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THE

DIARIES

BENJAMIN LYNDE

BENJAMIN LYNDE, Jr.

WITH AN

APPENDIX.

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BOSTON:
PRIVATELY PRINTED.
1880.

The following diaries are fragmentary, and contain little of especial his
torical value, but they may serve to recall names and events that belong
to the earlier years of the Province, while they record the daily life of per
sons holding official positions during a period with which many are now
unfamiliar. The .A,ppendi.Y contains a few Papers which have not before
appeared. In the brief notice of the Lyndes, the editor is indebted to
Mrs. Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury, the wife of Prof. E. E. Salisbury, of
New Haven, Conn., and daughter of Judge Charles J. McCurdv, of Lyme,
for many important facts obtained by her from Col. Chester, of London,
G. D,^. Digby, Esq., of Sherborne Castle, Dorsetshire, and James Bimey,
Esq., the American Minister at the Hague. F, E. OLn-ER.

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THE FAMILY OF LYNDE.

|F the early history of the family of Lynde to
which the two Massachusetts Judges belonged,
little is positively known previous to the close
of the sixteenth century. The Family Bible, a
copy of one of the later editions of the Geneva
version, printed in 1597, bears upon its covers
the name of Enoch Lynd, to whom it once belonged, and
contains a record, under date of July, 1658, that it " was
given to Enoch Lynde, the son of Nathan, by his grandmother
Elizabeth." From the date of his death, in 1636, also here
^recorded, and that of his marriage in 1614, mentioned below, it
may be safely inferred that he was born about the year 1585.
The place of his birth nowhere appears, but at the time of his
marriiige, and for many years subsequently, he was a resident
of London, and here his death occurred. The arms borne by
him, as engraved upon his seal and elsewhere,^ suggest the
probability that the family came originally from the Low Coun
tries. These arms are nowhere recorded in England, and dif
fer materially from those of other families bearing the name of
Lynde, while they are almost identical with those granted in
Holland to the noble family of Van der Linden, as recorded
in the College of Arms at the Hague, a branch of which family
1 The arms referred to, impaled with those of Digby, appear upon a
seal attached to the will of his son Simon, a cut of which adorns the title-
page ; and, on a silver ink-case, in the possession of the second Judge,
and mentioned by him in a letter to Lord Henry Digby, as having be
longed to his grandfather, Simon Lynde, he says : " I find the arms of
Digby impaled with those of our family."

IV THE FAMILY OF LYNDE.
is said to have emigrated to England at no very remote period,
possibly during the religious dissensions of the sixteenth cen-
tur)-.i It appears from the registry in the Church of St. John, the
parish church of Hackney, near London, that Enoch Lynde
was married on the 25th of October, 1614, to Elizabeth Dig-
bie,- a daughter and heiress, says her great-grandson, the sec
ond Justice Lynde, of Everard Digby, and a descendant of
Sir John Digby, of Eye-Kettleby, the third son of Everard Dig-
by, of Tilton, who fell at the battle of Towton Field, in 1461.
She was born in 1584, and her grandfather, Simon Digby, of
Bedale, was the second son of William Digby, of Lubenham,
and, as appears from the Visitation of Leicestershire in 16 ig,
of Rosa, daughter and heiress of William Prestwiche, of Lu
benham. Simon held the castle and manor of Bedale, previ
ously in the possession of the Fitz Alans, but lost his estates
by attainder in 1569, for having been implicated in the great
rebellion of that year, and was executed for high treason in
March, 1570.' The two sons of Simon, Rowland and Ever
ard, do not seem to have shared in the political or religious
views of their father. " Rowland," says Sir George Bowes in
a letter to Sir William Cecil, quoted in the " Calendar of State
Papers," ^ avowed himself a faithful adherent of the Queen's
government ; and the marriage of Everard to a Protestant, and
the care taken in the training and education of his daughter
Elizabeth, who was sent, says Judge Lynde, to Holland, " to
1 The arms of the Barons Van der Linden d'Hoogvorst are : GuUs, on
a chief argent, three mallets sable.
Those of Lynde : Gules, on a chief or, three mallets of the first.
^ See Ilarleian MSS., and Nichols' History of Leicestershire.
^ Stow's Annals.
* "Truth and conscience move me to show you," says Sir George, in
the letter referred to, " the good dealing of Rowland Digby, son and heir
of Simon Digby, convicted for the late rebellion," After the death of his
father, he was for a time in the service of Sir George, who further says of
him, that " his duty towards her majesty, and honesty to me, were such
that when he saw his father adhere to the rebels, he stole from him, and
came to me at B.»rnard Castle, where he served truly to the end."

be educated in the Protestant religion," suggest that his views
had become modified under the growing influence of the Ref
ormation. While a resident of London, Enoch Lynde was a merchant
engaged in foreign trade, and was for some years connected
with the postal service between England and Holland, and he
subsequently acted as an agent in some capacity for the Gov
ernment during the war with France that broke out in 1627.^
His death is recorded in the Bible as having taken place on
the 23d of April, 1636, at which time he was probably not far
from fifty years of age.-
Mrs. Lynde survived her husband many years, and died in
London in 1669, at the age of 85. After her death, the Bible
referred to was sent to her son Simon, at this time a resident
of Boston, by her attendant, Elizabeth Parker.'
1 A letter of Enoch Lynde to Edward Nicholas is quoted in the Cal
endar of State Papers, 1627-28, p. 505.
- On the 7th of October, 1636, in the Commissary Court of the Bishop
of London, letters to administer the estate of Enoch Lynde, late of the
parish of St. Andrew Hubbard in the City of London, deceased, were
granted to his relict Elizabeth.
3 The following sketch is from the Harleian MSS., Nichols' History of
Leicestershire, the Visitation of i6ig, genealogical tables in the possession
of the Digbys, and from family manuscripts : —
Sir John Digby, of Eye-Kettleby and Lincolnshire, Marshal of the
Counties of Warwick and Leicestershire, married, first, Catherine, daughter
of Thomas Griffin, of Braybrook Casde, and, second, Anne, daughter of
Willoughby of Woolaton, County of Nottingham. He died in 1533, and
was buried in Melton Church. By his first wife, Catherine, he left issue —
WlLLlAJl, of Eye-Kettleby and Lubenham, who first married Rosa,
daughter and heiress of William Prestwiche, of Lubenham, and, secondly,
Helena, daughter of John Roper, Esq. By his first wife he had, first,
John, who married Mary, daughter of Sir William Parr, and secondly,
Si-MON, of Bedale, Co. York, who married a daughter of Reginald Gray,
and was attainted in 1569, and executed for high treason on 2Sth March,
1570, for having been implicated in the Rebellion of 1569, leaving two
sons : Rowland, of Bedale, who married Jane, daughter of Henry Clap
ham (and had Frances, who married Wright, and Maria, who married John
Baptist, of Antwerp) ; and
EVER.VRD, who married Katliarine, daughter of  Stockbridge de
Vandershaff, Theobor de Newkirk, and left

The children of Enoch Lynde, so far as is kno\vn, were
Mathew, who was born in 1620, and who is mentioned in the
will of his brother Simon ; James, whose baptism is recorded
in the Register of St. Andrews Hubbard, London, as having
taken place June 23, 1622, where is also a record of his burial
on the 3d of March following ; Simofi, born in 1624 ; and an
other son James, baptized on the 28th of July, 1630, as re
corded in the Church of St. John, Hackney.
Simon Lynde, the third son of Enoch Lynde, was born,
as recorded in the Bible, in London, and baptized, says his
grandson, at St. Andrews Holborn [Hubbard], in June, 1624.
He was for a time apprenticed to a Mr. Delaney, a merchant
of London, of whom mention is made in his will. He sub
sequently went to Holland, where he still followed mercantile
pursuits. In 1650 he came to New England,^ and in the fol
lowing year was betrothed to Hannah, a daughter of Mr. John
Newgate, whom he married on his return from a brief \-isit to
England, in 1652. During the more than thirty years of his
life in the colony, he was a person of prominence, and ac
quired large landed possessions in Massachusetts, Connect
icut, and Rhode Island. In 1686 he was appointed, under
President Dudley, one of the Assistant Justices of the Court
of Pleas and Sessions, and, in the following year, one of the
Justices Assistant of the Superior Court, with Samuel Shrimp-
ton and Charles Lidgett." He died on the 22d of November,
1687, possessed of a large estate, and leaving many children
to survive him. " His burial," says Judge Sewall, " took place
on the 26th of November ; Bearers, Colonel Shrimpton, Mr.
ELiz.\nETH, "hceres," born 1584, who married, 25th of October, 1614,
Enoch Lynde, and died in London in 1669. Their son Si.mon Lynde
came to Boston, New England, in 1650.
' The presentation of Simon Lynde to King Charles by John Digby,
1st Earl of Bristol, mentioned in the family records, must have taken place
not many years before the King's death.
- At this court, held 26th April, 16S7, as appears in Sewall's Diary, the
Judges sat in the following order : " The President in the Governor's seat,
Mr. Stoughton at his right h.and. Colonel Shrimpton ne.\t him, Mr. Lynde
at his left hand, and Major Lidgett ne.\t him."

THE FAMILY OF LYNDE. Vll
Nowell, Justice Bullivant, Justice Hutchinson, Mr. Adding-
ton, and Mr. SafKn ; his Excellency in a scarlet Cloak."
Mr. Lynde's residence, says his son Benjamin, was the old
house built by his father-in-law, Mr. John Newgate, standing
" at the southeasterly of Tremont Hill."^ Of the twelve chil
dren of Simon Lynde six survived him.
Samuel, the eldest, was bom December i, 1653. He was
an opulent merchant of Boston, and died on the 2d of Octo
ber, 1721, aged 68 years, leaving no male issue. On his resi
dence were the arms of Lynde, cut in stone, which now adorn
one of the granite buildings on the east side of Washington
Street, near Cornhill." He was a man of considerable promi
nence, and a promoter of the Land Bank scheme.^ His death
is mentioned in the Diary of his nephew.
Nathaniel, the fourth son of Simon Lynde, was born on the
22d of November, 1659. After having served as an appren
tice to his father in Boston, he married, in 1683, Susannah,
only daughter of Deputy Governor Willoughby, of Charles
town, and removed to Saybrook, Conn. ' Here he early be
came possessed of several hundred acres of land, with " hous
ing, barn, buildings, orchards, fences, woods, underwoods,
flats, etc.," which his father deeded to him on the i6th of April,
1 6S5, "for divers good and lawful considerations .... and in
particular manner for . . . natural love and affection. . . ." ^
1 " In this house," says Judge Lynde, in 1732, " my sister Pordage now
lives, unto which my father added in the year 1672 a fair large structure,
also in which Mr. James Bowdoin, who married my niece Hannah Pordage,
lives. In this house, pulled down in 1731-32, all the children of Symon
Lynde, and several of Mrs. Pordage's children, were bom, and here she
herself [M^rs. Lynde] dyed, 20"" December, 16S4."
' Underneath the escutcheon are the initials S. L., and the date, 17 1 2.
2 He wrote and signed with others, in 1714, a vindication of this project
from the aspersions of Paul Dudley, in a letter to John Burrill, Esq. This
pamphlet is in the Boston City Library.
* The land had been sold to Simon Lynde, in 1674, by Benjamin Batten,
of Boston, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. John Cullick, by 3
sister of Colonel Fenwick, Patron of the Saybrook Plantation for the
Proprietors, from whom she had received them. It included what is known
as Lynde Point, the location of the present Fenwick Hall, and the site of
the Light-house.

viii THE FAMILY OF LYNDE.
He held many offices of trust, and was generally, if not uni
formly, an Associate Judge of the Quorum. In 1703, to use
the words of President Clap, in his history of Yale College,
he " was pleased generously to give a House and Land for
the use of the Collegiate School, so long as it should be contin
ued at Saybrook ; " and two years earlier, in 1701, he had
acted as Treasurer of the infant college. He was a man of
high character and large public spirit, and devoutly religious.
He died October 5, 1729, having survived his wife a litde
more than nineteen years. She died on the 22d of February,
1710. The ties of affection which bound him and his brother Ben
jamin together are touchingly indicated by the following record
found among the manuscript papers of the latter : —
" I visited him at his mansion-house, on his farm at Say
brook, every year since I rode the Springfield Circuit till he
dyed. I left him well at Potapang, Saybrook, where he accom
panied me ; and there we took solemn leave and last farewell
of each other with affectionate tears, for he dyed about a
fortnight after, in the 70"" year of his age compleat, lacking a
month and twelve days."
His remains and those of his wife and his son Samuel lie
under three tabular monuments of stone, at the west end of
the Saybrook burying-ground, from which inserted slate-tab
lets with inscriptions have crumbled away.^
Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Simon Lynde, was bom
on the 25th of March, 1662. She married Mr. George Por-
' dage, of Boston, and died June i, 1746. Her daughter Han
nah married Hon. James Bowdoin, the father of the governor
of that name, and. died August 23, 1734.
The children of Nathaniel and Susannah Lynde were
I. Samuel, b. 9 Oct. 16S9 ; grad. at Yale College 1707; m. i, dau.
1 This sketch of Nathaniel Lynde and his children is by Professor Ed
ward K, Salisbury, of New Haven, Conn. It is mostly drawn from orig
inal family-papers in the possession of Mrs. S. S. Chalker, of Saybrook,
Conn., a grcat-great-gveat granddaughter of Nathaniel Lynde.

THE FAMILY OF LYNDE. ix
Hannah, the second daughter married Mr. John Bigge of
London. Her second husband was Mr. Jonathan Mitchell of
of Maj. Jno. Clark, of Saybrook, who died 20 Jan'y, 1716. —
2d, dau. of Maj. Palmes, who died 27 Dec. 1737. — 3d,
widow Hannah Huntington, of Norwich, Conn. He died
19 Sept. 1754. He was a Judge of the Common Pleas for
the County of New London, one of the Council, and colonel
of a regiment; in 1752, he was made one of the Judges of
the Superior Court.
2. Nathaniel, b. 21 Oct. 1692 ; m. Sarah, dau. of Nathaniel Pratt,
of Saybrook ; d. 1749-50. From this son, and also from
Samuel, descend families of Lynde and others now living at
Saybrook and elsewhere.
3. Elizabeth, b. 2 Dec. 1694; m. Mr. Richard Lord, one of the
Judges of the County Court; died 22 June, 1778. Among
the descendants of this daughter are one branch of the
Lords and the Noyeses of Lyme, Conn., and the McCurdys of
Lyme and New York.
4. Pha:be, b. 8 Jan'y, 1697 ; d. 23 April, 1704.
5. Hannah, b. 10 Sept., 1698 ; m. Rev. George Griswold of Lyme ;
d. before 1736. The Giant's Neck branch of Gris wolds, to
which belong the families of Nathaniel and George Gris
wold of New York and Lyme, are descended from this daugh
ter.
6. Susannah, b. 14 April, 1700 ; m. i, Rev. Joseph Willard, of Lu
nenburg Hill '• by Indians " ; 2. Mr. Andrew Gardner ; died
1748.
7. Sarah, b. 2 Feb., 1702; m. Mr. Raymond of New London, 23
Nov., 1730. This Mr. Raymond was a farmer of "vast es
tate." A son of his, married to a niece of his wife's (Eliza
beth, dau. of Rev. George and Hannah Griswold), was the
ancestor of the Raymonds of Montville, of whom Mr. Theo
dore Raymond of Norwich is one.
8. Joseph, b. 23 March, 1704 ; m. 8 May, 1729, Ann, first daugh
ter of Mr. Benjamin Lord of Saybrook ; d. 4 July, 1773.
g. Ann, b. 29 Dec, 1706; m. Colo. John Prescott, of Concord,
Mass., a physician, who in 1743 was a colonel of forces to
Cuba, and died in England of small-po.x, in 1743. She was
living at Concord in 1753, a widow.

X THE FAMILY OF LYNDE.
Cambridge, and her third, Mr. Edmond Goffe. She died on
the 9th of August, 1725, without issue.
Sarah, who is mentioned in the first pages of the Diary,
married her first cousin, Nathaniel Newgate. The nuptials
are alluded to by Judge Sewall in his Diary.^
Benjamin Lynde, the sixth son of Simon, was born on the
22d of September, 1666. He records of himself that he was
admitted to Harvard College on the 6th of September, 1682,
by the Rev. Increase Mather, after having received his prepar
atory education under the famous grammar master, Ezekiel
Cheever, and received his first Degree in 1686. It seems to
have been his father's desire that he should complete his pro
fessional studies in England, and it is further recorded that on
the 27th of June, 1692, he sailed for England, landed at
Plymouth, and arrived in London on the 20th of August. " I
was admitted," he adds, "for the study of the Law (as my
father had advised) into the honorable Society of the Middle
Temple as by the admission of Oct. 18, 1692.- I was called
to the Bar as Counsellor at Law in 1697, and received a com
mission under the great Seal, for King's Advocate in the New
Court of Admiralty in New England, in the same year ; I had
my own and my clerk's passage in November, 1697, by order
of the Admiralty in the Fwoy Frigate, Captain Culliford, with
whom we landed at New York on the 24"' December, 1697.
In the same year got to Boston through the hardest winter in
February." On the 27* of April, 1699, two years after his return from
England, Mr. Lynde was married to Mar)-, daughter of the
Hon. William Browne, of Salem, one of the Judges of the
Common Pleas for Essex, and in that town he afterward re-
1 "Tuesday, June 5 (16S8), Mr. Nath' Newgate marries Mr. Lynde's
daughter, before Mr. Ratcliff, with Church of England ceremonies ; Mr.
P.-iyson and Mr. Farwell his Bridemen; a great wedding."
- "Oct. 18, 1692, Mr. Benjamin Lynde, filius tertius Simonis Lynde de
Boston in Nova Anglia, mercatoris, nup. defunct, admissus est in Societa-
tem Medii Templi, specialiter."

THE FAMILY OF LYNDE. xi
sided. In 1712, he was appointed a Judge of the Superior
Court, and in the following year a Councillor. On the resig
nation of Judge Sewall in 1728, he was made Chief Justice of
the Province, which office he held at the time of his death.
The more than thirty years during which Judge Lynde sat
upon the Bench was an important era in the judicial history
of the Province. Previous to that period there were few per
sons in the colony of any considerable legal attainment, and
judicial appointments were made rather through social influ
ence, or political favor. The appointment of Judge Lynde
introduced a new order of things. Bringing with him, from
the highest law school of the realm, a competent knowledge
of law, the tribunal of which he afterward became the head
at once assumed a character it had not before possessed. On
the occasion of publishing his commission, Judge Sewall in an
address to the jury remarked " that they would hereafter have
the benefit of Inns of Court education superadded to that of
Harvard College."
To much legal learning, Judge Lynde added remarkable in
dustry. It appears from his Diary that he was rarely if ever
idle either at home or abroad. During the vacations of the
Court, he might have been found at his country seat at Castle
Hill, sometimes by break of day, overlooking or actually
engaged in the work of the farm, or, mounted on his horse,
" Rosy," on the road to Boston on some public errand. He
was enabled by a remarkable freedom from the infirmities of
age to perform his judicial duties to the last, with which the
fatigues of the saddle or the discomforts of a sea voyage while
on his distant circuits do not seem to have interfered. His
classical attainments were not the least among his many ac
complishments. Contemporary notices of him mention him as
a master in Latin and Greek, and his memorandum books
show his familiarity with the Latin poets, especially with
Horace, of whom he seems to have been an especial admirer.
He died on the 28th of January, 1745, in the 79* year of
his age, and the following extract is from a brief notice of him
published at the time in the " Boston Evening Post : " —

xii THE FAMILY OF LYNDE.
" Inflexible justice, unspotted integrity, affability, and hu
manity were ever conspicuous in him. He was a sincere
friend, most affectionate to his relations, and the delight of all
that were honored with his friendship and acquaintance."
His residence was on the corner of Essex and Liberty
streets,^ where the death of Madam Lynde occurred on the
1 2th of July, 1753, eight years after that of her husband.
Among Judge Lynde's papers are fragmentary reports of
cases that came before him, and a few short poems of a de
scriptive character, or suggested by local events.
There are two original portraits of him, painted by Smy-
bert in 1737 j'' and among the family portraits one of Madam
Lynde, painted at a much earlier date, believed to be by
Kneller. Judge Lynde left two sons, the elder of whom succeeded
1 The estate upon which the house stood was originally in the possession
of William Hathorne, one of the first settlers of Salem. In Book 3d in
Essex Registry of Deeds, Leaf 140, is a deed of trust, " conveying my
dwelling-house, with half an acre of land on which ye house standeth.
bounded on the East with the Town Lane ; on the South, with the land of
Samuel Pitman ; on the West, with ye land of Sam' Pitman and Edward
Grove ; and on the North side, with the street."
In Book 16, Leaf 15, is a conveyance of the same estate, dated June ir,
1702, from James Russell, who married Abigail Hathome, and his wife, to
Capt. John Browne.
In Book 27, Leaf 239, is another conveyance of this estate to the Hon.
William Browne. This deed is dated nth February, 1715-16.
By William Browne it was bequeathed to his daughter Mary, the wife
of the Hon. Benjamin Lynde. The back part of the house, which is be
lieved to be original structure, was much older than the front. At what
time the front was added is not certainly known. According to a MSS.
History of Salem by B. Pickman, the house was built by Maj. William
Browne for his daughter, who was married to Benjamin Lynde the year
previous. This house, a sketch of which is below, was taken down in
1835 after the death of Dr. B. Lynde Oliver, the last of the family who
resided in it.
- One of these portraits, in the possession of Mrs. William B. Richards,
of Boston, is perhaps among the best of Smybert's efforts. A miniature
of Judge Lynde is mentioned in the inventory of his estate, but of this
nothing is now known.

THE FAMILY OF LYNDE. xm
him on the Bench, and later as Chief Justice of the Province.
William, his younger son, died in Salem, unmarried, in 1752;
he was a graduate of Harvard College in the class of 1733,
and at the time of his death was 37 years of age. He left a
portion of his property to his cousin William, a son of Jo
seph Lynde of Saybrook, Conn.
Benjamin Lynde, Jr., the eldest son of Benjamin Lynde,
was bom on the 5th of October, 1700. He entered Harvard
College in 1714, and was graduated in 1718, in the class with
Theodore Atkinson, afterivard Chief Justice of New Hamp
shire, and Richard Dana, who became a distinguished advocate.
Soon after his graduation, as appears from his father's Diary,
he entered the office of his uncle, the Hon. Samuel Browne, at
that time one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas
for Esse.x, probably as a student of law, and in 1721 he took
his master's degree at Cambridge. He soon after received the
appointment of Naval Officer for the port of Salem, which office
he held until his removal by Governor Burnett, in 1729, on ac
count of political differences. In 1734, he was appointed a
special Judge of the Court of Pleas for Suffolk, and in 1737
was named as one of the agents to accompany the Commission
to Hampton, on the settlement of the boundary between New
Hampshire and Massachusetts. Two years later he was made
one of the Standing Judges of Common Pleas for Essex, and
in 1745, the year of his father's death, he was raised to the Su
perior Bench of the Province. He was a member of the Council
for many years, but declined a reelection in 1 766, in consequence
of the controversy that arose in that year between the House
and Government as to the right of Judges to sit as Councillors.
The most important trial that took place during his judicial
term was that of the soldiers who fired on the mob in State
Street. At this trial, in the absence of Chief Justice Hutch
inson, Judge Lynde presided. It was a time of great politi
cal excitement, and the occasion was one that required the
utmost firmness and skill on the part of the Judges, to en-

XlV THE FAMILY OF LYNDE.
sure a just and impartial decision. These trials lasted several
days, and, as has been said, " proceeded with care and pa
tience on the part of the Bench and counsel, and both Judges
and Jury seem to have acted with all the impartiality that is
exhibited in the most enlightened tribunals." " The result,"
says Judge Washburn, " is a proud memorial of the purity of
the administration of justice in Massachusetts.
On the promotion of Chief Justice Hutchinson to the ex
ecutive chair in 177 1, Judge Lynde was appointed to ihe
place now vacant, but resigned it not many months after,
pending the controversy respecting the payment of judges'
salaries by the Crown. He had now reached the age of 72,
and '' not being inclined to ride the Circuit longer," he ac
cepted the more humble and less laborious position of Judge
of Probate for Esse.^c, which office he held until the breaking
out of the Revolution, not many years before his death.
In the spring of 1781, he received a kick from a horse, from
the effects of which he did not recover, and he died on the
5th of October foUowing, at the advanced age of 81.
Judge Lynde was noted for his learning, his liberality, and
his public spirit In 1754, he was an active member of a so
ciety formed for the employment of poor people in the manu
facture of linen in Boston, and among his public gifts was
a copy of the " Statutes of England, from Magna Charta to
the 13th of George I.," in six folio volumes, presented by him
to the Province, for which he was voted the thanks of the
House. They are still carefully preserved in the State librar%-,
in accordance with a vote passed at the time of their presenta
tion. There are also recorded many valuable gifts to his na
tive town. He was a diligent student of our Colonial histon-,
and, as appears by his Diary, was a contributor to " Prince's
Chronological History of New England." He was also inter
ested in genealogy; and among his MSS. are carefully drawn
genealogical tables of the different branches of his family.'
1 Late in 1763 Judge Lynde addressed a letter to Lord Henry Digby,
to which reference is made in the note on page iii. .above, asking him for
information that might enable him to correct any possible error in his

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A summer residence, built by him in 1748, stood near Cas
tle Hill, with an arbor or observatory belonging to the same
on the summit of the hill. Of these, nothing remains but a
few overgrown mounds. " His wealth and comparatively large
official income," says a recent writer, " enabled him to live in
the highest style for those d,\ys. Strangers of distinction
were glad to accept of his hospitality, which was unsparingly
proffered, from the days of Governor Belcher, who lodged at
Lynde House in 1739, to the later times when the people paid
homage to the men of their own choosing."
, On the ist of November, 1731, Judge Lynde was married
to Mary, daughter of Major John Bowles, of Roxbury, a de
scendant of the Rev. John Eliot, the noted Indian missionary.
She was at this time the widow of Capt. Walter Goodridge,
but still young, and a lady of unusual personal attractions,
and of strong and decided character. She survived her hus
band ten years, and died on the 3d of May, 1791, at the age
of 81.
They left three daughters, of whom Mary, the eldest, mar
ried Hon. Andrew Oliver, Jr., one of the judges of the Com
mon Pleas for Essex ; Hannah, who died unmarried ; and
Lydia, who married Rev. William Walter, the rector of Trin
ity Church, Boston.
There is a portrait of Judge Lynde, by Smybert, in the
possession of Dr. F. E. Oliver, of Boston, and also one of
Madam Lynde, by the same artist, both painted about the year
1735, from which the heliotype copies in this book are taken.'
own family record. The reply to this letter is missing ; but in a letter to
his cousin, Mr. James Bowdoin, written in 1776, kindly placed in my hands
by the Hon. R. C. Winthrop, he encloses a copy of it, and in his closing
sentence thus refers to it : " For your amusement (Dr Sir) in your Leisure
Hours at Middleboro', I enclose a copy of the Present Lord Digby's Let
ter to me, 1765 (when he was one of the Lords of the Admiralty), from
which you will have the pleasure of learning your Descent from a remote
ancestor who died above 300 years agoe." Reference is here made to
Everard Digby, the father of Sir John, who fell fighting under the Lancas
trian banner in 1461.
' Copies of these portraits, and of those of the first Judge and Madam
Lynde, are in the collection of Samuel H. Russell, Esq., of Boston.

XVI

THE FAMILY OF LYNDE.

The tomb of the Lyndes is in the Charter Street Cemetery
in Salem. It is marked by a plain altar monument of granite,
having inscriptions to the memory of those buried beneath-
Upon one of its sides are the arms of the family, and upon
the opposite, the following inscription : —
Sacred to y« Memory
of
the Hon""-' Benj. Lynde Esq.
Who sustained with usefulness and dignity
in his native province
the high offices
of
a Representative, a Councillor, &
one of y° Justices of y' Superior Court;
in which last Capacity
his honored Father and he
compleated beyond example no less
a period than sixty-years.
He was born in the year 1700,
& on yo 3'! of October 1781, with an hope full of immortality
he resigned his Spirit
into y" hands of his Redeemer.

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1690. August the <^th. It being Saturday, an hour be
fore Sunset, the N. England Fleet, bound for Canada,
set sail. Sir W" Phips being Gen" of the Forces for that
Expedition, which God prosper. Amen.
November ye ^th. Mr. Bigg set sail for Barbados.
169a. yamiary %th. Sir William Phips sail'd for Bris-
tow in a small Ketch of Mr. Adam Winthrop's, whom
God prosper.
lotli. Brother Pordage^ sailed for Roanok in a Catch,
John Blany commander, whom God bless.
1 69 1. May 20th. Being Election day at Boston, we
took leave of Sister Sarah,^ the ship being under sail and
1 Elisabeth, a sister of Judge Lynde, married Mr. George Pordage, of
Boston. Their daughter Hannah married Mr. James Bowdoin, who was
the father of the Governor of that name.
- Sarah Lynde, who was now embarking for England, in the spring of
the previous year visited her brother Nathaniel at Saybrook, and among
the papers of Judge Lynde are copies of the following letters to her and
her brother, soon after their arrival there. She subsequently married her
cousin Nathaniel Newgate.
"My dear sister Sarah, — I hope these lines will find you safe and
well arrived at Saybrook, the hearing of which will very much rejoice us
here. My greatest desire concerning you is that you would take speciall
care of your health, and want for nothing that I maybe able to procure you
to further it In your letters to me, mention what you may stand in need
of. As for your spiritual affairs I hope you will not want counsell and
I

2 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [1689.
anchored that day and night in Nantasket Roads ; the
next day being Thursday, about one of the clock, they
ad\'ice from those who are able to give it you, and that by their good
example, which be sure to imitate ; be cheerly and give hopes that I may
see you again well at Saybrook ne.xt July, and that you may live to enjoy
as much of those outward good things as I could wish you, which if they
be denied you, submit to the Allwise Providence of God. Make this im
provement of all your afflictions, that if you be heartily upright before
God they are certain proofs of your adoption, and may be means to wean
you from the world. Heighten your joy when you shall be called to re
signe up your soul out of your decaying frail body into the arms of the
blessed Lord Jesus. In the mean while, that you may receive the com-
fortings of his Holy Spirit is the hearty desire and daily prayer of your
very affectionate brother, B. L.
LETTER TO NATHANIEL LYNDE. March 2'', i6Sg.
Dear Brother, — It 's not merely out of respect to my own concerns
at Saybrook that I write you ; they being so inconsiderable that they can
neither damnifie nor advantage you I suppose, as they now stand. Your
care for me when your own business shall call you to Putapang or Haddam
I shall gratefully acknowledge ; as those lands at Saybrook or Putapang
have been without fencing hitherto, so I know no reason of any one's urg
ing me to fence now for their advantage ; however, I leave it to your discre
tion. If the mill at Haddam must of necessity be repaired before my com
ing up to Connecticut, I desire you would take the trouble on you to agree
with some honest workman to do it, and I shall satisfie you for the same.
If your own affairs will not permit you to oblige me in any of my concerns
pray let me understand it by the first opportunity, I not having writ to any
other about them. We heard the first day you set out from Boston that
you had got beyond Woodcocks, and that sister Sarah was pretty well,
which gave me hopes she might as well perform the rest of the journey.
I shall be glad to heare of your, my sister's, and Sarah's health and wel
fare, and pray expect that I shall be ready to do any kindness for you &
yours as I am always, as is the duty of your loving brother, B. Lyxde.
LETTER TO SARAH LYNDE. April 20'*, 16S9.
Dear Sister Sarah, — I rec* yours April iS"" wherein you send me
your love and good desires, the most acceptable present you could make

i693-] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 3
weighed anchor and, with a fair gale sailed clear, under
the conduct of Capt. Jno. Ware, for London.
[The entries from this date to 1718 are missing. In
June, 1692, Mr. Lynde sailed for England, and among
his papers we find a copy of the following letter to his
brother Samuel, written a few months after his arrival
in London.] LETTER FROM ENGLAND TO S.\MUEL LYNDE.
[Written some time in the spring of 1693,]
Dear Brother, — For fear you should not receive my let
ters by Mr Maliston, whose chest is on board Capt. Ware at
Portsmouth, and my letters in them, and he doubting whether
he shall proceed on his voyage, I thought meet to send you
the contents of what I had writ you. viz : that since my reso
lution is to abide in England, and at the Temple where I now
me, and your pleasing letter (if of your own composing) gives me so
much satisfaction that I hope I shall receive a few lines from you [by]
every opportunity ; when you write, write just as you would speak. I
hope you have rec'^ a barrel of ale and a mask I sent by Stephen Codman.
I did not write by him, being at Cambridge when he sailed ; Brother
Biggs took care to see it on board, and Codman promised the safe de
livery of both. Sister Pordage was delivered of a brave boy the 16"'
instant whom they intend to have christened Samuel. She remembers her
love to you and to my brother and sister, & hath sent 1 taste of their
joy. I send you by Clarke some Spanish flies according to your desire.
I shall not e.vhaust your gold untill necessity urges me, and am loath to ask
Shrimpton for any of your money and be denyed ; but if you send down
word for me to receive your quarters due, I will demand it of him and
give you account of it. It rejoyces me to understand your pious inclina
tions, and if any good counsel I have given you be well improved (as you
give me cause to believe it is) I am certain it will further your content of
mind, notwitlistanding the many outward disturbances you may encounter.
The news of the subversion of our late arbitrary government doubdess
you hear &: may have particular account of from Mr Clarke. I con
clude, my dearest sister, with desires still to hear of your health and wel
fare in all respects, which shall be dayly prayed for & consulted by
your cordially affectionate brother, B. L.
My love and respects to brother Nathl & my sister.

4 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [1718.
have taken chambers, my necessity will urge my being supplied
with money here : for which end I have desired you to pro
cure for me to the value of ,;^ioo, or ,^^200, all my estate being
your security, the Island excepted. I shall not enlarge here,
trusting to your brotherly kindness herein, to whom alone my
future wants are as yet known ; but doe think unless I be
speedily supplied from you, I shall be forced to take up some
money here, & either draw bills upon you, if I can have it
very reasonably, or else pay the usual interest for it. As
yet I have done neither. I have some very good friends,
but none like Mr Masters', whose true kindness daily I
experience ; (and he might doe more had he not a mother and
family to take care of, his place in the Navy office bringing
him in ;£'3oo per annum) ... I look back oft to my pleas
ant country, my dear friends and acquaintance, and upon my
little patrimony there ; and, since spring has come on, would
ask you how the little warden grafts grow, which I leave to your
care, dear brother, to transplant in time convenient to the Isl
and. God knows whether I may enjoy any of their fruits in
the orchard, but you or yours may. I have been in several
parts of England, and have met with no fruit comparable with
ours in New England. Their cydar is much beyond ours,
through their very great care, and the Red Streak does natu
rally afford better. I am promised some Red Streak plants
which, when I can, I shall present you with for your own or
chard and mine (if they may be well conveyed by ship), as a
thing much desired here, and a great curiosity. I pray send
me some of your bayberry grease or wax for candles 
171 8. yamiary 2jth. Mr. Fisk was chosen by the
members of the first Parish Church in Salem to be their
minister (by their usual and ancient sign of holding up
the right hand) which was also entred in the said Parish
book. N. B. This choice was in their old Meeting house,
attended with prayers of the Rev. Mr Prescott before
and after, there being near fourty of the members
present, voting all for him, nemine contradicente.

I.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 5
farch I yth. Sent my Abel Gardner's oxen by David
'ce to Winisemet for Mosly, who the same day car-
i them to the Island in my boat.
\pril cjtli. Wednesday. Col". Turner and I ran and
led our Bounds at Castle Hill ; ^ ist the Marsh and
tard Marsh, both agreeing to have Capt. William
vdin, Capt. Wm. Pickering, and old Mr. Jona. Pick-
ig, to divide the Bastard Marsh between us, which
f have done, after a sort, by stakes, tho' for peace
e, to my disadvantage ; 2d. the Upland, also, by run-
j and settling the ancient corner bounds from Jer.
il's corner stump on the East to the White Oak
•k tree at the Western end at the foot of the Marsh ;
sons present and assisting, Edw* Britton, David
It, Ben. Holmes, B°° Oudel, besides the three above
led. oth. David Flint, Ben. Holmes and Edward Britton,
) attended with stakes, acquainted me with a wrong
e to me in the above said division of the Bastard
rsh, viz. : by Capt. W" Pickering's plucking up the
:es his uncle Jonathan Pickering had set down, and
ting them farther into the Marsh, and that without
'onathan Pickering's knowledge or consent, contrary
ur agreement, which was that Jona. Pickering should
[ and stake down the stakes in the middle of the Bas-

rhe place called Castle Hill, for many years the country-seat of the
les, and often alluded to in this Diary, was a part of what was after-
known as the Derby Farm, and was formerly owned by Erasmus
:s, who sold it to William Browne in 1705. Itwas in 1716 bequeathed
m to his daughter, Mrs. Lynde. For a long time it had a summer
2 on its top. " No vestige now remains,'' says the annalist, " to tell
nere once the admirers of nature assembled and discoursed on the
Lies of the landscape around them." It is supposed to have been
eat of an ancient Indian fortification, whence its name. — See Felfs
lis, i. 1S8.

6 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [1718.
tard Marsh, and that nothing should be done without
his consent, or all three consenting.
May z6th. Went to Castle Hill with my son Benj" and
got old Mr. Jonathan Pickering, (who took his grandson,
John Jones, by my desire, with him,) that my said son
and said Jones might be for the future witnesses to the
said Pickering's going over and showing the way that
Maj" W™ Hathorn, Sam' Gardner and George Gardner
[went] who were appointed to lay out land and meadow
&c betw"° Rich'' Rowland and James Smith there and
account to their returns on Record 23 July 1667 ; the s*
Mr Jona. Pickering showed us the s** way i'', from the
meadow which was Gott's (as he said) i. e. running nor-
easterly from where my marsh or meadow is bounded on
Col" Turner's on the East, thro' s* Turner's land under
the hill to or by the place where the barn stood, which he
shewed us was pretty neer to the two walnut trees where
my bounds are, with a heap of stones at the foot z^,
from my s'* bounds running easterly as far as the dweU
ing house, the one half to be in my ground, thence
crossing over southerly down by the house, (or place
where it stood) to the bridge &c.
yjily i^th. I began mowing at Castle Hill, being
Tuesday. August 4th. My son Benjamin went to his uncle, Colo.
S. Browne, for 3 years. ^
10th. Monday, in the last quarter of the moon, Jno.
Killam began to mow the bushes, etc, at Castle Hill next
the point towards the town.
September ^th. Journey from Salem to Bristol Court,
and thence to Springfield ; p* at Lewis',- i^ 6'' ; Wini-
' Col. Samuel Browne was appointed to the Bench of the Court of the
Common Pleas for Esse.x in 1715, and was subsequently its Chief Justice.
Young Lynde was probably with him as a student of law.
2 Lynn.

I.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 7
et 6'' ; and at Green Dragon,^ with Mr Cook, Goffe
Willoughby, 3' ; p* for watch cleaning and mending,
th. At Ponkapong, Voses ; Sabbath, 7'. After ser-
\ & supper came to and lodged at Mrs Billings ; ^ paid
2th. Friday. Paid Mrs Smith for boy and horses,
4". '^th. At Providence lodged ; went thro' Killingly with
Fisk.
Arth. Sabbath'' at N. Roxbury — Woodstock.^
'^th. Travelled thro' Ashford, (with Mr Hale) Coven-
to East Hartford.
6tJi. Tuesday. At Hartford Superior Court
ItJi. Came to Springfield.
Ictober 1st. Rob' Wilson and Sam' Cook began to
, down the old house at Giles'.
th. Mr Sa. Fisk ordained.
6th. Tliursday. Southerie & Edw. Giles began to
the cellar wall.
^ noted tavern in Union Street, the site of which is still marked by its
;nt sign.
>Iadam Knight, in her brief diary of a joumey she undertook in 1704,
Boston to New Haven, gives a humorous account of Billings Tavern,
h was about twelve miles beyond Dedham, in what is now the town
haron. Upon her arrival at the Inn, late at night, she was thus
sted by a young woman, whom she took to be the eldest daughter
le family : " Law for mee, what in the world brings you here at this
a night ; I never see a woman on the Rode so dreadful late in all the
of my versal life. Who are you .' Where are you going to ? " She
soon after conducted to " a parlour in a little back Lento which was
St filled with the bedstead, which was so high that I was forced to
D on a chair to gitt up to ye wretched bed that lay on it, on which
Ig stretcht my tired Limbs I lay'd my head on a sad-colour'd pillow &
n to think on the transactions of ye past day."
' In 1690," says Judge Sewall, in his Diary, " I gave New Roxbury the
; of Woodstock because of its nearness to Oxford, and for the sake
ueen Elizabeth."

8 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [1720-
2\st. Training; no workers.
27//^. Training ; no workers.
December 23^. Beno. cut up wood at Castle Hill.
1720. yamiary Zth. I received ;£ 11. 15. o. for 47 days
attendance at the last years session of the Gen' Court
wth. Monday. P* Mr Williams, Deputy Sheriff, for
serving and returning a writ and summons on Jno, New
man of Ca : Ann, son of Dr Jno. Newman deceased
from Salem to Ca : Ann, and thence for Boston April
Court, 13' This I paid in behalf of Coz. Bodowin.
14th. Beno. and old Jno Galium, for his son Jno, cut
wood by the N. W. marsh. Thos. Buffinton with his
mare & my oxen sledded over the mill pond 2 small
loads, about 7 foot in all.
i8^/;. Lent Mr Sam' Gardner, son of Mr Abel Gard
ner, a 40? bill of this Province to be repaid on demand.
February Wth. I paid Mr Jno. Porter 34' in full for
4 barrels Cydar at 8' per, and a barrel of Pairmains, &
in full of all acc'ts to this day.
March gth. Wednesday. Ezekiel Goldthwaite with
Jno. Mechum began to lay the cellar wall at C. H. &
Jos. Bean haled the stones.
ijth. Gov! Shute and Philips went to Marblehead.
i<)th. Goldthvvaite and Meachum laid chimney above
mantel tree.
22^. Mr W? Gedney with his chain of 2 rods measured
the upland of Jer. Neal at C. Hill, and the S. side on
Swasy measures 37 poles, the N. side on Turner & me
25 poles, the E. side on the Marsh of Buffum 23 poles,
the W. side on the Marsh of .... 23 poles, which
makes 4 acres & 73 poles. The bit of Marsh etc. next
the Comon contains 5 poles on each side so that it is
but about i, & S poles, of an acre.

1720.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 9
23^. Plowed & sowed oats & pease at C. Hill.
24//^. Came to Boston and at Tho°' Island p. m. Re
ceived of Mr Thos. Mosely fourteen pounds in Prov. bills
towards the last year.
April 2d. Governor Joseph Dudley dyed, & on the
eighth buried at Roxbury.
\6th. G. Peal and his son G. worked at C. H. flooring
ye house. Same day Beno. work'd at home, after, he and
they 2 had been at C. H., witnesses to Jer. & Rob'
Neal, their giving me livery of seisin & possession of
about 5 acres of upland with a bit of marsh there by
turfe of grass etc, and that by virtue of their father
Jer. Neal — their father's deed to them. These three
witnesses are entered on my deed.
2ii-^. Thursday. Left home & came to Boston, &
thence to Dorchester and at Maj. Thos. Tileston's till
Monday morning ; gave servants 10! Expenses thence
to Plymouth 5^ & till Saturday, when at Witherells ; for
my lodging, breakfasts and suppers I paid 16', & for my
part of our Court dinners, horses & servants at Cush-
man's 50', & coming to Dorchester, 5?^
yune 20th. Jos. Cook mowed the Johnswort at C. H.
from the barn to the Southern oats, & from the landing
place one swarth to the barn.
loth. Mrs Bethia Lyndall, formerly Kitchen, wife of
Mr. Timo. Lyndall, dyed, & was buried the Lords Day
following viz. 3'' July, of whom I am a bearer with Col.
Browne, Maj. Sewall, Mr Wolcott, Capt. Bowditch &
Maj Price.
1 It was at this court that the case of Matson versus Thomas was de
cided, involving the title to the Marshfield Estate, which afterwards became
the home of Daniel Webster. The case is given somewhat at length in
the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society for 1875-6, page
163.

10 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [1720.
[The following memorandum is dated in July.]
Certificate fro. ye Sec"^ That B. Lynde attend* his majestys
service as a member of Council in the Gen' Assembly at their
Sess" held y" 25"' May 1720, 4 dayes, and at their Sess" 13""
July 1720, 7 dayes, besides the time necessaryly taken up in
journeying to and fro. s'' Gen' Assembly.
Sec^' office in Boston July 29"" 1720.
To Mr Treas'' Allen.
August i^th. I pd Jo. Cook in full for his 4 1-2 days
work, at 5^ per day, mowing, 22' 6*, his son raking, 4', and
for hooks and hinges for cellar door and for north win
dow at & 6"^, in the whole, before and now, in full for all,
i6th. Mr Ward, A. m. went and put up the northern
window. September c^th. From Salem Fryda noon set out for
Bristol, the 13*, and Springfield (by way of Saybrook)
the 27"" inst, Circuit courts, Deo pivante et auspice
Christo et aspirante Spiritu Saucto. Dined at Lewis.
\oth. Set out in the morning from Maj. Tho. Tileston's
for Lt Vose's.' Paid him my last years arrearages for
travel etc. 10' 6". He and Mr Fenner cros't over abo°'
five miles to Kingsburys,- where I treated them with a
quart of madeira etc. 2^-6". There paid Vose 20' for i
thousand shingles 7 or 8 inches broad ; also paid him
50' more for 3 good cedar spouts to be delivered at Mil
ton Landing place by Edw. Pitcher as by a paper of di-
' Milton.
- Kingsbury at this time kept the Roebuck Tavern at Stoughton. The
site of this ancient inn is in what is now East Walpole, about a mile from
the vill.ige in a southeasterly direction, on the county road between Bos
ton and Providence. No vestige now remains of the tavern, its site being
at present occupied by the house of Mr. Simon Gould. See an account
of the Roebuck Tavern, by Mr. D. T. V. Huntoon, in the Stoughton Sen
tinel of January 30, 1875.

720.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. II
;ccons left with Vose. P. M. went with Kingsbury,
old & Roads, all next neighbours, to view the bounds of
y new purchase, about a mile on the road from Kings-
jry's, and viewed them, as in another paper.
wtli. Lord's day. Not well ; stayed there.
\2tJL. Paid for selfe and my viewers of the land afore-
lid in drink, 2'. paid for my two nights being there
D^ ; paid at Daggetts 6* ; at the Union, Rehoboth, din-
ig with Judge Sewall ' , & Clerk Rolfe ; at night
dge at Col? Pain's &, by God's grace, well this morn-
g 1 3'" day.
17//^. Saturday. Left Bristol Court, and to two serv-
its at Col. Pains, paid 8' ; at Burden's florence.
\Zth. At Mr Clap's; 2' contributed.
icjtii. Alonday. 2^ 6* to servants at sister's ; and ferry
onanicut three horses 2? and ferry thence to Br. Neck I
lid 3', & so thro' rain got 17 miles to Hills. 4?
2otIi. To Gavetts ; thence to Crandall's at Pancacoe ; ^
lence to W"^ & thence to N. London about 3.
2i.y;'. Thence to Saybrook ferry, visiting cos. Betty.
22^. Visited cousins Sam' & Nath' houses at the
eck ; ' gave to Sam''' three children viz. Willoughby,
,ebecca & [Abigail] each 8', and to Nat's two, Nathaniel
id a girl, i dog dollar, both valued now at about 15?
2yi. Fryday. Took leave of brother and Saybrook,
id gave 2' more to Willoughby and 4' for Sambo ; at
10. Hayden's with Maj'' Clark & cousins Sam' & Na-
' Judge Sewall was made Chief Justice of the Superior Court of the
ovince in 17 18 and resigned in 1728, when Judge Lynde was appointed
his place.
2 South Kingston.
° Samuel, son of Nathaniel Lynde, married Rebecca, a daughter of
ajor John Clarke. She died January 20, 1716, and he afterwards mar-
id a daughter of Major John Palmes, and again Mrs. Hannah Hunting-
n, of Norwich, Conn.

12 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [1726.
thaniel who heard Hayden promise to pay £,1. rent for
the house and part of the farm (the meadow which will
produce 50 or 60 loads per annum, Major Clark had let
before to Williams, Iron worker for £,6. per annum, this
next year) to next April ; and then after his repairing
the house and the barn, he is to go out on penalty of
£,\o forfeiture, his & his son's bond etc. Thence to
Mr Nat Prat's where had brandy punch for which &
oats I paid 2'. Thence to view more land viz : . . acres
laid out and corner bounds, marked trees B. L. with stones
at roots ; this lies at the Southerly end of my former
laying out at Kelsey Hill in Potapang, Saybrook ; thence
to Haddam where lodge.
2A,th. Thence thro' Middletown to Weathersfield ;
thence to Hartford, and lodge at Capt Williamson's.
2i^th. Sabbathed .a., m. at Mr Woodbridge's ; p. m. at
Mr Buckinghams.
26th. Paid Williamson for two nights, etc, 6' ; to Mr
Rolfe from Hartford to Windsor Ferry, at Enfield and
Springfield, thence to Brookfield, 19?
October ist. From Springfield returned home.
^tli. Gathered corn at Castle Hill.
1726. May gth. Monday. Set out for York Court
with Juba attending me. Beverly ferry with two horses.
At Ipswich, at Dutche's, oats, etc, 1? g'' Dined with Mr
Davenport and his son Jno. at the Lt Governors ; thence
stopped at Woodbridge's ' and had wine ; thence ferry'd
over vifith Capt Benj" Atkinson. At landing, after he
& I mounted, we rode by a stone wall where our horses
were mired and floundered, and I hurt my right hand
against the wall, but thro' God's goodness not much ;
and had not God helped, I might have dashed not my
1 Newbury.

1726.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE- I3
hand or foot, but my body and head against the rocks.
God's name be praised now and ever for his preventing,
as well as his restoring, mercys thus repeated to me.
\oth. Lodged at Hampton, Wingate's, and proceeded
this morning.
24;'/^. Tuesday. Came to WiP^'' to the Eleccon.
2i,th. Eleccon.
26th. On board Capt St Low with Colo. Browne, Mr
Belcher, Brinly, Cradock, Colo. Phips, etc ; expenses for
this, 4?
28//;. Paid Mrs Holmes for one dinner etc. i? 6?
Clubs 2? 6'?
list. Tuesday. I paid 20' to Edw. Esty of Punkapong
towards his getting & sending to Milton Landing
Place, shingles & other stuff got out of his part of
Dorchester Swamp. Came to Will*'''
yune id. Paid Mr Lewis for 3 pair of gloves, 10';
gave Mr. WilP^ 20* for his work.
4th. Paid Mr Eliot for new footing my boots 20', and
gave Col. Wheelr' 20', and promised 5 more towards Mr.
Millards exposition in folio, for Mr. Jeffrys.
loth. Paid Edw. Esty £27 10' and £14 10' by my
promissory note to him, in all, £42, for his purchased
right of Seth and Thankful Gulliver, of Woodlands in
the 12 and 25 Divisions in Dorchester, which s'd Esty
is bound in a 55^ bond to convey to me by the i" of
August next, as by the bond in my hands.
14^//. Being Tuesday, about 8. a. m., I set out from
Boston for R. Island with new shoed bootes for which I
paid Mr Eliot . . . . , and yet am debtor for spurs. Dined
at Edw. Esty's and there baited horse. His 2 children
and himself rode with me aBout 5 miles, when I met Mr
Kinicam, bound for Taunton, so rode with him to Keiths
and thence to the way that leaves the Taunton road on

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the left, where I had a guide to the road that leads to
Mr Turner's, where I lodged.
15//!. Mr. Turner, after I gave his son 5.', rode with me
early towards Swansy, Carpenters, and thence I came to
Bristol, from his house about 10 miles ; thence over R.
Island Ferry I came to sister Newdigate's, and in the
afternoon, appeared to answer and insist on my memo
rial and peticon before the Governor and Gen' Assembly
of R. Island, on my Narraganset claim of my right there,
or satisfaccon ^ for it
\6th. Thursday. I had a hearing again, and in the af
ternoon the House dismissed it with the R. entered, and
being sent up to the Majistrates they concurred, so the
Recorder Ward gave it me up again.
ijth. Fryday. Left R. Island. Paid Bro. Newdigate
5' for entering the memorial in the Assembly, and 13^ to
^ The following letter of Mr. Newdigate refers to this claim : —
Newport 24* Feb)', 1725-6.
Dear BROTHER Lynde: —
Yours of the 9* instant by Mr Ayrault reC* with the book for which my
wife returns you thanks. As to your memoriall relating to your claime of
the Narragansett Lands, I shall be carefuU to present it to our ne.\t Gen' .\s-
sembly that are to meet at Newport, in May. For our Court of Tryalls in
March have no power in such cases. I shall doe my best endeavour, and
have talkt with Mr. Hill about it, who will be, I suppose, one of the As
sembly and is a friend to your Case. I shall also doe what I can with Colo.
Wanton, Dep'i' Governor Jenks and others as have opportunity before
hand, and Capt. Bull hath promised me his assistance, and have some
hopes, the Line between this Colony & Conecticutt being near settling,
there will be some v.acant lands that they may spare for your sattisfaction.
As to the sev' Q'ries you propose relating to the Will, they are matters that
goe uppon such nice distinctions .and such differing Judgements in our books
in the Like cases, that I cannot give my thoughts therein untill our March
Court is over, and Leisure time will permitt to examine & consider them
when I shall endeavour your satisfaction. My wife & daughters give
their love and services to yourself, sister & cou"» & all friends, as doth,
Sir, your affectionate brother & humble servant,
Nath"- Newdigate.

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his grand children and servants. Came to Daggetts with
Marke, a Quaker ; there lodged. P"^ \ part 8.'
iS//^. At Billings, parted, and I went the Dorchester
Road, and on Billings Plain ^ met Benj. Esty, Edw.'' uncle,
who guided me through his land, about a mile and a half,
to Deacon Stearns ; thence by a boy's direction, I went
thro' the woods a mile and a half more directly to Edw.
Esty's, where I rested, dined and had ace' of my shingles
to be brought to Milton Landing place by neighbor Talbot
and the Sumners — about 30 or 40 M. shingles, about 15
of the best marked B. and the rest, being very good ship
ping shingles, for my son ; also rails, cedar posts and
clapboards ; — all to be ready for Col. Thaxter's sloops for
Salem. Thence about 12, I went for Boston, but, stopt
at Withrintons where I met with Widow Trot's maiden
daughter, and talked with her about her sister, Seth Gul
livers wife, their selling about 25 acres of Woodland and
her right in the 12 & 25 divisions, & so she promised
me the refusal of her equal right, with her sister.
1730. Septe^nber 4th. At Vose's.
ijth. Mr. Ralf Pope and I Benj'' Lynde came to an
agreement voluntarily to divide by lott, the lott, con
taining about 50 acres more or less, as it lyes, bounded
with the highway & Dorchester Cedar Swamp . . . ;
accordingly my part or moiety by lott fell to be on the
northerly side of a small brook that runs easterly thro'
part of the said 50 acres from out of the said Cedar
Swamp to the westerly point of the Iron mines land where
a . . . . tree stands on the bank of the said brook, which
brook we agree, is, & shall be, the dividing line ; it being
very near the middle of the said 50 acres. Proceeded
with Edw. Esty, and on our journey charged him pri-
i Billings Plain is in Quincy, formerly a part of Dorchester.

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vately to survey my 25 acres & Popes, & secure what
timber and trees he can find fallen by the storm or other
wise, also to cart as much of the looo best cedar rails as
he can himself by the beginning of October, and so with
Talbot. Also to sell what he can of the remaining 2000
rails there for at least 15^ per . . . ; also to dig out &
cut more ; for all giving me a true account
6t/i. At Manly's dined, supped & sabbathed. Minister
Short being sick.
yth. Early proceeded with Manly (after paying my ex
penses there, 13') (to Benj" W"", about 4 miles S. W^ ;
from Vose's to W"'' by dry Pond on the W'^ side of
swamp is about 10 miles.
Took the way from the E'^ side of Dorchester swamp
down to Easton to Mandly's house, about 4 miles, trend
ing S E"', then S. W'^ to B. W"^, & here Manly left me. I
gave him i' 6'', and about 7 or 8 A. m., said W"', bound to
R. Island, conducted me on the short road from his house
to the pond 2 miles. About 4 p. m., W°" and I got to
Bristol & Madam Paine's.
Sth. Court held in the morning.^
1 The following is a "fragment" of a Charge to the Grand Jury, deliv
ered at the opening of this Court. The epidemic alluded to was probably
the small-po.x, which was imported from Ireland in the preceding year.
Five hundred out of four thousand attacked by it are said to have died.
" Gentlemen of the Grand Jury. Thro' the auspicious Providence of
God the Court are safely conducted and meet here once more for the doing
& e.tecuting justice. It is a favour of God that we here enjoy such a
general health, & such freedom from the terrors of the epidemical dis
temper with which the most populous town of Boston has been grievously
infected, but thro God's goodness decreased. It is our duty at all times,
but more especially with God's judgements so near us to learn righteous
ness. The Court ,are glad to see so full a number of the Jury duly at
tending. " Gentlemen, you have your duty summarily expressed in the oath you
have taken — diligently to search and inquire into the crimes and offences
of this county, and make due presentment of them. And you are to take

M.\D,\M ;.;,-.Rv

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] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 1 7
h. Sent a L™ by Mr. Lindall to my dear wife.
)th and Wth. Court at night ended without day,
Mr. Rolfe p'' me about £g, deducting out of it 29'^
linners, but bills and costs still behind.
ith. Saturday. P** Col. Church's son for horse five
ts 6? 3'', and Madam Paine's servants 10', and at
rn 3?
th. Sabbathed at Mr. Claps, and at Lord's Supper with
; for collec" 5', and to him 3f His morning sermon
15'" Jno. 13. D. by J. hath given the highest dem-
rations of his superlative and unparalelled love in
g for his friends. The great question then was, who
be said truly to be Christ's friends ; and this ques-
is truly answered in the next verse, — They who
.' his commands ; and here, many of the best are, by
:cting on their own inabilities doubtful of themselves,
saying . . . ; yet Christ's friends, i'' in that they
;onverted ; 2'' the Love of Christ constrains their love.
Clap's sermon [p. M.J was from 26"^ Isaiah 9. When
's judgments are abroad in the world and on a people,
should learn righteousness, and he showed that this
aisncss is the riteousness of God, by faith in the Lord
s, for his riteousness [is] to our salvation. He told us
,'arious sins and provoking iniquities which were some
le greatest judgements on a people as being judicially
n over to their own heart's lusts to be left to strong
sions — whereby they fall into vile sins and abomi-
3ns, as the people of Sodom, etc., and the sinful self
ial care that you present none out of malice, en%7, prejudice or any
)r sinister view, nor that you leave any unpreseuted for fear, favour
ection, or hope of reward ; but you all should aim at the glory of
ind the peace and welf.ire of your neighbours. And we have encour-
:nt hereunto from the Sacred Scriptures, the wholesome laws of our
, and our own municip.al laws — for it is a Divine Saying, Righteous-
ixalteth a nacon, but sin is the reproach of a people 

l8 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [1730-
pollutions which they are apt to extenuate ; while other
good persons have been guilty of the same, and after have
repented, and forsaken them ; then Drunkenness, Forni
cation, etc. ; and then touched on the Sectarys and the
Light within, Arminian, Socinian, etc. After sermon I
gave 3' 6^.
\4th. Monday. Visited Mr. Clap, got Mr. Lucas and ....
testimonys (of which I have a copy) of their seeing and
hearing me claim a part of the Narragansett Country on
the spot or Narragansett lands, by virtue of a Deed or
Deeds in my hand. This left in Cousin Mumford's hands
to be sworn to by them ; Dined at Mr. Collector Key's
and visited Gov"' Joseph Jenks and told him my resolu
tion, etc.
I ^th. I gave Mr. Bull's son 20' as a retainer or solicitor
under his father for the Narragansett affair. I gave
brother Newdigate 10' to get those evidences summoned
and sworn to in perpetuam ; I gave about 10' more to
Nat Mumford and servants. In the morning got safe
over both ferries to Narragansett paying at Case's about
i' 6'' ; got in afternoon to Mr. Geo. Mumford's where
supped, lodged, and breakfasted ; expenses about 6?
\6th. He with one Mr. Williams of R. Island accom
panied me to Capt Hill's, and, near Hill's house in their
presence, I desired them to bear witness of my claiming
a part of the Narragansett Country, by virtue of a deed
from Capt Geo. Denison in 1672, which they with Mr.
Hill put into writing to be sworn in perpetuam as the
other. I left it (after taking a copy) with Mr. Geo.
Mumford ' to get sworn to by brother Richard and
1 The claim here adverted to was based upon the conveyance of Capt.
George Denison to Simon Lynde, in 1672, of a tract of Narragansett land
bought by him of the Narragansett Sachems in 1660. The question of
jurisdiction over the Narragansett country, which seems to have been

1730.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. I9
brother Newdigate. Dined at Hill's, supped and lodged
at Williams' near Groton, early paying there 5?
17^'/^. About 10, got to Mad" Winthrop's where, she
urging, I dined. ' By horse and ferriageto New London
iS? About 4, p. M., at Cousin Grissell's,! where I lodged,
and next morn, gave his three children 10', and rode with
him to Lime.
iZth. Over Mather's Ferry - with difficulty, paid i? 3'* ;
also Saybrook Ferry and paid 2' for a messenger to
Cousin's and Major Clark's, and cross'd over to Pota-
pung.'' Dined at Mr. Prat's and visited my Neck by boat
over the cove, where Dr  has a lease of 4 years
from Maj'' Clark, as the Major says, for £\2 per annum ;
he has sown some of the old bro. [ken] up ground and
cleared and girdled many good trees on new ground and
plowed it, and sowed it also with wheat O. How many
acres of each }
i()ih. About 7 or 8 oclock A. m. I proceeded, having
paid Air. Nat Prat 30' for my expenses, treating Williams
and . . . ., who rowed me to my Neck, and several Pota-
claimed by both Rhode Island and Connecticut, was practically settled by
the Royal Commissioners sent over in 1664, who were empowered to set the
bounds of the several colonies, and who included the Narragansett lands
within the limits of the Rhode Island Colony. All claims, therefore, whether
of Connecticut or other pretended proprietors, were from this time disal
lowed by Rhode Island. It is probable that the failure of Judge Lynde's
petition was due to the non-recognition by the latter colony of the title of
the original proprietor. Captain Denison, which, with those of the other
associates of Major Atherton, as shown by Governor Andros in his report
on the Narragansett country, were declared by the said Commissioners
to be illegal and void.
1 Judge Lynde's niece Hannah, daughter of Nathaniel Lynde, married
Rev. George Griswold, of Lyme, Conn. Many of their descendants still
reside in that town and in New York.
^ This was probably over the Lieutenant River, near where the bridge
now stands.
° Now Essex.

