Part 6

SWAIN, JOHN,* Salisbury, b. 1633, Nantucket, 1703. A Lieutenant SWAIN had been under Major Appleton against the Indians at Narraganset, in 1675. He was afterwards a captain.

TAYLER, JOHN,* Shipcot, [Sheepscot,] 1665.

THAYER, RICHARD, Massachusetts, went to England, and returned in 1679.

TINKHAM, EPHRAIM, Massachusetts, 1666, at which time he was a witness to the sale of lands to Richard Thayer of Braintree, by the Indian chief _Josias_. He attests to it in 1678.

TOWER, JOHN, Hingham, buys a large tract of land of several Indians in that place; deed dated June 17, 1641. In an endorsement on said deed, (made by Ri: Bellingham, 19: 1: 1662-3,) JOHN TOWER is called senior. But in the TOWER GENEALOGICAL TREE there are assigned as the children of JOHN TOWER of Hingham, (1637) only AMBROSE, BENJAMIN, JONATHAN, HANNAH, and JEREMIAH.

TRAVIS, DANIEL,* "chiefe gunner in ye town of Boston, to salute shipps and look after ye artillery," at £5 per annum, 1680.

WAIT, JOHN, Charlestown, juror, 1662, [spelt _Wayte_,] Boston, juror at the trials for witchcraft, 1680. RICHARD, Boston, a. 82 in 1678. He was marshal. RICHARD, Springfield, 1680, wounded by Indians, Oct. 5, 1675.

WALES, JOHN,* and JOHN, JR.,* Dorchester, 1677.

WALKER, ROBERT, Boston, aged 72 in 1679. He came from Manchester, Eng., where he was living in 1623.

WAY, RICHARD, Lieutenant, Boston, juror, 1680. HENRY, Dorchester, 1664.

WEBB, THOMAS, came to N. England in 1671, in the ship Arabella, Capt. Richard Sprague, which sailed from Gravesend May 27.

WHITTINGHAM, RICHARD,* Charlestown, 1693; had been in England in 1691.

WILLEY, EDWARD,* Boston, juror, 1686.

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM,* Boston, 1675, wife, Johanna; was pressed to go against the Indians in Philip's war, and was killed at Medfield, leaving "four small children."

WILLIS, LAWRENCE,* Barnstable, 1644.

WINSOR, JOSHUA,* Boston, constable, 1686.

WISWALL, JOHN, Dorchester, witnesses a new deed of the town, (8: 4: 1649,) made "because ye old deed was something decayed with ill keeping."

CAPITAL OFFENCES IN MASSACHUSETTS.

Thirteen offences were made capital by the original laws of Massachusetts Bay; namely, Idolatry; Witchcraft; Blasphemy; Murder; Bestiality; Sodomy; Adultery; Rape; Man-stealing; False-witness; Conspiracy, or rebellion against the government; Cursing or smiting the father or mother, after passing sixteen years of age, unless with justifying provocation, or with unchristianly neglect in education; Filial rebellion, after sixteen years of age.

To these were added, 1692, High Treason; Concealing the death of a bastard child; Arson; Piracy.

JURIDICAL STATISTICS OF MERRIMACK COUNTY, N. H.

(Concluded from page 59.)

ATTORNEYS AT LAW.

