teen shillings. Mr. Pilsbury died in 1797; and his heirs sold twenty-two acres off the western corner of the farm, with the buildings, to Asa Bradstreet of Rowley, blacksmith, Jan. 2, 1819, for nineteen hundred and fifty dollars. On June 2, 1824, Mr. Bradstreet sold the place, with all the buildings except the blacksmith shop, to John B. Savory, who instituted a tavern there. The engraving shows the house as it originally appeared. It stood in front of the Pentucket house, fronting on the square. When the tavern was established the old house was moved back and turned around with the back toward North street, and the present front portion of the Pentucket was added to it, the old house forming an L. Thus it has since remained.

David Tenney house. Jonathan Harriman, jr., of Rowley, yeoman, for one hundred and ninety pounds, conveyed to John Pilsbury of Rowley, blacksmith, this house and other buildings and the lot April 17, 1783. Mr. Pilsbury carried on the trade of a blacksmith here for a numof years, and then sold the place, with the house, barn, etc., for one hundred and sixty-five pounds, to David Tenney of

DAVID TENNEY HOUSE.

Rowley, shoemaker, April 6, 1795. The next day Mr. Pilsbury purchased the Perley place across the street, as above stated, and removed thither, pursuing his trade in a shop there. This house was moved, in 1872, about a quarter of a mile up the street, and is now the house occupied by the family of the late Charles L. Smith. The engraving shows it as it appeared just before its removal. The old site is now occupied by the store of Dennis Donoghue.

where he was a chaise maker, and Jan. 2, 1804, conveyed the premises to John Brown of Rowley, yeoman. Mr. Brown sold it to Paul Stickney of Rowley Dec. 9, 1806, together with the privilege of using the well which was situated on the lot on the opposite side of the road which he had, on the day of his purchase, sold to David Tenney. The place subsequently came into the possession of Samuel Brocklebank, who lived here. He conveyed it, April 1, 1865, to his daughter Mrs. Betsey E. Dow, who still lives in the house. She then moved it round front to the street, changed the roof from a gambrel to a pitch roof, and took down the old chimney, erecting two new ones. The cut shows the house as it originally appeared, corner to the street, with its gambrel roof.

Samuel Burbank house. Before 1768, an old house stood in West Main street, facing Central street, the west end occupying that portion of the site of the present Phoenix building as is included in the town clerk's office. Eleazer Burbank, yeoman, owned it, and was living here March 1, 1768, when, for forty pounds,

he conveyed the house, barn and lot to his son Samuel Burbank. Samuel was a carpenter, and immediately after his purchase took the house down, and erected a new one on the same site, the next year. Mr. Burbank died Feb. 4, 1777; and for many years his widow Mehitable occupied a part of the house as her right of dower. In 1832, she leased it to Joseph Little, Henry Pettingill's and William H. Spofford's shops being then standing upon a part of the lot, which was excepted in the lease. During the last days of its existence, on the eastern half of the front of the house an addition had been built, in which Robert McQuestion conducted a store. Soon afterward Mr. Little took the house

SAMUEL BURBANK HOUSE.

down and used much of the lumber in the erection of the Phoenix building. The pump at the corner of the Phoenix building is in the old well which in the early days occupied a position in the front yard, but which in the change of street lines has been brought into the street.

John Brocklebank (Clark) house. This house stood where the late T. G. Elliot resided, Main street being at its back and the front of the house facing Library street. John Brocklebank owned it in 1800, and sold the house and the whole lot of land as shown on the map to Daniel Clark, cordwainer, for five hundred dollars, March 17, 1803. Library street was then a corduroy road that Mr. Brocklebank had made across his swamp. In, 1844, the house was moved to the corner of Central and Library streets,

corner of this lot to Enoch Dresser of Rowley for the site of his house which he built immediately.

Centre Schoolhouse. The old Centre schoolhouse stood where the soldier's monument stands, the schoolhouse lot running back to the present house lot of John Hale. The house was about twenty-five feet wide and thirty long, facing the south; and because it was painted the old fashioned red color it became known as the old red schoolhouse. During the last years of its existence it was not used for a public school. Occasionally a private school occupied it awhile; and religious services were often held there, entertainments and lectures also being given. It finally went to ruin, and was taken down in 1840.

CENTRE SCHOOLHOUSE.

John Brocklebank house. In 1800, what is now Central street was a lane leading past John Brocklebank's house to Asa Chaplin's. It became a town road about 1810. Dea. Samuel Brocklebank conveyed to his son John Brocklebank this part of his farm and the buildings April 7, 1714; and John resided here. It descended from John to John, who conveyed the buildings and land to his son John May 9, 1815; and, Aug. 15, 1832,

BENJAMIN WALLINGFORD HOUSE.

taken down in 1838; and that of Mr. Picket was erected upon the same site. In the latter years of its existence the front door was on the opposite side of the house in the field.

