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spirit moved." Finally, "to avoid all contests he crossed 

 to the Isles of Shoals." There, "in those desolate islands 

 where rocks and sterility contend for the mastery, where 

 a single spring furnishes the water, and the people break- 

 fast, dine, and sup on fish, there being nothing to tempt 

 intrusion, poor Mr. Hull spent the remainder of his days 

 and died in peace/' 



THOMAS WIGHT founded in Dedham in 1644 the first 

 free, tax-supported school of Massachusetts; "taking 

 into consideration the great necessitie of providing some 

 meanes for the education of youth in ye said towne (the 

 people) did with unanimous consent declare by voate 

 their willingness to promote that worke, promising to 

 put too their hands to provide maintenance for a free 

 school in our said towne/' Wight also assisted in the 

 erection of an Indian village at Natick, and was founder 

 of the town of Medfield. Moreover, he and his sons took 

 an active interest in the building of "the new brick col- 

 lege at Cambridge" (Harvard), to which Wight pledged 

 himself to give each year "4 bushelles of Endian Corne." 



THOMAS GRAVES, a sea-captain by profession, a very 

 active and brave man, owner of "the first vessel ever built 

 in Boston for foreign trade," was made Rear Admiral in 

 the British Navy for "good service in the English Chan- 

 nel." His daughter Rebecca married Captain Samuel 

 Adams, son of Henry Adams of Braintree, ancestor of 

 President John Adams; and their daughter, Rebecca 

 Adams, married John Waldo, one of Emerson's ancestors. 



JOHN COGSWELL sailed from Bristol in 1635 on the 

 Angel Gabriel, a craft of "240 tunne," "a strong ship and 

 furnished with 14 or 16 pieces of ordnance." Richard 

 Mather, who came in a sister ship, the James, thus records 

 the fate of the former: 



Ye Angel Gabriel being yn at ancre at Pemmagind, was 

 burst in pieces and cast away in ye storme, and most of ye 

 cattell and other goodes, with one seaman and three or four 

 passengers, did also perish therein, besides two of ye pas- 



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