The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Vol. 1, No. 3, July 1847

Chapter VI: Crowns, Coronets, &c (1)

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90. Crown of England. 91. Coronet of the Prince of Wales. 92.
Coronet of a duke. 93. Marquis. 94. Earl. 95. Viscount. 96.
Baron. 97. Mitre of a bishop. 98. Eastern, or antique coronet.
99. Celestial crown. 100. Crown of Edward I. 101. Mortier, or
cap of state. 102. Chapeau, or cap of maintenance. 103. Crown of
France. 104. Cardinal's hat. 105. Crown triple, or tiara of the
pope.

RATIFICATION OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION BY MASSACHUSETTS.

[The following account of the Ratification of the Constitution
of the United States by the Convention of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts convened at Boston on the 9th day of January,
1788, and continued until the 7th of February, was printed in
the Massachusetts Gazette of Feb. 8th, 1788, published by John
Wincoll Allen of Boston. It is here inserted as a historical
document of those times that tried men's souls, which will,
we think, be read with deep interest by those of the present
generation. In this way, too, it will be preserved, as it should
be, for posterity. It is printed as we find it in the Gazette,
with only the addition of the names of the towns, in which the
individuals of the Convention resided. Of the Convention, John
Hancock was President, William Cushing, Vice-President, and
George Richards Minot, Secretary.]

With the highest satisfaction we announce to the publick, that the Convention of this commonwealth, on Wednesday last, at five o'clock, P. M. _ASSENTED TO_ the CONSTITUTION, proposed by the late federal Convention. On this pleasing event, WE DO HEARTILY congratulate the publick, and do express our sincere wishes, that the general joy which it has diffused through all ranks of citizens, may be an auspicious omen of the superiour advantages which will undoubtedly result from the establishment of such a federal government as this constitution provides.

Immediately on the news of this joyful decision being announced, the bells in every publick building in this metropolis began to ring, and continued to sound the glad tydings for two hours. At sun set the Convention adjourned: after which, a multitude of people, from all quarters, moved into State-Street, where they manifested the joy they felt from this event, by incessant tokens of approbation, and loud huzzas. The bells of the North church continued to chime harmonious peals of gratulations the whole night, and part of the next day. Illuminations were made and other insignia of joy exhibited.

The yeas and nays, on the question of adoption, being taken, agreeably to the orders of the day, were as follows, viz.

YEAS.

His Excellency JOHN HANCOCK, Esq. President, Hon. James Bowdoin,
hon. Sam. Adams, hon. William Phillips, hon. Caleb Davis,
Charles Jarvis, esq. John C. Jones, esq. John Winthrop, esq.
Thomas Dawes, jun. esq. rev. Samuel Stillman, Thomas Russell,
esq. Christopher Gore, esq. _Boston_, hon. William Heath, hon.
Increase Sumner, _Roxbury_, James Bowdoin, jun. esq. Ebenezer
Wales, esq. _Dorchester_, rev. Nathaniel Robbins, _Milton_,
hon. Richard Cranch, rev. Anthony Wibird, _Braintree_, hon.
Cotton Tufts, _Weymouth_, hon. Benjamin Lincoln, rev. David
Shute, _Hingham_, rev. Joseph Jackson, _Brookline_, rev. Thomas
Thacher, Fisher Ames, esq. _Dedham_, col. William M'Intosh,
_Needham_, capt. John Baxter, jun. _Medfield_, hon. Elijah
Dunbar, esq. _Stoughton_, mr. Thomas Mann, _Wrentham_, mr.
George Payson, _Walpole_, hon. J. Fisher, _Franklin_, mr. Thomas
Jones, _Hull_, rev. Phillips Payson, _Chelsea_, mr. Ebenezer
Warren, _Foxborough_, Richard Manning, esq. Edward Pulling,
esq. mr. William Gray, jun. mr. Francis Cabot, _Salem_, hon.
Michael Farley, J. Choate, esq. Daniel Noyes, esq. col. Jonathan
Cogswell, _Ipswich_, hon. Tristram Dalton, Enoch Sawyer, esq.
E. March, esq. _Newbury_, hon. Rufus King, esq. hon. Benjamin
Greenleaf, esq. Theophilus Parsons, esq. hon. Jonathan Titcomb,
_Newburyport_, hon. G. Cabot, mr. Joseph Wood, capt. Israel
Thorndike, _Beverly_, Isaac Mansfield, esq. Jonathan Glover,
esq. hon. Azor Orne, John Glover, esq. _Marblehead_, Daniel
Rogers, esq. John Low, esq. capt. W. Pearson, _Gloucester_,
John Carnes, esq. capt. John Burnham, _Lynn_ and _Lynnfield_,
mr. William Symmes, jun. _Andover_, Bailey Bartlett, esq. capt.
Nathaniel Marsh, _Haverhill_, mr. Israel Clark, _Topsfield_,
dr. Samuel Nye, mr. Enoch Jackman, _Salisbury_, capt. Benjamin
Lurvey, mr. Willis Patten, _Amesbury_, Daniel Thurston, esq.
_Bradford_, mr. Jacob Herrick, _Wenham_, mr. Simeon Miller,
_Manchester_, hon. Francis Dana, esq. Stephen Dana, esq.
_Cambridge_, hon. Nathaniel Gorham, esq. _Charlestown_, hon.
Joseph Hosmer, _Concord_, hon. Abraham Fuller, _Newtown_,
capt. Lawson Buckminster, _Framingham_, Benjamin Brown, esq.
_Lexington_, Daniel Whitney, esq. _Sherburne_, capt. Asahel
Wheeler, _Sudbury_, capt. Benjamin Blaney, _Malden_, capt.
Abraham Bigelow, _Weston_, maj. gen. John Brooks, _Medford_,
dr. Charles Whitman, _Stow_, Leonard Williams, esq. _Waltham_,
hon. J. B. Varnum, _Dracut_, hon. J. Pitts, _Dunstable_, hon.
E. Brooks, _Lincoln_, W. Pynchon, esq. _Springfield_, hon. C.
Strong, mr. Benjamin Sheldon, _Northampton_ and _Easthampton_,
capt. Lemuel Pomeroy, _Southampton_, brig. gen. Elisha Porter,
_Hadley_, hon. Noah Goodman, _South Hadley_, hon. J. Hastings,
_Hatfield_, John Ingersol, esq. _Westfield_, mr. Ebenezer James,
_Northfield_, Abner Morgan, esq. _Brimfield_, capt. David
Shepard, _Chester_, mr. Jesse Reed, _Charlemont_, Nahum Eager,
esq. _Worthington_, col. Benjamin Bonney, _Chesterfield_, major
Thomas J. Douglass, _Northwick_, mr. Aaron Fisher, _Westhampton_,
mr. Edmund Lazell, _Cummington_ and _Plainfield_, capt. Thomas
Maxwell, _Buckland_, mr. Elihu Colton, _Longmeadow_, Joshua
Thomas, esq. mr. Thomas Davis, mr. John Davis, _Plymouth_, hon.
William Cushing, hon. Nathan Cushing, hon. Charles Turner,
_Scituate_, hon. George Partridge, _Duxbury_, rev. William Shaw,
_Marshfield_, Daniel Howard, esq. mr. Hezekiah Hooper, capt.
Elisha Mitchel, mr. Daniel Howard, jun. _Bridgewater_, rev.
Isaac Backus, Isaac Thompson, esq. _Middleboro'_, capt. John
Turner, mr. Josiah Smith, _Pembroke_, William Sever, jun. esq.
_Kingston_, hon. Joseph Cushing, _Hanover_, rev. Samuel Niles,
_Abington_, mr. Freeman Waterman, _Halifax_, col. Israel Fearing,
_Wareham_, Shearjashaub Bourn, esq. _Barnstable_, David Thacher,
esq. capt. Jonathan Howes, _Yarmouth_, hon. Solomon Freeman,
capt. Kimball Clark, _Harwich_, rev. Levi Whitman, _Wellfleet_,
capt. Joseph Palmer, _Falmouth_, James Williams, esq. _Taunton_,
hon. Elisha May, capt. Moses Willmarth, _Attleboro'_, col.
Sylvester Richmond, hon. William Baylies, _Dighton_, hon. Thomas
Durfee, Israel Washburne, esq. _Freetown_, hon. Walter Spooner,
rev. Samuel West, _New Bedford_, mr. William Almy, _Westport_,
Nathaniel Barrel, esq. _York_, rev. Moses Hemmenway, hon.
Nathaniel Wells, _Wells_, Thomas Cutts, esq. _Pepperelboro'_,
Jacob Bradbury, esq. _Buxton_, capt. John Low, _Coxhall_, mr.
William Mayhew, _Edgartown_, mr. Cornelius Dunham, _Tisbury_,
hon. John Sprague, _Lancaster_, capt. Seth Newton, _Southboro'_,
hon. Samuel Baker, _Bolton_, major David Wilder, _Leominster_,
mr. Matthew Patrick, _Western_, mr. Josiah Goddard, _Athol_,
capt. Ephraim Wilder, _Sterling_, John K. Smith, esq. _Falmouth_,
mr. John Fox, capt. Joseph M'Lellan, _Portland_, David Mitchell,
esq. Samuel Merrill, esq. _North Yarmouth_, William Thompson,
esq. _Scarboro'_, capt. John Dunlap, _Brunswick_, capt. Isaac
Snow, _Harpswell_, mr. Joshua Dyer, _Cape Elisabeth_, rev.
Samuel Perley, _Gray_, Thomas Rice, esq. mr. David Sylvester,
_Pownalboro'_, mr. Nathaniel Wyman, _Georgetown_, mr. David
Gilmore, _Woolwich_, William M'Cobb, esq. _Boothbay_, capt.
Samuel Grant, _Vassalboro'_, Moses Davis, esq. _Edgecomb_,
David Fales, esq. _Thomaston_, Dummer Sewall, esq. _Bath_, John
Ashley, jun. esq. _Sheffield_ and _Mount Washington_, hon. Elijah
Dwight, _Great Barrington_, hon. T. Sedgwick, _Stockbridge_, hon.
Jonathan Smith, _Lanesboro'_, hon. T. J. Skinner, _Williamstown_,
mr. Elisha Carpenter, _Becket_, capt. D. Taylor, _New Marlboro'._
TOTAL _Yeas_ 187.

