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Descendants of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick of Salem, Massachusetts
This book contains not only the genealogy and descendants of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick
of Salem, Massachusetts, but some historical writings on the Quakers.
Descendants of Lawrence and Cassandra
Southwick of Salem, Massachusetts
Table of Contents
THE SOUTHWICK GENEALOGY. PREAMBLE
FIRST GENERATION. 1.
SECOND GENERATION. 2.
THIRD GENERATION. 10.
33.
FOURTH GENERATION. 39.
3038. Forty Shillings. STATE OF RHODE
ISLAND.
Two Pounds. Printed by SOUTHWICK & BARBER.
Death to Counterfeit.
From NEWPORT ILLUSTRATED, by George O.
Mason.
From COLONIAL HISTORY OF R. I.
NEWPORT PRINTERS.
Copy of Jonathan Southwick's Will.
FIFTH GENERATION. 98.
Copy of Bill.
BIOGRAPHY OF SOLOMON SOUTHWICK.
Extract from "RANDOM RECOLLECTIONS."
Copy of fosiah Southwick's Will.
SIXTH GENERATION. 303.
Obituary Notice of PHEBE SOUTHWICK MARSH.
IN MEMORIAM. By Rev. Nathan S. Hill.
IN MEMORIAM. By Rev. Nathan S. Hill.
IN MEMORIAM. By Rev. Nathan S. Hill.
IN MEMORIAM. By Rev. Nathan S. Hill.
OBITUARY.
"HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE."
828.
GENEALOGY
OF THE
DESCENDANTS OF
LAWRENCE AND CASSANDRA
SOUTHWICK
OF SALEM, MASS.
The original emigrants, and the ancestors
of the families
who have since borne his name.
BY
JAMES M. CALLER, OF SALEM, MASS.
MRS. M. A. OBER, OF SCIOTA N.Y.
SALEM, MASS.: J. H. CHOATE & CO.,PRINTERS,1881
INTRODUCTION.
IT is a laudable part of human nature to desire to know as
much as is possible of its Ancestry, in order to contemplate
the various forms of religion and government, and their
civilizing influences. It is paradoxical that any religion
should ever have been vindictive; robbing, torturing and
murdering (for the glory of God and the salvation of souls)
all who would not conform to their bigoted and tyrannical
ideas of religious duty.
But amidst all these persecutions there have been a few noble
and fearless people who adopted the motto that "resistance to
tyrants was obedience to God," thereby planting the good seed
which has grown by slow and sure growth, developing the truest
and best theocracy and democracy.
It is always interesting and profitable to read the sayings
and doings of good, noble, independent people, who have
battled heroically against wrong in all ages and who have been
martyrs for truth's sake.
It is a sad and dark picture to contemplate the history of the
Puritans, who fled from persecutions only to become worse
persecutors in turn; leaving homes and kindred, coming to this
then wilderness country to enjoy religious liberty, and by
their dishonest practices with the Indians incurring not only
their contempt but their hatred and vengeance. It is said the
Puritans were continually in danger of the tomahawk of the
Indian
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There, and the perfidy of a corrupt and profligate Court in
England. The Indians were not long in discovering the want of
good faith and common honesty practised by the Puritans, hence
their hostility, which was dreadful in the pious Puritans'
eyes. How different was the example of William Penn, who
founded a colony and dealt honestly with the Indians, and
whose treaty with them, as Voltaire says, "was the only treaty
ever made which was not sworn to, and the only treaty which
was ever sacredly observed."
In the course of thirty-five years after the landing of the
Pilgrims in 1620, there came to these shores a peaceloving
people called Friends or Quakers, who were a sober,
industrious, thrifty, truth-loving people, who soon came under
the terrible scourge of these intolerant Puritans, and were
whipped, imprisoned, fined, banished and hung for having the
audacity to love and embrace the truth as taught by George
Fox.
It is said that the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the
Church, so of the noble martyrs who shed their blood in the
cause of truth and honest religion, and who have taught bigots
in religion that honesty is the only true basis for any
religion, and have produced a public sentiment which has
broken the chains of the slave and has taught people the
simple lesson that in order to have your rights respected you
must respect the rights of others.
In noble contrast with Governor John Endicott, of
Massachusetts, stands William Penn, who founded a Colony on
the principle of equal and exact justice to all, white, red
and black; he tolerated and respected all religious opinions,
and would not take the large sum of $80,000 due his father,
Admiral William Penn, from the English government, because it
was earned in War,
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but took in lieu a deed of Pennsylvania, and then came over
and told the Indians that although he had a deed of their
lands he did not consider that he owned a foot of it. For
seventy years no white person was killed in Pennsylvania by
the Indians, and they did not carry weapons of defence.
There is a tradition that the Quaker garb is a passport of
safety to the wearer to this day amongst the Indians on our
Continent.
Lord Baltimore, a Roman Catholic, founded a colony where all
religions could be enjoyed without molestation. Roger
Williams, a Baptist, founded a colony where all religious
opinions were protected.
That nobility which prefers Right to Power is the truest
Aristocracy of the world.
JAS. M. CALLER.
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THE
SOUTHWICK GENEALOGY.
PREAMBLE
Setting forth reasons and causes for separating and dissenting
from the Established Church of the old Colony of Massachusetts
Bay by the Quakers in 1656.
WHEN from a clear conviction of our inherent rights and duties
as conscientious and humble followers of that noble man George
Fox, the apostle of peace and good-will on earth; who dared
brave the corruptions of a venal, corrupt and tyrannical
church and boldly proclaim those eternal principles of truth
and right which were clearly in accord with the best teachings
of the Bible; we feel that it would be just to set forth the
reasons for leaving a church which was the right hand of
political power and was a power behind the throne greater than
the throne, hence Church and State--church first, which sought
to crush and destroy all independence in Church or State.
"We deem our salvation to be an individual work which we
cannot do by proxy or for another.
"We deem it proper to eat our bread by the sweat of our brows.
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"We deem it proper to wear the yoke of self-denial, and
inculcate by our practice as well as by our precepts our
friendship for all our fellow-creatures, as we are all God's
children.
"We deem it proper to beat our swords into ploughshares and
our spears into pruning-hooks, and to refuse to participate in
any and all wars against our fellowmen.
"We deem it proper to declare and proclaim to all the world
our abhorrence of all wars, and our independence of all
despotic rulers, either spiritual or temporal.
"We deem it our duty to have all our children and all children
under our care educated sufficiently to read and write, in
order that all persons at mature age may be able to read and
interpret the Scriptures for themselves, in order that the
light within may direct aright. "Ask and it shall be given
you: seek and ye shall find: knock and it shall be opened unto
you."--Matt. VII, 7.
"While we recognize our Duty towards our God, we utterly
refuse to bow the head to any earthly potentate, for we cannot
serve two masters.
"We deem it proper to declare and protest against the cruel
and vindictive persecutions of our (socalled) Christian
Church, and we proclaim our independence of the same, and we
recognize the true brotherhood of man.
"The seeds thus sown brought forth a class of sturdy
independent thinkers who were the men who boldly declared for
the Independence of our Country in 1776."
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FIRST GENERATION.
1.
LAWRENCE SOUTHWICK1. There is a tradition in the Southwick
family that Lawrence came from Lancashire, England, to America
in 1627, and returned to England and brought his wife
Cassandra and son John and daughter Mary to Massachusetts in
1630, on the May Flower, in company with Wm. Bradford and
others, and settled at Salem, Mass. We do not find any mention
of his name in the public records of Salem until 1639, when he
and his family were admitted as members in the First Church of
Salem, and two acres of land was given him by the town of
Salem to carry on the business of manufacturing glass and
earthen ware. There is a tradition that he was one of the
first to manufacture glass in America. This two acres of land
was called glass-house field, as there were two others engaged
in the same business, and the land is so designated to-day on
the records and maps of said property, although the
manufacture has long ceased to be carried on there. Said land
is a valley running easterly from Aborn Street, and is on the
south side of what is called Gallows Hill, where several
persons were hung during the Salem Witchcraft delusion, a very
dark page in the history of sectarian bigotry in
Massachusetts.
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Lawrence and wife Cassandra and son Josiah and daughter Mary
were fined, whipt, imprisoned and finally banished for being
Quakers, and their son Daniel and daughter Provided were
sentenced by the General Court to be sold into slavery.
Lawrence and wife Cassandra went to Shelter Island, Long
Island Sound, being banished under pain of death in 1659, and
died there in the spring of 1660 from privation and exposure;
his wife died three days after him. Their son Josiah went to
Rhode Island and established a home for himself and family. He
came back to Salem in 1660 to look after his parents' property
and found the property in very poor condition, and was whipped
for returning to Massachusetts. It seems incredible that any
followers of Christ could have so belied their professions,
but it was an illustration of the saying of Robert Pollock, in
regard to the hypocrite,
"Who stole the livery of the Court of Heaven
To serve the Devil in."
Copy of Lawrence Sethick's Will.
I, Lawrence Sethick, late of Salem in New England, now being
at the house of Nathaniel Silvester, on Shelter Island, being
weake in body but of sound mind and memory, do make and
ordayne this my last will and testament, tenth day of fifth
month, 1659.
I first give and bequeath unto my sonne Daniel Sethick my
dwelling house at Salem, with all the houses, orchards,
gardens and appurtenances; and Gyle's lot, provided that John
Burnell shall have a house lott on the ground at the further
end of the orchard newly fenct in.
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Item. My will is that the lott which I had of Josiah Sethick
shall return to him again.
Item. I give unto John Sethick the lott next to his owne.
Item. My will is that the great meadow which lyes at Ipswich
River, fenct in, shall be divided Daniel Sethick and John
Burnell equally.
Item. I give unto Samuel Burton forty shillings.
Item. I give unto John Burnell, if he stand faithful in the
truth, two young steers and the first mare foal.
Item. I give unto Henry Traske Marshall's lott joining to his
orchard, provided that Daniel may have liberty to mow a load
of hay every year thereon.
Item. I give unto Mary Traske my daughter, wife of Henry
Traske, ten pounds sterling.
Item. I give unto Deborah Sethwick and young Josiah, each of
them fifty shillings sterling.
Item. I give unto Ann Potter forty shillings, in she thinks
beneficial for her.
Item. I give unto Mary Traske, daughter to Henry Traske, one
good serge suit of clothes; and unto Sarah and Hannah each of
them a suit of clothes.
I give and bequeath unto Samuel and Sarah, John Sethick's
children, to each of them thirty shillings sterling.
Furthermore my will is that Daniel my sonne, and Provided my
daughter, shall possess and enjoy all that which remains of my
estate after debts and legacies paid, and my will above
mentioned fulfilled, equally to be divided between them so
that Daniel may have that part which belongs to husbandry.
Lastly my will is that in case my wife survives me shee shall
be my executrix and keep all possessions during her life, and
after her decease my will to be performed according as above
expressed; and I do ordayne William Robinson
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and Thomas Gardner to be overseers of this my
last will and testament, signed and sealed by me
the day and year above written with my hand and
seal following.
In presence of
NATHANIEL SILVESTER, signed by
THOMAS HARRIS, LAWRENCE SETHICK.
WILLIAM DURAND,
This will was allowed by the court 29, 9 mo.,
1660.
attest
HILLARD VEREN, Clericus.
Lawrence and Cassandra(*) Southwick, both
baptised 2 mo., 24th, 1639, at First Church,
Salem. Their children were:
2. John2, born 1620, died Oct. 25, 1672; married
first, Sarah Tidd;
second, Hannah Flint; third, Sarah Burnett (or
Burnell).
3. Mary2, born 1630; married Henry Trask, son of
Capt. Wm
Trask.
4. Josiah2, born 1632, died 1693; married
Mary(???).
(*) Cassandra, according to Homeric Legend, was
the fairest
daughter of Priam and Hecuba, and the twin sister
of Helenus.
The children playing in the court of the temple
of the Thymbrucan
Apollo, not far from Illium, till it was too late
for them
to return home, a bed of laurel twigs was made
for them in the
temple, and there in the morning two snakes were
found licking
their ears, from which resulted such an acuteness
of hearing that
they could hear the voice of the Gods. Cassandra
afterward attracted
the love of Apollo by her beauty, and he taught
her the
secrets of prophecy; but displeased by her
rejection of his suit,
laid upon her the curse that her vaticinations
should never be
believed. Accordingly she prophesied in vain of
the treachery
of the Grecian horse and the destruction of Troy.
On the capture
of the city she fled to the temple of Minerva,
and being
captured she fell to the share of Agamemnon, to
whom she bore
twins, but she was murdered by
Clytemnestra.--Chamber's
Encyclopedia.
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5. Provided2, born 1635, died 1640; was baptized in First
Church,
Salem, Dec. 6, 1639.--Salem Court Records.
