of the year, & at the ending of the fishery, at one or two times as shall be thought most convenient; all the fish so made shall be divided into five parts, & one fifth part, without any deduction or charge soever, except the proportion of Salt, shall be reserved to the Governor for the use of the Boats &c; the other four fifths shall remain to the fishermen in such Divisions & partnerships as they shall have agreed upon.

We whose Names are underwritten do agree to these proposals, & do promise & engage to conform thereto, & to observe the Same, In Witness whereof We have hereunto set our hands.

452 Bernard Papers, x. 216–219.

453 See p. 244 note 7, below.

454 See p. 231, above.

455 Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series, iv. 576–579.

456 Massachusetts Archives, lvi. 434–436.

457 cxviii. 379. Some words, as indicated in the footnotes, are written in.

458 The next eleven words are written in.

459 This entire sentence is written in.

460 A copy of this printed broadside is in the Massachusetts Archives, cxviii. 378. It is entitled “A State of the Earl of Stirling’s Title, to that Part of New-England, now commonly called Sagadahook.”

461 Massachusetts Archives, cxviii. 377.

462 Council Records, xvi. 347.

463 Only two examples of this verb, dated 1696 and 1726, are given in the Oxford English Dictionary.

464 Massachusetts Archives, cxviii. 380–381; cf. Council Records, xvi. 349.

465 Massachusetts Archives, cxviii. 382–383.

466 Hutchinson, History of Massachusetts, iii. 225–226.

467 The title became extinct by the death of the sixth Baronet, Sir Thomas Tyringham Bernard, May 8, 1883.

468 A copy of this petition is in Bernard’s Select Letters, London, 1774, p. 89.

469 Hutchinson, History of Massachusetts, iii. 246 note. See the Letters of Dennys De Berdt, Publications of this Society, xiii. 293–461.

470 Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series, v. 220.

471 Id. iii. 282–283.

472 Id. vi. 484.

473 Id. vi. 504.

474 In a letter to me Professor Charles M. Andrews, after pointing out that Bernard’s petition to accept his grant of Mt. Desert was on July 17, 1764, sent back by the Board of Trade to the Privy Council with the request that the Council should “consider whether the Province of Massachusetts Bay have, or have not a Right to make Grants of Land within the territory of Sagadahock” (see p. 233, above), goes on to say: “Evidently this return of the report to the Board involved considerable investigation and probably a sending of the question, which was a legal one, to the standing counsel of the Board, at that time Sir Matthew Lamb. We know that Lamb was dilatory in getting his opinions back to the Board, and I presume that if we could get at the Board of Trade papers we should find that the delay was due to Lamb’s procrastination. Lamb died in 1768 and I know that he left a large number of colonial laws unreported, and it is more than likely that this matter of the jurisdiction of Massachusetts was among the matters that had not been examined. At any rate Bernard petitioned again towards the end of 1769, and his petition was received by the Privy Council and on December 13 was sent down to the Board of Trade. Just what the Board did with it I cannot say, as Lamb was dead and his successor, Richard Jackson, was not appointed until the middle of the year 1770 (the interim was November 26, 1768, to May 1, 1770). It may be that Lamb’s report had come in or that the Board acted without legal advice, though the latter would be most unusual, or that they waited till Jackson came in. However, on May 4, 1770—the date looks as if Jackson had got down to business at once, and he was a very learned man—the Board sent in its second report on the petition, proposing that ‘the grant be ratified, without prejudice to the rights of the Crown in and over the Territory of Sagadahoc,’ a position corresponding to that taken by the Board in 1732 in the case of the petition of Samuel Waldo for land between the Kennebec and the St. Croix Rivers. It may be that all the Board did was to instruct its secretary or clerk of the reports to look up its own records, in order to find out what precedent had been established.”

475 Commissions, Proclamations, Pardons, etc., 1767–1775, pp. 207–209 (Massachusetts Archives). Cf. Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series, v. 220.

476 Palfrey, History of New England, v. 408 note.

477 Massachusetts Province Laws, v. 966–967.

478 An interesting account of his last moments will be found in Hutchinson’s Diary and Letters, ii. 318–319.

479 Street, Mount Desert, p. 127.

480 Id. pp. 128–130.

481 Advertisements relating to the sale of the portion owned by the de Gregoires, inserted by them and by others, will be found in the following issues of the Massachusetts Centinel for 1790: May 19, p. 3/1; May 22, p. 2/1; June 2, p. 3/3; June 2, supplement, p. 4/3; June 5, p. 3/2; June 12, p. 4/3; June 19, p. 3/3; July 28, p. 3/4; August 4, p. 4/4; August 11, p. 4/2; August 18, p. 4/4; August 25, p. 4/2; September 1, p. 3/3. The sale was to be at auction on September 2. Mr. Percival Merritt kindly called my attention to these references.

482 3 Collections Maine Historical Society, i. 150.

483 Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series, vi. 484.

484 Cf. 1 Collections Maine Historical Society, vii. 199–206; 3 Collections Maine Historical Society, i. 147–157; Sprague’s Journal of Maine History, ii. 219.

485 Vergennes.

486 The inscription is printed in full in 1 Collections Maine Historical Society, vi. 337–338.

487 Works, iii. 304.

488 In J. L. Sibley, History of the Town of Union, Maine (1851), p. 23 note.

489 This account is based on data furnished by Mr. Matthews. For further details, see his paper on “The Portraits of Sir Francis Bernard,” published by the Club of Odd Volumes (1922).

490 The words “by Copley” are interlined in pencil. For the extracts from the Club records I am indebted to Mr. Merritt.

Under date of November 21, 1888, there is mention in the records of “an engraving to be made by Wilcox after the portrait in England, a photograph of which, loaned by a former member Dr. C. E. Banks, is now in the hands of the Engraver being engraved;” and it was voted that the plate “be cancelled, and hung on the walls of the club room.” On February 20, 1889, proofs of the portrait were shown to the members; and on April 24, 1889, it was announced that the plate had been cancelled.

491 With the permission of the Club of Odd Volumes.

492 Mrs. Higgins, The Bernards, ii. 235.

493 Massachusetts Historical Collections, lxxi. 223.

494 i. 51.

495 ii. 206. It was perhaps through Dr. Banks that Mr. Daniels learned of the painting at Christ Church. In January, 1888, the Rev. Henry W. Foote spoke of the Daniels print before the Massachusetts Historical Society, and in February presented a copy of the print to the Society. (2 Proceedings, iv. 61, 66.)

496 v. 31.