20 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [1732-
cunk men, who bargained with me for about 9 or 10
acres of land, for a minister there, giving me, in earnest,
in part of £4 per acre, 15', of which 30' I gave to Cousin
Nath' children. Cousin Nathaniel, Major Clark's son
and Mr. Harris accompanied me to Potacunk from whence
alone I travelled to Haddam.
20th. Sabbath'' at Mr. Buckingham's, Hartford.' His
text in the morning was in 3*^ Genesis, from iS"" to
19"^ verses: "And unto the woman he saith, I will
greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception." In
the afternoon, 6'" Hebrews, 19"^ ; " Which hope we have
as an anchor to the soul, both sure and steadfast, and
which entereth with him into the vail."
1732. yamiary 4th. Came to Boston by Watts' Ferry ^
with horse ; at Malum's paid 8' ; lodge 4 nights at War-
dell's. 12?'/^. Wednesday. Came over Penny Ferry on ice with
horse to Boston. So three nights at Wardell's.
I'^th. Saturday. Paid Mr. Jackson 16' for a pair of brass
candlesticks, and for horse three nights at Miller's Brick
Stable. Am debtor at Moor's 9?
24//^. JMonday. Came to Boston and left my horse at
Frost's ; came over and met some of our Penicook com
mittee who met at Coffin's, all of us on Friday night last,
when Board adjourned ; so that our meeting again, Tues
day before, and at 10 oclock in Council Chamber and at
Coffins ' at night finishing our Report, entitles me to all
' Rev, Mr. Buckingham was minister to the Second Presbyterian Church
in Hartford, and served as the chaplain to the Connecticut troops which
formed part of the force sent against Canada by the colonists in 17 10 and
1711, under Gcner.-il Nicholson. He left a dhary containing an account of
these expeditions.
^ Now Winnisimmet Ferry.
' William Coffin at this time kept the " Bunch of Grapes."

1732.] DL4RY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 21
three days from Fryday night to Tuesday, being the 25""
day. 2$th. Charlestown Superior Court. Lodged last night
and so continue at Wardell's.
26th. This night, after Court adjourned, I treated
Judges Davenport,' Quincy,- and Cushing' at my Wardell
lodgings, with ale, cakes, cheese and brandy punch.
27//^ and 2'&th. Governor Belcher dined with the Court
at Charlestown ; and this day Frosts Miles bro't over
Penny Ferry ice my son's horse.*
¦^oth. Sabbath'd at Mr. Checkley's with son Benj? and
his wife. Contri. 5?
3ii-A Dined with Davenport, Dudley,^ and Cushing at
Long's, ending Court, and then rode home. Expenses at
Moor's I' 6''.
February jth. Monday. Very cold.
8//;. [In the] Morning about 8 I came to our Boston
Superior Court, by noon, and ferryed horse over Charles
River and put him up at Miller's. I lodged at Wardell's,
and so to Saturday, 4 nights.
I2/Zr. Saturday. Returned home this day, and paid
Mr. Buttolph for 4 gallons of canary, 35?
iltli. Tuesday. At 7 this morning I sat out for Bos
ton ; I never found colder weather, but thro' God's mercy,
with extraordinary difficulty, I got safe to Charlestown
1 Addington Davenport succeeded Judge Curwin in 1715, on the Bench
of the Superior Court, where he remained until his death, in 1736. He
was a nephew of Chief Justice Addington. He w.-is graduated at Har
vard College in i66g.
2 Edmund Quincy was appointed to the Bench in 1718.
' John Cushing came upon the Bench in 172S, on the appointment of
Judge Lynde as Chief Justice.
* Penny Ferry was where Maiden Bridge now stands.
' Paul Dudley succeeded Judge Thomas in 171S. He was the son of
Hon. Joseph Dudley, formerly Governor of the Province, and was ap
pointed Chief Justice on the death of Judge Lynde, in 1745.

22 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [1732-
about 12. There was no ferrying, and so I put up my
horse at Long's and dined and lodged at Coz. Russell's.'
This night there was the coldest and most violent sharp
wind. i6th. Wednesday. About 10, with difficulty, ferr}'ed
over Charles River, and got to the Court before opened.
This night and so on lodge at Wardell's.
I Jth. This morning heard from Capt. Hursk (from whom
I received a tender letter from my son William of his
great concern for me on my yesterday's Journey) the bad
news of Douglas's being in the utmost danger at anchor
A-esterday afternoon, at the seaboard, back of Marblehead
Neck ; all the men were near frozen and the sea rolling
over the vessel, tho' the men were brought on shore ; but
in the afternoon, I heard by Mr. Kerns from Capt Atkin
son that the vessel was afterwards towed up to Salem,
but with much water in her hold ; I pray God for the
best in this sad circumstance. I since hear that she cer
tainly soon after sunk.
1 8///. This day Mr. Wheeler was tryed, and the Jury
sitting up all night after questioning the court (at first
not so freely agreeing), found him guilty of manslaugh
ter ; so Q. his punishment or sentence.
19//^. This morning paid Mr. Bagnell 17' 3'' for mend
ing my watch, as by particulars on paper of watch.
20th. Lord's day. Borrowed 5' bill of Mrs. Coffin.
Heard in the morning Mr. Charles Chauncy from 2
Ephes. 12-9. "A Christless condition a hopeless con
dition." Dined at Mr. Checkley's,'- and heard him in the
afternoon and contributed 5' bill.
' Mr. Daniel Russell, of Charlestown, was son of Mr. James Russell,
and cousin to Mrs. Lynde. Their mothers were daughters of Mr. George
Curwen, of Salem.
2 Rev. Samuel Checkley, the minister of the New South Church.

.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 23
6th. Saturday. Went home from Charlestown, and
1 Mrs. Long for horse 12 days, at 2' 6^ per night, 30?
home found all well.
Ml. Meeting of Church about Mr. Fisk at Mr. Ja.
dall's ; a great snow, thro' which at Moor's.
()ih. Tuesday. To Boston, by Watt's where left
se, and at night came and lodged at Wardell's ; dined
day at Moor's.
Lirch 1st. Dined at Mr. Benj. Rolfe's with the Court,
Checkley and Colo. Hutchinson.' Lt Governor,
' Taylor, this day at about 3 p. M. dyed.
d. Col. Byfield's presentments again called and, per
'am, (their exceptions to quash the presentments over-
id), they were ordered to plead or demur, which last
f did on Fryday.
d. I paid Mr. Coffin in full (including the 5' borrowed
lis wife), 23? I dined late there on minced veal which
now debtor for.
th. Saturday. Am debtor to Mrs. WardweU now
25 nights, 25', and for suppers and breakfasts 62?
ch I paid her in full this day, and 7' more to Richard
servants — 69'.
th. At Castle Hill ; with Beno I splash't down some
[11 trees at the foot of hill from the Cuddy N. ward.
oth. G. Curwen went with Buffum's boy on my Chest-
to Cambridge ; I gave him 5?
6th. At night at Mr. Ja. Lindall's with about 12 of
Church ; and I with them signed a charge against
Fisk in 3 articles, all founded on the supposed in-
lolated vote.
8//^ Prebble from York to finish his mortgage.
i;oI. Edward Hutchinson succeeded Judge Lynde upon the Bench
le Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk. He was an uncle of Gov-
r Thomas Hutchinson.

24 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [1732-
2\st. Tuesday. Last night Ja. Stone and his wife and
children lodged at C. H. towards entering into the house
and farme at halves as aforesaid. He takes a schedule
of all utensils.
23^. Son W" (Jas. Buffum waiting on him) went with
me and son's horse to Cambridge, and horses returned
in the evening.
2i,th. Saturday. Ja. Stone on my C. H. at halves.
26tli. Lord s Day. My niece Mrs. Mary Valentine' dyed
after 4 months sickness of a fever, and was buried with
father in our tomb 30"^ day. Her executors are Mr. Bow
doin and her son-in-law Mr. Gouge."
2()tJL. Wednesday. This day, my son Benjamin and his
wife went in a chaise by Watts' to Boston and Roxbur}',
to return on Fryday, the 7"" April, Deo Vol. This day the
first of my going to C. H. by water, but now the periagoe
broke thro' much thin ice.
loih. I canoed to C. H. and bro't son's horse to go
to Boston next day.
list. Fryday. .\. Jr. I after 5 I went with son's horse
by Watts' to wait on the Governor and Council, and was
over the Ferry abo' 9, and at 10 was in the Council.
Heard agent Wilks' letter to the Secretary, on which
being read the Governor said he had no need of the
Council's advice, he having determined to dissolve the
Gen'l assembly, yet put it to heare their advice, and the
Council were divided. Then a letter concernin<T the
Bp of London's having received a complaint from one
Ellis, a churchman, who tho' he lives just abo' 5 miles
from the Church of England yet is tax't, which the
Bishop highly resents.'
1 A daughter of Hon. Samuel Lynde.
¦^ Mr. Goucli.
^ By a law of the colony every person, of whatever creed, was ta.\ed to

1732.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 2$
Concluded that our Court on the 2* Tuesday in June
be at Nantucket to try a murderer of an Indian or two.
I returned home about 7 p. m.
April 1st. Saturday. I rec'' by B. Felt 18 sealed bot
tles of choice Madeira wine from Mr. Dan' Goffe who
put them on board yesterday.
id. Monday. Rob' Gray begun to calk my gunda-
low and finished it with graving her on Tuesday evening,
having finished my periagoe last week. I had for the
Gundalow borrowed 3 1 pounds of pitch of Geo. Peal for
which am Dr.
i,th. I\Ir. Daniel Epes Jr. arrived from Virginia ; at
W'estover, up the James River 100 miles, visited Col.
William Byrde, a gentleman of great wealth, having no
male issue living, but three daughters. He enquired
earnestly after me and my family and welfare, as he has
of others who have been there.
6tJi. Fast Day.
•jtJi. This day, about 5 in the afternoon about 12 chaises
of the best in the town met my son and his wife with
Mrs. Dr. Checkley and Mrs. Tileston, Major Bowles and
his three sons, on our Plains by Rum Rock. All met
each other at our house, by God's blessing, and supped
with sack po_sset, closing the evening.
loth. Monday. Went with the canoe to Castle Hill
and returned with James Stone in the boat
support the Puritan Establishment. There was passed in 1727 a modifica
tion of this law, by which members of the Church of England were e.x-
empted from taxation, if resident within five miles of one of their own
churches. Mr. James Ellis unfortunately resided beyond five, although
within six, miles of an English Church, and consequently could not .avail
himself of tliis exemption, and on refusing to pay was imprisoned. Some
account of this case is to be found in a letter from Timothy Cutler to John
Delapp, — Perry's Historical Collections, iii. 264.

26 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [1732-
\4th. I came by Watts', dined there, then ferried
over to Boston and lodged at night at Wardell's.'
X'^tJi. Saturday. Set out for Plymouth with Davenport
and Dudley at 8 A. it. and got to Plymouth.
\6th. Sabbath'd at Plymouth and gave 5?
17//^. Set out for Barnstable Court Tyley paying all
our expenses on the road from Boston.
1 8^/-;. Court opened. I lodged at Lathrop's, and horse
there. 2ii-^. Being Friday, the Palatines complaint ¦z'. Lob. ;
his inditement found this day, and on his tryal for mur
der, the Jury brought in a verdict of not guilty.
22^. Saturday. Paid Lathrop for myself and my
horse, breakfasts and suppers, 5 nights 36? 2^
2id. Sabbath'd at Plymouth ; contributed 2' 6*
i\Iay 2d. Tuesday. Came from Witherell's and paid
with Tyley our lodging 30' 4**. Lodged at Col. Quincy's.
Came home.
%th. Monday. Came up this afternoon for the York
Court, and about 3 dined at Major Epes'. Thence to
Newberry by the Old Town ferry, and supped at Wood-
bridges. ()th. Next morning abo. 9, paying him 11? 9*, ferrj-ed
over and dined at Hampton ; ferrying i', and dinner 5'
for little Sewall and myself ; thence to Greenland, where
oated, and for 2 horses and drink, 2? Thence to the
Portsmouth. Waited on Governor Belcher with Capt
Hirst ; Ferryed over to Kittery ; for 2 horses etc. 4' ;
at York Ferry if Lodged, and supper and horse at
Prebble's for Sher. Moulton and myself.
loth. Wednesday. Court began with four Justices, but
Judge Dudley p. m. from Ro.xbury.
1 Mrs. W.ardell kept the inn on the northerly corner of Hanover and
Court Streets, called the Orange Tree Tavern. It continued as a tavern
until 1785.

2.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 27
4th. Sabbath'd at York. Mr. Jno. Rogers from Kit-
i preached all day ; his text A m. i Peter 3 ult In
;rnoon, I contributed 4?
'^th. Monday Morn. Came from York ; dined at Capt
.low's ; thence oated at the Bear ; ' thence to Collins
Hampton ; thence to Woodbridge's at Newbury where
iped and lodged.
6th. Came a. m. about 10, and opened Ipswich
-irt ; lodged at Mrs. Cogswell Browne's to Saturday
rn. 4 nights, with 5 chocolate breakfasts and 3 milk
pers ; I paid abo. 15' and my part of our dinners
, 32', and for our horses, 4'.
Dth. Tuesday. Came to Boston for Election by
itts', lodged at Wardell's till Saturday 3*^ of June.
fune ^th. Monday. Paid Capt Groundsell 40' for 5
Brown Holland, 2\, for a waistcoat, the other 3 yds
at Ephr. Ingolls for me.
)th. Tuesday. I met Cousin Sam' Browne his spouse
Uore's, returning to Salem.
'th. Wednesday. I sat in Council, and about 8 p. m.
ed, with all the rest of our Court and Clerk Mr. S.
ey. Attorney General Overing,- Mr. Adam Winthrop
.¦" and Capt Pollard, on board Capt. Eben'' Gardiners
)p, (Mr. Justice Bunker with us).
\th. Friday. Arrived safe at Nantucket Great Wharfe
ut 1 1 o'clock a. m. All dined at Mr. Jer. Gardner's,
Gardner's youngest son, supped at Mr. Justice Bun
's with the Court, 3, Davenport, Quincy and Cushing,
jed there, and Dudley and I lodged at his son's, Mr.
1' Bunker, Coroner of the Island.
Greenland.The name of John Overing is connected with the controversy between
:rnor Burnett and the Legislature at the time of his appointment. He
the office of Attorney-general for several years, until near his death
'48. He is said to have been a fluent and agreeable speaker at the

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loth. Saturday. Some of us viewed the cliffs from
whence we might see the next Island called [Tuckernuck]
and another small one [Muskequet] and part of Martha's
Vineyard ; and in coming home we visited Fa''. James
Coffin's' house and his son who lives there. The prin
cipal names of the Families on this Island, (who are
mostly intermarried), are the Coffins, Gardners, Husseys,
Starbucks and Folgers.
wth. Lord's Day. Mr. White preached very well at
the new built Presbiterian Meeting House. Dined all at
our Capt. Eben"' Gardner's ; after, our visit on Corduga,
Indian Justice,' a good and strict old man.
ilth. Dined all 5 at i" Justice Geo. Bunker's - where
we generally sup. In the evening rode to visit Jos. I\Iar-
shall and Mr. George Hussey, and returned over the
beach by the lo. Wharf, and visited Sylva. Hussey at
Wasco.' He and his brother George married two sis
ters, the daughters of Mrs. [Mary] Starbuck, Mr. Fa'' Ja.
Coffin's eldest daughter, a fine matronly Quaker gentle
woman, and elder sister of Mrs. Bunker.
bar, an able and successful lawyer, and to have acquired both fortune
and iniluencc in the Province.
1 The name of Corduda is still remembered in the traditions of the isl
and. He seems to have been a man of inflexible justice and great in
fluence among the Indians, .\lthough known as Corduda, his name was
James Skouel. As an officer of the law, he was very strict in the per
formance of his official duties. " He would fetch them up when they did
not tend their corn well and order them to have ten stripes on their backs,
and for any rogue tricks and for getting drunk." — Macy's History of Xan-
tuckct. - George Bunker succeeded James Coffin, the first Chief Justice of the
Court of Common Pleas for Nantucket.
" Wcsko or Wesco is the Indian name for the land now occupied by a
portion of the town of N.antucket, and means in English " the White
Stone." The part of the town referred to was an eminence on the west
side of the harbor, and south of Main Street, the white stone being now
covered by one of the wharves.

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4th. Wednesday. Court opened in the morning, the
nd Jury of 18, a 3* Indians. I first opened and gave
charge and the rest seriatim. Dined at Mr. George
¦dner's,' the nephew and image in looks and speech
)ur old Mr. Grafton. He is one of the four Justices of
Pleas of the Island and county with his brother Jo-
h Gardner and Mr. Coffin. About 4. P. m. the grand
y found Ignora on one Indian of the 3 Indians, of
3m [one] an old Squaw, very suspicious of the death
.nother ; but found Billa Vera on Simon, a young In-
1 of 18. So the Court adjourned. In the afternoon,
ed hence for Salem, Skipper Redding, by whom I
t letters to my wife.
Ith. Pet Jur.y Trials brought Simon in Guilty of
^slaughter. Dined at Justice Bunker's.
6tlL. About 9 this morning, the Clerk read Simon's
tence, and he was accordingly burnt on the brawny
; of the thumb of the left hand with the letter T.
)ined at Justice Gardner's, and afterward rode and
,sh'd to Mr. Jas. Coffin's and treated with wine, cy-
and tankards of wi. syllabub.
•Jth. Saturday. Dined at Sylva. Hussey's ; fish din-
excellent.
S//j. Sabbath'd with and in even, visited Mr. White.
Q)tli. Dined at Mr. Coffin's youngest son's.
D//^. Dined at Capt Eben Gardner's.
ist. Wednesday. At about 7 or 8 in the morning
were towed out of Nantucket harbour with 4 or 5
:ains, viz : 2 Folgers, Jno. Bunker, Brock, and Gard-
in the same sloop ; at about 6 or 7 p. xi. came near
dy Point.
zd. Early got on deck ; with a fair wind leaving Cape
, about noon, made Scituate, 3 or 4 cliffs N. W of us,
'he portrait of Mary Coffin still hangs in the old house at Nantucket.

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and about 11 a. m. had Cape Cod just visible behind us.
Cape Ann E. N. E. of us, and the Light house N. W. and
by W. of us — all three in view at the same time. Dined
on a fine chowdered cod which the Captain caught.
About 3 came up with the Lighthouse, passed by the
Islands on the North of each and arrived at Minot's T.'
We were saluted with five great guns from Mr. Wendell's
ship. About 5, came up and sat in Council. Lodged at
Mrs. Warden's.
2id. Friday. Commencement day." Calash'd up
and dined in the Hall, and so down to Boston about 8.
Supped at Coffin's ; treated Gardner, Bunker, and Brock
with a bowl of punch, etc. I lodged Thursday and Fry
day at Warden's.
24tJi. Went to our sloop and got Abraham to carr}' up
to Sister Pordage her sheets and blankets, and about 6
sailed over to Watts', had his horse to, and dined with
my wife at home in Salem. Found her ill.
2-^th. Mr. Croswell preached both forenoon and after
noon very well ; postea, as he went, I treated him and
Deacon Osgood with wine.
26th. W" Bowles had my Chestnut and old calash to
fetch my son William from Cambridge ; after, he should
have been at Roxbury to visit till Wednesday.
27/Z;. This Tuesday morning about 4 or 5 — small
rains after me — got to Watts' well and dry, and over
the ferry to Boston by 8 or 9 ; dined at Bowdoin's.
2'ith. Dined at Mr. Tyley's with Justice Bunker and
our Capt Gardner, Col° Stoddar and Major Chandler.
' The present T Wharf, then called Minot's T, from an early proprie
tor of that name.
- Frid.ay was for sever.al years, about this time, .appointed for Commence
ment D.ay, " that there might be," says President Wadsworth in his Diary,
" less remaining time in the week spent in frolicking," This custom con
tinued until 1736.

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29//^ Geo. returned the 20.s. and I gave him 5? ;
Sam' and he sailed this p. M.
loth. Judge Davenport, Dudley and I treated with a
dinner at Wardell's our Capt Eben. Gardner, Justice
Bunker, his son, and Capt Folger, all of Nantucket ;
and Col. Dudley, Col. Wainwright and Mr. Tyley. Mr.
Tyley treated the Capt, Col. Stodder, Maj. Chandler
and myself the day before at his house.
yuly 1st. Saturday. I paid to Mrs. Wardell for 12
nights, from 14"^ of April to this i" of July, 12'; and
for breakfasts and suppers during this time 7? 5", all
being 19' 5^ and for a large plumb cake sent to Salem
for son Benjamin, and for the box it was in, £<,. 2?
13//^. I paid the Rev. Mr. Geo. Phillips £i„ which [is]
in full of what I promised for his, and towards his son
John Phillips', schooling and board at Salem, till his
entry into Harvard College, this last June Commence
ment. 17^/^. Monday. Sold Ja. Stone i barrel cyder drawn
off, with barrel, for 22?
20tli. Tliursday. I and wife went with son and daugh
ter, Billy and George and Coz. Plaisted in our boat to
Castle Hill, and came home by moonlight, all well.
21^^ Went with son B. for Mr. Bowen to Beverly, and
took two or three evidences in perpetuam about Trask's
incestuous marriage, for which Bowen paid us 10' each,
and our ferriage.
25//;. Went early, and about 6, had a new shoe set on
Chestnut by Fowler, and so proceeded to Cambridge
Superior Court ; lodged at Mrs. Barnard's and pastured
horse at Bro : GoflTe's.' Supped with Lt Governor Phips,
1 Edmund Goffe w.-is the third husband of Hannah Lynde. He was
graduated in i6go and died in 1740. He was the uncle of Edmund Trow
bridge, afterwards a Justice of the Superior Court, and who for a time
assumed the name of Goffe.

32 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [1732.
who shewed Col. Quincy and me his Commission as Lt
Governor. 26tli. Went with Lt Gov. Phips in his chaise to Boston,
to Cousin Daniel Oliver Esq.' his funeral, who died (of a
sort of apoplectic fit) on the Sunday before. I lodged
at Warden's but had a very fli night by a stoppage at
my breast.
2'jtJi. But better in the morning, thro' God's goodness,
so as to get into chaise ; about midway little Jac. took
me into Col. Goffes ; timely to Cambridge.
2Cjth. Saturday. [This] morning about 11, our Cam
bridge Court ended.
August id. Thursday. Jno. Lyscomb and Geo. Peel
SenF began to shingle the N"' part of the roof of my
house under which I dwell, from the N. E. corner to the
ridge over the kitchen.
Zth. Tuesday. Came by Watts' with son's horse to
Boston Superior Court ; lodged at Wardell's.
ISth. Tuesday. By Watts' to Boston Court again ;
dined late at Wardell's. I put our Courts Club, 4 of us at
Coffins, to my account
19//^. Saturday. At Thompson's Island.- Reckoned,
1 Daniel Oliver was the youngest son of Capt. Peter Oliver, distin
guished in the Indian wars, and Sa'rah Newdigate, and through the latter
was first cousin to Judge Lynde. He was a merchant of wealth and em
inence, and was especially noted for his l.irge benefactions to the poor.
At the time of his death he was one of his Majesty's Council for the
Province. Pie married a sister of Governor Belcher, .and left two sons,
who afterward became distinguished in the State. .A. fine portrait of hira
by Smybert still exists.
^ This island came into the possession of David Thompson, who first
settled .It Little Harbor, on the Piscataqua, in 1626. It was subsequently
granted to his son, John Thompson, by the Gener.al Court of Massachu
setts, in 1648. Three years later, in 1651, it was seized for debt by Hugh
Brown and Joseph Johnson, being valued at that time at ^150, and sold
by them the following ye.ar to Francis Norton and NichoUas Davison for
;f2i8 7'. It afterwards p.assed into the possession of John Paine, who

1732.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 33
and accounts adjusted, between Benj. Lynde, Esq., and
Mr. Enoch WisweU, tenant at halves for Thompson's
Island, and there remained thirty-one pounds due from
said Wiswell, which the said Lynde hath now received
in fun to 25'" of March, 1732.
2ist. This day gave 5? 11? to the chfldren and serv
ants at the Island ; dined at Coz. Bowdoin's, supped at
Warden's on puff apple pie and cheese ; had a bottle of
ale, an ear of corn, and sugar brandy dram. Paid Mr.
Dan' Goffe for 18 bottles of Madeira wine, with the
bottles, £1. 18. 6, as by his receipt.
22d. Tuesday. Coz. OUver Wiswell, Jr., paid me ;^24,
in full of his, and his father's, bond for ;^20, from 20'"
March, 1729, to this day ; so I abated him 10' of interest,
gave him up the said bond cancelled, and he breakfasted
with me at Wardell's. I paid .... Talbot of Stoughton
who lives by Edward Esty's late dwelling £1. money,
which remained due to him for carting cedar rails for
me. list. Came home this afternoon ; and Coz. S. Browne
from a barbacue at Browne's Farm with my sons W" and
Benjamin, coming home in the evening, his coachman
was thrown off the coach box, and Coz. S. Browne leapt
out, but over him, and his coachman hurt
September 1st. About noon this day, an awful earth
quake for half a minute (without much noise) shook the
earth as far westerly and southerly as Philadelphia.
2d. Saturday. Mr. Geo. Hog of Ireland began to dig
my well at Castle HiU.
conveyed it to Simon Lynde on the 31st of August, 1666, for the sum of
;^3I2, 7, It was given by him, during his life-time, to his son Benjamin,
and remained in the hands of his descendants for more than a hundred
years. For some account of the early history of this island, see The Proceed
ings of Ihe Massachusetts Historical Society, 1S75-6, page 338.
3

34 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [1732.
October \st. Lord's Day. I sabbath'd at Marlbor
ough. 2d. Monday. I came homeward ; dined at Leamed's
at Watertown, there left Davenport and Quincy, and
got safe home before night.
9///. Monday. Mr. Thos. Cole stoning my well at C.
H. alone, and no workmen but Ja. Stone and myself at
the windlass.
loth. Stone had for his well work yesterday and last
week 5 pints of rum, and this day, A. m., i gaUon rum and
2 galls, of cydar, p. m., 2 gallons of cydar.
26th. Thursday. Thanksgiving.
November ist. Gen' Court meet on adjournment from
August this day.
4tli. Saturday. Last night our Court ended, and Mr.
Rolfe paid all, and particularly my part of dinners, 30.' ;
and he paid me moreover clear of dinners my part of
court fees, £6. 16. 5.
6th. Monday. Before day, two inches of snow cov
ered the ground ; gone in the afternoon by rain. K.
W"" Revolution Day.
ytli. A general muster at Salem by the new field
officers, viz : Lt Col. Tho. Barton, Maj. Plaisted and
Capt Hix ; Lt B. Pitman to Maj. Plaisted, etc.
ZiJi. Wednesday. Came by Watts' Ferry to Gen'
Court, and lodged at WardeU's.
(^tli. Paid Capt Osborn for 5 Monro cheeses, weight,
102 pounds, 68'; WUliam had also of me, for a present
to Mr. Prince, ^5.
wth. Saturday. Returned home in a chaise from
Watts'. 14th. Tuesday. Came with son's horse over Watts'
Ferry to Boston Gen' Court ; paid for horse this night
at Malum's, 2? and lodged again at Wardell's.

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i^th. Sent son's horse to his father Bowies'. Went
not home this week, and Sabbath at Dr. Coleman's.
20th. Monday. Very cold, and all Roxbury Bay
frozen over. I went over the Neck and visited Maj.
Bowles and Mr. Walter, and dined with Judge Dudley.
2i.f/. Superior Boston Court long adjournment Paid
Mr. Dan' Goff for 24 bottles Madeira Wine, £2. 5,, and
for the two dozen bottles, 14.', and for negro carriage, i',
total £1. o. o.
24//;. Fryday. Pd Mr. Boydel for 14 pounds good
raisins, sent by Cole.
25///. Saturday. I put in a large hat box given me
by Coz. Bowdoin two plum cakes ; on board Cole.
December 2d. Saturday. I paid Mrs. Wardell £l. 2. 6
in full to that time.
^th. Came to Gen' Court adjournment.
gth. Paid Coffin's score in full to this day.
13//^ Again at Council Chamber, Gen' Court Charles
town. Lodged at WardeU's to Saturday.
27^/^. Wednesday. Came again to Council Chamber.
Rid over Penny Ferry ; footed over Charlestown Ferry
to Wardell's.
29//^. Fryday. (Expecting the governor would adjourn
for long the Gen'! Court), I went over Charlestown
Ferry on foot and from Charlestown rid to Salem in the
evening ; but on the Wednesday after, viz : the 3'' day
of January, the Governor adjourned the Gen' Court to
the .... day of April next, and the 3'' day ordered a
Gen' Council the 1 1'^ of which I had no notice tUl after
noon of the said 11'" day.
1733. yanuary \. Monday. A mUder, sunshine day
after 6 or 7 weeks of intense, constant and very wintry
cold weather, by which Salem Harbour down below the

36 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [i733-
Fort, and even the aqua vit., is lock't up., with about lO of
our Barbadoes and Saltituda vessels in the ice, which
the owners and masters of are now with God's aid, and
by the people's help, endeavoring to cut out ; hie labor,
hoc opus est I
^th. Ffyday. About 9 o'clock this morning, was born
unto my son Benjamin and his wife, Mary, a daughter,
whom, on the Lord's day, the 7'" inst, they had baptised
by the Rev. Sam' Fisk and named after her grandmother,
my wife, and her mother, Mary ; God grant the child
may grow in health, stature and grace.
ith. Alonday. They began at the mouth of the har
bour to cut the ice, and so up to the vessels ; which was
near a mile in the channel's winding.
c^th. Tuesday. About 6 a. m. Miah. Stone from C.
H., went with my Rosy black, and my Primus horses, and
fetched Billy and George from Cambridge CoUedge home
to Salem. I agreed with him for 4', but gave him 5',
and found oats for both horses there, and gave him if 6^
more. Daughter begins to suckle her little Molly ; God
make her a good nurse.
lotli. I went as a messenger with Mr. Fisk, Col. Bar
ton, and Deacon Osgood, over Beverly Ferry on horse to
Mr. Warren's ordination at Wenham.
wth. Maj. Bowles came to Salem just as his wife was
got into the chaise to return home ; so he staid all night,
and in the afternoon, after visiting his daughter and
granddaughter, went down to the vessels that were cut
ting out a passage along the ice, but the neap tide
stopped Groundsell till Fryday.
12^'/^. Maj. Bowles, this Fryday morning with his wife
and son Isaac, set out hence for Roxbury in our sley
chaise with my Primus ; Billy Bowles returned the next
day.

I733-] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 37
Ilth. Capt Pate in Coz. W" Browne's brig, Capt Hub.
Gardner in Coz. Benj. Browne's brig, and Capt Grafton
in Horn's brig, all sailed for Barbadoes and Saltituda.
14th. Capt GroundseU held up his son Jacob for bap
tism. i^tJi. Monday. Easterly rain, which thawed all the
harbour, and the ice drove out to sea.
i6th. Northerly wind, yet warm ; at about 9 p. m.
Groundsell sailed.
17//^. Wednesday. About I o'clock, Mrs. Catherine,
wife of Coz. Sam' Browne, was delivered of a very large
daughter, which was baptised on the following Sunday,
Catherine. 23^'. Tuesday. Mrs. Stone had on her husband's ac
count 5 lbs. of choice Thom"' Island sheeps wool for
worsted, at 3' per pound, coming to 15?
2(^111. AIo7iday. Came to Wardell's, and Geo. Corwin
to Cambridge College.
lotli. Charlestown Superior Court began ; at night at
Warden's. list. A bearer at Mrs. S. Jacob's burial, with gloves
for myself and wife ; I had also a large ring and es
cutcheon. Lodged at WardeU's.
February ist. Thursday night at Mr. Russell's.
4th. Lord's Day. At night at WardeU's ; breakfasted
at Bowdoin's, dined and supped with Mr. Checkley.
ytli. Wednesday night at Mr. RusseU's.
Zth. Tliursday. Gave Mr. Russell's negro man, there, 5?
In Court, but 3 (Cushing, and Quincy going home from
Boston), finished aU the cases and 60 accons ; my part
without my fifth part of aU BiUs of Costs, £6. 0. o. ; my
part of Court dinners from 30"" of January to 8"^ Feb
ruary £2. 12. o; came home by Medford.
\2th. Monday. Came with son's Benj", on his horse.

38 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [i733-
and W" on my black Rosy, for CoUedge, and at Moor's
dined, and oated three horses, and am debtor there for
all, and paid as below.
i6th. I paid W" Windover for a good plain English
saddle tree without stirrups four pounds down, and prom
ised him lo' when come home.
ijth. Saturday. Foul weather, and my kibed heels
very bad ; stayed the Sabbath.
i%th. Sabbath'd at Mr. Mather Biles, his Church, with
Mr. Auchmuty, who sent his chaise this morning for me.
I dined with him and contributed 5? This week the In
dian, Julian, arraigned and tryed by Jury ; guUty. I
gave Rose Pits for nursing 3?
23.^^. Friday. Billy last night lodged with me and
queries about his making the Commencement oration.
26th. Monday. S. Field meeting always the last Mon
day in February, I, moderator.
2'jtli. Tuesday. Salem great pasture meeting ; I, mod
erator ; great storm of rain and snow.
28//:. Wednesday. Came to Boston Superior Court
this i'^ week. At Moor's, and by Penny Ferry to Charles
town Ferry. Horse at MiUer's, lodged and supped on
eggs, at Warden's.
March 2d. I paid Mr. WUloughby 24' for his right of
coinons for 2 years hence.
loth. Saturday. Post from Piscataqua. The Gov
ernor returns and lodges on Thursday night at Salem,
which hinders my going to our Boston Court adjourn
ment next Tuesday.
14th. Paid Ja. Brown and Mr. Palmer's son Rich. 8'
for 4 good fowls.
i^th. Thursday. This night before sunset, Gov.
Belcher came to my house with the principal officers of
the town, who accompanied him to supper.

1 733-] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 39
16//;. Friday. After breakfast at about 11, the Sur
veyor General, Controller Lambert Sheriff Col. Marston,
and our principal gentlemen, waited upon the Governor
to Lin bounds, and some, to Moor's in Cambridge.
I yth. Saturday. This morning at 7, Jno. Edgecomb
from C. H. with my JoUy, led my Primus for William,
whom, I hope (God willing), to see weU here in the even
ing. iWi. Lord's Day. Daughter with my Pri. chaised to
Meeting and home with wife.
i<^th. Monday. Our mass meeting at which the vil-
age intend to urge their being a township.
20th. Mr. Sam! Browne's daughter Katharine, buried.
2lst. Wednesday. Billy with Sam. Corwin went to
the Valedictory oration pronounced by Tyley, and returns
to stay with us (God willing) Saturday the 24"" inst.
22d. Tliursday. A great snow. Paid Mr. Maning 13'
10'', my county, and 19', S**, my town, rates, and so he
crossed me out of the list
24//;. Son William returned from College after he had
received from the College Treasurer, Col. Hutchinson,
.;i{^24, for two years last past, on account of his grand
father's and uncle Samuel's legacy, out of which he paid
the steward in full of all arrears and dues, £11. o. o.'
26//^. Deep and damp snow storm from early morning
to night.
1 The legacy here referred to was that of Major William Browne, who
bequeathed j^'ioo to Harvard College for the benefit of his descendants,
and also of poor scholars from Salem. His father the Hon. William
Browne, his brother the Hon. Benjamin Browne, and his son Samuel
Browne, also left legacies of ;ii^ioo, f,ioo, and ;^I50 respectively, towards
the same object. These several legacies were, by a vote of the President
and Fellows of Harv.ard College, passed in 1S71, united to form a fund
for the establishment of a scholarship, to be known as the "Browne Schol
arship." Samuel Browne directed that such scholars should be preferred
as his posterity might desire.

40 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [i733-
April 1st. Lord's Day. My dear wife sorely distressed
in spirit, yet (by God's grace, I trust with my persuasion).
received at the Lord's Supper with me.
2d. Monday. At 6 a. m. went with son's horse by
Watts' to our Boston Court's last adjournment sine die ;
Supped here with Mr. Ting on smelts. Received of Mr.
Tyley the residue of my court fees, £y, which with the
£i2 make ;^I9.
4th. Dined with the Governor and Dudley and the
Surveyor General at Lutwiche's club. Pd if 6?
Sth. Thursday. I dined with the Inferior Court,
breakfasted at WardeU's, and at night, hot phlip.
6th. Breakfasted at Judge Davenport's and at night,
hot phlip.
yth. Dined with Coz. Benjamin Browne at Moor's.
gth. Monday. Capt Durel, the Saltituda Guard Ship
came into Salem, and brings the bad news that Capts.
Woodbury and Gardner, with two Boston vessels, were
taken by two 60 or 70 gun Spanish men of war ; Graf
ton is arrived, and Groundsell and others expected.
wth. Ezek' Fowler shoed my son's horse for our
Barnstable and Plymouth Courts, and took him to Tom
Simons to bring home and cauk shoes.
i2th. Came to Boston with son's horse over Watts'
Ferry. Horse at Miller's ; lodged at WardeU's.
Ilth. Fryday. This morning (God willing), am setting
out for Stoughton to Esty's ; thence after to Manley's
beyond Dorchester Cedar Swamp, thence to Bridge-
water. 14//^. Saturday. Set out from Mr. Perkins' at Bridge-
water with Judge Dudley, and Undersherift" Ames. Cost
us each about 10' all along to Mr. Sever's where we met
the rest but Quincy. Lodged at Witherell's, as did Mr.
Rolfe.

1 733-] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 41
15//;. Lord's Day. Contributed 5?
i6th. Monday. Dined at Sandwich at Newcomb's ;
thence to widow Lathrop's, where supped and breakfasted
(tho' dined at Sturgis', all the Court, diners,) tiU Sat
urday. 2ist. Saturday. From Barnstable Court to Plymouth
again. Plymouth Court began and held to Monday night,
April 30'"
j\lay 1st. Tuesday. Came from Plymouth Court to
Boston. 2d. Early this morn, from Watts' where I lodged. I
called and saw my boat at Oliver's, who saith she shall
be launcht next week but without cuddy. At home by
10 o'clock.
id. Thursday. At C. H. Stone has broke up, sown,
and planted the last month, and the beginning of this, at
N. Field. N''' of the barn.
"Sith. Tuesday. Ja. Stone with his new Brindle yoke
of oxen broke up my acre of land devised to me by Col°
Browne, by Jer. Neal's.
loth. Thursday. I paid Rob' Gray, Jr., for caulking
graving and mending my gundalo, mill pond boat and
canoe 22? in full.
Ilth. About 7 a. m. went to Ipswich Sup'' Court and
there 3 nights. Friday p. m. got home.
2 1st. Monday. Morning at 5 went over Beverly ferry
for York Superior Court, at Ipswich breakfasted, at
Newbury by old ferry, and at Woodbridge's dined ; thence
to Hampton, baiting there and lodged at the Bear.
22(/. Got to York before the opening of the Court,
lodged at Prebble's and pastured my horse there.
2ith. Fryday. Came from York p. m. and over two
ferries, 2f Dined at Madam Hurt's' late and got weU
to Newbury at 8. 1 Madam Hurst.

42 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [i733-,
26th. From Woodbridge's at 6 A. m. Got home by 10.
The whole expence from York to Salem about 20?
29//^. Tuesday. Came by Moor's where (by Col° Tur
ner's example) I also treated the Essex representatives
with a large sangaree.
loth. Eleccon ended, with Mr. Cook and .... rep',
whom Colo. Tha.xter, Dudley, Turner, Cushing and my
self treated at 5' per man ; I paid Lutwich.
yune 1st. Friday. Dined at Capt Durell's, and after
at Council Board which adjourned to Tuesday at 3 p. m.;
so I came over Watts' Ferry and lodged at Moor's.
2d. I came by Spring farm to C. H. and thence
home thro' S. F. by 8 A. m.
id. Lord's Day. Received the Sacrament
Ith. Came with my son Benjamin to the Gen' Court,
but he to Roxbury to visit his wife, — Molly sick.
6tli. Sent by my son also Billy's padesoyn,' for his
Commencement yth. Dined with the Governor, and one day this week
with Mr. Tyley.
gth. Saturday. Came home and dined with son, Maj.
Plaisted and daughter.
20th. Wednesday. Went with son William in chaise
with his Commencement clothes to Cambridge ; I from
thence to Charlestown and Boston Gen' Court
2ist. General CouncU for civil officers for Essex.
22d. Friday. More nominated, and the Gen'l Court
adjourned to the is"* of August.
23,^. Saturday. Brought my mother. Madam Browne,
in a chaise from Charlestown to Salem ; dined at Moor's.
This day had a case or box, with 12 flasks of rich Flor
ence, of under Sheriff Goff, which is to be paid for, ac
cording to the goodness of it at 2f 6^, or returned.
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2ZtIi. Went with son Benjamin in my chaise to New-
ell's, \ Moon, to Cambridge, and lodged at Col. Goffe's.
2gtli. Commencement ; weU disputed ; our WUliam
the last in the morning.
lotJi. Returned home in our chaise.
ytily 1st. Lord's Day. Sacrament by Mr. Amos Cheever
of Manchester ; Mr. Fisk sick.
2d. Paid 1 5' for a good load of wood at 22' per cord.
2:th. Lord's Day. Mr. Samuel Jeffers of Wells preached
all day ; after the sermon, he and his wife at my house,
and I gave him lof
26/Z'. Thursday. In the afternoon, Scooner Rumney
sailed from Jona. Woodbury's Cove, Beverly, on a fish
ing voyage towards Cape Cod, EUingwood, Skipper. I
paid Mr. James JefTers 50', being in full of my part of
the charges of the Ecclesiastical Council about our min
ister, Mr. Fisk.
2gth. Loi'ds Day. I, with sons, heard Mr. Jennison ;
p. M. my honoured mother Browne ; what we shall do
in the future, God in his wisdom and grace direct
31^^*. Calasht from Charlestown to Cambridge Court
alone. August 1st. Wednesday. TUl Saturday at Cambridge
Superior Court
2d. Scooner Rumney returned with about 10 Quin
tals of fish in a week and two days.
^th. Lord's Day. I, with son Benjamin, who had on
last Friday long discoursed with Mr. Fisk, Mr. Jo. Bow
ditch and Mr. Hi.x, but had no satisfaction, and aU my
family, except my wife who by reason of iUness stayed at
home, held the Communion at Mr. Jennison's.
8th. Schooner Rumney early this Wednesday morn
ing sailed from Jona. Woodbury's for fishing.
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to Woodbury's fishing Cove at Beverly and had about 7
hundred of upland and Polipod hay, part from my Blivin's
Lot, brought me.
13;'/^. Monday. In afternoon, came thro' many show-
erings, by Watts', to Boston.
September ist. Saturday. Brought Mother Browne
back again in the chaise ; we dined at Moor's.
6th. Thursday. Robert Wilson and Mary Wilson, his
brother Isaac's widow, signed a petition to the Gen' Court
to sell their five acre lot at C. Hill neck. This day I fin
ished my last will, and signed, sealed, published, and de
clared it to be so, in the presence of Col. Thomas Bar
ton, Mr. Nat! Osgood, and Mr. John Barton, witnesses ;
and I left it sealed up in a paper in my desk in m}'- closet,
not to be opened till after my death.'
yth. Came from Salem for our Bristol, Worster and
Springfield Circuit ; over Watts' ferry with horse, dined
at Bowdoin's, and lodged at WardeU's.
?,th. Breakfasted at Maj'"' Bowies', dined at Vose's and
lodged there ; visited Mr. Sam'l Dunbar in the evening.
gth. Sabbath'd, and received the Sacrament, at his
Church. Contri. 3? 9'', and to him lof bill.
Mr. Dunbar's text was from the 24"^ chapter of Gene
sis, the 63'' verse. "And Isaac went out to meditate in the
field at the eventide." Isaac was a godly man and fre
quent in holy meditacon and on this special occasion went
into the field as a retirement and place of meditacon on
the great message of his father's faithful serv' in bringing
him home Rebecca, for there was the happy event and
success of it as in the ne.xt verse, " And he lift up his
eyes and saw and behold the camels were coming." This
cause of meditacon should be imitated by young persons
1 He subsequently made another will, which will be found in the Ap
pendix.

1733] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 45
about to marry, that their marriage covenant may be
blest ; and the gracious soul wiU redeem time for holy
meditacon, meditacon in a holy recoUection of God and
his goodness and his holy dispensations. As a man that
eats his meat chews it, thus fitting it for digestion, that
it may nourish the body, so the soul by meditacon, etc. ;
it is, as it were, chewing the cud of the creatures — a
holy ruminating. And the times and places of medita
con ; these should be continually mixt in all our actions
and affairs ; so ejaculatory prayer is from a short medita
con ; but i", in the morning ; 2'', in the evening, and at
other times and occasions, etc.
loth. I paid Mrs. Hewins for cedar baskets, knot bowls
and broom, 55', bound up together and to be carted and put
on board a Salem sloop, or left at Mr. Robert's, a cooper's
shop on the N. side of Gov"^ Belcher's warehouse, for me
at Salem. This Monday morn. I breakfasted at Edward
Esty's ; he went with me to the swamp, and I ordered him
privately to measure his and Pope's lot, as bounded by
agreement by the brook, and tell me the difference in
acres ; thence we oated and drunk at Manly's, dined at
Williams', and he left me ; I gave him 5' and took young
Esty as my guide to Briggs'. In the evening came to Mr.
Turner's, and supped and lodged with hira.
wth. Early breakfasted; gave him for his chUdren
5', and to his men and maid 2? 6'', and he rode with me to
Swansy Meetinghouse ; thence I got to Madam Pain's
at 9 ; was trimmed by the barber and, with Col. Quincy,
Davenport and Remington, sat in Court Lodge at
Mad"" Pain's ; horse at Col° Sher: Church's pasture ;
gave Madam Pain for maid and servants, 15', and to
Col" Church, his son, for horse, lOf
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46 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [i733-
oated and eat at Fisk's in the Gore,' and lodged at Men
don. lith. Dined at Leland's, thence to Worcester, lodged
at Col. Chandler's till the Court was over on Saturday.
22^. Saturday. Proceeded to Springfield, came be
fore sunset to Mr. Cheney's ; supped, lodged, and Sab
bath'd there; gave lo?
24//^. Monday. Proceeded for Springfield Court ;
dined at Scott's, thence got to Springfield before night.
Supped at Worthington's, lodged till Fryday morning at
Mr. Hitchcock's ; gave about 18? My court fees with
bills, costs, etc. £y. 10. 9.
2?,th. Fryday. In morning returned homeward ; dined
at Scot's without Tyley ; supped and lodged at Mr.
Cheney's. 2gtli. Came to Lerned's, thence to Howard's ; at
Worcester dined ; thence to Agur's at Westborough.
loth. Sabbath'd at Marlboro' ; heard Mr. Kent from
4. James 14; "A Vapour." Gave Mr. Kent 4' 6" bill.
October 1st. Came to Sudbury on Monday ; thence to
Harrington's in Watertown, where dined and made up
with Davenport our accounts from Springfield.
2d. Tuesday. Stayed at home ; Paid Ezek' Fowler
14', in full of all accounts as by his receipt.
id. Wednesday. In chaise with my Chestnut, brought
Mother Browne by Watts' to Boston, and myself to the
Gen' Court adjournment this day ; After CouncU up.
Lodge at WardeU's till Saturday.
4tli. Dined with Boston Inferior Court at WardeU's.
' What was termed the Attleborough Gore w.as in the southern part of
what is now Cumberland, R. I. It was once the residence of William
Blackstone, its first settler, and was within the limits of the ancient Reho
both.

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Ith. Fryday. Put in Robert WUson's petition with
his sister, Isaac's widow's, and paid secretary lo?
6th. Saturday. Paid Lutwich 40' 10'' in full to this
day, and saw my account and credit I paid Moor in full
to this day.
8th. Monday. I paid Mr. Sam' Ruck £l. more on my
Boat Scooner Rumney's account, as by his receipt under
his bad gloved hand.
gth. Mr. Phippen's eldest son hoop't my two Pipes
throughout. IC///. Paid Dows 5' for two Indian painted paddles,
and 5 more for six shaved spruce large poles which I car
ried in boat to C. Hill.
14^'//. Lord's Day. Mr. Clark preached all day (Mr.
Fisk absent) by the Par. Committee's recommendation.
Ilth. Monday. Came to General Court by Watt's;
left horse there and dined there ; lodged at WardeU's till
Saturday. i6th. Dined with Judge Davenport; club at Var-
dy's.' 17///. Wednesday. Dined at Lutwich's.^ Club there
and paid for Foxcroft,' gratis, if 6* and for Davenport
I' and &}
18th. After lecture, dined at Col. Winthrop's club ; at
night at Lutwiches, and supped at Wardell's on three
In the morning, I paid Mr. B. Emons in full for aU the
sails, rigging, etc., as by his receipt, ;^I3. 12. o., and
bought and paid for, and put on board Felt for Salem,
1 Luke Vardy at this time kept the Royal E.xchange Tavern in King
Street, on the lower corner of "what is now Exchange Street.
» Edward Lutwich kept the " Bunch of Grapes" on the corner of King
and Kilby Street.
' Francis Foxcroft was the son of Judge Francis Foxcroft, and sat on
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128 pds., viz : about 19 fathom of cable and stays for the
same cast away boat £2. 13. 4, as by Etnons' receipt. I
paid Col. Wainwright 10' for Robert WUson's peticon,
which the Board granted, but which the House, thro'
Cook and Stodder, negatived. Q. How, and by whom,
and who absent .'' But reconsidered.
igih. But again negatived the same evening, so lyes
on the table. The Judges' allowance settled at night by
Amy, Troop, Warren, Epes, Chandler, Bisby, B. Browne,
(all of whom with Col. Turner I treated with wine at
Lutwiche's) to be £1000 ; my part at £600 for three
years to next December, or this FaU.
2'oth. Saturday. At Moor's dined, and treated with
punch Mr. Choate, Peabody, etc., and paid in full about
6f 22d. Monday. Training.
23^. I bought and paid for, four gallons of green Fyal
wine at 7f 6'.' per gallon.
November Zth. Tliursday. By Watts', at the conclu
sion of the General Court In the evening (Judge Dav
enport with me) I received of Treasurer Allen my
£600, due me for my three years allowance for my Cir
cuit attendance last past.
gth. I left ;£ioo of the 600, bound up in paper for
Mrs. Ting, Mrs. WardeU's daughter, where I lodged ; I
paid for my new bob wig, to Mr. Langdon, ;!^4. 10. o. ;
I let Geo. Corwin have lof Came to Moor's and paid
him. 13///. With an E. N. E. storm of rain at my back,
about 6 A. M., I came by Watts to our Boston adjourned
Court ; breakfast and tea at WardeU's, where lodge till
Saturday. \lth. Thursday. Paid Mr. Gouch 17? 6 for William's
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17^'//. Saturday. I paid Mrs. Frances Wardell for
Wm's Commencement things, viz : a large cake, 4 gallons
of West India Rum, at 8' 6., 2 neats tongues at 5',
4 gaUons of Madeira Wine at 10' ; all these came to
£g. 4. 5 ; I paid her for my lodging to this day £1. 3. o,
and for \ yard flannel 2f , so that in aU, as by her receipt
in full to this day, I paid her £12. 9. 5. This day I paid
Mr. Watts from 29"* May 1733, to this day, for horse
keeping, ferriage, and self, £4. 19. S, as by his receipt
2ist. I bought and paid for 3 quarters of lamb and 2
quarters mutton, etc., 20' ; and turkey and 4 fowles, 6',
and bread with cyder for the Poor.
22d. Thursday. Thanksgiving. Contrib. 3of, and
wife I of (etc. 2f)
December id. Monday. To our adjournment from
August Superior Court at Boston to this 4'" inst. At
More's, oats and mulled cydar, and return home. At
Watts', a cherry dram, and horse ferryed over.
4th. Tuesday. I paid BUIings for son WUliam's Com
mencement clothes, ^^38. 16.
26///. Wednesday. Son Benja. went early with Capt.
Groundsell to Boston ; I heard Mr. White of Gloster, his
lecture for Mr. Jennison.
1734. April 1st. Monday. [In] morning early Geo.
Corwin went with my horse and lad to Cambridge, after
having been at home two weeks. This morning at Cas
tle HiU, and James Stone and his brother Mia. go a rock-
weeding with Mr. Witherly, Benj. Smith, and Mr. Grant,
but with my squew and boat About 5 or 6 got through
with good loads, and, after some phlip, landed the small
boat's load with about 2 tumbrils at Springfield by the
Spring, and the gundalo at the S. E. end of my bounds
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4th. PubHc Fast for the Poor; myself, 15', my wife,
I of 6th. Stone has sowed 3 bushels of oats and 4 bushels
of bariy, S'>' by the barn, and N. W'^ by the great HiU.
Sith. Came to both Courts' adjournment by Watts' ;
dined at WardeU's.
gth. Tuesday. Our Superior Court adjourned to the
Friday after the election in May. I bought and paid Mr.
Thacher, a Norwalk Sloopman, for 5 baggs 25', and 10
bushels of good winter seed rye in the said baggs,
marked with L. each. Dined with the Court at Bro.
Davenport's with the rest
10///. Dined at Lutwich' s, and paid for dinner, punch,
and coffee, 4f
11///. Thursday. Dined with the Governor.
12th. Dined at Col. Thaxter's.
14th. Lord's Day. Three ships from England, after
eight weeks' passage, bring no certainty of war, but
fears. i6//^ Tuesday. D. G. sweet rain this night and suc
ceeding morn.
igth. Fryday. Went over with horse to Boston at 12 ;
met representatives, who being dissolved, were going
home. Put my horse at Malum's, where dined ; lodged
at Wardell's.
20th. Saturday. Abo. 6 A. M., paid for my dinner and
horse for the night, 6f ; came to Vose's, dined there and
supped on sarnon trout.
2ist. Sabbathed at Mr. Dunbar's meeting house, where
he preached from 116 Ps. 4'?, a. m. and 5"", p. m. "Then
called I upon the Name of the Lord ; O Lord, I be
seech Thee deliver my soul." 5"" verse, " Gracious is
the Lord, and righteous, yea our God is mercifuU ; " I
pray God I may remember it, and that it may, by God's

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gracious spirit make a saving impression on my heart
and life.
I contributed but 15', and next morning paid Mrs.
Hewins for my horse and lodging, etc., 26f
22^. Monday. 6 a. m. I had Edw. Esty with me
thro' my lot by the Dorchester cedar Swamp, and noted
4 large white oak, good timber, trees, some carried away,
and some held there, one, particularly, about 50 feet long,
suited for a keel ; this by young Pope's order, who
owned the fact of two ; I paid Ed. Esty £1. Prov. BiUs,
for his getting 200 cedar rails carted this month to
MUton landing place, for Mr. Eno. Wiswall at T. I.
From Manly's proceeded to Capt Howard's, Bridgewater,
thence on the road with Manly for about 12 mUes, before
coming to Mr. Sever's, where arrived at 3 p. m., and, re
freshed with fine tea, etc., Judge Dudley, Quincy, and I
proceeded to Plymouth [where arrived] about sundown.
Lodged at Witherell's.
23^. Tuesday. Plymouth Court began.
2gth. Monday. Sweet rain all night and this morning,
hindering our setting out for Barnstable Court but we
set out before 10, and dined at Sandwich ; I lodged at
Lathrop's. loth. Tuesday. Court began.
May 1st. Col" Jno Wanton was Chosen Governor of
R. Island, and Mr. [Martin], Recorder, Ward, his com
petitor, not withstanding.^
gth. Thursday. Mr. Tyley paid me, after his paying
my part of Barnstable Court entrys, etc. ; £4. 15. 2. ;
then all my Plymouth, saving bUls and costs, £12.0. o.
After 2 p. M., I got to Hingham, Cushing's.
lOth. About 6. a. m. proceeded to Boston, stopped at
Col. Quincy's, and thence with Mr. Gridly to Boston, and
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52 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [i734-
so directly with horse over ferry to Watts', where dined
in his new house ; thence stopped at Moor's, and so
home before sunset.
I ith. Satin-day. As the Church had appointed, I with
Col. Barton, Jas. Lyndal Esq, Col? Marston, and Mr. Nut
ting, waited on Mr. Fisk with a message in writing from
under our brethren, in number . . . . , which I acquainted
him with. But he at once said. If it were anything from
the Churches that had been lately at Salem, he would not
hear nor receive it We told him, it was from our ag
grieved fellow brethren of the Church in Salem. He still
replyed, if our message was any wayes in relation to the
affair of the said Churches, he would not hear nor re
ceive it So after declaring to him his obstinacy in the
matter, Mr. Nutting, after offering the writing to him, on
which he returned a step or two back, we bid him leave
it with Mr. Fisk, which he did on the table, with our de
sire that he would read and consider of it ; but he said
he should do neither, but said it was an imposition on
him and an insult ; on which, when we were leaving him,
and telling him if he would not take any notice of it, he
might do as he pleased, he then asked us to drink a glass
of wine, which we did.
I2th. Lord's day. Heard Mr. W" Jennison.
13///. Went over in a Canoe to Castle HiU.
14//;. Tuesday. Early, I went to Ipswich Sup'^ Court,
Ipswich. Lodged at Mr. Jo. Brown's, and there kept my
son's horse at 3' per night, with one quart of barley and
one quart of white bran ; so to Saturday, 4 nights.
iZth. Court dinners paid by Rolfe, my part of 4,
Remington absent, £1. w. 8. My 4"^ part of Court
fees paid by Mr. Rolfe .;£i4. 16. 6.; add Plymouth and
Barnstable Courts, £16 15. 2.
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and his Company, with WiUiam ; dined also, Mr. Plac-
ston. Judge of the Admiralty of Barbadoes, an ingenious
gentleman and bachelor.
2ist. Tuesday. I paid Witherel for his two days
rock weeding about the middle of April last at 7' per
day, i4f
28111. Came to Boston adjournment and for Eleccon
Court ; Lodged at Wardell's.
2gth. Wednesday. Eleccon over before night, and Mr.
Wendell, the new CounciUor.
yune 4th. Tuesday. Came with chaise to Watts', my
son WiUiam being ill from Saturday.
Ith. He went home in the chaise, so horse one night
at Watts'.
8th. Saturday. Intend [to go] home, if horse bro't
to Watts'.
10//^. O. Leach cut a narrow draining place thro' the
marsh ditch at Castle Hill Neck by Neal's Lot, and also
by my Curtis's Lot to let out the salt water of high
tides, and the overflowings of rain thro' two sluices.
I Ith. Leach again from morning till 4 p. m, cleansing
the salt marsh side of the same ditches, from said Cur
tis's Lot westward.
15///. Saturday. Capt White presented wife with a
fine pine apple by the hands of daughter, she saying it
was on Bro. William's account.
lyth. Monday. This morning about 7 or 8 I set out
with Capt Jn" Higginson for our York Court, but my
son's horse proved very lame till we came to Ipswich,
where I had his two fore shoes taken off, his hoof paired
well, and the shoes hollowed and set again by Mr. Abby ;
and the horse was well after. Baited our horses at Stan
ford's, took tankard bounce, and dined at Newbury. All,
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tho' I lodged at Capt Hurst's, and next day breakfasted
there. i8th. About 10 this morning, left them, giving to the
servants 3', and to his little son i? 6*, and came to Preb
ble's, where I dined and put horse to pasture.
2ith. Tuesday. In the morning left York Court, fin-
isht, and, about 12 oclock, went by Col. W" Pepperil's
invitation with Judge Dudley and his Jn", and dined at
the Coif At night lodged at Capt Hurst's.
26th. Before 5 a. m. proceeded, and got to Newbury
about 9, and thence to Ipswich ; dined at Ipswich about
4, thence home about 5. p. m.
28^//. Over at Castle HiU to view things ; returned
before 7. a. m.
yuly 1st. Monday. At C. H. ; Ja. Stone with Britton's
2 oxen carted from my Bests pasture abo. 25 hundred
pure clover hay that was cut the 27'!"
2d. Tuesday. [In the] morning by lo, over Watts'
Ferry and timely at the Council ; dined at Davenport's ;
on 'Wednesday, at Tyley's, and on Thursday at Mr. Jef-
fry's. The Governor adjourned the General Court to
the 11'" of September a. m.
Ith. Friday. At Watts' in the morning ; over the
Ferry about 7 ; breakfasted there, so to More's, and
dined with wife at home.
6th. Over at Castle Hill before 5 with canoe ; paid
Mid. Putnam in fuU, and for 6\ feet of wood, 23f S* ; so
rubbed him out on the slate.
11///. Thursday. This day I dined with Inferior
Court with Judge Plaxton.
14///. Lord's Day. Sweet showerings of rain.
15///. Monday. Jas. Stone and Ja. Marston mowed the
S. Y)! part of my Springfield enclosure. This day, Maj'
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for the i" Church of Roxbury, in consultation about our
church. i6th. The .... Churches, with their delegations,
formed themselves into a Council on the Salem Church
affair. 17///. Wednesday. The Church, Mr. F. notified to at
tend p. M. in the Meetinghouse, but only the aggrieved
brethren in the front gallery attended.
18///. Sammy with Edward Britton's team, about
6 A. M., brought into my home barn a load of hay of
about 18 cwt from C. H. Springfield.
20///. Saturday. The Grand Council left a letter of
advice, etc., with Mr. Fisk, but he obstinately rejected
Mr. Moody's leaving it, and would have caUed for a Jus
tice or Court
2ist. Lord's Day. Mr. Fisk; self justifying prayer,
psalm and sermon; but secus of Mr. Jennison ....
his sermon on the divisions of Reuben — deep thoughts.
Great rain, and so in the night until morning, and then
fair. 29///. Monday. Early at C. H. and Col. Turner begin
ning to mow. This morning Mr. Woodbury and his skip
per tell me they lost schooner Rumney's lesser anchor
near the Cape ; the old cable rotten and broke.
30///. Tuesday. I rose early for Cambridge Superior
Court, but rain prevented till dinner, about 12 ; then met
with several small showerings ; stopt at Maiden, oated,
and, at Medford Plain by the fountain, met Deputy
Sheriff Whitmore with the Courts', viz. : Dudley and Dav
enport's, letter to be speedily at Court or it might fail,
Col° Quincy and Mr. Remington both being so iU as not
able to attend the Court ; only Remington persuaded, so
that the Court opened before dinner, and I came by the
first Cause called, p. M.; yet Remington allowed for his

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General Court allowance, but Q. whether for the actions
on which he sat not Lodged at Col. Goffe's.
August id. Saturday. Court up, and about 3. P. M.
gave at Goffe's lof to servants ; I received of cler. Rolf
in part of my part of Entrys, £y. o. o.
4th. Lord's Day. Night attended the very large
funeral of Nat Colby Jun^, who on Saturday morning
fell from the uppermost scaffold of Maj. Plaisted's new
buildings, to the ground, on his head, and broke his skuU,
and dyed immediately, p. m. Dyed Capt Jn? Shattuck
Ith. Monday, p. m. Mr. Shattuck was buried. This
day, Jn? Williams carted good boards, and made a floor,
and thrasht out my new Browne's Pasture oats with Mr.
Witherly's help, and brought home about 10 bushels in 6
bags in their husks and chaff to be winnowed ; the oat
straw is stacked in the field.
6th. Tho. Simons with his son began about 1 1 to mow
my Blevin's lot ; his son had a bottle of rum and sugar.
gth. Fryday. Hard blowing and showery wind pre
venting going from home.
12///. Monday. Came by Watts' to Boston Superior
Court ; dined at Wardell's, and there breakfasted and
supped until Saturday morning.
13///. Court sat and but three of us at the opening,
but the ne.xt day. Judge Quincy, and continues ; Judge
Remington absent and ill.
i6th. Only this week dined at Withered's (where
Holms lived) ; paid 4f 6? This morning, my tenant, Mr.
Enoch Wiswell paid me in part of .;£iS4, being my i part
of ^309. 7. 2., the whole produce of the Island for the
year 1733.
lytli. Saturday. Returned home.
i8th. Lord's Day. The brethren on Mr. Fisk's side
signed a paper about a lecture to be set up by 1 1 of the

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neighboring ministers, for us to joyn our names with
theirs within a week, or they would proceed alone.
19///. Monday. By Watts', and dined at WardeU's, and
lodged there.
2Qth. Dined at Sheriff Winslow's,^ breakfasted and
supped at Wardells.
21^/. Dined at the Governor's.
22d. Dined at Bowdoin's, breakfasted at WardeU's, and
supped at Davenport's.
23<a?'. Fryday. Dined at Capt Goff's, breakfasted and
supped at WardeU's. About 8 this morning, by suddain
death, my dear niece Mrs. Hannah Bowdoine departed
this life, I being present with the women that held her up.
24///. Saturday. Dined at Mr. Davenport's, break
fasted at Wardell's, and supped at Bowdoin's.
25///. Lord's Day. Dr. Coleman preached a funeral
sermon on Mrs. Bowdoin's death ; his text 38"" Ps. 10'* —
" As for the light of mine eyes, it also has gone from me."
Contribi 3? 6*! Breakfasted and supped at WardeU's, and
dined at Bowdoin's.
26///. Monday. Rain all day ; breakfasted, dined, and
supped on lobster, at WardeU's.
27///. Breakfasted at Bowdoin's, dined at Withered's ;
4? 4^ and with paying for Dudley and Davenport, 8f
which Tyley is to pay me except my part, we treating
Judge Palmer and Sheriff Winslow. Mrs. Bowdoin bur
ied. Supped at WardeU's.
28///. Wednesday. Breakfasted at Capt Goff's, and with
him I bought, and paid for, 6 yds and J of a yard of scar
let cloth, Kersey wove searge, for my new chaise, £4.
1 Edward Winslow was sheriff of the County of Suffolk, and in 1743
was promoted to the Bench as the successor to Colonel Wm. Dudley at the
ripe age of 74. He was held in much estimation in his d.ay, and among
other offices which he held at the time of his death was that of Treasurer
of the County of Suffolk. See Washburn's Judicial History, page 332.

