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diff --git a/20765.txt b/20765.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7e8b676 --- /dev/null +++ b/20765.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3713 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, Diary of Anna Green Winslow, by Anna Green +Winslow, Edited by Alice Morse Earle + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Diary of Anna Green Winslow + A Boston School Girl of 1771 + + +Author: Anna Green Winslow + +Editor: Alice Morse Earle + +Release Date: March 7, 2007 [eBook #20765] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF ANNA GREEN WINSLOW*** + + +E-text prepared by Louise Hope, Steven desJardins, and the Project +Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) + + + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original illustrations. + See 20765-h.htm or 20765-h.zip: + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/7/6/20765/20765-h/20765-h.htm) + or + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/7/6/20765/20765-h.zip) + + +Transcriber's Note: + + Spelling, punctuation and capitalization are as in the + original. This includes the writer's various spellings + of her own name. + + Ordinals such as "1st", "2d", "4th" were consistently + written in superscript. They are shown here as unmarked + text. Other superscript abbreviations are shown with caret + as M^rs, Hon^d. + + The printed book included a facsimile image of a typical + diary page. A transcription of this passage appears + immediately before the diary proper. + + + + + +DIARY OF ANNA GREEN WINSLOW + +A Boston School Girl of 1771 + +Edited by + +ALICE MORSE EARLE + + + + + + + +[Illustration: ANNA GREEN WINSLOW] + + + +[Publisher's Device: + Tout bien ou rien] + + +Boston and New York +Houghton, Mifflin and Company +The Riverside Press, Cambridge +1895 + +Copyright, 1894, +By Alice Morse Earle. +All rights reserved. + +Third Edition. + +The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. +Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co. + + + + +This Book + +_Is Dedicated_ +_To_ +_The Kinsfolk Of_ + +_ANNA GREEN WINSLOW_ + + + + +_FOREWORD._ + + +_In the year 1770, a bright little girl ten years of age, Anna Green +Winslow, was sent from her far away home in Nova Scotia to Boston, +the birthplace of her parents, to be "finished" at Boston schools by +Boston teachers. She wrote, with evident eagerness and loving care, +for the edification of her parents and her own practice in +penmanship, this interesting and quaint diary, which forms a most +sprightly record, not only of the life of a young girl at that time, +but of the prim and narrow round of daily occurrences in provincial +Boston. It thus assumes a positive value as an historical picture of +the domestic life of that day; a value of which the little girl who +wrote it, or her kinsfolk who affectionately preserved it to our own +day, never could have dreamed. To many New England families it is +specially interesting as a complete rendering, a perfect +presentment, of the childish life of their great grandmothers, her +companions._ + +_It is an even chance which ruling thought in the clever little +writer, a love of religion or a love of dress, shows most plainly +its influence on this diary. On the whole, I think that youthful +vanity, albeit of a very natural and innocent sort, is more +pervasive of the pages. And it is fortunate that this is the case; +for, from the frankly frivolous though far from self-conscious +entries we gain a very exact notion, a very valuable picture, of the +dress of a young girl at that day. We know all the details of her +toilet, from the "pompedore" shoes and the shifts (which she had +never worn till she lived in Boston), to the absurd and top-heavy +head-decoration of "black feathers, my past comb & all my past +garnet marquasett and jet pins, together with my silver plume." +If this fantastic assemblage of ornament were set upon the "Heddus +roll," so graphically described, it is easy to understand the +denunciations of the time upon women's headgear. In no contemporary +record or account, no matter who the writer, can be found such a +vivacious and witty description of the modish hairdressing of that +day as in the pages of this diary._ + +_But there are many entries in the journal of this vain little +Puritan devotee to show an almost equal attention to religion; +records of sermons which she had heard, and of religious +conversations in which she had taken a self-possessed part; and her +frequent use of Biblical expressions and comparisons shows that she +also remembered fully what she read. Her ambitious theological +sermon-notes were evidently somewhat curtailed by the sensible +advice of the aunt with whom she resided, who thereby checked also +the consequent injudicious praise of her pastor, the Old South +minister. For Anna and her kinsfolk were of the congregation of the +Old South church; and this diary is in effect a record of the life +of Old South church attendants. Many were what Anna terms "sisters +of the Old South," and nine tenths of the names of her companions +and friends may be found on the baptismal and membership records of +that church._ + +_Anna was an industrious little wight, active in all housewifely +labors and domestic accomplishments, and attentive to her lessons. +She could make "pyes," and fine network; she could knit lace, and +spin linen thread and woolen yarn; she could make purses, and +embroider pocket-books, and weave watch strings, and piece +patchwork. She learned "dansing, or danceing I should say," from one +Master Turner; she attended a sewing school, to become a neat and +deft little sempstress, and above all, she attended a writing school +to learn that most indispensable and most appreciated of eighteenth +century accomplishments--fine writing. Her handwriting, of which a +fac-simile is here shown, was far better than that of most girls of +twelve to-day; with truth and justice could Anna say, "Aunt says I +can write pretily." Her orthography was quite equal to that of grown +persons of her time, and her English as good as that of Mercy +Warren, her older contemporary writer._ + +_And let me speak also of the condition of her diary. It covers +seventy-two pages of paper about eight inches long by six and a half +inches wide. The writing is uniform in size, every letter is +perfectly formed; it is as legible as print, and in the entire diary +but three blots can be seen, and these are very small. A few pages +were ruled by the writer, the others are unruled. The old paper, +though heavy and good, is yellow with age, and the water marks +C.F.R. and the crown stand out distinctly. The sheets are sewed in a +little book, on which a marbled paper cover has been placed, +probably by a later hand than Anna's. Altogether it is a remarkably +creditable production for a girl of twelve._ + +_It is well also to compare her constant diligence and industry +displayed to us through her records of a day's work--and at another +time, of a week's work--with that of any girl of her age in a +corresponding station of life nowadays. We learn that physical pain +or disability were no excuse for slothfulness; Anna was not always +well--had heavy colds, and was feverish; but well or ill was always +employed. Even with painful local afflictions such as a "whitloe," +she still was industrious, "improving it to perfect myself in +learning to spin flax." She read much--the Bible constantly--and +also found amusement in reading "a variety of composures."_ + +_She was a friendly little soul, eager to be loved; resenting deeply +that her Aunt Storer let "either one of her chaises, her chariot or +babyhutt," pass the door every day, without sending for her; going +cheerfully tea-drinking from house to house of her friends; +delighting even in the catechising and the sober Thursday Lecture. +She had few amusements and holidays compared with the manifold +pleasures that children have nowadays, though she had one holiday +which the Revolution struck from our calendar--the King's Coronation +Day. She saw the Artillery Company drill, and she visited brides and +babies and old folks, and attended some funerals. When she was +twelve years old she "came out"--became a "miss in her teens"--and +went to a succession of prim little routs or parties, which she +called "constitutions." To these decorous assemblies girls only were +invited,--no rough Boston boys. She has left to us more than one +clear, perfect picture of these formal little routs in the great +low-raftered chamber, softly alight with candles on mantel-tree and +in sconces; with Lucinda, the black maid, "shrilly piping;" and rows +of demure little girls of Boston Brahmin blood, in high rolls and +feathers, discreetly partaking of hot and cold punch, and soberly +walking and curtsying through the minuet; fantastic in costume, but +proper and seemly in demeanor, models of correct deportment as were +their elegant mammas._ + +_But Anna was not solemn; she was always happy, and often +merry--full of life and wit. She jested about getting a "fresh +seasoning with Globe salt," and wrote some labored jokes and some +unconscious ones home to her mother. She was subject to "egregious +fits of laughterre," and fully proved the statement, "Aunt says I am +a whimsical child." She was not beautiful. Her miniature is now +owned by Miss Elizabeth C. Trott of Niagara Falls, the great +grand-daughter of General John Winslow, and a copy is shown in the +frontispiece. It displays a gentle, winning little face, delicate in +outline, as is also the figure, and showing some hint also of +delicacy of constitution. It may be imagination to think that it is +plainly the face of one who could never live to be old--a face +typical of youth._ + + +_Let us glance at the stock from whence sprung this tender and +engaging little blossom. When the weary Pilgrims landed at Cape Cod +before they made their memorable landing at Plymouth, a sprightly +young girl jumped on shore, and was the first English woman to set +foot on the soil of New England. Her name was Mary Chilton. She +married John Winslow, the brother of Governor Edward Winslow. Anna +Green Winslow was Mary Chilton's direct descendant in the sixth +generation._ + +_Anna's grandfather, John Winslow the fourth, was born in Boston. +His son Joshua wrote thus in the Winslow Family Bible: "Jno Winslow +my Honor'd Father was born ye 31 Dec. at 6 o'c. in the morning on +the Lords Day, 1693, and was baptized by Mr. Willard the next day & +dyed att sea Octo. 13, 1731 aged 38 years." A curious attitude was +assumed by certain Puritan ministers, of reluctance and even decided +objection and refusal to baptize children who were unlucky enough to +be born on the Lord's Day; but Samuel Willard, the pastor of the +"South Church" evidently did not concur in that extraordinary +notion, for on the day following "Jno's" birth--on New Year's +Day--he was baptized. He was married on September 21, 1721, to Sarah +Pierce, and in their ten years of married life they had three +children._ + +_Joshua Winslow, Anna's father, was the second child. He was born +January 23, 1727, and was baptized at the Old South. He was +"published" with his cousin Anna Green on December 7, 1758, and +married to her four weeks later, January 3, 1759. An old piece of +embroidered tapestry herein shown gives a good portrayal of a Boston +wedding-party at that date; the costumes, coach, and cut of the +horses' mane and tail are very curious and interesting to note. Mrs. +Winslow's mother was Anna Pierce (sister of Sarah), and her father +was Joseph Green, the fourth generation from Percival Green, whose +descendants have been enumerated by Dr. Samuel Abbott Green, the +president of the Massachusetts Historical Society, in his book +entitled "Account of Percival and Ellen Green and some of their +descendants."_ + +_Mrs. Joshua Winslow was the oldest of twelve Green children, hence +the vast array of uncles and aunts and cousins in little Anna's +diary._ + +_Joseph Green, Anna's maternal grandfather, was born December 12, +1703, and was baptised on the same day. He died July 11, 1765. He +was a wealthy man for his time, being able to pay Governor Belcher +L3,600 for a tract of land on Hanover Street. His firm name was +Green & Walker. A fine portrait of him by Copley still exists._ + +_Thus Anna came of good stock in all lines of descent. The Pierces +were of the New Hampshire provincial gentry, to which the Wentworths +and Langdons also belonged._ + +_Before Joshua Winslow was married, when he was but eighteen +years of age, he began his soldierly career. He was a Lieutenant +in Captain Light's company in the regiment of Colonel Moore +at the taking of Louisburg in 1745. He was then appointed +Commissary-General of the British forces in Nova Scotia, and an +account-book of his daily movements there still exists. Upon his +return to New England he went to live at Marshfield, Massachusetts, +in the house afterwards occupied by Daniel Webster. But troublous +times were now approaching for the faithful servants of the King. +Strange notions of liberty filled the heads of many Massachusetts +men and women; and soon the Revolution became more than a dream. +Joshua Winslow in that crisis, with many of his Marshfield friends +and neighbors, sided with his King._ + +_He was in Marshfield certainly in June, 1775, for I have a letter +before me written to him there by Mrs. Deming at that date. One +clause of this letter is so amusing that I cannot resist quoting it. +We must remember that it was written in Connecticut, whence Mrs. +Deming had fled in fright and dismay at the siege of Boston; and +that she had lost her home and all her possessions. She writes in +answer to her brother's urgent invitation to return to Marshfield._ + +_"We have no household stuff. Neither could I live in the terror of +constant alarms and the din of war. Besides I know not how to look +you in the face, unless I could restore to you your family +Expositer, which together with my Henry on the Bible & Harveys +Meditations which are your daughter's (the gift of her grandmother) +I pack'd in a Trunk that exactly held them, some days before I made +my escape, and did my utmost to git to you, but which I am told are +still in Boston. It is not, nor ever will be in my power to make you +Satisfaction for this Error--I should not have coveted to keep 'em +so long--I am heartily sorry now that I had more than one book at a +time; in that case I might have thot to have bro't it away with me, +tho' I forgot my own Bible & almost every other necessary. But who +can tell whether you may not git your Valuable Books. I should feel +comparatively easy if you had these your Valuable property."_ + +_Her painful solicitude over the loss of a borrowed book is indeed +refreshing, as well as her surprising covetousness of the Family +Expositor and Harvey's Meditations. And I wish to add to the +posthumous rehabilitation of the damaged credit of this +conscientious aunt, that Anna's book--Harvey's Meditations--was +recovered and restored to the owner, and was lost at sea in 1840 by +another Winslow._ + +_Joshua Winslow, when exiled, went to England, and thence to Quebec, +where he retained throughout his life his office as Royal Paymaster. +He was separated many years from his wife and daughter, and +doubtless Anna died while her father was far from her; for in a +letter dated Quebec, December 26, 1783, and written to his wife, +he says,_ + +_"The Visiting Season is come on, a great practice here about +Christmas and the New Year; on the return of which I congratulate my +Dearest Anna and Friends with you, it being the fifth and I hope the +last I shall be obliged to see the return of in a Separation from +each other while we may continue upon the same Globe."_ + + +_She shortly after joined him in Quebec. His letters show careful +preparations for her comfort on the voyage. They then were +childless; Anna's brothers, George Scott and John Henry, died in +early youth. It is interesting to note that Joshua Winslow was the +first of the Winslows to give his children more than one baptismal +name._ + +_Joshua Winslow was a man of much dignity and of handsome person, +if we can trust the Copley portrait and miniature of him which still +exist. The portrait is owned by Mr. James F. Trott of Niagara Falls, +New York, the miniature by Mrs. J. F. Lindsey of Yorkville, South +Carolina, both grandchildren of General John Winslow. His letters +display much intelligence. His spelling is unusually correct; his +penmanship elegant--as was that of all the Winslows; his forms of +expression scholarly and careful. He sometimes could joke a little, +as when he began his letters to his wife Anna thus--2. N. A.--though +it is possible that the "Obstructions to a free Correspondence, and +the Circumspection we are obliged to practice in our Converse with +each other" arising from his exiled condition, may have made him +thus use a rebus in the address of his letter._ + +_He died in Quebec in 1801. His wife returned to New England and +died in Medford in 1810. Her funeral was at General John Winslow's +house on Purchase Street, Fort Hill, Boston; she was buried in the +Winslow tomb in King's Chapel burial ground._ + + +_We know little of the last years of Anna Green Winslow's life. +A journal written by her mother in 1773 during their life in +Marshfield is now owned by Miss Sarah Thomas of Marshfield, Mass. +It is filled chiefly with pious sermon notes and religious thoughts, +and sad and anxious reflections over absent loved ones, one of whom +(in the sentimental fashion of the times) she calls "my Myron"--her +husband._ + +_Through this journal we see "Nanny Green's" simple and monotonous +daily life; her little tea-drinkings; her spinning and reeling and +knitting; her frequent catechisings, her country walks. We find her +mother's testimony to the "appearance of reason that is in my +children and for the readiness with which they seem to learn what is +taught them." And though she repeatedly thanks God for living in a +warm house, she notes that "my bason of water froze on the hearth +with as good a fire as we could make in the chimney." This rigor of +climate and discomfort of residence, and Anna's evident delicacy +shown through the records of her fainting, account for her failing +health. The last definite glimpse which we have of our gentle little +Nanny is in the shape of a letter written to her by "Aunt Deming." +It is dated Boston, April 21, 1779, and is so characteristic of the +day and so amusing also that I quote it in full._ + + + _Dear Neice_, + +_I receivd your favor of 6th instant by nephew Jack, who with the +Col. his trav'ling companion, perform'd an easy journey from you to +us, and arriv'd before sunset. I thank you for the beads, the wire, +and the beugles, I fancy I shall never execute the plan of the head +dress to which you allude--if I should, some of your largest corn +stalks, dril'd of the pith and painted might be more proportionable. +I rejoice that your cloths came off so much better than my +fears--a troublesome journey, I expected you would have; and very +much did I fear for your bones. I was always unhappy in anticipating +trouble--it is my constitution, I believe--and when matters have +been better than my fears--I have never been so dutifully thankful +as my bountiful Benefactor had a right to expect. This, also, +I believe, is the constitution of all my fellow race._ + +_Mr. Deming had a Letter from your Papa yesterday; he mention'd your +Mama & you as indispos'd & Flavia as sick in bed. I'm at too great a +distance to render you the least service, and were I near, too much +out of health to--some part of the time--even speak to you. I am +seiz'd with exceeding weakness at the very seat of life, and to a +greater degree than I ever before knew. Could I ride, it might help +me, but that is an exercise my income will not permit. I walk out +whenever I can. The day will surely come, when I must quit this +frail tabernacle, and it may be soon--I certainly know, I am not of +importance eno' in this world, for any one to wish my stay--rather +am I, and so I consider myself as a cumberground. However I shall +abide my appointed time & I desire to be found waiting for my +change._ + +_Our family are well--had I time and spirits I could acquaint you of +an expedition two sisters made to Dorchester, a walk begun at +sunrise last thursday morning--dress'd in their dammasks, padusoy, +gauze, ribbins, flapets, flowers, new white hats, white shades, and +black leather shoes, (Pudingtons make) and finished journey, & +garments, orniments, and all quite finish'd on Saturday, before +noon, (mud over shoes) never did I behold such destruction in so +short a space--bottom of padusoy coat fring'd quite round, besides +places worn entire to floss, & besides frays, dammask, from +shoulders to bottom, not lightly soil'd, but as if every part had +rub'd tables and chairs that had long been us'd to wax mingl'd with +grease. I could have cry'd, for I really pitied 'em--nothing left +fit to be seen--They had leave to go, but it never entered any ones +tho'ts but their own to be dressd in all (even to loading) of their +best--their all, as you know. What signifies it to worry ones selves +about beings that are, and will be, just so? I can, and do pity and +advise, but I shall git no credit by such like. The eldest talks +much of learning dancing, musick (the spinet & guitar), embroidry, +dresden, the French tongue &c &c. The younger with an air of her +own, advis'd the elder when she first mention'd French, to learn +first to read English, and was answered "law, so I can well eno' +a'ready." You've heard her do what she calls reading, I believe. +Poor creature! Well! we have a time of it!