INDEX
Places are in Massachusetts unless otherwise stated
Names of vessels are grouped under the heading Ships
Names of Indians are grouped under the heading Indians
ABBOTT, Katharine McLane (Tiffany), wife of Gordon, 31
—Wilbur Cortez, Litt.D., 119; elected Resident Member, 300; accepts, 309
Abeale, John, and others, petition for land grant, 1708, 76
Abel, Preserved, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Abercrombie, Gen. James (d 1781), and the Crown Point expedition, 439, 441
—Lt.-Col. James (d 1775), 276, 278; quoted, on British retreat from Lexington, 1775, 274
Aborn, Daniel, document signed by, 393
Acadia, original grant of, 216; confusion of, with Nova Scotia, 216; disputes as to boundary of, 216, 217, 224, 226, 236; cession of, to France, by Charles II, 205, 218; cession of, to Great Britain, 1713, 248. See also France; Nova Scotia
Acadia & Nova Scotia, An Enquiry into the Origin of the Terms, by Gov. Bernard, 216
Adams, Capt. —, 269
— Capt. —, 327
— Ann, daughter of Joseph. See Hill
— Charles, son of President John, 380
— Capt. Daniel, 375, 384, 387, 400, 408, 412; commands held by, 424
— Rev. Eliphalet (d 1753), 7
— Hannah, wife of Joseph, experience of, with British soldiers, April 19, 1775, 284–286, 290
— Joel, son of Joseph, 286
— John, President, 249, 380; as president of the Senate, 181; quoted, on northeastern boundary, 248
— John Quincy, President, son of President John, letter of, relating to his connection with the Courier Politique de l’Univers, 297
— Joseph (d 1794), during battle of Lexington, 283, 285, 285 n.
Addington, Sec. Isaac, 47
Admiralty, Courts of, in Massachusetts, during the Revolution, 328
Agassiz, Alexander (d 1910), 179
— George Russell, A.B., son of Alexander (d 1910), elected Corresponding Member, 10; accepts, 60, 113
Aiken, Alfred Lawrence, A.B., elected Resident Member, 111; accepts, 120
Albany County, N. Y., boundary of, 55, 56 n
Alden, David, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— John (d 1687), freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— John (d 1702), son of John (d 1687) freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Jonathan, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Joseph, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Alexander, Henry, third Earl of Stirling, 207, 208
— Henry, fourth Earl of Stirling, 208
— Sir William, first Earl of Stirling, his claims in America, 207, 208, 209, 216, 217, 238, 248, 249; his death, 208; his advertisement for settlers of his lands, 238, 239; letter of, to Gov. Bernard, 240; his claims disallowed by Massachusetts, 240–243
— William, second Earl of Stirling, 208
— William, calling himself Earl of Stirling, petition of others and of, for possession of the so-called County of Canada, 206, 207–209
Alexandria, proposed town in Maine, 239
— Capt. Edward, deposition of, 1782, concerning behavior of English prisoners, 396
— Edward, Beverly ship-owner, 343, 423
— Col. Ethan (d 1789), 387
— Pickering Dodge, son of John Fisk, 140, 140 n
— Richard, 414 n
Allin, Gideon, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
—John, Scituate, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— John, Swansea, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
— Samuel, Barnstable, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Samuel, Bridgewater, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
Allis, Rev. Samuel (H. C. 1724), 310, 312
Allyn, Matthew, 44
Alsop, Anthony (d 1726), 198 n
American Loyalists, scheme for indemnification of, by grant of province of New Ireland, 247
Ames, Rev. William (d 1633), 23
Amherst, Sir Jeffrey, first Baron Amherst of Montreal, 54, 55
Anderson, George Pomerot, 119, 308; elected Resident Member, 309; accepts, 318
— Hugh Johnston, Governor of Maine, 34
— John, 418
— Mary, seventeenth century benefactress of Harvard College, 63
Andrews, Charles McLean, L.H.D., quoted, on Gov. Bernard’s petition regarding Mt. Desert, 244 n
Andros, Gov. Sir Edmund, 293
— Rev. Thomas (d 1845), 392 n
Aoukoubi, Indian word for rum, 202 n
Aquinas, Thomas, Saint, 186
Argyle, N. Y., patent for township of, issued, 55
Ariosto, Ludovico, 187
Aristotle, quoted, on conceit, 185
Arnold, Rev. Jonathan, 75
— Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
Ashe, St. George, Bishop of Clogher, quoted, on Rev. D. Bradstreet, 7
Ashkenazi, Mordechai ben Judah Loeb, 147
— Capt. John, 401, 404, 413, 417, 430; document signed by, 397; commands held by, 424
Ashurst, Henry (d 1680), 61 n; legacy of, to Harvard College, 61, 62
Ashworth. See Ashurst
Atkins, Henry, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Austin, Jonah, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155, 155 n
— Walter, LL.B., 308; elected Resident Member, 318
Avery, Humphrey, and others, land grant to, 1774, 59
— Samuel, land deeded to, 1763, 58
B., I., silver beaker so marked, belonging to Harvard College, 167, 167 n, 168, 169
Babbitt, Edward, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155, 155 n
Babcock, Capt. George W., 361, 362 n
Bachi, Pietro, 170 n
— Nathaniel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— William, ship’s surgeon, 410, 424
Baker, Ezra Henry, A.B., objects exhibited by, 177–179
— John, 403
— Joseph, 408
— Nicholas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Balch, John, 408
— Rev. William (H. C. 1724), 310, 312
Baldwin, Loammi (d 1807), 264
Ball, George (H. C. 1734), fellow-commoner at Harvard College, 442, 442 n
— Rev. George Sumner (1822–1902), son of Micah Ross, sketch of, 148, 148 n
— Hannah, Barnard (Nourse), wife of Rev. George Sumner, 148
— Micah Ross, 148
— Rachel (Lincoln), wife of Micah Ross, 148
Bancker, Gerard, 239
Bancroft, George (d 1891), cited, 272, 280
Bane, Lewis, York, Me., on committee for choosing site for Massachusetts Hall, 1718, 96
Bangs, Edward, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Jonathan, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Joshua, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Banks, Dr. Charles Edward, obtains photograph of portrait of Gov. Bernard, 249, 249 n, 250, 251, 251 n
Banyan, —, witness in suit of New York against J. H. Lydius, 1762, 56
Barber, Edward, killed in battle of Lexington, 279, 283, 290
Barker, Francis, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Francis, Hingham, 163
— Mrs. George G., acknowledgment to, 121
— Hannah, wife of Francis, 163
— John, Scituate, 104
— Lt. John, 268, 268 n; quoted, on British retreat from Lexington, 274
— Dr. Joshua, son of Francis, officer of Martimercurian Company, 161, 162; sketch of, 163
— Robert, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Stephen, 415
Barnard, Rev. John (d 1770), quoted, 27
Barnard, Vt., how named, 253
Barney, Commodore Joshua, 380, 381
Barnstable, Plymouth Colony freemen in, 1675, 149
Barr, James, 343, 413, 414, 424, 426, 435
Barras, Louis, Comte de, 383
Barrett, Col. James (d 1779), 257
Barrington, William Wildman, second Viscount Barrington of Ardglass, extracts from letter of, to Gov. Bernard, 231, 232
Barrington, Nova Scotia, settlement of, 363, 364
Barstow, Joseph, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Bartlett, Benjamin, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Capt. John, offices held by, 425
— Joseph, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Dr. Josiah (1759–1820), 414 n
— Robert, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152, 152 n
— William, of Frampton, Eng., 322 n
— William (d 1809), Beverly, 322 n, 376; ship-owner, 319, 343, 358, 367, 377, 409, 412, 413, 414; prize agent, 322, 328, 329, 330, 330 n, 331; letter of, 329
Bass, Rev. Edward, Bishop of Massachusetts, 27 n; at St. Michael’s Church, Marblehead, 27
Batchelder, John, 411
— Josiah, Beverly ship-owner, 319, 322, 339, 347
— Josiah (d 1828), Beverly, son of Josiah, business man and politician, 321, 321 n, 322, 331, 340, 364, 365, 406, 408, 409; ships owned by, 336, 344, 347, 353, 408, 409, 416, 417, 419, 420; document signed by, 375
— Nathaniel, 401; document signed by, 397
— Nathaniel, Jr., 413
— Samuel Francis (H. C. 1893), acknowledgment to, 175 n
Batchellor (Batchelor), Daniel, 404, 407
Bateman, Lt. —, 361
Batherick, Ruth, Lexington, 270
Batholemew, —, 415
Baxter, Hon. James Phinney, Litt. D., death, xvii; tribute to, 303
— Rev. Richard (d 1691), 28, 28 n
Bay Psalm Book, 182
Bay State League, Colonial Society joins, 31
Beach, Rev. John, note on the printing of his Sermon on Eternal Life, 80 n
Beaumont, Francis, 188
Beaurigard, Nathan, 415
Beirse, Austine, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
Belcher, Gov. Jonathan, on committee connected with the building of Massachusetts Hall, 100, 103; his attitude on Biblical instruction in the college, 102
— Jonathan (H. C. 1728), son of Gov. Jonathan, 310, 312
Belchertown, granted to Connecticut, 1715, 43
Belfast, Me., extract from Annals of, on raisings, 195
Belknap, Rev. Jeremy (d 1798), 8 n
Bennett, —, 175
Bentley, Rev. William (d 1819), quoted, on the Courier Politique de l’Univers, 298 n
Bernard, Amelia (Offley), wife of Gov. Sir Francis, 198
— Lt.-Col. Benjamin, in battle of Lexington, 262, 263, 267, 267 n, 281 n
— Rev. Francis, 198
— Gov. Sir Francis, son of Rev. Francis, 220 n; his grant of Mount Desert, 197–254; sketch of, 198, 198 n; his purchases of land and promotion of settlement near Fort Point, 199; his surveys, 199–203; his grant near Passamaquoddy Bay, 199–200; his ability as draughtsman and architect, 200 n; letter of, to J. Pownall, 1762, 210–12; his memorial to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, 1762, 212–215; his paper on the terms Acadia and Nova Scotia, 216; on the Massachusetts title to lands between the Penobscot and St. Croix, 217–220; letters of, to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, concerning township grants in the Penobscot region, with replies, 220–232; his appeal to King George concerning grant of Mount Desert, 233; his proclamation concerning the Earl of Stirling’s claim, 1768, 242; difficulties of, in pre-Revolutionary period, and his recall, 243; confirmation of grant of Mount Desert to him, 244, 245; confiscation and partial restoration to his son, 246; portraits of, 249–253; places named for, 253; death of, 246
— Sir John, son of Gov. Sir Francis, inherits claims in Mount Desert, 246
— Margery (Winlowe), wife of Rev. Francis, 198
— Sir Thomas Tyringham, 243 n
Bernard, Me., how named, 253
Bernard, Mt., Me., 253
Bernard Papers, note on, 197 n
Bernardston, granted to S. Hunt and others, 1734, 38; how named, 253, 253 n
Bemardsville, N. J., how named, 253, 253 n
Besbey, Elisha, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Hopestill, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
Beskeith, Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150, 150 n
Beverly, its character and industries at opening of the Revolution, 318–322; its political attitude and its Committee of Correspondence, 322; its privateering activities during the war, 322, 323, 324–435; defences of, 332–333; naval officer appointed for, with Salem, 1776, 341; ships owned in, 1781, 358–359; women of, make raid on storehouses, 1777, 371; protest against taxes in, 1780, 378; Revolutionary war prisoners from, 399, 404; list of private armed vessels of, during Revolution, 405–421; total tonnage owned in, 1780, 422; ships sailing from, owned elsewhere, 422 Beverly Privateers in the American Revolution, paper by O. T. Howe, 318–435; alphabetical list of the ships, 405–421; of the officers, 424–435
Bible, used at inaugurations of Washington and Harding, 255
Bickford, Capt. Benjamin, 404, 408; offices held by, 425
— Eli, 392 n
— John, steward of the Gen. Gates, 404
Bilbao, Spain, Mecca of American privateers, 342
Billington, Francis, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Birchmore. See Burchmore
Black, James, 412
Blackwell, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Blakeslee, George Hubbard, Ph.D., 119; elected Resident Member, 156; accepts, 180
Blanchard, Samuel, ship’s surgeon, 414 n, 425
Blatchford, John, his Narrative of Remarkable Occurrences, 390–391, 390 n
Bliss, Jonathan, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Blush, Abraham, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
Boden, Abijah, 416
Bollan, William (d 1776), 210, 232, 241; acts for Gov. Bernard, 204, 206, 207, 209
Bond, Jonas, Watertown, on committee to inspect Massachusetts Hall, 1720, 107
Bongarden, Philip, 69
Bonum, George, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Book-lists, colonial, two examples of, 1668 and 1728, 64–71
Book-plates, of E. Holyoke, and G. Rawlins, 2; of R. Elliston, 72; of Harvard College about 1840, 176; of three Harvard clubs, 176, 177
Book-reviewing in the seventeenth century, 314–17
Bordman, Andrew (d 1747), on committee for building Massachusetts Hall, 84, 86, 98, 103, 104, 105
Borland, John Landell, 348
Boston, two townships granted to, 1736, 39; the hub of culture, according to C. Mather, 189
— Castle William, Gov. Bernard’s repairs on, 203, 212
— Church of the Holy Cross, 298
— King’s Chapel, 33
— Province House, Gov. Bernard’s repairs on, 203, 212
— Town House, R. Keayne’s provision for library in, 9
— Trinity Church, Greene Foundation, 68
Boston, Eng., appeal of, to Boston, Mass., 1846, in interest of peace, 130
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, exhibition of American silver at, 1906, 171 n
Bosworth, Jonathan, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Bounties, for prisoners and captured cannon, 1777, 394
Bourne, Henry, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Melatiah, Sandwich, on committee to inspect Massachusetts Hall, 1720, 107
— Richard, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Bours, Rev. Peter (d 1762), 27, 27 n
Bously, John, 405
Bowden, Samuel, 381
Bowditch, Charles Pickering, A.M., death, xvii; tribute to, 303
Bowdoin, Gov. James, with W. Brattle, reports on Earl of Stirling’s claims, 241
Bowen, Dr. Joseph, document signed by, 393
Bowles, Francis Tiffany, 308; elected Resident Member, 318
Bowls, Jonathan, 417 Bowman (Bourman), Capt. Francis, commands held by, 374, 410, 425
— Rev. Jonathan (H. C. 1724), 310, 312
Bowyer, William (1699–1777), London printer, 80, 80 n
Boxford, Vt., deed relating to, 1763, 57, 58
Bradford, Capt.—, prize agent, 331
— Joseph, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
— William, Governor of Plymouth Colony, 20, 190; attitude of, in writing of the Pilgrims, 16; his account of the departure from Delft Haven, 18
— William (d 1704), son of Gov. William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
— William (d 1752), printer, 79
Bradshaw, J., & Co., land patent issued to, 55
Bradstreet, Anne (Dudley), wife of Gov. Simon, 184, 188; character of, 187
— Ann (Wood) Price, wife of Dudley (d 1702), 6
— Dudley (d 1702), son of Gov. Simon, 6
— Rev. Dudley (d 1714), son of Dudley (d 1702), 7 n; biographical note on, by A. Matthews, 2–8
— Rev. Simon (d 1683), son of Gov. Simon, 23, 24
— Rev. Simon (d 1741), son of Rev. Simon (d 1683), 23, 24, 30
— Rev. Simon (d 1771), son of Rev. Simon (d 1741), 310, 312; notes, by H. W. Foote, on sermons of, preached at Marblehead, 1743–1769, 23–30
Brainard, Morgan B., 309
Brattle, Rev. William (d 1717), buys Connecticut River lands, 1716, 44, 45
— William (d 1776), son of Rev. William (d 1717), with J. Bowdoin, reports on Earl of Stirling’s claims, 241
Brattleboro, Vt., chartered, 1753, 45
Bray, George, 415
— Capt. John, 344, 410, 414; offices held by, 425, 426
Brazail, James, 425
Breda, Treaty of, as affecting land claims in America, 205, 217, 218, 219, 224, 231, 236
Brett, William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Brewer, Daniel (H. C. 1727), 310, 312
Brewster, Capt. Martin, 362, 412, 426
— Nathaniel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— William (d 1644), 16
— William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Bridges, Thomas, 369
Bridgewater, Plymouth Colony freemen in, 1675, 151
Bridgman’s Fort, Vt., cut off from Northfield, Mass., 37
Briggs, Gov. George Nixon, 128 n
— Rev. George Ware (d 1895), Writings of, by A. Matthews, 120–146; sketch of, 120–125; bibliography of, 126–146
— Le Baron Russell, son of Rev. George Ware, 176 n; quoted, on his father, 124, 124 n
— Walter, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Brigham, Clarence Saunders, A.M., acknowledgments to, 296 n, 298 n
Bristed, Charles Astor, quoted, on fellow-commoners, 165
Broadsides, early use of, 292; checklist of Massachusetts, 1639–1800, by W. C. Ford, 292
Brockhom, Hiram, 354
Brookhouse, Capt. Nathaniel, 356, 412; commands held by, 426
Brooks, Gilbert, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Capt. John, 346, 356, 412, 417, 419, 430; commands held by, 426
— Preston Smith (d 1857), 135
— William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Broughton, Capt. Nicholas, 324, 325
Brown, —, gift of, to Harvard College, 168, 169, 174. See also Browne, Benjamin; Browne, Joseph
— Capt. —, 329
— Benjamin, Yarmouth, N. S., 402; combines business ventures and aid to American war prisoners during the Revolution, 397, 398, 401
— George Dobbin, acknowledgment to, 72 n
— Hopestill, Sudbury, on committee to inspect Massachusetts Hall, 1720, 107
— Jacob, 416
— Rev. John (d 1766), book by, exhibited, 312; given to Harvard College Library, 313 n
— Mehitable. See Cressy
— Moses (d 1820), Beverly merchant, patriot, and ship-owner, 321, 321 n, 347, 348, 349 n, 357, 373, 376, 407, 408
— William, 407
Brown & Thorndike, Beverly merchants and ship-owners, 321, 357, 360, 377, 417
Browne, Benjamin (d 1708), 169, 175 n
— James, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
— Joseph (H. C. 1666), brother of Benjamin (d 1708), 169, 170, 174
