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Bamstm iJ^emxmal: 
 
 IPSWICH, MASS., SEPTEMBER 20, 1882, 
 
 TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF 
 MAJOR-GENERAL DANIEL DENISON. 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL SKETCHES. 
 
Bsmstm 'Mmmvwl: 
 
 IPSWICH, MASS., SEPTEMBER 20, 1882, 
 
 TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF 
 MAJOR-GENERAL DANIEL DENISON. 
 
 BIOGRAPICAL SKETCH, BY PROF. D. D. SLADE 
 
 HISTORICAL MvETCH, BY AUGUSTINK CALDWELL 
 
 Printed by the Request of 
 'I' he Denison Memorial Committee. 
 
 
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CONTENTS 
 
 1. The Call Page 5 
 
 2. Denison Memorial, by C. A. Sayward, Esq. 6 
 
 3. Order of Exercises. 7 
 4 Opening Remarks. Rev. T. F. Waters 7 
 
 5. Biographical Sketch, Prof- D. D. Slade. 8 
 
 6. Historical Sketch, A. Caldwell 33 
 
 7. Genealogical, 47 
 K. Denison Subscribers, 164«, 47 
 9. Denison Inscription*. 49 
 
 10. Records. 52 
 
Bam80.ii- iBawmual 
 
 From the Ipswich Chronicle, July 22, 1882. 
 MAJOR-GENERAL DANIEL DENISON. 
 
 Mr. Editor: The twentieth of September next will be the Two 
 Hundredth Anniversary of the Death of Major-General Daniel 
 Denison, who was not only a very, prominent and influential man in 
 the early history of our town, but a very able and efficient man in the 
 Colony; serving it in various capacities from 1634 tolG82, the year 
 of his death. That he was highly appreciated by his townsmen, our 
 records furnish abundant evidence. No other man who has lived in 
 Ipswich was ever so highly honored as was General Denison by the 
 efforts which were made by his townsmen to retain him among them 
 as their military leader. Upon him they relied for safety from 
 Indian attacks, and while he remained among them they felt secure. 
 Indeed, the entire Colony of Massachusetts seemed to have placed 
 the utmost confidence in his military skill and judgment; and no 
 where do we find such confidence was misplaced. 
 
 Such a man settled in our town, lived and died among our ancestors 
 and his last resting place is in our midst. It seems appropriate that 
 we should in sonic way recognize the work, worth, and utility of such 
 a man, and keep his memory fresh among us. 
 
 At the suggestion and request of several gentlemen, I invite all who 
 would be interested in commemoia'.ing the Two Hundredth Anni- 
 versary of his death, to meet at tin; Seminary on Friday evening, 
 July 28, 1882, at eight o'clock, to make arrangements therefor. 
 
 CHARLES A. SAYWARD. 
 
 At a meeting held in the Seminary, July 28, to consider the 
 observance of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Death of 
 Major-General Daniel Denison, the following gentlemen were chosen 
 to make the necessary and appropriate arrangements: 
 
 CHARLES A. SAYWARD, I'SQ., 
 MR. .JOHN HEARD, 
 REV. T. FRANK WATERS, 
 Y0R1CK G. KURD, M. D. 
 CHARLES PALMER. M. I). 
 
6 DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 
 
 From the Ipswich Chronicle, September 16, 18*2. 
 THE DENISON MEMORIAL. 
 
 CHARLES A. SAYWAKD, ESQ. 
 
 A very interesting service wiil be held at the Town Hall on 
 Wednesday evening of nex'. week commemorative of Major-General 
 Daniel Denison. who was one of the early pioneers of the Town. He 
 was the son of William Denison, of Roxburv, and was born probably 
 in England about 1612. He was admitted a freeman in Boston April 
 1, 1684, and appears to have come to Ipswich soon after; for in 1635 
 the town granted him "an house lot near the mill, containing about 
 two acres, which he hath paled in and built an house upon." The 
 lot comprised part of the land between Market, Union and Winter 
 streets. He was a military man, and had undoubtedly served in the 
 army before he came to this country. The people of the town soon 
 became aware of the value of his experience and knowledge of military 
 affairs, and took great pains to retain him among them, for in 16-18, 
 the residents of Ipswich agreed to give him £24 7s per year so long 
 as he would remain their leader. This sum was raised by subscription, 
 and the list was recorded upon the town books. One hundred aud 
 fifty-rive persons subscribed for that purpose. 
 
 He also became very prominent in Colonial affairs. He was Major 
 General for eleven years ; and also served on several important 
 commissions. In 1658 he had a grant of "one-quarter of Block 
 Island for his great pains in revising, correcting and transcribing the 
 Colonial Laws. 
 
 He died September 20, 1682, and was buried in the High street 
 burying ground, where his ashes now repose 
 
 It is creditable to our town that we have among us those who are 
 ready to revive and keep fresh the memory of those who labored, 
 suffered and endured in laying the foundation upon which their 
 descendants have built so well. The subject will take us back into 
 the early history of the town, and bring vividly to mind the early 
 struggles and trials of those who first broke the wilderness and 
 commenced the settlement of Ipswich. 
 
 We hope our citizens will attend the Memorial ; and that it may 
 create an interest in our local history, and stir our -people to undertake 
 the celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the 
 Incorporation of the Town. Fifty years ago, when Rufus Choate 
 was in his prime, the town observed the Two Hundredth Anniversary, 
 and Mr. Choate delivered the Oration. The present generation 
 ought to be able to do as well, and keep the story of the fathers fresh. 
 
DENISON MEMORIAL. IPSWICH, MASS. 
 
 ORDER OF EXERCISES 
 
 COMMEMORTIVE OF 
 
 Major- General Daniel Denison, 
 
 On the Two Hundredth Anniversary of his Death, 
 
 AT THE TOWN HALL, IPSWICH, MASS., 
 
 WEDNESDAY EVE NINCi, SEPTEMBER 20, 1882. 
 
 1. Introductory Address. — Rev. T. Frank Waters. 
 
 2. Prayer. — Rev. Charles N. Smith. 
 
 '■). Singing. — k ' Majesty.''' 
 
 1. Biographical Sketch of Gen. Denison Prof. Daniel Denison Slade, 
 
 Harvard University. 
 • r >. Singing. — " York." The Hymn was "lined off," by the Rev. E. 
 
 B. Palmer. 
 
 G. Address. — " Ipswich, 1633-1G82." Augustine Caldwell. 
 
 7. Singing. — "America." 
 
 OPENING REMARKS OF THE ACTING CHAIRMAN. 
 
 REV. T. FRANK WATERS, ' 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen : In the absence of the Chairman, Charles 
 A. Say ward, Esq., who is unavoidably detained at Worcester, it 
 devolves upon me to stand in his place before you, to-night. 
 
 1 regret that we are thus deprived both of his presence, and the 
 opening address, which he had prepared, and which would have 
 added much to the interest of the occasion. 
 
 Though I am wholly unprepared to address you, you will pardon 
 me, I am sure, for presuming to express my gratification that we have 
 met for so. excellent a purpose. It is wise for us to pause now and 
 then in this busy age, and look back into the past, to see what lessons 
 we may learn from the men and things of the olden time. It is 
 specially fitting, that on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the death 
 of Gen. Daniel Denison. a townsman, who as soldier and statesman, 
 was a tower of strength to the infant colony, we should assemble to 
 study his character, to commemorate his virtues and his notable deeds, 
 and to render him the honor that is his due. It is our privilege to 
 have with us as the orators of the occasion, two, who are well fitted 
 to tell us the story of the man and of his time : and I take great 
 pleasure in yielding the floor at once. 
 
DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 
 
 Biographical Sketch of Major General Daniel Denison, 
 
 r.Y PROF. DANIEL DENISON ' SLADE, OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 
 
 Two hundred years have passed since the death of the distinguished 
 man whose memory we this evening commemorate. Two hundred 
 years! What a comparatively small fragment of time, and yet what 
 mighty changes have occured upon these shores within this period. 
 
 For the first half century of the history of the Colony of Massa- 
 chusetts Bay, we find tlje name of Daniel Denison standing 
 conspicuous among the leading events of the time ; and although 
 unfortunately for us, the records of his life are few and scattered, yet 
 we have sufficient data by which to fill out a portraiture, which should 
 be interesting not only to these his fellow townsmen, but to his 
 countrymen generally. 
 
 The ancestry of Gen. Denison was evidently of Norman extraction. 
 There is no certainty as to the exact period at which the family 
 emigrated to this country, nor do we know from what county in 
 England it came. There is good authority to suppose that the father, 
 William Denison, with his wife Margaret, and their three sons, 
 Daniel, Edward and George, came with the apostle Eliot, in 1631. 
 He settled in Roxbur}', and took the oath of freeman in 1632. In 
 the following year he whs appointed Constable; and Deputy in 1634, 
 in which latter capacity he was called upon to serve on important 
 committees. In 1637, together with his son Edward, he was disarmed 
 for taking part in the antinomian controversy. That he was a man 
 of substance, and that he was an ardent friend of education and 
 religion, the records of the town and church give evidence. He died 
 January 25, 1653 Of the mother, we have only the record of her 
 joining the church under Eliot, in 1632, and of tier death, February 
 three, 1645. 
 
 Daniel Denison, the subject of to day's consideration, was the eldest 
 son ; and was born in England in 1612, being about nineteen years of 
 age on his arrival in the colony. He passed the first year in Roxbury, 
 with his parents, removing the following year to (Newtown) Cam- 
 bridge, 1632, his name being on the list of the first settlers and 
 church members. He was there married to Patience, the daughter of 
 Gov. Thomas Dudley, who was then also a resident of this place. 
 Of the exact date of their marriage, no record is now known to exist. 
 He took the oath of freeman in 1634, and in this vear, the Genera! 
 
DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, \H*s. 9 
 
 Court appoint him upon a committee to "sett out the bounds of all 
 towns not yet sett out ; and to settle all differences between any 
 towns," rewarding him for this and other services by a grant of two 
 hundred acres, "all lyeing and being about the falls, easterly side of 
 Charles River." His connection with Newtown was however of short 
 duration ; for he removed to Ipswich, where, in 1635, "a house lot 
 of about two acres which he hath paled in and builc an house upon." 
 together with other land was assigned to him. Why he should have 
 quitted Cambridge so suddenly after having joined the church and 
 interested himself in the town affairs can only be conjectured. It is 
 probable that circumstances induced him to follow his father-in-law, 
 Gov. Dudley, wbo had taken up his abode in Ipswich. A.nd now for 
 the remainder of his days, Daniel Denison is intimately associated 
 with the history of this ancient town, which he honored by a career of 
 public usefulness which falls to tlie lot of few men. 
 
 Taking up the records of his life in chronological order, we find 
 that in 1635 he was chosen Deputy ; serving in this capacity for three 
 consecutive years, and again in 1640, 44, 48, 49, 51 and 52. In 
 1637 he was a member of the memorable court which judged Mrs. 
 Hutchinson and her sympathizers, and upon which subject it may not 
 be uninteresting to dwell briefly in this connection. The antinomian 
 controversy may be classified among the list of heresies, which, as a 
 recent distinguished historian [Rev George E. Ellis,] remarks, "the 
 worst thing about them is their names with the ill associations which 
 they have acquired." The antimouiuus believed that those who felt 
 spiritually that they were under "a covenant of faith," need not 
 concern themselves about "the covenant of works." In other words, 
 that the Gospel had abolished the Law, and that good works are not 
 necessary as duties of Christianity. The word antinomian signifies 
 a denial of the obligation of the moral law, under the christian 
 dispensation. This "heresy," had its origin in Germany, and was 
 there associated with much that was gross and licentious. No such 
 evil however, was connected with the party in New England. The 
 introducer and leader of antinomianism among the colonists, was Mrs. 
 Anne Hutchinson, who was the daughter of an English clergyman, 
 and whose mother was a relative of the celebrated poet, John Dryden. 
 Being interested in the preaching of John Cotton, and of her relative, 
 John Wheelwright, and being desirous of enjoying the ministry of 
 Cotton, she came to Boston in 1634 ; and with her husband lived on 
 the corner of the present Washington and School streets. She soon 
 made herself kaown by her friendly services to the sick, especially to 
 those of her own sex. Being a woman of superior intelligence, - k of 
 nimble wit," and gifted in powers of argumentation, she drew about 
 
10 DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 
 
 her many listeners, who came to hear her discuss the sermons of those 
 ministers who differed from her views, and who preached in her 
 judgment "a covenant of works." Many of the principle people of 
 Boston sympatized with her. These discussions led to the dissemin- 
 ation of jealousy, discord and bitterness of spirit, not only among 
 those immediately engaged in the controversy, but among the entire 
 people, a great portion of whom were ignorant of the cause or sig- 
 nificance of the contest in which they were engaged, and who had 
 been excited thereto through the heat of strife. 
 
 " The dispute," says Bancroft, "infused its spirit into everything ; 
 it interfered with the levy of troops for the Pequot war ; it influenced 
 the respect shown to the .magistrates ; the distribution of town lots; 
 the assessment of taxes ; and at last the continued existence of the 
 two opposing parties was considered inconsistent with the public 
 peace " The most serious charge brought against Mrs. Hutchinson 
 was that she "'vented her revelations ;" or in other words, she 
 prophesied judgment and disaster to come upon the colony as revealed 
 1o her by special divine communications. Being brought before the 
 General Court, the following sentence was passed upon her : that 
 "being convented for traducing the ministers and their ministry in 
 this countrv, she declared voluntarily her revelations for her ground, 
 and that she should be delivered, and the Court ruined with their 
 posterity, and thereupon was banished." Many inhabitants in sym- 
 pathy with her were by order of the Court disarmed ; among whom 
 were, as we have already seen, William Denison, the father, and his 
 son George. The reason given by the Court for this indignity, which 
 by the way. was a very serious matter, although quietly effected, was 
 "as there is just cause of suspicion that they as others in Germany in 
 former times, may upon some revelation, make some sudden irruption 
 upon those that differ from them in judgment." The order of 
 disarming extended to "guns, pistols, swords, powder, shot and 
 match ;" and "that none of those disarmed should buy or borrow anv 
 guns, swords, pistols, powder, shot or match, otherwise they would 
 be subjected to the same penalty." Thus ended this unhappy episode 
 in the early life of the colony ; while the fate of its chief actor was 
 tragical in the extreme, being massacred with her family by the 
 indians, in the Dutch territory, to which she had moved from Rhode 
 Island, after the death of her husband in 1642. 
 
 What special views were held by Daniel Denison in this controversy, 
 we have no means of ascertaining. We can hardly suppose him to 
 have been a sympathiser with Mrs. Hutchinson. 
 
 In 1636, he was made town clerk of Ipswich, and in the same year 
 was chosen " Captaine," as well as Assistant in the quarterly court 
 
DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 1 I 
 
 held in Ipswich. In 1638, Capt. Denison with others was allowed 
 upon petition "to begin a plantation at Merrimack," (Salisbury.) 
 In 1641, he was one of a committee for furthering the trade in Ipswich. 
 They were to ' v set up buoys, beacons, provide salt, cotton, sowing- 
 hempseed, llax-seed and card-wire." In 1643, the town granted him 
 200 acres of land, for bis "better encouragement to settle among us." 
 
