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Nathaniel Sparhawk (search for this): chapter 14
by his administrator, John C. Jones; his real estate, which consisted of about 22 acres in Medford and 6 1/4 acres in Weston, was sold by his administrator, and after the payment of debts, the balance was ordered to be paid to his surviving brother and sister, Isaac Clewly and Bathsheba Wetherbee, and to the children of his deceased sister, Anna Jones. Sir William Pepperell was the grandson of the first Sir William Pepperell of Kittery, Me., and the son of Elizabeth (Pepperell) and Nathaniel Sparhawk of Kittery, and was named William Pepperell Sparhawk. In accordance with the terms of his grandfather's will, on his coming of age he procured an act of legislature to drop the name of Sparhawk and call himself William Pepperell, and later he was allowed to take his grandfather's title also. He was proscribed and banished and his estate confiscated. He went to England in 1775, and his wife, Elizabeth, a daughter of Isaac Royall, died on the passage. He died in England, 1816, and wi
James Prescott Joseph Hosmer (search for this): chapter 14
e Estate of the Persons therein mentioned for the Reasons in the same Act set forth are declared to be forfeited & ordered to be confiscated to the use of the Government, And Whereas by another Act of the same Court passed in the same Year the Estates of all Persons guilty of the Crimes therein mentioned & described are made confiscable in manner as by the same Act is provided. And by another Act passed in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & eighty one empowering us James Prescott Joseph Hosmer and Samuel Thatcher Esqrs to make sale of certain Estates situate in the County of Middlesex aforesaid confiscated as aforesaid to the Use of the Government. And there being a due & legal Confiscation of the Estate of Joseph Thompson Merchant situate in Medford in the County aforesaid; then follows the description of the land as in an ordinary deed. In this way 6 acres of salt marsh bordering on Medford river were sold at public vendue to Ebenezer Hall, Jr., for £ 70; a dwelling
Susannah Brooks (search for this): chapter 14
the records of his real estate transactions in the Registry of Deeds at East Cambridge extending from 1759 to 1774, and his occupation is given therein as merchant. He had several sisters who married and settled in Medford: Sarah, the wife of Jonathan Tufts; Mary, of Samuel Kidder; Frances, of Joseph Calef; Ruth, of Benjamin Floyd; Susannah, of Ebenezer Brooks; and one brother, William, who died unmarried. At the settlement of the dower estate, Joseph and two sisters, Ruth Floyd and Susannah Brooks, were the only surviving children, and that part of the estate, after setting aside two shares for the heirs of Joseph, now an absentee, was assigned to Samuel Kidder, a grandson. Sabine states that in June, 1775, news reached the Provincial Congress that the Irvings of Boston had fitted out under color of chartering to Thompson, a schooner of their own, to make a voyage to New Providence to procure provision for the British troops shut up in Boston. One Captain Samuel Webb was sent
William Royall (search for this): chapter 14
n entailed estate to be held in trust for Mary McIntosh Royall during her life, then to go to her first son and his issue, then to her other sons in succession and, failing sons, to her daughters. Failing heirs in this line, then to his grandson William Pepperell for life, and then to his heirs. Further provision is made that the estate shall descend in the following order; to Elizabeth Royall Pepperell and her heirs; Penelope Vassall, and, after her, to her daughter Elizabeth; then to William Royall, Jacob Royall, and Elia Royall. The estate was not to descend to the heirs of the last three named. This entailed estate was to be called Royall Ville. Failing heirs, one half the income was to be expended to found a hospital in Medford or Charlestown; the other half for the support of a professor of laws at Harvard College. The estate was never sold by the government, so that after the passage of a law for the barring of entails, the heirs were enabled to sell the entailed estate
George Erving (search for this): chapter 14
est in the town where he had lived so long, for in his will he bequeathes to the Church of Medford a piece of plate to the value of £ 10. This is noted in a list of plate belonging to the church November 1, 1793, as a dish for the bread inscribed The legacy of the Hon. Isaac Royal, Esq., to the Church of Christ in Medford, 1781. The children of Isaac Royal were Elizabeth, mentioned in her grandmother's will as one of her god-daughters, and who died young; Mary Mackintosh, the wife of George Erving of Boston (an absentee); a second Elizabeth, who became the wife of Sir William Pepperell, and who died on the voyage to England; Miriam, who married Thomas Savel and some of whose descendants still live in Medford. It seems singular that no mention is made of this last named daughter either in the will of Isaac Royall or in that of his wife Elizabeth, who died in 1770. Isaac Royall left Medford April 16, 1775, as he states in his will, leaving his estate in the care of his friend, D
