Part 27

Probably Son of Theodore Atkinson well known among the early prominent Men of New England; yet he finds no Place in Eliot's Biographical Dictionary. John was a Hatter, and his Wife was Sarah Myrick, whom he married in 1664. See Savage's Dictionary, i, 74.

There was a Family of Peaches in the County of Essex. In 1668 there was John and John Jr., often mentioned in various Records.

He was of Salisbury, 1665, had been of Newbury. His Wife was Sarah, Daughter of John Eaton. He had several Children, whose Births and Names will be found in Savage.

There were several contemporaneous John Kimbals about Essex or Old Norfolk County, but I meet with nothing to fix upon any one of them as this John Kembal. The Name is since Kimball.

Probably Son of the Hon. William Brown of Salem, who married Hannah, Daughter of George Curwen. We have no probable Cause of Mrs. Brown's Languishment, every Ill being then attributed to the Devil or his Witches. It seems she never recovered from her Malady, whatever it was, but died on the 22d of Nov. of the same Year, (1692). He died in 1716.--See Quincy, Hist. Har. Col., i, 418, and Savage's Dictionary, i, 279.

Wife, perhaps, of the John Atkinson mentioned previously.--See Coffin's Newbury, 293.

Perhaps the same as Preson, or Presson. He is the Pressie of Savage, no doubt, who says his Wife was Mary Gage, whom he married 30th Nov., 1665. I do not find among the Gages of Rowley or elsewhere, a Daughter married to a Pressie. John Pressie was of Amesbury, 1677.--N. E. H. G. Reg., vi, 202.

Savage calls him Jarvis and has given him Wife, Hannah Fowler, 24th Dec., 1685; Son Jarvis, born 2d Oct., 1686; Daughters, Hannah, born 3d March, 1689, Elizabeth, 3d Sept., 1692, and Son Oliver, born 17th June, 1698. This was a Salisbury Family. The Joseph Ring, mentioned in the next Section, was perhaps that Joseph born the 3d of August, 1664 (at Salisbury), Son of Robert. Instead of this Robert Ring having come over in the Ship Bevis, in 1638, it does not appear that any Person of the Name of Ring came at that Time in that Ship. Mr. Savage "strangely" says Robert Ring came over in the Bevis of Northampton, and stranger still there is no Robert Ring on his own List of Passengers. For Robert Knight he copied (or some one for him), Robert Ringht! Being unwilling to admit a new Name into his Dictionary, he has committed a more serious Blunder. Mr. Lawson says he was present when Ring gave his Testimony, and fully corroborates our Author's Statement.--Lawson, 113.

She belonged to Topsfield. There was an Ephraim Howe in that Town, possibly her Husband. Her Husband had a Brother, as will be seen, named John, but his Residence is not given.

This Name is erroneously printed Stafford in the London Edition. It was an Ipswich Family, of which many Items of its Members will be found in Dr. Phelps's Hist. of that Town, and a few in Savage's Dict.

This Individual can be identified and traced in the Abbot Genealogical Register, and also in Savage's Dictionary; but more minute Information is given by his Kinsman, Abiel Abbot, A. M., in his History of Andover, Chap. x.; a valuable little Work by the Way, without either Heads of Chapters or Index.

Probably of Topsfield.

Of Ipswich, supposed to be Son of that Allen Perley, who in 1635, came to New England from Hertfordshire. See Founders of New England, 16. John Pearly, mentioned in the next Section was no Doubt of the same Family.

To what Family this Francis Lane belonged I have not been able to determine. Perhaps he belonged to the Hampton Family.

She was of Andover, and the Copy of her Indictment is printed in full, in the History of that Town. She was the Wife of Thomas Carrier of Andover, who died in Colchester, Ct., aged 109 Years. See Farmer, Hist. Billerica, 33. See also Calef, More Wonders, 136.

See Hist. Andover, 30, 168. He was Son of the first George Abbot of Andover, and died in 1703, leaving Descendants. His Wife Sarah, mentioned onward, was Daughter of Ralph Farnum or Varnum of Andover. Further of this in an ensuing Volume.

Perhaps Peter, who lived in what is since Danvers.

In the List of Passengers who came to New England in the Ship Hopewell from London, September, 1635, are the Names of Roger, Margaret, and Roger Toothaker, of Ages 23, 28 and 1 Years. Allen Toothaker above named was probably of this Family. He seems to have resided in Andover, or near his Tormenter.

Perhaps of the Rogerses of Billerica; but it is about as uncertain to designate among the John Rogerses as among the John Smiths. See Farmer's Hist. Billerica, 13, 32-3.

Samuel Preston was of Andover, where he died in 1738, aged 85. Hence he was born in 1653. See Abbot's Hist. Andover, for other Details of the family. We cannot make much out of Mr. Savage's Article in his Dictionary.

She was doubtless of the Andover family of Chandler, but Data does not appear by which she can be assigned to her Place in the Pedigree of that Family.

Perhaps of the Family of Ephraim Foster of Andover, and if so, his Wife. These were the Ancestors of the distinguished Theodore, and Dwight Foster. See Hist. Andover, 38. Ephraim Foster married Hannah, Daughter of Robert Eames, 1678.

There was a Family of Lacy at Andover at this Time. Lawrence Lacy was born there, according to Abbot, in 1683.

This Person was of Billerica. John Sheldon was among the early Settlers of that Town, but had gone from there or was dead before 1700.--Farmer's Billerica, 34.

In the London Edition this Word was printed Heb, evidently a typographical Error. Poor Martha Carrier was executed, in pursuance of Evidence, than which nothing could be more childish and meaningless ever heard of under "the Cope of Heaven." The poor old Mother to "be Queen of Hell"! The Author shows his Depravity by extravagantly and barbarously denouncing her as a "Rampant Hag."

A learned Jesuit, and as superstitious as he was learned. The Work out of which the Extract is made, is entitled the Natural and Moral History of the West Indies. Then (1591) a History of the West Indies included America.

According to Clavigero, the God the most celebrated in Mexico was Huitzilopochzli.--Hist. Mexico, Cullen's Translation, i, 259. See also the Plate, ib., 279.

It is certainly singularly noteworthy that the Devil and his Throng of Witches should adopt the Forms and Practices of the Churches of the Author's own Order. One would naturally suppose that they would have chosen those of the primitive Churches.