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370 "Pompions."
This now obsolete variant of pumpkins introduces us to another of the products of the Doctor's farm.
371 "Made a shift to do without spectacles."
This shows a remarkable preservation of eyesight, in the
darkness of a thunderstorm, at the age of fifty-eight.
See October 27th, following.
372 "A Bill of £50 St"'g."
The fact that this sum was "sterling" and yet so large suggests that it was a semi-annual payment upon the Doctor's
stipend, which the Proceedings of the Society show to have
been .£100 per annum, viz. £yo. as missionary at Narragansett and £30 for officiating at Warwick. ^50 would have
amounted, at this period, to not less than j£6oo in the depreciated paper currency of the Colony.
373 "Hannah Minturn?
A daughter of Jonas Minturn and a granddaughter of Samuel
Brown, the Doctor's well-known parishioner (Note 244),
the former having been married to Penelope Brown, by Dr.
MacSparran, December 21, 1732. Hannah Minturn remained unmarried, dying at an advanced age in Newport.
Her brother, William, became a distinguished merchant and
the founder of the well-known Minturn family of New York.
Even fifty years since the number of his descendants had
reached one hundred and forty. The ancestor of the Minturns
in Narragansett, where he was one of the early settlers, was
a native of England. — Updike's Hist, of Narragansett
Church, pp. 131-3.
374 uSago."
This name is indistinctly written and may be Sligo, in either
case the locality being now unknown. It is, possibly, Yago (or
Yawgoo), the Indian name ofthe locality now known as Exeter, still preserved in the designation of a manufacturing hamlet in the southeast part of that town and within a few miles
of the Glebe House.
375 "Borden's Ferry?
Same as that now known as "Bristol Ferry," connecting the
island of Rhode Island with the mainland two miles south
[ 166]
| Title | A letter book and abstract of out services written during the years 1743-1751 |
| Creator | MacSparran, James |
| Publisher | D.B. Updike, Merrymount Press |
| Place of Publication | Boston |
| Date | 1899 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000227 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | JRoteg 370 "Pompions." This now obsolete variant of pumpkins introduces us to another of the products of the Doctor's farm. 371 "Made a shift to do without spectacles." This shows a remarkable preservation of eyesight, in the darkness of a thunderstorm, at the age of fifty-eight. See October 27th, following. 372 "A Bill of £50 St"'g." The fact that this sum was "sterling" and yet so large suggests that it was a semi-annual payment upon the Doctor's stipend, which the Proceedings of the Society show to have been .£100 per annum, viz. £yo. as missionary at Narragansett and £30 for officiating at Warwick. ^50 would have amounted, at this period, to not less than j£6oo in the depreciated paper currency of the Colony. 373 "Hannah Minturn? A daughter of Jonas Minturn and a granddaughter of Samuel Brown, the Doctor's well-known parishioner (Note 244), the former having been married to Penelope Brown, by Dr. MacSparran, December 21, 1732. Hannah Minturn remained unmarried, dying at an advanced age in Newport. Her brother, William, became a distinguished merchant and the founder of the well-known Minturn family of New York. Even fifty years since the number of his descendants had reached one hundred and forty. The ancestor of the Minturns in Narragansett, where he was one of the early settlers, was a native of England. — Updike's Hist, of Narragansett Church, pp. 131-3. 374 uSago." This name is indistinctly written and may be Sligo, in either case the locality being now unknown. It is, possibly, Yago (or Yawgoo), the Indian name ofthe locality now known as Exeter, still preserved in the designation of a manufacturing hamlet in the southeast part of that town and within a few miles of the Glebe House. 375 "Borden's Ferry? Same as that now known as "Bristol Ferry," connecting the island of Rhode Island with the mainland two miles south [ 166] |
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