_ + +_If any one at Marshfield speaks of me remember me to them. Nobody +knows I'm writing, each being gone their different ways, & all from +home except the little one who is above stairs. Farewell my dear, +I've wrote eno' I find for this siting._ + +_Yr affect_ + +_Sarah Deming._ + + +_It does not need great acuteness to read between the lines of this +letter an affectionate desire to amuse a delicate girl whom the +writer loved. The tradition in the Winslow family is that Anna Green +Winslow died of consumption at Marshfield in the fall of 1779. There +is no town or church record of her death, no known grave or +headstone to mark her last resting-place. And to us she is not dead, +but lives and speaks--always a loving, endearing little child; not +so passionate and gifted and rare a creature as that star among +children--Marjorie Fleming--but a natural and homely little flower +of New England life; fated never to grow old or feeble or dull or +sad, but to live forever and laugh in the glamour of eternal happy +youth through the few pages of her time-stained diary._ + + _Alice Morse Earle._ + + _Brooklyn Heights, September, 1894._ + + + + +LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. + + PAGE + ANNA GREEN WINSLOW. + From miniature now owned by Miss Elizabeth C. Trott, + Niagara Falls, N.Y. _Frontispiece._ + + FACSIMILE OF WRITING OF ANNA GREEN WINSLOW. + From original diary 1 + + WEDDING PARTY IN BOSTON IN 1756. + From tapestry now owned by American Antiquarian Society 20 + + GENERAL JOSHUA WINSLOW. + From miniature painted by Copley, 1755, and now owned by + Mrs. John F. Lindsey, Yorkville, S.C. 34 + + EBENEZER STORER. + From portrait painted by Copley, now owned by + Mrs. Lewis C. Popham, Scarsdale, N.Y. 45 + + HANNAH GREEN STORER. + From portrait painted by Copley, now owned by + Mrs. Lewis C. Popham, Scarsdale, N.Y. 65 + + CUT-PAPER PICTURE. + Cut by Mrs. Sarah Winslow Deming, now owned by + James F. Trott, Esq., Niagara Falls, N.Y. 74 + + + + + [Transcriber's Note: + In this transcription of Anna Green Winslow's handwriting, + line breaks follow the original. The postscript ("N.B.") + is in smaller writing, almost surrounding the signature.] + + [Handwriting:] + + I hope aunt wont let me + wear the black hatt with the red Dominie--for the + people will ask me what I have got to sell as I + go along street if I do. or, how the folk at Newgui + nie do? Dear mamma, you dont know the fation + here--I beg to look like other folk. You dont kno + what a stir would be made in Sudbury Street + were I to make my appearance there in my red Domi + nie & black Hatt. But the old cloak & bonnett together + will make me a decent Bonnet for common ocation + (I like that) aunt says, its a pitty some of the ribbin + you sent wont do for the Bonnet--I must now + close up this Journal. With Duty, Love & Compli + ments as due, perticularly to my Dear little brother, + (I long to see him) & M.^rs Law, I will write to her soon + I am, Hon.^d Papa & mama, + Y.^r ever Dutiful Daughter + Anna Green Winslow. + N.B. my aunt Deming + dont approve of my English. + & has not the fear that you will think her concernd in the + Diction + + + + +DIARY OF ANNA GREEN WINSLOW. + +1771-1773. + + . . . . . + +Lady, by which means I had a bit of the wedding cake. I guess I shall +have but little time for journalising till after thanksgiving. My aunt +Deming[1] says I shall make one pye myself at least. I hope somebody +beside myself will like to eat a bit of my Boston pye thou' my papa and +you did not (I remember) chuse to partake of my Cumberland[2] +performance. I think I have been writing my own Praises this morning. +Poor Job was forced to praise himself when no _man_ would do him that +justice. I am not as he was. I have made two shirts for unkle since I +finish'd mamma's shifts. + + +Nov^r 18th, 1771.--Mr. Beacons[3] text yesterday was Psalm cxlix. 4. +For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people; he will beautify the meek +with salvation. His Doctrine was something like this, viz: That the +Salvation of Gods people mainly consists in Holiness. The name _Jesus_ +signifies _a Savior_. Jesus saves his people _from their Sins_. He +renews them in the spirit of their minds--writes his Law in their +hearts. Mr. Beacon ask'd a question. What is beauty--or, wherein does +true beauty consist? He answer'd, in holiness--and said a great deal +about it that I can't remember, & as aunt says she hant leisure now to +help me any further--so I may just tell you a little that I remember +without her assistance, and that I repeated to her yesterday at Tea--He +said he would lastly address himself to the young people: My dear young +friends, you are pleased with beauty, & like to be tho't beautifull--but +let me tell ye, you'l never be truly beautifull till you are like the +King's daughter, all glorious within, all the orniments you can put on +while your souls are unholy make you the more like white sepulchres +garnish'd without, but full of deformyty within. You think me very +unpolite no doubt to address you in this manner, but I must go a little +further and tell you, how cource soever it may sound to your delicacy, +that while you are without holiness, your beauty is deformity--you are +all over black & defil'd, ugly and loathsome to all holy beings, the +wrath of th' great God lie's upon you, & if you die in this condition, +you will be turn'd into hell, with ugly devils, to eternity. + + +Nov. 27th.--We are very glad to see Mr. Gannett, because of him "we hear +of your affairs & how you do"--as the apostle Paul once wrote. My unkle +& aunt however, say they are sorry he is to be absent, so long as this +whole winter, I _think_. I long now to have you come up--I want to see +papa, mama, & brother, all most, for I cannot make any distinction which +most--I should like to see Harry too. Mr. Gannett tells me he keeps a +journal--I do want to see that--especially as Mr. Gannett has given me +some specimens, as I may say of his "I and Aunt &c." I am glad Miss Jane +is with you, I will write to her soon--Last monday I went with my aunt +to visit Mrs. Beacon. I was exceedingly pleased with the visit, & so I +_ought_ to be, my aunt says, for there was much notice taken of me, +particylarly by Mr. Beacon. I think I like him better every time I see +him. I suppose he takes the kinder notice of me, because last thursday +evening he was here, & when I was out of the room, aunt told him that I +minded his preaching & could repeat what he said--I might have told you +that notwithstanding the stir about the Proclamatien, we had an agreable +Thanksgiven. Mr. Hunt's[4] text was Psa. xcvii. 1. The LORD +reigneth,--let the earth rejoice. Mr. Beacon's text P M Psa. xxiv. 1. +The earth is the LORD's & the fulness thereof. My unkle & aunt +Winslow[5] of Boston, their son & daughter, Master Daniel Mason (Aunt +Winslows nephew from Newport, Rhode Island) & Miss Soley[6] spent the +evening with us. We young folk had a room with a fire in it to +ourselves. Mr Beacon gave us his company for one hour. I spent Fryday +with my friends in Sudbury Street. I saw Mrs. Whitwell[7] very well +yesterday, she was very glad of your Letter. + + +Nov. 28th.--I have your favor Hon^d Mamma, by Mr. Gannett, & heartily +thank you for the broad cloath, bags, ribbin & hat. The cloath & bags +are both at work upon, & my aunt has bought a beautifull ermin trimming +for my cloak. AC stands for Abigail Church. PF for Polly Frazior. I have +presented one piece of ribbin to my aunt as you directed. She gives her +love to you, & thanks you for it. I intend to send Nancy Mackky a pair +of lace mittens, & the fag end of Harry's watch string. I hope Carolus +(as papa us'd to call him) will think his daughter very smart with them. +I am glad Hon^d madam, that you think my writing is better than it us'd +to be--you see it is mended just here. I dont know what you mean by +_terrible margins vaze_. I will endeavor to make my letters even for the +future. Has Mary brought me any Lozong Mamma? I want to know whether I +may give my old black quilt to Mrs Kuhn, for aunt sais, it is never +worth while to take the pains to mend it again. Papa has wrote me a +longer letter this time than you have Mad^m. + + +November the 29th.--My aunt Deming gives her love to you and says it is +this morning 12 years since she had the pleasure of congratulating papa +and you on the birth of your scribling daughter. She hopes if I live 12 +years longer that I shall write and do everything better than can be +expected in the _past_ 12. I should be obliged to you, you will dismiss +me for company. + + +30th Nov.--My company yesterday were + + Miss Polly Deming,[8] + Miss Polly Glover,[9] + Miss Peggy Draper, + Miss Bessy Winslow,[10] + Miss Nancy Glover,[11] + Miss Sally Winslow[12] + Miss Polly Atwood, + Miss Han^h Soley. + +Miss Attwood as well as Miss Winslow are of this family. And Miss +N. Glover did me honor by her presence, for she is older than cousin +Sally and of her acquaintance. We made four couple at country dansing; +danceing I mean. In the evening young Mr. Waters[13] hearing of my +assembly, put his flute in his pocket and played several minuets and +other tunes, to which we danced mighty cleverly. But Lucinda[14] was our +principal piper. Miss Church and Miss Chaloner would have been here if +sickness,--and the Miss Sheafs,[15] if the death of their father had not +prevented. The black Hatt I gratefully receive as your present, but if +Captain Jarvise had arrived here with it about the time he sail'd from +this place for Cumberland it would have been of more service to me, for +I have been oblig'd to borrow. I wore Miss Griswold's[16] Bonnet on my +journey to Portsmouth, & my cousin Sallys Hatt ever since I came home, & +now I am to leave off my black ribbins tomorrow, & am to put on my red +cloak & black hatt--I hope aunt wont let me wear the black hatt with the +red Dominie--for the people will ask me what I have got to sell as I go +along street if I do, or, how the folk at New guinie do? Dear mamma, you +dont know the fation here--I beg to look like other folk. You dont know +what a stir would be made in sudbury street, were I to make my +appearance there in my red Dominie & black Hatt. But the old cloak & +bonnett together will make me a decent bonnett for common ocation +(I like that) aunt says, its a pitty some of the ribbins you sent wont +do for the Bonnet.--I must now close up this Journal. With Duty, Love, +& Compliments as due, perticularly to my Dear little brother (I long to +see him) & Mrs. Law, I will write to her soon. + + I am Hon^d Papa & mama, + Yr ever Dutiful Daughter + ANNE GREEN WINSLOW. + +N.B. My aunt Deming dont approve of my English & has not the fear that +you will think her concernd in the Diction. + + +Dec^br. 6th.--Yesterday I was prevented dining at unkle Joshua's[17] by +a snow storm which lasted till 12 o'clock today, I spent some part of +yesterday afternoon and evening at Mr. Glovers. When I came home, the +snow being so deep I was bro't home in arms. My aunt got Mr. Soley's +Charlstown to fetch me. The snow is up to the peoples wast in some +places in the street. + + +Dec 14th.--The weather and walking have been very winter like since the +above hotch-potch, pothooks & trammels. I went to Mrs. Whitwell's last +wednessday--you taught me to spell the 4 day of the week, but my aunt +says that it should be spelt wednesday. My aunt also says, that till I +come out of an egregious fit of laughterre that is apt to sieze me & the +violence of which I am at this present under, neither English sense, nor +anything rational may be expected of me. I ment to say, that, I went to +Mrs. Whitwell's to see Mad^m Storers[18] funeral, the walking was very +bad except on the sides of the street which was the reason I did not +make a part of the procession. I should have dined with Mrs. Whitwell on +thursday if a grand storm had not prevented, As she invited me. I saw +Miss Caty Vans[19] at lecture last evening. I had a visit this morning +from Mrs Dixon of Horton & Miss Polly Huston. Mrs Dixon is dissipointed +at not finding her sister here. + + +Dec^r 24th.--Elder Whitwell told my aunt, that this winter began as did +the Winter of 1740. How that was I dont remember but this I know, that +to-day is by far the coldest we have had since I have been in New +England. (N.B. All run that are abroad.) Last sabbath being rainy I went +to & from meeting in Mr. Soley's chaise. I dined at unkle Winslow's, the +walking being so bad I rode there & back to meeting. Every drop that +fell froze, so that from yesterday morning to this time the appearance +has been similar to the discription I sent you last winter. The walking +is so slippery & the air so cold, that aunt chuses to have me for her +scoller these two days. And as tomorrow will be a holiday, so the pope +and his associates have ordained,[20] my aunt thinks not to trouble Mrs +Smith with me this week. I began a shift at home yesterday for myself, +it is pretty forward. Last Saturday was seven-night my aunt Suky[21] was +delivered of a pretty little son, who was baptiz'd by Dr. Cooper[22] the +next day by the name of Charles. I knew nothing of it till noonday, when +I went there a visiting. Last Thursday I din'd & spent the afternoon at +unkle Joshua's I should have gone to lecture with my aunt & heard our Mr +Hunt preach, but she would not wait till I came from writing school. +Miss Atwood, the last of our boarders, went off the same day. Miss +Griswold & Miss Meriam, having departed some time agone, I forget +whether I mention'd the recept of Nancy's present. I am oblig'd to her +for it. The Dolphin is still whole. And like to remain so. + + +Dec^r 27th.--This day, the extremity of the cold is somewhat abated. +I keept Christmas at home this year, & did a very good day's work, aunt +says so. How notable I have been this week I shall tell you by & by. +I spent the most part of Tuesday evening with my favorite, Miss Soley, & +as she is confined by a cold & the weather still so severe that I cannot +git farther, I am to visit her again before I sleep, & consult with her +(or rather she with me) upon a perticular matter, which you shall know +in its place. How _strangely industrious_ I have been this week, I will +inform you with my own hand--at present, I am so dilligent, that I am +oblig'd to use the hand & pen of my old friend, who being _near by_ is +better than a brother _far off_. I dont forgit dear little John Henry so +pray mamma, dont mistake me. + + +Dec^r 28th.--Last evening a little after 5 o'clock I finished my shift. +I spent the evening at Mr. Soley's. I began my shift at 12 o'clock last +monday, have read my bible every day this week & wrote every day save +one. + + +Dec^r 30th.--I return'd to my sewing school after a weeks absence, +I have also paid my compliments to Master Holbrook.[23] Yesterday +between meetings my aunt was call'd to Mrs. Water's[13] & about 8 in the +evening Dr. Lloyd[24] brought little master to town (N.B. As a +memorandum for myself. My aunt stuck a white sattan pincushin[25] for +Mrs Waters.[13] On one side, is a planthorn with flowers, on the +reverse, just under the border are, on one side stuck these words, +Josiah Waters, then follows on the end, Dec^r 1771, on the next side & +end are the words, Welcome little Stranger.) Unkle has just come in & +bro't one from me. I mean, unkle is just come in with a letter from Papa +in his hand (& none for me) by way of Newbury. I am glad to hear that +all was well the 26 Nov^r ult. I am told my Papa has not mention'd me in +this Letter. Out of sight, out of mind. My aunt gives her love to papa, +& says that she will make the necessary enquieries for my brother and +send you via. Halifax what directions and wormseed she can collect. + + +1st Jan^y 1772.--I wish my Papa, Mama, brother John Henry, & cousin +Avery & all the rest of my acquaintance at Cumberland, Fortlaurence, +Barronsfield, Greenland, Amherst &c. a Happy New Year, I have bestow'd +no new year's gift,[26] as yet. But have received one very handsome one, +viz. the History of Joseph Andrews abreviated. In nice Guilt and flowers +covers. This afternoon being a holiday I am going to pay my compliments +in Sudbury Street. + + +Jan^y 4th 1772--I was dress'd in my yellow coat, my black bib & apron, +my pompedore[27] shoes, the cap my aunt Storer[28] sometime since +presented me with (blue ribbins on it) & a very handsome loket in the +shape of a hart she gave me--the past pin my Hon^d Papa presented me +with in my cap, My new cloak & bonnet on, my pompedore gloves, &c, &c. +And I would tell you, that _for the first time, they all lik'd my dress +very much_. My cloak & bonnett are really very handsome, & so they had +need be. For they cost an amasing sight of money, not quite L45[29] tho' +Aunt Suky said, that she suppos'd Aunt Deming would be frighted out of +her Wits at the money it cost. I have got _one_ covering, by the cost, +that is genteel, & I like it much myself. On thursday I attended my aunt +to Lecture & heard Dr Chauncey[30] preach a third sermon from Acts ii. +42. They continued stedfastly--in breaking of bread. I din'd & spent the +afternoon at Mr. Whitwell's. Miss Caty Vans was one of our company. Dr. +Pemberton[31] & Dr Cooper had on gowns, In the form of the Episcopal +cassock we hear, the Doct^s design to distinguish themselves from the +inferior clergy by these strange habits [at a time too when the good +people of N.E. are threaten'd with & dreading the comeing of an +episcopal bishop][32] N.B. I dont know whether one sleeve would make a +full trimm'd negligee[33] as the fashion is at present, tho' I cant say +but it might make one of the frugal sort, with but scant triming. Unkle +says, they all have popes in their bellys. Contrary to I. Peter v. 2. 3. +Aunt says, when she saw Dr P. roll up the pulpit stairs, the figure of +Parson Trulliber, recorded by Mr Fielding occur'd to her mind & she was +really sorry a congregational divine, should, by any instance whatever, +give her so unpleasing an idea. + + +Jan^y 11th.--I have attended my schools every day this week except +wednesday afternoon. When I made a setting up visit to aunt Suky, & was +dress'd just as I was to go to the ball. It cost me a pistoreen[34] to +nurse Eaton for tow cakes, which I took care to eat before I paid for +them.[35] I heard Mr Thacher preach our Lecture last evening Heb. 11. 3. +I remember a great deal of the sermon, but a'nt time to put it down. +It is one year last Sep^r since he was ordain'd & he will be 20 years of +age next May if he lives so long. I forgot that the weather want fit for +me to go to school last thursday. I work'd at home. + + +Jan^y 17th.--I told you the 27th Ult that I was going to a constitation +with miss Soley. I have now the pleasure to give you the result, viz. +a very genteel well regulated assembly which we had at Mr Soley's last +evening, miss Soley being mistress of the ceremony. Mrs Soley desired me +to assist Miss Hannah in making out a list of guests which I did some +time since, I wrote all the invitation cards. There was a large company +assembled in a handsome, large, upper room in the new end of the house. +We had two fiddles, & I had the honor to open the diversion of the +evening in a minuet with miss Soley.