497 As the Daniels print was purely a commercial venture, Mr. Daniels naturally wished to have its authenticity placed beyond the possibility of a doubt. Hence he had the letter facsimiled, and presumably sent a copy of the facsimile with each copy of the print sold. The letter in the text is printed from such a facsimile found by Dr. Banks in a New York print shop in February, 1921.

498 Boston Gazette, August 7, 1769, p. 2/2.

499 Thomas Hubbard.

500 College Book, vii. 145. Cf. Donation Book, i. 81; J. Quincy, History of Harvard University, ii. 485.

501 Boston Evening Post, December 19, 1768, p. 1/1.

502 College Book, vii. 184. At a meeting of the Overseers on November 25, 1768, “A Vote of the Corporation at their Meeting this day Viz That the Picture of Governor Bernard with the other pictures in the Hall be placed in the Philosophy room . . . read and consented to” (Overseers’ Records, iii. 13).

503 Boston Evening Post, May 8, 1769, p. 1/3.

504 Cf. New Hampshire State Papers, xxvi, 20–22, 627–628.

505 Lucy C. Kellogg (History of the Town of Bernardston, 1902) says:

“The fact that the place was named for a Tory Governor has, at times, aroused the ire of some of her citizens, but some measure of consolation may be gleaned from the truism that the man could hardly have been held alone responsible for the age in which he lived, nor yet for having been born a British subject. May not the circumstance of his being considered by his king worthy to assume such a position, serve in some degree to mitigate this feeling?” (p. 2).

A search among the printed accounts of Bernardsville, New Jersey, has failed to reveal any criticism of the naming of the town.

506 A Most Excellent Instruction for the Exact and perfect keeping Merchant Bookes of Accovnts, by way of Debitor and Creditor, after the Italian manner: . . . By I. C. Gent . . . . London: . . . 1632. It is a folio, containing pp. i–viii, 1–152. The author was I. Carpenter.

507 Paddy’s will is printed in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, viii. 355.

508 This paper will be printed later in our Transactions.

509 “As soon as the Grenadiers & Light Infantry perceived the 1^st Brigade drawn up for their support, they shouted repeatedly, and the firing ceased for a short time” (Diary of Lieut. Frederick Mackenzie, in 2 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, v. 392).

510 The erroneous idea that the Brigade received Smith’s fugitives within a hollow square at Lexington apparently originated with Stedman the British historian in 1794 (History of the American War, i. 119). Percy states in his report to Gage that he “drew up the Brigade on a height” (Letters, 1902, p. 50). Lieut. Mackenzie gives us the authoritative account of the disposition of the troops at Lexington and makes it clear that they stood in line of battle throughout the halt. He states that the Grenadiers and Light Infantry “retired and formed behind the brigade” (2 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, v. 392).

511 This blunder is thus described in a letter dated Boston, July 5, 1775:

“The general ordered the first brigade under arms at four in the morning; these orders the evening before were carried to the brigade major’s; he was not at home; the orders were left; no enquiry was made after him; he came home late; his servant forgot to tell him there was a letter on his table; four o’clock came; no brigade appeared; at five o’clock an express from Smith desiring a reinforcement produced an enquiry; the above discovery was made; at six o’clock part of the brigade got on the parade; there they waited expecting the marines; at seven no marines appearing, another enquiry commenced; they said they had received no orders; it was asserted they had; in the altercation it came out that the order had been addressed to Major Pitcairn who commanded the marines and left at his quarters, though the gentleman concerned ought to have recollected that Pitcairn had been dispatched the evening before with the grenadiers and light infantry under Lieut. Col. Smith. This double mistake lost us from four till nine o’clock, the time we marched off to support Col. Smith” (Detail and Conduct of the American War, 3rd ed., London, 1780, p. 10). This letter is found in an earlier but undated edition of the same pamphlet, entitled A View of the Evidence relative to the Conduct of the American War, etc., London, p. 72.

512 This refers to the atrocity perpetrated upon a wounded British soldier at the North Bridge in Concord. Gage in his “Circumstantial Account” addressed to Governor Trumbull of Connecticut says: “When captain Parsons returned with the three companies over the bridge, they observed three soldiers on the ground, one of them scalped, (his head much mangled, and his ears cut off,) though not quite dead; a sight, which struck the soldiers with horrour” (2 Massachusetts Historical Collections, ii. 226).

The Rev. William Gordon, who had the facts from the Rev. William Emerson of Concord, wrote in his letter of May 17, 1775: “A young fellow coming over the bridge in order to join the country people, and seeing the soldier wounded and attempting to get up, not being under the feelings of humanity, very barbarously broke his skull, and let out his brains with a small axe, (apprehend of the tomahawk kind,) but as to his being scalped and having his ears cut off, there was nothing in it. The poor object lived an hour or two before he expired” (Force, 4 American Archives, ii. 630).

This event made a profound impression upon the soldiers, nearly one hundred of whom saw the victim, and gave rise to the conviction that the Americans scalped the wounded. In an intercepted letter written by a private soldier we find this comment: “These people . . . are full as bad as the Indians for scalping and cutting the dead men’s ears and noses off, and those they get alive, that are wounded, and cannot get off the ground” (Force, 4 American Archives, ii. 440).

513 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xxxi. 382.

514 “Let the mark of British tyranny made in this house of God, remain till time itself shall consume the fabrick, and it moulders into dust” (Faith in Divine Providence, the great support of God’s People in perilous times. A Sermon, etc., 1780, p. 26).

515 “They appeared most numerous in the road near the Church, and in a wood in the front and on the left flank of the line where our Regiment was posted. A few Cannon shot were fired at those on & near the road, which dispersed them” (Mackenzie, 2 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, v. 392).

516 History of the American War (1794), i. 118.

517 2 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, v. 392.

518 Id. p. 393.

519 May 31, 1775 (Writings, ed. Ford, ii. 475).

520 Percy’s report to Gage says “We arrived at Charlestown, between 7 & 8 in the even, very much fatigued with a march of above 30 miles, & having exhausted almost all our ammunition” (Letters, p. 50). Evidently Percy had ammunition enough but none to spare. He avoided real peril by following the short route home.

521 As a result of research among the muster rolls in the Massachusetts Archives, Mr. Frank W. Coburn of the Lexington Historical Society estimates the number of provincial reinforcements entering the fight at Arlington as 1779 (The Battle of April 19, 1775, in Lexington, Concord, etc., 1912, p. 135). He gives the total number of Americans engaged during the day as 3760. Percy after joining with Smith had a force of 1500 men, but it is not certain that Smith’s men should be rated as effectives on the retreat to Charlestown. Their ammunition was exhausted when they reached Lexington, and as the Brigade went out with only thirty-six rounds there could hardly have been any redistribution of powder and ball during the halt. Percy states in his report to Gage that he sent off the Grenadiers and Light Infantry in the van and “covered them” with his Brigade, – a hint that these troops may have been more of a hindrance than a help on the retreat. Probably the looting was in large measure due to them.