6. Daniel2, born 1637, died 1718-19; married Esther Boyce,
1663.
7. Provided2, born Dec., 1641; married Samuel Gaskill, Dec.
30, 1662.
In 1653, Lawrence Southwick is overseer Wm. Bacon's
will.--Town Records, p. 235.
April 8, 1659, Lawrence Southwick of Salem bought of Edward
Lummus, of Ipswich, 3 acres of land.--Salem Records.
Henry F. Waters, of Salem, Mass., says: "The names Southwick
and Eastuic (Eastwic), found on our Salem records both
suffered more or less change by the slighting of the w; the
former occasionally appears as Sethick, Southerick, Suderick,
etc., and the latter being rather fixed as Estick."
"In 1639 there were two acres of land set off for each of the
persons Annanias Conklin, Obediah Holmes, and Lawrence
Southwick; and there was granted to the glass men several
acres of ground adjoining to their houses. This was in the
neighborhood of Aborn street and near Strong Water Brook,"
(now, 1881, Salem and Peabody).--Felt's Annals of Salem.
Daniel Appleton White's records, First Church, Salem: "This
covenant was renewed by the church on a solemn day of
humiliation, March 6, 1660, when also considering the power of
temptation amongst us by reason of ye Quaker doctrine to the
leavening of some in the place where we act and endangering of
others, doe see cause to remember the admonition of our
Saviour Christ to his disciples,
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Matt. 16, 'take heed and beware of ye leaven of the doctrine
of the Pharisees', and do judge so far as we understand it yt
ye Quaker doctrine is as bad or worse than that of ye
Pharisees, Therefore we do covenant by the help of Jesus
Christ to take heed and beware of the leaven of the doctrine
of the Quakers."
What an impious act, as the Quakers have no creed.
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SECOND GENERATION.
2.
JOHN SOUTHWICK2, (Lawrence1), son of Lawrence and Cassandra
Southwick; born in England, 1620, died October 25,
1672.--Salem Town Records. Married first, Sarah Tidd, widow of
Samuel Tidd, 1642; second, Hannah Flint, widow, May 12, 1668;
third, Sarah Burnett, daughter of John Burnett (or Burnell).
Children:
8. Sarah3, born June 16, 1644: married Thos. Buffington, Dec.
30, 1670.
9. Mary3, born Oct. 10, 1646; married Thos. Burt, Nov. 18,
1672.
10. Samuel3, born Feb. 19, 1658, died 1709-10; married
Mary(???)
Married second wife (a widow) Hannah Flint.
11. John3, born January, 1669; married Hannah Follett, Dec.
23,
1688.
12. Isaac3, born Nov. 1669, died Feb. 1670.
13. Isaac3, born Jan. 27, 1671.
Married third wife, Sarah Burnett (or Burnell). After John
Southwick's decease his widow Sarah married Thomas Cooper,
June 12, 1674; they had one child, Elizabeth Cooper, born Nov.
12, 1676.
Samuel Tidd and Sarah his wife had one child, Eliza Tidd, born
1642.
Jan. 4, 1660. John sells to William King and Robert Stone, 6
acres of land in Salem.--Salem Records.
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April 4, 1654. John buys of Joseph Armitage 20 acres in
Willases meadow.--Salem Records.
April 4, 1654. John buys of Joseph Armitage 21 acres in
Willases meadow.--Salem Records.
March 16, 1657-58. John buys of David Corwithen 3 acres near
Realls side.--Salem Records.
March. 25, 1685. Thomas Buffington and wife Sarah mention John
and Samuel Southwick as brothers in law.--Salem Records.
June 29, 1685 Samuel and John Southwick deed to Isaac Cooke
and John Tomkins.--Salem Records.
Feb. 9, 1685-86. Samuel and John Southwick deed to William
Ozburn land of their late father John Southwick.
July 20, 1681. Samuel Southwick sells to Philip Cromwell a
dwelling house and 2 acres of land which was his father's,
John Southwick.--Salem Records.
John Southwick, Salem, to William Burnell, of Pullers poynt,
Boston, 80 acres land and buildings, and 11 acres from meadow
in Williston's meadow.--Salem Records, Vol. 1, p. 71.
May 22, 1671. John Southwick bought of Eleazor Giles 13 acres.
April 13, 1685. Samuel and John Southwick sell to their uncle
Daniel land.--Salem Records.
BE IT known unto men by these presents that I, John Southwick,
of Salem, in the county of Essex,--farmer,--doe promise to pay
or cause to be paid to Henry Skerry Marshall of Salem, or his
assigns, fower pounds five shillings in current money of New
England at or before the day of June next ensuing the date of
these presents, and Page 73
unto the true performance hearof I doe bind myself, my heirs,
executors, administrators firmly by these presents, as witness
my hand this 12th day of February, Anno Dom. 1671.
the mark of
JOHN ?? SOUTHWICK.
Copy of John Sothwick's Will
Oct. 26, 1672. THIS, God willing, doth declare that John
Sowthick being upon my sick bed but in perfect memory doe
leave this my last will and testament.
First. I give and bequeath unto my son Samuel one half of my
lands and one half of my barns.
Second. I give unto my sons John and Isack all the rest of my
lands and the other half of the barns equally divided, in case
my father Burnet gives them the medoe he promised and lying in
Williston Medoe, but if not then my son John shall have two
thirds and Isaac but one third; but in case my father Burnit
doe give them the medoe then my will is that both lands and
medoe shall be equally divided between them except the seven
acres I have given to my daughter Sarah and her heirs forever,
provided that either of my three sons dy without issue it
shall fall to the survivors, and if two of them dy without
issue it shall fall to the survivors and his heirs forever.
Third. I give unto my daughter Sarah, besides the seven acres
of land before mentioned, one acre of meadow lying in
Williston medoe and three pounds in Corn and Cattle.
Fourth. I give to my daughter Mary, tenn pounds in Corn or
Cattle and four acres of upland, beginning at the draw-barn
and to the pond and soe to go towards the house.
Fifth. I give to Elizabeth Giles, alias Tidd, 4 in cattle.
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Sixth. I do appoint my loving wife whole and sole executrix.
Seventh. I intreat my true loving two brothers Josiah Sowthick
and Daniel Sowthick to be my overseers to see this my will to
be performed. My intent and meaning is that my two sons enjoy
the estate when they come of age and this I leave as my last
will and testament. In witness hereof I have set my hand and
seal the day and year above written.
JOHN SOWTHICK.
John Pudue and Edward Grover gave oath in Court at Salem, 29,
9 mo., 1672, that the above written was declared by the said
John Sowthick to be his last will and testament.
HILLARD VEREN, Clerk.
3.
MARY SOUTHWICK2, (Lawrence1), daughter of Lawrence and
Cassandra Southwick; born about 1630; married Henry Trask, son
of Capt. William Trask, 1650. Children:
14. Mary3, born Aug. 14, 1652.
15. Ann3, born April 14, 1654.
16. Sarah3, born July 27, 1656.
17. Henry3, born April, 1669.
4.
JOSIAH SOUTHWICK2, (Lawrence1), son of Lawrence and Cassandra;
born 1632; died 1693. Married Mary (???), 1658. Children:
18. Josiah Jr.3, born 1660, married Ruth, daughter of James
and
Elizabeth (Browning) Symonds, of Salem, Mass.
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19. Joseph3, born April 1662, married Ann(???).
No account
of him or his family.
20. Mary3, born Nov. 1664.
21. Cassandra3, born 1666; married Jacob Mott of
Portsmouth.
R. I., 1689.(*)
22. Deborah3, born 1667.
23. Solomon3, born 1672: married in 1712.
24. Ruth3, born Feb. 21, 1674.
25. Jonathan3, born 1676.
26. Deliverance3, born 1678.
27. Hopestill3, born 1680.
In March 1658, Josiah Southwick, John Small, and
John Burton were arrested for being Quakers, at
Dedham, Mass., while on their way to Rhode Island
to provide homes for themselves and families and
to escape from the intolerant persecutions of the
Puritans. They were released and resumed their
journey.--Felt's Annals of Salem, Vol. 2, p. 581.
Dec. 30, 1670. Josiah Southwick bought of Richard
Bishop 10 acres in North Fields, Salem,--Salem
Records.
March 8, 1659. Josiah Southwick bought of John
Putnam 100 acres of land lying on North
Neck.--Salem Records.
April 9, 1703. Josiah, now of Northampton, in New
West Jersey, but formerly of Salem, eldest son,
heir and administrator to estate of my father
Josiah, late of Salem, to Daniel Jr., and
Lawrence Southwick,
(*) Nathaniel Green, a preacher of the Society of
Friends or
Quakers, father of Gen. Nathaniel Green, of the
Revolution,
married Cassandra Mott, daughter of Cassandra
Southwick and
Jacob Mott, for his second wife.
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Salem, the Bishop lot in North Field, containing 10 acres,
etc.--Essex Co. Deeds, Vol. 15, p. 179.
May 13, 1727. James Southwick, son of Josiah, of township of
Northamoton, County of Burlington, New Jersey; Ruth, wife of
said James, and daughter of James Simonds, late of Salem,
Mass., joiner; William Cranmer of said Northampton, and Ruth
his wife, and daughter of said Josiah; appeared before me,
Samuel Bustill, Notary and Tabellion Publick, and made their
brother Josiah, eldest son and heir of said Josiah by Ruth his
wife, to be their lawful attorney to collect all the legacies
bequeathed unto the children of Josiah Southwick wherever the
same may be found, etc., etc.--Essex Co. Deeds, Vol. 49, p.
219.
6.
DANIEL SOUTHWICK2, (Lawrence1), son of Lawrence and Caasandra,
born 1637; baptized in First Church Salem, Mass., Feb. 21,
1640-41; married, Feb, 23, 1663, Esther Boyce, daughter of
Joseph Sr., and Eleanor Boyce. Children:
28. Lawrence3, born 1664; died 1717-18; married Tamson Buffum,
1704.
29. Esther3, born June 26, 1665; married James Buxton.
31. Elizabeth3, (called Betty), born June 24, 1668;
married(???)
Wilkins.
30. Hannah3, born Aug. 7, 1667; married Thomas Buffington.
32. Daniel3, born March 25, 1671, died 1732-33; married
Jane(???).
33. Eleanor3, born June 25, 1674; married (???)Osborn.
34. Mercy3, born 1676; married John Osborn.
April 13, 1685. Daniel and wife Esther deed to Deliverance
Parkman.--Salem Records.
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To the God of all sure mercies let my blessing rise to-day,
From the scoffer and the cruel He hath plucked the spoil
away,--Yea,
He who cooled the furnace around the faithful three,
And tamed the Chaldean Lions, hath set His handmaid free!
Last night I saw the sunset melt through my prison bars,
Last night across my damp earth floor fell the pale gleam of
stars;
In the coldness and the darkness all through the long night
time,
My grated casement whitened with Autumn's early rime.
Alone, in that dark sorrow, hour after hour crept by;
Star after star looked palely in and sank adown the sky;
No sound amid night's stillness, save that which seemed to be
The dull and heavy beating of the pulses of the sea;
All night I sat unsleeping, for I knew that on the morrow
The ruler and the cruel priest would mock me in my sorrow,
Dragged to their place of market, and bargained for and sold,
Like a lamb before the shambles, like a heifer from the fold!
Oh, the weakness of the flesh was there--the shrinking and the
shame;
And the low voice of the Tempter like whispers to me came:
"Why sit'st thou thus forlornly!" the wicked murmur said,
"Damp walls thy bower of beauty, cold earth thy maiden bed?
"Where be the smiling faces, and voices soft and sweet,
Seen in thy father's dwelling, heard in the pleasant street?
Where be the youths, whose glances the summer Sabbath
through
Turned tenderly and timidly unto thy father's pew?
"Why sit'st thou here, Cassandra ?--Bethink thee with what
mirth
Thy happy schoolmates gather around the warm bright hearth;
How the crimson shadows tremble on foreheads white and fair,
On eyes of merry girlhood, half hid in golden hair.
Not for thee the hearth-fire brightens, not for thee kind
words
are spoken,
Not for thee the nuts of Wenham woods by laughing boys are
broken.
No first-fruits of the orchard within thy lap are laid,
For thee no flowers of Autumn the youthful hunters braid.
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"Oh! weak, deluded maiden!--by crazy fancies led,
With wild and raving railers an evil path to tread;
To leave a wholesome worship, and teachings pure and sound;
And mate with maniac women, loose-haired and sack-cloth-bound.
"Mad scoffers of the priesthood, who mock at things divine,
Who rail against the pulpit, and holy bread and wine;
Sore from their cart-tail scourgings, and from the pillory
lame,
Rejoicing in their wretchedness, and glorying in their shame.
