SIR
CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND,
BARONET:
OR
BOSTON IN THE COLONIAL TIMES.
BY
ELIAS NASON, M. A.
Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore,
Who danced our infancy upon their knee,
And told our marvelling boyhood legends store,
Of their strange ventures happ'a by land or sea,
How are they blotted from the things that be.
SIR WALTER SCOTT.
ii~i ii i~   i ~ i i
ALBANY, N. Y.:
J. MUNSELL, 78 STATE STREET.
1865.








PREFACE.
"Who was Sir Charles Henry Frankland?" is a
question which a brief story, entitled a Legend of
New England, and published by William Lincoln,
Esq., in 1843; and, still more recently, the ballad
of Agnes, by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, have led
the public to entertain. Was he a real personage
or a myth; was there ever such a collector of the
port of Boston; was he, indeed, buried under the
ruins of Lisbon at the time of the great earthquake;
was he rescued therefrom by the efforts of a poor
girl named Agnes Surriage; did he afterwards make
her his wife?
Is the legend true, or but the wild figment of
some romancing brain? Only scattered fragments
of colonial history are extant; how then shall we
determine who this Sir Charles Henry Frankland
was?
This very natural question I have endeavored to
answer in the following pages.
It was my fortune to spend several of the happiest




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years of my boyhood at the Frankland Place, in
Hopkinton, Massachusetts; to see some few of the
fast-fading memorials of Sir Charles Henry and Lady
Agnes Frankland; to gather fruit and flowers from
the trees and shrubberies which they had planted,
and especially, to hear from the lips of Mrs. Mary
Hildreth,-a lady of unusual force of mind, whose
former husband, Dr. T. Shepherd, received the
place from Mrs. Swain as early as 1793,- the Rev.
Nathaniel Howe, Matthew Metcalf, Esq., Gilbert
Dench Wilson, and others who had been well acquainted with a brother and sister of Lady Frankland, or their children, the romantic story of the
visit to Marblehead, the rescue of the knight by
Agnes Surriage from death at Lisbon, and other
incidents connected with their eventful life at Hopkinton and Boston. At that period, indeed, some
of the negro servants of Mrs. Swain, a sister of
Lady Frankland, were still living, and a few aged
persons, as Madam Elizabeth Price, who could well
remember Sir Harry himself.
These remarkable stories, associated, as they
were, with the old mansion and the wild and picturesque domain once occupied by the Indians,
made a vivid impression upon my imagination, and
I afterwards determined to verify them as opportunity might occur, and commit them to writing.




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In doing this, I have examined many manuscript
and printed pages, and files of colonial newspapers;
I have fallen unexpectedly upon Sir Henry's Journal,-written in his own hand and covering a period
of about thirteen years,- and have also received
assistance and letters of encouragement from many
different individuals, among whom I would most
gratefully mention my very learned antiquarian
friend, S. G. Drake, Esq.; the Rev. Alfred L. Baury; Dr. Oliver W. Holmes, whose charming ballad
of Agnes, breathes the very spirit of the colonial
times; Miss T. T. Whinyates, of Cheltenham, England, descendant of Sir Thomas Frankland, fifth
Baronet, and Mrs. Lydia T. [Ellis] Dawes, to whose
father, Josiah Ellis, Esq., Edward Surriage sold
the Frankland mansion at Boston in 1811.
If my researches serve in any way to answer the
question, " Who was Sir Charles Henry Frankland?" or to exhibit life as it was in Boston under
the old colonial regime, which the blood of our
honored fathers washed away, they may not, as I
hope, have been vainly undertaken.
January 1, 1865.








CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
CHAPTER I.
Birth of Frankland -Parentage - Family - Education- Companions- His father's death - Appointed Collector of the Port
of Boston.
SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND, whose eventful
history I now purpose to relate, was a lineal descendant of Oliver Cromwell,' Lord  Protector of'Pedigree of the Frankland family from Cromwell to the present
time. Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector, b. 1599 d. 1658, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Bouchier of Folsted, Essex. The
youngest daughter, Frances Cromwell, m. first, the Hon. Robert
Rich, who d. 1657, and second, Sir John Russell of Cheltenham,
Bart. Sir Thomas Frankland of Thirkleby, 2d Bart., m. Elizabeth
Russell. She d. 1733. His eldest son, Thomas, succeeded him as
3d baronet. Henry Frankland, fourth son of the 2d baronet, Governor of the Hon. East India Co's Factory, Bengal, m. Elizabeth
Cross, daughter of Alexr. Cross, Esq., merchant, and had seven
sons and three daughters. Sir CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND, 4th
Bart., oldest son of the above, m. Miss Agnes Surriage of New
England. Sir Thomas Frankland, 5th Bart., Admiral of the White
and brother of the above, m. Miss Sarah Rhett of South Carolina.
Sir ThomasFrankland, 6th Bart., (b. 1750, d. 1820,) m. Miss Dorothy Smelt, daughter of William Smelt, Esq., of Yorkshire. Sir
Robert Frankland, 7th Bart., took the name of Russell in addition
to his own. He m. Miss Louisa Murray, youngest daughter of the
Hon. and Rev. Lord George Murray, Bishop of St. Davids. Sir
Frederick Frankland, the 8th and present Bart., succeeded his
cousin in 1849. He m. Miss Scaith of Yorkshire.-(From Miss
Whinyates, of Cheltenham, Eng.)




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England, and was born in Bengal on the tenth day
of May, 1716. His family is one of the most ancient, wealthy and respectable in the north of England.  The very name Frankland 1 itself would indicate a remarkable antiquity, that being the appellation which was given in feudal times to the
original proprietor of the soil.   The seat of the
family is Great Thirkleby Hall at Thirsk,2 in the
north riding of Yorkshire, England.
The title of baronet was conferred on WILLIAM
FRANKLAND, the head of the family, by Charles the
Second in 1660.  His son, Sir THOMAS FRANKLAND,
the second baronet, married Elizabeth, daughter of
Sir John and Lady Frances Russell, the youngest
and favorite child of Cromwell, and whose personal
attractions were such as to lead Charles the Second
to solicit her hand in marriage.3 Henry, the fourth
son of Sir Thomas Frankland, resided at Mattersea,
in Nottinghamshire, and married Elizabeth, daugh1 The coat of arms is, Azure, a dolphin naiant, embowed, or
on a chief of the second, two saltiers, gules. Crest on a wreath, a
dolphin argent, haurient and entwined round an anchor, proper.
The motto is beautiful and significant;-" Libera terra: liberque
animus," -that is, Free soil and free soul. See Burke's Peerage
and Baronetcy of the British Empire. See Dr. Franklin's Autobiography, p. 6, who derives his name from the same source.
2 This town contains about 3000 people. It is delightfully situated on the banks of the river Colleck, over which are thrown two
elegant stone bridges. The church is Gothic, and the ruins of an
immense castle, built by the Mowbrays in 979, give a melancholy
interest to the place.
3 " Charles II was for marrying her."  See Carlyle's Cromwell,
vol. I, p. 67.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.               9
ter of Alexander Cross, Esq., by whom he had seven
sons, the oldest of whom was CHARLES HENRY, who
was born while his father was residing abroad as
governor of the East India company's factory at
Bengal.l
CHARLES HENRY  FRANKLAND was educated in
affluence and as the presumptive heir to the baronetcy and the estates at Thirkleby and Mattersea.
Of his early days I have been able to glean but
few memorials; yet it appears that the culture of
his mind and manners was by no means neglected.
He acquired a competent knowledge of the French
and Latin languages; and what is better still, the
art of using his own with ease and elegance. He
studied with diligence the political and literary
history of his own country, and made himself familiar with the principles of natural science, so far
as then understood. Botany and landscape-gardening afforded him most delightful recreation, and
occupied many of his leisure moments, even till
the very close of life. His intellectual attainments
fitted him  for the society of such men as Horace
Walpole, but one year younger than himself,Henry Fielding, his senior by eleven years; and
1 The other children of Henry Frankland were: I. Thomas, who
succeeded his brother Charles Henry as baronet in 1768, and d. at
Bath Nov. 21, 1784: II, William, b. 1721: III. Frederick app.
Comptroller of the duties of the excise in Feb. 1763: IV. Ann,
who m. Thomas Pelham 1st Earl of Chichester: V. Robert, captain
of the Yarmouth, and barbarously murdered by the natives of
Judda: VI. Mary, who m. Thomas Worsley, Esq: VII. Frances,
who m. Roger Talbot, Esq.
2




10        SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
the earl of Chesterfield, whom he is said to have
resembled both in his manners and his person.
By the death of his father at Bengal, in 1738,
he came, at the early age of twenty-two, into the
possession of an ample fortune, and the noble and
extensive alliances of his family gave him such influence at the court of George the Second, that
when two of the most honorable offices in the American colonies, the governorship of Massachusetts,
and the collectorship of the port of Boston, became
vacant by the removal of Jonathan Belchere and
the death of John Jekyl, the choice of these royal
favors was offered by the duke of Newcastle, then
secretary of the southern department of colonial
affairs, to Mr. Frankland.2
Sir William  Shirley3 a lawyer, who had resided
seven years in Boston, desired the office of collector
-"Accused of complicity with Dr. Cutler and the Rev. Commissary Price to ruin the dissenting interest." Douglas, vol. I,
p. 482.
2 His uncle, Sir Thomas Frankland, was one of the Lords of the
Admiralty in 1741.
3 William Shirley was born in England 1693; came to this country about 1734, and was Gov. of Mass. from 1741 to 1756. He m.
for his first wife, Miss Frances Baker of London, a lady of great
personal attractions, by whom he had I. William, killed under
Braddock 1755; II. John, who d. a captain in the army: III. Thomas, created Bart. 1786: IV. Elizabeth, who m. Eliakim Hutchinson; V. Frances, who m. Wm. Bollan, Esq.: VI. Harriet, who
m. Robert Temple, Esq.; VII. Maria, who m. John Erving, Esq.
Gov. Shirley built the spacious mansion in Roxbury, afterwards
occupied by Gov. Wm. Eustis, and d. there in 1771. He published
Electra, a Tragedy, 1765, and also Hercules, a Masque. I"e was
a man of prudence and sagacity."-Hildreth.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.        11
as more lucrative; and his beautiful and accomplished Lady Frances, being then in London, used
her influence at court to obtain it for him, but "a
strong interest," says Hutchinson, "being made for
Mr. Frankland, since Sir Henry Frankland, there
was no way of providing for both, except by giving
the government to Mr Shirley.1"'See Hutchinson's History of Mass., vol., II, p. 858.




12        SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
CHAPTER II.
Frankland and Shirley contrasted-Aristocratic spirit of the
times - Manners and customs  Literature   Dress-Deference to Crown officers- Undercurrent of republican sentiment- Portrait of Frankland — Peter Fanueil —Boston at this
period - Newspapers.
FRANKLAND and Shirley entered on their respective
offices in 1741; they were both well born and well
educated; they  were both  ardent lovers  of the
fatherland; they were both, of course, Episcopalians
and worshipped side by side at the King's chapel
under commissary Roger Price; they had the polished manners of the days of Bolingbroke and Chesterfield; they were wealthy, generous, ambitious, and
for a time they moved as "the bright particular
stars" in that refined and aristocratic circle, embracing the Amorys,l Apthorps, Bollans,2 Hutchin1 There were three brothers Amory in Boston at this period,Thomas, b, 1722, Jonathan, b. 1726, and John, b. 1728. They
were well educated, wealthy, and respectable. See Gen. Reg.,
January, 1856.
2 William Bollan, Esq., came to this country a little prior to the
arrival of Frankland, and was collector of Salem and Marblehead.
He obtained ~175,000 from England, in 1748, as reimbursement to
the state for the expense of the expedition against Cape Breton.
He was an able lawyer, and left several valuable political tracts.
Died in England 1776. See Hutchinson's Hist. Mass. vol. II, p.
436.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.                13
sons, Prices, Auchmutys, Overings, Chardons, Wendells, Olivers, etc., who held the money, offices and
power, and represented the court of St. James in Boston at that remarkable period; and in the public life
of the one, developing and leading the colonial forces
to a successful contest with the aggressive power of
France upon our frontiers; and in the private life
of the other, chequered as a poet's dream, we have
the full embodiment of the practical and romantic
spirit of that ante-revolutionary period. Though
an aspiration after civil liberty had been awakened
among the people, and the fire was slowly kindling
on her sacred altar, the city of Boston was still the
servile imitator of the fashions and the follies of
the mother country. The principal offices of state
were filled by men of influence from abroad who,
with their families and dependents, took the precedence in society and laid down laws for its observance.   "How  is this done at court?" was the
question of the day; and who could answer it so
well as those just from the court -the people very
naturally concluded; and so they listened and yielded to the voice of their transatlantic leaders. The
same aristocratic distinction between families, the
1Hutchinson, Thomas, grad. H. U. 1727, and Governor of Mass.
1771-1774. His History of the Province of Mass. Bay, from 1628
to 1774 is invaluable; but he failed to see or to acknowledge the
real principles of American liberty, and therefore became extremely obnoxious to the people. Superseded by Gen. Gage, he sailed
for England, June 1774, and died at Brompton June 3, 1780, aet.
68. There is a good account of him in Allen's Biog. Diet. See also
N. A. Rev. No. 38, p. 134-158.




14        SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
same modes of dress and address, the same courtly
manners prevailed  here  as in  London.   Those
gentlemen and ladies who occupied the north, or
court end  of the  town, who  read  the  Spectator,
Samuel Richardson's Pamela,l and the prayer book,
who had manors of a thousand  acres in the country, cultivated by slaves from Africa, and who
were led in their devotions at King's chapel by a
Price, a Caner, aBrockwell, or a Troutbeck,2 were
many of them allied to the first families in England
and bred at court, and it was their chief ambition
to keep up the ceremonies and the customs of the
aristocratic society which they represented. They
were successful. It is hardly possible for us in
these days of republican simplicity to conceive what
1 First published 1741.
2 The Rev. John Troutbeck came to Boston in 1755, and succeeded the Rev. Charles Brockwell, [d. Aug. 20, 1755,] as assistant to
the Rev. H. Caner, rector of King's chapel. He m. Sarah, daugh.
of John Gould, Esq., distiller, by whom he had two daughters:
Hannah, b. at Boston, Oct. 1, 1768, m. Wm. Bowes, Esq., and d.
in Eng. Jan. 14, 1851; and Sarah, who d. July 1, 41846. Mr. T.
was living and preaching at Hopkinton prior to induction to his
office at King's chapel. Under date of Jan. 23, 1755, he writes
from this town to Rev. Roger Price, who had invited him to act as
his attorney: " I am far from thinking Hopkinton the paradise it
was described to be; but, however, I shall not complain of it if I
can have my health in it."  He was appointed chaplain to the
Rose frigate, 1769, but continued to officiate at King's chapel
till 1775, when he left for Halifax, and sometime afterwards for
England, where he died.  His property was confiscated. His
widow returned to this country and lived at Hingham, where she
d. Aug. 1813, aged 77, and was buried under King's chapel. See
Gen. Reg. Jan. 1857, p. 96. Also Sprague's Annals of American
Pulpit, vol. V, art. Price.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.          15
distinction title, blood, escutcheon, family, in that
regime conferred. A baronet was then approached
with greatest deference; a coach and four with an
armorial bearing and liveried servants was a munition against indignity; the stamp of the crown
upon a piece of paper, even, invested it with an
association almost sacred. In those dignitaries,who, in brocade vest, goldlace coat, broad ruffled
sleeves and small clothes; who with three-cornered
hat and powdered wig, side arms and silver shoe
buckles, promenaded Queen street' and the Mall,
spread themselves through the King's chapel, or
discussed the measures of the Pelhams, Walpole,
and Pitt, at the Rose and Crown, one century and a
quarter ago, - as much of aristocratic pride, as much
of courtly consequence displayed itself, as in the
frequenters of Hyde park, or Regent street, and so it
held until we learned from Franklin, Adams, Otis,
Hancock, and their compeers, in the grand social
and political upheaving of 1776, the magnificent republican lesson so well expressed by Robert Burns:
"The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The man's the gowd for a' that."
Such was the state of society in Boston when
Frankland, an accomplished, wealthy and high-bred
young man of twenty-four, entered it as collector of
the revenue. A picture in my possession, taken
about this time, represents him as having a refined
and noble cast of features with a peculiarly pensive
Changed to Court street in 1784,




16      SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
and melancholy expression. The countenance and
dress indicate a certain indefinable sweetness of temper and delicacy of taste, such as often characterise
those born of English parents in the east. They
reveal a mental constitution better adapted to the
genial pursuits of literature and art than to the
sharp, angular turns of politics or trade.
At the time of his arrival, Boston contained about
16,000 inhabitants, of whom 1514 were negroes. It
had at one time during that year 40 top-sail vessels
on the stocks, and its commerce outrivalled that of
any other town of the English colonies in America.
Some 600 ships had been freighted in a year for
foreign ports, and the town was rapidly advancing
in wealth and refinement. It had ten churches, a
handsome town house, a province house, and Peter
Faneuil, Esq.,' was then erecting, at his own expense, a commodious market and hall for the benefit
of the public, to which the name of its munificent
founder was immediately given. " The conversation in this town," says John Oldmixon, "is as polite as in most of the towns and cities in England,"
and "a gentleman from London," he continues,
"would almost think himself at home when he
observes the number of people, their houses, their
furniture, their tables, their dress and conversation." The number of newspapers published here at
this time, viz., the Boston News-Letter, begun in 1704,
the Boston Gazette, in 1719, the Boston Weekly PostBoy, in 1734, the Boston Evening Post, in 1735, and
Died suddenly, March 3, 1743, at the age of 42 and about 9 mos.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.       17
the New England Weekly Journal, in 1741, affords conclusive evidence of the intelligence and prosperity
of the people. Even then the town was worthy of
the name it now so justly bears -The Athens of
America.
3




18       SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
CHAPTER III.
Collectors- Edward Randolph- His arrest-William BrentonJohn Jekyll - Father and son - Management of the revenues.
As the papers of the colonial custom house were
destroyed during the revolution, our knowledge of
its history is extremely limited.  The first royal collector was the celebrated Edward Randolph.  Encroaching gradually upon the charter of Massachusetts, the arbitrary and misguided Charles the
Second commissioned this gentleman as "collector
and searcher and surveyor," of New England, in
1681; and on arriving in Boston, the royal collector
notified the people by an advertisement posted in
the town house of the establishment of his office.
This was torn down by the direction of the general
court and the most strenuous efforts made to prevent him fiom executing his commission.  He was
an Episcopalian,l zealous, arrogant, fearless; and by
his efficient labors succeeded in establishing the first
Episcopal church in Boston. This activity on behalf
of the church of England, whose advent was so intensely dreaded by the Puritans, together with the
part he took in causing the abrogation of the charter of the colony in 1684, and the persistent execu1 See IIist. King''s Chlapel, p. 43.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.                     19
tion of the duties of his office as collector of the
revenues, rendered Edward Randolph so obnoxious
to the citizens of Boston, that they called him  "the
myrmidon  of  a tyrant,"  and  on the  reception of
the news of the  revolution which placed William
and Mary upon the throne in 1688, arrested  him,
together with Sir Edmund Andros, Benjamin Bullivant and others, immured them  in prison, and in
the  beginning of the next year sent them  over to
England.  Randolph was succeeded in the custom
house, then called the naval office, by William  Brenton, Esq., who arrived in Boston with Mr. Dudley,
just appointed chief justice of New  York, on the
24th  of January  1691, and  continued  in  office,
acceptably  to  the  people-though  he  was once
assaulted publicly by Sir Wm. Phipps' —until 1707,
when John Jekyll, Esq., nephew  of the celebrated
Sir Joseph  Jekyll, obtained  the collectorship  and
held it until his death, Dec. 30, 1731. He was an
honest and upright man. His son John, who married the beautiful Miss Margaret Shippe of Philadelphia, succeeded him, and remained in office until his
decease, March  1st, 1741,1  when John Peagrum,
1 Collectors prior to the revolution.
Edward Randolph.,............................... 1681-1690.
William Brenton, Esq...................................... 1691-1707.
John  Jekyll, Esq.,........................................    1707- 1731.
John Jekyll  [son of the preceding].,..............  1731-1740.
Sir Charles Henry Frankland,......................... 1741-1757.
Benjamin Parsons, Esq.,.................................. 1757 -1759.
George Cradock, Esq................................ 1759- 1763.
Roger Hale, Esq.,...............................   1763Joseph Harrison, Esq................................. 1768-1775.




20      SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
Esq., surveyor general of his majesty's customs for
the northern district of North America, appointed
William  Sheaffe,l Esq., as collector, pro tempore.
Although the royal governors and other officers
of the crown had been incessantly engaged in altercations with the general court and people, who were
becoming more and more jealous of their inalienable rights, — more and more restive under the
dictation of the favorites of Bolingbroke, Walpole,
and Newcastle, still, from the times of Brenton
down to the opening scenes of the revolution, the
collectors of the customs appear to have performed
their official duties with general acceptance, and to
have escaped in a remarkable degree the odium
which fell upon the heads of the other colonial functionaries of the English government. It is more
than probable that they often favored the American
traders by a liberal interpretation2 of the regulations of the board of trade; and it is certain that
they were gentlemen of good sense and breeding,
and that they identified themselves, to some extent,
with the general interests and prosperity of the people. The Jekylls were highly esteemed and popular citizens; and when Charles Henry Frankland
entered on the duties of his office in the autumn of
1741, I cannot discover that any special prejudice
or cause of complaint existed against the revenue
system, or the manner in which it was conducted;'Deputy collector, 1741 -1768.
2 " The officers of the customsused to permit evasions of the law
as the only means of acquiring wealth."-Bancroft's Hist. United
States America, vol. IV, p. 339.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.         21
nor did any strong opposition manifest itself until
the accession of George the Third, the consequent
elevation of the Earl of Bute, who insisted on taxing America, and the granting of the celebrated
writs of assistance, to the officers of the customs
to enable them to enforce the iniquitous acts of
trade.