NAYS.

Capt. Jedediah Southworth, _Stoughton_, mr. Nathan Comstock,
_Wrentham_, mr. Benjamin Randall, _Sharon_, mr. M. Richardson,
jun. _Medway_, rev. Noah Alden, _Bellingham_, hon. Israel
Hutchinson, _Danvers_, capt. Peter Osgood, jun. dr. Thomas
Kittredge, _Andover_, capt. Thomas Mighill, _Rowley_, hon.
A. Wood, _Boxford_, capt. Ebenezer Carlton, _Methuen_, dr.
Marshall Spring, _Watertown_, capt. Timothy Winn, _Woburn_,
mr. William Flint, mr. Peter Emerson, _Reading_, mr. Jonas
Morse, major Benjamin Sawin, _Marlboro'_, William Thompson,
esq. _Billerica_, col. Benjamin Ely, capt. John Williston,
_West Springfield_, capt. Phinehas Stebbins, _Wilbraham_, Mr.
Daniel Cooley, _Amherst_, Mr. Benjamin Eastman, _Granby_, Mr.
Josiah Allis, _Whately_, mr. William Bodman, _Williamsburg_, mr.
Samuel Field, _Deerfield_, mr. Moses Bascom, _Greenfield_, mr.
Robert Wilson, _Shelburne_, capt. Consider Arms, mr. Malachi
Maynard, _Conway_, capt. Zacheus Crocker, _Sunderland_, mr.
Moses Severance, _Montague_, capt. Asa Fisk, _South Brimfield_,
mr. Phinehas Merrick, _Monson_, mr. Adam Clark, _Pelham_, capt.
Nathaniel Whitcomb, _Greenwich_, mr. Timothy Blair, _Blanford_,
mr. Aaron Mirrick, _Palmer_, mr. John Hamilton, Mr. Clark Cooley,
_Granville_, mr. John Chamberlain, _New Salem_, mr. Justus
Dwight, _Belchertown_, mr. Samuel Eddy, _Colrain_, mr. Isaac
Pepper, _Ware_, capt. John Goldsbury, _Warwick_ and _Orange_,
capt. Agrippa Wells, _Bernardston_, mr. Ephraim Williams,
_Ashfield_, mr. Asa Powers, _Shutesbury_, capt. Silas Fowler,
_Southwick_, mr. John Jennings, _Ludlow_, mr. Jonathan Hubbard,
_Leverett_, mr. Benjamin Thomas, mr. Isaac Soul, _Middleboro'_,
mr. Nathaniel Hammond, mr. Abraham Holmes, _Rochester_, capt.
Francis Shurtliff, mr. Elisha Bisbee, jun. _Plympton_, dr. Thomas
Smith, mr. Thomas Nye, _Sandwich_, col. Nathaniel Leonard, mr.
Aaron Pratt, _Taunton_, capt. Phanuel Bishop, major Frederick
Drown, William Windsor, esq. _Rehoboth_, mr. Christopher Mason,
mr. David Brown, _Swansey_, hon. Holder Slocum, mr. Melatiah
Hathway, _Dartmouth_, hon. Abraham White, _Norton_, capt.
Ebenezer Tisdell, _Easton_, capt. John Pratt, _Mansfield_,
capt. Esaias Preble, _York_, mr. Mark Adams, mr. James Neal,
_Kittery_, capt. Elijah Thayer, dr. Nathaniel Low, mr. Richard
Foxwell Cutts, _Berwick_, mr. Thomas M. Wentworth, _Lebanon_,
major Samuel Nasson, _Sanford_, mr. Moses Ames, _Fryeburg_, Mr.
Jeremiah Emery, _Shapleigh_, rev. Pelatiah Tingley, _Waterboro',_
mr. David Bigelow, _Worcester_, Edward Thompson, esq. _Mendon_,
major John Minot, _Chelmsford_, capt. Gilbert Dench, _Hopkinton_,
mr. Jonathan Keep, _Westford_, dr. Benjamin Morse, Joseph Sheple,
esq. _Groton_, mr. Obadiah Sawtell, _Shirley_, mr. Daniel Fisk,
_Pepperell_, capt. Daniel Adams, _Townsend_, capt. John Webber,
_Bedford_, capt. Sta. Chamberlain, _Holliston_, mr. Asa Parlin,
_Acton_ and _Carlisle_, capt. J. Harnden, _Wilmington_, mr.
Newman Scarlet, _Tewksbury_, mr. Samuel Reed, _Littleton_,
mr. Benjamin Adams, _Ashby_, major Hezekiah Bread, _Natick_,
capt. Jonathan Green, _Stoneham_, mr. Phinehas Gleason, _East
Sudbury_, mr. Daniel Forbes, mr. N. Jenks, _Brookfield_, capt.
Jeremiah Learned, _Oxford_, mr. Caleb Curtis, Mr. Ezra M'Intier,
_Charlton_, mr. David Harwood, hon. Amos Singletary, _Sutton_,
col. Samuel Denny, _Leicester_, mr. James Hathua, _Spencer_, mr.
Asaph Shermon, _Rutland_, mr. Abraham Smith, _Paxton_, capt.
Jonathan Bullard, _Oakham_, capt. John Black, _Barre_, capt. John
Woods, _Hubbardston_, capt. Benjamin Joslyn, _New Braintree_,
capt. Stephen Maynard, _Westboro'_, mr. Artemas Brigham,
_Northboro'_, capt. Isaac Harrington, _Shrewsbury_, capt. John
Fuller, _Lunenburg_, mr. Daniel Putnam, _Fitchburg_, dr. Samuel
Willard, _Uxbridge_, Josiah Whitney, esq. _Harvard_, mr. Jonathan
Day, _Dudley_, capt. Thomas M. Baker, _Upton_, capt. Timothy
Parker, _Sturbridge_, major Martin Kingsley, _Hardwick_, rev.
Joseph Davis, _Holden_, hon. John Taylor, _Douglass_, dr. Joseph
Wood, _Grafton_, Jonathan Grant, esq. capt. Samuel Peckham,
_Petersham_, John Frye, esq. _Royalston_, mr. Stephen Holden,
_Westminster_, capt. Joel Fletcher, _Templeton_, mr. Timothy
Fuller, _Princeton_, mr. Jacob Willard, _Ashburnham_, mr. Moses
Hale, _Winchendon_, capt. Josiah Wood, _Northbridge_, mr. Joseph
Stone, _Ward_, mr. David Stearns, _Milford_, mr. Jonas Temple,
_Boylston_, Daniel Ilsley, esq. _Falmouth_, mr. S. Longfellow,
jun. _Gorham_, William Widgery, _New Gloucester_, capt. David
Murry, _New Castle_, hon. Samuel Thompson, _Topsham_, mr. Jonah
Crosby, _Winslow_, mr. Zacheus Beal, _Bowdoinham_, William Jones,
esq. _Bristol_, capt. James Carr, _Hallowell_, mr. Joshua Bean,
_Winthrop_, mr. Valentine Rathbun, _Pittsfield_, mr. Comstock
Betts, _Richmond_, mr. Lemuel Collins, _Lenox_, capt. Jeremiah
Pierce, _Adams_, Ephraim Fitch, esq. _Egremont_, major Thomas
Lusk, _West Stockbridge_, mr. John Hurlbert, _Alford_, capt.
Ezekiel Herrick, _Tyrningham_, mr. Joshua Lawton, _Loudon_, mr.
Timothy Mason, _Windsor_, Ebenezer Pierce, esq. _Partridgefield_,
mr. David Vaughan, _Hancock_, capt. Jesse Bradley, _Lee_, mr.
Zenas Noble, _Washington_, mr. John Picket, jun. _Sandisfield._
TOTAL _Nays_ 168.