 At about this period commences that dependence which was placed 
 by the colonisls upon Denison as a military leader, which seems never 
 to have been afterwards shaken. Owing to the great alarm which 
 spread throughout the plantations from a report that a general con- 
 spiracy existed among the native tribes, at a session of the General 
 Court in May 1643. it was ordered that there should be a general 
 training of troops, and provision of arms, and that Capt. Denison 
 with five others should put the country into a posture of war, and to 
 see to fortifications. Capt. Denison, together with several gentlemen 
 of Ipswich. Rowley, and the adjoining towns, "out of the care for the 
 safety of the public weal, by the advancement of the military art and 
 exercise of arms," were, upon their petition, incorporated as a miltary 
 company, in May, 1615. The town also agrees to pay him t'24 Is 
 annually, to be their military leader ; and at this time he was chosen 
 Sergeant Major, an office which he held until his election as Major 
 General. Johnson in his Wonder- Working Providence, thus speaks 
 of his abilities as a commander: "The two counties of Essex and 
 Norfolk, are for the present joyne<l in one regiment. Their first 
 Major who now commandeth this regiment is the proper and valiant 
 Major Daniel Denison ; a good souldier, and of a quick capacity, not 
 inferior to any other of these chief officers ; his own company are well 
 instructed in feats anil warlike activity." 
 
 With military duties Major Denison is railed upon to take his part 
 in the engrossing political events of tbe day. The relations of Boston 
 and Massachusetts to the quarrels of two French Governors of 
 Acadia, LaTour and D'Aubray, growing out of their mutual jealousies 
 and back-bitings, form a curious narrative in tbe early times of the 
 colonies. The Chevalier Rasilli was appointed by the King of France 
 to the the chief command in Acadia. He designated La Tour as 
 J.ientenant for t lie portion east of the St. Croix, and D'Aubray for the 
 western portions, as far as the French claims extended. D'Aubray 
 was a Catholic, while La Tour pretended to be a Huguenot. Probably 
 it was this last which determined the sympathies of the colonial 
 authorities in his behalf. The first appearance of these rivals in our 
 history was in the autumn of 1633, when news came of the taking of 
 Machias by the French. La Tour had taken possession of this trading 
 place, occupied by Plymouth men, two of whom were killed and three 
 
12 DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 
 
 carried away. In 1635, D'Aulnay made a similar seizure of a trading 
 house at Penobscot The Plymouth people were greatly exasperated 
 at these acts, and attempts were made with ihe assistance of the 
 Massachusetts Colony, to supplant the French by sending an expedi- 
 tion against them ; but from various causes, this failed. In 1641, 
 La Tour sent an embassy to make a treaty of commerce with the 
 Massachusetts Colony. This it was willing to do, but it was not 
 willing to assist him in his contentions against D'Aulnay. In the 
 following year, another request came for aid against his rival ; and in 
 1643, La Tour came himself to Boston, was well received, and feted 
 by the authorities, who did not feel at liberty to give him direct 
 assistance, but granted him permission to hire any vessels in the 
 harbor. He accordingly secured four ships and a pinnace, with the 
 necessary number of men, and with this force some damage was done 
 to his rival, principally by the capture of his vessel loaded with 
 valuable moose and beaver skins. La Tour came again to Boston in 
 the following year to obtain assistance, but was not successful. He 
 however did succeed in causing a letter to be addressed to D'Aulnay 
 by the Colonial authorities, demanding satisfaction for several griev- 
 ances committed by him. Shortly after, D'Aulnay sent an embassy 
 to the Mass. Governor, complaining of the assistance given to La 
 Tour, in the previous year. It was conclusively proved, however, 
 that no commissions had been granted and no permission to use 
 hostility. With this he was apparently satisfied. Articles of agree- 
 ment were drawn up, to keep the peace, with certain trading rights, 
 to be confirmed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies. These 
 articles, when confirmed, were sent to D'Aulnay, who refused to sign 
 them until all differences were settled. This circumstance caused an 
 animated discussion in the General Court, and it was finally decided 
 to send Major Daniel Denison with Deputy Governor Dudley and Mr. 
 Hawthorne, to D'Aulnay, with full powers to treat. They were, 
 however, spared this trouble, for D'Aulnay hearing of their appoint- 
 ment, sent three of his principle men to Boston to settle all matters of 
 difference. " In the end, they came to this conclusion," says Win- 
 throp, •'we accepted their commissioners' answer in satisfaction of 
 those things we had charged upon Mons. D'Aulnay, and they accepted 
 our answer for clearing our government of what he had charged upon 
 us."' It was also agreed that a small compensation should be sent as 
 an act of courtesy ; and thereupon k 'a very fair new Sedan, worth 
 forty or fifty pounds where it was made, but of no use to us, ' which 
 had been taken in the West Indies, by Capt. Cromwell in one of his 
 prizes, and given to the Governor, was sent to D'Aulnay. 
 
 The sequel to this history is somewhat curious : D'Aulnay waged 
 
DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 15 
 
 war against his opponent, captured his fort together with his wife and 
 property, the lady dying three weeks afterwards. Through friends in 
 Boston, LaTour was furnished with trading commodities to the value 
 of about ^100, and sailed on a voyage to the Eastward. Reaching 
 Cape Sable, through conspiracy with the Captain, he seized the 
 vessel and put the Boston men on shore. Winthrop thus notes in 
 his History: " Whereby it appeared, (as the Scripture saith,) that 
 there is no confidence in an unfaithful or carnal man. Though tied 
 with many strong bonds of courtesy, &c, he turned pirate." 
 
 D'Aulnay died in 1650-1, and in the following year his widow 
 married La Tour, and their names are seen no more in Colonial 
 Records. 
 
 In the spring of 1647, Major Denison was appointed one of the 
 Justices of the Inferior Court sitting at Ipswich, and was also 
 returned as Deputy to the General Court from Jpswich. The honor 
 of the Speakership was conferred upon him during the two sessions of 
 1649, and also again in the years 1651, '52. 
 
 It is well known to the students of our Colonial history, that 
 Cromwell, after having subdued Ireland, looked about for some 
 means of keeping it in subjection, and for this purpose entertained 
 the idea of transferring some of the hardy settlers of New England to 
 that country. « He knew them," says Palfrey, "for a set°of men 
 combining the best qualities of the English character. Their courage 
 had been proved by strict tests. Their religious zeal was a light fit 
 to be set upon a hill. They had shown themselves able to organize 
 and to govern." Although this plan of Cromwell made no general 
 impression in the Colony, that it was seriousiy considered by some of 
 the influential men, may be inferred from a letter under date of 
 December 81, 1650, from Daniel Denison and four others, to the 
 Protector, asking for information and giving their terms upon which 
 a possible removal might be effected. Some of these were, that they 
 should have liberty of religion as here in New England, that grants 
 of land should be made for the advance of learning, that they should 
 have choice of a military governor, that they should occupy a healthy 
 portion of the country, be free from public charge, and 'that no irish 
 may inhabit among us but such as we shall like of." 
 
 Mindful of the great importance of education and of the interests 
 of his town, Major Denison was much engaged in tlie establishment 
 of the Grammar School iu Ipswich, and to the maintenance of which 
 
 * Boston and Neighboring Jurisdictions, by C. C. Smith. Mem 
 Hist. Boston. 
 
14 DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 
 
 he afterwards gave freely. He was made one of the Feoffees in 1651. 
 
 To the office of Major General he was appointed in 1653, and held 
 it at different times until 1680. In the same year he was also chosen 
 an Assistant, and thenceforwards to his decease. In the autumn he 
 was elected Secretary of the Colony. Having been appointed a few 
 years previously upon a committee with the Governor and two others, 
 " for the purpose of ending differences, settling trade, &c, with the 
 Dutch," the experience thus required, induced the General Court to 
 again honor Denison by appointing him one of a committee to join 
 with the Commissioners of the United Colonies, "to draw up the case 
 respecting the Dutch and Indians." Not being able to come to an 
 agreement, Mr. Theophilus Eaton on the part of the Commissioners, 
 and Major-General Denison on the part of the General Court, were 
 instructed, each of them, to prepare a short draught to be presented 
 to the Court and Elders, While Eaton was "clamorous for war," 
 Denison did not advocate extreme measures, and it was undoubtedly 
 greatly through his influence, that the House of Deputies communica- 
 ted to the Commissioners their resolve, viz , " That according to their 
 best apprehension in the case, they doe not understand wee are caled 
 to make a present wan* with the Dutch." 
 
 lu May, 1658, the following order was passed by the General 
 Court : " That Major Gen'l Daniel Denison diligently peruse, examine 
 and weigh every law, and compare them with others of like nature ; 
 such as are plain & good, free from any just exception, to stand with- 
 out any animadversion as approved. Such as are repealed, or fit to be 
 repealed, to be so marked and the reasons given ; such as are obscure, 
 contradictory or seeming so, to be rectified and the emendations 
 prepared. When there is two or more laws about one and the same 
 thing, to prepare a draught of one law that may comprehend the 
 same ; to make a plain & easy table, and to prepare what else may 
 present, in the perusing of them, to be necessary and useful, and 
 make return at the next session of this court." The General entered 
 upon this work with zest and diligence, for in a few months the 
 volume was produced, which was at once printed. Two copies of this 
 volume are still preserved. As compensation "for his great paines in 
 transcribing the lawes," the Court granted him a quarter part of 
 Block Island. This entire island was sold in 1660, two years after, 
 for the sum of £400. 
 
 In June, 1664, he was appointed together with Mr. Bradstreet and 
 Mr. Symonds, to consider the recent dissensions in the N. E. Confed- 
 eracy ; which had sprung from the course pursued by Massachusetts, 
 and by which she had been accused, by the other Colonies, of break- 
 ing the covenant. This " Narrative," as it was termed, was to be 
 sent to Cromwell. 
 
DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 15 
 
 In 1665, the county of Essex place him upon a committee "for the 
 procuring of suitable supplies," and "to consider of some such way as 
 whereby both merchandizing may be encouraged and the hands also of 
 the husbandman may not wax weary in his employment." 
 
 Massachusetts considering that she had a prior right to certain 
 territory on the north-east, claimed by representatives of Gorges, 
 the Court at its session in October, 1657, appointed Gen. Denison, 
 Mr. Bradstreet and Mr. Hathorne as Commissioners to proceed to 
 Kittery and to confer with the inhabitants who were disatisfied with 
 the existing state of affairs under which they lived. After much 
 consideration of the subject and much vexatious delay, Kittery 
 submitted to the jurisdiction of Massachusetts. York and other 
 places also pursued the same course. 
 
 We are all familiar with the unhappy contest which existed between 
 our Puritan fathers and the Quakers. Into a consideration of this it 
 would not be proper for us to enter at this time ; but the following 
 letter written by Denison as one of the Confederate Commissioners, 
 bears full evidence of his views on this subject. He writes to the 
 Governor of Rhode Island : " We therefore make it our request that 
 you, as the rest of the Colonies, take such order herein, that } 7 our 
 neighbours may be freed from that danger ; that you remove those 
 Quakers that have been received, and for the future prohibit their 
 coming amongst you. We further declare that we apprehend that it 
 will be our duty seriously to consider what further provision God may 
 call us to make to prevent the aforesaid mischief." 
 
 In 1653, instructions had been given to Capt. George Denison, the 
 brother of our subject, by the Commissioners of the United Colonies, 
 to go to iSinigret, the leading chief of the Narragansetts, and to warn 
 him to abstain from hostilities against Uncas, and against one 
 another. Soon afterwards the Confederate Commissioners declared 
 war against the Narragansetts, from all which the Massachusetts 
 Commissioners, Denison and Bradstreet, dissented. Denison had 
 even declined the command of an expedition against the Indians, 
 which was sent under Major Willard. The Massachusetts Commis- 
 sioners say : il There having been many messengers to this purpose 
 formerly sent from the commissioners to the Indian Sachems, but 
 seldom observed by them, which now to renew again. . .can have in 
 reason no other attendance in conclusion than to render us low and 
 contemptible in the eyes of the Indians, or engage us to vindicate our 
 honour in a dangerous and unnecessary war upon Indian quarrels, the 
 grounds whereof we can hardly ever satisfactorily understand." 
 
 In 1660, Gen. Denison joined the Ancient and Honorable Artillery 
 Company, and the same year was elected Commander, which was the 
 
16 DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 
 
 first undoubted instance of such honor being conferred upon any 
 individual. 
 
 Under date of May 3, 1G65, we find almost the only allusion to the 
 private history of Gen. Denison. This is the bare statement of the 
 loss of his dwelling house by fire, and in the same connection, the 
 following : " A woman of Ipswich is tried for burning Gen'l Denison's 
 house ; not found guilty ; fined as a thief, and to be whipped for 
 Lyeing." Bradstreet, in his journal, says: "Mr. Denison's house 
 was burnt, by which fire he suffered great losse, few of ye things 
 being saved." 
 
 King Charles II, having made demands upon Massachusetts, one of 
 which was, "that four or five influential persons, to be chosen by the 
 Governor and Council, should be sent to England forthwith, to 
 attend upon his Majesty," the General Court at its session, Sept. It, 
 1G60, appointed a committee to draw up a letter, giving their reasons 
 for not submitting to the mandates of the Royal Commissioners sent 
 over the year previous, and also in a reply to a proposal for an 
 invasion of New France. In the debate to which this letter gave rise, 
 Gen. Denison and Mr. Bradstreet were much more compliant than 
 other magistrates, being perhaps influenced somewhat by the petitions 
 which had come in from several towns, praying for submission to the 
 King's demands. 
 
 tk Major Gen. Denison declared his dissent from the letter to be 
 sent to Secretary Morrice as not being proportionate to the end 
 desired, and he hopes intended, and desired it might be entered, viz., 
 due satisfaction to his Majesty and the preservation of the peace and 
 liberty of this colony.'*. . ."The King's commands pass anywhere," 
 says Denison. " No doubt but you mav have a trial at law when you 
 come in England if you desire it, and you may insist upon it and 
 claim it. Prerogative is as necessary as law and is for the good of 
 the whole, that there be always power in being to act, and where there 
 is a right of power it will be abused so long as 'tis in the hands of 
 weak men, and the less pious the more apt to miscarry; but right 
 may not be denied because it may be* abused. If we shall refuse to 
 answer here to commissioners and in England also, what will the 
 King say? Is it not plain that jurisdiction is denied to his Majesty? 
 Though no appeal lies to his Majesty so to stop justice but it may 
 proceed to the uttermost, yet the King may accept any complaint and 
 require and answer thereto, so that our absolute power to determine 
 must not abate the King's prerogative." 
 
 The capture of New York by the Dutch, in 1673, created an alarm 
 among the English Colonies, lest their dominions might also be 
 invaded. Accordingly the federal commissioners met at Hartford. 
 
DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 17 
 
 and recommended to tho General Court of each of the Colonies to 
 provide means of defence. The Governor and Council of Massachu- 
 setts at a meeting, Aug. 4, 1673, ordered— "that for defence against 
 the Dutch in case of their appearance before the harbour, endeavors 
 be used to set the three principle ports in order." 
 
 " 1. That the honoured Governor and Major-general shall and 
 hereby is impowered in case of any notice and appearance or assault 
 of the enemy to command such company of foot or horse as belong to 
 the regiments of Suffolk or Middlesex, to come into the relief of the 
 towns of Boston or Charlestown." 
 
 "6. That the Major of Essex Regiment, Daniel Denison, Esq., 
 shall and is hereby impowered and required to send relief into Salem 
 and Marblehead." 
 
 In the Massachusetts archives we find in good preservation the 
 following letter addressed to Major Denison by William Hathorne and 
 his answer thereto. Major Denison was at a later date made Com- 
 mander-in-Chief of the forces raised in Massachusetts ; also one of the 
 Massachusetts commissioners to Connecticut. 
 
 Sir, — According to yr order wee are all hands upon fortification at 
 Salem, but have for our great artillery, of country powder, or shott, 
 none att all and beside wee intend to inlarge our ffort and augment 
 our ports, wee do therefore address ourselves to you knowing none so 
 sencable of our needes, wee doo much want five great guns, as 
 Culverin, or demi Culverin, or as large as may here be golt, with 
 powder and shott proportionable, pray Sir be helpful what you may 
 and especially to me who cannot at present run away but subscribe 
 hiraselfe with the rest of the militia. We are yr Servants. 
 
 Daced : 6: 6: mo 1673. Wit. Hathorne, Sen'r. 
 
 Sir, — Upon a little conference with the officers at Salem, though I 
 find them of divided apprehensions (which is and will be our misery) 
 they seem resolved to make their fort defencable immediately and doe 
 affirm the guns therein will command the roade. If so, t'were pitty 
 they should want powder and guns, I presume your charity will as 
 readily assist them with ye country stock as Charlestowne otherwise 
 you know w'.iat I sayd, [ doubt not of your readiness. I beseech you 
 further their despatch, and if we want not materials, 1 shal not be out 
 of hope' that a good account will be rendered of our trust, however let 
 nothing be wanting and the will of the Lord be done. 
 
 Yr Humble Servant, Daniel Denison. 
 
 In the disastrous war with the Indians which broke upon the 
 Colonies in 1675, known as King Philip's war, Gen. Denison, as 
 
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 might be supposed from his position, took an active part. Fortunately 
 there are several letters extant relating to this latter portion of his 
 life. These for the most part are well preserved, and the hand- 
 writing, which is excellent, is as distinct as ever, although more than 
 two centuries have fled since these letters were written. He was 
 appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Massachusetts forces, June, 
 1675, as will be seen by the instructions given him by the Governor 
 and Council ; but as he was prevented by sickness from taking the 
 field, Major Thomas Lavage was substituted. 
 
 The Governor and Magistrates assembled in Counsell at Boston in 
 
 the Massachusetts Colony. 
 To Major Generall Daniel Denison — 
 
 Whereas, you are nominated and chosen Generall of all the forces 
 raised by us for the present expedition against the Indians that have 
 made an inroad upon our neighbours and confederates ot Plymouth 
 Colony. You are hereby authorized and impowered to take the 
 conduct of the said forces, to dispose of them and make provision for 
 them of all manner of necessarys so as may have the best tendency 
 for the service they are to attend, and all constables and other officers 
 of this commonwealth are hereby enjoyned to be assistants to you and 
 to execute your commands and warrants for the effecting thereof. 
 You are to kill burn and destroy the enemy unless they shall yield 
 themselves your prisoners, and to rule and govern your officers and 
 soldiers under your command, according to our military laws, and if 
 necessity of any imergency that may happen will permit, you shall 
 observe the instructions herewith given you, and such further orders 
 as from time to time you shall receive from the Counsell or Generall 
 court, and in so doing this shall be your warrant. 
 
 Given in Boston. June 26, 1675. 
 
 Instructions for Daniel Denison, Esq., Commander-in-chief of the 
 forces raised or to be raised for the assistance of our neighbours 
 and friends of Plymouth Colony : 
 In confidence of your wisdom, prudence and faithfulness in this 
 trust committed to you for the honour of God, the good of his people 
 and the sincerity of the interest of our Lord Jesus Christ in his 
 churches, expecting and praying that you may be blessed in a dayly 
 dependence upon him for all that supply of grace that may be requisite 
 for your carrying an end therein, we must leave much to his direction 
 and guidance of you upon the place as occasion may occur from time 
 to time, yet would commend ^unto you these instructions following, 
 which we expect and require that you do attend. 
 
 You are with all expedition to march away with those soldiers you 
 
DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. L9 
 
 have, after those forces marched before, over whom you have the 
 command by commission, unto whom you are to declare the same, so 
 that they may know you to be their commander in chief and you are 
 to require them to obey you in attending the service. You are to see 
 that the commanders and soldiers are kept in good order and 
 discipline according to the rules military, and that all profanity and 
 disorder be avoyded in the camp as much as in you lies»and upon the 
 breaking forth of any you are to punish without partiality. 
 
 You are to see that the publick worship of God by dayly prayer and 
 invocation upon his name, and that preaching as you have opportunity 
 be attended, for the instruction of the soldiers in the knowledge and 
 fear of the Lord and that the Sabbath be not profaned but that as 
 much as in you lyes and the emergency of the service will admit you 
 see that the same be duly sanctitled and the minister duly respected. 
 
 You are by all means possible to endeavour the strengthening and 
 incouraging or our friends and neighbours of Plymouth by keeping 
 meet correspondency with their Commander and Commissioners, and 
 by all means to weaken, destroy and subdue the enemy, and in case 
 of your coming to any capitulation with the enemy, you are to 
 endeavour as much as may be to the just satisfaction of our neigh- 
 bours of Plymouth. 
 
 You are by all possible means to putt the enemy out of his 
 skulkings (whereby he picks off the English) bj' pressing upon them 
 with resolution the best you may and so force them to engagement, or 
 leaving their station, — above all endeavour the taking or destroying 
 the head of them, Phillip and his chief counsellors, that hath been the 
 contriver and carrier and end of this treacherous and barbarous 
 insurrection. 
 
 You are to consult your comanders and to take in Mr Dudley our 
 minister to consult in matters you may think wise to advise with him 
 in, as to^the carrying an end of this design. 
 
 You are to order your commissarys for provisions and stores to be 
 carefull that there may not be any embezzlement made therein and to 
 order that your comanders be very careful that the soldiers be 
 careful of their arms and that they may have all meet provision for 
 their strengthening in the service as much as in you lyes. 
 
 You are from time to time to give us intelligence of your 
 proceedings and how the Lord shall please to deal with you in this 
 expedition. 
 
 Dated in Boston 28th June, 1C>~.~>. 
 
 Of Capt. Hinchman, to whom the first of the two following letters 
 is addressed, we have no information. Major Waldron was from 
 
20 DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 
 
 Dover, and was chosen a Deputy in 1654, and for several years after. 
 He was also appointed Speaker at different times. He had been a 
 Captain in the militia, and in 1G74 was appointed Sergeant-Major of 
 Yorkshire. He was not wanting in executive ability. 
 
 To Capt. Daniel Hinchman, — 
 
 You are with all convenient speed to return to your company and 
 quarters about Pocasset to fetch of your men and provisions and 
 ammunition there or thereabouts, and what you for want of carriage 
 cannot bring off with you, you are to lay it up safely in some 
 convenient place, and Mr. Brian Pendleton is thought to be most 
 suitable, [torn] understand some is already ... all the particulars. . . 
 you are to take receits . . . you may sell taking present pay or good 
 bills of which you ... give an account to Capt. Davis, &c. Com- 
 mission'rs for provision for the army. 
 
 At your first arrivall at Pocasset or sooner before you draw off, 
 you shall give notice to the chief commanders of Plymouth forces that 
 you are commanded off, that so he or they take care for the security 
 of the place. But if the said Commander in Chief shall urge or desire 
 your stay upon such grounds as in your understandi g are of weight ; 
 you shall signify the same to the Governor and councill and expect 
 further order before you move. But in case the said Plymouth 
 commander shall not upon such reasons as aforesaid oppose your 
 returning, you shall with all expedition draw off 3 - our company and as 
 abovesd, and march them to Boston and disband, unless the Governor 
 and Councill give order for your further services. In your march by 
 Mr. Woodcock's you shall command off those souldiers of ours, who 
 have been ordered there for a guard. The like you are to do with 
 those at Capt. Hudson's, unless you judge it unsafe, he being of our 
 Colony whom we are to take care of. In your advance thither you 
 are hereby authorized to press or require the constables respectedly to 
 furnish you with horses and guides, as you shall have occasion, the 
 like you shall do in your returne to accommodate yourself and com- 
 pany with what you judge necessary. 
 
 Given at Boston Aug 9,1675. Daniel Denison, Maj. Gen. 
 
 For Major Rich'd Waldron — 
 
 Having acquainted the Council with what I advised you on the 
 fifteenth inst., I am commanded by them to order you forthwith with 
 50 or 60 souldiers, under your owne or Mr. Plaisted's or some other 
 sufficient Conduct you march to Pennicook supposed to be the great 
 rendevous of the enemy, where you may expect to meet Capt. 
 Mosely, who is ordered thither and have sufficient commission to 
 pursue kill and destroy them, which you must also attend as your 
 
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 work, unless such as shall willingly deliver up their armea and 
 themselves or sufficient hostages to secure their peaceable behaviour. 
 You had need take along with you a chirugeon and make all possible 
 expedition. A great part of our forces are at present at Hadley. 
 Boston, Aug. 17, 1675. Daniel Denison, Maj. Gen. 
 
 By order of the Council 
 
 The devastations committed by the Indians, and the alarm caused 
 thereby had now spread on every side. No one could foretell where 
 the enemy would next strike. Thoroughly acquainted with the 
 country and unimpeded in their progress through it, they would fall 
 upon some distant hamlet, destroy and disappear. In the words of 
 Irving: " There were now and then indications or these impending 
 ravages, that tilled the minds of the Colonists with awe and appre- 
 hension. The report of a distant gun would perhaps be heard from 
 the solitary woodland, where there was known to be no whiteman ! 
 the cattle which had been wandering in the woods would sometimes 
 return home wounded, or an Indian or two would be seen lurking 
 about the skirts of the forests and suddenly disappearing ; as the 
 lightning will sometimes be seen playing silently about the edge of 
 the cloud that is brewing the tempest." 
 
 Under circumstances like these, the following letters were written ; 
 the first addressed to the Secretary of the Colony, the second from 
 the General on his advance to Salisbury, and the third showing the 
 difficulties attendant upon the impressment of men for an emergency : 
 
 Mr. Secretary : — 
 
 I received your intelligence, the substance whereof I had two hours 
 before by way of Billerica and Andover, together with certaine 
 intelligence, that the enemy is passed Merrimack, their tracks seen 
 yesterdav at Wamesit and two of their scouts, this morning at 
 Andover, who by 2 posts one in the night and againe this day about 2 
 of the clock importuned for help, as doth Haveril and Major Pike 
 from Norfolk. I am with great difficulty sending up 60 men this 
 night under Capt. Appleton to Andover, who will also take this 
 opportunity if not prevented, to attend the Council's order for survey 
 of the towns of this county who are sufficiently alarmed. Did not I 
 judge my presence here more necessary than anything I could 
 contribute there, I would most willingly embrace the opportunity, 
 were it but for ease. I suppose this will excuse me to the Council, 
 whatever it will to yn people. I hope my Brother Bradstreet will 
 publish my excuse, had he writ [ might have ordered some of his best 
 things to have been brought of from Andover. I am in extremity 
 of haste at sun-sett despatching the souldiers to the great dis- 
 
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 satisfaction ofthetowne. Let God arise and our enemies shal be 
 scattered. Yr Humble Servant, Daniel D&nison. 
 
 Ips. August 19, at six at night, 1675. 
 
 IfCapt. Appleton return with good newes and it be necessary for 
 me to come, if I understand it, I shal attend; tho our court should 
 be next week. Pray my Brother Bradstreet to comend to ye Council 
 that many of our towne souldiers that are now under Capt Cooke, 
 intended for Capt. Sill to be a guard to my-selfe and the comissioners 
 will be extremely wronged if they be kept out. Hoping they should 
 have had favor of me for a speedy returne, some of their occasions 
 and familyes will extreamely suffer, as Samuel Ingalls, a farmer with 
 a great family, Mr. Thomas Wade and diverse others, indeed the 
 most of Ipswich and one of Rowley, Lieutenant Michil. 
 
 Much Hon'd Sir, — 
 
 You are not ignorant of ray engagements to Major Pyke, that he 
 assisting Major Waldron upon that streight at JS'eechiwannick, I 
 would not faile him in case, wch you>ee by his letters he claims and 
 for the performance thereof (according to my comission) I gaveorders 
 in my Regiment for a force competent for what I intended, only 
 proposing the design of visiting the enemy's head quarters, but not to 
 be attempted without further order, but doe now see it, I feare not 
 possible, the difficulty of getting men is beyond my former beliefe I 
 am now advancing to Major Pyke to Salisbury hoping I shall have 50 
 musqueteers to follow me. When I am there upon the place wee 
 shall advise how to dispose of any or all of the men, and except there 
 be extreme necessity I think shall be able to afford them no more than 
 the comfort of our presence for a while. 
 
 Our posts atTopsfield and Andover being affrighted with the sight 
 (as they say) of Indians which I have not time to examine till my 
 returne ; I think I had not troubled you with the last, but for one 
 passage without which I remember, viz., that John Linds son of 
 Waraiset was amongst those very lately that assaulted the English 
 about Piscatay. It is hardly imaginable the pannick fear that is 
 upon our upland plantations and scattered places, deserting their 
 habitations, which upon my returne I hope to remedy. I am sorry to 
 hear the newes from Hadley and Connecticut. The Almighty and 
 Merciful God pitty and help us. In much haste I break of. 
 
 Your humble Servt Daniel Denison. 
 
 Ipswich, October 28, 1675. 
 
 Sir,— In obedience to your late order for the impressing of 185 
 souldiers, wee have listed the persons underwritten who are fitted with 
 arms, ammunition and cloaths, as the order directs— only you may 
 
DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 23 
 
 please to understand that some of the persons now returned hath 
 withdrawn themselves. Although warning hath been left at the 
 places of their abodes, and their parents required to be ready to goo 
 in their stead if their sons should fail (we feared also lest the service 
 should be neglected) other men warned to make up the number of 28, 
 which is our towne's proportion if any of those now returned should 
 fail. [Here follow the names of 28 men ] 
 
 Those three last, very lusty young men. 
 
 Under a safe press and not discharged but required to attend when 
 called, have by the artifice of their parents, absconded for the present, 
 though their parents hath beene required to bring them forth or be 
 ready themselves to march. We have not 3 abler, lustive young 
 fellows in our towne and few exceeding them in the country, nor may 
 be better spared. I have not further to trouble you, but presenting 
 my services to yourselves and the rest of the magistrates, rest 
 
 Yr Humble servant Daniel Denison. 
 