58 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [i734-
of Mr. Scot, Ironmonger. Dined at Mr. Tyley's ; with
Mr. Dudley at WardeU's club without supper.
29///. Breakfasted at Davenport's ; dined at Nichol's,
supped at WardeU's on 3 eggs.
list. Saturday. This A. M. at Castle Hill; ordered
my bay gelding to be got up, to send him off by Eli.
Moses' sloop.
September 1st. Lord's Day. The Rev. Mr. Hobby of
Reading, pastor, preached [and] administered the Sacra
ment, etc. for Mr. Jennison, he being sick ; prayers for
my little grandchild Mary, sick.
2d. At Castle Hill ; Jas. Stone had got up and forth
with rode my bay horse, and helpt get him on board Eli.
Moses' sloop, whereinto he, with three more, leaped on
the deck with ease, and stood in his place, and I hope,
D. v., will get safe and to a good market in Barbados.
5///. Jno. West new padded my old saddle for my
Bristol and long Circuit
6th. Friday. P. M. sat out from Salem for our Bris
tol, Worster, and Springfield Circuit Courts ; lodged at
Warden's. yth. Horse at Malum's, dined at Judge Dudley's,
supped and lodged with Judge Davenport at Col. Dud
ley's, where
8th. Sabbath'd and heard Mr. Walter, Junf Contri.
S' and gave him also 10' ; and ne.xt morning, 15' to chU
dren and servants.
gth. Monday. Early, Mr. Gore came into our service
for all our Circuit ; we stopped at Coney's, RoeBuck, and
oated, and thence dined at Hews ; thence supped and
lodged at Peck's, Rehoboth ; my part of the expenses
there, 13!
10///. Bristol Court began ; Rolfe, Clerk ; lodged at
Madam Paine's tiU I6'^ at which time, besides my con-

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tributions on the Lord's Day, I gave M. Turner lo?,
and to Mad"" Paine's gr. children and servants 20.', and
to young Church for my horse keeping, Sf
On this Friday evening, Judge Davenport was sud
denly taken with a convulsion, or apoplectic fit, to the
loss of his senses for half an hour, and we feared to the
loss of his life, but by God's goodness restored.
1 6///. This day in the evening, we all got to Peck's,
Rehoboth, where lodged.
17///. Tuesday. Here Mr. Rolfe made up the reck
oning with us, and paid my part of the Bristol Court
fees, ^16. 13. 8, by deducting dinners and other e.x-
penses for me, £l. o. 8 ; so remaining £11. 13. o, which
he paid in cash ; and among the rest he included my
part for Gore, isf This day in the afternoon, we aU four
Justices with Mr. Rolfe proceeded by Ceconk Plains
(where we parted with Judge Davenport and Mr. Rolfe
for Boston), Dudley, Quincy, and I, with Gore and John
by the way of Wrentham (where we lodged).
i8th. Wednesday. Proceeded, after our reckoning at
the tavern, to Mendon and baited, and thence dined at
Leland's by Sutton ; thence about 5 got to Worcester,
opened the Court, and adjourned to
igth. Thursday. I with Dudley lodged till Saturday,
at Col° Chandler's Jr. ; Tyley at Worcester before the
Court ; only 3 Justices.
2ist. Saturday. Proceeded to Brookfield, lodged at
Mr. Cheney's.
22(/. Sabbath'd there.
2id. Monday. Proceeded to Springfield, and lodged
at Hitchcock's.
24///. Tuesday. Springfield Court opened ; with but
3 Justices there ; The Court adjourned without day on
Friday night.

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28//^. Saturday. In morning left Springfield and re
turned to Brookfield.
29///. Sabbath'd at Mr. Cheney's, and our horses there
till [Monday Morning. Gave 20f for both times at Mr.
Cheney's. 30///. Monday, p. M. Got to Worcester, opened and
adjourned Court, and at night adjourned without day.
Lodged again at Col" Chandler's, Jun. I gave to his 5
little children if and to his daughter lOf and to the maid
and negro lOf
October 1st. Tuesday. Left Worster A. m. early, baited
at Egar's ; dined at Howe's, Sudbury, baited at Liver-
more's, Watertown, again at Learned's, Watertown, where
we parted, and I paid Gore ^3. o. o., besides I5f before,
for and towards his servant Lodged at Col. Goffe's,
Cambridge. 2d. Wednesday. A. m. Gave about 4'. Dined with
wife at home.
id. At Castle Hill with Nic:, gathered ' barrel of ap
ples off small tree, leaning over a rock.
4th. Friday. At Castle Hill, and in Swasy's ground,
I alone gathered one bushel of good wild apples and
brought them home in canoe.
8th. Tuesday. A. m. Early for Boston by Watts' at
about 8 oclock, on the occasion of the farther reprieve of
Ormsby for murder, and Cushing for burglary, that were
condemned, and reprieved by the Governor. Lodged
and supped at Wardell's.
gth. 'We four Justices met again this day at Judge
Davenport's ; and wrote to the Governor (now at New
Hampshire), that upon our most deliberate judgement,
we could not think the two condemned could, consistently
with his majesty's honour, or the safety of the govern
ment, be objects of the King's mercy, in order for par-

1734.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 6 1
don. Left Judge Davenport, with whom I and Judge
Quincy dined. Got over to Watts' by 3, mounted, and
got home before 6.
Ilth. Lord's Day. Mr. Chase of Lin End, a young
man, preached for Mr. Fisk, his friend.
i8th. Friday. 10 oclock A. M. The Rev'' CouncUs'
opinion of Mr. Fisk's proposals, brought in by Mr. Sam
uel Ruck at the last Council in . . . ., now analysed, para
graph by paragraph, and to which the whole Council
agreed i^iem. contra), was read in the Town House cham
ber publicly, after public notice of all the members of the
Church to be present, and after 1 1 oclock again in the
meetinghouse, and then the Council adjourned to 3,
p. M. ; then in the Meetinghouse [was] publicly read the
whole Council's Result
2Qth. Lord's Day. Mr. Sam' Moody prayed and
preached at Mr. Genison's Meetinghouse from [the text]
The Son of Man came to seek and save those that were
lost A. M. from 10 to i. p. m. from 2 to 5.
2ist. I at Castle HiU before the sun was up. Stone
gathering the corn. About 1 1, I with my daughter ca-
lash't to Watts', and ferryed over to Boston by 4. Lodged
at Warden's.
22^. Breakfasted with Mr. Handcock at Wardell's. I
gave a short Charge to the Grand Jury, on the special
Court of Assize and General Delivery, for the trial for
Rape by a Negro man called London ; p. m. Billa Vera.
Dined at Mr. S. Tyley's, with Mr. Dudley, and supped
at Bowdoin's.
23^. Wednesday. The negro tryed .k. m., and p. m.
found guilty, and after some time, and advice to him, I
pronounced sentence to be hung on the ii"* day of No
vember, being Monday. This day dined at Sheriff
Winslow's. I paid Capt Dan' Goff ly^ for 4 Kenting
neckcloths.

62 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [173S-
24//^. Thursday. They husked at Castle HiU last
night. 25//;:. Governor Belcher and Lady this night supped
and lodged at Capt B. Browne's.
1735. March 21st. Friday moming began with a
thick small snow, increasing aU day, and very stormy
Easterly and Northerly wind, with deepest snow, tiU mid
night ; GroundseU feared in great danger, and expected
long, being out 9 weeks ; I at home all day.
22^. Saturday. Early up, and earnestly sought (alone)
for God's special grace to my wife in restoring her, and
that we might have Capt GroundseU returned in safety
with his substance, or that we might be submissive to his
wUl in whatever his holy Providence might dispense to
us, and that all, and he especially, might be brought,over
the dangers of our coasts into harbour. I then went up
on the house and with telescope looked and beheld the
raging breakers beyond Baker's Island, but calmed my
imagination with some hopes that they might be safe.
But behold, in the afternoon, Capt Groundsell came from
Boston, where his brig safely arrived about 10 o'clock,
A. M., having sailed this morning at day break, a little be
fore my view, over and thro' the same breakers, with the
utmost hazard, not knowing where they were till one of
the fishermen on board spied a halfway rock ahead of
them to their great joy, from whence with a strong east
erly wind they sailed thro' Broad Sound to Boston Long
wharf to the praise of God, their and our Gracious Pre
server. 24//;:. Monday. Early, wind easterly with approach
ing storm, son Benjamin with Capt. Groundsell went to
Boston and hope to get there before noon. In the after
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snow raged mixed ; but in the forenoon the ... , W",
from Virginia, weU loaden, but with main mast gone and
damaged, got into our harbour before ; the violent storm
ceased after midnight
25^/^. I wrote and signed with Col. Turner, a warrant
of attorney to Mr. Richard Dana to plead a plea or ac
tion V. Read of Marblehead. This morning bought of
and paid Hawkins for 325 of choice beef with ribs at 8*
per pound.
27//^. Thursday. Public Fast ; contributed lof Son
Wm. with my wife at Mr. Fiske's.
28th. Friday. R. Gray caulked my periaugoe.
loth. Lord's Day. Mr. Gennison absent. Deacon El-
win prayed and read sermons A. m. and p. m. ; excellently
performed. 3ii'/. Monday. Snow turned to rain, and foul and
stormy, wind easterly.
April 1st. Judge Plaxton dyed.^
gth. To Boston Gen' Court adjournment By Watts'
by 10 A. M., dined at Treasurer Allen's, Lodged and
supped at WardeU's.
loth. Son Benj? with Col. Marston, Col. B. Browne,
etc., about the question whether the several members of
Mr. Fisk's Church who were set off to, and live within
the bounds of the Lower Eastern Precinct, and pay to
the Parish (and yet attend Mr. Fisk's ministry and ad
ministrations), can be voters with the Church and Parish
for Mr. Fisk's continuance with, or for his dismission
from, the Precinct or Parish or Church whereof Mr. Fisk
1 Judge George Plaxton, who for eight years was Treasurer of the Island
of Barbadoes, while a resident of Salem, became much interested in the
establishment of the Episcopal Church in that town, and was chairman of
a committee to address the Bishop of London in behalf of the mission.
The address was dated December 30, 1734. He was the first person buried
in the church-yard. See Perry's Historical Collection, iii. page 306.

64 DIARY OF BEAJAMIN LYNDE. [1736.
is yet pastor, (tho' under the admonitions and censures
of the CouncU of Churches with his adhering brethren),
contrary to the mind and judgement of the aggrieved
brethren of the i" Church in Salem. Breakfasted and
dined at Bowdoin's, supped with son, who also lodged
with me at WardeU's. I paid Mr. Buttles for a small
cask, of four gaUons, of rum, 32' in full.
wth. Friday. Breakfasted with son at Wardell's, and
dined at Tyley's, who paid me £l, the remainder of my
part of Boston February Court dues.
15^//. This morning Capt. Barnard went in chaise with
Col. B. Browne, to prosecute for the Church an interpre
tation of the Acts 4"^ and 5'" of WiU. and Mary, whether
the members of one Precinct, and are set off to another,
and so are taxed, may be voters in the Parish affairs of
the Church of which they are members, and where they
attend, tho' they dwell in and are taxed to the other
Parish. 17//^. Thursday. In the evening. Col. Benj. Brown
and Capt. Barnard returned and brought a copy of the
Gen' Court's explanation of the question whether Ch.
Members dwelling in another Precinct can be voters ;
resolved in our favour.
\8th. Friday. The members of the Church sent a mes
sage to Mr. Fisk to call a Church meeting about his con
tumacy with us as pastor. He refused and perempto
rily forbad them to meet ; yet p. m. at 4 the aggrieved
voted all but S. O.^ that Mr. Fisk be dismissed.
1736. March yth. Sunday. Contributed for Mr. Di-
mond, 5?
8th. About 8. A. M., went alone with Rosy to our Bos
ton adjourned Courts ; [and] to Ja: Brown's without any
track thro' half leg deep and slushy snow ; thence to
1 Samuel Osgood,

1736.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 65
Moor's with hatter Esty and Phil. Sanders and thence
to Rachel's, where left horse, and got to the fag end of
a Boston March meeting. Dined at Mrs. WardeU's and
there lodged.
gth. Breakfasted and supped at WardeU's. Dined by
Mr. Moderator Cook's invitation, at their March meet
ing, being their 2^ and like to be a 3'* and 4'^ dinner at
Wardell's ; they having discovered one .... Rimple,'
that keeps the Green Dragon, to have generally put in
three votes for Overseer of the Poor, which confused
the meeting for this week.
10^/^. Breakfasted and supped on two eggs at War
deU's ; dined at Mr. Rolfe's with the Court, Doctor Sew
all, and Mr. Checkley, Auchmuty, etc., very elegantly.
This morning Mr. Bound brought me at 7 o'clock my
leather breeches which before him I put on, in order to
his fitting them on me ; so I paid him in full for them, as
by his acc't and rec't, £l. 7. o. Had shainy leather
pockets put into my black cloth breeches also. Received
of Clerk, Mr. Rolfe £21. in payment for our 5 weeks
Superior Court entrys, and fees, as did Judge Dudley
also at the same time.
wth. Breakfasted at Mr. Goff's, visited Mr. Brown, and
Mr. Geo. Short and went over to Watts', where stayed
while 10, for Mr. Tyng, with WUliam, dined at Moor's.
I2th. Fryday. Early over by New Wall on hi. way
round to C. H. ; 20 lambs, and more expected, but alas !
too soon. Came home partly over the thin ice from
the point to Hathorn's Rock and this by 8 o'clock.
14///. Sunday. Mr. Sparhawk preach'd to aU our lik
ing. Contri. Sf
Ilth. Monday. ]\Ir. Phil. English buried, and Mr. F.
1 Probably James Wimble, who kept an inn in Union Street at this
date. S

66 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [1736.
prayed, contrary to the expectation of many, who went
out, Mr. Gennison sitting by ; this by the motion of ilrs.
Browne, English's daughter.
i6th. Tuesday. At Col. Turner's in the afternoon ;
saw Biles' payment of his whole mortgage by Mr. Eve-
leth entered, but not endorsed ; there was 7' wanting ;
this greatly to my satisfaction ; we prepared the Plym
outh mortgages for Mr. Cushing.
lyth. Wednesday. Came with Capt Dan' Goff by
Charlestown Ferry with horse to Boston ; waited on the
Governor at the Council Chamber ; dined at Moor's,
supped with eggs at WardeU's, and there till Saturday
morning. i8th. Thursday. Breakfasted at WardeU's, dined at
Bodwin's, supped at Davenport's.
igth. Fryday. Dined at Mr. Checkley's. Sent by
Mr. Eben. Flagg a second letter in answer to my cousin
S. Lynde's second letter, confirmatory of my first of his
and his brother Nathaniel's being my attorneys ; I
treated Mr. Eben. Flagg with a nip of punch at Wither
ed's, who goes next Monday for Saybrook with my said
letters ; at night treated Mr. Moulton and Elder with a
small bowl of punch, and afterward supped on 3 eggs at
Wardell's. 20th. Saturday. Breakfasted at Wardell's, treating
Mr. Wiloby with a quart of Sage ale and chocolate ;
dined at Moor's, and treated Mr. Warren ; thence home
covered with snow, yet talked of Mr. Fisk.
2ist. Lords Day. Mr. Mather; Withington, sf
22^. Monday. Footed to Castle HiU ; in the after
noon at Col. Turner's who, though ill, intends [to go] to
Boston to meet Col. Cushing and us on Wednesday.
2id. Tuesday. About 9,. came to. Boston, by Watts' ;
left Rosy there ; dined at one at Wardell's ; at 3 at
CouncU Chamber ; supped at Pitt's.

1736.] DL4RY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 6y
24th. Wednesday. Breakfasted at WardeU's ; dined
at Witherel's, and for all paid him in fuU Sf Received
of ;\Ir. Tyley lof in full for Charlestown Court ; supped
on 2 eggs at WardeU's.
2ith. Thursday. Lady Day in now 1736. My sister
Elisabeth Pordage, her birth day, and she is now 74
years old, and has had, and stUl hath, her senses vigor
ous, and her reason quick and bright, and although this
day troubled with a rheumatism, as she is sometimes, yet
her bodily walk and gesture is upright, straight, nimble
and light, and yet without affectation, and thus I have
reason to hope is the state of her soule, in her Christian
and heavenly course. May we both mind this chiefly,
good Lord ! Supped at WardeU's, though treated by
Mrs. Ting with tea, and wine, with a good company of
representatives. 26//^. Friday. Left CouncU Chamber after 10, fer
ryed over to Watt's by 12, took my Rosy and rode thro'
to Salem before 3.
2yth. Saturday. At Castle Hill.
28th. Lord's Day. Mr. Sparhawk preached. Con
tributed 5', with I' for W?
2gth. Monday. At 6 this morning had canoe out, and
went in her to Castle HUL
lOth. Tuesday. Rained last night, and this morning
a hard easterly wind. Grafton in from Saltituda.
April 1st. Thursday. Fast.' Mr. Simon Bradstreet
1 This F.ist was appointed on account of the prevalence of " throat dis
temper " which had proved very fatal throughout New England.
This epidemic made its first appearance in May, 173S, in Kingston, N. H.,
an inland town situated on a low plain. It spread gr.adually to Boston, and
did not cease its rav.ages until the summer of the following year. The
deaths from the disease were mostly among children, and it was computed
that of four thousand cases in Boston, constituting a fourth part of its
population, one hundred and fourteen died. From its description, it may
have been of the nature of diphtheria.

68 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [1736.
preach'd very acceptably to aU ; contributed for the Poor
I of 2d. The Hon*'" Addington Davenport died.
id. Dined at son's with Mr. Bradstreet.
4th. Lord's Day. Mr. Bradstreet again preached ; all
like him better and better ; contributed sf
6th. Tuesday. At Castle HiU early, and Stone, etc.
at work at the Great pasture stone wall, by the great
field gate beyond it ; and there I left him and returned in
the canoe to the Milpond, where Stephen Dan', Jun',
with Neal, finished the graving my periaugo, only
pitching the streakes and mending some crack't pieces,
etc., and put her into the mUpond with the Canoe ; I
gave them cyder and a pot of phlip.
yth. Wednesday. By S this morning I was mounted
for the Boston Court adjournment and to attend Judge
Davenport's funeral. Left Rosy at Watts' and break
fasted at WardeU's on tea by 9 o'clock. Just now Wis
wall stop't me at Wardwell's and paid me £yo, for which
I gave him a receipt and took a copy. At 10, at the
Council Chamber. Dined at Capt Durel's with Major
Lockman and wife and Surveyor General Pegram, this
by Judge Auchmuty's urgency. Madam Lockman in
vited me to dine at her house on the i" of May, but I
excused it The Court supped at Bodwin's.
8th. Thursday. We finished our Boston February
Court with now six weeks attendance. Last night very
cold and windy, with thick ice this morning. At 6 or 7
Judge Davenport's Funeral procession ; the Pall held up
by Lt. GovF Spencer Phipps, the late Lt Gov. Dummer,
B. Lynde, Thos. Palmer, Col. Edward Hutchinson, and
Secretary Josia. WiUard, Esqrs.
gth. Friday. About 5 or 6 stayed at Monks to get
over Watts' Ferry, which did by 7, and got home long
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1736.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 69
Wth. Lord's Day. The Rev. Mr. Hobby preach'd
finely on Moral Perfection. Contrib. Sf
14th. Wednesday. Early at Castle Hill, and burnt the
leaves all over westerly by the waU down to the West
erly Creeke, and after from my Neal's ground to the Prov.
Orchard, with Stone's two sons. On returning home
found Brewer making and putting into the periaugue.
This night, to meet with the Church and Parish to con
sider what to be done and resolve.
17///. Saturday. Set out at 6 A. M. Ferryed over
Watts' with Rosy to Boston, and, without stopping, thence
to Roxbury by eleven, and dined at Judge Dudley's ;
thence near 4, proceeded to Weymouth, Cushings, and
got to Col. Thaxter's by sundown, and there lodged.
i8th. Lord's Day. Sabbath'd, and heard Mr. Smith
of Weymouth. Mr. Gay exchanged with him.
19^'/^. Visited with the Col. his wharf, mUl and har
bour, and Mr. Gay. Gave 3 new 2' bills to Col. Thax
ter's three grand children who live with him, and 6' more
to the maid and servants ; and, about 10 A. m., proceeded
to Sylvester's at Hanover; thence about 12, and got to
Mr. Nicholas Sever's, where eat bacon and neats tongue,
etc., with Sherry, Madeira and tea. Judge Dudley with
Mr. Tyley came up, and at 5 or 6 we came to Plymouth,
where Col. Quincy met us, and supped.
20///. Tuesday. About 10, opened the Court with con
dolence on Judge Davenport's death ; lodged at Wither-
eU's. All our Court dine in common.
26///. Monday. Proceeded for Barnstable Court ; dined
at Widow Newcomb's,' and expenses at EUis's - and by
the way, paid by Mr. Tyley ; after dinner, the Court
proceeded 8 mUes to Deacon Chipman's,' where Sheriff
Coram treated us ; thence to Sturgis' about 6. I lodged
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70 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [1736.
at Mr. David Coram' s, son William's class fellow, who
commands a sloop with a number of Indians and men
ready to sail on the whale-fishery at Davis Streights, or
Greenland, with about 20 vessels more from Barnstable
and the Cape, on the same design; God bless them!
Breakfasted there, and at his mother Sturgis' (the tav
ern). May 1st. Saturday. Left Barnstable, having finished
our Court Tried three Indian men indited for murder.
I. Robin Nason of Nantucket for murdering his wife;
found guilty and sentenced to be hanged at Nantucket,
14"' of July. 2. David Stevens for the murder of another
Indian man at the Cape ; he, on his arraignment, pleaded
guilty, but some of the Court, not satisfied of his knowl
edge, moved the rest that he might be admitted to plead
again not guilty, that so he might be tried by a jury ; and
so he was, they finding a special, viz : that the prisoner
going aside to a private place with the person slain,
fought, struck and kicked him till he killed him ; now, if
these facts were of malice aforethought then guilty of
murder, but, if not, then only manslaughter. 3. yo-
sep Wampum, an old Sandwich Indian for the murder
of another Indian ; his son, a vile and wicked youth, with
a sharp and other stones killed the person murdered,
which this Josep, the father, endeavored to hinder, but
he rose up against his father ; so after that he escaped,
and not yet found ; so by the Jury the old man acquitted.
I this morning paid Mr. Sturgis for horse keeping and
oats but 12', and returned to Sandwich ; dined there ^vith
Mr. Dudley, inviting Col. Bowen ; thence to Ellis's,
about 7 mUes, all along in the Bay viewing Mr. Rem
ington in Wadsworth's boat afore the wind for Plymouth,
where he and we arrived at 6.
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I736.J DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. Jl
. . . . ; preach't all day ; his forenoon text, " Love thy
neighbour as thyself ; " in the afternoon i. Cor. 4. 7. "What
thou hast, thou hast received, wherefore boast not of
what thou hast ; " he preached and prayed very distinctly
and well. I contributed now about 3 or 4', and the
Lord's day before here, S'. Dined and supped at young
Mr. Lathrop's now, and at his father's, last Lord's day.
On Saturday night, when I came in from Barnstable,
landlord Witherell told me old John Punchin was come
from Salem, and says that Mr. F's. adherents have cov
ered the roof of their forbidden erected frame, which
raises the feuds there again, which I pray God sedate.
id. Monday. Dined at Witherell's.
4th. Tuesday. About 10 a. m.. Court's adjournment
met and held tUl Thursday.
6th. Thursday. Court adjourned sitte die, and I with
Col. Quincy about 3. p. m. came homeward. I paid for
my lodging, breakfasts and suppers and horsekeeping,
12 nights, as by my acc't, £4. 5' ; my part of Plymouth
Court dinners about £1 ; and towards my part of Court
entrsy, Tyley paid me ;!^io, out of which £1 is to be
taken. yth. Fryday. Last night, came to and lodged at Cush
ing's, Hingham ; it raining all night and this morning,
am detained till about 8, and then proceeded ; oated at
Weymouth, and after, at Roxbury by 11, and drank tea
with Madam Auchmuty, and there her husband and
two sons and daughter ; by Mr. Pugh's invitation of me,
also dined on my first salmon with him, and stayed tUl
near 3, and thence home.
gth. Lord's Day. Mr. Sparhawk preached ; contri.
5", tho' absent three Lord's days.
wth. Tuesday. Ipswich Superior Court began. I
went over Beverly Ferry, and thence opened the Court at

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Ipswich ; present, then but 3 Justices, but Remington
came by water to Beverly where on Wednesday at 12 he
arrived, and appeared in the afternoon at Court.
15//^. Saturday. My expenses for breakfast, lodging
horse and supper at Mr. Jas. Brownes, 2Sf My part of
the Court dinners, paid by Mr. B. Rolfe for me to Stan
ford, 30' ; and my part of 96 Entrys and Bills of Costs,
Depositions and Deeds proved, £14. i. 6.
16//^. Lord's Day. Mr. Jo. Gardner preached. Con
tri. sf
lyth. Monday. Went over to Castle HiU, viewed
Prov. Orchard, rubbed off and cleared the trees of cater
pillars, and was told that 8 or 9 of the trees had bloomed,
and 5 or 6 young peach trees up. My son William re
ceived from his grandfather's legacy of £210 in silver
at 8f per ounce, all of Coz. William's part, and all of Colo.
Benjamin's part and all of Coz. Plaisted's part.
21 St. Fryday. Robert Grey worked half a day at
sque with Tim. Brewer ; and had one gaUon of cydar
and a mug of punch. I was chosen moderator of our
Parish meeting, on a petition of our Confederate Society,
concerning choosing a minister and his maintenance, as
by the warrant
23^. Lord's Day. Mr. Dimond preached. Contrib
uted sf
25^*/^. For the election, Tuesday. Early at Castle HUl,
and had my Rosy up, but Colo. B. Browne invited me to
go with him in his four wheel chaise, and so we dined at
Moor's, and lodged at WardeU's.
26th. Wednesday. Election. Mr. Holioak — excellent
performance. I had but 89 votes from the 124 voters,
upon a design of Thos. Cushing, Cook, etc., to bring in
my son, by leaving me out, which when proposed to me,
I said, they might vote as they pleased for me and my

1736.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 73
son, whom if they brought in, I could as well dismiss
myself. Mr. Dudley, whom there [was] great talk of leav
ing out, had 117 votes.
2yth. Thursday. The great Convention preaching
turned into a Charity one for our Church at Providence
and Narragansett, and Dr. Coleman began it Mr. Baxter
refused preaching the annual convention sermon, and
these dinners ceased. The Governor invited me with
our brethren Judges to dinner. I received of Mr. Tyley
the remainder of my dues on our Plymouth Court, 1 1' ;
supped at Bowdoin's.
28th. Friday. Breakfasted at WardeU's, and' a bottle
of ale and two cakes for Mr. Bound, and, after, for my
cousin Wiswall a quart of beer, and a cake and ginger
bread for his children ; dined at Mr. Wendell's.
2gth. Saturday. Stopped at Moor's with Colo. B.
Browne, and came home to dinner.
30//^. Lord's day. Mr. Newell preach't ; contributed
Sf Marblehead, Mr. Barnard began.
yune 1st. Tuesday. By a vote of 15, 32 of the church
members met at my son's, and I with him and four more
are this afternoon to wait on the Association of this part
of Essex, who are to meet at Mr. Prescott's about our
Church and Parish or Confederate Society settling, and
a Fast to that end. Paid John Porter 9' for 6 pounds of
butter. 2d. Wednesday. About 8 a. m. set out on my Rosy,
and got over Watts',' leaving my horse there, to Mrs-
Warden's about 1 1, where lodge tiU Saturday. Dined
at Mr. Carter's, the Dier, with Jno. Clark, had a pot of
cider and a cake ; supped with a great number of Rep
resentatives and CouncUlors at Bodowin's ; . . . . can
didate for Councillor.
id. Thursday. Mr. Mather's lecture ; Breakfasted
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and supped at WendeU's ; dined at Mrs. Bial Walley's
where Mr. Thacher much for Mr. Dimon, but contra Mr.
Sparhawk, and so the rest, on account of his youth and
his orthodo.xy, as reported to him. In company with
Thaxter,' Dudley, etc.
4th. Fryday. Breakfasted at WardeU's ; dined with
the Governor and Council, being his last this year for
their election, Council treating.
Ith. Saturday. At Council ; thence ferryed over to
Watts', and had horse got ready (having paid Capt. Dan.
Goff 30') ; dined with wife.
6th. Lord's Day. Mr. Jno. Sparhawk preach't ; con
tributed sf
yth. Monday. Another storm with rain increasing
prevented my going over to Castle HiU.
8th. Tuesday. Very early at Windmill Pasture, from
whence Holyman had just took out his Sorrel who had
broke my fence ; tho' want visible evidence of this.
loth. Thursday. Early at Castle Hill, and Stone with
Mia. Edgecomb and I felled some trees in the New Way
thro' the Neck.
14//^. Monday. For York Superior Court, now first
by act to be on the [third] Wednesday in June, viz : the
16'" day 1736. At 10 o'clock this morning proceeded
with Col? Edmund Goffe ; to Ipswich about 12 ; thence
to Newbury where dined about 3 ; and over the Ferry
to Brown's at Hampton where lodged.
Ilth. Hence to Greenland where baited ; dined at
Madam Huske's. Thence over the Ferry where Sheriff
Plaisted received us and his under officer ; over York
Ferry, and thence to Widow Preble's, York, where I
treated Col? Moulton with a bowl of punch, etc.
' Samuel Thaxter, of Hingham, appointed the year before a special
Justice for Suffolk.

I736-] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 75
i6th. Wednesday. Breakfasted at Widow Preble's,
where lodged last night Expenses from Tuesday night
15'" to Wednesday night 23'' of June, 7 nights, 47' be
sides s' contributed at York to Mr. Greenleaf.
2ii-^. Madam Rebecca Browne died.'
23^. Wednesday. At 5, this morning. Col. Quincy
and I left York, and he left me at the contended Une be
tween Hampton and Sahsbury, where, he for Haver
hUl ; I got over to Newbury at about 4. p. m., thence to
Parker's Ferry where baited horse, thence thro' Rowley
great field, and got to Ipswich before sunset, and baited
at Rogers' ; and thence after sunset proceeded to Salem
Ferry, and at Salem by 9.
24///. Thursday. About 10 this morning, went with
my good Rosy to Boston, to Madam Browne's funeral,
and to the General Court ; dined and supped at Wardell's.
At about 7. p. M. I attended Madam Browne's funeral in
my own black.
2ith. Fryday. Breakfasted with son Benjamin, who
then went home ; dined at Mr. Anto. Stodd^ with Col.
Turner ; drank tea_ with Mrs. Ting, Capt Ting, etc. ;
club at Wardell's.
26//^. Saturday. Breakfasted at Wardell's ; went to
CouncU and, after 10, at Bruister's pd. 14' for i lb. of
chocolate ; so over the Ferry, got up horse and dined at
Moor's ; stayed after for Col° Turner, Coz. Sam' and B-
Browne, and got home by 7 o'clock.
2yth. Lord's Day. Mr. Dimon preacht Contrib
uted sf Dined on the first lamb from C. H.
28th. Monday. Walk't A. M. at s thro' S. F. to C.
HUl.
1 Madam Rebecca Browne was the second wife of Hon. William Browne,
and therefore not related by blood to Mrs. Lynde. She was a daughter
of Sir John Friend, High Sheriff of Limerick. She was born in Limerick
in 1663, and married to Mr. Browne April 26, 1694. She was at that time
the widow of Mr. Thomas Bailey.

y6 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [1736-
ytdy 1st. Thursday. James Stone brought into my
home barn from under the wall, a good load of choicest
English, mostly Honeysuckle hay, and well got in by him,
Jn° Edgecomb and Cicero.
2d. Fryday.- Early before sun Alexander Tarant and
two of his Irishmen mowed my acre by the Windmill,
for which, at 6 o'clock, I cydar'd and dram* them, and
gave them 3f
id. Saturday. About 3 or 4 P. M. a sweet thunder
shower for an hour. Early at Castle Hill.
4th. Lord's Day. Mr. Cundy preacht weU and so
prayed ; contri. 10' for York absence. Moist and small
rain now and then.
Ith. Monday. Jn° WiUiams brought into the bam
what he had made of my Winmill pasture hay. In the
afternoon at Castle HUl.
6th. Tuesday. Mowers of Colof Turner's — Jas. and
Mia. Stone, Jn? Edgecomb, his brother Howard, Caril and
Trask — in all 6, and some for tomorrow. Jemy Stone
and old Eben. stirring and making up my Springfield hay,
I with Nicho., in the afternoon, went over and joyned
them, and cock't up 20 cocks, which wiU be about J of a
load. yth. Wednesday. Over again about 7 this morning,
and I alone turned over and spread the 20 cocks.
8th. Thursday. Col? Jn? Cushing, here yesterday,
and Col? Turner and I, with Mr. Clark, agreed that Col.
Cushing should, on our delivering the 12 mortgages, give
us, the Commissioners, the receipt of them, with what is
due, principal and interest, and so take them, acco. to
the General Court's order, and we be discharged of
them. gth. Fryday. Brewer put in and fitted a fore thwart,
and made and fitted two row locks, and thole pins, for
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1736.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 77
Wth. Lord's Day. Mr. Mayhew of Martha's Vine
yard's son preach't Contrib. sf
Ilth. Tuesday. Early beheld the effects of last night's
rain ; got 2 little boys to row my squew to Woodberry's
sloop by Phippen's wharf, and had 6 pine boards fitting
the bottom of the sque put into her.
1 6^/;:. Monday. I dined with the Court, and it rained
tUl the Court was over. Supped at Judge Lindall's with
the Court. A sweet soaking rain all night, wind at
N. E.
i8th. Lord's Day. Mr. Cundy preached ; I contrib
uted s^ and, after, at night gave him lof
20//^. Sweet soaking rain after sundown.
22^. Thursday. A Private Fast on the part of the
aggrieved congregation or Society meeting in the Old
House, humbly to seek our God for the restoring peace,
and healing our divisions, and bringing us to a good set
tlement under a godly minister. Mr. Chipman began in
prayer with putting us under examination of ourselves,
whether we have not been the instrumental cause of
these long divisions, in several harsh pointed heads,
without the least charging Mr. Fisk, his party, only
that God would give him repentance and something of a
reunion of his adherents with us ; too long. Mr. Clark,
his sermon from , 3'' Jeremiah, 17, wherein he ran very
high in, and for, the ecclesiastical authority of ministers,
and expostulated with the present Society, and put them
on examination whether God's anger might not be on
account of their remissness and careless receiving the
Communion under Mr. Fisk's administrations.
Another examination, whether our separation was war
rantable ; another, whether we had not abused him in his
name and office ; and he concluded with a similar short
prayer, but not in favour of our congregation or mitiga
tion.

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In the afternoon, Mr. Wigglesworth, after the same
manner as those before, prayed, but with great hesita
tion ; but Mr. Prescott preached from 9"^ Matthew, 36,
37, and 38, a very suitable text, and as agreeable a sermon.
23^^. Fryday. I ordered Tho. Simmons to mow, and
make into hay, the lower end of my Blivins lot the ne.xt
week, if he think best. About sundown thunder showers
sweetly poured down on the Earth.
2lth. Lord's Day. Mr. Dimon preach'd ; contributed
2yth. Tuesday. At S- a. m. for Cambridge Court.
Stopped and baited at Maiden, Half Moon ; at Cambridge
by 9 ¦; gave Charge to Grand Jury about 10 ; opened
Cambridge Superior Court about 10. In evening treated
at Maj. Brattle's with Col. Quincy, etc., and so another
evening. 29^"/^. Thursday. After Pelham's case was given to
the Jury, (which held us all day and the Jury all night
and a part of the next day, and then came into a general
verdict for Stone of Sudbury, tho' Remington and Dud
ley gave it them for a special), this evening, went with
Sheriff Foster in his chair for Boston, and there deliv
ered to Mr. Thos. Prince Son B'' Collections of Salem's
Ancient things, for his Chronology.' Had \ pint of ^Nla-
deira and an apple tart for supper.
^ Among the Lynde papers is one containing the examination of Abigail
Hobbs, conducted by Jonathan Corwin and John Hathorne, both noted
prosecutors of witches. It will be found in the appendix. Corwin was an
uncle of Mrs. Lynde.
The following letter of Mr. Prince, acknowledging the receipt of the pa
pers alluded to, contain also some questions pertaining thereto : —
Boston, Tuesday, Aupist 10, 1736.
De,\r Sir, — Extremely oblig'd with your account of Salem ; this comes
to .ask you a few questions upon it.
I. Whether you have a certain written record that Mr, Skiltbn as pas
tor, Mr. Higginson as teacher, and Mr. Houghton as Ruling Elder, were

1736.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 79
loth. Fryday. Early at Charlestown, and chair'd up
again to Cambridge with Sheriff Foster ; a showery
evening and night ; supped at Lt. Gov. Phip's with the
Judges. list. Saturday. At Court before 9 ; dined with the
Court and, after dinner, Mr. Rolf paid me in part I think,
in 2 R. I. bills, £y. 10. I paid Barber if 3? and left
Rolf to pay my part of Court dinners, including my in
vited Mr. Dimon and Mr. Sparhawk's, which I pay for.
Got home before 8. p. m.
August 1st. Lord's Day. Mr. Mayhew of Martha's
Vineyard preached, contri. sf
2d. Monday. At night the majority of the members
all three separated to their several offices on ye same day ? and that this
was by ye imposition of ye hands of some of ye brethren appointed by
ye Church thereto .' and that this was on ye fi"" of August, 1629.
2. Whether the church was gathered and these several officers both
chosen and ordained, all on ye same day ? Or, if not, then I would ask,
When was ye Church gathered ? and when were these officers chosen ?
3. Whether Mr. Samuel Sharp was chosen and ordained Ruling Elder
at ye same time with Mr. Houghton ? Or, if not, then, when was Mr.
Sharp chosen and ordained ?
4, What was .\Ir, Houghton's Christian name } and whether you cannot
recover ye precise time, or month at least, of his death ?
5. Whether this Mr. Sharp was ye same who had ye first oversight of
your ordnance .' or what civil office had he among you 7 and whether he
died at Salem, or removed .''
5. Whether ye precise time of Mr. Francis Higginson's death cannot
be recovered .'
7. Whether you do not mistake July for June, 1630, ye time when Gov.
Winthrop arrived at Salem .' or whether you have any written record to
determine this matter ? etc.
S. When Mr, Peters was chosen and ordained at Salem.' or whether
he W.T3 ordained or invested in office at all ? and whether there be not a
mistake in ye year 1646, said to be ye time of his Return to England ? or
whether ye precise time can be recovered .'
Ve Chronology staying for this Intelligence your speedy answer is ear-
nestlv desired and will greatly oblige
your respectfuU and aff'ectionate
Friend and Servant, T. Prince.

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of the i" Church, of Salem, viz : the aggrieved brethren,
to the number of 21, met at Timothy LindaU's, Esq., his
house, to recognize and renew the original covenant of
said Church, from which Mr. Fisk, our late pastor, has
gone off, and carried away a number with him, to the de
nying this ancient Church's principles and the happy
constitution of our N. England Churches ; and this we
are to sign in order to our, as the Church aforesaid, chos-
ing a pastor and church officers to be an organized
Church ; and the draught was assented to with some ver
bal amendments by a Committee.
id. Tuesday. A. M. about 6 at Castle Hill ; advised
Stone to cut the brush and clear the land before or at
this fuU moon, and to increase our sheep by looking out
and buying ; at about 7, over at Simmons, who yester
day had mown my lower meadow and upland. It rained
all day.
At night, we the Church as above said at Mr. B. Mars-
ton's reconsidered the draught of our Covenant renewal,
and agreed to it in general ; but now Mr. Marston made
some dilatory reasonings, and so was one of the commit
tee to alter as above said, and so we were to meet the
next night at James Lindall, Esq's.
4th. Wednesday. At night, accordingly, the said mem
bers (one or two absent) who had before declared for re
newing the Salem i" Church's original covenant, came
all into it, as corrected ; and upon putting the question,
whether, after signing or now or to-morrow, we should
proceed to our nominating or choosing a minister, said
Marston declared he could not sign with us, unless the
Church would aUow him a saving to remove from us if,
or when, he saw cause, on his conscience ; which occa
sioned long talk and grievous thoughts of heart, (for the
cause of this Church and congregation required great

1736.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 8 1
expedition), however it held us tiU 12 at night, and dis
ordered our measures for the Thursday meeting at son's,
where Ith. Twenty met in the moming, the Rev. Mr. Pres
cott being sent for to pray with us, before we signed the
articles of our recognizing and renewing our original
Church Covenant After his very suitable prayer, and his
excellent e.xhortations and advice, we signed and ac
knowledged it, and the Assembly's catechism, to be our
Rule of faith, and the Platform our Rule of discipline,
in all things, and (by God's gracious Providence going
on with Christian unanimity and love), it being past i,
p. M. at the same meeting, after an unanimous vote for
then proceeding to nominate and choose a gospel minis
ter, Mr. Sparhawk was chosen by a considerable major
ity, — of 19 that voted he had 15, — and all the 4 that
voted for Mr. Dimon declared themselves well satisfied
with the choice of Mr. Sparhawk, and that they willingly
acquiesced in it. Then after dinner with Mr. Prescott
at son's, at about 4 p. m. we went to the Society meeting
to choose a pastor, and joyned them in the free choice of
Mr. Sparhawk, who had 45 votes out of 49 voters, 3 of
them voting for Mr. Dimon, and one for Mr. Bradstreet
We then voted his salary 200 ounces of silver, and fin
ished the Society meeting, and the Church all returned to
son's ; and, as I had before been nominated moderator,
son B. was with me chosen scribe ; and the Committee
that were to wait on Mr. Sparhawk to acquaint him with
our choice of him, were also to call a Church meeting
(as occasion) till we become a compleat organic Church.
6th. Fryday. Early at Castle Hill. I had p. m. a
good load of hay off my Blivins's lot, lower end, mowed
and made by Thos. Simons, and brought over the river
6

82 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [1736.
by Needham, for 5.', which I paid him, and sent Simons
a bottle of rum.
8th. Lord's Day. Mr. John Sparhawk preached ; con
tributed s?
gth. Monday. A. M. I with Mr. Jas. LindaU, Nutting,
and son, waited on, and signified to Mr. Sparhawk, that
the members of the i" Church of Christ in Salem that
had separated from Mr. Fisk and his adherent brethren
for his ill conduct, and their compliance in his guilt,
and themselves from them, had renewed their original
principles and Covenant of this ancient Church, and had
chosen him to be their minister by a great majority ; and
presently after, the Committee of the Society likewise
[signified to him] that they had likewise collectively with
the Church chosen him by a great majority at the same
last Thursday.
10//^. Tuesday. Came about 6 A. M. for Boston Supe
rior Court, and there in Court about 10 ; dined with Maj.
Plaisted, and paid s' at Withered's ; lodged, and supped
with half a pint of wine at Wardell's.
wth. Wednesday. Breakfasted at Wardell's, dined
at Mr. Checkley's, supped at Coz. Pitt's.^
12th. Thursday. Breakfast at WardeU's and dined
at Capt Dan' Goff's ; supped at WardeU's.
13///. Friday. Breakfasted and dined at Mr. Tyley's ;
at night with Col. Quincy, Mr. Cook, etc.
14//^. Saturday. Breakfasted at Wardell's ; dined at
Maj. Sa. Sewall's ; thence, about 4, went over Watts'
Ferry. Ilth. Lord's Day. Mr. Sparhawk preached A. M. ;
Mr. FaUo. Rogers p. M. Contributed, sf
i6th. Monday. Treated Mr. Ravenscroft of Virginia
with Mr. W" Browne, Pa.xton, his kinsman, Geo. Minot,
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1736.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. 83
mim: \J\ with a chocolate breakfast This Ravenscroft is
the grandson of old Capt Ravenscroft of Boston, in Sir
Edmund Andros, his time ; and his father's Seat is over
against Col. Byrd's on James River. He is recommended
by Colo. Byrd's letter to my notice. After three, came
with Mr. Sparhawk for our Boston Court He went to
Cambridge after I treated him at Moor's. I got to
Watts' after sunset over the ferry, and lodged and supped
with wine at Wardell's.
lyth. Tuesday. Breakfasted at WardeU's, dined at
Stanford's, supped at Bowdoin's.
i8th. Wednesday. Breakfasted and supped at War
dell's, and there dined.
19//^. Thursday. Breakfasted and supped at War
deU's, dined at the Golden BaU ' with Mr. Scarlet and
wife. Then reckoned, adjusted and balanced accounts
with my tenant, Mr. Enoch Wiswall, at halves for my
Thompson's Island for the year 1735, and the whole
produce, I. In creatures
2. Cheese
3. Keeping creatures
4. Sundries
5. Butter

20th. Friday. Breakfasted, dined, and supped at War
deU's. 2ii-/. Saturday. Breakfasted at Mr. Gee's, dined at
Mr. White's ; got home by 7.
22^. Lord's Day, and my dear wife, her birth day,
being born 22 Aug. 1679. Mr. Cundy preached for Mr.
' An inn in Dock Square.

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Sparhawk, who preached a part of the day at Mr. Wel-
sted's at the seeking of their Committee.
24th. Tuesday. Came early ; breakfasted with cider
syllabub at Moor's, and paid arrears and present e.xpenses
in full, 3f ; over the ferry, and at Court by 9. Dined at
Mr. Rolfe's with Dudley, supped at Wardell's.
2ith. Wednesday. Breakfasted and dined at War
deU's. 26th. Thursday. Breakfasted at Wardell's, dined at
Mr. Rolfe's, and [at] Court late, p. m. Supped at Bow
doin's. 27//^. Friday. Breakfasted at WardeU's, dined at
Sheriff Winslow's with the Court, and supped at Tyley's ;
Mr. Tyley after supper paid me toward 200 entry's, in
part, i;2S. o. o.
28th. Saturday. Breakfasted at Wardell's ; brought
\ lb. of tea of Mrs. Tyng. Dined with Col. Turner and
his son at Moor's.
29///. Lord's Day. Mr. Prescott preached ; contrib
uted sf and also 10° more.
30//^ Monday. Let Jas. Stone have 40f to buy good
sheep cheap.
3i.f/. Tuesday. I bought and paid Capt Jn? Ground-
shell, ;!^9i. o. o. for a negro boy about 12 years old, called
Gift but now, Scipio, or Sip. This evening two messen
gers from our Court at Boston gave me a letter, that in
2 or 3 cases, the pleaders on either side desired and urged
my presence.
September 1st. Tho' rainy morning, I went and at
tended Court, and at night at Wardell's.
2d. Thursday. Breakfasted at Wardell's ; dined at
Mr. Justice Bill's, supped at Bowdoin's. After our Court
ended, sine die, going to my lodgings in the evening, I
met Mr. Checkley, who I'f undeceived me as to the re-

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port of almost all the Boston ministers being for Mr.
Sparhawk's coming to Mr. Welsted's assistance as de
sired, which I was confirmed in from Mr. Cooper, who as
he met me desired me to go home with him, and there he
gave me the whole account of a meeting of aU the min
isters at his house, this day after the lecture, except Mr.
Thacher and Dr. Coleman, who yet gave his mind in a
letter of which Mr. Cooper writ me the principle minutes,
viz : that he thought he dare not do anything that has an
appearance of encouraging an application to Mr. Spar
hawk till he has given an answer to Salem, who have
made him an encouraging offer, and are a necessitous
and deserving Flock ; and to this the most concurred.
id. Friday. Left Boston for Watts' about 10, mounted ;
paid If 6^ at Moor's and dined at home.
4th. Saturday. Proctor shoed my Rosy with new
steel toed shoes for my Bristol and Western Circuit
Ith. Lord's Day. Mr. Cundy preached for Mr. Spar
hawk. Contributed sf
loth. Friday. Set out from Salem for our Bristol
Superior Court dined at Moor's ; supped and lodged
at WardeU's ; horse at night at Elic. Thorp's ; paid him
3^ 11//^. Saturday. Got to Vose's ; [at] Mosley's, dined
supped and lodged tiU Monday.
i2th. Lord's Day. At Mr. Dunbar's ; contributed 5' ;
and at night he supped with me, and I gave him 2of
13///. Monday. P'' Mr. Mosely 20', my being and
treating there, and his servants sf He guided me to Ed.
Esty's, and Esty and his son guided me to W""'', where
dismissed, and paid his son about 2' 6^ and Mr. Wm'
ffuided me to Finche's where dined with him. Then
Finche's son guided me to Wheeler's below Mr. Tur
ner's, and, in our going, Col" Quincy overtook me. I gave

86 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [1736.
Mr. W™' and Finch about 6 or 7f From Finche's to
Madam Paine's about 6 p. M. ; about 8, Mr. Dudley came
in unexpected.
14th. Tuesday. All four of our Court met, and opened
at about 11 ; ended Saturday the 18?"
19//;. Lord's Day. Mr. Clap of Taunton preached;
contributed S?
20th. Monday. Sat out, after giving Mad™ Paine for
children and servants 30', and to Col. Church for horse
from Monday night the 13* to Monday morn the 2o'^ 7'
6? Set out from Bristol about 10 o'clock ; a small rain
followed us even to Peck's at Rehoboth, where Dudley
and I dined ; cost lo', paid by Judge Dudley ; thence
about 3, we set out for Wrentham, where we got in by
dusk. I lodged at Justice Ware's very well ; horse also,
and gave about 8f
2ist. Tuesday. About 9 A. m., set out for Mendon,
and got there about noon. I paid for all the small stop
pings and Bristol Ferry, etc., till we came towards Le
land's where we parted, he lodging at Mr. Prentice's at
Hasinmisk ; ' after at Sheriff Gookin's, and about an hour
before sunset, having paid the reckoning, about 7f, we
two set out and got to Worcester comfortably before day
shut in. Lodged at Col. Chandler's, where Judge Dudley
[arrived] next day.
22d. Wednesday. About ii Judges Dudley and
Quincy being come, we opened court This Wednesday
being my birth day, and Mr. Wolcott being at Worcester,
after dinner, I gave a bowl of very good lime punch, and
paid his dining with the Court the next day. This day
the days of my years, thro' almighty God's peculiar mer
cies and various preventing goodness, are arrived unto
the 70'" year of my age, in a good measure of health.
1 Hassanmiscowas until 1775 the name of a small Indian Reservation,
now forming a part of Grafton.

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O ! that I may so number my days as to apply my
heart unto true wisdom.
2lth. Saturday. After admitting Mr. Shaw Mackin
tosh to baU on his mittimus, which was for violently and
by force and men carrying away, and putting on board a
boat, the two Mackintoshes, heiresses, and carrying them
on board a vessel in Nantasket to transport them to Eng
land, all by surprise, and against their will, as per the
mittimus, we then ended the court.' Dined at Col.
Chandler's with Dudley, and sat out for Leicester, where
Dudley lodged, but Tyley and I at Richardson's widow's
in Brookfield, where we were detained on the
26//^. Lord's Day. Great rains tUl 3 p. m. After pay
ing 21', after s, we got to, and lodged at Mr. Cheney's.
27;'//. Monday. In the morning, for Springfield ; got to
Scot's at Elboe's ' or Kingsfield, being 15 mUes, and there
dined ; thence, at the s mUe pond, Capt Colton and
Sheriff Marshfield met us, and at sundown at Worthing
ton's, Springfield ; treated, supped and lodged at Mr.
Hitchcock's till Fryday, (4 nights) ; paid lo', and for
Court dinners at Worthington's, 25', to be paid by Tyley
who paid me ;£io for Springfield fees.
October 1st. Fryday. About 9 A. M., Mr. Dudley and
I with his Jn? set out for Scots, Elboes ; there by 11 ;
dined for about s'. each.
^ The Misses Elisabeth and Mary Mcintosh, late of Bristol, were orphans
under ihe guardianship of one Job Lewis, and heiresses to a large estate
in Surinam. These ladies, who had been invited to dine by their uncle,
Mr. Shaw Mcintosh, lately arrived from England, were by his orders seized
on returning from his lodgings in the evening, and conveyed to a boat, and
rowed rapidly to Nantasket, where they were placed on board a vessel
bound for London. In consequence of adverse winds, however, the ves
sel was delayed, and in the mean time a warrant was issued by the Gov
ernor, and a barge from His Majesty's Ship Squirrel succeeded in arresting
all the parties, and brought them safely back to Boston.
^ Now Palmer.

