FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN, Boston, before 1678, wife, Katherine. FRIEND, JOHN, Salem, church memb., 1640. GODDARD, GILES,* Boston, 1679, had wife and servants. GRAY, JOHN, buys Nantasket of the Indians, 1622. GREENLEAFE, ENOCH,* Boston, saddler, 1693. GREENOUGH, ROBERT, Rowley, 1701. GREEN, JOHN, Cambridge, juror, 1680. NATHANIEL, 1675. HARROD, THOMAS,* Boston, juror, 1680. HEWS, JEREMIAH,* Dorchester, 1664.ELEAZER, Dorchester. HAUXWORTH, THOMAS,* Salisbury. Had a daughter married to Onesiphorus Page. His widow was living there, 1667. HAYDEN, SAMUEL, Dorchester or vicinity, 1666. HILLS, JOSEPH, Medford, a. 60 in 1662. Capt. JAMES,* [HILL] grand juror, Boston, 1686. HOAR, WILLIAM,* Boston, baker, 1679. HODMAN, JOHN, Dorchester, 1679, born 1659. HOOD, JEREMIAH, Massachusetts, 1676. HOPIN, STEVEN,* born 1626, Dorchester, in Capt. Roger Clapp's employ, 1642. Witness to Indian deed of Dorchester, (8:4: 1649.) HOUGHTON, RALPH, Lancaster, 1676, where he was constable, collector of taxes, treasurer, &c. There were at the same place in 1703, HENRY, JONAS, ROBERT, JOHN, SEN., JOHN, JR., JOSEPH and JACOB. 44 HOWARD, JACOB, Dorchester, 1664. HUDSON, WILLIAM, lived at Wading River" in 1670, "where King Philip and Squamaug (brother of Josias deceased) met to settle the bounds between them, which had for some time been in dispute. JOHNSON, EDWARD, a. 60 in 1660, at which time he gives evidence about land in Charlestown. FRANCIS, Marblehead, 1660, nephew of Mr. Christopher Coulson, a merchant adventurer of London. JOYLIFFE, JOHN, Boston, will dated 16991700. Had a brother, Dr. GEORGE JOY. LIFFE, in England; sisters, DOROTHY CANE, in England, MARTHA COOK, in England, REBECCA WOLCOTT, MARGARET DRAKE, and MARY BISS, "sometime wife of James Biss of Shepton Mallet, in the county of Somerset," Eng. KEY, JOSHUA, probably married a daughter of Capt. Thomas Lothrop, who was killed by the Indians in 1675, as his children received a legacy out of Lothrop's estate. KING, THOMAS, was an inhabitant of Exeter, 1675. KNIGHT, WALTER, aged 66 in 1653, at which time he was at Boston. The same person was at Nantasket in 1622. JOHN, Charlestown, juror in the witch trials, 1680. LATHAM, CARY, was born in 1612; Boston, 1663. LAWRENCE, THOMAS, Hingham, 1661. LOEPHELIN, PETER,* Frenchman, Boston, 1679. LEACH, RICHARD, Salem, a. 60 in 1678, leased a farm of Gov. Endecott, 1657. LONG, ROBERT, Marblehead, a. 70 in 1660. LOTHROP, CAPT. THOMAS; his widow married Joseph Grafton, before May 19, 1680. After her decease, the property left her by Lothrop was ordered by court to the wife of Ezekiel Chever, and her issue, heirs of Capt. Lothrop. It is also ordered Mrs. Grafton to pay to the children of Joshua Key, £20. LYON, PETER, Dorchester, 1664. MARRINER, ANDREW, Boston, 1693, leather dresser. MATHER, TIMOTHY, Dorchester, 1667. MAYHEW, THOMAS, hired a farm in Medford, 1636. MELLEN, JOHN, Charlestown, where he died before 1695. MIDDLECOTT, MR. [RICHARD?] Boston, juror at trials for witchcraft, 1680. MOKALL, JAMES, b. 1660, Massachusetts, 1680. MORSE, WILLIAM, Newbury; wife, Elizabeth, accused of practising witchcraft, finally acquitted at Boston, 1680. MOSE, JOIN, Watertown, 1680, constable. MOTT, NATHANIEL, a. 19, or thereabouts, in 1681. NARAMORE, THOMAS, Dorchester, 1664. Persons of this name are in N. Hampshire at this time. NEIGHBOR, JAMES,* Massachusetts, 1662. ODIORNE, JOHN and PHILL., Portsmouth, N. H., 1657, subscribed toward the support of public worship. PAGE, ONESIPHORUS, Salisbury, 1667, married daughter of Thomas Hauxworth [Hawksworth]. PARSONS, MARK, Sagadahock, 1665. PATESHALL, ROBERT, Boston, 1655, petitions General Court against duties on importations. PEASLEE, JOSEPH, went to Haverhill before 1653. PHILIPS, JOHN, Massachusetts, 1630, styled servant, went to Plymouth, 1631. POLE, WILLIAM,* Dorchester, 1649. The name is since written Pool. PRAY, EPHRAIM,* born 1661, Dorchester, 1680. RAINSFord, Samuel, Boston, killed with Capt. Turner, at Pawtucket, in Philip's war, leaving no relative in the country. RICE, HENRY, Charlestown, juror, 1662. RICHARD, GYLES, SEN., Massachusetts, 1666. ROBBINS, RICHARD, juror at trials for witchcraft, 1680. ROOT, THOMAS, Lynn, 1674, where he attempted to gather a church. RYALL, JOSEPH, Charlestown, constable, 1680. SAUNDERS, MARTIN, born 1630, Boston, 1679. SEALE, EPHRAIM,* Lieutenant, Boston, juror, 1686. SEARES, JOHN, Boston, Lieutenant, 1652. SEWALL, HENRY, was residing at Manchester, Lancaster co., Eng, in 1623, only son of HENRY SEWALL, who came to N. England with his family, and settled in Newbury. SHERBURNE, GEORGE, b. 1602, Portsmouth, 