[15] Snow's History of Boston.
[16] This "faithful friend" was none other than Mrs. Leverett, the wife of the Agent.
[17] According to tradition, his tombstone was in a good state of preservation down to the commencement of the American Revolution, when it was with many others destroyed by the British soldiers, at the time they occupied Boston.
[18] The Church, (the first in Massachusetts Colony,) was established Aug. 6, 1629.
[19] This is not the church of which the Rev. Mr. Hurd is pastor.
[20] Twins.
[21] This account of the antiquities and pedigree of the Parsons Family was prepared principally from manuscripts in the possession of Samuel H. Parsons, Esq., of Hartford, Ct., by the Corresponding Secretary of the New England Historic, Genealogical Society.
[22] For minute and interesting particulars of this now important town, the reader is referred to the history of it by Rev. Daniel Lancaster. In that work the author has given pedigrees of many of the early settlers.
[23] All the fly-leaves are gone from the beginning of the Old Testament, as well as the title-page.
[24] This Deborah was the mother of the American Heroine, Deborah Sampson, who, under the name of Robert Shirtlieff, served about two years as soldier in the army of the Revolution, in Capt. Webb's Company, Col. Jackson's Regiment, and General Patterson's Brigade, and after an honorable discharge from the Continental army, returned home to her mother at Plimpton in the Old Colony; assumed her female habiliments, and was married to Benjamin Gannet of Sharon, Ms., in 1784, where she died about ten years ago, and where three of her children reside at the present day.