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At Mr. Cheney's, lodged ; supped on chickens etc.,
for which with care of horse, my part 7f 6?
2d. Saturday. From Mr. Cheney's at 8am.; stopped
at Widow Richardson's and hayed there ; thence to Mr.
Southgate's, Leister ; thence to Hayward's, Worcester.
Eat our fowls, brought from Cheney's, had a pot of sma.
flip, bread and butter and cheese ; thence to Agur's, 9
miles ; thence to Wid° How's, Marlborough.
id. Lord's Day. Mr. Skinner of Medford dined with
Dudley at the Col's, who urged my lodging there, but,
after afternoon service, I went with a neighbour. Darling,
to David How's ; there lodged and supped ; pd 4', and,
as I had before, to Col. Wood's chUdren, 4f
4th. Monday. About 6 a. m. set out and came to
Baldwin's, Sudbury, 6 miles, to breakfast; pd 2'; pro
ceeded thence by Dr. Clark's house to Mistick tavern
by II, this being about 15 miles; thence by I\Iore's,
where had punch, and got home about 3 or 4 of the
clock. loth. Lord's Day. Mr. Cundy preached very well ;
contrib. 20' for myself now and absent
11//^. Monday. Came to Boston on the Governor's
letter to me to hold up the pall to his lady. Madam Mary
Belcher, who dyed Wednesday night, 6"' inst, and was
buried on Tuesday, 12'", a little after 4. p. m. No stop
at More's, but at Rachel's, punch. Drank King's health
by invitation, at Col. Wendell's ; lodge at Wardell's.
i2th. Tuesday. Breakfasted with sister Pordage and
supped there. About 10 a. m. the special Commission,
for the tryal for Piracy and Felony of Barns, met in the
CouncU Chamber and Court of Tryal, and adjourned by
Governor's advice (at this sorrowful time) till Fryday,
the is'\ at 10 A. M., tho' contra: advisors.
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down to my Island with one Stoddar, by 4 or 5 o'clock
in the afternoon ; gave lo' to his children.
14///. Thursday. Came up with him in canoe, spent
2' at Scarlet's, and paid Enoch Wiswall for Mr. Whit
more ;!£'i4. 10. for cydar-mill and screws, as per receipt,
and paid Mr. Hobbs for an iron bound hh'* of 60 gallons,
for to put my Thompson's Island cydar for Salem in, 30' ;
dined at the Governor's.
Ilth. Friday. Breakfasted at Mr. Cooper's. The
tryal of Jn° Barns in the special Court of admiralty
held, this day by the Commissioners, as by the Statute
of William the i^, ii'" and I2'^ for the Tryal of Piracy,
Robbery and Felonys upon the high seas, by informa
tion of Shirley, Advocate General, on Informations or
Indictments for murder committed on the body of
MUard ; of this he was acquitted by the voice of the
majority of the Commissioners. 2. Of the murder of a
negro boy Bawman. Two points his counsel. Boles,
pleaded for him, viz : That as he was on a Guinea voy
age for negroes, the water must be on allowance, and the
person said to be murdered was apt to call out in his
dreams or sleep, watro, and, so, apt to set those that heard
him and the other slaves to do the like, so no malice ; but
an extraordinary care for the whole voyage ; but the 2*
point was that the negro boy was a slave, and, as master
of the cargo, the said Bnrns might do what he would
with him, even to the taking away his life, and this, tho'
he were the dearest master Cupid's boy ; of this he was
declared guilty by the Governor President, acco. to 12
voters, all but one.
\6th. Saturday. At Boston ; and so on the Lord's
Day heard at Dr. Sewall's
lyth. Mr. Prince's funeral sermon on Mad"* Belcher.
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lith. Monday. I contributed at Dr. SewaU's yester
day, sf This morning about 8 a. m. I was mounted with
Mr. Edward Hutchinson over the ferry for Salem.
igth. Tuesday. Mr. Sparhawk visited Mr. Fisk, and
after Mr. Fisk had advised, prayed and intreated him not
to settle with us, and Mr. Sparhawk had told him he in
tended it, he, Mr. F., dissuaded against it, aUeging our
being of MoreUian principles, which opinion was a hand
maid to the Independent Whig, which was solely Deism ;
and further urging that he might see him again before he
gave a determination, Mr. Sparhawk replyed pretty
quickly, " Sir, of this, I am, and have, determined al
ready," and, soon after, took leave and returned to us.
Met at son's with Mr. F.'s resolution not to submit any
of his affairs or arrearages to men, etc. ; Mr. Sparhawk
had been on Monday with son B. to visit the Rev. Mr.
Clark where aU things seemed most pleasant and cheer
ful, Mr. Clark showing himself glad of his acquaintance,
and this for the future also ; but to go on, Mr. Sparhawk
with Mr. Mit Sewall went to Marblehead to Mr. Bar
nard's, who questioned him how he could settle under the
difficulties and divisions at Salem Church — hard ques
tions ; then to Mr. Holioak's, where he was pleasantly and
cheerfully entertained ; thence home to Sewall's and Mr.
Prescott's, from whence, in the afternoon, Mr. Sparhawk
went for Cambridge. This day at Mr. Fisk's and adher
ents' Church meeting for choosing deacon ; they chose
also James Ruck.'
' The contention at this time between Mr. Fisk and his parish seems
to have partly arisen from dissatisfaction on his part with his salary, which
had diminished in consequence of the depreciation of paper money. But
the immediate cause of the trouble was a sermon preached by him on
broken vows, applying it to the church for not attending a weekly lecture,
which had been revived by a vote ot the parish at the lime of his settlement.
A serious charge also against him was -t recorded vote of his in f.avor of
the lecture, which appeared to have been interpolated some time after the
meeting at which action was taken.

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2rj-^. Thursday. Bethel had my dark bluish gray
cloth, with my chocolate colored coat, [and] gilt mold
buttons, viz : 39 buttons, with promise to have it made
up by next Monday afternoon before night
24tli. Lord's Day. Mr. Jer. Cundy preached all day
for Mr. John Sparhawk ; contributed for two days lof
Mr. Cundy, after the afternoon blessing, accor. to Mr.
Sparhawk's desire, read Mr. Sparhawk's answer of com
plying with our Society's call with great solemnity and
seriousness, as the letter and the emphatical words of it,
and the happy occasion, justly required.
26th. Tuesday. Superior Court at Salem ; present all
four, and held to ne.xt Monday.
2yth. Wednesday. Had of Mr. Robert WUson one
barrel of cydar.
28//^. Thursday. Shaw Mcintosh, Esq., was dis
charged of his bonds, on account of his appearance here
at Salem, Mr. Job Lewis declaring in court that he was
guardian to the young ladies Macintoshes, and that they
also, on whose complaint he was committed, and after
bailed at Worcester to this Court, had nothing to gainsay
his being discharged of these bonds ; and so Overing,
the attorney general ; but yet the Court ordered said
Macintosh to enter into a new recognizance with the
same sureties, and in the same sum, viz : ;£8,ooo, to the
peace towards all his Majesty's subjects, and particularly
towards the said young ladies, Macintoshes, till the next
Boston Court of Assize in January, unless the said Mac
intosh return to or be going for Europe.
31^/. Lord's Day. Mr. Prescott preached instead of
Mr. Sparhawk, who preached there ; contributed sf
November ist. Monday. Superior Court at 12 o'clock
adjourned without day.
2d. I paid Britton £i for a beaver hat for son WiUiam,
silver laced.

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This night a part of our Society met and subscribed
for the payment of Mr. Sparhawk's ;!^300 salary, by con
tribution, weekly ; I subscribed 5° per week from the
time of ordination, which is to be the first week in De
cember 1736, Deo Vol.
id. Wednesday. This evening met the committee of
the Society.
yth. Lord's Day. Mr. Hobby preached all day ; con
tributed sf
10///. Wednesday. For the Thanksgiving, Nat laid
out about 36' for poultry.
wth. Thursday. Thanksgiving. Mr. John Sparhawk
preached ; contributed 20f Had son Benj* and wife
and children, Mr. W"" Bowles with Nic. Caril to dinner ;
at night went to see Mr. Sparhawk at Mr. Wolcot's, with
many there.
i2th. Fryday. The Church met this evening on prep
aration for Mr. Sparhawk's ordination, and for thinking
of, and mentioning, suitable officers to organize the
Church before the ordination, such as ruling elders,
deacons, etc., but adjourned to Monday p. m. ; Mr. Nut
ting, myself and son Benj* were appointed by the Church
to draw letters to the Churches.
Ilth. Saturday. Dined with Mr. Sparhawk at Mr.
Jas. Lindall's ; he went and preached at Wenham.
14^'/^. Lord's Day. Mr. Warren preached for Mr.
Sparhawk ; contributed sf Mr. W. supped and lodged
at son's, and, in the evening after supper, we discoursed
of our new drawn Church Covenant He objected to the
preamble of it ; That he and the neighbouring ministers,
if they should be sent for to ordain Mr. Sparhawk, should
expect to be satisfied that we should not assume to our
selves as being the i" Church, in degradation of Mr.
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i" Church before the Church censure of noncommunion
on them, and that they continued so after ; and, that, by
the sentence, we by name had these privUeges, i" of
separation from them ; or of being a separate Church,
and caUing a pastor, and so becoming a new or s'" Church
in Salem, allowing Mr. Fisk and his adherents to be the
i" Church ; and had the assurance to ask us, whether
we could not receive the Sacrament and Communion
with him or his.
To these I answered, that the preamble mentioned
nothing but our being members of the i" Church and
parish in Salem, and that we renew by our Covenant the
first covenant of this church in '29, verbatim, and have
added only what is agreeable to it with respect to faith
and discipline; and owning this, and standing to it as
our principle, they the ministers, if they question what
Church we are, in my opinion it would be somewhat like
the Romish inquisition in Spain, to demand of us of what
Church we are, or whether we do not aUow Mr. F. and
his adherent members that are under his administration
or distant, so as to make a majority, to be the i" Church
of and in Salem, I say as conducted under blasted and
corrupt circumstances ; as to Mr. Fisk, I must not ex
clude him the Church, as he has none of his own ; for as
under the name of religion there are many faiths, as the
Romish or papist faith, so is it with Churches ; there are
many Churches, the Church of Rome etc.
2? Another privilege they say we have, by this sen
tence of separation or non communion, is that we are
dismissed from Mr. Fisk's Church, and many joyn in com
munion with other neighboring Churches in this or the
neighbouring towns. But here I must ask what Church,
and on what conditions > For if we go to Mr. Prescott's,
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as great a difficulty attending us ; if we go to the Rev.
Mr. Clark's, he seems to have but little charity for us, and
in this we have as little for him, in his exalting Mr. F. ;
and how much more may we say of Mr. Ba  d, who
for a whUe blew hot and cold, sometimes Mr. F., an angel
of darkness, and anon a most laborious minister .' But
what comfortable communion would there be when char
ity on both sides is wanting .''
8th. Wednesday. Mr. Appleton with Mr. Sparhawk
and Mr. Danforth, delegates ; Mr. Hobby and dele
gates ; Mr. Clark and his ; Mr. Chipman and his ; Mr.
Prescott and his ; Mr. Holioak and his, all were here
in councU at my house, before 11. A. m. ; and about this
hour Mr. Fisk sent by his Juncto Committee, Ja. Ruck,
Nat. Osgood and Timo. Pickering, a letter to B. L., etc.,
of protest against our calling Mr. Sparhawk and against
his ordination ; another, to the ministers that were to or
dain ; another, to Mr. Sparhawk who was to be ordained ;
which tended much to expedite and confirm them in the
good work of the ordination, and in their opinion of his
ill conduct and his present ill manners and inhumanity ;
and about one, the ordination proceeded with all good
order. wth. Saturday. Last night Son went to Deacon Os
good's on a visit, and found Ja. Ruck with him in the
other room, and Nat. Osgood in the kitchen ; but going
in to them, Dea. Osgood said " Sir, I am glad to see you
here now ; " and it seemed as tho' he was sent by Provi
dence to his relief, for son entered on the dealing with,
and reproving Ruck, and then Mr. Fisk, for their wicked
letters, sent to hinder and frustrate the ordination. But
Ruck seemed to vindicate them, tho' he faltered very
much in his own vindication of his consciousness to Mr.
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resolved to come the next Lord's Day to our meeting and
the principal part of our Church and parish sent him a
welcome to his old seat in the Deacon's seat
i2th. Lord's Day. Deacon Osgood came and sat in
our Deacon's seat and after signing to Mr. Nutting to
read the psalm, and Nutting signing back his refusal,
Dea. Osgood with good and cheerful voice read the psalm,
tho' Jos. Ward set the tune.
1737- yune loth. Began a new account with Mrs.
Wardell, where dined and lodged this night
yuly 4th. Monday. In order to sail to Nantucket,
lodged at Wardell's.
6th. Wednesday. Came from Commencement, and
lodged at Wardell's again.
yth. Thursday. Our Nantucket voyage, saiUng this
day. icth. Lord's Day. Mr. White preached from the
16"^ Job, the- last verse ; contributed 5' Supped and
dined at Father Bunker's. At night, a little before day,
a great but short tempest of wind, thunder and lightning
with rain.
11//^. Monday. After breakfast at home, we three
went to see Capt. Eben. G. to appoint a King's attorney,
and after dinner there, and visiting Sylva Hussey's wife,
(as he desired me), and after visiting Abisha Folger's,
and after his coming from their choosing Jurymen accord
ing to warrant he being present with Mr. Marshall, we
declare \{\.m, pro liac vice, King's attorney, with the good
liking and approbation of all present ; and, after, all three
visited and supped on plum cake and fine cheese at Mr.
White's, with good bottled cydar and choice wine, etc.
\2th. Tuesday. Two of us, L. and R., supped at Mr.
Nat' Starbuck's, the elder, who lives with his son . . . .,
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13//^. Wednesday. In the morning about 10, in Mr.
While's meeting house, began the tryal of Abia. Com
fort an Indian woman, against whom a bill of indict
ment was drawn up and presented by King's attorney,
Mr. Overing, and given by the Court's appointed King's
attorney, pro hac vice, Mr. Folger, to the Gf Jury,
whereof Joseph .... was appointed foreman, with
eleven more Englishmen, but he and most, Quakers ; yet
on the Court's having their hats off, and manifesting the
decency of their's too [being removed], they, some of
themselves, and others easily submitted to their being
taken off, aiid had the Gr. Jury's oath or declaration ad
ministered to them, some holding up their hands. So
having the indictment, her examination and the inquest
on the body of the child, and three other persons' evi
dence, with the Court's several Charge upon the indict
ment on the prisoner's act of making the concealment
of a dead bastard child, murder, they were sent out and
the Court adjourned for an hour, and then the English
and four Indians of the Grand Jury came in, and found
Billa Vera , and then the prisoner was arraigned, and
after the indictment was read by the clerk, she was told
she had the liberty of counsel before she pleaded ; and
she, pausing a little, by the interpreter Mr. Meader, said
she did not e.xpect to live ; and so, after, pleaded guUty,
and then desired the Court and all to hear her confession.'
1 The following is the abstract of the Charge given by Judge Lynde to
the Grand Jury as appears in a memorandum : —
" Gentlemen of the Jury : By the auspicious providence of God, the
Justices of the Court of Assize are safely arrived here, and by the order
of his Excellency the Governor, and Council, are to Judge in the solemn
.and awful tryal of a capital crime of a poor Indian woman for killin", de
stroying or murdering her own bastard child. I need not here show the
heinousness of the sin of murder, as it is set forth in the Holy Scriptures
but as it is imprinted on all mankind, ever since the first murder, the fratri
cide of Cain ; so that the very heathen nations have all had an abhorrence

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September 2yth. Wednesday evening. Chais'd from
Cambridge Court with Sheriff Foster, and at WardeU's
at nightOctober 2yth. Set out for Bristol Court ; supped and
ne.xt morning breakfasted at WardeU's.
N'ovember 2 1st. Monday. At Boston Superior Court
adjournment At Wardell's to Saturday ye 26'?
1 73 8. yanuary lOth. With my Rosy to the Charles
town Sup. Court Night at Wardell's.
February i6th. Thursday. Chais'd with Jos. Ward
Jr. to Boston Court
lyth. Fryday. With much difficulty, by reason of my
lame leg, at Court.
1741. yanuary 1st. Thursday. Sunshine, but cold
and cloudy, light snow in the air. My little grandchil
dren Mary and Hannah came early and wished me a
happy New Year. I bought of Mr. Dutch a young wild
goose, weight 8. lb., for 7f
2d. Fryday. Very cold last night, and drifty snow
of it; it being a defacing the image of God in man, and destroying man's
own image and human structure, and the murderer was to be pursued
even to death by the avenger ne.xt of kin.
" But in this case, who can be the pursuer but the public for a bastard
child who in Law is nullius filius, having no father ; and its own mother is
the murtherer and destroyer of the fruit of her womb. And this is the
heinous and unnatural crime which you are to search into, and so to discover
by sufficient evidence the horrid fact and circumstances, as to satisfy your
consciences of the truth of the indictment, and to bring in Billa Vera, or a
true bill ; or, if otherwise, you are not so satisfied, Ignora. But if you find
the Bill, then the Jury of Trials, upon a more exact scrutiny, will have their
way clear to bring in a verdict according to their evidences, unless the poor
prisoner, on her arraignment, fully conscious of her fault, confess and
plead guilty ; which if she do, from a true penitent heart, she may give
glory to God, obtain mercy to her soul and deter others from doing any
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this morning, so that it partly covered the bark in the
woodhouse. id. Saturday. Very cold all day ; Mr. Tenent came
and gave us an evening lecture.
4th. Lord's Day. The Sacrament. Mr. Sparhawk in
the morning. Mr. Tenent in afternoon ; 9. Rom. 31, 32,
of Justification by Faith only, which is the foundation of
good works ; and the good works are the fruit of the
Faith, as in James — " Show thy faith by thy works."
Contri. sf He preached again in the evening from 6 to
8 o'clock ; I not there, but my sons.
Ith. Monday. Fair, clear, but very cold ; Mr. Tenent
again this morning at 10 o'clock.
6th. Tuesday. In morning at 8. Trask cleared away
all the snow in our yard. After 3 p. m., attended Judge
Timo. Lindall's daughter's, Mrs. Mary Lindall's, funeral ;
my son William, a bearer.
yth. Wednesday. Very cold but clear. Cliff" Ground-
sell cut out thro' the ice below the Fort
8th. Thursday. A light snow last night, and still,
morning and afternoon. Dined at Mr. Sa. Browne's ;
paid Son Benj" (as Town Treasurer), £1. towards my
ta.xes ; so much must be deducted out of Mayfield's list
of what I am rated there.
gth. Fryday. Last night Sam' Symonds paid me the
quintal of r't good winter codfish — pretty large fish — ,
which, or most of it, I design for Coz. Lynde.
11//^ Lord's Day. Mr. Sparhawk, in morning; Mr.
Dimon, afternoon ; both on the benefit of afifliction ;
contributed sf Colo. Plaisted's Jupiter noted to desire
baptism. 12th. Monday. I paid my part of the 4'" year's set
tlement to Mr. Sparhawk, 86f 8"*, as per Col? Ichabod
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dissolving the snow. News that Lord Karcart is in the
West Indies with 60 sail of line of Battle ships of war,
and a vast armament of Transports, with fire ships and
bombs. This news, by a vessel now come in from
Marblehead. But W"" taken in sight of Barbados.
Ilth. Tuesday. Last night rain and thaw, and so this
morning. li^h. Wednesday. Last night, rain, and a little snow
this morning, but tempest of wind, and so all day and
this night cold.
Ilth. Thursday. Light snow last night, and lowering
this morning. Bought cake for children.
18th. LorcTs Day. Mr. Sparhawk aU day; contrib
uted sf
20//^. Tuesday. Last night Mr. Tenent returning
preached here again, and this morning from 10 to past
one, two sermons ; the i", of Jonas' mariners calling to
him, " Arise thou sleeper and call upon thy God ; '' and
the other from Matthew, " Come unto me aU ye that la
bour and I win give you rest" — his fareweU sermons to
us ; (God by his Spirit set them home on our hearts).
22^. Thursday. Lowering, but not very cold ; snowy
by turns.
2id. Fryday. Southerly wind, raw, and thawing
snow ; I, over the pond, and spoke to Stone for 500 of
salt hay for Esty. I paid this day Sa. Mayfield, consta
ble, £16. iSf l'^ in full for Town, County and Province
tax, for the year past viz : 1 740, as by his receipt, par
ticularly. 24//^. Saturday. P'* Trask of Beverly 9' for a hind
quarter of very good veal, at 9'' per pound.
2S^/^ Lord's Day. Mr. Sparhawk all day ; contri. sf
Col° Plaisted's Jupiter was baptized Jeptha.
26th. Monday. Lowery, Easterly, and about noon, a
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2yth. Tuesday. A very deep, drifted snow last night,
preventing me and Stone, who is here this moming, go
ing to Charlestown Superior Court, though intend [to go]
with him to-morrow, God willing.
28//^. Wednesday. About 9 in the morning, with Coz.
'W" Browne, Esq., went for Charlestown Court, and rid on
our horses firmly over Penny Ferry, he having paid our
expenses at the Half Moon, Newall's. In the Court
Chamber before dinner, and at the hearing of part of an
accon. Before night a great storm of snow grew on, and
increased all night
29//^. Thursday. In morning, a deep and heavy
snow, and storm increasing, so that only 3, viz : Lynde,
Saltonstall and SewaU ; Dudley and Remington in Bos
ton, and no ferrying, yet we heard, and tryed and past
over, about 4 accons.
30//^. Fryday. Clear and cold.
list. Saturday. More moderate. After dinner at
Mr. Sheriff Foster's ; ' ferryed over to Boston, supped
and lodged at WardeU's.
February 1st. Lord's Day. Sacrament at Dr. Cole
man's ; all contributed 6f Dined at Bowdoin's ; supped
at Cooper's.
2d. Mojiday. Breakfasted at WardeU's ; left Boston,
and over at Court by 10. This day all at Dana's.
id. Tuesday. Still no passing to or from Salem, as I
can hear of no Postman.
4th. Wednesday. Very cold and no passing, as above.
Ith. Thursday. In morning Jabez AUen tryed in the
meeting house. This day, as all this week, extreme cold,
and no ferry nor journeying, nor Post.
1 Richard Foster was for forty years Sheriff of Middlesex. He was in
1771 appointed to the Bench of Common Pleas, and died in August, 1774,
at the age of 82.

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6th. Fryday. Cold, and hard frost ; still no ferrying,
but over the ice, passing; in afternoon about 3, I passed
over the ice to Boston, and supped and lodged at War
deU's ; I gave little Arthur Savage 5'. and to Madam
Russell for servants, lOf and to Essex who carried my
bags and boots to Wardell's, i' 3'', and intend more to
them, they promising to see my Rosy at Hopkins sta
ble, at 4' per night After receiving Jabez Allen's verdict,
the Court adjourned to Wednesday, 2S'^ on Attorney
General's motion to advise on said verdict
yth. Saturday. Last night very cold, and this morn
ing clear sunshine, which hope will warm the air, and
dissolve gradually the vast drifts of snow, for passing the
roads. Breakfast and milk supper at Wardell's, and
dined at Bowdoin's. Yesterday on the adjournment of
the Charlestown Court, Clerk Walley paid me my part
of 120 entrys, at 2' per [entry], ^12, 4, Depositions, 4f,
and 81 Bills of costs, — 33f 9'', in aU ;£is. 12. 7.
8th. Lord's Day. At Mr. Checkley's all day, and con
tributed sf After, in the evening till 8, Mr. Tenent
preached from " Remember thy Creator in the days of
thy youth."
gth. Monday. Another snow this morning, and still
snowing, with easterly wind, seeming to rain ; God be
merciful. Breakfast, dinner, and milk supper at War
deU's ; at night, clear moon and moderate weather.
10th. Tuesday. Fair morning, and moderate. Sent
message by Mr. Sweet of Ipswich of my welfare this
morning, and that there is as yet no moving with horses.
Dined at Tyley's.
wth. Wednesday. Coz. Wiswell from T. Island on
foot, on the ice, and all as well as can be expected. I
spoke to him about his father's keeping my horse, of
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and milk supper at WardeU's, dinner at Bowdoin's ; gave
to Wiswell, for his children, 2f This day rained, but
clear night.
i2th. Thiu'sday. Fair sunshine. Breakfast and
supper at Wardell's, and dinner at Mr. Robert Gibbs'.
This day I heard Mr. Tenent's lecture-sermon from 6""
Hosea : " Come let us return, etc."
13//^. Fryday. Morning continues very cold ; wrote
to wife, and son's letter answered in it ; sent also by Mr.
Masury Jem. White's letter, and Mr. Bowles's, to his sis
ter, with two books.
14th. Saturday. Breakfast and supper at WardeU's,
dinner at Bowdoin's.
Ilth. Lord's Day. At Mr. Coleman's, and in after
noon Mr. Tenent preached from 3 Hebrews, " To-day
if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts." Con
tributed s° Many in Boston of the Church party are
offended and scoff. It rained in the morning, and after
ward, a gradual thaw.
16//^. Monday. Thawed all night But three of the
Court, Saltonstall, Sewall and I.
lyth. Tuesday. Breakfasted at Wardell's, dined at
Tyley's. Fair sun, but cold ; supper at Bowdoin's. This
morning by Bartholomew Corwen of the Jerseys I sent
son Benj'' letter and a verbal account of my health, and
the difficulties of coming home, and expect to hear more.
Mr. Tyley paid me 26f 4'', my attendance on Mackay's
case, for carrying supplys to the Spaniards, our ene
mies. i8th. Wednesday. Fair but blustering ; wind north
erly, sharp cold all day. Breakfasted, dined and supped
at WardeU's ; extreme cold night ; two and a half bowls
of punch with Mr. Frost
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Higginson, from Salem yesterday, aU well. Breakfast
and milk supper at WardeU's ; dined with Sheriff Wins
low. Hall, the sheep stealer, tryed.
20th. Friday. Weather a little more moderate with
light snow at night
215^. Saturday. Now clear sunshine and moderate.
Dined at Coz. Pitt's.
22^. Lord's Day. At Dr. Coleman's ; in afternoon,
Mr. Cooper : contributed s' Breakfast and supper at
WardeU's ; dined at Coz. Justice WaUey's. At noon.
Col. Wendell gave the news he had by a letter from
Rhode Island, of Lord Chatcart's death, in coming from
St Domingo to Jamaica.
2id. Monday. Fine pleasant sunshine, moderate
weather (thank God), and thawing all day and night
Dined at Paxton's with Sewall and Tyley.
24th. Tuesday. A little cloudy in the morning, but
no frost. Mr. Earns' negro man fetched my Rosy over
the ice from Capt. WisweU's where he was kept 13
nights at 15' per week. I paid 4' for this night at Ma
lum's. Breakfast and supper at WardeU's ; dined at
Tyley's. 2ith. Wednesday. Breakfasted at WardeU's ; then to
Court to take a verdict, then adjourned to Charlestown
about Jabez Allen. Mr. Tyley paid me ^^15, in part of
my Entrys of this Boston Court, and is in arrears with
my Springfield Court Then fetched my horse at Ma
lum's, put on my bags, and rode to Charlestown Ferry,
and over to that Court. Dined at Mr. Sheriff Foster's,
gave Hopkins who kept my horse for 13 days a ^^3 biU ;
so with Mr. Whitmore over Penny Ferry. In Maiden,
Mr. Jos. 'Ward overtook me, and after stopping at Moor's,
thro' Lin, by the Sea farms we rode very well, tho' about
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26th. Thursday. Fast for the British Fleet and Army^
and our Forces for the West Indies against the Span
iards and French also expected. Contributed for the
poor, 20f
27//^. Fryday. Clear sun, but very cold, and so all
day. March ist. Lord's Day. Very cold northerly wind.
At the Sacrament contributed 2', and in the aftemoon,
20' ; having been at Boston three Lord's days ; there, isf
This night about 10, widow Neal by the Pound, her
house burnt down.
2d. Monday. Cold with squall of snow, wind ET
id. Tuesday. To son W" I gave £12 (to be de
ducted out of his obligation to me on account of the
watch his mother gave him and received again), which
he is to buy a new sword with.
6th. Fryday. Sunshine, clear and moderate Easterly
wind, not very high tide.
yth. Saturday. Wind S. Easterly, so fear high tides.
8th. Lord's Day. Mr. Sparhawk all day ; contributed
but 3', so must give 7' next Lord's day.
gth. Monday. Fair, sunshine. N.W'^ wind, tho' deep
snow, that feU on Saturday last Our general Town
meeting for choosing Town officers, and the most nu
merous swarm of the village and Mid. Precinct that has
been known, at the contri[vance] and beck of the Land
Bank, Jno. Gardner. This swarm, legal or not, voted
Mr. Thos. Flint, moderator, and then carried the vote
for the Philips cabal choice selectmen, viz : their modera
tor Flint, Jno. Gardner, Moulton, Thos. Proctor, Sam.
West, one Mash, etc., and afterward the same gang voted
Capt. King Town Treasurer, and said Sa. West, Town
Clerk in room of Jno. Higginson, Esq. — admirable e.x
change ! — Am debtor to CoUins, saddler, for a new
pumel for my saddle 3' 6?

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Wth. Wednesday. About lo. A. M. with Rosy for
Boston with Mr. Lee, Mr. Gibbs and B. Gerrish, Jr. ; the
two last overtook me a mile beyond More's, alone, and
Lee we overtook at the Half Moon where oated and
drank ; sent my Rosy to Ale.x. Thorp's, and dined and
supped at WardeU's. Chapman cleared by the Admi
ralty Court, I absent
i2th. Thursday. Clear and thawing day. Delivered
son B'' letter for Weeks Esq."' , of Warrick, to Mr. Gib
son. Breakfasted and supped at WardeU's, and dined at
Bowdoin's. 13//^. Fryday. Moderate morning not very clear, snow
wasting. Breakfasted at WardeU's, dined at Elder Li-
man's, supped at Bowdoin's. This afternoon Coz. Wis
well had and carried my horse from Alex : stable to his
father's at Dorchester Neck.
14^/^. Saturday. Cloudy, thawing misty morning,
with rain ; yet sent son a letter.
Ilth. Lord's Day. Clear and very cold. At Dr.
Coleman's ; contributed but 3f Dined at Bowdoin's,
supped at Mr. Cooper's.
i6th. Monday. Moderate, clear, thawing day in the sun.
lyth. Tuesday. Clear sunshine, thawing day. My
tenant Wiswell came from T. Island, over the ice to Dor
chester Neck, and thence over to Boston ; teams and sleds
also. Breakfasted, and for him a pint of Sage ale, and
supped on smelts with a gill of madeira at WardeU's.
Sister Pordage had a fainting fit, but better ; God prepare
us for his will. Dined with Coz. Pitts. Mr. Tyley paid
me, besides ^^13 toward this Court's fees, for above 200
actions ; I say he paid me now ;£io more ; my Spring
field fees still behind.
18th. Wediiesday. The morning not so clear, but
pleasant after. Dined at Lechmeere's, supped at Bow
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igth. Thursday. Fair but a cold, brisk, N. Wwind.
Breakfasted and dined at Bowdoin's. I put on board
Felt 4 lbs. of chocolate, and paid Brewster 50' for it and
a chafing dish. Coz. WisweU brought my horse to
Thorp's, being at Neck from Fryday to this day.
20th. Fryday. Breakfast and dinner at WardeU's,
supper at Bowdoin's.
2ist. Saturday. Paid Mrs. WardeU towards my lodg
ing £1, and gave 10' to servants, and ferried with horse
over, and breakfasted at Coz. Russell's. Coz. Enoch
¦WisweU paid me at Mr. Russell's, in part for the last
year, ^^30 in Province bills. Thence at Half Moon
baited ; thence home with Mr. Pope and WisweU ; at
home by 4 or s.
22d. Lord's day. Mr. Sparhawk and Dimon ; con
tributed 12? for two Lord's days.
24^/^. All night and this morning, snowing, [snow]
5 inches deep about 7, all day and night continuing.
Paid Nab. 20', which at times I had borrowed of her.
Paid Jonas Archer, Sen.'' in full of all accounts from 1725
to this day. Scip. being sick with a great cold and
pleuritic pain in his left breast, Dr. Cabot blooded him
for the better.
27//^. Ffyday. Col. Turner, Mr. Higginson and I at
Prat's and he and I executed two deeds, one of Griffin's,
his mortgaged lands to Burnam, who has given him a
bond, for the money I lent him, to discharge ; the other
of March's.
2gth. Lord's Day. Mr. Sparhawk all day ; contrib
uted sf
list. Tuesday. My son B" goes with my Rosy to the
Ipswich Court Fair but cold.
April 1st. Wednesday. Cold, hard frost and squaUy
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Ith. LorcTs Day. Sacrament Contributed s?
i2th. Lord's Day. Mr. Sparhawk aU day; contrib
uted sf
lyh. Monday. In the morning about 7, set out for
our Plymouth and Barnstable Courts with Rosy, over
Watts' ferry ; thence thro' Boston Comon, dined with
Mr. Spurs, gave his son 2' 6^ ; thence to Mr. Adam Cush
ing's, Weymouth, about S P- m- 'where with Judge Sal
tonstall lodged.
14//^. Tuesday. We paid Cushing about 10' apiece,
thence to Cushing's of Hingham, where breakfasted, 3' ;
thence to Sylvester's, hay and cyder, i', thence by 2
o'clock to the Court dinner. Deacon Alden drowned by a
boat's oversetting, tho' four others that were in the boat
were spared by the canoe.
Ilth. Wednesday. Fair but cool morning ; chocolate
breakfast and eggs ; supped with Sewall and Walley.
i6th. Thursday. Fair and cool morning. A French
master of a sloop, last from Stacia, by his story contra
dicts the newspapers of Admiral Vernon's destroying
the 15 French men-of-war at Port St Lewis, but he has
contradicted his own story himself, and so not to be cred
ited. lyth. Fryday. Fair and warm morning. Capt Rug
gles gone yesterday for a Letter of Marque to go from
Plymouth with a sloop in pursuit of this suspicious sloop
of the said \ Frenchman. Oyster supper with all the
Court. igth. Lord's Day. Mr. Clap preached aU day, and at
night at the young men's meeting ; I contributed 7f 6?
I supped at Mr. Leonard's.
20th. Monday. Cloudy morning after last night's
small rain, but in afternoon, cold, with N. W. wind all
day. Tewksbury's account of their seeing Admiral Ver
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23^. Thursday. General Fast ; contributed about sf
Br. dined and supped at Mr. Thomas'.
24th. Fryday. All yesterday, cold and cloudy ; N. E.
wind and storm, and this night, rain which continues this
morning and still.
26///. Lord's Day. Mr. Leonard ; contributed, s?
2yth. Monday. For Barnstable Court ; lodged at
Sheriff Russell's.
28th. Tuesday. Opened Court.
29^/^. Wednesday. Mr. Timo. Ruggles blooded my
Rosy who has the scratches.
30//;. Thursday. Raw foul weather, and has been
this two or three days.
Alay 1st. Fryday. Cloudy, northerly, blustering ; cold
still ; (God have mercy).
id. Lord's Day. Sacrament at Mr. Green's ; his
text 20 Math. 28. "A Ransom for many ;" contributed
7f 6? Dined at Judge Lathrop's ; supped at Mr. Green's.
4th. Monday. My horse at Judge Lathrop's ; Court
holding still.
Ith. Tuesday. Judge Dudley lost three Courts, Rem
ington staying but 2 days in all at Barnstable Court
6th. Wednesday. Finished Barnstable Court of 58
actions. After dinner left Barnstable ; by 4 got to Rug
gles', oated and paid if 6'' ; thence to Ellis', oated for if
3'', and there lodged.
yth. Thursday. Paid at EUis' for supper, lodging and
horse 7f Thence breakfasted at Sever EsqF's ; thence
to Hanover, Sylvester's ; thence to Weymouth, Adam
Cushing's ; thence to Milton, thence to Boston ; horse at
Thorp's ; lodged and supped at Wardell's.
8th. Fryday. Early over Watts' Ferry, mounted, and
at Moor's by 10 ; by 11 got home, and sent Rosy down
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lOth. LorcTs Day. Contributed for my three Lord's
day's absence at Plym? and Barnstable, and now, 20f
12th. Tuesday. At Ipswich Court by 10, and opened
and gave Charge before 12. Lodged at now Widow
Browne's, whose husband's funeral I and Judge Dudley
attended at evening.
16th. Saturday. Left Ipswich, and Mr. Tyley paid
me towards Ipswich court fees in full, £6. 17. 6.
lyth. Lords Day. Mr. Sparhawk aU day ; Judge
Dudley and Tyley here ; contributed s? Gentle rain all
day and night.
2ist. Thursday. News of Admiral Vernon's taking
all the Carthagena forts, castles, harbour, ships, etc., con
firmed ; the action began the 9"" of March.
231^. Saturday. Capt Shepison from England in 7
weeks' passage, in the Wm., Capt Smithers, and the
news that the Land Bank, and all other private banks
are likely to be blank't by act of parliament The gov
ernment frowns on them, our principal establishment
27^/^. , Wednesday. Fair weather. Election ; Negro's
hallowday here at Salem ; gave Scip. s' and W" 2f 6?
All the Salem counsellors left out ; Wenham Fairfield,
(after Chelsy Watts',^ by Governor negatived), was
chosen speaker ; but Wendell, WUlard, secr>', A. Stod
dar, and Mr. Bil of the Boston last year's Council ; and
from Cambridge, Fox and Danforth.
3ii-/. Lord's Day. Mr. Sparhawk all day; baptized
his own daughter.
yune 1st. Monday. In morning, put on board the
schooner Jno. and Mary, Capt. Sam' Gahtman, by B.
Lynde, to be delivered to Sam' Lynde, Esq., at Saybrook,
a quintal of eating fish, one Jar of oyl, one dozen scythes,
and a small cask of nails.
1 Samuel Watts, of Chelsea, negatived on account of his connection
with the Land Bank Scheme.

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2d. Tuesday. Fine weather. At the mill's tail a
school of shad ; I had 2.
yth. Lord's Day. Mr. Sparhawk ; Sacrament, i? 6* ;
and contributed sf
gth. Tuesday. Misty ; Capt. Osborn dined with son
B. by whom we have the news that the town of Cartha
gena after a . . . . dayes vigorous defence against our
storming, has surrendered. Q.
12//;. Fryday. In the morning early at pasture, Che-
ver's, and cros't over his new fence by the side of mine,
and having shifted my parchment money case into my
old waistcoat, in which was a hole in the pocket, and thro'
the skirts of the waistcoat, I conclude I have lost it,
with about ^10 Prov. BUls which I missed not tiU 13'"
day. Scip. at mill, working all day.
Ilth. Saturday. Jno. Henderson cryed my said lost
money. 14//^. Lord's Day. Mr. Sparhawk and Dimon ; con
tributed, l".
J Ith. Monday. Mia. Stone found my parchment
money case with all my money unaltered at C. H., at
the point of Marsh by Col. Hathorn's where I went that
day ; I gave him 30f which he and all at the MiU think
very generous.
16th. Tuesday. Last night Scipio fetched my Rosy,
and this morning over Beverly Ferry before 7, for York
Court alone to Treadwell's, Ipswich, where Judge Steph.
Sewall in a chaise overtook me. Thence we went to
Newbury and dined ; and thence to Hampton, Griffin's.
Supped and lodged at Capt Hurst's ; gave his servants
3f or 4f , and paid for horse if 6^
lyth. Wednesday. Thence over York Ferry and
about 12 opened Court
i8/^. Thursday. Lodged at Mrs. Widow Prebble's, and
horse clogged in her pasture.

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19^/2. Fryday. Fair morning, but in afternoon sweet
warm rain and showers, which I hope reached Salem.
Mr. Sam' Corwin from Salem dined yesterday with the
Court ; he tells me my son William is ill, but said Dr.
Cabot who was sent for thought it something of the va
pours ; God heal and sanctify him.
2IJ-/. Lord's Day. Sweet, warm rain. Mr. Moody, in
the morning ; Mr. Smith, in the afternoon ; contributed
Sf Coz. Smith, at Mr. Moody's request preached an
evening lecture which, like his other performance, very
acceptable to aU, and to Judge Sewall especiaUy.
22d. Monday. Fair and clear sunshine after yester
day's rain.
2id. This day tryed the No. Yarmouth case which
held all day, and till after 10 at night
24///. Wednesday. Fair sunshine. Tryed Vaughn's
Review v. the Millikens all day and to after 10 at night
2ith. Thursday. A little cloudy, with drizzly rain
afternoon and night News of Shirley being the Gov
ernor, but query.
26^'/^. Fryday. Foggy misty morning.
28tli. Lord's Day. Fair summer day ; Mr. Moody all
day ; contri. s'
29//^. Mo7iday. Fair morning. By a person from
Cambridge, hear the sad news ! of Col. W™ Brattle, and
his wife with his famUy, being sick with throat distemper,
and one or two of his daughters dead and dying ; and
that minister Appleton's youngest child is dead ; God
have mercy.
loth. Tuesday. Fair morning. After dinner the Rev.
Mr. Moody having written a particular character of the
present four Justices of our Court, and, in conclusion,
that we had not in America a Court more accomplished
for the Province they sustained, and showing it to us,

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after reading it, when he came in to us again, I told him
with conscious blushes of my being in no wayes equal to
his character of me ; that we should apply the [words]
of Horace to ourselves — " Esto quod audis." ^
yuly 1st. Wednesday. Foggy and misty, and I doubt
[not] gloomy Commencement !
id. Fryday. Finished about 10 our tedious York
Court of 78 entries, which is to each 4 (of us who at
tended, Dudley absent) abo. £8. IS- and bills and costs
about 70' more, in all abo. ;^I2 ; and about 11 set out
and got to the Bank between 12 and i, Saltonstall pay
ing if 9"* for York and Bank ferrys for me. Thence got
to Hampton and oated, and dined at 3, paying 2f 6? ;
thence over at Newbury ferry and oated, but Mr. Auch
muty would discharge all for me and my friend. Got
by 8 or 9 to, and lodged at, Treadwell's, Ipswich, and
paid for horse, and in full, 8f 6.*
4th. Saturday. This morning about 8, set out from
Ipswich and paying ferriage if 3?, got home about 10.
Ith. Lord's Day. Sacrament Mr. Sparhawk ; con
tributed 2of which is Sf over, for my two absences.
6th. Monday. In morning, rain early, and still cloudy
and misty. At S. Field pasture with canoe, and find it
poor, but growing better for mowing, with the last Fry
day night's rain, and the mighty showers I was caught in
in returning from Castle Hill ; very wet
yth. Tuesday. Fair morning. Scip. with me spread
the hay, and he cocked it up.
12th. Lord's Day. Mr. Sparhawk all day; contrib
uted s?
16th. Thursday. Fine, sunshine. Scip. at 8 went in
gundalo for rocks with the mill workers. I paid Marshall
Bayly for 13^ lbs. beef, 13', most fit for steaks. Dined
with the Inferior Court, and supped at Judge Lindall's.
' See Massachusetts Historical Collections, iv. 7.

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19//^. Lord's Day. Mr. Adams preached all day.
26th. Lord's Day. Mr. Sparhawk in afternoon bap
tized Mr. Lee's son Thomas ; contributed S-
28//^. Tuesday. About 6 A. M. set out for the Cam
bridge Court with my Jolly ; got to the Half Moon,
Newel's, baited horse, and had cydar syllabub and bread
and butter. UnderSheriff Whitmore met me at Med
ford and guarded me to the Court,^ where Judge Dudley
made a speech in favour of Col. Brattle, without naming
him, and his vindication of the college from the asper
sions of Mr. 'Wh  d,- examining, in the matters of re
Hgion. By Judge Remington's invitation I lodged at his
house. August 1st. Saturday. Preparing to go home, but
stayed in Court tiU after i, and dined and gave Jeffry at
my lodging for old services 3f I left with Madam 10'
for servants, and gave 10' to Goff's negro lad for himself
and four night's pasture.
2d. Lord's Day. Sparhawk ; Sacrament, 3', and con
tributed S?
gth. Lord's Day. Mr. Cook all day, and Mr. Spar
hawk at young men's evening lecture ; contrib. s'
wth. Tuesday. At about 8 a. m. for Boston ; there by
12 ; at Mrs. WardeU's had a cake and a nip'' of Madeira
sangaree. Dined at Bowdoin's, supped on lobster with
Col. Moulton, and had a bottle of ale.
12th. Wednesday. A schooner from Bristol brings ac
count of the master dining on board the Mast ship,
where Mr. Griffin had Governor Shirley's commission,
about a week since.' Breakfast and supper at Wardell's,
1 It was customary at this time for Judges, when on their circuits, to be
met by the sheriff of the County and other gentlemen, at the border of
the shire town, and conducted to their lodgings with great parade.
3 Mr. George Whitefield.
• A letter from Mr., afterward Govemor Hutchinson, at this time in
8

114 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [1741.
dined at Mr. Read's. Bought 4 yards of colored broad
cloth and carried it to Rankin, taylor, to make coat and
waistcoat. Breakfasted on half a pint of superior wine,
with bread and sauce, with lobster, treating Col. Moulton.
Dined at Col. Winslow's.
13//^. Thursday. A. M. Early Capt. Ting with Mr.
Griffin from on board the mast ship brought Govemor
Shirley's Commission in the Province Gaily. I waited
on him and congratulated him alone, wishing him happy
in his government, and said that his knowledge of the
laws and constitution of the people from his own experi
ence, and living with his family here, gave us all hopes
that his government would be very acceptable to all, and
assured him it would be so to me, and soon took leave,
he having not then inspected his letters and papers.
Breakfast on lobster, and \ pint of WardeU's wine ;
treated Col. Moulton.
14th. Fryday. Yesterday afternoon and aU night,
rain ; so this morning, so as to lessen the lustre of Gov
ernor W"" Shirley's procession to the Council Chamber,
to have his commission read, as it was about 12 or i
o'clock. The procession met in this manner — a coinitte of
the Council and Representatives, viz : . . . .to the num
ber of . . . ., about II o'clock, waited on the Hon*'®
Wiir Shirley, Esq., attending tiU 12 at his house; then
proceeded in order, with several of the old CouncU viz :
Adam Winthrop, Esq., Judge Dudley, Lewis Wadsworth,
etc., Esqs., who walk'd in company with Mr. Shirley, the
High Sheriff Winslow and officers marching before, till
they joyned the Guards and mUitia, who had waited and
London, to Judge Lynde, foreshadows the removal of Governor Belcher,
and the appointment of Governor Shirley. This letter is printed in the
Appendix.

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drawn up before Gov. Belcher's street gates ; and then
imediately Gov. Belcher, with several gentlemen. Justices
of the Peace, etc., and only myself of the old Council,
acco. to direccon (as also the others of the old Council
should) joyned Mr. Shirley in his Procession. Thus, after
a short compliment, Gov. Belcher walked in the middle,
Mr. Shirley on his right hand, and Lt Gov. Phipps on his
left ; then followed Lynde and Winthrop, Dudley, etc.
In the Council Chamber, the Commission in form was
read by Secretary Willard, and then Gov. Shirley, by the
Secretary, was sworn, viz : upon the Evangelists, the
usual oath, and then, to his Administration oaths as usual.
Upon which finished, Gov. Belcher rose up and taking
Gov. Shirley by the hand, surrendered the chair to him
with a very friendly, cheerful and courteous congratula
tion, wishing him all happiness and prosperity in all his
administracons and government ; upon which Gov. Shir-
leyfrom the Chair returned him the same compliment of
thanks for his good wishes ; and after the Proclamation,
both Governors and the Lt. Governor, Shirley in the
middle, with the Council in order, proceeded to dinner
with them at Withered's.
1 6//^. Lord's Day. Mr. Sparhawk all day ; contrib
uted S'-
i8th. Tuesday. Came timely to our Boston Court
adjournment ; horse in Watts' pasture ; dined at Bow
doin's, supped at Wardell's.
19//;;. Dined at Tyley's with the rest of the Judges.
20th. Fair again and warm all day. After 9 a. m. all
our Court waited on Gov. Shirley with congratulations,
which I pronounced memoriter, but with too much fear.
Drink punch with Mr. Ting and Moulton ; Dined at Mr.
Hen. Gibbs'.
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Il6 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [1741.
22d. Saturday. Breakfasted at WardeU's, over at
Watts' by 9, dined at home.
23(/. Lord's Day. Mr. Sparhawk aU day ; contrib
uted S?
24th. Capt B. Manning ready to sail for Holland. I,
now, a. m. riding to Boston to the Court adjournment
Dined at Wardell's ; supped at Bowdoin's. At evening
at Withered's with Saltonstall and SewaUs.
2ith. Tuesday. Fair hot day. Breakfasted and
supped with lobster and a bottle of ale ; treated Mr.
Lion at WardeU's : I received from Mr. Clerk WaUey
£10. o. o. for my part of Boston Court fees. The Sum
ners case about London, a negro killed by them, as in
dicted, held aU day tUl sundown.
26th. Wednesday. Fair and hot Breakfasted at
Warden's ; dined at Pitt's ; supped with Madeira and
bread and butter at Mr. Lane's. Rec'' in part of last
year's rent of Wiswell, T. Island, £l. o. o. The 4
prisoners Sumners, etc. were by the Jury [found] guUty
of homicide by misadventure.
27^/^. Thursday. Supped on apple tart without drink
at WardeU's. " Dr. Coleman preached the lecture sermon ;
Governor Shirley present
30//^ Lord's Day. Dined at Mr. Checkley's, but heard
in the morning Mr. Parkman of Westboro', and Mr. Ab
bot in the afternoon.
3IJ-/. Monday. About break of day, a smart rain,
but fair sunshine about . 6. Breakfast, dinner and sup
per with bowl of punch and tankard of bottle ale, and
beer with Sheriff Plaisted, I treating Mr. Tyley.
September 1st. Tuesday. Fair and cooler. Dined at
Bowdoin's. 2d. Wednesday. Fair, still cool. Dined on small
mackerel, and supped on apple puff at WardeU's.

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id. Thursday. Fair and cool morning. Last night
sat till 1 1 in David EUis' non. comp. case. Breakfast and
lobster supper with small toddy drink at WardeU's.
4th: Friday. Cloudy, but not rainy, morning. Two
breakfasts, two dinners and two mugs of ale, my tenant,
Mr. Enoch Wiswell being with me early, and reckoned
with me for the year 1740.
Ith. Saturday. Cloudy. Home to dinner.
6th. Lord's Day. Sacrament ; contributed for Mr.
Sparhawk s' which should have been 10', for my absence
last Sunday.
yth. Monday. Rain'd in the night and this morning.
8th. Tuesday. Storm still increasing ; God preserve
distressed seamen.
12^/^. Saturday. Continues fair, and so hope with
Skerry's team to house my hay ; son William had ;^io
of me to pay Mr. Silsby for a dozen scythes, sent to Coz.
Sam' Lynde.
Ilth. Lord's Day. Mr. Sparhawk all day ; contribu
ted 10' which makes me full to this day.
14th. Monday. About 9 in morning, set out with my
Rosy, and with Jose. Stone waiting on me, with my Jolly,
and reached Woburn at Mr. Prescott's sister Fowle's
about 12 ; thence to Mr. Hancock's at Littleton, where
his wife treated with a leg of bacon, etc. ; thence to Coz.
Prescott's, Concord, and she treated with strong beer, lime
punch and tea, and young Dr. Prescott, her brother, rode
with us on the road towards Deacon Rice's where we
lodged, and had our horses pastured.
Ilth. Tuesday. About 8, in company with one Mr.
Woods and Jones, we baited at How's by Marlboro' pond,
and there I desired him to get me chestnuts on my re
turn ; thence to Agur's ; thence by i got to dinner with
the Court, put both our horse's to Chandler's pasture

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and there both lodge. Judge Dudley opened the Court
before I came.
i6^/^. Wednesday. At Court in the morning.
lyth. Thursday. Morning fair and cool, but so well
as to go to Court (God wUling).
18th. Fryday. Fair morning. After breakfast Judge
Dudley and I gave Madam Chandler, for children and
servants, a £1 note, and, after, I gave over 8' to servants,
for my two horses' pasturing. Thence Dudley and I with
our two servants to Hind's of Brookfield, where all the
Court dined.
igth. Saturday. From Brookfield about 9 ; baited our
4 horses at Ashley's by Tuft's hiU meadow ; thence to
Dumbleton's in Kingston, where oated, Dudley again pay
ing my part ; thence to Lamb's by the nine mile pond,
where baited our four horses, and dined at Mrs. Cheney's
on cold fowl, lamb and turnip ; thence about s or 6 got
comfortably to Springfield and lodged at Hitchcock's, and
horses with Dudley's by my Jo. sent to pasture at Worth
ington's. 20//^. Lord's Day. Mr. Parkman of Westboro'
preached all day ; no contributions.
21st. Monday. Dined at Capt. John Pynchon's ' with
Judge Dudley.
22^. Tuesday. Springfield Court opened ; I gave the
Charge ; no proclamations read ; I hinted Gov. Shirley's
readiness to comply with, and promote all acts of piety
and morality, and the universal good of the Province,
from his answers to addresses of both orders of men
among us, civil and sacred.
^ Captain John Pynchon, here mentioned, was a grandson of William
Pynchon, the emigrant, and a grandson of William Hubbard, the histo
rian. He was colonel of militia and clerk of the Court at Springfield.
He died July 12, 1742.

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24th. Thursday. Irish .... Thompson arraigned,
tryed, and found guilty of digging and putting out his
wife's eyes ; and his sentence, to be whipped 39 lashes,
20 at the gallows with a rope about his neck, and thrown
over the gallows, and to stand an hour thereon ; and
when back to the prison to be whipped 19 more, to be
imprisoned a year, and to pay all charges.
2lth. Fryday. Finished the Court.
26th. Saturday. Left Springfield and paid Mrs.
Hitchcock, for Jos. 12° ; my own breakfasts and milk
suppers, with cydar, 20', with other expenses, in all 34f
Thence at Scot's, and at Ashley's, Brookfield.
2yth. Lord's Day. At Leicester, at the meeting house,
Richardson's, where heard Mr. Goddard who preached
very well from 12. Eccl. "The body returns to the
dust" 28th. Monday. Set out before sunrise, and paid my
part by WaUey ; thence breakfasted at Col. Chandler's,
and rid thence to How's by Marlboro' pond ; and here
Mr. Walley with Saltonstall and SewaU parted, and I,
having before received of Walley all my Worster and
Springfield court fees, with £2 remaining of August
Boston Court fees and deduccons from aU, he paid me
£16; thence alone with Jo. proceeded to Rice's of Con
cord and paid 2f Thence 7 mUes to Cousin Prescotts,'
where lodged, and gave 12' between her 2 daughters Ann
and Rebecca, and 4' to the maids.
1 Colonel John Prescott, son of Benjamin Prescott, was born May 8,
1707, and graduated at Harvard College in 1727. He married Ann Lynde,
daughter of Nathaniel Lynde, of Saybrook, Conn., and became eminent
as a physician in the town of Concord, Mass. He raised one hundred men
whom he commanded in the unfortunate e.xpedition to Cuba, in 1740, and
was in 1743 sent to England by the govemment, where he died the same
year of Small Pox. After his death his widow received a pension from
the British Government. He was a second cousin of Colonel William
Prescott who commanded at Bunker Hill.

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2gth. Tuesday. Left Concord ; visited Mr. Hancock.
Thence dined at Mr. Hobby's, Reading ; thence home
by s o'clock.
October ist. Thursday. Rainy night, and this mom
ing, and still continues. Young Venning had my verbal
order to Mr. Jo. Ropes for a pair of shoes for his wife,
and on acc't of his mill work. I paid Mr. Jno. Ward for
my new bob wig £l. Rosy at Winter Island yesterday.
4th. Lord's Day. Mr. Sparhawk all day ; contrib-
ted 20f
wth. Lord's Day. Mr. Sparhawk aU day; contrib
uted nothing, having [contributed] last Sunday.
Ilth. Tuesday. Rid towards, and spoke with, Jno.
GUes, and he is to bring in Pepper's cart my \ com,
pompions, potatoes, turnips, etc., ne.xt Thursday or Fry
day, with cydar, giving me notice the night before.
Bought of Sibley, three first ribs of 7 year old good beef
at 9'' per pound. At Watch house, fish marketing ;
mackerel, if 6?
16th. Fryday. Southerly and cloudy with rain. Yes
terday, Jona. Archer bro't a pipe with 3 barrels, and a
tub with s I lbs. Thomson's Isle butter and cydar ; and
another tub of butter, hope to have, but no apples from
Wiswell. 18th. Lord's Day. Mr. Sparhawk and Dimon; con
tributed s?
21st. Wednesday. Fair, N. W'' ; Jo. Stone bro't
Rosy from S. Field, and Proctor new shod him with my
old caulk'd shoes, but good and raised for our Bristol
circuit 24th. Saturday. Cousin Nath' Lynde came from
Saybrook thro' Boston.
2ith. Lord's Day. Mr. Gardner, grandson of old
Mrs. Gardner, deceased, preached all day, and very weU ;
contributed s?

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26th. Monday. Left Coz. Nath', and after 1 1 sat out
with Jo. Stone and my Jolly for Bristol Court, by Watts'
Ferry ; and having visited sister Pordage, about 3, pro
ceeded to Capt Bent's of Milton, where I lodged.
2yth. Tuesday. Paid Capt Bent our expenses, 10',
and about 8 in the morning, just as we mounted, we met
Judge Sewall, who had lodged at Mr. Taylor's ; so we
proceeded to and breakfasted and oated our 3 horses,
at Deacon Tucker's ; thence proceeded to Edw. Estes
and took him with us to the tavern, WUliams', where we
dined ; Este dined with us, and I gave him for his boys
S' ; thence with Benj. WiUiams, our guide, who went
with us about 6 miles, we proceeded to Wheeler's, about
16 miles, and supped and lodged.
28th. Wednesday. About 8 A. M. I paid our charges,
about 23', and at 11 at Bristol, and in Court before 12,
and opened and gave the Charge.
November 1st. Lord's Day. At Bristol, Mr. Birt, their
ordained minister ; contr. Sf
Ith. Thursday. Supped at Min'' Usher's.
6th. Fryday. Fair cold morning. Rec* of Mr. Clerk
Tyley £il, my part (at present) of 131 accons, to be be
tween 4, he to pay our dinners and our two boys between
aU. I paid Mad"" Paine, having been from Wednesday
28'" October to this 6"" November with Jos. Stone's sup
pers and breakfasts, ;j^3, to be divided. Set out from
Bristol after 10 A. m. and got to Briggs' by 2, 19 miles,
where dined on good beef steaks, oated and hayed our
horses, and paid 4' 4,'' Thence to Williams', 13 miles,
where supped and lodged.
yth. Saturday. This morning by sun rise at Ben. Wil
liams' who guided us 5 mUes. I gave our guide Ben.
W"" a second hand pair of gloves. Thence to Edward
Este's 7 miles more, and after, 3 miles, where eat good

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butter, and our horses, stalks. I had of a man half a
peck of chestnuts and gave 4' ; thence at \ past 9.
Breakfasted on chocolate, oated etc., paid s' J thence
to Boston, dined, and hayed our horses at Bowdoin's,
16 mUes more ; thence, after 4, with horses over Watts'
ferry, and thence home.
8th. Lord's Day. Mr. Sparhawk sick with a cold
ever since I went ; so at Mr. Dimon's ; contri. 3f
gth. Monday. Canoed to Castle HiU ; viewed Prov.
Orchard fence set up again, and Elias Trask buUding a
chimney there where mine stood.
10//^. Tuesday. Superior Court opened about 11.
wth. Wednesday. Provided for Thanksgiving one
fat large sheep, two young turkeys, and a goose (these
from Stone) ; from Wiswell a wUd goose sent by Archer,
white loaves and biskets from Mr. Hunt.
12//;. Thursday. Mr. Sparhawk preached the Thanks
giving ; I contributed for the poor but lof Harvy fro.
Barbados in ; son B. concerned.
14//;. Saturday. My daughter at about 6 this mom
ing safely (thro' God's mercy) delivered of a fine daugh
ter. 15///. Lords Day. Mr. Sparhawk all day, and bap
tized my son's daughter, Lydia, and two more females.
Contributed lof Judge Remington and Mr. Tyley's
son, our present clerk, dined on a turkey and wild goose.
16//;. Monday. Cold and clear, with hard snow on
the ground.
17//;. Tuesday. Davis indicted for murdering Abner
Chase ; tryed and by the Jury [found] not guilty.
i8//^ Wednesday. Foggy and wet ; last night supped
and treated at Judge Lindall's. This morning Webb's
tryal for uttering knowingly R. Island £1. counterfeit
biUs ; Jury about 4 p. m. found him not guUty, and the

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Court adjourned without day ; and the Court, invited,
supped at Mr. W" Browne's. Tyley, our present clerk,
paid me my entrys for 70 accons, viz : £y. down, and
after, 59' to Mr. Prat, in part of our Court dinners, so
that I am over paid.
22^. Lord's Day. Young Mr. Gardiner all day ; per
formed excellently.
23^. Monday. Foul, warm, rainy. I gave nurse Peal
10' bill for our little Lydia.
2lth. Wednesday. About 9 went by Penny Ferry to
Boston Court adjournment
26//;. Thursday. Dined at Col. Winslow's.
27//^ Friday. Supped at Ste. Sewall's.
29//;. Lord's Day. At Dr. Coleman's, who under a
cloud from his vile brother absent Contri. 3f
lOth. Monday. Benning Wentworth, Esq., Governor
by Commission of New Hampshire, with Mr. Thos.
Hutchinson, arrived in Capt Cary, by Cape Cod at Bos
ton ; the ship e.xpected every hour. Dined at Col.
Wendell's. December 1st. Tuesday. Cary not yet come from
Cape Cod.
2d. Wednesday. About I Mason's son brought me
four cheeses from Bristol, and he helped put them on
board Jonas Archer's sloop Gate for me. Breadfasted
at Mr. Hutchinson's, dined at Mr. Jeffry's, supped at
WardeU's. 6th. Lord's Day. Sacrament, i' only ! Mr. Gardner
aU day. Contributed 10°, but it should have been 12' 6^
more, to finish the year.
10//;. Thursday. Benning Wentworth, Esq., Governor
of New Hampshire Province, who arrived in Capt Cary,
in his going to his Government, lodged at Mr. Kitchen's,
where I was sent for. Sons B. and W. were there , be
fore.

