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Marye Holman (search for this): chapter 19
verdict for the defendant, costs of court, eight shillings and four pence. The decision in the other case I copy from the original verdict, preserved on file, as it is more full and circumstantial than the record: Concerning the case between Marye Holman, plaintive and John Gibson, junr. defendant, we find for the plaintive, that the said John Gibson shall make acknowledgement that he hath wronged and scandalously slandered Marye Holman, by speeches irregularly, rashly, and sudden spoken, for Marye Holman, by speeches irregularly, rashly, and sudden spoken, for which he desire to be humbled and sorry for the same; and if he refuse to make this acknowledgement in the present court, that then we do enjoin John Gibson to pay to the plaintive the full sum of five pounds; and we also give the plaintive cost of court. To which the Recorder appended this memorandum: John Gibson junr. acknowledged in court that, whereas he is legally convicted of a slanderous speech concerning Mary Holman, he is heartily sorry for his evil thereby committed against God, and w
Jesus Christ (search for this): chapter 19
der, in your Governor's house at Boston, and said to him, Wenlock, I am a mortal man, and die I must, and that ere long, and I must appear at the tribunal-seat of Christ, and must give an account for my deeds in the body; and I believe it will be my greatest glory in that day, that I have given my vote for thee to be soundly whipp 260-264. At the County Court, October 6, 1663, Benanuel Bowers appearing before the court, and being convicted of absenting himself from the public ordinances of Christ on the Lord's days, by his own confession, for about a quarter of a year past, and of entertaining Quakers into his family two several times; on his examination hll you, that I did attend God's worship according to my faith and conscience, and according to Scripture which saith, where two or three are assembled together in Christ's name he is in the midst of them. And this I can prove by those that assaulted us (on the first day of the week) when we were met to worship God. At that very
W. Cambridge (search for this): chapter 19
inary absenting himself from the ordinance of baptism, was admonished and convicted of his evil therein by the court. Up to this time Mr. Bowers had reresided in Cambridge, near the junction of North Avenue and Milk Street. Soon afterwards he received from his father a deed of twenty acres in Charlestown, now Somerville, adjoining Cambridge line, on which lot he probably resided during the remainder of his life; yet in almost all respects his relations continued to be more intimate with Cambridge than with Charlestown. In the same year, 1656, an accursed and pernicious sect of heretics lately risen up in the world who are commonly called Quakers appeared in Boston. Severe measures were adopted for their suppression, but in vain. Neither fines, imprisonment, nor scourging, would turn them aside from their purpose; and they even submitted to death, rather than to depart, or to forbear disturbing the public peace. Some at Salem, Hampton, Newbury, and other places, for disorderl
John Bonner (search for this): chapter 19
law of armes he ought to dy and reason good shoud yeald Unwise art thou against the streame to strive For in thy enterprise thouart not like to thrive Thy forces are to weake thou art not like to conquer For with a power thou hast ingagd that will thy forces scatter Of him thats wise thou counsell didst not take Thy teachers like unto thyself Ime sorry for thy sake Though of Christianity profession thou dost make And yet thy neighbor doest oppress only for conscience sake Tho art as blind as Bonner was that burnt the martyrs at the stake To the proud belongs the fall he surely shall comm downe Out of his throne be brought he shall mans pride must come to th ground Abomminable if be his deed soe in the end heas like to speed Dread belongs to the evell Almighty God will recompence Fifteen more lines were written; but they are so mutilated as to be illegible. From Cambridge Prison March 3, 1677. Benanuell Bower. I do attest that on ye5th of March last Elizabeth ye wife of B
John Kendall (search for this): chapter 19
in this kind was a woman of Cambridge, against whom a principal evidence was a Watertown nurse, who testified that the said Kendal I cannot certainly identify this person. The only known early inhabitant of Cambridge bearing this name was John Kendall, who resided on the south side of the river, and married Elizabeth, widow of Samuel Holley, before Sept. 8, 1646, when the estate was sold to Edward Jackson; but whether this were the woman mentioned by Hale is problematical (so was the accuse quickly changed its color and dyed in a few hours. The court took this evidence among others, the said Genings not knowing of it. But after Kendal was executed (who also denyed her guilt to the death), Mr. Rich. Brown, knowing better things of Kendall, asked said Genings if they suspected her to bewitch their child; they answered, No. But they judged the true cause of the child's death to be thus; viz., the nurse had the night before carryed out the child and kept it abroad in the cold a long