The open, manly and honourable conduct of the gentlemen who composed the minority, in the great question on Wednesday, taken in the honourable convention, was very different from the turbulent opposers of the constitution in Pennsylvania, who, not content with their declamatory and odious protest against its adoption, are now endeavouring to involve their country in all the horrours of a civil war, by exciting tumult and insurrection. On the vote of adoption being declared,

Honourable mr. WHITE rose, and said, that notwithstanding he had opposed the adoption of the constitution, upon the idea that it would endanger the liberties of his country, yet, as a majority had seen fit to adopt it, he should use his utmost exertions to induce his constituents to live in peace under, and cheerfully submit to it.

He was followed by mr. WIDGERY, who said, that he should return to his constituents, and inform them, that he had opposed the adoption of this constitution, but that he had been overruled, and that he had been carried by a majority of wise and understanding men: that he should endeavour to sow the seeds of union and peace among the people he represented--and that he hoped, and believed, that no person would wish for, or suggest the measure of a PROTEST; for, said he, we must consider that this body is as full a representation of the people, as can be conceived.---- After expressing his thanks for the civility which the inhabitants of this town have shewn to the convention, and declaring, as his opinion, that they had not in the least influenced the decision; he concluded by saying he should support, as much as in him lay, the constitution, and believed, as this state had adopted it, not only 9, but the whole 13, would come into the measure.

General WHITNEY said, that though he had been opposed to the constitution, he should support it as much as if he had voted for it.

Mr. COOLEY, (_Amherst_) said, that he endeavoured to govern himself by the principles of reason, that he was directed to vote against the adoption of the constitution, and that in so doing, he had not only complied with his direction, but had acted according to the dictates of his own conscience; but that as it has been agreed to by a majority, he should endeavour to convince his constituents of the propriety of its adoption.

Doctor TAYLOR, also said, he had uniformly opposed the constitution, that he found himself fairly beat, and expressed his determination to go home, and endeavour to infuse a spirit of harmony and love, among the people.

Other gentlemen expressed their inclination to speak, but it growing late, the convention adjourned to Thursday morning, at ten o'clock.

_Let this be told to the honour of Massachusetts; to the reputation of her citizens, as men willing to acquiesce in that republican principle, of submitting to the decision of a majority._

Yesterday, A. M. the Convention met, according to adjournment, when a vote was passed for proceeding in procession to the state-house, and there to declare the ratification of the FEDERAL CONSTITUTION, which that honourable body, on Wednesday last, by a majority of NINETEEN assented to, in behalf of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. About 12 o'clock, the procession moved from their place of session, preceded by the honourable vice-president of the Convention. His excellency the president being seated in an elegant vehicle, was drawn by THIRTEEN patriotick and publick spirited MECHANICKS, who thus expressed their love and respect for a man who ever loved and respected his country.

The procession having arrived at the state-house, entered the senate-chamber, from which his excellency the president, the vice-president, secretary, high-sheriff of the county of Suffolk, and other respectable characters, went out upon the balcony of the state-house, from whence his excellency the president addressed the multitude who had assembled below, in a short speech, preparatory to what they were about to hear declared. The high-sheriff then declared the federal constitution adopted and ratified by the Convention of the commonwealth of Massachusetts.

After which the whole assembly testified their approbation by the loudest huzzas.

An elegant repast being provided for the occasion in the senate-chamber, the Convention, and a great number of other gentlemen, partook thereof, and exhibited such marks of satisfaction, as fully evinced, that this joyful event would tend to give vigour and energy to our future continental administrations. After dinner the following toasts were drank, viz.

1. His excellency the president and convention of Massachusetts.

2. The president and members of the late continental convention.

3. The states that have adopted the federal constitution.

4. A speedy accession to the union by those states who are yet to deliberate upon the proposed constitution.

5. May the same candour, and liberality, which has so conspicuously distinguished the minority of Massachusetts, prevail thro' every state in the union.