"And what a fate awaits thee?--a sadly toiling slave,
Dragging the slowly lengthening chain of bondage to the grave!
Think of thy woman's nature, subdued in hopeless thrall,
The easy prey of any, the scoff and scorn of all."
Oh!--ever as the Tempter spoke, and feeble Nature's fears
Wrung drop by drop the scalding flow of unavailing tears,
I wrestled down the evil thoughts, and strove in silent
prayer,
To feel, oh, Helper of the weak!--that thou indeed wert there!
I thought of Paul and Silas, within Philippi's cell,
And how from Peter's sleeping limbs the prison shackles fell,
Till I seemed to hear the trailing of an angel's robe of
white,
And to feel a blessed presence invisible to sight.
Bless the Lord for all His mercies! for the peace and love I
felt,
Like dew of Hermon's holy hill, upon my spirit melt;
When, "Get behind me, Satan!" was the language of my heart,
And I felt the Evil Tempter with all his doubts depart.
Slow broke the gray cold morning; again the sunshine fell,
Flecked with the shade of bar and grate within my lonely cell;
The hoar frost melted on the wall, and upward from the street
Came careless laugh and idle word, and tread of passing feet.
At length the heavy bolts fell back, my door was open cast,
And slowly at the sheriff's side, up the long street I passed;
I heard the murmur round me, and felt, but dared not see
How, from every door and window, the people gazed on me.
And doubt and fear fell on me, shame burned upon my cheek,
Swam earth and sky around me, my trembling limbs grew weak:
"Oh, Lord! support thy handmaid; and from her soul cast out
The fear of man, which brings a snare--the weakness and the
doubt."
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Then the dreary shadows scattered like a cloud in morning's
breeze.
And a low deep voice within me seemed to whisper words like
these:
"Though thy earth be as the iron, and thy heaven a brazen
wall,
Trust still His loving kindness whose power is over all."
We paused at length, where at my feet the sun-lit waters broke
On glaring reach of shining beach, and shingly wall of rock;
The merchant-ships lay idly there, in hard clear lines on
high,
Tracing with rope and slender spar their net-work on the sky.
And there were ancient citizens, cloak-wrapt and grave and
cold,
And grim and stout sea-captains with faces bronzed and old,
And on his horse, with Rawson, his cruel clerk at hand,
Sat dark and haughty Endicott, the ruler of the land.
And poisoning with his evil words the ruler's ready ear,
The priest leaned o'er his saddle, with laugh and scoff and
jeer;
It stirred my soul, and from my lips the seal of silence
broke,
As if through woman's weakness a warning spirit spoke.
I cried, "The Lord rebuke thee, thou smiter of the meek,
Thou robber of the righteous, thou trampler of the weak!
Go light the dark, cold hearth-stone -- go turn the prison
lock
Of the poor hearts thou hast hunted, thou wolf amid the
flock!'
Dark lowered the brows of Endicott, and with a deeper red
O'er Rawson's wine-empurpled cheek the flush of anger spread;
"Good people," quoth the white-lipped priest, "heed not her
words so wild,
Her master speaks within her--the devil owns his child!
But gray heads shook, and young brows knit, the while the
sheriff
read
That law the wicked rulers against the poor have made,
Who to their house of Rimmon the idol priesthood bring
No bended knee of worship nor gainful offering.
Then to the stout sea-captains the sheriff turning said:
"Which of ye, worthy seamen, will take this Quaker maid?
In the Isle of fair Barbadoes, or on Virginia's shore,
You may hold her at a higher price than Indian girl or Moor."
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Grim and silent stood the captains; and when again he cried,
Speak out my worthy seamen!"--no voice, no sign replied;
But I felt a hard hand press my own, and kind words met my
ear:
"God bless thee and preserve thee, my gentle girl and dear!"
A weight seemed lifted from my heart,--a pitying friend was
nigh,
I felt it in his hard, rough hand, I saw it in his eye;
And when again the sheriff spoke, that voice, so kind to me.
Growled back its stormy answer like the roaring of the sea:
"Pile my ship with bars of silver--pack with coins of Spanish
gold
From keel-piece up to deck-plank, the roomage of her hold,
By the living God who made me!--I would sooner in your bay
Sink ship and crew and cargo, than bear this child away!"
"Well answered, worthy captain, shame on their cruel laws!"
Ran through the crowds in murmurs loud the people's just
applause.
"Like the herdsman of Tekoa, in Israel of old,
Shall we see the poor and righteous again for silver sold?"
I looked on haughty Endicott; with weapon half way drawn.
Swept round the throng his lion glare of bitter hate and
scorn;
Fiercely he drew his bridle rein, and turned in silence back,
And sneering priest and baffled clerk rode murmuring in his
track.
Hard after them the sheriff looked, in bitterness of soul;
Thrice smote his staff upon the ground, and crushed his
parchment
roll.
"Good friends," he said, "since both have fled, the ruler and
the
priest,
Judge ye, if from their further work I be not well released."
Loud was the cheer which, full and clear, swept round the
silent
bay,
As, with kind words and kinder looks, he bade me go my way;
For He who turns the courses of the streamlet of the glen,
And the river of great waters, had turned the hearts of men.
Oh, at that hour the very earth seemed changed beneath my eye,
A holier wonder round me rose the blue walls of the sky,
A lovelier light on rock and hill, and stream and woodland
lay,
And softer lapsed on sunnier sands the waters of the bay.
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Thanksgiving to the Lord of life!--to Him, all praises be,
Who from the hands of evil men hath set His handmaid free;
All praise to Him before whose power the mighty are afraid,
Who takes the crafty in the snare, which for the poor is laid!
Sing, oh, my soul, rejoicingly, on evening's twilight calm
Uplift the loud thanksgiving--pour forth the grateful psalm;
Let all dear hearts with me rejoice, as did the saints of old,
When of the Lord's good angel the rescued Peter told.
And weep and howl, ye evil priests and mighty men of wrong,
The Lord shall smite the proud and lay His hand upon the
strong.
Wo to the wicked rulers in His avenging hour!
Wo to the wolves who seek the flocks to raven and devour;
But let the humble ones arise,--the poor in heart be glad,
And let the mourning ones again with robes of praise be clad.
For he who cooled the furnace, and smoothed the stormy wave,
And tamed the Chaldean lions, is mighty still to save!
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THIRD GENERATION.
10.
SAMUEL SOUTHWICK3, (John2, Lawrence1), son of John 1st, and
Sarah Tidd, born Feb. 19, 1658; died, 1709-10; married Mary
(???). Children:
39. Samuel 2d4, born Jan. 30, 1688-89, died before 1709.
40. Ebenezer4, born Nov. 1690; married first, Sarah Proctor,
in
1724, no children; second, Mary Whitman, 1727.
41. Hannah4, born Feb. 24, 1691-92.
42. Jonathan4, born about 1694; married Elizabeth Dowty, Dec.
16, 1727.
43. Benjamin4, born 1696; went to New Salem and was there
June 9, 1743; married Abigail Burt, 1722.
44. David4, born 1701; was over 90 when he died; married
Thankful Grigg.
45. Mercy4, born 1698.
46. Mary4, born 1700; married Henry Hutchins, Oct. 16, 1736.
47. Elizabeth4, born 1702.
48. Provided4, born 1704; married John Carroll, Oct. 26, 1728.
Inventory of Samuel Southwick's estate taken March 13,
1709-10. Administration granted to wife Mary and eldest son
living, Ebenezer, Dec. 27, 1711. All the children except
Samuel and Ebenezer are named in the division of the estate.
Jonathan, David and Lemuel went to Williamstown, Mass., also
Ichabod and Jesse, from New Salem Mass.
Received of my brother Ebenezer Southwick, thirty-four pounds,
bills of credit, and is in full for my portion
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due from the estate of my honored father and mother, Samuel
and Mary Southwick, both late of Salem and I hearby aquit the
said estate from any claim or demand that I or any of my
heirs, administrators, executors or assigns, shall make
against said estate forever hearafter. Salem June 19, 1740.
her mark.
Witness my hand, MARY ?? SOUTHWICK.
JOHN LEECH,
JOHN BROWN.
Inventory of Samuel Southwick, late of Salem,
son of John Southwick.
One end of an old house and 29 akers of land, 145; one horse,
1, 10 s.; two oxin, 5, 10 s.; nine sheape, 2, 14 s.; three
kows, 5, 5 s.; two small stears, 3; one yearlin, 15 s.; one
cart and wheals, 2; one sled, 4 s.; one old axe and old
pitchfork, 2 s.; one draft chane, 7 s.; oxin and horse
tacklin, 5 s.; one beatel and wedges, 5 s.; one plow, 6 s.;
old eyron, 3 s.; one how, 1 s., 6 d.; one bedsted and small
bed and couvering, 3; his weareing close, 2, 8 s., 6 d.; one
warming-pan, 9 s.; pewter and earthin, 4 s.; eyron cittle
(iron kettle), pot, frying pan and tramel and feyer (fire) pan
and tongs, 1, 4 s., one eyron box and heaters and lamps, 4
s.; old wheals and cheast, one table and tubs, one box and
pale, 1, 6 s., 6 d.; one bridel, sadel, one bed &c., 1; one
table and cradle, 6 s.; about 10 lbs. of fethers, 15 s.; in
the sealla (cellar) 20 lbs. tobaco, 6 s.; barils, 6 s.; one
end of old house, 6; sundries, 2, 14 s.; one bridel and
sadel, 12 s.; one bed &c., on ye bed in ye chambers, 1;
total, 188, 2 s., 6 d. March ye 13th day, 1709-10.
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33.
ELEANOR SOUTHWICK3, (Daniel2, Lawrence1), daughter of Daniel
and Esther Boyce, born June 25, 1674, died before 1718-19;
married (???) Osborn.
Their children were:
49. Samuel4.
50. Eleanor4.
51. Hannah4.
52. Joseph4.
53. Mercy4 S.
54. Esther4.
55. John4.
56. Mary4.
11.
JOHN SOUTHWICK, 2d3, (John2, Lawrence1), son of John 1st and
Hannah Flint, widow, born 1667, died 1742-43, was a
blacksmith; married in 1688 widow Hannah Follett, daughter of
Robert and Persis Black. His will was proved Nov. 24, 1743.
Children:
57. John 3d4, born Dec. 1689, baptized May 1690; married Mary
Trask, Jan. 8, 1710.
58. Joseph4, born Jan. 1, 1690-91, died Oct. 1, 1691.
59. Sarah4, born Feb. 9, 1693-94,
60. Abraham4, born July 27, 1696; married Sarah (???).
61. Hannah4, born Nov. 6, 1698.
62. Benjamin4, born Jan. 22, 1701-2; married Sarah Southwick
daughter of Isaac and Anna.
63. Isaac4, born Sept. 23, 1704; married Esther Clark, of
Wells,
Me. June 5, 1731.
13.
ISAAC SOUTHWICK3, (John2, Lawrence1), son of John 1st, and
Hannah Flint, widow, born Jan. 27,
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1670; married, 1691, Anna (???). They were at Reading in 1696.
Their Children:
64. Anna4, born 1694; married Jonathan Herbert, 1713.
65. Sarah4, born and died 1696.
66. Sarah4, born 1699; married Benjamin Southwick.
67. Isaac, Jr.4, born 1703; married Mary Dalton, April 12,
1741.
68. Mehitable4, born 1706; married Ebenezer Weston, 1726.
Isaac, Jr., born in 1703, lived in the east part of West
Parish of Reading, and owned the farm now (1877) owned by Eben
D. Symonds.--History of Reading.
28.
LAWRENCE SOUTHWICK3, (Daniel2 Lawrence1), son of Daniel and
Esther Boyce, born in Salem, 1664; died, 1718. Married, Aug.
4, 1704, Tamson Buffum, daughter of Caleb Buffum. Children:
69. Daniel4, born 1705, died Nov. 19, 1776: married Ruth
Shove,
and moved to Mendon (now Uxbridge) in 1742. He was
a tanner and farmer, and a distinguished preacher of the
Society of Friends, of Mendon, Mass.
70. Josiah 3d4, born 1707, was a tailor: married Mary (???).
71. Caleb4, born 1709; married Ruth Gould, daughter of Thomas
and Abigail Gould of Charlestown, Mass., on April 8,
1732. Caleb was a blacksmith.
72. Lawrence4, born Jan. 11, 1711; went to Dighton Mass. He
was a shoe maker and was at Dighton, Dec. 26, 1739.
73. Esther4, born 1712; was upwards of 14 years of age in
1729-30.
when she sold her brother Daniel her share in estate of her
parents, Lawrence and Tamson. She married Ephraim
Silsbee, a blacksmith at Boston.