— Samuel (d 1731), gifts of, to Harvard College, 172, 172 n, 173
— Samuel (H. C. 1727), son of Samuel (d 1731), 174; vote of Harvard College Corporation concerning, 173
— William (H. C. 1727), son of Samuel (d 1731), 173
Brunswick, Ferdinand, Duke of, 262
Bryant, John, Taunton, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
— John, Jr., Scituate, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— Sergeant John, Scituate, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— Stephen, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Bryce, James, first Viscount Bryce, letters from, 61, 118
Buck, Isaac, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— John Henry, 176 n
Buffinton, Capt. John, 341, 342, 367, 416, 419, 421, 426, 434; commands held by, 426
Bulfinch, Rev. Stephen Greenleaf (d 1870), 134
Bumstead, Joseph, 296, 298, 299
Bunker, David, 418
— George, Nantucket, on committee to inspect Massachusetts Hall, 1720, 108
Bunyan, John, 68
Burchmore, Capt. Zachariah, 366, 367, 412, 419; commands held by, 426
Burge, Joseph, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Burke, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Burlingame, Anson (d 1870), 142
Burnet, Gov. William, 30
Burrage, Rev. Henry Sweetser, cited, 199
Burritt, Elihu (d 1879), quoted, 130
Burroughs, Rev. Jeremiah (d 1646), 186
Burt, John, silversmith, 172
Burton, Warren, 140
Bushnell, Charles Ira, edits several books on Revolutionary experiences, 390 n, 391 n, 392 n
Butler, Francis, 330
Butler & Matthews, merchants of Cadiz, 382
Butman, Thomas, 405
Byfield, Nathaniel (d 1733), on committees connected with the building of Massachusetts Hall, 94, 100, 103
Byram, Nicholas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
CABOT, Andrew, Beverly ship-owner, 321, 322, 336, 337, 338, 341, 342, 344, 346, 348, 349, 349 n, 356, 356 n, 357, 359, 368, 369, 369 n, 372, 377, 380, 381, 382, 398, 405, 407, 410, 412, 413, 414, 415, 416, 417, 418, 419, 420, 421, 424; quoted, on his shipping business, 367; on other business ventures, 423, 423 n
— Francis, ship-owner, 349 n, 366, 367, 382, 417, 418; petition signed by, 398
— George (d 1823), 321, 321 n, 342, 347, 348, 349 n, 366, 367, 373, 376, 409, 411, 412, 415, 419
— J. & A., Beverly ship-owners, largely engaged in privateering during the Revolution, 319, 320, 343, 347, 352, 355, 357, 360, 367, 370, 373, 379, 380, 381, 406, 407, 408, 410, 411, 412, 414, 415, 416; general commercial interests of, 321, 359, 366; success of, 421, 423; list of vessels owned by, 422
— John, Beverly ship-owner, 321, 342, 349 n, 359, 367, 420
— Rev. Marston (H. C. 1724), 310, 312
Cadillac, Sieur Antoine de la Mothe, 246; grant to, in Mount Desert, 246
Calef, John, agent for American Loyalists, 247
Calvinists, J. Robinson’s remark on, 18
Cambridge, old burying-ground, comer of Garden Street, term God’s Acre applied to, 294–295
— Cambridgeport Parish (later Third Congregational Society), installation of G. W. Briggs as pastor of, 124, 124 n
— Third Congregational Society, celebrates twentieth anniversary of settlement of Rev. G. W. Briggs, 143
Campbell, John, fourth Earl of Loudoun, 439
— Laughlin, brings Scottish settlers to New York, 55
Canada, claims territory now Vermont, 35
Canada, County of, the Earl of Stirling’s grant so-called, 207, 208, 209, 238
Canada Townships, why so called, 49–50
Caner, Rev. Henry (d 1792), 64, 435 Captains of Beverly privateers, list of, giving residences, commands held, and dates of commissions, 424–435
Care, Henry, 315
Carey, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Carleton, Sir Guy, first Baron Dorchester, 387
— Samuel, 406
— Capt. William, offices held by, 341, 412
Carnes, Capt. John, 346, 358, 370, 404, 413, 424; commands held by, 426
— Jonathan, document signed by, 393
Carpenter, Daniel, 49
— I., book by, published 1632, exhibited, 254 n
— Joseph, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151, 151 n
— Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151, 151 n
— William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
Carrico, Alexander, 402
Carrisco (Carisco), John, order signed by, 390 n
Carronades, slight use of, on Revolutionary privateers, 335, 335 n, 362 n
Carter, Franklin, LL.D., tribute to, 113
— Margery. See Hutchinson
— Lt. William, 291; quoted, on American soldiers, 291 n
Carver, John, Governor of Plymouth Colony, 20
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Robert, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
Carwick (Carrack), Capt. John (Jonathan), 404, 407, 426
Caryl, Rev. Joseph (d 1673), 68
Cathcart, Capt. John, 355, 408, 430; commands held by, 426
Censura Temporum, 316
Chadwick, Rev. Benjamin (d 1819), son of Thomas, agreement of, with P. Heyliger, 159, 161; sketch of, 159
— Mary, wife of Thomas, 159
— Thomas, 159
Chaffin, Rev. William Ladd, 143
Chambers, Charles, on committee for building Massachusetts Hall, 84, 86, 96, 98, 103, 104, 105
Champlain, Samuel de, 199
— Mt., Me., how named, 253
Chandler, John (d 1740), on committee to inspect Massachusetts Hall, 1720, 107
Chaney, Rev. George Leonard, 143
Channing, Edward, Ph.D., delegate to annual Conference of Historical Societies, 120
— Rev. William Ellery (d 1842), 144
Chapman, Capt. Benjamin, 404, 419, 426, 427
— Isaac, 404
— Lydia. See Ober
Charles II, King of England, 205; grants of, 208, 217; land ceded by, to France, 217, 218, 230
Charters granted to New Hampshire towns by Gov. B. Wentworth, conditions of, 33
Chase, John, document signed by, 393
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 187
Chauncy, Rev. Charles, President of Harvard College, 294
Child, George, 337 n
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
Christian Inquirer, G. W. Briggs editor of, 122 n, 123 n
Christmas, and the Pilgrims, 1620, 15
Christo et Ecclesiae, paper on, by C. B. Clapp, 256
Church, Benjamin, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Benjamin (H. C. 1727), 310, 312
Churchill, Eliezer, propounded freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
— Winslow Ware, 308
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 2
Clapp, Clifford Blake, paper by, Christo et Ecclesiae, 256
— Steven, Scituate, on committee to inspect Massachusetts Hall, 1720, 107
— Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Clarendon, Vt., first settlers of, 59
Clark, John (d 1728), 93
— Rev. Jonas (d 1805), 258, 263, 282, 285, 287; quoted, on conduct of British in battle of Lexington, 272, 284, 286, 288, 289
— William, brother of John (d 1728), on committee to inspect Massachusetts Hall, 1720, 107; reports, 108
Clark’s Island, Plymouth Harbor, the Pilgrims’ first Sunday on, 15
Clarke, James, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
— William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Clary, John, land grant to, 1685, 37
— Jonathan, 411
Cleaves, Eleonora. See Lovett
Cleveland, Capt. Stephen, 321, 331, 349 n, 366, 373, 429
Cleves, Joshua, on Beverly Committee of Correspondence, 322
Clifton, Robert, document signed by, 393
Clinton, Sir Henry, quoted, on Earl Percy’s retreat, 268
Clough, Jepson, 399
Clouston, Capt. John, 401, 424, 429, 432
Club of Odd Volumes, Boston, records of, relating to portrait of Gov. Bernard, 249, 249 n, 250–251
Cobb, Ephraim, silversmith, 173
— Gershom, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152, 152 n
— Henry, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
— James, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
Coburn, Frank Warren (d 1923), cited, on battle of Lexington, 267 n
Cod fishing in Beverly, before the Revolution, 320
Coffin, Capt. Alexander, his book on British prison and hospital ships in the Revolution, 391, 392
—Joseph, Nantucket, on committee for choosing site for Massachusetts Hall, 1718, 96
Cognitiones Christianismi, compiled by R. Elliston, 73
Colden, Cadwallader, Lt.-Gov. of New York, 274; proclamation of, against J. H. Lydius, 54
Cole, Daniel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Hugh, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
— James, Sr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
— James, Jr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Job, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Capt. William, 342, 343, 413, 429; commands held by, 427
Coleraine, grant of, to Boston, 1736, and incorporation of, 1761, 39
Collimore, Peter, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Collingwood, Capt. Cuthbert, first Baron Collingwood, 403
Collins, Charles, document signed by, 393
Colman, Rev. Benjamin (H. C. 1692), on committees connected with the building of Massachusetts Hall, 87, 88, 89, 98, 100, 103, 107, 108
Colonial Society of Massachusetts, votes to join Bay State League, 31; endowment of, 81; List of Members of, 1892–1922, 445–477
— Annual Meeting, 111–119, 300–308
— Auditing Committee appointed, 60, 257; Reports of, 117, 307
— Corresponding Members, election of, 10; deaths of, 111, 302; lists of, 1892–1922: alphabetical, 453–468; chronological, 476–477
— Corresponding Secretary, reportsnew members, 60, 120, 180, 197, 300, 309, 318; deaths of members, 111; election of, 117, 307. See also Park, Charles Edwards
— Council, Annual Reports of, 111–114, 300–303; members of, elected, 117, 307
—Honorary Members, election of, 318; lists of, 1892–1922: alphabetical, 453–68; chronological, 475
— Nominating Committee appointed, 60, 257; presents candidates, 117, 307
— President, 1, 10, 31, 60, 111, 119, 156, 180, 197, 257, 300, 308, 309, 317, 318; election of, 117, 120, 307. See also Robinson, Fred Norris
— Publications, bequests for expense of, 112, 301; amount of fund for, November, 1920, 112; progress on, 112, 302; increased demand for, 301; increased cost of, 301; list of, 1892–1922, 448–449
— Recording Secretary, election of, 117, 307. See also Cunningham, Henry Winchester
— Registrar, election of, 117, 307. See also Johnson, Alfred
— Resident Members, election of, 1, 111, 302; deaths of, 60, 111, 302, 317; lists of, 1892–1922: alphabetical, 453–468; chronological, 469–474
—Stated meetings, 1, 10, 31, 60, 120, 156, 180, 197, 257, 309, 318
— Treasurer, reports payment of bequests, 81, 112; Annual Reports of, 114–116, 304–306; election of, 117, 307. See also Edes, Henry Herbert
— Vice-Presidents: death of senior, 60, 60 n; election of, 117, 307. See also Davis, Andrew McFarland; Moore, George Foot, Rugg, Arthur Prentice
Combe, Francis, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
Comenius, John Amos, offer of Presidency of Harvard College to, 295 n
Commerce during the Revolution, 362–366, 375
Concord, battle of, 257, 262 n, 263 n; convention at, 1779, to consider prices, 375–377
Connecticut, rejects northern boundary line as located by N. Woodward and S. Saffery, for Massachusetts, in 1642, 42; line resurveyed by joint commission and settlement made, 1713–1716, 42–46; sells lands granted by Massachusetts in settlement of boundary, 44; arms vessels in the Revolution, 324
Connolly, Capt. Thomas, 345, 410, 427
Cony, John, silversmith, 171
Cooke, Elisha (d 1715), 255
— Elisha (d 1737), son of Elisha (d 1715), on committees connected with the building of Massachusetts Hall, 88, 89, 104
— Elizabeth (Leverett), wife of Elisha (d 1715), 255
— Jacob, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152, 152 n
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
— Josiah, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Rev. Samuel (d 1783), 285, 285 n, 287 n, 289 n
Coolidge, Archibald Cary, LL.D., delegate to annual Conference of Historical Societies, 120
— Francis Lowell, 308
Cooper, Benjamin (d 1786), 288; deposition of, concerning events at his tavern, April 19, 1775, 286
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
— Nathaniel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Rachel, wife of Benjamin (d 1786), 286, 288
— Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150, 151
— William Dike, 411
Copley, John Singleton (d 1815), 252; his portrait of Gov. John Wentworth of New Hampshire, 31; his portrait of Gov. Bernard, 249, 249 n, 250
Corlet, Ammi, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153, 153 n
Corning, Charles, 345
— Daniel, trading voyages of, during Revolution, 364
— David, aid of, to American war prisoners, 1782; capture and release, 399
Cornish, Isaac, 412
Cornwallis, Charles, second Earl Cornwallis, 358
Cotton, Rev. John (d 1699), freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
—family, arms of, 171
Courier de Boston, publication of, 1789, 296 n
Courier Politique de l’Univers, publication of, in Boston, 1792–1793, 296–299
Cowassick (Cowastick, Cohassett), on Connecticut River, 46, 47
Cowell, Capt. Richard, 431
Coy, Capt. William, 328 n
Crane, Hon. Winthrop Murray, LL.D., death, xvii; reported, 111; tribute to, 113
Crawford, Francis Marion, cited, 197
Cressy, Benjamin, 403 n
— Mehitable (Brown), wife of Benjamin, 403 n
— Samuel (d 1782), son of Benjamin, 403, 403 n, 415, 427
Crispe, George, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Crocker, Job, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
Crooker, Francis, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Josiah, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
Crosby, William, 195 n
— William George, Governor of Maine, son of William, 34; sketch of, 195
Crossman, Robert, Taunton, on committee to inspect Massachusetts Hall, 1720, 108
Crow, William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Yelverton, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
Crown Point expedition, 439
Crowninshield, Benjamin, 406
Crymes, Lt. —, of the English brig Observer, 383, 385, 386, 386 n
Cudworth, James, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Cunningham, Henry Winchester, A.B., elected Recording Secretary, 117, 307
Curtis (Curtice), Richard, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— William, 414 n
Cushing, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— Thomas (d 1788), extract from letter of, 1762, 210
— William, 131
Cushman, Thomas (d 1691), freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
— Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Cutler, Samuel, 392 n
Cutter, Ammi, 287 n
— Rev. Ammi Ruhamah (H. C. 1725), 310, 312
DALLIN, Cyrus Edwin, 119
Dalling (Daling), Capt. Thomas, 382, 417, 427
Damon (Daman), Capt. —, 440
— Edmond, 441
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154, 154 n
— Philip, 441
— Samuel Griffin, 286 n
Dandridge, Danske, 392 n
Dane, Nathan, 390 n
Danforth, Rev. John (d 1730), son of Rev. Samuel (d 1674), 178, 178 n
— Mary (Wilson), wife of Rev. Samuel (d 1674). See Rock
— Rev. Samuel (d 1674), 178 n
— Dep.-Gov. Thomas, brother of Rev. Samuel (d 1674), 62, 167
Daniels, John H., engraver, his portrait of Gov. Bernard, 249, 250, 251, 251 n
Dante Alighieri, 186
Darly, Thomas, 401
Dartmouth, Earls of. See Legge
Dartmouth, Plymouth Colony freemen in, 1675, 152
Dartmouth College, early conflict for religious control of, 32
Davenport, Addington (d 1736), 93, 94
Davis, Abigail (Stephens), wife of Thomas, Sr., 322 n
—Andrew McFarland, A.M., death, xvii; announced, 60; minute adopted, 60 n; tribute to, 113
— Benjamin, Beverly ship-owner, 319
— Hannah (Leverett), wife of Thomas, son of William, 255
— Thomas, son of William, 254, 255
— Thomas, Sr., 322 n
— Thomas, Jr., son of Thomas, Sr., Beverly ship-owner, 320, 322, 322 n, 338, 411, 418, 420
— William, 255
Dawes, Rev. Thomas (d 1904), ordination of, 128 n
Daws, Story, land grant to, 1765, 45
Dawson, Henry Barton, edits Dring’s Recollections of the Jersey Prison-Ship, 388 n
Dayall, Martin, 409
Dean, Capt. Benjamin, 336, 354, 416
— Israel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
— John, 414 n
— Nehemiah, 408
Deane, Silas (d 1789), protests against treatment of American war prisoners, 1777, 391 n
— Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
— Walter, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
De Berniere, Ensign Henry, cited, on British casualties at battle of Lexington, 267 n; quoted, on behavior of soldiers, 273
Delano, Philip, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Denio, Herbert Williams, his paper, Massachusetts Land Grants in Vermont, 35–59
Dennis, salt works in, 1776, 371 n
De Normandie, Rev. Courtland Yardley, 139
— Rev. James, ordination of, 1862, 139
Derby, Capt. —, 423
— Elias Hasket, Salem ship-owner, 337, 346, 367, 406, 410, 417, 418
— John, Salem ship-owner, 338, 413, 414, 416
— Richard, 331
Devol (Devoll), Capt. Silas, 345, 346, 411, 427
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, Litt.D., death, xvii; reported, 111; tribute to, 113
— Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149, 149 n
— William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
Digby, Rear-Admiral Robert (d 1815), 392; on exchange of prisoners, 393
Dillon, Capt.—, 379
Dingley, Jacob, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
Disrest, rare word, 241 n
Doane, Daniel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— John, Jr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Dodge, Alfred, 408
— Benjamin, Beverly ship-owner, 320
— George, Salem ship-owner, 367, 413, 415, 419
— Israel, 408
— James, 418
— Thomas, 409
— William, on Beverly Committee of Correspondence, 322
Doolittle, Amos, his prints of the battle of Lexington, 261
Doty, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Dowe, Valkort, 58
Downs, Michael, 402
Dowse, Jonathan (d 1745), on committee of House of Representatives appointed, 1717, to consider providing new building for Harvard College, 90, 91, 92, 93
— William Bradford Homer, LL.B., elected Resident Member, 257; accepts, 300
Dring, Capt. Thomas, his Recollections of the Jersey Prison-Ship, 388, 388 n, 389, 392