522 De Berniere (General Gage’s Instructions, 1779, p. 20; 2 Massachusetts Historical Collections, iv. 218–219) gives the casual ties among the officers as 2 killed and 13 wounded. Of these 4 occurred at the North Bridge, 1 near Concord, 8 near Lexington, and 2 in Menotomy. Probably Lieut. -Col. Bernard wounded and Lieut. Knight killed in the last named place were the only officers to fall after Percy began his march.

523 De Berniere (General Gage’s Instructions, 1779, p. 20; 2 Massachusetts Historical Collections, iv. 218–219) gives the casual ties among the officers as 2 killed and 13 wounded. Of these 4 occurred at the North Bridge, 1 near Concord, 8 near Lexington, and 2 in Menotomy. Probably Lieut. -Col. Bernard wounded and Lieut. Knight killed in the last named place were the only officers to fall after Percy began his march.

524 2 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, v. 394.

525 Diary of a British Officer in Boston, in Atlantic Monthly (1877), xxxix. 400. The authorship of this diary is somewhat in doubt. In the Atlantic Monthly (xxxix. 389) the author is said to have been either Lieut. Peregrine Francis Thorne or Lieut. David Hamilton; but the late Rev. E. G. Porter showed in our Publications (v. 49–55) that the author was doubtless John Barker.

526 2 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, v. 393.

527 Jacob Rogers’s petition, in Frothingham, History of the Siege of Boston, p. 372.

528 June 9, 1775, in Percy’s Letters, p. 54 note.

529 “They kept up a constant fire upon us for upwards of 15 miles, yet only killed of us about 40 men” (Percy to Henry Reveley, May, 1775, in Letters, p. 55). Gage’s first report (London Chronicle, June 13, 1775, xxxvii. 554) gave the British loss for the whole day as 65 killed, 180 wounded, 27 missing, a total of 272. This was subsequently amended (General Gage’s Instructions, Boston, 1779, p. 20; 2 Massachusetts Historical Collections, iv. 218-219) to read 73 killed, 174 wounded, 26 missing, a total of 273. Percy’s killed during the retreat aggregated a little more than half of the fatal casualties for the day.

530 Cf. our Publications, vii. 27–30.

531 The Rev. Dr. David McClure, writing April 19, 1775, seems in a measure to support this theory: “A waggon loaded with provisions was sent from Boston, for the refreshment of the retreating army, under an escort of 6 Granidiers, They got as far as this place, [Menotomy], when a number of men, 10 or 12, collected, and ordered them to surrender. They marched on, & our men fired, killed the driver & the horses, when the rest fled a little way, & surrendered. Another waggon sent on the same business, was also taken that day. It was strange that General Gage should send them through a country, in which he had just kindled the flames of war, in so defenceless a condition” (Diary, ed. F. B. Dexter, 1899, p. 161; cf. 1 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, xvi. 158).

532 Essex Gazette, April 25, 1775, p. 3/2-3. Also printed in the Massachusetts Spy of May 3, 1775, p. 3/2; and reprinted in Almon’s Remembrancer, 1775, i. 33; Force, 4 American Archives, ii. 439, etc.

533 Government corrupted by Vice, and recovered by Righteousness. A Sermon, etc. (Watertown, 1775), p. 8.

534 Narrative, pp. 7–8, appended to his “Fate of Blood-thirsty Oppressors, and God’s tender Care of his distressed People. A Sermon,” etc., Boston, 1776.

535 1 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, xvii. 322.

536 April 20, 1775, in Letters, p. 53. The italics in the extracts which immediately follow are mine.

537 “General Gage’s Instructions, Of 22d February 1775, . . . With a curious Narrative. . . . Also an Account,” etc., Boston, 1779, p. 19. Cf. 2 Massachusetts Historical Collect ions, iv, 218.

538 April 23, 1775, in Memoir and Letters (ed. G. D. Scull, Oxford, 1879), p. 54.

539 2 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, v. 393, 394.

540 April 19, 1775, in Atlantic Monthly, xxxix, 400.

541 April 23, 1775, in Atlantic Monthly, xxxix. 544. Confirmation of the character of the fighting is found in intercepted letters of British private soldiers printed in Force. One man writes, April 28: “They did not fight, us like a regular army, only like savages, behind trees and stone walls, and out of the woods and houses, where in the latter we killed numbers of them” (4 American Archives, ii. 440). Another writes, April 28: “When we found they fired from the houses, we set them on fire, and they ran to the woods like devils” (id. p. 440). A soldier of the Royal Welsh Fusileers in addressing his “Dear Parents” April 30, records the following: “As we came along they got before us and fired at us out of the houses, and killed and wounded a great number of us, but we levelled their houses as we came along” (id. p. 440).

542 2 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, xi. 306.

543 American Annals (1805), ii. 327; (1829) ii. 206.

544 Military Journal during the American Revolution (1823), p. 19.

545 History (1788), i. 482.

546 “We do not censure him [Percy] for any warlike attacks upon our troops, or for firing upon any dwelling within which our soldiers had taken refuge, or from which they assailed the king’s troops. So far he would be justified by the laws of war” (1 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, xvii, 322).

547 Cf. p. 270 note 1, above.

548 Gage’s defence penned to Governor Trumbull May 3rd, 1775, is as follows: “The troops disclaim with indignation the barbarous outrages of which they are accused, so contrary to their known humanity. I have taken the greatest pains to discover if any were committed, and have found examples of their tenderness, both to the young and the old but no vestige of cruelty or barbarity. It is very possible that in firing into houses, from whence they were fired upon, that old people, women, or children may have suffered, but if any such thing has happened, it was in their defence and undesigned.” (Trumbull Papers, ii. 298–299.)

549 The provincial losses are given by Phinney (History of the Battle of Lexington, 1825, pp. 27–30) as 49 killed, 36 wounded, 5 missing, a total of 90.

550 In Elias Phinney, History of the Battle of Lexington (1825), pp. 34–35.

551 (1868), p. 202; (1913), i. 175.