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12//;. Saturday. The Governor's first letter by Mr.
Winthrop to Mr. B. Pemberton answered by me to Gov'
Shirley. 13//;. Lord's Day. Mr. Sparhawk all day; contrib
uted, s?
14//;. Monday. Mr. Jno. Smith of Cold Spring
shewed me, and left with me, a copy of a petition to the
Gen' Court for another tax on the non resident Proprie
tors' lands. I have written this day to Judge Dudley to
oppose it, as unreasonable and unjust, especiaUy in giving
but about six days' notice to any, and but two to me.
Ilth. Tuesday. About 12, Mr. Winthrop, with the
Governor's 2^ letter desiring my presence, with the rest
of the Judges, tomorrow to dinner ; but I went with Mr.
Winthrop about i ; and thro' a warm rain, we, by Watts'
Ferry, and with his horse got well to Ware's ; and about
7 I had the governor's letter of thanks for being in Bos
ton, and his invitation to breakfast with him early ;
1 6//;. Wednesday. Which I did, and he then commu
nicated his mind freely, and at dinner, where Judges Rem
ington and Saltonstall were. After dinner, the Govemor
took Remington apart, and so Remington rode before us
to Judge Dudley's, where Judge Sewall was gone before ;
but the Governor desired me to acquaint Saltonstall, as
we were in Dudley's coach, that we should, if it was our
mind, insist on the point peremptorily, as he himself did
and should. So about 4, we all met at Dudley's chamber,
he being Ul, and there about 7 p. m. made, and, by Mr.
Clerk Tyley, swore Mr. Benj. Pemberton, Clerk in Wal
ley's place ; Remington and Sewall (for their reasons
then given) were in the negative. On Tuesday night
supped on eggs, and this Wednesday breakfasted and
dined at the Governor's and lodged at Dudley's.
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Theoph. coachman, we gave 3? I signed Col. Dudley's
answer with him in behalf of Judge Dudley and his mo.
Dav. to the Cold Spring inhabitants' and others' petition
for another tax on their land ; and so by i o'clock got
ready to go home by Watts' Ferry ; expenses at Rachel's
going and now returning, 2 giUs of rum sugared, and at
Moor's oating, and toddy with another ; so got home af
ter s P. M.
1 8//;. Raw snowy weather.
20//;. Lord's Day. Mr. Sparhawk all day ; contrib.
I of 27//;. Lord's Day. Little Lydia had an iU turn. Cold
and cloudy aU day ; cont Sf
28//;. Monday. About 3 or 4 inches even snow, and
StiU snowing.
29//;. Tuesday. Fair but cool and not windy.
30//;. Wednesday. Mr. Balch of Bradford preached
his lecture on Grace thro' J. and is again at Mr. Fisk's.
1742. September 20th. Monday. Set out from Sa
lem with cousin Sarah Raymond,^ wife of Justice Ray
mond of New London, with Jos. Stone my servant on
this my Worcester and Springfield Circuit At Wo
burn, Capt. Fowls' by 12 o'clock, 12 mUes in two hours
and a half ; thence, about 3, we came to Col. Prescott's
by sunset 12 or 13 mUes more, where lodge weU.
21st. Tuesday. [In] morning it began to rain, N. E. ;
so lye by till fairer.
22d. Wednesday. Gave 20' to the two daughters, and
4' to the maid ; came to Deacon Rice's ; thence to
Howe's by the pond, where paid S' for hay, milk punch
and cydar ; thence to Agur's, and by two in afternoon
came to Worcester ; Court lodge at Col. Chandler's.
1 Sarah, sixth daughter of Nathaniel Lynde and, sister of Mrs. Pres
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2id. Thursday. Jab. Greene tried, found guUty, and
sentenced for murder to death, in a month.
2S//;. Saturday. In the morning gave children and
servants sof Mr. Tyley paid for Court dinners and to
wards my Court Fees ^S- O- 0- We two then proceeded
with the Sheriff and two officers, to Leicester by the
HiU ; thence to Hind's at Brookfield and there dined
with Judge Dudley and SewaU, who came in after.
Lodge at Mr. Cheney's, and horses pasture there.
27//;. Monday. Gave his chUdren and servants 25' ;
thence s or 6 miles to Ashley's by Tuft's Farm ; thence
to Scot's, where all dined ; thence to Lamb's ; and at
sunset we came to Springfield, without Capt George Col
ton, as ever before; I at Mr. Hitchcock's.
28th. Tuesday. In the morning, Court opened with
four Judges ; and I gave the Charge.
2gth. Wednesday. Criminal [accused] of theft of
horses in two indictments ; found guilty.
October ist. Fryday. Springfield Court ended about
3 P. M. Paid at Mr. Hitchcock's 27', and then set out
and at Lamb's ; and thence lodged at Scot's ; at both
Sewall paid.
2d. Saturday. Paid Mr. Sewall my part of e.xpenses
to Sergeant's at Leicester, iif ; then to Worcester where
sabbath'd, and lodged at Col. Chandler's.
4th. Monday. Gave Johnne Chandler 4' and left Col.
Chandler's and thence to Shrewsbury, Agur's ; thence
to Mr. How's by the Pond, where had a peck and a half
of chestnuts, baiting horses and cydar ; thence to Dea
con Rice's near Concord where dined after 2 ; thence to
Coz. Prescott's Concord, where tea ; thence to Hancock's
and lodge, (he not at home).
Ith. Tuesday. Gave Mrs. Hancock for negro man 5' ;
thence to Reading tavern, and thence home and dined.

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2S//;. Monday. I set out after 9 this morning with
Jos. Stone on my JoUy ; at John Ward's, Lin tavern, had
a small bowl of mUk punch ; thence to Rachel's over the
ferry, thence up to Bowdoin's, and found sister Pordage
finely composed, and seemed disposed for God's will ;
dined there and thence after 3, and got at sundown to
Bent's, Milton, 10 mUes from Boston, and lodge.
26//;. Tuesday. To Deacon Tucker's where oated ;
thence to Edw. Esty's, and told him to be carefiU of my
large Pine trees, near Pope's sawmUl. I also told Mr.
Ryal, the son, to be so about my meadow by him, which
I hold with Mr. Thos. Hutchinson. Thence to W"*,
where dined and paid 4' for my guide, and had Mr. B.
W™' as guide to Briggs', where oated, and thence to
Wheeler's and lodge.
27//;. Wednesday. Snow in the morning two inches,
but gone by 9 ; and about 10 we were at Bristol, and at
1 1 opened Court with my Charge. Horse at Mr. Jona.
Peck's. November 1st. Monday. Snow storm and half a foot
of snow at Bristol. ,
2d. Tuesday. Fair sun and melting.
id. Wednesday. Fair and dissolving.
4th. Thursday. Fine morning, but cloudy ; so after
dinner at Court and about 3 left Mrs. Paine's, and got
to Peck's, Rehoboth, about 6, and there lodge.
Ith. Fryday. Clear. Paid expenses, I2f Thence at
,8, proceeded to Mr. Wells',' where was Mr. Remington ;
and here we breakfasted ; thence to Me.xa's, 1 1 miles ;
thence to Wrentham, Mann's, 8 mUes, where oated;
thence to Robbins', 7 mUes, where dined ; thence to Ded
ham, s miles ; thence to Col. Dudley's, S miles, where
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128 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE. [1742.
6th. Saturday. Fine frosty morning, gave 10' d* to
children, and proceeded to Boston. Went to see Sister
Pordage, who still seems better. Thence to Ferry over
to Watts', and by 1 1 at Mr. John Ward's, where oated
and had a mug of punch : thence home by i and dined ;
and thus our Bristol Circuit ended, this 6"' of Novem
ber. 1742. Memo. My grandmother's maiden name I
know not She had two husbands before my grand
father, Mr. John Newdigate. The names of her former
two husbands were, as my sister Pordage informs me
this 31" of January 1742-3, if Hunt. 2? Draper.

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[The Diary of the second Justice Lynde seems to be
a summary made by himself from a series of interleaved
almanacs. Many of these are missing, and the Diary it
self is wanting in its first pages. The almanacs previ
ous to 1732, the year when the Diary commences, are
those of 1 72 1, 1724, and 1730. As there are many items,
not without interest, omitted in the Diary, these have
been supplied, so far as practicable, from the almanacs.
The following are the entries for the above-mentioned
years and prior to the first entry in the Diary. Those of
subsequent years are appended in the form of notes ar
ranged in the order of their dates.]
1721. March -^d. Town meeting; was at Mad™ Browne's, read
ing a play to her.
\T,th. Fair ; Mr. Higginson buried ; I was at Prat's with
Marston, Kitcl ^tc.
20th. Town meeting ; cold and windy day ; at night at
Mad" Browne's ; after, at home.
22^. Lecture ; Mr. Fisk ; charity meeting at night.
June ISth. Fair day and hot; Gardner went at night;
playing keels.
zyth. Fair; went to Cambridge with father; was at Eyre's
chamber at night with Prince, etc.
2ith. Commencement ; I took 2" Degree ; at night at Ho-
132 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1724-
bart's with Savage, Belcher, Noys, etc. Merry evening ;
went home with them ; after, at Wolcott's till 11 o'clock ;
then at Colo. Goffe's.
29M. Fair ; was at Barrett's, etc. ; at night with Eyre, Nel
son, etc. ; up coiiion, and at Wolcott's.
yoth. Dined at Colo. Batcheldor's ; treat at night ; Court
at Colledge, at Bulfinch's etc.
July 1st. Fair ; Came from Cambridge ; got home at 12.
6th. Mr. Wolcott dyed.
•Jth. Fair ; played keels with Icha ; after, at Prat's ; supper
at Mad™ Browne's.
ith. Fair ; was up at Frost Farm ; was bearer to Mr. Wol
cott.
13^/2. Fast day, for small pox. I at home.
17//^. Fair and hot ; Mad"" Browne's daughter, Mr. Fisk,
Plaisted, etc., at our house, supped here; drink spango.
October zd. Fair day ; husking at Colo's ; after was with
Walcott's at Kitchen's till 10 o'clock.
id. Fair day : Heard of my uncle Lynde's death.i
Sth. Mr. Leechmere in town and Mr. Walley.
\-jth. Boy had small po.x. Governor came to town.
\Zth. Governor went to Piscataqua.
lid. Training ; cold weather ; was at Prat's with a great
company of young folks.
liith. Mrs. Lee buried ; I a bearer ; after at Plaisted's.
27//;. Thanksgiving day ; Marston and Wolcott here.
December zolh. Mrs. Plaisted brought to bed of a daughter,
Mary, abo. 2 o'clock.
1724. January 1st. Snowy, sloppy; was at night at Court; at
ho, leading.
2,d. Fair and warm ; at Court ; Cawley cause.
Zth. Lecture ; Mr. Prescott. Charity Meeting, Mr. Fisk ;
after, went home with Mrs. Turner.
February ist. Fair and cold ; Father came home ; J. Val
entine hanged.
Sth. Lecture, Mr. Fisk ; was at home writing.
loth. Fair and warm; was at Plaisted's at night; Mr.
Beechy, Barton, Wolcott and I there till late.
1 Samuel Lynde, o£ Boston.

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Ilth. Cold, fair; prized Stacy's house, etc.; at night at
home reading Teleraachus.
March id. Fair ; mother ill, kept chamber.
kth. Fair ; mother better ; was at Kit[chen's] at great sup
per ; Mr. Black, Nutting, Marston, Sewall, Plaisted, Wol
cott, and Browne.
?>th. Fair ; Mr. Fisk ; Mr. Gedney here.
Ilth. Mrs. Ward bro't to bed of a son.
I'jth. Proprietor's meeting, Virginia men in, l6 days.
26//;. Fast day ; Mr. Fisk ; home at night.
August 1st. Fair; my father came and bro't aunt Por
dage.
6lh. Cloudy ; was up at Castle Hill ; built my arbor there.
13M. Fair ; at Colo. Browne's to see Mad™ ; tarried to
supper there.
15M. Heard that Mr. Sewall was chosen President of Har
vard College.
26lh. Fair ; fine day. Hog barbacued at Col" farm, a great
frolick ; 1 1 calashes besides horses etc. ; after, at Mr.
Pitman's ; Boston ladies ; after, at Turner's.
28th. Fair ; Marston frolick at Island ; we went in Capt.
Ellis' boat and took them, with guns, etc.
September "jth. Fair ; Training day ; was in the field; after,
at Colo. Turner's.
idth. Lecture ; fair, fine day ; later, Waters, etc., here.
2i.f/. Fair, fine day ; was at Pratt's ; supped there ; Plaisted,
Marston, Kit[chen], Nash, Sewall, Wolcott, Price, etc.
1730. Jamiary 1st. Fair day : Judge Sewall dyed ; was at Prat's,
Society meeting.
2d. Fair fine morning ; Capt. Hurst went to Piscataqua ; was
diner with ye Court.
Zlh. Cloudy, warm ; writing and making up acc'ts ; at night
at Prat's ; Society meeting met there.
Ilth. Cloudy; P. M. rainy; at night Society meeting at
Prat's.
22^. Fair day ; dined with ye Sessions at Prat's ; several
affairs acted [upon] ; after, with ye Society.
2ith. Fair ; heard of Mr. Gedney's death.
29//;. Fair and cold; Mr. Gedney buried ; Plaisted very ill ;
at the Society meeting, I speaker for the night.

134 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1730-
Febncary ^th. Fair ; Court sat ; heard of Mr. Belcher be
ing governor.
Ith. Cloudy; Sessions sat ; dined at Prat's ; Father all day
there ; at night at B. Browne's.
6th. Fair, fine day ; Court Session had Town House.
March 6th. Fair day ; Collect' and lady dined here ; Colo.
Browne, etc. ; after, with Saltonstall, Maj. Epes, etc.
12th. Fair day; windy; Mr. Prat dyed; with y« Selectmen
dined at Green's ; was there till after 9.
Ilth. Mr. Prat buried.
I Jth. Fair, T. Meeting ; same Selectmen ; was at night at
Prat's with the old club.
iZth. Fair day ; was at night up at Clark's, taking acknowl
edgments and book of inoculations.
ic)th. Parish meeting ; great disputes.
2id. Fair wind ; At night rid on W. B'' horse ; after, he
down here playing on his violin.
April Jth. Cloudy, raw ; Notification abo. Neck ; Court dis
solved ; at night at Prat's abo. the comons committee.
Zth. Fair day ; Neck Leases ; at night at Prat's, commit
tee of y' school ; tarrj-ed till 1 1 o'clock.
I2th. Cloudy; Easterly; Mr. Fisk ; Earthquake.
30^^. Mr. Picket ; Lecture ; at Mr. Fairfax ; Maj. Eppes
down here. Had middle Precinct meeting.
May 26th. Fair and hot ; Wolcott and Father went to 'Lec
tion.
27//^. Fair ; went to Election ; got there at 8 in moming ;
Quincy and Foxcroft ; great alteration in Council ; at
night at Colo. Phip's.
2Zth. Fair day ; dined at Colo. Phips' ; P. m. ye Governor
made a speech to ye House. I coiiite on Muster Roll ;
at night at Colo. Goffe's, speaker etc., there.
2^th. Fair. Abo. Governor's allowance ; at night at Sted-
man's ; Browne Rolf, Church, etc., there.
10th. Rainy ; I Coiute [to] Petition ; House adjourned till
30 June ; came home.
June \6th. Training. Dined with Plaisted ; was up at
Surveyor General's ; ye Ladies here.
Jtily loth. Mrs. Browne brought to bed of a daughter abo.
S [in the] morning ; Deacon Osgood's apprentice sent to
gaol here.

1732.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. 135
1732. In the latter end of September and beginning
of October, an abundance of people iU with very great
colds, so that it seemed to be a general distemper, all
famUies having more or less of it
14th. Rainy. Inf' Court sat; at survey"; dance there ;
many couples ; I did not dance ; staid till 7 o'clock.
2id. Fair ; dined with ye Court ; Wellman tryed and found
guilty , sentenced to three mo. imprisonment and fine.
24th. Fair; dined \vith ye Sessions ; at night at Plaisted's ;
gr't company, and supper there. Colo. Berry.
25///. Fair, and very hot ; at Court Sessions ; Judgements
lasted till late dinner.
1732. January 1st. Fair and cold ; over to Roxbury to dinner.
Ith. Fair day ; Crowninshield and W™' sailed yesterday ;
at governor's at night : after, snow storm.
6th. Cold and windy day ; dined at Treasurer's ; at night
at Orange Tree.
Ilth. Fair day; went in chaise to Boston with wife ; dined
at Dr. Checkley's. We at Governor's, and came over
abo. 7 o'clock.
12th. Fair day ; dined at Coffin's : at night with Mr. Willis
and Cook abo. excessive fees ; tarried till abo. 8.
14M. Fair day ; dined at Coffin's ; at night in Cofinte abo.
Eastern affairs.
I'jth. Fair, very cold day ; over in chaise ; CoRite about ex
cessive fees ; at night abo. 8 o'clock at Mr. Checkley's.
20th. Lecture ; Coiiite sat abo. ye address ; at night was
with Cofnte abo. Yarmouth affairs.
21^;". Fair, cold ; Coiiite abo. Dr. Rand and Address ; came
home abo. night ; afterwards, dancing at home.
24th. Cloudy ; came with wife to Boston in Chaise ; sat on
Cointe abo. raising up list of members.
2ith. Fair day; Maj. Bowles dined here ; after, on Cointe
on ye Address to his Majesty ; Colo. Dudley, Cook, etc.
26th. Fair ; wore wedding clothes this P. M., visiting the
Whites at N. End of the town.
2-jth. Fair and pleasant ; went visiting with wife Mrs. Lech-
mere, after, at Mr. Walley's and Mr. Bowdoin's.
February 2d. Fair day; Genl Court prorogued to 29""
March ; at night was at Town House making up lists.

136 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1732.
October 4th. Col° Turner, Burrill and I being commis
sioned by the govemor by Dedimus to administer the
oath to the mUitary officers, this day Col. Theo. BurriU,
sworn Colo. ; Colo. Thos. Barton, Lt Colo. ; Maj' Ich.
Plaisted, Maj'' ; Capt Hicks and Capt Benj. Browne.
December list. Ye harbor all froze in, and the winter
to this time extremely cold.
Zth. Fair, after cloudy ; at Dr. Checkley's, and at Colo.
Checkley's at night, eat oysters there.
c)th. Fair day ; bro't wife home ; dined at More's ; got
home not till late.
14/A. Cloudy ; wind S. E., snowy ; Comte sat at Prat's ;
there till late ; in morn, rid to middle Precinct.
16th. Fair; heard of Douglass being lost ; p. m. I went
over to M.head with Capt Barton, etc. ; sent to Cape
Ann for Capt. Robinson.
28//^. Fair day ; Southfield meeting ; Mr. Fisk's affairs
against him at meeting.
29M. Fair day ; Proprietor's meeting of the Comon, I mod
erator ; no great change.
March 14th. Fair day ; Grand Proprietor's meeting held all
day ; Mr. Lindall, moderator.
iZth. Cloudy weather; had a letter from Roxbury about
Mary.
20//^. Fair ; Town meeting ; disappointed ; at Mr. Plais
ted's ; the poppet show there at night.
2\.st. Fair day. At night at Mr. Browne's; dance there;
the Coll' of Hampshire at it.
22^. Rainy ; Mr. Icha. to his brother's funeral ; Parish
meeting, I moderator ; all things very well ; same officers.
27/.^. Snowy ; Town meeting, I, Treasurer; Salary raised ;
at night at home abo. Higginson's bill.
list. Lodged at Roxbury last night.
April id. I reading in the mom. Magnalia ; snow melting
away ; Judge Dudley here ; after, at Mr. Walley's.
•Jth. Fair ; snow deep ; came home ; great Company to
meet us ; many chaises and horses ; lodged at my father's.
14th. Rainy day. Up at Higginson's, had Cicero ; at night
at home, Mr. Whitmore here.

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1733. In ye beginning of Jan'ry, cut ice for Crown
inshield, White and Gardner, and cut them out from
Long Wharf for one mile [and] a half, tho' gave over the
attempt more than once. The last week Providence
greatly favored us in the weather, and after this the win
ter broke up.
yanuary ith. About 7 in morning, my wife taken ill,
and abo. \ after 9 safely brought to bed of a daughter,
baptized on the 7'*', Mary.
May God's gracious dealing to us in this mercy be al
ways remembered, and as we look on this child, the gift
of our Heavenly Father, so may we devote it to God the
giver, and, if He continues its life, educate it in the fear
of the Lord, that it may know God and serve him, and
at last come to enjoy him in his Heavenly Kingdom.

ijth. Fair day; Mr. Phippen abo. garden all day.
24^/2. Fair ; wife at Mrs. Plaisted's ; at night, she and Mr.
Barton here.
26th. Lecture day ; after, rode out in chaise to Wilson's ;
at night at 2^ meeting ; Mr. Fisk there.
May 2d. Fair day ; hot at night ; went to Roxbury.
id. Fair, hot ; went to wait on ye Governor; p. m. carryed
wife to Castle Hill ; Mr. Browne and Plaisted.
4th. Fair day ; Mr. Bowdoin and Mr. Dana here.
Ith. Mad™ Sewall and Higginson here at night ; Capt.
Conoly fro. Barbadoes, 26 days' passage.
Ilth. Fair, windy; Town meeting; Maj. Eppes and B.
Browne, representatives ; I, moderator.
16//2. Fair, hot day ; Mr. Browne, Wolcott, etc., to meet the
Governor.
19//;. Fair, hot day; P. M. went to meet ye Governor.
20//;. Fair and hot ; Govemor dined here.
30//;. Fair and hot day; Father went to Boston to 'Lection.
list. Fair, fine day ; at Mr. Plaisted's; walked to wharf,
sat after at her house, then home ; Mr. Barton here.
August gth. Fair day; Lydia very ill ; 2^ meeting.

138 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1733.
March 1st. Col. Burrill, Colo. Wainwright and I ap
pointed by Governor and CouncU, Justices, to enquire
into the abuses against IngersoU.
8th. Child taken very iU, but thro' God's goodness in
2 or 3 days recovered.
16th. My Coz. Sam' Browne's daughter, Katherine,
died, being 2 months old (born 17'" Jan'y) ; also Capt
Gardner's son Samuel, a child baptized with my daugh
ter. Thus we are spared.
igth. Town meeting; I chose moderator by written
votes ; being ye first time so chose.

14th. Fair day ; p. m. At Prat's; gr'' Committee meeting;
sat all there ; y" new officers proposed by Col. Burrill
to me.
igth. Fair, N. W. brisk gale ; Crowninshield sailed abo. 6
p. M. we went down with him to sailing boat.
2id. Fair; Plaisted and Barton to Boston abo. Commis
sions ; W. Browne and I abo. Comin's estate.
2^h. Mr. Plaisted home ; P. M. up abo. ye Couions with ye
gr^ Committee, measuring the plains.
2ith. Fair day : Mother with Mr. Browne over to Nahant.
31^/. Fair and hot ; Browne, Barbacue ; hack overset.
September I2lh. Fair day; went to Boston with my wife ;
got there i,\ at N. End, Mr. Tileston's. Lodged at Mr.
Checkley's.
11th. Fair day : went into town, dined at Colo. Checkley's.
iZth. Fair day; P. M. went to see Mr. Bowdoin ; after, wife
and I to see Mr. Walter, tarryed till after eight.
igth. Fair; early up; went to Boston; got things there,
and away abo. 1 1 ; dined at More's ; home abo. sun
down.
20th. Fair day ; Mr. Low's child buryed ; went to M.head,
over the ferry alone, got home abo. 8.
2i,th. Fair day ; all at Lower meeting house.
October 2d. Fair day. Father came home from his Journey ;
Mr. Bradlee here at j\.

I733-] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. 139
April gth. Arrived the Man of War, and Capt. Graf
ton from Turtud, with news of the Spaniard's taking Mr.
Browne's ship and Capt B. Browne's brig ; ship new
and cost about ^7000, and brig, ;!^2500 ; also two brigs
of Boston.
Ilth. Arrived Capt Crowninshield in our brig from
Turtud, who narrowly escaped taking. Blessed be God
who preserves my estate from falling into the Enemy's
hands !
6th. Fair. Mrs. Browne and A. Winthrop ; read play to
them.
gth. Fair. At grand Comte meeting ; after at Mrs. A. Tur
ner's funeral, I with Maj. Eppes, Fairfax, Plaisted, Hig
ginson and Wolcott.
loth. Fair day. I rid out with wife on plains.
11th. Fair day; I writing and made up Mass*" acc'ts for S.
Barton ; at night read a play.
Ilth. Fair; heard of W™' who came in abo. noon ; at night
here ; had Colo. Turner's ;^2oo of impost ; sent ^^150 to
Boston.
16th. Cloudy ; here abo. summer house ; Mr. Oliver here ;
I not well.
26th. Thanksgiving. Mr. Fisk dined with father at Mr.
Lindall's.
30^//. Fair day ; W™' began to load, got in his salt ; Graf
ton in fro. Barbadoes ; letter from Crowninshield.
November 2d. Fair day ; fish up from Beverly ; Judges
supped here and in my hall.
Jth. To Beverly abo. Brickie. Training day ; dined at Colo.
Barton's ; Company at night ; all of us at Prat's.
December 1st. Fair, warm; mill meeting at Mr. Lindall's
with Mr. Smith abo't Mr. Corwin ; Mad™ Bowles came.
6th. Raw, misty ; at Mr. Browne's ; p. m. carryed wife out
in chaise ; at night writ with Plaisted.
loth. Fair, very cold ; grand CotHite sat ; y" warrant for
CoiHon meeting.
14th. Fair, cold day ; at night at Mr. Jeffry's wedding ; last
night at great supper.

I40 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1734.
yune 2d. Child sick [with] chicken pox at Roxbury.
God blessed y^ means, and y° child recovered and came
home the next week.
22d. Timo. LindaU,' Theo. Burril, Jno. Wainwright,
Thos. Berry, Esqs., made Judges of the Inferior Court.
The old Justices continued, and Colo. Barton, Ich?
Plaisted, Mitch. Sewall, Esqs., made here ; Mr. Hale
at Beverly, Capt Howard and Mr. Blaney.
loth. My wife taken very Ul and much frightened.
The illness continued a considerable time, but at last
thro' mercy abated.
yuly lyth. A CouncU of 10 churches meet here on
Rev. Mr. Fisk's and Church's differences. Mr. Fisk
would not submit himself to a hearing, [and] they drew
up a result on y' affairs. From hence left his ministry
and went to Lower meetings.
i8th. Mess. Lindal, Fairfax, Barnard, Higginson, and
Wolcot made Justices.
August Ith. My Coz. Benj? Browne's son Benjf bom.^
I as guardian to my Coz. B. Browne, JunF had aU his
affairs to transact ; so also of the 2 young Curwens, with
Col Barton as guardian.
October 26th. My wife taken ill. She is very weak
and Ul, and keeps her chamber abJ a week.
1734. February lyth. My Coz. Sam' Browne's son
Sam' born.
igth. Mr. Fisk and his adherents of the church, not
regarding the result of the 10 churches, nor any of the
letters of the aggrieved brethren, Mr. Gee and the del
egate of y" N. Ch. came in y" 3'' way of comunion to
' Timothy Lindall was a prominent politician of Salem, and in 1720
speaker o£ the House.
" He died December, 1749.

1734.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. I41
admonish the church. The inhabitants of the vUlage
being uneasy and desirous of going off, the Committee
of y° town, of which I was one, met and made them
proposals as to schools in the out parts of the town.
March 12th. Early forward Spring; began to garden
this day.
18th. Town meeting; I chose moderator per written
votes. April 22d. Four churches with their delegates mett
at Salem on Mr. Fisk's and Church's affair, and left a
written admonition. But stiU Mr. Fisk slights aU.
Molly Lynde very ill ; Dr. Berry and others here ; af
terwards by y" blessing of God on y^ means used, y^ child
grew better, and now, thro' mercy, is hale and well.
yune Ith. Began y" additional pier to y° Long Wharf.
Ilth. Mr. Fairfax, Esq.,' our Collector, w* wife and
family left us, going to reside at Potomack in Virginia.
Y* latter end of June I was made a special Judge of y°
Inferior Court of Pleas in all causes where y° stand*
Jiidges were concerned.
yuly 2d. Capt. Crowninshield, in our brig Ben. and
Sarah, with a great load of salt, arrived from y^ Cape de
Verde Isles.
2ist. There meet here 21 Chh. about withdrawing
communion from Fisk and the Church here, who, contin
uing obstinate against any admonition, refused all ad
vice. 1 William Fairfax was the fourth son of Henry, and grandson of
the Fourth Lord Fairfxx. He served in the army in Spain and was sta
tioned at St. Helena, and afterwards at the Bahamas where he married
Sarah, daughter of Maj. Walker, and was appointed Chief Justice of the
Island. About 1725, on account of the unhealthf ulness of the climate, he
removed to New England, and received the appointment of collector of
the customs at Salem and Marblehead. He afterwards resided at Belvoir,
Va., where he became President of the Council of that State. His second
wife was Deborah Clark of Salem. He died in 1757. His daughter
Anne married Lawrence Washington, who named his seat Mt. Vernon.

142 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1735.
August 4th. Silsby, a carpenter, fell off a stage at work
on Maj. Plaisted's house, and died at once.
20th. Molly Lynde very iU of dysentery ; many died
of it
23^. My Coz. Hannah Bowdoin, y" eldest surviving
daughter of my Aunt, Mrs. Eliz. Pordage, died very sud
denly. September 2d. At a Parish meeting, after several ad
journments, they vote they wiU raise no money for Mr.
Fisk, on account of his ill-treating his church and peo
ple. October ilth. The Churches mett here again, and after
admonition withdrew communion from y° churcL
November lyth. Coz. S. Browne's son Sam' dyed on
the 14"^ and buried to-day.
December list. I was sworn a special Judge, and sat
on y® bench in Judge Lindal's and brother's cause. God
enable me, when I am called, to do y° duty of the place !
1735. After Mr. Collectf Fairfax leaving office, Mr.
Jno. Clarke in it, till Mr. Benja. Vining, who was removed
from the Jersy's ; he continued till February and then
Hon. Thos. Lechmere, Esq.,' deputed in Mr. Vining's
absence. March 10th. A very great Parish meeting ; vast num
bers and many disputes. Some hours spent before a
moderator [was chosen]. At last, when it came to a
choice by votes, I had 72 ; the other votes, for Capt Os
good, about 38. We carried aU and voted Mr. Fisk out,
and impowered the Committee to effectuate it.
1 Thomas Lechmere was for many years Surveyor-general of his Maj
esty's Customs for the Northern District of America. He was a brother
of Lord Lechmere and married Anne, daughter of Gen. Wait Winthrop
and Mary Browne, a great-aunt of Judge Lynde.

I73S-] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. I43
17^*/;. Town meeting ; I, moderator. Mr. Kitchen and
King, chose Selectmen.
18th. Com." meeting, drawing lots for the sin comons
on y" plains, which after all came to nought.
2gth. Crowninshield arrived ; 217 pipes made chiefly
freight ; was somewhat fearful of him.
April 1st. The Hon. Judge Geo. Plaxton, who had
been Judge of Admiralty in BB*', and in y° Sumer, 1734,
came over for his health, dyed here, and was buried in
y° N. Ch. of England yard.
lyth. Took oaths to my Commission for Justice of
Quorum. My Coz. Sam' Browne's daughter AbigaU,
born [ob. December, 'y6, set 42].
i8th. Fryday. 22 brethren of the church write Mr.
Fisk for a ch. meeting, and, in the afternoon, a majority
dismiss him from the Pastor's office.
27//^ Sabbath. The Committee having warned Mr.
Fisk not to attempt to preach at y° meeting house, he
appeared with his adherents and repulsed Mr. Mather
preaching y™ [The] GovF directs Jno. Wainwright,
Berry, Hall and Choat, to prevent further disturbances,
and Mr. Fisk is summoned before them [on the] s"" of
May. May igth. Town meeting for Representatives ; great
preparations betwixt Mr. Fisk's party and us; 212 vot
ers. We carried both the Representatives, Eppes and B.
Browne, y" least 137. They made but 75 for Mr.
Elitchen. yuly id. Capt Crowninshield being ready to saU, his
foremast defective, and got it out. A candle left below
catched her on fire, so that he was forced to sink her, and
the loss in fish and damage near ;^400. to us.
21st. My Coz. B. Browne's son John born.
August lyth. About 5, Sabbath morning, my wife

144 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1736.
brought to bed of another daughter, that day baptized
by the Rev? Mr. Loring, Hannah.
August igth. Raised my new ware house 50 feet
long. September 8th. Mr. Fisk's people, notwithstanding y°
advice of y" government, raised a new meeting house.
wth. The whole Government put a stop to it, and or
der no further procedure.
December 8th. General Court's Committee, viz. Hon.
Mel? Bourn, Seth Williams, and Jos. WUder, Esqs., Jno.
Chandler, Jno. Cushing, Jas. Dwight, and Ch. Church,
Esqs. down here, and began on hearing Mr. Fisk and
party ; they appeared two days, and not after. The
Committee drew up a report in our favour. The whole
House of Representatives concur in it, but the Council
divided, at last they come into it
(The Apr. following in defyance of the authority, they
proceed to boarding, etc., their meeting house.)
1736. March 15. Town meeting ; I moderator. We
carried all things well. Majf Plaisted and Turner in
Kitchen's and King's room.
April 2id. We met, a great number of us, to sign a
confederacy for the maintaining y" publick worship in
our meetinghouse.
May Ith. The Society meet and chose oflScers.
2gth. Launched my new Coasting Sloop, Hannah
and Joanna. At this Election I had 34 votes from the
House for a Councillor of the Province, without my
knowledge of such a design.
yune 2isi. Died my hon? Grandmother, Mad" Re
becca Browne, a Gentlewoman of exemplary piety and
goodness, universally beloved and esteemed, and a most
tender parent to me. She went away at once in her

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chamber at Boston without any stmggle that was known ;
she was aged about 73 years.
yuly 22d. Our Society had a Fast previous to the
choice of a minister ; Mess. Prescott, Clark, Wiggles-
worth and Chipman.
August Ith. After great disputes by Colo. Marston
and 2 or 3 more, the church came to a choice, and all
the votes but 4 were for Mr. Jno. Sparhawk. In the af
ternoon, the Society meet, when almost all the votes
were for him. Thus it has pleased almighty God to
unite our hearts, which, had it been otherwise, we must
unavoidably have been broken up.
December 8. Mr. Jno. Sparhawk ordained by Mr. Hol
yoke, Mr. Prescott, Mr. Clarke, Mr. Appleton, and Mr.
Chipman, etc. God make and continue him a rich and
extensive blessing to the Church and people here 1
1737. March Ith. Coz. S. Browne's son William born
abo. 7 in the morning.

1737. February iith. Fair; Inferior Court sat; I dined at
Prat's ; at night there with Colo. Wainwright, Eppes,
Clark and Overing.
i6lh. Fair day; At Court ; Rowley Cause; dined at home ;
had news from Roxbury ; Major Bowles very ill.
17//;. Fair and moderate ; At Court ; afterward to Ro.xbury
in sleigh with wife ; there at night.
iZth. Cloudy ; Called up last night ; Maj. Bowles thought
dying.
21st. Fair day; P. M. I went to Boston; saw father at
Court.
2id. Rainy and after very cold ; at Can'^ Township meet'g
at Prat's ; agreed to a division of 130 acres each.
24//;. Fair cold day ; Ch. Lecture ; Mrs. Shillaber buried ;
at night at Prat's ; Company there ; Higgins, etc., talk
ing. 10

146 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1737.
14//^. General Town meeting ; I moderator and Pres
ident ; aU things well.
i6th. Died President Wadsworth at Cambridge.
Went with my wife to Roxbury.
28th. Died my wife's father, Maj'' John Bowles, Esq.,
at about 9 in the evening, set 52. In the whole of his
sickness, he manifested a wonderful resignation to the
will of God, and a firm faith of his better estate.
April 24th. Died my Coz. Benj. Browne, Jr., set 21,
26th. Fair ; Father home about noon ; after, here to drink
tea.
March igth. Fair; not out. P. .M. Thorndike in from Vir
ginia.
20//;. Fair; Mr. Sparhawk; at night at W. Browne's.
22d. Cloudy, raw ; Parish meeting in morning, all well.
2^th. Fair and windy weather; Thorndike unloaded; W.
Bowles here from Roxbury ; at night I at home writing.
2ith. Fair; W. Bowles home in ye afternoon to Roxbury.
2jth. Fair; Mr. Condy; B. Browne very ill.
28//:. Fair ; I went with wife to Roxbury ; her father, Maj.
Bowles, died abo. 9, eve., aged 52 yrs., just before we
came.
3o//i. Fair, cold ; was putting up gloves, etc., for the fune
ral.
list. Fair day; Mr. Walter preached both parts of the day,
April 2d. Maj. Bowles buried; Bearers, Paul and William
Dudley Esq', Edm" and Jno. Quincy, Esq', Col. Lamb.
and Mr. Pierpont.
4th. Snowy, stormy weather; was looking over papers and
talking abo. the will, and the value of ye estate.
Ith. Stormy with snow ; at night to Boston with wife to see
Col. Checkley; lodged at Minister Checkley's.
6th. Fair ; at the Dock etc. ; after dinner to Roxbury.
Jth. Fair ; some things prized ; after came away to Salem ;
got there before night ; Hanah Lynde ill.
Zth. Cloudy, misty. Haiiah still ill ; talk at W. Browne's.
gth. Fair ; I went to see B. Browne ; he not like to live.
I Ith. Fair d.-iy ; Mr. W. Browne fro. farm ; his brother better.

I737-] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. 147
whose guardian I was. May these repeated instances of
mortality be sanctifyed to us, so as that we may aU pre
pare for our great change !
May 1 1 th. Mr. Jas. Diamon was ordained pastor of
y" Church in the East part of the town, in the room of
Mr. Jennison dismissed by the Church; our Church sent
to, and I went as delegate.
lyth. I took Jeriiy White, son of Mr. Js'. White of
Boston, to live with me.

i4//i. Raw Easterly wind ; W. Bowles fro. Roxbury ; Mr.
Ward buryed his wife and 2 children at once.
17///. Mr. Holyoke ; rid to B. Browne, abo. his will.
iZth. Raw day but fair ; P. m. with Sewall and Walcott
talking abo. Ben Browne's gifts.
2^th. Fair day ; Mr. Sparhawk preach'd ; B. Browne dyed
yesterday abo. 4 p. .m. ; went away at once.
zith. Fair day ; At Mr. Browne abo. ye funeral, and send'g
to Boston ; night at home.
26th. Fair day ; abo. getting clothes for all ye coz"".
27//;. Fair day ; got gloves ; at night Ch. meeting. Moses
unloading salt.
zgth. Rainy; P. M. fair, windy; B. Brown, Jr., buryed ;
Bearers, Mr. Phips, J. Turner, Ells. Hutchinson, D. Rus
sell and Taylor.
30//;. Fair day; send gloves, and entertaining company.
May Sth. Mr. Sparhawk, funeral sermon ; p. .m. ditto.
nth. Ordination of Mr. Jas. Dimon ; Mr. Barnard charged,
Mr. Holyoke preach't, .Mr. Clark of R. Island to Churches.
i4//(. Father fro. Ipswich to dinner; Auchmuty at W.
Browne's.
19//;. Fair; getting impost money ; abo. 3. P. m. went away
to Ro.xb^ with wife ; got yre late at night.
20//;. Cloudy weather ; drew lots of ye Estate ; my wife a
good lot.
21st. Fair ; went to see the Governor and Cushing ; p. m.
home.
2id. Fair day ; talking with my father ; after, with Mr.

148 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1737.
2lth. I was l"' chose one of his Majesty's Council
for the Massachusetts Bay in the i'' 18, and the 31'^ fol
lowing sworn at the Board, and took my place ; and now
since God and my country are caUing me to so honora
ble and important a station, may I have wisdom from
above, and be taught of him who is the allwise Coun
sellor. yune 4th. Saturday. Great thunder storm ; Capt
Caleb Pickman killed by it, at his mother's house ;
buryed the foUowing Monday.

Wolcott, and at Maj'' Plaisted's at night abo. Impost
money.
2ith. Election day. I chose one of his Maj' Council in ye
i^' iS.
27/^. Rainy stormy morn; writing news of Councillors;
with .Maj' Blaney abo. warrant for Canada Township meet
ing.'
June 1st. Cloudy ; went to wait on ye Gov' ; dined Col.
Wendell.
2d. Lecture. Mr. Pemberton dined at Mr. Walley's.
id. Fair, hot day ; dined at Mr. Bill's ; eve. with Col. Dud
ley.
4th. Fair. Went to Charlestown ; came out of town abo.
1 1 o'clock ; dined at More's, at night gr't thunder storm ;
Capt. Cal. Pickman killed.
Ith. Fair, and cool ; Mr. Hancock went to see Mad"" Win
throp.
6th. Fair ; at wharf ; p. m. in count'g house ; Mad"" Win
throp sup't here, and Mr. Sparhawk at my Father's house.
Jth. Fair ; early with my father to Boston ; special court
for tryal of Roades for murder, sat till 6.
^ This township was granted in 1736 to Captain Samuel King and fifty-
nine others, who were engaged in the expedition to Canada in 1690. It
was called Salem-Canada, as several of its proprietors belonged to Salem,
Mass. Benjamin Lynde purchased a large part of the land in 1753 and on
the act of incorporation being passed, April 23, 1764, it was named Lynde-
borough in his honor.

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Augtist 1st. I went with the King's Commissioners
(being one of the agents appointed by the Province) to
Hampton about settling the boundaries of the Province
with New Hampshire, the five eldest Counsellors of N.
York, N. Jersey, R. Island, and Nova Scotia, being the
gth. Lecture, Mr. Byles ; dined at Mr. Stodard's ; was at
Governor's in evening.
loth. Fair, cool ; to treat ye Councillors, up early ; 34,
Governor, Council and of ye House, 4 rooms full ; whole
cost abo. £10.
14th. Fair and hot day; went in my chair alone, carrying
money to Boston for Commissioners ; with Col. Pep-
perell.
16th. Lecture, Mr. Coleman ; dined at Dr. Checkley's.
17///. Fair day ; dined at Governor's ; Col° Turner, Berry,
Browne, ladies, etc. ; talked abo. Browne's and his wife's
epitaphs.
iSth. Rainy; ship from England; no news of a new gov
ernment ; dined at More's.
19//;. Fair; Mr. Sparhawk; went to see the widow Pick-
man.
21^-/. Fair day ; Canada Township meeting ; drew Rights;
out very late till 12 at night.
22d. Early to Boston with Capt. Blanchard ; the Impost
Bill debated ; dinner at Mr. Russell's for Counsellors.
2id. Lecture, Mr. Thacher ; dined at Mr. Bowdoin's.
24//;. Fair day ; Grand Lodge of Free Masons sup't at
Verdy's ; dined at Mr. Checkley's, at night abo. N. Hamp
shire affairs.
August 1st. Fair day ; went with King's Commissioners
to Hampton ; Col. Gardner in my chaise; ye Commission
published ; lodged at Mr. Whipple's.
2d. Cloudy, after fair ; dined at Wingate's with Commission
ers, etc., came away abo. 5. Got to Ipswich and lodged yre.
id. Early home ; wife with me to Boston Gen' Court.
4th. Cloudy; P. .M. rain; G. Court sat; dined with Mr.
Quincy ; abo. N. Hampshire affairs, preparing claims.
Ith. Fair ; Conference abo. sending to N. York.

150 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1737.
Commissioners. This affair of such importance that the
General Courts of each Province were removed, and sat,
one at Hampton, the other at Sahsbury. The whole
Fall taken up on it, and, Dec'' after. Col. Edmund Quincy,
Esq., sent an agent to England, where he died of the
small pox y" Feb'' following.
6th. Fair; Court sat, adjourned abo. 12 ; my wife and I at
home.
•Jth. Fair ; Mr. Sparhawk and I went toward Ipswich.
Zth. Very early to Newbury ; and so to Hampton ; claims
given in and p. m. exchanged. I lodged at Griffith'' .
gth. Fair ; Colo. Quincy and Colo. Dudley came ; we abo.
our answer ; at Griffith" with Mr. Auchmuty, etc.
10///. Fair ; we heard answers read ; and prayed Council
and time for our evidences to be got to Court.
iitJi. Commissioner's dined with us at Griffith'' ; wrote let
ter to ye Governor.
12//;. Put in memo. abo. surveyors ; Commissioners' Court
adjourned ; dined at Smith's and came to Salisbury- Court.
11th. Fair; at Council till after 12; thence to Newbury
and home.
14///. Mr. B.irnard, Jr. ; up at Judge Lindall's house.
17//;. Early to Salisbury ; dined at Newbury and over with
Colo. Dudley ; after with ye CofHte abo. ye draft at
Gyles'.
i8lh. Fair day; Court abo. ye plans; P. .M. Mr. Stoddard
and I over to Hampton to ye Governor,^ home abo. 9 at
night.
igth. Cloudy ; Governor here and dined with us ; Court ad
journed ; I tarryed on ye Coiiite, and sat talking.
20//;. Fair ; reading Court books ; dined at Newbury with
Colo. Dudley.
' Governor Belcher arrived at Hampton in state on the loth, and " was
attended," says a letter from Hampton Falls, " from Salisbury Ferry to
the reputed Boundary of the Province by about 70 Horse (of txith Prov
inces), and .at the supposed divisional line, his E.xcellency was received by
three troops of Horse more, and a great number of Gentlemen besides,
who attended him to the George Tavern in this Place where he dined." —
See News Letter of August iS, 1737.

1 737-] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. 151
In August Elisha Cook, Esq., one of our Court, died.
He was a gentleman of constant application to the Publick
affairs. This summer the Rev"* Mr. Ed"^ Holyoke was
taken from his Church and people at Marblehead and
inaugurated President of y' Colledge at Cambridge.
2zd. Fair ; over to Hampton to Governor ; after before
Commissioners ; at noon Mr. Welles and Mr. Read came
in, and Mr. Curtis.
231^. Fair ; began upon our evidence ; Colo. Quincy with
Gardiner; p. .m. Mr. Leviston came ; Court abo. qualify
ing itself.
2\th. Fair ; Court sat in meeting-house abo. ye plans, etc. ;
lawyers, and taking evidences.
2ith. Cloudy ; went to ye Black Rock with K' commis
sioners ; stopt in return at Falls ; at 9 o'clock, home at
Hampton.
26th. Fair; evidences all heard; p. Ji. the charter settle
ment produced, and lawyers plead ; gr't debate abo. set
tlement of 1677.
zjth. Fair ; Court rec* ye settlement ; rejected ye plan.
zZth. Fair ; Mr. Cotton ; Colo. Quincy sent for home.
29^/;. Cloudy morning; Governor over; Commissioners
dined with us ; at night, we of the Counsellors abo. agree
ing ; they offer to take River.
10th. Rainy ; other evidences and charters read to Court.
September 1st. Fair ; Commissioners abo. their determina
tion ; we talking abo. agreeing; p. m. I came from Hamp
ton to Newbury.
zd. Fair; from Newbury home to dinner; Mrs. Goodale
here.
•Jth. Fair ; dined with Selectmen ; Colo. Dudley, etc., at
father's.
l6th. To-day abo. Voyage to Streights, and Scoon' Mary and
Eliza.
2IJ-/. Fair; Early to Boston in my chaise; dined with
Edes ; Town meeting for representative in Mr. Cook's
room ; Mr. Wheelwright.
22^. Fair ; Comte meet in Town house ; dined at Governor's.
Mr. Byles ; at night at Verdy's.

152 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1737.
September ilth. My Coz. W. Browne sat out for New
York, where in November he married Miss Mary Burnet,
y" late Governor Burnet's only daughter, then about 14
yrs ^ old, and bro't her home in May.
231/. Fair, hot ; came from Boston abo. 12 ; home abo. 4.
30//;. Fair ; Mr. Barton marryed last night ; we all at wed
ding ; to-night gloves and plumb cake.
October 4th. Fair; Colo. Browne and W. Lynde went to R.
Island.
Ilth. Early to Ipswich; met Mr. Welles, etc.; went to
Salisbury; N. Hampshire Conlte met with us but came to
no agreement.
12;'//. Fair ; Gen' Court sat ; Committee preparing their
appeal ; Gov' over after dinner. Mr. Welles and I lodge
at Long's.
11th. Fair; Cointe preparing the appeal late in evening.
14th. Fair, cold ; pain in head still ; after dinner to Hamp
ton, and appeared before the court of commissioners yre.
Ilth. Fair; dinner at Griffith's; la[rge] number, abo. 70
persons.
16th. At Hampton ; Sacrament, Mr. Cotton ; night at Mr.
Smith's.
1 8//;. Cold weather; Mr. Welles and I lodge together at
Mr. Smith's. The Commissioners rec* N. Hampshire
appeal ; we at Griffith's.
19///. Fair; drew our protest. P. m. pd ye Commissioners
etc. at Wing''; grant to ye Gov' ; Newes fro. England in
Gov" favor.
20^//. Fair; settling with Commiss. ; y° over to Salisb"^ ;
p. M. Court adjourned to Boston ; Mr. Welles and I home
ward ; Col. Quincy agent.^
zist. Fair day ; home last night abo. 8; to-day ye Gov.
to Colo. Turner's.
' The question here to be decided was whether the line as named in the
charter w.is intended to run three miles north of the source of Merrimack
River or three miles north of its mouth, to the western Sea. It was for
the interest of the Mass. Province to claim the first as the true interpreta
tion, as this brought nearly all New Hampshire within its jurisdiction.

1738.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. 153
November gth. Benj" Marston, Esq.,^ made one of y"
Judges of the Comon Pleas, in the room of Theo. Bur
rill, Esq., who died in July last Jno. Wolcott, Esq.,
made High Sheriff.
1738. March 20th. Town meeting ; I moderator and
chose Treasurer.
2ld. Solemnized Queen Caroline's death. A funeral
sermon preached by Mr. Mather ; Council in mourning.
May Ilth. Representatives' meeting ; 222 votes; no
choice I*' day.
2zd. Cloudy day ; Gov' etc. in town ; P. M. to Boston.
24//;. Cloudy ; P. M. to Boston, yre at 4; at Council ; night,
ye Comte sat in Council chamber till after 9.
zith. Fair ; Court sat ; Colo. Quincy, his answer to go to
England ; dined with Capt. Osborn, Colo. Dudley, Fox
croft, etc.
z6th. Fair; Coirite sat; abo. 12, came out [from] Boston,
home abo. 4.
28//;. Cloudy ; Moses in last night ; he up at wharf ; P. M.
rid to meet Mr. Sparhawk bro't home bride, supper made.
Novejnber 10th. Warm ; at Court ; night, went to Mr.
Browne's ; Marston, Judge ; Wolcott made high sheriff.
11th. Fair, warm ; sloop launch't ; Dr. Graves, a special
Judge. Mrs. Molly Wainwright's gr!t cause tryed ; she
got it.
14///. Fair, pleasant day ; P. m. at Court ; at night at Prat's
with ye Judges ; Letters of K. and Prince fro. England.
ijth. Thanksgiving; Mr. Sparhawk; at night at S.
Browne's.
28//;. Cloudy ; abo. 1 1 went with Father to Boston in ye
chaise, there before night ; coffite to give agent instruc
tions.
zgth. Snowy, cloudy ; all day abo. N. Hampshire Papers
in ye Council chamber ; Boston gr't cause, I at ye Court.
10th. Fair; Genl Court sat; ye Coiiite abo. ye Agent's af
fair and instructions.
1 Benjamin Marston, a native of Salem ; he died in 1754.

154 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1738.
lyth. Meeting again ; Judge Lindall and Colo. B.
Browne [chosen] ; least 136, voters 265.
list. I was again chosen a councillor of y" Massachu
setts, and had the highest vote, 121. Lt Gov. Dummer,
Colo. Hutchinson, and Lewis, chosen to fill up vacancies.
yuly. My wife quite unwell aU this month.
September 12th. Mrs. Browne's daughter, Ann, bom
at 8. p. M. [died 17*].
October yth. Coz. W. Browne's i" son born at 4. p. M. ;
next day baptised WUliam Burnet Browne.
list. Capt. Crowninshield in abo. 5 weeks, a passen
ger, from England, having sold our vessel, " Ben and
Sarah," in London, and brought all effects.
November lyth. We obtain our cause against Mr. Fisk's
deacon, for y^ marsh, having 3 judgments before for it
22^. Mr. B. Rolfe,' Clerk of Superior Court found
dead in his bed!
December 26th. Died, Col. S. Checkley, Esq.,^ at Bos
ton, my wife's grandfather, and was buried i" January in
the tomb, our burying Place by Coiiion. May these in
stances of mortality put us on preparing for our own
great change I
1739. yanuary 2d. Mr. Jno. Winthrop inducted Pro-
1739. January 1st. Fair cold day. Col. Checkley buried, aet. 84
yrs ; after funeral I went to Dr. Checkley's.
2d. Snowy, after, fair ; to Cambridge to ye induction of Mr.
Winthrop, Professor of Mathematics.
id. Fair, very cold ; fro. Roxbury, dined at Mrs. Check-
ley's.
' Benjamin Rolfe was the son of Rev. Benjamin Rolfe, who was mur
dered by the Indians in 170S.
- Colonel Checkley was the son of William Checkley, of a small parish
called Preston Capes, seven miles from Daventry in the western part o£
Northamptonshire. He was born October 14, 1653, and married in 16S0,
Mary, fourth daughter of Joshua and Lydia Scottow. See his obituary notice
in the Nevjs Letter of January 4, 1739.

1 739-] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. ISS
fessor of Mathematics. Great debate at Board of Over
seers whether he should be examined as to his principles
in Divinity, and overruled.
March i2th. Town meeting; I chose moderator of
y" meeting, and Town and School treasurer.
April id. My father very Ul of a slow fever, and tho't
dangerous ; he made his will ; is in his 73 year, but after
a month's illness thro' the goodness of God, recovered.
4th. Mr. Hooper preached ; dined at Mr. B''-
Ith. Fair day ; dined at Lt. Gov. Dummer's with Col. Dud
ley.
6th. Fair; Home with Russell and Coleman, and talked
much ot ye supply bill and message.
Ilth. Stormy, snowy; sat in lecture time; dined at Col.
Wendell's with Pepperell, etc.
izth. Snowy; Dined at Mr. Welles with Col. Dudley and
Foxcroft ; at night was on Cointe, addressing the Gov
ernor.
16th. Cloudy ; at wharf ; abo. eleven went to Boston ; yre
abo. 4 P. M. ; at night on the Coiiite council.
17;'/;. Cloudy; dined at Col. Hutchinson's; at night went
to Mr. Lechmere's and Mr. Walley's.
March 1st. Fair ; went to Boston to Council. Mr. Thacher
buryed ; after funeral at the house with the minister.
13///. Exceedingly cold day ; at wharf ; at night read a play
to Mrs. Pickman, etc., at my house.
29//:. Rainy; Fast; Mr. Sparhawk and Diamond; Father
in chamber, sick with slow fever; at night, Colo. Barton
and Plaisted.
April zd. Rainy weather; Father very ill and tho't danger
ous.
id. Cloudy raw ; Father very ill, but better at night.
4th. Snowy; Father made his will ; slept better this night,
some hope of him.
Jth. Fair ; Father much worse this day ; and all the after
noon.
gth. Fair. Father very ill ; sat up but abo. an hour all day ;
had a pretty good night.

IS6 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1739.
May 14th. Representatives' meeting; 136 voters;
Mr. W. Browne and Mr. Thos. Lee chose, in opposition
to Col. Eppes and Col. Browne.
lyth. Mr. Stephen Sewall made a Judge of Superior
Court loth. I was chose a CounciUor for the Massachusetts
Col"-, and had 118 votes, the highest number.
10///. Fair day ; Mr. Ja. Russell here ; hot day ; Mrs. Hig
ginson ; Father very ill tho' sat up longer to day.
11///. Lecture; cold day ; Mr. Barnard preach't it.
izth. Fair; with Mr. Brown at ye wharf; Father some
what better ; and hopes of him.
13^. Fair day ; Father still rather better ; Mr. Browne here;
at night thunder and lightning.
24///. Fair and hot ; to Boston with Colo. Browne : dined
at More's ; yre abo. 3; at night at Verdy's with Colo. Dud
ley.
zith. Fair ; chose on Cointe to write agent abo. Thomlin
son ; dined at Mr. Stodard's.
27///. Fair. With Hutchinson at Hayden's ; P. .M. came
home.
May Jth. Cloudy day; Mr. Goffe writ me. Edm°- here
and ye lawyers. Mr. Goffe in evening with me.
gth. Fair, fine day; Father went to Ipswich in chaise.
lolli. Lecture d.ay ; Lambert here abo. my velvet jacket.
June 1st. Fair; dined at Mr. Stoddard's with Mr. Hub
bart ; after, walk't with Mr. Hubbart ; then at Mr. Aus
tin's.
Sth. Dined at I\Ir. Bill's with Mr. Browne, Cotton, Vassal,
etc. ; up at W. Bowles, Jeiriy White came for me.
13//;. Cloudy ; dined at Mr. Andrew Oliver's with Judge
Remington ; Colo. Turner, and Colo. Wendell yre.
14///. Mr. Checkley preached ; dined at Mr. Lewis's.
Ilth. Cloudy; The Barrington affair heard before Council
of lawyers. Mr. Reed and Mr. BoUen.
July zd. Fair ; at wharfe ; about 1 1 went to Boston with
Mr. Lee : on Coiiite abo. message to ye Governor, till 10.
id. Fair. Dined at Governor's ; Secretary and Mr. Burrill

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August 8th. Had news of war with Spain, and Letters
of Mark and reprisal granted out
September 1st. Died Colo. Jno. Wainwright, one of y°
Judges of y° Superior Court, and Ch. Col. of regiment,
at Ipswich. I being chosen by General Court a Commis
sioner with Col. Dudley and Judge Hubbard of ye Coun
cil, and Judge Graves, Jno. Chandler, Esq., S. Welles,
Esq., and Thomas Cushing, to settle the boundary with

yre at dinner ; at night at Mr. Jeffry's ; with Mr. Hub
bard and Wendell.
4th. Commencement ; I up there in my chaise ; dined in
the library; to see Colo. Goffe in prison ; at night came
home.
•Jth. Fair and hot : chose a commissioner on R. Island
boundary.
Aug7tst 1st. Lecture day; Court sessions in afternoon;
Herbert sailed abo. i o'clock ; after at the sessions.
•Jth. Fair ; p. .m. rain ; reading Atlantis to my wife.
Zth. Fair; Newes of a war with Spain; Man of war fro.
England. Rid out with Mr. Browne to the pond ; at night
at Prat's.
loth. Fair day ; talking abo. war; Mrs. Sewall's burial ; ^
Pickman, Clark, and I, bearers.
132'/;. Clifford Crowninshield in from BB». ; W. B. has a let
ter fro. her pretended brother, Gilbert Burnet.
14//;. Fair ; frolick at Lyn ; Kit[chen] and wife, Pickman
and wife, 'Wolcot and wife, G. Curwen, Brown, etc.
September 1st. Hot day ; went to Boston in order to go to
R. Island ; was at Mr. Jeffrey's ; lodged at Mrs. War
den's.
zd. Fair ; at Mr. Checkley's and dined yre ; at night at
Governor's.
id. Rainy; went to Roxbury, dined at Col. Dudley's; abo.
4 p. .M. set out and went to Coney's, where lodged.
4th. Early set out for Bristol with the Commissioners.
1 Mrs. Sewall was the third wife of Judge Samuel Sewall, and a daugh
ter of Henry Shrimpton. She had previously married .Mr. Robert Gibbs.

158 DIARY OF BEAJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1739.
the government of R. Island, set out for Bristol, and on
the 5'" instant conferred with Commissioners of R.
Island, viz : P. ,Bours, G. CorneU, Esq., Colo. Updike,
Mr. Honyman, Mr. Clark, Messrs. WiUet and Hopkins ;
broke up ye 6* without agreeing and returned.
September 1 yth. My father went to the funeral of Hon.
Jno. Appleton, Esq., aged 86 years, who was buried at
Ipswich. He was this year County Treasurer, had been
of the Council many years, and, till 1733, one of y°
Judges of Common Pleas, and died Judge of Probate,
which [office] he held for about 37 years.'
6th. Fair ; our conference broke up ; did nothing.
Jth. Fair ; abo. 8 set out for home ; dined at Doggett's and
lodged at Coney's.
Zth. Fair ; set out abo. 7, and got home abo. sun down.
iS/Zi. Fair and cold; Training day; p. m. went into ye field;
IngersoU in ; newes of Williams ; at night at Prat's with
officers.
igth. Early to Boston; there abo. 11 p. m., dined at Col.
Wendell's with Col. Turner ; at night at Verdy's.
20///. Fair day ; went to wait on ye Governor ; dined at Mr.
Bill's ; talk with Mr. Stoddard abo. being Judge, he very
kind abo. it.
22^. Rainy ; Governor not well ; Colo. Turner and Berry
and I by Winnesimet.
24///. Fair ; early to Boston ; with Mr. Browne and Lee on
Cornte of both Houses till late. Training at Boston.
zith. Training day ; Mr. Vassal's lady buryed ; dined at
Mr. Russell's ; up at Cambridge with Col. Hutchinson.
z6th. Fair day ; went to see aunt Pordage ; dined at Mr.
Bowdoin's.
27M. F.air ; Mr. Clap preach't at Boston ; dined at Mr.
Lewis's ; Colo. Turner, Burrill, etc., at night at Austin's
with company.
^ John Appleton was the son of John Appleton who was imprisoned by
Governor Andros. From him was descended the late distinguished presi
dent of Bowdoin College.

