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and Council wanted to fpeakwith him: He anfwered him, 

 That he had promis'd his Wife and Family not to go into 

 Bojlon ; laying, If they had any bufinefs, they could Write 

 to him, and that he would fend them his anfwer. Soon 

 after came over two other Gentlemen with a Menage, 

 that the Governour & Council wanted to have fome dif- 

 courfe with him: The anfwer return'd was, That he in- 

 tended to lodge that Night at the Gray-hound in Roxbury, 

 and that in the Morning would come to Pollards at the 

 South End of Bojlon'™ which accordingly he did: foon 

 after he came thither received a letter from the Honour- 

 able Capt. SewalP 1 to requeft him to come to the Council; 



76 William Pollard was fon of Wil- 

 liam and Ann (who was wont to boaft 

 that the went over in the firft boat that 

 croffed Charles River, in 1630, and was 

 firft to jump aihore at what is now Bof- 

 ton), b. 20 Mar., 1653; m. Margaret 



; had William, b. 21 Dec., 16S7 



William again, 2 Apr., 1690, and Jona- 

 than. Joined the Ancient and Honor- 

 able Artillery Co., 1679. H e kept an 

 •• ordinary," as I learn from the record, 

 (through J. Wingate Thornton, Efq., 

 from the kindnefs of W. I. Bcwditch, 

 Efq.,) a little over ico ft. juft fouth 

 of Eliot St., on Waftiington St. [Sav- 

 age's Gc/i. Did. iii : 449; Whitman's 

 Hift. Ana. & Hon. Art. Co. 211.] 



77 Samuel Se-vall, fon of Henry, was 

 born at Morton, near Bafingftoke, Eng., 

 2S March, 1652 ; came to New England 

 with his mother 1661 ; graduated at 

 Harvard Coll. 1671 ; was Captain of 

 militia in Bofton. and Major of the 



regiment 1675-6; admitted freeman 

 1678; joined the Ancient and Honor- 

 able Artillery Co., 1679; was Captain 

 of it 1701 ; Superintendent of the prefs 

 1681 ; Afliftant 1684-6, and again 1689- 

 92 ; Judge of Superior Court 1692, and 

 one of fpecial Commiffion to try the 

 witches; Judge of Probate for 1715; 

 Chief-juftice 1718-1728; died in Bofton, 

 30 Jan., 1730, at. 78. He was a book- 

 feller at one time, and printed an 

 edition of the catechifm with his 

 own hand. He is now chiefly re- 

 membered for his copious notes of 

 the facts of the time, in journals, alma- 

 nacs, &c, Sic. He married (1) 28 

 Feb., 1676, Hannah, only furviving 

 child of John Hull, mint-mafter, by 

 whom he had John, Samuel. Hannah, 

 Elizabeth, Hull, Henry, Stephen, Jo- 

 feph, Judith, Mary, Sarah, Judith 

 (again), and another; (2) 29 0<5t., 

 17 19, Abigail, daughter of Jacob Mel- 



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