22         SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
CHAPER IV.
Salary of Frankland —Official order-King's chapel-Visit to
Marblehead- Agnes Surriage- Her poverty -EmploymentBeauty-Removal to Boston-Amusements of FranklandGifts to Harvard College —Official records.
The nominal salary of Frankland as collector was
but ~100 sterling,l and yet the perquisites of his office were such as to affordl him  a large income.  His
name first appears in connection  with  his official
business in an order in the Evening Post, dated Dec.
2d, 1741, to the effect that " coasters must not fail
to be entered  and cleared at the Custom  house2 as
the statute demands."   He became  at once an attendant on the ministry of the Rev. Roger Price, at
the King's chapel, which, having been built of wood
in 1689, was already falling to decay, -  and he con1 "1748. Sir Henry Frankland, collector, Boston, salary ~100.
Wm. Lambert, surveyor, salary ~70. - See Present State of Great
Britain.
2 The office of Edward Randolph was on the corner of Richmond
and North street, and was standing until within a few years. When
George Cradock, Esq., was appointed collector, the Custom house
was removed to the house of John Wendell, Esq. See Gen. Reg.,
Jan. 1854, p. 28. At the time of the massacre, which occured in
front of it, March 5, 1770, the Custom house was on the lower
corner of Royal Exchange lane, now Exchange street, and King,
now State street. Sometime after the revolution, the commodious
building was erected on Custom-house street, and the trade of
Boston rapidly increasing, the present noble structure of granite,
in the form of a Greek cross, was erected at an expense of about
$1,076,000, and was opened Aug. 1, 1847.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.                  23
tributed, near the close of 1741, the sum  of ~501
sterling  towards the erection of the present noble
edifice.
In the summer of 1742, the town of Marblehead2
was authorized to erect a fortification, since called
Fort Sewall,3 for the defence of its harbor against
the  French  cruisers, and ~690 were appropriated
for this object by the government. On a visit to
this place, undertaken it might have been with the
view of promoting this work, or of transacting business pertaining to the revenues-  for this flourishing
town had already become a port of entry -Frankland's attention was arrested by a very beautiful
girl,4 some sixteen summers old, who happened at
the time to be engaged in the very ungraceful occupation of scrubbing the floor of the tavern where
he stopped. Her dress was poor and scanty, and
her feet were destitute  of shoes and  stockings.
The principal contributors were Mr. Faneuil, ~200 sterling
(that is ~2000 old tenor); Mr. Shirley ~100, sterling, and Sir
Henry Frankland ~50 sterling. Hist. of King's Chapel, p. 111.
2 Marmaracria opidum maritum, saxis abundans, inde novanglice dictum, MARBLEHEAD, asperima vox aures Latinas horride
per stringens. - Prof. Stephen Sewall.
This town has been denominated elsewhere, from its rocks,
"marmoreum promontorium."  When Whitfield visited the town,
he said, pointing to the rocks, - Pray where do they bury their
dead?
3Ceded to the U. S. in 1794, and rebuilt on a larger scale in
1863.
4 The account of this visit to Marblehead and interview with
Agnes and the Surriage family is from Mrs. Swain by Mrs. Hildreth: from Isaac Surriage by Mrs. Dawes and others.




24        SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
She was a " waiting girl of all work" at the village
inn -it might have been the Fountain House, near
the fort- and her wretched garb at once declared
that she was of the humbler class of waiting girls.
But though so meanly clad and servilely employed,
the young collector instantly discovered in her form
and features gleams of sparkling beauty. Her ringlets were as black and  glossy  as the raven; her
dark  eyes beamed with light and loveliness; her
voice was musical, birdlike; and she bore the charming name of Agnes Surriage.   Frankland  called
her from  her scrubbing kindly to him, made some
inquiries in relation to her parents,3 and perceiving
that her wit was equal to her beauty, gave her a
crown to buy a pair of shoes, and then bore home
with him, as we may well suppose, the image of this
beautiful waiting-maid of Marblehead.
Visiting the town sometime afterwards, perhaps
in the autumn of the same year, he was surprised
1 There used to be a large building occupied as a tavern by Mary
Dolliver in Fountain Garden in colonial times.-Town Records.
2 Noble, in his Memoirs of the House of Cromwell, erroneously
calls her Agnes Browne.
31 find on examining the records of the 2d church in Marblehead, that "Edward Surriage owned the covenant, May 15th,
1720," and that "Mary, wife of Edward Surriage, was admitted to
full communion, Aug. 27th, 1727."  Their son, Edward, was
baptized July 5, 1719; Mary in 1722; Josiah in 1724; AGNES,
April 17, 1726; Thomas, May 5, 1728; John, June 28, 1730;
Hugh, in Sept., 1732; Isaac, a son still younger, m. Ruhamah
Pedrick, Sept. 5, 1768. She was admitted to full communion,
April 29, 1770, and their daughter, Jane, afterwards Mrs. Pelatiah
Bixby, was baptized at Marblehead in January, 1774.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.              25
to find Agnes Surriage working still without shoes
and stockings, and to his enquiry why she had not
purchased them, she replied with charming naivete:
"I have indeed, sir, with the crown you gave me; but
Ikeep them toweartomeeting." The elegance of her
lithe and slender form, the sprightliness of her mind,
the artlessness and modesty of her ways, quite entranced the heart of Frankland, and he sought, and
gained  permission  of her parents, Edward  and
Mary Surriage, who were then  poor, but pious
people, to remove her to Boston to be educated.
On coming to town, Agnes was immediately permitted to enjoy the best educational advantages
which the place then afforded.  She was taught
reading, writing, grammar, music, dancing, embroidery, and whatever graces and accomplishments
were thought requisite to form a fashionable and
perfect lady. In acquiring a polite education she
did not, however, lose the artless simplicity of her
childhood, nor the pious counsel of her mother and
the Rev. Dr. Edward Holyoke,l her pastor at Marblehead. Thus several summers passed away, Frankland attending to the duties of his office, talking
politics, with John. Overing,2 Charles Apthorp, or
lBorn in Boston 1689, ordained at Marblehead, April, 25th,
1716, where he continued until 1737, when he was chosen president
of Harvard College. He died June 1, 1769.
2Allied to the noble family of Lord St. John Bolingbroke; came
to Boston in 1720 and lived in School street. He m. Henrietta,
daughter of Judge Robert Auchmuty, by whom he had an only
daughter Elizabeth who was married to Dr. John Wilson of Hopkinton, in 1750. He was a remarkably fluent and agreeable
speaker, and was appointed attorney general in 1733, which office
he held at the time of his death in 1748.
4




26       SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
Robert Auchmuty, reading the Gentleman's Magcazine, the Spectator, or the Boston Evening Post,driving out to Cambridge, Salem, or Marblehead;
or playing whist and dominoes with Gov. Shirley
and his accomplished lady Frances, while Agnes
Surriage was steadily pursuing her studies under
Peter Pelham,l or other instructors of that day.
Among the scanty records of Frankland's life at
this period, I find that he gave a "ring dial and a
spirit level"2 to Harvard College in 1743, and I have
discovered the two following brief documents, bearing his large, bold signature, filed away among the
state papers of Massachusetts.
"These certify that bond is here given relating
to the register of the sloop Sea Flower, Benjamin
Holt, pursuant to act of parliament. Dated Custom
House, Boston, 30th March, 1743. H. FRANKLAND,
Coll."
"Port of Boston. These certify that security is
here given relating to the registry of the sloop
Enterprise, Richard Waite, master, at present lost,
or mislaid, pursuant to act of parliament. Dated
at the Custom House, the 28th of April, 1743. H.
FRANKLAND, Coll."
"Sloop Enterprise, Richard Waite, square sterned, fifty-five tons, built at Newbury, 1741, by Thos.
Perkins.
1He was teaching school in Leverett lane, near King street,
1741.
2 See Quincy's Hist. of Harvard College, vol. II, p. 531. App.
He also gave to the college in 1757, a small electrical apparatus
and a number of books;- also, at another time, several books.
Id. pp. 528, 531.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.            27
CHAPTER V.
Captain Thomas Frankland- Visit to Boston —Address to himSubscriptions at King's Chapel- Reduction of LouisbourgDiversions of the Collector.
In the summer of 1743, the Rose frigate,1 20
guns, entered the harbor of Boston, and its popular commander, Captain Thomas Frankland, eldest
brother of the collector, was most cordially received
by the people.  He was appointed to the command
of this noted vessel, July 15, 1740, and at the close
of that year conveyed Gov. Tinker to the Bahama
Islands and for some time cruised in that region,
for the protection of the coast against the Spaniards.
In June, 1742, after a gallant action of two hours,
he captured a Spanish vessel of 20 guns, with two
armed prizes; and on the last day of the year he
took a large Bermuda sloop and a Dutch snow, with
a vast amount of silver. The next year he was
married to Miss Sarah, daughter of Judge Rhett of
South Carolina, a very beautiful and accomplished
lady, then eighteen years of age; and on his arrival
in Boston to visit his brother, the following complimentary lines were addressed to him, in the Evening Post, of the 22d of August.
1 This Frigate commanded by Captain George, visited Boston
as early as 1686, bringing the Rev. Robert Ratcliffe, the first
Episcopal minister of Boston. See Hist. of King's Chapel, p. 13.




28         SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
TO CAPTAIN FRANKLAND, COMMANDER OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP ROSE, NOW IN BOSTON.
From peaceful solitude and calm retreat,
I now and then look out upon the great;
Praise where'tis due I'll give; no servile tool
Of honorable knave, or reverend fool:
Surplice, or red coat, both alike to me:
Let him that wears them great and worthy he,
Whether a coward in the camp, or port,
Traitor in want, or traitor in the court,
Alike reward their cowardice deserves;
Alike their treachery, he who eats or starves,
Or brave by land, or hero on the main,
Alike respect their courage should sustain.
Then let me lisp thy name, thy praise rehearse,
Though in weak numbers and in feeble verse.
Though faint the whisper when the thunder roars,
And speak thee great through all Hispania's shores,
Still safe in port the red coat chief may scare,
Dread of the boys and favorite of the fair,
Still shudder at the dangers of the deep;
To arms an enemy; but a friend to sleep.
We see thee, FRANKLAND, dreadful o'er the main,
Not terrible to children, but to Spain.
With thee, thy dawning beams of glory play,
And triumph in the prospect of the day.
0, let the kindling spark, the glowing fire
Your generous soul inflame as once your Sire;
With him the schemes of tyranny oppose,
And love your country as you hate her foes.
After spending  some time in  delightful intercourse with his brother; enjoying the hospitalities,
and visiting the environs of Boston, which were,
then, mostly an unbroken forest; after interchanging pleasant words with the beautiful Agnes Surriage, now fresh with the bloom of seventeen sumI Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.          29
mers, the gallant commander of the Rose frigate,
sailed away to gain brighter laurels by his conquests
on the main; while the collector remained busily
employed in taking care of the revenues, in discussing the questions now coming to an open issue
between France and England; or spending once in
a while, by way of amusement, a day in the chase,
of which he was a hearty lover; or in a pleasant
excursion in the custom house boat to Nahant or
Marblehead.  But few  traces of his life at this
period, however, remain to gratify our curiosity.
In the treasurer's account with King's Chapel I find,
under date of Oct. 9, 1744, an acknowledgement
of "ten pounds by Henry Frankland, Esq., to Easter
last," and under date of Aug. 6, 1745, appears the
following entry: "By Henry Frankland, Esq., for
last year's deficiency to Easter, ~10."
This year is rendered memorable by the opening of what is called King George's war, involving
the possessions of France and England in America,
and by the brilliant expedition of Gov. Wm. Shirley to Louisbourg and the reduction of that strong
hold' of the French in this country. Massachusetts furnished about 3000 men for this enterprise,
so that Boston in the early part of the season was
alive with military bustle and excitement.2  The
position of Frankland as collector, prevented him
from taking any very prominent part in the war,
1 The fortress surrendered to the combined forces of Commodore
Peter Warren and Sir William Pepperrell, June 28, 1745.
2Drake's History of Boston, p. 620.




30      SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
and we hear of him only as making one or two
patriotic addresses to the citizens of Boston just
previous to the embarkation of the troops for Louisbourg.
He must have shared in the public rejoicings
at the reception of the news on the 2d of July of
the success of Shirley, when the town was " universally illuminated," but while the governor was
winning those laurels in the field which render his
name illustrious; the courtly officer of the customs
was doubtless endeavouring to prevent the smuggling of rum and sugars into port, or talking politics at the Royal Exchange Tavern,l hunting foxes
with Commissary Price, or entertaining the high
bred dames at the north end with anecdotes of
Robert Walpole, Henry Pelham, or King George
the Second.
1 This was in King, now State street, and is noticed as early as
1727.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.              31
CHAPTER VI.
Purchase of land at Pemaquid-The Brown Rights-Description of the land  Various claimants.
At the close of the year 1745, Frankland purchased of the mother of Agnes, for the sum of ~50
lawful money, her right and title to one seventh
part of a vast tract of land in Maine, which had
fallen to her on the decease of her father, Richard
Pierce, of New Harbor.  Mrs. Surriage was then a
widow; she was poor, but she was descended from
the celebrated John Brown, who settled at Pema-'
quid, now Bristol, but a few years after the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, and who purchased
of the two Indian sagamores, Captain John Samoset and Unnongoit, July 15, 1625, that territory in
Lincoln county, Me., known as the Brown Right,
respecting which there has been such long and
bitter  controversies.   It appears  that Richard
Pierce married a daughter of John Brown, and
purchased land of the Indians, about eight miles
above his father-in-law's plantation, at New Harbor, living thereon until the time of King Phillip's
war, when John Pierce, a brother of Mrs. Surriage,, "When the wars with the Indians broke out, I, the deponent,
took a vessel and 30 men, and brought my father's family away
from thence, [that is from Miscongus]. John Pierce. Nov. 20,
1764." See Report of Commissioners to Gen. Court of Massachusetts, on Lincoln County Difficulties, May, 1811.




32       SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
obtained a vessel, and removed the whole family
to Marblehead.  The fort at Penaquid  was destroyed by the Indians in 1696, and the plantations
so broken up that the land had become of very
little value, yet the number of claimants to a title
in it was continually increasing. The paper conveying Mrs. Surriage's right in this property to
Frankland, I have found among the Suffolk county
deeds. It bears date Dec. 19, 1745, and describes
the estate as follows: "A tract of Maine lands and
islands, lying and being at a place called Miscongus, in that part of New England that lyes between
Kennebeck River and River St. Croix,-said tract
extending  from  Pemaquid  Falls  eastward  and
northward as far as the utmost limits contained in
the original Sachem's deeds of said lands, made to
my grand-father, John Brown,l and father, Richard
Pierce, both deceased, which lye at Somerset Cove,
Broad Bay, Round  Pond, New  Harbour, or any
other place or places whatever, comprehended
within the limits of the aforesaid deeds, being one
seventh part of all said tract, as described and
bounded therein, as of right descended to me as
He lived at New Harbor where he died, leaving a widow who
remarried. One of his sons, John B. Brown, removed to Framingham, Mass. He conveyed his lands at New Harbor to his only
son John of Saco, Dec. 7, 1720. In the original Indian deed this
Brown tract is described as beginning at Pemaquid Falls and so
running a direct course to the head of New Harbor, from thence,
to the south end of Muscongus Island, taking in the Island and so
running five and twenty miles into the country north and east, and
thence eight miles northwest and by west, and then turning and
running south and by west to Pemaquid. The consideration was
50 skins!"




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.                   33
one of the heirs at law to the said John Brown and
Richard  Pierce."   Signed  in  presence  of Peter
Brazier and Nath'l Bethune, Boston. The original
deed having been  burned in  the  court house  at
Boston a few years later, and the patent of John
Pierce, who  was  associated  with  Brown  in  the
original settlement, being lost-it was found after
awhile that several claims covered the same territory, and thus the "rights and titles" became more
and more involved  and complicated, until settled
by an act of legislature in 1811.1
Mrs. Surriage was doubtless entitled to a seventh   part of  her father's  estate;  but whether
Frankland  ever realized any thing from  his purchase, I have not been able to determine. He probably bought the land for the sake of aiding gracefully the widowed mother of his favorite ward.
1 The four principal claims were the Brown, the Drowne, the
Tappan, and the Lincoln academy rights. The Brown claim covers
most of the town of Bristol, all of Nobleborough and Jefferson,
and a part of Newcastle. The Drowne and Tappan claims embrace
nearly the same land. The Drowne right is founded on a patent
from the King of England to Robert Alsworth and Gyles Elbridge
of Bristol, Eng., dated Feb, 20, 1631, that is, nearly six years
after the date of the Brown deed from the Indians, who were the
owners in  fee simple of the territory.  Richard Pierce, the
father of Mrs. Edward Surriage, lived at Miscongus; but afterwards bought land of the Indians about 8 miles above his fatherin-law's plantation at New Harbor, on which he settled and lived
in a garrison house. Her brother John, a baker, who brought the
family away from the perils of that early settlement, was living
at Marblehead in 1764, then over 70 years of age. The following
proprietors of Pemaquid, met at the Orange Tree Tavern, Boston,
Aug. 31, 1743. "Habijah Savage, Joshua Winslow, Jonas Clarke,
Thomas Rusk, Joseph Fitch and Shem Drowne." Pemaquid Point
5




34        SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
CHAPTER VII.
Visit of Admiral Peter Warren and Gen. William Pepperrell to Boston-Rev. Roger Price —Rev. Henry Caner-Subscription
of Frankland to King's Chapel - He succeeds to the Baronetcy
of Thirsk- His relation to Agnes Surriage - State of feeling in
Boston.
The summer of 1746, Frankland  spent in performing the duties pertaining to his office, and in
the enjoyment of the festivity of that gay season.
The heroes of Louisbourg, Admiral Peter Warren 
and Gen. Wm. Pepperrell, arrived at Boston in the
Chester, 50 guns -with a blue flag at her mizzen
topmast-on the 24th of June, and were most cordially welcomed by the people.  Military parades,
public receptions, private parties, balls, and excursions to Lynn in Captain Alley's new packet; to
Salem, Marblehead and the college at Cambridge;
to Roxbury, Dedham, and even as far as Hopkinton, evinced the gratitude of the people to their
distinguished  visitors;  and  in  these  rejoicings
Frankland-who was an intimate friend of Admiral
is one of the most beautiful headlands on our coast; its early
history abounds in romantic details of conflicts with the French
and Indians, and John Brown, its original proprietor, may be
justly styled the father of the state of Maine.
1Sir Peter Warren, Admiral of the Blue, and called the naval
hero of Louisbourg, was born in Ireland, 1703, was made Captain
in 1727, and commanded the "Squirrel," 40 guns, againstCarthagena, 1740.  He was made Knight of the Order of Bath in
1748. He married Susanna, daughter of Stephen De Lancey and
Ann Van Cortlandt, of New York.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.                  35
Warren, —and Agnes Surriage must have taken
a very lively and conspicuous part. In the difficulties, too, between the imperious rector, Roger
Price, and the King's Chapel, which led to his resignation on Thanksgiving day, of the same year,
the courtly collector was deeply concerned. The
loss of his clerical companion did not, however,
at all abate his interest in the prosperity of the
church, for on Thursday following the induction
of the Rev. Henry Caner' into office, the Records
inform us that " Henry Frankland, Esq., bought pew
No. 6 in the old house, for ~30," and the yearly
contributions of that pew were very liberal,2 until
the removal of the house. In August of the same
year he stood as sponsor with Henry Caswell and
Mary Gooch for Henry, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Wentworth; and at a  meeting  held at the
Rev. Mr. Caner's house, at which were present,
Governor William  Shirley, Eliakim  Hutchinson,3
Charles Apthorp, and others, he gave ~150 sterling,4 on the new subscription for the rebuilding
1The Rev. Dr. Henry Caner, b. 1707, graduated at Yale college,
1724, was inducted into his office as Rector of King's Chapel, by
Commissary Price, on the 11th of April, 1747. He was from the
church in Fairfield, Connecticut, and left Boston for Halifax, 1776.
He d. 1792.- Sprague's Annals of Am. Pulpit, vol. V.
2This pew contributed in 1748, ~16 15s. 10d.; in 1749, ~18 7s. 4d.;
in 1750, ~14 8s. ld,; 1751, ~9; in 1752, ~10 4s. ld.; in 1753,
~7 15s. 9d.; and in 1754, ~132 Os. 6d.
3Warden of King's Chapel, 1743. He m. Elizabeth, daughter
of Gov. Shirley, and owned an estate in Walpole, which was confiscated in 1776, and thence occupied by my grandfather, Thomas,
and his two brothers, Nathaniel and Willoughby Nason.
4See Hist. King's Chapel, page 112.




36        SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
of the chapel. By the death of his uncle, Sir
Thomas Frankland, M. P., and one of the Lords of
the  Admiralty,  this summer, the baronetcy  of
Thirsk now devolved on him, as the nearest blood
relative, and he received the title of SIR CHARLES
HENRY FRANKLAND, Bart.'
Agnes Surriage was now coming into the opening bloom of womanhood, and was living in the
family  of the  accomplished  baronet.   She was
radiant in beauty; of refined and gentle manners;
but of ignoble birth; she had won unconsciously,
her benefactor's heart; yet it would seem an unpardonable indignity to his proud race to bestow
on her his hand.  He took advantage of his high
position, and with many a graceful word and winning smile, succeeded at length in gaining the
entire ascendency over her affections. A few aged
persons  in  Boston  can  well remember hearing
their grand parents speak of the indignant feelings
of the school companions2 of Agnes Surriage, when
it was publicly known that an improper intimacy
existed between her and the baronet; and although'The business of the custom house at this period may be inferred from the following statement:
From Christmas 1747, to Christmas 1748, 500 vessels cleared
out of this port [Boston], only for a foreign trade, and 430 were
entered inwards, to say nothing of coasting and fishing vessels,
both of which are extremely numerous, and said to be equal in
number to the others.-Burke's Settlements in America, p. 329.
1749. Entries at the port of Boston, 489. Clearances, 504. See
Holmes's Annals.
2From Mrs. Dawes, Mrs. Hildreth and others;-one of these
school companions was afterwards Mrs. Boardman, of Boston.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.         37
the morality of Boston had at that time been greatly
vitiated by the officials of the crown, such was the
stern integrity of the people still, that a storm of
just indignation rose against an alliance unsanctioned by the holy rite of matrimony, which neither
wealth, nor noble name, nor official power, nor
courtly manners, could allay; and therefore, the
young collector resolved to seek a residence for
himself, Agnes and his retainers, in the seclusion
of the country.