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October Ith. My birth day ; I was appointed by Gov
ernor and Council one of y' Judges of Common Pleas
for y"= County of Esse.x. God grant me wisdom and in
tegrity aright to discharge the duties of y" important
station ! At this time Colo. Berry was made Judge of
Probate for Essex in room of Colo. Appleton, Judge WU
der, Judge of Probate for Worcester, and Jos. Dwight,
of y^ Common Pleas, for the County of Worcester.
2id. Launched my ship Lusitania ; went off safe ;
112 tons.
November ith. Coz. W?" Browne's 2** son born about
I in morning; baptized Samuel. [Died October, 1754.]

zSth. Fair ; Gen' Council ; nothing done ; Cushing chose
agent ; at Verdy's with Colo. Turner, Mr. Hobart, etc.
29//;. Cloudy ; Home by Charlestown ; there before night.
October zd. Cloudy ; to Boston early ; dined at Mr. Stod
dard's with Mr. Foxcroft ; p. m. great debate on ye Bill ;
voted 10 to 9 in Council.
id. Great regimental muster at Salem ; Gov' Belcher came
to review ; 12 companies and vast number of spectators.
4th. Returned to Boston with the Governor ; at night at a
Commitee of both Houses abo. the Bill in Equity.
October ith. Rainy ; I was made a Judge of ye Coiiion Pleas
for ye County of Essex ; treated ye Council at Austin's.
6th. Fair day ; at Council till i o'clock, thence home.
iZth. Cloudy, wind N. E. Went to Boston in chair ; was
at ye Gov" in ye evening ; afterwards at Mr. Check-
ley's.
November igth. Fair ; Sup' Court sat ; at night there ;
after at Colo. B. Browne's ; R. I. gentlemen yre and law
yers.
zoth. Fair ; at Sup' Court ; Tryal of Jno. Webb till 4.
o'clock ; Mr. S. Browne's wife, Mrs. B. Dudley, etc.,
sup't. here.
21st. Fair ; Web. not guilty ; P. M. Parker's tryal on ; at
night all at Plaisted's ; supper there for R. I. gentlemen.

l6o DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1740.
December gth. Capt Crowninshield who went for BU-
boa was just in when received news of war, and went to
Lisbon, and so we saved our vessel, and this day he came
home a passenger, and bro't news also of Capt Moses,
who was to have gone to Spain in our new Scooner,
selling the vessel and cargoe at Lisbon. Thus God is
pleased to preserve what we looked on as lost.
1740. February 28th. Gov"^ Belcher in town, lodged
at my house and dined next day.
March 10. Town meeting ; I chose moderator and
town Treasurer ; Capt Pickman, and Dr. Cabot, new
Selectmen.

zzd. Fair ; Parker guilty ; Supr. Court finished ; at home.
December ith. Fair ; To Boston with W. B. ; at night at
Mrs. Wardell's.
6th. Fair ; Dr. Sewall preached abo. acco. of Emission ;
dined at Mr. Lewis's.
Zth. Fair, warm ; by Charlestown : dined at More's.
Ii/A. Fair; To Boston by Charlestown ; at night abo. Emis
sion Bill with Coiiite, Colo. Dudley, etc., in Council cham
ber.
izih. Cloudy ; Dined at Secretary's with Colo. Berry, etc. ;
at night at Council Chamber with Wheelwright, etc.
11th. Fair ; Mr. Prince dined at Mr. Bill's ; at night, Colo.
Turner, Dudley, etc., in Council Chamber.
iZth. Fair; To Boston; there about 3; at night with
Jones and Ward.
19//;. Rainy day; Dined at Col. Wendell's ; great debate on
Impost; carryed it at last ;'at night at Mr. Jeffrey's.
2ith. Cloudy and sloppy ; Inf. Court sat ; my commission
for a Judge read ; Court sessions also opened here.
26th. Cloudy and some snow. P. Ji. Jury impanelled ; ye
Judge, Justices and lawyers sup't at my house ; there
late.

I74I-] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. l6l
i8th. The Comp^ for Merch? notes redeem^ p. silver
[in] 25 yrs., carrying 3 per cent interest, meet, signed and
chose their Director at Boston.'
April 1st. A subscription made for repairing the fort,
but broke up about who should command it.
2ist. War proclaimed in form against Spain. Com
panies all mustered.
May 12. Representatives meeting — 190 voters. Col.
Browne and Mr. Lee ; Col. Eppes lost it by one vote.
28th. My ship Lucitania, Capt Crowninshield, saUed
for B.B?' ; cost £1066 besides cargoe. I was again
chose a Counsellor in y° i'' 18, and my Coz. W" Browne
chose a Counsellor at Large.
August 12. Capt Crowninshield arrived fro. B.B."" with
goods and effects of the ship, sold in B.B''^ for £yio,
B.B''' money.
26th. GovF and Council took review of the Compa
nies raised to goe to Cuba ; English officers, etc., exer
cised. September 2id. Capt Wm. Hathorn arrived from bay,
having been out 15 weeks.
2gth. Mr. Geo. Whitfield preached on the Common to
a vast number of people, — supposed near 6000.
November Ith. The Justices concerned in the Land
Bank dismissed from their offices by the Governor and
Council. 24//;;. The viUa. petition the town to be set off as a
separate town ; after, petition the Gene' Court, but at
Board, only i vote for the dividing town.
December yth. Coz. W. Browne's 3" son born ; named
Benj? [died 1762].
1 741. February 8th. The South Mills in danger of
1 See Hutchinson, ii. 353.
II

1 62 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1741.
being carried away by a breach in the dam, but stopped ;
most people working this day, tho' [the] Sabbath, and, on
Monday, the whole town there. (This Summer was built
the stone arch at miUs ; cost about iioo of . . . .)
March gth. Town meeting and very great number,
where the Land Bank prevailed, and Capt King chose
Treasurer in my room ; Mr. West Clerk, in Capt Hig
ginson's ; and all the Selectmen but two turned out A
very severe act of Parliament made against Private
Banks. May ilth. Representative meeting where, on account
of Land Bank, J. Gardner and Capt. J. Flint chose. Col.
Browne and Mr. Lee not having 20 votes.
27^/^. Election, where most of the number were Land
Bank^, Capt. Watts for Speaker and negatived ; p. m.
old Mr. Fairfield chose. Very great alteration in the
CouncU and but two of the 18 Mass. last year's Coun
cUlors chose. All of us CouncUlors for Essex left out
and 16 new Councillors chose. Gov."' Belcher negatived
13 of the Councillors and left J. Read, Foy, and Green-
leaf ; the next day he dissolves the General Assembly.^
yune 22d. Representative meeting mustered on all
sides 347 voters. Gardner had 182 ; Flint, 179; ]\Ir.
Lee, 161 ; B. Browne, 142 ; so y' the Land Bank still
prevaUed. 23^. News of Govf Belcher being removed, and Wm.
Shirley, Esq., appointed Go-.-' of y* Massachusetts, and
Benning Wentworth Govf of New Hampshire.
August 14th. Gov. Shirier/s Commission published at
Boston. November 14th. Saturday doming about two o'clock
my wife taken ill, and at 'j.\^/-'- 'S bro't to bed of a daugh
ter, baptized the next day, b/ -•'-'- Sparhawk, Lydia.
' Hutchinv,n^'t /fi^iry, i 35S.

I743-] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. 163
2ith. A Gen' Training here to enlist soldiers for
Cuba. loth. Capt Higginson, Regisf of Deeds, struck with
numb palsy and speechless. He recovered so as to walk,
but greatly faiUtered in his speech.
December 2yth. Sabbath noon, the child taken danger
ously Ul, but God spared her.
1742. yamiary. My wife ill of a slow fever. God
was pleased to mitigate the illness, but she continued
weak for some time, and could not suckle the infant
Praised be God for his sparing mercy !
March 4th. Col. Jno. Turner died, ch. Col. of Regi
ment, and I was one of his bearers ; he died very sud
denly aged 71.
8th. Great Town meeting, and I again chose Treas
urer, and y" Land Bank officers all out again.
May i8th. Vote for a Bridge, after great debates, over
North river ; Representative Eppes, 158 ; Gardner, 217.
Bridge is about 630 ft. long and 18 ft wide, and cost
about ;:^i6oo.
November 26th. My Coz. Sam' Browne, died, aged 34,
leaving two sons and one daughter.
1743. March Wth. Abo. 10 [at] night niy chimney
catched on fire and, the wind being very high, my house,
etc., was in great danger.
14th. Great Town meeting. I chose moderator and
Treasurer, and but 5 Selectmen.
April lyth. Capt CoUins in "Four Brothers ;". and
Capt. Davis in " William," both in from Gaudeloop ; two
good voyages, for which Praised be God !
May 2id. John Crowninshield came to live with me.
Jemmy White, whom I made master of Sconf Dolphin,

1 64 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1744.
sail'' in her for B.B**^, from which he went to St Lucia,
and thence to Estasia, where, being gull? by a French
Count, he came away ill, and died at sea just as he came
out. This is the first death that has happened in our
family, or of any belonging to it. Let it be a warning
to us all !
2lth. I was chose again into the Council, and Col.
Saltonstall, Chandler, Chevers, Bourn and LiUe.
yune 2yth. Great multitudes of worms, which eat al
most every green thing on the ground, in the field.
August Ith. Died, Hon. Col. Wm. Dudley,' one of the
Council. October 22d. A very high tide and great storm carried
away and tore in pieces the wharf es, and did me a great
deal of damage.
November lyth. Capt Crowninshield, who was given
over as lost, arrived safe (with a load of moUasses) from
Martinico. 2Qth. George Curwen and W. CoUins in Sconf Ran
ger from Holland cast away in Barnstable Bay, but thro'
God's Providence most of his goods saved.
1744. March 12th. Great Town meeting ; I modera
tor and Treasurer. Endeavours to move Trask's mill
to bridge, but negatived.
May 4th. My Father taken very iU at Ipswich, and
and after this he never got thoroughly well again.
i8th. Died, Ab. Pope, a maid in my father's house
for 14 years, and the i'' death in the family for 42
years. loth. I again chose a Mass. Counsellor, and Mr.
Browne bro't in again ; and Mess. Eliakim Hutchinson
and Bowdoin chose. 1 A brother of Judge Paul Dudley.

I74S-] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. 165
yune 2d. News, from England, of war with France,
proclaimed abo"! the 20* March.
id. The General Court sat, the Sabbath, and whUe
sitting, a tremendous earthquake.
2lth. Capt. Tyng, in the Province GaUey, bro't in a
French Privateer of 92 men, Capt De la Brough.
yuly Ilth. Jno. Higginson, Esq., Regis? of Deeds,
died ; his son chose in his room.
December 24th. My father took his chamber, and in
abo. a fortnight thought dangerous.
1745- yanuary 22d. Wife taken ill in travaU before
day, and dangerous travail ; being deliv? by Dr. Clarke,
but y" child dead.
28th. My hon? Father dyed about 10 in the morning.
Buryed Feb^ i''* ; God sanctify this Providence to us !
He was then Ch. Justice of Superior Court, aged 79.
At this time my wife dangerously ill and were but lit
tle hopes [of her recovery] and afterward so weak that
she was not mov'' out of her bed but by a sheet, and
never put her feet to ground to step till 6'" July ; and
last of Aug. came down stairs, and (in) abo. 6 weeks able
to step about Prais? be God for his great Goodness to
us !
March 24th. Sailed y° fleet of 50 vessels with 3500
men, and Conn, and New Hampshire, 1000, against Cape
Breton, and Commodore Warren with 3 L ships from
Antigua to assist in the enterprize. (They first took the
VigUant a 70 gun ship, and on 22'' June, had the city of
Louisburg surrendered to them, tho' thought impregna
ble. It was the Lord's doing and marveUous in our eyes.
This expedition, and securing Place, cost Massa? about
£2yi,i20 N. tenf)
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1 66 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1746.
Sarah ; her mother deep in a consumption of which she
died i" Aug. as. 22, leaving 4 sons and 2 daughters, all
of whom but one son died unmarried.
Mr. Fisk hind'red going up to his own people's pulpit
by a number withdrawing from him to Mr. Leavit, whose
party afterward prevailing, on 3^ Oct., endeavoured to or
dain him, but not doing it tiU 24'" Octo. Mr. White of
Gloucester, J. Rogers of Kittery, Mr. Hobby and Mr. Gee,
New Lights, attempted it in the Meetinghouse over but
10 or II of ch. from whom Mr. Gee had withdrawn
comunion ; but there being a great noise, at last repaired
to Mr. Kitchen's orchard, and there ordained him, on
which a number of Mr. Fisk's friends joyn to our meet
ing. 1746. yanuary 24th. I was much against my own
inclination appointed one of the judges of the Sup^ Court
of y" Province ; Nath' Hubbard, Esq., named also. The
great importance of this trust gave me the greatest un
easiness to engage in it, but being over persuaded, I took
the oath and on the 18"" Feb^ sat on that Bench at the
Sup'' Court at Boston. O that y* Giver of wisdom would
at all times afford me all that knowledge and integrity
necessary for the right discharge of duty in a Court
where the lives, libertys, and estates of y'* Subject, are
ultimately determined !
March lyth. Per Hawkins, newes of Capt. Crownin
shield, who we looked on as lost, and after 1 5 weeks at
sea blowed off ; arrived ye 26";
20//^. Jno. Towle, boatswain of man of war, and Jno.
Warren, tryed for murdering Wm. Connor in impress
ing sailors, and found guilty.
September. Duke D'Anville, with a number of French
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1748.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. 167
bad storms, arrived at Chibucto harbour, in order to take
Annapolis, Cape Breton, and annoy New England ; God
was pleased, besides the storms they suffered by, to send
sickness among them, of which D'AnviUe dyed, y° ad
miral, and .... men ; and in October they returned back
again to France.
December. Had an account of loss of sconf " Wil
liam;" value 450 ; afterward, that of Sconf "Sea Flow
er," Jno. Masury, taken. May I duly resent all God's
righteous dealings I
1747. yanuary. About the latter end of this month
small pox broke out in Salem, but by the care of the town,
under God's gracious Providence, it did not spread.
April. Made addition to my warehouse.
May 2yth. Dyed Jno. Wolcott, Esq., late sheriff of the
county. August 2id. Dyed Dr. Colman.
October id. Three daughters had y^ measles ; all re
covered, but Hannah left in a bad state of health.
December 14th. Mr. Jno. Bowles, my wife's brother,
smothered in the snow on the Neck.
1748. February i6th. Judge Cushing made one of
our Court, in Judge Hobart's room, who died in Decem
ber last. This y° first breach in our Court since my being
of it I lost \ of Capt Dean's scon'', and J of a sloop
Lovet was in.
October 4th. Raised my Castle HiU new house.
Ilth. Died, my classmate MitcheU SewaU,' Esq., Clerk
of Inferior Court
I Mitchell Sewall was the son of Stephen Sewall, for m.any years Clerk
of the Court in Essex, and whose wife was a daughter of Jonathan
Mitchell. He was a brother of the second Chief Justice Sewall.

l68 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1749.
November lyth. My horse frighted and oversett me,
but thro' God's goodness I received no hurt by it
1749. 3Iay. I was taken ill with slow fever; God
was pleased to bless means for my recovery ; when Dr.
1749. February 1st. Mary Rogers arraigned.
zd. Fair, clear; after, cloudy ; Judges at Capt. Gary's ; Colo.
Cushing tarryed, and lodged at Mr. Russell's.
id. M. Rogers tryed for burglary, and brought in guilty.
4th. Fair, very cold ; Pleads arrest of judgment ; woman
sentenced.
March iitli. Rainy, then fair and windy ; Mr. Mayhew
and I went to Boston.
14//^. Court sat in Town House ; at night at Dr. Coleman's.
Ilth. Sat again in Town Hall ; dined at Lodging's ; at night
at Mr. Tyng's with Colo. Blanchard and Allen.
16th. Fair ; all the Court at Mr. Winthrop's ; at night at
Tavern with Mr. Welles. Ann Grafton tryed.
17///. Fair; at Mr. Wheelwright's ; Draper and Richards'
case.
18///. Very windy ; dined at Half Moon ; home before 6.
2 1st. Cloudy, snowy weather ; abo. Canada Township ; Dea
con Tarbel here talking abo. it.
April 6th. Fair ; early to Boston, long going over ; there
by Court sitting. Prat concluded.
Jth. Fair; dined at Paxton's, all ye Court ; Goffe on Gov
ernor's cause all day.
10th. Fair; to Boston with Capt. Collins by 3 p. ji. ; horse
at Pratt's ; Winnesimet ; Mr. Goffe ; Governor's cause.
11th. Fair : Goffe still for Waldoe ; dined at Mr. Hutchin
son's with Colo. Otis, Richards, etc.
izth. Fair; Goffe concluded and Auchmuty began ; dined
at tavern with Sewall and Saltonstall.
14/^. Cloudy ; Court gave y" opinion ; at night at Goffe's ;
Jury sat up all night ; ^^500 sterling ; criminal sentenced.
May izth. Fair; Mrs. Ingalls died.
zzd. Raw, Easterly ; Dr. Cabot taken ill with pleurisy, and
very ill.
23(/. F.iir ; Dr. Burchstead sick of a fever at home.

1 749-] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. 1 69
Cabot, my physician, was after in the same month, taken
iU and died. (This summer such a drought as that hay

1749. May list. Fair, ver>' hot ; rid with Lydia up to Mrs. S.
Nichols' for cakes for children.
J7cne id. Fair, hot ; Dr. Cabot died last night abo. 3.
4th. Fair; I went to meeting; Dr. Cabot buried, I a
bearer.
Ith. Raw ; Mad™ Price here, and Bowditch to see Molly ;
I within all day.
Ilth. Fast day on acc't of ye drought.
July loth. Early up to Boston, dined at Cosby's ; after,
over to Theo. Cushing's by 6, and lodged there.
I Ith. Got to Plymouth by 1 1^ ; Court began ; lodged at Mr.
Witherel's ; cause of Vinal and Lille.
14///. Fair ; Howland and Jackson gr't cause all day ; at
night at Sheriff Warren's with Saltonstall.
Ilth. Fair, hot ; got over all actions; finished Court.
17//;. Fair, fine day; dined at Ruggles' ; got to Barnstable
abo. 8 ; Lodged at Capt. Sturgis'.
iZth. Fair; Court began; at night at Sturgis' to sup
per.
19///. Fair ; finished Court ; at night Judge Dudley gone.
20//;. Rain ; after, held up ; Set out, and dined at Ruggles',
at night at Ellis', with Judge Sewall.
21st. Cloudy ; Early to Plymouth and dined at Silvester's,
and alone to Cosby's.
zzd. Early to Boston ; dined at home.
August 1st. Abo. 7, set out for Cambridge ; there just as
Court went.
zd. Fair, hot day ; at night at Colo. Brattle's to supper. •+-
id. Mulatto woman tryed for her life ; Jury could not agree ;
up all night ; we at Goffe's.
Ith. Rainy, after, fair ; went abo. 4.
Ilth. Fair; came with Molly to Boston by Winnesimet;
sent horse and chaise home; Court sat at 11.
16th. Fair ; at Court ; P. m. at Council ; at night at Tavern
with Oliver and Hutchinson.
19//;. Fair ; in Court till i, then home.
zist. Fair ; Dr. How came, I to Boston at 3.

I70 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1749.
was sold for ;£^8o per load. Also this summer my daugh
ter first taken with disorders in her head.)
1749. August 22d. Fair; Governor's cause; abo. auditors; I
dined with Mr. Oliver.
23^. Cloudy, rainy ; a bearer to Colo. Dudley's wife ; over
at Roxbury in Auchmuty's coach ; at night home.
Z4th. Thanksgiving for rain ; dined at Mr. Walley's.
zith. Fair ; auditor's report, and began Gov''' case.
z6th. Cloudy, W. N. E. ; went home without Molly.
zZth. Fair ; to Boston abo. 3 ; Goffe pleading.
29///. Fair; Goffe finished, and Dana began ; Mr. Dana for
Mr. Waldoe; all day on it.
30///. Mr. Pratt began for Governor, and abo. Evidence.
September 1st. Mr. Pratt pleading ; up at Mr. Checkley's.
zd. Fair, high wind, N. E. ; sent for chaise, and went by
Charlestown home.
4th. Fair ; Court sat at 9, I, not well ; went not till 3 P. M.
summed up Gov"''" cause ; we till almost 9 at night.
Ith. Fair; Mr. Knowles' case came on; Auchmuty and
Dana pleaded to it ; at night at lodgings.
iZth. Fair; abo. 6 set out on Journey, and abo. 9 to Sud
bury, dined, and y°"^° by j\ to Agar's.
19//;. Cloudy ; fro. Shrewsbury to Worster, and to Court.
zoth. Maiden great cause all day.
zist. Special verdict on marriage of Tabitha Prentiss ; sup't
this night at Col. Chandler's, all the Court.
22^. Fair ; finished by noon ; dined, and to Brookfield ;
Dr. Pynchon.
zid. Dined at Dr. Pynchon's ; set out for Scot's at Brim-
field.
24//^. Went to Lamb's. P. m. to Mr. Merick's meeting.
25//;. Cloudy, mist ; to Springfield abo. ir with Judges.
26th. Fair ; Court began about 11 ; all 5 Judges there.
27//;. Fair ; Negro burnt ; Woom arraigned.
2gth. Fair ; In Court till after to ; away ill to Scot's ; and
thence at 3^ to Brookfield.
30//;. Misty; to Worcester; dined at 12 at Capt. Chand--'
ler's, then to How's, Sudbury ; lodged there.
October zd. Early on road and home to dinner.

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1750. February id. Died my cousin, Colo. Benj.
Browne, Esq., aged 44. (This Spring I looked on myself
as in a low state, and met with two great losses, viz : Ma
sury, in Scon"^ Mary, cast away at Martha's Vineyard ;
and, [on the] i" May, Crowninshield in " Anjerica," from
Bristol, lost at Cape Ann, tho' most of his goods saved.
All summer I complaining and poorly, and my eyes
troublesome. My daughter Hannah lived at Andover,
under Dr. How's care.)
September lyth. Died that exceUent good man the
Rev. Mr. N. Walter, minister of Roxbury, almost 87
years of age.
175 1, yanuary 24th. Mr. Jos. Sherburn married to
MoUy Plaisted.
26th. Died, Hon. Paul Dudley, Esq., Ch. Justice of
ye Province, and one of our Court
loth. Died Mrs. Driver, my mother's nurse, very sud
denly at our house ; may these instances of mortality
quicken us to our preparation for our great change I
February 1st. Judge Dudley buried. The Lieut Gov
ernor and the rest of our Court with Daniel Russel,
Esq., bearers.
1751. February id. Came to Boston ; at Gen' Court.
4th. Fair ; went over to Charlestown, and adjourned ye
Court, Judge Dudley being dead.
Ith. Fair; dined at Mr. Oliver's with Sir William.
zith. Came to Boston, at night at Withered's ; supper.
26th. Cloudy ; dined at Deacon Bulineau's with Cushing.
27///. Fair, pleasant ; Web's case ; dined at Walley's.
March zd. Fair. Col. Cushing home ; I by 5 home to
Salem.
Jth. Fair ; early to Boston.
8///. Fair ; dined with Mr. Wentworth, with family.
Ilth. Fair, fine morning; after, cloudy and windy; dined
at Mr. Pitts' with Judges Saltonstall, Cushing, etc.

172 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1751.
April 28th. Died Colo. Thomas Barton, Esq., about
3 p. M., and was buried 2^ May.
1751. March 11th. Dined at Mr. Winthrop's, all ye Court; at
night at Holmes'.
14//;. Fair; Colo. Saltonstall early to . . . . ; his daughter
very ill ; dined at Mr. Prat's and paid Dr. Hearsey 10
dollars ; at night at Mr. Checkley's.
Ilth. Cloudy, rainy weather; Crown cases; dined at Mr.
Barren's.
l6th. Fair; In Court, and finished abo. 11, to adjournment;
home.
April zd. Fair ; wife and I to Boston ; at Council.
id. Fair ; at Council ; also p. m. abo. certificate being- a
tender; and at our Court; at night at Mr. Checkley's with
family.
Ith. Fair; dined at IMr. Sherburn's with wife and Mr.
Checkley.
6th. Stormy, snowy day; dined at Sheriff's; at Council;
our Court finished.
gth. Fair ; at General Court ; dined at Mr. 'Wheelwright's
with Colo. Royal.
loth. Fair ; at General Court ; abo. 12 wind very high ;
came from Boston by Roxbury ; home at night.
13^/2. Fair ; Mr. Phippen in afternoon at Castle Hill graft
ing ; Bates in fro. Turtudos ; acc't of my sloop.
iZth. Fair, cold, and windy ; went with Molly to Boston ;
lodged at Mr. Clark's ; was at Council abo. tender.
20///. At Council all day ; In evening supped at Mr. Check-
ley's with Mr. Oliver.
24///. Fair day ; dined at Mr. Oliver's ; his daughters to see
Molly ; at Mr. Checkley's.
26th. Fair ; at Council ; very high wind ; home with Molly
from Roxbury ; bad time and very cold ; home at night.
May Zth. Hot ; Mr. Oliver came and dined here to day ; I
at home.
gth. Fair, hot ; Mr. Ellinwood here ; Mr. Oliver at Mr.
Browne's ; P. M. Mrs. Eppes here.
loth. Fair and pleasant ; rode to Fort with Plaisted and
Pickman ; Mr. Oliver dined here.

I752-] DIARY OF BEAJAMIN LYNDE, JR. 17Z
1752. February Ith. Small pox broke out at Hallo-
well, and Boston. Mr. Oliver, who for about 10 months
had courted my daughter, came to live here.
1751. May Ilth. Fair and hot; Mr. Oliver went home ; set out
for Boston to goe to Taunton.
12//;. At Mr. Eliot's meeting ; dined at Mr. Clark's ; in the
evening at Judge Sewall's.
13^//. Fair, very hot ; set out for Taunton with Judge Sewall ;
we got in about sundown, stopping 5 miles out of town.
14th. Rainy ; began Sup' Court abo. 12 ; at night at tavern.
Ilth. Fair ; we sat at 8 o'clock ; long Court ; all day abo.
Gov'- Belcher's cause ; at night at Mr. White's.
l6th. Fair, hot ; Sheriff and Bowers' case ; at night at
Lodgings.
17///. Fair, very hot ; Tryal of Woom for bastardy.
iZth. Fair; Finished Court unexpectedly; set out for
Stoughton.
20//;. Raw, Easterly ; From Stoughton to Boston ; home
abo. night.
21th. Fair, very hot ; Mr. Oliver came and brought his sis
ter Mary.
2%th. Fair, very hot day ; I went to Boston ; arrived abo.
dusk, and at Tavern with Wendell, Oliver, etc.
29^. Election : Dined at Mr. Lewis' ; I, chosen ; had all
the votes ; at night at Mr. Wheelwright's ; large company
of Gen' Court yre ; Mr. Ryal chosen and on Thursday
negatived ; I at Sup' Court all day.
list. Fair, hot; I took counsellor's oath. Thunder and
stormy weather. My brother went home in the morning.
June id. Fair day ; preparing for Ipswich journey.
4th. Fair, cold ; rid horse to Ipswich, wore great coat ;
lodged at Col. Berry's with Col. Cushing.
Ith. Fair day ; we sat at Court fro. 8 A. 11. ; at night at
Tavern.
6th. Fair, hot ; abo. Wenham cause, and Osman tryed.
Zth. Fair ; home from Ipswich just after dinner.
loth. Fair ; Jno. Young and I to Piscataqua ; got to Clark's
early and lodged there.
I Ith. Early for York ; yre abo. 1 1 ; Col. Atkinson dined with
us.

174 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1752.
March 26th. They began to inoculate at Boston, and
the small pox prevailed and went thro' the town.
1751. June izth. My wife set out with Haiiah for Dr. Hearsey's.
11th. Cloudy; Tryal of Lad for killing ye Indian; cleared.
Ilth. Misty, raw weather ; abo. noon set out for Sir Wil
liam's, and dined there with all ye Court Tea at Mr.
Sparhawk's.
ijth. Fair, hot ; very early went fro. Kittery ; at York abo.
II ; Tryal of Mr. Prout, great case ; all for him.
l%th. Fair; finishing Court abo. 8 o'clock; at night at Tav
ern.
igth. Cloudy ; set out abo. 7 with Sewall and Colo. Cush
ing ; dined at Hampton ; got to Wenham.
20//;. Fair ; Early home from Wenham.
July zd. Fair, very hot ; Mr. Oliver went to Cambridge.
id. Fair ; very early set out for Commencement ; yre abo.
10 ; Molly with me ; and returned as far as Maiden in
evening.
4th. Rainy morn. Home very early after rain.
6th. Fair ; abo. noon Mr. Oliver bro't Molly fro. Commence
ment.
22(/. Fair ; Early to Boston abo. 11 ; dined with Mr. Check-
ley ; abo. 4, set out for home, Mr. Oliver and Cotton with
us.
zid. Fair day ; Mr. Oliver and Cotton dined here.
August 6th. Set out for Cambridge abo. 7 ; there by 11,
before the others ; Sewall gave the charge to Jury; Sal
tonstall in afternoon.
Jth. Fair weather ; Mclntire and Pudny's case ; at night at
Goffe's.
Zth. Fair ; President and Fellows dine with us ; Dr. Her-
sey here ; at night at Mr. Appleton's, and Lt. Gov.
Pliipps'.
gth. Fair ; Began Buckminster's case ; ended abo. loj at
night, and Foxcroft got it ; at home in evening.
10th. Fair; Littleton Proprietor's case ; dined at Goffe's ;
home about 8.
12///. Fair, exceedingly hot weather ; abo. 4 went to Cam
bridge ; there by j\ ; went to Mr. Danlbrth's.

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April gth. Found a small pox letter enclosing scabs
and a plaster put into the window of kitchen, with de
sign to infect us, but God was pleased to preserve me
1751. August 11th. Fair, hot day; Woom tryed for uttering
counterfeit dollars ; dined at Mr. Vassal's ; at night at
President's.
14th. Fair, exceedingly hot ; I home abo. 4; at 6 Mrs. Her-
sey and John with Hanah Lynde fro. Hingham.
Ilth. Cloudy; Mrs. Hersey, Winchester, and Mr. Oliverhere.
16th. Rainy, stormy weather ; all day at home ; Hanah had
a very bad night, and wife up with her.
ijth. Fair; Mrs. Hersey and Winchester early away.
igth. Fair ; up in town ; Mr. Sparhawk prayed with Hanah ;
watchers with her.
zist. Fair, very hot ; Hanah very ill ; her mother tho't her
dying, and sent away John for Molly Lynde to Boston.
22^. Fair and very hot ; Mr. Oliver bro't Molly home ;
Hanah better.
z6th. Rainy ; abo. 1 1, I went away to Boston ; there at Court
abo. 3 ; went up to Mr. Checkley's.
zSth. Fair ; Barbecue, Molly at Mr. Barrell's ; at night at
Tyng's, with Mr. Danforth till abo. 10.
29;'/^. Fair day ; dined at Mr. Oliver's.
30^/i. Fair ; Cobb's case ; dined at Mr. Winthrop's ; agreed
with Pearson abo. negroe boy, abo. ^124-280.
31^-/. Fair, warm; adjourned abo. 12; bro't Dublin home
with me.
September 2d. Fair ; Haiiah growing stronger.
l6th. Fair ; set out with John for the western circuit ; over
took Mr. Goffe and wife ; lodged at Col. Williams' [Marl
borough].
17///. Fair. Early to Worcester by 10 ; at night at Sheriff
Chandler's and lodged there.
18//;. Rainy; great Maiden cause all day; at night at Mr.
McCarthy's and supped there.
20th. Fair ; Tryal of Brookfield man for forgery and cleared.
2IJ'/. Fair ; Finished Court at 12, and went away to Brook
field.
22d. Fair and cold ; at Dr. Pynchon's with Colo. Dudley.

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and my family from the snare of the fowler.' Soon after,
the small pox broke out in ttiwn and once was in six
places, but thro' God's goodness we were spared, tho'
1751. September zid. Cold; set out for Springfield; dined at
Scot's ; in by 6.
24//^. Springfield Court opened at 12.
zith. Fair ; went over all actions ; and at night at Col.
Worthington's ; Mr. Oliver at dinner.
26^/2. Fair ; In Court ; and abo. 9 set out and got to Sar
gent's at Leicester.
27///. Fair ; Early with Col. Cushing, and dined with Mr.
Oliver at Sudbury, and before sundown at Mystick.
zZth. Early up, and home before 10 A. m.
October gth. Fair ; wife and I to Roxbury before 4 p. m. ;
at night at Sir W" Pepperell's lodgings ; we at Mr.
Checkley's.
Ilth. Fair, windy and cold ; home with wife abo. night from
Boston with my horse.
Ilth. Fair; Col. Cushing to Court abo. 10; Saltonstall
about 3, p. .M. ; at night at Prat's ; Colo. Cushing lodged
here.
16th. Fair ; yesterday Cox and Stacey \ day abo. Tomb
stone monument.
ijth. Gott's cause ; at Prat's all ye evening.
iZth. Fair ; Invited gentlemen to dine with us ; Colo. Sal
tonstall supped with us.
19^/;. Fair ; Court dined with me and supped at W. B.» ; all
finished.
November ith. Fair, warm day ; Crowninshield and I to
Boston to Superior Court ; we adjourned at I to 19"^ ;
Crowninshield and I home abo. 9.
Jth. Rainy, misty ; Thanksgiving day ; ^Ir. Sparhawk.
igth. Warm, pleasant ; with Mr. Oliver in chaise to Boston ;
dined at Judge SewaU's ; at night at Mr. Checkley's.
22(/. Raw, Easterly ; dined with Mr. Browne and wife at
Mr. Oliver's ; we adjourned all over to next term.
1 He is said to have offered ^500 Old Tenor, for the detection of the
conspirators, and Lieutenant-governor Phipps also issued a proclamation
for their discovery.

I7S4-] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. 177
many in eminent hazard, and the town, clear of it wholly
by y^ middle of July. Praised be God !
May loth. Died my dear and only brother, WilUam
Lynde, aged 37, of a consumption which appeared on
him in March, tho' he by a cold kept his chamber from
20* January ; he was buried in my new tomb, to which
also my father was removed on the 14* May 1752.
28//^. My eldest daughter Mary was married to Mr.
Andrew Oliver, Jr., the only grandchild of Colo. Thomas
Fitch, and son of Hon. Andrew Oliver, Esq. This
month Chambers RusseU, Esq., appointed Judge of our
Superior Court, where had been a vacancy from Judge
Dudley's death, and Judge Sewall made Chief Justice,
tho' Colo. Saltonstall his senior Judge.
yuly 22d. Very hard thunder and lightning ; one clap
broke near us and stroke Bates' Scooner's masts, but no
person hurt.
1753. yuly i2th. Died my dear and honored mother,
Mary Lynde, about 5, p. m., in the 74 year of her age ;
she had been confined to her chamber some years, in a
weak low state, and had before had two shocks of the
palsy. She was born on the 22'' of August, 1679, ^^^
was the daughter of the Hon. Major William Browne by
his first wife Hanah, one of the daughters of Capt
George Curwen y" elder, by his first wife Elizabeth, who
was an Herbert, but came over, the widow of Mr. 'White,
with two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary.
August yth. Govf Shirley returned from England, after
his being absent from the Government from Aug. 1749.
1754. On Monday y' 22'^ AprU my daughter Oliver
safely brought to bed of a daughter, baptized the next

178 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1755.
Sabbath by Rev? Mr. Thos. Prince, Mary. God be
praised for this his goodness !
yuly Ilth. Died my grand daughtf Mary Oliver, not
three months old. God sanctify this loss to us all !
September igth. Died my Coz., Hon. Colo. Samuel
Lynde, Esq., at Saybrook, then one of y' Judges of y* Su
perior Court in that Colony, and had been several years
i^' Justice of the Pleas for the County of New London,
and now, and for many years before, one of the Coun
cil ; he was taken away by a fever in the 64*" year of
his age, much lamented, as he was greatly beloved.
October 20th. Died my Coz. Wf" Browne's son, Samuel.
1755. February 6th. A very great storm, wind at S. E.,
and very high tide, carry'd away a brig which beat against
my out- W. house and broke it down, in which I lost sev
eral things, especially about 40 \^ Turtudos salt en
tirely gone.
April loth. Died the Rev? Mr. John Sparhawk, our
excellent Pastor, in the 42'' year of his age, and in the
prime of life and usefulness, a very sore and heavy
stroke to his church and congregation ; he was or
dained here the 8'" Dec? 1736, and greatly beloved and
esteemed by all that knew him.
May 22d. Sailed General Winslow and Monkton with
their forces for Menis, where afterwards with about ....
men they took St John's Fort etc., [and] brought off
the neutral French from Nova Scotia. The army remark
ably successful, losing but .... men.
28th. Election. I continued as I had been, for 18 y"
past, of the Council ; Colo. Brattle brought in, and Mr.
Wheelwright out.
yune 2d. Died, my Coz. Wm. Browne, son of my
uncle John Browne, aged 45. At our Superiour Court

I7SS'] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. 179
at York Jno. Seymour tryed, and found guilty of drown
ing his own chUd.
yuly gth. General Braddock with about 2000 regular
forces, attacked by about 400 French and Indians, and
cut to pieces and lost their artUlery. At our Court at
Cambridge a negro man and woman were convicted of
poisoning their master, Capt Codman. [They] were
sentenced, he to be hanged, she to be burnt, which was
executed accordingly in September, and he hung up in
chains afterwards.'
This Suiner the several Governments united in an Ex
pedition against Crown Point ; Colonel Johnson was ap
pointed General. Our first Quota of ... . men after
wards reinforced by 2800, they proceed to take St
Sacrament when they were attacked by General Diskau
with French and Indians, when on 9'" September we
obtained a complete victory, took the Gen' and many
French, to the number of ... . kiUed. We lost Colo.
Titcomb and Colo. WUliams, and about .... men. Af
terward with the reinforcement was buUt a very strong
fort ; but nothing more effected, and the army dismissed
in November.
Gen' Shirley with his regiment, and Sir William Pep
perell's, this summer formed an expedition against Niag
ara, [and] proceeded to Oswegoe, but Braddock's defeat,
and [the] season growing late, nothing further done.
September i yth. Was installed, the Rev? Mr. Thomas
Barnard (who had been a minister at Newbury), pastor
of our Church ; God bless him in the great work of the
Gospel ministry !
1 " Thursday last in the aftemoon Mark, a negro man, and Phillis, a
negro woman, both servants of Capt. John Codman of Charlestown, were
executed at Cambridge for poisoning their said master. The man was
hanged and the woman was burned at a stake, about 10 yards distant from
the gallows. They both died penitent." — Boston Eve. Post, Sept. 22.

l80 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1755-
November 2d. Died Capt. Icha. Plaisted, Junf, aged 27.
18///. About 4 in the morning, was a most terrible
earthquake which shook down many chimneys in town,
and tho' hardly so loud as y° earthquake in 1727, yet the
effects and shaking were vastly more surprising. This
was followed by severall small shakes all the week, es
pecially one on y" Saturday night following. God gra
ciously prepare us for his sovereign will in so amazing a
dispensation, and may his salvations afforded be duly re
sented by us who are spared, when [on] the first of the
month at Lisbon many thousands were destroyed by a
very dreadful earthquake, and the fall of the houses, and
many lost their lives at Cadiz by an inundation, and over
flow of the sea.
December 8th. Dyed my coz. Sarah Plaisted, aged 54
years, who had been for above 20 years ailing, and so
as not out at the public worship ; her husband, Colo.
Plaisted was returning from the expedition against
Crown Point

1756. February id. Fair; dined with Sir William at Colo. Brat
tle's ; after, on Cointe on Governor's speech all ye even
ing.
Ith. Fair ; Cointe made report abo. 12 ; set out for home
abo. 6.
i6th. Fair and pleasant; to Boston with Derby; P. m. at
Council and to Governor's.
ijth. Cloudy; our Court opened; 3 of us ; dined at Judge
Sewall's with Mr. Russell.
iZth. Sup' Court sat ; then in at Council.
March ist. Fair ; abo. 1 1 went with Lydia to Boston ; ar
rived yre by 3, by Winnesimet.
4th. Fair ; our Court sat ; dined at Mr. Hutchinson's.
6th. Fair ; at Council ; abo. I sat out for home.
April 6. Fair ; W. Bowles and I to Boston ; got there by
I P. M. ; at Council in afternoon.

1 756-] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDFl, JR. l8l
1756. May. Col. Plaisted went as Col? in the expe
dition against Ticonderoga, [and] returned in December
following in a poor state of health.
26^'/^. Election. I chose a counsellor. Secretary Wil
lard resigned his seat at the Board, and Colo. Pickman
1756. April Jth. Fair, W. Easterly; dined at Capt. Ewing's;
abo. Impresses.
Zth. Fair ; Vote abo. Valuation and Impresses ; dined at
Colo. Brattle's with Otis and Gridley ; saw pictures.
gt/i. Dined as yesterday ; Thursday at Broth' Oliver's with
Mr. .-Alexander, Colo. Cushing, Mr. Vassal, Lydius, etc. ;
at night reading.
10///. Fair ; after 12 over Winnisemet ; at home abo. 4.
11th. Fair, hot ; wife and I to Boston before dinner; after
at Council ; Court abo. Impresses, etc.
14//;. Fair day and hot ; dined at Mr. Oliver's ; Colo. Hoar,
etc.
15///. Fair, very warm ; Mr. Bromfield buried.
16th. Rainy; ship fro. England; talk of new Governor;
dined at Mr. Oliver's with his uncle and Gen' Winston.
zist. Fair; Gen' Court dissolved; Governor at Council,
and sat out in ye afternoon for N. York. Mrs. Shurdan
buried.
23;/. Sat out for home abo. 5, with wife.
z6th. Judge SewaU at Col. Pickman's in ye evening ; he
sworn Justice.
^May 4ih. Mr. Barnard preached a sermon to the Crown
Point soldiers ; the soldiers set out for Boston.^
19//;. Fair, hot ; horse bro't down; Coz. Lynde and son in
town.
20///. Cloudy ; I abo. Mr. Lynde's ace** at Saybrook.
24///. Fair ; with wife in chaise to Boston ; Sir W™ and
great company there.
21th. Fair, fine day ; Col. Pickman in Council.
26th. Rainy ; at Convention ; Mr. Abbot p. .m. sworn Coun
cillor.
I Judge Lynde was on a committee of the Council to devise means to
raise 3,500 men for the expedition against the French at Crown Point.

1 82 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1756.
chose a counseUor. (He on the 20"' Aug. following broke
his thigh coming home from Boston.)
1 756. May zjth. Fair ; dined at Mr. Oliver's ; P. M. went to see
microcosms.
zZth. Fair ; at Council ; abo. I, with wife by Penny Ferry.
June 1st. Fair, fine day ; to Boston by Winnesimet ; at
Council.
2d. To see Mr. Copeland's picture, with Sir W"" and Colo.
Chandler.
id. Raw day, and misty ; Mr. Dipp' etc. at Mr. Oliver's.
4th. Fair ; Lydia sat for picture ; ^ after, they went to Cam
bridge.
Ith. Fair ; Lydia and I at dinner ; then homeward abo. 6,
P. M.
Zth. Fair ; Col. Cushing came early, Judge SewaU and all
to Ipswich ; we sat out after 8.
gth. Fair; Lodged at Colo. Berry's; at night at Judge
SewaU's ; short Court.
loth. Fair ; early began and finished at 3 P. M. ; Russell
home.
11//^. Very warm day ; rode with 2 horses down Ferry with
Lydia and my wife.
14th. Fair ; early with Judge SewaU to Newbrr.
Ilth. Fair; Sewall and Cushing fro. Clark's ; at York abo.
II ; Court opened.
16th. Fair day, but cool ; Sir W" dined with us.
18//;. Judge RusseU home. Negro Tom tryed and sen
tenced ; we abo. 3 sat out, stopt at Portsmouth, then to
Clark's.
19//;. Fair, hot ; Judge Sewall and I in my chair home abo.
6 at night.
21st. Fair ; over to Beverly ; p. m. with wife to Mr. Browne's
farm ; Mrs. Plaisted with us.
July Ith. Fair ; went with Lydia to Boston ; with Mr. Win
throp abo. Colo. Saltonstall's affairs.
6th. Fair day and very hot ; at Gen' Court all day ; at night
with Mr. Bartlett abo. Colo. Saltonstall's affairs.
' The portrait by Copley is now in the possession of her great grand
daughters, the Misses Odin of Boston.

17 16.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. 1 83
In September he was appointed a judge of the Inferior
Court Col. Berry the i'' Justice dying' this suiner; Col.
Choat ¦ was made Judge of Probate also in the stead of
Colo. Berry deceased.

1756. July Jth. Exceeding hot; dined with Capt. Osborn; Lt.
Gov', etc., there ; Hutchinson's bill rejected by House. Q
l2th. Fair ; to Boston by 10 ; lodged at Kinsman's.
13//^. Early to Taunton by 9 ; lodged at Capt Hodges' ;
P. M. at Capt. Fales'.
l6th. Fair; Judge Sewall home; Court sat till l; with
Gridley to Bridgewater; abo. 11 to Cosby's ; lodged at
B. Beal's, Braintree.
ijth. Early to Boston about 10 o'clock ; with wife at Mr.
Oliver's ; p. m. to Judge Sewall's, and at Paddock's abo.
pole for carriage.
18//^. Mr. Prince; Sacrament. Dr. Sewall. Talked of
Gov' Pownall.
igih. Fair ; early up to Hingham ; dined with Judge Sew
all, Gridley, etc. ; we over to Turner's at Pembroke by
sunset.
20//;. Fair ; Col. Cushing met us, and we over to Plimouth
by 10. Lodged at Colo. Watson's at night alone.
21st. Fair; at Court on actions ; at night at Sheriff War
ren's.
zzd. Fast on acc't. of Expeditions ; 3 deacons prayed in ye
afternoon.
24///. Fair day ; Court sat and finished ; p. \n went to
Sandwich.
z6th. Fair, cool ; French neutrals ; P. m. to Colo. Otis' with
Cushing to dinner ; over at night to CapL Sturgis', there
lodged with Cushing.
z'jth. Fair ; SewaU and RusseU over to Court ; Vernon's
case tryed.
1 Col. Thomas Berry was a physician of Ipswich, and continued in the
practice of his profession while on the Bench. He died August 10.
5 Col. John Choate was the grandfather of the late Hon. Rufus
Choate.

l84 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1756.
Hon. Peter Oliver, Esq., was appointed a Judge of our
Superior Court, to fill up the vacancy by Colo. Salton
stall's sickness and approaching dissolution.

1756. July 2Zth. Fair; finished by 5 ; we over to Sandwich by
sun-down.
29//;. Fair, hot ; news of Gov' Pownal ; dined at Plim"' ;
at night at Cushing's.
30//;. Rainy morn ; abo. 3 sat out for Boston ; y" at 7.
August gth. Fair; Governor's entry into Boston.
Ilth. Early up, and to Boston with Primus ; at CounciL
izth. Fair ; early to wait on y' Governor at his house.
11th. Mist and rain ; abo. address, great dispute on it
ijth. Fair ; A. m. at Council ; carryed y' address.
19;/^. Fair ; very hot ; all ye Council dined at Governor's.
zoth. Cloudy ; on Hewes' action ; Col. Pickman broke his
thigh at Chelsea going home.
zith. Fair ; dined at Judge SewaU's with Ch. Justice Bel
cher.
z6th. At Court on actions ; acc't of Oswego being taken.
27//;. At Court and at Governor's ; dined at Mr. Winthrop's ;
Jury dismissed, and only special matters left
31.?^. At Council; dined with Gov' at Paxton's; went to
see Colo. Cushing.
September 6th. Fair ; Mercy Gibbs ill of fever.
gth. Dr. Clarke here to see Mercy Gibbs. I not weU ; Dr.
Clarke here.
14//;. Fair day ; Mercy Gibbs buried on hiU, aged 15.
19//;. Mr. Barnard ; funeral sermon ; sat out abo. 5, with
Primus.
zoth. Very hot ; fro. Half Moon at sunrise ; abo. 1 1 at Sud
bury ; ynce with Sewall to Marlboro' ; and to Worcester
by 6 p. M.
zist. Court opened at 11 ; three of us ; at night Mr. Oliver
came.
22(/. Very hot ; several actions ; at night at Mr. McCar
thy's.
zid. Cooler; finished Court ; at Col. Chandler's in evening.
24//;. Fair, but cool ; after, rain ; aU of us to Leicester,

I7S6.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. 185
October 1st. Died my coz. W. Browne's son Thomas,
aged 14 years, a very likely promising youth.
20th. Died ye Hon'^ Richard Saltonstall, Esq., one of
y" Judges of our Superior Court, after an Ulness which
took him off, from Febf 1755. Till this sickness he had
been of so bale and strong a constitution, as not to have
missed attending one Court from his first appointment
in 1736.
November ith. Mr. Edmond Batters buryed, aged 82
years. Lynd's ; thence to Brookfield, and lodged at Buckmin
ster's.
1756. September zith. Cloudy; to Western ^ and dined; then
misty, and tarryed all day.
z6th. At Western, Mr. Willard ; at night Judge SewaU, and
sing psalms.
27///. Fair ; left my great horse lame ; dined at Scott's ^
we all of us sat out and got to Springfield at sunset.
28///. Fair and hot ; began Court at Springfield ; at night at
Breck's.
zgth. Fair, very hot ; Mr. Dan' Pratt fro. Saybrook ; agree
to let him Kelsy HiU farm to September, 1763.
30//;. Fair and hot; Court finished, and at 4 sat out and got
to Scot's.
October ist. Fair and very hot: early fro. Scot's ; dined at
Spencer ; got only to Sargent's.
zd. Fair ; early out with Judge SewaU to Sudbury, then to
Mystick.
id. Fair and cool ; to Lyn ; at night home.
4th. Fair ; Browne buried from Mrs. Gibbs'.
Ith. Mr. S. Gardner's wife buryed on hill.
11th. Fair ; Col. Pickman bro't home in horse litter.
i9//(. Fair; very warm ; our Court sat ; P. m. Col. Cushing
and son, Mrs. Oliver and Lydia, and Mrs. Sally Prince,
came here.
zist. Fair, cold; Court dined here; Colo. Saltonstall died
20"' Oct'.
1 Warren. ' Palmer.

l86 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1757.
30//-r. Died my Coz. W. Browne's son Francis ; and 3
days after, his daughter Sarah ; he and the rest of his
family all sick.
1757. Lord Loudon, General of King's Forces in
America, entered at Boston ; Secretary ' Willard died,
and Andrew Oliver, Esq., Secretary.
April 4th. Died Spencer Phipps, Esq., Lt Govemor,
and then Commander in Chief, of the Province. Gov'
Shirley then being called home, the government devolved
on the Council, until the arrival of Gov"^ Thomas Pow
nall, 3'' August following.
May 14th. My daughter Oliver safely bro't to bed of
a son, baptized by Mr. S. Cooper, Thomas Fitch Oliver.
25^/^. Election at Boston, when the Council presided ;
I, chosen anew. Dan' Russell, Esq., and Otis left out;
Mr. Hooper, my Coz. Bowdoin and Colo. Bradford
chosen. yune 28th. Heard of my loss of EUinwood's sloop ;
this, the second vessel he has cast away in 20 months.
yuly 1st. Died my cousin Thomas Lechmere, Jr.,
Esq., and laid in my tomb.
August. Gov'' Pownall came into the govemment
10th. Fort W" Henry besieged by French and In
dians, and delivered up ; a general alarum, and one
fourth of the militia marched out
wth. Major Hix died.

1756. November 4th. Mr. Palfrey buried, aged 73 yrs.
igth. Fair and warm ; Col. Pickman and Dr. Holyoke died.
zith. Tlianksgiving ; iVIr. Walter here ; great storm in af
ternoon.
26th. Cloudy ; at Prat's ; comte on Lyndeboro'.
27//(. Fair; drawing plans of ye Township.

1760.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, .JR. 1 87
1758. May list. Election; I chose a Councillor,
[receiving] aU ye votes but my own. Brigadier Waldoe
(returned from England) chose, and Thos. Hancock,
Esq. yuly i8th. News of Gen' Abercrombie's defeat at
Ticonderoga, with the loss of 1600 Regulars and 340
Provincials ; Lord How shot two or three days before.
August. Gen' Jeffry Amherst Gen' Wolfe, etc., had
surrendered to them the strong fortress of Louisburg,
on which, great rejoicings.
1759. ]\Iay loth. Election at Boston. I chose of the
Council ; also Thos. Hubbard, Esq., who had been
speaker many years ; Icha. Plaisted, Esq., in Col. Pick-
man's room, who resigned, and also Mr. Hooper and
Judge Russel chosen ; also Judge Oliver at large, in
room of Col. Minot deceased.
In Spring the measles at Boston ; Mr. Gibbs dyed of
it, etc.
August. General Amherst had given up Ticonderoga
and Crown Point forts. General Prideaux took Niagara
but [was] shot by the discharge of a cannon in his own
Camp, and the last year Colonel Bradstreet with a small
army of the Provincials and of the train surprised and
took Ft. Frontinach.
September, Gen! Wolfe, with an army not more than
one third of the enemy, attacked M. Mt.Calm, and, tho'
with the loss of his own life, obtained a compleat vict
ory, on which, the next day, Ouebeck the Capital of Can
ada surrendered to the King's arms. Great rejoicings
and a day of Thanksgiving.
1760. March igth. A great fire at Boston consumed
near 200 houses, and damage computed [at] ;£ 100,000

1 88 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1763.
sterling. My son Oliver lost his house and with damage
of goods ; he accounted his loss ;:^io,ooo, but thro' God's
goodness no lives lost For this, contributions in this
and neighbouring Governments, and in England.
1762. This year a second summer's drought and hay
45» per ... .
yuly. Newes of Newfoundland taken by 4 French
men of war. (Lord Colvil retook it the Septf foUowing.)
August. Boston Court. The Judges with their clerks,
and all the Gentlemen of the Bar drest in their Habbits
and Tie wigs.
11^/^. The strong Fort and Citadel of the Havanah
surrendered by the Spaniards to the English Forces.
October. Salem Court : Ben. EUingwood tryed for
murder of ... . Poland with a sword ; GuUty of lilan-
slaughter. December 6th. Col? Sergent, after being confined
above 3 months, dyed this morning ; buryed on the 13?
gth. Dyed my dear friend. Col. Plaisted, struck with
dead palsy at Col. Pickman's y° 7'" inst about 9 [at]
night and never spake, set. 63. [He was] buryed in my
Grandfather's tomb y" 14"' in arms.
1763. This winter preliminaries for a peace with
France and Spain, and, soon after, with the Empire, and
King of Prussia. Peace concluded, and all north Amer
ica to the Mississippi ceded to the EngUsh.
April 2yth. Died my Coz. Hon. WUliam Browne,'
Esq., ret 54. [He was] struck suddenly, and dyed out in
his field. May these repeated and sudden deaths of my
' Mr. Browne was a Justice of the General Sessions Court and a mem
ber of the Council. His place at Ryal Side was called " Browne HaU,"
after the place in Lancashire whence his ancestors came.

1764.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. 189
near relatives and acquaintance excite' in me a due prep
aration for my own great change ! He was buried the
3" of :May.
May 2lth. Election. I again a CounseUor. Mr. Paine
and Mr. Bradbury chosen.
This Sumer, fine rains and great crops. Hay 6 and 7
doll" per ton.
yuly 16th. Mr. W. Burnet Browne bro't home his
wife Judith, daughter of Col. Carter of Virginia.
2ist. Died PhUlipa Browne, ast 14, my Coz. W.
Browne's daughter by Mrs. French.
August 26th. Died my son Oliver's Aunt Brattle.
September wth. My daughter Oliver safely bro't to
bed of a 4'" son abo. 9 at night ; chUd baptized Andrew.
1 764. yanuary 24th. The General Court sat at Cam
bridge ; occasioned by sin pox. By it y^ evening Harvard
Colledge in which was a library, all burnt'
25//;. Mr. Jno. Appleton tho't to have taken the small
pox, and moved to the Pest house.
February 24th. Mr. Thatcher and others inoculated at
Shirley Point.
March loth. Col. Eppes died very suddenly.
April 10th. Daughter Lydia went to Boston, and
was inoculated by Dr. Charles Pynchon ; - thro' God's
goodness had it so favourably as every day to be about,
and in 14 days went out visiting, and on 5'" May returned
weU to Salem. Laus Deo !
I This conflagration is said to have originated in the Library where a fire
had been kept for the General Court, at this time in session. The loss in
books and apparatus, which had been accumulating for a century, was
irreparable. ^ Dr. Charles Pynchon was the third son of John Pynchon, who married
Bathshua daughter of Rev. Mr. Tailer of Westfield. He was born at
Springfield and married Anna, daughter of Henry Dwight, Esq., of Hat
field.

190 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1766.
May loth. Election at Concord, the small pox being
at Boston, I not there. Capt Osborn and Cushing re
signed, Capt. Watts out ; I chose a counseUor and Rug
gles, Tyler and Goffe, chosen.
September 1st. Died Deacon Miles Ward, aet 92.
1765. February. Wharfe meeting, where the accounts
of rebuilding the eastern pier of Lo. Wharfe settled ;
cost 1400 lb. O. Tenor. , ,<_
May. Mr. Fisher Collector in Mr. Cothles room.
2gth. I again chose a counseUor, Col. Jno. Chandler
2^, chose.
August igth. A very dry summer — all burnt up —
but to day a fine soaking rain which saves the corn.
22d. My daughter Oliver abo. 11 nt. bro't to bed of
her 5* son, baptized [on the] 25"^, Daniel. (This year the
Parliament made the stamp act ; Secretary Oliver made
one of the stamp masters. In August a mob besett his
house destroyed a buUding and ruined glasses etc., to
the value of . . . .)
26th. A mob rose again, besett the Lieu: Gov"^' House,
puUed down part of it, and destroy'^ his furniture, books,
etc., to value of 23,000 O. T. Great change in ministry
at home ; Mr. Grenville and friends out, and Mr. Pitt
reinstated with Lord Rockingham and Duke of Graf
ton. November. At Cambridge, John Lightly convicted of
murdering his wife.
December 20th. Council caUed together to order the
Civil Law Courts to be opened, tho' no Stamps ; but all
the Courts stopt acting e.xcept on criminal matters.
1766. March 18th. The Stamp Act repealed, on
which, great rejoycings in England. The news arrived

1767.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. I9I
here the 1 7* May ; on it the Courts opened, and great
rejoycings here.
May 28th. Election ; I sent a resignation of my seat
at Council Board. The Lieut Gov.', Secretary Oliver,
Judge Oliver and the Attorney General Goffe, left out
Col. Gerrish, Col. Bowers, Mr. Dexter, Mr. Saunders,
negatived ; also Col. Otis and Colo. Sparhawk, of [the]
old Board. I was 28 yrs. a Counsellor.
August lyth. Died, Edward Kitchen, Esq., my school
feUow and contemporary.
September loth. My daughter Lydia married to Rev?
Mr. William Walter, minister of Trinity church in Bos
ton, where she went to live 7"^ Octf foUowing.
October 2id. Coz? W. Burnet Browne, wife, child, and
famUy, left us to goe and live at Virginia. Hon. Cham
bers Russel Esq., one of the Judges of our Court and
Judge of Admiralty, who went for England in the fall,
just landed, and, before he got to London, sickened and
died cet 53. He was my 2? coz? by my mother's side.^
1767. April 14th. Rev? Mr. Hooper, minister with
Mr. Walter at Trinity Church in Boston, died suddenly ;
buried on the 17!"
May Ilth. Edmund Goffe, alias Trowbridge, Esq., sat
as a Judge at Barnstable Superiour Court, being ap
pointed in Judge Russel's room in March last ; I open?
the Court; y° chief Justice not y", having a paralytic
stroke. yune 14th. Jno. Wentworth, Esq., now Gov'' of New
Hampshire, got to his government
September 23^. A fine morning, but a great storm by
night My daughter Walter with her husband by wind
carryed off the wharfe into the water, where she sank,
1 Judge Russell was the son of Hon. Daniel Russell. See page 22, note.

192 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1769.
and in most hazardous state, but got out, and thro' God's
great goodness not hurt, tho' then within 2 months of
her time.
October wth. My daughter Oliver before noon, bro't
to bed of her 6"' son, baptized Peter.
November ilth. My daughter Walter (notwithstand
ing her fall into the water), safely delivered of a son, bap
tized the 16'", Lynde ; Stimpson and wife Godfather and
mother, Sheriff Greenleaf y^ other.
1768. yuly 1st. Mr. John Chipman, lawyer, standing
in Court, just before me, struck with an .apople.xy and
dyed, [and was] buried the next day at Falmouth.^
August. Capt. Osborn buried.
September yth. A mob in Salem ; when one Wood
was stripped, sat on an hh?, tarr'd and feathered and then
carted thro' the streets, as being an informer.
1769. April. Talk of charter being gone, and Coun
cillor's appointed from home.
May. Election. Colo. Brattle and Coz? Bowdoin neg
atived by Gov. Bernard, who in July sailed for England.
September. Court at Worcester and so on. I pre
sided as first Justice of Sup' Court The chief Justice
being in chair tarried at home. Jno. Wentworth, Esq.,
Gov' of New Hampshire, in the room of his uncle Ben
ning Wentworth, Esq.
October 21th. Riding with Mr. Oliver's two horses,
they took a fright and ran away with us, I having Peter
Oliver in my arms, and at last ran into their yard and
1 John Chipman belonged to Marblehead. He was the son of the Rev.
John Chipman, and father of Ward Chipman, of New Brunswick, one of
the commissioners in settling the boundary Une under the treaty of 17S3.
He was attending the court at Falmouth, at the time of his death.

