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When Parson Oxenbridge was striken with apoplexy in the pulpit of the First Church in Boston, he was "carried home in a Cedan." On August 3, 1687, Judge Sewall wrote in his diary: "Capt. Gerrish is carried in a Sedan to the Wharf and so takes boat for Salem." Again he writes on May 31, 1715: "The Gov'r comes first to Town, was carried from Mr. Dudleys to the Town-House in Cous.
No, I am confident your Honour can't think so; no, not even of their Gov'r, under whose vile commission this was suffered to be done, and went unpunished. It was headed by this Francisco, that cursed seed of Cain, cursed from the foundation of the world, who has the impudence to come into Court and plead that he is free.
Prescott had the true Englishman's love of landed possessions, and about this time added a large tract to his acreage by purchase from his Indian neighbors. This transaction gave cause for the following petition: To the honorable the Gov'r the Deputy Gov'r mag'tr & Deputy es assembled in the gen'rall Court: The Petition of Jno Prescott of Lanchaster, In most humble wise sheweth.
Gov'r Carleton wrote the English Secretary of State:
Upon your arrival at Providence, make a just report to his Hon'r the Gov'r of that place of the sloop & cargo, & what is on board, & how we came by her. I am y'rs, B. NORTON. To Jeremiah Harman, Mas'r & John Webb, mate. For signal, hoist your Dutch jack at mast head; if we hoist first, you answer us, & do not keep it up long. Wednesday, 29th. About 4 P.M. saw a sloop.
"Some of the Council are wanting to establish those companies belonging to Philadelphia who are waiting at Halifax, as you'll see by the inclosed letter from one of them to me. I see through the whole, the Governor keeps them off till I return." Captain Glasier seems to have been on excellent terms with Gov'r Wilmot. On 1st March, 1755, he wrote to Capt.
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