ОСТОВЕК. 1 Emperor of Russia dethroned & succeeded by his Consort Catharine 24. grievous to Prussia. 8 Report that Ld Colvil & all the Fleet before St Johns in Newfoundland is taken but wants confirmation and hope ever will. 14 Car'yl's Ordin" one Month from Yesterday to be. 16 Last Night Capt. Hollowel came into Boston & bro't the News of Newfoundland's being retaken by the Forces under Ld. Colvil with the Loss of 20 Soldiers & 1 Capt & 2 Days Storming the Town but in the Smoke or Fog the French Vessels all escaped. Particulars soon expected. 21 Emp. of Russia murdered by order of his Wife Kate. 27 Spaniards have had the Advantage of the Portuguese this War hitherto. NOVEMBER. 10 went to Caryls Ordin with Debby. very muddy. dined at John Battles. got home about Dark. 11 Leonard Fisher Scollay Hunt Sherburne Andrew Oliver Balch Seth & myself agree to spend the evening with same Lady. this evening had a very pretty & genteel Ball for Dedham the Company consisted of the above mentioned Gentlemen and the Ladies were as follows Imprimis & before all was the adorable P. S. next P. Balch, Elis Day, Miss Hilly Newfoundland & mea Soror. held at Mrs Stewards to whom we very impolitely gave no warning of our coming but were recei'd very graciously. 12 We all except Hunt & Sherburne who went off yesterday spent the chief of the Day in playing Bragg very unlucky at Dinner for attempting to move the Table nearer the Fire we over sett a fine boiled Dish & broke several things. Just before Night we all (except Seth) went up to Robin's & had a very good supper & spent most of the night in playing Bragg a very enticing Game, we breakfasted and spent ye forenoon at Bragg still, then at 12 o'clock we sett out for our respective homes but some of us went with very bad luck for after Leon had parted from us we had no Horse to carry us home that was ever in a Chaise, however we try'd one but not succeeding were obliged get an old tired one who as I was riding down a Hill gave me a complete Fall without any Bones broken we made out with walking half the way to get home in 5 hours which was but 3 Miles & the horse being so tired Oliver could not go to Cambridge but spent Sunday in Dedh A M. I went to Roxbury P. M: Oliver went to meeting I went to Battles. in the evening acted a Play rebuked for it by our Parents. 14 Proposed to act a Play in Dedham. 15 Monday morning Balch on his way to College stops & Oliver writes a Letter to him for ine to carry this evening up to his Sister Polly who was to open it &c. but after they were gone being disappointed about going to her & having a good Opportunity to send the Letter to Cambridge by Cobb I e'en sent it and thus ends iny little History which serves to fill up these other wise vacant Pages which would perhaps seem more unsemly than they are at present. 18 Soldiers come home from Hallifax and Crownpoint. 25 Starr's Family and ours went to Westown to Dr. Starr's Wedding & were all very well entertained. DECEMBER. 13 I began the Town School. 30 Amos Fisher dead with a Cancer. (To be continued.) THE CARYL FAMILY OF DOVER, MASS. BY CALVIN STOUGHTON LOCKE. Rev. Benjamin Caryl, son of Benjamin and Mary Caryl, and grandson of Benjamin, was born in Hopkinton, Mass., May 2, 1732. He was graduated at Harvard College in the Class of 1761, and was settled as minister of the Fourth or Springfield Parish in Dedham, Nov. 10, 1762, at a salary of 67£. 