Tyne (search for this): chapter 14
d and two; of clergymen, eighteen; of merchants and other persons who resided in Boston, two hundred and thirteen; of farmers, mechanics and traders, three hundred and eighty-two. Most of these found new homes in Halifax; some few went to England or to colonies belonging to Great Britain, but all had to commence life anew, exiled from their native land, and many of them stripped of the greater part of their property. The Americans now found time to formulate laws against the loyalists. Van Tyne says In Massachusetts a very perfect piece of machinery was at once invented for weeding out the Tories. The selectmen of each town were to warn a meeting of the inhabitants. Some person firmly attached to the American cause was to be chosen by ballot. The person thus elected was charged with the duty of laying before the courts evidence to prove the inimical character of any inhabitant whom the freeholders charged with favoring the British cause. The Selectmen were to make a list of me
Thomas Savel (search for this): chapter 14
f plate belonging to the church November 1, 1793, as a dish for the bread inscribed The legacy of the Hon. Isaac Royal, Esq., to the Church of Christ in Medford, 1781. The children of Isaac Royal were Elizabeth, mentioned in her grandmother's will as one of her god-daughters, and who died young; Mary Mackintosh, the wife of George Erving of Boston (an absentee); a second Elizabeth, who became the wife of Sir William Pepperell, and who died on the voyage to England; Miriam, who married Thomas Savel and some of whose descendants still live in Medford. It seems singular that no mention is made of this last named daughter either in the will of Isaac Royall or in that of his wife Elizabeth, who died in 1770. Isaac Royall left Medford April 16, 1775, as he states in his will, leaving his estate in the care of his friend, Dr. Simon Tufts. It was his intention to retire for a time to his estate in Antigua, but finding it impossible to obtain a passage thither, he went to Halifax and f
Elizabeth Mackintosh (search for this): chapter 14
Vassall of Cambridge, who died about 1769. His brother John, who built the Longfellow house, left several children, one of whom (John) married Elizabeth, the daughter of Ann and Robert Oliver; his sister, Elizabeth Vassall, married Ann Oliver's son Thomas, who was the last royal lieutenant-governor, and who suffered at the hands of a Cambridge mob because of his appointment as one of the mandamus councillors. Isaac Royall of Medford was married in Kings Chapel, March 27, 1738, to Elizabeth Mackintosh, and lived on the estate left by his father in Charlestown (afterward a part of Medford). Here his children were born and brought up and here he delighted to entertain his friends after a right royal fashion. He was a good citizen, interested in all that concerned the town and colony, loved and respected by his fellow townsmen, and very liberal. In the parish records of the First Church of Medford maybe found the following: 1755, August 3. Received a Folio Bible of the Honble I. Ro
Rumford (search for this): chapter 14
, resided here. Both were descended from the early settlers; Isaac Royall from William Ryall who first settled at Salem, having a large grant of land called Ryall Side (a name still applied to a part of Beverly), and who early removed to Maine; Joseph Thompson, from James Thompson who came to Charlestown (1630) and who subsequently became one of the founders of Woburn. Daniel Thompson, the martyr hero of Woburn who fell at the Battle of Lexington, and Benjamin Thompson, better known as Count Rumford, descended from the same stock. Isaac Royall was born on the island of Antigua, 1719, and was the son of Isaac and Elizabeth Royall. It may be inferred from various items in the account of Jacob Royall, the executor of his father's will, that young Isaac, together with a brother William and his sister Penelope, were sent to New England to be educated. Jacob seems to have acted as his brother's agent until he came to Charlestown, even making the purchase of the Usher estate, of whic
Elizabeth Royall Pepperell (search for this): chapter 14
the house and land in Walpole, he leaves in trust to Dr. Simon Tufts, Jacob Royall and Thomas Palmer as an entailed estate to be held in trust for Mary McIntosh Royall during her life, then to go to her first son and his issue, then to her other sons in succession and, failing sons, to her daughters. Failing heirs in this line, then to his grandson William Pepperell for life, and then to his heirs. Further provision is made that the estate shall descend in the following order; to Elizabeth Royall Pepperell and her heirs; Penelope Vassall, and, after her, to her daughter Elizabeth; then to William Royall, Jacob Royall, and Elia Royall. The estate was not to descend to the heirs of the last three named. This entailed estate was to be called Royall Ville. Failing heirs, one half the income was to be expended to found a hospital in Medford or Charlestown; the other half for the support of a professor of laws at Harvard College. The estate was never sold by the government, so that
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