74. Joseph4, born 1716, died June 1, 1791; married Bethia
Callum
of Uxbridge Mass., March. 31, 1739. He was a tanner
at Salem, Mass.
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75. David4, born 1714; Went to Dudley Mass.; married Hannah
(???), 1735.
Lawrence's real estate divided by will between widow Tamson
and children Joseph, Josiah, David, Caleb, Lawrence and Esther
Southwick. Administration granted brother Daniel, Jan. 2,
1718.
April 12, 1712. Benjamin Gerrish of Salem deeds to Lawrence
Southwick of Salem a certain piece of land, salt marsh, within
the limits of a field known by the name of Southfield,
containing one acre and a half.
1716. John Brown of Reading deeds to Daniel and Lawrence
Southwick seven acres situated in the township of Lynn.
Oct. 30, 1739. Josiah and wife Mary, deed to brother Daniel
their interest in his father Lawrence's and mother Tamson's
estate.--Salem Records.
23.
SOLOMON SOUTHWICK3, (Josiah2, Lawrence1,) son of Josiah and
Mary (???), born, 1672; married probably in 1712. Children:
76. Hannah4, born 1713; married Wm. Jeffries, Oct. 22, 1739.
77. Mary4, (called Molly) born 1715; married Wm. West, 1739.
78. Ruth4, born 1717; married Henry Brightman of Portsmouth
R. I., Dec. 26, 1751.
79. Joseph4, born 1719, died Sept. 15, 1779, age 60 yrs.;
married
Mary Pitman, 1739.
80. Martha4, born 1722; married Jos. Davol of Portsmouth, R.
I.
1765.
81. Jeremiah4, born 1725; married Elizabeth Sheffield, 1766.
82. Elizabeth4, born 1728; married Peter Wilkey, Oct. 1767.
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83. Solomon4, born 1731, died Dec. 23, 1797; married Ann
Carpenter,
nee Gardner, June 20, 1796, born 1748, died Feb.
22, 1783.
Ann (Gardner) Carpenter was the daughter of Lieut. Gov. John
Gardner of R. I.
Solomon was in Rhode Island, Nov. 22, 1711, as per deed
recorded at Salem, Mass., and dated at R. I. given to Joseph
Boyce, Jr., for 8 acres of land in glass house field, and
mentions that it was a part of his father Josiah's homstead.
18.
JOSIAH SOUTHWICK3, (Josiah2, Lawrence1), son of Josiah and
Mary Southwick, was born in Salem, Mass., 1660, and died
before 1714, at Northampton Burlington Co., New Jersey.
Married Ruth Symonds, daughter of James and Elizabeth
(Browning) Symonds of Salem, born Feb. 19, 1663. They moved to
Northampton, Burlington Co., N. J., about 1702, and prior to
April 9, 1703, as per deed to eldest son Josiah. Their
children were:
84. Josiah 3d4, born probably 1686.
85. James4, born probably 1689.
86. Ruth4, born probably 1692, married William Cranmer of
Northampton, Burlington Co., New Jersey, 1716.
May 13, 1727. James Southwick, William Cranmer and wife Ruth
and her mother Ruth and Josiah Southwick, attorney for above,
of Northampton, Burlington Co., N. J., settled their father
Josiah's estate in Salem, Mass.
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32.
DANIEL SOUTHWICK, JR.3, (Daniel2, Lawrence1), called "the
husbandman," son of Daniel and Esther (Boyce), born March 25,
1671; died, 1732-33. Married in 1696, Jane (???).
87, Jonathan, Jr.4, born 1697, died Aug. 28, 1786; married
Hannah
Osborn, 1735.
87a. Elizabeth4, born 1702; married Jonathan Buxton, 1742.
87b. Hannah4, born 1704; married (???) Girdler, 1724.
87c. John4, (Shop-keeper) born 1709: married Mary Buffum, Dec.
12, 1730. daughter of Samuel and Mary Gaskill.
88. Daniel4, born 1721, died 1804; married Ruth Mussey, Dec.
12, 1742.
Daniel was appointed administrator of his brother Lawrence's
estate in 1718.
Daniel bequeathed by will, 1732, to his wife Jane and to his
sons John, Jonathan and Daniel, and to his daughters Hannah
(Girdler) and Elizabeth, (Buxton), and he gives to his
daughter Elizabeth, his Negro girl. Will proved Feb. 14,
1732-33.
1739. Jonathan moved from Salem to Mendon, now Blackstone,
Mass.
1733-34. Daniel (and Esther his mother) deed to John and
Jonathan Southwick "two acres of land situate in 'Lin,' being
in the 2d division of the great common land."
Jan. 18, 1748. John Southwick Jr., shop-keeper, deed to James
Buffington.--Salem Records.
March 24, 1729-30. Elias Trask of Salem deed to Daniel
Sonthwick, Jr., three poles of land situated in Salem.
Feb. 28, 1738. John Southwick of Salem binds
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himself to pay all the sums of money and perform
all the duties intrusted to Jonathan by the last
will of their father Daniel, late of Salem,
deceased, duly proved etc., bearing date June 5,
1732.
21.
CASSANDRA SOUTHWICK3, (Josiah2, Lawrence1),
daughter of Josiah and Mary, born 1680,(*) died
about 1719; married in 1713 Jacob Mott (born
1661), and was his second wife. Children:
89. Cassandra4, born Nov. 1, 1714.
90. Dorcas4, born March 1, 1716.
91. Ann4, born Oct. 22, 1718.
Jacob Mott married first wife, Rest Perry, 1707.
Children: Mary, born April 25, 1708; married
Nathaniel Green, son of Jabez and Mary, April 18,
1739. Nathaniel Green was a preacher of the
Society of Friends. Rest, born Nov. 29, 1709;
married Thomas Rider.
Jacob Mott's third wife was Mary Easton, whom he
married Nov. 3, 1719. Children: Maria, born July
21, 1720; Jacob, born July 6, 1722; John, born
May 2, 1725; Eliza, or Elizabeth, born Sept. 1,
1728.
General Nathaniel Green of the Revolution, was
son of Nathaniel the preacher of Friends, or
Quakers.
(*) On page 75 please note corrections as
follows:
21. Cassandra, born 1680; 27. Hopestill, born
1666.
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FOURTH GENERATION.
39.
EBENEZER SOUTHWICK4, (Samuel3, John2, Lawrence1), son of
Samuel 1st and Mary, born Nov. 9, 1690. Married first, April
9, 1724, Sarah Proctor; no children. Second, Mary Whitman,
Oct. 18, 1727. Children:
92. Sarah5, born May 24, 1728; married Joseph Stacey, May 13,
1749.
93. Mary5, born Dec. 22, 1729; married (???) Upton.
94. Lois5, born March 3, 1733.
95. Ebenezer5, born Feb. 3, 1736, died Jan. 8, 1820; married
Susanna
Orr, 1758 (Town records, Jan. 23, 1734-35). Susanna
born Feb. 2, 1735, died Aug. 9, 1811.
96 Hannah5, born 1738; married (???) Lefavour.
97. Lydia5, born 1740, baptized Aug. 24, 1760, died before
1771.
Ebenezer, son of Samuel and Mary, wills, Nov. 9, 1771, to Mary
my wife, my Negro named Primas, and northeast end of dwelling,
for her and my dear daughter Lois to dwell in. He gives to son
Ebenezer among other legacies, his land and rights in
Townsend, Middlesex County, and southwest end of dwelling
house; to my daughter Sarah Stacey 24; daughter Mary Upton
28; daughter Lois 28; to granddaughter of Hannah Lefavor,
daughters of my daughter Hannah, deceased, 30.
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Salem, March 28, 1747.
I order written promise to pay to James Lindale, or order,
Twenty shillings, new tenor, for hyre of two rights in great
pasture and twenty-four eggs from time to time. April, 1747.
EBENEZER SOUTHWICK.
75.
DAVID SOUTHWICK4, (Lawrence3, Daniel2, Lawrence1), son of
Lawrence and Tamson (Buffum) Southwick, born probably 1714;
married probably in 1735, Hannah (???). Children, as per
records Congregational church, New Salem, Mass.:
98. Samuel5, born Nov. 19, 1736; baptized Dec 19, 1742, at N.
Salem.
99. Hannah5, born Aug. 24, 1739.
100. Sarah5, born 1742.
As per Town records from Dudley, Mass., moved to New Salem,
Mass.
Samuel Southwick and wife were admitted as members of the
Congregational church, New Salem, in 1795.
Sarah married first, Nathan Eaton; second, Nathan Daniels,
probably in 1762.
42.
JONATHAN SOUTHWICK4, (Samuel3, John2, Lawrence1), son of
Samuel 1st and Mary, born 1694. Married Elizabeth Dowty, Sept.
17, 1727. Their children were:
101. Jesse5, born 1728; married Copia Wright, 1760.
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102. Ichabod5, born 1730.
103. Mary5, born 1732.
104. Rebecca5, born 1734.
105. Samuel5, born 1736, married Hannah (???) and joined the
Shakers.
106. Lemuel5, born 1738.
107. Jonathan5, born 1740.
108. Elizabeth5, born Aug. 9, 1741.
Ichabod and Jesse settled in South Williamstown, Mass.,
Ichabod clearing up a farm on Green River, now one of the very
best farms in town. Jesse lived still further south on one of
the brooks which form Green River. Ichabod was a prominent man
in 1770, for he is in a list of house-holders of that
date.--Prof. Perry's History of Williamstown, Mass.
Also we find upon examining the deeds and commoners records in
the town clerk's office of Benson, Vermont, that David, Jesse
and Ichabod were three of the original proprietors to whom the
charter of the town was granted, May 5, 1780; also that
Ichabod Southwick of Williamstown, Mass., conveyed land in
Benson, Vermont, to Elic Cobb, Sept. 16, 1782.--Perley Derby's
tracings of Southwick Genealogy.
Prof. Kellogg in his account of Williamstown, Mass., published
in Dr. Field's "Berkshire County," says Jesse and Ichabod
Southwick came from New Salem and settled in this town as
early as 1763.
44.
DAVID SOUTHWICK4, (Samuel3, John2, Lawrence1), son of Samuel
1st, and Mary, born in Salem, Mass.,
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1701, died 1792, over 90 years of age; married Thankful Davis
Griggs, in 1726. They had one child:
109. Samuel5, born 1727, married Abigal Warner, about 1755.
David and Thankful were living in Williamstown Mass. in 1799
and were then members of the First Congregational church; Rev.
Seth Swift was pastor at that time.
Dudley, Mass., April 5, 1740.
Received of my brother, Ebenezer Southwick Ten pounds in full
for my portion due from the estate of my father and mother,
Samuel and Mary Southwick both late of Salem, Mass., and I
hereby release all claim against said estate.
DAVID SOUTHWICK.
56.
JOHN SOUTHWICK4, (Samuel3, John2, Lawrence1), son of John and
Hannah (Follet) Southwick; born Dec. 13, 1688; lived in
Danvers; will proved Oct. 7, 1771; married Mary Trask, Jan. 8,
1710. Children:
110. John5, born 1710; made will Jan. 4, 1785, will proved
Feb. 8,
1785. married Elizabeth Wilson.
111. William5, born 1715, died before 1767; married Sarah
Elizabeth
King, Aug. 6, 1748.
112. Mary5, born 1717, died Sept. 24, 1796; married Ebenezer
King, March 23, 1734.
113. Anna5, born 1719; married Zachariah King, Nov. 9, 1736.
114. Elizabeth5, born 1721; married Robert Wilson Jr., May 26,
1744.
115. Joseph5, born 1723; married Mary Wilson, April 23, 1743.
116. George5, born about 1736, will made June 6, 1803, proved,
July 19, 1808.
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Sept. 10, 1735 John Southwick and wife Mary deed to Joseph
Very.-- Salem Records.
Nov. 27, 1735. John Southwick and wife Mary deed to Abraham
Southwick.-- Salem Records.
May 5, 1747. John Southwick and wife Mary deed to James
Buffum.-- Salem Records.
62.
ISAAC SOUTHWICK4, (Samuel3, John2, Lawrence1), son of John and
Hannah (Follett) Southwick, born Sept. 23, 1704, baptized Oct.
4, 1705; will dated Sept. 27, 1774, proved April 3, 1780.
Married, June 5, 1731, Esther Clark, of Wells, Me. Children:
117. Isaac5, born 1732, baptized June 24, 1733, middle
precinct;
married Elizabeth (???) and moved to Amherst, N. H.
