Madam Mary [Bowles] Lynde, and on Thursday following, her remains were respectfully entombed. If ancestry can confer honor, this lady was respectable; if virtue can ennoble, her rank was high; if piety shall meet with recompense, her reward will be great. Her sorrowing relatives, with a large train of the poor and distressed, have to console them that, after a most useful and beneficent life, her soul hath at length, by quitting its earthly tenement, relinquished a world of sorrow and imperfection, and fled to those regions where love, and peace, and joy reign, and where happiness unremitted shall never cease."

She married Nov. 1, 1731, Chief-Justice Benjamin Lynde. Their children were, Mary, who married Hon. Andrew Oliver, of Salem, Mass., son of Lieut. Gov. Andrew Oliver; Hannah, who died unmarried ; Lydia, who married Sept. 30, 1766, Rev. Wm. Walter, rector of Trinity Church, Boston.

Among the property which Chief-Justice Lynde left his daughter Mary, was a farm at Brimfield," which was part of 1000 acres, given by the Indians to her mother's great-great grandfather, the Rev. John Eliot, 1655, as a token of their love for his teaching them the good knowledge of God."

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REV. JOSEPH ELIOT.

At a Court of Election held at Hartford, May, 1668—“This Court, in order to the promoting and establishing of peace in the churches and plantations, do desire the Reverend Mr. James Fitch, Mr. Gershom Bulkley, Mr. JOSEPH ELIOT, and Mr. Samuel Wakeman, to meet at Saybrook, if Mr. Fitch can come there, if not, then at Norwich, upon the 8th or 9th of June next, to consider of some expedient for our peace, by searching out the rule, and thereby clearing up how far the churches and people may walk together within themselves and one with another in the fellowship and order of the Gospel, notwithstanding some various apprehensions among them in matters of discipline respecting membership and baptism, &c."

At a General Assembly held at Hartford, October 8, 1668, the same persons were appointed a committee to settle some religious differences at Windsor.

At a meeting of the Council in Hartford, December 17, 1675, Mr. Eliot was again appointed on a committee "to make diligent search

for those evils amongst us, which have stirred up the Lord's anger against us."

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WILL OF REV. JOSEPH ELIOT.

November 12, 1693.

Things being now ripened for the making my last Will and Testament, I desire so to address myself to it in the fear of God, as to speak of things here as I shall look upon them in that impartial world to come. And

First. I make my inventory of my estate that God hath given me. And my will is that no other inventory be made, but what my Executrix, after to be named, shall make of the movable estate for the clearing her own way in point of division.

1st. My farm at Quonomcot, with the house and land at the town of Newport, in Rhode Island, (viz.) my third part of it, and my seventh part of the land or purchase in the Narraganset Country, and my sixteenth part of the purchase or township upon Merrimack River, all given to my first wife and her heirs by her father, Brenton, I prize at £1200 money.

2dly. My farm-that is, the moiety of one thousand acres lying in Cambridge village, as given to my second wife and her heirs by her father, Willis, I prize at £500 money.

3dly. Two third parts of housing and lands at Roxbury, given to me and my son Jared, by my father's last will and testament, I prize at £400 money.

4thly. My housing and lands at Guilford, with all divisions and outlands thereto belonging, I prize at £300 money.

5thly. All my movable estate, goods, and chattels, I prize at £600. The estate which God hath given me, I give as followeth :—

1. To my four eldest daughters by my first wife, MEHETABLE, ANN, JEMIMA, and BASHUA, I give, awarding to them legal title to it, all the farm and parcels of land given to their mother, as above mentioned, with whatsoever else may accrue to them by virtue of their heirship, to be joint heirs therein; and I give to each of them a full power of executresses, as to what concerns their several parts and divisions; and my advice to them is, that they sell not any of their lands till they

all come of age. And I desire their uncles, Jaleele Brenton and John Poole, to be helpful to them as overseers in the division and settlement of their several parts and proportions.

2. I give to my son JARED, my farm at Cambridge village, as above mentioned, and my farm at Roxbury, as above mentioned.

3. I give to my son ABIELL, my housing, lands, divisions, and all whatsoever appertaining to me, in the town of Guilford, where I dwell, as above mentioned.

4. For my movable estate, I give as followeth :—

1. One-third part of it I give to my four eldest daughters, to be equally divided between them, with all the clothes and linen belonging to their mother, (viz.) her wearing linen.