38         SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
CHAPTER VIII.
Frankland purchases land at Magunco in Hopkinton - Description
of the place- He erects a mansion- His life at Hopkinton 
Convivial habits-Custom House papers -Attorney to the widow
of Sir Peter Warren.
The Rev. Roger Price' had already taken up an
extensive  tract of land  in Hopkinton,2 one of the
1 Roger Price, Commissary of the Bishop of London, was appointed rector of King's Chipel in 1729, in which office he continued
until Nov. 1746, when he read his letter of resignation, and in the
ensuing summer sailed for England in the Mermaid man-of-war.
He returned soon after and remained in this country until the
summer of 1753. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Bull,
by whom he had I, Elizabeth b. 1734, resided in Hopkinton, was
strong minded and charitable, and died in Boston, July 3, 1826;
II, William, a major in the British army, who d. at Hopkinton,
Dec. 7, 1802, leaving two natural daughters, Mary, who m.
Lawson Valentine, Dec. 15, 1817, and Olivia, whom. Benjamin H.
Hall, July, 28, 1818; III, Henry Yelverton, who d. Aug. 14, 1780,
aged 39; IV, Thomas, who was drowned while skating, in the
Serpentine river, and V, Andrew, who was a clergyman, and d. June
7, 1851. Roger Price went to Hopkinton about the year 1743
and purchased a tract of 709 acres of land " on the banks of a
noble river," to which 142 acres of common land were added in
1745. He soon after, about 1750, erected a church and endowed it
with a glebe of 170 acres, the deed of which is dated July 9, 1748.
2 This town, incorporated in 1715, lies about 25 miles south west
of Boston. It received its name from Edward Hopkins, Esq., whose
liberal bequest of ~500 to Harvard College was laid out in the
purchase of land which together with land granted by the general
court forms the town.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.                   39
most romantic towns in Middlesex county, and had
resolved to build a mission church for the accommodation of such Episcopalians as had, or might,
become residents in the place. This circumstance,
together with the excellent quality of the soil and
the beauty  of the scenery, induced Frankland to
select this town for his retirement from the annoyance of the busy  tongues of Boston.  He accordingly made a purchase of 482 acres of land, in 1751
and 2, in the easterly part of this newly settled town
for a plantation.  The tract was purchased  from
several individuals,' and  lies along  the  southern
He preached here about three years and was an intimate friend of
Sir Chas. Henry Frankland. He d. at Leigh, England, Dec. 8, 1762.
See Sprague's Annals of American Pulpit, vol. V, in loco; also
Rev. Nathaniel Howe's Century Sermon, p, 31. —The present
Episcopal church was erected in 1818. The Bible and Prayer
Book were presented by Madam Elizabeth Price.
The town discounted the following churchmen's rates in 1752.
Sir Henry Frankland, Thomas Higgins, Julius Chase, each ~1, is.
ld. lqr. William  Wesson, 7s. 9d. Captain David Ellis, 10s. 3d.
John Devine, 4s. 8d. Thomas Valentine, 5s. Id. Patrick White, 5s.
10d. 2qr. John Mastick, 3s. 3d. 3qr. Robert Barrett, 6s. 9d. lqr.
James Fanning, 2s. 8d. Thomas Chaddock, 5s. lid, 2qr. William
Browne, 6s. Od 2qr. Patrick Shay [father of Daniel Shay, the
rebel,] 4s. Id. Hugh Demsey, 2s. Richard Kelly 5s. 7d. 3qr. Rebecca
Wilson, 2s. 9d. 3qr. Peter Vialas, 5s. 6d. 3qr. Jno. Kelly, 3s. 10d.
lqr. Mrs. Dench, 2s. 8d. 3qr.-Town Records.
I Dec 22, 1750. Laid out to Henry Frankland, and his heirs
forever, 48~ acres of land in Hopkinton in full of his right, and
Jacob Parker's right (in the 2d division), being 321 acres, with
allowance for highways, as is bounded and described by the plan
annexed. January 7, 1750-51, this plan was accepted by the
proprietors.-Town Records.
1751, Dec. 20. Benjamin Barnard of Framingham, sold Sir
Henry Frankland 13 acres of land for ~100, old tenor. —Id.




40         SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
and western slope of a noble eminence, called in
the Nipmuck tongue,  Magunco,l or the place of
great trees, where the celebrated John Eliot had
in earlier times an Indian church. The summit of
the hill now covered with a fine growth of thrifty
chestnut commands a view  of the  peaks  of the
Wachusett and Monadnock mountains on the north
west, of the  beautiful village  of Hopkinton  and
Hayden Row  on the  south  west; of a  rich  and
varied landscape on the south, and of the charming
village of Ashland,2 in the valley where the Concord
river and the Cold  Springs3 blend their waters in
1 One of the veteran chestnut trees of Magunco, still remaining
on the left hand side of the road as you approach the Frankland
House, is 21 feet in circumference; and our earnest word for it is,
" Woodman, spare that tree."
Of this place General Daniel Gookin writes in 1774:-" The number of their families is about 11 and about 55 souls. The Indians
plant upon a great hill which is very fertile. Their ruler's name
is Pamhaman, a sober, active man and pious; their teacher's name
is Job, a person well accepted for piety and abilities among them.
They have plenty of corn and keep some cattle, horses, and swine,
for which the place is well accommodated." See Mass. Hist. Coll.
vol. I.- The tract of land occupied by the praying Indians, and
called Magunco, embraced according to an old chart 1152 acres,
and was purchased of the Indians, 1710 or 11. It is now mostly
within the town of Ashland.  The plateau on which the village of
Ashland stands was granted to the celebrated Col. Wm. Crowne,
Oct. 8, 1662. It was conveyed to Savill Simpson of Boston, cordwainer, for ~30, and afterwards came into possession of Col. John
Jones, who m. Hannah, daughter of Savill Simpson.-See lHist. of
Framingham, by Rev. Wm. Barry, p. 9.
2 Set off, in part, from H. in 1846-It embraces the Frankland
place.
3 So called from the numerous cold springs, teeming with trout,
which form the stream. The name is in Col. Crowne's grant, 1662.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.            41
the east. The hill side to the south and west abounds
in cool and gushing springlets which leaving lines
of freshest verdure in their course, unite and form
a brook, well stored with trout, and large enough
to turn a mill; and which sweeping round the south
eastern base of Magunco, passes through a pleasant
valley into the Cold Spring stream.
On an eligible and commanding site upon the
southwestern inclination of this Indian hill, the
baronet erected a commodious manor house in 1751;
reduced about 130 acres of his land to tillage, planted an extensive orchard, built a costly barn, 100 feet
in length and surmounted by a cupola; a granary
which was set upon elaborately wrought freestone
pillars; and houses for his servants equal to those of
many of the farmers in the neighborhood.  Iaving a taste for horticulture, he introduced a great
variety of the choicest fruit,- such as apples, pears,
plums, peaches, cherries of excellent quality, apricots
and quinces from England:- and having an eye for
beauty, he set out elms and other ornamental trees
upon his grounds, and embellished his walks and
garden with the box,2 the lilac, hawthorn and the
rose: some portion of this shrubbery still blooms as
beautifully as when King George the Second sat
upon the throne.
The mansion was large and strongly built.  It
stood at some distance from the main road, and was
1 Blown down in the terrific gale, Sept. 23, 1815.
2Two rows of box still remain, having attained the height of
about ten feet; it is the largest [1862] in the country. The trunks
of some of the lilacs are eight inches in diameter, and the red
roses still continue to bloom as in times of old.
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42       SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
approached by a noble avenue cut through the
chestnut forest, and by a flower garden tastefully
arranged in front. The spacious hall, sustained by
fluted  columns, was hung  with  tapestry, richly
ornamented with dark figures on a ground of deepest green, according to the fashion of the times.
The chimney pieces were of Italian marble; and
cornices of stucco-work and other costly finishing
embellished the parlor, anterooms and chambers.
The  grounds  immediately  around the house
were formed into terraces, by the hands of slaves,
and the waters from  the living  springs' above,
clothed them in liveliest verdure.
To this beautiful retreat Frankland retired in the
summer of 1752, with Agnes Surriage and a natural
son, named Henry Cromwell, then about twelve
years of age.  Here, it seems, from tradition, and
from  what I have been  able to glean from  the
records of those days, they spent the time in directing the affairs of the plantation, upon which
not less than a dozen slaves2 were employed; in
deer3 and fox hunting; in angling for the speckled
trout in   Cold  Spring  brook-in reading  the
works of Richardson, Steele, Swift, Addison and
1No less than five springs flow from the southern side of Magunco.
2The whole number of slaves in Hopkinton in 1754, above the
age of 16, was 15; in the state, about 4580. —See Mass. Hist. Coll.
Vol. III, p. 95, second series.-Jackee, a negro, and Cato, a
negro, were received into the Rev. Mr. Barrett's church in 1741.
- Chiuch Records.
3 Two men were chosen annually by the town, at that period, as
deer reeves.-Town Records.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.             43
Pope; in cultivating flowers and music, of which
Agnes was passionately fond; in entertaining the
Wilsons, Valentines,' and Joneses, of Hopkinton;
the Auchmutys, Brinleys,  Overings and  Stoddards of Boston; in those various sports, pleasures,
pastimes and festivities, for which the house of a
wealthy English baronet of that period was celebrated.
The form of religion was, indeed, observed; the
prayer book was read; the sermon of Rev. Roger
Price in his new church upon the rocks of Hopkinton, or of Rev. Henry Caner of King's Chapel,
was duly heard; but the spirit of religion was most
lamentably wanting.
As collector of the port of Boston, Frankland
made the acquaintance of the costliest wines which
Europe could afford, and his ample and well constructed wine cellar was always stored with the
very choicest brands. In his festivities he is said
to have used himself a winecup2 made of double
thickness, and thus containing but half as much as
those of his boon companions, who, being constrained to drink as many bumpers as himself, soon
lost their senses, while he continued sober.
While Frankland was thus engaged in the pleasures of country life at Hopkinton, it does not'The Valentine place is upon the eastern slope of Magunco, and
adjoins the Frankland place.
2 One of his winecups is still in the possession of Mrs. Mary
Ann Bigelow, daughter of Dr. John Overing Wilson. The bowl is
very small and stands upon a long slender stem, which has a
crimson-tinted spiral line running through the centre.




44      SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
appear that he was inattentive to his duties as collector. In the Boston Gazette, Feb. 27, 1753, he
published under his own signature the following
notice, which reveals his faithfulness in collecting
the revenues, as well as some of the trials to which
he was subjected by the smugglers of that period.
"Boston, Feb. 19th, 1753.-Whereas, I am informed there still continues to be carried on an illicit
trade between Holland and other parts of Europe,
and the neighboring colonies; and that great quantities of European and Asiatic commodities are
clandestinely brought from thence into this port by
land as well as by sea, and as I am determined to
use my utmost endeavors to prevent the carrying
on of a trade so prejudicial to our mother country
and detrimental to the fair trader. I hereby again
give this public notice that, if any person or persons will give me information where such goods
are concealed, that they may be proceeded against
according to law, they, upon condemnation, shall
be very handsomely rewarded, and their names
concealed; and I hereby direct all the officers of
the customs within my district to be very vigilant
in discovering and seizing all such contraband
goods.
"H. FRANKLAND, Coll."
Mar. 12.  From  the records of Hopkinton, it appears that
the town voted to grant Sir Henry Frankland's
request, in respect to a road through the land that, 20. was Jeremiah Hobbs's, and "that ~1 8s. Id., were
discounted from his rates, by reason of his being a
churchman."  I find, also, that he was appointed




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.            45
about this time an attorney to the widow of his
friend, Sir Peter Warren, who had died in England
the preceding year.  It is thus recorded in theay 16.
registry of deeds, for Suffolk county: "Sir Henry
Frankland, Bart., Charles Apthorp,l and Thomas
Hancock, were appointed attorneys' to Lady Susanna Warren, widow  of Sir Peter Warren of London."
IOne of the greatest merchants of his time, who d. in 1758,
aged 61, leaving about ~50,000.




46       SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
CHAPTER IX.
Frankland visits England —Cold reception of Agnes SurriageLaw suit with his mother-Makes the tour of Europe-Comes to
reside at Lisbon  State of society there Frankland's philosophy.
It became necessary the ensuing year, 1754, that
Frankland should visit England, and the last record of him, previous to his departure, is an acknowledgment of a contribution of ~45 sterling,
April 23. for King's Chapel, which was now nearly completed,
and which was opened by a sermon by Rev. Ienry, 21. Caner, the following August.  He was called home
to carry on a suit at law, in which the will of the
late Sir Thomas Frankland, bequeathing his whole
estate at Thirkelby to his lady, was contested.
Leaving therefore, the custom house in charge of
Mr. William  Sheaffe, as deputy collector, he embarked with Agnes Surriage for London, where he
arrived early in the summer, and attempted to
introduce her into the circle of his distinguished
relatives, one of whom had just married Thomas
May 15. Pelham, 1st Earl of Chichester.  In spite, however,
of his solicitations on her behalf, his fair ward was
treated with justly deserved disdain by his proud
family, and the trials and mortifications to which
she was then subjected were among the most painful experiences of her eventful life. She keenly
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SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.          47
the assiduous attention of her soi-disant protector
alleviate her misery. Her mother's humble cottage
among the rocks of Marblehead would have been
far more pleasant than the costly halls of the
Franklands, where cold civilities informed  her
constantly that she was an unwelcome guest.
An account of the suit at law and trial is given
in the Gentleman's Magazine, as follows:          June 4.
"A cause between Sir Harry Frankland, plaintiff,
and the Lady of the late Sir Thomas, defendant,
was tried in the court of the King's Bench, by a
special jury.  The subject of litigation was a will
of Sir Thomas, suspected to be made when he was
not of sound mind, and it appeared that he had
made three;-one in 1741, another in 1744, and a
third in 1746. In the first, only a slender provision
was made for his Lady; by the second, this family
estate in Yorkshire, of ~2,500 per annum, was
given her for life; and by the third, the whole
estate, both real and personal, was left to be disposed of at her discretion, without any provision
for the heirs at law. The jury, after having withdrawn for about an hour and a half, set aside the
last, and confirmed the second. In a hearing before the Lord Chancellor, some time afterwards, in
relation to the costs of the suit, it was decreed that
the Lady should pay them all, both at common law July
and in chancery."
Having settled his affairs in England, the barronet made, in company with his fair protege, the
customary tour of Europe, and came at the close
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48      SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND,
either for the sake of health, or for the transaction
of some business for the English government, at
Lisbon, in the kingdom of Portugal. This country
had been for many years in alliance with Great
Britain, and was now under King Joseph the First,
reaping rich harvests of gold from its Brazilian
possessions in America. Lisbon, the capital, was
increasing rapidly in wealth and splendor, and had
already become a kind of commercial rendezvous
for the English merchants. They had established
a large factory here, and the city was teeming with
Englishmen who had come hither for the purposes
of trade, or health, or pleasure. Dr. Philip Doddridge had closed his valuable life here, in 1751;
Maj. Frederick Frankland, a near relative of Sir
July 15. Charles, died here in 1752; the eloquent George
Whitfield visited the city in 1754, and Henry Field1754. ing, the great English novelist, breathed his last in
Oct. 8. this voluptuous capital, which he admirably describes, a little prior to the arrival of the party whose
singular and eventful course I am attempting to delineate. Lisbon was at this period full of life and
gaiety; money was abundant; public entertainments and receptions of the great were frequent
and splendid; and the opera was said to be the
finest in Europe.  The young king and his court
were popular with the people, and the pomp and
ceremony at the papal hierarchy was never more"
imposing. To this sensuous and dissolute city,
Sir Charles Henry Frankland introduced the beautifulAgnes and entered —not, however, without some
misgivings, upon the gay round of fashionable life.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.        49
He hired and furnished a house; adopted, as his
means now warranted, a courtly style of living,
and although a communicant of the church of England, allowed himself to be guided more and more
by the light, superficial and convenient philosophy
of Montaigne, Rochefoucault, Bolingbroke and
Chesterfield, until what may be termed the catastrophe and turning point of his life occurred.
7




50       SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
CHAPTER X.
The Journal -Remarks on the plan of Union -Aphorisms- Various memoranda - Inscription  Recipes - Palace of the King
of Portugal - Visit to England - Return to Portugal.
The singular incidents, the strange vicissitudes,
in the lives of Frankland and of Agnes Surriage,
seem to belong rather to the world of romance than
to that of stern reality; and hence the truth of
such remarkable events has often been called into
question; but from the spring of 1755 to the close
of life, the baronet kept a kind of journal, or diary,l
which is now in the possession of the Massachusetts
Historical Society, and which not only reveals the
coming, but also in part substantiates the past events
in his strange history. It is a rare and curious duodecimo of some 200 pages, written in his own hand,
and containing an account of current expenses;
items of business; memoranda of estates, recipes,
etc., interspersed with moral and political maxims
and reflections.   It often refers to matters and
things quite trivial in themselves; yet in doing this
it presents even a more vivid picture of the journalist's every day life and of the manners and the
fashion of the times in which he lived.
1It was presented to the Society, October 29, 1851, by Matthias
Ellis, Esq., of Boston, and to the society I am greatly indebted
for the use of it in the preparation of this work.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.                 51
THE  JOURNAL.
"1755. March 17.-Mr. Coles gathers anemone
seed. Wrote by packet to mother; Park and Willis
for shoes. Paid for shaving in full for this, and the
next month, at 6 sesterces per month,-lm. 200 rea.
Nothing considerable can ever be done by the
colonies in the present disturbed state. The plan
of union  as concerted  by the  commissioners at
Albany, if carried into execution, would soon make
a formidable people.  Disinterested public spirited
men of sense who are versed in the nature of government, do believe that no objection can be made
to it, but what makes against all kinds of government, the English more especially. The prerogatives, the rights of the people, are therein both
preserved without the least infringement the one
upon the other.2
11000reas =1 milrea. 13reas=  1 English penny. The moidore
of Portugal equals ~1, 7s. sterling.-Dilworth's Arith., p. 83.
2 The French had already extended a line of forts along the
great lakes, the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, as far as the Gulf of
Mexico, and were making daily encroachments upon the territory
in possession of the English. A convention of the thirteen colonies was therefore held at Albany, June 9, 1754, for the purpose
of devising a plan of union against the common enemy.  The
plan proposed by Franklin and adopted by the convention, July 4th,
was that the general government should be administered by a
president general, appointed and supported by the crown, and a
grand council of forty chosen by the representatives of the people
of the several colonies. "It is not altogether to my mind," said
Franklin, " but it is as good as I could get it."-Bancroft, vol. IV, p.
125. - The colonies opposed it lest it might infringe their rights;
the king, because it gave them too much power; so between the
two it fell.




52      SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
The uneasiness thou feelest; the misfortunes thou
bewailest; behold the root from which they spring,
even thine own folly, thine own pride, thine own
distempered fancy. Of much speaking cometh repentance; but in silence is safety. Put a bridle on
thy tongue, set a guard on thy lips, lest the words
of thine own mouth destroy thy peace.
Notata. A noble spirit disdaineth the malice of
fortune, the greatness of his soul is not to be cast
down.
A fool is provoked with insolent speeches; but a
wise man laugheth them to scorn.
In all thy desires, let reason go along with thee;
and fix not thy hope beyond the bounds of probability, so shall success attend thy undertakings,
and thy heart shall not be vexed with disappointments.
March 19.-Went to Sagavan with Mr. Home.
20.-Cash Dr. to John Airey-received of him
on account 20 moidores,..    96.000
House expenses Dr. to cash:
1 Pair silk stockings,...   2.700
Washerwoman,....680
1 Pair French shoes,...   1.300
A tippet,.....   800
Total expended this week,. 6.680
21.-To go to Mrs. Brown's to see a procession.
23.-Went on horseback to Don Pedro's Infanta.
24.-Overturned in chaise.
To a poor man,..   -.    240




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.                 53
To six pair of gloves for woman,.   1.080
27.-Was at the court to  see the
king wash the poor men's feet.
28.-To the tailor's account,.   14.560
29.-Paid the baker for 42 loaves
at 40 rea each,....     1.680
For washing, 540; charges at Panada,....6,400 =6.940
Food as per Jacinta's account, laid
out by him  in all March,..    45.280
Total this week,                 23.280
3d,......    6.680
Total,     75.140
April 1.-Returned from  Colares.1
4.-Farrier for currying macho.2             1.200
Chaise hire.....       1.200
Paid for a peruque.
Jacinta's wife for mending shirts,
etc.,......    2.180
Paid  Mr.  Coles in  full, for four
months lodging, due this day,.    128.000
Cash debtor to Thomas Home,.  128.000
5.-Went to Cintra.3
1 Colares, celebrated for its wine, lies in a beautiful valley near
Cintra, about a league from the Rock of Lisbon, and 20 miles
from the city itself.
2The Portuguese word for horse.
3Cintra stands quite picturesquely at the foot of a rocky mountain, 14 miles from Lisbon, and contains about 4,000 inhabitants.
It enjoys a charming prospect of the verdant valley of Colares, of
the great monastery of Mafra, and of the ocean. It is the favorite
summer resort of the nobility and the rich merchants of Lisbon.
William Beckford, Esq., the wealthy author of Vathek, had a




54        SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
April T.-Returned from  Cintra to Lisbon.
8.-Paid peruque maker for combing wigs for 3 months,...   7.200
For boy. 240,-charges at Panada. 480 =  620
For chaise hire, 5.400; chaise man,
400-  5.800
For singing man. 480; Mr. Home's
servant,.....   480 =  960
9.-Went to opera.
To milkman at 40 rea per pint,.  1.080
11.-To putting a new glass to the
chaise,.....    3.200
Paid baker- 32 loaves,..       1.280
For borders 3 feet wide, Persian  ranunculus,
paracelsus, jonquils, red Turkey, yellow  do., belladonna, lily.
1715. April 16.-To Jacinta,.       480
palace at Cintra, and Southey dates his Thalaba at this place,
where he was living in 1800. It is thus graphically described in
Childe Harold, Canto, I:
"Lo! Cintra's glorious Eden intervenes
In variegated maze of mount and glen.
The horrid crags, by toppling convent crown'd,
The cork-trees hoar that clothe the shaggy steep,
The mountain-moss by scorching skies imbrowned,
The sunken glen, whose sunless shrubs must weep,
The tender azure of the unruffled deep,
The orange tints that gild the greenest bough,
The torrents that from cliff to valley leap,
The vine on high, the willow branch below,
Mixed in one mighty scene, with varied beauty glow."