13s. 4d. The portion of the township of Dedham was incorporated as the District of Dover, July 7, 1784, and as the Town of Dover, on March 31, 1836. On the 9th of Deccember, 1762, he was married to Mrs. Sarah (Messinger) Kollock, widow of Dr. Cornelius Kollock of Wrentham, and daughter of Rev. Henry Messinger of the same town. After a useful ministry of fifty years, he died, Nov. 14, 1811. Mr. Caryl had two sons, Benjamin, who died in 1775 aged 11 years, and George, who was born April 1, 1767, and died in Dover, August 9, 1829. George was graduated from Harvard College 1788, and afterward studied medicine with Dr. Samuel Willard of Uxbridge. He married Pamelia, daughter of Dr. Nathaniel Martyn, and granddaughter of Rev. John Martyn, of Northborough. They had nine children, of whom four died in childhood. The remaining children are given below. SARAH, b. Jan. 28, 1797; d. unmarried, July 14, 1879. GEORGE MARTYN, b. Feb. 20, 1799; d. 1815. PAMELIA, b. Dec. 29 1800; m. 1824, L. S. Waring of New Jersey; d. May 25, 1882. He died in 1868. No children. ANN, b. 1803; m. 1823, Aaron F. Miller; d. 1884. He died in 1840, aged 46. JOSEPH, b. July 13, [?] 1808; d. unmarried, April 15, 1882. Mr. and Mrs. Miller had six children, two of whom died in childhood. The others are as follows: SARAH MESSENGER MILLER, b. Oct. 8, [?] 1821; d. unmarried, ANN ELIZA MILLER, b. 1827; d. 1852. ELLEN MILLER, the only surviving descendant of Rev. Benjamin Sarah Messinger Miller had from her childhood a remarkable talent for cutting paper in curious forms. From the age of four till the time of her death, though always in delicate health, she was very busy in various kinds of fancy work, making boxes and bags of her own invention. Her paper cuttings were wonderful and many of them were given away. A framed specimen of one of them may be seen at the rooms of the Dedham Historical Society. She designed most of the patterns entirely, although she would sometimes cut a paper copy. She enjoyed the work with true artistic spirit, never satisfied, but always looking and striving for the highest and best. TRANSCRIPT FROM AN OLD BIBLE. BY JOHN HOWARD BURDAKIN. The following extract from a family record found in an old Bible in the possession of the Dedham Historical Society, is furnished by the Librarian. On a fly-leaf is written "Samuel Bassett was born the 19 day of March 1664;" and this may give some clue as to the early ownership of the book. 1. LUTHER THAYER, b. Jan. 6, 1771; m. 1st, by Rev. Jonathan Strong, Olive Turner at Randolph, May 10, 1792; m. 2dly, by Rev. John Pierce, Mrs. Elizabeth Davis, relict of Benjamin Davis, at Brookline, Jan. 27, 1819. Oliver Turner was b. Dec. 11, 1771; d. at Randolph, Sept. 5, 1818. Mrs. Davis was b. Mar. 7, 1770. GEORGE W., b. Feb. 11, 1793; m. by Rev. [ ] Dwight, in Boston, Catherine French, Sept. 8, 1818. LUTHER, Jr., b. Feb. 17, 1795. 2. ISAAC, b. June 27, 1797. SETH TURNER, b. May 18, 1799. CHARLES, b. June 26, 1801. 2. ISAAC, b. June 27, 1797; m. by Rev. John Pierpont, Eleanor Brown Perry, 2d dau. of John and Catharine (Fast) Perry, May 23, 1820. FRANCIS EVELETH, b. Jan. 21, 1821, Charleston, S. C. JOHN PERRY, b. Jan. 9, 1824, Boston. FREDERICK WILLIAM, b. April 22, 1826, Boston. CATHERINE PERRY, b. July 1, 1828. ELIZA GORE, b. March 10, 1830. ELEANOR, b. July 29, 1832. 66 EDWIN MONTGOMERY, b. Jan. 8, 1834, the last of the lot." The following memorandum was also found; Mr. William Eveleth, son of Joseph Eveleth of Salem, Mass., died at Sullivan's Island, near Charleston, S. C., Sept. 5, 1824 Aged 25 years. He was a near and dear friend of Isaac and Eleanor B. Thayer and beloved by all who knew him. NOTES AND QUERIES. NOTES. 3. Mrs. Matilda (Whiting) Vose, of Hyde Park, recently gave to the Dedham Historical Society a number of specimens of marbled paper and enamelled cards, manufactured in Dedham in 1848, by her brother-in-law, Samuel C. Mann. It may be interesting to know that on the day these were sent, Mrs. Vose completed her one hundred and second year, having been born in Green Lodge, Dedham, July 17, 1788, in a house which is still standing. Mrs. Vose, whose maiden name was Matilda Whiting, was the daughter of Joshua, a Revolutionary soldier, and Mary (Ellis) Whiting, and a direct descendant of Nathaniel Whiting, one of the original settlers of Dedham. She was married Feb. 22, 1807, to Jesse Vose of