TO MY DEAR AND LOVING HUS-
BAND.

If ever two were one, then surely we;
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me ye women if you can.

short time, being there in 1645, he removed to Andover; and was eminently useful in promoting that settlement, being a selectman of the town from the election of the first board to 1672, when his wife died and he removed to Salem. He mar

Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee give recompense.
Thy love is such I can no way repay,
The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.
Then while we live, in love let's so persever,
That when we live no more, we may live ever.
-Anne Bradstreet.

GOV.SIMON BRADSTREET. Gov. Simon Bradstreet was one of the more substantial and able supporters of the Massachusetts Bay colony. He was born in Horbling, Lincolnshire, Eng., in March, 1603, being son of a non-conforming clergyman who died when Simon was fourteen years old.

After his father's decease, Simon was committed to the care of Thomas Dudley, with whom he remained for eight years. He then entered Emmanuel college, Cambridge, where he remained a year, having his studies frequently interrupted. He then resided, as steward, in the family of the Earl of Lincoln, and subsequently, in a similar capacity, with the Countess of Warwick.

Mr. Bradstreet married Anne, daughter of Mr. Dudley, with whom he had been brought up, she being but sixteen years of age. Soon after his marriage, he agreed with his father-in-law, John Winthrop and others, to emigrate to New England, and settle a colony. They accordingly sailed in the ship Arbella March 29, 1630, and arrived at Salem June 12.

Mr. Bradstreet spent the summer and winter in Salem, and the next spring, with others, commenced the settlement of Newtown, now Cambridge, residing there several years.

He was granted five hundred acres of land at Salem in 1639. He was also interested in the colony at Andover, building the first mill on the Cochickewick river, in 1644. After living in Ipswich a

Joseph Gardner, daughter of Emmanuel, and sister to Sir George Downing.

In Andover, Mr. Bradstreet did considerable business in sawing lumber, and shipping it to Barbadoes, where he exchanged it for West India goods, which he brought home and sold. His original residence in Andover was burned in July, 1666, and he built and lived in the house still standing in North Andover on the Boston and Haverhill road. In this fire

the family suffered great loss, especially Mrs. Bradstreet, many of her manuscripts and books being destroyed.

Mr. Bradstreet lived in Salem until his decease, March 27, 1697, at the age of ninety-four, the nestor of New England. His remains were placed in a tomb in the ancient Charter street burying ground, his tomb bearing the following inscription, now entirely worn away :—

SIMON BRADSTREET, armiger, ex ordine senatoris, in colonia Massachusettensi ab anno 1630, usque ad annum 1673. Deinde ad annum 1679, vice-gubernator. Denique ad annum 1686, ejusdem coloniæ, communi et constanti populi suffragio,

GUBERNATOR.

Vir, judicio lynceario præditus, quem nec numma nec honos allexit. Regis authoritatem, et populi libertatem, æqua lance bibiavit. Religione cordatus, vita innocuus, mundum et vicit, et deseruit, 27 die Martii A. D. 1697, annoque Guliel: 3t IX et Æt 94.

Mr. Bradstreet came to New England as an assistant in the new government, and held the office forty-eight years. He was the first secretary of the colony, and

held that office for thirteen years; was deputy-governor five years, 1672-1679, and governor ten years, 1679-1686, 16891691. His title for many years was "Ye worshipful." He was He was one of the first commissioners of the United Colonies in 1643, and served many years.

In 1653, he vigorously opposed making war on the Dutch in New York, and on the Indians, and his influence and efforts succeeded.

In 1661 he was sent, with Mr. Norton, to England to congratulate Charles II. on the restoration, and to secure their charter privileges, in which they were successful.

Mr. Bradstreet was at the head of the moderate party when the king demanded the charter, and he suffered the reproach of those who objected to its surrender.

He strenuously opposed Andross, and when, in 1689, the people put down the latter's authority, they made Mr. Bradstreet their president. He continued at the head of the administration till May, 1692, when the new charter, establishing the province, arrived. Mr. Bradstreet was then eighty-nine years old, having been in the service of the colony sixty-two years. He was puritanic in his religion, and prosecuted the Quakers so severely that Bishop, in his New England Judged by the Spirit of the Lord, called him "a man hardened in blood and a cruel persecutor." He was, however, opposed to the witchcraft delusion.

He was a just magistrate judged by the times, possessing prudence, sound judgment and strict integrity. Believing fully in his mission, he sought usefulness rather than popularity.

In his home life he was a tender father and loving husband. He took pride in his wife's poetical talents, and greatly

mourned her death.

ADAMS NOTE.

Richard Adams, of Salem, came in the Abigail, 1635, aged twenty-nine, was a bricklayer from Northampton, with Su

san, aged twenty-six, probably his wife. Perhaps he lived at Charlestown in 1674, and may have been the same who died Oct. 6, 1674, at Malden, whose wife Elizabeth died Nov. -, 1656. His will mentions his wife, probably not mother of any of his three daughters, Mary Clough, Sarah, wife of Edward Counts, both of Charlestown, Ruth Glover, and Hannah, born Jan. -, 1663, unmarried; and made executor Lazarus Glover, perhaps husband of Ruth.-Savage.