552 History of Middlesex County (1880), ii. 26.

553 Placing Pitcairn in command of the troops near Munroe’s Tavern is a mere conjecture, as his name is not mentioned by any of our witnesses after Percy took command. Possibly Bernard was in command at this point and Pitcairn may have been assigned to the Marine battalion that came out with the Brigade. Whoever commanded the Marines seems to have borne the brunt of the afternoon’s fighting. If we estimate the strength of the battalion at four or five companies, or not more than 175 men, we cannot be far from the truth. Two other companies may have gone out with Smith. The official report giving the total regimental losses in killed and wounded indicates that 27 per cent of the casualties were suffered by the Marines. If we confine ourselves to the killed, the Marine percentage was 37. This is an extraordinary showing when compared with the 14 per cent of the King’s Own Regiment, a larger unit and the next heaviest sufferer. These figures suggest that nearly 50 per cent of Percy’s casualties on the retreat occurred in the Marines.

554 In 1880: see p. 280, note 3. But in 1868 Hudson had merely called him “infirm” (History of Lexington, p. 202; Genealogical Register, p. 189).

555 (1913), ii, 552. Cf. Lexington Vital Records, p. 62.

556 In the roll of Parker’s company given in the first (1868) edition of Hudson’s History is found the name of John Raymond (p. 383).

557 P.9 note.

558 Paige, History. of Cambridge, p. 413.

559 Id. p. 413 note.

560 2 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, v. 394.

561 Sermon, pp. 8–9 notes.

562 Cf. p. 272, above.

563 May 16, 1775, in Journals of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress (1838), p. 677.

564 Samuel Cooke (1708-1783; H. C. 1735) was long the minister of the second precinct, Cambridge (now Arlington).

565 In 1864 the Rev. Samuel A. Smith gave us this account of Deacon Adams’s activities. He “knew that his life would be in danger, both on account of his name, and also for his reputation for patriotic zeal, but thinking that they would not harm women and children, as the troops came in sight left his house, . . . and fled across the fields. He was hotly pursued, and, as he was running under cover of the stone walls, he heard the bullets whistle over his head. He kept on, however, and had just time to cover himself over in the hay-loft in Rev. Mr. Cooke’s barn, . . . when his pursuers came up and began to search for him, sticking their bayonets here and there into the hay. They did not dare to remain long, and he escaped” (West Cambridge on the Nineteenth of April, 1775, p. 34).

Deacon Adams was a prominent man in the community, was precinct treasurer for nineteen years and selectman of Cambridge for four years.

566 Born April 1, 1775. Her name is given as Ann by Paige (History of Cambridge, p. 478), as Ann or Anne by Cutter (History of Arlington, pp. 185, 260), but as Anna in Cambridge Vital Records, ii. 10. She married James Hill (1773–1852) on October 11, 1796. In 1831 Hannah Hill, daughter of James and Ann (Adams) Hill, married Thomas Hall.

567 This is the story as repeated in 1854 by Mrs. Hill, then in her eightieth year, to Samuel Griffin Damon: see Christian Register, October 28, 1854, xxxix. 169.

568 S. A. Smith, West Cambridge on the Nineteenth of April, 1775, p. 37.

569 Sermon, p. 8 note.

570 See p. 272, above.

571 May 19, 1775, in Journals of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, p. 678.

572 Jason Winship was baptized in Cambridge June 28, 1730 (Paige, History of Cambridge, p. 697). Jabez Wyman was baptized in Woburn December 26, 1736 (Bond, Genealogies and History of Watertown, ii. 976). (The statement in Paige’s History of Cambridge, p. 412, that Wyman was born July 24, 1710, is clearly an error.) Wyman married Lydia Winship (sister of Jason) in Cambridge January 13, 1767 (Cambridge Vital Records, ii. 437). On March 23, 1773, Jabez Wyman of Cambridge, “laborer,” and wife Lydia, deeded land in Arlington to Ammi Cutter. The Rev. John Marrett states (in S. Dunster, Henry Dunster and his Descendants, 1876, p. 88) that Wyman at one time worked for the Rev. Mr. Cooke.

573 In S. Dunster, Henry Dunster and his Descendants, pp. 88, 89. The letter was written by Marrett to his uncle the Rev. Isaiah Dunster.

574 For further information concerning Samuel Whittemore, see S. A. Smith, West Cambridge on the Nineteenth of April, 1775, pp. 42–44; Cutter, History of Arlington, pp. 75–77, 317; Paige, History of Cambridge, pp. 414–415, 688; Columbian Centinel, February 6, 1793, p. 3/2.

575 See p. 272, above.

576 From the inscription on the old stone in the precinct burying ground, said to have been written by the Rev. Mr. Cooke.

577 S. A. Smith, West Cambridge on the Nineteenth of April, 1775, pp. 37, 37–38.

578 Cutter, History of Arlington, p, 69.

579 Id. p. 69.

580 April 20, 1775, in Letters, p. 52.

581 Remembrancer, 1775, i. 80.

582 Force, 4 American Archives, ii. 441.

583 April 20, 1775, in Letters, pp. 52, 53.

584 On July 2, 1775, Lieut. Carter wrote: “Never had the British army so ungenerous an enemy to oppose; they send their Rifle men, (five or six at a time) who conceal themselves behind trees, &c. till an opportunity presents itself of taking a shot at our advanced centries, which done they immediately retreat. What an infamous method of carrying on a war!” (Genuine Detail, etc., 1784, p. 7).

585 S. R. Lushington, Life and Services of General Lord Harris (1845), p. 40.

586 Pp. 217–226.

587 Id. p. 225.

588 Id. p, 223.

589 Magnalia (1702), bk. iv. pt. i. § 5, p. 130. As is of course well known, much of the Magnalia had already appeared in print before the publication of the volume in London in 1702. The portions not previously printed must have been written before June 8, 1700, when Mather wrote: “I this Day putt up my Church-History, and pen down Directions about the publishing of it. . . . A Gentleman, just now sailing for England, undertakes the care of it; and by his Hand I send it for London” (Diary, i. 353).

590 Bk. iii. pt. ii. ch. xxiii. § 12, p, 141.

591 Bk. iv. pt. ii. ch. v. § 11, p. 188.

592 The writer should have said “the day after Commencement.”

593 P.250. That this account is drawn from the Magnalia is sufficiently obvious, but is made certain by the statement on the same page: “Whilst Mr. Winthrop was travelling in the low countries, he endeavoured to persuade Johannes Amos Commenius to become President; ‘but the influence of the Swedish embassador,’ (says Mather, from whose Magnalia this account is principally taken,) ‘proving too strong, this incomparable Moravian became not an American.’” This gives us a reference to the alleged offer of the presidency to Comenius before the one dated 1860, which was cited by me (our Publications, xxi, 147) as the earliest after the publication of the Magnalia.

594 Harvard Register (1827), p. 302.

595 The first newspaper was the Courier de Boston, April 23 to October 15, 1789. It was printed entirely in French, and was published weekly for Joseph Nancrede, instructor in French at Harvard College from 1787 to 1800. I acknowledge my indebtedness to the Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690–1820, by our associate Mr. Clarence S. Brigham (proceedings American Antiquarian Society, xxv. 208, 209).