Drummond, Thomas (d 1780), born Lundin, afterwards Drummond, known as Lord, quoted, on Earl Percy’s retreat, 269
Duane, James, 59
Dudley, Gov. Joseph, son of Gov. Thomas, 46
— Paul (d 1751), son of Gov. Joseph, action of, at Overseers’ meeting, 1718, concerning new building for Harvard College, 85, 86, 98, 99, 100, 102, 102 n
Dugan, —, 397
Dummer, Jeremiah (d 1739), 7
— Lt.-Gov. William, brother of Jeremiah (d 1739), 82 n; quoted, on S. Bradstreet, 30; buys Connecticut River lands, 1716, 44; on committee connected with the building of Massachusetts Hall, 100, 100 n, 103
Dummerston, Vt., early history of, 44–45
Dunbar, Col. David, 236
Duncan, James, 247
Dunham, Capt. Cornelius, 362, 412, 427
— Daniel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— John (d 1692), freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
— John (d 1696), son of John (d 1692), freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
— Jonathan, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
— Joseph, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
Dunk, George Montagu, second Earl of Halifax, 200, 202
Dunster, Elizabeth (Harris) Glover, first wife of Henry, 169, 170
— Henry, President of Harvard College, 166, 176 n; marriage of, 170
— Rev. Isaiah (d 1791), 287 n
Dupuy, Frances (Elliston), wife of John. See Tetard
— Dr. John (d 1745), book dedicated to, by R. Elliston, 75, 75 n; son-in-law of Elliston, 78; death of, 78 n
Durfey, Thomas (d 1723), 316
Durham, Vt., 59
Dutch, John, 407
Duxbury, Plymouth Colony freemen in, 1675, 153
Dyer, —, 342
Dyson, John (d 1828), Beverly business man and ship-owner, 320, 322, 338, 338 n, 353, 374, 378, 405, 407, 409, 410, 420
— Richard, 400
— Samuel, 420
EAMES, Anthony, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Earthquakes, in Marblehead, 1755, 24, 26; in Lisbon, 1755, 26
Easterbrook, Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
Eastham, Plymouth Colony freemen in, 1675, 151
Eaton, Jeremiah, petition of, for license to sell liquor, 440
Eaves, William, 415
Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy, acknowledgment to, 202 n
Eddy, Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
— Zachariah, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
Edes, Henry Herbert, A.M., 60, 257, 300; speaks on S. Bradstreet, 30; reads letters from Viscount Bryce, 61, 118; his reports as Treasurer, 114–116, 304–306; elected Treasurer, 117, 307; speaks on list of freemen of Plymouth Colony, 149
Edmonds (Edmands), Capt. John, 348, 368, 377, 404, 407, 421, 425, 426, 434; commands held by, 427
Edson, Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Egremont, Lord. See Wyndham, Sir Charles
Eliot, Rev. Andrew (d 1778), 169
— Charles William, President of Harvard College, son of Samuel Atkins (d 1862), 179
— Rev. John (d 1813), son of Rev. Andrew (d 1778), 8 n
— Samuel Atkins (d 1862), quoted, on gift of Trusedale to Harvard College, 62
Eliot’s Indian Bible, J. Ratcliff binds, 1664, 65
Ellice, Thomas E., 178
Ellingwood, Capt. Benjamin, 373, 389, 401, 405, 411, 417, 428; commands held by, 427
— Ebenezer, Beverly ship-owner, 322, 369, 373, 411; insurance policy issued to, 370; agreement signed by, 374
— Elisha, 401
— John, 415
— Capt. Joshua, 375, 391, 412, 413, 419, 424, 425; commands held by, 427
— Ralph, 369
Elliot, James, 414 n
— Simon, 427
Ellis, Jack, 412
— Rev. Rufus (d 1885), 134
Elliston, Frances, daughter of Robert. See Tetard
— Mary, wife of Robert, 78
— Robert (d 1756), note on, by A. Matthews, 71–80; books compiled by, 71–76, 78–80; sketch of, 76–78, 77 n, 78 n; rarity of his books, 80 n
Elmes, Rodulphus, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, son of Rev. William (d 1811), 118
— Rev. William (d 1811), 263 n
Emlyn, Rev. Thomas (d 1741), 28, 28 n
Enchiridium Polychrestum, compiled by R. Elliston, 74
Enfield, Ct., and the Massachusetts boundary dispute, 43, 46
England, relations of, with United States, 1846, 130
— Board of Trade, and Gov. Bernard’s petition concerning Mount Desert Island, 232, 244, 244 n, 245, 245 n
— Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, letters of, to Gov. Bernard, 1762, 63, 224–230, 232, 235
— Privy Council, and Gov. Bernard’s petitions concerning Mount Desert Island, 232, 233, 244, 244 n, 245 n; advice of, to the king, regarding the Penobscot region, 235–237
Episcopalianism promoted in New Hampshire by the Wentworth family, 32
Equivalent Lands, 51; granted to Connecticut, in settlement of Massachusetts boundary, 41–46, 59
Eustis, Benjamin, 163
— Elizabeth, wife of Benjamin, 163
— Gov. William, son of Benjamin, officer of Martimercurian Company, 161, 162; sketch of, 163
Evans, Charles, 80
Eveleth, John, 408
Evelyn, Capt. William Glanville, 291; quoted, on battle of Lexington, 273
Everett, Edward, President of Harvard College, 176 n
Ewell, Henry, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
FAIR HARVARD, copy of first edition of, exhibited, 179
Falland, Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
Falls Fight Township, grant of, 1734, 38; renamed Bernardston, 1762, 38
Farley, Rev. Frederick Augustus (d 1892), sermon of, noted, 126
Farmer, John (d 1838), copy of first number of his Memorials exhibited, 178
Farwell, John Whittemore, Litt.B., exhibits Harvard College book-plate of about 1840, 176; exhibits book believed to have belonged to W. Paddy and to J. Leverett, 254; remarks in communicating letter of W. Flint, 438–440
Faunce, Thomas, propounded freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
Fearson, Capt. Jesse, 358, 374, 406 408, 410, 423, 423 n; commands held by, 427
— John, 427
Fellow, meaning of term, at Harvard College, 158–159
Fellow-commoners, at Harvard College, 165, 166
Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, 262
Fernald, Henry W., 392 n
Ferrinson, James, 407
Finch, Judith, 63
Finney, John, Sr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
— John, Jr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Robert, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
Fisher, Benjamin, 418
— Joshua, ship’s surgeon, 427
Fishery at Mount Desert, proposed by Gov. Bernard, 1764, 234 n
Fishing, in Beverly, before the Revolution, 319, 320; ruined throughout New England by the war, 341
— Fiske, John (d 1901), 63
— (Fisk), Capt. John, 431, 433
Fitch, Capt. Jabez, 392 n
— Thomas, 94; on committee to consider providing new building for Harvard College, 1717, 90, 92, 93
— Zachariah, 39
Fitzgerald, Thomas, 409
— Rev. James (d 1855), 123 n, 135; sketch of, 135 n
— Jerusha (Pope), wife of George, 439
— Susannah (Flint), wife of William, 439
— Thomas, trading voyages of, during Revolution, 364; testimonial to, by prisoners whom he helped, 397; with others, petitions General Court for reimbursement for bringing home war prisoners, 398
— William (d 1756), letter of, 1756, communicated, 438; sketch of, 439; text of the letter, 440–441
— William, son of William (d 1756), 440
Florida, Mass., granted to proprietors of Bemardston, 38
Flynt, Henry (H. C. 1693), 82, 90, 91, 99, 100, 102, 103; silver candlesticks belonging to, 170 n, 171
Follen, Charles (d 1840), 170 n
Foot (Foote), Samuel, 420, 427
— William, 414 n
Foote, Rev. Henry Wilder (H. C. 1858), 251 n
—Rev. Henry Wilder, A.M., son of Rev. Henry Wilder (H. C. 1858), his Notes and Some Manuscript Sermons by the Rev. Simon Bradstreet in Marblehead, 1743–1769, 23–30
Forbes, Allan, A.B., elected Member of Council, 120
Ford, Michael, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— William, Sr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150.
— William, Jr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
—Worthington Chauncey, LL.D., speaks on suppression of names in letters and diaries, 64; cited, regarding books compiled by R. Elliston, 80; speaks on early use of broadsides, 292
Forrester (Forester), Capt. Simon, 338, 345, 416; commands held by, 428
Fort Anne, proposed grant to Albany men, of plantation on Connecticut River, to be thus named, 46–48, 59
Fort Pentagoet, 218
Fort Point, Me., Gov. Bernard’s interest in, 199
— Isaiah, 409
— John (d 1681), 293
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— John, Plymouth, on committee to inspect Massachusetts Hall, 1720, 107
— Paul, 408
— Capt. Samuel, 353, 354, 400, 404, 409, 431; commands held by, 428
Fowler, Jacob, ship-owner, 338, 415
France, claims of, to territory in Penobscot region, 216, 217, 218, 224, 226, 229, 231; missionaries of, and the Indians, 219; aid of, to United States during Revolution, 363, 363 n, 365, 383. See also Acadia
Franklin, Anne, printer, 80 n
— Benjamin, 72 n, 187, 403; gift of book to, by R. Elliston, 72; cited, on northeastern boundary, 248; protests against treatment of American war prisoners, 1777, 391 n
Freeborn, Capt. Daniel, 388
Freeman, Alice, daughter of Edmund. See Paddy
— Edmond, Sr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— Edmond, Jr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— Edmund, 255
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Freeman’s Oath, 292
Freemen, list of, in Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149–155
French, —, 342
— Nathan, 415
French newspapers in Boston, 1789–1793, 296–299
Frost, William, 365
Frothingham, Richard (d 1880), cited, 272, 280
Frye, John, son of Joshua, 159; sketch of, 160
— Joshua, 160
— Sarah, wife of Joshua, 160
Fulham, Vt., later Dummerston, 45
Fuller, Jonathan, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Matthew, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
— Robert, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Andrew, Jr., son of Andrew, Sr., 381, 382
— Elizabeth, wife of Andrew, Sr., 382, 399; document signed by, 381
— Dr. Homer, 308
— Nathan, 415
— Gov. Thomas, 260 n, 262, 267 n, 271, 271 n, 276, 435, 436; quoted, on alleged atrocities at battle of Lexington, 262 n, 266 n, 278 n; cited, on British losses, 270 n; action of, as to prisoners of war, 387
— Zachariah, ship-owner, 418
— Capt. Zachariah, 381, 406, 428
Gallop, Samuel, and others, land grant to, 1735, 49
Galls, John, 406
Gannett, Rev. Ezra Stiles (d 1871), 139
— Matthew, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Gard, William, 405
Gardiner, John, Salem, 336
Gardner, Isaac, killed in battle of Lexington, 283
— John, Salem, on committee to inspect Massachusetts Hall, 1720, 107
Gardoqui, Joseph, & Sons, agents, at Bilbao, of J. & A. Cabot, 321, 342, 360, 366, 367, 368, 380, 382, 423; complaints of, 359, 381
Garret, Byer, 58
Garven, Nicholas, 414 n
Gavett, John, 406
George I, King of England, 8
George II, King of England, 35, 203, 212
George III, King of England, 53, 55, 197, 203, 212, 234
Georgia, in Revolutionary naval warfare, 324
Germain, George Sackville, first Viscount Sackville, 387
Germans, proposal by Gov. Bernard for the settlement of a colony of, at Mount Desert, 1764, 234 n
Gilbert, William (d 1693), 62, 63
Giles, Benjamin, 404
— Edward, on Beverly Committee of Correspondence, 322
— Capt. Eleazer, 336, 339, 369, 370, 372, 375, 401, 406, 416, 427, 431, 432, 433; sketch of, 336 n; privateering cruises of, 337, 337 n; document signed by, 397; commands held by, 428
Gillon, Commodore Alexander (d 1794), 379
Gilman, Rev. Nicholas (H. C. 1724), 310, 311, 312
— Rev. Samuel (d 1858), copy of first edition of his Fair Harvard exhibited, 179
Gilmore, Evelyn Langdon, 250
Ginn, Thomas, deposition of, 1782, concerning behavior of prisoners, 396
Glidden, Jonathan, 414 n
Glover, Elizabeth (Harris), second wife of Rev. Jose. See Dunster
— Col. John (d 1797), Revolutionary activities of, 324, 325, 326, 327
—heirs, lawsuits of, with H. Dunster, 176 n
God’s Acre, use of the term to designate a burying-ground, and particularly the old burying-ground in Cambridge, 293–296
Goelet, Capt. Francis, 160
Golden Ages, various, 182
Goldenstown, Vt., later Rockingham, 51
Goldthwaite, Benjamin, 405
— Col. Thomas, buys land in company with Gov. Bernard, 199
Goodhue, Benjamin, Salem ship-owner, 341, 416, 418
Goodrich, Absalom, 412
Goodridge, Samuel, on Beverly Committee of Correspondence, 322
Goodspeed, Roger, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
Gordon, Francis, 415
— Rev. William (d 1807), quoted, on northeastern boundary, 248; on battle of Lexington, 263 n, 275
Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, 191
— Robert, son of Sir Ferdinando, 191
Gorham, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149, 149 n
— Shubal, Barnstable, on committee for choosing site for Massachusetts Hall, 1718, 96; on committee to inspect it, 1720, 107
Gouge, Rev. Thomas (d 1700), 314
Gould, Ann, daughter of Thomas. See Greene
— Lt. Edward Thornton, 260
— Frances (Robinson), wife of Thomas, 68
— Thomas, 68
Goulding, Palmer, land grant to, 1735, 51
Grant, Ulysses Simpson, President, 290
Graves, Thomas, quoted, on attractions of New England, 191
Gravier, Charles, Comte de Vergennes, 248, 248 n
Gray, Edward, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— James, deposition of, concerning experiences as a Revolutionary prisoner, 399
—Morris, LL.B., elected Member of Council, 117; declines, 120; on Nominating Committee, 257, 307
— William, 400
Grayson, William (d 1790), member of first United States Senate, 180
Green, Richard, 417
Green Mountain Boys, resist New York land claims, 59
Greene, Ann (Gould), wife of Nathaniel (d 1714), 68
— James, son of John, 68
— John, associate of Roger Williams, in Providence, 68
— Nathaniel (d 1714), sketch of, 68
— Gen. Nathaniel (d 1786), 68
— Thomas, son of Nathaniel (d 1714), children of, establish Greene Foundation, Trinity Church, Boston, 68
Greening’s Island, Me., 202 n
Greenough, Chester Notes, Ph.D., 2 n; reads paper on T. Hollis and J. Mayhew, 1
— Mary, daughter of William. See Paddy
— William (d c 1678), 255
Greenwood, Miles, Salem ship-owner, 336, 344, 346, 374, 406, 410, 416, 417
Gregoire, Bartolemy de, grant to his wife and, in Mount Desert, 246, 246 n
— Marie Therese de la Mothe Cadillac de, wife of Bartolemy de, grant to her husband and, in Mount Desert, 246, 246 n
Gregore, John, 415
Griffin, Appleton Prentiss Clark, sends photostats of list of Plymouth Colony freemen, 149
— John, Boston bookseller, 65
Grimaldi, Geronimo (d 1786), Marquis of, 343 n
Groce (Gross), George, 402, 408, 409
— John, 412
Groves, Catherine (Leach), wife of John, 373 n
— Capt. Ichabod, son of John, 373, 373 n, 404, 417, 428
— John, 373 n
— Capt. William, 353, 356, 402, 408, 409, 418, 427, 432; commands held by, 428
Guadeloupe, Revolutionary disturbances in, 1794, 299
HACKER, Capt. Hoystead, 358, 406, 428, 429
Hailston, William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Hair, H., 415
Hale, Daniel, land in Rowley deeded to, by Harvard College, 177, 177 n
— Rev. Edward Everett (d 1909), 134, 136, 139, 143
— John, 370
Halevi, Solomon Ithiel, 147
Half Moon (now Waterford), N. Y., 439 n
Halifax, Earl of. See Dunk, George Montagu
Halifax, Vt., 39
Hall, Benjamin Homer (d 1893), quoted, on the Harvard Washington Corps, 162
— Rev. David (H. C. 1724), 310, 312
— Ezra, 415
— George, 408
— Hannah (Hill), wife of Thomas, 285 n
— Howard Judson, his paper, Two Book-Lists: 1668 and 1728, 64–71
— Rev. Nathaniel (d 1875), 142, 143, 143 n
— Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
— Thomas, 285 n
— William, Rehoboth, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151, 151 n
— William, Taunton, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
Hallett, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— Capt. John Allen, 337, 345, 365, 411, 418, 426, 427, 430, 432; commands held by, 428
Hally, William, 409
Hamblen, James, Sr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
— James, Jr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
Hamilton, Lt. David, 268 n
—Otis Grant, A.M., speaks on Governors B. and J. Wentworth, of New Hampshire, and Count Rumford, 33
Hanmore, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154, 154 n
Harding, Joseph, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Warren Gamaliel, President, 256
Harley, Edward (d 1735), brother of Robert, first Earl of Oxford, 74, 74 n, 77
— Edward (d 1741), second Earl of Oxford, 77
— Edward (d 1755), third Earl of Oxford, son of Edward (d 1735), 77
— Robert, first Earl of Oxford, 77
Harlow, William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Harraden, Capt. Jonathan, 425, 430, 431, 434
Harris, Benjamin, printer, 292, 293
— Elizabeth, sister of Richard (d 1644). See Dunster
— George, first Lord Harris of Seringapatam and Mysore, 291
— Richard (d 1644), gift of, to Harvard College, 167, 170, 170 n, 176 n
— Robert, document signed by, 393
— Thaddeus William (H. C. 1815), 176 n
Hart, Jonathan, 440
Hartwell, Edward, agent of Lunenburg, 39
— Edward Mussey, LL.D., death, xvii; elected Resident Member, 1; accepts, 10, 113
Harvard, Rev. John, grave and monument of, 179, 179 n
Harvard College, proposed land reservation in favor of, 1708, 47; A Ghost Benefactor of, paper by A. Matthews, 61–63; legacy of Mary Trusedale to, 63; benefactresses of, in seventeenth century, 63; number of students, 1716–1721, 81; larger accommodations needed, 81; Biblical instruction in, 85, 99, 100, 102; rents paid by students, 106; first instructor in Hebrew in, 146; early societies at, 156–158, 309–313; the word Fellow, as used at, 158–159; Early Silver belonging to, by W. C. Lane, 165–176; bookplate of, about 1840, 176; some early clubs of, 176, 177; deed from, of land in Rowley, exhibited, 177; copy of first edition of Fair Harvard exhibited, 279; sketch of, about 1720, 295; religious societies in, about 1720, 309–312