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.                55
April, 22.-To Jacinta, 6.400. To Bacchus and
Hannah1 1.600.
23.-Began to take diet drink.
24.-Sent macho to Verde at Mr. Morley's.2
25.-Transcribed from  a stone pillar at Penneverde in Portugal.
SOLUTIS       also      SALVOS IRE,
VOTIS                   SUSCEPTIS
SALVOS                  VOTIS SAL
REDIRE                  VOS IRE.4
SALVOS
REDIRE.3                   [1543].
26. —To baker for 36 loaves                1.400.
For attiring peruque                   800.
" 12 sheets of straw, postage at 100 rea
each sheet.
Rtemarks on houses in Portugal:- The outside
walls one story, 3 of a yard and two inches; partition walls 3 of a yard, less two inches.
27.-Went to the opera.5
1 Slaves who were with him at Hopkinton.
2 Joseph Morley aided the sufferers by the earthquake with his
kind attentions and purse. See Boston Gazette, 1756.
3" Our vows performed we go in peace."
4 " Our vows made, we go in peace."
5 The opera at Lisbon was then the best in Europe.
Hist. Portugal.
At eve beneath the pictured dome
The gilded courtiers throng;
The broad moidores have cheated Rome
Of all her lords of song.
Agnes, by Dr. O. W. Holmes.




56       SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
29. -Went to dine with Mr. Die.
30.-To Domingus on account. 480; water for
all the month of April for the house. 940; for the
stable. 850. Mr. Paine, a bookseller in Bishopgate
street, near the south sea, sells flower roots for
Mr. Coles.
May, 5. Receipt from Mr. Coles: JzEthiops mineral, gum  guaicum, crabs eyes, ana, each  four
drachms, camphira, one drachm, salt of steel, one
drachm mix't with rob. of elder into an electuary.
Take it at 10 A. M. and at night, the bigness of a
nutmeg; and once a week take a dose of hiera
picra.
Cash to John Airey, 15 moidores,   72.000.
Paid milkman,....     800.
To make white washing:-Take some best stone
lime in an earthen pot, to which put a little water
and some common  Lisbon  oil, with some blue.
N. B. The lime must be put into the water by little
and little lest it boil up and hurt the eye.
12.-Remarks at the King of Portugal's palace
called Mafra.l   Went to see the Visconde de Ponte
de Limas at Mafra, a pretty shady place. He was'Mafra, containing about 1000 inhabitants, is about five miles
N. W. of Lisbon. John V commenced a palace of white marble
here, in 1717, which was completed in 1742, and is called the
Escurial of Portugal. It is 770 feet in length; has 807 rooms,
and 5200 windows. It is said that 10,000 troops may be reviewed
on the roof of the building. The library is 300 feet long and
contains 30,000 volumes.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.        57
ambassador in Spain. The king's palace at the
entrance has fine marble statues of several saints.
Infirmary very neat with Dutch tile. Suite of rooms
1100 palms, each palm nine inches. The king and
queen's private chapel is marble; very grand altar pieces done by Ignatio de Olievira. The serenata, or music hall, fine; the library room large.
Here follows a description of the convent, etc.
May 8.-Went to Mafra.  One of the king's
coaches at Lisbon cost 120,000 crowns. He has
near 80 coaches.
June 3.-Went on board the Hanover packet at
7 in the evening.
" 16.-Arrive at Falmouth in England.
Cheerful, but not gay; serious but not grave, he
drinketh the joys and sorrows of life with steadiness
and serenity.
" 18.-Set out for Fareham.
" 20.-Arrived at Exeter. 22, Set out from Exeter to Fareham. 25, Arrived at Captain Gaylon's.
28, Start for Fareham. 29, Arrived in London.
July 6.-Came to my house in Clargis street.
Proceed not to speak, or to act, before thou hast
weighed the words and examined the tendency of
every step thou shalt take.
Aug. 17.-In England it was called a hot day:
deg. by thermometer 64 at 9 A. M.
Terrify not thy soul with vain fears; neither let
thy heart sink within thee from the phantoms of
imagination.
Sept. 4.-Set out from London to Falmouth in
order to proceed to Lisbon.
8




58       SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
CHAPTER XI.
Earthquake at Lisbon, 1755 -Description of the city- Effects of
the Earthquake-Destruction of Life- Escape of the KingBenefaction of England.
The first day of November, 1755, will be ever
memorable for the most violent and destructive
earthquake of modern times.  The seat of volcanic action seems to have been a little to the west
of Portugal, and the successive shocks were so tremendous as to agitate an area of the earth's surface equal to seven and a half million square miles.1
The most terrible destruction, however, occurred at
Lisbon, which was near the centre of the cosmical
disturbance.  This city stands as Rome, on seven
hills, which rise magnificently from the right bank
of the Tagus, here about three miles wide, and
form a kind of semicircle, crowded with costly private dwellings, stores, churches, palaces built of
white marble, and presenting to the eye of an observer from the bay below one of the most enchanting prospects in the world. It had in 1755 almost a
quarter of a million people, and was the residence
of the richest king in Europe; even then the poet
might truly say concerning it:" Chi non a vista Lisboa
Non a vista cosa boa."
iThe shock was felt all over Western Europe, Northern Africa,
and even to the West Indies. See Lyell's Geology, vol. II, p. 239.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.              59
The morning of the dreadful day was exceedingly fine; the sun rose with unusual splendor and
bathed the summit of the hills, the spires and
domes and pinnacles of the city in golden light.
The sky was serene and clear, the winds were hushed, the sails hung lazily from the vessels in the
Tagus, whose blue waters, as a burnished mirror,
held the image of the town, the groves, the azure
vault of heaven, deep in its bosom, undisturbed.
It was All-saints-day;- day of imposing ceremony
and festivity for the Roman church, but opening
so calm and fair withal, that no one in the joyous
city has the slightest dream of the irresistible agencies at work beneath him, or of the direful shock
about to come.  The bells peal forth their merry
chimes; the streets are crowded with carriages and
people of both sexes, gaily dressed; priest, noble,
lady, tradesman, soldier, sailor, negro — every thing
that goes to make up a vast city, — moving toward
the various churches for the celebration of high mass.
It is nearly ten o'clock; the bells have become
silent; the people are kneeling in the temples and
the priests proceeding with the services, when suddenly, a dreadful sound is heard, as pealing thunder
from the bosom of the earth. The solid walls are
shaking, and misericordia 1 rises from ten thousand
"' The terror of the people was beyond description; nobody
cried; it was beyond tears. They ran hither and thither delirious
with horror and astonishment, beating their breasts and faces,
and crying misericordia." Farme's Account of the late dreadful
Earthquake at Lisbon., p. 5.




60       SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
whitened lips. A moment afterwards, another shock
breaks the awful silence, and the fear is realized.
The foundations are loosened; the lofty domes and
towers of palace, 1 church, inquisition, topple to
and fro: the solid masonry  gives way, and with
terrific crash the massive piles come plunging down,
burying the affrighted people in one common grave.
The sun is darkened, 2 the streets are filled with the
dead and dying, crushed beneath the fragments of
the falling houses; men, women and children are
flying frantic every way, as if the day of general
doom were come.  The earth shakes and trembles
for the space of twenty minutes like some living
monster; the waters of the Tagus roll into the sea,
leaving the vessels on the naked ground; and then
come  foaming, rushing  back, cumulo prceruptus
aqucemons, and sweep the crowd of frantic people
gathered on the new and spacious marble quay to
quick destruction.   The  quay 3 itself goes down
never to rise again. So violent are the shocks that
by ten o'clock of that fatal Saturday the splendid
palace of the king, the custom house, India house,
1 " The Palace," says Mr. wolfall, "tumbled the first shock, but
the natives insist that the Inquisition was the first building that
fell."
2 La poussiere etait si grande que le soleil en etait obscurci.
Francesco MIanoel.
3 4 A sudden convulsion of the stream turned this pier bottom
uppermost, like a ship on its keel in the tempest, and then engulphed it; and of all the living creatures who had lately thronged
it full 3000, it is said not one even as a corpse ever rose again."
Lord Mahon's Hist., of England, vol., IV, p. 61.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.              61
new opera houses, as many as thirty churches,' and
almost all the stores and dwelling houses, are in
ruins, 2 and nearly thirty  thousand 3 people are
crushed and killed beneath them. As if to add to
the horror of this dreadful scene the prisoners are
let loose, and then incendiary fires spring up on
every hand, which, quickened by the rising tempest,
threaten to consume whatever the convulsion of the
earth has spared.
Touched by the finger of the Almighty, a gay,
voluptuous, guilty city is in a moment left smouldering in ruins, and the royal command once more impressed upon the thoughtless world: " Be still and
know  that I am  God!"   The king and his court
being at Belem,4 during the earthquake, were saved;
yet several persons of distinction, as the Spanish
ambassador, the marchioness of Lourical, etc., perished; and in the letters written home to England
after this catastrophe we have such sad details as
these: "Mr. Hake's house fell the first shock and
buried poor Mrs. Hake;  Mr. John Churchill and
Mr. Giles Vincent are killed.  Mr. Chase was dug
out of the ruins with both legs broken." Writing to
his sister, the queen of Spain, the king 5 of Portugal
1 The English church was the only one left standing.
2 The loss of property was estimated at 2,284,000,000 francs.
3See Lord Ilahon's Hist., of England, vol. iv, p. 62. Rees's
Encyclopedia says 30,000 to 40,000.  Rev. Mr. Davy, an eyewitness, says 60,000.
4Belem, Anglais Bethlehem, is about a mile south west of
Lisbon. It is the Westminster of that city.
5 Don Jose.




62        SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
says;'IHere I am, a king' without a capital, without subjects, without raiment." On asking Gen. Pedro d'Almeida what he ought to do, the very appropriate reply was given: Sire, enterrez les morts,
songez aux vivants, fermez les portes.  He acquiesced and set himself at once at work. It took him
a long time, however, to bury the dead. England
generously gave him  ~100,000 towards aiding the
survivors; and the gates were not only closed upon
the prisoners, but the bodies of two hundred of
those who had been engaged in pillage and incendiarism were soon observed suspended upon gibbets
around the city.
1 Proclaimed king Sept. 7, 1750, and died 1777. An attempt was
made on his life, Sept. 3,1758, while on his way to Belem to visit
the beautiful marchioness Tavoro. Ten persons were executed for
this deed, Jan. 13, 1759, and. the church of San Jose erected on
the spot in 1760. Pombal, the Richelieu of Portugal, is thought
to have been the secret instigator of the whole affair.




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CHAPTER XII.
Frankland is buried in the ruins - His repentance- His release
by Agnes Surriage - His marriage - Remarks upon the Earthquake -Effects of the calamity upon the people.
Frankland had returned to Lisbon, and had gone
out upon the morning of the fatal day in his court
dress to witness the celebration of high mass.  lie
was riding with a lady, and happened to be passing,
at about 40 minutes past ten o'clock, the house of
Francesco de Ribeiro, when suddenly the earth begins to rise and sink like a wave at sea, the walls
of contiguous buildings totter, bend  and  break
over him, involving horses, carriage, and its occupants in the ruins.
The horses are killed instantly; and such is the
agony  of his companion, that she bites entirely
through the sleeve of his red broad cloth coat, and
tears a piece of flesh out of his arm. Entombed beneath a mass of broken timber, rocks and lime, and
in immediate expectation of a most appalling death,l
1 In a letter from an English merchant, dated on board the Swithington in the Tagus, Nov. 3, 1755, brought to Boston by Captain
Joseph Inches, and published in the Boston Gazette Jan. 12, 1756,
the writer says: " Sir Henry Frankland, I am told, escaped miraculously; he was in his chaise, and the moment he stepped out a
house fell on it and buried the chaise, beasts and servants; he
and lady are now at Belem." This in part is incorrect, as Frankland himself writes in his journal: "I was buried in ruins;" and
Noble, in his Memoirs of the House of Cromwell, published in




64        SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
Frankland begs for mercy; and his sins,- which are
not a few, cone rushing with most terrible distinctness into memory, and just on the brink of the
eternal world, he makes a solemn vow to God, if he
will show him pity, to lead henceforth a better life,
and  especially to  atone for wrongs done Agnes
Surriage, by making her his lawful, wedded wife.
Meanwhile she herself sets out in earnest search
for him; and making her way along the narrow
streets, now  filled with the smouldering ruins, she
fortunately comes to the very spot where he lies
buried.  She hears the smothered accents of his
well known voice; she holds out large rewards to
men for his recovery, and in the course of an hour
or so, succeeds in rescuing him from the horrors of
his living tomb.1   He is carried into a house near
by, his wounds are dressed, and after a little he is
removed to Belem.  Here, faithful to his vow, he
leads his fair deliverer-and may we not well sup1787, states that Frankland was buried for an hour under the
ruins of the great earthquake at Lisbon. Abram Castres Esq.,
the English envoy to the King of Portugal, says in a letter dated
Lisbon, Nov. 6, 1755: " I must not forget to acquaint you that Sir
Henry Frankland and Lady are safe and well."  See Gentlemen's
Magazine, 1756.
The Boston Gazette, Dec. 22, 1755, states on the authority of
captain Collins, just arrived, that "during the shock of the dreadful earthquake, Sir Henry Frankland [formerly of this town]
was saved, but the greater part of his family, if not all, perished
in the ruins." This must have referred to the inmates of the house
he lived in, which was destroyed.
From  Mrs. Swain by Mrs. Hildreth; Mrs. P. Bixby [Jennie
Surriage] by the writer's mother; and from Isaac Surriage by
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SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.           65
pose with tears of gratitude -to the hymeneal altar.
The rite is solemnized, of necessity, by a Romish
priest, and Agnes Surriage rises through the ruins
of a city and her own to take the honored name of
Lady Agnes Frankland.
Perhaps of all natural phenomena an earthquake
is the most sublime and terrible. Originating in
the intense action of those pent up and mysterious
fires and gaseous elements which rage continually
underneath the crust of the earth's surface; coming
on suddenly with awful subterranean groans, with
shock after shock so mighty as to rend and level
the proudest structures man can rear to their foundations; so tremendous as to move the solid mountains and to sink whole cities in the sea, an earthquake, such as occurred at Lisbon, seems to portend
and represent more fearfully than any other action
of the physical forces the final dissolution of the
globe itself.  The very fact that the law is concealed, the hand invisible, moving in mystery, goes
to augment the terror.l
The whole kingdom of Portugal was checked in
its mad career by this stern rebuke of God; the
public mind was sobered; theatres and other places
of amusement were shut up, and the inquisition
red with crime, was soon abolished. Even London
was led to close her masquerades lest the continuance of such diversions might bring upon it a
1 For theories respecting the action of telluric forces and phenomena of earthquakes, consult Sir Charles Lyell's Principles of
Geology, also Mr. Robert Mallet's Reports.
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66      SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
similar calamity. The great lesson was needed;
for the unsound philosophy of Shaftsbury, Bolingbroke and Chesterfield; of D'Alembert, Diderot,
and Voltaire, was undermining public morality; and
religion among the great had to an alarming extent degenerated from the inward spirit to the outward form. The voice of God through nature, as
well as through the eloquent lips of Charles Wesley
and George Whitfield, was wanting to arrest the
tide; and in some degree it proved effectual. Frankland's spirit was chastened and subdued by the
event. He recognized at once the hand of God in
it; he changed his course and his philosophy. The
record which he makes of the catastrophe and his
excellent reflections thereupon, will, I think, awaken lively interest in one of the many mental revolutions which that sad All-saints-day effected.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.           67
CHAPTER XIII.
The Journal - Record of Frankland's escape- His reflections upon
the earthquake - Extracts from the Records of the 2d church in
Marblehead - Frankland revisits England- Cordial reception
of his Lady - Returns again to Lisbon -Accounts and recipes.
JOURNAL.
1755. Nov. During my residence in Portugal
happened the great earthquake, on which day I was
providentially saved.  I was buried in ruins. Francesco de Ribeiro lived in the house I was saved in
at the time of the earthquake.  Hope my providential escape will have a lasting good effect upon
my mind.
We should endeavor to pacify the divine wrath
by sorrow for past neglects and a future conscientious discharge of our duty to God and our country.
Natural calamities entirely proceed from the hand
of God, and they are designed by providence as
warnings to teach the inhabitants of the world
righteousness. To imagine that any thing gives
trouble to God, is attempting to measure infinity
with the span of man's own hand and making God
altogether such an one as ourselves. For suppose
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68      SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
and that he had it in his power without pain, or
trouble to himself, to have relieved the wretched
sufferers what would the world have thought of
him, or what would he thought of himself, if he
had not relieved them? and will he suppose the
God of all nature less merciful than himself? or
that he stood by a cruel spectator of the misery of
his creatures, when with a word he could have
caused the earthquake to cease, if he had not wise
ends of his providence to serve by inflicting, or
permitting the calamity?
It cannot reasonably be supposed that when God
created the world by an absolute decree, he so fixed
the laws of his creation as to reserve to himself no
power to direct and overrule them, so as to make
them subservient to the good of his providence.
It is certainly far more agreeable to all our ideas of
the majesty and perfections of God to consider him
as presiding over the system of the world and employing the whole creation to execute the designs
either of mercy, or of punishment.
No words can express the horror and destruction
of that day's calamity. Your own thoughts must
assist you in representing it to yourself. How
dreadful to reflect; a great and populous city, as it
were, in a moment cast down, and laid waste, with
all its pride and glory sunk into one general ruin.
Bring the reflection home to yourself and consider
how great would be your consternation to feel the
earth shaking from its centre;-to see every thing
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SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.            69
have no hopes, but in flying from your danger, and
yet to have no place of refuge to fly for security; to
hear the cries and groans of the dying; to see the
distresses of thousands made miserable and wretched for the loss of their friends and children.
The house in which Frankland resided was destroyed; slight shocks of the earthquake continued
to occur and he therefore seized the first opportunity to embark with his lady for England.  In order
to make his marriage doubly sure, he had the ceremony again performed on board the shipl by a
clergyman of his own church.  On his arrival he
introduced the lady Agnes to his mother who received her cordially as a daughter, who had doubly
saved her son; and the other members of the family
recognizing her rank, her beauty, and her elegant
manners, made up, as it were, for past neglect by
generous welcome and by many special tokens of
esteem.  It certainly was a triumph and a fortune
such as this world seldom witnesses, that the daughter of a poor fisherman of Marblehead, should come
by such strange circumstances to move in the aristocratic circles of the Franklands, Pelhams, Scarboroughs, Pitts and Walpoles, which at that period
exercised such influence over the destinies of the
most powerful empire in the world.
As soon as the condition of Lisbon would permit,
Frankland returned to it and resumed his journal.
1" On enquiry it appears that Sir Henry married her on board
ship during his voyage from Lisbon to England and that she was
respected by his family at home." Miss T. T. Whinyates, in letter
to me dated, Cheltenham, England, Sept. 13th, 1858.




70      SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
1756. April. -Don Gaston's house in Portugal.
Delivered to the care of Anne Foley, our housekeeper, 21 table cloths; 24 napkins; 24 towels.
Records from the 2d church in Marblehead: my
wife was baptised by the Rev. Mr. Edward lHolyoke,
the pastor of the said church, in name of Agnes
Surriage.
Commissioners of customs. Sir John Evelyn,
Messrs Cavendish, Hotham, Vaugn, Westby, Mead,
Levinz, Hooper, Tash.
April. 26.-Wrote to Sheaffe, Griffin, Mrs. Swain,'
Mrs. M'Clelland and Dea Pearce.
Paid house rent for the month of April to Don
Gaston's order 40.000.
To send Mr. Coles some asparagus seed, some
cranberries, and some currant cuttings.
Sailed from Belem to Boston on board the ship
Friendship, Captain Eleazer Johnson.
The largest sort of pigeons come- from Pisa in
Italy. N. B. The broken piece of the tea kettle
stand is in my desk.
Mem.
To twist cotton for lamps. Take the cotton at
both ends and twist it; then hold the middle in
your mouth and double it; hold the two ends in
your fingers and take it from your mouth, it will
1 Lady Frankland's sister then living, as I suppose, at Hopkinton.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.         71
join itself. If you want it thicker, do the same
again.
Mem.
Burn onions with a red hot iron at the roots and
it will prevent them  from growing and preserve
them a long time from rotting.
Mem.
Sundries from Lisbon. Carnation seed, pink and
crabo de salohia seed, scabious, onion seed from
Montomor. To write to Mr. Mays and Majendie
to send me a receipt, how they cured their Matanchia hams. Large panellas for soup; do. smaller.
A set of dressing boxes -tippets.
At sea.
When you fry cod fish, cut the tail part horizontally and flour it well; dry it first. Indian meal.