 Salem, Nov. 30, 1675. 
 
 Instructions to Lieut. Thomas Fiske: 
 
 Whereas you are appointed by the Governor and Council to have 
 the conduct of sixty souldiers of Suffolk, Essex and Norfolk in this 
 present expedition to Kinnebeck under the comand of Major Richard 
 Waldron, commander-in-chief, you are hereby ordered and authorized 
 to take under your care and comand, the sd company of souldiers, 
 requiring them to obey you as their Lieutenant and comander whom 
 you are to lead and conduct on this service of the country, to pursue, 
 kill and destroy the enemy, or make them your prisoners. And the sd 
 souldiers are hereby required to obey you as their comander and 
 yourselfe to attend to all/orders and comands of your Comander-in- 
 chief, and all further orders or instructions you shall from time to 
 time receive from the general Court Council or other authority, and 
 this shall be your warrant. Daniel Denison, Maj. Gen. 
 
 Dat. Feb. 5, 1676. 
 
 Feb. 25, 1676. Gen. Denison is ordered to Marlboro, to dispose 
 
 of the forces which had been raised and collected there. The letter 
 
 which follows relative to Capt. Brocklebank at Marlboro, who desires 
 
 to be dismissed with his company, portrays one of the vexations to 
 
 which every commander is liable in times of the greatest need. 
 
 Sir,— Yesterday I received a letter from Capt. Brocklebank at 
 Marlborough, signifying his desire of being dismissed with his com- 
 pany ; the reasons he alledges are their necessities and wants, having 
 beene in the country's service ever since the first of January at 
 
24 DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 
 
 Narraganset, and within one weeke after their return were sent out 
 again, having neither time nor mony (save a fortnights pay upon their 
 march,) to recruite themselves, and he saith they do little service 
 where they are ; and he understands the inhabitants are called off by 
 the Council. I shall make bould to request the like labor in the 
 behalfe of those (at least.) Some of those troopers and dragoons of 
 Essex, that went out last, intended for Hadley, but by reason of the 
 disaster at Groton diverted to Concord, &c, to beate of and prosecute 
 the enemy in those parts, and I directed orders to Major Willard, 
 that with those he first tooke up with him, and those then sent, 
 together with Ihe garrisons of Marlborough, Lancaster and Chemsford 
 (if need were) in all about 200 men he might not only defend the 
 towns, but might prosecute the enemy to his quarters, being wth 2 
 days march, but I heare of no such attempt, nor indeed of any 
 considerable improvement of them that hath beene or is likely to be, 
 and am therefore sollicitous for many of them, that out of a respect to 
 myselfe went willingly, hoping of a speedy return to their families and 
 occasions, some of them more than ordinary great and urgent. I 
 intreate therefore they may be presently considered and eased to 
 attend the seedtime, &c, and if there be necessity that others may 
 be sent in their rooms, who may with far less detriment be spared. 
 The stockade from Watertown to Wamesit might better be from 
 Watertown to Sudbury river, 9 miles, taking in more country, and 
 that river being as good a stop as the stockade ; the greatest objection 
 is Merrimack river, though broad, yet I understand is fordeable in 20 
 places between Wamesit and Haveril, and cannot be safe without 
 guard, which must be kept upon it. For haste I jumble many thinos 
 which be pleased to pardon. The Lord looke in mercy upon his poore 
 distressed people, upon yourselfe in particular, so prays 
 
 Your humble Servant Daniel Denison. 
 
 The enclosed are certificates of delinquents in the last press in 
 Norfolk and of the troopers that should have gone with Capt. Whipple 
 to Hadley. 
 
 Order for the Commissary to provide for the Garrison at Marlboro : 
 
 Mr. Fairweather,— You are hereby ordered to provide a quantity of 
 Porke, currants, rum, spice, shirts, drawers, wastecoats, shoes for 
 the Garrison at Marlborough and deliver them to these bearers to be 
 conveyed up thither. Daniel Denison, M. G. 
 
 June 13, 76. 
 
 Gen. Denison was not himself sent to the eastward until the autumn 
 of this year, but as Commander-in-Chief had direction of all the 
 forces operating in that region. 
 
DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 25 
 
 To Edward Rawson, Secretary: 
 
 SlR > — TJ ie inclosed gives you an account of the eastern parts which 
 I thought necessary to despatch to you, that suitable orders and 
 necessary provisions might be conveyed to them upon ye first account 
 of ye disaster at Casco, and the desires of those of York communica- 
 ted to me by Major Pike, [ have ordered him to send 20 or 30 
 shoalers to York to comfort them. I can ad nothing to the intelligence 
 nor contribute any advice. I suppose Major Waldron hatb fully 
 informed you of the state of those parts. It cannot but be full of 
 difficulties to deale with such a skulking enemy, especially in such a 
 hideous country. The God that hath saved and delivered us from a 
 more numerous enemy, will doubtless in his owne time perfect his 
 worke begun and restore unto us our former peace. Your present 
 advice and orders wherein I pray God to guide, is the earnest desire 
 of" Yr Humble Servant Daniel Denison. 
 
 Ips. Sept. 20, 1676, at <S at night. 
 
 To Edward Rawson, Secretary : 
 
 Sr —Yours of the 27th instant came to my hands about 10 at night, 
 being then in bed and very ill ; yet notwithstanding, by breake of day 
 I gott up, though then in a feaverish distemper, to impart the con- 
 tents thereof to the Deputy and Major Hathorne ; but by reason of 
 their distant lodgings could not understand their minds, till they 
 judged it impossible for them to reach Boston till late at night: You 
 may expect their answer from themselves. I would have also you to 
 have come had they so concluded, though hopeless of reaching 
 Boston this night, by reason of my present distemper. I had hoped 
 that my former reasonable excuse might have satisfyed for my 
 absence of Monday last. And though it be true Major Waldron 
 spake much to me, and the deputy, (as men that apprehend them- 
 selves in danger usually doe,) yet I did not upon all he sayd 
 apprehend any necessity of my presence for his despatch. I perceive 
 the sailor is ill resented and therefore as a punishment, a burden 
 is imposed, which I cannot understande nor beare. I shall 
 not willingly omit any thing that my place or duty obligeth me unto, 
 and accordingly have, by order of the Council, raised and dispatched 
 those forces under Capt Hathorne, with commission orders and 
 instructions, which if it be the council's pleasure, I shall yet continue 
 to doe to my best skil. But to provide and furnish them with 
 provision and amunition which must be had from Boston, I think it 
 needless for me to undertake, otherwise than by representing their 
 wants to the Gover'r and Council, or at most giving orders to the 
 Commissaries to dispatch them wth speed, which I suppose would be 
 
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 more effectually done by an order from the authority upon the place. 
 
 Further, I never understood or intended the forces now on foote 
 further than Yorkshire, and did almost assure them (for their 
 encouragement,) they should not be employed further east: if there- 
 fore, anything be expected to be done at Kinnebec, Pemaquid, 
 Monhegan, I dare not undertake it, but intreate the Council to take 
 order therein, who understand the state of those paits and necessity 
 of taking care thereof, wherein I am altogether a stranger and 
 unacquainted — which places, as I intimated in my last, may best be 
 secured by the persons that are concerned there — at least with the 
 • helpe and assistance of some Suffolk men. I cannot judg more forces 
 necessary for the defence and security of Yorkshire, than are there at 
 present, if well improved. If more should be required, they will not 
 at this time be easily raised here, it being now harvest, which calls 
 for all hands. Any particular directions from the Council shall be 
 attended, which I think under correction should be drawne up in an 
 order and not crowded into a letter. The messenger's stay bids me 
 (with my service to the Gover'r and Council,) conclude. 
 
 Yr humble Servant, Faniel Denison. 
 
 Ips. Sept. 28, at 9 Mor. 
 It were vayne to tell you of the extraordinary disappointment would 
 
 be should the court have adjourned. 
 
 Letter about the Eastward : 
 
 Honerd Sr. You will understand by this bearer the state of the 
 Eastern parts and our forces there. It seems when this post came 
 from there, Capt. Hathorne had not received my order, but by Major 
 Waldron, for their march up to the enemies head quarters, which 1 
 suppose they will readily attend, if furnished with victuals wch they 
 cannot have there. I suppose a fortnight's bread and cheese wth 
 powder and bullets for 2G0 men, will be as little as may be, and that to 
 be speeded to Pascatag to Mr. Martin or Major Waldron for the use 
 of our forces. I am sorry so much time hath beene lost about Casco 
 to little purpose, and now they are drawne southward and divided to 
 their great discontent by an order of yr Council the lGth of Sept. I 
 suppose upon Major Waldron's solicitation wch would undoe all, but I 
 have by your later order contradicted that order, and by name 
 required all the comanders, as Hunting, Siblo and Frost, to attend the 
 orders and comands of Capt. Hawthorne, and ordered him twice to 
 march to ye Indian Quarters, where the women and children are, as 
 also more than 20 English prisoners, and take a convenient strength, 
 giving notice to yr towns to stand upon their defence in the meane 
 time, wth such assistance as can well be spared. I hope the Council 
 will take order to make the people keep their stations and hasten 
 
DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. H 
 
 provisions, which Mr. Martin as well as the Gover'r can assure are 
 not to be had in those parts. I have not further to add but 
 contending you to God, subscribe myselfe 
 
 Your humble Servant, Daniel Denison. 
 
 Ips. Oct. -°>, 1676. 
 
 Oct. 12, 1676. The Court appointed General Denison to proceed 
 to Portsmouth and to take chief command of the forces there destined 
 for the war at the eastward. He was authorized "to impress men, 
 horses, ammunition and provisions and as to him shall seem mete." 
 In this connection we extract the following from Hubbard's Present 
 State of New-England: — "The Governor and Council of the Massa- 
 chusetts had at this time their hands full with the like attempts of 
 Philip and his complices to the Westward, yet were not unmindful of 
 the deplorable condition of these Eastern plantations, having 
 committed the care thereof to the respective regiments of the several 
 counties on that side of the country, but more especially to the care 
 and prudence of the honoured Major Daniel Denison, the Major 
 General of the whole Colony, a gentleman who by his great insight in 
 and long experience of all martial affairs, was every way accomplished 
 for the managing thejwhole affairs." 
 
 Active operations against the enemy at the eastward were carried 
 on until late in the autumn of 1676, under the direction of General 
 Denison. Mugg, the Etechemin s5chem, surrendered himself to the 
 Commander-in-Chief, and was sent to Boston, where a treaty was 
 concluded, k stipulating.; the cessation of hostilities, the restoration of 
 prisoners, &c. This state of peace continued, however, only until 
 the following spring, when hostilities were again commenced, and did 
 not cease until the termination of the war in the spring of 1678. In 
 the year 1677, Denison was not elected to the ollice of Major-General, 
 but during the remaining years of his life he occupied that position. 
 
 As one of the licencers of the press, with Bradstreet and Dudley, he 
 authorizes the imprint and publication of Hubbard's Narrative, March 
 29, 1077. In May, of this year, he is one of three to grant permis- 
 sion to Indians to carry arms. In April he wrote the following letter 
 to Capt. Charles Frost, who was engaged in superintending the 
 garrisons in the county of York : 
 
 To,Capt"Charles Frost, — You are hereby authorized to take under 
 your command and conduct fifty foot soldiers herewith sent you of 
 the County of Essex and Norfolk, commanding them to obey you as 
 their Captain, whom you are to lead and conduct against the common 
 Enemy now infesting Yorkshire, whom you are with all diligence to 
 pursue and destroy, as also to succor and assist the English of Wells, 
 
28 DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICn, MASS. 
 
 York, Neechiwannickor elsewhere, as you shall have opportunity. 
 And the said soldiers are hereby required to attend your orders and 
 commands for the prosecution of the enemy as abovesaid according to 
 the rules and orders of Military discipline ; and you are to attend 
 such orders and instructions as from time to time you shall receive 
 from myself or other superior authority, and for so doing this shall be 
 your warrant. Daniel Denison, Major Gen. 
 
 April 12, 1677. 
 
 The General Court granted to Gen. Denison, Oct. 10, 1677, an 
 island of six or seven acres opposite the middle of his farm, for his 
 distinguished services. 
 
 The distemper to which the following letter alludes, was undoubt- 
 edly the small pox ; and according to the suggestion, the Court met 
 at Cambridge. 
 
 July 8, 1678. Mr. Secretary, — Wee received your 2d letters of 
 invitation to come to Boston though by neither wee understand any 
 necessity of a present meeting, and by reason of the present distemper 
 prevailing at Boston cannot be satisfied that anything less than an 
 absolute necessity ought to draw us to Boston at this season ; if 
 therefore there must be a meeting, wee desire as wee intimated to 
 Major Gookins some other place may be appointed (which wee shall 
 if want of health hinder not, attend though wth difficulty enough,) 
 wee doubt not but Salem can accommodate such an occasion ; but if 
 that be too farr, though twice so farr hatb not beene the end of our 
 many journeys upon such occas-ions for many yeares, wee doubt not 
 but Cambridge may be thought more fitt than Boston at present. 
 When we understand the council's resolutions (to whom wee desire 
 you to impart these) we shal endeavor to apply ourselves accordingly. 
 .Not to trouble you further at present, we rest, Your loving friends, 
 
 Samuel Symonds, 
 Daniel Denison. 
 
 In January, 1681, the General Court ordered a copy of the letter 
 from the King, respecting Mason's claims to certain territory, to be 
 given to Gen. Denison and the other Magistrates of the County of 
 Essex for their consideration, and that by this course the tenants of 
 the villages on the south side of the Merrimac, a portion of which 
 were claimed by Mason, might meet together at Ipswich or Newbury. 
 In June, following, the Court made answer to the King's letter as 
 follows; — " We have published his pleasure to the villages on the 
 south of the Merrimack, some part whereof Mr. Mason claims. But 
 neither the inhabitants there, nor we, know Mason's bounds. We 
 are in hope that what may be presented to his Majesty on behalf of 
 
DENISON MEUOKIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 29 
 
 said inhabitants will obviate the clamour and groundi :ss pretence of 
 the complainers.'' 
 
 In the Massachusetts Archives, there is the following order, which 
 had passed the House of Deputies, Feb. is, 1681. Major General 
 Daniel Denison : "To be paid L0£ which he advanced in case of 
 Mason's claims." 
 