Benjamin Adams house. This house stood in what is now the southern end of Nelson avenue, and was twenty-five feet long and twenty wide. This farm was the range of lots in the three thousand acres known by the letter G, containing thirteen lots in all, and running from the Andover road to Rock pond. These lots were bought of the various owners by Capt.

MOSES BOYNTON HOUSE.

ton. Moses spent his entire life upon this farm. After his death, which occurred Jan. 19, 1823, the house was occupied by his family for many years. The illustration shows the house as it now appears.

THE SMUGGLERS. In the old provincial days, Before the Revolution, Yankees smuggled in the goods That came across the ocean. They broke the laws of England, Claiming freedom from the crown, And punished most severely

The informers in each town. We glory in the rebels

And the conflicts with their foes, And stretch every nerve to prove

That their blood within us flows.

INFORMERS OF SMUGGLERS. For several years before the American Revolution actually burst into open war, the provincials were ill-disposed to allow English goods to enter our ports, paying the heavy duties which parliament exacted from the colonists. This led to much popular smuggling.

Two cases in which information of such illegal entry was given to the British custom officers have come to the notice of the writer in the files of the Essex Gazette, the only local newspaper of the time. The year was 1768. The first relates to Salem, and the account is as follows :—

SALEM, September 13. One Row, a CuftomHouse Waiter, on Wednesday laft, by informing an Officer of the Customs that fome Measures were taken on board a Vessel in this Harbour, to elude the Payment of certain Duties, engaged the Attention of a Number of the Inhabitants, who determined to distinguish him, in a confpicuous Manner, for his Conduct in this Service. Between the Hours of Ten and Eleven, A. M. he was taken from one of the Wharves, and conducted to the Common, where his Head, Body and Limbs were covered with warm Tar, and then a large Quantity of Feathers were applied to all Parts, which, by closely adhering to the Tar, exhibited an odd Figure, the Drollery of which can easily be imagined.-The poor Waiter was then exalted to a Seat on the Front of a Cart, and in this Manner led into the main Street, where a Paper, with the Word Informer thereon, in large Letters, was affixed to his Breaft, and another Paper, with the same Word, to his Back. This Scene drew together, within a few Minutes, feveral Hundred People, who proceeded, with Huzzas and loud Acclamations, through the Town; and when arrived at the Bounds of the compact Part, opened to the Right and Left, when the Waiter, the confused Object of their Ridicule, defcended from his Seat,

walked through the Crowd, and having received the Itrongest Affurances that he should, the next Time he came to this Place, receive higher Marks of Diftinction than thofe which were now conferred upon him, went immediately out of Town.

We hear, that the above-mentioned Row went directly to Boston, and having laid an Account of his Conduct and Treatment before a certain Board, was amply rewarded for his Faithfulness.*

The second incident relates to Newburyport. A Frenchman, named Francis. Magno, gave notice of a smuggling vessel to the officers of the customs at Portsmouth, and this so enraged the people of Newburyport that when he arrived there he was seized, together with a citizen of Newbury, who was with him about the time the information was given, and both were the accounts given of it in the contempotarred and feathered. The following were

rary Essex Gazette:

SALEM, September 20.

We hear that on latt Saturday fe'nnight two Informers, an Englishman and Frenchman, were taken up by the Populace at Newbury-Port, who tarred them and feathered them; but being late they were hand-cuffed and put into cuftody until the Sabbath was over: Accordingly, on Monday Morning, they were again tarred and rolled in Feathers, then fixed in a Cart with Halters, and carried through the principal Streets of the Town, to the View of the Gallows, but what further wo do not hear.*

SALEM, September 27.

In the laft Papers it was mentioned that an Englishman and a Frenchman had been ill used at Newbury-Port for making Information against a Veffel there: Since which the Englishman has complained to Authority of his ill-Treatment, at the fame Time cleared himself by the Deposition as under, befides fome Evidences that may hereafter appear.

