[193]. See “Debate Between Mr. Byles and the Cong. Church.”—People. “We never could conceive nor imagine how you could spend your time. You never visited any of your parishioners, but very seldom—seldom preached a new sermon; but old sermons over and over, etc.”
[194]. Gurdon, son of Governor Saltonstall.
[195]. See likeness to similar scene in Governor Saltonstall’s time, 1721 ([Part II, Chapter X]).
[196]. Delight Rogers (wife of John Rogers, 3d) was one of the women imprisoned. Her daughter Anna (mother of John R. Bolles) was born very soon after her release. The near-sightedness of this daughter was attributed to the fact that her mother wept so much during her imprisonment. Delight Rogers sat with the rest in the meeting-house; she did not take any work there. Mr. John R. Bolles in “Reminiscences of his Life,” published in a New London paper, said that the venerable Dr. Nathaniel Petting, who knew Delight Rogers, used to say to him: “If there ever was a good woman, your grandmother Lighty was one.”
[197]. Mr. Byles was at this time thirty years of age.
[198]. Unfortunately we have merely this in parenthesis concerning the stand taken by Mr. Byles in regard to the Rogerenes.
[199]. It will be remembered that Mr. Byle’s salary was a liberal one, and his family at this date could not have been large.
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