1650, m. Rebecca, dau. Ambrose Gibbins, and had children, SAMUEL, ELIZABETH, m. Tobias Lear, MARY, HENRY, JOHN, AMBROSE, SARAH, and REBECCA. [Farmer's MS.] SIBLY, JOHN, church member, Salem, 1640. SMITH, JOHN, Barnstable, 1644. SPRAGUE, SAMUEL, Charlestown, 1695. STILEMAN, ELIAS, Boston, constable, 1673. STONE, JOHN, Watertown, juror, 1680. STUDSON, ROBERT,* one of the commissioners for settling the bounds between Plymouth and Massachusetts, 1664. SUMNER, WILLIAM, Dorchester, 1670. SWAIN, JOHN, Salisbury, b. 1633, Nantucket, 1703. A Lieutenant SWAIN had been under Major Appleton against the Indians at Narraganset, in 1675. He was afterwards a captain. TAYLER, JOHN,* Shipcot, [Sheepscot,] 1665. THAYER, RICHARD, Massachusetts, went to England, and returned in 1679. TINKHAM, EPHRAIM, Massachusetts, 1666, at which time he was a witness to the sale of lands to Richard Thayer of Braintree, by the Indian chief Josias. He attests to it in 1678. TOWER, JOHN, Hingham, buys a large tract of land of several Indians in that place; deed dated June 17, 1641. In an endorsement on said deed, (made by Ri: Bellingham, 19: 1: 1662-3,) JOHN TOWER is called senior. But in the TOWER GENEALOGICAL TREE there are assigned as the children of JOHN TOWER of Hingham, (1637) only AMBROSE, BENJAMIN, JONATHAN, HANNAH, and JEREMIAH. TRAVIS, DANIEL,* "chiefe gunner in ye town of Boston, to salute shipps and look after ye artillery," at £5 per annum, 1680. WAIT, JOHN, Charlestown, juror, 1662, [spelt Wayte,] Boston, juror at the trials for witchcraft, 1680. RICHARD, Boston, a. 82 in 1678. He was marshal. RICHARD, Springfield, 1680, wounded by Indians, Oct. 5, 1675. WALES, JOHN,* and JOHN, JR., Dorchester, 1677. WALKER, ROBERT, Boston, aged 72 in 1679. He came from Manchester, Eng., where he was living in 1623. WAY, RICHARD, Lieutenant, Boston, juror, 1680. HENRY, Dorchester, 1664. WEBB, THOMAS, came to N. England in 1671, in the ship Arabella, Capt. Richard Sprague, which sailed from Gravesend May 27. WHITTINGHAM, RICHARD,* Charlestown, 1693; had been in England in 1691. WILLEY, EDWARD,* Boston, juror, 1686. WILLIAMS, WILLIAM, Boston, 1675, wife, Johanna; was pressed to go against the Indians in Philip's war, and was killed at Medfield, leaving "four small chil. dren." WILLIS, LAWRENCE,* Barnstable, 1644. WINSOR, JOSHUA,* Boston, constable, 1686. WIS WALL, JOHN, Dorchester, witnesses a new deed of the town, (8: 4:1649,) made "because y old deed was something. decayed with ill keeping." CAPITAL OFFENCES IN MASSACHUSETTS. Thirteen offences were made capital by the original laws of Massachusetts Bay; namely, Idolatry; Witchcraft; Blasphemy; Murder; Bestiality; Sodomy; Adultery; Rape; Man-stealing; False-witness; Conspiracy, or rebellion against the government; Cursing or smiting the father or mother, after passing sixteen years of age, unless with justifying provocation, or with unchristianly neglect in education; Filial rebellion, after sixteen years of age. To these were added, 1692, High Treason; Concealing the death of a bastard child; Arson; Piracy. Practised also at Goffstown and Wilmot a Practised in Epping till 1821, removed to An- 1787 Practised also a short time in Hopkinton, re- Practised in Boscawen till 1807, Portsmouth, 1811 Practised also in Boston till 1831, then in 1817 Son of Hon. Amos Cogswell, born April 16, 1790. In Dartmouth Coll. three years, Notary Public. Removed to Boston and went into the mercantile business. Removed to Wolfborough, Solicitor for Car- 1783 See Solicitors of Rockingham Co. Counsellor 1788-89, removed to Boston, re- 1791 See Solicitors of Hillsborough Co. 1793 See Solicitors of Rockingham Co. 1793 See Judges of Superior Court. 1793 Practised also at Gilmanton, Barrington, and See Clerks of Court of Sessions. 1800 See County Treasurers. Practised also in Deerfield, and now resides in He was at Concord in 1814. 1810 Practised also at Dover, Clerk of Senate, Dep. 1811 Practised also at Gilford, Sol. of Strafford Co. 1815 Practised in Concord but a short time, re- H. Clossen Bradford Dart. 1811 H. Newton James Sullivan Harv. 1787 John Pickering Peter Green A. Livermore Harv. 1797 W. K. Atkinson Samuel Green Practised before at Epping, afterwards at New 1817 Rep. from Concord, Trustee of D. C., Cashier 1820 Practised in Meredith to 1820, Chester 1830, Practised also at Plymouth. Ed. of Herald of 1823 See Judges of Superior Court. 1824 Removed to Plymouth, where he now resides. 1826 See Clerks of Superior Court. 1826 Practised in Concord till 1827, removed to New Market, Rep. from New Market 1840, '41, '42. 1827 Practised also at Hanover, Treasurer of D. C., Rep from Concord. |