6. May the United States of America be as distinguished for their increase in agriculture, arts and manufactures, as they are for their attachment to justice and the liberties of mankind.

7. The great and magnanimous ally of the United States of America--his most Christian majesty.

8. The United Netherlands.

9. May the States of America be the asylum of every distressed son of liberty, throughout the world.

10. May the flag of American commerce be displayed in every quarter of the globe.

11. May the landholders of America soon experience the happy effects intended by the proposed constitution.

12. May the nations of the world, who would be our rivals in trade, soon find their disappointment in the energy of our councils.

13. May peace, liberty, and safety, be the perpetual birthright of an American.

It seems that the joy which the adoption of the proposed constitution has diffused, is not only general, but sincere and grateful.--The rising sun of yesterday's morn, by its brightness and refulgent beams, seemed to break forth, from the dusky horizon, with uncommon grandeur, partaking, as it were, of the joy in which an event so propitious immersed the souls of the people. The bells of all the churches, &c. in town, began ringing at early dawn, and continued, most of them without intermission, thro' the day, and part of last evening.

The hardy sons of Neptune, seemed not to be insensible of the importance of this great event; for having procured a boat, which they fixed on a sled, they continued to draw it through the town till near the close of the day, frequently huzzaing, and loudly exulting in the anticipation of reviving and flourishing commerce. In the boat was displayed the flag of the United States, and musick, which kept continually playing.

In a cart, drawn by five horses, the British flag was displayed, and insulted by numbers placed in the cart, armed with muskets, who repeatedly discharged the contents of them through the tattered remnant, in contempt of that faithless nation, whose exertions have been unremitted since the peace, to cramp our commerce and obstruct all our nautical proceedings.

Repeated marks of joy were exhibited during the course of the day by the lovers and well wishers of our country, but we believe none will exceed the exhibition which is to take place this day, as will appear by the following

NOTICE

TO THE TRADESMEN.

THE COMMITTEE of MECHANICKS appointed at their meeting the 7th. ult. present their compliments to the several TRADESMEN, MECHANICKS, and ARTIZANS of every description in the town of Boston, and request their attendance at Faneuil Hall, this morning, at NINE o'clock, in order to form and proceed in GRAND PROCESSION therefrom, to testify their approbation of the ratification of the Federal Constitution, by the Convention of this commonwealth the 6th instant.

They recommend that the procession be formed as follows--First, a plough, drawn by a horse, with husbandmen carrying proper utensils--Then the tradesmen, &c. of the town, each with some tool, decorated; to proceed by trades; each trade with one person at its head. With the ship-builders, &c. will be a boat, drawn by horses, properly manned. They request that the procession may be as full as possible; that the several drummers, fifers, and other musicians in the town, will join the procession, with their instruments.

The rout of the procession will be mentioned at the Hall.

Boston, February 7, 1788.

LETTER OF CHIEF-JUSTICE SARGEANT OF MASSACHUSETTS.

[The following are extracts from a letter of Judge Sargeant to
the Hon. Joseph Badger of Gilmanton, N. H., who was a Delegate
to the Convention of that state for the adoption of the Federal
Constitution.]

I make no doubt but you have carefully compared y^e old
confederation with y^e new constitution and I wish you to review
them again. Can there be such a thing as Government without
Power? What is advice, recommendation, or requisition? It is not
Government.--Congress has a right to raise an army, to make war
and Peace, of entering into Treaties and alliances to borrow
money and appropriate y^e same--to ascertain y^e sums necessary
to be raised for y^e Service of y^e United States--to emit bills
of credit--to build and equip a navy, and to make requisitions
on y^e states for their quota of men, to Cloath, arm and equip
them. But who will lend Congress Money when they have not Power
to raise a Single Shilling to repay them? Who will take their
bills of Credit when every Body knows they can never redeem them?
Who will enlist into their army when Congress has no money to
pay them a Bounty or their wages or find them in Provisions? Who
will build and equip a navy for them without money? Who will
trouble themselves about Congress' making war or Peace when they
can't command a Shilling to support a war? To what Purpose is
it to appropriate money when they can't get it?--What end does
it answer for other nations to make treaties and alliances with
Congress when any one State by its obstinacy, fraud or some
Paltry private interest may defeat y^e treaty or by main force
break through it?

What good end will be answered by ascertaining y^e Sums necessary
to be raised when thirteen independent Legislatures are to judge
whether those sums are necessary or not and whether they will
raise them or not and if one State won't raise their quota, y^e
other states are more than foolish, they are distracted if they
raise theirs.--What effect will a requisition on y^e states
for raising, cloathing, arming, and equipping their quotas of
men have, when y^e 13 Legislatures are left to judge of y^e
expediency, or necessity of this equipment, whether they are
not charged above their proportion--whether it won't do as well
sometime hence? What security is it possible to have under such a
Government? A Government without energy, without power. Zeal and
enthusiasm carried us thro' y^e last war without any Government
till March 1781, when y^e Confederation was compleated and then
we hobbled along 21 months longer under it until peace took
place, and since y^e Peace, Requisitions from Congress have had
no more effect than y^e Pope's bulls wou'd have had. The old
Confederation is just y^e same to y^e United States as a people,
as a milk and water diet wou'd be to a labouring man, both wou'd
grow weaker and weaker till they were not able to crawl. Nothing
ever gave us any respectability abroad but y^e readiness and
chearfulness with which we complied with all y^e recommendations
of Congress when we had no Government at all. That enabled us
to form treaties with other nations, to hire money, and their
hatred to Great Britain engaged them to join in y^e war against
her. The nations in Europe discovered this weakness long before
we did. Great Britain for 5 years has refused to make any Treaty
of commerce with us, has shut all her Ports against our shipping,
while our Ports are filled with their shipping and seamen and
are picking up our seamen for their employ--they bring their
Produce and manufactures to us to buy but won't let us carry
our own to them. They have embarrass'd our commerce with other
nations by setting y^e Algerines upon our shipping and thereby
obliged us to give 5 per Cent. to them for insurance against the
Algerines--all this while we have not had y^e power to retalliate
upon them in one Single Article. The other Powers viz: France,
Holland, Spain and Portugal have now taken y^e hint and are
imposing duties upon our Produce and Manufactures to y^e great
encouragement of their own and discouragement of ours, and we
can't make any Regulations to counterwork them. Massachusetts
some years ago took y^e lead and made some very advantageous
Regulations. New Hampshire followed, and Rhode Island adopted a
small part. Soon y^e People in New Hampshire grew restive and
obliged y^e Government to repeal y^e same. Rhode Island followed
and Massachusetts was obliged to follow them, so that you see
what a rope of sand we are. This conduct of y^e European nations
will in time, if it produces good Government, prove of eminent
advantage to us. They drained us of almost all our Cash. This put
People upon being industrious and frugal. Industry has occasioned
great improvements in agriculture and in manufactures. The first
has rendered Provisions plenty and so cheap that we sell them
to almost all nations. The latter has supplied us with many
necessaries which we used to send cash for, and we remitted to
other nations pay for what necessaries we wanted. Frugality has
prevented us from sending our Cash abroad for many Superfluities
which we can do as well or perhaps better without; so that now it
is an undoubted fact that y^e exports from America greatly exceed
y^e imports; consequently Cash may now become as plenty as it
wou'd be best it shou'd be.

