B C D SALTONSTALL, NATHANIEL. D SANFORD, JOHN. R. I. Did not serve. 10 Died before May 21, 1687.11 62; Notes and Queries, September 12, 1903, Ninth Series, xii. 201-202; Nation, xcvii. 32. He is sometimes assigned to New York, but he did not go to New York until long after his arrival at Boston. His death was noted in the New England Weekly Journal of April 29, 1728, p. 2/2. "Phillips" (C). The name is found in over a dozen different forms. E. H. Hall, Philipse Manor at Yonkers (1912), pp. 38-39; Collections New York Historical Society for 1892, pp. 369-374. 3 "On the last Lord's Day died at Charlestown the Honourable John Phillips, Esq; formerly of His Majesty's Council in this Province, Aged 90 odd Years" (Boston News Letter, March 25, 1725, p. 2/2). ♦ “Salisbury; Major Robert Pike Esq. was Interr'd here on Thursday the 19th. of December last; the Foot Company of the Town, and the Troop, being in Arms. He died in the 92 year of his Age” (Boston News Letter, January 6, 1707, p. 4/2). "Col. John Pynchon died Jan 17. 1703, about Sun-Rise, as Mr. Holyoke tells me Sabbath-Day" (Sewall, Diary, February 6, ii. 73). Toppan's Randolph, ii. 182. 7 "April 2, 1694. Monday. . . . In the Afternoon, all the Town is filled with the discourse of Major Richards's Death, which was extraordinarily suddain; was abroad on the Sabbath, din'd very well on Monday, and after falling into an angry passion with his Servant Richard Frame, presently after, fell probably into a Fit of Apoplexy, and died" (Sewall, Diary, i. 389–390). 8 "Thorsday, April, 28 [1709]. Mr. Russell dies about 11. a.m. He was a good Christian, and right New-England Man; is I think the last of them chosen in the year 1680: about 68. years old" (Sewall, Diary, ii. 253). "May, 22 [1707]. Thorsday, .. Bro Tapin tells me of the death of Col. Saltonstall on Wednesday after Lecture" (Sewall, Diary, ii. 187). Cf. Haverhill Vital Records, ii. 466. 10 At least, he is not recorded as present at any meeting of the Council. 11 Rhode Island Historical Magazine, vii. 294–295. In a letter dated May 21, 1687, Randolph said that Sanford was dead (see p. 37 note 7, above). He is sometimes confused with his father, also John Sanford, who was President of Rhode Island in 1653 and died between June 22 and November 16 of that year (Rhode Island Historical Magazine, vii. 293–294). 12 "Boston, On Monday last dyed here the Honourable Peter Sargent Esqr. of Her Majesty's Councill for this Province" (Boston News Letter, February 15, 1714, p. 2/2). 3 THE COLONIAL BOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS [MARCH, In the following list these names are brought together under a single alphabet, thus making it possible to tell at a glance to which Council each belongest. Variations in the spelling of names, where important, are noted in footnotes; and to the name of each person is added the elong to which he belonged. The abbreviations here used are ob for, with the posable exception of the letters "N. C." and "N.P. which indicate isspretively the Narragansett Country and the New ymouth Colony. 1 Andover Vital Records. i 52 "About 10. at night Grammer at Cambridge" (Sewall, March an der In saying that "The list of counciler ed. of 1890, vol. 3, p. 604, includes Smar Saltonstall and Francis Champernovine" note), Mr. A. S. Batchellor is in error Ful Dudley, and then says: "In Androse firs sellors were included, except the two barren who had not accepted the trust; and the id correct, except that the members of angrosCommission but in his Instructions. 3 An extract from a letter when by Ezza m Excell, has to do with a perverse peonie bier, cept Mr Mason, & myself, & MEC his Majesty's Interest" 4 Mamaiset. Be c holes was not a member of the Counci a ku expanding "B." into "Bir,' pan's Randolph, where we read "we Zonver here is none of the Countree Bulkley and M1 Vsher appears iner tơ Hinks are remote and come sentime 4 "Febr. 23, 1718. The for Vilian bram (Sewall, Diary, iii. 74). "Bulkley" (A), "Buy" 3. "May 25th 1688. Col Feer bukur e a long time. Died this Friday a 7 On May 21, 1687, Randoipi vTUE Mr. Shrimpton in the place of Can Charms But p. 31, above), and was not a member u nare was mistaken in saying that Champerios Edmund Andros, the successor of Duday (Historical Papers, p. 120). Savage, i. 399. "Rhode-Island, May 28. Last Lord leg bye. - 1 D SEWALL, SAMUEL. Mass. H. C. 1671; died Jan. 1, 1730.1 SHRIMPTON, SAMUEL. Mass. Died Feb. 8, 1698.* C B C C 1 "This Morning about half an hour after Five Died here the very Honourable SAMUEL SEWALL, Esq; in the 78th Year of his Age" (Boston News Letter, January 1, 1730, p. 2/2). 2 "Febr. 9 [1698]. Col. S. Shrimpton dies of an Apoplexy" (Sewall, Diary, ii. 8*). This entry is apparently wrong, as Sewall elsewhere writes: "Fourth-day, Febr. 9. Last night, about nine of the clock, Col. Shrimpton dyes of an Apoplexy" (Diary, i. 470). And on February 9 Wait Winthrop wrote: "I fear the post will be gon, so must end by giueing you the bad news that Coll. Shrimpton dyed about nine of the clock the last night, haueing not bin sick aboue two or three days, tho something indisposed as he use to be longer" (5 Massachusetts Historical Collections viii. 528). J. N. Arnold, Vital Records of Rehoboth, p. 876. His will, dated March 16, 1691, was proved July 12, 1692 (Savage, iv. 131; Suffolk Probate Files, No. 1970). Though in the Instructions to Andros the name clearly reads "John Spragg," it has hitherto been assumed that "Spragg" was a variant of "Sprague," and John Sprague has been assigned sometimes to Rhode Island (A. S. Batchellor, Laws of New Hampshire, 1904, i. 144), and sometimes on the authority of an old list printed by Hutchinson to Plymouth Colony (Hutchinson, History of Massachusetts, London, 1765, i. 354; Baylies, Historical Memoir of New Plymouth, vol. ii. pt. iv. p. 43; Batchellor, Laws of New Hampshire, i. 830 and note 1. Cf. Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, iv. 153-154, who challenged this identification). The person was unquestionably John Spragg (Sprag, Spragge), who lived in New York from 1683 to 1687. On January 27, 1683, Spragg was commissioned by the Duke of York Secretary of New York and reached there the following summer or autumn (Calendar of State Papers, America and West Indies, 1681-1685, Nos. 919, 1415, pp. 378, 555). On August 11, 1685, Governor Dongan wrote Blathwayt that "Mr Sprag the Secretary of this place will goe for England this winter and carry the Laws" (New York Colonial Documents, iii. 364). The Instructions to Dongan issued May 29, 1686, contained this clause: "Whereupon you are forthwith to call together the members of our Council for that our Province, by name Anthony Brockholes, Frederick Philips, Stephanus van Courtland, Lucas Santen, John Spragg, Jervas Baxter, and John Young Esquires" (ibid. iii. 369). On September 13, 1686, Spragg wrote Blathwayt, "I hope to be myself the bearer of the quarterly returns required by the Lords of Trade and Plantations" (Calendar of State Papers, America and West Indies, 1685-1688, No. 861, p. 242). On September 14 "Governor Dongan took the oaths on receiving his new Commission and Instructions. Anthony Brockholes, Frederick Flipson, Stephanus van Cortlandt, John Spragge, and Gervis Baxter were sworn of the Council. Agreed that Mr. Santen be not sworn yet" (ibid. No. 862, p. 242). On February 22, 1687, Dongan wrote that "The Council thought fit not to give M1 Santen his Oath, as appears by the Minutes of Council. John Young had his oath given him, but hee lives 150 miles from this, and has noe estate of his own and very old, that it is a thing impossible A B C C A B C A B C STOUGHTON, WILLIAM. Mass. H. C. 1650; died July 7, 1701.1 TYNG, EDWARD. Me. Died about 1701.3 TYNG, JONATHAN. Mass. Died Jan. 19, 1724.4 B C D WALLEY, JOHN. N. P. for him to serve" (New York Colonial Documents, iii. 416). (Notwithstanding this statement, John Youngs did serve and was present at several Council meetings.) On the same day (February 22, 1687), "Names of the new Councillors recommended by Governor Dongan in the letter; with an intimation that he has already appointed Judge Palmer and Nicholas Bayard to the Council" (Calendar of State Papers, America and West Indies, 1685-1688, No. 11401, p. 322). On March 2, 1687, Dongan wrote to the King, "I send Capt Baxter and M' Spragg and humbly beg your Maty will discourse them" (New York Colonial Documents, iii. 423). Spragg must have sailed about that time, since various documents were endorsed as "Recd. 9 May 1687, per Mr. J. Spragge" (Calendar of State Papers, America and West Indies, 1685-1688, pp. 322, 335). As stated in the text, Spragg was named a Councillor in the Instructions to Andros of April 16, 1688. In a document dated December, 1689, we read: "List of the Council of New York, with comments against the names. Anthony Brockholes (papist); Frederick Flypse; Gervais Baxter (a papist); Stephan van Cortlandt; John Sprag (in England); Nicholas Bayard; John Palmer (in custody at Boston)” (ibid. 1689–1692, No. 667, p. 197). This is the last allusion I find to Spragg, and as his name is not included as a Councillor in the Instructions to Governor Sloughter issued January 31, 1690 (ibid. No. 750, p. 215), it may be assumed that he died in London late in 1689. (Many other references to Spragg are in the Calendars of State Papers, America and West Indies; New York Colonial Documents; Calendar of Historical Manuscripts, in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, 1866, pt. ii. pp. 104, 106, 112, 114, 132, 133, 144, 146, 154, 155, 162; and Journal of the Legislative Council of the Colony of New York, 1861, vol. i. pp. xii, xiv, xv, xvii). 1 See p. 50, below. 2 H. R. Stiles, History of Ancient Wethersfield (1904), ii. 713. * Savage, iv. 357; Suffolk Probate Files, No. 2653. "Wooburn; Lord's Day, January 19th. We were here entertain'd with a very loud Memento Mori: The Honourable Col. Jonathan Tyng Esq; walking to the place of Publick Worship in the Afternoon, expired as soon as he got into his seat, during the time of the first Prayer, and was carried out dead, Etatis 81. His Faith and Holiness were so apparent that we are perswaded he was convey'd to the Assembly of the First-born in Heaven, to bear a part with them in glorifying their Creator and Redeemer" (Boston News Letter, January 23, 1724, p. 2/2). In the New England Courant of January 27, 1724, the date by an obvious misprint is given as "Sunday the 29th Instant" (p. 2/2). "And on the 1st Instant, died at his Seat near Medford, the Honourable John Usher Esq; sometime since Lieut. Governour of the Province of New-Hampshire, in the 79 Year of his Age, & was Honourably Interr'd here on Monday last" (Boston News Letter, September 8, 1726, p. 2/2). • "Boston. On Friday the Eleventh Currant, Dyed here the Honourable John Walley Esq; of Her Majesty's Council, and one of the Judges of the Superiour |