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sident, Fellows, and Students, and entertained in the Hall with a congratulatory Latin Oration, by Mr. Thomas Foxcroft: after which his Excellency was pleased to take a view of the Library, and then proceeded on his journey to Lynn, etc. Col. Edmund Goffe was elected Representative, June 6, 1721. Samuel Smith was charged with putting in two votes in the first voting for Representative, made oath that he put in but one vote for Representative. Also Daniel Gookin being charged with putting inton, Blowers, &c., put into mourning. John Colman, Caswell, &c., all that had been apprentices to him, were also. 90 dozen of gloves were bought, and none of any figure but what had gloves sent 'em. A bill of expenses at the funeral of Col. Edmund Goffe, in October, 1740, remains on file in the Probate Office; it was rendered by Edmund Trowbridge, Esq., grand nephew of the deceased. Among the charges are these:— To 5 pair of gloves at 7s. 6d., and a mourning weed,£1176 To a pair of sh
orne in proportion to the respective valuations of said city and town; and it was provided that a draw, not less than thirty-two feet wide, should be constructed at an equal distance from each abutment, that the opening in the middle of said draw should be the dividing line between Cambridge and Brighton at that point, and that thereafter each corporation should maintain its half part of the whole structure at its own expense. Mass. Spec. Laws, XI. 280. In June, 1738, a petition of Edmund Goffe, William Brattle, and others of Cambridge, for liberty to establish a ferry between Cambridge and Boston, of which the profits should be paid to Harvard College, also a similar petition of Hugh Hall and others of Boston, and a petition of John Staniford of Boston for liberty to construct a bridge from a point near the copper works in Boston to Col. Phips' farm (now East Cambridge) were severally referred to the next General Court, Printed Journal House of Representatives. and both ent
unsatisfactory, that the Court appointed a committee to agree with carpenters and other workmen to erect and build a good well-timbered house in Cambridge for a Prison, for the accommodation of a keeper, to be thirty-six foot long, and for width agreeable to the foundation of the old Goal or Prison, two storeys high, fifteen foot stud, with a stack of chymneys in the middle, to be done and finished workmanlike, as soon as may be conveniently effected. . . . . Further ordered, that Coll. Edmund Goffe, the present Sheriff, repaire the chymneys in the new Goal, and what also may be needfull for the reception of and securing of criminals. Until 1720, the Common extended to Linnaean Street, and included also a few acres, lying in a nearly square form, at the northwesterly corner of Linnaean Street and North Avenue. Delineated on an old plan in the City Hall. This extreme point of the Common was set apart as a Place of execution, or Gallows lot, as it was more familiarly called. An
years before 1708. Ibid., p. 456. In the expedition against Port Royal, which sailed from Nantasket Sept. 18, 1710, Edmund Goffe was Lieut.-colonel of the regiment whereof William Tailer was Colonel and William Dudley was Major. Samuel Gookin (grhips accepted to ride the circle for hastening the troops (Gookin commanded a company in this expedition). June 23, Lieut.-col. Goffe and Major Jonas Bond to provide quarters for the troops of the north of Charles River, appointed to rendezvous at Cambridge. Mass. Arch., LXXI. 806, 807. Col. Edmund Goffe submitted a memorial to Lieut.—gov. Dummer, in 1724, when the Province was engaged in a war with the Indians, representing that in the month of July last past, he was commissionated andriah Hicks, clerk, and John Manning, in 1724; Sergeant Simon Holden, in 1725, and John Oldham, in 1740 Next after Colonel Goffe, William Brattle was for many years the most prominent military character. He attained the rank of Major as early as