 Of the remaining months of General Denison's life we know but 
 very little As he was chosen an Assistant the very year in which 
 his death occurred, we may presume that the distressing disease of 
 which he died did not prevent him from performing the public duties 
 to which he was called, until very near the end. In the performance 
 of these public duties he had been Representative 11 years, Speaker of 
 the House 3 years, Assistant 29 years, Major-General of the entire 
 military force of the Colony 11 years, Commissioner of the United 
 Colonies 8 years, and once President of the Board. It is probable 
 that he occupied the leisure moments of the latter portion of his active 
 Hie in writing the treatise which he left at his decease, and which 
 was published by his goxl pastor, Win. Hubbard, two years after that 
 event. The volume, which is entitled Irenicon, or Salve for Near 
 England's Sore, is exceedingly rare, and is a good specimen of the 
 quaint language of the day. In this he considers, 1. What our 
 present maladies are intended in this discourse. 2. What might he 
 the occasion there of. 3. The danger. 4. The blameable causes. 
 5. The cure. He says : 
 
 lk Among the manifold symptoms of this Disease, I apprehend none 
 more threatening our dissolution than the sad and unreasonable 
 divisions about matters of Religion. ... A receipt of these five simples 
 without composition accompanied with Fasting and Praying till they 
 are well digested, with God's blessing may bring about the expected 
 cure ; for the Dose you need not trouble yourself, there is not danger 
 of taking too much. And if this should fail, which I fear not, I have 
 another receipt, but I fear it is somewhat corroding, which I hope I 
 shall never have occasion to use, my lenitives working according to 
 my expectations. So I take my leave committing you to God and a 
 
 good Nurse." 
 
 * 
 
 During the very last month of his life he was called upon to give 
 his opinion in matters relating to the church at Andover. 
 
 General Denison died September 20, 1682, at the age of three score 
 years and ten. The death of so distinguished a public servant called 
 forth expressions of grief not alone among his immediate family and 
 townsmen, but throughout the Colony. That he was a man of dis- 
 tinguished abilities, and those of a most varied character, the services 
 to which he was called continuously through a long life abundantly 
 
30 DKNISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 
 
 testify. That he performed these services faithfully, and satisfactorily 
 to his constituents, is shown by his constant re-election to offices of 
 great public trust, even after it was acknowledged that he belonged to 
 the moderate party, and when, by his speeches, he proved that he 
 was ready to yield to the King's prerogative. Randolph, in 1673, in 
 answer to inquiries respecting the present state of New England, and 
 who were the most popular in the magistracy, enumerates Gen. 
 Denison among the most popular and well principled men. Mr. 
 Savage, in his life of Winthrop, speaks thus of Denison : ''The 
 moderate spirit by which he was actuated, had not a general spread, 
 yet the continuance of his election to the same rank, when his 
 sympathy was not, in relation to the controversy with the crown, in 
 unison with that of the people, is evidence of the strong hold his 
 virtue and public labors had acquired." Moreover, we have every 
 reason to suppose that his character was strengthened and supported 
 by religious influences, adding thereby to his eminence among men. 
 
 It is much to be regretted that we have neither portrait nor des- 
 cription of the person of General Denison ; and of his private worth, 
 we glean our knowledge chiefly from the funeral sermon preached by 
 his pastor. The text was Isaiah 3: 1-3, " For, behold, the Lord, 
 the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah, 
 the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of 
 water. The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the 
 prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, the captain of fifty, and 
 the honorable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and 
 the eloquent orator." 
 
 " There are but few men born into the world in an}' age, in whom 
 all these desirable qualities are eminently met together. And none in 
 ihese parts of the world (if that be not too great a word to sa}',) in 
 whom so many or more of such honorable endowments were joined 
 together in such a degree. The greater is our sorrow who are now 
 met together to solemnize the funeral of a person of so great worth, 
 enriched with so many Excellencies, which made him neither live 
 undesired nor die unlamented, nor go to his grave unobserved. 
 
 " Is there not a Prince and a great man fal'n this day in Israel, 
 so in a sense, it may, be said here— a great man is fallen in our little. 
 Israel. . • • Concerning the Gentleman whose Funeral obsequies were 
 lately celebrated amongst us, not to say more than is convenient to 
 prevent emulation in them that are surviving. His Parts and 
 Abilities were well known amongst those with whom he lived, and 
 might justly place him among the first three, having indeed many 
 natural advantages above others for the more easie attaining of skil! 
 in every science. 
 
DKN1S0N MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 3 1 
 
 " His military skill some 3'ears before his death advanced him to 
 the conduct and command of the whole, which he was able to have 
 managed with great exactness, yet was he not inferior in other 
 ociences :~and as a good souldier of Christ Jesus, he had attained to 
 no small confidence in his last conflicts with the King of Terrors; 
 being not afraid to look Death in the face in cold blood, but with 
 great composed ness of mind received the last Summons. For though 
 ho was followed with tormenting pain of the Stone or Strangury, that 
 pursued him to the last, he neither expressed impatience under those 
 grinding paius nor want of confidence or comfort from his first seizure. 
 So having fought the good fight, run his race, and finished his course, 
 he quietly resigned his spirit to God that gave it. His last thoughts 
 and endeavours were for the good of the publick, as may be seen by 
 the Irenicon now lately found amongst his papers, which it is thought 
 would be too much ingratitude to withold from view any longer." 
 
 His funeral obsequies were conducted in a manner worthy of his 
 distinguished rank, as may be judged from the following, copied from 
 the Massachusetts Archives : 
 
 " Whereas it hath pleased the Lord in his Sovereign Providence to 
 take away our Honored Daniel Denison, Esq., and in regard to his 
 long continuance a Major General, it occasioned a very considerable 
 charge at his funeral, and the annual income of his family being but 
 small, the Magistrates judge meet that the Treasurer allow to his 
 widdow the full of this year's sallary, until May next, and also twenty 
 pounds in money to be pd the sd widdow in payt of her sd funeral 
 charges. The magistrates have past this their brethren the Deputvs 
 hereto consenting. Edward Rawson, Sec'y. 
 
 Oct. 18, 1682. 
 
 The Deputys consent not hereto. William Torrey, Clerk. 
 
 Mrs. Denison survived her husband eight years, her death occuring 
 Feb. 8, 1690. They had two children, John and Elisabeth. John 
 married Martha, daughter of Deputy Governor Symonds, and had 
 three children ; he died Jan. 9, 1671. Elizabeth married Rev. John 
 Rogers, President of Harvard College. 
 
 John, son of John and Martha Denison, graduated at Harvard 
 College, was chosen as colleague with Mr. Hubbard, and was much 
 beloved by his people. His life was short. His sister Martha mar 
 ried Matthew Whipple, and died Sept. 12, 1725, aged 60 years. 
 Daniel, his brother, it* is thought, lived on the Denison estate at 
 Merrimac, and his descendants are stdl to be found in New England. 
 
32 DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 
 
 Edward, one of the brothers of Gen. Denison, made Roxbury his 
 residence, and there married Eliza, daughter of Joseph Weld. He 
 was representative in 1652 and 1655 He had a large family ; one of 
 the sons, William, graduated at Harvard College in 1681. He died 
 April 26, 1668, and his wife in 1717. 
 
 George, the remaining brother, married at Roxbury, Bridget 
 Thomson, and had two children. His wife dying in 1643, he went to 
 England and served in Cromwell's army. Marrying again, he 
 returned to Roxbury, and was there made freeman in 1618. Shortly 
 afterwards he removed to New London, Conn., and much distinguished 
 himself in Philip's war, as an energetic and extremely capable com- 
 mander. He died Oct. 23, 1694. His widow died in 1712, aged 97. 
 By his second marriage he had eight children. 
 
 The will of Major-General Denison has been preserved, and the 
 following extracts are of interest : 
 
 " Daniel Denison of Ipswich, being in good health and memory, 
 doe thus ordaine my last will." After providing for his daughter and 
 her son, it says: " To my wife Patience, I bequeath the rest of my 
 estate in houses, lands, cattle, money, &c, for her support and for 
 the education and maintenance of my grandchild, John Denison, and 
 for the relief of my grandchildren, Daniel and Martha Denison, if 
 they be in neede, for whose education and maintenance I have 
 otherwise provided." 
 
 The will was made July 16, 1673, and the last codicil, December 
 22, 1680. 
 
 The inventory of the estate, taken Oct. 17, 1682, is as follows: 
 Amount, .£2105, 13s. Debts due estate £28, 10s. County pay 
 £390, 8s, 2d. 
 
DENISOfl MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. ;;;; 
 
 $pettmx)al Skatch. 
 
 Ipswich, — 1633-1682. 
 
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 AUGUSTINE CALDWELL. 
 
 Daniel and Patience [Dudley] Denison came hither hand in 
 hand in 1634, and took up their life-long abode. " The eyelids of 
 the morning were just lighting up our hills," and the sound of the 
 hammer j was still heard upon our primitive houses. A twelve-month 
 had hardly passed since the pinnace of the younger Winthrop floated 
 over the bar and up the river, and cast anchor, as tradition has it, at 
 the spot now known as Edward Choate's shipyard ; and claiming 
 there the virgin soil, they built the first place of shelter. 
 
 A rumor drifted into Boston in the spring of 1633. that the Jesuits 
 were to establish an [ndian mission here ; and the staunch elder 
 Winthrop, then Governor, with action as quick as thought, sent his 
 own iron faith and will, incarnated in his best beloved son, and these 
 old hills echoed the first sounds of civilized labor, and the corner 
 stone of a golden town was laid. Planters and their servants flocked 
 hither ; men of strong names and gentle birth : people of letters and 
 liberal thought ; and when, a few months later, the General Court 
 baptized the plantation, a name was given which thousands have 
 since loved as they do the name of mother. 
 
 Denison was twenty-two years old when he came, — a ruddy youth, 
 like David. He took his position at once a man among these men ; he 
 was honored, desired, and for forfy-eight years in town and colonial 
 interests, he held their regards without loss or wavering. It was said 
 of him while he was yet living, that he was the most popular magis- 
 trate of the colony, and seven generations have kept his memory 
 fresh. 
 
 When Mr. John Norton died in 1663, (a minister of the church on 
 the hill, "studied in arts and tongues," whose naturally sour temper 
 was somewhat "sweetened by grace,") CoUon Mather wrote for his 
 gravestone : " If you need to ask who he was you, ought not to know." 
 
 This apothegm was apt for that generation, but we of two centuries 
 later, otten need "to roll back the tide of time" and inqnire, — 
 ." Who were the early people? what did they do and say?" And 
 one part of this Commemorative programme is to glance at the social 
 
31 DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 
 
 and public life of Denison and his peers, and at the times when he 
 was Commander of the little handful of men who made up the 
 protective forces of two hundred years ago. To do this let us in 
 imagination enter primitive Ipswich, and call upon the young Captain, 
 Clerk of the Town and Deputy to General Court, — for Denison was 
 each of these at twenty-four, — and walk with him awhile among his 
 fellows. We cannot easily enter the town by land, for there is only 
 an Indian path between Boston and Ipswich, leading into town over 
 what is now the Topsfield road. John Dane, who built a house on 
 Turkey Shore, near Major Woodbury's (now the Foss house,) came 
 over this path in 1635. It was such an indifferent way that he was 
 "sometimes in it and sometimes out of it" Governor Winthrop 
 walked down in 1633, and "exercised here by way of prophecy," as 
 they called preaching then. He walked down again in 1637, and all 
 Ipswich turned out to meet him. The constables preceeded him with 
 halberds, perhaps, for that was the custom. When public men or 
 Court officials came to Ipswich, they were ushered into town by 
 Sheriffs carrying halberds ; and we find on our records that a man 
 was once paid for mending the town halberds. Judge Sewall came to 
 Ipswich Court earlier than Sheriff Harris expected him, and the 
 Judge was not conducted in state to Sparks' Tavern So unusual 
 was it that he made a note of the fact in his Diary. William Adams 
 a boy of fifteen, went from Ipswich to Cambridge College in 1666, 
 in this same Indian path, and lost the track and staid in the woods 
 all night. 
 
 The earliest method of travel seems to have been by boat. Dep. 
 Gov. Symonds wrote to a friend in Boston, "let me know when yon 
 are to come that I may send horses to the boat." We can come, if wo 
 choose, with old Matthias Button or Henry Kinsman, who in 1634, 
 the year Denison first pressed Ipswich soil, began to run occasional 
 boats between Ipswich and Boston. They are the the first Messengers 
 of which we have record. Mary (Winthrop) Dudly, sister-in-law of 
 the Denisons, who lived on Spring street, then called Brooke street, 
 received by them some pinnes and sope, some flowered holland for a 
 wast coat and tape to bind it, &c. With these Messengers let us 
 float up the river. 
 
 On both banks are pleasant single houses of two stories, with hall, 
 parlor and kitchen on the first floor ; room over the hall, and room 
 over the parlor ; Luthern windows, wooden chimneys as wide as the 
 house and plastered within with clay, and "doors high enough to 
 enter without stooping."* If we stop a moment at the Choate ship- 
 
 *See Symonds' letter to John Winthrop, jr., in Winthrop Papers; 
 inventory of Mr. Cobbitt, Daniel Ringe and others. 
 
DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 35 
 
 yard, we shall find that Thomas Hardy, once a servant of Gov. 
 Winthrop, has supplanted the first rude shelter by a strong frame 
 house and dug a well ; the same old well which gives living waters 
 to-day. We will not stop to drink now, but will sail up the stream. 
 There is no dam at Damon's saw and grist mills to hinder the progress 
 of our boat, though Mr. Richard Saltonstall thought one could be 
 made to advantage ; and a hundred years later the Mannings built 
 one, and the ledges at that point were called "the lime-kiln rocks." 
 As we sail by the garden of the late Capt. Samuel N. Baker we find 
 that first Firmin and then Appleton built ware houses there ; still 
 higher, at Choate Bridge, we find first a lighter or gondola, and then 
 logs and planks to carry men and horses over, and land them just 
 before the door of Mr. Manasseh Brown's residence, which in that 
 day was Reginald Foster's. Still higher up the stream we must go, to 
 the stone and brick mills, — and now we may land, for here is the first 
 Ipswich home of Daniel and Patience Denison. It is a humble 
 house. Some of you remember it. More than forty years ago an 
 old Mr. Lancaster and his daughter Mehitable lived there. Humble, 
 and yet those early gentle-folk had tasteful and attractive homes. 
 We read in inventories of Turkish rugs, tapestried walls, leather- 
 covered chairs. Dep. Gov. ISymonds at Argilla, had red and green 
 curtains, cushions of'Turkey-worke, a suite of damask, a carved chest, 
 &c. Madam Rebekah Symonds had Dodd on the Commandments 
 bound in green plush, her favorite book. 
 
 This house of Denison by the mill, remained in his possession two 
 years, then he sold it to Humphrey Griffin, and Griffin sold it to the 
 Burnhams, and the Burnhams to Anthony Potter, whose widow gave a 
 silver communion cup to the First Church; and Anthony sold it to 
 the S affords, whose descendants retained it till almost our own day. 
 You can remember the Saffords, the men were blacksmiths, with a 
 shop near the hayscales on the Topsfield road. 
 
 Major Denison's second house was near or upon Meeting House 
 Hill. Matthew Whipple had a house "neere ye meeting house,' 
 which had Major Denison's house S. W., Theophilus Wilson, N. W. 
 a Lane S. P^. the streete N. E His houselot touched the Pound. 
 This house* was burned in 1665, and Sarah Roper, a servant of the 
 family was "comitted to prison on suspition of hir wickedly & 
 
 * 11 Jan. 1639. Granted to mr. fawne a house lott adjoyneing to 
 mr. Appleton six acre near ye mill. Granted to Daniell Denison a 
 house lott next mr. fawnes to the scirt of the hill next the swamp. — 
 The swamp here alluded to was later described as "the low. watery, 
 miry land," a few rods in the rear of the store of Mr. I. K. Jewett, 
 it remained low and swampy till after the revolution. Mr. Appleton's 
 house was near the E. R. R. depot. The hill is meeting house hill. 
 