MADAM MARY LYNDE.

OB. 17' 1 1.

r!vli,.l,viH' I'rhilliiK I'M , llo«ln

1769.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. 193
threw us out. We were wonderfully preserved with lit
tle hurt
November 14th. At Superior Court at Salem, Eliza
Ames and her son Fames tried for poisoning his wife.
They were acquitted, tho' against the mind of three in
four of us Judges. Trial lasted from 9 A. M. to 2 next
morning. December 1st. Died my wife's uncle. Rev** S. Check-
ley, minister of N[ew] So.[uth], aged 74. My wife lived
many years there, and, until Mrs. Oliver's marriage, [his]
was the house where she and I always kept when at Bos
ton.'

1770. Jamiary 1st. Fair and cold ; made up cash acc'ts ; children
had their New 'VTears gifts.
id. Raw ; Lecture, Mr. Smith ; Badger here with Petition :
wife and I over to see Marg. Gardner.
10//;. Fair, warm ; Mr. Smith here ; Mr. Ashton buried ; I
there.
zoth. Mr. Oliver and brother here.
zist. Fair and cold ; Mr. Barnard ; Mr. Oliver supped here.
z6th. Fair day ; old Mrs. Rives dj'-ed.
February 1st. Fair, cold ; Mr. Goodridge dined here, and
Mr. Blany and Dea'^. Bickford; after, tea at Mr. Oliver's.
Sth. Cloudy; Mr. Fletcher and Rev. Mr. Smith here abo.
Lyndboro' bounds ; they supped and lodged here.
izth. Fair, pleasant; Mrs. Oliver down here, and supped
here ; and I rode with her up the Plains with new horse.
14/h. Cloudy and misty; Osgood Carlton fro. Lyndeboro' ;
Mr. Walter came abo. 3 ; Colo. WiUard to town fro. Win
chester.
21 St. Lyndboro' meeting, at Goodhue's; only ye Cointe; tax
IS'-
I Rev. Samuel Checkley was bom February 11, 1696, graduated at Har
vard College in 17 15, and was ordained the first minister of the New South
Church .¦'ipril 15, 1 719. He married January 5, 1721, Elizabeth, daughter
of Rev. Benjamin Rolfe of Haverhill.
J3

194 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1770.
1770. March ith. Capt. Preston, an ofl&cer of the army,
and soldiers on guard, fired on a number of inhabitants
of Boston, and killed 5 men and wounded others. (Capt
Preston was tryed on 24'" October foUowing and ac
quitted. The soldiers' tryal began 27'" November for
murder, and 6 of them not guUty ; 2 guilty of man
slaughter, and, being admitted to the benefit of clergy,
were burnt in the hand in the Court ; trial held 9 days.)
April 20th. J. Richardson for killing Snider, a boy
1 770. March ith. Fair, much snow ; court meeting ; I modera
tor.
6th. Fair ; Dea° Pickering here ; news of 5 men shot by
soldiers ; Nutting here at night, giving an account of it.
gth. Fair ; abo. Col. Fitch's books, and preparing speech.
izth. Snowy; to Boston abo. 9 o'clock ; Mr. OUver; Mrs.
Lydia Browne at Mr. Walter's ; tea there.
Ilth. Fair ; at Lt. Governor's ; after, dined there, Goffe,
Sewall, etc.
14//^. Cloudy, warm ; I opened Court ; dined at Mr. Wal
ter's ; Mr. Goffe poorly ; Coffite of Boston with Court after
Warren.
Ilth. Fair; greatly uneasy; away at I to Charlestown;
home abo. 8.
16th. Fair day; reading all day Hale's History of Pleas
Crown ; evening, Mr. Barnard here talking of affairs.
2ist. Fair ; Primus and I to Boston, [with] 2 horses ; there
and at Court by 3 p. m.
zzd. Fair ; at Court, and on actions all day ; evening at
home.
24th. Fair ; at Court ; very sloppy walking in Boston
streets.
zjth. Fair ; Attorney Gen'l to Ips\vich Court ; so we on the
civil actions all the week.
April zd. Cloudy, snow ; Williams and Ainsly cases late
at night.
id. Snowy ; Jury for Williams ; ^2000 damages.
Itli. Fast day ; Mr. Hitchcock ; at night at Mr. Walter's,
reading.

I770-] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. 195
who threw stones into his house, tried aU day; next
morning Jury brought him in guUty of murder ; he, re
spited, and after applied for a pardon — granted by the
king.

1770. April 6th. Fair. Trial of Burglary ; also Needham cases.
Jth. Fair; abo. Bailm' of Manwaring and Munroe, all fore
noon ; abo. 2 to Charlestown, and abo. z\ to Salem ¦with
Mr. Goodridge.
gth. Fair; abo. 11 with Goodridge to Boston.
loth. Fair; I poorly ; with Col" Cushing to Lt. Governor's ;
then to Charlestown ; but 3 of us in Court. Lodged at
Mr. Russel's.
izth. Cloudy ; trial [for] Burglary, and [prisoner] burnt in
Court.
17///. Fair; Richardson's tryal off again; Fitch ill; Win-
ship's tryal.
iZ th. Fair ; G. White tryed for Burglary, and branded in
Court.
igth. Fair. Dined at Lt. Governor's with Judge Oliver,
Pemberton, and Capt. Goldthwaite.
20//;. Fair. Richardson's and Wilmot's tryal, begun [in]
morn, and Jury went out after noon and did not agree all
night.
zist. Fair; Jury agreed abo. 9 ; Richardson guilty. Court
adjourned to 29'*' May.
26th. Fair ; writing to L3'ndeboro' ; News, 24"^, of Gov.
Hutchinson and Lt. Gov' Oliver.
2jth. Rainy day ; P. m. Mr. Blany here abo. Lyndeboro af
fairs ; I writing and copying letters all evening.
30/^. Fair, pleasant day but cold ; Warning Town meet
ing ; abo. Tea and Importer's goods ; great adoe abo. it.
May Jth. Rain prevented setting out on journey; Fry here
in afternoon abo. fitting for 'Virginia voyage.
Sth. Much rain ; abo. 11 at Boston ; got to Brackett's at 8.
gth. Early up, and at Plimouth abo. 2 ; thence to EUis', near
Sandwich.
10th. Rainy all day ; very duU day at EUis' ; could not stir.
nth. 'Very early up, and to Newcomb's; abo. 7, over to
breakfast with Judge OUver at Ferrin's.

196 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1770.
Rev. Mr. Thomas Barnard stmck with palsy, which
much affected his speech, and took him off from preach
ing several years till 1774 ; he read prayers and his ser
mons. (He died Aug. 1776 and the Church buried him.)
yune. A multitude of worms marched like an army,
and destroyed every green thing.
1770. May izth. Cloudy and misty ; road to Middleboro' difficult ;
there before dinner.
13//Z. Mr. Howland, morning and afternoon ; after meeting,
at Mr. Conant's.
14th. Fair and cold. Dined at Judge Oliver's ; in aftemoon
over to Plymouth to Col. Watson's.
Ilth. Fair; Plymouth Court; I charge; dined at How-
land's ; at night at Sheriffs.
ijth. Fair. Finishing Court, up by J P. m. ; afterward at
Mr. Winslow's.
iZth. Cloudy; early fro. Plymouth ; dined at Cushing's in
Hingham ; after, to Lt. Governor's, thence to Boston ;
lodged at Mr. Walter's at night.
igth. Very windy; no getting over the Ferry; round by
Ro.xbury ; home at 5.
23^. Fair; great training day: Mrs. Sargent and Gardner
here visiting.
zZth. Wind S. E. ; Primus and I with 2 horses to Boston ;
y'''^ abo. night.
2gth. Fair ; son Oliver and wife on Journey to Providence,
and Tommy in morning with Primus to Salem. Our court
adjourned by Colo. Cushing, and Judge Oliver.
10th. 'Lection at Cambridge ; an ox roasted at Boston, and
great dinner yre.
list. Rain; our Court sat, and at noon adjourned without
day.
June iZth. Fair ; Col. Cushing and Judge Oliver to Town ;
Sheriff Saltonstall ¦¦ here.
' Sheriff Saltonstall here mentioned was the eldest son of Judge Rich
ard Saltonstall. He graduated at Harvard College in 1751, and served in
the French war on Lake George, at the close of which he was made High
Sheriff of Essex. He was a royalist and died in England in 17S4.

1770.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. 197
1770. June igth. Fair ; Sheriff with me to Ipswich, there abo. 12 ;
Court opened, and P. m. broke up early, and went to Goffe's
and drank tea there.
zist. Misty and rain ; Colo. Lee's action with Goodhue ;
Insurance ; Jury for Goodhue.
zzd. Fair ; 2 Kents tryal on eldest son Stephen or Joseph ;
;!^4o,ooo ; Jury up all night ; in moming agreed for the
deft ; costs.
23^. At Court; finished abo. 10; home to dinner; cloudy
afternoon.
zith. Rainy mom ; abo. 9 set out with Primus ; dined at
Newbury with Col. Freeman. Thunder shower ; after to
Sanborn's.
26th. Early, and to Portsmouth, dined ; over Ferry, to Court
at 4 ; Gr''' Jury dismissed ; tea at Deacon Say^vard's.
30//;. Fair. Finished at York abo. 11, away to Welles, and
dined there abo. 3 ; Sewall and I to Arundel and lodged
there.
July 1st. Cloudy ; I over to Saco ; Mr. Fairfield's.
zd. Early up, and with Mr. Goffe and wife dined at Skill-
ing's ; thence to Falmouth, and lodged at Mr. Thos.
Smith's.
id. Fair ; I opened Court at Falmouth ; tea at Mr. Ross'.
4th. Fair ; hot ; large Court ; Baily and Bodkin's actions.
Ith. Fair ; began on L"' Edgecomb's title of 8000 acres ;
held 2'' day till night, Bowdoin's tenant got it.
Jth. Fair and hot; Stimpson tried for murder in meetingho;
cleared by Jury. Tea at old Capt. Wyer's.
10///. Fair and hot ; acco. of multitude of worms every
where.
13^//. Fair; tryal [of] moneymakers finished, and away at
6, and got to Marsh's,' 8 miles.
14th. Early up, dined at Kimball's ; ^ at night got to York.
16th. Up by sun; dined at Sanborn's;" at night got to
Ipswich.
ijth. To Salem by 8. Mr. Walter and wife here.
August gth. Fair; wind N'^. P. M. Wife and Mrs. Oliver
at their farm ; I at Mr. Oliver's, writing ; letter fro. Han
cock.
1 Scarborough. ^ Kennebunk. ' Hampton Falls.

198 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1770.
1770. August loth. Fair; Mr. Oliver sailing ; I writing my resig
nation.
Ilth. Great rain ; Col. Bourne buryed.
16th. Fair, fine, cool ; abo. 7, wife and I to Boston ; P. M.
Lieut. Gov" promise to hear Mr. Whitfield at N. South
Meeting ho.
ijth. Fair ; with Mr. Oliver to Colo. Brattle's, p. m.; with
wife home abo. 8.
2jth. Fair ; Primus and I abo. 12 to Winnesimet ; he went
home.
zZth. Cloudy, abo. 10, rain ; all Court present ; Goffe poorly ;
I, the charge to Jury ; Goffe dined at Mr. Walter's.
29//;. Fair ; began on Tryals ; Apthorp and Shephard's note.
31^-/. Fair day ; sat last night on case of Weymouth Land
ing Place ; Jury for Town.
September id. Fair ; ToiHy and I after dinner by Penny
Ferry to Boston.
4tli. Fair ; at Court, and we on Law matters all day.
Ith. Fair ; on Law matters ; evening at Lincolnshire meet
ing, and voted money to -be refunded, and abo. dividing
lots.
6th. Fair ; dined with Lawyers at Mr. Adams' ; P. m. on ye
new Tryal [of] Richardson ; Jury all examined.
Jth. Fair ; Capt. Preston and 8 soldiers and 4 others ar
raigned ; evening, Lincolnshire meeting.
Zth. Fair ; Court adjourned to Oct". ; home fro. Mistick
with wife.
ijth. Fair fine day. Set out for Worster ; dined at Weston ;
iron chair broke, mended at Lyn ; lodged at Col. Brig-
ham's.
iZth. Fair. Wind N. W. : over to Worster; Sheriff met
me; only Goffe ; opened Court ; adjourned early; Cush
ing came.
igth. Fair day ; met at 8 A. M. and on actions.
zist. Fair; trial of Silas Thayer for manslaughter.
22d. Fair ; tryal of 'VV. Lindsey for Burglary ; dined at Col.
Putnam's ; p. m. gave sentence to be hanged.
24//^. Fair ; set out at 7 with Judge OUver ; dined at Wes
tern.
25///. Fair ; fro. Parsons', Sheriff Stoddard carryed us.
26th. Very rainy ; leased Farm at Saybrook to Pratt for
S years.

1770.] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. 199
October ist. At Springfield, WiUiam Shaw was tryed
for murder ; Jury up all night into morn? and on 3* I
passed sentence to be hanged.
1770. September 2Sth. Trial of Belknap for forgery ; found guilty,
10th. Fair : Mr. Brick ; dined at Col. Worthington's ; fine
singing men and women ; dined at Mr. Brick's.
October 1st. Fair ; trial of William Shaw and soW for mur
der of W. East.
id. Snow at Springfield, 3 inches ; Shaw sentenced. Lu-
mas and Curtis.
4th. Early up [by] candle light ; to Scot's ; dined at Rice's ;
Mr. Whitfield's death ; got to Worster at 8.
Ith. Early, with Goffe, Sewall and Winthrop, rode to Mai
den, before the sun was up ; to Salem by 10.
Zth. Cloudy; sat out for Taunton; dined in Boston; at
night to Col. Doty's.i
gth. Fair, fine day, and hot ; dined at Godfrey's ; - abo.
half after 2 got to Taunton with WiUiam ; Court lodged
at Mr. Leonard's.
10th. Fair and warm day. On Jury actions, met at 8.
12///. Fair. Writ of error and demurrer; sat out at j to
Godfrey's.
Ilth. Early before day, to Boston at 12^; home before 8
at night.
Ilth. Fair; Town meeting and Church meeting; agreed a
Fast.
i6th. Fair; Mr. Oliver, with Sewall to Boston; Mr. Oliver
with wife and I to Castle HiU.
ijth. Cloudy; Dr. Whittaker's funeral [sermon] on Mr.
Whitfield ; great numbers at the meeting ; Mrs. Cox here
in evening.
20th. Very great storm, and highest tide for 30 years ; ves
sels ashore.
23^. Cloudy ; early up, and wife and I and Primus to Bos
ton ; Court at 3 ; lodged at Mr. Walter's new house ; Mr.
OUver there.
24//;. Fair ; began at 8 Capt. Preston's tryal for murder ;
sat tiU 5 ; Jury kept together all night.
2ith. Fair. Trial sdU continued ; began on criminal evidence.
I Stoughton. * Horton.

200 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1770.
1770. October 26th. Fair. Rest Preston's evidence ; Adams fin
ishing.
zjth. Fair ; Auchmuty all day, and adjoumed to Monday.
2gth. Fair ; Paine for King finished, and the Court about 4
hours.
30//;. Fair ; very cold ; wife home ; Preston cleared ; all
went up to Cambridge, dined there ; P. M. Court opened.
3i.f/. Fast day and choosing a minister.
November 1st. Fair day ; President dined with us. Tryal
of Manumission of Margaret, a mulatto woman.
2d. Fair. Tryal of Jon" Eaton and Martha Parker for adul
tery till 9 ; Dana ended, and, next, Adams.
id. Fair. I home at 8 at night.
igth. Fair ; went with Boardman by Winnisemet ; to Bos
ton by one.
20th. Adjournment of our Court ; new 'Venires for great
trials.
21st. Fair ; special verdict of Haradent ; Ch. Justice Bel
cher in Court ; ' evening, reading.
zzd. Fair ; at Lt. Governor's in morning.
23^. Fair ; tryal of marine for murder, being a quarrel in
Boat ; Jury, Manslaughter.
z6th. Fair ; in Court ; dined at Lt. Governor's ; after, [at]
Hancock's.
27//;. Fair ; began tryal of 8 soldiers. Challenge Jurors,
Wemms, Kilroy, MtGomery, Hartegan, CarroU, etc.
zZth. Fair ; Quincy examining witnesses for y* King.
29//;. Fair ; Jos. Quincy began, and e.xamined witnesses.
30//;. Fair ; Quincy examining evidence ; we aU at Win
throp's.
December 1st. Fair ; examining Prisoner's witnesses ; dined
at Winthrop's.
id. Fair ; Mr. Quincy began pleading ; Adams, p. ii.
4th. Fair; Adams and Paine all day.
Ith. Warm ; Court gave their opinion ; •' Jury's verdict ; 6
not guilty ; Kilroy and M'tgomery, manslaughter.
1 Jonathan Belcher, Chief Justice of Nova Scotia, was a son of Gov
ernor Belcher, and a graduate of Harvard College, in the class of 172S.
^ All that remains of the charge of Judge Lynde, who presided at this
trial, is printed in the Appendix. The published report only gives the
charges of the two Judges who spoke first, Trowbridge and Oliver. The
others, differing in no material point from these, were not made public

1772-] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. 201
1771. February i4ih. My daughter Walter bro't to
bed of her 3* son, baptized on the 20'" by his father,
WiUiam ; Commissioner Hallowell and James Boutineau,
Esq., his godfathers, Mrs. Boutineau, godmother.
March 4th. Ch. meeting, 21 voters ; 9 [for] Mr. Bar
nard, II noes, I neuter.
14th. Gov'' Thomas Hutchinson and Lieut Gov"' An
drew Oliver, Esq's., commissions published ; Judges in
their robes, and aU the Bar in their habbits, walked in
procession. April Ith. My Commission as Chief Justice of the
Province from Gov'' Hutchinson, dated 21" March, 1771,
published at Boston. Died Lt General WiUiam Shiriey,
late Governor of Massachusetts. I sent to [as] a bearer.
November yth. At Salem Sup' Court, Bryan Shehan
tried for a rape and found guUty. (I passed sentence
of death on him, and he was executed on the Neck 16""
of January foUowing.)
1772. I resigned my place in the Superior Court,
where I had sat 26 years, and also the Ch. Justice's place,
and was appointed Judge of Probate for the County of
Esse.x, inclining, as I was now 71 years old, not to ride
the Circuit any longer. Nath^ Ropes, Esq., and William
1770. December 6th. Thanksgiving; home after 11; Mr. Oliver
and family.
nth. Fair ; Mr. Oliver and I to Boston ;. by I in Court ; in
evening at Lt. Governor's with Goffe, etc ; he urged con
tinuing.
12///. Snowy day ; began Manwaring and Munroe's trial,
finished by noon ; dined with Winthrop and Oliver.
14///. Fair ; Lincolnshire meeting ; Court finished ; at Lt.
Governor's.
Ilth. Fair; at Lt. Governor's; abo. 12 fro. Boston home
with Bowdoin.
igth. Fair; Hutchinson here ; Lyndeboro' Papers.

202 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [i773-
Cushing, Esq., made Judges of the Supierior Court, in
his father Jno. Cushing, Esq? and my room. This
Spring, 14 of church chosing Mr. Asa Dunbar minister
of i" Church, and 9 being for Mr. Thos. Bamard, Jr.,
this minor part, not submitting to the major vote of the
Church, resolved with other parishioners to build a new
meetinghouse, and raised it 14* July.
yttly 22d. Mr. Asa Dunbar ordained coUeague pastor
of the I"' Church, Salem ; Dr. Appleton preached, Mr.
Payson, R't hand, and Mr. Swain the charge. This
summer we made great repairs of the miUs.
August 2d. My daughter Walter safe bro't to bed of
her 4* son, caUed Thomas.
December. Mr. Oliver had ye measles which had pre
vailed. Tom., Lynde, daughter and Peter, had it before,
and all got weU.
1773. March lyth. Died Lieut Governor's wife,
Mary Oliver.^
yuly 24lh. We had an account of the small pox being
at Marblehead. Several persons taken [with] it ; persons
took it in natural way of whom .... died. On this a
number buUt a Hospital at Cat Island, and Dr. Jackson
began to inoculate the i^' class of no persons about 20**
Oct" — one only died ; the 2*^0^33, Col". Frye, etc., went
to the Island about 14'" Nov' ; Dr. Devereaux and Eaton
died. August id. Daughter Walter bro't to bed of a daugh
ter, baptized Mary Lynde Walter.
20th. Colo. Benjamin Pickman, my neighbour, died.
September — . Raising a Meeting house at MUton, a
1 Mrs. Mary Oliver, the second wife of Lieutenant-governor Oliver, was
the daughter of William Sanford, and granddaughter of Governor Peleg
Sanford of Rhode Island. Her sister Margaret married Governor Hutch
inson.

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beam breaking, a number fell, and 3 kiUed, and 11
wounded ; 3 Lyndeboro' men killed and 1 1 wounded.
18th. Capt Jona. Lambert moved for small pox, and
died next day ; and W" King, moved 21", died the same
week. In about 14 days Dr. Fairfield and others broke
out, and carried to Pest House.
October ith. I moved, and my family, to Mr. Pres
cott's, on account of smaU pox. I had a slow fever after,
was poorly for 3 months, so as not to be at meeting for
6 months. 25^/;. Capt S. Barton, Jno. Chipman's wife, old Mrs.
Clough and others carried to Pest House ; Capt Barton,
Mrs. Clough and others, died there.
November ist. About this time, a number of persons
subscribed for an Hospital to be erected in the great
pasture coinon — 2 houses, one of 48 ft long and 20
wide ; the other .... [These] erected and finished,
and the first class of 132 patients, among whom, 3 of
my grandchildren, were inoculated the 9"" December, and
all recovered.
1774. March id. Died Lieut. Govemor Oliver, my
son-in-law's father, aged 68 ; buried the S"? The Parlia
ment passed the Boston Port Bill and other Penal Laws.
Dilay Ilth. Govemor Gage arrived, being appointed
Governor, and bro't with him a large force by sea and
land from England.
May. Election at Boston ; The Governor negatived
Mr. Bowdoin, Dexter and Winthrop, and adjourned the
Court to Salem [to the] y^ of June.
There aU the Custom House oflScers, and all the King's
officers were fixed, and aU the Boston vessels, etc., at Sa
lem. The people of the Government much incensed
against new acts. Twelve governments unite and peti
tion the King.

204 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [i775-
yune Ilth. Two regiments of Foot with Artillery
and cannon landed at Boston, and town fortified. These
reinforced from Ireland, N. York, Halyfax and then Que-
beck, with new laws, 36 new mandamus counsellors, 24
of them only accepted.
lyth. The General Court, met at Salem, addressed
Gov'' Gage, who, finding they intended a general Con
gress, at once dissolved the General Court.
September 1st. The Gov" seizes the powder and erects
fortifications. gth. The regiment of soldiers removed from Salem to
Boston. 2yth. Towns generally agreed not to import any goods
from England, Ireland or West Indies.
October ith. The Representatives meet at Salem and
adjourn to Concord.
6th. About 3 A. M. a great fire at Salem which, tho'
stopp? at last, was the greatest ever in Salem, and sup
posed near ;^58so in damage ; mine and son Oliver's
houses preserved ; Laus Deo !
The Congress in their petition to Gen' Gage declare,
That for the mutual interest of both countries, they
cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of Par
liament as are bond fide restrained to the regulation of
their external cotnerce for securing the commercial ad
vantages of the whole Empire to the mother country.
They mention 1 1 acts of Parliament infringing on their
rights ; at last offer, if the Colonies were placed as
they were at the end of the war, the former Jiarmony
would be restored.
1775. yanuar}' 20th. At meeting of the Parliament
Lord Chatham made a speech for reconciliation with
America ; he concludeth, That if the ministry misled the

I77S-] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. 205
King, he would venture to say the Crown was not worth
wearing, and that the kingdom was undone ! — Motion re
ject* 68 against 18. In the House of Comons, petitions
of London, Bristol, etc., committed to separate commit
tees to consider them, not relating to trade but in a
political view ; these aU rejects Lord North declaring
that the tea was sent to Boston to help the East India
Company, a gentleman of great weight in the Company
replied he knew the Company was against sending it ;
and that the Company offered their consent that the
Government should retain 6^ per pound on e.xportation,
if the 3** was remitted in America. Petition from Mr.
Bolan, and Dr. Franklin, agents from Congress, rejected.
The West India Islands petition, and meet the same fate.
Parliament passed the act for restraining the commerce
of New England, and prohibits the fishery on the Banks,
the change in the Massachusetts charter not having the
desired effect
The London merchants petition against the bill. Mr.
Barclay, the agent, produced evidetice that the fishery
employed 6,002 men and 45,880 tons shipping,' y" prod
uce of the fish amounting in the foreign markets (to)
;£'322,220 16? The Quakers petition for their friends
at Nantucket, but the bill passed by a great majority.
In the House of Lords, the Marquis of Rockingham
proved that in 1704 the e.xports were .£70,000 only, in
1754, ^180,000, in 10 years after, ;!^400,000, and the last
10 years after had doubled.^ The West India petition
ers shew that the [result] wiU be to starve ; That they
e.xport to England 4 raUlion — this of late increased from
40,000 h'^ sugar amounting to 800,000, and the Cus
toms are ;i£^700,ooo. 1 See Pari. Reports, vol. bcxii., p. 2 58.
' Pari. Reports, vol. Ixxiii, p. 74.

206 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1776.
February 26th. Gov"" Gage sent troops to Salem after
cannon ; a bridge drawn up, after lett down ; a few
words only but no blood.
March Ith. Mr. Burke's concUiatory motion, in which
he observes that England exported £l6g,gio. and in 72
:£6,024, 1 7 1, y^ proportion as 11 to i and that Pensil*
1704 imports were p^ 11,459, ^"^ now rises £loy,<^g,
near 50 times the original.
April igth. A Detachment of Regulars under Col.
Smith early at Lexington where [was] y° i" fight, then
to Concord. Lord Piercy with 16 companies to support
Col. Smith. The regulars lost 273 men, the Americans
about 60. On this a line of encampments from Roxbury
to Mistick.
May 2 Ith. Arrived Gen!* How, Burgoyne and Clinton
with great reinforcements.
loth. Moved with my family to the Hamlet on account
of the Regulars.
yune lyth. 'Was the Bunker Hill fight, where the
Regulars lost 1054 men and i Lt Col., 2 Majors, Pit-
cairn and . . . ., 7 Capts., and 70 other officers wounded.
The Provincials lost Gen' Warren and 450 men and 5
pieces of cannon. The town of Charlestown consisting
of about 400 houses was all burn'* and destroy?
28//^ Mrs. Thompson 4 da : broke out with sm pox ;
She and husband and son moved to an hospital. 'We
to Mr. John Woodbury's, then to Capt John Whipple's,
and in Sept" to Thompson's again.
1776. March 6th. Col. Hutchinson, with 4000 men,
got possession of Dorchester two hills, [and the] ne.xt
week bombarded Boston.
\6th. Regulars left Boston, and at the Castle 93 can
non, no at Boston, 2 mortars, etc., — and went to Hali
fax.

I777-] DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. 20/
May \2th. Little Polly Lynde Walter came to live
with us. In 1775 our people burned house and barn at
Thompson Island, cost near ^^2,000 to rebuild them.
18th. A great store ship taken, with 1500 bar'^ pow
der, etc.
yuly Ilth. My Grandson Thos. Fitch Oliver went to
Boston to be inoculated and had the sin pox very favour
ably. Laus Deo !
In the course of the summer several rich Jamaica ships
taken by Privateers ; Jos. White, etc., 492 h'*' of sugar.
Mr. Walter and my daugh" went away with Regulars in
the Centurion, a 50 gun ship, Capt Blaithwaite.
September 2yth. Returned from Ipswich to our house
at Salem, and lived there all winter.
December 1 2th. Rhode Island taken by English army.
1777. yanuary. Received about \ of bonds, beside
Mr. Oliver's and Walter's. In Winter several, and Jona.
Whitfoot died with small pox.
May 20th. I moved my family to Mr. Israel Smith's
in Danvers.
30//;. Was buryed Benj. Prescot, Esq", aged 90.
yuly. Fort Ticonderoga with stores, provisions, etc.,
delivered up by Gen' (St Clair) ; all the people drove in.
August. Fort StanwLx assaulted ; Regulars beat off
with loss.
17//^. Battle at Bennington; Gen' Stark's great vic
tory. September lyth. Gen' Burgoyne and his army to 5000,
surrounded, and delivered up their arms, etc., and bro't
to Cambridge ; 30 pieces brass cannon taken.
October. Gen' How and army took Philadelphia and
kept it to October.
General How and Lord How went home to England

208 DIARY OF BENJAMIN LYNDE, JR. [1780.
after the French Fleet came from Toulon. They at
tacked Newport, but a storm drove them and damaged
them. November. A large 64 Gun ship drove ashore and
stove — 40 men lost, and about 400 prisoners were sent
to Guard Ship at Boston. We took  pieces of brass
cannon. 1778. March 2id. Capt. Simons in, and took a great
prize, supposed 13,000 sterling.
April. Mr. Lander taken with siii pox, and died ; Mrs.
AUen, 14 days after, dyed.
22d. Fast Day. Mrs. Lander and AUen [Ul \vith] sin
pox. Jno. and WUliam Lander dyed of it
Fr. war with Brittain.
yune yth. T. Fitch Oliver married to Mr. Pynchon's
daughter. Ilth. My man Primus left us.
yuly i2th. SaU T: line Battle took of the Cork fleet
(Count d'Estaing took from English St Vincents and
  and in Fall came to South CaroUna and
Florida and great battle at Savaiia, and the French beat
off and about 800 kiUed, on which Count d'Estaing
(went) to West Indies.)
1779. Talk of Peace.
1780. April 24th. Fair. Mr. Gilchrist buryed, aged
70. Mr. Parker came to burial service. Church fuU of
people.' 1 Rev. Samuel Parker ; at this time rector of Trinity Church, Boston,
and afterward Bishop of Massachusetts.

APPENDIX.

14

APPENDIX.

APPENDIX A. P.\GE 78.
The E.xamination' of Aeig.ul Hobbs. ^
The Examination of Abigail Hobbs, ai Salem Village, ig April,
i6g2, by yohn Hawthorn and yonatk. Corwin, Esqs., and
Assistants. Abig. Hobbs. You are brought before Authority to answere
to sundry acts of witchcraft, committed by you against and
upon the bodies of many, of which severall persons now ac
cuse you. What say you ? Are you guilty, or not .' Speak the
truth. I will speak the truth. I have seen sights and been scared.
I have been very wicked. I hope I shall be better, if God
will help me.
What sights did you see ?
I have seen dogs and many creatures.
What dogs do you mean, ordinary dogs ?
I mean the Devil.
How often, many times ?
But once.
Tell the truth.
I do tell no lye.
What appearance was he in then ?
Like a man. 1 See Upham's History of Witchcraft, ii., 12S.

212 APPENDIX.
Where was it ?
It was at the Eastward at Casko-bay.
Where, in the house, or in the woods .'
In the woods.
In the night or in the day ?
In the day.
How long agoe ?
About 3 or 4 years agoe.
What did he say to you ?
He said he would give me fine things, if I did what he
would have me.
What would he have you do .'
Why, he would have me be a witch.
Would he have you make a covenant w'^ him ?
Yes. And did you make a covenant with him ?
Yes, I did, but I hope God will forgive me.
The Lord give you Repentance.
You say you saw dogs, and many sorts of creatures.
I saw them at that time.
But have you not seen them at other times too ?
Yes.
Where ?
At our house.
What were they like .'
Like a cat
What would the cat have you do ?
She had a book and would have me put my hand to it
And did you ?
No, I did not
Well, tell the truth, did you at any other time 1
Yes, I did, that time at the Eastward.
What other creatures did you see ?
I saw things like men.
What did they say to you ?
Why they said I had better put my hand to the Book.

APPENDIX. 213
You did put your hand to the book you say ?
Yes, one time.
What would they have you put your hand to their book too ?
Yes. And what would they have you do then, would they have
you worship them ?
They would have me make a bargain for so long, and do
what they would have me do.
For how long?
Not for above 2 or 3 years.
How long did they agree with you for?
But for (2) two years.
And what would they then do for you ?
They would give me fine clothes.
And did they ?
No. When you set your hand the last time to book, how long
was that for ?
It was for (4) four years.
How long is that agoe ?
It is almost 4 years. The book was brought to me to get
my hand to it for 4 years, but I never put my hand but that
once at Eastward.
Are 3'ou not bid to hurt folks ?
Yes.Who are you bid to hurt?
Mercy Lewes and Ann Putman.
What did you do to them when you hurt them ?
I pinch't them.
How did you pinch them, do you goe in your own person to
them? No.
Doth the Devil go for you ?
Yes.And what doth he take, your spirit with him ?
No. I am as well as at other times : but the Devil has my
consent, and goes and hurts them.

2 14 APPENDIX.
Who hurt your mother last Lord's day, was it not you?
No.
Who was it ?
I heard her say it was Goody Wilds at Topsfield.
Have you been in company with Goody Wilds at any time ?
No, I never saw her.
Well, who are your companions ?
Why, I have seen Sarah Good once.
How many did you see ?
I saw but two.
Did you know Sarah Good was a witch, when you saw her ?
Yes. How did you know it ?
The Devil told me.
Who was the other 3'ou saw ?
I do not remember her name.
Did you go and do hurt with Sarah Good ?
No, she would have me set my hand to her book also.
What mark did you make in the Devil's book when )-ou set
your hand to it ?
I made a mark.
What mark ?
Have you not been at other great meetings ?
No.
Did you not hear of great hurt done here in the village ?
Yes.And were you never with them ?
No, I was never with them.
But you know your shape appeared and hurt the people
here. Yes. How did you know ?
The Devil told me, if I gave consent, he would do it in my
shape. How long agoe ?

APPENDIX. 215
About a fortnight agoe.
What shape did the Devil appear in then?
Like a black man with an hat
Do not some creatures suck your body ?
No. Where do they come, to what parts, when they come to your
body? They do not come to my body, they come only in sight
Do they speak to you ?
Yes. How do they speak to you ?
As other folks.
What do they speak to you, as other folks?
Yes, almost.
Then other questions were propounded to her, but she was
taken DEAF: and JNIary Walcot Mercy Lewes, Betty Hub
bard, Abig. Williams and Ann Putman jun'r, said they saw Sa
rah Good and Sarah Osborn run their fingers into the exam-
inant's ears ; by and by, she this examinant was blind, with
her eyes quite open.
A little after, she spake and said, Sarah Good saith I shall
not speak ; And so the Court ordered her, being seized with
dumbness, to be taken away.
Note. The afflicted, /. e., the bewitched persons, were none
of them tormented during the whole examination of this ac
cused and confessing person, Abigail Hobbs.
Note. — After this examination, Mercy Lewes, Abigail Wil
liams, and .\nn Putman, three of the sufferers, said openly in
Court, they were very sorry for the condition this poor Abig.
Hobbs was in, which compassion they expressed over and
over again. Salem Village, April the igth, 1692.
Mr. Samuell Parris being desired to take in wrighting the
e.xamination of Abigail hobs, hath delivered it as aforesaid.

2l6 APPENDIX.
TJpon heareing the afores* and seing what wee then did see,
together with the charge of the persons then present, wee
committed said Abigail Hobs to theire Majestie's Gaole.
John Hathorne, ) ^ssi^"-
JONATH.iN CORWIN, I
This confession and examination is ^ .j-j^^ Marke of
f Truth as witness my hand 9'^ Sept > ^^^^^^^ ^ jj^^^_
1692. /
Abigail Hobs signed and owned this confession and exam
ination before me 9"' Sept. 1692.
John Higginson, Justice Peace.

APPENDIX B. P.\GE32.
The following lines descriptive of Thomson's Island were
written in imitation of the Epistle of Horace which contains
an account of his Sabine Farm.
HOR. EpIST. 16 AD QuiNCTIUM.
" Ne percnncteris fundus meus, optitne Quincti
Arvo pascal herum, an baccis opidentet olives
Pomisne et pratis an atnicta vitibus uhno
Scribetur tibi forma loquaciter et situs agri."
Dear Paulus it 's a busy trade of late
T' enquire the value of each man's estate ;
What our next neighbour's farm or Isle brings in,
If warm without, it keep him, and within ;
What cattle for the plow may be his stock,
How large and multiplyed his fleecy flock ;
How many milch kine his rich pastures feed,
What stately wanton mares to mend his breed ;
How much he mowes, what tillage he may tend,
What gard'n, and how his laden fruit trees bend.
To save these queries then about our Isle,
Kind Heaven which placed it well does on it smile ;

APPENDIX. 217
In form triangular, its gradual sides
Rise from the arms of Neptune's gentle tides,
South West of Royal William's Citadel
On Castle Isle, by Romer' finish'd well.
Heart of the Province, and its piercing eye,
With bulwarks strong, and bright artillery,
Guarding all parts that near adjacent lye.
Two rural neighbouring townes ly west of it,
Two sacred Domes, and Stoughton, Tailer's seat,
With grovy cottages of distant ViUs,
That ly beneath the huge Ccerulian Hills.
Close, on the South, a Cliff lifts up its brow.
High, prominent o'er the parting stream below;
From whence the Native's fate-predicting squaw
Their Ruine, and the Briton's Rise foresaw ;
That Heaven's swift plagues should quickly sweep away
The Indians 'round the Massachusetts Bay.
But she (while they her rage prophetic mock)
Flings headlong down from the steep craggy rock ;
Mu-Squantum ! from her dying murmurs fell.
And thence call'd Squantum Neck, (as antients tell).
A narrow gut, deep swift, and curling tide.
This spacious neck from Thomson's Isle divide ;
Ebbing or flowing, still its purles displayes,
And branches into two delicious Bayes ;
In which, when calm, the verdant hill above
Beholds itself below, a lovely grove ;
For grotesque rocks and real sylvan scenes
Grace its high top with Pines and Evergreens,
Offering a pleasing prospect to our eyes,
And sheltering us when Eastern storms arise.
Thence in still Sumer eves when labour's o'er.
With Pan's sweet pipe, soft echoes fill each shoar
With Country songs of Nymphs and Swain's amour.
Then, free from strifes of Law or State affaires.
The dins of war or merch.ants' pressing feares,
Our chief concern is that we Heaven attain.
Next that we buy and sell for moderate gain.
The hamlet side affords us this with ease,
To heare the newes and chat it as we please ;
1 "The fortifications of this Castle were very irregular,'" says Neal,
" till King William's reign, when Col. Romer, a famous engineer, was sent
thither to repair them." — Neal's Nenu England, xi., 223.

2 1 8 APPENDIX.
A priviledge to other isies deny'd
That ly far distant on the swelling tide.
East and North East of us in curious ranks.
And from the raging sea secure our banks ;
Yet, Nature kind leaves us an interspace
To view the ships bound o'er the ocean's face.
A league Nor'west, behold Bostonia shrouds
Her loft}' hills and fabricks in the clouds ;
Newe prospects sailing nearer round it showes,
A charming Isthmus all her bayes disclose !
Enrang'd street under street, she forms below
A beauteous crescent, or Heaven's painted Bow
Of various hewes ; at either end a fort
Defends her boosome and adorns her port.
From her rich centre structures, saches bright
Reflect the blushes of Aurora's light,
And golden spires by turnes waved high in air
Seem phanets, Venus, or the Morning Star.
A wondrous Pier, with building proud and strong,
From King Street strait protended wide and long.
Stored with rich merchandise, invades the place
Where used to sport sculls of the watery race ;
Woods of t.ill pines float at its silver feet.
And in her Roads may ride the Royal Fleet.
No Towne so situate, civil, healthy, gay
Throughout the British Vast America.
Thrice happy be, thrice blest thy fertile earth
And ever dear the place that gave me birth ;
Heaven's goodness ever influence thine aire
And temper all the seasons of the year;
May rich abund.ance flow from ambient se.as.
Thy wealth and forein merchandise increase.
All sad events kind Providence prevent
By floods and fires or either element ;
May peace and plenty spread the Land and Towne,
And pure religion all these blessings crown ! '
Thus having given of Thomson's Isle the site.
Which to review is anybody's right,
Nay, if thro' Fancy strong one claim the soil
At sight, without possession right or toil,
' The above lines descriptive of Boston are quoted in a letter, published
a few years since in St. Chrysostom's Magazine, in imitation of the sup
posed manner .and style of Rev. Robert Ratcliffe.

APPENDIX. 219
I'll not mind such whimseys of ye brain.
But ne.xt my title clearly shall derein,
From antient seisin, ere New Plymouth's claim.
With Livery in Senior Thompson's name ;
Who seven years after over came and built.
Improved the land and in his mansion dwelt ;
From him. Descents and by mean Purchase Deeds
My father's seisin and just right succeeds ;
By him to me then was this Island given
Before his soul's ascent to Heaven.
' Of special love," said he " this gift receive.
And here at pleasure m.iy you happy live."
With grateful heart his Blessing I received
But with more pleasure, had he longer lived.
For here with joy and dutiful regard
In all my rural comforts he had shared.

APPENDIX C. Page 44.
Will of Benjamin Lynde.'-
In the Name of God. Amen.
I, Benjamin Lynde of Salem in the County of Esse.x, Esq.,
being weak of Body, but of sound mind and memor}' do make
this my last will and testament in manner following. First
and principally I commend my soul into the hands of my most
merciful God and Father, trusting and relying on his mercy,
thro' the death of his Son the Lord Jesus Christ my only hope
and Saviour, for the pardon of my sins and eternal life. I
commit my body to the earth to be interred in a decent man
ner, and as touching the worldly estate which God hath blessed
me with I dispose thereof as followeth.
Imprimis, my will is that all my debts which I owe of right
to any person and my funeral charges be paid and dis
charged. Item. I give and bequeath one hundred and fifty pounds in
Bills of Credit to the Confederate Society, to whom the Rev?
1 Probate Records, Essex County, Book 30, page zi%.

220 APPENDIX.
Mr. John Sparhawk is minister, for the following use, (viz.)
The Interest or Income thereof, to be paid annually by my
Execr' for and towards the maintaining and supporting an
Orthodox Minister among them, so long as afs? Society shall
continue. Itein. I give to The Rev? Mr. John Sparhawk, as a token of
mv love and regard to him. Twenty Pounds to be layd out in
a piece of Plate for him.
Item. I give to Abigail Pope (if she lives in my house at
the time of my decease) Ten pounds in Bills of Credit
Item. I give to my son William Lynde Fifty Pounds in Plate
or anything else he shall chuse of my personal estate.
Item. I give to each of my two Grand Daughters !Man' and
Hannah Lynde Twenty Five Pounds as a token of my Love
and affection for them.
Item. I give and bequeath to my dear and beloved wife
Mary Lynde of my personal estate (a Schedule whereof I have
put herewith) after my debts, legacies and funeral charges are
paid, one third part thereof. I also give her one hundred
pounds, to be paid her annually in bills of public credit out
of the income of my Real Estate, by my E.xecutors in the pro
portions I have willed it to them, during her natural life, which
with the income of the Real Estate left her by her Hon? father,
by the improvements I have made thereon, will make her
about Two hundred pounds per annum ; and this I give as
her dower.
Item. I give and bequeath my Real Estate (viz!) Thomp
son's Island, so called, my Farm and Land at Saybrook, Dor
chester, and elsewhere, with the stocks thereon, as also my
share of the Narragansett Lands, and all the rest and residue
of my estate, whether Real, Personal or mbct I give and be
queath to my two sons in manner following (viz') ; My debts
and Legacies being paid or secured to be paid, a valuation of
my Real Estate shall be made by three judicious Persons,
and that together with the remainder of my personal estate,
shall be divided and sett off, Four seventh parts thereof, to

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221

my Son Benjamin Lynde, his heirs and assigns, the other
three seventh parts to my son William Lynde his heirs and
assigns, and they to be a division of my estate. On the con
dition, nevertheless, that my son Benjamin Lynde or his heirs
shall fully secure to my Son William Lynde his heirs and as
signs. One third part of the Real Estate which came by their
grandfather the Hon. William Browne, Esq., and in case he or
they do not y" same to the satisfaction of my son William
Lynde and his heirs, that then one full third of the value of
that estate shall be taken out of my son Benjamin's four sev
enths and allotted to and be the estate of my son William and
his heirs forever.
Lastly I appoint my two sons, Benjamin and William Lynde
E.xecr" of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all
former or other Wills by me made, and in testimony that this
is my last will I have thereunto set my hand and seal this
third day of .\pril .\nno Domini 1739.
Signed, sealed, published
and declared by the s"' Benja
min Lynde, as his last will
and testament in presence of
John Nutting,
John Cabot, Jr.,
Ja.mes White.

Benj.\min Lynde. Seal.

APPENDIX D.
Letter of Thom.\s Hutchinson to Judge Lynde.
Sir, — I am very much obliged to you for your kind letter of
the 26* Dec, which I received a few days ago. I have been
here near these 6 months and have not been able in all this
time to bring my affairs to an issue. I had at my first arrival
the greatest encouragement that could be from Lord President
The late surprising revolutions in our New England affairs, I

2 22 APPENDIX.
suspect will ver}- much prejudice me. Mr. Wentworth's Com
mission is said to be preparing in the very words of the Order
for settling the Boundary, which will make it more difficult to
procure an alteration. I hope in a few weeks to know what
I may depend on. I don't find the least doubt here about the
property's being secure and I am advised to say nothing about
it at present.
I suppose you will have the first news of Mr. Shirley's be
ing appointed our Governour, by a Vessel which sailed a few
days ago from Swanzy. Several incidents have concurred to
promote it. The Collector's place was promised Mr. Shirley's
Familv, and it 's said is now insisted on for Mr. Frankh-n, and
this was a way to satisfy both. Your two countrymen Waldo
and Kilby claim the merit and say it is owing to their gratify
ing the Duke of Grafton by making Interest for Lord Euston
at Coventry, where they have spent a month first and last so
liciting his election. But I had it from Lord President's own
mouth that Govern'' Belcher's security for some time had been
his steady conduct in the affair of the money, and that his
brother Partridge's patronizing the Land Bank when before
the House of CoiTions had done his business.
I can't imagine in what manner the Province the next year
will supply their Treasury. It is not likely the Instructions
to the Governour will be relaxed. What they want here is
some Proposals for Bills which will keep their value, but it 's
certain they will never be imposed upon with any Act like
what was called the September Bill, or any other Bill the two
Houses passed in the year 1739. It seems now absolutely
necessary you should, at least for this year, go on with the
Bills, and nothing will obtain leave for it sooner than a pro
posal certainly to sink those and the old Bills of all the Gov
ernments in any reasonable time. If you would give yourself
the trouble to examine a proposal I sent some time ago to
Gov'' Belcher, you may possibly meet with something in it
agreeable to you, tho', no doubt there are many difficulties,
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has not its difficultys, — eris mihi magnus Apollo. I am fully
satisfied there is is not a more proper person in England to
ser\-e us in soliciting this or any other of our affairs than our
own Countryman Mr. Palmer, for he not only naturally cares
for us and is well acquainted with the state of the Province,
but has the advantage of an ample Fortune, and of marrying
into a Family which is ver}' intimate at Col. Bladen's and a
great many other persons in power that may be of service to
us. He is likewise one of the Committee of the body of
Dissenters. His Classmate Mr. Browne, to whom I pray you
would give my most humble service, will I doubt not have as
good an opinion of him. But I hope the Court will either
continue their old agent too, or discharge him honourably, for,
besides the three hundred pounds ordered me, he says he has
charged no salary these two years ; and tho' the two thou
sand pounds ordered for the Line has not been employed in
that service, yet the Court has given such other orders on
him, as that he has been obliged to make use of it, and so is
considerable in advance. He says he got by order of a
Committee about five hundred pounds' worth of powder which
he rec'' only a partial remittance for. I thought there had
been a sufficient sum ordered him for that purpose.
I wish you may finish with Rhode Island on that side the
water, not that I don't think we stand as fair as they do, tho'
I could not say so of any other of the Plantations ; but it 's
a disadvantage to us to have controversys forever subsisting
here ; and nobody but the Clerks and Solicitors are pleased
with it one of which last I believe has made near three hun
dred pounds a year of our differences, for the last seven years.
I came aw.iy in such a hurry, I forgot the Narragansett Papers
which I have often been sorry for. If I did not e.xpect to get
away in 6 weeks or 2 mo's, I would desire your farther fav"'
It is not impossible but something of my design in coming
here may stUl be effected, I am faithfully endeavouring it.
I am Hon'' Sir, your m't obe't Servf
Thos. Hutchinson.

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APPENDIX E.
Will of William Lynde, Esq., of Salem.
In the Name of God. Amen.
I, William Lynde, of Salem, in the County of Esse.x, gen
tleman, being weak in body, but of sound mind and memory,
Do make this my Last Will and Testament in manner follow
ing : —
First and principally I commend my soul into the hands of
my most merciful God and Father, trusting and rehing on his
mercy through the Death of his Son, the Lord Jesus, my only
hope and Saviour For the Pardon of my Sins, and Eternal
life ; I commit my body to the Earth to be interred in a de
cent manner \ and touching the worldly estate which God hath
blessed me with, I dispose thereof as follows : —
Impri7ids. My will is that all my debts which I owe of
right to any person, and my funeral charges, be paid and dis
charged. Item. I give and bequeath unto the Poor of the town of
Salem, two hundred and fift}' pounds Old Tenor, — viz. The
income and interest thereof to be paid annually by my Kxec"^
to six such poor persons as they shall think objects of tliis
charity. Item. I give unto the Rev'' Mr. John Sparhawk as a token
of my love and regard to him, one hundred pounds. Old
Tenor. Item. I give unto Sarah Berry who now does, and has
lived a considerable time with me, two hundred pounds. Old
Tenor. Item. I give to my Negro man Primus the interest of one
hundred pounds, to be distributed to him in such ways and
manner as my executors shall think best to render his life
more comfortable, if he lives to the age of Thirty.
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pounds, Old Tenor, to be paid him in 12 months after my de
cease. Item. I give to my loving cousin, Samuel Curwin, Esq.,
as a token of my affection, one thousand pounds. Old Tenor,
to be paid in 12 months after my decease.
Item. I give unto William Lynde, the son of my cousin
Joseph Lynde of Saybrook in the Colony of Connecticut
Four Thousand pounds. Old Tenor, to be paid in money or
Bonds to his Guardian, when he arrives at fourteen years of
age, to be improved for his maintenance and education here
at Salem.
Item. I give to my said kinsman WUliam Lynde, my sUver
billed sword, my silver watch and my silver porringer.
Ite7n. I give and bequeath to the said William Lynde, my
halfe of the Farm and land at Saybrooke w"' I have with my
brother Benj" Lynde, w"*" I desire my Exec" to have divided
with him and w" so done, those Lands and farms, etc., w'' shall
fall to my share, I give to him the s'' William L}Tide for and
during his natural life, and after his decease to y' eldest Issue
male of his Body, lawfully begotten, and for want of Issue male
to Willoughby Lynde y" son of my cousin y° Hon. Sam' Lynde
Esq., of Saybrook, and the Issue male of his Body lawfully
begotten, and for want of such issue to revert to my right
Heirs. Item. I give and bequeath to the s'' William Lynde four
thousand pounds O. Tenor to be sett off to him by my execu
tors in such real estate as they shall judge proper ; to have
and to hold to him the said William Lynde, during his natu
ral life, and then to descend to his Issue male, and for want
of such Issue male to my right heirs.
Item. I give and bequeath to my niece Mary Lynde,
daughter of my brother Benj; Lynde, Esq., as a token of my
love, my silver chafin dish, which I value about fifty pounds,
and four hundred and fifty pounds to be paid in 12 mo. after
my decease.
Item. I give and bequeath to my niece HaBah Lynde y'
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daughter of my aforesaid brother, as a token of my love,
twenty-five ounces of plate and .^450, O. Tenor, to be paid in
12 mo. after my decease.
Ite7n. I give to Lydia Lynde the youngest daughter of my
s'' brother, as a token of my love, my silver tankard and ;£'450
O. Tenor to be paid in 12 mo. after my decease.
Item. I give and bequeath all the rest and residue of my
estate, whether real or personal or mi.xt to my dear brother
Benj" Lynde, Esq., to him and his heirs forever.
Lastly, I appoint my s* brother, my Coz"' Sam' Curwen,
and Mr. Newrj' Gibbs, to be executors of this my last will and
testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made. In
Testimony of this my last will and testament, I have here
unto set my hand and seal this 7* April, 1752, in the 25"^ year
of his !Maj. reign. William Lynde.
Signed, sealed, published and declared bys'' William Lynde,
to be his last will and testament. Eben Putnam.
E°. Holyoke,
John Bowles.

APPENDIX F. Page 194.
Letter of Andrew Oliver, Jr., to Benj.\min Lynde.
Boston 6 March, 1770.
Hon" Sir:
Terrible as well as strange things have happen* in this
Town since my arrival : skirmish after skinnish between the
inhabitants and the soldiery, with dangerous wounds on both
sides, till at length Monday Night e.xhibited an awful scene.
It is difficult to determine which were the aggressors, but a
Detachment from the Main Guard fired upon the Populace,
by which five persons were killed or have since died of their
wounds, besides a number of others wounded ; particularly
Mr. Edw'' Payne had a musket ball thro' his arm. The
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Thousands of People ; on the other Hand ye 29"" Regiment
was drawn up, during which the noise of the Bells, the Bus
tle of the Town, the Beating of Drums, and the Reports of
killed and wounded, as I was confined to my chamber with the
Gout painted in my Imagination all the Horrors of a Civil
War. The Gov' with some of the Council were together till
near three o'clock this morning ; the People on one side, and
the Regiment on the other, were a long time silent spectators
of each other ; at length the military offer'' to draw off to their
Barracks provided the people would disperse first which the
latter absolutely refused unless they would first draw off and
leave them possession of the Ground, which at length they
complied with, upon which all dispersed. This afternoon
Doctor SewaU's Meeting House was much crowded by the
Inhabitants of this and the neighboring Towns, the L. Gov'
and Council also sitting. Message after message was sent to
the L. Gov' desiring him to get the Troops immediately re
moved out of the Town j at length Col. Dalrimple promised
to remove the 29"* immediately if that would satisfy them,
tho' in so doing he should run a Risque with regard to him
self ; but they soon gave him to understand that no Peace
was to be expected while there was a soldier left in Town,
and that if they would not remove them, they would take
measures to remove them themselves, for which purpose, num
bers of the neighboring Train Bands had offered their assist
ance at a short warning ; finally, the Lieut Gov' at the unani
mous desire of the Council interceded with the Col" for their
total Removal, who was thereby prevailed on, and promised
the people that they should be removed to the Castle tomor
row, upon which they returned quietiy to their Habitations.
(March 7*.) The town is quiet the Troops preparing to
leave it Guards and Centuries at an end ; thus has an un
armed multitude in their own opimon gained a complete Vic
tory over two Regiments of his Majesty's regular Troops.
The soldiers who fired, and the officer who was with them, are
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amiable character of any one in the Army, and it is said he
endeavored to prevent the exasperated Soldiers from firing,
even at the Risque of his own life.
There is something in the Boston Air very inimical to my
Feet as 24 hours here generally give me a Touch of the
Gout. I have now been confined almost ever since I have
been in Town so that my being here has been to Httle pur
pose  My gout confines me above stairs tho' it is
not attended with much pain. I design if possible to get
home this week.
Mr. Walter and family and Mrs. Oliver are pretty well and
send their dutiful regard together with mine to you and yours,
I am Hon'' Sir,
Your dutiful Son, A. Oliver.

APPENDIX G. Page 200.
A Portion of the Charge delivered by Judge Lynde
AT the Trial of the Soldiers who fired on the Mob
March 5, 1770.
If therefore on the whole of the evidence offered, you
should be of the mind that this meeting of the soldiers was
lawful, as they were enjoyned it by their officer who had the
command, you must look upon it that there being thus met
was lawful ; whether it was so or not may be after considered j
but, on that supposition, it will be necessary for you to deter
mine by vsfhich or how many of the prisoners, the deceased
persons were slain, or who actually abetted those who did it ;
for the soldiers were not unlawfully assembled ; the homicide
cannot legally be imputed to them all ; those only who did
the act can be charged with it ; let us then go into the en
quiry. With regard to some of the prisoners you have nothing par
ticularly laid to their charge, save their being there. You will
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together there ; Corporal Wemms, Warren, Montgomery, and
the others, were all present when this fatal firing happened ;
but there are only two against whom anything certain can be
fixed. There is indeed a tiiird, viz., the tall man Warren ; by
the evidence of Burdick " on a man firing one fell ; " he thinks
it Warren, but is not certain of it ; and when you find where
he places the man who fired, it makes it the more doubtful, es
pecially as it is against the general run of the other evidence.
However, it bears hard on this prisoner Kilroy ; especially
consider what Ferriter swears of Kilroy being in the affray at
the Rope walks ; and [that] there some of them swore they
would have satisfaction for what they there met with. This
taken alone would suggest a malicious intent in this man, and,
had he gone down and joyned the soldiers of his own accord,
this would be more apparent ; but that was not the case ; he
was ordered there by his superior officer whom he was obliged
to obey.
Still there is another matter against this man, and which
savours of cruelty and inhumanity ; I mean what Croswell
and Carter swear, that, seeing his bayonet the ne.xt moming,
it was bloody five inches up. If this was done by stabbing
the dying man after he was shot down, it was a barbarous ac
tion, and must arise from a bad mind, and not from any fear
of danger from a person near his end ; and therefore cannot
be justified under the pretence of self defense. But whether
he can be charged with murder is the question, when he went
there, not by himself, but by command of his officer whom he
was bound to obey, and placed there in defense and support of
sentry fixed at this post by martial authority. And when you
consider the threatening given them all, the things flung, and
stroke given, and that the person slain was one of the most
active, and had threatened he would knock down some of the
soldiers, and, what [Hinckley] swears, was animating and
pushing on the people, dissuading them from running away,
for " they durst not fire," these things, together with the real
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lessen his crime, from what he is charged with, to manslaugh
ter. }ilr. Palmes, who appears a very intelligent witness, fixes the
first fire on the grenadier, ^lontgomery, on the Captain's right
hand. With regard to Montgomery, J. Bailey swears he was
the first person that fired, and [that] Attucks, the mulatto fell
b^• his shot J. Danbrook swears that on Montgomery firing
fell Attucks and, he thinks, another. If you credit these wit
nesses, what they declare fixes the killing of Attucks on this
soldier, unless the account given by Mr. Burdick should render
it somewhat uncertain, for he fixes this, if I mistake him not
on the tall man, Warren.
You have then to consider what has been offered by his
Counsel for him, and what the \vitnesses have declared in his
behalf. They allege that Montgomery had a just provoca
tion to fire, for this is what Bailey the witness for the king
declares — That before the first fire Montgomery had a blow
given him by one who stood on his right ^^d being asked by
the prisoner's counsel, whether it was a very violent one, he
answered. Yes ; he goes on to say that the stroke given Mont-
gomer}' brought him to the ground. Mr. Palmes confirms
the same ; so also Waddle and Andrew,' who testify as to the
stroke given the grenadier, the blow on his head, accompanied
with the cry, " Kill the Dog," "knock him overboard.'' They
say this was done by a large stout man, and describe him in
such a manner as we must suppose him to be Attucks.
1 Mr. Oliver Wendell's negro servant.

