Darby; quite sudden and unexpected; preparing them of beautiful workmanship. They were for it; we wait only for a wind. supposed to have been buried by Baron de St. Castin. 11th-Went to Cambridge to get my diploma; as I came out of Cambridge heard of the glorious news of the Surrender of Quebec. I brought it first to Salem. Great Rejoicing. 15-News of the peace in Europe. 19th-Fine, fair weather. Wind N. W Sailed from Salem. May I be in the care of God throughout this voyage. (The remainder of the journal narrates the occurrences on the Voyage to Gibraltar.) The earliest coin was one of John IV., King of Portugal, 1630-36, and it is said none after 1688; most of them were of a date long previous to that period. This large parcel of coins showed the specie circulation here be1688, and the proportions of each counIt appears from Mr. Williamson's account of the old coins, found at Castine, that there was but one coin of England found in the collection. The reason is clear, the exportation of the coins of England being strictly fore try. NOTES ON AMERICAN CURRENCY-No. 6. forbidden by Acts of Parliament. The early BY M. A. STICKNEY. In 1840, a farmer, Capt. Stephen Grindle, in the vicinity of Castine, Maine, had occasion to excavate the top of a ledge, and on removing the earth, found lying on the top of the rock, a quantity of ancient coin, of pure silver, amounting to about $600. They consisted of a large amount of Spanish Cobb money, and a great number of Pinetree shillings, with coins of France, Spain, and other countries, in fine order, and many of settlers of her American Colonies must, in consequence, have come without them, and probably with very little of that of any other nation. Wampum, and other representations of specie, were used as currency. The furs, and other commodities, sent by the first settlers to England, brought no return of specie, the balance of trade being always against them. The little specie they obtained from other countries, was also continually leaving them for England. It was to stop, and retain it in this country, * An article on the discovery of the coins found that the Massachusetts Mint was established, at Castine, was published in the Boston Daily Ad- in 1652. It was different with the exportavertiser, July 17, 1841, taken from the Belfast Sig-tion of our fish to Spain, a considerable por nal. Also, a more extended account in the Maine Hist. Soc. Coll., Vol. 6, page 105. By Joseph Williamson, Esq. He + Most of these coins, valuable to collectors, found at Castine, were purchased by John Warren, dealer in marine shells, minerals, paintings, engravings, gems, coins, and other articles of antiquity. was an Englishman, at one time a wealthy brewer, and kept his carriage, but becoming reduced in property, came to Boston with a small stock of coins, shells, &c. He established himself on Tremont Street, in an old building, afterwards removed, on the erection of the Museum He was there in 1810, I cannot tell how much sooner, -and it is likely was the first dealer in old coins in Boston, and perhaps in the U. S. He removed from Tremont Street to 293 Washington Street, up-stairs, where he continued till his death, which happened a few years VOL. II. 33 tion of the returns being specie. The coins of Holland were early introduced by our trade with the Dutch settlement at New York. The coins of France, from almost the first settlement of New England, were current, being most of them introduced by an illicit trade carried on with her Colonies. From the parcel of coins found at Castine, I obtained at the time, many fine specimens of France, Spain, and the Pine-tree money, and one of them, since, when his whole collection was sold, at private sale, to some Institution, I believe in Connecticut. (His price for the Pine-tree shilling was $1.) Most of the collectors in this vicinity have more or less of them in their collections. which I have always considered the most valu- | able (and perhaps unique,) in my collection, a piece of eight, coined at the mint of Potosi, 1652. It will be seen from the description I shall give of it, that the second coinage of the Massachusetts money, as regards the beaded eircles, enclosing the legend and device, and the Anno before the date, are nearly the same as on the New England coins, showing that it might have been, in those respects, a pattern for their coins. I do not know of the Anno being placed before the date on any other coins. It is also a very interesting coin in another respect, being stamped with N E., showing it to be one of the last issue of the silver currency of Massachusetts, ordered to be issued by the Court, Oct. 8, 1672: This Piastre of eight Reals, Plate Currency, (called on that account a piece of eight,) has on its obverse, near its edge, a beaded circle, to prevent clipping, the legend, "PHILIPVS IIII. D. G. HISPANIARVIM REX,-|-. In its field a shield surmounted by a regal coronet, first and third quarters, castles, the Arms of Castile, second and fourth, Lions, the Arms of Leon, in a bend at the base of the shield, a Pomegranate, the Arms of Granada; on the left the Arabic numeral 8, its value, and on the right of the shield, 52, an abbreviation of its date. There are other marks, which I am not able to explain. On the first quarter of the shield appears the stamp N. E., similar to that on the first coinage of the N. E. money, a beaded circle encloses the field of the coin; 'Whereas peeces of eight are of more value reverse, the