ers, Elisha Hutchinson, Sewall; Addington, Em Hutchinson; Legg, Belchar. Laid in a brick Grave of the South Burying place,' southwest corner of it. Mr. Neh. Hubbard dined with us this day.

Wednesday, Octob: 4. 1704. Went to Dedham Lecture in company with Mr. Dan! Oliver. Mr. N. Hobart fell in with us two miles before we got to Town. Visited Judith. Text, Wisdom is the principal thing. Grace is Glory in the Bud; Glory is Grace full-blown. Din'd with Mr. Belchar. Got home about 7 at night.

Octob 12. Mr. Cotton Mather prays for the College and other schools. Mr. Ezk. Lewis marries the widow Kilcup, Octob 12.

Octob 13. Deacon Dyer of Weymouth, Mr. Torrey's Right Hand, is to be buried to-day. Dy'd with a Fall from's Horse.

Octobr 14th 1704. visited Col. Savage. He has kept house 7 weeks. Mr. Wigglesworth came to Town the 9th Inst and administers to him. I pray'd God to bless his sickness to him; and his Physick for his Restauration. He seem'd refresh'd with my company.

Oct. 24. Went to Roxbury Lecture. Mr. Walter, from Mat. 6. 1. Shew'd we should have a care of Wrong Ends in doing Duties. Led my daughter Sewall home. Then visited Mr. Walter; told Mr. Mather of Alcasar, Dan. 12. 7; and scattering power of the Holy people; not

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1 The tombstone of Mary, relict of John Tuthill, is still in the Granary, bearing a coat of arms, as is shown in the Heraldic Journal, II. 132. She was sixty-seven years old, and was probably the mother of Zechariah Tuthill, Lieutenant of Castle William. Of her daughters, Sarah married James Gooch, Susanna married Abraham Blish, and Mary was the wife of Deacon Thomas Hubbard. - EDS.

2 The text is, "Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days."

And here, à propos of prophecies, we would say that, in Vol. I. p. 97, Sewall mentions Zadori, and we inserted in the text the words [it may be a writer on Prophecies]. But we find that the late Rev. Samuel Sewall printed in the "American Quarterly Register" for 1838, p. 180, the following extract

to be understood of the Jews, as he had set it in his Problema Theologicum.

Nov 13. set out for Salem with Major Walley; Lodg'd at Lewis's, being taken with a Storm of Rain.

Nov! 26. Major Davis dies of a Flux about 6. in the evening after the Sabbath. I knew not that was sick till about 24 hours before.

Nov! 30 Major Davis buried; Bearers, Elisha Hutchinson esqr: Sewall, Addington, Foster, Jeffries, Joseph Parson. Mr. Torrey lodg'd here last night, and went home this day, Nov! 30.

Dec 1. Went to Charlestown Lecture. After Lecture discoursed with Capt. Chamberlain, Phillips, and Mr. Austin, all of the Comittee could meet with, to persuade them not to go on with their Action against me.1

Dec 2. Visited my son and Daughter at Brooklin.

Dec 7th Mr. Clark of Chelmsford dies of a Fever; was taken very suddenly the Friday before, after he had been at a Funeral; buried the 11th

Dec 10th Mr. Richard Wilkins 2 dies at Milton; is

from Sewall's "Common-place Book," p. xc. verso, now in our possession, distinguishing it from the "Journal: "

"Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1682. Mr. Sherman ordains Mr. Nath. Gookin, Pastor of Cambridge Church; Mr. Eliot gives the Right Hand of Fellowship, first reading the Scripture that warrants it. Mr. Sherman, Eliot and Mather laid on Hands. Then Mr. Gookin ordain'd Deacon Stone and Mr. Clark Ruling Elders. The presence of God seemed to be with his People. Mr. Jonathan Danforth, the Deputy Governours onely Son, lay by the wall, having departed on Monday Morn of a Consumption. 'Tis a comfortable day, and much People at the Ordination. I go and come on foot in Company of Mr. Zadori, the Hungarian, whom I find to be an Arminian."- EDS.

