esse yt about 10 dayes sence Percifall Greene came to his house and brought a turkie wrapt up in a coate and left it there, and was dressed by his wife, and baked in the oven, and in the night following it was eaten by Mr. Pelham, John Wise, and Russell, studts.
etc. Goodwife Gibson his wife do confesse yt wt is above related is ye truth, and yt she suspected it not to be stoalen, but that Mr. Pelham said he came by it honestly, and was frequently at their house.
23 (7) 1672. The result appea have flourished in Cambridge.
During the first century after the foundation of the town, licenses were granted to the following named persons (and perhaps others) besides those who have already been mentioned:—
Daniel Champney, 1691.
William Russell, 1696-1715.
Samuel Phipps, 1707-1709.
Elizabeth Phipps, 1710-1712.
Edward Marrett, 1709.
Susanna Stacey, 1709, 1713-1715.
Hannah Stacey, 1712, 1716-1724.
Ruth Child, 1713-1715.
Samuel Robinson, 1714-1720.
John Smith,
hn Druse [killed], Jonathan Dunster, Thomas Foster, Stephen Francis, Thomas Frost, Simon Gates, John Gibson, Samuel Gibson, Samuel Goffe, Nathaniel Green, John Hastings, Nathaniel Healy, Zachariah Hicks, Jacob Hill, Justinian Holden, Sebeas Jackson, Ambrose McFassett, Daniel Magennis, Amos Marrett, Thomas Mitchelson, John Needham, Thomas Oliver, Zachariah Paddlefoot, John Park, Solomon Phipps, Henry Prentice, James Prentice, Solomon Prentice, William Reed, Samuel Robbins, Jason Russell, William Russell, John Smith, Joseph Smith, Nathaniel Smith, Samuel Smith, John Squire, John Stedman, Andrew Stimson [or Stevenson], John Streeter, Gershom Swan, John Wellington, Jacob Willard, John Winter.
Captain Daniel Gookin was by the whole Court chosen and appointed to be sergeant major of the regiment of Middlesex, May 5, 1676.
Mass. Col. Rec., v. 83. Before this election, however, he performed the duties proper to that office.
Thus, on the 11th of January, 1675-6, the committee of milit
s Cutler,* 1685.
Aaron Bordman,* 1686.
Thomas Andrews,* 1686.
Ebenezer Wiswall,* 1686.
Philip Russell, 1686, 1700, 1701.
Edward Winship, 1691-1693, 1695– 1701.
James Oliver, 1694, 1698, 1699.
Abraham Hill, 1695, 1696.
William Russell, 1697, 1700-1702, 1704, 1705, 1712-1714.
Joseph Simons, 1698, 1699.
William Reed, 1698, 1699.
John Leverett, 1699, 1700.
Samuel Sparhawk, 1701-1705, 1709, 1710.
Samuel Cooper, 1702-1710, 1712– 1716.
Andrew Bordman [2d], 1708.
Thomas Oliver, 1694, 1697-1699, 1706, 1715.
Josiah Parker, 1699.
Francis Bowman, 1699-1709, 1711.
Jonathan Remington, 1700.
Edward Winship, 1700, 1701.
John Oldham, 1700, 1701, 1710-1714, 1716, 1718, 1719, 1721, 1727.
William Russell, 1700, 1701, 1704, 1705, 1712, 1714.
Philip Russell, 1700, 1701.
Samuel Sparhawk, 1701, 1703-1705, 1707-1709.
Andrew Bordman, 1702, 1707, 1709– 1713, 1715, 1716, 1718.
Samuel Cooper, 1704, 1705, 1708, 1709, 1714.
Samuel Kidder<
g, again a wid., in 1696; her last husband, Thomas Brown, Sen., on the common having d. 3 Nov. 1688.
Thomas, brother of Edward (2), had a grant of land in 1645.
By w. Isabel (Mitchell calls her Elizabeth), he had Mary, m. Israel Mead 26 Feb. 1669-70; Hannah, b. 4 Mar. 1658, m. Stephen Francis 27 Dec. 1670, and d. 2 Ap. 1683; Lydia, b.——,m . Gershom Cutter 6 Mar. 1677-8, and perhaps others.
His w. Isabel d. 28 Ap 1682, and he m Martha, wid. of Humphrey Bradshaw, and formerly wid. of William Russell, 24 May 1683.
He d. about 1691; his Inventory is dated 5 Oct. 1691; his w. Martha d. about 1694.
1. William, s. of Mary (1), by w. Grace, had Mary, b. 4 Nov. 1657.
He removed to Concord and d. 10 Mar. 1666-7.
5. John, s. of Mary (1), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Percival Green, 4 Ap. 1656, and had Elizabeth, b. 18 Sept. 1658, m,. John Oldham; John, b. 13 Dec. 1661; William, b. prob.
1664, d. at Medf.
4 Jan. 1683-4, a. 19; Nathaniel, b. 7 July 1666; Mary, b. 23 Oct. 1668, m. John Brad