Eliakim Wardel (search for this): chapter 19
son went through the streets of Salem naked as she came into the world, for which she was well whipped. For these and such like disturbances they might be deemed proper subjects either of a mad-house or house of correction, and it is to be lamented that any greater severities were made use of. Hutchinson's Hist. Mass., i. 203, 204. Some of these events are painted in Quaker colors by George Bishop, in a work entitled New England judged by the Spirit of the Lord. Elizabeth, wife of Eliakim Wardel of Hampton, being called before the church at Newbury, as a sign to them she went in (though it was exceeding hard to her modest and shamefaced disposition) naked amongst them, which put them into such a rage, instead of consideration, that they soon laid hands on her and to the next court at Ipswich had her etc. New England judged, etc., p. 376. For this offence she received twenty or thirty cruel stripes, being tyed to the fence post. Ibid., p. 377. Amongst the rest, one Deborah
Charles Sternes (search for this): chapter 19
he names of the witnesses by whom they might be proved. Their deposition is authenticated by the Recorder of the Court: 4 (2) 1660. Jno. Gibson, senr., Rebeccah Gibson, Jno. Gipson, junr., Rebecca Sternes, Martha Belsher, Bethia Michelson, Charles Sternes, Steven ffrances, sworn in Court to their respective evidences; as attests, th. Danforth, R. In defence of her character as an honest, Christian woman, Mrs. Holman submitted two certificates, which yet remain on file, signed by two of themation; the jury having heard their respective pleas and evidences presented in the case do bring in their verdict, finding for the defendants costs of court, fifteen shillings and ten pence.—Winifred Holman, Plt. against Rebecca the wife of Charles Sternes, Deft., in an action of defamation; the jury having heard their respective pleas and evidences presented in the case, and it appearing to the court that the defendant was by God's hand deprived of her natural reason when she expressed those
Jonathan Danforth (search for this): chapter 19
rievously oppressed and slandered by Magistrate Danforth, and desired the church to take notice thereof and single out such of themselves as might take cognizance of his great affliction, using that for a motive, that he that did him the wrong was a member of the church. Many other words did he utter to the like purpose in the audience of the abovesaid assembly. The above written being truth for substance, and the very words that he then uttered as near as I can remember. 9, 5th, 77. JNo. Danforth. No immediate action seems to have been had by the court. But on the 20th of November, after Bowers was discharged from prison in accordance with the order of the General Court before mentioned, the foregoing deposition was substantially confirmed by the oaths of five witnesses, and the court rendered judgment Dec. 18, 1677: Benanuel Bowers and Elizabeth Bowers his wife appearing before the Court to answer the presentment of the Grand Jury for reproaching and slandering Thomas Danfo
Benanuel Bowers (search for this): chapter 19
ents, except his kinsman Benanuel Bowers, Mr. Bowers married, Dec. 9, 1653, Elizabeth Dunster, whvil therein by the court. Up to this time Mr. Bowers had reresided in Cambridge, near the junctioto enforce the law against them; and that Benanuel Bowers, who had formerly suffered as a Baptist, t. 2, 1677, The remonstrance exhibited by Benanuel Bowers to the General Court in May last being, bot the full measure of punishment endured by Mr. Bowers. Naturally impatient of confinement, he gavye5th of March last Elizabeth ye wife of Benll Bowers came to my house & put a printed book & this af another's hand it have been written by Benll Bowers owne hand. By mee, Tho. Danforth. Sworn to bing in conclusion of that day's exercise, Benanuel Bowers, standing forth upon one of the benches ithe court. But on the 20th of November, after Bowers was discharged from prison in accordance with he court rendered judgment Dec. 18, 1677: Benanuel Bowers and Elizabeth Bowers his wife appearing b[3 more...]
Increase Mather (search for this): chapter 19
aughter Mary Holman. testimony. verdict At the present time, almost every principal sect into which the Christian Church is divided has its representatives in Cambridge; and the introduction of a new sect produces comparatively little commotion. But in the beginning it was not so. For a few years after the settlement of New England by the Puritans, the churches had rest; but in 1636, the country was miserably distracted by a storm of Antinomian and Famalistical opinions then raised. Mather's Magnalia, Book III., ch. v., § 12. So violent became the controversy, and so great was the apparent danger of civil strife, that many of the heretical party, in Boston, Salem, Newbury, Roxbury, Ipswich, and Charlestown, were disarmed. Mass. Col. Rec., i. 211, 212. The Cambridge church, however, seems to have escaped infection; and none of its members were included among the disaffected and supposed dangerous class. The vigilancy of Mr. Shepard was blessed ..... for the preservation of
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