1 About Sewall's claim to the "Land of Nod," see p. 62 ante. .EDS. 2 Richard Wilkins and his "daughter Thatcher" (referred to, ante, p. 115) have caused us some trouble. Undoubtedly she was Susanna, second wife of Rev. Peter Thatcher, and widow of Rev. John Bailey or Bayley. Bailey's first wife, Lydia, died April 12, 1690, and he died, as his tombstone in the Granary witnesses, Dec. 12, 1697. His widow, Susanna, mentioned in his will, married, Dec. 25, 1699, Rev. Peter Thatcher, of Milton. Her tombstone, at Milton, bears the following inscription: "Here lies the remains of Mrs. Susanna Thacher, second wife of the Rev. Peter Thacher,

brought in the coach to Boston, Dec 12; buried Dec 13 in the uper end of the South-burying place.1 I went to the Burying as I came from Charlestown Court. Son

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who died Sept. 4, 1724, æt. 59 yrs.' She was, therefore, younger than Comfort, if we are to trust Dunton. Her will (Suff. Wills, lib. 23, fol. 380) mentions her dear kinsman, Mr. John Baily, of Boston; sister, Madam Rebecca Brown; kinswoman, Mrs. Margaret Pain; sons, Oxenbridge and Peter Thatcher; daughters, Gulliver and Niles; nieces, Elizabeth, Ann, and Comfort Alison; kinswoman, Susanna Glover.

Her children named were her step-children, being Thatcher's children by his first wife. Her sister, Rebecca Brown, was undoubtedly Rebecca Bayley, who married William Brown, of Salem, as Savage reports, and as undoubtedly was sister of Rev. John Bayley.

Her kinswoman, Mrs. Margaret Pain, was unquestionably Margaret (Stewart), wife of William Payne (see Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, for January, 1875, p. 415), and this gives us the necessary proof. For, as has been shown in Dunton's Letters, published by the Prince Society, Mrs. Wilkins and Mrs. Stewart were sisters; and, therefore, Mrs. Payne and Mrs. Thatcher were first cousins.

As to her three nieces, Elizabeth, Ann, and Comfort Alison, who gave a release for their bequests, to be seen in Suff. Deeds, lib. 38, fol. 212, less can be found. Dunton has much to say about Richard Wilkins, who was his landlord at Boston, and his daughter, Comfort, who was born about 1660. From the name of the niece, Comfort Alison, we may presume that Comfort Wilkins was their mother. The name of Alison is very uncommon here. Savage records that James Allison, of Boston, by wife, Christian, had James in 1650, and John in 1653. Nov. 27, 1690, Samuel Veazie, of Boston, in his will (Suff. Wills, lib. 11, fol. 243), mentions kinswoman, Christian Allison, daughter of James Allison, of New York, mariner.

Dec. 1, 1701, James Allison, of Jamaica, merchant, having died intestate at Boston, administration was granted to William Clarke. (Suff. Deeds, lib. 14, fol. 420.) — Eds.

1 It may be convenient to note that there were then three grave-yards in Boston; the Copp's Hill, the King's Chapel, and the Granary. The last was established about 1660, and was, in the early part of the eighteenth century, called the South Yard. In 1754, the more southerly one, on the Common, was established (called, in 1810, the Central Yard); and, in 1810, the South Burying-ground, on Washington Street, between Newton and Concord Streets, was laid out. The name of the "South Yard" has thus been migratory. Probably there were other private yards at the South End, for it seems that, some five years ago, in widening Eliot Street near Carlton Place, there were found a number of tombstones, which, though not in situ, probably had not been removed far. One of these stones was for the infant son of Edmund Perkins, dated in 1682; the latter being the progenitor of the very distinguished Boston family of the name. - EDS.

Samuel there. Several of the Council and Ministers, Mr. Chiever, Williams, Gloves [to?] Bearers.

Dec 25. Monday, a Storm of Snow, yet many Sleds come to Town, with Wood, Hoops, Coal &c as is usual.

Dec 30. Satterday, Daughter Sewall of Brooklin is brought to Bed of a Daughter, Rebeka. 31. is baptised.

Jan 2. Madam Leverett dies; was taken with an Apoplexy last Thorsday, 2 or 3 Hours after her coming from Lecture. Mrs. Mason dies also this night.