72       SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
CHAPTER XIV.
Arrival in Boston - Purchase of the Clarke mansion - Description
of the same - His life in it- Various memoranda - Narrow
escape. -
Frankland arrived at Boston in the summer of
this year and introduced to his compeers the lovely
and accomplished, but once contemned and slighted, Agnes Surriage as Lady Frankland, who was
at once recognized as a star of the first magnitude
in the polished circles of the town.
The knight was too much occupied on his arrival
in attending to the affairs of his office; in visiting
his beautiful domains at Hopkinton, and in obtaining a suitable residence in Boston to attend to
journalizing, and we have therefore, for some time
only the following brief entries in this diary.
Aug.  Boston.  Gooding at Charlestown cabinet
maker.
" 22. This day very hot, degree 92.
" 25. Degree at half past 12 P. M. 82.
"  " 4Sally M'Clesterl  is 17 years of age the
25th of March, 1757.
On the 5th of October of this year, Frankland
1Daughter of his wife's sister, Mrs. Mary Swain, and afterwards the wife of John Dupee.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.                73
purchased of Mr. Thomas Greenough, instrument
maker, for the sum of ~1200 sterling, the celebrated
Clarke  mansion  on Garden Court street and Bell
alley, at the north end of the town.
This house was erected by one of the wealthiest
merchants in Boston, and was intended to rival in
splendor the far-famed Hutchinson 3 house adjoining it. The site was beautiful and the house itself
for that period was elegant and commodious.  It
was built of brick, three stories high, and contained
in  all twenty-six  rooms.  A  spacious  hall run
through the centre from which arose a flight of stairs,
so broad and easy of ascent that Frankland used
to ride his pony up and down with ease and safety.
The parlors were ornamented with fluted columns
elaborately carved, and richly gilded pilasters and
cornices; the walls were wainscotted and the panels
embellished with beautiful landscape scenery; the
mantel pieces were of Italian marble, and the fire
places of the finest porcelain, which exhibited views
of singular excellence.  The floor of the eastern
parlor was laid in diamond shaped figures, and had
in the centre a unique and curious tessellated de1 Benjamin Clarke, Esq., merchant, and Rebecca Winslow,
children of Wm. Clarke, sold this estate to Thomas Greenough,
Jan. 6, 1746-7 for ~1400, old tenor. —Suffolle Deeds.
2 There is a pleasant story by Miss Leslie of a visit of Benjamin
Franklin to this house when a newsboy. -See Violet. Philadelphia, 1839. It is described in Cooper's Lionel Lincoln; although
incorrectly said to stand in Tremont street.
3 This house was mobbed by the populace, August 26, 1765, and
damaged to the amount of ~2,500. The wines of the comptroller
of customs were in the cellar and greatly inflamed the mob. I do
not learn that Frankland's house was injured.
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74        SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
sign, consisting, it is said, of more than three hundred different kinds of wood, as mahogany, ebony,
satin wood, etc., encircling the coat of arms of the
Clarke family.l
To this elegant mansion, furnished with regal
splendor, the baronet introduced his lady, and here,
during the winter seasons, she presided over the
elite of the court end of the town, as one of the
most elegant and charming women of that period.
But though Lady Frankland had thus risen from
obscurity to this commanding social position, she
did not allow herself to forget her humble origin;
or cease to cherish a sister's kind regard for the
other members of her family.  She received and
supported  Sarah  and John  M'Clester, her sister
Mary's children; and her brother, Isaac Surriage,
seaman, always found a hearty  welcome to her
hospitable mansion.  The following entries in the
collector's diary are full of interest, as exhibiting
something, not only of the daily life of this remarkable family, but also of the manners and customs
of those old colonial times.
1756. Oct. 23. Harry Cromwell went to Piscataqua
with Capt. M'Daniel in order to go on board his
majesty's ship, Success, Capt. Rouse,2 at Casco Bay.
1Now preserved in a beautiful table in possession of Roland
Ellis, Esq.
2 John Rouse, a particular friend of Frankland, commanded the
Shirley, 24 guns, which carried General Pepperrell to Louisbourg.
He carried the news of the capture of that fortress to England,
and was made captain in R. N., Sept. 24, 1745. He was changed
to the Success, 22 guns, in 1756. He commanded the Sutherland,




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.                    75
Harry Cromwell is 16 years of age next February.
Oct. 27.  Laid in 40 bushels of oats.
"    31.  Hired Charles at the rate of ~150, per
annum, old tenor.
No. of acres of land  at Iopkinton  that
pays quit rent to the college, Gooch 271;
Hobbs 77; Preston 50: 398.
Nov. 3.  Paid milk man.
Dec. 4.  Paid Robert ~36.1
"    "   Paid milk man, ~3 5s; baker ~7 5s.
"   17.  A great snow storm.
"   30.  Col. Pollard 2 was buried. Mrs. Villiers3
came  from   Iopkinton.   Mr. Stoddard,'
Mrs. and Miss Sally and  Nelly Stoddard;
Mrs. Brimsden and Mr. and Mrs. Greenough supped with us.
31.  Drew  an order on Deblois, senior, to pay
Mrs. Fletcher 175 old  tenor; viz., Marseilles quilt ~110; for a screw ~65: ~175.
Jan. 1.  Paid off old milk man; paid Mr. Auch50 guns, 1759, from which vessel, Gen. Wolfe issued his last
orders before ascending the heights of Abraham.  He died at
Portsmouth, N. H., April 3, 1760. - See Col. list. N. E., Vol. X,
p. 60, note, by Dr. O'Callaghan.
1 He was with him at Lisbon.
2 Col. Benjamin Pollard was high sheriff of Boston for 13 years.
He commanded the Cadets, and introduced the bayonet into the
Province.  He was elected member of the ancient and honorable
Artillery Co., 1726, and died December 24, 1756, aged 61. -See
HTist. An. and Hon. Arty. Co., by Z. G. Whitman.
3See page 80.
4Captain Thomas Stoddard died April 12, 1663, aet. 64 and was
buried on Copp's Hill, where his headstone may still be seen.




76        SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
muty,l ~23. Mr. and Mrs. Sheaffe 2 supped
with us. Paid Johnny's school mistress.3
Jan. 4.  Gave manufacturer of stair carpet ~5.
"    11.  Mrs. Hill and Deblois dined with us.
"    14.  Mrs. Ellis came to us. Paid my barber
one quarter's shaving at ~6 per year. To
examine books 1740, bill of exchange for
~25 drawn by me.
"    17.  Paid the baker ~8 12s.
18.  Paid for two loads of country walnut
wood, ~7, old tenor.
"    26.  Mr. and Mrs. Trevellet; Mrs. Inman;4
1 This was Robert Auchmuty, the younger, whose sister, Elizabeth, married John Overing, Esq. He left America in 1776, and
died in England.
2Their daughter, Susan, married Captain Molesworth of the
29th regt. 1761.
3John M'Clester, son of Lady Frankland's sister.
4Ralph Inman had a store on Green's wharf, 1763. His house,
a venerable mansion on a commanding site in Cambridgeport, is
still standing. It was once the head quarters of Gen. Putnam.See Col. Swett's Bunker Hill Battle, p. 9. He was a friend of
Frankland, and had charge of his property after he left this country, as may be seen by the following advertisement:- To be
leased for a term of years, and entered upon the 25th March next,
a farm at Hopkinton, suitable for a gentleman or farmer, belonging to Sir Henry Frankland, Bart., now tenanted by Joseph Villiers. Any person that inclines to hire the same may apply to
Ralph Inman at his house in Cambridge, or his warehouse in Boston. Boston Evening Post, Jan. 7, 1765. To be let the mansion
house of Sir Henry Frankland, Bart., adjoining His Honor's the
Lieut. Governor's. Any person that inclines to hire the same
may apply to Ralph Inman. Boston Evening Post, July 29, 1765.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.          77
Rowe; Davis and husbands, and Judge
Tasker  supped with us.
[The 2d of Oct. 1756 came to my house, the 4th,
signed the writings.]
Jan. 29. Capt. Rouse arrived from Halifax with
Gov. Lawrence.
"  31. Paid milk man 43 qts. ~2.13s.
Feb. "  John Cole, merchant in Providence, recommended by Mr. Troutbeck.
"  11. Capt. Winfield has a curious sword
fish. The best flour from York is marked G. V. R.
and marked X on the bildge.  Steward, a carter,
over against the hay market; a maid that lived with
Curtis. Mr. Charles Little entered the service,
June 1747. Mrs. Hill, Lewis, Deblois, Mrs. Sheaffe,
etc., dined with us.
"  12. Bought a side of mutton, weight 391 lbs.
We cut open the back, 13 inches fat; between the
legs 3~ inches fat. Cost 3s. old tenor.
"  18. Paid Bill, Butcher, per order on Sheaffe,
~16, Is. 9!d. Mr. Sheaffe Dr. to me for what he
sent the admiral, charged on said account per bill.
"  23. Paid the Baker.
"  28. Supped with Captain Davis. Mrs. Read,
about half a mile from Weymouth meeting house,
the lower road, sells excellent cheese at 3s. per
pound.
Mar. 12. Bought a quarter of beef, weight 274 lbs.
at 22d. of Mr. Bell. Sent in Saturday 74 lbs. at 20d.
1 He was of Marblehead and judge of Essex Co., from 1755 till
his death in 1761.- See Washburn's Jud. Iist. Mass., p. 52.




78       SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
Mar. 17. Dr. Cutler  gave me a tree called Catalpa.  Account of Custom  House fees received by
Mr. Sheaffe, 1757.  Received in January, ~432 5s.
Feb. ~461 17s. 6d., March, ~354.
July 8. Felt a small earthquake at 25 minutes
after two in the afternoon.2
"  9. Hired Thomas, French cook, at 15 dollars
per month.
In August of this year the baronet and his lady
narrowly escaped injury on their way, as I suppose,
from  Hopkinton to Boston.  The account of it I
find in the New  Hamnpshire Gazette, Sept. 2, 1757.
" Boston Aug. 20,1757. Thursday last as Sir Henry
Frankland and his lady were coming into town in
their chariot, a number of boys were gunning on
Boston neck [notwithstanding there is an express
law to the contrary] when one of them discharging
his piece at a bird, missed the same, and almost the
whole charge of shot came into the chariot where
Sir Henry and his lady were, several of which entered his hat and clothes, and one grazed his face,
but did no other damage to him or lady."
Sept. 2. Paid Thomas, cook, 15 dollars; ~482
due to Sally.  Jarvis, Cahill and Co. arrived from
London.3
"  20. Wrote to Fanny Russell, my sister; Stan1Dr. Timothy Cutler, 1st Rector of Christ's Church, Boston, was
settled Dec. 29, 1723, and died August 17, 1765, at the advanced
age of 82.
2 4 1757 July 8, 15 minutes past 2, an earthquake." Lewis's
Hist. Lynn.
3Sept. 14, 1757. Frankland buys a lot of land on Sun Court
St. for ~113 6s. 8d, of Robert Jenkins. See Suiffolk Reg. Deeds.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.              79
ly, Roberts, Capt. Howard and Mrs. Stainforth. A
consul should endeavor to obtain weight and influence in the tribunals of Portugal.
Oct. 14. Paid  Itutchinsonl for beer and  fish.
Mass. Bay had on the alarm list 4,500 to bear arms;
training list 3,200. Write to Mrs. Fanny Russell,
my sister.
"  22. Wrote to Mrs. Stanley by Captain Kirkwood, and sent 21- barrels of cranberries; one to
Mr. Wood; the other to Mrs. Stanley.
Mrs. Eben Storer, camera, electrical machine,
microscope.2 Cranberries for Fanny Russell, Mrs.
Stainforth, Mr. Wood, Mr. Stanley, Mrs. Wright,
Mr. Pelhaml, Ld. Northumberland.
"  28. Sent four half barrels of cranberries
per Capt. Cahill and four per Capt. C. Gasmay to
the above persons, to the care of Mr. Stanley.
Wrote to Stanley per Gasmay and Cahill.  Capt.
Peter Collyn was poisoned, on the coast of Guinea,
by the negroes, many years ago.  James Collyn, his
own brother, lives at Rhode Island, goes to sea, has
two sons, Peter and James; has two sisters in Boston, one a widow of Dr. Ranchan, and one unmarried, about 54 years old. They keep a school in
Seven star3 lane, near Trinity church.  482 sterling
due to Sally.
Gov. Thomas Hutchinson, his nearest neighbor. Bancroft
says [Hist., vol. IV, p. 27,] he so coveted money that he became
a trader in his native town, and like others, smuggled goods which
he sold at retail.
2 Probably the articles mentioned before as given to H. C. in
1757.
3 Now Summer street.




80       SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
CHAPTER XV.
Appointed Consul General of Portugal - Prepares to leave Boston - Arrives at Lisbon - J. J. Villiers in charge of his place
at Hopkinton- Don Pedro's maxim- Visit of Lord Kennoul to
Lisbon - Marriage of the Princess of Brazil.
1757. As Frankland had by his former residence
in Portugal become, well acquainted with its language and commercial regulations, and as his declining health demanded a milder clime than that of
Boston, he sought and obtained, in July of this year,
of King George the third, an appointment as consul general of that kingdom. His appointment is
thus noticed in the London Magazine.  "Sir Henry
Frankland, bart., appointed consul general at Lisbon, July, 1757." Leaving therefore his estate at
Hopkinton in the hands of Mr. Villiers; his affairs
in Boston' with his friend Deblois, he resigns his
office as collector of the customs, and makes, as
will be seen by his diary, his preparations for visiting London and taking up his residence again in
Portugal.
Nov. 25. Left with Mr. Deblois' my last will and
testament, 5 lottery tickets, Mr. Smith's note for
~30 sterling.
1 Gilbert, Lewis and Stephen Deblois were owners of Concert
Hall in 1754. Gilbert was warden of King's Chapel in 1769-1774.
The Deblois were included in the absentee act.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.          81
JOURNAL.
Leave Hopkinton lands to Mr. Villiers and one
note of hand for two pair of oxen sold him and a
promissory obligation to make 180 rods of stone wall.
A large case containing one small box of china figures; India dressing case; silver tea chest; backgammon table with silver ewer and shaving bason;
microscope, dessert ornaments, Chelsea china, one
pair white netts for horses; parasol silk; Italian
prints; paper, silver shaving bason, book of maps,
silver knives and forks, boxes and wafers.
Mem. To purchase in London for Lisbon, silver
castors; wine glasses like Pownal's; two turreens;
saucers for water glasses, dessert knives and forks
and spoons; common tea kettle; jelly and syliabub
glasses; fire grate; long dishes; tea cups, etc.,
clothes, etc., for Lady Frankland. Consul's seal;
combs; mahagony tray, press for table linen and
sheets; stove for fiat irons; glass for live flea for
microscope; Hoyle's Treatise on Whist; Dr. Doddridge's Exposition on the lNew Testament, 16
handsome chairs, with 2 settees, and 2 card tables,
working table like Mrs. F. F. Gardner's.
Nov. 25. Left with Mr. Deblois my last will and
testament.
Dec. 10. Sent to uncle Richard by the snow,
Capt. Hugh Hunter, Devonshire, 1 case canary. 1 do
malaga, to Mr. Stanley; 1 do rum, to Mr. Stainforth.
Wm. Scott, Neptune, Organ. Number of lottery
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82        SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
tickets left with Deblois. No. 4173, 4174, 4177,
4178, 4179, [all blanks].l
Not to be frighted out of their privileges, and if
Lord * *  was determined to deprive them of them
by force, they could muster as many men as he in
the province.
1758, Jan. Mem.  To mention to the governor
about Dr. Jones, to continue him. To get John
Jones2 3d Captain in Col. Buckminster's regiment,
deputy  sheriff of the  county  of Middlesex in the
room  of Thomas Mellen, under Foster of Charlestown.  To ask the governor, if Capt. Elisha Jones
is to supercede Col. Buckminster, if he says, yes:
to  move that Maj. Jones should  proceed  before
Elisha Jones.  Col. Minot will not take up. Jones
is major, and Minot is lieutenant governor. Elisha
Jones is the youngest captain.
Set out from  Boston to Piscataqua, in order to
go to England, and came to Piscataqua,3 Wednesday following.  Lodge at Mr. Solly's.4
Feb. 7. Went on board the Mermaid at 6 o'clock
P. M.
1 The general court authorized the town, 1757, to raise ~21,000
by a lottery, towards paving and repairing the neck.-Drake's
Hist. Boston, p. 644.
2Afterwards Col. John Jones. He was one of the three sons
of John Jones, Esq., and Hannah, daughter of Savill Simpson. A
second was Dr. Simpson Jones, who carried Hannah Gooch, Aug.
24, 1740. The other was Anthony. They were Frankland's neighbors at Hopkinton.
3Portsmouth.
4He was collector of Portsmouth and lived on Daniel street;
the house is still standing.




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Feb. 23. Sailed from Piscataqua in lNSorth America for England in the Mermaid,l man of war, Capt.
Alexander Innis.
Mrs. Haman's receipt for costiveness; one spoonful of sulphur and oyl of sweet almonds mixt, to
be taken over night.
Mr. G. Thomas Gunning in partnership with
Mr. Osborne, steel merchant in Sheffield, Yorkshire,
is going to Lisbon to settle a correspondence. Recommended by uncle Fred. to my countenance and
protection.
Aug. 4. Came to my house near the crux de
Talbaida.
Sept. 29. Gavazza, a good lawyer; perfects a
pamphlet on the practice of gardening. ~1116. 11s.
9d., old tenor was due me from  Sheaffe; since
which he paid ~2000 to Mr. Deblois. Due to me
by Sheaffe by last account ~30 sterling.
1759. We have but few traces of the life of
Frankland in 1759; it is probable that he revisited
Boston in the early part of the year, as I find by
the court records that he bought [Feb. 28,] 81 acres
of land of Jeremiah Hobbs of Hopkinton for ~900
old tenor; his country seat in that town was, however, under the management of Mr. Villiers at this
time and the purchase might have been made
1The same vessel which, under Captain Douglas, took the
Vigilant, 560 men, May 18, 1745, and in which the Rev. Roger
Price sailed to England in 1747. It was lost near the Bahamas,
June 24, 1760.




84         SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
by him.  The Rev. Ebenezer Parkman,l of Westborough records a visit to this place in his diary,
under date of April 9th, thus:
"I proceeded to Sir Harry Frankland's seat kept
now by Mr. Jaques Joseph Villiers de Rohan, marie
avec Mademoiselle Frances de Turenne. He gave
me such slips, branches, cions, and seeds as I
desired; and lent me Du Moulin's book of ye Accomplishment of ye Prophecies, or Third Book of
ye Defence of ye Catholique Faith.  I borrowed it
for ye sakes of a trial with my Mr. Blanc, for it
being French, I presume not to read much of it."
On July 4th of this year, Frankland was at Lisbon, and the following entries occur in his journal.
Don Pedro's2 maxim was that a prince might be
very faithful to his allies without preferring their
interests to his own.  The allies overstrain the cord
of their connexion with Don Pedro. The duke de
Giovannazzo, the Spanish minister, was too hard
for Don Pedro; for he vanquished like the Tartars,
by flying.  Mem. In Germany and Portugal, no
lady of distinction will marry any man, unless he
authentically make it appear that his ancestors have
been gentlemen and equally married for ten generations.
Andre Montano genovaz, florest rua dos calaptes
1 Minister of Westborough, Massachusetts, nearly 60 years. He
was settled Oct. 28, 1724 and died Dec. 9, 1782. See Allen's
Biog. Diet. in loco.
2Brother to the King, Don Jose.




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junto ao palacio do conde de S. Tiago. To fold a
great coat, lay it in small circumference; just spread
it on the ground and double it square; then double
from feet part to shoulder part, then the sides turn
up about 3 feet each; then two persons roll up and
tie it.
1760.  Mr. Dearing and Mr. Pennick, acquaintances of uncle Fred.  The 37 Ps., proper for a day
of fasting for a continuance of success in war. The
consequence of a battle is much the best rule to
judge by and plainly shows which party has the advantage. The Brazils were discovered in the year
1500.
Feb. 8. The earl Kennoul, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, landed at Lisbon  at
about 2 o'clock, P. M. Lamberti in regard to ceremonials for ambassadors, 14 vol.
April 21. Lord Kennoul set out for Cintra, with
Lord Strathmore, Mr. Pitt,2 Mr. and Mrs. Hay;
Mr. Williamson, Mr. Francis,3 and Mr. Fowler.
To make boots soft and leather subtle, rub them
1 The object of Lord Kennoul's mission to the court of Portugal
was to remove the misunderstanding between the two crowns in
consequence of Admiral Boscawen's having destroyed some French
ships under the Portuguese fort in the bay of Lagos.-See note to
Horace Walpole's Correspondence, vol. IV, p. 5.
2This was Thomas, only son of Thomas Pitt of Boconnock, eldest brother of the famous William Pitt, afterwards Lord Camelford.
3 Sir Philip Francis, born 1740, died 1818; one of the reputed
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86       SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
a little distance from  the fire with neats foot oyl
with your hand.
June 5. The Infantal Don Pedro was married
to the princess of Brazil.
" 7, 8, 9. Illuminations in Lisbon on account
of the marriage of Don Pedro  and princess of
Brazil.
"  15. The pope's nuncio2 ordered to leave the
kingdom of Portugal. Rub knives and forks, guns,
etc. with linseed oyl to preserve from rust.
July 2. Wed. Lord Kennoul at Lisbon, made a
great entertainment on account of the marriage
between Don Pedro and the princess of Brazil.
The Dutch will give up nothing that concerns their
interest in point of trade.
1 Dola Maria, who succeeded her father Don Jose, as queen
of Portugal, May 13, 1777.  She married her uncle Don Pedro.
2The Jesuits were expelled from Portugal by Pombal, the
Richelieu of that kingdom.