The old Confederation without Power or Energy destroyed y^e
Credit of y^e United States. The scarcity of Cash, and y^e
embarrassments of y^e Government, for want of some fixed
System of finance has destroyed y^e credit of y^e individual
States--different Tender acts in different States, different
sorts of paper money in different States, (for almost all y^e
States have either paper money or tender acts,) have destroyed
private Credit; so that we are now as a people and as individuals
totally without either public or private Credit. Under these
circumstances money never can circulate in plenty, let y^e
advantages for importing it be what they may--

Is it now possible for a Government, under these disadvantages,
whether it be continental or particular, to support itself any
length of time? Will not private industry be discouraged? Can
such a Government protect y^e industrious from y^e hands of
invaders or y^e more savage hands of violence among ourselves?
Anarchy will soon rear its head and y^e Tyranny of some ambitious
Demagogue will soon tread on its heels. Suppose for a moment y^e
General Court of New Hampshire or Massachusetts were to agree
that such a sum of money was necessary to be raised for y^e
building and maintaining of a colledge for supporting schools
in different Parts, for supporting ministers, for encouraging
y^e Iron manufactory, y^e manufactory of cloath, for repairing
y^e highways, for training and disciplining y^e militia, and
procuring a stock of guns and ammunition and building forts for
y^e defence of y^e State and then send a recommendation to y^e
several towns desiring them to raise their quota of that sum,
being so much.

Wou'd not this be a laughable way of raising money for y^e public
exigences? One town wou'd say there was no need of building
a Colledge; others wou'd say there is no need of Schools or
ministers; let them that work Iron and cloath get their own pay;
our highways will do well enough without repairs; y^e militia
are good gunners already, there is no need of forts, and there
is no war at hand, and we can do without Guns and ammunition a
little longer; besides all they have rated our town too high.
Wou'd not this be y^e common language? A precious little money
wou'd be raised, I trow. Let me ask, if y^e People in our town
meetings are competent Judges of y^e necessity and advantage of
raising money for these purposes? You will instantly answer me,
no not one in six. Can they have large and extensive views of
y^e interest, of y^e essential and important interests of y^e
whole state? No, perhaps, not one, thô many of them when they
had met with other persons from all parts of y^e state, and had
freely conversed with them might be good Judges afterwards. How
absurd and impolitic then is it to trust y^e great affairs and
interests of a continent, 1500 miles long and 1000 miles wide to
y^e determination of 2600 men deputed from some little spots of
6 miles square y^e greatest part of whom never went further than
y^e next market town perhaps, or at y^e outside to y^e shire town
of y^e state and never expects to go again after his year is up,
or if he does, it is only to get his 3_s._ 6_d._ a day without
labour or at y^e most to have y^e honour of saving a small Tax
upon his own town--and these men are not to meet altogether where
they might, if disposed, get y^e necessary information to form a
Judgment by,--but in thirteen different places where they have
different interests, different leaders and different information.
How much more ridiculous is it then, that all these men are to
determine of y^e necessity of Peace or War--of y^e sums of Money
necessary to be raised, of y^e best and easiest mode of raising
it thro' all y^e states, regulating y^e value of money thro' all
y^e states, of defining and punishing Piracies and felonies on
y^e high seas and of Offences against y^e law of nations--when
it is necessary and proper to grant Letters of Marque and
reprisal--what are y^e rights and duties of Ambassadors, Consuls
and public ministers, what are proper rules respecting captures
where other nations are concerned with us in y^e capture or are
interested in y^e vessel captured, what regulations of Trade may
be carried into effect in other nations so as not to injure our
own commerce. These and a thousand other matters respecting our
intercourse with other nations and other great national concerns,
must be determined by some Body of men with decision and be
carried into effect too. How preposterous is it then for us to
think of going on under y^e old Confederation where y^e several
states or some of them wou'd hiss any Law that might be proposed
on those matters out of Doors.

Now let us consider y^e new Constitution. Are there any
objects, of Legislation in this, which were not left to y^e
decision of Congress under y^e old Articles? Very few, save
that of Regulating commerce with foreign nations for want of
which we have suffered enough already--also to form a rule
for naturalization Laws about Bankruptcies--fix y^e standard
of weights and measures--to promote y^e progress of arts
and Sciences--to prevent counterfeiting y^e Securities and
current coin of y^e states, to provide for organizing, arming,
disciplining and calling forth y^e militia on necessary
occasions; to exercise exclusive Jurisdiction over 10 miles
square of land where Congress may sit, if so much is ceded to
them by any state to their satisfaction and such other places
where continental arsenals are kept. Our People are taught y^e
necessity of this provision for if a man of less penetration
and decision had been in y^e chair y^e year before last--they
would have lost their most useful and costly magazine. Is it not
reasonable that these matters shou'd be done with uniformity
thro' y^e states? Can these great objects ever be accomplished
without making laws to bind all persons in y^e Jurisdiction?
Who are to make those Laws but y^e Representatives chosen
by y^e People at large every two years, and where an equal
representation is provided for, and a Senate chosen by y^e state
Legislatures, one third of which are to be chosen every two
years. When Laws are made they are nonsensical unless they can
be carried into execution; therefore it is necessary somebody
shou'd have a Power of determining when they are broken, and to
decree y^e forfieture in consequence of such breach. This shows
y^e necessity of y^e Judicial Power--and an executive with y^e
necessary officers are requisite for carrying those decrees into
execution--and without all this y^e whole parade of making laws
wou'd be idle.

That these parts, y^e Judicial and executive, shou'd be
appointed by congress is necessary in order that y^e proceedings
may be uniform and to prevent one state from conniving at or
disregarding y^e laws made for y^e benefit of y^e whole. If they
are to raise money they must have officers to collect it. These
must be appointed by Congress or such men will be appointed by
particular states as will shew y^e most favour--and look thro'
y^e whole, I believe you will not find a Single Power given but
what would maim y^e constitution if it was left out. Perhaps it
may be said this will be an expensive Government. The Legislative
will not be more expensive, if so much, as y^e present congress
for after they have got matters a going properly, they may
be at home half their time. The other officers must be paid
it is true, but when we consider y^e advantages of a steady
uniform Government with proper energy, I believe we shall find
y^e Benefits purchased at a cheap rate. Perhaps some may say
that this annihilates our own state Governments, and our own
Legislatures will have nothing to do; but y^e Laws respecting
criminal offenders in all cases, except Treason, are subjects
for Legislation. We may increase, lessen, or change punishments
for crimes as we think best, and make any act criminal or pœnal
as far as Law can make it so at our pleasure. The regulating
Towns, parishes, Providing ministers, schools, looking after
Poor persons, punishing Idlers, vagabonds &c. &c. regulating
Highways, bridges, fisheries, common fields &c. are also matters
pertaining to y^e General court--but above all y^e great rules
for regulating inheritances, descent of estates, Partition of
them, last wills and Testaments, executors, Administrators, and
Guardians are subjects for our own Legislation--y^e appointment
of all courts, and y^e rules of Proceeding in them and of
determining all controversies between our own citizens, Rules
of Legitimacy, marriage and divorce and in fine all matters not
expressly given to congress are still to be the subjects of our
own Legislation to be carried into Effect by our own courts and
officers. Over what things does y^e constitution give congress
a Power only those of great national concern, which require a
large comprehensive view and which, Heaven knows, our Houses of
R-p-s-t-tives were never capable of comprehending or of judging
whether they were acting right or wrong.--I write very freely to
you, without any reserve. Y^e regard I have for my Children, my
Kinsmen, my friends, my Neighbours, Posterity and my country,
makes me bless God that those objects are likely for ever to
be taken out of such hands, two thirds of whom were never from
their fire side before, and never comprehended in their view more
than their own farms and their own little private interest. I
cou'd write a volume on this subject, but thus much must suffice
for y^e present. I believe you are tired now as well as your
affectionate

Kinsman and sincere friend and Serv^t
NATH'L PEASLEE SARGEANT.

