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the afternoon Meeting; going home after Meeting, took 

 his Horfe and fet out for Bofton, as ordered; and by Sun 

 rife next Morning got to Brantry? where he met with 

 Col. Page 6 on Horfe-back, going to Weymouth and Hing- 

 ham to raife Forces to go Eaft; who faid he was glad to 

 fee him, and that his Excellency would be as glad to fee 

 him in Bq/lon fo early: fo parting, he foon got to Bofton, 



probability that it muft have been be- 

 tween the 20 OcT:., 16S8, when Andros 

 iffued his proclamation feeking to fe- 

 cure peace among the Eaftern Indians, 

 and that time in the following Novem- 

 ber (Hutchinfon \_Hift. Mafs. i : 331] 

 fays " in the beginning of November"; 

 Willis \_Hift. Portland (ed. 1865), 274] 

 fays "early in November"; VVilliam- 

 fon [////?. Maine, i : 589] fays " late in 

 November"), when he ftarted, with his 

 force of 700 or 800 men, for the Eaftern 

 country. 



5 What was then known as Braintree 

 is now known as Quincy; the prefent 

 Braintree being at that time called Mo- 

 natiquot. [Addrefs at the opening of 

 the new Town Hall in Braintree, July 

 29, 1858, by Hon. C. F. Adams, 67; 

 Vinton Memorial, 463]. 



6 Nicholas Paige was in Bofton in 

 1665 ; married Ann, daughter of Ed- 

 ward Keayne, and widow of Edward 

 Lane (which Ann was tried for adul- 

 tery 23 May, 1666, and made confeffion 

 of "much wickednes") ; ferved in Phil- 

 ip's War, and was witnefs to articles 

 of peace with the Narraganfetts 15 July, 

 1675 ; was Captain of one of the com- 

 panies raifed in Bofton on the over- 



throw of Andros; was Captain of the 

 Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- 

 pany in 1695. He is called " Lt. Coll." 

 in 16S8. He died, probably, late in 

 1717. In the repairs made, in 1863, 

 upon the Univerfity Library building 

 in Leyden, Holland, there were found 

 under the floor of that room which for 

 many years was ufed as a chapel by the 

 Scotch Prefbyterian Church, fix memo- 

 rial ftones, and parts of twelve bodies. 

 One of the ftones bore the following 

 infeription : — 



Here lieth buried Edxvard Paige, 

 onely fon of Nicolas and Anna Paige, 

 born at Bofton in New England, 

 Feb. 20, 1622, died in Leyden, Nov. 1, 

 1680, N.S. 



The firft date fhould, of courfe, be 

 1662, and this is clearly the Edward Lane 

 of whom Savage fpeaks [Gen. Die?. 

 iii : 50] as the fon, of that birth-date, of 

 his mother while ftill the wife of Ed- 

 ward Lane ; whofe name, for fome 

 wife reafon, was changed to that of his 

 mother's fecond hufband, after her fec- 

 ond marriage. [Savage's Gen. Did. iii : 

 332. Mafs. Col. Pec. iv (pt. 2) : 309; 

 Drake's Hift. Boft. i: 482. Leyden 

 MSS.~\ 



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