Than we in our Sententiæ had before. We Learn't Good Things in Tullies Offices; But we from him Learn't Better things than these. Lessons of JESUS, that our Souls do saye. But on our selves charg'd, not a Change to miss. And Stones unto the Stars their Flight shall make ; Which we, O Man of God, from thee did hear. Such that in Flesh we should their Angels see; Who Serv'd the School, the Church did not forget; So Wing'd by Thee, for Flights beyond the Skies. How oft we saw him tread the Milky Way, Come from the Mount, he shone with ancient Grace, Awful the Splendor of his Aged Face. Cloath'd in the Good Old Way, his Garb did wage Fearful of nothing more than hateful Sin; Mean time America a Wonder saw; You that in t'other Hemisphere do dwell, He Liv'd and Wrought; His Labours were Immense; A Blooming Youth in him at Ninety Four We saw; But, Oh! when such a sight before! To Us does the Blest Shade retain his Love. 'TUTORS, Be Strict; But yet be Gentle too: "Who keeps the Golden Fleece, Oh, let him not 'A Youth which prov'd one of the Best of men. 'But, Oh! First Teach them their Great God to fear; Adieu, a little while, Dear Saint, Adieu; Your Scholar won't be Long, Sir, after you. In the mean time, with Gratitude I must But if Base men the Rules of Justice break, The Stones (at least upon the Tombs) will speak. Et Tumulum facite, et Tumulo superaddite carmen. (Virg. in Daphn.) LUCERNA, ad Quam accensa sunt, Qui secum Corpus Theologiae abstulit, Vixit Annos, XCIV. Obiit, A.D. M.DCC. VIII. HEIC Expectat Exoptatq: Primam Sanctorum Resurrectionem ad Immortalitatem. Exuvijs debetur Honos. Ezekiel Cheever was twice married. The surname of his first wife whom he married in New Haven, shortly after his arrival there, in the autumn of 1638, is not known. The New Haven Records* thus note her death: "Mary Cheever y wife of Ezekiel Cheever dyed The 20th of January 1649." His second wife, whom he married Nov. 18, 1652, was Ellen Lathrop, sister of Capt. Thomas Lathrop of Beverly. She died in Boston, Sept. 10, 1706. His children by his first wife were: 2. i. ii. iii. iv. Samuel, b. in New Haven, Sept. 22, 1639; bapt. there, 17:9: 1639. 66 66 6:2 1645; m. in Charlestown, Sept. 6, 1666, Samuel Goldthwaite. v. vi. Hannah,§ 66 25:4: 1648. His children by his second wife were: vii. Abigail, b. Oct. 20, 1653; d. in Boston, Jan. 24, 1705, unmarried, aged 52 years. * Vol. i. 5. REGISTER, viii. 47; x. 97; xvii. 4. Middlesex Births, Deaths and Marriages, L. 3, f. 128, in office of Clerk of Courts, East Cambridge. The Salem Records erroneously give the date of this marriage as Sept. 8, 1666. § John Wakeman of New Haven, in his will dated 18:4mo.: 1660, probated 24:8mo.: 1661, on file in the Probate Office in Hartford, and printed in the New Haven Colonial Records, ii. 447, says, "It. I giue vnto Hanna Cheeuers fiue pounds, to be set apart and improued for her at the end of one yeere after my decease as my ouerseers shall see meete vntill shee come to eighteene yeers of age (which is the tyme agreed vpon for her continuance with me or mine) or till the tyme of her marriage, prouided shee marry with the consent of my executors and ouerseers, or wth the consent of any two of them.' The_dates of the birth and death of Nathaniel and birth of Thomas are from the County Records in the Office of the Clerk of the Courts at Salem, and the birth and death of William from the Charlestown Records. I find no record of any other. For them we must rely on the authority of Mr. Savage. He obtained them, Mr. Earnard says, from a manuscript memorandum belonging to Rev. Ezekiel Cheever Williams. Is not this the Rev. Ezekiel Cheever Whitman before mentioned? I found at New Haven no record of the births of any of the children by the first wife. For that of Samuel we must also rely on Mr. Savage. The dates of the baptisms were copied by me from the Baptismal Records of the First Church of New Haven. viii. Ezekiel, b. July 1, 1655; m. in Salem, June 17, 1680, Abigail Lippingwell. X. XI. 66 66 ix. Nathaniel, b. in Ipswich, June 23, 1657; d. there July 12, 1657. xii. Susanna, m. in Boston, June 5, 1693, Joseph Russell. Samuot Choovor. 