s Oliver, 1692, 1693, 1698, 1701-1713. John Leverett, 1696, 1699, 1700, 1706. Speaker in 1700. Jona. Remington, 1714, 1715, 1717, 1718, 1722-1728. Edmund Goffe, 1716, 1720, 1721. Andrew Bordman, 1719, 1720. Spencer Phips, 1721. William Brattle, 1729-1733, 1735, 1736, 1754, 1755, 1770. Samuel Danforth, 17341714, 1730. Daniel Dana, 1715, 1725. William Cutter, 1715, 1718-1721. Samuel Kidder, 1716, 1719-1721. Nath. Sparhawk, 1716-1724, 1726, 1727, 1730. Edmund Goffe, 1717, 1718. Samuel Bowman, 1722-1724, 1726, 1727, 1735-1743. John Bradish, 1725, 1729, 1730, 1732, 1735, 1736. Francis Foxcroft, Jr., 1725, 1728, 173 Joseph Coolidge, 1710, 1714. Joseph Bowman, 1712. Moses Bordman, 1714, 1717, 1733– 1736. William Cutter, 1716. Jonathan Remington [2d], 1717. Edmund Goffe, 1717. Nath. Sparhawk, 1717, 1722-1724, 1726. John Dickson, 1717-1720, 1722, 1723. John Bradish, 1719-1721, 1725, 1726, 1729, 1732. Daniel Dana, 1720
en of Danvers, and dau. of Rev. Joseph Gerrish of Wenham; she d. at Medford 26 Nov. 1747. See pp. 282-287. 4. Edward, s. of Thomas (1), settled in Marblehead, was a Captain, m. Mary, dau. of John Legg, and d. in 1719, and his w. Mary m. Col. Edmund Goffe 24 July 1728. 5. William, s. of William (3), m. Katherine, dau. of Gov. Gurdon Salton-stall, 23 Nov. 1727, and had William, b. 4. Jan. 1728-9, d. 14 Oct. 1730; Katherine, b. 2 June 1730, m. John Mico Wendell 13 Aug. 1752, and d. 30 Jan. been the mother of 17 children, eight of whom survived her; one of them was Chief Justice Stephen Sewall, who d. in Sept. 1760; Jonathan, b. about 1667, grad. H. C. 1687, and d. without children 14 Mar. 1694-5, leaving wid. Hannah, who m. Col. Edmund Goffe; she was dau. of Simon Lynde, and had been w. of John Bigg of Boston. Mitchelson, Edward (otherwise written, Mitcheson, Michason, Michelson, and Micherson), m. Ruth Bushell, who came to New England in 1635. His children were, Ruth, b. 8
, 1707 to 1717; Treasurer, 1713 to 1715; Bachelor of Divinity, 1692; Fellow of the Royal Society; ordained at Cambridge 25 Nov. 1696, where he d. 15 Feb. 1716-17, a. 54. His w. Elizabeth d. 28 July 1715, and he m. Elizabeth, widow of Rev. Joseph Green of Danvers, and dau. of Rev. Joseph Gerrish of Wenham; she d. at Medford 26 Nov. 1747. See pp. 282-287. 4. Edward, s. of Thomas (1), settled in Marblehead, was a Captain, m. Mary, dau. of John Legg, and d. in 1719, and his w. Mary m. Col. Edmund Goffe 24 July 1728. 5. William, s. of William (3), m. Katherine, dau. of Gov. Gurdon Salton-stall, 23 Nov. 1727, and had William, b. 4. Jan. 1728-9, d. 14 Oct. 1730; Katherine, b. 2 June 1730, m. John Mico Wendell 13 Aug. 1752, and d. 30 Jan. 1821; Mary, bap. 18 March 1732-3; Elizabeth, bap. 16 June 1734; Sarah, bap. 20 June 1736; William, bap. 8 Oct. 1738; Lucy, bap. 30 Mar. 1740; Thomas, bap. 14 Feb. 1741-2; Elizabeth, bap. 8 May 1743. Only Katherine and Thomas survived to maturity.
6 July 1687, but prob. d. unm. before 1691, as no provision was made for him or his representatives in the settlement of his mother's estate in that year; Margaret, b. 1664, m. Maj. Stephen Sewall of Salem 13 June 1682, and d. 20 Jan. 1735-6, having been the mother of 17 children, eight of whom survived her; one of them was Chief Justice Stephen Sewall, who d. in Sept. 1760; Jonathan, b. about 1667, grad. H. C. 1687, and d. without children 14 Mar. 1694-5, leaving wid. Hannah, who m. Col. Edmund Goffe; she was dau. of Simon Lynde, and had been w. of John Bigg of Boston. Mitchelson, Edward (otherwise written, Mitcheson, Michason, Michelson, and Micherson), m. Ruth Bushell, who came to New England in 1635. His children were, Ruth, b. 8 Nov. 1638, m. John Green 20 Oct. 1656; Thomas, b. Sept. 1639; Bethia, b. 6 Dec. 1642, m. Daniel Weld; Edward, b. 11 Nov. 1644, grad. H. C. 1665, physician, lost at sea with Capt. Scarlet 1666; Elizabeth, b. 29 Aug. 1646, m. Theodore Atkinson, Jr.,