Elizabeth Sewall and Grove Hirst
"Oct. 17, 1700.... In the following Evening Mr. Grove Hirst and Elizabeth Sewall are married by Mr. Cotton Mather."
"The Sewell Tomb in the Granary Burying Ground, Boston was really built by John Hull , Esq., who was buried therein, October 5, 1683 making it the Hull - Quincy - Sewell Tomb. According to a list prepared by Samuel Sewall, eldest son of the Chief Justice , there had been deposited in that tomb the bodies of 33 persons: John Hull, Esq., and Mrs. Judith Hull his wife, a sister of Col. Edmund Quincy, of Braintree, Mr. Daniel Quincy of Boston, a son of Col. Quincy by his first wife, and father of Hon. John Quincy, Esq., of Braintree, Speaker of the House for many years, who was great grandfather of the late John Quincy Adams, President of the United States; Rev. Joshua Moodey, first Pastor of the Church at Portsmouth , N.H., and sometime assistant minister of first Church, Boston; Chief Justice Samuel Sewall and his first two wives, twenty-five of his children and grandchildren (including Mrs. Elizabeth Hirst his eldest daughter, Grove Hirst , Esq., Merchant, her husband, and their daughter Mrs. Elizabeth, first wife of Rev. Charles Chauncey, D.D.) and Miss Ann Pierce, probably a cousin from Newbury, who had died in Boston. To these were doubtless added between then and the Revolution."
— Reverend William Cooper, Brattle Street Church, Boston
"Apparently up to this date the magistrates had possessed rather a monopoly on the marriage market, and Sewall was justly worried over this new turn in affairs. Betty, however, who had finally accepted Mr. Hirst, was married by a clergyman, as the following entry testifies: "Oct. 17, 1700.... In the following Evening Mr. Grove Hirst and Elizabeth Sewall are married by Mr. Cotton Mather.""
Entry from the Diary of Samuel Sewall, from an essay on colonial women and marriage
https://www.history1700s.com/index.php/articles/182-society-and-culture/womans-life/593-chapter-vi-colonial-woman-and-marriage.html?start=3
Ancestry website link
https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/judge-grove-hirst-24-211d36y
Great Lives on History blogspot link
http://greatlivesinhistory.blogspot.com/2011/?m=1
Nutfield Genealogy blogspot link
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/10/pepperell-family-of-kittery-maine.html?m=1
Entry in The Clio website
https://theclio.com/entry/22758
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=18795
British Columbia from the Earliest Times to the Present, Volume 3
By Ethelbert Olaf Stuart Scholefield
S.J. Clarke publishing Company, 1914 - British Columbia
https://books.google.com/books?id=JxI1AQAAMAAJ&q=Hirst#v=snippet&q=Hirst&f=false
Proceedings of the Brookline Historical Society at the Annual Meeting
Brookline Historical Society
General Books LLC, 2009 - 376 pages
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1902 Excerpt: ... THE SEWALL HOUSE. Read before the Brookline Historical Society, January 38th, 1902. Your President has asked me to write something of the history of the house I am living in, which is on what was formerly known as the Sewall Farm. I have also added some personal recollections of our town, especially of that part with which I was most familiar, and I shall have to apologize in advance for the plentiful use of the pronouns I and my. The name Sewall was an honored and respected one in the eighteenth century. It has completely died out as regards the family who occupied this farm; but it is interesting to note the frequent mention of the name in the town records from the incorporation of the little town in 1705 to the year 1767, and the evidently high standing of the family. Samuel Sewall, Jr., who headed the petition to the General Court to establish the town as a separate village or "peculiar" (as the phrase runs) was a son of Chief Justice Sewall, who owned a large tract of land in what is now known as Longwood. Judge Sewall came into possession of this tract, which embraced several hundred acres, through his wife, who was a daughter of John Hull, a princely Boston merchant, though born a poor boy. John Hull in his youth lived in Muddy River Hamlet, in a little house which stood near the Sears Memorial Church, but afterwards removed to Boston, where he amassed a large fortune for those days. Judge Sewall probably never lived on his Brookline estate. Samuel Sewall, Jr., was the first Town Clerk of the little "peculiar." In 1707 he was chosen Treasurer; and from this date until 1715, he was Clerk, Treasurer, and Selectman. In 1712 he was chosen Representative to the General Court, and in 1713, was one or a committee to agree with Mr. Cotton for a burying place...
https://books.google.com/books?id=fqSBLnQ7_PEC&source=gbs_similarbooks
In remembrance of Mr. Samuel Hirst. Boston, 1727?.
Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.0340050c/?sp=1
In Remembrance of Mr. Samuel Hirst :
the Eldest, and Only Surviving Son of Grove Hirst, Esq., Merchant, and Elizabeth Sewall His Wife (both His Younger Brethren Dying in Infancy) : Was Born at Boston, October 23, 1705 and Died Very Suddenly When He Was in His Way Upon the Long Wharff, at Two in the Afternoon, January 14, 1726/7
— By Sewall, Samuel (1652-1730)
https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7609385
Samuel Sewall Diaries
https://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0243
"By his wife, Hannah, the judge had fourteen children, of whom Samuel, Elizabeth (wife of Grove Hirst), Reverend Joseph, Mary (wife of Samuel Gerrish), and Judith (wife of Reverend William Cooper), lived to make their place in the world. Sewall married, second, 29 October, 1719, Abigail, daughter of Jacob Melyen, and third, Mary, daughter of Henry Shrimpton. Both were widows of prominence, and in that day marriage of elderly widowers and widows was held to be a duty not to be neglected. For this reason he sought comfort in marriage after each bereavement, and his diary narrates in great detail his courtships, his rebuffs, and his conquests. But Sewall was an able and distinguished citizen, too much associated in our minds, it is to be feared, with social events which played only a minor part in the main current of his life.
Sewall was entombed at Granary Burying Ground in Boston. His freestanding tomb is on the west side of the cemetery in center, opposite Paul Revere's marker."
Samuel Sewall biography
Cekebrate Boston website
http://www.celebrateboston.com/biography/samuel-sewall.htm
Sewall - Hirst - Chauncy (Chauncey)
Old Brick: Charles Chauncy of Boston, 1705-1787
By Edward M. Griffin
U of Minnesota Press, 1980 - 248 pages
https://books.google.com/books?id=dddcFsNNeNsC&q=Hirst#v=snippet&q=Hirst&f=false
Sewall - Hirst - Davenport
Serious as was the matter of the mere courtship, the fact that the dowry or marriage portion had to be considered made the act of marriage even more serious. The devout elders, who taught devotion to heavenly things and scorn of the things of this world, nevertheless haggled and wrangled long and stubbornly over a few pounds more or less. Judge Sewall seems to have prided himself on the friendly spirit and expediteness with which he settled such a matter. "Oct. 13, 1729. Judge Davenport comes to me between 10 and 11 a-clock in the morning and speaks to me on behalf of Mr. Addington Davenport, his eldest Son, that he might have Liberty to Wait upon Jane Hirst now at my House in way of Courtship. He told me he would deal by him as his eldest Son, and more than so. Inten'd to build a House where his uncle Addington dwelt, for him; and that he should have his Pue in the Old Meeting-house.... He said Madam Addington Would wait upon me."[235]
https://www.history1700s.com/index.php/articles/182-society-and-culture/womans-life/593-chapter-vi-colonial-woman-and-marriage.html
Hannah Hirst
https://archive.org/details/colonialvillageb00fros/page/16/mode/1up?q=Hannah+Hirst&view=theater
The Church and Cemetery Records of Hanover, Mass: History and records of St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal Church of Scituate, Mass., 1725-1811, of Hanover, Mass., 1811-1903, and other items of historical interest
By Lloyd Vernon Briggs
Wallace Spooner, 1905 - Hanover (Mass. : Town)
Sewall
https://books.google.com/books?id=004Bgy51mSoC&q=Sewall+#v=snippet&q=Sewall&f=false
Sewall - Hirst
https://books.google.com/books?id=004Bgy51mSoC&q=Sewall+Hirst#v=snippet&q=Sewall%20Hirst&f=false
Sewall - Hirst - Sparhawk
https://archive.org/details/colonialvillageb00fros/page/16/mode/1up?q=Sewall&view=theater
"Oct. 17, 1700.... In the following Evening Mr. Grove Hirst and Elizabeth Sewall are married by Mr. Cotton Mather."
