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Coke (search for this): chapter 1
eeches against the government and the church at Salem; he was censured, whipped, lost his ears, and was banished the plantation. Of this affair Thomas Morton, in his New England Canaan, represents Ratcliffe as Mr. Innocence Faircloth, sent over by Mr. Matthias Charterparty, an injured man whose chief offence was asking payment of his debts in his sickness. Ratcliffe, Morton, and Sir Christopher Gardiner circulated stories, in refutation of which Capt. Thomas Wiggin, in 1632, writes Secretary Coke of his having just returned from New England, and speaks of them as scandalous characters, and their information false. Morton published his New Canaan in 1637. Cradock writes to Governor Winthrop of a Mooreton he met on the Exchange in London, whom he would not talk with until he called Captain Pierce of the Mayflower as a witness to the conversation. November 7, 1632, Cradock was fined £ 4 for his men being absent from training diverse times. March 4, 1633-4, the Ware att Mis
Philip Ratcliffe (search for this): chapter 1
s agent, happily came in the spring. This may refer to Capt. Daniel Patrick, who was at Watertown, and killed at Stamford, Conn., in 1643. June 14, 1631, Philip Ratcliffe, a servant of Mr. Cradock, was convicted of malicious and scandalous speeches against the government and the church at Salem; he was censured, whipped, lost his ears, and was banished the plantation. Of this affair Thomas Morton, in his New England Canaan, represents Ratcliffe as Mr. Innocence Faircloth, sent over by Mr. Matthias Charterparty, an injured man whose chief offence was asking payment of his debts in his sickness. Ratcliffe, Morton, and Sir Christopher Gardiner circulRatcliffe, Morton, and Sir Christopher Gardiner circulated stories, in refutation of which Capt. Thomas Wiggin, in 1632, writes Secretary Coke of his having just returned from New England, and speaks of them as scandalous characters, and their information false. Morton published his New Canaan in 1637. Cradock writes to Governor Winthrop of a Mooreton he met on the Exchange in Lon
Matthew Cradock (search for this): chapter 1
Matthew Cradock. by Walter K. Watkins of Malden. [Read before the Medford Historical Society, ed there. It was in this locality that Governor Cradock passed several years of his youth, amongsplan for the payment of £ 1,200, disbursed by Cradock. November 25 and 30 and December 1, 1629, Ge's farm. Under date of September 13, 1636, Cradock writes to Governor Winthrop, mainly in regardthis that the house stood in the east part of Cradock's lands, adjoining Wilson and Nowell lands, iseem there was none other. April 26, 1641, Cradock grants Josiah Dawstin of Mistick at Medford ic Side and was held valid by Oldham in 1629. Cradock suggested his claim might be prevented by cau His advice seems to have been followed by Cradock's possession of part the land in dispute. obably built in 1634, at the joint expense of Cradock and Edward How, they each owning one-half. Mwgh they have beene verry heavey & greate. Cradock was a member of the Parliament which sat Apri[56 more...]
Trading (search for this): chapter 1
who, with some prticuler bretheren of our Company, have deepeley engaged themselves in their private adventures in these Shipps & those to come, and as we hold these Men that thus deepely adventure in their private, to bee (under God) spetiall Instrumts for the advancing & strenthning of or Plantacon, wch is done by them without any Charge to the Companyes genrall Stock, wherin notwthstanding they are as deepe or deeper engaged than any other, soe being contented to be debarred from all private Trading in furrs for 3 years, wee doe hold it very requisite in all other their desires to give them all accomodacon & furtherance that reasonably may be prpounded by them, or any for them, their good beginings in the infancie of or Plantacon worthylie deserving of us all favour and furtherance. Six shipwrights were sent; two-thirds of their time was to be employed for the general company and one-third for Mr. Cradock and his associates in a private stock. Horses, mares, cows, bulls, and go
Allerton (search for this): chapter 1
d later the half owned by Cradock. The mill race or canal was probably the oldest artificial canal in this part the country. February 1, 1633, Mr. Cradock's house at Marblehead was burnt down about midnight before, there being then in it Mr. Allerton, and many fishermen, whom he employed that season. To this little fishing colony I feel specially indebted, as by the presence of Allerton, of Mayflower fame, his daughter became acquainted with a Dorset man of the colony, one Moses MavericAllerton, of Mayflower fame, his daughter became acquainted with a Dorset man of the colony, one Moses Maverick, and by their marriage a daughter was born, who married; and then, generation by generation, a descent is produced which has furnished a Mayflower ancestry to my family. While Roger Williams was at Salem he seems to have had dealings with Cradock, through his agents, Mayhew and Jolliffe; and for a debt of £ 50 or £ 60 they took payment of his house there, which is still standing at the corner of North and Essex streets, Salem, and known as the Witch House. In 1639, John Stratton of Salem