Milton, where she lived for many years, until her removal to Hyde Park, where she now resides. Mrs. Vose has had ten children, of whom three are now living, the oldest son and two daughters. Although in feeble health and quite deaf, she is still in possession of her faculties and takes an interest in her native town and in the Dedham Historical Society, to whose Loan Exhibition she was a large contributor. The musket carried by her father at the battle of Lexington is in possession of her son, Mr. Joshua W. Vose of Milton, and was one of many valuable articles sent to the exhibition in connection with the 250th anniversary of the settlement of the town of Dedham, in 1886. When we consider that, a century ago, she was more than two years old, and but a few years later a school girl walking the lonely road from her home in Green Lodge to the East Street schoolhouse, we cannot but be impressed with the great changes she has seen in her long and eventful life. F. 4. Possibly the following figures relative to the population of Dedham in 1790 have sufficient value, for the purpose of comparison with the result of the recent census, to warrant their insertion in the REGISTER. The census of 1790 was taken in accordance with "An Act providing for the Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States," passed March the first, 1790, and the items below are extracted from a pamphlet, entitled "Return of the whole Number of Persons within the several districts of the United States," (Philadelphia, 1791, octavo, 56 pages). The total population of the country, including 697,697 slaves, was 3,929,326. Massachusetts, not including the then District of Maine, contained altogether 378,787 persons, or between nine and ten per cent. of the people of the United States. The population of this State was divided as follows: Free white males, 182,742; free white females, 190,582, and all other free persons, 5,463. This State was the only one in the Union which at that time did not contain slaves within its limits. To facilitate the collection of the figures for the census, the State was divided into nineteen districts to be canvassed by certain persons named; and the numbering of the people of this with thirteen other towns in the southern and western parts of Suffolk County, was entrusted to Col. John Steele Tyler, of Roxbury. The result, so far as it relates to Dedham, is as follows: There were in Suffolk County seven towns of greater population than Dedham, namely: Boston, 18,038; Braintree, 2,771; Dorchester, 1,722; Hingham, 2,085; Roxbury, 2,226; Stoughton, 1,994; and Wrentham, 1767; and fifteen towns with a less number of inhabitants, among the latter being our present prosperous and flourishing neighbor, Brookline, with a total population of 484. 5. Imitation Leghorn Bonnets. A. B. P. On Monday last, was sold at auction at Merchant's Hall, the elegant Bonnet which has been for several days exhibited at the store of Messrs. Hall J. Howe & Co., made by the Misses Bernaps, of Merrimack, N. H., of a wild grass discovered by them in that town. It was knocked off to Josiah Bradlee for FIFTY DOLLARS. The execution of the Bonnet was very excellent, and in point of shape, fineness and color, much superior to the one lately sent to England from Connecticut. We understand that one of the above mentioned young ladies is now visiting at Medford, and that the money was presented to her yesterday afternoon. Thus shall the skill and industry of our country-women ever be rewarded. Boston paper. [Extract from the Norfolk County Advertiser, August, 1821.] QUERIES. 15. (a) Who were the parents of Hannah Curtis, who, in 1732, married Joseph Guild, of Dedham ? (b) Who were the parents of Desire Metcalf, who, in 1778, married Abijah Draper? She was his second wife. (c) Who were the parents of Col. Ezra Wood, of Upton, who, in 1750, married Anna Chapin ? HOWARD R. GUILD. |