36 DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 
 
 felloniously burning it." She was acquitted, but found guilty of 
 stealing from the Denisons, and was "whipt wth tenn stripes vpon 
 her naked bod}." Denison built a new house on the same site. 
 
 The Homes of Ipswich to which Denison was always welcome 
 would certainly win us to-day, if they existed. They were the homes 
 of the "Ynhabitants who engaged to pay yearly in way of gratuitye 
 an amount of money to encourage liim in his military helpfullnes unto 
 them." Let us go forth from his house, and walk with him about the 
 streets, as David did his Zion. 
 
 Just before the front door of his house by the mill, is a river-ford 
 kept open by the town through all generations since. We can cross 
 to this side the stream, entering the road nearly in front of this Hall. 
 We must first pay our duty, as old-time people called it, to the 
 Ministers. They live not far from the old ford. The Town Records 
 and well-authenticated tradition, mark the very places. The order of 
 the houses on the street, as given upon the Selectmen's book is, — Mr. 
 Rogers, Mr. Tuttle, Mr. Ward and Mr. Winthrop ; a stately street 
 for a new town. We will go first to Mr. Rogers', whose son married 
 Denison's only daughter. Where Mrs. Trask now lives, stood the 
 house which sheltered the first Nathaniel Rogers; and the adjoining 
 house which was built a century ago by Mr. Thomas Baker, was 
 partly made of the Rogers timbers. When the late David' Baker 
 built the house in which Mrs Trask resides, a silver cup was dug up, 
 with the initials N. R. Ipswich will never cease to regard her Rogers 
 and his descendants, — a man of such self distrust, that Mr. Ward 
 said of him, "though he had grace enough in his heart for two men, 
 he had not half enough for himself." And of his father, the Rev. 
 John Rogers of Dedham, England, — a Boanerges truly, — the more 
 one reads of him the better they love him ; his old portrait, painted in 
 1623, hung on Ipswich walls a hundred years, and a copy of it was, in 
 1881, placed in our Public Library. 
 
 From the Rogers home to Rev. Nathaniel Ward's is but a stride. 
 It was just at the east of the Col. Nathaniel Wade* mansion. When 
 Mr. Theodore F. Cogswell opened the new street at that place, which 
 he wisely christened Ward street, the old cellar lines and chimney 
 bricks were unearthed. There Ward wrote " The Simple Cobbler of 
 Agawam," printed in 1647; there, also, he prepared the " Body of 
 Laws," which Stephen H. Phillips, Esq., of Salem, said would be 
 called a great work by wise men of any age. Over his mantel he 
 inscribed, Sobrie, Juste, Pie, Lcete; threads woven into his life, 
 probably. Twelve years he lived there, "dignified as Sidney or 
 Milton," then went back to England. 
 
 * The Wade mansion was built in 1728. 
 
OEN1SON MEMORIAL, IPdWICU, -MASS. d'l 
 
 A few rods to the east is the Winthrop house, begun in the spring 
 of 1G33, and not finished in October, and the elder Winthrop feared it 
 would not be suitable for his son's winter comfort. To this house 
 came Martha (Fones) Winthrop, in the freshness of her bridal days, 
 and died in less than a year. They carried her, doubtless, to the 
 yard on the Hill, and grieved over her early death. Here came, also, 
 Elisabeth Reade, Winthrop's second bride, and her sister with her, — 
 Mistress Margaret Lake. [Another sister became the second wife of 
 Dep. Gov. Symonds.] 
 
 Close at hand were the Tuttles, an interesting family and rich ; 
 some of the.n went home to old England for a visit. 
 
 Robert Andrews, who kept the first Tavern in town, owned a 
 house lot where Mr. Zenas Cushing's mansion stands. His old 
 Tavern, in which he resided, tradition saj's was on the site of the first 
 Methodist Meeting House. It was a one story house, and stood until 
 the early part of the present century. An old desk is still in town, 
 which he brought from England. His son Thomas was Schoolmaster, 
 and fitted boys for Cambridge. Thomas lived in Ezekiel Cheever's 
 house, which people of sixty years ago could well remember. One of 
 his scholars was William Adams, to whom reference has already been 
 made, who became the young minister of Dedham, and died early. 
 
 Directly opposite the mansion of Mr. .John Heard, lived Samuel 
 Hall, a young man of wealth and very open hands : liberal be was, 
 certainly, some called him convivial, and reproved him sharply because 
 he invited young fellows to his parlor to drink his wines. The General 
 Court 'ttined him Vs for drunkenes by him comitted a shipboard." 
 but he did not pay it. In his old age, and after he went back to 
 England, he gave a legacy to Ipswich Soldiers who suffered in the 
 Indian wars. He lived in town when our boys marched away to the 
 Pequot war, 1637, and he heard in England of the fearful scenes of 
 1676, and provided by his will for the needs of the sufferers. Mad. 
 Rebekah Symonds dipensed his bounty. 
 
 Another philanthropic name, never to be forgotten by Ipswich sous, 
 was Mr. Richard ^altonstall, a close neighbor of Denison. He was 
 the William Lloyd Garrison of his day. He entered the first manly 
 protest against slavery. (1645.) A truer man never trod Ipswich 
 soil. Would he could have died among us, that we might be richer 
 for his dust. His is the first name on that noble list who petitioned 
 Gen. Denison to stay in town. The late Luther Waite, a young 
 man of true antiquarian taste, published this list just before his 
 lamented death. Mr. Saltonstall was one of the very few who knew 
 where the Regicides were. In 1672 he gave them £50. The tradition 
 from his day to ours is, that his sympathy and care brought them to 
 
38 DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 
 
 Ipswich, and they were secreted for awhile in the ancient Appleton 
 house, now the residence of Mrs. Whilhelmina Wildes. It is a very 
 interesting fact that the halls the Saltonstalls left when they came 
 to New England, were purchased by the Earl of Strafford, who was 
 beheaded in the reign of Charles I. The estate still remains in pos- 
 session of the Earl's descendants. The old Ipswich home of the 
 family still remains ; one of the quaintest of our relics. We like to 
 look at it for the sake of its builder. 
 
 Close by the earliest Denison house lived Nicholas Easton, a man of 
 active brain, and much better understood to-day than in his own time. 
 He was associated with Denison in the care of the gunpowder. He 
 had "woful errors" they thought, to which we may allude again. He 
 moved away, and Ipswich saints rejoiced and were glad. He went to 
 Newport and built the first house in that, now famed city, and was 
 Governor of Rhode Island. 
 
 Later still, through the influence of Mr. Saltonstall, came the 
 Farleys, staunch, practical, unblemished. 
 
 Moving along, hurriedly, we next call upon old Thomas Scott ; not 
 old then, however, but in his prime, at Denison's word marching away 
 to the Pequot war. He was a — free thinker, shall we call it? 
 independant thinker would be better, perhaps, not an unusual thing 
 in that golden day of Ipswich life. He was openly rebuked and fined 
 for not saying Mr. Norton's Catechism. (It seems that grown-up 
 people were catechized then.) There was a grsat oak before his door 
 which was smitten by lightning the same Sunday that Quarter-master 
 Perkins' Bible lost the book of Revelation by the same power and his 
 waistcoat riddled as if by shot, and he himself unharmed. Scott lived 
 near Damon's corner, and from his day until after the Revolution, 
 Washington street went by his name. 
 
 Within a stone's throw of Scott was the name of Appleton, Samuel 
 the elder by his presence and power giving grace and influence to the 
 community; while > c amuel the second, (a marvel of bravery, who 
 stood for hours face to face with death in the Hadley fight,) has a 
 name on the same bistoric page with honored Denison, Endicott, 
 Mason, Underbill, and others who faced the foe and held the field. 
 Ipswich will yet find satisfaction in writing his name in imperishable 
 letters on her tablets. A braver officer never grasped a sword 
 
 There is another grand man of that generation, [whose daughter 
 married Denison's only son,] whom to know is to revere : Dep. Gov. 
 Symonds. His escutcheon was a clover leaf, simple and beautiful as 
 his life. He lived at Argilla, though he had a town house where the 
 Seminary stands. He was eminently social and had many visitors. 
 Judge Sewall one June day walked from the Appletons to Argilla and 
 ate wild strawberries which grew abundantly on the Symonds farm 
 
DENISON MBMORIAL, IISUK 11. MASS •".'.» 
 
 then as they did when some of us were boys. There is one pretty 
 glimpse of his social life in the Winthrop Papers, a gathering on a 
 
 November day, 1658, when he was at homo from Court : " My cozens 
 all three were in health and as merry as very good cheere and Ipswich 
 frends could make them." The "frends" enumerated were Madam 
 Symonds, Mistress Lake, Sam: Symonds his son, Mistress Nath'l 
 Rogers and three of her sons, Mr. Hubbard and his family. Mr 
 Daniel Epps, (whose wife was Elizabeth Symonds,) and his family. 
 A genial dinner party, surely. ( )ne pleasing feature of Gov. Symonds 
 was, he allowed Mad. Rebekah Symonds to spend her income as 
 pleased her. Engrossed r.lways in public affairs,' with fatherly inter- 
 est looking after apprentices, servants, tenants, (and he had many.) 
 he died with his harness on atRoston, and was laid in the Winthrop 
 tomb. 
 
 We have recently read forty to fifty unprinted letters- written by 
 Mr. .John Hall of Assington, England, to his mother. Madam 
 Rebekah Symonds of Ipswich. From them we catch glimpses of this 
 lady's shopping lists, when she was about sixty years of age. Her 
 shoes ordered from London were damson and purple Turkey leather 
 and satin, scarlet stockings, a light violet coulerpettieoat. "grave and 
 suitable for a person of quality." She wished for a lawn whiffe, hut 
 her son answered, "all gentle women wear now instead, shapes and 
 rubles; and such as goe not with naked necks ware black silk 
 witlles ;" and so he forwarded the shape, rrniles and wifHe. She had a 
 spotted gauze gown, a stripped silk, a cinnamon silk, a (lowered silk, 
 "with paries as they rate them to weare in the sleeves as the fashion 
 is for some." Silver gimp and ribbons for trimming. A black sarinden 
 cloak, and two black plush muffs, "modish and long." An alamode 
 scarf, plaine lutestring scarf, a tabby flowered satin manto with a 
 silver clasp and without a lining : a pair of embroidered satin shoes 
 to match the manto. We suppose as Mad. Symonds was the wife of 
 the Dep. Governor, she was familiar with the Colony law: " Noe 
 pson, either man or woman, shall make or buy any slashed cloathes, 
 other then one slashe in each sleeve, and another in the backe ; also 
 all cutt works, imbroidered or needle worke capps ; bands and rayles 
 are forbidden here after to be made <X: worne ; also all gold and silver 
 girdles, hatt bands., belts, ruffs, beav'r hats are prohibited to be 
 nought and worne." But our Fathers very wisely left this loop-hole 
 
 'These letters are in the archives of the American Antiquarian 
 Society, /Worcester, and by the kindness and courtesy of Mr. F. M. 
 Barton, Librarian, and the Library Committee, we had permission to 
 
 examine these interesting letters, and many books to aid us in the 
 compilation of this Sketch 
 
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 of escape, "it is the meaneing of the Court that men and women shall 
 haue liberty to weare out such app'ell as they are now provided of, 
 except the immoderate greate sleeves, slashed app'ell, greate rayles 
 and long wings." As clothing did not wear out in those days, we 
 presume the enactments of Court did not much modify the fashion. 
 
 Mad Symonds wished to fan herself with a feather fan, and ordered 
 one from London ; but her son wrote, " None but very grave persons 
 vse a feather fan, and now tis growne almost as obsolete as Russets, 
 and more rare to be seen then a Yellow Hood ; but the thing being 
 civil and not dear I send one." He sent also two tortoise shell fans, 
 and the feathers had a silver handle. She wore hoods to match her 
 gowns, and bought two at a time : two lustre hoods, two whiffle 
 hoods, two manto silk hoods, two spotted gauze hoods, aud one 
 brown lutestring. She had a locket containing the picture of her 
 grandaughter, little Betty Hall, and two necklaces, one of amber and 
 another of Scotch pearl. If a relative in England died, a mourning 
 ring was sent to her; if any married, wedding gloves came. House- 
 keepers may be interested to know that she sent from Argilla farm to 
 London town for a quarter of a pound of nutmegs and two ounces 
 each of cloves, mace and pepper. She ordered several times three 
 thousand pins and one hundred needles She had three children and 
 never saw them together for eighteen years, and she outlived them 
 all. These letter-gleanings are mere trifles, but trifles two hundred 
 years old become gold dust. 
 
 We cannot walk half over town, for there yet remain Gov. Simon 
 and Mrs. Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet, — sister of Patience Denison ; 
 for eight years Ipswich was their home, and here the young poetess 
 wrote several of her rhymes, and here some of her children were born ; 
 and there is Governor Thomas Dudley, father of Mistress Denison, he 
 lived next door to the Bradstreets on High street, a few rods east of 
 the Burying Yard ; he was the first person on record who employed 
 Indians as servants; Robert Lord and William Bartholomew, our 
 early Clerks and noble men ; the Paines who founded the Grammar 
 School ; the Cogswells who lived in tapestried rooms ; the Wades and 
 Bakers who married Governors daughters ; John Dane who left a 
 quaint story of his English boyhood ; Daniel Warner who wrote 
 poetry; and our own Hubbard, with jewelled lips, the pride of our 
 town's young life. These were the type of men who grasped the folds 
 of Denison's doublet, when the richness of the banks of the Merrimac 
 lured him, and prevailed upon him to stay. 
 
 But with all that must remain unsaid, there is one more we ought to 
 talk about, — the Town doctor, — Gyles Firmin. I know not where 
 his house was, but his son Thomas built the house now owned ' by the 
 
DlONlsu.N MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. -II 
 
 heirs of the late Capt. Samuel N. Baker. Doct'r Gyles Firmin mar- 
 ried Susan Ward, the minister's daughter. Uis letters are full of 
 interesting things, [n one of them he complained that Ipswich was 
 so healthy that "the gaines of physick would not find him with bread ;" 
 and therefore he was "strongly sett upon to studye divinitee. for 
 physick is but a meene helpe." We do not wonder that physic proved 
 a meene Iielpe, if all prescriptions were like the one given at that date 
 for tooth-ache, viz., Gunpowder and brimstone compounded with 
 butter, which '-proved very available," they said. If, with gunpowder 
 in the mouth, the breath caught fire, as did Betty Tetlock's, we can 
 certainly see its "availability;" an easy method of extraction, maybe. 
 