Robert Panare (search for this): chapter 1
. It would seem by this that the house stood in the east part of Cradock's lands, adjoining Wilson and Nowell lands, in what is now Malden. March 12, 1637-8, a grant of one thousand acres was made to Cradock and five hundred acres for his servants, twenty miles from any plantation. At a court held at Boston, September 3, 1639, Lydia Dastin, wife of Josiah Dastin of Charlestown, a young woman of twenty-six, testified while in the house of Mr. Cradocke at misticke at meat with one Robert Panare he assaulted her, and caused her to cut her hand and her apron, that it was a little before night and her husband coming home late that night she did not make it known till the next evening. This affidavit specially mentions the house of Mr. Cradock, and it would seem there was none other. April 26, 1641, Cradock grants Josiah Dawstin of Mistick at Medford in New England all that my messuage or tenement late in the tenure of the saide Dawstin commonly called Dixes house, together w
Goffe (search for this): chapter 1
ers, p. 491,) In 1628, he is named as one of the eight chief new adventurers to Persia and East Indies, and holding £ 2,000 of stock; and he served on committees of the company for several years. In 1628, he, with Winthrop, Johnson, Dudley, Goffe, and Saltonstall, had joined with several from Dorset and Devon in the planting of that part of New England between the Merrimac and Charles rivers. As such an associate his name appears in the first charter of the colony, which passed the seals induce people of worth and quality to go there with their families, that the government be transferred to New England. The matter was referred to the next meeting, which was held on August 28 and 29, 1629, at the house of the deputy-governor, Mr. Goffe, the governor not being present. By a general consent it was voted to transfer the government. Meetings were held September 19 and 29; at the latter was discussed the legality of the transfer of the government, etc. The governor was commissio
Mathewe Cradocke (search for this): chapter 1
round, as well upland as meadowe, lyeing & being betwixte the lands of Mr Nowell & Mr Wilson, on the east & the ptcion betwixte Misticke bounds, on the west, bounded with Misticke Ryver on the southe & the rocks on the north, is granted to Mr Mathewe Cradocke, mercht, to enjoy to him & his heires for ever. This confirmatory grant is dated March 4, 1634-5. March 3, 1635-6, in running Charlestown bounds, a reservation was made of the proprietary of the farms of Winthrop, Nowell, Cradock, and Wradock and five hundred acres for his servants, twenty miles from any plantation. At a court held at Boston, September 3, 1639, Lydia Dastin, wife of Josiah Dastin of Charlestown, a young woman of twenty-six, testified while in the house of Mr. Cradocke at misticke at meat with one Robert Panare he assaulted her, and caused her to cut her hand and her apron, that it was a little before night and her husband coming home late that night she did not make it known till the next evening. This a
Dorset (search for this): chapter 1
he sides with fair built houses. In 1624, Matthew Cradock appears as one of the signers of a supplication of a generalty of the adventurers trading to the East Indies. (E. I. papers, E. I. papers, p. 491,) In 1628, he is named as one of the eight chief new adventurers to Persia and East Indies, and holding £ 2,000 of stock; and he served on committees of the company for several years. In 1628, he, with Winthrop, Johnson, Dudley, Goffe, and Saltonstall, had joined with several from Dorset and Devon in the planting of that part of New England between the Merrimac and Charles rivers. As such an associate his name appears in the first charter of the colony, which passed the seals, March 4, 1628-9, and is therein named to be the first and present governor of the Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. His duties were to give orders for the assembling of the company to advise and consult on its affairs. He with seven or more of the assistants constituted a General Cour
Thomas Brude (search for this): chapter 1
all accomodacon & furtherance that reasonably may be prpounded by them, or any for them, their good beginings in the infancie of or Plantacon worthylie deserving of us all favour and furtherance. Six shipwrights were sent; two-thirds of their time was to be employed for the general company and one-third for Mr. Cradock and his associates in a private stock. Horses, mares, cows, bulls, and goats shipped by Mr. Cradock were divided equally between him and the company. William Ryall and Thomas Brude, coopers and cleavers of timber, were to divide their time equally for the governor and the company. Richard Ewstead, wheelwright, two-thirds of his labor for the company, one-third for the governor. In a second letter of May 28, 1629, of two gardners he was content the company have use of one. Of three ships sent, the governor and his partners risked one-half, the company one-half; all provision for fishing and shipping of the cattle sent also was equally divided. The cattle then
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