SUPPLEMENT TO CHAPTER XVIII. THE three following Lists of Proprietors and Occupants of Pews in the Chapel in 1775 and 1785 have been preserved in the Church files. As they vary from one another in important particulars, it has been thought proper to print them all exactly as they were written. In Mr. Foote's description of the congregation as it may have appeared on the last Sunday before the Evacuation of Boston by the British troops (ante p. 316), he seats Lady Frankland in pew No. 91, a gallery pew; while in two of these Lists she is assigned to No. 2, an eligible pew in the broad aisle. No. 2 and No. 91 were both owned by the Church in 1775. In List I. Lady Frankland is "seated," that is, a tenant; and in List II. her arrears of rent of pew No. 2 appear to have been £2.17.4, - the same amount that was then due from Col. Isaac Royall and Judge Eliakim Hutchinson, the Proprietors of No. 10 and No. 23, respectively. By neither List does it appear that No. 91 was occupied; and it is significant that no other occupant of a gallery pew is mentioned in Mr. Foote's description already referred to. Unfortunately his manuscript has not been preserved, and the paragraph relating to Lady Frankland has been reprinted from Mr. Foote's published Discourse in the Chapel on March 12, 1876, in which a typographical error may have occurred. In no other way can we account for this discrepancy of statement. In 1754 Sir Harry Frankland owned pew No. 20, but in 1775 it appears to have been owned and occupied by Gilbert Deblois. It is now owned and occupied by Col. Robert H. Stevenson. — EDITOR. I. LIST OF PROPRIETORS, 1775-1785. [This List is believed to have been made by EBENEZER OLIVER, and to be the one referred to in a footnote to List III., printed on pp. 328, 329, post.] 22. Grizzel Apthorp 24. James Ivers 27. John Greenleaf 28. Shrimpton Hutchinson 29. Rob Hallowell 30. Church 31. 32. State Pew 33. Francis Johonnot 34. William Read 35. James Gardner 36. Ame & Eliza Cummings 37. Theodore Dehone 38. Thos Clement 39. Edward Stow 40. Church 41. 42. 43.44. Church 45. 46. & 47. 48. Dorothy Wharton 49. Church 50. Ambrose Vincent 51. Andrew Johonnot 52. Herman Brimmer 55. Robert Hewes 56. Charles Miller 57. Thos Kirk 60. Sam' Fitch 61. James Apthorp And Johonnot Robert Hewes Simeon Mayo Aaron Dexter Geo. R. Minot John Gregory William Turner Thos Curtis John Amory Abr Edwards John C. Jones. Thomas Bartlett John Marston Charles Bulfinch 62. James Gordon 63. Henry Leddel 64. Sam' G. Jarvis 65. George Erving 66. Lewis Deblois 67. Dr John Jeffries 68. John Haskins 69. Martha Harvey 70. Joseph Eayers 71. Church 72. Gilbert Deblois 73. Levi Jennings 74. Revd John Troutbeck 75. James Apthorp 76. John Vassall 77. Doct' Thos Bulfinch 78. Wm Vassall 79. Thos Brinley 80. Col Mascarene 81. James Smith Stephen Fales Joseph Otis Jacob Porter John Boit John Templeman Nath' Thayer Barney Smith Chas Miller James Swan Sam1 Breck Proprietors before the War in 1775, & who continued proprietors & Worshippers at King's Chapel after the ordination of Revd: J Freeman in 1787, viz. [What follows is written in pencil. The first two names are very obscure, and, perhaps, inaccurately rendered.] 80. Mrs. Knights D. Forbes Jas Smith D. Wharton A. Vincent Ch. Williams Jno. Haskins Matthew Nazro Wm. Price's heirs James Gordon's heirs Sam' G. Jarvis Jno. Box Lydia Box 66 in 1775 40 Absentees, about about 26 remained in 1782. II. MR WHEELWRIGHTS STATEMENT OF THE PEWS IN CHAPEL, EASTER 1789. Former proprietors & Barlow Trecothick Lady Frankland 3. Henry Lloyd Charles Paxton. 5 Madam Apthorp 22 ditto Sarah Hawding. 9. Mrs Wentworth 8. 6. 8 William Deblois IO. Col Isaac Royal 2. 17. 4 William Breck. 3. O. O. 16. Seated by Mrs. Apthorp sold to Dr Bulfinch by the Wardens sold Mr Deblois by the Wardens sold to Mr Breck by J: May{ now Occupied by sold to Mr Boot by the Wardens seated by the Wardens 2. Emes & Freeman seated by the Wardens M': Homer I. 3. seated by the Wardens 15. 6 seated by the Wardens 8. o seated by the Wardens sold by the Wardens to Joseph Eayers & by him to Joseph May seated by the wardens sold to Thos Clements by the wardens I sold to Hewes by the wardens & now W. Ruggles seated for 1⁄2 pew sold to Mr Minot by the Wardens Upwards of £10 of this arrose since the Mrs French's Children are Gardners Heirs Mr Poignard seated by the wardens, & has now sold to Mr Jones by the Wardens Mr Pollard seated by the Wardens Mr Coleman paid his, & took pew N° 52 where Dorothy Wharton 5. 6. 7. Rob McEllroy Joshua Davis to 1775 6. 12. |