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CHAPTER XVI.
Summers at Caldas-Gen. Burgoyne at Lisbon —All in the
Wrong- Weight of Sir Henry and Lady-His views of Cromwell- Recipes for Lady Frankland -Maxims- Return to
England.
At the close of the festivities in honor of the
marriage of Doina Maria to her uncle Don Pedro,
in  which  Frankland and his lady prominently
shared, they went to reside for the remainder of the
summer, at Caldas de Rainha,  a fashionable resort
for the invalids at Lisbon on account of its hot sulphur springs.  It will be seen by his journal that
Frankland spent several successive summers at this
place, diverting himself with riding, hunting, botanizing, reading and playing whist and backgammon
with Lady Frankland, Lucy Barclay, Edward Hay,2
Mr. Jaffarys and other congenial friends.  It is interesting to see his outfit for his visit to the springs.
Aug.  Things necessary for journey to Caldas,
viz: guns, powder, shot, rammer to wash guns,
flints, shot pouches, powder horn, fine emery, neats
foot oyl, turn screw, dog chains, and padlock, large
powder flask, saddle and bridle for little macho,
ditto for Lady Frankland, almanack, pens, ink,
paper, memorandum  book, almond powder, hammers, chisels, nails, corks.
1The temperature of the waters, which are impregnated with
sulphureted hydrogen, is 92~F.
2 Edward Hay, Esq., appointed Envoy Extraordinary to the king
of Portugal, July 19, 1757.-London Magazine, July, 1757.




88        SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
Aug. 2. 1760. Set out from  Lisbon  at midnight
and got to Villa Nova at 5~ in the morning. From
Villa Nova to Sercal, 6 hours journey; from  Sercal
to  Chinchieza, 3 hours  35 minutes; from  Chinchieza to  the Caldas at 10 minutes past 8 at night.
The men's bath at Caldas is 46 palms long and 13
palms broad, and will contain 60 persons at a time.
Oct. 1. Came to Lisbon at 12 m. on Thursday.
Nov. 2. Lord  Kennoul sailed  for England  on
board the Isis.
"   17. Paid Mr. Edward Browne 3 moidores to
remit to Miss Bean on account of butter.  History
of Health and Art of'Preserving it by James Mackenzie.
Dec. 8. Col. Arnott, Mr. Lowrey and Burgoyne'
from  Gibralter dined with us.
1 General John Burgoyne was the natural son of Lord Bingley.
He commanded a body of troops sent to Portugal for its defence
against the Spaniards in 1762. He married clandestinely Lady
Charlotte Stanly, youngest daughter of Edward, 11th Earl of
Derby. Defeated in 1777 by General Horatio Gates, he repaired
to England, became a member of Parliament and afterwards commander in chief in Ireland and member of the Privy Council. He
published the Lord of the Manor, 1781, the Heiress, 1786, the 3Iaid
of the Oaks, and other dramas.
The caustic Trumbull writes to him:
Then raise thy daring shouts sublime,
And dip thy conquering pen in rhyme,
And changing war for puns and jokes,
Write new Blockades, and Maids of Oaks.
llIcingal, Canto, iv, p. 117.
He closed his eventful life, Aug. 4, 1792, and was buried in
Westminster Abbey.




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Dec. 12. In Portugal, a cloudy, cold, disagreeable
day.  In the house no fire.  The degree by Bird's
thermometer was 58.
1761.  An account of the new  Comedy called
All in the Wrong, written by Mr. Murphy.l The
general intention of this comedy is to point what
infinite perplexities may arise in the conversation
between the sexes both before and after marriage,
from our readily giving way to unnecessary suspicions, even on strong appearances, without endeavoring by a cool and discreet conduct to come to such
as may be necessary for the clearing up of our
doubts and restoring that peace of mind which a
contrary conduct must unavoidably destroy.
When a fashion has become almost universal,
though it may appear ridiculous to you, it is best to
comply, and not to appear too singular in your own
opinion.
May 15. Degree of heat by thermometer at 4
o'clock, was 74.
The rabble will in triumph rudely share,
And kings the rudeness of their joy must bear.
June 29. Degree of heat at 3 P. M. was 85.
July 16. Arrived at Caldas at 7~ in the evening.
1 Arthur Murphy was born at Cork, Ireland, in 1727, and died
in 1805. In addition to All in the Wrong, he wrote the Grecian
Daughter, and the Way to keep him. All in the Wrong, came out
in 1761 and met with considerable success; it is borrowed in part
from Moliere's Le Cocu Imayinaire. See Horace Walpole's Correspondence, vol. IV.
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90      SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
Aug. 7. Went to St. Martintro in company with
Mrs. Barclay, Lucy, Mr. and Mrs. French, Lady
Frankland and Compton, Mrs. Farmer and returned the 11th day.' 18. Lady Frankland weighs, rove,   4.26
Mrs. Barclay.                       4.09
Mrs. French.                        4.28
Mrs. Farmer.'                       3.30
Miss Lucy Barclay.                  4.19
Sir H. Frankland.                   4.14
Mr. Jaffareys.                      5.31
N. B. a rove is 32 lb. weight.
Cromwell made religion a cloak to his ambitious
designs. He made it his study to find out and employ men of courage and capacity.  Cromwell had
his faults; but it can never be denied that he was
one of the greatest generals England ever, had.
Nov. 22. Degree by Bird's thermometer at 3 P.M.
was 61. Called in Portugal a cold day.
Jan. 19. Lord Bristol sailed for England in the
Portland, Capt. Hughes.
Poultice for macho's hoof. Two quarts bran, boyled well and strained, oyl and lard, q. s.  Four
spoonfuls of honey spread on coarse cloth.
Feb. 7. Snowed, degree of thermometer 52.
March 21. Sent the old postilion beast and horse
to grass at 12 verts each.
Her husband wrote an account of the earthquake published in
Boston, 1756.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.                   91
March 24. Gen. Crawfordl arrived at Lisbon in
the Success, Capt. Traine.
Aug. 6. At Caldas. Dr. Wade's recipe for Lady
Frankland, when  she had a sore throat; to  take
two spoonfuls every two hours a little warm.
1  decocti pectoralis, lb, ij, oxymel, simpl, E iss.
Nitri pur, 5i. m.
Dr. Wade's gargle for Lady Frankland.  Marsh
mallows aind figs boyled  together, and then add a
little milk; to gargle with it a little warm.
A  purging  draught ordered  by Dr. Wade  for
Lady F. who was then  ill of a violent cold and
troubled with profuse sweats.
R  manna opt. hi. Salis cathart. amari 3ij. Solv.
in aq. font i iv. Colat. exhib. in usum.
French Huguenots at Lisbon very prejudicial to
the British trade.
Orus, quando ego te aspiciam? quandoque licebit,
Ducere solicitTe jucunda oblivia vite? 3
1England declared war against Spain, January 4, 1762, and
Portugal followed her in May of the same year, the Spanish army
having already crossed the frontiers; Lord Tyrawley held command of the English forces for a while; but soon returned to
London, when the Earl of Loudoun took his place and entrusted
the command of his army to Count LaLippe, Generals Burgoyne,
Townshend, Crawford and others. See Lord Mahon's Hist. of
England, vol. IV, p. 275.
2 " C'etait," says the king of Prussia, " le commerce lucratif que
L'Angleterre faisait en Portugal quela France voulait ruiner."
Histoire de la Guerre de Sept Ans.
3 Hor. lib. II, Sat. 6.




92      SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
At Portella there is a quinta with a most delightful prospect at 80 moidores per annum.
It is an error in politics, especially in regard to
Portugal, to suffer any innovation, or infraction of
treaty to pass unnoticed by the public minister
abroad, or minister at home.
Men generally act consistently with their interest
except their pleasure interfere.
Espinha9o, spina, dog's name. paid 3.200.
Nov. 1. Purge for Lady Frankland.
1y mann, opt. 5i.
Sal. Polychrest. 3i.
Solv in aqua font. q. s.
Colat. exhib. in usum. 
Nov. Lord Trelawney told Mr. H * * * that he
did prostrate, not only the dignity, but the interest,
of the nation.
"     I never amuse others, or perhaps myself,
with whispers, or common reports.
"    My liverys made by Mr. Robinson cost
19.015 each, beside the cost of frogs for the coat,
and lace for the waistcoat.
1763, Lisbon, April 11. Went to Mr. Coles at
Cintra; returned from there the 16th, do. We were
4 hours and 20 minutes on the road.
Receipt to dress Montanjo hams. First wash
them with milk warm water, then let them soak in
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SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.           93
Aug. 9. Sailed from  Lisbon in the Hanover
packet, Capt. Sherburne and arrived at Falmouth
on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 1763.
The best books to learn children to read English
are, A New Guide to the.English Tongue, by Thomas
Dilworth;1 The Royal English Grammar,2 by James
Greenwood; the Spelling Dictionary of the English
language with a compendious English Grammar
prefixed.
1 First published 1761. The author died 1780.
2 First published 1711. Favorably mentioned in the Tattler.




94       SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
CHAPTER XVII.
Visit to America-Residence at Bath-Remark upon Sir Robert
Walpole - Retires from public life - Style of living at Bath -
Death - Monumental inscription - Character.
1763.  On leaving Lisbon and London this year
Sir Henry returned to Boston and Hopkinton, where
he spent some time in viewing his beautiful grounds
and entertaining his former friends and associates;
but his health continuing to decline, he proceeded
with his lady and Harry Cromwell to Bath, England, for the purpose of enjoying the benefit of its
celebrated  mineral waters.   It appears that he
sought here to obtain and enjoy the otium cum. dignitate of a tranquil and philosophic old age.
1764. He says:
I endeavour to keep myself calm and sedate: I
live modestly and avoid ostentation, decently, and
not above my condition, and do not entertain a
number of parasites who forget favors the moment
they depart from my table.
Sept. 21.  Returned  from  Brighthelmston  to
Bath.'
I cannot suffer a man of low condition to exceed
me in good manners.
1Lord Chesterfield was at Bath at this time to try the waters,
and writes to his son under date of Nov. 10, 1764: "The number of
people in this place is infinite." See Letters to his Son, vol. IV, p.
207.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.         95
From Michaelmas [Sept. 29] 1764, the rent of
my house commenced.  The first year I am to pay
but ~110; but the second ~120 per annum.
Nov. 11. My uncle Fred. was 70 years of age.
Every man has his price,l and the reason Sir
Robert Walpole was so long in the opposition to
the court, the minister did not come up to his price.
It was probably in reference to the celebrated
struggle going on between the whigs and tories respecting the great American question, and perhaps
under a severe twinge of the gout with which he
was now dolorously afflicted, that the following
caustic words dropped from his pen.
1765, Bath, March. The people of England are in
general a set of hot headed fools; a parcel of senseless coxcombs who though perfectly able to examine
the bottom of things, never judge farther than the
surface. They know their rights and privileges are
inviolably safe, and yet they are never easy unless
they think them in danger.
Mrs. Mary Brooks at Angmaring near Arundel,
Montham, good house maid.
The 25th of July is Bristol fair. About this time
the Bath tradesmen settle their accounts and send
in their bills.
1765, July 4. John M'Clester and his mother
went to Bristol, Captain Osborne, bound to R. I.
Aug. 8. At Bath, degree of heat at 1 P. M. 76;
at 7 P. M. 77.'A favorite maxim of Sir Robert Walpole.




96       SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
1766. Mr. Fred Frankland came to Bath Sept.
8th, and returned Oct. 24th.
1767 Tuesday, June 2, came to Hartham.
By A of 88: interest paid Lady Frankland on
288, interest and principal ~17 12s. By 4 of ~182
8s. to Fred Frankland, principal and interest on his
legacy left by my father, ~45 12s.
1768  Though Frankland left Lisbon in 1763, he
continued to hold his office as consul general of
Portugal until the summer of 1767,1 when the king
appointed Sir John Hort2 in his stead, who remained at that lucrative post for many successive years.
His style of living at Bath may be inferred from
the following schedule of his domestic expenses
near the close of his journal.
My sister's calculation of annual charges in
house keeping, viz., kitchen expenses, as food, soap,
starch, blue and candles at ~7 per week is ~364;
wages and livery of a coachman and two footmen
at ~20 each.                                ~60.
Wages of three maid servants,            30.
Three coach horses,                    100.
Wheels, ~6 tax for do.                   10.
Twenty chaldron of coals,                40.
House and taxes,                        100.
Clothes and pocket money for Lady
F. and self.                         250.
Brewer's bill,                           13.
1 See Boston Evening Post, August 31, 1767.
2I was visited by Sir John Hort, the consul, 1780. Cumberland's Memoirs, p. 45.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.        97
Two saddle horses,                    60.
Wine 4s. per day,                     73.
Accidentals, viz., doctors, apothecaries
and sundry other articles not foreseen
or ascertained.                    100.
~1.200.
Dec. 9. I had that day been confined to my bed
14 weeks.
This is the last entry with date in the journal:
his chequered life was now rapidly drawing to its
close, and under the kind ministrations of his estimable lady, and sustained by Christian hope, he
expired January 11, 1768, aged 51 years, 8 months
and 1 day.
His remains were buried at the church in the
beautiful village of Weston, near Bath, where the
inscription to his memory by his excellent lady may
be still read.
Through the kindness of Miss T. T. Whinyates,
grand niece of Sir Charles Henry Frankland, a
very pious and accomplished lady, still living at
Cheltenham, England, I have been able to obtain a copy of the inscription, as well as a fine
portrait of the baronet taken in early days. Under
date of July 1859, she writes: "It is a very singular
circumstance that the tomb of Sir Henry Frankland has been discovered by a mere accident by our
cousin, Captain Frankland, R. N., who a few weeks
since went to visit the tomb of a sister who lies buried at Ireston church in the vicinity of Bath. While
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98      SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
there, he stumbled against the tomb of Sir Henry,
not knowing in the least that his great uncle was
buried there. He found that the monumental inscription was placed so very high against the wall
in the nave of the church that it could not be well
decyphered, therefore he requested that a copy
might be made for him  which is the same I now
send you."
" To the memory of Sir Charles Henry Frankland
of Thirkleby in the county of York, Baronet, consul general for many years at Lisbon from whence
he came in hopes of recovery from a bad state of
health to Bath, where after a tedious and painful
illness which he sustained with patience and resignation becoming a Christian, he died 11th January
1768 in the 52 year of his life without issue and at
his own desire, lies buried in this church. This
monument is erected by his affectionate widow
Agnes, Lady Frankland."
Of sound and discriminating judgment, good executive ability, accomplished manners and graceful
mien, Sir Charles Henry Frankland seems to have
performed his public duties faithfully, and even to
the acceptance of the opposition parties. His political moderation and integrity secured the confidence
both of whig and tory; and his aversion to political life and intrigue saved him from the calumniations which were unsparingly hurled against the
heads of the very best men holding office in those
stormy times. His mild and pensive cast of mind
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SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.           99
literature; in observing the beauties of nature, in
the practice of landscape gardening, in social converse and in religious meditations; and in his beloved Agnes, refined and beautiful above her sex,
he ever found the liveliest sympathy and the most
cordial assistance in his favorite pursuits. As a husband, he was ever affectionate, faithful and forgiving; as a friend and neighbor, generous and kind;
as a citizen he was upright and noble; as a public
servant, loyal, and as a Christian, we may hope that
the penitence and prayer of his later, atoned through
the blood of Him that cleanseth from all sin, for the
delinquencies of his earlier years, and that to the
golden gate of paradise he brought
" The gift that is most dear to Heaven."




100       SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Lady Frankland returns to America - Her occupation - Public
sentiment — The arrest- The release-Battle of Bunker HillReturn to England - Her second marriage - Death - Character -Mementos.
1768. Soon after the death of her husband, Lady
Frankland, together with  Henry  Cromwell, for
whom she ever cherished a fond regard, returned to
this country' and in company with her sister, Mrs.
Swain, formerly Mrs. M'Clester, her sister's children
and other intimate friends and connexions, continued
to reside on her beautiful estate at Hopkinton in
her usual style of magnificence, until the opening
of the great drama of the American revolution in
1775.2
She occupied herself in overseeing and directing
the management of the farm, ornamenting  the
grounds with  choice  shrubs  and  flowers  from
Europe; entertaining the clergymen who occasion1 The notice of their arrival is thus given in the Boston Chronicle, for June 13, 1768: " The Lady of the late Sir Harry Frankland, came passenger with Captain Freeman who arrived here last
week from Bristol. The ship was the Juno, Captain Constant
Freeman."  See Drake's History of Boston, p. 742.
2 The Province rate of Lady Frankland at Hopkinton for 1770,
was for personal property, ~3, 4s. Id. Henry Cromwell's poll tax,
3s. 4d. See Mass. Archives, vol. 130, p. 749.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.    101
ally officiated at the Episcopal church, and some of
her former friends, as the Amorys, Inches, Deblois,
Ervings, etc., from Boston.
Surrounded, however, by a people ardently devoted to the cause of freedom, her position as the rich
widow of a prominent officer of the crown; her
devotion to the Episcopal church, and her splendid
equipage, rendered her residence in the country
every day more and more dangerous and perplexing. Liberty and equality had come to be the
watchword of the times; the friends of England
were at first suspected, and then at length declared
to be the enemies of America. The arrival of armed
troops at Boston, and the action of the liberty-loving patriots, Otis, Adams, Hancock, Warren and
their noble compeers, finally rendered it necessary
for the royalists to abandon their estates and betake
themselves to flight. Leaving, therefore, her sister,
Mrs. Mary Swain and her daughter, Mrs. John
Dupee and family, in charge of the mansion and
estate in Hopkinton, Lady Frankland and Henry
Cromwell with a few trusty servants set out for
Boston, early in 1775, in order to return to England.
She had taken the precaution to obtain permission of the continental congress to remove a small
portion of her goods, with her to the city; but such
was the excitement of the republicans against the
loyalists at that remarkable period, that her carriage
was stopped on the way to Boston by a party of
armed men under the direction of Mr. Abner
Craft, and her goods and person held in custody.




102     SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
On the journal of the committee of safety of the
provincial congress we have preserved the following
interesting record in relation to this affair.
"May 15, 1755. Upon application of Lady Frankland, voted that she have liberty to pass into Boston with the following goods and articles for her
voyage, viz; 6 trunks: 1 chest: 3 beds and bedding:
6 wethers: 2 pigs: 1 small keg of pickled tongues:
some hay: 3 bags of corn: and such other goods
as she thinks proper," and the following pass was
then granted.
"To the Colony Guard.
Permit Lady Frankland of Hopkinton with her
attendants, goods and the provisions above mentioned to pass to Boston, with the express order of
the Committee of Safety.
BENJ. CHURCH, Jr., Chairman.
Head Quarters, Salem, May 15, 1775."
As Mr. Craft in his laudable anxiety to serve his
country had captured the lady without regard to
the instructions of the committee of safety, he was
immediately ordered to appear before the provincial
congress to answer to the allegations made against
him in respect to the detention of Lady Frankland,
and the congress, nobly jealous of its rights, then
"resolved that he should be gently admonished by
the president, and be assured that the congress
were determined to preserve their dignity and
power over the military."
" Mr. Craft was again called and the president
politely admonished him  agreeably to the re



SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.    103
solve of congress." It was then resolved more
favorably "that Lady Frankland be permitted to
go into Boston with the following articles, viz:seven trunks, all the beds and furniture to them:
all the boxes and crates: a basket of chickens and
a bag of corn: two barrels and a hamper: two horses and two chaises and all the articles in the chaises,
excepting arms and ammunition: one phaeton, some
tongues, ham and veal, sundry small bundles, which
articles having been examined by a committee from
this congress, she is permitted to have them carried
in without further examination."
May 19. On the next day, so intent was congress
in maintaining its supremacy over the military
power, it was "resolved that Col. Bond be and
hereby is directed to appoint a guard of six men
to escort Lady Frankland to Boston with such of
her effects as this congress have permitted her to
carry with her and Col. Bond is directed to wait on
Gen. Thomasl with a copy of the resolves of this
congress."
Two brief autograph letters of Lady Frankland
to this congress still remain.  "The beauty of the
graceful writing," says Mr. Wm. Lincoln, "is marred
by many errors of spelling, showing that the defects of early education had not been all supplied." 2
Defended by a guard of six soldiers Lady Frankland entered Boston about the first of June, then
1General John Thomas died of small pox at Chamblee, Canada,
May 30, 1776.
2 See the Worcester lagazine, January, 1843, p. 9.