"The Sewell Tomb in the Granary Burying Ground, Boston was really built by John Hull , Esq., who was buried therein, October 5, 1683 making it the Hull - Quincy - Sewell Tomb. According to a list prepared by Samuel Sewall, eldest son of the Chief Justice , there had been deposited in that tomb the bodies of 33 persons: John Hull, Esq., and Mrs. Judith Hull his wife, a sister of Col. Edmund Quincy, of Braintree, Mr. Daniel Quincy of Boston, a son of Col. Quincy by his first wife, and father of Hon. John Quincy, Esq., of Braintree, Speaker of the House for many years, who was great grandfather of the late John Quincy Adams, President of the United States; Rev. Joshua Moodey, first Pastor of the Church at Portsmouth , N.H., and sometime assistant minister of first Church, Boston; Chief Justice Samuel Sewall and his first two wives, twenty-five of his children and grandchildren (including Mrs. Elizabeth Hirst his eldest daughter, Grove Hirst , Esq., Merchant, her husband, and their daughter Mrs. Elizabeth, first wife of Rev. Charles Chauncey, D.D.) and Miss Ann Pierce, probably a cousin from Newbury, who had died in Boston. To these were doubtless added between then and the Revolution."
— Reverend William Cooper, Brattle Street Church, Boston
"Apparently up to this date the magistrates had possessed rather a monopoly on the marriage market, and Sewall was justly worried over this new turn in affairs. Betty, however, who had finally accepted Mr. Hirst, was married by a clergyman, as the following entry testifies: "Oct. 17, 1700.... In the following Evening Mr. Grove Hirst and Elizabeth Sewall are married by Mr. Cotton Mather.""
Entry from the Diary of Samuel Sewall, from an essay on colonial women and marriage
https://www.history1700s.com/index.php/articles/182-society-and-culture/womans-life/593-chapter-vi-colonial-woman-and-marriage.html?start=3
Ancestry website link
https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/judge-grove-hirst-24-211d36y
Great Lives on History blogspot link
http://greatlivesinhistory.blogspot.com/2011/?m=1
Nutfield Genealogy blogspot link
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/10/pepperell-family-of-kittery-maine.html?m=1
Entry in The Clio website
https://theclio.com/entry/22758
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=18795
British Columbia from the Earliest Times to the Present, Volume 3
By Ethelbert Olaf Stuart Scholefield
S.J. Clarke publishing Company, 1914 - British Columbia
https://books.google.com/books?id=JxI1AQAAMAAJ&q=Hirst#v=snippet&q=Hirst&f=false
Proceedings of the Brookline Historical Society at the Annual Meeting
Brookline Historical Society
General Books LLC, 2009 - 376 pages
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1902 Excerpt: ... THE SEWALL HOUSE. Read before the Brookline Historical Society, January 38th, 1902. Your President has asked me to write something of the history of the house I am living in, which is on what was formerly known as the Sewall Farm. I have also added some personal recollections of our town, especially of that part with which I was most familiar, and I shall have to apologize in advance for the plentiful use of the pronouns I and my. The name Sewall was an honored and respected one in the eighteenth century. It has completely died out as regards the family who occupied this farm; but it is interesting to note the frequent mention of the name in the town records from the incorporation of the little town in 1705 to the year 1767, and the evidently high standing of the family. Samuel Sewall, Jr., who headed the petition to the General Court to establish the town as a separate village or "peculiar" (as the phrase runs) was a son of Chief Justice Sewall, who owned a large tract of land in what is now known as Longwood. Judge Sewall came into possession of this tract, which embraced several hundred acres, through his wife, who was a daughter of John Hull, a princely Boston merchant, though born a poor boy. John Hull in his youth lived in Muddy River Hamlet, in a little house which stood near the Sears Memorial Church, but afterwards removed to Boston, where he amassed a large fortune for those days. Judge Sewall probably never lived on his Brookline estate. Samuel Sewall, Jr., was the first Town Clerk of the little "peculiar." In 1707 he was chosen Treasurer; and from this date until 1715, he was Clerk, Treasurer, and Selectman. In 1712 he was chosen Representative to the General Court, and in 1713, was one or a committee to agree with Mr. Cotton for a burying place...
https://books.google.com/books?id=fqSBLnQ7_PEC&source=gbs_similarbooks
In remembrance of Mr. Samuel Hirst. Boston, 1727?.
Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.0340050c/?sp=1
In Remembrance of Mr. Samuel Hirst :
the Eldest, and Only Surviving Son of Grove Hirst, Esq., Merchant, and Elizabeth Sewall His Wife (both His Younger Brethren Dying in Infancy) : Was Born at Boston, October 23, 1705 and Died Very Suddenly When He Was in His Way Upon the Long Wharff, at Two in the Afternoon, January 14, 1726/7
— By Sewall, Samuel (1652-1730)
https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7609385
Samuel Sewall Diaries
https://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0243
"By his wife, Hannah, the judge had fourteen children, of whom Samuel, Elizabeth (wife of Grove Hirst), Reverend Joseph, Mary (wife of Samuel Gerrish), and Judith (wife of Reverend William Cooper), lived to make their place in the world. Sewall married, second, 29 October, 1719, Abigail, daughter of Jacob Melyen, and third, Mary, daughter of Henry Shrimpton. Both were widows of prominence, and in that day marriage of elderly widowers and widows was held to be a duty not to be neglected. For this reason he sought comfort in marriage after each bereavement, and his diary narrates in great detail his courtships, his rebuffs, and his conquests. But Sewall was an able and distinguished citizen, too much associated in our minds, it is to be feared, with social events which played only a minor part in the main current of his life.
Sewall was entombed at Granary Burying Ground in Boston. His freestanding tomb is on the west side of the cemetery in center, opposite Paul Revere's marker."
Samuel Sewall biography
Cekebrate Boston website
http://www.celebrateboston.com/biography/samuel-sewall.htm
Sewall - Hirst - Chauncy (Chauncey)
Old Brick: Charles Chauncy of Boston, 1705-1787
By Edward M. Griffin
U of Minnesota Press, 1980 - 248 pages
https://books.google.com/books?id=dddcFsNNeNsC&q=Hirst#v=snippet&q=Hirst&f=false
Sewall - Hirst - Davenport
Serious as was the matter of the mere courtship, the fact that the dowry or marriage portion had to be considered made the act of marriage even more serious. The devout elders, who taught devotion to heavenly things and scorn of the things of this world, nevertheless haggled and wrangled long and stubbornly over a few pounds more or less. Judge Sewall seems to have prided himself on the friendly spirit and expediteness with which he settled such a matter. "Oct. 13, 1729. Judge Davenport comes to me between 10 and 11 a-clock in the morning and speaks to me on behalf of Mr. Addington Davenport, his eldest Son, that he might have Liberty to Wait upon Jane Hirst now at my House in way of Courtship. He told me he would deal by him as his eldest Son, and more than so. Inten'd to build a House where his uncle Addington dwelt, for him; and that he should have his Pue in the Old Meeting-house.... He said Madam Addington Would wait upon me."[235]
https://www.history1700s.com/index.php/articles/182-society-and-culture/womans-life/593-chapter-vi-colonial-woman-and-marriage.html
Hannah Hirst
https://archive.org/details/colonialvillageb00fros/page/16/mode/1up?q=Hannah+Hirst&view=theater
The Church and Cemetery Records of Hanover, Mass: History and records of St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal Church of Scituate, Mass., 1725-1811, of Hanover, Mass., 1811-1903, and other items of historical interest
By Lloyd Vernon Briggs
Wallace Spooner, 1905 - Hanover (Mass. : Town)
Sewall
https://books.google.com/books?id=004Bgy51mSoC&q=Sewall+#v=snippet&q=Sewall&f=false
Sewall - Hirst
https://books.google.com/books?id=004Bgy51mSoC&q=Sewall+Hirst#v=snippet&q=Sewall%20Hirst&f=false
Sewall - Hirst - Sparhawk
https://archive.org/details/colonialvillageb00fros/page/16/mode/1up?q=Sewall&view=theater
Elizabeth Sewall and Grove Hirst
"Oct. 17, 1700.... In the following Evening Mr. Grove Hirst and Elizabeth Sewall are married by Mr. Cotton Mather."
