his Calash." Six years later, Sewall was shown "great Courtesie" by Mrs. Russell (the daughter Rebecca), on the day of the funeral of a Charlestown clergyman's wife. He sat with other distinguished men in her parlor before going to "the house of Mourning." Judge Chambers owned or held mortgages on many houses, shops, wharves, and warehouses during his long life. His property was divided among a large number of grand and great-grandchildren who are mentioned in his will. Mrs. Chambers, who survived him, was to have half of the home. The Judge died 28 April, 1743,1 and is buried in Charlestown. On the stone which marks his grave are the arms of the very ancient family of Palmes, indicating, perhaps, his regard for a mother long since dead, and also a pride in an honorable "visitation" pedigree. This mother had lost three brothers in the service of King Charles at Worcester fight, in September, 1651. Her grandfather, Sir Francis Palmes, of Ashwell in County Rutland, and of Lindley in County York, matriculated at Oxford in 1571, and had back of him four centuries of landed gentlemen at Naburn in County York. Her cousin, Sir Bryan, had become a D.C.L. of Oxford in 1642. All these worthy men speak to us through the symbolism of "Gules three fleurs-de-lis argents, a chief vaire," the arms on the gravestone in Charlestown. Nichols's "History of the County of Leicester," Volume 2, Part 1, page 295. 1News-Letter and Holyoke Diary give 28 April, the tombstone 27 April. his Calash." Six years later, Sewall was shown "great Courtesie" by Mrs. Russell (the daughter Rebecca), on the day of the funeral of a Charlestown clergyman's wife. He sat with other distinguished men in her parlor before going to "the house of Mourning." Judge Chambers owned or held mortgages on many houses, shops, wharves, and warehouses during his long life. His property was divided among a large number of grand and great-grandchildren who are mentioned in his will. Mrs. Chambers, who survived him, was to have half of the home. The Judge died 28 April, 1743,1 and is buried in Charlestown. On the stone which marks his grave are the arms of the very ancient family of Palmes, indicating, perhaps, his regard for a mother long since dead, and also a pride in an honorable "visitation" pedigree. This mother had lost three brothers in the service of King Charles at Worcester fight, in September, 1651. Her grandfather, Sir Francis Palmes, of Ashwell in County Rutland, and of Lindley in County York, matriculated at Oxford in 1571, and had back of him four centuries of landed gentlemen at Naburn in County York. Her cousin, Sir Bryan, had become a D.C.L. of Oxford in 1642. All these worthy men speak to us through the symbolism of "Gules three fleurs-de-lis argents, a chief vaire," the arms on the gravestone in Charlestown. Nichols's "History of the County of Leicester," Volume 2, Part 1, page 295. 1News-Letter and Holyoke Diary give 28 April, the tombstone 27 April. |