--Here follows a list of the company +as we form'd for country dancing. + + Miss Soley & Miss Anna Greene Winslow + Miss Calif Miss Scott + Miss Williams Miss McCarthy + Miss Codman Miss Winslow + Miss Ives Miss Coffin + Miss Scolley[36] Miss Bella Coffin[37] + Miss Waldow Miss Quinsy[38] + Miss Glover Miss Draper + Miss Hubbard + +Miss Cregur (usually pronounced Kicker) & two Miss Sheafs were invited +but were sick or sorry & beg'd to be excus'd. There was a little Miss +Russell & the little ones of the family present who could not dance. As +spectators, there were Mr & Mrs Deming, Mr. & Mrs Sweetser Mr & Mrs +Soley, Mr & Miss Cary, Mrs Draper, Miss Oriac, Miss Hannah--our treat +was nuts, rasins, Cakes, Wine, punch,[39] hot & cold, all in great +plenty. We had a very agreeable evening from 5 to 10 o'clock. For +variety we woo'd a widow, hunted the whistle, threaded the needle, & +while the company was collecting, we diverted ourselves with playing of +pawns, no rudeness Mamma I assure you. Aunt Deming desires you would +_perticulary observe_, that the elderly part of the company were +_spectators only_, they mix'd not in either of the above describ'd +scenes. + +I was dress'd in my yellow coat, black bib & apron, black feathers on my +head, my past comb, & all my past[40] garnet marquesett[41] & jet pins, +together with my silver plume--my loket, rings, black collar round my +neck, black mitts & 2 or 3 yards of blue ribbin, (black & blue is high +tast) striped tucker and ruffels (not my best) & my silk shoes +compleated my dress. + + +Jan^y 18th.--Yesterday I had an invitation to celebrate Miss Caty's +birth-day with her. She gave it me the night before. Miss is 10 years +old. The best dancer in Mr Turners[42] school, she has been his scoller +these 3 years. My aunt thought it proper (as our family had a +invitation) that I should attend a neighbor's funeral yesterday +P.M. I went directly from it to Miss Caty's Rout & arriv'd ex . . +. . . . + + + BOSTON January 25 1772. + +Hon^'d Mamma, My Hon^'d Papa has never signified to me his approbation +of my journals, from whence I infer, that he either never reads them, +or does not give himself the trouble to remember any of their contents, +tho' some part has been address'd to him, so, for the future, I shall +trouble only you with this part of my scribble--Last thursday I din'd at +Unkle Storer's & spent the afternoon in that neighborhood. I met with +some adventures in my way viz. As I was going, I was overtaken by a lady +who was quite a stranger to me. She accosted me with "how do you do +miss?" I answer'd her, but told her I had not the pleasure of knowing +her. She then ask'd "what is your name miss? I believe you think 'tis a +very strange questian to ask, but have a mind to know." Nanny Green--She +interrupted me with "not Mrs. Winslow of Cumberland's daughter." Yes +madam I am. When did you hear from your Mamma? how do's she do? When +shall you write to her? When you do, tell her that you was overtaken in +the street by her old friend Mrs Login, give my love to her & tell her +she must come up soon & live on Jamaca plain. we have got a nice +meeting-house, & a charming minister, & all so cleaver. She told me she +had ask'd Unkle Harry to bring me to see her, & he said he would. Her +minister is Mr Gordon. I have heard him preach several times at the +O. South. In the course of my peregrination, as aunt calls it, +I happen'd in to a house where D---- was attending the Lady of the +family. How long she was at his opperation, I know not. I saw him twist +& tug & pick & cut off whole locks of grey hair at a slice (the lady +telling him she would have no hair to dress next time) for the space of +a hour & a half, when I left them, he seeming not to be near done. This +lady is not a grandmother tho' she is both old enough & grey enough to +be one. + + +Jan^y 31--I spent yesterday with Aunt Storer, except a little while I +was at Aunt Sukey's with Mrs Barrett dress'd in a white brocade, & +cousin Betsey dress'd in a red lutestring, both adorn'd with past, perls +marquesett &c. They were after tea escorted by Mr. Newton & Mr Barrett +to ye assembly at Concert Hall. This is a snowy day, & I am prevented +going to school. + + + [Illustration: WEDDING PARTY IN BOSTON IN 1756] + + +Feb. 9th.--My honored Mamma will be so good as to excuse my useing the +pen of my old friend just here, because I am disabled by a whitloe on my +fourth finger & something like one on my middle finger, from using my +own pen; but altho' my right hand is in bondage, my left is free; & my +aunt says, it will be a nice oppertunity if I do but improve it, to +perfect myself in learning to spin flax. I am pleased with the proposal +& am at this present, exerting myself for this purpose. I hope, when +two, or at most three months are past, to give you occular demonstration +of my proficiency in _this art_, as well as several others. My fingers +are not the only part of me that has suffer'd with sores within this +fortnight, for I have had an ugly great boil upon my right hip & about a +dozen small ones--I am at present swath'd hip & thigh, as Samson smote +the Philistines, but my soreness is near over. My aunt thought it highly +proper to give me some cooling physick, so last tuesday I took 1-2 oz +Globe Salt (a disagreeable potion) & kept chamber. Since which, there +has been no new erruption, & a great alteration for the better in those +I had before. + +I have read my bible to my aunt this morning (as is the daily custom) & +sometimes I read other books to her. So you may perceive, I _have the +use of my tongue_ & I tell her it is a good thing to have the use of my +tongue. Unkle Ned[43] called here just now--all well--by the way he is +come to live in Boston again, & till he can be better accomodated, is at +housekeeping where Mad^m Storer lately lived, he is looking for a less +house. I tell my Aunt I feel a disposician to be a good girl, & she +pleases herself that she shall have much comfort of me to-day, which as +cousin Sally is ironing we expect to have to ourselves. + + +Feb. 10th.--This day I paid my respects to Master Holbrook, after a +week's absence, my finger is still in limbo as you may see by the +writeing. I have not paid my compliments to Madam Smith,[44] for, altho' +I can drive the goos quill a bit, I cannot so well manage the needle. +So I will lay my hand to the distaff, as the virtuous woman did of +old--Yesterday was very bad weather, neither aunt, nor niece at publick +worship. + + +Feb. 12th.--Yesterday afternoon I spent at unkle Joshuas. Aunt Green +gave me a plaister for my fingure that has near cur'd it, but I have a +new boil, which is under poultice, & tomorrow I am to undergo another +seasoning with globe Salt. The following lines Aunt Deming found in +grandmama Sargent's[45] pocket-book & gives me leave to copy 'em here.-- + + Dim eyes, deaf ears, cold stomach shew, + My dissolution is in view + The shuttle's thrown, my race is run, + My sun is set, my work is done; + My span is out, my tale is told, + My flower's decay'd, & stock grows old, + The dream is past, the shadows fled, + My soul now longs for Christ my head, + I've lived to seventy six or nigh, + GOD calls at last, & now I'll die.[46] + +My honor'd Grandma departed this vale of tears 1-4 before 4 o'clock +wednesday morning August 21, 1771. Aged 74 years, 2 months & ten days. + + +Feb. 13th.--Everybody says that this is a bitter cold day, but I know +nothing about it but hearsay for I am in aunt's chamber (which is very +warm always) with a nice fire, a stove, sitting in Aunt's easy chair, +with a tall three leav'd screen at my back, & I am very comfortable. +I took my second (& I hope last) potion of Globe salts this morning. +I went to see Aunt Storer yesterday afternoon, & by the way Unkle Storer +is so ill that he keeps chamber. As I went down I call'd at Mrs +Whitwell's & must tell you Mr & Mrs Whitwell are both ill. Mrs. Whitwell +with the rheumatism. I saw Mad^m Harris, Mrs Mason and Miss Polly +Vans[47] there, they all give their love to you--Last evening I went to +catechizing with Aunt. Our ministers have agreed during the long +evenings to discourse upon the questions or some of 'em in the +assembly's shorter catechism, taking 'em in their order at the house of +Mrs Rogers in School Street, every wednesday evening. Mr. Hunt began +with the first question and shew'd what it is to glorify GOD. Mr Bacon +then took the second, what rule &c. which he has spent three evenings +upon, & now finished. Mr Hunt having taken his turn to show what the +Scriptures principly teach, & what is GOD. I remember he said that there +was nothing properly done without a rule, & he said that the rule God +had given us to glorify him by was the bible. How miraculously (said he) +has God preserv'd this blessed book. It was once in the reign of a +heathen emperor condemn'd to be burnt, at which time it was death to +have a bible & conceal it, but God's providence was wonderful in +preserving it when so much human policy had been exerted to bury it in +Oblivion--but for all that, here we have it as pure & uncorrupted as +ever--many books of human composure have had much pains taken to +preserve 'em, notwithstanding they are buried in Oblivion. He considered +who was the author of the bible, he prov'd that GOD was the author, for +no _good_ man could be the author, because such a one would not be +guilty of imposition, & an evil man could not unless we suppose a house +divided against itself. he said a great deal more to prove the bible is +certainly the word of God from the matter it contains &c, but the best +evidence of the truth of divine revelation, every true believer has in +his own heart. This he said, the natural man had no idea of. I did not +understand all he said about the external and internal evidence, but +this I can say, that I understand him better than any body else that +I hear preach. Aunt has been down stairs all the time I have been +recolecting & writeing this. Therefore, all this of own head, of +consequence. + +Valentine day.[48]--My cousin Sally reeled off a 10 knot skane of yarn +today. My valentine was an old country plow-joger. The yarn was of my +spinning. Aunt says it will do for filling. Aunt also says niece is a +whimsical child. + + +Feb. 17.--Since Wednesday evening, I have not been abroad since +yesterday afternoon. I went to meeting & back in Mr. Soley's chaise. Mr. +Hunt preached. He said that human nature is as opposite to God as +darkness to light. That our sin is only bounded by the narrowness of our +capacity. His text was Isa. xli. 14. 18. The mountains &c. He said were +unbelief, pride, covetousness, enmity, &c. &c. &c. This morning I took a +walk for Aunt as far as Mr. Soley's. I called at Mrs Whitwell's & found +the good man & lady both better than when I saw them last. On my return +I found Mr. Hunt on a visit to aunt. After the usual salutations & when +did you hear from your papa &c. I ask'd him if the blessing pronounced +by the minister before the congregation is dismissed, is not a part of +the publick worship? "Yes." + +"Why then, do you Sir, say, let us conclude the publick worship by +singing?" "Because singing is the last act in which the whole +congregation is unanimously to join. The minister in Gods name blesses +his i.e. Gods people agreeable to the practice of the apostles, who +generally close the epistles with a benediction in the name of the +Trinity, to which, Amen is subjoined, which, tho' pronounc'd by the +minister, is, or ought to be the sentiment & prayer of the whole +assembly, the meaning whereof is, So be it." + + +Feb. 18th.--Another ten knot skane of my yarn was reel'd off today. +Aunt says it is very good. My boils & whitloes are growing well apace, +so that I can knit a little in the evening. + +Transcribed from the Boston Evening Post: + +Sep. 18, 1771. Under the head of London news, you may find that last +Thursday was married at Worcester the Widow Biddle of Wellsburn in the +county of Warwick, to her grandson John Biddle of the same place, aged +twenty three years. It is very remarkable. the widdow had one son & one +daughter; 18 grandchildren & 5 great grandchildren; her present husband +has one daughter, who was her great granddaughter but is now become her +daughter; her other great grandchildren are become her cousins; her +grandchildren her brothers & sisters; her son & daughter her father +& mother. I think! tis the most extraordinary account I ever read in +a News-Paper. It will serve to puzzel Harry Dering with. + + [Transcriber's Note: + "I think! tis" may be a typographical error for "I think 'tis".] + + +Monday Feb. 18th--Bitter cold. I am just come from writing school. Last +Wednesday P.M. while I was at school Aunt Storer called in to see Aunt +Deming in her way to Mr Inches's. She walk'd all that long way. Thursday +last I din'd & spent the afternoon with Aunt Sukey. I attended both my +schools in the morning of that day. I cal'd at unkle Joshua's as I went +along, as I generally do, when I go in town, it being all in my way. +Saterday I din'd at Unkle Storer's, drank tea at Cousin Barrel's, was +entertain'd in the afternoon with scating. Unkle Henry was there. +Yesterday by the help of neighbor Soley's Chaise, I was at meeting all +day, tho' it snow'd in the afternoon. I might have say'd I was at Unkle +Winslow's last Thursday Eve^g & when I inform you that my needle work at +school, & knitting at home, went on _as usual_, I think I have laid +before you a pretty full account of the last week. You see how I improve +in my writing, but I drive on as fast as I can. + + +Feb. 21, Thursday.--This day Jack Frost bites very hard, so hard aunt +won't let me go to any school. I have this morning made part of a coppy +with the very pen I have now in my hand, writting this with. Yesterday +was so cold there was a very thick vapor upon the water, but I attended +my schools all day. My unkle says yesterday was 10 degrees colder than +any day we have had before this winter. And my aunt says she believes +this day is 10 degrees colder than it was yesterday; & moreover, that +she would not put a dog out of doors. The sun gives forth his rays +through a vapor like that which was upon the water yesterday. But Aunt +bids me give her love to pappa & all the family & tell them that she +should be glad of their company in her warm parlour, indeed there is not +one room in this house but is very warm when there is a good fire in +them. As there is in this at present. Yesterday I got leave (by my +aunt's desire) to go from school at 4 o'clock to see my unkle Ned who +has had the misfortune to break his leg. I call'd in to warm myself at +unkle Joshua's. Aunt Hannah told me I had better not go any further for +she could tell me all about him, so I say'd as it is so cold I believe +aunt won't be angry so I will stay, I therefore took off my things, aunt +gave me leave to call at Unkle Joshua's & was very glad I went no +further. Aunt Hannah told me he was as well as could be expected for one +that has a broken bone. He was coming from Watertown in a chaise the +horse fell down on the Hill, this side Mr Brindley's. he was +afraid if he fell out, the wheel would run over him, he therefore gave a +start & fell out & broke his leg, the horse strugled to get up, but +could not. unkle Ned was affraid if he did get up the chaise +wheels would run over him, so he went on his two hands and his other +foot drawing his lame leg after him & got behind the chaise, (so he was +safe) & there lay in the snow for some time, nobody being near. at last +2 genteelmen came, they tho't the horse was dead when they first saw him +at a distance, but hearing somebody hollow, went up to it. By this time +there was a countraman come along, the person that hollow'd was unkle +Ned. They got a slay and put him in it with some hay and a blanket, +wrapt him up well as they could & brought him to Deacon Smith's in town. +Now Papa & Mamma, this hill is in Brookline. And now again, I have been +better inform'd for the hill is in Roxbury & poor Unkle Ned was alone in +the chaise. Both bones of his leg are broke, but they did not come thro' +the skin, which is a happy circumstance. It is his right leg that is +broke. My Grandmamma sent Miss Deming, Miss Winslow & I one eight^th of +a Dollar a piece for a New Years gift. My Aunt Deming & Miss Deming had +letters from Grandmamma. She was pretty well, she wrote aunt that Mrs +Marting was brought to bed with a son Joshua about a month since, & is +with her son very well. Grandmamma was very well last week. I have made +the purchase I told you of a few pages agone, that is, last Thursday I +purchas'd with my aunt Deming's leave, a very beautiful white feather +hat, that is, the out side, which is a bit of white hollond with the +feathers sew'd on in a most curious manner white & unsullyed as the +falling snow, this hat I have long been saving my money to procure for +which I have let your kind allowance, Papa, lay in my aunt's hands till +this hat which I spoke for was brought home. As I am (as we say) a +daughter of liberty[49] I chuse to wear as much of our own manufactory +as pocible. But my aunt says, I have wrote this account very badly. +I will go on to save my money for a chip & a lineing &c. + +Papa I rec'd your letter dated Jan. 11, for which I thank you, Sir, & +thank you greatly for the money I received therewith. I am very glad to +hear that Brother John papa & mamma & cousin are well. I'll answer your +letter papa and yours mamma and cousin Harry's too. I am very glad mamma +your eyes are better. I hope by the time I have the pleasure of hearing +from Cumberland again your eyes will be so well that you will favor me +with one from you. + + +Feb. 22d.--Since about the middle of December, ult. we have had +till this week, a series of cold and stormy weather--every snow storm +(of which we have had abundance) except the first, ended with rain, by +which means the snow was so hardened that strong gales at NW soon turned +it, & all above ground to ice, which this day seven-night was from one +to three, four & they say, in some places, five feet thick, in the +streets of this town. Last saturday morning we had a snow storm come on, +which continued till four o'clock P.M. when it turned to rain, since +which we have had a warm air, with many showers of rain, one this +morning a little before day attended with thunder. The streets have been +very wet, the water running like rivers all this week, so that I could +not possibly go to school, neither have I yet got the bandage off my +fingure. Since I have been writing now, the wind suddenly sprung up at +NW and blew with violence so that we may get to meeting to-morrow, +perhaps on dry ground. Unkle Ned was here just now & has fairly or +unfairly carried off aunt's cut paper pictures,[50] tho' she told him +she had given them to papa some years ago. It has been a very sickly +time here, not one person that I know of but has been under heavy +colds--(all laid up at unkle Storer's) in general got abroad again. Aunt +Suky had not been down stairs since her lying in, when I last saw her, +but I hear she is got down. She has had a broken breast. I have spun 30 +knots of linning yarn, and (partly) new footed a pair of stockings for +Lucinda, read a part of the pilgrim's progress, coppied part of my text +journal (that if I live a few years longer, I may be able to understand +it, for aunt sais, that to her, the contents as I first mark'd them, +were an impenetrable secret) play'd some, tuck'd a great deal (Aunt +Deming says it is very true) laugh'd enough, & I tell aunt it is all +human _nature_, if not human reason. And now, I wish my honored mamma a +very good night. + + +Saturday noon Feb. 23d--Dear Pappa, do's the winter continue as +pleasant at Cumberland as when you wrote to me last? We had but very +little winter here, till February came in, but we have little else +since. The cold still continues tho' not so extreme as it was last +Thursday. I have attended my schools all this week except one day, and +am going as soon as I have din'd to see how Unkle Ned does. I was +thinking, Sir, to lay up a piece of money you sent me, but as you sent +it to me to lay out I have a mind to buy a chip & linning for my feather +hatt. But my aunt says she will think of it. My aunt says if I behave +myself very well indeed, not else, she will give me a garland of flowers +to orniment it, tho' she has layd aside the biziness of flower +making.[51] + + + [Illustration: GENERAL JOSHUA WINSLOW] + + +Feb. 25th.--This is a very stormy day of snow, hail & rain, so that I +cannot get to Master Holbrook's, therefore I will here copy something I +lately transcribed on a loose paper from Dr. Owen's sermon on Hab. iii, +1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. "I have heard that a full wind behind the +ship drives her not so fast forward, as a side wind, that seems almost +as much against her as with her; & the reason they say is, because a +full wind fills but some of her sails. + + +Wednesday.--Very cold, but this morning I was at sewing and writing +school, this afternoon all sewing, for Master Holbrook does not in the +winter keep school of afternoons. Unkle Henrys feet are so much better +that he wears shoos now. + + +Monday noon Feb. 25th. I have been to writing school this morning and +Sewing. The day being very pleasant, very little wind stirring. Jemima +called to see me last evening. She lives at Master Jimmy Lovel's.