"The Sewell Tomb in the Granary Burying Ground, Boston was really built by John Hull , Esq., who was buried therein, October 5, 1683 making it the Hull - Quincy - Sewell Tomb. According to a list prepared by Samuel Sewall, eldest son of the Chief Justice , there had been deposited in that tomb the bodies of 33 persons: John Hull, Esq., and Mrs. Judith Hull his wife, a sister of Col. Edmund Quincy, of Braintree, Mr. Daniel Quincy of Boston, a son of Col. Quincy by his first wife, and father of Hon. John Quincy, Esq., of Braintree, Speaker of the House for many years, who was great grandfather of the late John Quincy Adams, President of the United States; Rev. Joshua Moodey, first Pastor of the Church at Portsmouth , N.H., and sometime assistant minister of first Church, Boston; Chief Justice Samuel Sewall and his first two wives, twenty-five of his children and grandchildren (including Mrs. Elizabeth Hirst his eldest daughter, Grove Hirst , Esq., Merchant, her husband, and their daughter Mrs. Elizabeth, first wife of Rev. Charles Chauncey, D.D.) and Miss Ann Pierce, probably a cousin from Newbury, who had died in Boston. To these were doubtless added between then and the Revolution."
— Reverend William Cooper, Brattle Street Church, Boston
"Apparently up to this date the magistrates had possessed rather a monopoly on the marriage market, and Sewall was justly worried over this new turn in affairs. Betty, however, who had finally accepted Mr. Hirst, was married by a clergyman, as the following entry testifies: "Oct. 17, 1700.... In the following Evening Mr. Grove Hirst and Elizabeth Sewall are married by Mr. Cotton Mather.""
Entry from the Diary of Samuel Sewall, from an essay on colonial women and marriage
https://www.history1700s.com/index.php/articles/182-society-and-culture/womans-life/593-chapter-vi-colonial-woman-and-marriage.html?start=3
Ancestry website link
https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/judge-grove-hirst-24-211d36y
Great Lives on History blogspot link
http://greatlivesinhistory.blogspot.com/2011/?m=1
Nutfield Genealogy blogspot link
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/10/pepperell-family-of-kittery-maine.html?m=1
Entry in The Clio website
https://theclio.com/entry/22758
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=18795
British Columbia from the Earliest Times to the Present, Volume 3
By Ethelbert Olaf Stuart Scholefield
S.J. Clarke publishing Company, 1914 - British Columbia
https://books.google.com/books?id=JxI1AQAAMAAJ&q=Hirst#v=snippet&q=Hirst&f=false
Proceedings of the Brookline Historical Society at the Annual Meeting
Brookline Historical Society
General Books LLC, 2009 - 376 pages
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1902 Excerpt: ... THE SEWALL HOUSE. Read before the Brookline Historical Society, January 38th, 1902. Your President has asked me to write something of the history of the house I am living in, which is on what was formerly known as the Sewall Farm. I have also added some personal recollections of our town, especially of that part with which I was most familiar, and I shall have to apologize in advance for the plentiful use of the pronouns I and my. The name Sewall was an honored and respected one in the eighteenth century. It has completely died out as regards the family who occupied this farm; but it is interesting to note the frequent mention of the name in the town records from the incorporation of the little town in 1705 to the year 1767, and the evidently high standing of the family. Samuel Sewall, Jr., who headed the petition to the General Court to establish the town as a separate village or "peculiar" (as the phrase runs) was a son of Chief Justice Sewall, who owned a large tract of land in what is now known as Longwood. Judge Sewall came into possession of this tract, which embraced several hundred acres, through his wife, who was a daughter of John Hull, a princely Boston merchant, though born a poor boy. John Hull in his youth lived in Muddy River Hamlet, in a little house which stood near the Sears Memorial Church, but afterwards removed to Boston, where he amassed a large fortune for those days. Judge Sewall probably never lived on his Brookline estate. Samuel Sewall, Jr., was the first Town Clerk of the little "peculiar." In 1707 he was chosen Treasurer; and from this date until 1715, he was Clerk, Treasurer, and Selectman. In 1712 he was chosen Representative to the General Court, and in 1713, was one or a committee to agree with Mr. Cotton for a burying place...
https://books.google.com/books?id=fqSBLnQ7_PEC&source=gbs_similarbooks
In remembrance of Mr. Samuel Hirst. Boston, 1727?.
Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.0340050c/?sp=1
In Remembrance of Mr. Samuel Hirst :
the Eldest, and Only Surviving Son of Grove Hirst, Esq., Merchant, and Elizabeth Sewall His Wife (both His Younger Brethren Dying in Infancy) : Was Born at Boston, October 23, 1705 and Died Very Suddenly When He Was in His Way Upon the Long Wharff, at Two in the Afternoon, January 14, 1726/7
— By Sewall, Samuel (1652-1730)
https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7609385
Samuel Sewall Diaries
https://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0243
"By his wife, Hannah, the judge had fourteen children, of whom Samuel, Elizabeth (wife of Grove Hirst), Reverend Joseph, Mary (wife of Samuel Gerrish), and Judith (wife of Reverend William Cooper), lived to make their place in the world. Sewall married, second, 29 October, 1719, Abigail, daughter of Jacob Melyen, and third, Mary, daughter of Henry Shrimpton. Both were widows of prominence, and in that day marriage of elderly widowers and widows was held to be a duty not to be neglected. For this reason he sought comfort in marriage after each bereavement, and his diary narrates in great detail his courtships, his rebuffs, and his conquests. But Sewall was an able and distinguished citizen, too much associated in our minds, it is to be feared, with social events which played only a minor part in the main current of his life.
Sewall was entombed at Granary Burying Ground in Boston. His freestanding tomb is on the west side of the cemetery in center, opposite Paul Revere's marker."
Samuel Sewall biography
Cekebrate Boston website
http://www.celebrateboston.com/biography/samuel-sewall.htm
Sewall - Hirst - Chauncy (Chauncey)
Old Brick: Charles Chauncy of Boston, 1705-1787
By Edward M. Griffin
U of Minnesota Press, 1980 - 248 pages
https://books.google.com/books?id=dddcFsNNeNsC&q=Hirst#v=snippet&q=Hirst&f=false
Sewall - Hirst - Davenport
Serious as was the matter of the mere courtship, the fact that the dowry or marriage portion had to be considered made the act of marriage even more serious. The devout elders, who taught devotion to heavenly things and scorn of the things of this world, nevertheless haggled and wrangled long and stubbornly over a few pounds more or less. Judge Sewall seems to have prided himself on the friendly spirit and expediteness with which he settled such a matter. "Oct. 13, 1729. Judge Davenport comes to me between 10 and 11 a-clock in the morning and speaks to me on behalf of Mr. Addington Davenport, his eldest Son, that he might have Liberty to Wait upon Jane Hirst now at my House in way of Courtship. He told me he would deal by him as his eldest Son, and more than so. Inten'd to build a House where his uncle Addington dwelt, for him; and that he should have his Pue in the Old Meeting-house.... He said Madam Addington Would wait upon me."[235]
https://www.history1700s.com/index.php/articles/182-society-and-culture/womans-life/593-chapter-vi-colonial-woman-and-marriage.html
Hannah Hirst
https://archive.org/details/colonialvillageb00fros/page/16/mode/1up?q=Hannah+Hirst&view=theater
The Church and Cemetery Records of Hanover, Mass: History and records of St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal Church of Scituate, Mass., 1725-1811, of Hanover, Mass., 1811-1903, and other items of historical interest
By Lloyd Vernon Briggs
Wallace Spooner, 1905 - Hanover (Mass. : Town)
Sewall
https://books.google.com/books?id=004Bgy51mSoC&q=Sewall+#v=snippet&q=Sewall&f=false
Sewall - Hirst
https://books.google.com/books?id=004Bgy51mSoC&q=Sewall+Hirst#v=snippet&q=Sewall%20Hirst&f=false
Sewall - Hirst - Sparhawk
https://archive.org/details/colonialvillageb00fros/page/16/mode/1up?q=Sewall&view=theater
"Oct. 17, 1700.... In the following Evening Mr. Grove Hirst and Elizabeth Sewall are married by Mr. Cotton Mather."