— Board of Overseers, asks General Court, 1717, to provide new building, 82, 88–90, 91, 104; composition of, at that; time, 82 n; joint committee considers plans, 83; advises address of thanks in name of Corporation, 87, 106, 107; votes of, in effort to prevent reduction of size of Massachusetts Hall, 100; vote of, concerning Biblical instruction, 100
— Corporation, action of, on completion of Massachusetts Hall, 87, 106, 107; votes of, regarding Gov. Bernard’s portrait, 252, 252 n
— Fellow-commoners, 165, 166; small number of, 174; disappearance of, 175
— Harvard Hall (second), 82, 83, 95, 97, 101, 104; number of students accommodated in, 81, 85
— Harvard Hall (third), Gov. Bernard the architect of, 200 n
— Harvard Washington Corps, 162, 163
— Knights of the Order of the Pudding Stick, 176, 176 n
— Library, T. Hollis’s interest in, 2
— Martimercurian Company, officers of, 1771, 161; account of, 162–165
— Massachusetts Hall, The Building of, 1717–1720, by W.C. Lane, 81–110; general account, 81–88; transcription of original documents: Overseers present need of additional accommodations to the General Court, 88–90; favorable action of Governor and Court, 90–96; B. Wadsworth’s plan of, 95 n; J. Leverett’s plan of, 95 n; site chosen, 97; size of building and appropriation therefor limited to half of what is desired, 97; Overseers’ second petition, urging full size, finally granted, 98–106; building completed, inspected, named, and thanks of Corporation presented to General Court, 106–110; first used at Commencement, 1720, 107
— Order of the Knights of the Square Table, 177, 177 n
— Overseers. See Board of Overseers
— President, 106, 107; required to expound the Bible, 100, 102; house of, 105
— Stoughton College, 83, 95, 97, 101, 104; number of students accommodated in, 81, 85; built by W. Stoughton, 82
Harvard Memorial Society, reprints address of thanks from Harvard College to the General Court for gift of Massachusetts Hall, 88 n
— Gen. Edward (d 1778), 273, 291
— William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Haskell, Isaac, deposition of, 1782, concerning behavior of prisoners, 396
— Joseph, 417
— Mary (Lovett), wife of William, 340 n
— Philemon, document signed by, 393
— Capt. Robert (d 1789), son of William, 340 n, 375, 408, 415, 423; makes secret Nova Scotian expedition, 1776, 340; further secret service of, 340–341; commands held by, 429
— Ruth. See Wood
— William, 340 n
— William, prisoner, 402
Hastings, Francis, tenth Earl of Huntingdon, 436
— Jonathan (d 1783), 283
Hatch, Jeremiah, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— Walter, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Hathaway, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
Hathorne, Capt. Daniel, 341
— Hugh, 407
Haward, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Lt. Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Hawes, Edmond, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
— Benjamin (d 1816), member of first United States Senate, 180
— Christopher, 392 n
Hay, John (d 1905), 64
Haynes, George Henry, Ph.D., elected Resident Member, 1; accepts, 10, 113; his paper, The President and the Senate, 180–182
Hazen & Jarvis, 239
Hedge, Charlotte A., daughter of Rev. Frederic Henry (H. C. 1825), gives silver bowl and tea-pot to Harvard College, 172, 174
— Elizabeth, daughter of Levi, 172
— Rev. Frederic Henry (H. C. 1825), son of Levi (H. C. 1792), 171
— Frederic Henry (H. C. 1851), son of Rev. Frederic Henry (H. C. 1825), 172
— Levi (H. C. 1792), 171, 172; letter of, about a silver tankard belonging to Harvard College, 174, 175
— Mary (Kneeland), wife of Levi, 171
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea (Browne), 14
Hemp, raising of, on Mount Desert, proposed by Gov. Bernard, 211
Henfield, Capt. Gideon, 347
Henry, Rev. Matthew (d 1714), 28, 28 n
Heraclitus Ridens, news-book, 316
Herbert, Charles, 390; A Relic of the Revolution, compiled from his journal of life in Mill Prison, by R. Livesey, 389, 389 n
Herrick, —, 415
— David, 419
— Henry, 332 n
— Henry (d 1780), son of Henry, 322, 332 n; commands troops in defence of Beverly, 1776, 332, 333
— James, 401; document signed by, 397
— Joanna (Woodberry), wife of Henry, 332 n
— John, 401; document signed by, 397
— Joshua, 419
— Lucy. See Woodberry
— Capt. William, 331, 378, 408, 425, 428, 429
Herrod, Benjamin, 247
Hessian prisoners bound out for service, 396
Heyliger, Peter, agreement of, with B. Chadwick, 159, 161; sketch of, 160
— William, 160
Hichbourne, Benjamin, ship-owner, 338, 415
Hicks, Daniel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
— Elizabeth, wife of John, 283
— John, killed in battle of Lexington, 283
Higgins, Benjamin, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— James, 417
— Jonathan, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Sophia Elizabeth (Mrs. Napier), 249, 250
Higginson, Rev. Francis, 191, 192, 193; extracts from his New Englands Plantation, 190, 191
Hildeburn, Charles Riché, 76, 80 n; quoted, on the typography of R. Elliston’s Enchiridium Polychrestum, 78; on J. Parker’s work, 79–80
Hill, Ann (Adams), wife of James, 286 n; sketch of, 285, 285 n
— Hannah, daughter of James. See Hall
— Capt. Hugh, 350, 368, 369, 379, 380, 381, 382, 407, 414, 421, 431; petition of, concerning seizure of a vessel, 330; sketch of, 349, 352; commands held by, 429
— James (d 1852), 285 n
— Wills, first Earl of Hillsborough and first Marquis of Downshire, 231
Hillsborough, Earl of. See Hill, Wills
Hilton, Henry, 429
Hinckley, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
Hinsdale, N. H., originally included in Northfield, Mass., 36; charter granted to, 1753, 37; Vernon (Hinsdale), Vt., a part of, 38
Hinsdale, Vt., later Vernon, 37, 39
Hinsdale Gore, Vt., 41
Hirst, Samuel (H. C. 1723), 86 n, 87 n
Hoar, Samuel (d 1856), G. W. Briggs on treatment of, in South Carolina, 1844, 128, 128 n
Hobby, Jonathan, 420
Hogkins, Thomas, 414 n
Holland, Capt. William, 375, 411; commands held by, 429
Hollett. See Hallett
Hollis, Thomas (d 1774), C. N. Greenough reads paper on relations of, with J. Mayhew, 1; benefactor of Harvard College, 2; book with manuscript annotations by, exhibited, 312
Hollis Papers, interest and value of, 1
Holmes, Rev. Abiel (d 1837), quoted, on battle of Lexington, 275
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153, 153 n
— Josiah, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Dr. Oliver Wendell, son of Rev. Abiel, 118
— William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
Holyoke, Rev. Edward, President of Harvard College, 170 n, 172; bookplate of, exhibited, 2; note on Holyoke arms on silver bowl owned by Harvard College, 171
— Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Edward. See Kneeland
Homans, John, 163
— John (d 1800), son of John, officer of Martimercurian Company, 161, 162; sketch of, 163
— Rebecca, wife of John, 163
— William (d 1837), Beverly shipowner, 322, 322 n, 357, 362, 379, 408, 412, 419
Hooper, James, 417
Hoosic Mountain, land grant on, 1765, 38
Hopkins, Stephen, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Horsmanden, Daniel, 79 n
Horton, Rev. Edward Augustus, 143
— Francis, 414 n
Hoskins, William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
Houghton, Jonas, surveyor, 40
Howe, Mark Antony De Wolfe, Litt.D., exhibits two volumes once belonging to S. Sewall, 71; on Nominating Committee, 257
— Dr. Octavius Thorndike, v; his paper, Beverly Privateers in the American Revolution, 318–435
— Richard, first Earl Howe, 387
Howes, Jeremiah, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
— Joseph, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
— Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
Howland, Arthur, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Jabez, son of John (d 1672), freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— John (d 1672), 20
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Joseph, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Huckens, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
Hudson, Rev. Charles (d 1881), 281, 282; quoted, on battle of Lexington, 272, 276, 280
— Joseph, 414 n
Hugues, Victor, 299
Hull, John, mint master, 63
Hunnewell, James Melville, 308
Hunt, Enoch, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Peter, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Lt. Peter, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Samuel, Duxbury, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Samuel, Billerica, with others, obtains grant of township, 1734, later named Bernardston, 38
Hunting, Edward (H. C. 1725), 310, 312
Huntingdon, Earl of. See Hastings
Huntington, Rev. Frederic Dan, Bishop of Central New York, 134
Huse, Hiram A., 50
Hutchinson, Rev. Aaron (d 1800), 161
— Aaron (d 1843), son of Rev. Aaron, 159; sketch of, 161, 161 n
— Israel, 399
— Margery (Carter), wife of Rev. Aaron, 161
— Thomas, (d 1739), 94; on committee to consider providing new building for Harvard College, 1717, 90, 92, 93; on committee to choose site, 96; reports, 97
— Gov. Thomas, son of Thomas (d 1739), 220 n, 249, 436, 438; rank of, in college, 173; quoted, on Gov. Bernard, 200 n, 244
Hyde, Nicholas, 150 n. See also Ide, Nicholas
IDE (Iyde), Nicholas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150, 150 n
Immigration laws of the United States, liberality of, 22
Impressment of American seamen, 394
Indians: Mohawks, deed lands to J. H. Lydius, 1732, 53, 57; Penobscots, treaty of, with Gov. Shute, 1717, 218; war with, in Penobscot region, 1722–26, 218; Gov. Pownall and, 219; Pocumtucks, 36; St. Francis, 53; Six Nations, 57; Squakheags, 36
— Cauegohe, 57
— Massasoit, 189
— Nawelet, 36
—Ompawmet, sells land, 45
— Teyonyguawe, 57
Ingalls (Ingles), Capt. 387, 401
Ingersoll, Jared (d 1781), 239
— Jonathan, 413
— Capt. Samuel, 406
Insurance, marine, during Revolution, 367, 369; policy issued to E. Ellingwood, 370
Ives, Capt. Benjamin, 344, 374, 402, 410, 417, 424; commands held by, 429
JACKSON, Abraham, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Andrew, President, 349
— Richard (d 1787), 231, 232, 245 n
— Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— Maj. William (d 1828), 380
James I, King of England, American land grants of, 207, 216, 217, 248, 249
James II, King of England, 217. See also York, Duke of
James, Capt. William, 354, 405, 429
Jay, John (d 1829), cited, on northeastern boundary, 248
Jefferson, Thomas, President, 181
Jenkins, Edward, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
Jenney, Charles Francis, LL.B., elected Resident Member, 1; accepts 10, 113
Jenyns, Soame (d 1787), 224, 231
Jewett, Rev. Jedidiah (H. C. 1726), 310, 312
John, King of England, 16
Johnson, Rev. Alfred (d 1837), 34
— Alfred, Litt.D., 61, 156, 159, 300; speaks of visits of Daniel Webster to Belfast, Me., 34; elected Registrar, 117, 307; reads extracts from Annals of Belfast, Me., 195; speaks on Maine as a Massachusetts frontier, 313
— Capt. Israel, 379, 387, 404, 410, 419; commands held by, 429
— Joseph, 414 n
— Lucas, deposition of, concerning ship Jack, 386 n
— Ralph Cross, 34
— Stephen, 415
— Sir William (d 1774), 439; charge of, against J. H. Lydius, 57
Jones, Benjamin, on Beverly Committee of Correspondence, 322
— John Coffin, ship-owner, 338, 415
— John Paul (d 1792), 390, 390 n
— Nathan, surveyor, 201
Jourdaine, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Joy, Benjamin, 401
KEAYNE, Robert (d 1656), provides by will for a library in Boston Town House, 9; book from library of, 9
Kebby, James, land grants to, 1731, 1733, 39, 40 n
Keith, James, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Kelby, Robert Hendre, acknowledgment to, 78 n; cited regarding books compiled by R. Elliston, 80
— William, 78 n
Kellogg, Lucy Cutler, quoted, 253 n
Kelly, James, 398
— John, 414 n
Kempe, John Tabor, 56
Kendall, Rev. James (d 1859), 137; dedications to, 130, 135
Kenrick, George, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Kilam, John, 408
Kilham, Hannah. See Lovett
King, Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— Thomas, Jr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Kingman, Joseph, 418
— Nathaniel, 418
Kinnicutt, Lincoln Newton, death, xvii; announced, 317
Kittredge, George Lyman, LL.D., acknowledgment to, 74 n
— Joseph, 408
Kneeland, Elizabeth (Holyoke), wife of William (H. C. 1751), 171
— Joseph (d 1760), silversmith, 172
— Mary, daughter of William (H. C. 1751). See Hedge
— William (H. C. 1751), 170 n, 171; silver tea-pot given to, by Harvard students, 174
Knight, Lt. Joseph, killed in battle of Lexington, 267, 268 n
— Joseph, 408
Knights of the Order of the Pudding Stick. See under Harvard College
Knights of the Square Table. See under Harvard College
Knowlton, Capt. Joseph, 357, 361, 408, 429
LACKY, Ephraim, 397
Lakeman, James Fuller, deposition of, concerning a seized vessel, 328 n
— Capt. Richard, 357, 407, 429
— William, 407
Lamb, Sir Matthew (d 1768), 244 n–245 n
Lamson, Benjamin, 408
Land grants, by Massachusetts in territory now Vermont, 35–59
Landais, Capt. Peter, 390, 390 n
— Capt. Peter, Salem, 337, 418
Lander, Frederic West (d 1862), 139, 139 n
Lane, James, 163
— Mary, wife of James, 164
— Oliver Wellington (d 1793), son of James, officer of the Martimercurian Company, 162; sketch of, 163
—William Coolidge, A.B., 158, 197, 442; his paper, The Building of Massachusetts Hall, 1717–1720, 81–110; remark of, on a chair which belonged to Judah Monis, 148; his paper, Early Silver belonging to Harvard College, 165–176; acknowledgment to, 197 n; speaks on religious societies in Harvard College, about 1720, 309–312
Langdell, Esther, 381
— Capt. William, 346, 365, 373, 406, 418, 419, 425, 429 n; commands held by, 429
Langdon, Paul, son of Rev. Samuel, 159; sketch of, 160
— Rev. Samuel, President of Harvard College, 160, 282, 283; quoted, on conduct of British in battle of Lexington, 271, 282, 284, 286
— (Langdell), Capt. William. See Langdell
Langham, Thomas, 167 n, 175, 175 n; gift of, to Harvard-College, 167
La Pérouse, Jean François de Galaup (d 1788), Comte de, 384; his account of engagement of the Astrée and Hermione with an English squadron, 1781, 383
Larcom, Edward, 415
— Jonathan, 404
— Henry, 429
Lathrop. See Lothrop
Latimer, George, 126 n
Latinus, King of Latium, 189
La Touche (d 1804), Comte de, 383
Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury, 186
Law, William (d 1761), 28, 28 n
Lawrence, Zachery, land grants to, 1684, 1685, 37
Lawrence, Pemberton Mill disaster, 1860, 138
Lawton, Frederics, A.B., 119; elected Resident Member, 156; accepts, 180
Laythorpe. See Lothrop
Leach, Capt. Benjamin, 400
— Catherine. See Groves
— John, on Beverly Committee of Correspondence, 322
— John, boatswain, 408
— John, Salem ship-owner, 413, 430 n
— Capt. John, Beverly, 361 n, 404, 411, 425, 426, 430 n; commands held by, 430
— Capt. John, Salem, 356, 412, 430, 430 n
— Capt. John, Jr., 345, 410, 430
— Nathan, Beverly ship-owner, 343, 365, 375, 407, 413, 414
—Robert, 408
— William (d 1838), Beverly ship-owner, 322, 322 n, 358, 413
— Aaron, 408
— Arthur (d 1792), 248
— Edward, 415
— Joseph (d 1831), Beverly ship-owner and merchant, 321, 321 n, 336, 342, 349 n, 370, 372, 373, 408, 409, 412, 414, 416, 421, 423
— William Phillips, petition of, and others, 206, 207–209
Lefavour, Capt. Philip, 337, 430
Legge, William, second Earl of Dartmouth, 269, 435, 436
— William Heneage, sixth Earl of Dartmouth, 438 n
Leonard, Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
L’Estrange, Sir Roger (d 1704), his reviews, in the Observator, of forged letter ascribed to I. Mather, 313–317; his opinion of news-books quoted, 315
Lettice, Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Leverett, Elizabeth, daughter of Gov. John. See Cooke
— George Vasmer, bequest of, 81, 112, 301
— Hannah, daughter of John, President of Harvard College. See Davis
— John, President of Harvard College, 7, 255; mentioned in connection with the building of Massachusetts Hall, 82, 82 n, 84, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90 n, 94, 98, 99, 108; his plan, 95 n; extracts from his diary, 98, 107; his answer to Judge Sewall’s criticism of Biblical instruction at the college, 99, 102; house occupied by, 105 n; address of Corporation of Harvard College, thanking General Court for Massachusetts Hall, signed by, 110; T. Robie’s dedication of sermon to, 156–158; book believed to have belonged to, exhibited, 254
— Sarah (Payton), wife of John, President of Harvard College, 255
Lewis, Edward, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
—George, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— James, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Joseph (H. C. 1724), 310, 312
— Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
Lexington, Earl Percy’s retreat from, paper on, by H. Murdock, 257–292
— Monroe Tavern, association of, with Earl Percy, and battle of Lexington, 259, 263, 279–282
Lincoln, Rev. Calvin (d 1881), 143
— Rachel. See Ball
— Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
Lindall, Timothy, Salem, on committee to consider providing new building for Harvard College, 1717, 90, 91, 92, 104
Little, Ephraim, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Jack, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
Livermore, Thomas Leonard (d 1918), 64
Livesey, Rev. Richard, compiles A Relic of the Revolution, from C. Herbert’s journal, 389 n
Livingston, Philip J., 239
— Robert, 48; and others, petition for land grant, 1708, 46
Lombard, Barnard, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
— Jabez, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Joshua, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Peter, 186
Long Island, grant of, to Duke of York, 1663–4, 208
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 118; his phrase God’s Acre, 293–296