----|-----------+---------------------+---------------+--------------- No. | _Towns._ | _Names._ |_Native Place._|_When and where_ | | | | _graduated._ ----|-----------+---------------------+---------------+--------------- 1 |Andover |John H. Slack |New London |Dart. 1811 | | | | 2 | |Samuel Butterfield |Goffstown |---- ---- | | | | 3 |Boscawen |Nathaniel Green |Worcester, Ms. |---- ---- | | | | 4 | |Daniel Webster |Franklin |Dart. 1801 | | | | 5 | |Ezekiel Webster |Franklin |Dart. 1804 | | | | 6 | |Zachariah G. Whitman |Hanover, Ms. |Harv. 1807 | | | | 7 | |Francis Cogswell |Dover |---- ---- | | | | 8 | |Frederick Smith |Gilmanton |Dart. 1826 | | | | 9 | |Lewis Smith |Ashford, Ct. |---- ---- | | | | 10 |Bradford |Weare Tappan |East Kingston |Dart. 1811 | | | | 11 | |James Whittle |Weare |Dart. 1823 | | | | 12 | |Mason W. Tappan |Newport |---- ---- | | | | 13 |Chichester |Philip Carrigain |Concord |Dart. 1794 | | | | 14 | |Zachariah Batchelder |Gloucester, Ms.|Dart. 1821 | | | | 15 |Concord |E. St. L. Livermore |Londonderry |---- ---- | | | | 16 | |Peter Green |Worcester, Ms. |---- ---- | | | | 17 | |Thomas W. Thompson |Newbury, Ms. |Harv. 1786 | | | | 18 | |Arthur Livermore |Londonderry |---- ---- | | | | 19 | |Charles Walker |Concord |Harv. 1787 | | | | 20 | |Samuel Green |Concord |---- ---- | | | | 21 | |Arthur Rogers |Concord |---- ---- | | | | 22 | |Philip Carrigain |Concord |Dart. 1794 | | | | 23 | |William Pickering |Greenland |Harv. 1797 | | | | 24 | |Moody Kent |Newbury, Ms. |Harv. 1801 | | | | 25 | |Isaac Gates | |Harv. 1802 | | | | 26 | |Samuel A. Kimball |Concord |Dart. 1806 | | | | 27 | |Lyman B. Walker |Brookfield, Ms.|---- ---- | | | | 28 | |Moses H. Bradley |Concord |Dart. 1807 | | | | 29 | |Samuel Fletcher |Plymouth |Dart. 1810 | | | | 30 |Concord |John Whipple |Hamilton, Ms. |Dart. 1812 | | | | 31 | |Amos A. Parker |Fitzwilliam |Vt. U. 1813 | | | | 32 | |George Kent |Concord |Dart. 1814 | | | | 33 | |Richard Bartlett |Pembroke |Dart. 1815 | | | | 34 | |Samuel D. Bell |Francestown |Harv. 1816 | | | | 35 | |Nathaniel P. Rogers |Plymouth |Dart. 1816 | | | | 36 | |Nathaniel G. Upham |Rochester |Dart. 1820 | | | | 37 | |William C. Thompson |Salisbury |Dart. 1820 | | | | 38 | |Stephen C. Badger |Warner |Dart. 1823 | | | | 39 | |William W. Stickney |Enfield |Dart. 1823 | | | | 40 | |Ira Perley |Boxford, Ms. |Dart. 1822 | | | | 41 | |William G. Webster |Plymouth |Dart. 1822 | | | | 42 | |Ralph Metcalf |Charlestown |Dart. 1823 | | | | 43 | |James Whittle |Weare |Dart. 1823 | | | | 44 | |Charles H. Peaslee |Gilmanton |Dart. 1824 | | | | 45 | |Franklin Pierce |Hillsborough |Bowd. 1824 | | | | 46 | |Hamilton Hutchins |Concord |Dart. 1827 | | | | 47 | |George Minot |Bristol |Dart. 1828 | | | | 48 | |James Sullivan |Exeter |Dart. 1829 | | | | 49 | |Calvin Ainsworth |Littleton |---- ---- | | | | 50 | |Ephraim Eaton |Candia |Dart. 1833 | | | | 51 | |Asa Fowler |Pembroke |Dart. 1833 | | | | 52 | |Arthur Fletcher |Bridgewater |Yale. 1836 | | | | 53 | |Josiah Minot |Bristol |Dart. 1837 | | | | 54 | |William Butterfield |Goffstown |Dart. 1836 | | | | 55 | |George G. Fogg |Meredith |Dart. 1839 | | | | 56 | |Sylvester Dana |Orford |Dart. 1839 | | | | 57 | |Chandler E. Potter |Concord |Dart. 1831 | | | | 58 | |John H. George |Concord |---- ---- | | | | 59 |Dunbarton |Jeremiah Stinson |Dunbarton |Dart. 1798 | | | | 60 |Dunbarton |Caleb Stark, Jr. |Dunbarton |---- ---- | | | | 61 |Epsom |Benjamin Moody |W. Newbury, Ms.