596 Columbian Centinel, November 21, 1792, p. 3/1–2.

597 December 12, 1792, pp. 1/ 4–2/1, 2/4. The Argus of December 11, 1792 (p. 3/1), contained a satirical article under the heading of “The French Revolution Defeated.” It read in part: “TWENTY-FOUR FRENCHMEN, in and near the town of Boston, have entered a PROTEST, in the office of a Notary Public in Boston, against the French Revolution . . . . But, as these PROTESTORS have a Gazette of their own, under the PRIEST, which will be out within a day or two, we will refer the readers to that for the wonderful effects of this new experiment in ‘Val’, and Politicks.”

598 Identified by Mr. Ford as probably a M. d’Hauteval.

599 Writings (ed. Ford), i. 125.

600 Columbian Centinel, December 26, 1792, p, 3/2; January 9, 1793, pp. 1/2, 2/1; Argus, January 8, 1793, p. 3/3.

601 January 19, 1793, p. 3/3.

602 December 10, 17, 24, 31, 1792; January 7, 14, 1793. On December 12, 1792, the Rev. William Bentley made this entry in his Diary: “The Courier de l’Univers, a second french & english paper appeared in Boston this week. Its duration may not exceed the other, which had but small encouragement” (i. 415).

603 Proceedings American Antiquarian Society, xxv. 209.

604 Mr. Brigham kindly sends me the following letter from the Isaiah Thomas Papers in the American Antiquarian Society:

Boston, November 18, 1792

SIR,

Inclosed are proposals for a new weekly french paper, of which I am to be editor. It will probably be published in a few weeks; and upon the receipt of mine, I request you to forward me one of yours in exchange. In a few days you will see the same proposals printed in English in the newspapers from Boston, which, I hope, will give you more ease to find me so many subscribers as you could in your town. Three dollars are to be paid by subscribing, and the names of the subscribers taken upon a private [torn]. My design is to allow you five per cent upon every [subscri]ption you will receive. I desire you consequently to do for my paper what I would be very happy to do for yours. As soon as you will have found some subscriptions, let me know the quantity and the names of the subscribers, if you are willing to oblige him who is very sincerely,

Sir,

Your most humble and obedient servant,

L. de Rousselet, P.C.

My direction is the Rd Mr. L. de Rousselet, at Mr. Joseph Bumstead’s printing-office, Union-Street, Boston.

Isaiah Thomas, Esq.

While the meaning of the letters “P.C.” following de Rousselet’s signature is not absolutely certain, they probably stand for the words “Prêtre Catholique.”

605 Our Publications, xii. 220, 227–231.

606 See pp. 156–159, above.

607 Our Publications, xvii, 275, 284.

608 A sketch of Brown will be found in the Dictionary of National Biography. The book was originally published in 1757 and went through several editions.

609 Mr. Woodbury has given the volume to the Harvard College Library.

610 Memoirs of the Life of the late Reverend Increase Mather, . . . With a Preface by the: Reverend Edmund Calamy, D.D., London, 1725, pp. 35-36. cr. C. Mather, Parentator, Boston, 1724, pp. 93-96. The forged letter itself is printed in full in the Mather Papers (4 Massachusetts Historical Collections, viii. 104-107) and in the New England Historical and General Register, xxxix. 23-25. An abstract appears in the Calendar of State Papers, America & W. Indies, 1685-1688, no. 1915, pp. 613-615. I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Albert Matthews for several of these and later references.

611 See the Mather Papers, pp. 407–11; Palfrey, History of New England, iii 556–558; and allusions in Robert N. Toppan’s Edward Randolph (Prince Society).

612 Observator, no. 176, Monday, December 1, 1684.

613 In his Mercurius Aquaticus, 1643.

614 Intelligencer, no. 1, August 31, 1663.

615 E.g., see the Intelligencer, no. 23, March 21, 1663–4, p, 192. -

616 Mercurius Britanicus, no. 49, August 26-September 2, 1644, p. 387.

617 Weekly Pacquet, no. 34, April 16, 1683, p. 271.

618 Nathan Dane Papers (Massachusetts Historical Society).

619 George Cabot (1751–1823), United States Senator, President of the Hartford Convention, etc.

620 Joseph Lee (1744-1831), born in Salem.

621 Moses Brown (1748-1820), born at Waltham; H. C. 1768; raised and commanded a company which left Beverly August 9, 1777; present at the battles of Long Island, Trenton, and Harlem Heights.

622 Israel Thorndike (1755–1825), son of Andrew and Anna (Morgan) Thorndike.

623 Josiah Batchelder, Jr. (1737–1828), representative to the General Court; member of Congress; innholder; surveyor of the port of Beverly.

624 William Bartlett (1745-1809), fourth in descent from William Bartlett of Frampton, Dorset, England.

625 William Homans (1749–1837), born at Marblehead, died in Beverly.

626 Thomas Davis, born September 25, 1755, son of Thomas and Abigail (Stephens) Davis of Salem.

627 William Leach (1758–1838).

628 Livermore Whittredge, born February 24, 1740; descended from William Whittredge, who came over in 1635 and settled in Ipswich.

629 Thomas Woodberry, born May 10, 1743, son of Thomas and Lucy (Herrick) Woodberry.

630 For the newspapers of Salem, see Proceedings American Antiquarian Society, xxv, 463-476.

631 John Manly died February 12, 1793: cr. Publications of this Society, v. 274 note.

632 Captain’s pay per month, £ 4; 1st lieutenant, £ 3; 2nd lieutenant, £ 2.10.0; surgeon, £ 2.10.0; master, £ 2.0.0; boatswain, £ 1.10.0; steward, £ 1.10.0.

633 In some cases there seems to have been actual distribution of the cargo instead of a sale at auction and division of the proceeds. The following deposition is from the Nathan Dane Papers:

“I James Fuller Lakeman of Lawful age do Testify, in the Summer of the year One thousand, Seven hundred and eighty I went a Voyage from Gloucester to Bilbao in a Ship called the Gloucester Packet, William Coy, commander. I acted as Mariner on board and in the passage from Bilbao we took a Prize. She was a British brig of more than a hundred Tons, Loaded with salt and I was put on board of her with the Prize Master and four Men to Bring her and we arrived safe at Gloucester in the month of July Where the said Cargo was Divided and I Received thirty Bushels of it for my share. I exchanged my Share of said Salt at two Bushels of corn for one bushel of Salt and Corn was then one dollar a Bushel, hard money.”