"The Sewell Tomb in the Granary Burying Ground, Boston was really built by John Hull , Esq., who was buried therein, October 5, 1683 making it the Hull - Quincy - Sewell Tomb. According to a list prepared by Samuel Sewall, eldest son of the Chief Justice , there had been deposited in that tomb the bodies of 33 persons: John Hull, Esq., and Mrs. Judith Hull his wife, a sister of Col. Edmund Quincy, of Braintree, Mr. Daniel Quincy of Boston, a son of Col. Quincy by his first wife, and father of Hon. John Quincy, Esq., of Braintree, Speaker of the House for many years, who was great grandfather of the late John Quincy Adams, President of the United States; Rev. Joshua Moodey, first Pastor of the Church at Portsmouth , N.H., and sometime assistant minister of first Church, Boston; Chief Justice Samuel Sewall and his first two wives, twenty-five of his children and grandchildren (including Mrs. Elizabeth Hirst his eldest daughter, Grove Hirst , Esq., Merchant, her husband, and their daughter Mrs. Elizabeth, first wife of Rev. Charles Chauncey, D.D.) and Miss Ann Pierce, probably a cousin from Newbury, who had died in Boston. To these were doubtless added between then and the Revolution."
— Reverend William Cooper, Brattle Street Church, Boston
"Apparently up to this date the magistrates had possessed rather a monopoly on the marriage market, and Sewall was justly worried over this new turn in affairs. Betty, however, who had finally accepted Mr. Hirst, was married by a clergyman, as the following entry testifies: "Oct. 17, 1700.... In the following Evening Mr. Grove Hirst and Elizabeth Sewall are married by Mr. Cotton Mather.""
Entry from the Diary of Samuel Sewall, from an essay on colonial women and marriage
https://www.history1700s.com/index.php/articles/182-society-and-culture/womans-life/593-chapter-vi-colonial-woman-and-marriage.html?start=3
Ancestry website link
https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/judge-grove-hirst-24-211d36y
Great Lives on History blogspot link
http://greatlivesinhistory.blogspot.com/2011/?m=1
Nutfield Genealogy blogspot link
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/10/pepperell-family-of-kittery-maine.html?m=1
Entry in The Clio website
https://theclio.com/entry/22758
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=18795
British Columbia from the Earliest Times to the Present, Volume 3
By Ethelbert Olaf Stuart Scholefield
S.J. Clarke publishing Company, 1914 - British Columbia
https://books.google.com/books?id=JxI1AQAAMAAJ&q=Hirst#v=snippet&q=Hirst&f=false
Proceedings of the Brookline Historical Society at the Annual Meeting
Brookline Historical Society
General Books LLC, 2009 - 376 pages
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1902 Excerpt: ... THE SEWALL HOUSE. Read before the Brookline Historical Society, January 38th, 1902. Your President has asked me to write something of the history of the house I am living in, which is on what was formerly known as the Sewall Farm. I have also added some personal recollections of our town, especially of that part with which I was most familiar, and I shall have to apologize in advance for the plentiful use of the pronouns I and my. The name Sewall was an honored and respected one in the eighteenth century. It has completely died out as regards the family who occupied this farm; but it is interesting to note the frequent mention of the name in the town records from the incorporation of the little town in 1705 to the year 1767, and the evidently high standing of the family. Samuel Sewall, Jr., who headed the petition to the General Court to establish the town as a separate village or "peculiar" (as the phrase runs) was a son of Chief Justice Sewall, who owned a large tract of land in what is now known as Longwood. Judge Sewall came into possession of this tract, which embraced several hundred acres, through his wife, who was a daughter of John Hull, a princely Boston merchant, though born a poor boy. John Hull in his youth lived in Muddy River Hamlet, in a little house which stood near the Sears Memorial Church, but afterwards removed to Boston, where he amassed a large fortune for those days. Judge Sewall probably never lived on his Brookline estate. Samuel Sewall, Jr., was the first Town Clerk of the little "peculiar." In 1707 he was chosen Treasurer; and from this date until 1715, he was Clerk, Treasurer, and Selectman. In 1712 he was chosen Representative to the General Court, and in 1713, was one or a committee to agree with Mr. Cotton for a burying place...