WILL OF MICHAEL CARTHRICK. The will of Michael Carthrick of Ipswich, dated 16: 11: 1646, was proved in the Ipswich court 30: 1: 1647. The following copy is taken from the record contained in the Ipswich Deeds, volume 1, leaf 30, the original being missing.

I Michael Carthrick of Ipfwich in New England Carpenter being weake in body but of good memory thanks be to the & Teftament in mann & forme following lord doe make & ordaine this my last will firft I comitt my body vnto the earth there to be interred according to the dif into the hands of god that gave it and as cretion of myne executrix and my foule for my outward eftate as followeth Imprimis I leave my wholl eftate of which I am now poffeffed in the hands of my wife to childrens good vntill my fonne John shall be improved by her for her owne & my accomplish the age of 21 yeares alfoe I give vnto my fonne John my howfe wherefences & howflott wth all thapp'tenRncs to them belonging and alfoe all other my lands & meadow of which I am now poffeffed to him & his heires for ever & Twenty yeares to be deliv'ed vnto him when he fhall accomplish the age of one in good condicon & repaire fitt for habitacon & vfe alfoe my minde & will is That my two children John & Mildred shalbe brought vp by my wife vntill the tyme of the putting forth of my sonne or at his full age & vntill the tyme of marriage or full age of my daughter Alfoe my will is that my fonne

in I now dwell withth e barne out howses

John fhalbe by my wife kept at fchoole pvided there be a fchoole in the Towne where she liveth vntill the age of 14 or 15 yeares yet foe as that at tymes his mother fhall have power as the condicon of the family & her neceffeties fhall require to take him off to be helpfull to her in her bufineffe as the overfeers & his mother shall fee caufe further my will is that my fonne John at the age of 14 or 15 yeares as the overfeers fhall thinke good fhalbe putt out to fome trade and that his mother shall then furnifh him with dubble apparrell & pay vnto the overfeers fix1 to be imployed for his best advantage either for his putting forth or otherwife according to the difcretion of the overseers further I giue vnto my daughter Mildred ten pounds to be paid vnto her out of the movable goods according to the appoyntm' of the overfeers when she shall have accomplished the full age of 21 years or at the day of her marriage fhe marrying with

the confent of the overseers & her mother:

further in cafe my wife fhall marry whilft my children or either of them be vnder age my will is that my wife & her husband shall both stand bound to fullfill my will vnto my children according to the true intent thereof and that her husband thall agree with my overfeers for the fullfilling of the fame in defect whereof or of the due vfage of my children or either of them my overfeers fhall have power to dispose of them by removing of them or otherwise fo as they may fee them fupplied & educated according to the true intent of this my laft will & Teftam he or she paying according to the pporcon of the charge that fhall foe arife about the children And further my will is that my wife shall not remove both or either of my children out of this Jurisdiccon without the confent of my overfeers ffinally I doe make Sarah my loving wife fole executrix of this my last will & Teftam defiring her to fee all things therein to be pformed according to my Intent & meaning therein specified as alfoe I doe appoynt our reverend & faithfull Teacher m'. John Norton & Robert Payne overfers of this my last will & Tef

young.

194-III. LYDIA, b. Dec. 5, 1750; m. Samuel Edwards of Manchester Dec. 27, 1770; and was living in 1811. 195-IV. NEHEMIAH, b. Nov. 24, 1753. See below (195).

196-v. DAVID', b. Feb. 10, 1755. See below (196).

197-VI. ANNIS, b. May 1, 1757; m. Asa Herrick of Manchester Jan. 29, 1778; and was living in 1811. 198-VII. RUTH, b. Oct. 8, 1759; d. Nov. —,

1759.

199-VIII. JOANNA, b. Sept. 29, 1760; m. John Stevens Girdler of Manchester Dec. 7, 1779; and d. Aug. 30, 1841.

200-IX. MOLLY, bapt. June 19, 1763.

201-X.

ELIZABETH, b. Jan. 9, 1767; m. Thomas Stephens of Marblehead

1811.

Children, born in Manchester :

219-VI.

218-v.

ASA, b. July 4, 1766; d. Dec. 23, 1767.

220-VII. SAMUEL, b. Sept. 10, 1768; d. Sept. 22, 1769.

221-VIII. LYDIA, b. Aug. 14, 1770; d. Sept. —, 1775.

222-IX. 223-X. 224-XI.

, b. in 1771; d. Nov. 13, 1773. DANIEL, bapt. Aug. 9, 1772. NABBY", bapt. Oct. 27, 1776. 96

JOHN ALLENS, born in Manchester July 30, 1733. He was a mariner; and lived in Gloucester. He married, first, Sarah Ring of Gloucester (published Nov. 27, 1756). She died, administration being