634 Massachusetts Archives, clxxx, 974.

635 The following advertisement appeared in a Boston paper of May 17 1776: “To be sold by William Bartlett, Agent for the United Provinces, at public auction, the seventh day of May to be held in Beverly and to be continued from day to day until the whole is sold, the following vessels and cargo, Ship Concord, 150 tons, Jinny, 350 tons, Polly, 80 tons, Brigantines, Nancy 250 tons Hannah 250 tons; Sloops, Sally, 60 tons, Betty, 60 tons.” These vessels were condemned at a court held at Ipswich by Judge Pickering March 18, 1776.

636 Journals of the Provincial Congress (1838), pp. 412–413.

637 Henry Herrick, son of Henry and Joanna (Woodberry) Herrick, was born October 25, 1716, and died December 16, 1780.

638 Joseph Wood, son of Joseph and Ruth (Haskell) Wood, was town clerk of Beverly for thirty-seven years, selectman, assessor, representative, and member of the Committee of Public Safety and Correspondence. He died January 21, 1808.

639 In the New York Gazette of April 22, 1780, is an advertisement offering 12 and 13 pound carronades, imported direct from the Carron foundry, for use in privateers. “They can be discharged,” says the advertisement, “every three minutes, which doubles the strength against an enemy of equal force. The carronade weighs one third as much as a long gun of the same calibre and the powder charge is only one twelfth the weight of the ball.” The long gun could be discharged once in six minutes.

640 Eleazar Giles was born in Danvers, but removed to Beverly; commanded several privateers during the war and lost his leg in action on board the Saratoga; died in Liverpool, England.

As a rule the names of only the commanders or captains of vessels are mentioned in the text. For the names of other officers, see section viii, pp. 405–424, below.

641 George Child, an Englishman, on the St. Lucie, from Jamaica for Bristol, had a private adventure on board which Capt. Giles generously restored to him.

642 The Rover, Capt. Adam Wellman of Beverly, was captured in 1780.

643 The Beverly Historical Society owns a printed handbill reading: “Now fitting for a Privateer, In the harbor of Beverly, the Brigantine Washington. A strong, good vessel for that purpose and a prime sailer. Any Seaman or Landsman that has an inclination to make their Fortunes in a few months may have an opportunity by applying to John Dyson. Beverly, Sept. 7, 1776.”

644 John Dyson (1742–1828) was born in England.

645 Massachusetts Archives, ccxv. 442.

646 Robert Haskell, son of William and Mary (Lovett) Haskell, was born April 2, 1736, and died June 17, 1789.

647 The privateer schooner Hawk of Marblehead. On her arrival at Bilbao she was complained of as an illegal privateer. The prime minister of Spain, the Marquis of Grimaldi, decided that the Hawk was within her rights and ordered that American vessels, privateer or merchant, should be treated like any neutrals.

648 Benjamin Lovett (1756–1804), Bon of Benjamin and Hannah (Kilham) Lovett.

649 From December 25, 1777, to April 29, 1780, she bore the following names: Cent Pied, Santape, Cent. Pede, Cent. Pea, Cent. a Pede, Santipe, Sentipe, Cent. Peid, Centipede, Centi Pea, Saint te Pie, Centipie.

650 Lark in Thorndike (1730–1786) was captain of the minute-men who marched to Concord in 1775.

651 The Pilgrim was owned by John and Andrew Cabot, Joseph Lee, George Cabot, Moses Brown, Samuel Cabot, Francis Cabot, Jonathan Jackson, Joshua Wood, and Stephen Cleveland. Andrew Cabot owned a little less than one-half in 1780. Salem gentlemen owned 16/96ths. (Nathan Dane Papers.)

652 A portrait of Hugh Hill faces p. 320, above.

653 The Boston Gazette of June 24, 1782, stated that the previous Monday, the prize brig Neptune had been taken by “the Privateer Ship Pilgrim, Capt. Robinson, of Beverly!” (Publications of this Society, xvii. 365 note).

654 The Penobscot expedition.

655 Wages on vessels in 1779 are quoted at £ 15 to £ 20 per month for ordinary seamen. While not so stated, this probably means letter of marque vessels.

656 The Defence was a vessel built by Mr. Cabot to take the place of the brigantine Defence lost in the Penobscot expedition.

657 Diary of Moses Brown.

658 The Island of St. Eustatius was the great neutral port of the West Indies. When taken by Lord Rodney it was crowded with French, English, and American vessels and the booty was immense. It was captured before the governor had received news of war between England and Holland and he made no resistance, though 600 American seamen, crews of privateers and letters of marque in port, offered their services in defence of the city.

659 James Lovett (1749–1789), son of Benjamin and Eleonora (Cleaves) Lovett.

660 Herbert Woodberry (1745–1809), son of Jacob and Abigail (Thorndike) Woodberry.

661 Complaints against John Leach, commander of the schooner Dolphin, that he took 30 pounds of rice and 45 quarts of brandy from some Nova Scotians. (Massachusetts Archives, ccxxvii. 210.) On January 20, 1780, the General Court passed this resolve:

“Whereas it appears to the court that several small privateers have committed many robberies above high water mark on the inhabitants of Nova Scotia. Therefore resolved that this court do highly disapprove the conduct of any persons belonging to and commissioned from the State in the business of privateering and also resolved that when any commission shall be given out in future to small armed vessels they give good and sufficient bonds for the purpose of preventing such evils again taking place.”

It is perhaps not strange that ignorant men did not appreciate the difference between robberies above and below high water mark.

662 Schooner Hero, 26 tons, 9 guns (short guns) and 20 men. May 27, 1782, George W. Babcock, commander. This is the only case noted by me where short guns (carronades) were used on a privateer.

663 “A number of Frenchmen at Nantes have united to build six brigantines carrying from ten to eighteen guns, three of which are ready for sailing, the best calculated vessels for the American purpose I ever saw. I am confident they will sail fast and they are as sharp as a wedge. They will clear for the French West Indies.” (Auckland Manuscripts.)

664 E. D. Poole’s Annals of Yarmouth and Barrington (Nova Scotia) in the Revolutionary War (1899) contains a very interesting account of these Nova Scotians during the war.

665 There was also a brig Rambler captured by the English frigate Harriet Selvyl in 1779.

666 The Snapper, Capt. Taylor, was a famous letter of marque from Liverpool, and had taken many American vessels.

667 Mr. Cabot had at one time a ship, a schooner, and a sloop all named Sally.

668 Cf. Publications of this Society, x, 116–134, xx. 163–190.

669 The first salt works were established at Dennis, Cape Cod, in 1776. Afterwards several towns went into the business, Gloucester having three. Cf. 1 Proceedings Massachusetts Historical Society, xv. 224.