|---- ---- | | | | 62 | |Jonathan Steele, Jr. |Peterborough |Wms. 1811 | | | | 63 |Franklin |Parker Noyes |South Hampton |Dart. 1796 | | | | 64 | |Thomas H. Pettingill |Salisbury |Dart. 1804 | | | | 65 | |George W. Nesmith |Antrim |Dart. 1820 | | | | 66 | |Austin F. Pike |Hebron |---- ---- | | | | 67 |Henniker |John Kelly |Warner |Dart. 1804 | | | | 68 | |Artemas Rogers |Billerica, Ms. |Harv. 1809 | | | | 69 | |Samuel Smith |Peterborough |Dart. 1827 | | | | 70 | |John J. Prentice |Mont Vernon |Dart. 1834 | | | | 71 | |Lewis Smith |Ashford, Ct. |---- ---- | | | | 72 |Hooksett |John Whipple |Hamilton, Ms. |Dart. 1812 | | | | 73 | |Benjamin B. French |Chester |---- ---- | | | | 74 | |Ebenezer French |Newtown |Dart. 1824 | | | | 75 |Hopkinton |Stephen Scales |Concord, Ms. |Harv. 1763 | | | | 76 | |Baruch Chase |Sutton, Ms. |Dart. 1786 | | | | 77 | |John Harris |Harvard, Ms. |Harv. 1791 | | | | 78 | |Joel Harris |Harvard, Ms. |Dart. 1804 | | | | 79 | |Matthew Harvey |Sutton |Dart. 1800 | | | | 80 | |John Whipple |Hamilton, Ms. |Dart. 1812 | | | | 81 | |Horace Chase |Unity |Dart. 1814 | | | | 82 | |Hamilton E. Perkins |Hopkinton |---- ---- | | | | 83 | |William S. Morton | |---- ---- | | | | 84 |Loudon |Timothy Darling |Henniker |Harv. 1822 | | | | 85 | |James Whittle |Weare |Dart. 1823 | | | | 86 | |John Doe |Pembroke |Dart. 1825 | | | | 87 | |Edward S. Morris |Gorham, Me. |---- ---- | | | | 88 |New London |Stephen C. Badger |Warner |Dart. 1823 | | | | 89 | |Walter P. Flanders |Warner |Dart. 1831 | | | | 90 |Northfield |Asa P. Cate |Sanbornton |Dart. M.A. 1844 | | | | 91 | |Benjamin A. Rogers |Northfield |---- ---- | | | | 92 |Pembroke |Arthur Rogers |Concord |---- ---- | | | | 93 | |Moody Kent |Newbury, Ms. |Harv. 1801 | | | | 94 | |Nathaniel Dearborn |Chester | | | | | 95 | |Boswell Stevens |Promfret, Ct. |Dart. 1804 | | | | 96 | |Caleb Stark, Jr. |Dunbarton |---- ---- | | | | 97 | |John Parker |Bedford | | | | | 98 | |John E. Stanyan |Pembroke |Dart. 1840 | | | | 99 | |Edward S. Morris |Gorham, Me. |---- ---- | | | | 100 |Pittsfield |Caleb Merrill |Atkinson |Dart. 1808 | | | | 101 | |Moses Norris, Jr. |Pittsfield |Dart. 1828 | | | | 102 | |Ithamar W. Beard |Littleton, Ms. |Dart. 1837 | | | | 103 | |Charles H. Butters |Pittsfield |Dart. 1837 | | | | 104 | |James A. E. Merrill |Pittsfield |Dart. 1839 | | | | 105 | |George L. Merrill |Pittsfield |Dart. 1840 | | | | 106 |Salisbury |Thos. W. Thompson |Newbury, Ms. |Harv. 1786 | | | | 107 | |Moses Eastman |Salisbury |Dart. 1794 | | | | 108 | |Thomas W. Pettingill |Salisbury |Dart. 1804 | | | | 109 | |Richard Fletcher |Cavendish, Vt. |Dart. 1806 | | | | 110 | |Samuel I. Wells |Sherburne, Ms. |Dart. 1814 | | | | 111 | |Elbridge F. Greenough|Boscawen |Dart. 1828 | | | | 112 |Sutton |Harrison G. Harris |Harvard, Ms. |---- ---- | | | | 113 | |Benjamin B. French |Chester |---- ---- | | | | 114 | |Ebenezer French |Newton |Dart. 1824 | | | | 115 | |Ira B. Pearson |Newport |---- ---- | | | | 116 |Warner |Jeremiah H. Woodman |Sanbornton |Dart. 1794 | | | | 117 | |Parker Noyes |South Hampton |Dart. 1796 | | | | 118 | |Henry B. Chase } |Brookfield, Ms.|Dart. M.A. | | } | |1823 119 | |Harrison G. Harris |Harvard, Ms. |---- ---- | | | | 120 | |Herman Foster |Andover, Ms. |---- ---- | | | | 121 |Wilmot |John H. Slack |New London |Dart. 1811

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