Joshua Vickery of Newbury, Ship-Carpenter, declares in Substance as follows, viz.:

That on Saturday the tenth of September current, he was in a riotous Manner affaulted in the. King's High-Way in Newbury-Port, feized and carried by Force to the public Stocks in the said Town, where he fat from three to five o'clock in the Afternoon, moit of the Time on the fharpest Stone that could be found, which put him to extreme Pain, fo that he once fainted:-That he was afterwards taken out of the Stocks, put into a Cart and carried thro' the Town with a Rope about his Neck, his Hands tied behind him until the Dufk of the Evening, during which Time he

*Essex Gazette, Sept. 13, 1768. *Essex Gazette, Sept. 13-20, 1768.

was feverely pelted with Eggs, Gravel and Stones, and was much wounded thereby; he was then taken out of the Cart, carried into a dark Warehouse, and hand-cuffed with Irons, without Bed or Clothing, and in a Room where he could not lay ftrait, but made the Edge of a Tar-Pot, ferve for a Pillow, fo that when he arose the Hair was tore from his Head; he was confined to this Place the whole of the Lord's Day, with a Guard that prevented any of his Friends vifiting him, excepting his Wife, who with Difficulty obtained Liberty to speak to him:On Monday the 12th in the Forenoon he was taken out, and the Rioters upon their being well fatisfied of his being innocent of what was laid to his Charge, compelled him only to lead a Horfe Cart about the Town, with Francis Magno therein, who was stripped naked, tarred, and then committed to Gaol for Breach of the Peace.

ESSEX, ff, September 12, 1768. THEN Jothua Vickery of Newbury, perfonally appeared before me the Subfcriber and made folemn Oath, that he never did directly or indirectly make or give any Information to any Officer of the Cuftoms nor to any other Perfon either againft Capt. John Emmery, or any other Man whoever; that he was no ways concerned with Francis Magno in his Information, nor ever wrote one Line for the faid Francis, on that Account, nor ever knew of the faid Information until Saturday laft. Sworn by me

JOHN BROWN, Juft. Pacis.

The Sufpicion that Vickery was concerned in the Information arofe from his going to Portfmouth on fome Business, and took the Frenchman with him, the faid Frenchman seeing the veffel coming into Harbour, and having had a previous Difference with the Mafter or Owner, gave Information when he go[t] to Portsmouth.... He declared repeatedly, that Mr. Vickery was not concerned with him in the information.*

The following news-item of a few weeks later shows more fully the feeling between the authorities and colonists:

We hear from Marblehead, that last Saturday Capt. Grandy arrived there, after a tedious Parfage, from Lifbon; having met with a Misfortune, was obliged to put into Halifax to water; the Veffel had scarcely anchored, but was boarded by the Officer of the Cuftoms, who carried the Veffel to a Wharf, and, after having trenched and spitted his Salt, fearched the Cheits, &c. Finding nothing to condemn the Veffel, tampered with the Sailors; and used the Master very fcurriloufly, by threatening to imprison him, and lay him under Bonds, altho' he had no contraband Goods on board; and when after a Detention of

two Days, the Mafter demanded his Veffel, they threatened to unload her; but finding their Threats

*Essex Gazette, Sept. 20-27, 1768.

had no Effect, endeavoured to perfuade him to leave his Veffel; which when they could not prevail on him to do, delivered her to him..... These Circumstances fufficiently fhew, not only the infamous Arts used to distress the fair Trader, but the base Difpofitions of a Set of hungry Mifcreants, whofe only Aim feems to be to enrich themselves, by diftreffing honeft Trade, under Pretence of fecuring the Revenue; fuch Inftances of Oppreffion, tho' countenanc'd by thofe in Office, ought, however, to be made public, and the Actors in fuch dirty Scenes treated with the Contempt they deserve from every honeft Man.*

WILL OF MICHAEL SALLOWES.

The will of Michael Sallowes of Salem, dated 14 9: 1646, was proved in court at Salem, 31: 10: 1646. The following is a copy of the original instrument on

file in the office of the clerk of courts at Salem, book I, leaf 61.

The laft will and teftamt of michall Sallowes of Salem bearing date the 14th day of the nienth month Anno: 1646

I michall Sallowes ficke in bodie but in pfect memorie do make this my last will and teftam' in manner and form following viz. my debts paid and my funerall expences difcharged doe out of those goods wch god hath gyuen vnto [me?] difpofe of them after this manner fift I gyue vnto micha Sallowes my youngest fonne the fume of eight pounds for & towards the educacon of the faid micha and doe defyre that Georg Emerie John Jackfonne and Jefferie Massey will difpofe of the faid micha and of the fome afforfaid for the welfarr of the aforefaid micha Sallowes, Itm I gyue and bequeath vnto Martha Sallowes my daughter the fome of fix pounds twoo pillow beeres a morter & a Jug pott wth my erneft defyer that the faid John Jacksonne shall bring vp the faid martha and improue the faid fix pounds for my faid daughters beft advangtage. Itm for the remainder of my eftate my will is it be equallie divided amongst the rest of my Children viz. Thomas Sallowes, Robert Sallowes & John Sallowes & Samuell Sallowes my fonnes and to Edward wilfone my fonne in law.

*Essex Gazette, Nov. 8-15, 1768.