118. Nathaniel5, born 1734, baptized May 28, 1738.
119. Esther5, born 1736, baptized June 15, 1740.
120. John5, born 1738, baptized May 6, 1744.
121. Susanna5, born 1740; married (???) Jafrey.
122. Benjamin5, born 1742.
April 5, 1729. Isaac Southwick bought of Abraham Loge.-- Salem
Records.
April 22, 1742. Isaac Southwick sold Jonathan Boyce.-- Salem
Records.
May 20, 1767. Isaac Southwick sold Joseph Southwick Jr.,
tanner.--Salem Records.
83.
SOLOMON SOUTHWICK4, (Solomon3, Josiah2, Lawrence1), son of
Solomon, born 1731, died Dec. 23, 1797, aged 66 years.
Married, June 20, 1769, widow
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Ann Carpenter, daughter of Lieut. Gov. John Gardner of R. I.,
born 1748, died Feb, 22, 1783. Children:
123. Elizabeth Ann5, born April 10, 1770, married first,
Richard
Woodman; second, James Chace.
124. John P.5, born March 30, 1771; went to sea very young and
was never heard from.
125. Mary5, born July 20, 1772, died four days after birth.
126. Henry Collins5, born July 20, 1772, died 1821, married
Mary
(or Margaret) Wool.
127. Solomon5, born Dec. 25, 1773; died Nov. 18, 1839, at
Albany,
N. Y. Married Jane Barber of Albany, N. Y., March 31,
1795.
128. Wilmarth5, born 1775; married Mrs. Hannah Churchill,
Nov. 20, 1800.
Solomon4, was one of a committee of four to receive Gen.
Washington at Newport R. I., March, 1781. Viz: Christopher
Ellery, William Channing, Wilson Taggart, Solomon Southwick.
Colonial Records R. I., 1776. Solomon Southwick paid by State
2, 16 shillings for paper for printing Rules of the Army.
Feb. 1778. Solomon Southwick was appointed Deputy Commissioner
General of issues of R. I.
Ann Gardner, daughter of Lieut. Gov. John Gardner, married
Willett Carpenter, July 1, 1764.
About 1764, Solomon Southwick purchased of the heirs of James
Franklin the printing establishment of the Newport Mercury, R.
I.
On the following page will be found a transcript and outline
of a two pound Colonial Currency note printed by Southwick and
Barber.
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3038.
Forty Shillings.
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND.
THIS bill is equal to FORTY SHILLINGS in lawful silver money,
and shall be received in all payments within this State,
agreeable to an act passed by the General Assembly of said
state, at their May sessions, holden at the city of Newport,
A. D., 1785.
Jonathan Hazard, |
2 . N. Knight, | Committee.
Samuel Allen, |
Two Pounds.
Printed by
SOUTHWICK & BARBER.
Death to Counterfeit.
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Newport, March 1, 1793.
For Eighty Silver Dollars, which I hereby
acknowledge to have received, I now sell, set
over and deliver to Joseph Southwick, my mahogany
printing press with everything thereunto
belonging and now in possession of Capt. Geo.
Cornell, of this Town, as witness my hand signed.
SOLOMON SOUTHWICK.
July 20, 1774. The Legislature of Rhode Island
met oftener, and each session brought up
questions of great moment. Solomon Southwick of
Newport had just published "Lord Somer's judgment
of whole Kingdoms and Nations concerning the
Rights, Powers and Prerogatives of Kings, and the
Rights, Privileges and properties of the people,"
and as the legislators of R. I. read this
inculcation of resisting evil and destructive
Princes, they felt their own resolution
strengthened and saw the path of duty plainer to
their eyes. All began to feel that "the time was
near approaching when they must gird on their
Swords and ride forth to meet their
Enemies."(*)--G. W. Green's Life of Gen.
Nathaniel Green, p. 74.
SOLOMON SOUTHWICK,
IN 1783 represented to the assembly of Rhode
Island that during the war, owing to the active
part he took early in the war, he was compelled
to leave the Island with his family and wandered
for (14) fourteen months, during which time he
was put to a cost of
(*) Forces Archives, published in Connecticut.
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($5.000) five thousand silver dollars. That before the war he
had bought two houses of Samuel Marryott, which were pulled
down by the enemy. At this time he had half paid for the
houses and could have paid the balance at any time in paper
money, but he could not in conscience do this, as he thought
to do so would be wrong. That he was then confined in a single
chamber a prisoner on an obligation he gave Marryott for
($170) one hundred and seventy dollars. That at this time he
was greatly distressed with a nervous disorder, and had been
for several months, and there was no possibility of his
recovery, but with the aid of good air and free exercise. That
he has all the books and papers as Deputy Commissary General
of this department for upwards of four years. He prayed that
he might be set at liberty as it was absolutely impossible for
him to pay his debts. He asked for two months to compound with
his creditors. The assembly gave him the liberty of his house
and the back yard.
In October 1784, Solomon Southwick represented to the assembly
that he had been a prisoner for debt for more than (13)
thirteen months; that he had lost several thousand dollars by
the war and could not collect one-tenth part of the debts due
him; that his two houses had been destroyed by the enemy; that
he had made proposals to his creditors which most of them were
willing to accept; but his committing creditor would not come
to any terms; wherefore he prayed to be liberated. Prayer
granted, liberated from prison, and no action was to be
commenced
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against him for five years.--J. M. K. Southwick, per Hon.
William P. Sheffield, about Solomon the Printer at Newport.
From NEWPORT ILLUSTRATED, by George O. Mason.
THE first newspaper published in Newport was issued in 1732 by
James Franklin, elder brother of Dr. Benj. Franklin. It was a
small sheet, the size of ordinary letter paper, and was
printed on a press brought from Boston, which was imported by
James Franklin, and was long standing in the office of the
Newport Mercury.
On the 14th of Feb. 1734-35, James Franklin died, aged 38,
after a long indisposition. The printing office he left to his
son James, then a child. On the 12th of June, 1758, the son
issued the first number of the Newport Mercury. He was
assisted in the management of it by his mother, Ann Franklin,
and in a few years, James having left Newport for some cause
never made known, and never to return, her imprint alone
appeared on the paper. The daughter of Mrs. Franklin having
married one Samuel Hall, the Mercury was made over to him, and
subsequently it was transferred to Solomon Southwick, who
published it until December 1776, when it was discontinued for
a time. Southwick, fearing the British, who were preparing to
land on the Island, would destroy the property, to preserve
his press and types, then standing in the office on Queen
Street, near the middle of the parade ground, from falling
into their hands, they
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were removed to the rear of the old building on Broad Street,
known as the Kilburn house, where they were buried in the
garden. The fact that the property was so secreted was made
known to the Commander of the British troops, who caused it to
be removed to the building known as the Vaughan house, making
the north corner of parade and Thames Street, where in the
chambers one John Howe, who was known as printer to his
Majesty, regularly issued the Rhode Island Gazette during
1777, 1778 and 1779, copies of which papers can now be seen at
the Redwood Library at Newport. After the war the property was
purchased by Mr. Henry Barber, and the Mercury was again
issued January 1, 1780. It continued in the possession of the
Barber family for over seventy years, having been owned by
father, son and grandson in succession. It is now the property
of Messrs. Coggeshall and Pratt in 1879.
From COLONIAL HISTORY OF R. I.
Pursuant to a resolution of Congress of Jan. 13, 1778, last,
Solomon Southwick, Esq., is appointed Deputy Commissary
General of issues within this state.--Colonial Records of R.
I. Vol. 8, p. 356.
June, 1780. At the request of Col. Christopher Greene, it is
voted and resolved that Solomon Southwick, Esq., commissary of
issues in this state be, and is hereby empowered to receive of
Capt. Samuel Carr one hundred and fifty bushels of Indian corn
(being part of the rent of the farm in Exeter which he
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hires of the state) for the use of the continental troops in
this state; that the same be delivered by the said Samuel Carr
at Bissells Mill; and that it be considered as part of the
supplies of this state.--p. 81.
June, 1780. It is voted and resolved that Solomon Southwick,
Esq., Deputy Commissary General of issues; be, and is hereby
empowered to receive of Charles Holden, Esq., Commissary of
purchases of this state, such quantities of provisions and
other supplies from time to time as may be necessary for the
supply of the troops in this state.--p. 124.
July, 1780. It is voted and resolved that Charles Holden,
Esq., Commissary of purchases in this state be, and is hereby
directed to furnish and supply Solomon Southwick, Esq., Deputy
Commissary General of issues, with the necessary provisions
and liquors for the Hon. Major General Heath and his family
while in this state.--p. 162.
Oct., 1780. And whereas the army is in want of bread, it is
voted and resolved that Solomon Southwick, Esq., D. C. G. I.,
be, and he is hereby directed to receive the said corn, that
he receive such a proportion thereof if new, as will make it
equal to merchantable corn and that the same be charged
against the United States as part of this state's quota of
supplies.--p. 254.
Whereas Col. John Cooke hath represented unto this assembly
that he has a quantity of corn ready to be delivered to the
state on account of rent due on the lease of the said estate
on the Island of Prudence, late belonging to Joseph Wanton,
Esq.
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From "HISTORY OF PRINTING IN AMERICA,
With a Biography of Printers, and Account of Newspapers."
By Isaiah Thomas.
SOLOMON SOUTHWICK was born in Newport R. I., but was not
brought up to the business of printing. He was the son of a
fisherman, and when a lad assisted his father in selling fish
in the market-place. The attention he paid to that employment,
the comeliness of his person, and the evidence he gave of a
sprightly genius, attracted the notice of the worthy Henry
Collins, who at that time was said to be the most wealthy
citizen in Newport, one of the first mercantile characters in
New England and greatly distinguished in the Colony of Rhode
Island for philanthropy and benevolence. Mr. Collins took a
number of illiterate boys whose parents were poor, under his
patronage, and gave each an education suited to his capacity,
several of whom became distinguished in the learned
professions. Among the objects of his care and liberality was
young Southwick, who was placed at the Academy at Philadelphia
and there provided for till he had completed his studies. Mr.
Collins then established him as a merchant with a partner by
the name of Clarke. Southwick and Clarke did business on an
extensive scale; they built several vessels and were engaged
in trade to London and elsewhere: but eventually they became
bankrupts and their partnership was dissolved. After this
misfortune Southwick married a daughter of Col. John Gardner,
who for several years had been Governor of the Colony, and by
this marriage he became possessed of a handsome
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estate. About this time Samuel Hall, who had a desire to leave
Newport for Salem, offered his printing establishment for
sale. Southwick became the purchaser in March, 1768, and
succeeded to the business of Hall. He continued the
publication of the Newport Mercury, and made some attempts at
book printing. He published for his own sale several small
volumes, but the turbulence of the times checked his progress
in this branch of printing. Southwick discovered a sincere and
warm attachment to the interest of the country. He was a firm
Whig and sensible and spirited writer, and in other respects
was qualified to be the editor of a newspaper and the
conductor of a press in times of revolutionary commotion.
The severity of the British Government to the province of
Massachusetts particularly, was manifested by several acts of
Parliament which were passed in 1774. By one of these acts the
people were deprived of many of their chartered rights and
privileges: by another the port of Boston was shut and the
transaction of every kind of commercial business on the waters
of this harbor was interdicted. These arbitrary edicts aroused
the indignation of the people in all the colonies. They loudly
expressed their resentment in various ways and the press
became the organ through which their sentiments were
energetically announced. Southwick was among the number of
printers who were not backward to blow the trumpet in our Zion
and to sound an alarm in the Holy Mountain of our liberties.
He wrote and printed an address to the people of Rhode Island
which was headed with the motto
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"Join or die." This motto had appeared in several of the
newspapers, as will be mentioned hereafter. In this appeal
Boston was represented as in a state of seige, which was
actually true, for the harbor was completely blockaded by
ships of war, and a large number of troops were quartered in
the town. It is also further stated that these measures of the
British government were a direct and hostile invasion of all
the Colonies. The address was concluded by observing that the
Generals of Despotism are drawing the lines of circumvallation
around our bulwarks of Liberty, and nothing but unity,
resolution and perseverance can save ourselves and posterity
from what is worse than death, Slavery. Southwick, by his
publications and exertions in the cause of the country became
very obnoxious to those who were of the opposite party: and he
with other zealous Whigs were marked as objects of punishment.
When the British fleet and army took possession of Newport in
1776, he barely eluded the threatened evil. As soon as a part
of the army had landed, a detachment of both horse and foot
were sent in all parts of the town to arrest the patriots who
were endeavoring to effect an escape. Southwick, his wife with
a child in her arms, and some other persons had got on board
of an open boat and were just putting off from the shore into
a very rough sea occasioned by a high wind, when a party of
soldiers who were in pursuit of them came in sight.