 The Doctor found not only a healthy place but a moral one, for in 
 "seven years he never saw a man drunk or heard an oath :" but he 
 adds naively, as if he doubted what he wrote, "if such sinnes be 
 among us privily, the Lord heale us." His father-in law, Ward, 
 greatly mourned that Ipswich had so many people, because too much 
 of " Satan's kingdom crept into our borders ;" and he wished to do 
 just what California did the other day to the Chinese, — shut people 
 out. Satan's kingdom was not easily shut out; indeed, it came in 
 the first Winthrop vessel, for Robert Cole and William Perkins, 
 (not the ancestor of our Perkinses, however,) had to stand "one hour 
 in publique vewe, with a white sheete of pap on the brest, haveing a 
 greate D made vpon it," for drinking strong water too freely. 
 
 The Baker boys had a young friend, — John Perley,— who took a 
 free ride on a neighbor's horse, and was shut up in Boston jail. The 
 Bakers went to Boston, broke the jail door, and set him free. It made 
 much scandal. Thomas Bragg and Edward Cogswell fought in the 
 meeting house in sermon time. A young man, whose name I have 
 lost, smoked tobacco in the street on a Sabbath-day, which was quite 
 as bad as the sin of young Nathaniel Mather of Boston, who whittled 
 a stick behind the door one Sunday between sermons; the remem- 
 brance of which lay hard upon his conscience for years, and he talked 
 about it on his death bed. John Lee, one of the smartest and 
 headiest of our Ipswich men, [his seal was a martlet,] was whipt and 
 liined for calling Mr. Justice Ludlow of Boston, "false-hearted knave, 
 hard-hearted knave, and heavy ffriend," a truth, probably, which 
 should have remained unspoken. 
 
 One queer evidence of the [total?] depravity of our early- 
 Ipswich appears in the case of Henry Bachelor, who did not go to 
 meeting. It was not because he had no seat, for the Selectmen added 
 benches and stools as fast as people moved into town to occupy them. 
 It was found that Henry and his wife lived too far from the meeting 
 house ; therefore the Selectmen were empowered by Court to sell his 
 
42 DENIS0N MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 
 
 farm and move him to town where he could easily go and hear Mr. 
 Cobbitt dispense the gospel. We sincerely hope he enjoyed Mr. 
 Cobbitt's sermons better than Henry Walton did of Lynn, who said 
 he had as "leave heare a dogg Barke, as to heare Mr. Cobbitt 
 preach." For which rudeness he was fined by the Court. Court 
 Records are a strange mixture. We can well understand why Nicho- 
 las Easton declared that "all the elect had an indwelling devil and an 
 indwelling Holy Ghost." This assertion was voted a "woful error," 
 but when we read that, in 1639, the ministers of the Colony discovered 
 eighty errors of faith, we do not wonder that sombody thought there 
 was a leaven besides the Holy Ghost affecting the lump. This 
 discovery banished Roger Williams, who was "like to set on fire all 
 America by the Rapid motion of a windmill in his head ;" and Anne 
 Hutchinson, "of voluble wit and nimble tongue ;" and caused Cotton 
 Mather to rank all grades of heretics as people of "fly-blown under- 
 standings." Two hundred years later we look differently at these 
 heresies and heretics. Resurrection comes to every bod}' sooner or 
 later. Those who were buried heretics eventually come out of the 
 grave saints, and "rub the dust from out their eyes." 
 
 There is another page of Denison's dav to be looked at. It shows 
 why one hundred and forty-five strong right Ipswich hands covenanted 
 to pay him an annuity as long as he lived in town. Not only the 
 men of quality, but the muscular arms that could grasp ax or musket; 
 trusting life and property to his prudence and sagacity : men who 
 covenanted when they left English soil never to "linger after their 
 English diet or harbor disease in their minds by discontent;" men 
 who came to stay, whatever occurred. 
 
 We can never trulv understand the terror which pervaded hearts, 
 at times, during the first half century of New England life. Cotton 
 Mather said it was often' agony of spirit. The great and almost 
 interminable foes were the Indians, who only wanted opportunity lo 
 tomahawk every white man on the soil. Now and then one touched 
 civilization. Old Masconomet, the Ipswich Sagamore, (for whom a 
 fire engine was named in my boyhood,) whose grave is on Sagamore 
 Hill at Hamilton, took an oath that he would keep the Ten Com- 
 mandments, and the Ipswich Church hoped this heal hen was 
 redeemed. But when they saw that he broke them at every oppor- 
 tunity, they sadly concluded that he only followed Christ for the loaves 
 he did not know how to bake and the fishes he was too lazy to catch. 
 
 When Ipswich was settled there were the Terratines in Maine, more 
 cruel than Turks ; the Pequots and Narragansets in Connecticut and 
 Rhode Island ; besides clans along the shores, Agawams, Naumkeags, 
 and others. With them there was repeated struggle. Our own 
 
DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS 43 
 
 Hubbard gathered much of his History of it, from living lips. When 
 the Winthrop men were breaking the turf to lay the foundation of 
 their first places of shelter, the Indians told them that only a few 
 weeks before the Terrateens invaded Agawam and carried away the 
 Sagamore's wife. And during the first Spring, ( 1(533,) while the 
 men were planting, forty canoes filled with Terratines came up to the 
 Neck, and but for the calmness and resolution of John Perkins, the 
 Winthrop men would have been exterminated. When, in 1637, 21 
 of our boys marched away to the sound of the kettle-drum to Connec- 
 ticut, all Ipswich was ajar with fears; and from 1637 to 1675 an 
 attack would not have been a surprise any day. 
 
 We who sit without fear to night in this pleasant Hall, cannot 
 realize that for forty years there was a house on Meeting House 
 Green, surrounded by a stone fort, designed for a retreat for the 
 women and children. These garrison houses were built in all the 
 towns ; one of them may yet be seen in Salem, on Washington street, 
 opposite the granite Court House. Two barrels of powder were sent 
 to Ipswich from Boston ; a part of it was "sould out to those that 
 found muskets," and the remainder stored for use on the great beam 
 of the Meeting House. Every night watchmen walked about the 
 town, ready at any moment to fire the alarm musket. All males 
 from ten ^ars old and upward were drilled by Gen. Denison and 
 others ten times a year. The little boys carried half-pikes; at 16 
 they joined the adult companies. Every Sunday the men and boys 
 brought their muskets to the Meeting House and stacked them before 
 the door, while wards paced to and fro during the long service. The 
 prayers of the minister were made fervent by the state of affairs. 
 Mr. Cobbitt tells of praying when Thomas Kimball, a native of 
 Ipswich, was slain at Haverhill, and his wife and babes carried into 
 captivity. Guns before the door, powder casks on the great beam, 
 and the heads of the wolves that had been killed during the week 
 nailed to the lintels, — it must have been ghastly worship ! But 
 children of the first generation grew from cradle to middle life familiar 
 with these scenes. 
 
 Doors of dwellings were filled with the sharp points of nails and 
 spikes. Mr. Thomas Browne, one of our octogenarians, tells me 
 when his his father bought the Sargent farm, the old front door of 
 the farm-house, (once the home of Dep. Gov. Symonds,) was literally 
 filled with spikes. This door had been stored in the garret as a relic. 
 There was a bullet hole in it, made one night when a party of Indians 
 landed at Castle Hill and went plundering through Argilla. The 
 tradition is, that one of them ran and jumped against the door to force 
 it open ; bruised by the spikes and annoyed by the gun, they went 
 howling away. Mr. Daniel Hodgkins has preserved the old Cobbitt 
 
44 DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 
 
 door, which seems to have been made similar to the Symonds. 
 General Court ordered "that at Gov. Symonds' two men should be 
 appointed by the major-gen'll [Denison ] or, in his absence by the 
 chiefe comander in the towne of Ipswich, to be a guard to the Deputy 
 Goun'ors house, that is so remoate from neighbours, and he so much 
 necessitated to be on the countrys service." (1675) Mad Symonds' 
 son writes from Assingtou, "Your sorrows in New England Are much 
 vpon mee, And I have direful Ideas in minde of the frights and 
 distractions that these salvages put you too. And my vncle Swaine 
 as wel as myselfe Judge you might find some pease in England whilst 
 troubles are there: for you cannot fight those Heathens In your 
 person otherwise than with prayers and tears, which may be done 
 here." 
 
 In the first great horror of 1G37, messengers went from town to 
 town with the tidings that the Pequots were devastating Connecticut ; 
 that John Oldham, a Boston merchant had been killed, and Capt. 
 John Gallup had "fed the bodies of his Indian murderers to the 
 fishes." This was no idle tale to Ipswich ears, for the name of Gallup 
 was well known in town, as he was allied by marriage to Mistress 
 Lake, sister of the Winthrops and Symondses, and mother of Sheriff 
 Harris' wife : and when the announcement came that the Colonies 
 were to unite their forces for the overthrow oft e tribe, our noble boys 
 rose with the rest and hastened to the field. How well they did 
 history tells. There is a leaf on our old shattered Record Book, 
 written with the quill of William Bartholomew, which gives the 
 names of fourteen of the twenty-four who marched away on that 
 April morning, and united with the Salem boys under Capt. Trask. 
 That yellow leaf is as sacred as the granite shaft on Meeting House 
 Hill, and I am not sure but it is quite as enduring. It gives the names 
 c f : — Wiliam Fuller, Francis Wainwright, John Wedgewood, Thomas 
 Sherman, William Whitred, Andrew Story, John Burnham, Robert 
 Cross, Palmer Tingley, William Snyder, Robert Philbrick, John 
 Philbrick, John Castell, Edward Luramas, Edward Thomas. Nearly 
 every one became a substantial man in town. 
 
 [ wonder if John Norton prayed and Nathaniel Rogers lifted his 
 hands in benediction before they left! I wonder if the Ipswich women 
 were as brave and strong as Elisabeth (Choate) Farley in 1 770, when 
 she buckled the knapsack of her boy Robert,— only sixteen years old, 
 — and told him to go and behave like a man ! Nature is the same in 
 all generations : the women of 1637 and 1676 simply transmitted their 
 true life to fheir children of 1776 and 1861. 
 
 Three of our Ipswich boys, — Wainwright, Wedgewood, Sherman, 
 won imperishable records in this exploit. Francis Wainwright, who 
 
DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. I ."> 
 
 came to Ipswich as a servant of Alexander Knight, became, — no more 
 a servant, — but the head of a house that for a hundred years was the 
 most influential of any in town in mercantile affairs. The old people 
 of forty years ago told of the obesience the plain people rendered to 
 Col. John Wainwright, (son of Francis,) as they passed him on the 
 street. Francis Wainwright's story is thus given b}' Vincent: ,l A 
 pretty sturdy youth of Ipswich, going forth somewhat rashly to pursue 
 the salvages, shot off his gun after them till all his powder was shot 
 and spent ; which they perceiving re-assaulted him, thinking with 
 their hatchets to have knocked him in the head ; but he so bestirred 
 himself with the stock of his piece, and after with the barrel when that 
 was broken, that he brought two of their heads to the array. His 
 own desert and the encouragment of others will not suffer him to be 
 nameless — he is called Francis Wainwright." 
 
 Robert Pike's Diary, says that John Wedgewood and Thomas 
 Sherman gave chase to a scout of Indians and drove them to a 
 swamp ; both were wounded and came home with scars and the 
 satisfaction of having driven back the enemy. Ipswich was not 
 ashamed of her sons. 
 
 One September Sunday, in 1G42, the alarm guns were fired, and 
 men ran with their muskets to the Meeting house, to learn that the 
 Merrimac tribes had risen in conspiracy. Denison marched away with 
 forty of our men. It was like the Baltimore Sunday of twenty years 
 ago, the very memory of which comes over us now and then like a 
 strange dream. In 1643 another alarm was made, and twenty men 
 were drafted. In 1653, there came a rumor which produced unusual 
 excitement. It was in the Spring, the busy season of the year. Men 
 were so filled with fear they could not work ; mothers did not dare let 
 their children go beyond their grasp ; every unusual sound caused 
 people to hold their breath. Gen. Denison again callad out his men, 
 and they marched away to quell the Pascatags. 
 
 So the years dragged till 1676, — when Denison had reached his 
 sixty-fourth year. Then came that great ugly throb of the Indian 
 heart. Only God saved New England then! Denison gathered up 
 his men and marched to Maine. Appleton was made Commander of 
 the forces of Central Massachusetts. Brave Appleton ! how he fought. 
 He forced his way from town to town ; one day Freegrace Norton, 
 [his family lived where Miss Abigail Appleton now resides,] fell 
 fatally shot at his side : a bullet went through his own hat ; three 
 Ipswich names, and I know not how many more, — John Ayres, John 
 Pritchet, Richard Coy,— were left dead on the field. Appleton 
 reached Hadley, and without flinching held the town for hours. Then 
 followed the fights of Lancaster, Medfield, Marlboro.— every scholar 
 
46 DENISON MEMOIUAL, ll'SWICH, MASS. 
 
 of our schools has hea:d of them ; and at Marlboro our cousin Rowley 
 lo;t her Brocklebank, one of the truest of her sons. 
 
 The Massachusetts troubles so filled the hands of the Court that the 
 fury of the Terratines of Maine was more than they could cover with 
 their wing ; and they gave Denison the best testimonial of their 
 confidence in him he could have received,— they committed the whole 
 eastern affair to his sagacity and care. It was an important post ; a 
 stretch of towns exposed to Indian attacks, — Casco and Falmouth 
 already sacked and ruined ; Arrowsick with a thousand cattle at the 
 mercy of the savages ; Wells, (named for an Ipswich boy born near 
 the corner of Elm street.) York, Kittery, and so on. The bravery of 
 the Maine people was almost fabulous. Hubbard makes the pulse 
 quicken by the narrations. One fact we will tell : Fifteen women gath- 
 ered in one house aud the savages came ; a young girl stood guard at 
 the door, keeping the Indians at bay, till every woman but herself had 
 escaped, and then she was felled with a hatchet and left for dead. 
 These scenes multiplied every day. General Denison determined to 
 strike the lion in his den ; to go into the very forests for their des- 
 truction. But God rose to the rescue, and sent such a bitter cold the 
 Indians were obliged to yield to escape freezing and starving. 
 
 •It was at this time that Thomas Cobbitt, son of the Minister on the 
 hill, was made a captive. At Mr. Cobbitt's house on East street, the 
 church gathered and prayed for his liberation and return. One godly 
 woman sat in great inward recollection during that hour of prayer, 
 receiving the divine conviction that Thomas would come home alive, 
 and told his mother so. Notes were read in the Congregations of 
 Ministers Phillips, Hale, Higginson, Whiting, Buckley, and the three 
 churches of Boston. At this time, Gen. Denison in Maine, met 
 Mugg, the Chief, and by wise negotiations obtained the release of 
 Cobbitt and ended the war. Denison sent Mugg to Boston in care of 
 his brother, Gen. George Denison. On his way he stopped in Ipswich 
 and was at the house of Mr. Cobbitt. Curious Ipswich was out, no 
 doubt, to see him. What they thought of his Ugliness, I cannot tell. 
 