— Rev. Samuel (d 1892), brother of Henry Wadsworth, ordination of, 132
Longhorn, Thomas, Cambridge, 167 n
— Thomas, son of Thomas of Cambridge, 167 n
Lord, Arthur, A.B., exhibits forged document bearing Myles Standish’s name, and discusses signatures of Rev. John Robinson, 63
— Joseph (H. C. 1726), 310, 312
Loring, Joseph, house of, burned, at battle of Lexington, 264, 265
Lost-town, 189
Lothrop, Barnabas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Joseph, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
— Melatiah, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
Loudoun, Earl of. See Campbell, John
Louis XIV, King of France, grant by, to A. de la M. Cadillac, of Mount Desert, 246
Lovett, Benjamin, 360 n
— Benjamin (d 1804), son of Benjamin, Beverly ship-owner. 320, 322, 346 n, 347, 348, 367, 387, 410
— Capt. Benjamin, 321, 366, 368, 373, 374, 415, 417, 421, 424, 431; commands held by, 430
— Eleonora (Cleaves), wife of Benjamin, 360 n
— Hannah (Kilham), wife of Benjamin, 346 n
— Capt. James (d 1789), son of Benjamin, 360, 360 n, 402, 408, 417, 420, 424; offices held by, 430
— John, Beverly ship-owner, 322, 347, 348, 411
— Capt. John, 418
— Jonathan, Beverly ship-owner, 1772, 319, 322
— Mary. See Haskell
Low, Cornelius, 239
Lowell, James Russell, 118
—John, A.B., on Auditing Committee, 60, 117, 257, 307
Loyalists. See American Loyalists
Luca, Joachi di, 350
Lufkin, Joseph, 408
— Moses, 408
Lumbard. See Lombard
Lumbert. See Lombard
Lundin, Thomas. See Drummond
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, attack on, 1782, 361; looting of, 362
Luther, Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
Lydius, Rev. John, 57
— John Henry (d 1791), son of Rev. John, his purchases of lands from the Indians and claim of confirmation of grant by W. Shirley, 52–59; prosecuted by New York, 54–57; relations of, with Massachusetts government, 57
Lyndal. See Lindall
Lynde, Benjamin (d 1745), 93, 94
Lyons, James, 414 n
McCLELLAN, Gen. George Brinton, 290
McClure, Rev. David (d 1820), quoted, on battle of Lexington, 271 n
McCutcheon, Roger Philip, his paper on The Observator and Increase Mather, 313–317
McDougall, William, 308
McDowell, Jonathan, 414 n
M’Ewer, John, document signed by, 393
Macey, George, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
McGilchrist, Rev. William (d 1780), 435
Mackenzie, Lt. Frederick, 260 n, 278; quoted, on battle of Lexington, 258 n, 265, 266, 268, 270, 273, 283
Madan, Falconer, letter of, 251
Magee, Capt. James, 385
Magna Charta, 16
Mahan, Capt. Alfred Thayer, cited, on privateering, 323
Maine, as a Massachusetts frontier, A. Johnson speaks on, 313
Manly, Capt. John (d 1793), 330, 331, 339, 342, 390, 431; sketch of, 327, 327 n; commands fleets of privateers, 339; ships under direct command of, 430
Marblehead, privateering losses of, during the Revolution, 423
— St. Michael’s Church, 27
Marcy, William, killed in battle of Lexington, 279, 282, 283, 289, 290
Marque and reprisal, letters of, authorized by Massachusetts General Court, 1775, 334; regulations governing use of, 334–335, 353; wages on ships carrying these letters, 353 ra; commerce carried on by, 366; restrictions on manning of, 374
Marrett, Rev. John (d 1813), 287 n; quoted, on deaths of J. Winship and J. Wyman, 287, 288
Marsh, David, 247
— John, prize master, 414 n
— Capt. John, 346, 410, 413, 417, 430, 431
Marshall, Rev. Stephen (d 1655), 186
Marshfield, Plymouth Colony freemen in, 1675, 150
Martimercurian Company (or Band). See under Harvard College
Martin, Capt. Arnold, 369
Martindale, Capt. 326
Martyn, Rev. John (d 1767), 147; gift of, to Harvard College Library, 148
Marvell, Edward, 415
Marx, Alexander, letter of, regarding Monis family, cited, 147
Mary I, Queen of England, C. Mather on, 185
Massachusetts, claims of, to lands in Penobscot region, 209, 217, 220 n, 224; statement concerning these claims, by Gov. Bernard, 217–220; territory conquered by, between Penobscot and St. Croix rivers, 1690, 218; union of Plymouth Colony and, 1691, 218; Revolutionary fleet of, 331; commerce of, during Revolution, 362–366, 375, 382
— Bay Company, bequest of H. E. Ware, for memorial to, 81, 112
— Board of War, quoted, on commerce carried on by the state during Revolution, 365
— Colony Charter, bequest of H. E. Ware, for memorial of transfer of, to New England, 81, 112
— Committee of Public Safety, 329
— Council, size of, 1764, 233; Earl of Stirling’s claim considered by, 240, 241; action of, 1776, regarding troops at Beverly, 333; order of, 1781, regarding treatment of war prisoners, 395; grants reimbursement to T. Flint and others for bringing home war prisoners, 399
— General Court, 233; makes land grants before 1740, including territory now in Vermont and New Hampshire, 35–59; northern boundary fixed, March, 1740, 35; surveyed, 1741, 35, 37; southern boundary located by N. Woodward and S. Saffery, 1642, 41; rejected by Connecticut, 42; resurvey and settlement made by joint commission, 1713–1716, 42–46; vote of, concerning Westminster and Rockingham, Vt., 52; votes of, concerning J. H. Lydius, 57; requested by Harvard College, to provide new building, 1717, 82, 88–90; joint committee from the College and Court considers plans, 83, 90–96; action delayed, 84, 96; new committee chooses site and prosecutes work, 84–87, 96–106; building delivered to the College and named Massachusetts Hall, 1720, 87, 108; committee appointed to inspect building and audit accounts, 107; appoints committees to consider boundary between Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 199, 237; grants island of Mount Desert to Gov. Bernard, 203–204; makes township grants in Penobscot region, 202, 204, 210, 219, 220–231, 232, 242; restores half of Mount Desert to Gov. Bernard’s son, 246; recommendations of, for defence of Beverly harbor, 1776, 332; passes act, 1775, authorizing letters of marque and reprisal, 334; gives permission for exporting sugar, 1777, 337; appoints naval officer for each port, 1776, 341; resolve of, 1780, concerning robbery by privateers above high water mark, 361 n; act of, 1777, to regulate prices, 371; report of committee appointed by, on manning of letter of marque vessels, 374; petitioned, 1781, to take visiting Nova Scotians as prisoners of war, 397; orders release of D. Corning, Nova Scotian trader, 399
— Governor, support of, 213
— House of Representatives, charges of, against Gov. Bernard, 244; action of, 1776, regarding defence of Beverly, 333
— Navy Board, 395; quoted, on use of prisoners in manning ships, 1778, 395
— Provincial Congress, resolve of, 1776, for defence of sea coast, 332 Massachusetts Historical Society, note on its check-list of broadsides, 1639–1800, 292
Masson, Sergt. —, 440
Mather, Rev. Cotton, son of Rev. Increase, 65, 182, 295; B. Wendell on his style, 184; as a mirror of his times, 184; his Biblia Americana, 185; quoted, on followers of Laud, 186; compared to Peter Lombard, 186; quoted on Rev. J. Norton, 186; cited, on Chaucer, 187; quoted, on A. Bradstreet, 187; compared with Virgil, 188–189; uses term God’s Acre, 294; printing and publishing of his Magnalia, 294 n; quoted, on Comenius, 295 n
— Rev. Increase, letter of, forged, 313; commented on, by R. L’Estrange in his Observator, 313–317
MATTHEWS, ALBERT, A.B., v, 35, 95 n, 175, 176 n, 249 n, 256, 311, 313; his Note on G. Rawlins and D. Brad street, 2–8; his paper, A Ghost Benefactor of Harvard College, 61–63; his Note on Robert Elliston, 71–80; his Writings of George Ware Briggs, 120–146; his note on George S. Ball, 148; speaks of the earliest known allusion to a college society at Harvard, 156–159; of an undergraduate trick of 1770, 159; of the Martimercurian Company, 161; acknowledgments to, 197 n, 313 n; makes remarks on early seals of Harvard College, 256; speaks on the term God’s Acre, 293–296; reports G. Ball as a fellow-commoner at Harvard College, 442
— James, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
Mauduit, Jasper, 223; letter of T. Cushing to, 1762, 210; letter to, of committee on eastern grants and boundaries, 237
Mayflower Compact, 19; influence of, on American statesmanship, 21
Mayhew, Elizabeth (Clarke), wife of Rev. Jonathan, 2
— Rev. Jonathan (d 1765), 312; C. N. Greenough reads paper on relations of, with T. Hollis, 1
— Paine, Chilmark and Tisbury, on committee to inspect Massachusetts Hall, 1720, 108
Mayo, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Lawrence Shaw, A.M., reads paper on the Wentworths in New Hampshire and their efforts to promote Episcopalianism, 31–33
Mecom, Benjamin, 53 n
Mecomb, James, 400
Menotomy, Cooper Tavern, events at, during battle of Lexington, 286–289
Mercurius Aulicus, 314
Mercurius Britanicus, 314, 316 Merrick, William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Merritt, Edward Percival, A.B., 27 n; gives later history of Rev. R. Ratcliffe, 34; speaks on Rev. R. B. Nickolls, once curate at King’s Chapel, 64, 435; reads sketch of Rev. S. C. Lewis, of Christ Church, 120; acknowledgments to, 247 n, 249 n; on Nominating Committee, 257; reads communication on second French newspaper in Boston, 296–299; remarks in communicating letter of R. B. Nickolls, 435
Merry Mount, and the Pilgrims, 15; contrast of, to general New England life, 187
Metcalfe, John, 178
Mexican War, G. W. Briggs quoted on, 131
Middleborough, Plymouth Colony freemen in, 1675, 152
Miles, Rev. Henry Adolphus (d 1895), 143
Mill Prison, Plymouth, Eng. See under Plymouth
Miller, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
— Lt. Richard, 201
Minot, James, ship’s surgeon, 430
— Samuel, silversmith, 174
Minute Man, statue, at Lexington, 259
Mitchell, Experience, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Francis N., 177
— John, surveyor, 199
—Capt. John, 416
Monis, Judah (d 1764), remarks of G. F. Moore on, 146; chair which belonged to, 148
— family, of Venice, 147
Montgomery, Cresar, 417
—Cato, 417
Monts, Pierre du Guast de, 199, 217: lieutenant-general of Acadia, 216
Moore, Clifford Herschel, 119
— Rev. George Foot, LL.D., elected Vice-President, 117, 307; speaks on Judah Monis, 146–147
— Thomas, lithographer, 179
Morgan, Anna. See Thorndike
— John Piebpont, LL.D., elected Corresponding Member, 318
Morison, Rev. John Hopkins (d 1896), 123 n, 134
— Samuel Eliot, Ph.D., 318
Morrell, Rev. William, visits Massachusetts, 191; extracts from his poem on it, 192–195
Morrill, Rev. Isaac (d 1793), quoted, on battle of Lexington, 263, 263 n
Morris, Charles, surveyor-general of Nova Scotia, 199
— Robert (d 1806), 331
Morse, Edmund, 247
— Edward Sylvester, 119
Morton, Rev. Charles (d 1698), 30
— Ephraim, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
— George, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Nathaniel (d 1685), 149; freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152; cited, on W. Paddy, 255
— Thomas (d 1646), of Merry Mount, relations of, with Plymouth Colony, 15
— Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Moses, Benjamin, 412, 414; offices held by, 431
— William, 401
Mount Desert, island, Me., grant of, to Gov. Bernard, 197–254; his efforts for development of, 201 n, 211, 213, 215, 234, 234 n, 235; confiscation of, during the Revolution, and later disposition of, 246
Mowlson, Lady Ann (Radcliffe), 63
Moylan, Col. Stephen, 331; quoted, on matters connected with Revolutionary privateering, 324, 325, 326, 329, 330
Mudge, Isadore Gilbert, acknowledgment to, 72 n
Mugford, Richard, document signed by, 393
Mull, James, 417
Mulliken, Lydia, 265
Munroe, William, deposition of, concerning events at his tavern, April 19, 1775, 279–280, 281
Murdock, Harold, A.M., v; his paper, Earl Percy’s Retreat to Boston on the Nineteenth of April, 1775, 257–292
Murray, James, 405
Muzzey, Rev. Abel, cited, on battle of Lexington, 263
Myles, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
— Rev. Samuel (d 1728), 5
NANCREDE, Joseph, publishes Courier de Boston, 296 n
Nash, Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Neal, Capt. John, 413
Nelson, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
— William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
New Brunswick, boundary of Massachusetts and, 248
Newcastle, Duke of. See Pelham-Holles, Thomas
Newell, Samuel, and others, land grant to 1735, 49
New Hampshire, early religious history of, 31–33; claims territory now Vermont, 35; surveys line of Massachusetts boundary, 1741, 35, 37; boundary disputes between New York and, 55
New Ireland, proposed province of, 247–248
Newman, Noah, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
New Providence, Bahama Islands, 324
News-books, of the seventeenth century, 314–317
New Taunton, Vt., later Westminster, 50, 52
New York, claims territory now Vermont, 35; brings suit against J. H. Lydius, 54–57; boundary disputes between New Hampshire and, 55; grant of, 1663–4, 208
New York City, prison ships at, during Revolution, 388
— Trinity Church, R. Elliston’s connection with, and gifts to, 73, 77
Nicholls, Richard, 76
Nichols, —, 440
— Charles Lemuel, M.D., Litt.D., on Nominating Committee, 60; makes remarks on Bible used at the inaugurations of Washington and Harding, 255; elected member of Council, 307
— Ebenezer, petition of, in behalf of Susannah Flint, 439
Nickolls, Rev. Robert Boucher, sketch of, by E. P. Merritt, 64, 435; letter of, soliciting provision in the Church, 436–438
Nicoll, Dr. John (d 1743), 79 n
Niles, Capt. Benjamin, 344, 417, 431
Nixon, Capt. —, 350
Norris, Jonathan, 384
North, Roger (d 1734), 80
Northfield, original grant of, 1672, includes territory now in Vermont and New Hampshire, 36–38
Norton, Charles Eliot, 186, 188
— Rev. John (d 1663), 9; compared to St. Thomas Aquinas, 186
— John (d 1716), nephew of Rev. John (d 1663), 188
Nourse, Hannah Barnard. See Ball
— Stephen, his wharf, Beverly, 319
Nova Scotia, boundary of Massachusetts and, 199, 204, 205, 206, 217, 236; Gov. Bernard’s paper on the origin of the name, and confusion of it with Acadia, 216; early relations of, with Massachusetts, 237; trade of Massachusetts with, during Revolution, 340, 397–399. See also Acadia
Nowell, Samuel (d 1688), 62
Oakes, Rev. Urian, President of Harvard College, 65, 294
Obear, P., & Co., Beverly ship-owners, 1772, 319
— Capt. Benjamin (d 1780), 320, 378, 378 n, 411, 428; commands held by, 431
— Elizabeth Hill, v
— Capt. Ezra (d 1794), 346, 371, 382, 410, 418, 424, 428; commands held by, 431
— Capt. Israel F., 431
— James, 431
— Joseph, 408
— Josiah, 409
— Lydia (Chapman), wife of Richard, 377 n, 382 n
— Richard, 377 n
— Capt. Richard (d 1821), son of Richard, 374, 377, 377 n, 402, 403, 410, 415, 418, 424, 427, 434; commands held by, 431
— Richard, mariner, 403, 415, 416
Observator, The, its style of book-reviewing, 313–317
Occopy, Indian word for rum, 202 n
Odell, George, 408
Officia Sacrata, compiled by R. Elliston, 71
Offley, Amelia, daughter of Stephen. See Bernard
— Stephen, 198
Ogden, Abraham, 239
— Isaac, 239
Ogleeby (Ogliby, Oglisby), Capt. Nicholas, 340, 419, 420, 433; commands held by, 431
Oliver, Henry, 407
— Jacob, seaman, 407
— Capt. Jacob, 345, 394 n, 408, 410, 413, 429, 433, 434; commands held by, 432
— Thomas (d 1715), 48
— Lt.-Gov. Thomas (d 1815), 348
Order of the Knights of the Square Table. See under Harvard College
Oregon dispute, 130
O’Reilly, John Boyle, quoted, on the Pilgrims, 14
Orleans, Louis Philippe Joseph, Duke of, 297
Orne, Caroline Frances, 143
Orwell, Lord. See Vernon
Osgood, Abigail, wife of Isaac, 164
— Isaac, 164
— Joshua Bailey (d 1791), son of Isaac, officer of Martimercurian Company, 161, 162; sketch of, 164
— Peter, Salem, on committee for choosing site for Massachusetts Hall, 1718, 96
— Rev. Samuel (d 1880), 142
Otis, James (d 1783), and Gov. Bernard, 203
— Nathaniel, 414 n
PACKER, Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Paddy, Alice (Freeman), first wife of William (d 1658), 255
— Benjamin, son of William (d 1658), 255
— Elizabeth, daughter of William (d 1658), 255
— Hannah, daughter of William (d 1658), 255
— John, son of William (d 1658), 255
— Joseph, son of William (d 1658), 255
— Mary (Greenough) Payton, second wife of William (d 1658), 255
— Mercy, daughter of William (d 1658), 255
— Nathaniel, son of William (d 1658), 255
— Rebecca, daughter of William (d 1658), 255
— Samuel, son of William (d 1658), 255
— Thomas, son of William (d 1658), 255
— William (d 1658), book believed to have belonged to, exhibited, 254; sketch of, 254–255, 255 n
— William, son of William (d 1658), 254, 255
Page, Samuel, 411
Paige, Edward, 175, 175 n; gift of, to Harvard College, 168, 169
Paine, Nathaniel, Councillor, 94
— Nathaniel, Rehoboth, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Stephen, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Steven, Jr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Palfrey, Warwick, appointed naval officer of Salem and Beverly, 1776, 341
Palmer, Jonas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152, 152 n
Paper money during Revolution, 376
Parish. See also Parris
— Thomas, 168 n
— Thomas (H. C. 1659), son of Thomas, 168 n
Park, Rev. Charles Edwards, D.D., presents Annual Reports of Council, 111, 300; elected Corresponding Secretary, 117, 307
Parker, James, New York printer, note on work of, 79–80, 80 n
— James, gunner, 411
— Capt. John (d 1775), 259, 282, 282 n
—Peter, 247
— Rev. Stephen (H. C. 1727), 310, 312
— Capt. Timothy, 357, 417, 432
Parkman, Daniel (d 1841), 176, 177, 177 n
Parris. See also Parish
— Rev. Samuel (d 1720), 168 n; gift of, to Harvard College, 168
Parsons, Benjamin, 416
— Eben, 201 n
— Jonathan, 400
— Rev. Moses (d 1783), 164
— Susanna, wife of Rev. Moses, 164
— Theodore (d 1779), son of Rev. Moses, officer of Martimercurian Company, 161, 162; sketch of, 164