[52] +Dear mamma, I suppose that you would be glad to hear that Betty Smith +who has given you so much trouble, is well & behaves herself well & I +should be glad if I could write you so. But the truth is, no sooner was +the 29th Regiment encamp'd upon the common but miss Betty took herself +among them (as the Irish say) & there she stay'd with Bill Pinchion & +awhile. The next news of her was, that she was got into gaol for +stealing: from whence she was taken to the publick whipping post.[53] +The next adventure was to the Castle, after the soldier's were remov'd +there, for the murder of the 5th March last.[54] When they turn'd her +away from there, she came up to town again, and soon got into the +workhouse for new misdemeanours, she soon ran away from there and sit up +her old trade of pilfering again, for which she was put a second time +into gaol, there she still remains. About two months agone (as well as I +can remember) she & a number of her wretched companions set the gaol on +fire, in order to get out, but the fire was timely discovered & +extinguished, & there, as I said she still remains till this day, in +order to be tried for her crimes. I heard somebody say that as she has +some connections with the army no doubt but she would be cleared, and +perhaps, have a pension into the bargain. Mr. Henry says the way of sin +is down hill, when persons get into that way they are not easily +stopped. + + +Feb. 27.--This day being too stormy for me to go to any school, and +nothing as yet having happen'd that is worth your notice, my aunt gives +me leave to communicate to you something that much pleas'd her when she +heard of it, & which I hope will please you my Papa and Mamma. I believe +I may have inform'd you that since I have been in Boston, Dr. Byles[55] +has pretty frequently preached & sometimes administer'd the sacrament, +when our Candidates have preached to the O.S. Church, because they are +not tho't qualified to administer Gospel Ordinance, till they be settled +Pastours. About two months ago a brother of the church sent Dr Byles a +Card which contain'd after the usual introduction, the following words, +Mr W---- dont set up for an Expositor of Scripture, yet ventures to send +Dr. Byles a short comment on 1 Cor. ix. 11. which he thinks agreeable to +the genuine import of the text, & hopes the Dr will not disapprove it. +The comment was a dozen pounds of Chocolate &c.--To which the D^r +return'd the following very pretty answer. D^r Byles returns respects to +Mr W & most heartily thanks him for his judicious practical Familie +Expositor, which is in Tast. My aunt Deming gives her love to you mamma, +and bids me tell you, as a matter you will be very glad to know, that +D^r Byles & his lady & family, have enjoy'd a good share of health & +perfect harmony for several years past. + +Mr Beacon is come home. My unkle Neddy is very comfortable, has very +little pain, & know fever with his broken bone. My Unkle Harry[56] was +here yesterday & is very well. Poor Mrs Inches is dangerously ill of a +fever. We have not heard how she does today. + + +March 4th.--Poor Mrs Inches is dead. Gone from a world of trouble, as +she has left this to her poor mother. Aunt says she heartyly pities Mrs +Jackson. Mr Nat. Bethune died this morning, Mrs Inches last night. + +We had the greatest fall of snow yesterday we have had this winter. Yet +cousin Sally, miss Polly, & I rode to & from meeting in Mr Soley's +chaise both forenoon & afternoon, & with a stove[57] was very +comfortable there. If brother John is as well and hearty as cousin +Frank, he is a clever boy. Unkle Neddy continues very comfortable. I saw +him last saturday. I have just now been writing four lines in my Book +almost as well as the copy. But all the intreaties in the world will not +prevail upon me to do always as well as I can, which is not the least +trouble to me, tho' its a great grief to aunt Deming. And she says by +writing so frightfully above. + + +March 6.--I think the appearance this morning is as winterish as any I +can remember, earth, houses, trees, all covered with snow, which began +to fall yesterday morning & continued falling all last night. The Sun +now shines very bright, the N.W. wind blows very fresh. Mr Gannett din'd +here yesterday, from him, my unkle, aunt & cousin Sally, I had an +account of yesterday's publick performances,[58] & exhibitions, but aunt +says I need not write about 'em because, no doubt there will be printed +accounts. I should have been glad if I could have seen & heard for +myselfe. My face is better, but I have got a heavy cold yet. + + +March 9th.--After being confined a week, I rode yesterday afternoon to +& from meeting in Mr Soley's chaise. I got no cold and am pretty well +today. This has been a very snowy day today. Any body that sees this may +see that I have wrote nonsense but Aunt says, I have been a very good +girl to day about my work however--I think this day's work may be called +a piece meal for in the first place I sew'd on the bosom of unkle's +shirt, mended two pair of gloves, mended for the wash two handkerchiefs, +(one cambrick) sewed on half a border of a lawn apron of aunts, read +part of the xxi^st chapter of Exodous, & a story in the Mother's gift. +Now, Hon^d Mamma, I must tell you of something that happened to me +to-day, that has not happen'd before this great while, viz My Unkle & +Aunt both told me, I was a very good girl. Mr Gannett gave us the favour +of his company a little while this morning (our head). I have been +writing all the above gibberish while aunt has been looking after her +family--now she is out of the room--now she is in--& takes up my pen in +_my_ absence to observe, I am a little simpleton for informing my mamma, +that it is _a great while_ since I was prais'd because she will conclude +that it is _a great while_ since I deserv'd to be prais'd. I will +henceforth try to observe their praise & yours too. I mean deserve. It's +now tea time--as soon as that is over, I shall spend the rest of the +evening in reading to my aunt. It is near candle lighting. + + +March 10, 5 o'clock P.M.--I have finish'd my stent of sewing work for +this day & wrote a billet to Miss Caty Vans, a copy of which I shall +write on the next page. To-morrow if the weather is fit I am to visit. +I have again been told I was a good girl. My Billet to Miss Vans was in +the following words. Miss Green gives her compliments to Miss Vans, and +informs her that her aunt Deming quite misunderstood the matter about +the queen's night-Cap.[59] Mrs. Deming thou't that it was a black skull +cap linn'd with red that Miss Vans ment which she thou't would not be +becoming to Miss Green's light complexion. Miss Green now takes the +liberty to send the materials for the Cap Miss Vans was so kind as to +say she would make for her, which, when done, she engages to take +special care of for Miss Vans' sake. Mrs. Deming joins her compliments +with Miss Green's--they both wish for the pleasure of a visit from Miss +Vans. Miss Soley is just come in to visit me & 'tis near dark. + + +March 11.--Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a +day may bring forth. Thus king Solomon, inspired by the Holy Ghost, +cautions, Pro. xxvii. 1. My aunt says, this is a most necessary lesson +to be learn'd & laid up in the heart. I am quite of her mind. I have met +with a disappointment to day, & aunt says, I may look for them every +day--we live in a changing world--in scripture call'd a vale of tears. +Uncle said yesterday that there had not been so much snow on the ground +this winter as there was then--it has been vastly added to since then, +& is now 7 feet deep in some places round this house; it is above the +fence in the coart & thick snow began to fall and condtinu'd till about +5 o'clock P.M. (it is about 1-4 past 8 o'clock) since which there has +been a steady rain--so no visiting as I hoped this day, & this is the +disappointment I mentioned on t'other page. Last saturday I sent my +cousin Betsy Storer a Billet of which the following is a copy. Miss +Green gives her love to Miss Storer & informs her that she is very +_sensible_ of the effects of a bad cold, not only in the pain she has +had in her throat, neck and face, which have been much swell'd & which +she is not quite clear of, but that she has also been by the same +depriv'd of the pleasure of seeing Miss Storer & her other friends in +Sudbury Street. She begs, her Duty, Love & Compliments, may be presented +as due & that she may be inform'd if they be in health. To this I have +receiv'd no answer. I suppose she don't think I am worth an answer. But +I have finished my stent, and wrote all under this date, & now I have +just daylight eno' to add, my love and duty to dear friends at +_Cumberland_. + + + [Illustration: EBENEZER STORER] + + +March 14.--Mr. Stephen March, at whose house I was treated so kindly +last fall, departed this life last week, after languishing several +months under a complication of disorders--we have not had perticulars, +therefore cannot inform you, whether he engag'd the King of terrors with +Christian fortitude, or otherwise. + + "Stoop down my Thoughts, that use to rise, + Converse a while with Death; + Think how a gasping Mortal lies, + And pants away his Breath." + +Last Thursday I din'd with unkle Storer, & family at aunt Sukey's--all +well except Charles Storer who was not so ill but what, _that_ I mean, +he din'd with us. Aunt Suky's Charles is a pretty little boy & grows +nicely. We were diverted in the afternoon with an account of a queer +Feast that had been made that day in a certain Court of this town for +the Entertainment of a number of Tories--perhaps seventeen. One +contain'd three calves heads (skin off) with their appurtinencies +anciently call'd pluck--Their other dish (for they had but two) +contain'd a number of roast fowls--half a dozen, we suppose,[A] & all +roosters at this season no doubt. Yesterday, soon after I came from +writing school we had another snow storm begun, which continued till +after I went to bed. This morning the sun shines clear (so it did +yesterday morning till 10 o'clock.) It is now bitter cold, & such a +quantity of snow upon the ground, as the Old people don't remember ever +to have seen before at this time of the year. My aunt Deming says, when +she first look'd abroad this morning she felt anxious for her brother, & +his family at Cumberland, fearing lest they were covered up in snow. It +is now 1-2 after 12 o'clock noon. The sun has been shineing in his full +strength for full 6 hours, & the snow not melted enough anywhere in +sight of this house, to cause one drop of water. + +[Footnote A: There was six as I have since heard.] + + +March 17.--Yesterday, I went to see aunt Polly, & finding her going out, +I spent the afternoon with aunt Hannah. While I was out, a snow storm +overtook me. This being a fine sun shine (tho' cold) day I have been to +writing school, & wrote two pieces, one I presented to aunt Deming, and +the other I design for my Honor'd Papa, I hope he will approve of it. +I sent a piece of my writing to you Hon'd Mamma last fall, which I hope +you receiv'd. When my aunt Deming was a little girl my Grandmamma +Sargent told her the following story viz. One Mr. Calf who had three +times enjoy'd the Mayorality of the city of London, had after his +decease, a monoment erected to his memory with the following inscription +on it. + + Here lies buried the body of + Sir Richard Calf, + Thrice Lord Mayor of London. + Honor, Honor, Honor. + +A drol gentleman passing by with a bit of chalk in his hand underwrote +thus-- + + O cruel death! more subtle than a Fox + That would not let this Calf become an Ox, + That he might browze among the briers & thorns + And with his brethren wear, + Horns. Horns. Horns. + + +My aunt told me the foregoing some time since & today I ask'd her leave +to insert it in my journal. My aunt gives her love to you & directs me +to tell you that she tho't my piece of linnin would have made me a dozen +of shifts but she could cut no more than ten out of it. There is some +left, but not enough for another. Nine of them are finish'd wash'd & +iron'd; & the other would have been long since done if my fingers had +not been sore. My cousin Sally made three of them for me, but then I +made two shirts & part of another for unkle to help her. I believe +unless something remarkable should happen, such as a _warm day_, my +mamma will consent that I dedicate a few of my next essays to papa. +I think the second thing I said to aunt this morning was, that I +intended to be _very good all day_. To make this out, + + "Next unto _God_, dear Parents I address + Myself to you in humble Thankfulness, + For all your Care & Charge on me bestow'd; + The means of Learning unto me allow'd, + Go on I pray, & let me still pursue + Those Golden ARTS the Vulgar never knew." + + Yr Dutifull Daughter + + ANNA GREEN WINSLOW. + +The poetry I transcrib'd from my Copy Book. + + +March 19.--Thursday last I spent at home, except a quarter of an hour +between sunset and dark, I stepped over the way to Mr. Glover's with +aunt. Yesterday I spent at Unkle Neddy's & stitched wristbands for aunt +Polly. By the way, I must inform you, (pray dont let papa see this) that +yesterday I put on No 1 of my new shifts, & indeed it is very +comfortable. It is _long_ since I had a shift to my _back_. I dont know +if I ever had till now--It seem'd so strange too, to have any linen +below my waist--I am going to dine at Mrs. Whitwell's to day, by +invitation. I spent last evening at Mrs Rogers. Mr Hunt discoursed upon +the doctrine of the Trinity--it was the second time that he spoke upon +the subject at that place. I did not hear him the first time. His +business last eve^g was to prove the divinity of the Son, & holy Ghost, +& their equality with the Father. My aunt Deming says, it is a grief to +her, that I don't always write as well as I can, _I can write pretily_. + + +March 21.--I din'd & spent the afternoon of Thursday last, at Mrs +Whitwell's. Mrs Lathrop, & Mrs Carpenter din'd there also. The latter +said she was formerly acquainted with mamma, ask'd how she did, & when I +heard from her,--said, I look'd much like her. Madam Harris & Miss +P. Vans were also of the company. While I was abroad the snow melted to +such a degree, that my aunt was oblig'd to get Mr Soley's chaise to +bring me home. Yesterday, we had by far the gratest storm of wind & snow +that there has been this winter. It began to fall yesterday morning & +continued falling till after our family were in bed. (P.M.) Mr. Hunt +call'd in to visit us just after we rose from diner; he ask'd me, +whether I had heard from my papa & mamma, since I wrote 'em. He was +answer'd, no sir, it would be strange if I had, because I had been +writing to 'em today, & indeed so I did every day. Aunt told him that +_his name_ went frequently into my journals together with broken & some +times whole sentences of his sermons, conversations &c. He laugh'd & +call'd me Newsmonger, & said I was a daily advertiser. He added, that he +did not doubt but my journals afforded much entertainment & would be a +future benefit &c. Here is a fine compliment for me mamma. + + +March 26.--Yesterday at 6 o'clock, I went to Unkle Winslow's, their +neighbor Greenleaf was their. She said she knew Mamma, & that I look +like her. Speaking about papa & you occation'd Unkle Winslow to tell me +that he had kiss'd you long before papa knew you. From thence we went to +Miss Rogers's where, to a full assembly Mr Bacon read his 3d sermon on +R. iv. 6, I can remember he said, that, before we all sinned in Adam our +father, Christ loved us. He said the Son of God always did as his father +gave him commandment, & to prove this, he said, that above 17 hundred +years ago he left the bosom of the Father, & came & took up his abode +with men, & bore all the scourgings & buffetings which the vile Jews +inflicted on him, & then was hung upon the accursed tree--he died, was +buried, & in three days rose again--ascended up to heaven & there took +his seat at the right hand of the Majesty on high from whence he will +come to be the supream and impartial judge of quick & dead--and when his +poor Mother & her poor husband went to Jerusalem to keep the passover & +he went with them, he disputed among the doctors, & when his Mother +ask'd him about it he said "wist ye not that I must be about my Father's +business,"--all this he said was a part of that wrighteousness for the +sake of which a sinner is justafied--Aunt has been up stairs all the +time I have been writeing & recollecting this--so no help from her. She +is come down now & I have been reading this over to her. She sais, she +is glad I remember so much, but I have not done the subject justice. She +sais I have blended things somewhat improperly--an interuption by +company. + + +March 28.--Unkle Harry was here last evening & inform'd us that by a +vessel from Halifax which arriv'd yesterday, Mr H Newton, inform'd his +brother Mr J Newton of the sudden death of their brother Hibbert in your +family 21 January ult. (Just five months to a day since Grandmamma +Sargent's death.) With all the circumstances relating to it. My aunt +Deming gives her love to Mamma & wishes her a sanctified improvement of +all God's dealings with her, & that it would please him to bring her & +all the family safe to Boston. Jarvis is put up for Cumberland, we hope +he will be there by or before Mayday. This minute I have receiv'd my +queen's night cap from Miss Caty Vans--we like it. Aunt says, that if +the materials it is made of were more substantial than gauze, it might +serve occationally to hold any thing mesur'd by an 1-2 peck, but it is +just as it should be, & very decent, & she wishes my writing was _as_ +decent. But I got into one of my frolicks, upon sight of the Cap. + + +April 1st.--Will you be offended mamma, if I ask you, if you remember +the flock of wild Geese that papa call'd you to see flying over the +Blacksmith's shop this day three years? I hope not; I only mean to +divert you. The snow is near gone in the street before us, & mud supplys +the place thereof; After a week's absence, I this day attended Master +Holbrook with some difficulty, what was last week a pond is to-day a +quag, thro' which I got safe however, & if aunt[A] had known it was so +bad, she sais she would not have sent me, but I neither wet my feet, nor +drabled my clothes, indeed I have but one garment that I could contrive +to drabble. + +N.B. It is 1 April. + +[Footnote A: Miss Green tells her aunt, that the word refer'd to begins +with a dipthong.] + + +April 3.--Yesterday was the annual Fast, & I was at meeting all day. Mr +Hunt preach'd A.M. from Zac. vii. 4, 5, 6, 7. He said, that if we did +not mean as we said in pray's it was only a compliment put upon God, +which was a high affront to his divine Majesty. Mr Bacon, P.M. from +James v. 17. He said, "pray's, effectual & fervent, might be, where +there were no words, but there might be elegant words where there is no +prayr's. The essence of pray's consists in offering up holy desires to +God agreeable to his will,--it is the flowing out of gracious +affections--what then are the pray'rs of an unrenewed heart that is full +of enmity to God? doubtless they are an abomination to him. What then, +must not unregenerate men pray? I answer, it is their duty to breathe +out holy desires to God in pray's. Prayer is a natural duty. Hannah +pour'd out her soul before the Lord, yet her voice was not heard, only +her lips moved. Some grieve and complain that their pray's are not +answered, but if _thy will be done is_, as it ought to be, in every +prayer; their prayers are answer'd." + +The wind was high at N.E. all day yesterday, but nothing fell from the +dark clouds that overspread the heavens, till 8 o'clock last evening, +when a snow began which has continued falling ever since. The bell being +now ringing for 1 o'clock P.M. & no sign of abatement. + +My aunt Deming says, that if my memory had been equal to the memory of +some of my ancestors, I might have done better justice to Mr. Bacon's +good sermon, & that if hers had been better than mine she would have +helped me. Mr Bacon _did_ say what is here recorded, but in other +method. + + +April 6.--I made a shift to walk to meeting yesterday morning. But there +was so much water in the streets when I came home from meeting that I +got a seat in Mr Waleses chaise. My aunt walk'd home & she sais thro' +more difaculty than ever she did in her life before. Indeed had the +stream get up from our meeting house as it did down, we might have taken +boat as we have talk'd some times of doing to cross the street to our +oposite neighbor _Soley's_ chaise. I remember some of Mr Hunts sermon, +how much will appear in my text journal. + + +April 7.