670 E. M. Stone, History of Beverly (1843), p. 83.

671 John Tittle (1735–1800).

672 Elisha Whitney was born at Watertown March 11, 1747; moved to Beverly in 1792; died February 22, 107.

673 Ichabod Groves, born in 1744, was a son or John and Catherine (Leach) Groves.

674 See p. 423 note 1, below.

675 Richard Ober (1745–1821), son of Richard and Lydia (Chapman) Ober.

676 Elias Smith (1744–1817).

677 Benjamin Ober (1751–1780) died abroad.

678 Asa Woodberry (1749–1830), son of Thomas and Lucy (Herrick) Woodberry.

679 Autobiography, Reminiscences and Letters (1841), p. 82.

680 Id. p. 87.

681 Ezra Ober (1747–1794), Bon of Richard and Lydia (Chapman) Ober.

682 William Tuck (1740–1784), son of William and Eliza (Sewall) Tuck.

683 “Lucas Johnson, midshipman on board His Majesty’s Ship Charlestown, being sworne declares that in the latter end of July last on their passages from Halifax to Spanish River in company with the Allegiance, Vulture and Jack and some transports under their convoy, being off of Spanish River, Seeing two French frigates, L’Astrea & Hermionné to Leward, Captain Evans . . . order’d the Deponent on board the Jack with orders to Capt. Tonge, . . . that the Jack was obliged to strike to the French frigates, and Deponent and the whole crew belonging to the Jack, were made prisoners and carried into Boston, that the Jack at that time carried ten nine pounders and four sixes, and was manned with sixty seven men, Richard Peter Tonge Commander, that the Deponent had seen the ship called the Jack (taken by Captain Crymes) . . . & knows her to be the same ship taken by L’Astrea & Hermionné” (Essex Institute Historical Collections, xlv. 182–183).

684 “Lucas Johnson, midshipman on board His Majesty’s Ship Charlestown, being sworne declares that in the latter end of July last on their passages from Halifax to Spanish River in company with the Allegiance, Vulture and Jack and some transports under their convoy, being off of Spanish River, Seeing two French frigates, L’Astrea & Hermionné to Leward, Captain Evans . . . order’d the Deponent on board the Jack with orders to Capt. Tonge, . . . that the Jack was obliged to strike to the French frigates, and Deponent and the whole crew belonging to the Jack, were made prisoners and carried into Boston, that the Jack at that time carried ten nine pounders and four sixes, and was manned with sixty seven men, Richard Peter Tonge Commander, that the Deponent had seen the ship called the Jack (taken by Captain Crymes) . . . & knows her to be the same ship taken by L’Astrea & Hermionné” (Essex Institute Historical Collections, xlv. 182–183).

685 A Relic of the Revolution, . . . By Charles Herbert, of Newburyport, Mass. Who was taken prisoner in the Brigantine Dolton, Dec, 1776, and served in the U. S. Frigate Alliance, 1779–80. 1847. This was compiled by R. Livesey, though his name is not on the title-page. In a later impression, dated 1854, the title was changed to “The Prisoners of 1776; A Relic of the Revolution. Compiled by the Rev. Richard Livesey from the Journal of Charles Herbert, of Newburyport, Mass., who was taken prisoner in the brigantine Dolton, Dec. 1776, and confined in Old Mill Prison, Plymouth, England.” The text of the two impressions appears to be identical, though the pagination is different.

686 The following extract from the Nathan Dane Papers, dated Beverly, December 2, 1781, shows that one man at least from Beverly served on the Bon Homme Richard and Alliance:

I, John Carrisco of Beverly, in the County of Essex, State of Mass., Mariner, constitute and appoint Nathan Dane my Attorney and hereby empower him to receive my wages and prize money due to me as a mariner on board the Good Man Richard, J. J. Jones, Commander, and also on board the Alliance, Peter Landais, Esq., Commander.”

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687 Narrative of Remarkable Occurrences, In the Life of John Blatchford, Of Cape-Ann, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, . . . Taken from his own mouth. M, DCC, LXXX, VIII. In 1865 Charles I. Bushnell published an edition, with notes, entitled “The Narrative of John Blatchford, retailing His sufferings in the Revolutionary War, while a Prisoner with the British. Aa related by himself.”

688 On April 2, 1777, Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane wrote to the English ambassador at Paris calling attention to the fact that American prisoners were being employed in English ships to fight against their own people and also sent to distant ports where they stood little chance of being exchanged.

689 Edited by Charles I. Bushnell in 1865.

690 Some other accounts may be mentioned.

An Account of the Interment of the Remains of 11,500 American Seamen, Soldiers and Citizens, who fell victims to the cruelties of the British, on board their prison ships at the Wallabout, During the American Revolution. 1808. This was reprinted with notes by Dr. Henry It. Stiles in 1865 in The Wallabout Prison Ship Series, No. 2.

Memoirs of Andrew Sherburne (2d ed., 1831), pp. 81–98, 109–119.
The Old Jersey Captive: or a Narrative of the Captivity of Thomas Andros (now pastor of the church in Berkley,) on board the Old Jersey Prison Ship at New York, 1781. 1833.
Review. The Tomb of the Martyrs, who died in dungeons and pestilential prison-ships, in and about the City of New-York, during the seven years of our Revolutionary War. By Benjamin Romaine, . . . 4th July, 1839.
The Adventures of Christopher Hawkins, . . . With an Introduction and Notes by Charles L Bushnell. 1864. (Written in 1834.)
Letters from the Prisons and Prison-Ships of the Revolution. With Notes by Henry R. Stiles, M. D. (The Wallabout Prison-Ship Series, No. 1.)
A Memoir of Eli Bickford, a Patriot of the Revolution. 1865. (Contains “The Prison-Ship Jersey. By Charles I. Bushnell,” pp. 13–15.)
1888. A Christmas Reminder. Being the names of above eight thousand persons, a small portion of the number confined on board the British prison ships during the War of the Revolution. With the Compliments of the Society of Old Brooklynites. 1888.
Horrors of the Prison Ships. Dr. [Charles E.] West’s Description of the Wallabout Floating Dungeons. How Captive Patriots Fared. 1895.
1776 Prison Ship Martyr Captain Jabez Fitch His Diary in Facsimile (1897 or 1903?)
Historical Society, Eliot, Maine, January, 1900. Old Mill Prison. Henry W. Fernald, Boston, Mass.
American Prisoners of the Revolution. By Danske Dandridge, . . . Charlottesville, Va., 1911. This is a book of ix, 504, pages, a bibliography being printed on pp. 503–504.