A COMPLETE LIST OF THE MINISTERS OF BOSTON OF ALL DENOMINATIONS, FROM 1630 TO 1842, ARRANGED IN THE ORDER OF THEIR SETTLEMENT.

BY JAMES C. ODIORNE, M. A.

(Continued from page 136.)

TABLE LEGEND: (Part 1 of 2)
A = _Order of Settlement._
B = _Names of Ministers._
C = _Denomination._
D = _Churches._
E = _Graduated._

-----+-----------------------+-------+---------------+-----------
A | B | C | D | E
-----+-----------------------+-------+---------------+-----------
91 |David Annan |Pres. |Federal St. |Scotland
92 {|Claudius Florent |Cath. |Chh. Holy Cross|
{| Bouchard de La Poterie| | |
93 |Peter Thacher |Cong. |Brattle St. |Harv., 1769
94 |Jeremy Belknap, D. D. |Cong. |Federal St. |Harv., 1762
95 |William Montague |Epis. |Christ Chh. |Dart., 1784
96 |Thomas Gair |Bapt. |2nd Bapt. |Brown, 1777
97 |Samuel West, D. D. |Cong. |Hollis St. |Harv., 1761
98 |Louis de Rousselet |Cath. |Chh. Holy Cross|
99 |John Thayer |Cath. |Chh. Holy Cross|
100 |Thomas Baldwin, D. D. |Bapt. |2nd Bapt. |---- ----
101 |Jesse Lee |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
102 |Daniel Smith |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
103 {|John Sylvester John |Epis. |Trinity Chh. |
{| Gardiner, D. D. | | |
104 |William Walter, D. D. |Epis. |Christ Chh. |Harv., 1756
105 {|Francis Anthony |Cath. |Chh. Holy Cross|
{| Matignon, D. D. | | |
106 |Jeremiah Cosden |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
107 |Amos G. Thompson |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
108 {|John Thornton Kirkland,|Cong. |New South |Harv., 1789
{| D. D., LL.D. | | |
109 |Christopher Spry |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
110 |Evan Rogers |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
111 |John Harper |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
112 |Joshua Hale |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
113 |George Pickering |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
114 {|John de Cheverus, D. D.|Cath. |Chh. Holy Cross|Coll. Louis
{| | | | Le Grand,
{| | | |Paris, 1786
115 |Elias Hull |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
116 |Daniel Ostander |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
117 |William Beauchamp |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
118 {|John Snelling Popkin, |Cong. |Federal St. |Harv., 1792
{| D. D. | | |
119 |William Emerson |Cong. |1st. Chh. |Harv., 1789
120 |Joshua Wells |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
121 |Thomas F. Sargent |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
122 |George Pickering |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
123 |Samuel Haskell |Epis. |Christ Chh. |Yale, 1790?
124 |Thomas Lyall |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
125 {|William Ellery |Cong. |Federal St. |Harv., 1798
{| Channing, D. D. | | |
126 |Epaphras Kibby |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
127 {|Joseph Stephens |Cong. |Brattle St. |Harv., 1800
{| Buckminster, | | |
128 |Asa Eaton, D. D. |Epis. |Christ Chh. |Harv., 1803
129 |Peter Jayne |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
130 |Reuben Hubbard |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
131 |Charles Lowell, D. D. |Cong. |West Chh. |Harv., 1800
132 |Samuel Merwin |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
133 |Thomas Paul |Bapt. |African Bapt. |
134 |Daniel Webb |Meth. |2nd Meth. |
135 {|Joseph Clay |Bapt. |1st Bapt. |Coll. N.J.,
{| | | | 1784
136 |Caleb Blood |Bapt. |3d Bapt. |
137 |Joshua Huntington |Cong. |Old South |Yale, 1804
138 |Martin Ruter, D. D. |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
139 |Elijah R. Sabin |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
140 |Phillip Munger |Meth. |2nd Meth. |---- ----
141 |Samuel Cary |Unit. |King's Chapel |Harv., 1804
142 |Horace Holley, LL.D. |Cong. |Hollis St. |Yale, 1803
143 |Greenlief Norris |Meth. |2nd Meth. |---- ----
144 |Edward Mitchell |Univ. |1st Univ. |---- ----
145 |Samuel Cooper Thacher |Cong. |New South |Harv., 1804
146 |Elijah Hedding, D. D. |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
147 |Erastus Otis |Meth. |2nd Meth. |---- ----
148 {|Edward Dorr Griffin, |Cong. |Park St. |Yale, 1790
{| D. D. | | |
149 |Daniel Sharp, D. D. |Bapt. |3d Bapt. |---- ----
150 |Paul Dean |Univ. |1st Univ. |---- ----
151 |William Stephens |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
152 |William Hinman |Meth. |1st and 2nd |---- ----
| | | Meth. |
153 |John Lovejoy Abbot |Cong. |1st Chh. |Harv., 1805
154 |Francis Parkman, D. D. |Cong. |New North |Harv., 1807
155 |Edward Everett, LL.D. |Cong. |Brattle St. |Harv., 1811
156 |Joseph A. Merrill |Meth. |1st and 2nd |---- ----
| | | Meth. |
157 |James Manning Winchell |Bapt. |1st Bapt. |Brown, 1812
158 |George Pickering |Meth. |1st and 2nd |---- ----
| | | Meth. |
159 {|Nathaniel Langdon |Cong. |1st Chh. |Harv., 1811
{| Frothingham, D. D. | | |
160 |Daniel Filmore |Meth. |1st and 2nd |---- ----
| | | Meth. |
161 |Henry Ware, Jun., D. D.|Cong. |2nd Chh. |Harv., 1812
162 {|Sereno Edwards Dwight, |Cong. |Park St. |Yale, 1803
{| D. D. | | |
163 |Timothy Merritt |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
164 |Enoch Mudge |Meth. |2nd Meth. |---- ----
165 |Hosea Ballou |Univ. |2nd Univ. |---- ----
166 |Phillip Larisey |Cath. |Chh. Holy Cross|
167 {|John Gorham Palfrey, |Cong. |Brattle St. |Harv., 1815
{| D. D., LL.D. | | |
168 |Samuel Snowden |Meth. |African Meth. |---- ----
169 {|Francis William Pitt |Cong. |New South |Harv., 1814
{| Greenwood, D. D. | | |
170 {|James Sabine |Cong. |Essex St. |England
{| | | |
{| | | |
{| | | |
{| | | |
171 |John Pierpont |Cong. |Hollis St. |Yale, 1804
172 |Benjamin R. Hoyt |Meth. |1st Meth. |
173 |V. R. Osborn |Meth. |2nd Meth. |
174 |Simon Clough |Christ.|1st Christ. |---- ----
175 |Patrick Byrne. |Cath. |Chh. Holy |
| Assistant | | Cross |
176 |D. Kilburn |Meth. |2nd Meth. |---- ----
177 {|Samuel Farmar Jarvis, |Epis. |St. Paul's |Yale, 1805
{| D. D., LL.D. | | |
178 {|Benjamin Blydenburg |Cong. |Old South |Union, 1813
{| Wisner, D. D. | | |
179 |William Taylor, D. D. |Cath. |Chh. Holy |
| | | Cross |
180 |Shipley W. Willson |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
181 |Ephraim Wiley |Meth. |2nd Meth. |
182 |Francis Wayland, D. D. |Bapt. |1st Bapt. |Union, 1813
183 |Elijah Hedding, D. D. |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
184 |Samuel Green |Cong. |Essex St. |Harv., 1816
185 |Paul Dean |Univ. |Bulfinch St. |---- ----
186 |John Lindsey |Meth. |1st Meth. |
187 {|James Sabine |Pres. |Church St. |England
{| | | |
188 |Prince Hawes |Cong. |Phillips |
189 |Sebastian Streeter |Univ. |1st Univ. |
190 |Solomon Sias |Meth. |1st Meth. |
191 |Isaac Bonney |Meth. |2nd Meth. |
192 {|Ezra Stiles Gannett, |Cong. |Federal St. |Harv., 1820
{| D. D. | | |
193 |John Lauris Blake, D.D.|Epis. |St. Matthews |Brown, 1812
194 {|Francis William Pitt |Unit. |King's Chapel |Harv., 1814
{| Greenwood, D. D. | | |
195 |Alexander Young, D. D. |Cong. |New South |Harv., 1820
196 |Samuel Barrett |Cong. |Chambers St. |Harv., 1818
197 {|Benedict Fenwick, D. D.|Cath. |Chh. Holy |Georget'n,
{| | | Cross | D.C.
198 |Aaron D. Sargent |Meth. |2nd Meth. |---- ----
199 |Timothy Merritt |Meth. |1st Meth. |---- ----
200 {|James Davis Knowles |Bapt. |2nd Bapt. |Col'b. D.C.
{| | | | 1824
201 {|Charles Mortgridge |Christ.|1st Christ. |---- ----
{| | | |
202 |James Lee |Meth. |Indep. Meth. |---- ----
| | | Afr. |
203 |Lyman Beecher, D. D. |Cong. |Bowdoin St. |Yale, 1797