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APPENDIX H.
Will of Benjamin Lynde, Jr.'
In the Name of God. Amen.
I, Benjamin L-^-nde of Salem, in the County of Essex and
State of Massachusetts Bay, Esq', being of sound mind and
memor}- and thro' God's goodness, in tolerable Health ; yet
considering the frailty of life, I make this my last will and
testament as follows : —
First, and principally, I give up my precious soul into the
hands of my most merciful God and heavenly Father, trusting
and relying on his mercy thro' the merits of his son, my hope
and Saviour, for the pardon of all my sins, and eternal life.
This mortal body I yield and submit to the grave from whence
it was taken, to be buried in a decent manner in Salem, or
where the Lord shall please to take me out of the world, hop
ing by a true and lively faith, hearty repentance and holy con
versation, my calling and election may be made sure before
my dissolution, that so the Resurrection of my Body, by the
Almighty power of Jesus, my Lord and dear Redeemer, may
be glorious and happy to all eternity. And for the temporals
which God has been pleas'd to give me, after my just debts
and funeral charges are paid, I give, devise and bequeath them
in manner following : —
Imprimis. I give to my dear wife Mary Lynde, in token of
my sincere love to her, fourteen thousand pounds, O. Tenor,
reckoning it as money was in 1774; of my personal estate ac
counting it as follows, viz. five thousand pounds put into her
hands in Bonds, also a valuable Oriental Pearl necklace that
was my dear mother's, with other Jewells. Also a chase watch
and seal and my best Tankard, to be accounted five hundred
and ninety pounds, half the Plate and Books to be accounted
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233 APPENDIX.
six hundred pounds, and one thousand in Household stuff, the
remainder in Bonds.
Item. I give my dear wife the income of my farm at Kelsey
Hill at Saybrook in Connecticutt where Daniel Pratt lives,
cont" ab? 525 acres, and of the Buildings thereon, and of the
Saw !Mill on Deep River. Also the income of three sLxteenths
of the 3 Grist Mills and Sythe Mill in Salem, also my Pas
ture ; also of my Lot of Land and Marsh by Symond's, con
taining about si.xteen acres ; also my four acres in the So.
Fields y' was my Brothers. Also the use of my seventeen and
an half rights in the great Pasture and Sheep Pasture ; also
the income of my Warehouses and Wharfs in Salem, also of
Gathman's House (so called) and also of all the rest of my
estate in Salem not particularly disposed of, to be to her,
during her natural life, for her handsome support during her
widowhood, but in case she marries again, I then give one
half of the income, repairs first deducted, and this to be in
full of her Dower in my estate.
Item. I give and bequeath to my eldest daughter Mary
Oliver what I have already advanced on her marriage, being
Six Thousands O. Ten' ; I now also give her four thousand
pounds O. Tenor of my Bonds as they rise, making ten thou
sand p?' old Tenor, three thousand five hundred pounds out
of my Bonds, and her husband accounting and paying my
estate what he owes me on two Bonds, the remaining five
hundred pd" O. Tenor out of other personal estate.
Item. I give, devise and bequeath my said Daughter Mary
one third of my Island in the Harbour of Boston near the
Castle known by the name of Thompson's Island which was
my Hon'' Grandfather Simon Lynde, Esq" of Boston, with one
third of the Stock thereon, she repaying me for rebuilding.
Item. I give and bequeath my said daughter Mar}-, one
quarter of my Farm and Land at Castle Hill, viz. what was
formerly my Hon? Grandfather Maj' William Browne, Esq'*
and what my Hon'' Father purchased and the additions I have
made to it of what was Col. Turner's estate ; also one quar-

APPENDIX. 233
ter of the House on the hill, together with one quarter of
the Stocks thereon. These t%vo last devises of one third of
the Island and a quarter of Castie Hill, I give my said daugh
ter to be to her during her natural life, and if she die without
issue living at her death, then after the death of her husband
(who I intend shall have the profits thereof during his life) to
go to her sister Lydia Walter and such as legally represent
her, in fee ; But if my daughter Mary have living Issue at her
death, then to go and pass to them as fee simple estates do
now in this Province. Provided that my Grandson Tho° Fitch
Oliver takes only j"" parts of the estate given by his gr' Aunt
Brattle, and also of the Connecticut Lands ; otherwise these
to be equally divided to the 5 grand children that are Olivers.
And whereas, (before making this will) Thompson's Island was
given in halves to my two daughters Mary and Lydia by an
Executory Devise, I now give in thirds with my wife during
her life, and on her decease, my said daughters shall have in
halts said Island during their lives, and then to descend to
their heirs, as fee simple Estates do in this Province.
Item. I give, devise and bequeath to my said daughter
Mary one sixteenth part of the Grist Mills and Scythe Mill in
Salem to her and her heirs forever.
Item. I give and bequeath to my said daughter a Farm at
Brimfield (being part of a tract of 1,000 acres of land given
by the Indians to her mother's great great grandfather the
Rev'' Mr. John Elliot anno 1655, as a token of their love and
respect for his teaching them the good knowledge of God),
said Farm conta. abo. 100 .A.cres under lease to Aaron Clarke
to Sept 1776, my daughter Mary paying in money or land so
much more as the House, Barn and improvements on the
Northern Farm is more valuable than the Southern Farm ;
after her death, to her son Thomas Fitch Oliver and to his
heirs in part of his share of her estate.
Item. I give, devise and bequeath to my daughter Mary
two fifths of all my Lands in the Governments of the Massa
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234 APPENDIX.
in the Possession of, for her life, and then to descend to her
children as fee simple estates.
Item. I give, devise and bequeath for the use and benefit
of my daughter Hannah Lynde the annual Interest or income
of Ten Thousand Pounds O. Tenor out of my personal  ;
Eight Thousand pd' out of my bonds and mortgages, as they
shall rise ; and the use and improvement of two thousand pd'
more out of the personal estate ; my half of the Books and
half of the silver I value at  .
Ite7n. I give and bequeath to my wife for the use and sup
port of my daughter Hannah Lynde, the one half of my
Castle Hill Farm, viz. That which was formerly my grand
father ]Maj' William Browne's, and what my father purchased
and the additions I have made to the same ; also half of the
buildings, also half of my new house built on the hill ; also
one half of my stock belonging to the Farm, also two six
teenths of the three Grist Mills, and Scythe Mills in Salem.
Also I give my said wife my now Dwelling House with the out
Housen, Building and garden belonging thereto, my wife to
have her living in one half of the House, so long as she keeps
with and takes care of my said daughter ; and in case my wife
be living at her daughter's death, then my wife to have the
improvement of the one half of my house during her life, but
after both their deaths the remainder to pass to my right
heirs ; these bequests and devises of Real Estate, made my
wife for our daughter, I give for said use and purpose only,
and for my daughter's natural life.
Item. I give, devise and bequeath to my w-ife for the bene
fit of my daughter Hannah a Tract of land at Belchertown
which I have with Judge Davenport's heirs, my part being
the western part of 500 acres lying ab' the middle of the town,
and conta. abo. one hundred and forty-four acres and an half.
Also another tract of two hundred and seventy acres in said
town, bounding southerly on Palmer, also another tract of
three hundred and forty-one acres, lying on Swift River.
Item. I give and bequeath to my daughter Lydia Walter

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eight thousand pounds Old Tenor, six thousand pounds
whereof they had on their marriage, and two thousand pounds
more he received of Blanchard and Williams, Holmes, Baron,
etc., as by his bond 8 April, 1768.
Item. I give and bequeath to the si.x grandchildren by my
daughter Lydia, and their heirs, two thousand pounds O. Ten',
to make the same equal to my other daughter's, unless their
mother should be a widow, who then is to have the whole of
it for life.
Item. I give devise and bequeath unto my daughter Lydia
one third of the Island called Thompson's Island conta. in
the whole 150 acres wch. was my hon'' Grandfather Simon
L}-nde, Esq" together with one third of the houses and build
ings and one third of the stock of Cattle, etc., in the same
manner as it was given her sister Oliver.
Item. I give and devise to my said daughter Lydia one
quaner of my Farm at Castle Hill and of the Stock, together
with that part of the Farm, House and Barns and of my new
house on the Hill in manner as I gave it to her sister Oliver.
These t^vo last devises of the Island and of Castle Hill I give
my daughter Lydia for and during her natural life, and if she
die without issue living at her death, my will is, that part of my
estate shall go and pass to my daughter Oliver and her repre
sentatives in fee ; But if my daughter Lydia leave living issue,
I give the fee of this estate to her and her heirs and to pass to
them in the manner as fee simple estates do in this Province.
Item. I give, devise and bequeath to my daughter Lydia
one sixteenth of the Grist Mills and Scythe Mill in Salem,
to her and for her natural life, and then to descend to die
children y' may then be living.
Item. I give, devise and bequeath to my daughter Lydia
the south part of my farm at Brimfield called Elliotta Farm,
q' ab' no acres according to a line I have drawn on the plan,
being part of the 1,000 acres given to my wife as one of the
heirs of Mr. Elliot called the Apostle of the Indians, 1655.
This t^ven during her life and then to descend to her children
as Lands do in this Province, in fee simple.

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Item. I give, devise and bequeath to my said daughter
Lydia two fifths of my outlands in the Government of Massa
chusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut.
Item. I give and bequeath to my Df Grandson, Thomas
Fitch Oliver, my Gold Watch and Chain which I usually wear,
and my silver hilted sword, in token of my love and affection
to him.
Item. I give and bequeath to my dear Grandson, named
after me Benjamin Lynde Oliver, my Queen Elizabeth Bible,
that was my Great Grandmother's, whose maiden name was
Elizabeth Digby, which Bible is more than 200 years old.
Item. I give and devise to my said Gr'' Child, Lynde Oliver,
and his heirs, one third of my Lands and Farm (not mort
gaged Lands) I shall die possessed of in the Township of
Lyndeborough in New Hampshire, my whole interest being
now about  Acres, but deducting two Farms of 200 acres
each, given to my grandson Lynde Walter, may leave about
 acres more or less ; The said third part to be set off
to him and his heirs by two or more persons chosen by my
wife and his father. Provided my s'' Grandson arrives at 18
years or marriage, but if he dies before, then I give this
estate to any son of my daughter Oliver, called of my name,
and if none such, then I give the said third of said Lands to
my Grandson Lynde Walter and his heirs forever.
Item. I give and bequeath to my Grandson Lynde Walter
a La. flowered Silver Beaker that was my great Grandmother
Elizabeth Digby's, which piece of Plate is near two hundred
years old.
Ite7n. I give, devise and bequeath to my said Grandson
Lynde Walter two of my Farms at Lyndeborough, in New
Hampshire, which I had in right of two Masonian Grand Pro
prietors, viz. No. I, adjoining South on Templetown, and No.
5, adjoining East on what was originally Salem Canada, and
South on Mr. Moffat No. 2, each of said Farms contain
ing two hundred acres a piece, to him and his heirs forever ;
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APPENDIX. 2iy
years or marriage, then I give said Farms to any son of my
daughter Walter called after my name, and, if none such, then
to my grandson Benjamin Lynde Oliver and his heirs forever.
Item. I give to the children of Mr. William Bowles, who
lived with me as an apprentice, what he owes me on his bond,
being with the interest above two hundred pounds O. Tenor.
Item. I give my Coz. Samuel Curwen, Esq., t\venty-five
pounds lawful money he owes on his bond, provided his brother
George Cur^ven's daughter Ward hath the one half thereof ;
and whereas, my father the Hon""'" Judge Lynde gave the
Confederate Society the Interest of one hundred and fifty
Pounds O. Tenor, since amounting to ;^20o. O. Tenor, to help
support the worship of God in the Meeting House where the
first Church and Society had called the Rev'' Mr. John Spar
hawk, deceased, which Interest has been annually paid during
Mr. Sparhawk's and Mr. Barnard's ministry tho' the Society
is dropt ; yet as there is no Ministerial House and the Inter
est will cease at my death, I now give the one half of my
house lot in Lynde Street in Salem called the Arbour Lot
containing in the whole about tiventy poles, fronting on
said Street to the first Church of Christ in Salem, to set a
dwelling house for such Minister as shall from time to time
preach the word of God to the said first Church and people
who shall assemble in the said old Meeting House, on condi
tion that the said Society build a Ministerial House in ten
years after my death.
Itcr/t. I give my wife power to sell and dispose of the whole
or part of Maj' SewaU's Homestead, also of any of my lots
in Gilmantown, new Durham or Wolfborrow, my House and
Land at Hingham that was Loring's, the Interval Lot I bought
of Capt. Quigly, and any of my Pews in our Meeting House ;
also to sell my Land at New Salem ; what is sold at Belcher
is to be to the use of my daughter Hannah, and if by fire my
dwelling House should be consumed I give my wife Power
to sell the lands and stones, the money they fetch to be to
the use of my daughter Hannah.

238 APPExVDIX.
Ite7n. All the rest and residue of my estate not herein dis
posed of, I give to my two daughters Mary and Lydia, and to
my wife for the use of Hannah, and to their heirs, to be equally
divided between my said three children.
Whereas, I in this will have given my daughter Hannah two
sixteenths of the 3 Grist Mills and Scythe Mill, and having
now my Grand daughter Mary Lynde Walter living here, I
give her my small silver Tankard, and, on her .\unt's decease,
one sixteenth of the Mills on the South River to her and her
heirs forever.
I appoint my dear wife Mary Lynde, Executrix, and my son
Andrew Oliver, Esq., Executor, of this will, they to give bonds
to pay all debts and Legacies without Inventorydng my es
tate. I give my negro man Primus his Freedom, provided he get
security that he shall be no charge to my estate, if he grows
old and unable to support himself. In testimony that this is
my last will and testament I hereunto set my hand and seal
this tenth day of May, Anno Domini 1776.
Signed, sealed, published and
declared, in presence of
Jno. Jenks,
Daniel Malloon,
John Chipman.

> Benj'^ Lynde. Seal.

I, the aforesaid Benjamin Lynde, Esqr, of Salem, in the
County of Esse.x, do, this 24"^ Januar}-, 17S1, make and pub
lish this my Codicil to my will and Testament as follows :
Whereas I have devised therein to my daughter Lydia Walter
and to her heirs, as therein is mentioned, certain parts of my
estate real and personal, I now declare my will respecting
said devises to be. That if said Lydia shall not retum to this
State and demand the same within twenty years after my de
cease, they are to pass to such of her heirs therein mentioned
as shall so demand them, they paying to her if required by
her the value of the profits thereof for her life, and, after her

APPENDIX.

239

death, to her heirs as mentioned in said devises, they requiring
it, until they shall demand their respective shares in said de
vises, and on their demand it shall be resigned to them and
pass as first devised.
Signed, sealed, published and
declared in presence of us as a
Codicil to this will.
John Jenks,
Daniel Malloon,
Joh.n Chip.man.

>¦ Benj* Lynde. Seal.

Matthew, b. 1620.

Pi

NAT]

Enoch Lynde
m. Oct. 25, 16
1636. 

James, b. 1622 ;
d. -March, 1623.

I
Enoch, d.

Samuel,b- t Dec, 1653
m. 167', ; Justu
of SuiTolk; d.
Oct., 1721.

,.\rary, dau. lit Jervis
Ballard, d.
Dec, 10^7-

Simon, b. Sept , [655 ;
d. Feb. 165b.
John, b. Xov.
Q, 1657 ; d.
Sept. ::o, 1671.

I.
Nathaniel, ^ Susannah,
b :;2 Nov. 1659 : 'only dau. of
removed to Say- '"" '"'
brook, .a;ave
land to Yale
College; d- 5
Oct., 1729'

Dep. Gov. Wil
loughby, of
Mass-, m. 16S3 ;
d. Feb. 22, 1710.

Elizabeth, ¦=. George Pord-
b. 25 March, 'a;;e, Esq., of
1662; d. I June, Boston.
1746. ;

I
Man,',
went to
England,
and died 26
March, 1732.

=zMr. John
Valentine,
an eminent
pleader,
,d. 172+.
II

I I
Samuel, = Rebecca, Nathaniel,
b. 2Q Oct., dau. of Maj. b. 21 Oct.,
idSo; Judge Jno- Clarke, i6.-)2 ; d.
of Sup. lof Say- March 5.
Courc : H. Ibrook; d. 1750, leav-
C, i707;d. 20 Jan., ing issue.
u) Sept., 11710 ; ::d w.
1754 ; xt. [dau. of Maj.
(35. I Palmes;
bd Mrs.
jHunlin^ton.

I
Elizabeth, = Hon. Rich-

b. De
i6t)4; d. 22
June, 177S.

ard Lord, _
Jud2;e of the
Co. Court.

I I
Willoughby, Susannah,
b- Jan. ;, b. 14 April,
1697: d- April 1700; in. i.
23, 1704. Wiilard: 2.
— Gardner, d.
Hannah, b. 174S.
10 Sept.. 1695;
m. Rev.
George Gris
wold, of
Lvme.

Elizabeth,
m. Mr.
Couch.Samuel, ni.
Durfey.
Thomas, m. Gouch.
Mary,
d. 3. p.

I
Willough- :
bv, b. I
.^ larch,
1711; V.C.
d. 9 April,
1753-

: ^ilarc^aret
|Corey, ni.
j 10 Nov-,
735-

I
Abigail, b. 8
April, 1713.
d- 3. p.

Rebecca,b. 3 Sept.,
17(5; m-
Sam'l, son
of Col. Wil
lard, of SaV'
brook,d. 3. p.

Anne = John McCurdy, Esq.,
Lord, m. of Lyme, Conn.

Hon. James =
Pitti, d. 1776.

I
Eliza,
d. 177

Samuel, =; Phebe,
only child, dau. of John
b. 14 Oct., Waierhouse,
17311; Y. C, of Saybrook.
'757-

Richard Mc
Curdy, Esq.

UrsulaWolcott,
dau. of
Mr. John
Griswold.

I

I

Elizabeth. Samuel.
Hannah. Judith.
John. Lindall.
James. Tliomas-

I
Elizabethliowdoin.
b. 15 July
1750-

John Oris
wold Mc
Curdy, b-
Nov-, \- )-
d utim.

ChariesJi)hnson
:S McCurdv,
; b. 7 D.-c.,
17)7; V.C
1.S17; Jiid?;
uf Sup. Ct.
ot Conn. ;
Chari^ii d'
Affaires at
Austria.

=: Sarali .^nn
Lord, dau.
of Mr
Richard Lord, d.
22 July,
1S3S.

Robert Henry Mc-
Curd\', b.
14 April,
i^oo ; m.
Gertrude Meicer
LeCj d. 3
April, iSSo.
RichardLord Mc
Curdy, b.
27 Mav,

Alexander Lvnde Mc- dau. of Sir
Curdy, b. 17 John Tenv
July, 1S04. pie, d.
- iS::5.
Sarah Anne
McCurdy,
b 25 ^L1y,
1S07 ; ni. her
cou.sin, Steph, J.
Lurd.

Elizabeth, zr Hon. Tho
L. Win
throp, b.
1700; H.
C, 1730 ;
Lt. Gov. of
Ma^s. ; d.
1S42.

I I
Thos. Fitch Mary Lvnde =
Oliver, b. 5 Fitch Oli-

Sept. 1779;
d. y Feb.,

ofof

ver, b.
20 Dec.,
i7Si; d-
23 June,
iSos.

Andrew, b-
31 Nov.,
lySjjd.iSoi.
WiUiam Pynchon
Oliver, b. 1 7
Oct., 17851
d. Sept.,
iSo7'

-'i^y, daiii^hter and heiress
i.;b\', c;reat grandson of Sir
>¦ 1 'S4; d. 1O6.1.

::= Hannah New:;ate, dau::hter of Mr. John Newc;ate {alias
, I Newdi-atc:), bv lii^ third wife, Anne. She was born 28 June,
- I i'S5. married Fei)r:iarv, m^^. and died 20 Dec. i'^^-4. 

James, bap. 2S July,
1630.

: Nrar>'
dau. eif Hon.
Wm. Browne,
nf Salem ; d. i:
July, 1753.

.'^imon,
b. 3 Nov , n;<>S
d. 13 Aug.,
1669.

I
Hannali,
b. 2g May, i''i7o ;
m- I. Jno. F.i'JTg;
2. Jona- Mitch
eU: 3. Ed.
Goffe ; d. 9
.\ug., 1725, s. p-

Sarah,
b. 25 May,
1672; d.
July 27,
1727.

= Nathaniel
Neudigatc, her
cousin, whose
first wife, dau.
of Sir John
Lewis.

Enoch,
b. Jan. 1674;
d. Sept. 1674

I
James,
b. Nov. 1675;
d. Jan. 1676.

A

nn.

Hannah

—

b.

20 Dec.

Pordage,

d

1-

0 j; m. Col.

23 Aug.,

I-

34-

1

ilin Prescott

0
Concord ;
d
1753-
Hon. James Bowdoin,
d. Sept. ^, 1747) a;t.
Elizabe
¦lau. uf
Krviiig,
Ijuston
14 Sept.
1731
; b.
th, Hon- Andrew
Jno, Oliver, Judge
ot of Court of
C. Pleas, for
Es.sex ; b.
Nov. 13, 1731
H. C, 1749; I
one of Found- j
ers of Anier. |
Acad., d. Dec '
O, 17.J,,. I
l?ENj.\.Mi.w, r= ^L-lry = William,
1). 5 Oct. 1700 ; dau. of Maj. Jno. b. 27 Oct., 1714;
H. C- 171S; Ch. ! Bowles, b. b Sept., H. C, 1733; d.
Justice of Mass. ; 11709; m. i Nov., 10 May, 1752, s- p.
d. 9 Oct., 17S1. :[73i ; d. 3 May, 1791.
Rev. William Walter, Rec
tor of Trinity Church, Bos
ton ; H. C 1756 ; d. Dec. 5
iSoo.
1
Marv,
1
Hannah, b. 17 .^ug.,
Lydia, b. 14 Nov. rz
b. 5 Jan.
1735; d. Dec. 21,
1741 ; m. 30 .Sept.,
1731; m.
179= ; 3. P-
1766 ; d. Sept. 25,
2S .May,
1798.
1752; d.
Dec. =6,
1S07.
fames,
Rev. Tlionias =
b. Supt. 2
, I- Itch (Jhver,
ly-i.
b. 14 Mav,
1757; H.C.,
1775; d. 25
Jan., 1797.
Sarah,
dnu. of
William Pynchon, Esq., of
Salem, d.
March 13,
[.S32.
B. Lynde
Oliver, .M.D.
Daniel. Peter.
Marii, 3z Lynde Walter, = -Ann,
dau. of b. 13 Nov., 1767 ¦ '^''-
Col- Van 'd. ig Aug., 1S44.
Euskirk, of
Hacken- I
sack. N.J.,;
d. 7 I>«?c , !
1796.
tiry R.,
lu. of
,dward iillen.
.sq.;b.
?07-
Benjamin
S a rail
Jane
Lynde Oli
Pvnchon
April
ver, b.
Oliver, b. 5
d. 24
I7S8; m.
May, 1791;
IS19.
r ranees
d. 14 .April,
Brieqs; d.
1S53.
1S43.
I ' I
,b. 24— S. F. Mc-=Mana L.,
dau. of John Thomas.
Minshull, of Lon- i,-n- "T i- i
don, b. 2; Aug., \V,lham,b.i4FeI
m. 5 June,
d. 12 Dec,
1771 ; m. Sarah,
dau. of Martin
Bicker, Esq.
Thomas.Mary Lynde.
Harriot Tynge, b.
16 May, 1776; ra.
John Odin, Esq.
-Arthur Maynard.
. f7q-
Nov.
Elizabeth
Digby Belcher, b.
May 3,
17Q5; m.J.
Freeman,Esq,, d. 7
April, 1852.
I. p.
Cleary, Esq., of
Boston,
Counselorand City
Clerk.
m. 24 May,
iSji.
Sarah Grif
fin, b. 1796.
I I,
Lynde, Louisa,
b. 6 June, m Benj. b. 5 April,
1799; H. C., Adams, iSoi; m.
1S17; d. Esq., 9 C. F.
July, 1S42. April, 181S. Adams,
Esq.; d.
25 Feb.,
1S37.
I I
Caroline H., Cornelia
' ¦• W., m-Wr
B. Richard
Esq., 23
Sept., t347
PEU

SIMON BROWNE, of Browne Ha
carae to Brundish, Suffolk, having a g-
lege leases. He was bred to the lawj
in 1 540. \
I ~1
Thomas Browne, of Brundish, obc

Fraxos Browne, of BrundishJ
removed to Weybred Hall ; died

Mar\-, sister of Rev. Mr. Vounc
wtio iiied in iC^-^fy-

, of L. Island, := Hon. Willi.^m Brow.ve, bom ^L
 Came to Salem, N. E-, 1635 ; died J

I. Hannah, dau. of Capt.
Geo. Curwen. and Eiii.
Heibert, b. Jan. i, 1645;
m. Dec. 29, 1664 ; d-
Nov. 21, iDg2.

= Hon. Will. :^ 2. Rebecca, dau.
Brow.ne, b. 14 ofSirJiio. Friend,
April, 16^9 ; Coun- H. Sheriff of Lim-
cillorand 1st Jud^e erick, and widow
of Inf. Court for of Rev. Thos.
Essex; d. Feb. 23, Bailey, b. 1663; m.
1715. to Mr. Browne, 26
April, 1604 ; d. 21
Ju,

I I j
John Browne, b- Rev. Joseph Hon. Ben
Oct- 1641 ; d. 1664. Bro^^"ne, H. C., Browne, b-
— 1666: m- Mehita- a Coundlh
Samuel, b. July 31, ble Brentoo, Dec. 7, 171
1644; drowned in d. s- p.
1055-

!
William,

Eunice =2

1
Hon. Sam. =: .A.b.cc

ail,

Wii

Jlam, Sarah, =

Capt. JohD,= Marj',

Sarai, H

b Julv 2$

Turner, b.

Browne, b. dau.

of

b. Sept. 5, dau. ot" Mr.

b. Nov. 2, wid. of

b. Dec. 10, b.

d. Occ. 23,

Jan. I,

Oct. ^, i6ji. John

I77I

; tl. be- Jno. Bur-

1672 ; d. Col. I.

1674 : d. d.

166b.

1675; m-

Jwdic of Inf. Klech, of

fore

16S1. rnut;lis ; d.

April 14, Plaisted.

.\pril 13, 16

—

1695 ; d.

C[. for Bristol ; b

Nov. 24,

1 7 19. of Ber

16S9.

Hannah, b

Jan. 16,

Essex ; d. !if-i:S5

m.

1715-

wick ;

1

i^farch 16,

1701.

May 16, 1731. 'Feb

21,

m. April,
Elizabeth,
1667; d.
1705
d.
1717. No
b. Oct. 4,
June 30,
,Feb.
i%
issue.
1676; d.
166S.
'1724
1
Jan. 14,
1679.
Tohn, b.
Katha- = Samuel, .\L-iry. = Hon
Will
am,=
Mary. John, b.
Sarah, = Col. Ichabod Col.Beni.=:,t|
Feb. S ; d.
fine, dau. |b.
April dau. of b. M
av 7,
1 700 ;
din- I'f Dec. 23;
b.Oct. 27. Piaisied, b.
b. July 25, d
April 2,
of Jno. I7,
i7o'-i; Gov. Coui
cillor
; 'i-
,Mr. Phil. d. Sept. 9,
1701 ; m. Au::. 1, 1700;
T70O: d. C
1717.
"Wintlirop ; d.
Nov. Burnet; Apri
^7, ¦
763.
'French, 1715.
Oct. 20, d. Dec. 9,
Feb. S, 1750; T
—
m. ^Larch '2''-
1 742- .^r. dau. ,
of N.J, —
1720; d. 1762.
H. C. 1725. n-
Aijigail, b.
31. 1731.
H
C, of Cp. j
b.June :, Benjamin,
Decs, ^
I.
Aug. 23,
m. Epes
17
27. of Salis- 1
1727; d. b.Feb. 15,
i:755-
j
I7'*3i d.
Sarqent,
bury ; d. 1
.¦\uj:. 10, 1710; d.
1
April 16,
1744-
Aug. I,
1745-
I17D1. April 24,
1 17.37-
'
1729.
Mr. Joseph :
1
1
Abi-ail, b.
1
Samuel, b.
1
Hon. William.
1
William
Samuel, b. Thor
-] . 1
las, b. Philipa, b.
April 27,
Feb. 17;
b. Feb. 2-,
Burnet, b.
N^^^'- 5. i73'0; Nov
1742; Julv 25, 175a
; Sherburn, ot
1735; 111.
d. Nov. 14
, i7-)7; m. Rmh,
Oct.
7i
d. Oct. 20, d. 0
:t.i, 1756. d. July 20,
Boston.
Jas. Blaney
; 1734
dau. of Ctov.
'Jj"*
; rn. in
1754-
— '7<i3.
d. Dec. 24,
—
Waniou of R.
Virg
nia.
- Man
¦, b. Ftb. —
1776.
Katharine. L, in 1712 : d.
Benjamin, b. 27, i
-44 ; d. Francis, b.
—
in London
Dec. 7, 1740 ; 1769
Auc. 25, 1752
Anne.
Gov. of Ber
mudas, 1783.
d. A[->ril, 1762. Sara iS, I
— d. Nov. 30,
i,b. July 1756.
745 ; d.
Dec.
2, 1756.
vVNE.

his widow, died August 30, 1534.

daughter of  , obt. May i, 1605.

ivmg in 1637.

Iter of Samuel Smith, of Yarmouth, Norfolk. Came to N. E. with her parents in 1635 ; bom 1614 ;
, i6ftS. 

ah Browne, =rThos. Dean,
Dec. 23, 1649; of London.
n Boston. |

James Browne,
b. June 30, 1633.
James, b. April
II, 1655.

I
Mar}' Browne,
b. 16 Jan.. 1656
d. June, 1690.

= Gen. Wait
Winthrop, Ch.
Just, of Mass.,
b. 27 Feb.,
164 1 ; d. 7
Nov., 1717-

I
James Browne,
b. 22 Jan.,
165S.

HannahBrowned. young.

I
Hannah,
b. Oct. 16.
i6S[ ; d. Sept.
1633.William, b.
16S1 ; d. Nov.
Elizabeth, b.
Mav 3 ; d.
Oct. 20, i6'^3-

Mercy,
b. June ; d.
Aug. 6, i'jS4.

: Dr. Robert
Woodward, Dean of Sarum.

I'

I

John Win- = Anne,dau. Anne Win-::: Thos. Lech-

throp, F. R, S.,
d. in England,
Aug. I, 1747-

of Gov.
Dudley ;
1776.

ihrnp, b.
Nov. 26,
16S6; m.
Nov. 1709;
d. Nov. 22,
1746.

mere, Sur
veyor Gen'l
ofH. M.
Customs ;
Son of Edw.
Lechmere,
and brother
of Lord
Lechmere ;
b. June iS,
1683 ;d. 1765.

i.'of j. John
Sept. 6,

I
Hon. BENf.
Lynde, Ch.
J. of M.ass.

I

William, Mary, Anne.
b. (Jet. 27, m. Joseph —
1714; d- s. p., Wanton, Margaret.
j\lay 10, 1752- of R. I. —
Basil.

1
Katharine,
m. Sam.
Browne, and
afccr. Col-
Epes Sargent

Rebecca :
Winthrop.

Hon.
Gurdon Saltonstall,
of Conn.

I

John = Jane,

Still
Winthrop.

dau. of
Francis Borland,
of Bos
ton.

Eunice = Timothy
born Fitch.
1731-

Hannah, b. Hon. Andrew :
July 10, 1730; Oliver. Judge
d. Sept. 1754. of C. C. Pleas
— for Essex.
Benjamin, b.
Aug. s, 1733 ;
d. Dec. 1749.
John, b. July
21, 1735-

: Mary
Lvnde.

HannahLynde.

Lydia :
Lynde, b.
14 Nov.,
1 741 ; d.
Sept. 25,
1793.

Rev. William Walter,
b. 7 Oct., 1737. H.
C. 1756. Rector of
Trinity and Christ
Churches; d. Dec 5,
1800.

INDEX OF NAMES.

i6

INDEX OF NAMES.

Abbott, Ii6, iSi.
Abby, 53.
Abercrombie, 1S7.
Ad.ims, 113, igS, 200.
Addington, 21.
Agur, 46, 117, 125, 126, 170.
Ainslie, 194.
Alden, 107.
Alexander, iSl.
Allen, 48, 63, IOO, loi, 103, 16S, 20S.
Ames, 40, 193.
Amher.st, 1S7.
Amy, 48.
Andros, S3, 15S.
Appleton, 94, 145, 158, 159, 174,
1S9, 202.
Apthorp, 19S.
Archer, 106, 120, 122, 123.
Ashley, uS, 119. 126.
Ashton, 193.
Atkinson, 12. 22, 173.
Auchmuty, 38. 65, 63, 71, 112, 147,
150, 16S, 170. 200.
Austin, 156, 15S, 159.
Ayrault, 14.
B.adger, 193.
Eagnell, 22.
Bailey, 75, 112, 197.
Balch, 125.
Baldwin, 83.
BarcLiy. 205.
Barnard, 64, 73, 94, 140, 147, 150,
156, 179, iSl, 184, 193, 194, 196,
201, 202.
Barns. SS, Sg.
Barrell, 172, 175.
Barrett, 132.
Bartlett, 1S2.
Barton, 34, 36. 44. S=. '3-. 136. '37.
13S. '39. HO, 15-. 155. '72. =03.

Batchelder, 131.
Bales, 172.
Batten, 1S5.
Bawman, 89.
Ba.tter, 73.
Beachv, 132.
Beal, 183.
Bean, 8.
Belcher, 13, 21, 26, 3S, 45, 62, SS, So,
115, 132, 134, 159, 160, 162, 173,
1S4. 200.
Belknap, 199.
Bent, 121, 127.
Bernard, 192.
Berry, 135, 140, 141, 143, 149, 15S,
159, 160, 173, 182, 183.
Bethel, 91. '
Bi.ss. 1,3-
Bill, 84, 109, 156, 15S, 160.
Billing^, 7, 15,49.
Birt, 121.
Bisbv, 48.
Black, 133.
Blanchard, 149. 16S.
Blaney, i, 140, 14S, 195.
Blaithwaite. 207.
Boardman, 200.
]Jodkin, 197.
Bolan, 205.
Belles, 89.
BoUen. 156.
Bound, 65, 73.
Bourn, 144, 164, 19S.
Bours, 158.
Boutineau, 201.
Bowdin, 5.
Bowditch, 9, 43, i6g.
Bowdoin, 8, 33, 35. 44, 57, 61, 64,
66, 68, 73, 83, 84, 116, 122, 127,
'35, '37. 13S. 142, 149, 158. 164,
186, 192, 197, 201,203.

244

INDEX OF NAMES.

Bowen, 31, 70.
Bowers, 173, 191.
Bowles, 25, 30, 35, 36, 44, 54, 92,
102, 135, 139, 145, 146, 147, 156,
167, 180.
Boyce, 5.
Boydel, 35.
Bra'ckett, 195.
Bradbury, 189.
Braddock, 179.
Bradford, 1S6.
Bradlee, 13S.
Bradstreet, 67, 68, Si, 187.
Brattle, 78, in, 113, 169, 1S9, 192,
17S. iSo, iSi, 198.
Brewer, 72.
Brewster, 75, 106.
Brick, 199.
Brickie, 139.
Brigham, 19S.
Briggs, 45, 121, 127.
Brinley, 13.
Britten, 5, 55, 91.
Brock, 29, 30.
Bromfield, iSl.
Brown, 52, 65.
Browne, 5, 6, 9, 13, 27, 33, 37, 38,
39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 48, 62,
63, 64, 66, 72, 73, 74, 75, 82, 98,
100, 109, 123, 131, 132, 133, 134,
136, 137. 13S, 139. 140, 142, 143,
144, 145, 146, 147, 149, 152, 153,
154, 156, 157, 15S, 159, 160, 161,
162, 163, 164, 165, 171, 172, 176,
177, 178, 1S2, 1S5, 1S6, 188, 1S9,
191, 194.
Buck, 12.
Buckingham, 20.
Buckminster, 174, 185.
Buffinton, S.
Buffum, S, 24.
Bulfinch, 132.
Bulineau, 171.
Bull, 14, iS.
Bunker, 27, 28, 30, 31, 95.
Burchstead, i5S.
Burgoyne, 206, 207.
Burke, 206.
Burnam, 106.
Burnett, 27, 29, 152, 157.
Burrill, 136, 13S, 140, 153, 156, 15S.
Buttles, 64. ¦
Byles, 3S, 149, 151.
Byrde, 25, S3.

Cabot, io6, III, 160, l63, 169.
Galium, 8.
Caril, 76, 92.
Carlton, 193.
Carpenter, 14.
Carroll, 200.
Carter, 73, 1S9.
Cary, 123, 16S.
Case, 18.
Cathcart, 99.
Chandler, 30, 31, 46, 48, 59, 60, 86,
87, 117, Ii8, 119, 125, 126, 144,
157, 164, 175, 182, 1S4, 190.
Chapman, 105.
Chase, 61, 122.
Chatham, 204.
Chauncey, 22.
Checkley, 21, 22, 23, 25, 37, 63, 66,
82, S4, IOI, 116, 135, 136, 138,
146, 149, 154, 156, 157, 159, 170,
172, 174, 175, 176, 193.
Cheever, 43, no, 164.
Cheney, 46, 59, 60, 87, 88, 118, 126.
Chipman, 69, 77, 94, 145, 192, 203.
Choate, 48, 143, 1S3.
Church, 17, 45, 59, 86, 134, 144.
Clapp, n, 17, 18, S6, 107, 158.
Clark, 3, II, 12, [9, 47,76,77,88,
90,94, 134, 141, 142, 145, 147, 157,
158, 165, 172, 173, 1S2, 184.
Clinton, 206.
Clough, 203.
Cobb, 175.
Codman, 3, 179.
Coffin, 20, 22, 23, 2S, 29, 30, 32, 35,
¦35-
Colby, 56.
Cole,' 34, 35.
Coleman, 35, 57, 85, ioo, 102, 103,
105, 116, 123, 149, 155, 167, l6S.
Collins, 104, 163, 164, 16S.
Colton, 87, 126.
Colvil, 188.
Comfort, 96.
Conant, 196.
Coney, 58, 157, 158.
Conner, 166.
Conoly, 137.
Cook, 7, 9, 10, 48, 65, 72, S2, 113,
135,150,151.
Cooper, 85, S9, IOO, 103, 105, iSo.
Copeland, iSl.
Corduda, 28.
Cornell, 158.

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Cosby, 169, 183.
Cothles, igo.
Cotton, 70, 151, 152, 156, 174.
Co.x. 176, 199.
Craddock, 13.
Crandall, 11.
Croswell, 30.
Crowninshield, 27, 36, 37, 40, 49, 62,
S4, gS, 135, 137, 13S, 139, 141, 143,
154, 157, 160, 161, 163, 164, 166,
171, 176.
CuUiver, 13, 15.
Cundy, 76, 77, 83, 85, 88, 91, 146.
Curtis, 151, igg.
Curwen, 23, 37, 39, 4S, 4g, 78, 102,
III, 139, 140, 157, 164, 177.
Cushing, 21, 27, 37, 42, 51, 60, 66,
69,71,72,76, 107, loS, 144, 147,
157, 159, 167, 168, 169, 171, 173,
174, 176, iSi, 182, 1S3, 184, 1S5,
190, 195, ig6, igS, 201, 202.
Cushman, g.
Daggett, II.
Dana, 63, 137, 170, 200.
Danforth, g4, 109, 174, 175.
D'Anville, i56, 167.
Darling, 88.
Davenport, 12, 21, 26, 27, 31, 34, 40,
45, 46, 47. 4S, 50, 54, 55. 57, S^, 59,
60, 61, 66, 68, 69.
Davis, 122, 163.
Dean, 167.
De la Brough, 165.
Denison, 18.
Derby, iSo.
D'Estaing, 208.
Devereux, 202.
Dexter, igt, 203.
Diamond, 64, 72, 74, 75, 78, 79, Si,
106, no, 120, 122, 147, 155.
Diskaw, 179.
Doggett, 15S.
Doty, 199.
Douglass, 136.
Dows, 47.
Draper, 168.
Driver, 171.
Dudley, 9, 2i, 26, 27, 30, 31, 35, 40,
42, SI. 53. 54. 55, 57, 5*. W,
61, 69, 70, 73, 74, 78, 84, S6,
87, 88, IOO, 108, 109, 112, 113, 114,
115, 118, 124, 125, 126, 127, 135,
136, 146, 14S, 150, 153, 155, 156,

157,159, 160, 164. 169, 170,171,
175. 177-
Dumbleton, n8.
Dummer, 68, 154, 155.
Dunbar, 44, 50, 85, 202.
Durel, 40, 42, 68.
Dutch, 12.
Dwight, 144, 159, 1S9
Eams, 103.
Eaton, 200.
Edes, 151.
Edgecomb, 39, 74, 76, 197.
Elder, 66.
Eliot, 13, 173.
EUingwood, 43, 172, 1S6, 1S8.
EUis, 24, 69, 70, loS, 117, 133, i6g,
195.
Elwin, 63.
Emmons, 47, 4S.
English, 65, 66.
Epes, 25, 26, 48, 134, 137, 139, 143,
145, 156, 161, 163, X72, 189.
Esty, 13, 15, 33, 40, 45, 51, 65,85,
121, 127.
Erving, iSi.
Eyre, 131, 132.
Fairfax, 134, 139, 140, 141, 142.
Fairfield, 109, 197, 203.
Fales, 183.
Fellows, 27, 53.
Felt, 25, 47.
Fenner, 10.
Ferrin, 195.
Finche, 85, 86.
Fisk, 4, 7, 23, 36, 43, 46. 47, 52. 5 5>
56, 61, 63, 64, 65, 66. 71, 77, 80,
82,90, 92, 93, 94, 125, 131, 132,
133, 134, 136, 137, 139, 140, 141,
142, 143, 144, 166.
Fitch, 177, 194.
Flagg, 66.
FleFcher, 193.
Flint, 5, 104, 162.
Folger, 28, 29, 31, 95, 96.
Foster, 78, 97, ico, 103.
Fowle, 117, 125.
Fowler, 31, 40, 46.
Fo.\, log.
Foxcroft, 47, 134, 153, 155, 159, 174-
Foy, 162.
Franklin, 205.
Freeman, 197.

246

INDEX OF NAMES.

Friend, 75.
Frost, 20.
Fry, 195.
Gage, 203, 204, 205.
Gahtman, log, 1 10.
Gardner, 5, S, 27, 2S, 20, 30, 31, 37,
40, 72, 82, 95, 120, 123, 131, 137,
13S, 149, 151. 16-, i6j, '^6, 193,
196.
Gavett, n.
Gay, 69.
Gedney, 8, 133.
Gee, 83, 140, 166.
Genish, 105, 191.
Gibbs, 102, 105, 115, 157, 184, 185,
1S7.
Gibson, 105.
Gilchrist, 20S.
Giles, 7, 120, 150.
Goddard, ng.
Godfrey, igg.
Goffe, 7, 25, 31. 32, 33. 42, 43, 56, 57,
61, 66, 74, S2, 104, III, 132, _i34,
156, 157, 16S, J69, 170, 174, 175,
190, 191, 194, 197, 198, 199, 201.
Gold, II.
Goldthwaite, 8, 195.
Goodale, 151.
Goodhue, 193, 197.
Goodrich, T93, 195.
Gookin. 86.
Gore, 58. 59.
Gorham, 69, 70.
Gott, 6, 176.
Gonch, 4S.
Gould, 10.
Gr.afton, 29, 37, 40, 67, 139, 168,
190.
Grant, 43, 49.
Graves, 153, 157.
Gr.ay, 25, 41,63, 72.
Green, 108, 126, 134.
Greenleaf. 75, 162, 192.
Greenville, 190.
Gridley, 51, iSi, 183.
Griffin, 106, no, 113, 114.
Griffith, 150, 152.
Hale, 7, 140.
H.all, 103, 143.
Hallowell, 201.
Hancock, 61, 117, 120, 126, 148,
187, 197, 200.

Haradent, 200.
Hartegan, 200.
Harrington, 46.
Harris, 20.
Harvey, 122.
Hathorn, 6, 78, no, l6i.
Hawkins, 63, 166.
Hayden, n, 156.
Hayward, 88.
Hearsey, 172, 174, 175.
Henderson, no.
Herbert, 157, 177.
Hewins, 45, 51.
Hews. 58, 184.
Hicks, 34, 43, 136, 186.
Hill, iS, 19, 20.
Higgins, 145.
Higginson, 53, 78, 79, 103, 104, io6,
¦31, 136, 137, 139, 140, 156, 163,
165.
Hinds, nS, 126.
Hitchcock, 46, 59, 87, 1x8, 119, 126,
194.
Hoar, 181.
Hobart, 131, 156, 159, 167.
Hobbs, 78, 89.
Hobby, 58. 69, 92, 94, 120, 166.
Hodges, 183.
Hogg, 11.
Holmes, 5, 13, 56.
Holyman, 74.
Holyoke, 90, 94, 145, 147, 151, 1S6.
Honyman, 15S.
Hooper, 155, 1S6, 187, 191.
Hopkins, loi, 103, 15S.
Hinighton, 7S, 7g.
Howard, 46, 140.
Howe, 60, 88, 117, ng, 125, 126, 169,
170. 171, 187, 206, 207.
Howland, 169, 196.
Hubbard, nS, 157, 166, 1S7.
Hunt, 22, 122, 128.
Huntington, 11.
Huntoon, 10.
Hurst, 26, 41, 53, no, 133.
Huske, 74.
Hussey, 28, 29, 95.
Hutchinson, 23, 3g, 68, go, 123, 127,
147, 154, 155, 156, 158, 164. 16S,
169, 180, 183, 195, 201, 202, 206.
IngersoU, 138, 15S.
Ingolls, 27, 168.

INDEX OF NAMES.

Jackson, 20, 169, 202.
J.acob, 37.
James, 5.
Jeffers, 43.
J^fO-, 13, 54, 1x3, 123, 139, 157,
^t93':Hi''''^''"'5S''''63.
Jenks, 14, 18.
Johnson, 179.
Jones, 6,9, 117, 160.
Keith, 13.
Kent, 46, 197.
Kerns, 22.
Key, iS.
Kil'lam, 6.
Kilroy, 200.
Kimball, 197.
King, 104, 143, 144, 148, 162 203.
Kingsbury, 10, n.
Kinicam, 13.
Kinsman, 183.
Kitchen, 9, 123,131, ,32, 133, 143
144.157,166,191. •"" ^'"
Knowles, 170.
Lamb, nS, 126, 146, rgo.
Lambert, 39, 156, 203.
Lander, 208.
Lane, 116.
Langdon, 48.
Lathrop, 26, 41, 51, 71, loS.
Leach, 53.
Learned, 34, 46, 60.
Leavitt, 166.
Leland, 46, 59, 86.
Leonard, 107, loS, igg.
Leviston, 151.
Lewis, 6, 13, 87, 91, 154, 156, 15S,
160, 173.
Lechmere, 105, 132, 135, 142, 155,
160.
Lee, X05, X13, 132, 156, 158, 161,
162, 197.
Lightly, 190.
Lille, 164, 169.
Liman, 105.
Lindall, 9, 17, 23, 52, 77, 92, 98, X12,
122, 136, 139, 140, 142, 150, 154.
Lindsey, 19S.
Lion, 116.
Livermore, 60.
Lockman, 63.

247

London, 61, 116.
Long, 21, 22, 23, 152.
Loring, X44.
Loudon, 186.
Lovet, 167.
Low, 138.
Lucas, 18.
Lumas, igg.
Lutwiche, 42, 47, 48, 50.
Lydius, 181.
^^^'^\^'}}'}> 33,36,37,43
, 62, 63, 66, 68, 72, 78, 91, 92
95. 96, 98, 100, 104, 109, 115,
ng, 120, 131, 132, 141, 142,
148, 152, 165, 175, 177, 178,
185.
Lyscomb, 32.
Maeder, 96.
Maliston, 3.
Malum, 20, 34, 50, 58
Manly, 16,40, 45, 51
.Mann, 127.
Manning, 39, ug.
Manwaring, 195, 201.
I Marke, 14.
Marsh, 104, 106, 197.
Marshall, 95.
Marshfield, 87.
Marston, 39, 52, 54, (,1, 80, 131, i
..'"t^. 153-
Martin, 51.
Mason, 123.
Masters, 4.
Masury, 167, X71.
Mather, 73, 143, 153.
-Matson, 10.
Mayfield, gS, 99.
M.iyhew, 77, 79, 16S.
M'Carthy, 175, 184.
Jlclntire, 174.
.McKintosh, 87, 91.
Mechum, 8.

,48,,94, 117,
146,iSi,

32.

40.

Merick, 170.
Mexa, 127.
Milard, 89.
Miles, 21.
Miller, 21, 38,
MiUiken, in.
Minot, 82, 187.
Mitchell, 167.
Monk, 68.
Monkton, 178.
Monroe, 195, 201

248

INDEX OF NAMES.

Montcalm, 1S7.
Montgomery, 200.
Moody, 55, 61, in.
Moor, 21, 23, 27, 38, 39, 40, 42, 44,
47, 48, 49. l-< 54. 65, 66, 72, 73,
75, 83, 84, 85, 88, 103, 108, 136,
13S, 14S, 149, 156, 160.
Moses, 5S, 147, 160.
Mosley, 85.
Moulton, 26, 104, 113, 114, 115.
Mumford, iS.
Nash, 133.
Nason, 70.
Neal, 5, 8, 9, 41, 68, 104.
Nelson, 132.
Newall, 43, 73, IOO, 113.
Newcomb, 41, 6g, ig5.
Newdigate, 14, 12S.
Newman, 8.
Nichols, 58, 169.
North, 205.
Noyes, 132.
Nutting, 52, 82, 92, 95, 133, 194.
Oliver, 32, 41, r3g, 156, i6g, 170,
171, 17-, 173. 174. 175, 176. 177,
178, 181, 182, 1S3, 1S4, 1S5, 186,
187, iSS, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194,
195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201,
202, 203, 204, 207, 208.
Ormsby, 60.
Osborne, 34, no, 153, 183, igo,
192.
Osgood, 36, 44, 64, 94, 95, 134, 142.
Osm.an, 173.
Otis, 168, iSi, 183, 1S6, 191.
Oudel, 5.
Overing, 27, 96, 145.
Paddock, 183.
Paine, 11, i5, 17, 45, 58, 59, 86, 121,
127, i8g, 200.
Palatine, 26.
Palfrey, 185.
Palmer, 38, 6S.
Palmes, n.
Parker, I5g, 160, 200, 20S.
Parkman, 116, 118.
Parsons, ig8.
Pate, 37.
P.i.\ton, 82, 168, 1S4.
Payson, 202.
Peabody, 48.

Pearson, 175.
Peagrum, 68.
Peal, 9, 25, 32, 123.
Peck, 58, 59, 86, 127.
Pelham, 78.
Pemberton, X24, 148, 195.
Pepper, 120.
Pepperell, 53, 155, 17X, 174, 176,
I7g, iSi, 182.
Percy, 206.
Perkins, 40.
Peters, 7g.
Pickering, 5, 6, 94, 194.
Picket, 134.
Pickman, 148, 149, 155, 157, 160,
172, 181, 1S4, iSf, 186, 1S7, iSS,
202.
Phillips, 8, 31.
Phippen, 47, 137, 172.
Phipps, I, 13, 31, 32, 68, 79, 115,
134, 147, 174, 176, 1S6.
Pitcairn, 206.
Pitcher, 10.
Pitman, 34, 133.
Pitt, 190.
Pitts, 38, 66, 82, 103, 105, 116, 171.
Plaisted, 42, 52, 56, 72, 74, 82, gS,
99, 116, 132, 133, 134, 13;, 136,
137. 13S, 139. 140, 14:, 144, 14S,
155, 159, 171, 172, 180, x8i, xS2,
1S7, 188.
Plaxton, 53, 54, 63, 143.
Poland, 1S8.
Pollard, 27.
Pope, 15, 51, 106, 164.
Pordage, i, 3, 30, 67. SS, 105, 121,
127, 12S, 133, 142, 15S.
Porter, 8, 73.
Pownall, 1S3, 1S4, 1S6.
Pratt, 12, ig, 123, 131, 132, 133, 134,
136, 138. 139, 145, 157. 158, i6s,
170, 172, 176, 185, 1S6, ig8.
Prebble, 23. 26, 41, 53, 74, 75, no.
Prentice, 86, 170.
Prescott, 4, 73, 78, 8i, 84, 90, gt, 93,
94, 117, 119, 1-5. 13-. 145. -03.
207.
Preston, 194, 19S, 199, 200.
Price, 9, 13:5, 169.
Prideaux, 187.
Prince, 34, 78, 79, 89, 131, 160, 17S,
183, 185.
Procter, 104, 120.
Prout, 174.

INDEX OF NAMES.

249

Pudney, 174.
Pugh, 71.
Punchin, 71.
Putnam, 54, igS.
Pynchon, 118, 170, X75, iSg, 208.
Quincy, 21, 26, 27, 32, 34, 37, 40,
45. 5'. 55. 56,59.61,69,71,75,78,
82, 85, 86, 134, 146, 149, X50, 151,
i5-> 153, -°°'
Rachel, 65, SS, 127.
Rand, X35.
Rankin, 114.
Raymond, 125.
Ravenscroft, 82, 83.
Read, 63, 114, 151, X56, 162.
Redding, 29.
Remington, 45, 52, 55, 56, 70, 72, 78,
95, 100, 108, 113, 122, 124, 127,
156.
Rice, 117, ng, 125, 126, xgg.
Richards, i63.
Richardson, 87, 119, 194, 195, xgS.
Rives, 193.
Roach, n.
Robbins, 127.
Roberts, 45.
Robinson, 136.
Rockingham, 190, 205.
Rogers, 27, 75, 166, 168.
Rolfe, II, 12, 17, 23, 40, 52, 56, 58,
59, 65,72, 79,84, 134, 154, 193-
Ropes, 220, 201.
Ross, 197.
Rowland, 6.
Royal, 172.
Ruck, 47, 61, go, 94.
Ruggles, 107, 108, 169, 190.
Russell, 22, 37, IOI, X06, loS, X47,
149, 155, 156, 15S, i63, 171, 177,
iSo, 182, 1S3, 186, 1S7, igx, 195.
Ryal, 127, X73.
Saltonst.all, 100, 102, 107, 112, 116,
X19, 124, 134, 164, 16S, i6g, 171,
172, 174, 176, 177, 182, 1S4, 185,
ig6.
Sanborn, xg7.
Sanford, 202.
Sargent, 126, 176, 185, iSS, 196.
Saunders, 65, igi.
Savage, loi, 132.
Sayward, ig7.

Scarlet, 83.
Scott, 46, 58, 87, 119, 126, 170, 176,
185, igg.
Scottow, 154.
Sever, 40, 51, 69, xo8.
Sewall, 9, n, 26, 65, 82, Sg, 90, 100,
102, 103, 107, no, in, n6, ng,
121, 123, 124, 126, 133, 137, 140,
147, 156, 157, 160, 167, x68, i6g,
173. 174, 176, 177, 180, 181, 1S2,
183, 184, 185, ig4, 197, xgg.
Seymour, 179.
Sharp, 79.
Shattuck, 56.
Shaw, igg.
Shehan, 201.
Shephard, ig8.
Shepison, log.
Sherburn, 171, 172.
Shillaber, 145.
Shirley, 8g, in, 1x3, XX4, 1x5, X16,
iiS, 124, 162, X77, X7g, 186, 201.
Short, 65.
Shrimpton, X57.
Shute, 8.
Sibley, X20.
Silsby, 1x7, 142.
Simmons, 78, So.
Simons, 40, 56, Sx, 208.
Skerry, 1x7.
Skillings, ig7.
Skilton, 78.
Skinner, 88.
Smith, 6, 7, 4g, 69, xxx, 124, X39,
150. 152. 193, 197,206,209.
Smithers, 109.
Snider, 194.
Southerie, 7.
Southgate, 88.
Sparhawk, 65, 67, 7X, 74, 79, 81, 82,
84, 85, 90, 91, 92, 94, 98, gg, 104,
106, 107, log, 1x3, XX5, 116, 1x7,
X20, X22, 124, 125, X45, X47, 148,
X49, 150. 153, 155. 162, 174, 17s.
176, X78, igi.
Spurs, X07.
Stacey, 133, 156.
Stanford, 53.
Starbuck, 28, 95.
Stark, 207.
Stearns, 15.
St. Clair, 207.
Steadman, 134.
Stevens, 70.

250

INDEX 01 NAMES.

Stimpson, 192, 197,
St. Low, 13.
Stoddard, 149, 150, 156, 158, 159,
19S.
Stodder, 30, 48, 75, 81, 109.
Stone, 24, 25, 31, 34, 36, 37, 41. 49,
50, 53. 54. 58, 69, 74, 76, 78, So,
84, 100, no, X17, 120, 121, 122,
125, 127.
Sturgis, 41, 69, 70, 169, 1S3.
Sumner, 1 16.
Swain, 202.
Swasey, 8.
Sweet, IOI.
Sylvester, 6g, 107, loS, 169.
Symonds, 98.
Tailer, iSg.
Talbot, 16, 33.
Tarant, 76.
Tarbell, 168.
Taylor, 23, 121, 147.
Tennent, gS, gg, loi, 102.
Thacher, 50, 74, 85, I4g, 155, xSg.
Thaxter, 15, 42, 50, 61, 74.
Thayer, X98.
Thomas. 10, 108.
Thomlinson, 156.
Thompson, 119, 206.
Thorndike, 146.
Thorp, 85, 105, 106, 108.
Thurdan, 181.
Tileston, 9, 10, 25, 138.
Titcomb, 179.
Towle, 166.
Trask, 31, 76, gS, 99, 122.
Treadwell, no.
Troop, 48.
Trowbridge, 191, 200.
Tucker, 121, 127.
Turner, 5. 6, 8, 13, 14, 42, 45. 48, 49,
55. 59. 63, 66, 75, 76, 84, 85 106,
132, 133. 136, 139, 144, 147. 149.
X52, 156, 15S, 159, 160, 163, 183.
Tyler, 190.
Tyley, 26, 27, 30, 39, 40, 42, 46, 51,
54, 58, V), 61,64, 67, 6g, 71, 73.
82, 84, 87, IOI, 102, 103, 105, log,
115, n6, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126.
Tyng, 40, 48, 65, 67, 75, 84, 114,
lis, 165, 16S, 175.
Updike, 158.
Usher, 121.

Valentine, 24, 132.
Vardy, 47, I4g, 151, 156. 158, 159.
Vassal, 156, 15S, 175, iSl.
Vaughn, III.
Venning, 12.
Vernon, 107, log, 183.
Vinal, i6g.
Vining, 142.
Vose, 7, 10, II, 44, 50, 85.
Wadsworth, 70, 114, 146.
Wainwright, 138, 140, 143, 145, 153,
157-
Waldo, 168, 170, 187.
Walker, 141.
WaUey, 74, loi, 103, X07, 116, ng,
124,' 132, 135, 136, 14S, 155, 170,
171.
Walter, 35, 54, 58, 138, 171, 191,
192, 193, 194, 197, 198, 199, 201,
202, 207.
Wampum, 70.
Wanton, 14, 51.
Ward, 10, 14, 27, 51, 95, 103, 120,
127, 12S, 133, 147, 160, 190.
Wardell, 20, 21, 23, 26, 27, 30, 31,
32, 33. 34. 35. 37, 38. 40, 44. 46. 47,
48, 49, 50, 53, 56,57, 58, 60, 61. 6^,
64, 65,66,67,68,72,73,74,75.82,
83, 84, 88, 89, 95. 97, IOO, IOI, 102,
103, 105, 106, loS, 113, 114, 115,
116, 117, 157, 160.
W.are, 3, 86.
Warren, 1(1, 48, 66, 92, 165, 166, 169,
1S3, 194, 206.
Washington, 141.
Waters, 133.
Watson, 1S3, xg6.
Watts, 2, 3, 24, 26, 27, 30, 32, 34,
40, 41, 44, 46. 47. 48, 49. 5°. 52.
53, 54, 56, 57, 60, 61, 63, 65, 66,
67, "69, 73.74. S3, 85, log, 115,116,
122, 162, igo.
Webb, 122, 159, 17X.
Webster, 10.
Weeks, 105.
Welles, 151, 152, 155, X57, 16S.
Wellman, 135.
Wells, 127.
Welsted, S4, 85.
Wemms, 200.
Wendell, 30, 53, 73, SS, X03, xog, 123,
148, 155, 156, 157, 158, 160, 173.
Wentworth, 123, 171, 191, 192.

INDEX OF NAMES.

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West, 58, 104.
Wheeler, 13, 22, 85, 88, 121, 127.
Wheelwright, X51, 160, x68, 172, 173,
178.
Whipple, 149, 206.
White, 28, 29, 49, 53, 75, 76, 95, 96,
102, 137, 147, 156, 160, 163, 173,
177, 195, 207.
Whitfield, 113, 161, igS, xgg.
Whitfoot, 207.
Whitmore, 55, 8g, 103, 1 13, 136.
Whittaker, igg.
Wigglesworth, 78, 145.
Wilder, X44, 159.
Wilks, 24.
Willard, 68, log, 1x5, iSi, 185, 193.
WiUet, 15S.
WiUiams, 8, n, X2, iS, ig, 20,45,
56,63, 76,85, 121, 127, 135, 139,
144, 15S, 175, 179, 194.
Williamson, 12.
AVillis, X35.
Willoughby, 7, 13, 38, 66.
Wilmot, ig5.
Wilson, 44, 47, 48, gi, 137.
Wimble, 65.  '
Winchester, 175.
Windover, 3S.
Wingate, 13, 149.

Winship, ig5.
Winslow. 57, 61, 84, X03, 114, 123,
x66, 178, 196.
Winston, 181.
Winthrop, i, ig, 27,47, 79, 1 14. 115,
124, 139, 142, 14S, 154, 16S, 172,
175, 182, 184, igg, 201, 203.
Wiswell, 33, 51, 56, 68, 78, 83, Sg,
IOI, 102, 103, 105, 106, 1x6, 117,
120, 122.
Withered, 56, 57, 66, 82, 115, Ii6,
171.
Witherell, 9, 26, 40, 51, 53, 67, 69,
71, 16?.
Withington, 66.
Witherly, 49.
Wolcott, 9, 86, g2, 132, 133, 134,
137, 140, 147, 148, 153, 159, 167-
Wolfe, 187.
Wood, SS, ig2.
Woodbridge, X2, 26, 27, 41, 42.
Woodbury, 40, 43, 55, 206.
Woodcock, 2.
Woods, 1x7.
Woom, 170, 172, 175.
Worthington, 46, S7, 1x8, 176.
Wyar, ig7.
Young, 173.

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