See also the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xix. 74–75, 136–141, 209–213 (List of Americans committed to Old Mill Prison during the War), xxxii. 42–44, 184–188, 305–308, 395–398 (Journal of Samuel Cutler).

691 It is doubtful whether these bonds were often enforced, and, even if collected, they were too small for the purpose. The bond of the schooner Hammond, for example, was for £ 300 signed by Jacob Oliver as principal and Robert Shillaber as surety, that all prisoners taken at sea would be brought back into port for exchange. (Revolutionary Rolls, viii. 4.)

692 Massachusetts Archives, clxxvii. 301.

693 Massachusetts Archives, cxxvi. 226.

694 Force, 5 American Archives, iii. 602.

695 Revolutionary Rolls, ix. 74.

696 Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Families of Boston.

697 Revolutionary Rolls, ix. 68.

698 Massachusetts Archives, cliii. 67.

699 New York Gazette and Mercury, February 2, 1778.

700 Massachusetts Archives, cxxv. 149.

701 Revolutionary Rolls, ix. 49.

702 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xix. 74.

703 Massachusetts Archives, clxxxiv. 34.

704 Massachusetts Archives, cxxv. 419.

705 Samuel Cressy (1751–1782), son of Benjamin and Mehitable (Brown) Cressy.

706 Massachusetts Archives, clxxvii. 63.

707 The officers and petty officers of the Pilgrim August 14, 1780, were as follows: Joseph Robinson, Salem, commander; Jesse Allen, Manchester, 1st lieutenant; Benjamin Warren, Salem, 2nd lieutenant; Nicholas Garven, Boston, master; George Sugden, Beverly, master’s mate; John Dean, Salem, 2nd mate; J. L. Hammond, Salem, 3rd mate; Samuel Blanchard, Boston, surgeon; Nathaniel Otis, Salem, chaplain; William Curtis, master of marines; Moses Vose, John Harris, Francis Horton, Joseph Hudson, John Kelly, John Marsh, and Thomas Hogkins, all prize masters; Jonathan Glidden, Beverly, carpenter; William Foot, Salem, cooper; Joseph Johnson, Salem, doctor’s mate; John Turner, gunner; James Lyons, Marblehead, sailmaker; Jonathan McDowell, boatswain; Joseph Standly and William Vose, stewards. Of the crew only two, James Elliot and Richard Allen, were Beverly men. There were ten boys, one eleven, two twelve, two thirteen and five seventeen years or younger. Most of the crew were of foreign birth.

708 This report of the capture of the Pilgrim was probably incorrect. At all events the vessel, if captured, was not the Pilgrim of Beverly.

There is in existence a log kept by Dr. Josiah Bartlett while surgeon on the Pilgrim of Beverly from April 19, 1781, to July 23, 1782. This log will be printed in Vol. xxv. of the Publications of this Society.

709 With the exception of John Vickory, who was probably a Marblehead man, all the officers and most of the crew were from Beverly.

710 “Elsinore May 27, 1783. Yesterday arrived the first commercial ship which has appeared in our seas. She came from Boston bound for Riga” (Salem Gazette, August 1, 1783). As Capt. Fearson in the Buccanier sailed from France for the Baltic as soon as peace was declared, it is possible that this is the vessel meant and that Andrew Cabot had the honor of first showing our flag in those waters. In 1784 the Commerce, Capt. Tuck, reached St. Petersburg before the Light Horse and beat her on the return voyage.

711 The letters “L.M.” indicate “Letter of marque.”

712 There is some confusion between the names Langdell and Langden which the writer has been unable to unravel.

713 Boston, Beverly, and Salem are all given as the residence of a John Leach, and it is difficult to distinguish between them.

714 He was not installed until 1786.

715 Dartmouth Manuscripts. For permission to have the letter copied, I am indebted to the present Earl of Dartmouth.

716 Half Moon, at the junction of the Hudson and the Mohawk Rivers, is now Waterford, New York. For its location, see the map in our Publications, vii. 260.

717 Massachusetts Province Laws, xv. 682.

718 Massachusetts Province Laws, xvii. 188.

719 See pp. 165–175, above.

720 “At a Meeting of y^e Presid^t & Fellows Agreed that George Ball be admitted a Fellow-Commoner,” August 18, 1730, Faculty Records, i. 30.

721 It is sometimes said that Ball was born in Cambridge, but of this there is no proof and the statement is probably due to a misapprehension. The Class of 1734 was placed on September 22, 1730, when Ball was assigned to the fourth place. (Faculty Records, i. 32.) His age is given as 14, and his place of residence at entrance (but not necessarily of birth) as Cambridge. In an interleaved Triennial Catalogue he is said to have been a Captain in the British Navy during the Revolution. (Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, xxvi. 565.)

722 The fourteen incorporators of the Society are those whose names are found under the year 1892 on p. 469, below.

723 The Certificate of Change of Corporate Name is dated March 3, 1893.

724 The date in this column is that given on the title-page. If a volume was not distributed until the following year, the fact is stated in a footnote.

725 Volume I was distributed in the autumn of 1896.

726 Massachusetts Royal Commissions, 1681–1774.

727 Land-Bank and Silver-Bank Papers; Bibliography of the Massachusetts House Journals, 1715–1776; Bibliography of the Massachusetts Laws, 1641–1776.

728 Check-List of Boston Newspapers, 1704-1780.

729 Volume X was distributed in May, 1908.

730 Volume XVII was distributed in January, 1916.

731 Volume XIX was distributed in April, 1919.

732 Plymouth Church Records, 1620–1859, Part i.

733 Volume XXII was distributed in January, 1921.

734 Plymouth Church Records, 1620–1859, Part ii.

735 Volume XXIV contains the Transactions from January, 1920, to January, 1922, both included.

736 Harvard College Records (Corporation Records, 1636–1750).

737 Volume XXV begins with the meeting of February, 1922.

738 Massachusetts Royal Instructions.

739 For a note on the place of residence, see p. 469, below.

740 An asterisk (*) denotes death while a member; a dagger (†) indicates that membership has ceased either through resignation, removal to or from the State, or otherwise; a double dagger (‡) means transfer to another class of membership. The place of residence given is that where the member lived at the time of his election. The place of residence of each of the fourteen incorporators of the Society, though not given in the Transactions, is recorded in the Records of the Society. Curiously enough, however, the place of residence of no member elected in 1893 and of scarcely a member elected in 1894 is recorded either in the Council Records or in the Records of the Society, nor is it given in the Transactions. Hence the place of residence of those elected in 1893 and 1894 is somewhat conjectural.

741 Corresponding Member, 1899.