--I visited yesterday P.M. with my aunt at Mr Waldron's. This +afternoon I am going with my aunt to visit Mrs Salisbury who is Dr +Sewall's granddaughter, I expect Miss Patty Waldow will meet me there. +It is but a little way & we can now thro' favour cross the street +without the help of a boat. I saw Miss Polly Vans this morning. She +gives her love to you. As she always does whenever I see her. Aunt +Deming is this minute come into the room, & from what her niece has +wrote last, takes the liberty to remind you, that Miss Vans is a sister +of the Old South Church, a society remarkable for Love. Aunt Deming is +sorry she has spoil'd the look of this page by her carelessness & hopes +her niece will mend its appearance in what follows. She wishes my +English had been better, but has not time to correct more than one word. + + +April 9.--We made the visit refer'd to above. The company was old Mrs +Salisbury,[60] Mrs Hill, (Mrs Salisbury's sister she was Miss Hannah +Sewall & is married to young Mr James Hill that us'd to live in this +house) Miss Sally Hill, Miss Polly Belcher Lyde, Miss Caty Sewall, My +Aunt & myself. Yesterday afternoon I visited Miss Polly Deming & took +her with me to Mr Rogers' in the evening where Mr Hunt discours'd upon +the 7th question of the catechism viz what are the decrees of God? +I remember a good many of his observations, which I have got set down on +a loose paper. But my aunt says that a Miss of 12 year's old cant +possibly do justice to the nicest subject in Divinity, & therefore had +better not attempt a repetition of perticulars, that she finds lie (as +may be easily concluded) somewhat confused in my young mind. She also +says, that in her poor judgment, Mr Hunt discours'd soundly as well as +ingeniously upon the subject, & very much to her instruction & +satisfaction. My Papa inform'd me in his last letter that he had done me +the honor to read my journals & that he approv'd of some part of them, +I suppose he means that he likes some parts better than other, indeed it +would be wonderful, as aunt says, if a gentleman of papa's understanding +& judgment cou'd be highly entertain'd with _every little_ saying or +observation that came from a girl of my years & that I ought to esteem +it a great favour that he notices any of my simple matter with his +_approbation_. + + +April 13th.--Yesterday I walk'd to meeting all day, the ground very +dry, & when I came home from meeting in the afternoon the Dust blew so +that it almost put my eyes out. What a difference in the space of a +week. I was just going out to writing school, but a slight rain +prevented so aunt says I must make up by writing well at home. Since I +have been writing the rain is turn'd to snow, which is now falling in a +thick shower. I have now before me, hon^d. Mamma, your favor dated +January 3. I am glad you alter'd your mind when you at first thought not +to write to me. I am glad my brother made an essay for a Post Script to +your Letter. I must get him to read it to me, when he comes up, for two +reasons, the one is because I may have the pleasure of hearing his +voice, the other because I don't understand his characters. I observe +that he is mamma's "Ducky Darling." I never again shall believe that Mrs +Huston will come up to Boston till I see her here. I shall be very glad +to see Mrs Law here & I have some hopes of it. Mr Gannett and the things +you sent by him we safely receiv'd before I got your Letter--you say +"you see I am still a great housekeeper," I think more so than when I +was with you. Truly I answer'd Mr Law's letter as soon as I found +opportunity therefor. I shall be very glad to see Miss Jenny here & I +wish she could live with me. I hope you will answer this "viva vosa" as +you say you intend to. Pray mamma who larnt you lattan? It now rains +fast, but the sun shines, & I am glad to see it, because if it continues +I am going abroad with aunt this afternoon. + + +April 14th.--I went a visiting yesterday to Col. Gridley's with my +aunt. After tea Miss Becky Gridley sung a minuet. Miss Polly Deming & I +danced to her musick, which when perform'd was approv'd of by Mrs +Gridley, Mrs Deming, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Avery,[61] Miss Sally Hill, Miss +Becky Gridley, Miss Polly Gridley & Miss Sally Winslow. Col^n Gridley +was out o' the room. Col^n brought in the talk of Whigs & Tories & +taught me the difference between them. I spent last evening at home. +I should have gone a visiting to day in sudbury street, but Unkle Harry +told me last night that they would be full of company. I had the +pleasure of hearing by him, that they were all well. I believe I shall +go somewhere this afternoon for I have acquaintances enough that would +be very glad to see me, as well as my sudbury street friends. + + +April 15th.--Yesterday I din'd at Mrs. Whitwell's & she being going +abroad, I spent the afternoon at Mad^m Harris's & the evening at home, +Unkle Harry gave us his company some part of it. I am going to Aunt +Storer's as soon as writing school is done. I shall dine with her, if +she is not engaged. It is a long time since I was there, & indeed it is +a long time since I have been able to get there. For tho' the walking +has been pretty tolerable at the South End, it has been intolerable down +in town. And indeed till yesterday, it has been such bad walking, that I +could not get there on my feet. If she had wanted much to have seen me, +she might have sent either one of her chaises, her chariot, or her +babyhutt,[62] one of which I see going by the door almost every day. + + +April 16th.--I dined with Aunt Storer yesterday & spent the afternoon +very agreeably at Aunt Suky's. Aunt Storer is not very well, but she +drank tea with us, & went down to Mr Stillman's lecture in the evening. +I spent the evening with Unkle & Aunt at Mrs Rogers's. Mr Bacon preach'd +his fourth sermon from Romans iv. 6. My cousin Charles Storer lent me +Gulliver's Travels abreviated, which aunt says I may read for the sake +of perfecting myself in reading a variety of composures. she sais +farther that the piece was desin'd as a burlesque upon the times in +which it was wrote,--& Martimas Scriblensis & Pope Dunciad were wrote +with the same design & as parts of the same work, tho' wrote by three +several hands. + + +April 17th.--You see, Mamma, I comply with your orders (or at least +have done father's some time past) of writing in my journal every day +tho' my matters are of little importance & I have nothing at present to +communicate except that I spent yesterday afternoon & evening at Mr +Soley's. The day was very rainy. I hope I shall at least learn to spell +the word _yesterday_, it having occur'd so frequently in these pages! +(The bell is ringing for good friday.) Last evening aunt had a letter +from Unkle Pierce, he informs her, that last Lords day morning Mrs +Martin was deliver'd of a daughter. She had been siezed the Monday +before with a violent pluritick fever, which continued when my Unkle's +letter was dated 13th instant. My Aunt Deming is affraid that poor Mrs +Martin is no more. She hopes she is reconcil'd to her father--but is +affraid whether that was so--She had try'd what was to be done that way +on her late visits to Portsmouth, & found my unkle was placably +dispos'd, poor Mrs Martin, she could not then be brought to make any +acknowledgements as she ought to have done. + + +April 18th.--Some time since I exchang'd a piece of patchwork, which +had been wrought in my leisure intervals, with Miss Peggy Phillips,[63] +my schoolmate, for a pair of curious lace mitts with blue flaps which I +shall send, with a yard of white ribbin edg'd with green to Miss Nancy +Macky for a present. I had intended that the patchwork should have grown +large enough to have cover'd a bed when that same live stock which you +wrote me about some time since, should be increas'd to that portion you +intend to bestow upon me, should a certain event take place. I have just +now finish'd my Letter to Papa. I had wrote to my other correspondents +at Cumberland, some time ago, all which with this I wish safe to your & +their hand. I have been carefull not to repeat in my journal any thing +that I had wrote in a Letter either to papa, you, &c. Else I should have +inform'd you of some of Bet Smith's abominations with the deserv'd +punishment she is soon to meet with. But I have wrote it to papa, so +need not repeat. I guess when this reaches you, you will be too much +engag'd in preparing to quit your present habitation, & will have too +much upon your head & hands, to pay much attention to this scrowl. But +it may be an amusement to you on your voyage--therefore I send it. + +Pray mamma, be so kind as to bring up all my journal with you. My Papa +has promised me, he will bring up my baby house with him. I shall send +you a droll figure of a young lady,[64] in or under, which you please, +a tasty head Dress. It was taken from a print that came over in one of +the last ships from London. After you have sufficiently amused yourself +with it I am willing . . . + + +Boston April 20, 1772.--Last Saterday I seal'd up 45 pages of Journal +for Cumberland. This is a very stormy day--no going to school. I am +learning to knit lace. + + +April 21.--Visited at uncle Joshua Green's. I saw three funerals from +their window, poor Cap^n Turner's was one. + + +April 22d.--I spent this evening at Miss Rogers as usual. Mr. Hunt +continued his discourse upon the 7th question of the catechism & +finish'd what he had to say upon it. + + +April 23d.--This morn^g early our Mr Bacon set out upon a tour to +Maryland, he proposed to be absent 8 weeks. He told the Church that +brother Hunt would supply the pulpit till his return. I made a visit +this afternoon with cousin Sally at Dr. Phillip's. + + +April 24th.--I drank tea at Aunt Suky's. Aunt Storer was there, she +seemed to be in charming good health & spirits. My cousin Charles Green +seems to grow a little fat pritty boy but he is very light. My aunt +Storer lent me 3 of cousin Charles' books to read, viz.--The puzzeling +cap, the female Oraters & the history of Gaffer too-shoes.[65] + + +April 25th.--I learn't three stitches upon net work to-day. + + +April 27th.--I din'd at Aunt Storer's & spent the P.M. at aunt Suky's. + + +April 28th.--This P.M. I am visited by Miss Glover, Miss Draper & Miss +Soley. My aunt abroad. + + +April 29th.--Tomorrow, if the weather be good, I am to set out for +Marshfield. + + + [Illustration: MRS. EBENEZER STORER] + + +May 11.--The morning after I wrote above, I sat out for Marshfield. +I had the pleasure of drinking tea with aunt Thomas the same day, the +family all well, but Mr G who seems to be near the end of the journey of +life. I visited General Winslow[66] & his son, the Dr., spent 8 days +very agreeably with my friends at Marshfield, & returned on saterday +last in good health & gay spirits which I still enjoy. The 2 first days +I was at Marshfield, the heat was extream & uncommon for the season. It +ended on saterday evening with a great thunder storm. The air has been +very cool ever since. My aunt Deming observ'd a great deal of lightning +in the south, but there was neither thunder, rain nor clouds in Boston. + + +May 16.--Last Wednesday Bet Smith was set upon the gallows. She behav'd +with great impudence. Thursday I danc'd a minuet & country dances at +school, after which I drank tea with aunt Storer. To day I am somewhat +out of sorts, a little sick at my stomach. + + +23d.--I followed my schools every day this week, thursday I din'd at +aunt Storer's & spent the P.M. there. + + +25.--I was not at meeting yesterday, Unkle & Aunt say they had very good +Fish at the O.S. I have got very sore eyes. + + +June 1st.--All last week till saterday was very cold & rainy. Aunt +Deming kept me within doors, there were no schools on account of the +Election of Councellers,[67] & other public doings; with one eye (for +t'other was bound up) I saw the governer & his train of life guard &c. +ride by in state to Cambridge. I form'd Letters last week to suit cousin +Sally & aunt Thomas, but my eyes were so bad aunt would not let me coppy +but one of them. Monday being Artillery Election[68] I went to see the +hall, din'd at aunt Storer's, took a walk in the P.M. Unkle laid down +the commission he took up last year. Mr Handcock invited the whole +company into his house in the afternoon & treated them very genteelly & +generously, with cake, wine, &c. There were 10 corn baskets of the feast +(at the Hall) sent to the prison & almshouse. + + +4th.--From June 1 when I wrote last there has nothing extraordinary +happen'd till today the whole regiment muster'd upon the common. Mr +Gannett, aunt & myself went up into the common, & there saw Cap^t +Water's, Cap^t Paddock's, Cap^t Peirce's, Cap^t Eliot's, Cap^t Barret's, +Cap^t Gay's, Cap^t May's, Cap^t Borington's & Cap^t Stimpson's company's +exercise. From there, we went into King street to Col Marshal's[69] +where we saw all of them prettily exercise & fire. Mr. Gannett din'd +with us. On Sabbath-day evening 7 June My Hon^d Papa, Mamma, little +Brother, cousin H. D. Thomas, Miss Jenny Allen, & Mrs Huston arriv'd +here from Cumberland, all in good health, to the great joy of all their +friends, myself in particular--they sail'd from Cumberland the 1st +instant, in the evening. + + +Aug. 18.--Many avocations have prevented my keeping my journal so +exactly as heretofore, by which means a pleasant visit to the peacock, +my Papa's & mamma's journey to Marshfield &c. have been omitted. The 6 +instant Mr Sam^l Jarvis was married to Miss Suky Peirce, & on the 13th I +made her a visit in company with mamma & many others. The bride was +dress'd in a white satin night gound.[70] + + +27.--Yesterday I heard an account of a cat of 17 years old, that has +just recovered of the meazels. This same cat it is said had the small +pox 8 years ago! + + +28.--I spent the P.M. & eve at aunt Suky's very agreeably with aunt +Pierce's young ladies viz. Miss Johnson, Miss Walker, Miss Polly & Miss +Betsey Warton, (of Newport) Miss Betsey is just a fortnight wanting 1 +day older than I am, who I became acquainted with that P.M. Papa, Mamma, +Unkle & aunt Storer, Aunt Pierce & Mr & Mrs Jarvis was there. There were +18 at supper besides a great many did not eat any. Mrs Jarvis sang after +supper. My brother Johny has got over the measels. + + +Sept. 1.--Last evening after meeting, Mrs Bacon was brought to bed of a +fine daughter. But was very ill. She had fits. + + +September 7.--Yesterday afternoon Mr Bacon baptiz'd his daughter by the +name of Elizabeth Lewis. It is a pretty looking child. Mrs Whitwell is +like to loose her Henry Harris. He is very ill. + + +8.--I visited with mamma at cousin Rogers'. There was a good many. + + +14.--Very busy all day, went into the common in the afternoon to see +training. It was very prettyly perform'd. + + +18.--My Papa, aunt Deming, cousin Rogers, & Miss Betsey Gould set out +for Portsmouth. I went over to Charlestown with them, after they were +gone, I came back, & rode up from the ferry in Mrs Rogers' chaise; it +drop'd me at Unkle Storer's gate, where I spent the day. My brother was +very sick. + + +Sep^r 17. 18.--Spent the days at aunt Storer's, the nights at home. + + +19.--Went down in the morn^g & spent the day & night there. My brother +better than he was. + + +20.--Sabbath day. I went to hear Mr Stilman[71] all day, I like him very +much. I don't wonder so many go to hear him. + + +21st.--Mr. Sawyer, Mr Parks, & Mrs Chatbourn, din'd at aunt Storer's. +I went to dancing in the afternoon. Miss Winslow & Miss Allen visited +there. + + +22d.--The king's coronation day. In the evening I went with mamma to +Col^n Marshal's in King Street to see the fireworks. + + +23d.--I din'd at aunt Suky's with Mr & Mrs Hooper[72] of Marblehead. In +the afternoon I went over to see Miss Betsy Winslow. When I came back I +had the pleasure to meet papa. I came home in the evening to see aunt +Deming. Unkle Winslow sup'd here. + + +24.--Papa cal'd here in the morn^g. Nothing else worth noticeing. + + +25.--Very pleasant. Unkle Ned cal'd here. Little Henry Harris was buried +this afternoon. + + +26. 27.--Nothing extraordinary yesterday & to day. + + +28.--My papa & unkle Winslow spent the evening here. + + +29. 30.--Very stormy. Miss Winslow & I read out the Generous Inconstant, +& have begun Sir Charles Grandison. . . . + + +May 25.--Nothing remarkable since the preceding date. Whenever I have +omited a school my aunt has directed me to sit it down here, so when you +dont see a memorandum of that kind, you may conclude that I have paid my +compliments to mess^rs Holbrook & Turner (to the former you see to +very little purpose) & mrs Smith as usual. The Miss Waldow's I mentioned +in a former are Mr. Danl Waldo's daughters (very pretty misses) their +mamma was Miss Becca Salisbury.[73] After making a short visit with my +Aunt at Mrs Green's, over the way, yesterday towards evening, I took a +walk with cousin Sally to see the good folks in Sudbury Street, & found +them all well. I had my HEDDUS roll on, aunt Storer said it ought to be +made less, Aunt Deming said it ought not to be made at all. It makes my +head itch, & ach, & burn like anything Mamma. This famous roll is not +made _wholly_ of a red _Cow Tail_, but is a mixture of that, & horsehair +(very course) & a little human hair of yellow hue, that I suppose was +taken out of the back part of an old wig. But D---- made it (our head) +all carded together and twisted up. When it first came home, aunt put it +on, & my new cap on it, she then took up her apron & mesur'd me, & from +the roots of my hair on my forehead to the top of my notions, I mesur'd +above an inch longer than I did downwards from the roots of my hair to +the end of my chin. Nothing renders a young person more amiable than +virtue & modesty without the help of fals hair, red _Cow tail_, or D---- +(the barber).[74] Now all this mamma, I have just been reading over to +my aunt. She is pleas'd with my whimsical description & grave (half +grave) improvement, & hopes a little fals English will not spoil the +whole with Mamma. Rome was not built in a day. + + +31st May.--Monday last I was at the factory to see a piece of cloth +cousin Sally spun for a summer coat for unkle. After viewing the work we +recollected the room we sat down in was Libberty Assembly Hall, +otherwise called factory hall, so Miss Gridley & I did ourselves the +Honour of dancing a minuet in it. On tuesday I made Mrs Smith my morning +& p.m. visits as usual, neither Mr. Holbrook nor Turner have any school +this week, nor till tuesday next. I spent yesterday with my friends in +sudbury St. Cousin Frank has got a fever, aunt Storer took an emmetick +while I was there, cousin Betsy had violent pains almost all the +forenoon. Last tuesday Miss Ursula Griswold, daughter of the right Hon. +Matthew Griswold Esq governer of one of his Majesty's provinces, was +made one of our family, & I have the honor of being her chambermade. +I have just been reading over what I wrote to the company present, & +have got myself laughed at for my ignorance. It seems I should have said +the daughter of the Hon Lieu^t. Governor of Connecticutt. Mrs Dixon +lodg'd at Capn Mitchell's. She is gone to Connecticutt long since. + + +31 May.