— Thomas, 432
Partridge, George, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
—Oliver, a proprietor of Benardston, 38
Patten, Capt. John, 357, 377, 404, 405; commands held by, 432
Patterson, Capt. William, 429
Pay of naval officers in the Revolution, 327, 327 n
—Payne, Daniel, 407
— (Pain), Edward, 432
— John, Eastham, 104
Payton, Bezaleel, 255
— Mary, daughter of Bezaleel, 255
— Mary (Greenough), wife of Bezaleel. See Paddy
— Sarah, daughter of Bezaleel. See Leverett
—Peabody, Andrew, 401, 402, 408
— Rev. Ephraim (d 1856), 134
— John Endicott, A.B., death, xvii; elected Resident Member, 180; accepts, 197; tribute to, 303
— William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Pearce, James, 409
Pearson, H., 408
Peck, Israel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Nathaniel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
— Nicholas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Peele, Jonathan, 347
Peirce, Benjamin (d 1831), 175; quoted, on gifts of H. Ashurst and Trusedale to Harvard College, 61
Peirey, Anthony, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Peirse, Michael, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154, 154 n
Pelham, Edward (d 1730), 174; gift of, to Harvard College, 167, 167 n
Pelham, 43
Pelham-Holles, Thomas, first Duke of Newcastle, 198 n
Pemberton, Rev. Ebenezer (d 1777), 79 n
—Pencen, Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Pendleton, William S., lithographer, 179
Penobscot expedition, 347, 348, 352, 352 n, 356 n, 375, 376, 406, 407
Pepperrell, William, Kittery, Me., on committee to inspect Massachusetts Hall, 1720, 108
Percy, Sir Hugh, Earl Percy, second Duke of Northumberland, 435, 436; paper on his retreat from Lexington, 1775, by H. Murdock, 257–292; memorials of, in Lexington, 259; his portrait, 259
Pérouse. See La Pérouse
Perram, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Perrin, Abraham, propounded freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
Perry, Rev. William Stevens, Bishop of Iowa, correspondence of, with J. L. Sibley, concerning G. Rawlins, 5 n
Peters, John, 406
Peterson, Rev. Abbot, 308
Petty, Sir William, first Marquis of Lansdowne and second Earl of Shelburne, 248
Phearson, Capt.—, 391
Philadicaios, signature of pamphlet, Some Reflections, etc., 1764, 52
Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, 197
Philip’s War, King, 36
Phillips, James, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155, 155 n
— Samuel, manufactures powder for Revolutionary uses, 336
— Sarah. See White
Phipps, Rev. Joseph Hobson (d 1871), 135
Pickering, Timothy (d 1829), 341, 355, 358, 365; judge of Court of Admiralty, 1775, 328, 330 n
Picket (Pickett), John, 345, 404, 407
Pickman, Benjamin, 370
— William, 406
Pier, Arthur Stanwood, 119
Pierpont, Ebenezer (d 1754), 98
—Rev. John (d 1866), his Forefathers’ Day ode, 10
Pigot, Sir Robert (d 1796), 269
Pilgrim Tercentenary, reference to, 111; letters of Viscount Bryce concerning, 61, 118, 118 n
Pilgrims, paper on the spirit of, with reference to present-day conditions, by W. Warren, 10–23; tributes to, by Viscount Bryce, 61, 118
Pitcairn, Maj. John, in the battle of Lexington, 258, 260 n, 263, 281, 281 n
Pitman, Joseph, 415
Pitts, Peter, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
Plaisted, Col. Ichabod, 439
Plymouth, settlement of the Pilgrims in, 10–20; message of, to Plymouth, Eng., 1846, 130; Plymouth Colony freemen in, 1675, 152–153
Plymouth, Eng., appeal of, to citizens of the United States, 1846, in interest of peace, 130
— Mill Prison, 402, 403, 418; American war prisoners confined in, 337, 340, 380, 390, 392 n; conditions in, 388, 389
Plymouth Colony, Quakers in, 14; list of freemen in, 1675, 149–155; paper on, by E. K. Rand, 182–195; union of, with Massachusetts, 218
Plymouth Company, grant to, 1620, 216
Poggio (Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini), 187
Poland, William, 415
Pomeroy, Ebenezer, 44
Poole, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
Pope, Jerusha. See Flint
Porcellian Club. See under Harvard College
Port Royal, Nova Scotia, capture of, 1690, 210
Porter, Benjamin, 418
— Rev. Charles Summerfield (d 1870), 131, 133
— Rev. Edward Griffin (d 1900), 268 n
— Capt. John, 373, 374, 409; commands held by, 432
— Samuel, Hadley, on committee for choosing site for Massachusetts Hall, 1718, 96
— William, 419
Portsmouth, N. H., Episcopal Church in, 31
Potash, manufacture of, on Mount Desert proposed by Gov. Bernard, 211
Potter, Abijah, 432
—Alfred Claghobn, A.B., exhibits book-plates of three Harvard Clubs, 176, 177
— Capt. Amos, 430; commands held by, 432
Pousland, Thomas, 408
Powder, scarcity of, in early days of the Revolution, 336; price fixed by General Court, 337
Pownall, John, 228, 232, 436; letters of Gov. Bernard to, 210–212, 224–225, 232
— Gov. Thomas, 229, 248, 249; builds fort on the Penobscot, 1759, 219
Pratt, Benajah, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Jonathan, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Preble, Gen. Jedediah, sells land to Gov. Bernard and T. Goldthwait, 199
Prentice, Rev. Thomas (H. C. 1726), 310, 312
Presson, Benjamin, 418
Preston, Rev. John (d 1628), 68
Price, Ann (Wood), wife of Theodore. See Bradstreet
— Theodore, 6
Prices, during the Revolution, 355, 371; convention at Concord to consider, 375–377
Prince, Blackenberry, 409
— Rev. Thomas (d 1758), book once belonging to R. Keayne, in library of, 8; Overseer of Harvard College, 95 n
— Job, ship-owner, 338, 405, 406, 408, 415, 417
— Moses, 408
Prison ships, English, at New York during Revolution, 388–395; books on, list of, 391 n–392 n
Prisoners of war, during Revolution, treatment of, by Americans, 327, 395–96; by British, 387–395; bounties for and exchanges of, 393–394, 398; enlistment and impressment of, in enemy’s service, 394–395; aid to, by Nova Scotian traders, 396–399; lists of Beverly prisoners, 402, 403, 404
Privateering, as a war measure, 323; customs of, 335; chief industry of New England seaport towns during the Revolution, 341; division of prize money earned in, 353; negotiation of shares, 354, 421; gains and losses of, 424
Privateers, Beverly, in the Revolutionary War, paper by O. T. Howe, 318–435; character and purpose of, 334–335; methods of action, 339; alphabetical list of, 405–421
Prize money, earned in privateering, division of, 327, 328, 335, 353
Prizes, in war, disposal of, 328, 328 n Proctor, John, 416, 432
Putnam, —, 440
— Rev. Alfred Porter (d 1906), ordination of, 135
— Bartholomew, Salem ship-owner, 336, 345, 410, 411, 414
Putney, Vt., 45; granted to Connecticut, 1715, 44
Pynchon, Joseph (H. C. 1726), 310, 312
Quakers, in Plymouth Colony, 14
Quatermass, Capt. Richard, 371, 411, 418; commands held by, 432
Quebec, boundary of Massachusetts and, 236
Quincy, Edmund (H. C. 1722), 86 n, 87 n
— Josiah, President of Harvard College, quoted, on gift of Trusedale to Harvard College, 61
RADCLIFFE, Ann. See Mowlson
Raimond. See Raymond
Raisings, use of liquor at, 195; other customs connected with, 196
Rand, Edward Kennard, Ph.D., his paper, Plymouth Plantation and the Golden Age, 182–195
Ratcliff, Alice, wife of John, Boston stationer, 65
— Elizabeth, daughter of John, Boston stationer, 65
— John, Boston stationer, sketch of, 65; list of books consigned to, in or before 1668, by his brother Thomas, 66
— John, son of John, Boston stationer, 65
— Thomas, of Wapping, Eng., sends books to Boston, 65–67
— Thomas, son of John, Boston stationer, 65
Ratcliffe, Rev. John (d 1775), son of Rev. Robert, 35
— Rev. Robert (d 1708), E. P. Merritt speaks on, 34
Rations, on privateers, 335
Ravell, Capt. John, 340, 420, 427; commands held by, 432
Rawlin, Rev. Richard (d 1757), confusion of, with G. Rawlins, 4
Rawlins, Rev. Gershom (H. C. 1705), son of John, 8 n; book-plate of, exhibited, 2; biographical note on, by A. Matthews, 2–8; letter of, 4
— John, 4
— Judah, wife of John, 4
Rawson, Sec. Edward, 67
— Capt. Isaac, 424
— Zebulan, Beverly ship-owner, 320
Raymond, John, killed in battle of Lexington, 279, 280, 281, 290; member of Parker’s company, 282, 282 n
— S., Beverly ship-owner, 1772, 320
Read, Daniel, propounded freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— John, Jr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Read, Duncan, & Co., 55
Reed, Gen. Joseph (d 1789), 325, 326
Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony freemen in, 1675, 150
Reisner, George Andrew, 308
Remington, Jonathan (d 1745), on committee for building Massachusetts Hall, 84, 96, 97
Remond, Robert, 412
Renaissance, not repeated in New England experience, 187
Revere, Paul (d 1818), 269
Revolutionary War, Beverly Privateers in, paper on, by O. T. Howe, 318–435; Washington’s first attention to naval warfare, 324; early action by several colonies in arming vessels, 324; letters of marque and reprisal granted, 334; conditions of commerce, 362–367, 375; treatment of prisoners, 387–400
Rhode Island, arms vessels in the Revolution, 324
Rice, Rev. Caleb (d 1759), 164
— Nathan (d 1834), son of Rev. Caleb, officer of Martimercurian Company, 162; sketch of, 164
— Priscilla, wife of Rev. Caleb, 164
Richards, John (d 1694), 62
Richardson, Moses, killed in battle of Lexington, 283
— Capt. Robert, 345, 419, 425, 432, 435
Richerson, James, 418
Richmond, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
Rickard, Gyles, Sr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
— Gyles, Jr., freeman of Plymouth
Colony, 1675, 153
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Rider. See Ryder
Ring, Andrew, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
Ripley, William Putnam (d 1842), 127
Ritchie, Capt. —, 329
Ritchmond, Dr. John, 415
Robbins, Rev. Chandler (d 1882), 129
Roberts, Peter, land grant to, 1765, 45
— William, 408
Robie, Thomas (d 1729), 310; title and dedication of sermon by, 156–158; sketch of, 158
Robinson, Frances. See Gould
—Fred Norris, Ph.D., 1, 10, 31, 60, 111, 120, 156, 180, 197, 257, 300, 309, 318; elected President, 117, 307.
— Increase, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
— Isaac, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
— Rev. John (d 1625), 190; advice of, to the Pilgrims, 17, 18, 20, 186; autographs of, 64
— John (d 1723), Bishop of London, 4 n, 6; letter of G. Rawlins to, 4
— Capt. Joseph, 345, 346, 350, 351, 352, 352 n, 356, 368, 410, 414, 414 n, 421, 424, 425, 428, 433; commands held by, 433
Rock, Joseph, 178 n
— Mary (Wilson) Danforth, wife of Joseph, 178, 178 n
Rockingham, Marquis of. See Watson-Wentworth, Charles
Rockingham, Vt., early history of, 51, 52
Rodney, Admiral Sir George Brydges, first Baron Rodney, 358, 358 n
Roes, Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Rogers, Ann, wife of Jacob, 269
— Eben, 406
— Rev. Ezekiel (d 1661), bequeaths land to Harvard College, 177 n
— John, President of Harvard College, 294; death of, 295, 295 n
— John, Sr., Duxbury, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— John, Jr., Duxbury, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— John, Eastham, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— John, Marshfield, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Joseph, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Rolfe, Sarah (Walker). See Thompson
Rollins, John Rodman, 8 n; quoted, on G. Rawlins, 3
Romaine, Benjamin, 392 n
Roman Catholics, in Plymouth Colony, 15
Ropes, Capt. David, 383, 385; death of, 386
Roundy, Benjamin, 417
— Stephen, 403
Rouse (Rowse), John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— William, Charlestown, on committee to inspect Massachusetts Hall, 1720, 107
Rousselet, Abbé Louis de, and the Courier Politique de l’Univers, 298; sketch of, 298–299
Rovigo, Abraham, 147
Rovigo, Italy, 147 n
Rowland, Capt. Edward, 337, 418
Rowlandson, Rev. Joseph (d 1678), 65
Rowley, land in, owned by Harvard College, 177, 177 n
Rugg, Hon. Arthur Prentice, LL.D., elected Vice-President, 117, 307
Rum, Indian word for, 202 n
Rumford. See Thompson, Benjamin
Russell, Catherine Elliott, 129
— George, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— J., Plymouth, 130
—Jason, killed in battle of Lexington, 289, 290
—John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
Rust, Enoch, 325
Ryder, Joseph, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149, 149 n
— Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Ryswick, Treaty of, as affecting land claims in America, 218, 219, 224, 231, 236
SABERRY. Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Sabin, Jeremiah, propounded freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
Sabine, Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
Saffery, Solomon, with N. Woodward, employed to locate southern boundary of Massachusetts, 1642, 41
Safford, John, Beverly, his wharf, 319
Sagadehock, territory of, 217, 218, 232, 233, 236, 244, 244 n, 245
St. Barbe, Capt. —, 367
St. Croix River, 199, 226, 229
St. Eustatius, island of, during the Revolution, 358 n
St. Firmin, Jean Francois Greste, petition of, concerning the Mars, 413
Salem, naval officer appointed for, 1776, 341
Salem Union League, organization of, 139, 139 n, 140
Sales, Francis (d 1854), 170 n
Salt works in Dennis, 371 n
Saltonstall, Nathaniel (H. C. 1659), 175
— Richard Middlecott, A.B., death, xvii
Sampson, Abraham, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Henry, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153, 153 n
—Samson, Capt. — 424
Sandwich, Plymouth Colony freemen in, 1675, 154
Sandys, Samuel, first Baron Sandys of Ombersley, 224
Sanger, Eleanor Whitney (Davis), v
Sargent, John Singer, LL.D., elected Honorary Member, 318
— William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
Savage, Habijah, Boston, on committee to consider providing new building for Harvard College, 1717, 90, 91, 92, 93
Sawtell, Josiah, land grant to, 1738, 40–41
Sawtell’s Grant, Vt., 38
Sawtelle, William Otis, his paper on Sir Francis Bernard and his Grant of Mount Desert, 197–254
Schuyler, Philip (d 1804), 180
—family, various members of, and others, petition for land grant on Connecticut River, 1708, 46, 47; Indians deed land to, 48
Scituate, Plymouth Colony freemen in, 1675, 154
Scrooby, Eng., Bradford’s account of the Separatist church at, 16
Scudder, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
Sears, Richard, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
Sedgwick, William Thompson, 119
Selman (Sellman), Capt. J., 325, 327, 410, 433
Sephardi, meaning of, 147 n
Serjeant. See Sargent
Sewall, Eliza. See Tuck
— Judge Samuel, 4, 65, 68, 86 n; quoted, on Rev. D. Bradstreet, 6, 7; books once belonging to, exhibited, 71; criticizes Biblical instruction at Harvard College, 85, 99, 102; on committees connected with the building of Massachusetts Hall, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 100, 103
— Judge Stephen (d 1760), 24; note on, by Rev. S. Bradstreet, 26
Shares in privateers, negotiable, 354, 421
Shaw, James, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152, 152 n
— Jonathan, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Shelburne, Lord. See Petty, William
Shelley, Robert, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
Shepard, Rev. Thomas (d 1677), gift of, to Harvard College, 168, 168 n
Sherburne, Andrew, 392 n
Shillaber, Robert, 394 n
— William, 421
