Worcester daily spy., 1860-09-17

Here was an antidote to Sunday drowsi-
ness In 1862, the town meeting at Ports
mouth 'Ordered that cage be made, or some
other means be invented, to punish such as
sleep ON the Lords day." &c. In 1871, the
selectmen agreed with John Pinckney to build
cage twelve feet square, with stocks in it,
and plllOry on the top, Il convenient space
from the west end of the meeting house.
Deputy Governor Dudley was had up in 1882
Tor selling man seven and half bushels
of corn, to receive ten for it after harvest.
Winthrop and others thought it usurious.
Nothing is recorded of "the funeral baked
meats, but thus much for the liquids ;-"The
funeral expenses of the Rev. Thomas Corbett,
minister of Lynn and of Ipswich, who died i'll
1880, were as tollows:- =
l Barrel Wine, f6 O
Barrels Cider, 0 IL 0
50 lbs. Sugar, 2 o
IL Cord of Wood O o
doz prs. of Gloves for men and women, 5 40
And some Spice and Ginger for the Cider
From funerals to epitaphs the transition is
easy. Rev. Mr.. Bailey's (of Watertown) cpl
taph on his wife was as follows =
"Pious Lydia made and given by God as a
most meet help to John Bailey, minister OF the
gospel =
Good betimes-best at last
Lived by taitf-died in grace,
Went off singing-lett us weeping
Walked with God till translated in the 39th
year of her age, April II, 1851.
Read her epitaph in Prov. i. 10, H. II, 28,
30, 80, 81"
Mr.. Daniel Noyes' epitaph runs thus =
"As you are, so was l,
God did call and did dy,
Now children all, whose name is Moves,
Make Jesus Christ,
Your only choice.n
In 1725, Theophilus Cotton, of Hampton,
N. H., sells to Jonathan Poore, of Newbury,
call hat HI.
Sippa, aged about sixteen" In the office
Of the register of deeds, Salem, date of
1649, December 29th, is deed from
William Hilton, of Newbury, to George
Carr, for zone quarter part of vessel
James my Indian, with ali the interest have
in him, to be his servant forever"
In Honorable Nathaniel Cofins account
book is found the following =
"1731. An account of some hingsmy son Edward
Paid for his learning, and his booksand his
medicine, f70
To Jack, negro man, so
To sheep, hhds of lime, half bUshe oat-
meal, and 20 lbs of flax, II 1Ss
Total, f182 18sn
The Rev. Matthias Plant, of Newbury, in
his dairy, 22d of June, 1885, thus writes Il
wrote to Mr.. Salmon If Barbados, to send me
negro"
'l760 April 20-Young ladies met at the
house of Rev. Mr.. Parsons, who preached to
them a sermon from Proverbs xxx: 19.
They spun and presented to Mr.. Parsons two
hundred and seventy skeins of good yarn
They drank liberty tea. This was made from
an herb called rb-wort."
The title to Mrs. Anne Bradstreet's volume
of poems ran thus:
Several poems, compiled with great variety
of wit and learning full of delight wherein
especially is contained a complete discourse
and description of the four elements, constiu.
ton, ages of man, and seasons of the year,
together with an exact eptome of the three
first monarchies, viz: the Assyrian, Persian
and Grecian; and the beginning of the Roman
commonwealth to the end of their last king,
with divers other pleasant and serious poems :
by gentlewoman of New England" Print
ed at Boston, 1910 at London, 1920, under the
title "The Tenth Muse lately sprung up in
America" Among Mrs. Bradstreet's de-
cendants is Richard Ii. Dana.
The Indians were, in some cases made into
magistrates and teachers in the towns of 'pray-
ing Indians" and the following estate paper
is yet extant, curious among such writings for
its brevity and point. 1t is a warrant address
ed to an Indian constable:
81. l, Hibondi. 2. You Peter Waterman.
2 Jeremy Wicket. 4. Quick you take him.
o. Fast you hold him. 6. Before me, Hihou-