Jan 3 Tedman, the Brazier, opens his Shop and dies. Emons, the shomaker, dies; is older than Benj Emons, his Brother.1

1 Little is in print concerning the Emmons family, though it is still flourishing in Boston.

The first of the name was Thomas, of Newport and Boston, according to Savage, who had three sons, Obadiah, Samuel, and Benjamin. From the dates of their children, they probably stood in this order. Samuel was a shoemaker; but as administration was granted to his widow Oct. 27, 1685 (Suff. Wills, Lib. IX. f. 251), this could not be the man. Probably it was Obadiah, whose death we do not find.

In the next generation Benjamin, son of Benjamin, had a wife, whose obituary is as follows:

"Boston News Letter," Oct. 16, 1740. "On the 8th inst. at night, died Mrs. Mary Emmons, wife to Mr. Benjamin Emmons, in the 67th Year of her Age, and had lived with her Husband 46 Years. She was the only Daughter of Capt. Simon Amory, of Barnstable, in Old England, a worthy Gentleman, Member of the first Church in Boston. Her parents dying when she was very young, her Uncle Drinker, who was for some time Teacher of the Baptist Church here, took the care of her and brought her up in a religious manner. She was a Member of the First Church in Boston about 40 years. She was a loving wife, a tender mother, a quiet and peaceable neighbour, and a good Christian; one who walked with God, and whose Life and Conversation was very inoffensive. She has left one only Son and two Grand

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sons.

Another branch claims especial notice. Samuel Emmons, by wife, Mary Scott, had a son, Nathaniel, born Feb. 9, 1669-70, who doubtless married Mary Warmall, Sept. 15, 1698. He had three children, - a son, Nathaniel, born in 1699, who died young; and a second Nathaniel, born in November, 1703. Administration was granted to the widow, Mary, Feb. 1, 1721.

The son, Nathaniel Emmons, was one of the early portrait-painters in Boston. He died May 19, 1740, aged thirty-six years and seven mouths, and was buried in the Granary. Administration on estate of Nathaniel Emmons, painter-stainer, was granted to the widow, Mary, June 3, 1740 (Suff. Wills,

Monday, Jan 1. 170 Col. Hobbey's Negro comes about 8 or 9 mane and sends in by David to have leave to give me a Levit1 and wish me a merry new year. I admitted it gave him 3 Reals. Sounded very well.

Jan 5th I dine at Mr. Paul Dudley's with the Gov', Lt Gov', Capt. Sam. Appleton, Mr. Colman, Mr. White, Mr. Antho. Stoddard.

Jan! 6. Begins to be some heat between the Gov and the Deputies. At last the Gov' sends in Mr. Secretary, Mr. Em Hutchinson and Mr. Stoddard, to prorogue the Assembly to the 21. Febr. at 10. m. At first the Deputies seem'd to be against Prorogation; afterward sent in Capt. Checkly to say, That by reason of the thinness of their House, Shortness and Coldness of the days, inclined to a Prorogation. Speaker intimated their Desire of a Fast.

Monday, January, 8. I went to the Funeral of Mrs. Johaña Mason. She was a vertuous, pious woman, in thè 70th year of her Age. Then went to the Council-Chamber, and from thence with the Governour to the Funeral of Madam Sarah Leverett; Bearers, Gov Dudley, W Winthrop; Elisha Hutchinson, S. Sewall; Peter Sergeant, Em Hutchinson. Had very warm discourse with the Gov about Philip Morse, after came from the Tomb, at Mr. Cook's.

Thorsday, Jan! 11th The Gov and his Lady essaying to come from Charlestown to Boston in their Slay, 4 Horses, two Troopers riding before them, First the Troopers fell into the water, and then the Gov' making a

—a blast of a trumpet. — EDs.

Lib. XXXV. f. 32, 392). The inventory amounts to £634: among the items are eight mezzotint pictures, 64s.; two pictures, 20s.; one hundred brushes, £8.10; two pictures, 15s. ; sundry picture frames, 10s.; sundry colours, ground, £5; and the Hon. Judge Sewall's picture, £20. This was, of course, the portrait now in possession of Samuel Sewall, of Burlington, Mass., which has been engraved, and is quite familiar to collectors. — Eds.

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