Ships: Active, 357, 373, 377, 404, 424, 427, 428, 432, 434, summary, 405; Adventure, 354, 405, 429, 431; Alert, 429, 432, 433; Alfred, 337; Allegiance, 383, 386 n; Alliance, 389 n, 390, 390 n; America, 428; Amphitrite, 346, 411; Amsterdam, 385; Anna and Eliza, 349; Anna Maria, 336; Annabella, 327; Anny, 341; Apollo, 401; Assurance, 346, 411; Astrée (Astrea), 383, 384, 386, 386 n, 423; Batchelder, 421; Belisarius, 388, 414; Bellona, 431, 433; Bennington, 434; Betty, 330 n, 346, 406, 429; Beverly, 370; Bickford, 347, 406; Black Prince, 347, 348, 353, 425, 433, summary, 406; Black Princess, 403; Blackbird, 402, 428; Blonde, 382, 383, 384, 385, 398, 412; Bon Homme Richard, 390, 390 n; Boston, 384; Bowdoin, 432, 433; Brandywine, 350; Brutus, 427; Buccanier, 357, 358, 359, 381, 391, 423 n, 427, 428, 429, summary, 406; Buckram, 434; Bunker Hill, 431; Cambria, 130; Carolina, 379, 380; Cato, 372, 375, 406, 427, 428, 434; Centipede, 346, 347, 429, various spellings of name, 347 n, summary, 406; Central America, 136; Centurion, 428; Ceres, 427; Chance, 359, 381, 428, summary, 406; Charlestown, 383, 384, 386 n; Charming Polly, 368; Chatham, 352, 362, 377, 404, 407, 414; Cicero, 330, 358, 359, 368, 369, 379–381, 382, 391, 424, 429, summary, 407; Commerce, 379, 404, 407, 423, 424, 434; Concord, 330 n; Conqueror, 403; Content, 365, 407, 429; Cornwall, 407, 425, 427; Count D’Estaing, 378, 407, 432, 433, 435; Crawford, 357; Cumberland, 327, 430; Daniel, 358, 425; Defence, 327, 348, 353, 356, 356 n, 368, 377, 404, 425, 426, 427, 434, summary, 407; Despatch, 331, 429; D’Estaing, 378, 407; Diamond, 403, 418; Diana, 349, 357, 378, 402, 425, 428, 429, summary, 408; Digby, 372; Dolphin, 357, 361, 361 n, 408, 429, 430, frequent use of the name, 323; Dolton, 389, 389 n Dove, 340, 341, 408; Dreadnought, 432; Driver, 375, 408, 424, 429; Dunmore, 400; Eagle, 356, 402, 427, 428, 429, 432; English, 402; Enterprise, 358, 413; Essex, 355, 356, 401, 402, 426, 430, summary, 408; Exchange, 428; Experiment, English ship, 356; Experiment, of Beverly, 373, 374, summary, 409, 432; Fair American, 346, 372; Fair Lady, 420; Falcon, 333; Fanny, English ship, 340, 402, 420, 428; Fanny, of Beverly, 377, 404, 430, 431, 433, 435, summary, 409; Favorite, 429; Fish Hawk, 353, 354, 402, 404, 428, 431, summary, 409; Fly, 346, 399, 410, 430, 433; Bennington, 434; Betty, 330 n, 346, 406, 429; Beverly, 370; Bickford, 347, 406; Black Prince, 347, 348, 353, 425, 433, summary, 406; Black Princess, 403; Blackbird, 402, 428; Blonde, 382, 383, 384, 385, 398, 412; Bon Homme Richard, 390, 390 n; Boston, 384; Bowdoin, 432, 433; Brandywine, 350; Brutus, 427; Buccanier, 357, 358, 359, 381, 391, 423 n, 427, 428, 429, summary, 406; Buckram, 434; Bunker Hill, 431; Cambria, 130; Carolina, 379, 380; Cato, 372, 375, 406, 427, 428, 434; Centipede, 346, 347, 429, various spellings of name, 347 n, summary, 406; Central America, 136; Centurion, 428; Ceres, 427; Chance, 359, 381, 388, 424, 428, summary, 406; Charlestown, 383, 384, 386 n; Charming Polly, 368; Chatham, 352, 362, 377, 404, 407, 414; Cicero, 330, 358, 359, 368, 369, 379–381, 382, 391, 424, 429, summary, 407; Commerce, 379, 404, 407, 423, 424, 434; Concord, 330 n; Conqueror, 403; Content, 365, 407, 429; Cornwall, 407, 425, 427; Count D’Estaing, 378, 407, 432, 433, 435; Crawford, 357; Cumberland, 327, 430; Daniel, 358, 425; Defence, 327, 348, 353, 356, 356 n, 368, 377, 404, 425, 426, 427, 434, summary, 407; Despatch, 331, 429; D’Estaing, 378, 407; Diamond, 403, 418; Diana, 349, 357, 378, 402, 425, 428, 429, summary, 407, 408; Digby, 372; Dolphin, 357, 361, 361 n, 408, 429, 430, frequent use of the name, 323; Dolton, 389, 389 n; Dove, 340, 341, 408; Dreadnought, 432; Driver, 375, 408, 424, 429; Dunmore, 400; Eagle, 356, 402, 408, 427, 428, 429, 432; English, 402; Enterprise, 358, 413; Essex, 355, 356, 401, 402, 426, 430, summary, 408; Exchange, 428; Experiment, English ship, 356; Experiment, of Beverly, 373, 374, summary, 409, 432; Fair American, 346, 372; Fair Lady, 420; Falcon, 333; Fanny, English ship, 340, 402, 420, 428; Fanny, of Beverly, 377, 404, 430, 431, 433, 435, summary, 409; Favorite, 429; Fish Hawk, 353, 354, 402, 404, 428, 431, summary, 409; Fly, 346, 399, 410, 430, 431; Fortune, 374, 402, 410, 425, 427, 429, 431, frequent use of the name, 323; Fox, 387, 410, 429, 432; Francesco di Paula, 349, 350; Franklin, 325, 327, 345, 346, 365, 424, 425, 427, 428, 430, 432, 433, 434, summary, 410; Freedom, 331, 378, 400, 424, 428, 429, 431, 432, summary, 411; Friendship, English ship, 401; Friendship, of Beverly, 369, 373, 389, 401, 411, 427, insurance policy on, 370; Gates, 421, 432; Gen. Gates, 336, 404, 420; Gen. Lincoln, 426; Gen. Pickering, 425; Gen. Putnam, 434; Gen. Wayne, 404, 411, 425, 426, 430, 432; George, 327, 382; George Law, 136; Gloucester Packet, 328 n; Gold Wire, 349; Good Content, British prison ship, 401; Good Intent, 338; Good Man Richard, 390 n; Grand Turk, 433; Greyhound, 390; Hague, 327, 430; Hammond, 394 n, 402, 432, 434; Hampden, 344, 397, 401, 424, 425, 434, summary, 411; Hancock, 327, 390, 430, 431; Hannah, 324, 325, 327, 330, 330 n, 331, 364; Harlequin, 336, 420; Harriet Selvyl, 368 n; Harrison, 326; Hawk (Hawke), 342, 343, 343 n, 367, 375, 400, 403, 411, 421, 424, 429, 431; Hector, 367, 373, 412, 424, 426; Hermione (Hermionné), 383, 384, 386, 386 n; Hero, 361, 362, 362 n; Hiram, 337; Hope, English cruiser, 404; Hope, of Beverly, 360, 361, 412, 427, 429, 435; Hopewell, English ship, 349; Hopewell, of Beverly, 362, 426. 427; Hunter, British hospital ship, 389; Independence, 424, 425; Industry, 330, 337, 401, 424, 427; Intrepid, 411; Isaac, 333; Jack, 383, 384, 385, 386, 386 n, 427; James, 254; Jane, 424; Jason, 327, 428, 430; Jersey, British prison-ship, 388, 388 n, 389, 391 n, 392, 393, deaths on, 389; Jinny, 330 n; Junius Brutus, 346, 356, 412, 426, 430; Langdon, 433; Lee, 327, 331, 429; Leopard, 424; Levant, 339; Light Horse, 423 n; Little Vincent, 431; Lively, 384, 385, 386, 387, 401, 424, 426, 430, 433; Lord Dartmore, 336; Lord Howe, 352; Lord Sandwich, 350; Lynch, 325; Lyon, 359, 382, 383, 398, 404, 412, 426, 434; Maccaroni, 346; Marquis La Fayette, 426, 427, 434; Mars, 350, 375, 412, 413, 427, 435; Mary, 350, 351, 368; Mary and James, 338; Massachusetts, 433; Mayflower, 10, 16, 111; Mercury, 368, 379, 380; Milford, 333; Minerva, 428; Modesty, 434; Mohock (Mohawk), 346, 352, 357, 358, 359, 404, 413, 426, 433; Montgomery, 425, 426; Morning Star, 432; Nancy, 330 n; Nautilus, 334; Neptune, English brig, 352 n, 357; Neptune, of Beverly, 401, 413, 421, 424, 430, 435; Neustra Senora de Merced, 349; New Adventure, 413, 432; New Jersey, British prison ship, 403; North Briton, 329; Observer, 383, 385, 386; Oliver Cromwell, 342, 343, 344, 424, 425, 426, 427, 433, 435, summary, 413–414; Pacific, 404; Pallas, 349; Pandora, 387, 401; Patty, 428, 434; Peggy, 400; Pelican, 403; Penguin, 428; Phoenix, 428; Pilgrim, 330, 345, 346, 349, 349 n, 350, 351, 352, 352 n, 356, 359, 368, 378, 423, 424, 425, 428, 429, 431, 433, 434, summary, 414, 414 n; Pluto, 420, 433; Polly, 330 n, 336, 432; Porus, 346, 370, 426; Prince Edward, 360, 361, 372, 412; Princess Royal, 391; Prospect, 432; Protector, 333; Providence, Continental sloop, 358; Providence, English brig, 377, 409; Queen Charlotte, 355, 356, 408; Rainbow, 390; Rambler, 353, 356, 359, 366, 367, 368, 368 n, 369, 373, 374, 377, 381, 402, 421, 423, 424, 430, 431, 432, 433, summary, 415; Ranger, 382, 412, 433; Reasonable, 389; Reprisal, 337, 338, 415; Republic, 331, 365, 428; Resolution, 421, 430, 432, 434; Resource, 354, 377, 402, 403, 427, 431, 434, summary, 415; Retaliation, 336, 337, 401, 402, 428, 432, 433, summary, 416; Revenge, 336, 353, 354, 416, 432, 434, 435; Revolution, 358, 359, 381, 391, 416; Rhodes, 421; Rising Empire, 400; Rover, 337, 338, 338 n, 425, 428, summary, 416; St. Lucie, 337, 337 n; St. Mary’s Packet, 430; Salem Packet, 358; Sally, 330 n, 336, 366, 367, 369, 369 n, 416, 420, 426; Sarah Ann, 338; Saratoga, 336 n, 372, 416, 427, 428, 431, 432, 434; Satisfaction, 425, 433; Saucy Jack, 384; Scammell, 361, 384, 385, 386; Scorpion, Beverly privateer, 344, 402, 417, 424, 426, 429, 430, 431, 434; Scorpion, English hospital ship, 389; Scourge, 357, 359, 417, 432; Seaford, 411; Sebastian, 373, 404, 417, 423, 424, 427, 428, 430; Serapis, 390; Shaker, 360, 417, 430; Sibyl, 402; Siren, 433; Snake, 368, 368 n; Snapper, 368; Somerset, 269; Spanish Packet, 382, 417, 427; Spit Fire, 404, 432; Spring Bird, 432; Starks, 334, 370, 418, 428, 431, 432; Strombol, British hospital ship, 389; Sturdy Beggar, 337, 338, 418, 428, 430; Success, 337, 349, 350, 402, 418, 428, 429, 432, 434; Surprise, 428; Swallow, 361, 418, 423, 435; Swett, 427, 430; Swift, 359, 378, 379, 404, 415, 429, 434, 435, summary, 419; Tartar, 426, 428; Terrible Creature, 344, 345, 419, 425, 426, 432, 435; Thomas, 400, 431; Thompson, 383; Three Brothers, 349; Three Friends, 367; Three Sisters, 343; Tom, 340, 370, 401, 411, 420; Trenton, 430; True American, 341, 342, 419, 426, 434; True Blue, 425, 427, 429; Tryall (Tryal), 366, 396, 424, 435; Two Friends, 359, 419; Tyger, 426; Tyrannicide, 331, 425, 426, 428, 430, 431, 434; Union, 366, 367, 373, 412, 419, 425, 426, 429; Unity, 324, 341; Valenciano, 350; Valiant, 419, 425, 427, 430; Vengeance, 425; Vernon, 383; Viper, 378, 427; Volant, 424; Vulture, 383, 386 n; Warren, 327, 339, 340, 370, 402, 427, 430, 431, 432, 433, 434, summary, 419; Washington, 326, 338, 338 n, 401, 430, 431, 433, 434, privateering contract of, 339, summary, 420; Wilkes, 361; Yankee Hero, 400
Shirley, Gov. William, 199 n, 249; lands claimed to have been granted by, to J. H. Lydius, 1744, 53, 56, 59; his preparations for expedition against Crown Point, 438; his recall, 439
Shove, George, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Shute, Gov. Samuel, 82, 82 n, 109; promotes building of Massachusetts Hall, 83, 85, 92, 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 106; rebukes Judge Sewall for interrupting committee meeting, 100; treaty of, with Indians, 1717, 218
Sibbs, Rev. Richard (d 1635), 68
Sibley, Rev. John Langdon (d 1885), 8 n; quoted, on G. Rawlins, 3
Sidney, Algernon (d 1683), 317; portrait of, exhibited, 2
Silsbee, Nathaniel, 406
Silver, Early, belonging to Harvard College, paper by W. C. Lane, 165–176
Silvester, Joseph, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Simmons, Capt. Thomas, 343, 366, 367, 413, 414, 415, 424; commands held by, 433
Simpson, Benjamin, 69
Skeene, Philip, active in settling tract on Wood Creek, N. Y., 54
Skerry, George L., advertisement of, 141
Skiffe, James, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— Stephen, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Skinner, David, 393
Slavery, G. W. Briggs on, 125, 127; abolition of, in West Indies, 132
Smallcorn, Samuel, 415
Smith, Capt. —, 403
— Christopher, document signed by, 393
— Daniel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Edward, 419
— Capt. Elias (d 1817), 338, 339, 346, 347, 358, 378, 378 n, 406, 407, 413, 420, 425, 430, 432, 434, 435; commands held by, 433
— Ezra, 433
— Francis, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
— Col. Francis, his detachment in the Battle of Lexington, 258, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 277, 280, 281 n, 290
— George Girdler (d 1878), engraver, 177
— Hannah, wife of John, Ipswich, 164
— Henry, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— John, Ipswich, 164
— John, Perth Amboy, N. J., 239
— Rev. Josiah (H. C. 1725), 310, 312
— Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
— Samuel (d 1827), son of John, of Ipswich, officer of Martimercurian Company, 161, 162; sketch of, 164
— Rev. Samuel Abbot (d 1865), quoted, on Deacon Joseph Adams, 285 n
— Thomas, 407
— Rev. William (H. C. 1725), 310, 312
— Rev. William Burritt (d 1856), ordination of, 138
Snow, Anthony, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
—Charles Armstrong, A.B., death, xvii; reported, 111; tribute to, 113
— Mark, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Nicholas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Stephen, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and J. Mayhew, 1; land reserved for, in New Hampshire, by Gov. B. Wentworth, 32
Some Reflections on the Disputes between New-York, New-Hampshire, and Col. John Henry Lydius, 1764, authorship of, 52, 52 n; variation in copies, 53 n
Somers, Ct., and the Massachusetts boundary dispute, 43
Somersby, Henry, Newbury, on committee to inspect Massachusetts Hall, 1720, 107
Somes, Abraham, letter of, relating to his settlement on Mount Desert, 201 n
Soule, George, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
South Carolina, vote of, to expel S. Hoar, 1844, 128, 128 n; in Revolutionary naval warfare, 324
Southworth, Constant, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Edward, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Nathaniel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Spalding, Philip Leffingwell, 119
Sparrow, Jonathan, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Spofford, Dr. —, 325
Spooner, Ephraim, 411
— William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
Sprague, Benjamin, 402, 408, 409
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153, 153 n
— Joseph, 416
— Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
Standish, Alexander, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Josias, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Myles (d 1656), 20; forged signature of, exhibited, 63
Standly, Joseph, 414 n
— Capt. Robert, 400
— Willis, 406
Stanly, Edward, 413
Stebbins Island, Vt., 37
Stedman, Charles (d 1812), 260 n; quoted, on battle of Lexington, 264
Stephens, Abigail. See Davis
— John, 321
— John & Thomas, Beverly merchants, 321
— Thomas, Beverly ship-owner, 319, 322, 400
Stephenson (Stevenson), Capt. David, 420, 433
Stevens, Capt. John, 397; commands held by, 433
— Rev. Joseph (d 1721), on committee to prepare address of thanks to General Court for building Massachusetts Hall, 87, 107
— Phinehas (Phineas) (d 1756), 51
Stevenson, Jonathan, seaman, 410
— Dr. Jonathan Greely (H. C. 1816), 176 n, 177 n
Stewert, Joseph, 401; document signed by, 397
Stiles, Dr. Henry Reed, 392 n
— Capt. Richard, 425
Stirling, Earls of. See Alexander
Stirling, island of. See Long Island
—Anthony, buys Connecticut River lands, 1716, 44
— John, Northampton, on committee to inspect Massachusetts Hall, 1720, 107
Stone, Ebenezer, Newton, 104
— Edwin Martin, quoted, on the women’s raid in Beverly, 1777, 371
— Zachariah, 407
Stoughton, Lt.-Gov. William, builds Stoughton College, at Harvard, 82, 89, 171; gives silver bowl, or cup, to the College, 169, 170 n, 171
Stoward, Capt. Moses, 351
Street, Rev. George Edward (d 1900), cited, 234 n
Strout, Jacob, cruelty of, to American prisoners, 388; asks exchange, 393
Studson, Robert, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Sturgis, Edward, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
—Richard Clipston, A.B., on Nominating Committee, 60
Suffield, Ct., and the Massachusetts boundary dispute, 46
Sugar, capture and export of, during Revolution, 337
Sullivan, Rev. Thomas Russell (d 1862), 132
Sumner, Charles, G. W. Briggs quoted on P. S. Brooks’s attack on, 135
Sutton, Ebenezer, 202 n
Sutton’s Island, Me., 202 n
Swain, Benjamin, 408
Swansea, Plymouth Colony freemen in, 1675, 152
Swasey (Swazey), Joseph, 357, 407
— Capt. Nathaniel, 357, 377, 405, 407, 434
Swett, William, 347
Swift, Lindsay, A.B., death, xvii; tribute to, 303
— William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Symons, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Moses, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154, 154 n
Symonson, Moses, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
TAILER, Lt.-Gov. William, on committees connected with the building of Massachusetts Hall, 88, 89, 90, 94, 100, 103
Tanner, Nicholas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
Taunton, Plymouth Colony freemen in, 1675, 154
Taylor, Capt. —, 368 n
— George, his account of life on the prison-ship Jersey, 389
— John, captain of marines, 408
— John (d 1653), the water-poet, 314
— William, on Beverly Committee of Correspondence, 322
Temple, —, 440
— Sir Thomas (d 1674), 217
Tenney, Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel, 164
— Nathaniel, 164
— Dr. Samuel (d 1816), son of Nathaniel, officer of the Martimercurian Company, 161, 162; sketch of, 164
Tetard, Frances (Elliston) Dupuy, wife of Rev. John Peter, 78
— Rev. John Peter (d 1787), 78
Thacher, Dr. James (d 1844), quoted, on battle of Lexington, 275
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
— Judah, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
— Rodulphus, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Thaxter, Samuel, Hingham, on committee for choosing site for Massachusetts Hall, 1718, 96
Thayer, Eben T., 408
— John Eliot, A.M., on Auditing Committee, 60, 117, 257, 307
— Nathaniel, 415
— Zechariah, 69
Thomas, Edmond, 224
— Isaiah (d 1831), cited, on J. Ratcliff, 65; letter of the Abbé Rousselet to, 298 n
— Nathaniel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Nathaniel, Plymouth, on committee for choosing site for Massachusetts Hall, 1718, 96
— Capt. Thomas, 425
— William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151, 151 n
— William, Plymouth, 130 n
Thompson, Sir Benjamin, Count Rumford, 33
— Francis, 411
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
— Sarah (Walker) Rolfe, wife of Sir Benjamin, 33
— Thomas, 179
— William, 418
Thomson, Elihu, 308
Thornbrough, Capt. Edward, of the English frigate Blonde, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387
Thorndike, Abigail. See Woodberry
— Capt. Andrew, 321 n, 372, 403, 404, 415, 424; offices held by, 434
— Anna (Morgan), wife of Andrew, 321 n
— Ebenezer, 434
— Henry, ship-owner, of Beverly, 320, 370
— Isaac, ship-owner, of Beverly, 320
— Capt. Israel (d 1825), son of Andrew, Beverly, 321 n, 322; ship-owner and merchant, 319, 320, 321, 347; officer of State navy, 321; commander of privateers, 339, 344, 377, 415, 417, 419, 424, 427, 430, 431, 433, 434
— Jeremiah, 409
— John, 390 n
— Larkin (d 1786), Beverly, 321, 390 n; ship-owner, 322, 347, 348, 354, 378, 405, 406, 408; captain of minutemen, 1775, 347 n
— Nicholas, 322, 403, 415, 416
— Osmond (Osman), 400, 409, 418
Thorne, Lt. Peregrine Francis, 268 n
Throop, William, Bristol, on committee for choosing site for Massachusetts Hall, 1718, 96; on committee to inspect it, 1720, 107
Thwing, Samuel, 420
Tibbets, Capt. —, 361
Tileston, Thomas, and others, land grant to, 1735, 49
Tilson, Ephraim, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Tilton, Abraham, and others, land grant to, 1735, 49
Tinkham, Ephraim, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Tisdall, James, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
— John, Sr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154, 154 n
— John, Jr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
Tittle, Capt. John (d 1800), 372, 372 n, 379, 416, 419, 424; commands held by, 434
Titus, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Tomlinson, Rev. Russell, 130, 131, 133, 133 n
Tompkins, Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Tonge, Capt. Richard Peter, 386 n
Torrey, James, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Tortola, expedition against, 346
Touche. See La Touche
Townsend, Samuel (d 1815), Charlestown, 269
Townshend, Charles (d 1767), 231
Township grants, by Massachusetts, in the Penobscot region, 202, 204, 210, 219, 232, 233, 241, 242; correspondence of Gov. Bernard and the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations concerning, 220–231
Toy, Nancy (Saunders), wife of Crawford Howell (d 1919), 148
Tracy, Capt., 400
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Trask, —, of Nova Scotia, 354
— Daniel, 405
— Isaac, 345
— Israel, 405
— Capt. Joseph, 434
— Capt. Philip, 434
Trewant, Morris, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