 Who wonders that after fifty years of such life as this, Denison 
 welcomed the hour that opened the Everlasting Doors? Peace to the 
 ashes of the good men and women who stood firmly with him when it 
 was a living death so to do ! Peace to Denison's dust as it slumbers 
 in the quietness of the grave-yard on the hill ! Fresh laurels we lay 
 to-night upon the old red slab that covers him, and may those who 
 live after us keep his memory green. 
 
DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS 47 
 
 GENEALOGICAL. 
 
 Daniel (1) and Patience (Dudley) Denison had two children: 
 John 2, who married Martha, daughter of Dep. Gov. Symonds ; and 
 Elisabeth who married Rev. John Rogers, Pres Harvard College. 
 
 John 2, and Martha (Symonds) Denison had John 3, who m. Elis- 
 abeth, dau. the Hon'ole Nath'l Saltonstall ; Daniel who m. Margaret 
 Low ; Martha, m. (1) Thomas, son of Andrew and Anne (Bradstreet) 
 Wiggin and gr. son of Gov. Thomas Wiggin. She m. (2)Capt. Jona. 
 Thing of Exeter. She m. (3) Matthew Whipple of Ipswich. 
 
 President John and Elisabeth (Denison) Rogers had Elisabeth who 
 m. John Appleton ; Margaret who m. (1) Thomas Berry, (2) John 
 Leverett, Pres. of H. C. ; John who m Martha Whittingham ; Dau'l 
 m. Sarah Appleton ; Nathaniel m. Sarah Perkins; Patience m. Benj. 
 Marston. 
 
 John 3, and Elisabeth (Saltonstall) Denison, had John 4, m. Mary 
 dau. Pres. John Leverett. 
 
 John 4, and Mary (Leverett) Denison had John who d mini, and 
 Mary who m. John Wise. 
 
 Hon John Appleton who m. Elisabeth Rogers, gr. dau. of Gen. 
 Denison, had Elisabeth who m. Rev. Jabez Fitch; Margaret who m. 
 President Holyoke ; Nathaniel, ordained al Cambridge, 1717, d. 1784; 
 Priscillam. Rev. Robert Ward of Wenham ; Daniel m. Elisabeth 
 Berry, (he was the father of Mrs. Rev. John W alley of the South 
 Church.) 
 
 [The last Rev. John and Rev. Nath'l Rogers, of the North Church, 
 were descendants of Gen. Denison.] 
 
 DENTS ON SUBSCRIBERS. 
 
 COPIED BY ARTHUR \V. HOW 
 
 At the generall Towne meeting held 19 of December 1648 : wheras 
 the ynhabitants of this Towne haue engaged themselves to pay yearly 
 on the 10th day of Decembar vnto maior Denison soe long as he shall 
 be there Leader the Summ of twenty four pounds seaven shillings in 
 way of gratuitye to encourage him in his military helpfullness unto 
 them as by severall subscriptions vnder there bands mav appeare. 
 
48 
 
 DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 
 
 And because it is most manifest the sayd sum will not be raysed 
 nnlesse some better order be taken for the same espeshally in respect 
 of the Alteration, and change of the ynhabitants. Yt is therefore 
 ordered that henceforth the seaven men shall yearly in November put 
 the sd sum of 2i£ 7s into a rate porportioning it vpon the ynhab- 
 itants, (haveing alsoe respect to the bill of subscriptions of the Towne 
 from year to yeare, to be levyed & colected by the constable and payd 
 unto the savd maior Denison on the 10th of December yearly soe long 
 as he shall continue to be leader of this companye. 
 
 Voted by the Towne at the generall Towne meeting above men- 
 tioned 
 
 A list of the names of those that did subscribe there severall somes 
 yearly while he continued to be our Leader: 
 
 Mr. Saltonstall 
 Mr. Syinouds 
 Mr. Hubbard 
 Mr Rogers 
 Mr. Norton 
 Mr. William Paine 
 Mr. Robert Paine 
 John Whipple 
 ffrancis Dane 
 Mr. Baker 
 Kich. Kemball, sen'r 
 Tho. Roiiusou, sen : r 
 Robert Lord 
 James How 
 Theoph: Willson 
 Humph : Bradstreet 
 Daniell Clarke 
 William Clarke 
 Sauiuell Long- 
 John Warner 
 John VVoodd.im 
 James Chute 
 John Anaball 
 John Davis 
 Wm Gutterson 
 John Morse 
 William Averill 
 John Newman 
 Roger Langton 
 Joseph Langton 
 ffrancis Jordan, 
 John Jackson 
 Abra : fibster 
 Phillip Long 
 William Bartholomew 
 Andrew Hodges 
 
 Steephen Jordan 
 Thos. Newman 
 John Gage 
 Renold fibster 
 Matthias Button 
 Samuel Tayler 
 Thos: Tredwell 
 Abra; Warr 
 Tho : Knowlton 
 Thomas Hardy 
 Rcb : Scofield 
 Roger Preston 
 Robert Beacham 
 Tho: Pei kins 
 Th.3. Harris 
 Robert Dutch 
 Jacob Perkins 
 Ralph Dix 
 John Layton 
 John Iugalls 
 Robert tilbrick 
 Robert Wallis 
 Robert Roberds 
 ffran. wainwright 
 John Newinarsh 
 Sam. Heipher 
 Joseph Bigsby 
 Edward Waldenne 
 John Appleton 
 Sam : Appleton 
 Tho. Stace 
 Jo : Whipple, jr. 
 Edmond Bridges 
 Lanslot Granger 
 Anthony Potter 
 John trench. 
 
 Nath. Stou 
 mark Quilter 
 will : Addam \v 
 John Denison 
 Edw. Lomas 
 Tho Rolliuson jr, 
 Dunell Warner 
 Tho. Wardall 
 Tho Scott jr. 
 Tho Scott sen'r 
 Wm Addams sen'r 
 John Binder 
 Ihomas Hart 
 Robert Day 
 Will Pritchet 
 John Wiate 
 Tho clarke jr 
 Tho, Safford 
 John Knowlton 
 Joseph metcalfe 
 Tho. Metcalfe 
 Moses Pengry 
 Aron Pengiy 
 Theo. Shatswell 
 Mr. Tuttle 
 John Pittice 
 Rich: Shatswell 
 Rich. Kemball jr 
 Wm. Whitred 
 Tho: Whitred 
 Georg Smith 
 Haniell Bosworth. 
 Esra Roffe 
 Rich. Wattells 
 Henry Kingsbury 
 Robert Smith 
 
DENISOM MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, .MASS. I'J 
 
 Henry Areher John Chote Daniel] Wood 
 
 Edward Browne Symon Tompson Joseph Emerson 
 
 John Ayres Kobert Kinsman Robert Cross 
 
 Richard Betts Tho. Low Sam. V on unlove 
 
 John Haskell Will Goodhue Sam. Pod 
 
 Humph. Vincent Wm Story Win Cogswell 
 
 John Uatcham John \\ est Wm LampsoD 
 
 Will Buckley Theo. Salter Anthony Harris 
 
 Sam: Varnam John liurnam Robert Colbome 
 
 Danicll Roffe Will Miller Tin. Bishop 
 
 Joseph Redding George (lidding Iho. Greene 
 
 Richard Nicholls John Andres jr Robert Pearpoyat 
 
 John Browne Tho Lee John ffaller 
 
 John Andrews seu'r John Perkins jr Tho. Burnam 
 
 mata : Clarke Wm ffellows John Lee 
 
 Daniell Hovey Mr. Epps Johu Emerson 
 
 Gyles Birdly Hnmph. Gilbert Job Bishop 
 
 John Dane Daniel! Rinse 
 
 DENIS ON INSCRIPTIONS, HIGH ST. YARD. 
 
 The Grave of Gen. Denison is covered by a heavy red slab. The 
 inscription is obliterated but was legible sixty years ago, and is partly 
 remembered by aged people. The sculptured ornamental corner is 
 just tracable. The Coat-of-Arms has been carried away. The 
 inscription was something like the following : 
 
 Here Lyes 
 
 The Worshipful Major-General 
 
 DANIEL DENISON. 
 
 who deceased 
 
 Sept. 20, 10.S-2, 
 
 In ye 70th yr of his age. 
 
 Not far from the grave of Denison is a slate stone in memory 
 of his only daughter: — Here Lyes Interred ye Body of Mrs ElizaBeth 
 Rogers, Relict of Mr John Rogers, (sometime) Presedent of Harvard 
 Colledge, and Daughter of Major General Daniel Denison of Ipswich 
 who Deed July the 13th 1723 in ye 82nd year of her age. 
 
 The husband of Mrs. Rogers was buried in Cambridge, and we 
 copy the following translation of his Latin epitaph : " To this mouud 
 of earth is committed a treasury of benevolence, a store house of 
 theologic learning, a library of the choicest literature, a living system 
 of medicine, an embodiment of integrity, a repository of faith, a pat- 
 tern of christian sympathy, a garner of all virtues ; in other words, — 
 the mortal remains of the Very Reverend John Rogers, son of the 
 
")(> DENISON MEMORIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 
 
 Very Learned Nathaniel Rogers of Ipswich in New England, grandson 
 of Mr. Rogers of Dedham in Cld England, whose name is lustrious in 
 all the world. He was a favorite and deservedly admired President 
 of Harvard College. His immortal part was borne away from us July 
 20th, 1684, in the 54th year of his age. His very dust is dear, 'tis all 
 we have." 
 
 A few feet fiom Gen. Denison's grave is a monument to the memo- 
 ry of his great-grandson, Col. John Denison : 
 
 1 Huic Tumulo mandatur quod erat mortale 
 
 D Johannis Denison, Armigeri, 
 
 Tribuni Militum Viearii, 
 
 Et de Comitatu Essexia? Viee-comitis, 
 
 lllustrissimi Danielis Denison, Armig. 
 
 Militaris quondam Prrefecti Provincialis, 
 
 Et non minus Illustris Richardi Saltonstal, Armig. 
 
 Gubernatori olim a Consiliis, 
 
 (Quorum utroque gaudebat Nova-Anglia 
 
 Patre ac Patrono semper memorando) 
 
 Pronepotis non Indigni : 
 
 Quippe qui 
 
 In Collegio Harvardino liberaliter educatus, 
 
 Judicii acumine Singulari dotatus, 
 
 Jurisprudentiam non vulgarem adeptus, 
 
 iEquanimitate haud lequiparanda pmcditus, 
 
 Moribus Socialibus el Christianis Pollens, 
 
 Reipublicae Ornamento fuit 
 
 Et Fulcimento, 
 
 Dumque viveret bonis omnibus 
 
 Non immerito dilectus 
 
 Et cum Animam efllaret, 25° Nov. 1724, 
 
 JEi&t. 35° 
 
 Non mediocriter defletus. 
 
 Famam reliquit Unguento optimo meliorem. 
 
DKNISo.N MEMOHIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. .", I 
 
 Translation . 
 
 Here rests the mortal part of Lieut. Col. Mr. John Denison, Esq., 
 Sheriff of Essex County; great-grandson of the most illustrious Daniel 
 Denison, Esq., late Major-General in the Province; and also of the 
 not less illustrious Richard Saltonstall, Esq., formerly one of the 
 Governor's Council, (in each of whom, as in a father and champion 
 ever to he remembered, New England used to delight,) a descendant 
 not unworthy of his ancestry ; having been liberally educated in 
 Harvard College, endowed with extraordinary acuteness of judgment, 
 remarkably skilled in jurisdrudence, gifted with unequalled steadiness 
 of mind, mighty by his social and christian character, an ornament 
 and pillar to the state ; while he lived, deservedly beloved by all good 
 men, and at his death, Nov. 25th, 1724, in the 34th year of his a«e, 
 lamented in no common degree. He left a memory more precious 
 than the most fragrant ointment. 
 
 Mrs. Mary (Leverett) Denison, married (2) the Rev'd Nathaniel 
 Rogers, and resided in the house known to the present generation as 
 the residence of the late Nath'l Lord, jr., Register of Probate. This 
 house was built in 1728. kt Here Lyes ye Body of Mrs. Mary Rogers, 
 ye Excellent Consort to ye Rev'd Mr. Nathaniel Rogers, and Daug'r 
 of the Hon'bl and Rev'd Mr. John Leverett Esq., who died June ye 
 25th, 1757, iEtatis 55." 
 
 By the side of Col, John Denison, resls his only son, who was the 
 last of the Major-General's descendants in Ipswich, who bore the 
 surname — Denison. His gravestone bears the Family Arms, and 
 the following: " In Memory of John Denison, A. M. only son of Col. 
 John Denison : grandson of a Minister of the same name & a descend- 
 ant from the renowned Major General Daniel Denison. An amiable 
 young man & worthy of his ancestors. His genius learning & en- 
 gaging manners spoke him the future joy & ornament of his native 
 town. But heaven meant otherwise. He died in his 25th year on 
 the 25th of August, 1747. He cometh forth like a flower & is cut 
 down. He fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not. 
 
DENISON MEMOBIAL, IPSWICH, MASS. 
 
 RE CORDS. 
 
 1635. Their was Granted to Mr- Daniell Denison one Hundred 
 & fifty Acres of Land at Chebacco haueing the Creek called Labour in 
 Vayne on the north west, Mr. Samvele Dudlye land on the south east, 
 Mr. John Winthroppe, Junr, on the south west, & Mr. Wards land 
 on the North east. 
 
 Likewise their was Granted to him ten Acres of meadow haueing 
 the labour ^in vayne Creeke on the south east, Mr. Richard Saltonstall 
 land on the south west, & Robert Andrewes land towards the Noeast. 
 
 Also about fouracres lying vppon hart breake hill, haueing Good- 
 man perlyes lott on the east, William Fullers on the west, A Swamp 
 on the north and a high way to Chebacco on ye south. 
 
 Also house lott near the mill containeing about two acres wch he 
 hath paled in and built an house vppon it, haueing mr. ffawne's house 
 lott on ye south west. 
 
 Also three Acres lyinge vppon the Towne River aboue the mill, 
 haueing the Riuer on the south east and lott of Mr. ^.ppleton's on the 
 north east. 
 
 Also their was Granted him ten Acres of vpland on the North west 
 side of the towne, Butting vppon the path that goes to Newbery being 
 on the north west side of the swamp that Jo3 T nes to Mr. Simon 
 Bradstreets to enjoy the said premises to him his heires admi'sr or 
 Assignes forever. 
 
 11 Jan. 1639. Granted to mr. fawne a house lott adjoyneing to 
 mr. Appleton six acre near ye mill. Granted to Daniell Denison a 
 house lott next mr. fawnes to the scirt of the hill next the swamp. 
 
 1630. Att a Generall meeting february 26th, 1636, Mr. Denison 
 is chosen to keepe the Towne Books to enter all grants of land to 
 pticaler psons for which he shall hauve 6cl for every man's Land he so 
 enters, also he is to enter the Towne orders and to sett a coppy 
 thereof up in ye meeting house. 
 
 Mr John Winthrope, Mr. Bradstreete, mr. Denison, goodman 
 perkins, Goodman Scott, John Gage and mr. Wade are chosen to 
 order Towne Business for these three months next following. 
 
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