(To be concluded.)

TABLE LEGEND: (Part 2 of 2)
A = _Order of Settlement._
B = _Names of Ministers._
F = _Settled._
G = _Died or Resigned._

-----+-----------------------+----------------------+--------------------
A | B | F | G
-----+-----------------------+----------------------+--------------------
91 |David Annan |Inst. 1783|Dism. 1786
92 {|Claudius Florent |Com. 1784|Left
{| Bouchard de La Poterie| |
93 |Peter Thacher |Inst. Jan. 12, 1785|Died Dec. 16, 1802
94 |Jeremy Belknap, D. D. |Inst. April 4, 1787|Died June 20, 1798
95 |William Montague |Induct. June 1787|Left May, 1790
96 |Thomas Gair |Inst. April 23, 1788|Died April 27, 1790
97 |Samuel West, D. D. |Inst. March 12, 1789|Died April 10, 1808
98 |Louis de Rousselet | |
99 |John Thayer |Com. June 10, 1790|
100 |Thomas Baldwin, D. D. |Inst. Nov. 11, 1790|Died Aug. 29, 1825
101 |Jesse Lee |App. 1790|Left 1791
102 |Daniel Smith |App. 1791|Left 1792
103 {|John Sylvester John |Induct. April 22, 1792|Died July 29, 1830
{| Gardiner, D. D. | |
104 |William Walter, D. D. |Induct. May 28, 1792|Died Dec. 5, 1800
105 {|Francis Anthony |Com. Aug. 20, 1792| Sept. 19, 1818
{| Matignon, D. D. | |
106 |Jeremiah Cosden |App. 1792|Left 1793
107 |Amos G. Thompson |App. 1793|Left 1794
108 {|John Thornton Kirkland,|Ord. Feb. 5, 1794|Dism. Nov. 4, 1810
{| D. D., LL.D. | |
109 |Christopher Spry |App. 1794|Left 1795
110 |Evan Rogers |App. 1795|Left 1796
111 |John Harper |App. 1795|Left 1796
112 |Joshua Hale |App. 1796|Left 1797
113 |George Pickering |App. 1796|Left 1797
114 {|John de Cheverus, D. D.|Com. Oct. 3, 1796|Left Sept. 26, 1823
{| | |
{| | |
115 |Elias Hull |App. 1797|Left 1798
116 |Daniel Ostander |App. 1797|Left 1798
117 |William Beauchamp |App. 1798|Left 1799
118 {|John Snelling Popkin, |Ord. July 10, 1799|Dism. Nov. 28, 1802
{| D. D. | |
119 |William Emerson |Inst. Oct. 16, 1799|Died May 12, 1811
120 |Joshua Wells |App. 1799|Left 1800
121 |Thomas F. Sargent |App. 1800|Left 1801
122 |George Pickering |App. 1801|Left 1802
123 |Samuel Haskell |Induct. May, 1801|Dism. Sept. 1803
124 |Thomas Lyall |App. 1802|Left 1804
125 {|William Ellery |Ord. June 1, 1803|Died Oct. 2, 1842
{| Channing, D. D. | |
126 |Epaphras Kibby |App. 1803|Left 1805
127 {|Joseph Stephens |Ord. Jan. 30, 1805|Died June 9, 1812
{| Buckminster, | |
128 |Asa Eaton, D. D. |Induct. Oct. 23, 1805|Dism. May, 1829
129 |Peter Jayne |App. 1805|Left 1807
130 |Reuben Hubbard |App. 1805|Left 1806
131 |Charles Lowell, D. D. |Ord. Jan. 1, 1806|
132 |Samuel Merwin |App. 1806|Left 1807
133 |Thomas Paul |Ord. Dec. 4, 1806|Died April 13, 1831
134 |Daniel Webb |App. 1807|Left 1809
135 {|Joseph Clay | Aug. 19, 1807|Dism. Oct. 27, 1811
{| | |
136 |Caleb Blood | Oct. 5, 1807| June 5, 1810
137 |Joshua Huntington |Ord. May 18, 1808|Died Sept. 11, 1819
138 |Martin Ruter, D. D. |App. 1808|Left 1809
139 |Elijah R. Sabin |App. 1809|Left 1811
140 |Phillip Munger |App. 1809|Left 1810
141 |Samuel Cary |Induct. Jan. 1, 1809|Died Oct. 22, 1815
142 |Horace Holley, LL.D. |Inst. March 9, 1809|Dism. Aug. 24, 1818
143 |Greenlief Norris |App. 1810|Left 1811
144 |Edward Mitchell |Inst. Sept. 12, 1810|Dism. Oct. 6, 1811
145 |Samuel Cooper Thacher |Ord. May 15, 1811|Died Jan. 2, 1818
146 |Elijah Hedding, D. D. |App. 1811|Left 1812
147 |Erastus Otis |App. 1811|Left 1812
148 {|Edward Dorr Griffin, |Inst. July 31, 1811|Dism. April 27, 1815
{| D. D. | |
149 |Daniel Sharp, D. D. |Ord. April 29, 1812|
150 |Paul Dean |Inst. Aug. 19, 1812|Dism. April 6, 1823
151 |William Stephens |App. 1812|Left 1813
152 |William Hinman |App. 1812|Left 1813
| | |
153 |John Lovejoy Abbot |Ord. July 14, 1813|Died Oct. 17, 1814
154 |Francis Parkman, D. D. |Ord. Dec. 8, 1813|
155 |Edward Everett, LL.D. |Ord. Feb. 9, 1814|Dism. March 5, 1815
156 |Joseph A. Merrill |App. 1814|Left 1815
| | |
157 |James Manning Winchell |Ord. March 13, 1814|Died Feb. 22, 1820
158 |George Pickering |App. 1814|Left 1815
| | |
159 {|Nathaniel Langdon |Ord. March 15, 1815|
{| Frothingham, D. D. | |
160 |Daniel Filmore |App. 1815|Left 1817
| | |
161 |Henry Ware, Jun., D. D.|Ord. Jan. 1, 1817|Dism. Oct. 4, 1830
162 {|Sereno Edwards Dwight, |Ord. Sept. 3, 1817|Dism. April 10, 1826
{| D. D. | |
163 |Timothy Merritt |App. 1817|Left 1818
164 |Enoch Mudge |App. 1817|Left 1819
165 |Hosea Ballou |Inst. Dec. 25, 1817|
166 |Phillip Larisey |Com. May, 1818|Left June, 1821
167 {|John Gorham Palfrey, |Ord. June 17, 1818|Dism. May 22, 1830
{| D. D., LL.D. | |
168 |Samuel Snowden |Inst. Sept. 18, 1818|
169 {|Francis William Pitt |Ord. Oct. 21, 1818|Dism. Dec. 1820
{| Greenwood, D. D. | |
170 {|James Sabine |Inst. Jan. 27, 1819|Withdrew with }
{| | |a majority of }
{| | |the Ch., } 1822
{| | |March 6. }
{| | |(See 187.) }
171 |John Pierpont |Ord. April 14, 1819|Dism. May 10, 1845
172 |Benjamin R. Hoyt |App. 1819|Left 1821
173 |V. R. Osborn |App. 1819|Left 1820
174 |Simon Clough | 1819|Left 1824
175 |Patrick Byrne. |Com. March 18, 1820|Left July 11, 1830
| Assistant | |
176 |D. Kilburn |App. June, 1820|Left 1821
177 {|Samuel Farmar Jarvis, |Induct. July 7, 1820|Dism. Aug. 22, 1825
{| D. D., LL.D. | |
178 {|Benjamin Blydenburg |Ord. Feb. 21, 1821|Dism. Nov. 12, 1832
{| Wisner, D. D. | |
179 |William Taylor, D. D. | April, 1821|Left Dec. 17, 1825
| | | Cross | |
180 |Shipley W. Willson |App. June, 1821|Left 1822
181 |Ephraim Wiley |App. June, 1821|Left 1823
182 |Francis Wayland, D. D. |Ord. Aug. 22, 1821|Dism. Sept. 10, 1826
183 |Elijah Hedding, D. D. |App. June, 1822|
184 |Samuel Green |Inst. March 26, 1823|Dism. Mar. 26, 1834
185 |Paul Dean | May 7, 1823|Dism. May 3, 1840
186 |John Lindsey |App. June, 1823|Left 1824
187 {|James Sabine |Inst. Nov. 26. 1823|Epis. June, 1829,
{| | | (See 170.)
188 |Prince Hawes |Inst. April 28, 1824|Dism. April 18, 1827
189 |Sebastian Streeter | May 13, 1824|
190 |Solomon Sias |App. June, 1824|Left 1825
191 |Isaac Bonney |App. June, 1824|Left 1826
192 {|Ezra Stiles Gannett, |Ord. June 30, 1824|
{| D. D. | |
193 |John Lauris Blake, D.D.|Induct. July 18, 1824|Left June 24, 1832
194 {|Francis William Pitt |Induct. Aug. 29, 1824|Died Aug. 2, 1843
{| Greenwood, D. D. | |
195 |Alexander Young, D. D. |Ord. Jan. 19, 1825|
196 |Samuel Barrett |Ord. Feb. 9, 1825|
197 {|Benedict Fenwick, D. D.| May 10, 1825|Died Aug. 11, 1846
{| | |
198 |Aaron D. Sargent |App. June, 1825|Left 1826
199 |Timothy Merritt |App. June, 1825|Left 1827
200 {|James Davis Knowles |Ord. Dec. 28, 1825|Dism. Oct. 7, 1832
{| | |
201 {|Charles Mortgridge |Rec. as Pas. |Left Jan. 1, 1827
{| | Jan. 1, 1826|
202 |James Lee |Ord. March 18, 1826|Left ---- 1828
| | |
203 |Lyman Beecher, D. D. |Inst. March 22, 1826|Dism. Sept. 26, 1832