Tropater, John, 408
Trumbull, Jonathan (d 1785), Governor of Connecticut, 262 n, 278 n, 380
— Jonathan (d 1809), Governor of Connecticut, son of Jonathan (d 1785) quoted, on cruise of the Cicero, 379, 380
— Mary, petition of, and others, 206, 207–209
Trusedale, Katharine, wife of Richard (d c 1676), 63
— Mary, widow of Richard (d 1671), benefactress of Harvard College, 63
— Richard (d 1671), 63 n; sketch of, 62, 62 n; erroneously called William, 62
— Richard (d c 1676), son of William, of England, 62 n, 63
— William. See Trusedale, Richard (d 1671)
— William, of England, 62 n
Tubbs, William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Tuck, Eliza (Sewall), wife of William, 382 n
— Sewell, 354
— William, 382 n
— Capt. William (d 1784), son of William, 382, 382 n, 384, 385, 404, 412, 420, 423, 423 n, 424; with others, petitions General Court in behalf of Nova Scotian traders, during the Revolution, 398; commands held by, 434
Tucker, Capt. Samuel, 327
Tufts, John, 417
— Simon (H. C. 1724), 310, 312
Tunis, Rev. John (d 1896), installation of, at Cambridge, 124 n
Tupper, Thomas, Sr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— Thomas, Jr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Turell, Rev. Ebenezer (d 1778), quoted, on an early society in Harvard College, 158, 309
Turner, John, Sr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— John, Jr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— John, gunner on the Pilgrim, 414 n
— Capt. John, 345, 410, 424, 425, 434
— Thomas, Scituate, on committee for choosing site for Massachusetts Hall, 1718, 96
— Capt. William (d 1676), 38
Turner’s Falls, battle at, 1676, 38
Tuttle, Julius Herbert, 64; speaks on book which belonged to R. Keayne, now in Prince Library, 8–9; appointed on Nominating Committee, 60; cited regarding books compiled by R. Elliston, 80; reports for Nominating Committee, 117
Tyng, Edward, 67
UNITARIAN Book and Pamphlet Society, formation of, 133 n
United States, relations of, with Great Britain, 1846, 130; Congress, resolution of, 1775, regarding seized vessels, 328; offers bounties, 1777, for prisoners and captured cannon, 394
— Senate, relations of, to the President, 180–182
Updike, Daniel Berkeley, quoted, on Rev. D. Bradstreet, 7 n; cited, regarding books compiled by R. Elliston, 78, 80
Uromcon, Barret, 58
Usher, Hezekiah (d 1697), 66
— James, Archbishop of Armagh, 186
— Rev. John (d 1775), 5
Utrecht, treaty of, as affecting land claims in America, 216, 217, 218, 224, 236, 238, 248
VANBRUCK, Peter, and others, petition for land grant, 1708, 46
Van Rensselaer, Killian, 48
Van Schaick, Anthony, 48
Vassall, John (d 1747), 174; gift of, to Harvard College, 169, 170 n, 172
— William (d 1800), brother of John (d 1747), 174; gift of, to Harvard College, 169, 170 n, 172
Vaughan, — (H.C. 1726), 310, 311, 312
Ven, —, 175, 175 n; gifts of, to Harvard College, 167
Ven, John, 167 n
— Thomas, son of John, 167 n
Vergennes, Comte de. See Gravier
Vermont, land grants in, by Massachusetts, 35–59; territory of, claimed by surrounding colonies, 35; earliest English settlement in, 37
Vernon, Francis, Viscount Orwell and Earl of Shipbrook of Newry, 231
Vernon, Vt., originally included in Northfield, Mass., 36; later in Hinsdale, N. H., 38; organized as Hinsdale, Vt., 39
Very, Benjamin, 401; document signed by, 397
Vesey, Rev. William (d 1746), 5
Vickory, Herbert, 415
Vierevant, J. Evers, 80 n
Vinall, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— Stephen, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Vincent, Henry, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
Virgil, C. Mather compared to, 188–189
Vixon, Robert, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Vose, Moses, 414 n
— Solomon (d 1809), officer of the Martimercurian Company, 163; sketch of, 163 n
— William, 414 n
WADE, Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Wadsworth, Rev. Benjamin, President of Harvard College, on committees connected with the building of Massachusetts Hall, 88, 89, 98, 100, 103, 108; his plan, 83, 85 n, 95 n; frames Overseers’ vote on Biblical instruction in the College, 102; quoted, on Vaughan (H. C. 1726), 311
— Christopher, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Joseph, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Wages, on privateers and ships carrying letters of marque, 335, 353, 353 n; of ordinary seamen, 1779, 353 n
Wainwright, Francis (d 1711), 174; gift of, to Harvard College, 168, 169
Waldo, Samuel, 245 n
Walker, James, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— Philip, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Sarah. See Thompson
—William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Rev. Williston, D.D., death, xvii
Wallace, Nathaniel, 404
Walley, Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
Wallis, Nathaniel, 419
Walton, Ephraim, 415
Walz, John Albrecht, notes on his study of the term God’s Acre, 293–295
Ward, Gen. Artemas, quoted, 331
— Samuel, 419
Ware, Horace Everett, bequest of, received, 81, 112
— Rev. John Fothergill Waterhouse (d 1881), 133
Ware, granted, 1715, to Connecticut, 43
Warren, Capt. Benjamin, 336, 344, 411, 414, 416; commands held by, 434
— Rev. John (H. C. 1725), 310, 312
— Winslow, Plymouth, 131
— Hon. Winslow, LL.B., his paper, The Pilgrim Spirit, 10–23, 111
Washburne, John, Sr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153, 153 n
— John, Jr., freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Washington, George, 256, 325, 326, 329, 331; centennial of inauguration of, as President, 144, 144 n; relations of, to the Senate, 180–182; quoted, on Percy’s retreat from Lexington, 266; issues first commission to a privateer, 324; quoted, on privateering exploits, 327; directions of, to commanders, 327; quoted, on conditions at beginning of year 1780, 354; action of, concerning American prisoners of war, 387, 393; anecdote relating to, 403
Waterford, N. Y., 439 n
Waterman, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153, 153 n
Waters, Capt.—, 327
—Benjamin, 370, 373; agreement signed by, 374
—Capt. Daniel, 434
Watson, George, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
Watson-Wentworth, Charles, second Marquis of Rockingham, 31, 51
Weare Papers, 34
Webb, Gen. Daniel, 439
— Rev. Nathan (H. C. 1725), 310, 312
— Capt. Stephen, 359, 372, 379, 404, 407, 416; commands held by, 434
Webster, Daniel (d 1852), 160; visits Belfast, Me., 34
— Ezekiel, brother of Daniel, 34
Weekly Memorials for the Ingenious, founded 1682, 314
Weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome, 315, 316
Weeks, Clement (d 1830), son of William, 159; sketch of, 161, 161 n
— Elinor, wife of William, 161
— Joseph, 405
— William, 161
Weiss, Rev. John (d 1879), 132
Wellman, Capt. Adam, 338 n
Wells, Thomas, a proprietor of Benardston, 38
Welsh, Mary, wife of Thomas, Charlestown, 164
— Thomas, Charlestown, 164
— Dr. Thomas (d 1831), son of Thomas, Charlestown, officer of the Martimercurian Company, 161, 162; sketch of, 164
Wendell, Barrett, Litt.D., 188; death, xvii; cited, 183, 185; quoted, on C. Mather, 184; tribute to, 302
Wentworth, Benning (d 1770), Governor of New Hampshire, son of John (d 1730), 31, 51; promotes Episcopalianism, 32; enriches himself in office, 33
— Charles Watson, second Marquis of Rockingham. See Watson-Wentworth, Charles
— John (d 1730), Lieutenant-Governor of New Hampshire, 31
— Sir John (d 1820), Governor of New Hampshire, nephew of Gov. Benning, 31; attempts to convert the Province to Episcopalianism, 32; intimacy of, with Count Rumford, 33; thermometer belonging to, exhibited, 33
Wessagussett, and Plymouth Colony, 15
West, Rev. Charles E., 392 n
— Francis, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
— Capt. Nathaniel, 344, 345, 347, 406, 419; offices held by, 435
— Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
West Indies, abolition of slavery in, 132
Westminster, Vt., grant of, 45, 50; vote of Massachusetts General Court concerning, 52
Weston, Edmond, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 153
Westonians, 187
Wetmore, William (d 1830), officer of the Martimercurian Company, 162; sketch of, 162 n
Wheelock, Rev. Eleazer (d 1779), conflict of, with Gov. J. Wentworth concerning religious control of Dartmouth College, 32
Wheelwright, Edward (d 1900), bequest of, 301
Whipple, Dana, 415
— Matthew, Ipswich, on committee for choosing site for Massachusetts Hall, 1718, 96
White, Daniel Appleton (d 1861), 123 n, 138, 140
— Emanuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
— Isaac, 345
— John (d 1721), Treasurer of Harvard College, buys Connecticut River lands, 1716, 45; on committee to prepare address of thanks to General Court for building Massachusetts Hall, 87, 107
— Jonathan, 415
— Joseph, Salem ship-owner, 344, 346, 406, 417
— Capt. Joseph, Salem, 336, 416, 435
— Peregrine, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Peter, 350
— Phillips (d 1811), son of William, 164, 164 n
— Phillips (d 1774), son of Phillips (d 1811), officer of the Martimercurian Company, 161, 162; sketch of, 164
— Resolved, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Sarah (Phillips), wife of William, 164 n
— William, 164 n
— Rev. William Ome (d 1911), 23
Whitney, Dr. Elisha (d 1807), 372, 372 n, 401
Whittaker, Richard, propounded freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
Whittemore, Samuel, in battle of Lexington, 287, 288 n
Whittingham, William (H. C. 1660), gift of, to Harvard College, 167, 167 n, 168
Whittredge (Whitreg), Elijah, 408
— Joseph, 415
— Livermore, Beverly, 347; ship-owner, 1772, 320, 322, 322 n, 377, 406, 408, 409
— William, 322 n
Wilbur, James Benjamin, 308; elected Corresponding Member, 309; accepts, 318
Wilcox, John A. J., his engraving of a portrait of Gov. Bernard, 249 n, 250
Wilder, James H., 143
Willard, Sec. Josiah, 39, 41, 199 n
Willett, James, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
William and Mary, 204, 205, 206, 209, 211, 214, 217, 218
William’s War, King, 36
Williams, Ephraim, 57
— George, 347, 365, 406; quoted, on scarcity of food and money during the Revolution, 341, 355; on privateering luck, 358, 423; on prices, 371, 376; with others, petitions General Court, 1781, to take visiting Nova Scotians as prisoners of war, 397
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— John, (H. C. 1725), 310, 312
— Joseph, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
— Nathaniel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
— Richard, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— Roger, 68
— Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
Williamson, Timothy, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
Willis, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Nathaniel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
— Samuel (H. C. 1653), 175
— Rev. Zephaniah (d 1847), 131; sketch of, 131 n
Wills, William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Wilmot, Montagu, Governor of Nova Scotia, 199, 236, 237
— Thomas, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Wilmouth, John, propounded freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
Wilson, Benjamin (d 1788), his portrait of Gov. John Wentworth, of New Hampshire, 31
— Rev. John (d 1667), 9, 178 n
— Rev. John (d 1691), son of Rev.
John (d 1667), 9, 178 n; document of, 178
— John (d 1728), son of Rev. John (d 1691), sketch of, 178, 178 n
— John (d 1848), 34
— Mary, sister of Rev. John (d 1691). See Rock
— Woodrow, President, 63; quoted, on President’s power of removal of officers, 181
Winchester, N. H., originally included in Northfield, Mass., 36; charter granted to, 1753, 37
Wines, Bridget, 63
Wingate, Rev. Paine (1838), cited, regarding fellow-commoners, 175
Winlowe, Margery, daughter of Richard. See Bernard
— Richard, 198
Winship, George Parker, Litt.D., exhibits book-plates of E. Holyoke and G. Rawlins, 2
—Jason, killed at Cooper’s Tavern, April 19, 1775, 286–289; sketch of, 287 n
— Lydia, sister of Jason. See Wyman
Winslow, —, 441
— Edward (d 1655), Governor of Plymouth Colony, 17, 20, 190; attitude of, in writing of the Pilgrims, 16
— Edward (d 1753), silversmith, 174
— Isaac, Jr., and others, petition of, concerning land lost by adjustment of Massachusetts boundary, 39
— Jonathan, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
— Joshua, and others, petition of, concerning land lost by adjustment of Massachusetts boundary, 39
— Josiah (d 1680), Governor of Plymouth Colony, son of Gov. Edward, 152; freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150, 150 n
— Kenelm, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 149
— Nathaniel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 150
Winsor, Justin, 95 n
Winthrop, Adam (d 1743), 93, 95
— John, Jr. (d 1676), Governor of Connecticut, his offer of presidency of Harvard College to Comenius, 295 n
— Wait (d 1717), son of John (d 1676), funeral of, 88
— William (d 1825), 8 n
Wire, John, 247
Witherell, Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Witherill, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— Theophilus, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— William, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 155
Wolcott, Roger, Governor of Connecticut, 44
Wood, —, 206
— Ann. See Bradstreet
— David, 269
— John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152, 152 n
— Joseph, 333 n
— Joseph (d 1808), son of Joseph, 322, 333, 376; sketch of, 333 n
— Joshua (H. C. 1727), 310, 312
— Joshua, ship-owner, 349 n
— Ruth (Haskell), wife of Joseph, 333 n
— Samuel, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
— Stephen, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151
Woodberry, Abigail (Thorndike), wife of Jacob, 360 n
— Capt. Asa (d 1830), son of Thomas, 379, 379 n, 419, 423; commands held by, 435
— Benjamin, 435; deposition of, 1782, concerning behavior of prisoners, 396
— Cornelius, 411
— Capt. Herbert (d 1809), son of Jacob, 360, 360 n, 361, 404, 409, 412, 428, 433; commands held by, 435
— Joanna. See Herrick
— Joseph, 402
— Lucy (Herrick), wife of Thomas, 322 n, 379 n
— Luke, 409
— Nathaniel, 402
— Thomas (b 1743), son of Thomas, Beverly ship-owner, 319, 322, 322 n, 377, 415
— Capt. W., Jr., 435
Woodbury, John, A.B., exhibits book by J. Brown, with manuscript annotations by T. Hollis, 312, 313; book given to Harvard College, 313 n
Woodcocke, John, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 151, 151 n
Wooden, Jonathan, 415
— Nathan, 408
Woodstock, Ct., and the Massachusetts boundary dispute, 43, 46
Woodward, Nathaniel, with S. Saffery, employed to locate southern boundary of Massachusetts, 1642, 41
Woodworth, Joseph, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
— Walter, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 154
Worsely, Capt. —, 423
Wren, Sir Christopher, 74 n
Wright, Richard, freeman of Plymouth Colony, 1675, 152
Wyatt, William, 406
Wyman, Jabez, killed at Cooper’s Tavern, April 19, 1775, 286–289; sketch of, 287 n
— Lydia (Winship), wife of Jabez, 287 n
Wyndham, Sir Charles, second Earl of Egremont, 206
YALE College, the great apostacy at, 1722, 5; benefits by sale of lands granted to Connecticut in settlement of boundary, 44
Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony freemen in, 1675, 149
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, settlement of, 363, 364
York, Duke of, grant to, of the province of New York, 1663–64, 208, 209; of land on the Kennebec River, 1664, 217. See also James II
Yorke, John, 224
Young, Thomas (d 1777), 54; author of pamphlet signed Philadicaios, entitled Some Reflections, etc., 1764, 52
ZENGER, John Peter (d 1746), 79
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 “mr 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. — obt 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 “Rll 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 ye clear between ye 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 ye Entry way; and two studies in each of ye 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 ye Rere-end chambers, by reason of ye end-lights, then ye whole number will be 66. The * or stars are studies. D.L. is a Door way in ye first story, & Lights in ye higher ones.
If ye middle, as well as ye end, chambers, in ye Rere, have three studies each, yn ye whole will be seventy two. And if it be thus contriv’d, each chamber (besides Lights for ye 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.
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301 To this point the entry is crossed out.
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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 “2d.”
326 The words “2d Lieut.” are written above “Ensign,” crossed out.
327 Altered from “Clark.”
328 The first figure is somewhat uncertain.
329 Here the words “Rice tert 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 “Mr 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
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- 1 Bowl: Edward Holyoke
- 2 Tea-pot: William Kneeland
- 3 Cup: Samuel Browne
- 4 Tankard
- 5 Tankard
Plate II
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- 6 Tankard: John Vassall. Cf. No. 11
- 7 Candlestick: Henry Flynt. Cf. No. 10
- 8 Cup: William Stoughton
- 9 Salt: Richard Harris
- 10 Candlestick: Henry Flynt. Cf. No. 7
- 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 ye 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 ye 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 “4th.”
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 1st 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 ye Presidt & 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.