--I spent the afternoon at unkle Joshua's. yesterday, after tea I +went to see how aunt Storer did. I found her well at Unkle Frank's. Mr +Gerrish & wife of Halifax I had the pleasure to meet there, the latter +sends love to you. Indeed Mamma, till I receiv'd your last favour, +I never heard a word about the little basket &c. which I sent to brother +Johny last fall. I suppose Harry had so much to write about cotton, that +he forgot what was of more consequence. Dear Mamma, what name has Mr +Bent given his Son? something like Nehemiah, or Jehoshaphat, I suppose, +it must be an odd name (our head indeed, Mamma.) Aunt says she hopes it +a'nt Baal Gad, & she also says that I am a little simpleton for making +my note within the brackets above, because, when I omit to do it, Mamma +will think I have the help of somebody else's head but, N.B. for herself +she utterly disclames having either her head or hand concern'd in this +curious journal, except where the writing makes it manifest. So much for +this matter. + + + [Illustration: CUT-PAPER PICTURE] + + + + + NOTES. + + + NOTE 1. + + Aunt Deming was Sarah, the oldest child of John Winslow and Sarah + Peirce, and therefore sister of Joshua Winslow, Anna Green Winslow's + father. She was born August 2, 1722, died March 10, 1788. She + married John West, and after his death married, on February 27, + 1752, John Deming. He was a respectable and intelligent Boston + citizen, but not a wealthy man. He was an ensign in the Ancient and + Honorable Artillery in 1771, and a deacon of the Old South Church in + 1769, both of which offices were patents of nobility in provincial + Boston. They lived in Central Court, leading out of Washington + Street, just south of Summer Street. Aunt Deming eked out a limited + income in a manner dear to Boston gentlewomen in those and in later + days; she took young ladies to board while they attended Boston + schools. Advertisements in colonial newspapers of "Board and + half-board for young ladies" were not rare, and many good old New + England names are seen in these advertisements. Aunt Deming was a + woman of much judgment, as is shown in the pages of this diary; of + much power of graphic description, as is proved by a short journal + written for her niece, Sally Coverly, and letters of hers which are + still preserved. She died childless. + + + NOTE 2. + + Cumberland was the home in Nova Scotia of Anna Green Winslow's + parents, where her father held the position of commissary to the + British regiments stationed there. George Green, Anna's uncle, + writing to Joseph Green, at Paramaribo, on July 23, 1770, said: "Mr. + Winslow & wife still remain at Cumberland, have one son & one + daughter, the last now at Boston for schooling, &c." So, at the date + of the first entry in the diary, Anna had been in Boston probably + about a year and a half. + + + NOTE 3. + + Anna Green Winslow had doubtless heard much talk about this Rev. + John Bacon, the new minister at the Old South Church, for much had + been said about him in the weekly press: whether he should have an + ordination dinner or not, and he did not; accounts of his + ordination; and then notice of the sale of his sermons in the + _Boston Gazette_. + + All Mr. Bacon's parishioners did not share Anna's liking for him; he + found himself at the Old South in sorely troubled waters. He made a + most unpropitious and trying entrance at best, through succeeding + the beloved Joseph Sewall, who had preached to Old South listeners + for fifty-six years. He came to town a stranger. When, a month + later, Governor Hutchinson issued his annual Thanksgiving + Proclamation, there was placed therein an "exceptionable clause" + that was very offensive to Boston patriots, relating to the + continuance of civil and religious liberties. It had always been the + custom to have the Proclamation read by the ministers in the Boston + churches for the two Sundays previous to Thanksgiving Day, but the + ruling governor very cannily managed to get two Boston clergymen to + read his proclamation the third Sunday before the appointed day, + when all the church members, being unsuspectingly present, had to + listen to the unwelcome words. One of these clerical instruments of + gubernatorial diplomacy and craft was John Bacon. Samuel Adams wrote + bitterly of him, saying, "He performed this servile task a week + before the time, when the people were not aware of it." The _Boston + Gazette_ of November 11 commented severely on Mr. Bacon's action, + and many of his congregation were disgusted with him, and remained + after the service to talk the Proclamation and their unfortunate new + minister over. + + It might have been offered, one might think, as some excuse, that he + had so recently come from Maryland, and was probably unacquainted + with the intenseness of Massachusetts politics; and that he had also + been a somewhat busy and preoccupied man during his six weeks' + presence in Boston, for he had been marrying a wife,--or rather a + widow. In the _Boston Evening Post_ of November 11, 1771, I read + this notice: "Married, the Rev'd John Bacon to Mrs. Elizabeth + Cummings, daughter of Ezekiel Goldthwait, Esq." + + He retained his pastorate, however, in spite of his early mistake, + through anxious tea-party excitement and forlorn war-threatened + days, till 1775, with but scant popularity and slight happiness, + with bitter differences of opinion with his people over atonement + and imputation, and that ever-present stumbling-block to New England + divines,--baptism under the Half Covenant,--till he was asked to + resign. + + Nor did he get on over smoothly with his fellow minister, John Hunt. + In a curious poem of the day, called "Boston Ministers" (which is + reprinted in the _New England Historical and Genealogical Register_ + of April, 1859), these verses appear:-- + + At Old South there's a jarring pair, + If I am not mistaken, + One may descry with half an eye + That Hunt is far from Bacon. + Wise Hunt can trace out means of grace + As leading to conversion, + But Hopkins scheme is Bacons theme, + And strange is his assertion. + + It mattered little, however, that Parson Bacon had to leave the Old + South, for that was soon no longer a church, but a riding school for + the British troops. + + Mr. Bacon retired, after his dismissal, to Canterbury, Conn., his + birthplace. His friendly intimacy with Mrs. Deming proved of value + to her, for when she left Boston, in April, 1775, at the time of the + closing of the city gates, she met Mr. Bacon in Providence. She says + in her journal:-- + + "Towards evening Mr & M^rs Bacon, with their daughter, came into + town. M^r Bacon came to see me. Enquir'd into my designs, &c. I told + him truely I did not know what to do. That I had thot of giting + farther into the country. Of trying to place Sally in some family + where she might earn her board, & to do something like it for + Lucinda, or put her out upon wages. That when I left the plain I had + some faint hope I might hear from Mr Deming while I continued at + Providence, but that I had little of that hope remaining. M^r Bacon + advised me to go into Connecticutt, the very thing I was desirous + of. Mr Bacon sd that he would advise me for the present to go to + Canterbury, his native place. That he would give me a Letter to his + Sister, who would receive me kindly & treat me tenderly, & that he + would follow me there in a few days." + + This advice Mrs. Deming took, and made Canterbury her temporary + home. + + Mr. Bacon did not again take charge of a parish. After the + Revolution he became a magistrate, went to the legislature, became + judge of the court of common pleas, and a member of congress. He did + not wholly give up his disputatious ways, if we can judge from the + books written by and to him, one of the latter being, "A Droll, + a Deist, and a John Bacon, Master of Arts, Gently Reprimanded." + + His wife, who was born in 1733, and died in Stockbridge in 1821, was + the daughter of Ezekiel Goldthwait, a Tory citizen of Boston, + a register of deeds, and a wealthy merchant. A portrait of Mrs. + Bacon, painted by Copley, is remarkable for its brilliant eyes and + beautiful hands and arms. + + + NOTE 4. + + Rev. John Hunt was born in Northampton, November 20, 1744. He was a + Harvard graduate in the class of 1764, a classmate of Caleb Strong + and John Scollay. He was installed colleague-pastor of the Old South + Church with John Bacon in 1771. He found it a most trying position. + He was of an amiable and gentle disposition, and the poem on "Boston + Ministers" asserted that he "most friends with sisters made." + Another Boston rhymester called him "puny John from Northampton, + a meek-mouth moderate man." When the gates of Boston were closed in + 1775, after the battle of Lexington, he returned to Northampton, and + died there of consumption, December 20, 1775. A full account of his + life is given in _Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit_. See also + Note 3. + + + NOTE 5. + + "Unkle and Aunt Winslow" were Mr. and Mrs. John Winslow. He was the + brother of Joshua Winslow, was born March, 1725-26, died September + 29, 1773, in Boston. He was married, on March 12, 1752, to Elizabeth + Mason (born September, 1723, died January, 1780). They had five + children: I. Gen. John Winslow, born September 26, 1753, married Ann + Gardner, May 21, 1782, died November 29, 1819. II. Sarah, born April + 12, 1755, married Deacon Samuel Coverly, of Boston, on November 27, + 1787, died April 3, 1804. See Note 13. III. Henry, born January 11, + 1757, died October 13, 1766. IV. Elizabeth, born November 28, 1759, + died September 8, 1760. V. Elizabeth, born September 14, 1760, + married John Holland, died November 21, 1795. + + Gen. John Winslow was the favorite nephew of Joshua Winslow and of + his wife, and largely inherited their property. He remained in + Boston through the siege, and preserved the communion plate of the + Old South Church by burying it in his uncle Mason's cellar. He was + an ardent patriot, and it is said that his uncle Joshua threatened + to hang him if he caught him during the Revolutionary War. The + nephew answered, "No catchee--no hangee, Uncle;" but did have the + contrary fortune of capturing the uncle, whom he released on parole. + He was the sixth signer and first treasurer of the Society of the + Cincinnati. General Winslow's daughter, Mary Ann Winslow, born in + 1790, lived till 1882, and from her were obtained many of the facts + given in these notes. + + + NOTE 6. + + Miss Soley was Hannah Soley, daughter of John Soley and Hannah + Carey, who were married October 11, 1759. Hannah Soley was born June + 5, 1762, and married W. G. McCarty. + + + NOTE 7. + + William and Samuel Whitwell and their families were members of the + Old South Church, and all were friends of the Winslows and Demings. + William Whitwell was born September 3, 1714, died April 10, 1795. + He was a prosperous merchant, an estimable and useful citizen, and + church member. His first wife was Rebecca Keayne, his second + Elizabeth Scott (or Swett), who died May 13, 1771; his third, the + widow of Royal Tyler. The Mrs. Whitwell here referred to must have + been Mrs. Samuel Whitwell, for William Whitwell just at that + interval was a widower. Samuel Whitwell was born December 17, O.S. + 1717, died June 8, 1801. His first wife was Elizabeth Kelsey; his + second, Sarah Wood; his third, Mary Smith. + + + NOTE 8. + + Polly Deming was a niece of John Deming. + + + NOTE 9. + + Miss Polly Glover was Mary Glover, born in Boston, October 12, 1758, + baptized at the Old South Church, married to Deacon James Morrell, + of the Old South, on April 23, 1778, and died April 3, 1842. She was + the daughter of Nathaniel Glover (who was born May 16, 1704, in + Dorchester; died December, 1773), and his wife, Anne Simpson. They + were married in 1750. Nathaniel Glover was a graduate of Harvard, + and a wealthy man; partner first of Thomas Hancock, and then of John + Hancock. + + + NOTE 10. + + Miss Bessy Winslow was Elizabeth, Anna's cousin, who was then about + ten years old. See Note 5. + + + NOTE 11. + + Miss Nancy or Anne Glover was Mary Glover's sister. See Note 9. She + was born in Boston, March 28, 1753, baptized in the Old South + Church, died in Roxbury, August, 1797. She married Samuel Whitwell, + Jr., son of Samuel Whitwell, a prominent Boston merchant. See Note + 7. + + + NOTE 12. + + Miss Sally Winslow was Sarah, daughter of John Winslow (see Note 5), + and was, therefore, Anna's cousin. She was born April 12, 1755, died + April 3, 1804. She married, November 27, 1787, Samuel Coverly, + deacon of the Old South Church. She was the Sally Coverly for whom + Mrs. Deming's journal was written. Several of Sally Coverly's + letters still exist, and are models of elegant penmanship and + correct spelling, and redound to the credit of her writing teacher, + Master Holbrook. All the d's and y's and t's end with elaborately + twisted little curls. A careful margin of an inch is left on every + side. The letters speak so plainly of the formal honor and respect + paid by all well-bred persons of the day to their elders, even + though familiar kinsfolk, that I quote one, which contains much + family news:-- + + BOSTON, Feb. 17th, 1780. + + I thank you my dear Aunt for your kind Epistles of April 9th & Nov'r + 10th, the kind interestedness you yet continue to take in my concerns + merits the warmest returns of Gratitude. + + The Particular circumstances you wish to know I shall with pleasure + inform you of--Mr. Coverly is the youngest son of a Worthy Citizen + late of this town but his Parents are now no more. His age is + thirty-five. His Occupation a Shopkeeper who imports his own goods. + And if you should wish to know who of your acquaintance he + resembles, Madam, I would answer He has been taken for our Minister + Mr Eckley, by whom we were married in my Aunt Demings sick chamber + the 27th of Nov'r last twelve months since. He has two Brothers who + both reside in town. I have been remarkably favor'd the last year as + to my health & we are blest likewise with a fine little Daughter + between 4 & 5 months old, very healthy, which we have named + Elizabeth for its Grandmamas and an Aunt of each side. My Brother + call'd today & inform'd me that M^r Powell intended setting out + tomorrow for Quebeck & left a Letter for you which I shall send with + this. He is almost if not quite as big as my uncle was last time I + saw him--he was well & his family, he has three sons, the youngest + about eleven months old, he has buried one. + + In your last you mention both my Uncle & yourself as not enjoying so + great a share of health. I hope by this time you have each regain'd + that blessing more perfectly. Be pleased with him My Dear Aunt to + accept My Duty in which Mr Coverly joins me. + + My Sister was very well last week & her son John who is a fine child + about 3 months old. Capt. Holland has purchas'd a house near fort + hill which has remov'd her to a greater distance from me. She is now + gone to the West-indies, she is connected in a family that are all + very fond of her. We expect soon to remove. M^r Coverly has taken a + lease of a house for some years belonging to M^r John Amory, you + will please to direct your next for us in Cornhill N^o 10, I shall + have the pleasure of your friend M^rs Whitwell for my next neighbor + there. I had not the pleasure of seeing M^r Freeman whiles here + altho' I expected it, as his brother promis'd to wait on him here. + + In one of your kind Epistles, Madam, you mention'd some of your + Movables which you would wish me to take possession of which were at + my Uncle Demings. The Memorandum you did not send me & my Uncle + Deming has none nor knows of any thing but a great wheel. + + He is now maried to the Widow Sebry who is very much lik'd and + appears to be a Gentlewoman, they were very well today. My Aunt + Mason was to see me a few weeks since with M^rs Coburn M^rs Scolly & + Miss Becky Scolly from Middleborough. M^rs Scolly has since married + her youngest daughter to M^r Prentice, Minister of Medfield. + + Please to give my Love to Cousin Sally Deming if she is yet with you + I hope she has regain'd her usual health. I should be very glad to + be inform'd how her Mamma is & where & her family. + + Be pleased to continue your Indulgence, as your Epistles My Dear + Aunt will at all times be most gratefully receiv'd by + + Y^r Oblidg'd Niece + + Sarah Coverly. + + + NOTE 13. + + Josiah Waters, Jr., was the son of Josiah and Abigail Dawes Waters. + The latter lived to be ninety-five years old. Josiah Sr. was a + captain in the Artillery Company in 1769, and Josiah Jr. in 1791. + The latter married, on March 14, 1771, Mary, daughter of William and + Elizabeth Whitwell. See Note 7. Their child, Josiah Waters, tertius, + born December 29, 1771, lived till August 4, 1818. He was a Latin + School boy, and in the class with Josiah Quincy at Harvard. + + + NOTE 14. + + The life of this slave-girl Lucinda was a fair example of the gentle + form of slavery which existed till this century in our New England + States. From an old paper written by a daughter of Gen. John + Winslow, I quote her description of this girl:-- + + "Lucinda was born in Africa and purchased by M^rs Deming when she + was about seven years of age. She was cherished with care and + affection by the family, and at Mrs. Demings death was 'given her + freedom.' From that time she chose to make her home with 'Master + John' (the late Gen. John Winslow, of Boston), a nephew of M^rs + Demings--at his house she died after some years. The friends of the + Winslow family attended her funeral; her pastor the Rev D^r Eckley + of the Old South and Gen. W. walking next the hearse as chief + mourners. A few articles belonging to her are preserved in the + family as memorials of one who was a beloved member of the household + in the olden time." + + Lucinda figures in Mrs. Deming's account of her escape from besieged + Boston in 1775, and was treated with as much consideration as was + Sally, the niece; for her mistress remained behind for a time at + Wrentham; rather than to allow Lucinda to ride outside the coach in + the rain. + + In a letter written by Sally Coverly, August 6, 1795, to Mrs. Joshua + Winslow, at Quebec, she says: "You enquire about Lucinda, she is + very much gratified by it. She has lived with my Brother this ten + years and is very good help in their family." + + + NOTE 15. + + The "Miss Sheafs" were Nancy and Mary Sheaffe, youngest daughters of + William Sheaffe, who had recently died, leaving a family of four + sons and six daughters. He had been deputy collector of customs + under Joseph Harrison, the last royal collector of the port. He left + his family penniless, and a small shop was stocked by friends for + Mrs Sheaffe. I have often seen her advertisements in Boston + newspapers. + + Mrs. Sheaffe was Susanna Child, daughter of Thomas Child, an + Englishman, one of the founders of Trinity Church. She lived till + 1811. The ten children grew up to fill dignified positions in life. + One son was Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe. Susanna, at the age of fifteen, + made a most romantic runaway match with an English officer, Capt. + Ponsonby Molesworth. Margaret married John R. Livingstone; she was a + great beauty. Lafayette, on his return to France, sent her a satin + cardinal lined with ermine, and an elegant gown. Helen married James + Lovell. (See Note 52.) Nancy, or Anne Sheaffe, married, in + September, 1786, John Erving, Jr., a nephew of Governor Shirley, and + died young, leaving three children,--Maria, Frances, and Major John + Erving. Mary married Benj. Cutler, high sheriff of Boston, and died + December 8, 1784, leaving no children. These Sheaffes were nearly + all buried in the Child tomb in Trinity Church. + + + NOTE 16. + + Governor Matthew Griswold was born March 25, 1714, died April 28, + 1799. He married, on Nov. 10, 1743, his second cousin, Ursula + Wolcott, daughter of Gov. Roger Wolcott. A very amusing story is + told of their courtship. Governor Griswold in early life wished to + marry a young lady in Durham, Conn. She was in love with a + physician, whom she hoped would propose to her, and in the mean time + was unwilling to give up her hold upon her assured lover. At last + the governor, tired of being held in an uncertainty, pressed her for + a definite answer. She pleaded that she wished for more time, when + he rose with dignity and answered her, "I will give you a lifetime." + This experience made him extremely shy, and when thrown with his + cousin Ursula he made no advance towards love-making. At last when + she was nineteen and he ten years older she began asking him on + every occasion, "What did you say, Cousin Matthew?" and he would + answer her quietly, "Nothing." At last she asked him impatiently, + "What did you say, Cousin Matthew?" and when he answered again + "Nothing," she replied sharply, "Well, it's time you did,"--and _he + did_. + + Their daughter Ursula, the visitor at Mrs. Deming's, was born April + 13, 1754, and was a great beauty. She married, in November 22, 1777, + her third cousin, Lynde McCurdy, of Norwich, Conn. + + + NOTE 17. + + "Unkle Joshua" was Joshua Green, born in Boston, May 17, 1731, + "Monday 1/2 past 9 oclock in the morn^g" and died in Wendell, Mass., + on September 2, 1811. He attended the Boston Latin School in 1738, + and was in the class of 1749 at Harvard. He married, as did his + brother and sister, a Storer--Hannah, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary + Edwards Storer--on October 7, 1762. After his marriage he lived in + Court Street, the third house south of Hanover Street. His wife + Hannah was for many years before and after her marriage--as was her + mother--the intimate friend and correspondent of Abigail Adams, wife + of John Adams. Some of their letters may be found in the _Account of + Percival and Ellen Green and Some of their Descendants_, written by + Hon. Samuel Abbott Green, who is a great-grandson of Joshua and + Hannah Green. + + + NOTE 18. + + Madam Storer was Mary Edwards Storer, the widow of Ebenezer Storer, + a Boston merchant. She was the mother of Anna's uncle Ebenezer + Storer, of her aunt Hannah Storer Green, and of her aunt Mary Storer + Green. See Notes 19, 32, 59. + + + NOTE 19. + + Miss Caty Vans was the granddaughter of Hugh Vans, a merchant of + Boston, who became a member of the Old South Church in 1728. He was + born in Ayr, Scotland, in 1699. He married Mary Pemberton, daughter + of Rev. Ebenezer Pemberton, and died in Boston in 1763. They had + four