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In remembrance of Mr. Samuel Hirst. Boston, 1727?.
Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.0340050c/?sp=1
In Remembrance of Mr. Samuel Hirst :
the Eldest, and Only Surviving Son of Grove Hirst, Esq., Merchant, and Elizabeth Sewall His Wife (both His Younger Brethren Dying in Infancy) : Was Born at Boston, October 23, 1705 and Died Very Suddenly When He Was in His Way Upon the Long Wharff, at Two in the Afternoon, January 14, 1726/7
— By Sewall, Samuel (1652-1730)
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Samuel Sewall Diaries
https://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0243
"By his wife, Hannah, the judge had fourteen children, of whom Samuel, Elizabeth (wife of Grove Hirst), Reverend Joseph, Mary (wife of Samuel Gerrish), and Judith (wife of Reverend William Cooper), lived to make their place in the world. Sewall married, second, 29 October, 1719, Abigail, daughter of Jacob Melyen, and third, Mary, daughter of Henry Shrimpton. Both were widows of prominence, and in that day marriage of elderly widowers and widows was held to be a duty not to be neglected. For this reason he sought comfort in marriage after each bereavement, and his diary narrates in great detail his courtships, his rebuffs, and his conquests. But Sewall was an able and distinguished citizen, too much associated in our minds, it is to be feared, with social events which played only a minor part in the main current of his life.
Sewall was entombed at Granary Burying Ground in Boston. His freestanding tomb is on the west side of the cemetery in center, opposite Paul Revere's marker."
Samuel Sewall biography
Cekebrate Boston website
http://www.celebrateboston.com/biography/samuel-sewall.htm
Sewall - Hirst - Chauncy (Chauncey)
Old Brick: Charles Chauncy of Boston, 1705-1787
By Edward M. Griffin
U of Minnesota Press, 1980 - 248 pages
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Sewall - Hirst - Davenport
Serious as was the matter of the mere courtship, the fact that the dowry or marriage portion had to be considered made the act of marriage even more serious. The devout elders, who taught devotion to heavenly things and scorn of the things of this world, nevertheless haggled and wrangled long and stubbornly over a few pounds more or less. Judge Sewall seems to have prided himself on the friendly spirit and expediteness with which he settled such a matter. "Oct. 13, 1729. Judge Davenport comes to me between 10 and 11 a-clock in the morning and speaks to me on behalf of Mr. Addington Davenport, his eldest Son, that he might have Liberty to Wait upon Jane Hirst now at my House in way of Courtship. He told me he would deal by him as his eldest Son, and more than so. Inten'd to build a House where his uncle Addington dwelt, for him; and that he should have his Pue in the Old Meeting-house.... He said Madam Addington Would wait upon me."[235]
https://www.history1700s.com/index.php/articles/182-society-and-culture/womans-life/593-chapter-vi-colonial-woman-and-marriage.html
Hannah Hirst
https://archive.org/details/colonialvillageb00fros/page/16/mode/1up?q=Hannah+Hirst&view=theater
The Church and Cemetery Records of Hanover, Mass: History and records of St. Andrew's Protestant Episcopal Church of Scituate, Mass., 1725-1811, of Hanover, Mass., 1811-1903, and other items of historical interest
By Lloyd Vernon Briggs
Wallace Spooner, 1905 - Hanover (Mass. : Town)
Sewall
https://books.google.com/books?id=004Bgy51mSoC&q=Sewall+#v=snippet&q=Sewall&f=false
Sewall - Hirst
https://books.google.com/books?id=004Bgy51mSoC&q=Sewall+Hirst#v=snippet&q=Sewall%20Hirst&f=false
Sewall - Hirst - Sparhawk
https://archive.org/details/colonialvillageb00fros/page/16/mode/1up?q=Sewall&view=theater
Gravesite Details
Tomb holds "..Chief Justice Samuel Sewall and his first two wives, twenty-five of his children and grandchildren (including Mrs. Elizabeth Hirst his eldest daughter, Grove Hirst , Esq., Merchant, her husband.."
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