104     SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
in the possession of the British troops, amounting
to about 12,000 men under the command of Generals Howe, Clinton and Burgoyne; was cordially
greeted by her old friends, especially by General
Burgoyne whom she had known in Portugal, and
here from the windows of her elegant mansion on
Garden-court street she witnessed, in company with
many others, the imposing drama of the Battle of
Bunker Hill, and aided with her hands to assuage
the sufferings of the wounded from the bloody field.
Attended by Henry Cromwell, she soon after
sailed for England, and resided in the Frankland
family until 1782, when she was married to John
Drew, Esq., a wealthy banker of Chichester. Her
life, however, with him was brief; for taking a sudden cold, and inflammation of the lungs ensuing,
she died, April 23, 1783, at the age of 57 years and
was buried at Chichester. Raised from obscurity to
affluence and high position in society, Lady Frankland's native good sense enabled her to fulfill the
duties of her station with superior ability, while
the radiant beauty of her person and the grace and
dignity of her manners held dominion as by enchantment, over the affection of her husband, and
shed lustre on the elevated circles in which it was
her lot to move.
Her majestic gait, her dark and lustrous eye commanded the admiration of the beholder; her clear
and melodious voice, her endearing smile entranced
his heart. Her weight at the age of thirty-five,
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SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.    105
reading, riding on horseback, music, and the culture of flowers.  She was a communicant of the
church of England, and in later life was highly
respected and esteemed by the noble family into
which she had married.
A few memorials of Lady Frankland still remain.
Mrs. Aaron [Bixby] Reed of Norfolk, Va., a granddaughter of Isaac Surriage, has still in her possession a rich, striped silk brocade dress, -the green,
purple and other tints beautifully interblending, -
which once adorned the person of her great aunt
Agnes. She has also a silver pepper box and milk
pitcher on which the names "Frankland, Surriage
and Bixby" are inscribed; a china cup which Lady
Frankland gave to her brother Isaac Surriage on
his going to sea; four silver teaspoons, one of
which is inlaid with gold, and a copy of Sir Charles
Grandison with her autograph on the title page. A
most elegant and elaborately carved fan, on the
folds of which is most exquisitely painted the coronation scene of George III, and which bears the
name of Agnes Frankland, is still in the possession
of the Porter family of Medford, Mass., where Mrs.
Swain, in her later years, resided.
These curious relics which are held as very
precious by their owners; together with the shrubbery and trees which her fair hands planted at her
manor house at Hopkinton, are almost the only
mementos that remain of a lady whose life was as
romantic and eventful as any which the pen of the
novelist has portrayed, or the fancy of the bard
conceived.
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106      SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
CHAPTER XIX.
Henry Cromwell-The estate at Boston —Mrs. Sarah SwainM'Clester-Isaac Surriage-The estate at Hopkinton-Dr.
Shepherd - Mrs. Hildreth - Mansion burned.
Henry Cromwell entered the navy soon after his
return to England, and was with Admiral Kempenfelt,l in the gallant action off the French coast on
the 14th of November, 1781.  He was held in high
esteem in the navy, and rose to the rank of Captain,
but being unwilling to fight against his native country, he retired from the service previous to the close
of the Revolution.  Ie was still living and had a
family in Chichester in 1796.
On the decease of Lady Frankland, the estate in
Boston came by will to her sister, Mrs. Mary Swain,
from  whom  it passed into the hands of her son,
Daniel M'Clester, who in a will bearing date, Medford, Aug. 1, 1807, devised it to his uncle, Isaac
Surriage of Hopkinton.  While in possession of
the family, the estate was rented to various individuals,2 among whom were Messrs. Bixby, Capen,
Stoddard and Dr. Redford Webster, the father of
Professor John W. Webster, who was hung for the
murder of Dr. Parkman, Aug. 30, 1850.
Lost in the Royal George, which went down at Spithead, Aug.
29, 1782. His age was about 70 years.
2 Occupied by Alvin Fosdick and Nahum Fay, and valued at 3500
in 1798. See Direct Tax, vol. 7. The Hutchinson house was
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Mr. Surriage disposed of the place, Sept. 30, 1811,
for the sum  of $8000 to Josiah Ellis, Esq., merchant, who repaired it thoroughly and continued to
reside in it till his decease in 1829. The house was
torn down about the year 1832, and the panels
containing some beautiful landscape views were
sold at auction and fell into the hands of Dr.
Winslow Lewis of Boston. A large picture of the
building itself, which in early times was second
only to the famous Hutchinson house, is now in the
possession of Mrs. Henry Ellis Dawes of the same
city. Let such mementos of colonial times remain.
Lady Frankland's sister Mary, of whom frequent
mention has been made, was married, first to a Mr.
M'Clester by whom she had three children, viz:
Daniel, Sally and John. Sally, born in 1740, was
brought up in the family of her aunt Frankland
and was married to Mr. John Dupee, a mathematical instrument maker in Boston, Nov. 3, 1757. On
the death of Mr. Dupee, his widow, a large, gay
woman, removed with her only son, Henry Frankland Dupee, born 1762, to the manor house in Hopkinton where he studied medicine with Dr. John
Wilson of that townv. HIe nlarried Abigail Fairbanks,
Aug. 7, 1785, and, soon after the Frankland place
was sold to Dr. Timothy Shepherd in 1793, removed
with his wife, mother and grandmother Swain to
Dedham, and thence to Portland, Me., where, after
a few years of successful practice, he died March 25,
1811, aged 49, leaving a son John and two daughters, one of whom married a Mr. White of Boston.




108     SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
Mrs. M'Clester was married a second time to a
Mr. Swain, whom she survived many years. Her
son Daniel M'Clester married Sarah, daughter of
George Stimson, Jr. of Hopkinton. She was born
in 1759, and died of the small pox at the Frankland place in January, 1793, and was buried alone in
the forest beyond the meadow in front of the house,
where her solitary grave may still be seen. She left
one child only, who died at the age of 14 years.
Lady Frankland's youngest brother, Isaac Surriage, for whom she entertained during life the
tenderest regard, married Ruhamah Pedrick  of
Marblehead, Sept. 5, 1768, and having followed the
sea for many years, at length settled in Hopkinton
where he purchased a farm  of 67 acres of John
Parker, April 22, 1794, and where he died in Sept.
1813.1 He left one daughter, Jennie, who was born
in Marblehead, January 27, 1773. She was a great
favorite of her aunt Frankland, whom she is said to
have closely resembled in person, and with whom
she spent many of her early days.
She was married to Mr. Pelatiah Bixby of Hopkinton, by whom she had Mary Swain, Edward
Surriage, Hannah Webster, John Adams, Simpson,
Susan A., Isaac Surriage, Caroline Agnes Frankland, and Charles P., and died Jan. 23, 1839.
Soon after Lady Frankland left Hopkinton, the
estates of the loyalists were by an act of the provincial congress declared to be confiscate, and order1 He lived in a small red house on the hill above Indian Brook.
He afterwards bought the Rider and Tidd places. He was short,
thickset and pitted with the small pox.




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.           109
ed to be sold for the benefit of the state. In respect
to the Frankland estate, the committee of safety
and correspondence made the following report,
May 24, 1766, 1 which shows us the condition of
things at the house at that period.
"In compliance with your order of court dated
April 3d, 1776, we the committee of correspondence,
safety and inspection for Hopkinton, have in our
opinion found a large estate, both real and personal
of Lady Frankland, forfeited; but finding so many
encumbrances on said estate, viz., Mrs. Swain, sister of Lady Frankland, and Mrs. Swain's daughter
and grandson, and three negro slaves of which one
is old and blind, we therefore pray that your honors would take it into your consideration and inform
us how to proceed further."
In reply to this, the court say that " the resolve of
the 19th of April last gives sufficient direction for
the conduct of the committee of safety," and therefore the estate remained unforfeited.  It continued
in the hands of Mrs. Swain, Mrs. Dupee and her
son until the year 1793, when it was sold by Rufus
Green Amory,2 Esq., attorney for Henry Cromwell
of Chichester, Eng., to whom it had been devised
by will of Sir Charles Frankland, to Dr. Timothy
Shepherd of Sherburne for the sum of ~950.
i Miass. Archives, vol. 154, p. 52.
2Son of John and Catherine Amory, and was born Dec. 20,
1760; was graduated at H. U. 1778, studied law and resided on
Beacon street, Boston. He died May 15, 1833.  See N. E. Hist.
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110       SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
Dr. Shepherdl dying in 1803, left the estate to
his widow, Mary, a lady of uncommon beauty and
accomplishments, who afterwards was married to
Gen. William  Hildreth of Dracut.2 Left soon again
a widow, this lady continued in possession of the
estate until her decease, June, 22, 1857, at the advanced age of 87 years.   The estate, reduced to
about 100 acres, afterwards came into the possession
of the writer, who had the misfortune to lose by
an accidental fire on the 23d of January, 1858, the
fine old mansion around which so many delightful
associations clustered. Another buildings similar
in form and size and style has been erected on the
spot; but nothing can repair the loss of this venerable mansion of the colonial times, whose rooms
and closets, from the dark cellar to the capacious
attic; whose folding doors with their huge iron
fastenings, whose echoing halls adorned with Corinthian pillars, and with the beautiful tapestry of that
period, brought up to mind so vividly the eventful
history of those "celebrities," whose merry voices
echoed here in days gone by.
But all is not yet lost. The well constructed
1 Rep. from H. 1800-3. His children were Anne, married John
Keyes, Esq., Nov. 27, 1816; Elizabeth, married Abijah Stone;
Hannah, born March 3, 1794, married Charles Leland; Edward,
born Nov. 9, 1796; Alicia, baptised May 4, 1799, and married Dr.
Isaac W. Milliken, Nov. 17, 1825.
2 Married April 17, 1809, and had one daughter Adaline, married
Joseph Goulding, April 19, 1832. Mrs. H. received a pension of
$325, until her death.
3 Now occupied by Edward S. Nason, Esq., born at this place,
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SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.    111
double walls of stone which still enclose the grounds;
the terraces upon the sloping hill side; the blocks
of skillfully wrought sand-stone on which the granery stood; the lines of box1 in the flower garden,
now some ten or twelve feet high; the avenue formed by Persian lilacs, now grown into noble trees;
the snow-ball, the buck-thorn, pear and apple trees
scattered over the plantation; the lofty and majestic
elms2 that wave their huge branches over the capacious green, falling by gentle inclination  to the
road:-these still remain, attesting to the wealth
and taste of the original proprietor.
1 The box is glistening high and green;
Like trees the lilacs grow,
The elms, high arching, still are seen;
And one lies stretched below.
Agnes, by Dr. O. W. Holmes.
2 Within my memory there were seven magnificent elms standing
in a line north and south, and shading the lawn on the west of the
house. The one at the north was prostrated by a high wind several years ago, but is still living; the three at the south have been
replaced by young trees. Of the three yet standing, the two outermost measure 12 feet in circumference, the one between them 9 feet
and seems like a tall and slender sister rising up in stately beauty,
claiming their protection.




112    SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
CHAPTER XX.
Slaves - Hannah, Robert, Dinah - The Brands - Jennie Surriage - Dick Potter - Julia.
Frankland had upon this place, some twelve to
sixteen negro slaves, who according to the custom
of the times, were held in easy bondage, and who
were set at liberty soon after the decision of the
celebrated Lechmere case in 1770, which virtually
put an end to the inhuman system of slavery in
Massachusetts.
Among his slaves were Hannah and Robert who
were with him at Lisbon; Dinah and Cato. Robert,
or " daddy Bobby," as they used to call him, was a
special favorite in the family. He shared the dangers of the earthquake with his master, and returned
to Hopkinton, where he lived as a kind of fossilized
relict from the other world until he became entirely
blind, and finally died in second childhood. He
was a genuine son of Africa, of inky blackness; he
had the brand of the letter C, imprinted on each
side of his body. He continued to wear his tarnished livery and to powder his white and crisped
locks until his death.
An aged woman, who had but too many reasons
for remembering him, informed me that she once in
sport bit off one of the silver buttons of his coat;
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SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.    113
his thumb broke out two of her front teeth. To
make amends for this, she used, with Jennie Surriage, to powder his woolly head with Indian meal,
ever taking good care to keep out of the reach of
his cyclopean arms.
Dinah was also brought from Guinea; her face
was jet black and she had been branded with three
parallel lines upon the cheek and forehead. She
was originally caught in Africa, as she herself used
to aver, by means of a lump of sugar soaked in
rum which drove her strength and reason out of
her. She had several promising children, all of
whom  were born and baptized in the Frankland
house. One of her sons bore the name of Richard
or Dick, Potter, and obtained a world wide reputation for his feats of legerdemain. He attended
school, when a lad at Hopkinton, obtained a pretty
good education, and finally went with Mr. Skinner
of Roxbury to reside in England, where he acquired
the magical arts so perfectly and performed them
so dexterously as to distance by a long interval every
American competitor. Many persons still living
can well remember his marvelous exploits in frying
eggs in his new beaver; taking living rabbits out
of gentlemen's coat pockets; or thrusting a sword,
even to the hilt, into his own capacious throat and
drawing out thence yard after yard of party colored
ribbons and then spouting forth, to the astonishment
of every beholder, sparks and flames of fire. In a
very pleasant poem, John G. Saxe thus alludes to
him and his performances.
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114       SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
I recollect the nervous man,
Within whose hat the great deceiver,
Broke eggs as in a frying-pan,
And took'em smoking from the beaver;
I recollect the lady's shawl,
Which the magician rent asunder,
And then restored; but best of all,
I recollect the ribbon wonder.
I mean, of course, the funny freak
In which the wizard, at his pleasure,
Spins lots of ribbons from his cheek,
Where he had put'em at his leisure;
Yard after yard of every hue
Came blazing out, and still the fellow,
Keeps spinning ribbons red and blue
And black and white and green and yellow.
I ne'er shall see another show,
To rank with the immortal POTTER's;
He's dead and buried long ago,
And others charm our sons and daughters:
Years, years have fled, alas! how quick!
Since I beheld the great magician:
And yet I've seen the ribbon trick
In many a curious repetition. etc.
Potter died at an advanced age, and is buried at
Andover, N. H., where he spent the last few  years
of his life. He left something of an estate to his
descendants.
A   daughter of Dinah, born  in  March, 1775,
and bearing the name of Julia Titus, was living in
1860 in the full enjoyment of her faculties. She
was a servant of Mrs. J. Dupee until the age of 17,
could read and write, and from her I have derived
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SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.                 115
Dinah's other children were Villot, who lived
with  Dr. Shepherd,l Phebe, Sidney and Robert.
They were all mulattoes and very bright.'July 10, 1794. "Primus Dr. to cash paid Mr. Dupee 6s. 3d."
Dr. Shepherd's Manuscript Journal. His servants at this time
were Primus, Julia, Cato, Pomp, Issacher and Vilot [Violet]. Cato
received ~20 per annum.- Id.




116      SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
CHAPTER XXI.
The anniversary - Ghost stories - Origin - Echoes - Last visit
to the mansion-Spirit of the present age.
When Frankland returned to Hopkinton after
his wonderful escape from the earthquake in 1755,
he brought with him the red broadcloth coat' which
I have already spoken of as bearing the marks of
the agony of the young woman buried with him,
together with some other relics of that eventful day,
and hung them along the tapestried walls of one of
the chambers of his mansion.
On every anniversary of his deliverance from the
dreadful catastrophe, he entered this room, locked
the door upon himself, closed the shutters, and here
in darkness and in silence spent the day in fasting,
humiliation and prayer. The tremendous scenes of
Lisbon were again recalled to mind, thanks again
rendered for his salvation from the grave, and vows
of faithfulness to Agnes and to God renewed. It was
perhaps, owing to the dismal associations connected
with this solitary chamber, together with the uniform tradition that a, French boy had been murdered
Where hung the rapier blade he wore,
Bent in its flattened sheath;
The coat the shrieking woman tore
Caught in her clenching teeth.
Agnes, p. 29.
This coat was afterwards made into one for Henry Frankland
Dupee. [Mrs. A. Reed.]




SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.    117
on the farm and thrown into an old well in what
was called "Hobb's Orchard," that the place had
acquired the uneviable reputation of being haunted
by the spirits of the departed. Often in my early
days have I listened with greedy ear to the marvelous stories of "ghosts and goblins grim" which
had been seen to stalk forth from the lonely woodlands in the dusky twilight, causing every heart to
quake with fear. It was said, and more than half
believed, that an apparition in white had often been
seen wandering near the solitary grave of poor
Mrs. M'Clester; that the headless trunk of the
murdered French boy used to appear gliding along
the border of the forest just when the shade of
evening became deep enough to render objects indistinct; that low, sepulchral moans were heard;
that the pump in front of the house had been observed to work by the influence of some invisible
hand, and horresco referens, —to spout forth torrents of blood; shrieks of murdered children had
been heard from the walls of the building at the
solemn hour of midnight, and a troop of horse with
manes and tails on fire and nostrils breathing flames
had terrified the people by capering and prancing
over the grounds amid the darkness and the violence
of the winter storm.
The loneliness of the situation, the primeval
woods of Magunco, where a tribe of Indians once
lit up their watch-fires, and where the owl still startles the nocturnal traveller by her hootings; a re



118      SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.
markable echol which seems in the stillness of the
evening to come directly from the well where the
poor French boy is supposed to have perished; the
memory of the revelling, the wassailing which once
resounded through the tapestried halls of the mansion; the strange, romantic fortunes of its inmates,
all conspired to favor the idea that these supernatural agents still returned and wandered in the night
time around these old domains as their most favorite haunt; and when I last revisited that venerable
mansion, from which the sacred remains of its long,
last occupant had just been carried to the grave;
walked through the lonely and silent rooms, observed
the tapestry loosely hanging from  the deserted
walls; the columns of the capacious, but now empty
hall; as I passed through the " haunted chamber"2
where the. spoils of Lisbon earthquake used to hang,
and stood upon the very floor on which the English
baronet had so often kneeled in penitence and
prayer; as I recalled to memory the fair maid of
Marblehead and her romantic story; as I with busy
fancy repeopled the whole scene with forms of beauty and intelligence, listened to the sounds of the
merry viol, of song, of feasting and of revelry; saw
Frankland, Agnes, Harry Cromwell, Isaac Surriage,
1 This echo repeats distinctly such phrases as Vox preterea nihil,
etc., and is best heard a few yards scuth of the large elm tree
nearest the road. Another fine echo is heard on the plateau
in front of the house and still another on the hill above.
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SIR CHARLES HENRY FRANKLAND.    119
Dupee, Villiers, the Prices, Wilsons, Valentines,
Ervings, groom, footman, waiter, valet, page, Robert, Hannah, Dinah, all alive before me,- and as I
then paused and looked again and saw the rooms
deserted and the shades of evening falling, and
heard no sound save the echoes of my own solitary
footsteps, I confess that it required but little effort
of the imagination to believe that invisible spirits
were still hovering around me, and that the weird
fancies of the boy had become realities to the man.
But the sharp, shrill whistle of the steam engine
speeding up through the valley by Magunco dispels
the reverie. It is the voice of this wonderful age
we live in, telling us that the days of romantic adventure and of gibbering ghosts are over; that the
wigs, the ruffs, the gold-laced coats and the wassail
bowls; the love knots and the courtly dames; the armorial decorations and the prestige of the Shirleys,
the Auchmutys, the Hallowells, the Apthorps, the
Franklands, and the Hutchinsons, have long since
gone by; that the fetters of colonial servitude are
long since broken; that the blessed beams of liberty
now irradiate alike the cottage of the poor, and the
mansion of the wealthy; and that, from abject dependence on foreign domination, we have now
come to be a vast, consolidated people, illumined
by the lucid ray of science, elevated by the light
of religion, exulting in power, and marching onward in the front rank of the nations, buoyant with
hope, towards a destiny too exalted even for the
pinion of fancy to reach.
FINIS.








INDEX
TO
NAMES OF PERSONS AND PLACES.
ABRAHAM, heights of, 15.   Beckford, Wm., 53.
Adams, Samuel, 15, 101.    Belcher, Gov. Jona'n, 10.
Addison, Joseph, 42.              Belem, 61, 62, 64, 70.
Africa, 14, 112, 113.             Bell, Mr., 77.
Airey, John, 52, 56.                  alley, 73.
Albany, N. Y., 51.                Bengal, 7, 9, 10.
Allen, Dr. Wm., 83.               Bethune, Nath'l, 33.
Alley, Capt., 34.                 Bigelow, Mrs. Mary Ann, 43.
Alsworth, Robert, 33.             Bingley, Ld., 88.
America, 21, 76, 101.             Bishopgate street, 56.
Amory, Thomas, 12.                Bixby, Caroline Agnes FrankJonathan, 12.                       land, 108.
John, 12, 101, 109.               Charles P., 108.
Catharine, 109.                   Edward S., 108.
Rufus Green, 109.                 Hannah Webster, 108.
Andover, N. H., 114.                  Isaac Surriage, 108.
Angmaring, Eng., 95.                  Jno. Adams, 108.
Apthorp, Charles, 12, 25, 119.        Mary Swain, 108.
Arnott, Col., 88.                     Pelatiah, 24, 64, 108.
Arundel, Eng., 95.                    Simpson, 108.
Ashland, Mass., 40.                   Susan Agnes, 108.
Athens, 17.                           Mr. 106.
Auchmuty, Robert, 13, 25, 26, Blanc, Mr., 84.
35, 43, 45, 75, 119.       Boardman, Mrs., 36.
Elizabeth, 76.               Boconnock, 85.
Bolingbroke, Ld., 12, 20, 49.
BACCHUS, a slave, 55.             Bollan, Win., 11, 12.
Bahamas, 27, 33.                Bond, Col. Wm., 102.
Baker, Miss Frances, 10.          Boscawen, Admiral, 85.
Bancroft, Geo., 51, 79.           Boston, 3, 4, 5, 10, 12, 13, 14,
Barnard, Benj., 39.                   16, 18, 19, 22, 25, 26, 27,
Barclay, Mrs., 90.                    28, 29, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36,
Lucy, 87, 90.                     38, 39, 40, 43, 44, 50, 55,
Barrett, Rev. Sam'l, 42.              63, 70, 72, 73, 75, 76, 78,
Barry, Rev. Wm., 40.                  79, 80, 82,  83, 90, 94,
Bath, Eng., 9, 34, 94, 95, 96, 97,    100, 101, 102, 103, 106,
98.                            107, 109.
Baury, Rev. A. L., 5.             Bouchier, Sir James, 7.
Bean, Miss, 88.                       Elizabeth, 7.
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122                          INDEX.
Bowes, Wm., 14.                   Chase, Julius, 39.
Braddock, Gen., 11.                   Mr., 61.
Brazil, 86.                       Chesterfield, Ld., 10, 13, 49, 65,
Brazier, Peter, 33.                     94.
Brenton, Wm., 19.                 Cheltenham, Eng., 57, 69, 97.
Brimsden, Mrs., 75.               Chichester, Eng., 9, 46, 104,
Brinley, 43.                            106, 109.
Bristol, Me., 33.                 Chinchiezza, 88.
Eng., 33, 95.                Church, Benj., Jr., 102.
Lord, 90.                    Churchill, John, 61.
Broad bay, Me., 32.               Cintra, 53, 54, 85, 92.
Brockwell, Rev. Charles, 14.      Clargis street, London, 57.
Brompton, Eng., 13.               Clarke, Benjamin, 73.
Brooks, Mary, 95.                     William, 73, 74.
Brown, Agnes, 24.                     Jonas, 33.
Mrs., 52.                    Clinton, Gen., 104.
Jno., 31, 32, 33, 34.        Colares, Portugal, 53.
Jno. B., 32.                 Cold Spring brook, 40, 41, 42.
Browne, Wm., 39.                  Cole, John, 77.
Edw., 88.                    Coles, Mr., 51, 53, 56, 70, 92.
Buckminster, Col., 82.            Colleck river, Eng., 8.
Bull, Jno., 38.                   Collin, Capt., 64.
Bullivant, Benj., 19.             Collyn, Capt. Peter, 79.
Bunker hill, 76, 104.                 James, 79.
Burgoyne, Gen. John, 87, 88,          Peter, 79.
91, 104.                   Concord river, 40.
Burke, Edmund, 38.                Cooper, J. F., 73.
Burns, Robert, 15.                Copp's hill, 75.
Bute, Earl of, 21.                Cork, Ireland, 89.
Court street, Boston, 15.
AHILL,  Capt., 78, 79.            Cradock, Geo., 19, 22.
C Calds de Rainha, 87, 88, Craft, Abner, 101, 102.
89, 91.                    Crawford, Gen., 91.
Cambridge, 26, 34, 76.            Cromwell, Harry, 42, 74, 75,
Cambridgeport, 76.                      94, 100, 101, 104, 106,
Caner, Rev. Henry, 14, 35, 43,           109, 118.
46.                             Oliver, 7, 8, 24, 28, 90.
Capen, Mr., 106.                      Frances, 7.
Cape Breton, 12.                  Cross, Alex'r, 7.
Carlyle, Thos., 8.                    Elizabeth, 7, 8, 9.
Carthagenia, 34.                  Cumberland, Richard, 96.
Casco bay, 74.                    Curtis, 77.
Castres, Abraham, 64.             Custom House street, 22.
Caswell, Henry, 35.               Cutler, Dr. T., 10, 78.
Cato, a slave, 43, 112, 115.
Cavendish, Mr., 70.                   ALEMBERT, 66.
Chaddock, Thos., 39.              D     Daniel street, 82.
Charles II, 8, 18.                Davis, Capt., 77.
Charlestown, 72, 82.                  Mrs., 77.
Chamblee, Canada, 103.            Davy, Rev. Mr., 61.