Southwick's wife had a brother who was a Royalist, and as such
was known to the British officers, who however wished to
secure the retreat of his sister and her
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husband. Aware of their danger, this brother put
himself in the way of their pursuers and for a
few moments arrested their attention by giving
them information of the several parts of the town
whence the proscribed Whigs would probably
attempt to make their retreat, etc. This friendly
interference gave Southwick and his friends time
to get a few rods from the shore before the party
arrived at the spot they had just quitted; the
boat was yet within reach of their shot: the
soldiers fired at them but without effect, the
passengers fortunately received no injury and
were soon wafted to a place of safety.(*) Mr.
Southwick was at this time a member of the
General Assembly of Rhode Island; he owned two
houses in Newport, which with other property,
were destroyed. He sought an asylum in
Attleborough, on the frontier of Massachusetts
and there erected a press, but being soon after
appointed Commissary General of issues for the
state of Rhode Island, he removed to Providence.
As soon as the British troops evacuated Newport
he returned to that town and resumed the
publication of his paper which he continued until
1787, when by ill health and embarrassed
circumstances he was obliged to relinquish
business and to place the Mercury in other hands.
In a historical sketch of the Mercury published
in that paper after it had completed a century of
its existence, June 12, 1858, it is asserted that
Southwick did not return to resume his paper, but
that Henry Barber
(*) Mr. Southwick with his wife and eldest son
Solomon, escaped,
but a younger child and its nurse were captured.
(M.)
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revived its publication in 1780. As yet no copies of the
Mercury have been found that were published from 1776 to 1780,
when Barber's name appears, but it is mentioned by Mr. Thomas
in the second volume of his work that Southwick resumed its
publication at Attleborough, Mass. Copies of the Mercury are
preserved in the library of the American Antiquarian Society
at Worcester, which show that Southwick was associated with
Barber in May, 1785; that he was printing it alone in 1787,
and that Barber was again printing it in his own name in 1788.
Southwick's monument is still seen in the cemetery at Newport;
a copy of the inscription has been furnished by Mr. Fred A.
Pratt, the present editor of the Mercury, as follows:
"In memory of (Solomon Southwick, Esq.) a gentleman of liberal
education and expansive mind, for many years editor and
proprietor of the Newport Mercury and Commissary General for
the state of R. I., in the revolutionary war. He died Dec. 23,
1797, in the 66th year of his age.
"Just, generous, benevolent and sincere
Was he whose hallowed dust lies here;
If e'er a partial prayer he breathed to heaven,
That prayer was for his Country's Glory given."
The house which Mr. Southwick occupied on his return to
Newport with his printing office is that in which the Newport
Bank is now located. Children of his son Henry Collins, reside
in Albany, N. Y. and preserve volumes of the Mercury and other
mementoes of their ancestor, among which is a diploma from the
college and acadamy of Philadelphia for proficiency
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in philosophy and mathematics, 1757, conferring upon him the
degree of B. A. (M.)
Southwick's pecuniary concerns were greatly impaired by the
rapid depreciation of the paper currency before the
establishment of peace. He, like many others, cherished a
belief that the nominal sum specified in the bills would
eventually be made good in specie. The impracticability of the
thing was not considered, even when one hundred dollars would
not buy one dollar in silver. The delusion was not discovered
by some until they found themselves involved in ruin. The
government of the Union was indebted to Southwick both for his
services and for money loaned. This debt, like others of its
kind, was liquidated by notes known as final settlement. In
the course of some months after they were issued, they were
sold in the market for one-eighth of their nominal value. To
this depreciated state was national paper reduced before the
assumption of the public debt by the new government, and when
it was at that state Southwick was compelled to sell his final
settlement notes for the support of himself and family. He was
engaged in the cause of his country in the times of her
adversity and danger, but he had no portion of the benefits
resulting from her prosperity. Assailed by poverty and borne
down by infirmity, he lived in obscurity from the year 1788 to
the time of his death, and being unable to provide for his
children, he left them to make their own way in the world. He
lost his wife, who was a most excellent woman, in 1783, and he
died himself Dec. 23, 1797, aged 66 years.
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NEWPORT PRINTERS
Mr. Geo. C. Mason, in an article in the New York Evening Post,
under this caption, describes the early printers of Newport
and gives some account of their work. He says:
Among the early printers were those of Rhode Island. There was
a press in Newport in 1729. This was the fourth press set up
in America, and James Franklin was the founder. He had been
engaged in Boston in printing the New England Courant, a
newspaper that strongly opposed the introduction of
inoculation for smallpox, and did many other things that
annoyed its readers. In 1727 the journal was suppressed, and
soon after that event Franklin removed to Newport. Here he
brought out as early as 1729, a reprint of "Barclay's Apology
for the True Christian Divinity, as the same is set forth and
Preached by the People, called in scorn Quakers." This was a
large quarto volume, originally written in Latin and English,
and then "translated into High Dutch, Low Dutch and French,
for the edification of Strangers."
In 1730 Franklin printed the charter granted by King Charles
II. to the colony of Rhode Island, and in September, 1733, he
issued the first number of a small sheet called the Rhode
Island Gazette, which had but a short life, for it was
discontinued on the 24th of the following May.
The Acts and Laws of the Colony were printed by Franklin until
the time of his death, in 1734; and after his death, his
widow, who had brought up her sons and daughters as printers,
continued the business.
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There is ample evidence that Mrs. Franklin was an energetic
woman, and her imprint, "The Widow Franklin," may be found on
many of the publications of that day. During and after the
year 1745 the name of James Franklin often appeared with that
of his mother, and in 1758 he began the publication of the
Newport Mercury, a newspaper that has come down to the present
day. One of the works that came from his press was: "The
Strange and Wonderful Predictions of Mr. Christopher Love,
Minister of the Gospel at Laurence-Jury; who was Beheaded at
Tower Hill, in the time of Oliver Cromwell's government in
England; giving an account of Babylon's fall; or the
Destruction of Popery, and in the glorious Event a general
Reformation all over the world."
Love's history was a singular one. He was opposed to King
Charles, and yet was beheaded for plotting against Cromwell.
He has been spoken of, on the one hand, as an "angelical and
holy writer," and on the other, as "guilty of as much treason
as the pulpit could contain."
In 1762 James Franklin died, and the business was carried on
by his mother, "the Widow Franklin," who took for a partner
Samuel Hall, a printer then working in Newport. The connection
was a short one, for Mrs. Franklin died the following year.
Hall continued to print in Newport, and many of the almanacs
of that day bear his imprint. He sold out to Solomon
Southwick, who became one of the most energetic of the early
New England printers. He was a poor boy, who had been taken up
and aided by Henry Collins,
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a prominent merchant, in obtaining some education, and was
engaged in trade when the Mercury office was offered for sale
in 1768. How his attention was brought to it is not known, but
he bought it and at once entered upon the duties of the
office, all of which were new and strange to him. At the
outset he espoused the cause of liberty, and on every occasion
his views were expressed openly and clearly. As early as
December 18, 1769, he had for the motto of his journal:
"Undaunted by TYRANTS--we'll DIE or be FREE!" and this he
followed up with sturdy blows.
But Southwick did not devote himself exclusively to the
Mercury, for he brought out many pamphlets and small volumes
that are now sought after by collectors. Among others,
"Church's Entertaining History of King Philip's War,"
Nathaniel Morton's "New England Memorial," "The Tryal of a
False Prophet," and also a sermon preached in Newport by the
"Venerable Hocham, the learned Rabbi Haign Isaac Karigal, of
the city of Hebron, near Jerusalem." "A Discourse on Saving
Knowledge," delivered at the installation of the Rev. Samuel
Hopkins, by Dr. Styles, was printed by Southwick in 1770, on a
press and on paper made in this colony, and some of the types
were made in Connecticut. But he gave most of his time to
publications that had a bearing on the dispute between England
and the colonies. In 1774, he issued a reprint of "The Whole
of the Celebrated Speech of the Rev. Jonathan Shipley, Lord
Bishop of Asaph, on the Bill for Altering the Charter of the
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Massachusetts Bay," which was prefaced with the remark, "It is
allowed to be one of the best pieces wrote on the present
dispute between North America and Great Britain." Of Shipley
it was said at the time of his death: "His talents were
acknowledged on all sides, and whichever party triumphed in
his assistance, the other wished for his support."
During the same year Southwick printed from the Boston edition
"An Oration delivered March 5th, 1774, at the Request of the
Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, to commemorate the Bloody
Tragedy on the 5th of March, by the Honorable John Hancock,
Esq."
The time and the circumstances attending the delivery of that
oration I need not refer to; Southwick gave his readers all
the particulars that had reached him, and in the same paper,
in the "poet's corner," he printed some verses growing out of
the affair, with the title: "A SONG FOR THE FIFTH OF MARCH.
Tune, 'Once the Gods of the Greeks,' &c." The verses closed
with these lines:
"A ray of bright Glory now Beams from afar,
Blest dawn of AN EMPIRE to rise:
The American ensign now Sparkles a star,
Which shall Shortly flame wide thro' the Skies.
"Strong knit is the Band which unites the blessed Land,
No Dmon the Union shall Sever:
Here's a glass to fair Freedom, come give us your hand--May
the orator flourish forever!"
While thus engaged, Southwick turned aside for a moment to
give some aid to the anti-slavery movement, which was then
beginning to take shape. Among other papers under this head,
he printed an
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address signed by Drs. Stiles and Hopkins, concerning the
sending of black freemen to the coast of Africa. But when the
British approached Newport and showed a disposition to land,
he beat a hasty retreat, for the loyalists were anxious that
he should fall into the hands of the enemy, and were quite
ready to turn him over the moment an opportunity offered. The
Mercury was discontinued December 2, 1776, and six days later
the British army, under General Clinton, took possession of
the southern part of the island.
While here they published a newspaper called the Newport
Gazette, of which copies have been preserved. The French, in
turn, had a press here, and in 1780 they issued an almanac
from the office of the Gazette Francaise, which is now very
rare. It contains, with other matters, the names of all the
French officers, army and navy, and the vessels or regiments
to which they belonged.
The British evacuated Newport October 25, 1779, and on the 5th
of January, 1780, the first number of the reissue of the
Mercury appeared. It had then passed into the hands of Henry
Barber. Southwick, after his return, was associated with
Barber in the management of the Mercury. In 1787 he was again
sole proprietor of the journal, but shortly after that it
passed back into the hands of Barber, and his descendants
continued to be its publishers until 1851, when the last
publisher of the name died.
After the war Peter Edes, who at one time printed the Boston
Gazette and County Journal, established the Newport Herald to
oppose the paper money party,
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but it ruined him, and when he died in 1803 he was "as poor as
a church mouse." Oliver Farnsworth was another unsuccessful
printer. He started a newspaper in Newport in 1799 and another
in 1800. Both journals "died young." While printing the later
one he brought out a small volume, the "Memory of Washington,"
a collection of eulogies and orations, intended to meet a
demand of the moment, but of no lasting value. He also did a
little business at trunk making, and probably in that way
worked up some of his unsold publications.
The people were too poor after the war to sustain the printer,
and only occasionally an oration, or a sermon of more than
ordinary interest, found its way into print. In 1810
Rousmaniere & Barber, who were then publishing the Newport
Mercury, brought out the first American edition of "Oberon."
Weiland was then greatly admired. Wiesbeck had sounded his
praise, the Monthly Review dwelt at length on his merits, and
Napoleon had helped to make him popular by the notice he took
of him in the salon of the Duchess of Saxe-Weimar, all of
which, no doubt, had great weight with the American
publishers. The preface, giving a biographical sketch of the
author, was written by William Hunter, then a young lawyer,
who, in maturer years, was made Minister Plenipotentiary from
the United States to Brazil. During the next year the same
publishers put to press "Paley's Works," in five volumes, with
a memoir by G. W. Meadley, who, two years later, was the
author of a memoir of Algernon Sidney, of whom Coleridge was
led to say, "What a gentleman he was!"
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I have thus briefly sketched what the press has done in this
part of Rhode Island. No work of any great importance was ever
printed here, but in the early history of the colony its
printers were frequently employed by writers and publishers in
other places. A long list of such works as "Sermons by Samuel
Fothergill" and "A Dialogue from the pen of Wesley" might be
mentioned. The only American reprint of the "Fables of
Pilpay," is that of 1784, printed in Newport by Solomon
Southwick.--Newport Daily News, Oct, 29, 1880.
59.
ABRAHAM SOUTHWICK4, (John3, John2, Lawrence1), son of John 2d
and Hannah Follett, born July 27, 1696; died before 1769. He
was a bricklayer. Married in 1729, Sarah (???). Their
Children:
129. Isaac5, baptized April 26, 1730; died before 1754.
130. Abraham Jr.5, baptized April 26, 1730; married Mary
Aborn,
Jan. 11, 1755.