sons, John, Ebenezer, Samuel, and William. One of the first + three was the father of Caty Vans, who was born January 18, 1770. + There are frequent references to her throughout the diary, but I + know nothing of her life. William Vans married Mary Clarke, of + Salem, and had one son, William, and one daughter, Rebecca, who + married Captain Jonathan Carnes. The Vans family Bible is in the + library of the Essex Institute. + + + NOTE 20. + + In the cordial hatred of the Puritans for Christmas Anna heartily + joined. It was not till this century that in New England cheerful + merriment and the universal exchange of gifts marked the day as a + real holiday. + + + NOTE 21. + + "Aunt Sukey" was Susanna Green, born July 26, 1744, died November + 10, 1775. She married, on October 18, 1769, her cousin, Francis + Green. The little child Charles, of whom Anna writes, proved to be a + deaf-mute, and was drowned near Halifax in 1787. Francis Green had + two deaf-mute children by a second wife, and became prominent + afterwards in Massachusetts for his interest in and promotion of + methods in instructing the deaf. In a letter of George Green's, + dated Boston, July 23, 1770, we read: "Frank Green was married to + Sukey in October last and they live next house to Mrs Storers." From + another, dated December 5, 1770: "Frank keeps a ship going between + here & London, but I believe understands little of the matter, + having never been bred to business wch was one great objection with + my father to his courting Sukey." I think he must have developed + into a capable business man, for I have frequently seen his business + advertisements in Boston newspapers of his day. Anna's mother + bequeathed seven hundred and fifty dollars to Francis Green in her + will. He was a man universally esteemed in the community. + + + NOTE 22. + + Dr. Samuel Cooper was born March 28, 1725; died December 29, 1783. + He graduated at Harvard in 1743, and became pastor of the Brattle + Street Congregational Church, of Boston. He was a brilliant + preacher, an ardent patriot, the intimate friend of John Adams and + Benjamin Franklin, and a very handsome man. + + + NOTE 23. + + Master Holbrook was Samuel Holbrook, Anna's writing-master, one of a + highly honored family of Boston writing teachers. Perhaps the best + known of this family was Abiah Holbrook. In the _Boston Gazette_ of + January 30, 1769, I find this notice:-- + + "Last Friday morning died Mr Abiah Holbrook in the 51st year of his + Age, Master of the South Writing School in this Town. He was looked + upon by the Best Judges as the Greatest Master of the Pen we have + ever had among us, of which he has left a most beautiful + Demonstration. He was indefatigable in his labours, successful in + his Instructions, an Honour to the Town and to crown all an Ornament + to the Religion of Jesus. His Funeral is to be Attended Tomorrow + Afternoon at Four Oclock." + + The "beautiful Demonstration" of his penmanship which he left behind + him was a most intricate piece of what was known as "fine knotting" + or "knot work." It was written in "all the known hands of Great + Britain." This work occupied every moment of what Abiah Holbrook + called his "spare time" for seven years. It was valued at L100. It + was bequeathed to Harvard College, unless his wife should need the + money which could be obtained from selling it. If this were so, she + was to offer it first for purchase to John Hancock. Abiah was a + stanch patriot. + + Samuel Holbrook was a brother of Abiah. He began teaching in 1745, + when about eighteen years old. A petition of Abiah, dated March 10, + 1745-46, sets forth that his school had two hundred and twenty + scholars (Well may his funeral notice say that he was indefatigable + in his labors!), that finding it impossible to properly instruct + such a great number, he had appointed his brother to teach part of + them and had paid his board for seven months, else some of the + scholars must have been turned off without any instruction. He + therefore prayed the town to grant him assistance. Think of one + master for such a great school! In 1750 Samuel Holbrook's salary as + usher of the South Writing School was fifty pounds per annum. + + After serving as writing-master of the school in Queen Street, and + also keeping a private school, he was chosen master of the South + Writing School in March, 1769, to supply the place of his brother + Abiah deceased. His salary was one hundred pounds. In 1776, and + again in 1777, he received eighty pounds in addition to his salary. + He also was a patriot. He was one of the "Sons of Liberty" who dined + at the Liberty Tree, Dorchester, on August 14, 1769; and he was a + member of Captain John Haskin's company in 1773. He was a member of + the Old South Church, and he died July 24, 1784. In his later years + he kept a school at West Street, where afterwards was Amos + Lawrence's garden. + + Abiah and Samuel left behind them better demonstrations of their + capacity than pieces of "knot-work"--in the handwriting of their + scholars. They taught what Jonathan Snelling described as "Boston + Style of Wri^ting," and loudly do the elegant letters and signatures + of their scholars, Boston patriots, clergy, and statesmen, redound + to the credit of the Masters Holbrook. + + Other Holbrooks taught in Boston. From the Selectmen's Minutes of + that little town, we find that on November 10, 1773,-- + + "Mr Holbrook, Master of the Writing School in the Common, and Mr + Carter the Master Elect of the school in Queen St having recommended + Mr Abiah Holbrook, a young man near of age, as a suitable person to + be usher at Mr Carters school--the Selectmen sent for him, and upon + discoursing with the young man thought proper to appoint him usher + of said school." + + And from the _Boston Gazette_, of April 17, 1769, we learn that Mr. + Joseph Ward "Opened an English Grammar School in King St where Mr + Joseph Holbrook hath for many years kept a Writing School." + + These entries of Anna's relating to her attending Master Holbrook's + school have an additional value in that they prove that both boys + and girls attended these public writing schools,--a fact which has + been disputed. + + + NOTE 24. + + Dr. James Lloyd, born March 14, 1728, died March 14, 1810. He began + his medical practice in 1752. He was appointed surgeon of the + garrison at Boston, and was a close friend of Sir William Howe and + Earl Percy, who for a time lived in his house. He was an + Episcopalian, and one of the indignant protesters against the + alteration of the liturgy at King's Chapel. Though a warm Tory and + Loyalist, he was never molested by the American government. He was + one of Boston's most skilful and popular physicians for many years. + While other city doctors got but a shilling and sixpence for their + regular fee, he charged and received the exorbitant sum of half a + dollar a visit; and for "bringing little master to town," in which + function he was a specialist, he charged a guinea. + + + NOTE 25. + + A pincushion was for many years, and indeed is still, in some parts + of New England, a highly conventional gift to a mother with a young + babe. Mrs. Deming must have made many of these cushions. One of her + manufacture still exists. It is about five inches long and three + inches wide; one side is of white silk stuck around the edge with + old-fashioned clumsy pins, with the words, "John Winslow March 1783. + Welcome Little Stranger." The other side is of gray satin with green + spots, with a cluster of pins in the centre, and other pins winding + around in a vine and forming a row round the edge. + + + NOTE 26. + + Though the exchange of Christmas gifts was rare in New England, + a certain observance of New Year's Day by gifts seems to have + obtained. And we find in Judge Sewall's diary that he was greeted on + New Year's morn with a levet, or blast of trumpets, under his + window; and he celebrated the opening of the eighteenth century with + a very poor poem of his own composition, which he caused to be + recited through Boston streets by the town-crier. + + + NOTE 27. + + The word "pompedore" or Pompadour was in constant use in that day. + We read of pompedore shoes, laces, capes, aprons, sacques, + stockings, and head-dresses. + + + NOTE 28. + + Aunt Storer was Mrs. Ebenezer Storer. Her maiden name was Elizabeth + Green. She was a sister of Mrs. Joshua Winslow. She was born October + 12, 1734, died December 8, 1774; was married July 17, 1751, to + Ebenezer Storer, who was born January 27, 1729-30, died January 6, + 1807. He was a Harvard graduate, and was for many years treasurer of + that college. He was one of Boston's most intellectual and respected + citizens. His library was large. His name constantly appears on the + lists of subscribers to new books. After his death his astronomical + instruments became the property of Harvard College, and as late as + 1843 his comet-finder was used there. + + As Anna Green Winslow spent so much of her time in her "Aunt + Storers" home in Sudbury Street, it is interesting to know that a + very correct picture of this elegant Boston home of colonial days + has been preserved through the account given in the _Memoir of Eliza + Susan Morton Quincy_,--though many persons still living remember the + house:-- + + "The mansion of Ebenezer Storer, an extensive edifice of wood three + stories in height, was erected in 1700. It was situated on Sudbury + Street between two trees of great size and antiquity. An old English + elm of uncommon height and circumference grew in the sidewalk of the + street before the mansion, and behind it was a sycamore tree of + almost equal age and dimensions. It fronted to the south with one + end toward the street. From the gate a broad walk of red sandstone + separated it from a grass-plot which formed the courtyard, and + passed the front door to the office of Mr. Storer. The vestibule of + the house, from which a staircase ascended, opened on either side + into the dining and drawing rooms. Both had windows towards the + courtyard and also opened by glazed doors into a garden behind the + house. They were long low apartments; the walls wainscoted and + panelled; the furniture of carved mahogany. The ceilings were + traversed through the length of the rooms by a large beam cased and + finished like the walls; and from the centre of each depended a + glass globe which reflected as in a convex mirror all surrounding + objects. There was a rich Persian carpet in the drawing-room, the + colors crimson and green. The curtains and the cushions of the + window-seat were of green damask; and oval mirrors and girandoles + and a teaset of rich china completed the furniture of that + apartment. The wide chimney-place in the dining room was lined and + ornamented with Dutch tiles; and on each side stood capacious + armchairs cushioned and covered with green damask, for the master + and mistress of the family. On the walls were portraits in crayon by + Copley, and valuable engravings representing Franklin with his + lightning rod, Washington, and other eminent men of the last + century. Between the windows hung a long mirror in a mahogany frame; + and opposite the fireplace was a buffet ornamented with porcelain + statuettes and a set of rich china. A large apartment in the second + story was devoted to a valuable library, a philosophical apparatus, + a collection of engravings, a solar microscope, a camera, etc." + + As I read this description I seem to see the figure of our happy + little diary-writer reflected in the great glass globes that hung + from the summer-trees, while she danced on the Persian carpet, or + sat curled up reading on the cushioned window-seat. + + + NOTE 29. + + As this was in the time of depreciated currency, L45 was not so + large a sum to spend for a young girl's outfit as would at first + sight appear. + + + NOTE 30. + + Dr. Charles Chauncey was born January 1, 1705; died February 10, + 1787. He graduated at Harvard in 1721, and soon became pastor of the + First Church in Boston. He was an equally active opponent of + Whitefield and of Episcopacy. He was an ardent and romantic patriot, + yet so plain in his ways and views that he wished _Paradise Lost_ + might be turned into prose that he might understand it. + + + NOTE 31. + + Rev. Ebenezer Pemberton was pastor of the New Brick Church. He had a + congregation of stanch Whigs; but unluckily, the Tory Governor + Hutchinson also attended his church. Dr. Pemberton was the other + minister of the two who sprung the Governor's hated Thanksgiving + proclamation of 1771 on their parishes a week ahead of time, as told + in Note 3, and the astounded and disgusted New Brick hearers, more + violent than the Old South attendants, walked out of meeting while + it was being read. Dr. Pemberton's troubled and unhappy pastorate + came to an end by the closing of his church in war times in 1775. He + was of the 1721 class of Harvard College. He died September 9, 1777. + + + NOTE 32. + + We find frequent references in the writings and newspapers of the + times to this truly Puritanical dread of bishops. To the descendants + of the Pilgrims the very name smacked of incense, stole, and monkish + jargon. A writer, signing himself "America," gives in the _Boston + Evening Post_, of October 14, 1771, a communication thoroughly + characteristic of the spirit of the community against the + establishment of bishops, the persistent determination to "beate + down every sprout of episcopacie." + + + NOTE 33. + + A negligee was a loose gown or sacque open in front, to be worn over + a handsome petticoat; and in spite of its name, was not only in high + fashion for many years, but was worn for full dress. Abigail Adams, + writing to Mrs. Storer, on January 20, 1785, says: "Trimming is + reserved for full dress only, when very large hoops and negligees + with trains three yards long are worn." I find advertised in the + _Boston Evening Post_, as early as November, 1755: "Horse-hair + Quilted Coats to wear with Negligees." A poem printed in New York in + 1756 has these lines:-- + + "Put on her a Shepherdee + A Short Sack or Negligee + Ruffled high to keep her warm + Eight or ten about an arm." + + + NOTE 34. + + A pistareen was a Spanish coin worth about seventeen cents. + + + NOTE 35. + + There exists in New England a tradition of "groaning cake," made and + baked in honor of a mother and babe. These cakes which Anna bought + of the nurse may have been "groaning cakes." It was always customary + at that time to give "vails" to the nurse when visiting a new-born + child; sometimes gifts of money, often of trinkets and articles of + clothing. + + + NOTE 36. + + Miss "Scolley" was Mary Scollay, youngest of the thirteen children + of John Scollay (who was born in 1712, died October, 1799), and his + wife Mary. Mary was born in 1759. She married Rev. Thomas Prentiss + on February 9, 1798, had nine children, and lived to be eighty-two + years old--dying in 1841. Her sister Mercy was engaged to be married + to General Warren, but he fell at Bunker Hill: and his betrothed + devoted herself afterwards to the care and education of his orphaned + children whom he had by his first wife. + + + NOTE 37. + + Miss Bella Coffin was probably Isabella, daughter of John Coffin and + Isabella Child, who were married in 1750. She married Major + MacMurde, and their sons were officers in India. + + + NOTE 38. + + This Miss "Quinsey" was Ann Quincy, the daughter of Col. Josiah + Quincy (who was born 1710, died 1784), and his third wife, Ann + Marsh. Ann was born December 8, 1763, and thus would have been in + her ninth year at the time of the little rout. She married the Rev. + Asa Packard, of Marlborough, Mass., in 1790. + + + NOTE 39. + + In the universal use of wines and strong liquors in New England at + that date children took unrestrainedly their proportionate part. It + seems strange to think of this girl assembly of little Bostonians + drinking wine and hot or cold punch as part of their "treat," yet no + doubt they were well accustomed to such fare. I know of a little + girl of still tenderer years who was sent at that same time from the + Barbadoes to her grandmother's house in Boston to be "finished" in + Boston schools, as was Anna, and who left her relative's abode in + high dudgeon because she was not permitted to have wine at her + meals; and her parents upheld her, saying Missy must be treated like + a lady and have all the wine she wished. Cobbett, who thought liquor + drinking the national disease of America, said that "at all hours of + the day little boys at or under twelve years of age go into stores + and tip off their drams." Thus it does not seem strange for little + maids also to drink at a party. The temperance awakening of this + century came none too soon. + + + NOTE 40. + + Paste ornaments were universally worn by both men and women, as well + as by little girls, and formed the decoration of much of the + headgear of fashionable dames. Many advertisements appear in New + England newspapers, which show how large and varied was the + importation of hair ornaments at that date. We find advertised in + the _Boston Evening Post_, of 1768: "Double and single row knotted + Paste Combs, Paste Hair Sprigs & Pins all prices. Marcasite and + Pearl Hair Sprigs, Garnet & Pearl Hair Sprigs." In the _Salem + Gazette_ and various Boston papers I read of "black & coloured + plumes & feathers." Other hair ornaments advertised in the _Boston + News Letter_, of December, 1768, were "Long and small Tail Garnets, + Mock Garland of all sorts and Ladies Poll Combs." Steel plumes, + pompons, aigrettes, and rosettes all were worn on the head, and + artificial flowers, wreaths of gauze, and silk ribbons. + + + NOTE 41. + + Marcasite, spelled also marcassite, marchasite, marquesett, or + marquaset, was a mineral, the crystallized form of iron pyrites. It + was largely used in the eighteenth century for various ornamental + purposes, chiefly in the decoration of the person. It took a good + polish, and when cut in facets like a rose-diamond, formed a pretty + material for shoe and knee-buckles, earrings, rings, pins, and hair + ornaments. Scarce a single advertisement of wares of milliner or + mantua maker can he found in eighteenth century newspapers that does + not contain in some form of spelling the word marcasite, and scarce + a rich gown or headdress was seen without some ornament of + marcasite. + + + NOTE 42. + + Master Turner was William Turner, a fashionable dancing master of + Boston, who afterward resided in Salem, and married Judith, daughter + of Dr. Edward Augustus Holyoke, of Salem, who died in 1829, aged one + hundred and one years. It was recalled by an old lady that the + scholars in the school of her youth marched through Boston streets, + to the music of the fiddle played by "Black Henry," to Concert Hall, + corner Tremont and Bromfield streets, to practice dancing; and that + Mr. Turner walked at the head of the school. His advertisements may + be seen in Boston and Salem papers, thus:-- + + "Mr. Turner informs the Ladies and Gentlemen in Town and Country + that he has reduced his price for teaching from Six Dollars Entrance + to One Guinea, and from Four Dollars per month to Three. Those + ladies and Gentlemen who propose sending their children to be taught + will notice no books will be kept as Mr. T. has suffered much by + Booking. The pupils must pay monthly if they are desirous the School + should continue." + + + NOTE 43. + + "Unkle Ned" was Edward Green, born September 18, 1733; died July 29, + 1790. He married, on April 14, 1757, Mary Storer (sister of Ebenezer + Storer and of Hannah Storer Green). They had no children. He was, in + 1780, one of the enlisting officers for Suffolk County. In a letter + of George Green's, written July 25, 1770, we read: "Ned still lives + gentleman-like at Southwacks Court without doing any business tho' + obliged to haul in his horns;" and from another of December 5, 1770: + "Ned after having shown off as long as he you'd with his yell^o + damask window curtains &c is (the last month) retired into the + country and lives w^th his wife at Parson Storers at Watertown. How + long that will hold I cant say." + + + NOTE 44. + + Madam Smith was evidently Anna's teacher in sewing. The duties + pertaining to a sewing school were, in those days, no light matter. + From an advertisement of one I learn that there were taught at these + schools:-- + + "All kinds of Needleworks viz: point, Brussels, Dresden Gold, + Silver, and silk Embroidery of every kind. Tambour Feather, India & + Darning, Spriggings with a Variety of Open-work to each. Tapestry + plain, lined, and drawn. Catgut, black & white, with a number of + beautiful Stitches. Diaper and Plain Darnings. French Quiltings, + Knitting, Various Sorts of marking with the Embellishments of Royal + cross, Plain cross, Queen, Irish, and