(To be concluded.)

COMPLETE LIST OF CONGREGATIONAL MINISTERS IN THE EASTERN PART OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE, FROM ITS SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME; TOGETHER WITH NOTES ON THE MINISTERS AND CHURCHES.

BY THE REV. JONATHAN FRENCH OF NORTH HAMPTON.

(Continued from page 157.)

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_Towns._ | _Ministers._ | _Native Place._ | _Born._
| | |
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Exeter }|Daniel Rogers |Ipswich, Ms. | 1707
A New Church was }|Joseph Brown |Chester, England |Feb. 8, 1762
formed in 1744. }| | |
A New Church was |Isaac Hurd |Charlestown, Ms. |Dec. 7, 1785
formed in 1813. | | |
Gosport |Joseph Hull, s.s. |England |
|John Brock, s.s. |Shadbrook, Eng. | 1620
|Samuel Belcher, s.s.|Ipswich, Ms. |
|John Tucke |Hampton |Aug. 23, 1702
|Josiah Stevens, s.s.|Killingworth, Ct. | 1740
|Samuel Sewall, s.s. |Bath, Me. |
|Origen Smith, s.s. | |
|A. Plumer, s.s. | |
Greenland |William Allen |Boston, Ms. | 1676
|Samuel Macclintock, |Medford, Ms. |May 1, 1732
| D.D. | |
|James A. Neal |Londonderry, N. H.| 1774
|Ephraim Abbot |New Castle, Me. | 1779
|Samuel W. Clark |Hancock, N. H. |Dec. 15, 1795

NOTES.

EXETER. _"Exeter New Church," afterwards called "The Second
Church of Christ in Exeter."_[19] A considerable number of the
members of the First Church seceded, and "embodied into a New
Church, on a day of Fasting and Prayer, June 7, 1744." There is
an error in several publications, giving 1748 as the date of the
formation of that church. This error is found on the monumental
stone of Rev. Daniel Rogers, in the graveyard, in Exeter. It is
not strange that, in so long an inscription, there should have
been, through inadvertency, an omission, by the engraver, or in
his copy, of the word _installed_, immediately after the name.
The words, _Pastor of a church gathered in Exeter_, should have
been marked by a parenthesis. The inscription on the gravestone
was copied by Alden, into his Collections, and thus currency has
been, unintentionally, given to the error. Original documents
show the facts in the case.

The causes of the _secession_, which issued in the establishment
of a New Church in Exeter, were of a religious nature, but the
presentation of them does not come within the scope of this work,
and besides, we have not space for their discussion.

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