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asked her what she would give me. She said she could not change her condition, and had said so from the beginning."

"Nov. 7. I went to Madam Winthrop; found her rocking her little Katie in the cradle. She set me an armed chair and a cushion. Gave her the remnants of my almonds. She did not eat of them as before, but laid them away. Asked if she remained of the same mind still. She said thereabouts. I told her I loved her, and was so fond as to think that she loved me. The fire was come to one short brand beside the block, which brand was set up on end; at last it fell to pieces, and no recruit was made. She gave me a glass of wine. I did not bid her draw off her glove, as sometime I had done. Her dress was not so clean as sometime it had been. The Lord reigneth."

And so with the one black brand on a

fireless hearth the curtain falls on Sewall's courtship of Madam Winthrop. Soon after he married Mrs. Gibbs.

The rocks on which Sewall's matrimonial venture here split apparently were several. He would not agree to set up a coach, claiming he could not afford it, nor wear a periwig, as Madam wished; he had tried to drive a close-fisted bargain in the marriage settlement, and perhaps had sought to meddle with the status of her slaves. Above all, the lady was, as she said, averse to separation from her kin and grandchildren. So this courtship lapsed, apparently with no ill-will on either side. There are entries in the diary later on which look like willingness on Madam Winthrop's part to leave the door just a trifle ajar; but Sewall went another way. There is one entry, however, of the few more concerning her, made on the

Lord's Day, December 6, 1724, which quaintly illustrates the man and the times:

"At the Lord's Supper [in the Old South Meeting-House] Deacon Checklly delivered the cup first to Madam Winthrop and then gave me a tankard. 'Twas humiliation to me and I think put me to the blush to have this injustice done by a Justice. May all be sanctified."

In this precedency of the cup to Madam Winthrop, Sewall evidently saw a slight to his magistracy.

"June 15, 1725. I accompanied my son [the minister] to Madam Winthrop. She was abed about ten, morning.

[She I

was evidently in her last sickness.] told her I found my son coming to her and took the opportunity to come with him. She thanked me kindly and enquired how Madam Sewall [her successor was already established] did. Asked my son

to go to prayer. At coming I said, I kiss your hand, Madam. She desired me to pray that God would lift up upon her the light of his countenance."

The last three entries touching Madam Winthrop are these:

"Monday, Aug. 2d. Mrs. Catharine Winthrop, relict of the Hono. Waitstill Winthrop, Esq., died Æ. 61."

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Her former wooer, who was one of her bearers at the funeral, notes: 66 [She] will be much missed." And after the funeral the old man made a wedding call," and had good bride-cake, good wine, Burgundy and Canary, good beer, oranges, and pears." So to the very end he died January 1, 1730, aged eighty Samuel Sewall enjoyed himself. His career serves indeed to make clear, as does no other chronicle that has come down to us, that a Puritan church-member was not of necessity a long-faced killjoy. 129

JOHN ELIOT AND HIS INDIANS

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HEN Dean Stanley came to this country and was asked what places would be of most interest to him, he said: "I want to see the place where the Pilgrims landed and where the Apostle Eliot preached." Our picture shows us the latter not the same church, of course, but the same site, and itself one of the best surviving examples of the famous New England MeetingHouse. Like John Harvard, the founder of the University, John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians, was educated at Cambridge, England. The birthplace of this remarkable man was the town of Nasing, in

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