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Dawes, Mrs. Lydia T., 5, 23, 36, Exchange street, 22.
64, 107.                  Exeter, Eng., 57.
Dearing, Mr., 85.
Deblois, Gilbert, 80, 81, 82, 83.'1AIRBANKS, Abigail, 107.
Stephen, 80.              J-  Fairfield, Conn., 35.
Lewis, 80, 101.              Falmouth, Eng., 57, 93.
Sen'r, 75, 80.               Faneuil, Peter, 16, 23.
Mrs., 76, 77.                Fanning, James, 39.
Dedham, Mass., 3, 4, 107.        Fareham, Eng., 57.
De Lancey, Stephen, 34.          Farmer, Mrs., 90.
Susanna, 34.                     Mr., 59.
Demsey, Hugh, 39.                Fay, Nahum, 106.
Dench, Mrs., 39.                 Fielding, Henry, 9, 48.
Devins, John, 39.                Fitch, Joseph, 33.
Devonshire, 81.                  Fletcher, Mrs., 75.
Diderot, 66.                     Foley, Ann, 70.
Die, Mr., 56.                    Folsted, Eng., 7.
Dilworth, Thos., 51, 93.         Fountain garden, 24.
Dina, 112, 113, 114, 115, 119.    Fosdick, Alvan, 106.
Doddridge, Dr. P., 48, 81, 101.   Foster, Mr., 82.
Dolliver, Mary, 24.              Fort Sewall, 23.
Domingus, a servant, 56.         Fowler, Mr., 85.
Douglas, Capt., 83.              Framingham, 32, 39, 40.
Dracut, Mass., 110.              France, 29, 91.
Drake, Sam'l G., 5, 82, 100.     Francis, Sir P., 85, 86.
Drew, John, 104.                 Frankland, Ann, 9.
Drowne, Shem, 33.                     Sir Charles Henry, 1, 3, 4,
Dudley, Gov., 19.                       5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 15, 19, 20,
Du Moulin, 84.                          22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 31,
Dupee, John, 72, 107, 108.              32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 42,
Mrs. John, 101,109, 114.           43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 50, 63,
Henry Frankland, 107, 115,         64, 69, 72, 73, 76, 78, 80,
116.                             82, 83, 84, 87, 90, 92, 94,
97, 98, 100, 109, 112, 116,
118, 119.
ELBRIDGE, Gyles, 33.                 Lady Agnes, 65, 69, 72, 74,
Eliot, Rev. Jno., 40.                76, 81, 87, 96, 98, 99,
Ellis, David, 39.                       100, 102, 103, 105, 106,
Josiah, 5, 107.                    107, 108, 109, 116, 118.
Mrs., 76.                        Frances, 9.
Matthias, 50.                    Frederick, 9, 48, 83, 85, 90,
Roland, 74.                        91, 95, 96.
England, 29, 38, 41, 45, 46, 47,      Henry, Esq., 7.
57, 60, 69, 74, 76, 82, 83,    Mary, 9.
88, 90, 95, 97, 101, 104,      Richard, 81.
105, 106, 113.                 Sir Robert, 9.
Erving, John, 10, 101, 119.           Sir Thomas, 5, 7, 8, 10, 27,
Europe, 44, 47, 48, 55, 58.             28, 36, 46, 47.
Eustis, Gov. Wm., 10.                 Sir William, 9.
Evelyn, Sir Jno., 70.                 Capt., R. N., 97.




124                          INDEX.
Frankland, Surriage and Bixby. Hayden row, 40.
Franklin, Dr. Benj., 8, 73.       Higgins, Thomas, 39.
Freeman, Capt. Constant, 100.   Hildreth, Miss Adaline, 110.
French, Mrs., 90.                     Gen. Wm., 110.
Mrs. Mary [Stow], 4, 23,
AGE, Gen. Thomas, 13.             H, 76,  70.
Garden  Court street, 73,  Hingham, Mass., 14.
Hingham, Mass., 14.
G e104. 8..   Hobbs, Jeremiah, 44, 75, 83.
Gardner, Mrs. F.F  81.                orchard, 117.
Gasmay, Capt. C., 79.             Holland, 44.
Gaston, Don, 70.                  Holmes, Dr. O. W., 3, 5, 65,
Gates, Gen. Horatio, 88.                Ill.
Gavazza, a lawyer, 83.                Dr. A., 36
Gaylon, Capt., 27.
Gaylon, Capt., 27.                Holt, Benj., 26, 70.
George, Capt., 27.                Holyoke, Rev. Edward, 25.
IGeorge  1, 30.                  Hooper, Mr., 70.
Gemn 21, 84   1.             Hopkins, Gov. Edward, 38.
Germany, 84.                      Hopkinton, Mass., 4, 14, 25, 34,
G-iburalter, 88.                       38, 40, 42, 43, 44, 70,
Giovanazzo, Duke de, 84.                 72, 75, 76, 78, 80, 81, 82,
Gooch, MIr., 75.                        83, 94, 100, 101.
Hannah, 82.                  Hore, Thomas, 52, 53, 54.
Mary, 35.  4Hort, Sir Jno., 96.
Gookin, Daniel, 40.               Hotham, Eng., 70.
Gooding, Mr., 72.                 Howard, Capt., 79.
Gould, John, 14.                  Howe, Rev. Nathanael, 4, 39.
Sarah, 14.                        Gen. Wm., 104.
Goulding, Joseph, 110.            Hoyle, Edmund, 81.
Great Britain, 22.                Hughes, Capt., 90.
Greenough, Thos., 73, 75.         Hunter, Cpt Hugh, 81.
Green's wharf, 76.                Hutchinson, Eliakim, 10, 35.
Greenwood, Jas., 93.                  Thomas, 11, 12, 73, 79, 119,
Guinea, 79, 113.                        149.
Gulf of Mexico, 51.               Hyde park 15.
Gunning, G. T., 83.
~[AKE, Mr. and Mrs., 61.          1NCHES, Capt. Joseph, 63,._  Hale, Roger, 19.              1   10         08
Hale, Roger, 19.             Indian brook, 108.
Halifax, 14, 35, 77.              Inman, Ralph, 76.
Hall, Benj. H., 38.               Innis, Capt. Alex'r, 83.
Hallowells, 119.                  Ireland, 34
Haman, Mrs., 83.                  Issachar, 115.
Hancock, John, 15, 101.
Thomas, 45.
Hannah, a slave, 55, 112, 119.    TACINTA,, 5, 54, 55.
Harrison, Joseph, 19.              J Jackee, a slave, 42.
Hartham, Eng., 96.                Jaffarys, Mr., 87, 90.
Hay, Edward, 85, 87.              Jarvis, Cahill & Co., 78.
Mrs., 85.                    Jefferson, Me., 33.




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Jekyll, John, 10, 19, 20.        Lowrey, Mr., 88.
Sir Joseph, 19.              Lyell, Sir Charles, 58, 65.
Jenkins, Robert, 78.              Lynn, Mass., 34, 78.
Job, an Indian, 40.
John V, 46.
Johnson, Capt. Eleazer, 70.         /['CLELLAND, 70.
Jones, Capt. Elisha, 82.          IVJ  M'Clester, Jno., 74, 76,
Col. John, 40, 43, 82.              95, 107.
Anthony, 82.                      Daniel, 106, 107, 108.
Dr. Simpson, 82.                  Sarah, 72, 74, 78, 107.
Joseph, Don, 48, 61, 83, 86.          Mrs., 100, 108, 117.
Judda, 9.                         M'Daniel, Capt., 74.
Mackenzie, James, 88.
Mafra, 53, 56, 57.
T ELLEY, John, 39.                Magunco, 40, 41, 42, 43, 117,
Richard, 39.                     119.
Kempenfelt, Admiral, 106.         Mahon, Lord, 60, 61, 91.
Kennebeck river, 32.              Maine, 31, 34.
Kennoul, Earl of, 85, 86, 88.     Majendie, Mr., 71.
Keyes, John, Esq., 110.           Mallet, Robert, 65.
King street, 22, 26, 30.          Manoel, Francesco, 60.
Kirkwood, Capt., 79.              Marblehead, Mass., 4, 12, 23,
24, 25, 26, 29, 32, 33, 34,
47, 69, 70, 77, 108, 118.
LAGOS, 85.                        Maria, Dofa, 86, 87.
Lalippe, Count de, 91.        Mastick, John, 39.
Lambert, Wm., 22.                 Mattersea, Eng., 8, 9.
Lamberti, 85.                     Mays, Mr., 71.
Lawrence, Gov., 77.               Mead, Mr., 70.
Leigh, Eng., 39.                  Medford, Mass., 105, 106.
Leland, Charles, Esq., 110.       Mellen, Thomas, 82.
Leslie, Miss, 73.                 Metcalf, Matthew, Esq., 4.
Leverett lane, 26.                Middlesex county, 39, 82.
Levins, Mr., 70.                  Millikin, Dr. Isaac W., 110.
Lewis, Alonzo, Esq., 78.          Minot, Col., 82.
Mrs., 77.                    Miscongus, Me., 31, 32, 33.
Dr. Winslow, 107.            Mississippi river, 51.
Lincoln, A., Me., 31.             Molesworth, Capt., 76.
William, Esq., 3, 103.       Moliere, 89.
Lisbon, 3, 4, 48, 53, 54, 55, 56, Monadnock mountain, 40.
57, 58, 59, 61, 63, 64, 65, Montaigne, 49.
69, 75, 80, 81, 83, 85, 87, Montano, Andre, 83.
88, 91, 92, 93, 94, 96, 98, Montomor, 71.
112, 113, 118.             Montham, 95.
Little, Charles, 77.              Morley, Joseph, 55.
London, 10, 11, 16, 38, 45, 46, Mowbray, 8.
54, 65, 78, 80, 81, 91, 94.    Munsell, Joel, 1.
Louisbourg, 29, 30, 34, 74.       Murphy, Arthur, 89.
Loudon, Earl of, 91.              Murray, Miss Louisa, 7.
Lourical, Marchioness of, 61.         Lord George, 7.




126                         INDEX.
AHANT, Mass., 29.              Pepperrill, Sir Wm., 29, 34, 74.
Nason, Elias, 1.                Perkins, Thomas, 26.
Edward S., 110.         Phebe, a negro, 115.
Nathanael, 35.          Philadelphia, 19, 73.
Thomas, 35.             Phipps, Sir Wm., 19.
Willoughby, 35.         Pierce, Richard, 31, 32, 33.
Newcastle, Me., 33.                  John, 31, 33.
Duke of, 10, 20.            Pisa, 70.
Newbury, Mass., 26.              Piscataqua, 74, 82, 83.
New England, 7, 32.              Pitt, Wm., 15, 29, 85.
New Harbor, Me., 31, 32.             Thomas, 85.
New York, 19, 34.                Plymouth, Mass., 31.
Noble, Rev. Mr., 24, 63.         Pollard, Col. Benj., 75.
Nobleborough, Me., 32.           Pombal, 62, 86.
Norfolk, Va., 105.               Pomp, a negro, 115.
North America, 20.               Ponte de Limas, 56.
Northern Africa, 58.             Pope, Alex'r, 43.
North street, 22.                Portella, 92.
Northumberland, Lord, 79.        Portland, Me., 107.
Portsmouth, N. H., 75, 82.'CALLAGHAN, Dr., 75.           Portugal, 48, 51, 55, 58, 61, 62,
Ohio river, 51.                     65, 67, 70, 74, 80, 84, 85,
Oldmixon, Jno., 16.                    86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 96,
Oliver, Andrew, 13.                    104.
Osborne, Mr., 83, 95.            Potter, Richard, 113, 114.
Otis, James, 15, 101..           Pownal, Gov. T., 81.
Overing, Jno., Esq., 13, 25, 76.  Preston, Mr., 75.
Price, Andrew, 38.
PAINE, Mr., 56.                      Elizabeth, 4, 38, 39.
Parhaman, an Indian, 40.         Henry, 38.
Panada, in Portugal, 53, 54.         Mary, 38.
Park & Willis, 51.                   Olivia, 38.
Parker, Jacob, 39.                   Roger, Rev., 10, 12, 13, 14,
John, 108.                         22, 30, 35, 38, 39, 43,
Parkman, Rev. Eben'r, 84.              83, 119.
Dr., 106.                        Thomas, 38.
Parsons, Benj., 19.                  William, 38.
Peagrum, Jno., 19.               Primus, a negro, 115.
Pearce, Dea., 70.                Providence, R. I., 77.
Pedrick, Ruhamah, 24, 108.       Prussia, 91.
Pedro, Don, 52, 84, 86, 87.      Putnam, Gen. Israel, 76.
Pelham, Thomas, 9, 15, 46, 69.
Peter, 26.          -UEEN street, 15.
Henry, 30.                   q  Quincy, Josiah, 26.
Mr., 79.
Pemaquid, Me., 31, 32.           -ADCLIFFE,  Rev. Robert,
Falls, 32, 33.              t1  27.
Point, 33.                  Ranchan, Dr., 79.
Penneverde, 55.                  Randolph, Edward, 18, 19.
Pennick, Mr., 85.                Read, Mrs., 17.




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Read, Mrs. Aaron [Bixby], 105, Shepherd, Alicia, 110.
116.                             Anne, 110.
Regent street, London, 15.            Edward, 110.
Rhett, Judge, 27.                     Elizabeth, 110.
Miss Sarah, 27.                  Hannah, 110.
Ribeiro, F. de, 63, 67.               Timothy, Dr., 4, 107, 109,
Rich, Robert, Hon., 7.                  110, 115.
Richardson, Samuel, 14, 42.       Sherburne, Capt. 93.
Richelieu, Cardinal, 86.              Mass., 109.
Richmohd street, 22.              Shirley, Elizabeth.
Robert, a slave, 75,112 115,119.      Frances, 10, 11, 26.
Roberts, Mr., 79.                     Harriet, 10.
Robinson, Mr., 92.                    John, 10.
Rochefoucault, 49.                    Maria, 10.
Rock of Lisbon, 53.                   Sir Thomas, 10.
Rome, 55, 58.                         Sir William, 10, 29, 30, 35,
Round pond, Me., 32.                    119.
Rouse, Capt. John, 74, 77.            Wm., Jr., 10.
Rowe, Mrs., 77.                   Shippe, Miss Margarette, 19.
Roxbury, 10, 34, 113.             Sidney, a mulatto, 115.
Royal Exchange lane, 22.          Simpson, Saville, 40, 82.
Rusk, Thomas, 33.                     Hannah, 40, 82.
Russell, Lady Frances, 8.         Skinner, Mr., 113.
Fanny, 78, 79.               Smelt, William, 7.
Elizabeth, 7.                     Deborah, 7.
Sir John, 7, 8.              Smith, Mr., 79.
Solly, Mr., 82.
SACO, Me., 22.                   Somerset cove, Me., 32.
Sagavan, 52.                   South Carolina, 7, 27.
Salem, Mass., 12, 26, 34, 102.    Southey, 54.
Samoset, Capt. Jno., 31.          Spain, 57, 61, 91.
Savage, Habijah, 33.              Spithead, 40, 106.
Saxe, John G., 113.               Sprague, W. B., Dr., 14, 35.
Scaith, Miss, 7.                  Stainforth, Mr., 81.
Scarborough, Earl of, 69.             Mrs., 79.
School street, 25.                Stanley, Lord Edward, 88.
Scott, Sir Walter, 1.                 Charlotte, 88.
William, 81.                      Mr., 81.
Sercal, 88.                           Mrs., 79.
Serpentine river, 38.             State street, 22.
Seven Star lane, 79.              Steele, Sir Richard, 112.
Sewell, S., 23.                   Stimson, George, 108.
Shay, Patrick, 39.                    Sarah, 108.
Daniel, 39.                  St. Davids, 7.
Shaftsbury, Earl of, 66.         St. Croix river, 32.
Sheaffe, William, 20, 46, 70, St. Martinto, 90.
76, 77, 78, 83.            Stoddard, Mr., 43.
Susan, 76.                        Capt. Thomas, 75.
Mrs., 77.                         Miss Nelly, 75.
Sheffield, Eng., 83.                  Miss Sally, 75.




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Stone, Abijah, 110.                   NNONGOIT, an Indian, 31.
Storer, Mrs. Eben, 79.            U
Strathmore, Lord, 85.
Suffolk county, 32, 45.           ITALENTINE, Lawson, 38.
Summer street, 79.                 V  Thomas, 3, 9, 43, 119.
Sun Court street, 78.             Van Cortlandt, Anne, 34.
Surriage, Agnes, 3, 4, 23, 24,  Vaugn, Mr., 70.
25, 26, 28, 31, 35, 36, 37, Verde, Portugal, 55.
42, 43, 46, 48, 50, 64, 70.  Vialas, Peter, 39.
Edward, 5, 24, 25.           Villa nova, 88.
Hugh, 24.                    Vincent, Giles, 61.
Isaac, 23, 24, 64, 74, 105, Voltaire, 66.
106, 107, 108, 118.
Jane, 24, 64, 108, 113.
John, 24.                     WTADE, Dr., 91.
Mary, 31, 32, 33, 41.         VV  Wachusett mountain, 40.
Thomas, 24.                  Waite, Capt. Richard, 26.
Swain, Mary, 4, 5, 23, 74, 100,  Walpole, Horace, 85, 89.
101, 101, 105, 106, 107, 109.     Sir Robert, 9, 15, 20, 30, 60,
Swett, Col. Samuel, 76.                  95.
Swift, Jonathan, 42.                  Mass., 35.
Warren, Gen. Joseph, 101.
TAFT, Miss J. C., 110.                Sir Peter, 29, 34, 35.
Tagus river, 58, 63.                Susanna, 45.
Talbot, Roger, 9.                 Webster, Dr. Redford, 106.
Tappan, 33.                           Prof. John W., 106.
Tasker, Judge, 77.                Wendell, John, 13, 22.
Tash, 70.                         Wesson, William, 39.
Tavora, 62.                       Wesley, Charles, 66.
Temple, Robert, 10.               Westby, Mr., 70.
Thirkleby, in Yorkshire, 8, 9, Weston, Eng., 97.
46, 98.                    West Indies, 58.
Hall, 8.                     Westminster, 61.
Thirsk, town of, 8, 36.           Westborough, Mass., 84.
Thomas, Gen. John, 103.           Weymouth, Mass., 77.
a cook, 78.                  Wentworth, Samuel, 35.
Tidd, Mr., 108.                       Mary, 35.
Tinker, Gov., 27.                 White, Patrick, 39.
Titus, Julia, a mulatto, 114, 115.    Mr., 107.
Townshend, Gen., 91.              Whinyates, Miss T. T., 5, 7, 69,
Traine, Capt., 91.                    97.
Tremont street, 73.               Whitefield, Geo., 23, 48, 66.
Trelawney, Lord, 92.              Whitman, L. G., 75.
Trevellett, Mr., and Mrs, 76.    Williamson, Mr., 85.
Troutbeck, Rev. John, 14, 77.   William and Mary, 19.
Hannah, 14.                  Wilson, Gilbert Dench, 4.
Sarah, 14.                        Dr. John, 43, 107.
Trumbul, John, 88.                    Dr. John 0., 43.
Turenne, Frances de, 84.              Rebecca, 39.
Tyrawley, Lord, 91.               Winfield, Capt., 77.




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Winslow, Joshua, 33.                Wright, Mrs., 79.
Rebecca, 73.
Wolfe, Gen. James, 75.                  ORK, 77.
Wolfall, Mr., 60.                    1   Yorkshire, 7, 8, 47.
Wood, Mr., 79.