1668. 2. SAMUEL (Ezekiel1), Rev., born in New Haven, Sept. 22, 1639, bapt. there 17:9: 1639, graduated at Harvard College in 1659. He went to Marblehead in November, 1668, where he preached for sixteen years before being regularly ordained. His is the second name on the petition† of the inhabitants of Marblehead against imposts, 1668. He took the oath of freeman May 19, 1669. In a depositions taken at Marblehead Feb. 18, 1705-6, he testified to his "being minister of yt Sd place thirty Seven years and liuing next door to m1 Maverick" and "keeping in his almanack a register of y Anual Occurences in the Towne." June 28, 1671, he married Ruth Angier, daughter of Edmund Angier of Cambridge. "Mr John Hubberd" and "m" Samuell cheeuers" were admitted to full communion with the church in Ipswich¶ Jan. 25, 1673. He was ordained Aug. 13, 1684, as the first settled minister of Marblehead. In the same year, 1684, he preached the Artillery Election sermon** from Heb. ii. 10. He was one of the ministers who were consulted in relation to the witchcraft troubles in Salem Village in 1694,†† and one of those who petitioned the General Court‡‡ in 1703 in relation to *Some of the descendants of the Rev. Thomas Cheever are shown on a tabular pedigree, herein before referred to, prepared by William B. Trask, Esq., for Prof. David W. Cheever, M.D., of Harvard College, of which a copy may be found in the Library of the New England Historic, Genealogical Society. See REGISTER, XXXii. 443. Besides the pedigree, the chart contains a photo-electrotype of the fac-simile of the Carmen Genethliacon, several autographs, the will of Ezekiel Cheever, and other interesting memoranda. † Mass. Archives, lx. 39. This petition was printed in the REGISTER, ix. 81. Mass. Colonial Records, iv. (part 2) 583. Notarial Records, i. 57, in Office of Clerk of Courts, Salem. Journal of Rev. William Adams in Coll. of Mass. Hist. Soc., 4th series, i. 13. Church Records on last leaf but one of an old volume of records of the Feoffees of the Grammar School in Ipswich. ** Transcript of the Records of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company deposited in the Boston Athenæum. ++ Coll. of Mass. Hist. Soc., 3d series, iii. 180. REGISTER, X. 363; xi. 317. Mass. Archives, cxxxv. 124. "To his Excellency the Governour, Council and Representatives of the Province of the Massachusets Bay, in Generall Court Assembled June 1703. The Address of severall Ministers of the County of Essex. "Whereas in the year 1692 some of our neighbours of a good conversation, were apprehended and imprisoned upon Suspition of Witchcraft, upon the complaint of some young persons under Diabolicall molestations; and vpon their Tryall at the Court at Salem were condemned; great weight being layd vpon the Evidence of the Afflicted persons, their Accusers. Sentence of Death was Executed on severall of them, but others were Reprieved. "But since it is apparent and hath been Acknowledged, that there were Errors and mistakes in the aforesaid Tryalls; and notwithstanding the care and conscientious endeavour of the Honorable Judges to do the thing that is right: yet there is great reason to fear that Innocent persons then sufferred, and that God may have a controversy with the Land vpon that account. "We would therefore humbly propose to the consideration of this Honored Court, whether something may not, and ought not, to be publickly done to clear the good name and reputation of some who have sufferred as aforesaid, against whom there was not as is supposed Sufficient evidence to prove the guilt of such a Crime, and for whom there are good grounds of Charity. Some of the condemned persons aforesaid, and others in behalf of their Relations who have suffered, have lately Petitioned this Honoured Court upon this Account. We pray that their case may be duely considered. Thomas Barnard, Samuel Cheever, Joseph Green, Zech. Symmes, William Hubbard, Joseph Gerrish, Benjamin Rolfe, John Rogers, Jabez ffitch, Jn° Wise, Joseph Capen, Thomas Symmes." |