Archive:Mayflower Descendant, Volume 39
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Gadbois, Carol Tucker, and Gadbois, George S., "The Diary of Jabez Fitch, Jr.," Mayflower Descendant, vol. XXXIX (1989), pp. 73-82.
[p. 74]
- March, 1776
- Saterd: ye 9th. As it Began to grow Light in ye Morning, our party were March'd over to ye Barrecks, where they Rested them selves most of the Forenoon, I finde our People have Erected Seven Barrecks here, 90 feet Long Each, most of them are Cover'd; about 11 oCck. I was order'd by Genll. Spencer to Take a Party of about 40 Men, & Cross ye Marsh Toard ye Enemys Block house to Examine a Bote that appeard to be Drifted over to our Shore, After Some Trouble in geting out ye Men, procuring a piece of Riging &c I set off with my party, found the Bote Emty Except a piece of a Chain & some Spikes in it, We made fast to ye Bote, hall'd it acrost ye Marsh, & over ye Hill to ye Barricks. About 10 oClock I was Order'd with our Regt. to work on ye North Battery, where ye men Work'd very well; Toard Night I left em & went up to ye Barrecks, where I se Genll. Putnam & some othe big Officers; I also procur'd Genll. Thomas's Order for some Rum for my party, [cross out] & some time before Night I Return'd to ye Men, where I Staid till about Sunset, when we left work [&] Repared to ye Barrick for our Rum, & soon March'd over to ye Entrence of ye Neck, where we Wated some Time for ye other party to Come on, but before Daylight Low, we Cros'd ye Marsh again, almost Drown'ed in Mud, nor did we fare much Better on ye Road to Roxbury, for in many place ye Mud was near as Deep as ye Top of my Boots, which togather with ye Darkness of ye Night, made our March very Tedious; We came home alittle before 9, with Stomacks well repared ['to; crossed out] for Eating, Drinking, or Sleep. Soon After we came home ye Enemy Began to Canonade Nooks Point; this I sopose to be Occasioned by their Discovering our Intention to Fortifie yt. place; There was a heavy Firing of Cannon kept up all Night; which I understand kill'd one Doctr. Dole of Col: Whitneys Regt. & also a Lt. & two other men; Being much Woiried, I hear'd but few of ye Guns Fired this Night.
Pizziferri, Shirley M. (Robinson), "Early Worcester County Probate Records," Mayflower Descendant, vol. XXXIX (1989), pp. 157-160.
[p. 160]
- The Ltr. of Adm. in the estate of Zachariah Morse of Southborough, husbandman, was dated 13 Aug 1734 and issued to his widow, Huldah Morse. An 800 Bond dated 12 August 1734 was issued to Hulda. Timothy Johnson of Southboro, Worcester County, husbandman, and Benjamin Whitney of Framingham, Middlesex County, were bondsmen (177:469). David Fay, Nathan Brigham and Sam'll Lyscom returned an inventory totaling £397:4:8 including lands, house & barn at £280 (1:141). Huldah filed her account 12 Aug 1735 (1:166). On 15 Aug 1752, a committee composed of Sam Lyscom, Timothy Brigham, David Woods, Thomas Graves and Benjamin Nixon deterrmined the the estate was not sufficient to be divided among all the heirs (4:80), and on 19 Aug 1759 a partition bond in the amount of £1,000 was issued by Benjamin Morse, Husbandman and Ezra Taylor, Gent., both of Southborough and Abijah Bruce of Westborough, Gent. granting two-thirds to Ezra Taylor and the other one-third to Huldah Morse the widow. Upon her death, her thirds to go to eldest son Benjamin Morse who was to pay his brothers and sister, namely: Mary Newton, wife of Samuel Newton; Elizabeth Morse & Daniel Morse (615:20).
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