131. Sarah5, baptized April 26, 1730; married Nathaniel Clark,
of
Wells, Me., Oct. 24, 1751.
132. Joseph5, baptized July 18, 1731; died before 1754.
133. Margaret5, baptized Oct. 6, 1734; married Amos Newhall,
of
Lynn, Dec. 7, 1750.
Oct. 12, 1754. Abraham gives by deed of gift to his only son
living, Abraham, Jr., his dwelling-house.
April 18, 1739. Abraham Southwick and Sarah his wife deed to
John Cabot.
Oct. 13, 1767. Abraham Southwick, Jr., and wife Mary, deed to
Amos Trask.
June 10, 1739. Abraham Southwick, the bricklayer, deeds to
William Shillaber.--Salem Records.
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March 10, 1774, Abraham, Jr., sold his
dwellinghouse given him by his father (Abraham),
to Joseph Pierpont.
61.
BENJAMIN SOUTHWICK4, (John3, John2, Lawrence1),
son of John 2d and Hannah (Follet), born Jan. 22,
1701; married in 1720, Sarah Southwick, daughter
of Isaac Southwick and Anna. They lived at
Reading, and moved to Salem and Danvers, Mass.(*)
Children:
134. Isaac5, born 1720.
135. Benjamin5, born 1722; settled at Mendon;
married Miriam
Benson, 1737.
136. Sarah5, born 1724.
137. Mercy5, born 1730.
Ezekiel Marsh to Benjamin Southwick, of Salem,
husbandman.--Salem Records.
69.
DANIEL SOUTHWICK4, (Lawrence3, Daniel2,
Lawrence1), son of Lawrence and Tamson (Buffum),
born in Salem, 1705, died Jan. 19, 1776. Married,
Feb. 8, 1730, at Swansey, Mass., Ruth Shove,
daughter of Edward and Lydia Shove, of Dighton,
Mass., as per record Friends' meeting at
Somerset, Davius Buffington, clerk, May 14, 1880.
Children:
138. Lawrence5, born Jan. 11, 1731, died Dec. 17,
1757. Married
Dorcas Brown; Jan. 1753, second, Hannah
Southwick, daughter
of Jonathan and Hannah (Osborn) Southwick, Oct.
6, 1759.
(*) From History of Reading.
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139. Edward5, born March 15, 1734; married Elizabeth
Southwick,
daughter of Jonathan aad Hannah (Osborn) Southwick,
June 1, 1769.
140. Lydia5, born Dec. 22, 1735; married Amos Osborn, Dec. 3,
1761. His second wife was Hannah Southwick.
141. Daniel5, born Oct. 18, 1737; married Mary Mabbett.
142. Eleanor5, born Feb. 2, 1739; married Daniel Read, son of
Jonathan Read of Smithfield, July 1, 1762.
143. Josiah5, born July 17, 1742. Was killed wrestling in his
father's barn with hired man.
144. Elizabeth5, born Sept. 4, 1744; married Solomon Haight,
son
of Moses and Rachael Haight, of Nine Partners, Dutchess
Co., N. Y., Sept. 3, 1779.
145. George5, born Dec. 14, 1747; married Judith Southwick,
daughter of Daniel and Ruth Mussey, June 5, 1777.
146. Theophilus5, born Nov. 29, 1750; married Anna Remington.
Daniel took a certificate from Salem to Smithfield monthly
meeting, which was well accepted, Feb. 29, 1745.
Daniel was a tanner and currier, and also had several hundred
acres of land in Mendon.
Sept. 17, 1737. Daniel and wife Ruth deed to Caleb
Southwick.--Salem Records.
Oct. 27, 1739. Daniel and wife Ruth deed to William
Osborn.--Salem Records.
Feb. 17, 1745. Daniel and wife Ruth deed to Daniel
Purington.--Salem Records.
DANIEL SOUTHWICK, son of Lawrence and Tamson Buffum, was born
at Salem, Mass., in 1705. He learned the tanning business of
his brother and moved from Salem to Mendon (now Uxbridge),
Mass., in 1742, as per testimonial and records of the
Smithfield monthly meeting of Friends. He bought 200 acres
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of land of Benjamin Taft, of Mendon, or Uxbridge,
and started a tan-yard. He became a distinguished
preacher of the Society of Friends, and after his
death they passed as a tribute for his good work,
a testimonial setting forth his great ability as
a preacher and his excellence as a man. Said
testimonial was signed by Moses Brown,(*) David
Buffum, Daniel Aldrich and eleven others of the
prominent members of the Society of Friends of
the Smithfield monthly meeting. Daniel expired
Nov. 19, 1776; the above memorial was signed Dec.
26, 1776.
The tan-vats which Daniel used at Mendon are now
visible (in 1880); i. e., the ground shows deep
hollow places where the vats were. The farm which
Daniel bought is now owned by James Comstock
Southwick, and has been owned by some Southwick
ever since Daniel's death.
Testimony of the Monthly meeting held at
Smithfield, in New England, Dec. 26, 1776,
Concerning Daniel Southwick, late of Mendon,
deceased:
Forasmuch as it appears probable to us that some
account of this, our valued friend, may be
beneficial if committed to record as an
encouragement to virtue, the following is
preserved. He was born at Salem in Massachusetts
in the year 1705, and descended of the family of
Southwicks mentioned in Sewels and Bishops
History. His father dying while he was young, he
(*) Moses Brown was the founder of the Friends'
School at Providence,
Rhode Island. The property, consisting of many
acres of
land, has become very valuable owing to the
growth of the city to
and about it.
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was deprived of his parental instructor, an advantage too
lightly prized by many youth, to their own loss. He was
educated amongst Friends, and when come to man's estate was
religiously inclined, forsaking youthful follies. In this
course he passed through experience and discouragements till
at times ready to sink. But a language passing though his mind
in a season of this kind, "That he who had begun a good work
was able to carry it on," so strengthened him that from thence
he took courage, and embracing the cross, perservered in the
way he saw to be that of duty, and not long afterwards was
concerned to appear in the ministry in our meetings to the
satisfaction of his friends.
He moved from Salem to settle amongst us in the year 1742,
subsequent to which we were favored with his company most of
the time to the period of his death, and we can say of him
according to our view, that pride, covetousness, and anger had
as little room in him as in any of our acquaintance. In his
public testimonies he was much concerned to shew the nature
and value of love and the pernicious consequences of hatred,
ill will, and contention, and also to maintain the
universality of the light of Christ, clearly proving this by
the testimony of the scriptures.
He was very able to point out and illustrate how opposite war
and bloodshed are to the precepts of the Gospel, which teach
to beat swords into plow-shares and spears into pruning-hooks,
and to learn war no more. And he was sorely affected in
viewing the lamentable state of the English nation at this
time. He
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was constant in the attendance of our religious meetings and
exemplary in his deportment therein. He was peaceable and a
peace-maker in the neighborhood where he dwelt, and as he
lived so he died, evincing as death drew nigh, his strong love
for his friends and desires for their preservation, and his
example being worthy of imitation, we hope his concern may
have increasing weight with each of us to excite watchfulness
and care, in order for our preservation in the truth.
His understanding remained sound till near his last, and he
uttered during his sickness many instructive and comfortable
expressions, observing that "it much affected him to see
persons advanced in life, with families, trampling upon the
testimonies of truth." At another time, after lying silently
for some time in great pain, he cried out "I didn't know that
I could bear this had it not been that our Master bore it
before me, but now I find I can bear this and more too,
patiently," or words to that effect. The evening before his
death he observed, "I think the pains of death are upon me and
that I shall not see the light of another day. The pain of
body that I endure is very great, but the peace of mind
overbalance all, for my mind is in perfect peace." His last
sickness continued about three months, and during that time he
underwent much bodily pain, which he bore with exemplary
fortitude unto the end. He expired on the 19th of Nov. 1776,
in good unity with his brethren, and has we believe, arrived
"where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary
are at rest," and on the 20th of Nov. 1776, his remains were
interred in his
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own grounds, attended by a large concourse of
friends and others.
Signed in and on behalf of the meeting aforesaid
by
BENJAMIN ARNOLD, MOSES BROWN,
DAVID BUFFUM, DANIEL ALDRICH,
and eleven other Friends.
72.
LAWRENCE SOUTHWICK4, (Lawrence3, Daniel2,
Lawrence1), son of Lawrence and Tamson (Buffum),
born 1711, died at his son Joseph's, Uxbridge,
1795, aged 84, as per records Friends' meeting at
Somerset, Mass. Married first, May 8, 1739,
Hannah Shove, daughter of Edward and Lydia, of
Dighton, as per records Friends' Meeting,
Somerset, Mass.; second, Patience Handy, or
Hendee, born 1739. Children:
147. Edward5, born March 18, 1740, died June 18,
1833. Married
Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan and Hannah
(Osborn)
Southwick, June 1, 1761. Elizabeth was born Feb.
18, 1745,
died June 18, 1834.
148. Elizabeth5, born 1748; married Moses Farnum,
May 2,
1777. She was his second wife, no children.
149. Joseph5, born 1750; married Ailsie Sayles,
of Smithfield, R.
I., April 1, 1779; she was the daughter of
Jonathan Sayles.
150. Nathaniel5, born May 2, 1752; married
Elizabeth Southgate.
151. David5, born 1754; married Elizabeth Sweet,
April 16, 1779.
Married second wife, Patience Handy (or Hendee)
at 15 years of age, 1754.(*)
152. Isaac5, born Dec. 13, 1755. Went to Danby
Vt.; died 1823,
aged 68.--History of the Town of Danby.
(*) Patience Handy's mother was the daughter of
John Franklin,
brother of Benjamin Franklin.
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153. Daniel5, born 1756, died in 1846, at Holland Purchase,
Erie
Co., N. Y., aged 89 years, 11 months, 2 days. Married Jemimah
Bartlett, daughter of Jacob and Judith, May 2, 1792.
154. Caleb5, born Feb. 4, 1757, died 1819. Went to Peru,
Clinton
Co., N. Y. Married Phebe Osborn, Oct. 1793.
155. Amos5, born 1760.
156. Amos5, born 1762.
157. Lydia5, born 1764; married Obediah Frye, Jan. 12, 1791.
He
was born in 1763. They lived at Farmington, Ontario Co.,
N. Y.
158. Asa5, born Aug. 3, 1766; went to North Adams, Mass.,
1826,
at 60 years of age; married Lydia Sherman.
159. Moses5, born 1768; married Anna, daughter of Adam
Harkness,
in 1792. Moses was a shoe-maker and was killed by
an accident.
160. Esther5, born 1770; married (???) Case; went to Hoosic,
N. Y., to live.
161. Abigail5, born 1772; married Asa Wheeler, 1789; lived at
Bolton, Mass.
162. Mary5, born July 12, 1773, died Feb. 26, 1851, at
Clarksborough,
Mass. Married Israel Chilson; lived at Clarksborough.
Married second, Jacob Brown, 1805.
163. Jacob5, born 1774; married (???) Osborn; went to Peru, N.
Y.
164. Anna5, born 1775, died 1794.
165. Josiah5, born 1777, died at Danby, Vt., March 4, 1874, at
97
years of age.--History of Town of Danby Vt. Married
first, Mary Baker of Granville, N. Y.; second, Rachel
Brown.
166. Hannah5, born 1779; married Seth Ballard, St. Lawrence
Co., N. Y. She was an acceptable preacher of the Society
of Friends.
Lawrence was a cordwainer, i. e., shoe-maker, at Dighton,
Bristol Co., Mass.
Lawrence was received in Society of Friends at Woonsocket, on
certificate from Salem, Mass., Feb. 29, 1745.
Josiah5 went to Danby, Vt., 1801, at 24 years of age.--History
of Danby, Vt.
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Sept. 9, 1740. Lawrence, cordwainer, and wife Hannah, of
Dighton, Mass., deed to Caleb and Joseph Southwick.
May 24, 1730. Lawrence, cordwainer, and wife Hannah, deed to
Ebenezer Burrill.
June 7, 1739. Lawrence, cordwainer, and wife Hannah, deed to
Daniel Southwick, Sr., tanner, of Salem, Mass.
79.
JOSEPH SOUTHWICK4, (Solomon3, Josiah2, Lawrence1), son of
Solomon, born 1719, died Sept. 15, 1780, aged 60. Married in
1738, Mary Pitman, born 1722; died Oct. 16, 1788, aged 66.
Children:
167. John5, born 1740, died 1803, aged 63. Married Rebecca
Mosher.
168. Mary5, born 1743, died in 1819. Married John Tripp
Griers,
Oct. 3, 1765.
169. Hannah5, born 1743, died in 1830, aged 87. Married Henry
Bliven.