2. I give two third parts of all my movable estate to my loving wife, MARY, to be disposed by her for her comfortable subsistence, bringing up her children, and training up my two sons to learning, if may be, that they may be preachers of the precious Gospel of a Great Redeemer; as also giving portions to her daughters, according to her ability and prudence. And my will is, if both my sons be brought up to learning, that my library be equally divided between them; but if not, he that is brought up have it all.

And that my said wife, Mary, may be the better enabled to fulfill this my will, I make and constitute her my sole Executrix, as to the lands given to her sons, and as to the whole movable estate given to all my children, that she have full power to dispose of the rents of the said lands, to the ends aforementioned, and if need be, to sell any parts or parcels of the said lands, the better to enable her to fulfill my will, especially to the bringing up of my children to learning, as is above mentioned; and to make distribution of the whole movable estate, (viz.) a 4th part of one third to each of my four eldest daughters, as they become of age, or at their marriage day; and the other two thirds, to keep, use, and dispose, according to the meaning and true intent of all the premises above mentioned.

And furthermore, I give to my said wife, Mary, my two negroes, Shem and Hagar, as a particular gift, the better to enable her in housekeeping with her young children. And I desire her brother, Hezekiah Willis, to be helpful to her as an overseer, and advise her in all the particulars above mentioned, when she shall have occasion to make use of his helpfulness.

I furthermore, there being some difficulties that may arise about this

my will and testament, in two respects, I desire to clear them in words of truth and soberness.

1st. Whereas, My father, upon the decease of my last brother, Benjamin, gave me deeds of my brother's lands and movable estate in immediate possession, yet with this proviso, that it should be only for covart, he being left alone in his old age, and not to hinder his making his will, according to his meaning and true intent, which he afterwards did, and therein devised and gave a third part of his lands and goods to his grandson, my nephew, John Eliot, who hath accordingly received his full part in the movables, and I have given him an imperfect deed of the lands; I do now confirm and ratify my father's will to him, so far as I am enabled by the deeds aforementioned; but for several reasons see not light or ground any further, as to the enlarging of his portion, which reasons may be better concealed than published.

2d. Whereas, My father was inclined to give a certain parcel of land to a school designed to be erected in that part of Roxbury commonly called Jamaica, and by reason of some misunderstanding about those parcels of land, there is some interfering in the deeds, I do hereby declare it as my full and final intention, that my father's will and conveyance of land should stand good, all deeds to me nothwithstanding, so far as the ends and true intent of the said school may be promoted; but if there be a failure, then I rather desire that a public school at Roxbury, or the college, be enfeoffed in the said land.

Furthermore, my will is, that whilst my four daughters, or any of them by my former wife, continue in the family and live with their mother, which I advise them to do, except good reason appears to the contrary, that their part of the revenue of the farms go into the common stock of the family for their maintenance.

Lastly. I give to the town of Guilford ten pounds, towards the buying of a bell.

To all these premises above mentioned, as my last will and testament, I have subscribed my hand and set to my seal, this first day of

December, 1693.

In presence of

John Graves, Sen.,

Stephen Bradley, Sen.

JOSEPH ELIOT. [L. 8.]

Mr. Ruggles, in his sermon on the death of Rev. Jared Eliot, says:

"Mr. Joseph Eliot was for many years the conspicuous minister of Guilford, whose great abilities as a divine, a politician, and a physician, were justly admired, not only among his own people, but throughout the colony, where his praises are in the churches."

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GOVERNOR JONATHAN LAW.

Gov. Law was born in Milford, Aug. 6, 1674, and was son of Jonathan Law, of that place, and grandson of Richard Law, one of the first settlers of Wethersfield and Stamford. He died Nov. 6, 1750. His daughter,

Ann Law, married Jan. 12, 1725, Rev. Samuel Hall, of Wallingford, and died Aug. 23, 1775. Abigail, a daughter of Rev. Mr. Hall and Ann Law, married, Nov. 19, 1767, Rev. John Foote, of Cheshire, who was born April 2, 1742; graduated at Yale Coll., 1765; studied divinity; succeeded Rev. Mr. Hall as pastor of the Congregational Society in Cheshire; and died Aug. 31, 1813. Abigail, his wife, died Nov. 19, 1788. Their son, Hon. Samuel Augustus Foote, Governor of Connecticut and Senator in Congress, was born Nov. 8, 1780, and died Sept. 16, 1846.

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AUGUSTUS LUCAS.

Augustus Lucas was a French Protestant, who fled his country after the revocation of the edict of Nantz, about 1700, in company with Mr. Laurens, of South Carolina, who had married his sister.