Tent Stitches." + + Can any nineteenth century woman read this list of feminine + accomplishments without looking abashed upon her idle hands, and + ceasing to wonder at the delicate heirlooms of lace and embroidery + that have come down to us! + + + NOTE 45. + + Grandmamma Sargent was Joshua Winslow's mother. Her maiden name was + Sarah Pierce. She was born April 30, 1697, died August 2, 1771. She + married on September 21, 1721, John Winslow, who lived to be + thirty-eight years old. After his death she married Dr. Nathaniel + Sargent in 1749. + + + NOTE 46. + + These lines were a part of the epitaph said to be composed by + Governor Thomas Dudley, who died at Andover, Mass., in 1653. They + were found after his death and preserved in Morton's _New England's + Memorial_. They run thus:-- + + Dim eyes, deaf ears, cold stomach show + My dissolution is in view; + Eleven times seven near lived have I, + And now God calls, I willing die; + My shuttle's shot, my race is run, + My sun is set, my deed is done; + My span is measur'd, tale is told, + My flower is faded and grown old, + My dream is vanish'd, shadow's fled, + My soul with Christ, my body dead; + Farewell dear wife, children and friends, + Hate heresy, make blessed ends; + Bear poverty, live with good men, + So shall we meet with joy again. + Let men of God in courts and churches watch + O'er such as do a toleration hatch; + Lest that ill egg bring forth a cockatrice, + To prison all with heresy and vice. + If men be left, and other wise combine + My epitaph's, I dy'd no libertine. + + + NOTE 47. + + Miss Polly Vans was Mary Vans, daughter of Hugh and Mary Pemberton + Vans, and aunt of Caty Vans. She was born in 1733. We have some + scattered glimpses of her life. She joined the Old South in 1755. In + the _Boston Gazette_, of April 9, 1770, we read, "Fan Mounts mounted + by Mary Vans at the house of Deacon Williams, in Cornhill." We hear + of her at Attleborough with Samuel Whitwell's wife when the gates of + Boston were closed, and we know she married Deacon Jonathan Mason on + Sunday evening, December 20, 1778. She was his second wife. His + first wife was Miriam Clark, and was probably the Mrs. Mason who was + present at Mrs. Whitwell's, and died June 5, 1774. Mary Vans Mason + lived till 1820, having witnessed the termination of eight of the + pastorates of the Old South Church. Well might Anna term her "a + Sister of the Old South." She was in 1817 the President of the Old + South Charity School, and is described as a "disinterested friend, + a judicious adviser, an affectionate counsellor, a mild but faithful + reprover, a humble, self-denying, fervent, active, cheerful + Christian." Jonathan Mason was not only a deacon, but a prosperous + merchant and citizen. He helped to found the first bank in New + England. His son was United States Senator. Two other daughters of + Hugh Vans were a Mrs. Langdon, of Wiscasset, Maine, and Mrs. John + Coburn. + + + NOTE 48. + + St. Valentine's Day was one of the few English holidays observed in + New England. We find even Governor Winthrop writing to his wife + about "challenging a valentine." In England at that date, and for a + century previous, the first person of the opposite sex seen in the + morning was the observer's valentine. We find Madam Pepys lying in + bed for a long time one St. Valentine's morning with eyes tightly + closed, lest she see one of the painters who was gilding her new + mantelpiece, and be forced to have him for her valentine. Anna + means, doubtless, that the first person she chanced to see that + morning was "an old country plow-joger." + + + NOTE 49. + + Boston was at that date pervaded by the spirit of Liberty. Sons of + Liberty held meetings every day and every night. Daughters of + Liberty held spinning and weaving bees, and gathered in bands + pledging themselves to drink no tea till the obnoxious revenue act + was repealed. Young unmarried girls joined in an association with + the proud declaration, "We, the daughters of those Patriots who have + appeared for the public interest, do now with pleasure engage with + them in denying ourselves the drinking of foreign tea." Even the + children felt the thrill of revolt and joined in patriotic + demonstrations--and a year or two later the entire graduating class + at Harvard, to encourage home manufactures, took their degrees in + homespun. + + + NOTE 50. + + The cut-paper pictures referred to are the ones which are reproduced + in this book, and which are still preserved. Anna's father finally + received them. Mrs. Deming and other members of the Winslow family + seem to have excelled in this art, and are remembered as usually + bringing paper and scissors when at a tea-drinking, and assiduously + cutting these pictures with great skill and swiftness and with + apparently but slight attention to the work. This form of decorative + art was very fashionable in colonial days, and was taught under the + ambitious title of Papyrotamia. + + + NOTE 51. + + The "biziness of making flowers" was a thriving one in Boston. We + read frequently in newspapers of the day such notices as that of + Anne Dacray, of Pudding Lane, in the _Boston Evening Post_, of 1769, + who advertises that she "makes and sells Head-flowers: Ladies may be + supplied with single buds for trimming Stomachers or sticking in the + Hair." Advertisements of teachers in the art of flower-making also + are frequent. I note one from the _Boston Gazette_, of October 19, + 1767:-- + + "To the young Ladies of Boston. Elizabeth Courtney as several Ladies + has signified of having a desire to learn that most ingenious art of + Painting on Gauze & Catgut, proposes to open a School, and that her + business may be a public good, designs to teach the making of all + sorts of French Trimmings, Flowers, and Feather Muffs and Tippets. + And as these Arts above mentioned (the Flowers excepted) are + entirely unknown on the Continent, she flatters herself to meet with + all due encouragement; and more so, as every Lady may have a power + of serving herself of what she is now obliged to send to England + for, as the whole process is attended with little or no expence. The + Conditions are Five Dollars at entrance; to be confin'd to no + particular hours or time: And if they apply Constant may be Compleat + in six weeks. And when she has fifty subscribers school will be + opened, &c, &c." + + + NOTE 52. + + This was James Lovell, the famous Boston schoolmaster, orator, and + patriot. He was born in Boston October 31, 1737. He graduated at + Harvard in 1756, then became a Latin School usher. He married Miss + Helen Sheaffe, older sister of the "two Miss Sheafs" named herein; + and their daughter married Henry Loring, of Brookline. He was a + famous patriot: he delivered the oration in 1771 commemorative of + the Boston Massacre. He was imprisoned by the British as a spy on + the evidence of letters found on General Warren's dead body after + the battle of Bunker Hill. He died in Windham, Maine, July 14, 1814. + A full account of his life and writings is given in Loring's + _Hundred Boston Orators_. + + + NOTE 53. + + Nothing seems more revolting to our modern notions of decency than + the inhuman custom of punishing criminals in the open streets. From + the earliest days of the colonies the greatest publicity was given + to the crime, to its punishment, and to the criminal. Anna shows, in + her acquaintance with the vices of Bet Smith, a painful familiarity + with evil unknown in any well-bred child of to-day. Samuel Breck + wrote thus of the Boston of 1771:-- + + "The large whipping-post painted red stood conspicuously and + prominently in the most public street in the town. It was placed in + State Street directly under the windows of a great writing school + which I frequented, and from them the scholars were indulged in the + spectacle of all kinds of punishment suited to harden their hearts + and brutalize their feelings. Here women were taken in a huge cage, + in which they were dragged on wheels from prison, and tied to the + post with bare backs on which thirty or forty lashes were bestowed + among the screams of the culprit and the uproar of the mob. A little + further in the street was to be seen the pillory with three or four + fellows fastened by the head and hands, and standing for an hour in + that helpless posture, exposed to gross and cruel jeers from the + multitude, who pelted them incessantly with rotten eggs and every + repulsive kind of garbage that could be collected." + + There was a pillory in State Street in Boston as late as 1803, and + men stood in it for the crime of sinking a vessel at sea and + defrauding the underwriters. In 1771 the pillory was in constant use + in Newport. + + + NOTE 54. + + In 1770 British troops were quartered in Boston, to the intense + annoyance and indignation of Boston inhabitants. Disturbances + between citizens and soldiers were frequent, and many quarrels + arose. On the night of March 5 in that year the disturbance became + so great that the troops, at that time under command of Captain + Preston, fired upon the unarmed citizens in King (now State) street, + causing the death of Crispus Attucks, a colored man, Samuel Gray and + James Caldwell, who died on the spot, and mortally wounding Patrick + Carr and Samuel Maverick. At the burial of these slaughtered men the + greatest concourse ever known in the colonies flocked to the grave + in the Granary Burying Ground. All traffic ceased. The stores and + manufactories were closed. The bells were tolled in all the + neighboring towns. + + Daniel Webster said, that from the moment the blood of these men + stained the pavements of Boston streets, we may date the severance + of the colony from the British empire. + + The citizens demanded the removal of the troops, and the request was + complied with. For many years the anniversary of this day was a + solemn holiday in Boston, and religious and patriotic services were + publicly held. + + + NOTE 55. + + Mather Byles was born March 15, 1707; died July 5, 1788. He was + ordained pastor of the Hollis Street Congregational Church, of + Boston, in 1733. He was a staunch Loyalist till the end of his days, + as were his daughters, who lived till 1837. His chief fame does not + rest on his name as a clergyman or an author, but as an inveterate + and unmerciful jester. + + + NOTE 56. + + Henry Green, the brother of Anna's mother, was born June 2, 1738. He + was a Latin School boy, was in business in Nova Scotia, and died in + 1774. + + + NOTE 57. + + This stove was a foot-stove,--a small metal box, usually of sheet + tin or iron, enclosed in a wooden frame or standing on little legs, + and with a handle or bail for comfortable carriage. In it were + placed hot coals from a glowing wood fire, and from it came a + welcome warmth to make endurable the freezing floors of the + otherwise unwarmed meeting-house. Foot-stoves were much used in the + Old South. In the records of the church, under date of January 16, + 1771, may be read:-- + + "Whereas, danger is apprehended from the stoves that are frequently + left in the meeting-house after the publick worship is over; Voted + that the Saxton make diligent search on the Lords Day evening and in + the evening after a Lecture, to see if any stoves are left in the + house, and that if he find any there he take them to his house; and + it is expected that the owners of such stoves make reasonable + satisfaction to the Saxton for his trouble before they take them + away." + + The Old South did not have a stove set in the church for heating + till 1783. + + + NOTE 58. + + The first anniversary of the Boston Massacre was celebrated + throughout the city, and a mass-meeting was held at the Old South + Church, where James Lovell made a stirring address. See Notes 52 and + 54. + + + NOTE 59. + + The Queen's night-cap was a very large full cap with plaited + ruffles, which is made familiar to us through the portraits of + Martha Washington. + + + NOTE 60. + + "Old Mrs. Sallisbury" was Mrs. Nicholas Salisbury, who was married + in 1729, and was mother of Rebecca Salisbury, who became Mrs. Daniel + Waldo, and of Samuel Salisbury, who married Elizabeth Sewall. See + Note 73. + + + NOTE 61. + + Mrs. John Avery. Her husband was Secretary of the Commonwealth and + nephew of John Deming, who in his will left his house to John Avery, + Jr. + + + NOTE 62. + + A baby hutt was a booby-hutch, a clumsy, ill-contrived covered + carriage. The word is still used in some parts of England, and a + curious survival of it in New England is the word booby-hut applied + to a hooded sleigh; and booby to the body of a hackney coach set on + runners. Mr. Howells uses the word booby in the latter + signification, and it may be heard frequently in eastern + Massachusetts, particularly in Boston. + + + NOTE 63. + + Peggy Phillips was Margaret Phillips, daughter of William and + Margaret Wendell Phillips. She was born May 26, 1762, married Judge + Samuel Cooper, and died February 19, 1844. She was aunt of Wendell + Phillips. + + + NOTE 64. + + This "droll figure" may have been a drawing, or a dressed doll, + or "baby," as such were called--a doll that displayed in careful + miniature the reigning modes of the English court. In the _New + England Weekly Journal_, of July 2, 1733, appears this notice:-- + + "To be seen at Mrs. Hannah Teatts Mantua Maker at the Head of Summer + Street Boston a Baby drest after the Newest Fashion of Mantuas and + Night Gowns & everything belonging to a dress. Latily arrived on + Capt. White from London, any Ladies that desire it may either come + or send, she will be ready to wait on 'em if they come to the House + it is Five Shilling, & if she waits on 'em it is Seven Shilling." + + These models of fashion were employed until this century. + + + NOTE 65. + + We can have a very exact notion of the books imported and printed + for and read by children at that time, from the advertisements in + the papers. In the _Boston Gazette and Country Journal_, of January + 20, 1772, the booksellers, Cox and Berry, have this notice:-- + + The following Little Books for the Instruction & Amusement of all + good Boys and Girls. + + The Brother Gift or the Naughty Girl Reformed. + The Sister Gift, or the Naughty Boy Reformed. + Hobby Horse or Christian Companion. + Robin Good-Fellow, A Fairy Tale. + Puzzling Cap, A Collection of Riddles. + The Cries of London as exhibited in the Streets. + Royal Guide or Early Introduction to Reading English. + Mr Winloves Collection of Stories. + " " Moral Lectures. + History of Tom Jones abridg'd from the works of + " " Joseph Andrews H. Fielding. + " " Pamela abridg'd from the works of + " " Grandison S. Richardson, Esq. + " " Clarissa + + + NOTE 66. + + General John Winslow was but a distant kinsman of Anna's, for he was + descended from Edward Winslow. He was born May 27, 1702; died April + 17, 1774. He was a soldier and jurist, but his most prominent + position (though now of painful notoriety) was as commander of that + tragic disgrace in American history, the expedition against the + Acadians. It is told in extenuation of his action that before the + annihilation and dispersion of that unfortunate community he + addressed them, saying that his duty was "very disagreeable to his + natural make and temper as it must be grievous to them," but that he + must obey orders,--and of course what he said was true. + + + NOTE 67. + + The exercises attending this election of counsellors must indeed + have been an impressive sight. The Governor, attended by a troop of + horse, rode from the Province House to Cambridge, where religious + services were held. An Election Sermon was preached. Volleys and + salutes were fired at the Battery and Castle. A protest was made in + the public press, as on the previous year, against holding this + election in Cambridge instead of in the "Town House in Boston, the + accustomed Ancient Place," and also directly to the Governor, which + was answered by him in the newspapers; and at this election a most + significant event occurred--John Hancock declined to accept a seat + among the counsellors, to which he had been elected. The + newspapers--the _Massachusetts Spy_ and the _Boston Gazette and + Country Journal_--commented on his action thus:-- + + "Mr Hancocks declining a seat in the Council Board is very + satisfactory to the Friends of Liberty among his constituents. This + Gentleman has stood five years successively and as often Negativ'd. + Whatever may have been the Motive of his being approbated at last + his own Determination now shows that he had rather be a + Representative of the People since he has had so repeatedly their + Election and Confidence." + + + NOTE 68. + + Boston had two election days. On Artillery Election the Ancient and + Honorable Artillery had a dress parade on the Common. The new + officers were chosen and received their new commissions from the new + Governor. No negroes were then allowed on the Common. The other day + was called "Nigger Lection," because the blacks were permitted to + throng the Common and buy gingerbread and drink beer, as did their + betters at Artillery Election. + + + NOTE 69. + + Col. Thomas Marshall was a Revolutionary officer. He commanded the + Tenth Massachusetts Regiment at Valley Forge. He was Captain of the + Ancient and Honorable Artillery from 1763 to 1767, and at one time + commanded Castle Island, now Fort Independence. He was one of the + Selectmen of Boston at the time when the town was invested by troops + under Washington. He died at Weston, Mass., on November 18, 1800. + + + NOTE 70. + + A night gown was not in those days a garment for wear when sleeping, + but resembled what we now call a tea-gown. The night attire was + called a rail. Both men and women wore in public loose robes which + they called night gowns. Men often wore these gowns in their + offices. + + + NOTE 71. + + Many Boston people agreed with Anna in her estimate of Rev. Samuel + Stillman. He was called to the First Baptist Church in 1765, and + soon became one of Boston's most popular and sensational preachers. + Crowds thronged his obscure little church at the North End, and he + took an active part in Revolutionary politics. Many were pleased + with his patriotism who did not agree with him in doctrine. In the + curious poem on Boston Ministers, already quoted, we read:-- + + Last in my list is a Baptist, + A real saint, I wot. + Though named Stillman much noise he can + Make when in pulpit got. + The multitude, both grave and rude, + As drove by wind and tide, + After him hie, when he doth try + To gain them to his side. + + + NOTE 72. + + Mr. and Mrs. Hooper were "King" Hooper and his wife of Marblehead. + He was so called on account of his magnificent style of living. He + was one of the Harvard Class of 1763; was a refugee in 1775, and + died insolvent in 1790. The beautiful mansion which he built at + Danvers, Mass., is still standing in perfect condition, and is the + home of Francis Peabody, Esq. It is one of the finest examples of + eighteenth century architecture in New England. + + + NOTE 73. + + This "Miss Becca" was Rebecca Salisbury, born April 7, 1731, died + September 25, 1811. She was a fine, high-spirited young woman, and + upon being taunted by a rejected lover with, + + "The proverb old--you know it well, + That women dying maids, lead apes in hell," + + (a belief referred to in _Taming of the Shrew_, Act II. Scene 1), + she made this clever rhyming answer:-- + + "Lead apes in hell--tis no such thing; + The story's told to fool us. + But better there to hold a string, + Than here let monkeys lead us." + + She married Daniel Waldo May 3, 1757. The "very pretty Misses" were + their daughters; Elizabeth, born November 24, 1765, died unmarried + in Worcester, August 28, 1845; and Martha (who in this diary is + called Patty), born September 14, 1761, died November 25, 1828. She + married Levi Lincoln, Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts, and + became the mother of Levi Lincoln, Governor of Massachusetts, Enoch + Lincoln, Governor of Maine, and Col. John Lincoln. + + + NOTE 74. + + The fashion of the roll was of much importance in those days. A roll + frequently weighed fourteen ounces. We can well believe such a heavy + mass made poor Anna's head "ach and itch like anything." That same + year the _Boston Gazette_ had a laughable account of an accident to + a young woman on Boston streets. She was knocked down by a runaway, + and her headdress received the most serious damage. The outer + covering of hair was thrust aside, and cotton, tow, and false hair + were disgorged to the delight of jeering boys, who kicked the + various stuffings around the street. A Salem hair-dresser advertised + that he would "attend to the polite construction of rolls to raise + ladies heads to any pitch desired." 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