170. Catharine5, born 1745; married Jeremiah Sheffield.
171. Joseph5, born 1746, died in 1829. Married first, Mary
Irish;
second, Susanna Pitts.
172. Josiah5, born 1748; married Rebecca Meggs.
173. Deborah5, born 1749, died May 9, 1765, aged 16.
174. Jonathan5, born 1764, died March 15, 1832, aged 68.
Married
Lydia A. Handy, born 1762, died May 17, 1855, aged 93.
Joseph4 was the brother of Solomon, the printer, who married
Ann, the daughter of Gov. John Gardner. Joseph owned the house
in which Solomon lived and died in 1797.
Joseph was admitted a Freeman of Colony, May 1759.--Colonial
Records R. I.
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Joseph was a member of Sabbatrian Church, R. I. 1762.
Joseph's children all married but Deborah.
Joseph and Josiah are all who have (1880) male representatives
living, and only one of Josiah.
74.
JOSEPH SOUTHWICK4, (Lawrence3, Daniel2, Lawrence1), son of
Lawrence and Tamson Buffum, born 1716, died June 1, 1791;
married Bethia Callum, daughter of Caleb Callum of Bellingham,
Mass., at Uxbridge, Mass., May 31, 1739; she died April 8,
1803. Children:
175. Bethia5, born Oct. 2, 1741. Married (???) Hanson, at
Brunswick,
Me.
176. Anna5, born Dec. 30, 1743, died July 30, 1775. Married
Jeremiah
Hacker.
177. Joseph5, born Sept. 3, 1746, died Nov. 19, 1773.
178. Esther5, born Oct, 24, 1748, died June 26, 1772; married
James Torrey, Falmouth, Me.
179. Tamson5, born Oct. 28, 1750, died Jan. 11, 1831. Married
Wm. Frye of Andover, Mass.
180. Josiah5, born Sept. 14, 1752, died Oct. 18, 1775.
181. Cassandra5, born March 11, 1755, died Aug. 15, 1775.
182. Edward5, born March 1, 1757, died Jan. 23, 1836. Married
Abigail Rowell, of Amesbury, Mass.
183. Caleb5, born April 3, 1763, died Oct. 4, 1775.
Joseph was a tanner at what is now Peabody, and was a very
thrifty and excellent man, and a Quaker.
Bethia, although a Quaker, on the morning of April 19, 1775,
when the company of soldiers formed in line before marching to
Lexington, made a large arch kettle of coffee and took it to
the company with bread
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and other food. The spot where they formed was in front of her
house, where the monument now stands, which was erected to the
memory of those who fell that day, one of whom was George
Southwick, aged 25. On a marble slab on this monument is
recorded the names of the seven men from Danvers who fell at
the battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775: Samuel Cook, aged 33
years; Benjamin Daland, aged 25 years; George Southwick, aged
25 years; Jonathan Webb, aged 22 years; Henry Jacobs, aged 22
years; Ebenezer Goldthwait, aged 22 years; Perley Putnam, aged
21 years.
Joseph Southwick bought of Benjamin Prescott, Innholder,
Danvers, Oct. 10, 1758.--Salem Records.
Feb. 23, 1755. Joseph Southwick bought of John Shillaber and
others.--Salem Records.
Feb. 23, 1755. Joseph Southwick bought of Joseph Boyce, of
Beckman, Dutchess Co., N. Y.--Salem Records.
87.
JONATHAN SOUTHWICK4, (Daniel3, Daniel2, Lawrence1), son of
Daniel and Jane, born 1697, died June 28, 1786. Married in
1735, Hannah Osborn, daughter of Stephen Osborn of Salem,
Mass., died 1775; second, widow Elizabeth Comstock, nee
Buffum, widow of Daniel Comstock. Children:
184. Jonathan5, born 1736; married Judith Mussey, Nov. 1,
1759.
185. Enoch5, born 1738, died young.
186. Zacheus5, born 1740, died young.
187. Hannah5, born 1742; married Lawrence Southwick, son of
Daniel and Ruth (Shove) Southwick.
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188. John5, born Sept. 6, 1744, died Jan. 23, 1831. Married
Chloe
Bartlett, born Oct. 4, 1749, died April 25, 1817.
189. Elizabeth5, born 1746; married Edward Southwick, son of
Lawrence and Hannah (Shove) Southwick, June 1, 1769.
190. Esther5, born 1748; married James Buxton.
191. George5, born Feb. 8, 1750, died Oct. 12, 1825, at No.
Collins,
Erie Co., N. Y. Married, Feb. 15, 1774, Lydia Sargent,
born Sept. 7, 1757, daughter of Richard Sargent.
192. Jacob5, born June 4, 1751; married Sarah Fowler, June 4,
1778.
193. Enoch5, born 1754; married Mary Swett, 1798.
194. Mercy5, born 1757.
195. Zacheus5, born Sept. 5, 1760, died Jan. 4, 1845. Married
Lavinia
Sayles, daughter of Thomas and Mary, Jan. 4, 1787.
March 3, 1738. Jonathan and wife Hannah deed to John
Southwick.
April 25, 1730. Jonathan and John bought of Elias Trask.
March 26, 1739. Jonathan and wife Hannah and mother Jane to
John, Jr., and Isaac Southwick.
Copy of Jonathan Southwick's Will.
THIS twenty-first day of the second month, one thousthousand
seven hundred and eighty-three, I, Jonathan Southwick, of
Smithfield, in the county of Providence, and state of Rhode
Island, yeoman, being in a weak state of bodily health, but of
sound and disposing mind and memory, do make and ordain this
my last will and testament.
My body I recommend to the earth, to be decently buried at the
direction of my executor hereafter named: and touching such
worldly estate wherewith I have been favored in this life, I
give devise and dispose of the same in the following manner,
viz:
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Firstly. I give and bequeath to Elizabeth Southwick, my wife,
all and everything whatsoever that she brought with her into
my estate, together with all the rents now due upon and for
her right and privilege in and unto her first husband's
estate, according to an agreement that she and I made before
our marriage; and further my will is, and I hereby direct and
order my two sons John Southwick and Zacheus Southwick, for
and in consideration of the larger part of my estate herein
willed unto them for the intent and on account of their paying
out sundry sums to divers of my family, to render and deliver
unto her my said wife the following articles in the manner and
proportion hereafter expressed, viz.: The said John Southwick
to render and deliver to her six bushels of merchantable
Indian corn yearly during her life, and that the said Zacheus
render and deliver to her twenty pounds of merchantable fresh
pork yearly during her life, or in other articles to that
value as she and the said John and Zacheus may agree, which as
I judge it a reasonable and sufficient maintenance, do make no
further provision for her.
Item. I give and bequeath to my son, the said John Southwick,
my farm which lieth partly in Uxbridge and partly in Mendon,
containing about ninety acres, with the buildings thereon
erected, it being the farm whereon he, the said John now
dwells, to him his heirs and assigns forever, he fulfilling
the following articles, viz.: To pay or cause to be paid to my
daughter Hannah Southwick wife of Lawrence Southwick, Jr., six
pounds, lawful money; and to Elizabeth Southwick another of my
daughters, and wife of Edward Southwick, the sum of ten
pounds, lawful money; and to my son Enoch Southwick, the sum
of ten shillings, lawful money; and to my son Jacob Southwick
ten shillings, lawful money; all and
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every of which within one year after my decease, and render to
my said wife the corn as hereinbefore is expressed, and paying
one half of my just debts and funeral. charges.
Item. I give and bequeath to my son, the said Zacheus
Southwick, the whole of my real estate lying in said
Smithfield, to him the said Zacheus, his heirs and assigns
forever, provided he complies with and fulfills the following
articles, viz.: That he pays or causes to be paid to my son
George Southwick, the sum of twelve pounds, lawful money; and
to my son Jonathan Southwick, five shillings, lawful money;
and to my daughter Esther Buxton, the sum of six pounds,
lawful money.
Money all to be paid within one year after my decease, and
that the said Zacheus delivereth the pork to my said wife in
manner hereinbefore expressed, and that he also payeth the
other half of my just debts and funeral charges.
Item. I give and bequeath to my son, the said George all my
wearing apparel.
Item. I give and bequeath to my said three daughters, Hannah,
Elizabeth and Esther, all my household goods, to be equally
divided among them.
Item. I give and bequeath to my two sons, the said George and
Zacheus, all my money securities for all my live stock,
together with the rest and remainder of my personal estate
hereinbefore not disposed of, to be equally divided between
them.
And I do constitute and appoint my son, the said Zacheus
Southwick, sole executor to this my last will and testament;
revoking and disannulling all and every other or former will
or wills, legacies, executors by me heretofore willed, named
or bequeathed; ratifying and confirming this and no other to
be my last will and testament. In
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witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day
and year first above written.
JONATHAN SOUTHWICK.
Signed, sealed, published, pronounced and decreed by the said
Jonathan Southwick to be his last will and testament, in
presence of us, who in his presence and in presence of each
other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses:
CALEB ARNOLD, JONATHAN NEWHALL,
GEORGE COMSTOCK.
90.
JOHN SOUTHWICK 3d4, (Daniel3, Daniel2, Lawrence1), son of
Daniel and Jane, born May 1709, died Oct. 1, 1784; was called
shop-keeper. Married, Dec. 12, 1730, widow Mary Buffum, born
June 1703, died May 12, 1790. Children:
195a. Mehitable5, born Aug. 19, 1725, died Oct. 6, 1778.
Married
(???) Varney, Oct. 6, 1758.
196. Zacheus5, born April 14, 1732.
197. Hannah5, born Aug. 22, 1734, died March 14, 1793. Married
Abijah Purington, of Salem.
198. Daniel5, born Aug. 10, 1736.
199. Elizabeth5, born Feb. 8, 1738, died June 28, 1786.
Married
Jonathan Buxton, 1767, in Friends' meeting, Salem.
199a. Josiah, born July 17, 1742; married Elizabeth Southwick.
Sept. 8, 1740. Jonathan Buxton and wife Elizabeth, to John
Southwick, shop-keeper.
March 5, 1738. John and wife Mary and mother Jane deed to John
Henderson.
March 31, 1739. John and wife Mary and mother Jane deed to
Gideon Foster.
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88.
DANIEL SOUTHWICK4, (Daniel3, Daniel2, Lawrence1,)
son of Daniel and Jane, born 1721, died March 3,
1804. Married, Feb. 8, 1742, Ruth Mussey,
daughter of James Mussey, of Smithfield, born
Feb. 18, 1722, died Jan. 16, 1790. Children:
200. David5, born Sept. 27, 1743, died July 19,
1746.
201. Elizabeth5, born March 29, 1746. Married
Jeremiah Wilkinson,
of Cumberland, R. I., Dec. 4, 1777.
202. Jane5, born Sept. 14, 1748, died June 24,
1772. Unmarried.
203. Hannah5, born March 19, 1750; married Jesse
Darling, at
Smithfield, Jan. 4, 1771.
204. Ruth5, born March 20, 1755, died June 10,
1813. Married
Benedict Remington,(*) Oct. 5, 1780.
205. Judith5, born Oct. 23, 1757, died Feb. 11,
1837. Married
George Southwick, son of Daniel and Ruth Shove,
June
5, 1777.
206. Lydia5, born Feb, 4, 1761, died Oct. 8,
1848. Married James
Congdon,+ Dec. 6, 1781.
Daniel was called red-headed Daniel, to
distinguish him from other Daniels.
71.
CALEB SOUTHWICK4, (Lawrence3, Daniel2,
Lawrence1), son of Lawrence and Tamson (Buffum),
born in 1709; married April 8, 1732, Ruth Gould,
daughter of Thomas and Abigail Gould, of
Charlestown, Mass. Caleb was a blacksmith. One
child:
207. Tamson5, born 1736; married Daniel Aldrich,
May 1, 1759.
(*) Benedict Remington was the son of John and
Mary Remington.
+ James Congdon was the son of Ephraim and
Penelope Congdon,
of Cranston, R. I.
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Sept. 17, 1737. Caleb and Ruth Southwick his wife, deed to
John Cabot.--Salem Records.
Jan. 5, 1741-42. Caleb and Ruth Southwick his wife, deed to
James Buffington.--Salem Records.
Dec. 25, 1744. Caleb and Ruth Southwick his wife, deed to
Joseph Southwick.--Salem Records.
42.
BENJAMIN SOUTHWICK4, (Samuel3, John2, Lawrence1), son of
Samuel 1st and Mary, born probably about 1696, died 1795, in
Congregational church, New Salem, Mass. Married April 22,
1722, Abigail Burt. Their children:
208. Samuel5, born 1722, baptized Nov. 19, 1742. Married
Abigail
(???), 1741.
209. Benjamin, Jr.5, born 1723, bap
