LAST ROYAL GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS 9 



save one little ten-year-old daughter, Susanna, who 

 was ransomed after four years of captivity. 



In this wholesale massacre the eldest son, Edward, 

 was not included. At the time of his mother's banish- 

 ment he was twenty-five years old. He had lately 

 returned from a visit to England, bringing with him a 

 fair young bride who was admitted to communion 

 with the First Church in Boston in December, 1638. 

 While Edward's loyalty to his mother got him so far 

 into trouble that he was heavily fined and sentence of 

 banishment was passed upon him, we may imagine 

 that his wife's orthodoxy may have helped him some- 

 what in making his peace with the magistrates of the 

 Puritan commonwealth. At any rate he spent the rest 

 of his life in Boston, where for seventeen years he was 

 a deputy in the General Court. He was also the chief 

 commander of horse in the colony, and in the summer 

 of 1675, after the disastrous beginning of King Philip's 

 War, he was sent to Brookfield to negotiate with the 

 Nipmuck Indians. The treacherous savages appointed 

 the time and place for a rendezvous, but lay in ambush 

 for Captain Hutchinson as he approached, and slew 

 him, with several of his company. 



Of Edward's twelve children, the eldest son, Elisha, 

 came to be judge of common pleas and member of 

 the council of assistants, and in 1688 was joined with 

 Increase Mather, in London, in protesting against the 

 high-handed conduct of Sir Edmund Andros. One 

 of the earliest recollections of the royal governor was 

 the great pomp of his grandfather Elisha's funeral on a 

 bleak December day of 1717, when the militia com- 

 panies and the chief dignitaries of the province marched 

 in stately procession to the place of burial. As Elisha 