beaded circles, the same as on the to carry out of the country then they will yield obverse, legend, E L. PERV. -|- POTOSI, to mint into our coyne, by reason whereof ANNO, 1652. In the field, two upright pilpeeces of eight which might else come to coyn-lars, with coronets, instead of capitols, and ing are carried out of the country, it is therefore ordered by this Court & the authority thereof, that all peeces of eight that are full weight and good siluer, that is, six shillings of New England money, of Mexico, sevil and pillar and so all lesser peeces of each sort, shall pass in this jurisdiction as current as our own money peeces of eight, at sixe shillings a peece, & all lesser peeces proportionably thereunto, provided that all such peeces that shall passe in this jurisdiction have a stampe affix't vpon them, wch shall be N E., to euidence that they are of right allay & due weight, as an addition to the sayd lawe, be it ordered and enacted by this Court & the authority thereof, that peeces of eight vnder the weight of sixe shillings shall likewise be passable for so much of New England money as they shall weigh, and that it be impressed vpon the stampe how much each peece doth weigh in legible figures wth the other letters on ye same, & of the same alloy." The coin in my possession, weighs 17 pennyweights, the weight required, and is in a fine state of preservation, having the appearance of being coined by powerful machinery. above them a regal coronet; at their base The Rev. Edward Clarke, in letters on the Spanish nation, written at Madrid, 1760-61, page 273, says: "In regard to their silver specie, in the first place observe that it has no impress of any royal head; that whenever it has a shield or coat of arms on it, it is coined in Uld Spain, if it be struck before the year 1733." EXTRACTS FROM THE FIRST BOOK OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS, OF THE CITY OF SALEM. COPIED BY IRA J. PATCH. Continued from Vol. II, page 153. John Ingersoll, his,son John bo by Judith his wife the 12th 7th mo., 1644; theire son Nathanyell bo ye 10th 2d mo., '47; da Ruth bo ye 20th 4th mɔ., '49; son Richard bǝ 1st 7th mɔ., '51; da'r Sara bo ye 28th 6th mo., 155; Sam'll bo ye 6th 8th mo., '58; sɔn Joseph bo 9th 10th mo., '62, and died ye same year: da Hana bo 11th 1st m., '63, and died Nathaniell Ingerson and Mary Preston were maried the 8th 8th mo., 1670; theire daughter Elizabeth borne 11th 12 mo., 1672; son John borne the 7th 8th 1674. 8th mo., '62; da Sara deceased 12th 8th, '62; daughter Sara by Hana his wife 30th April, '63, and died soon after; theire daughter Elizabeth borne 2d October, '64; their daughter Mary borne 30th January, ('65); sen John be 4th 6th mo., 1667; daughter Deborah borne ye 10th of March, 1669-70; son Samuell borne 30th April, 1672: Hana the wife of sd Joanes deceased 10th of May, 1672; Hugh Joanes his second marriage to Mary Foster 31st 10th mo., 1672; theire daughr Rebecka borne 15th October, 1673; daughter Abigail borne the 7th January, 1674; theire daughter Inna borne 17th 3d mɔ., 1677; daughter Rachell borne the 17th April, 1679; daughter Sara borne the 10th of July, 1681; their daughter Lydia bo 20th Feb'y, 1684, by Miry Jones. Peeter Joy and Sara Gaskin were maried ye 24th May, 1661, by Majr Hathorne; theire son David borne ye 6th Aprill, 1662; theire daughter Anna borne ye 7th August, '63; Sara borne 1st 11th m., 1666; Peeter born 3d 10th mo., '69; William borne 13th 10th mo., 1675; Samuel bo 25 July, 1678. Thomas Jeggles, his daughter Abigaile borne The widow Ann Ingerson deceased 30th Ju- by Abigaile his wife the 21st July, 1648; ly, 1677. Stephen Ingolls married to Dinah Elson ye 24 day of January, 1690-1; his daughter Mary borne by Dina his wife 6th 9th mo., 1691; Dina Ingols, daughter of Stephen Ingols and Dina his wife, was borne at Salem February ye 24th, 1693-4; Stephen Ingolls, son as afore sd, was borne at Salem June 16, 1696; Ephraim Ingolls, son as aforesd, was borne at Salem Sep'r 10th, 1698. Thomas Ives and Martha Withe were married the 1st 2d mo., 1672; their daughter Elizabeth borne the 8th 12th mo., '72, and deceased the 21st 5 mo., 1673; son Thomas borne ye 31st March, '74; daughter Deborah borne the 8th of December, 1675. Hugh Joanes maryed to Hannah Tompkins by Major Denyson 26th June, 1660; theire da'r Hana bo 9th 12th, 1660, and deceased 1st theire son Thomas borne 14th November, 1650; son William borne 1st March, '52, and dyed ye 17th day; son Samuell borne 4th February, '53; dar Elizabeth born 15 October, '56; son William borne 30th May, '59; Danyell bǝrne 9th December, 1662; Mary borne 9th March, '64; son Nathaniell 14th September, 1666; son John borne 25 March, 1669; Ebenezer borne 9th March, '71; son Benjamin bʊrne 25th May, 1674. William Jeggells yt came from Virgin:a deceased 12th May, 1674. Guston John and Elizabeth Browne were married 10th 11th mo., 1676. Georg Jacobs maryed with Rebecka Frost, widow, the 9th 12th mo., 1674; theire daughter Margarett borne 26th 9th mo., '75; son Georg borne 29th 7th mo., '77; son John borne 18th 7th mo., '79; theire sonn Jonathan borne the 29th July, 1681; theire daughter June, 1675; theire son John borne the 25th John Johnson and Hester Beeres were marryed the 23d of 12th mo., 1677-8; theire son John borne 3d August, 1679. Thomas Jeggles maried to Mary Weston March, '83; his daughter Sara borne 5th Jany, '84. Tho' Jeggles dyed 19th August, 1687. John Kitchin, his son Benjamin by Eliz his Thomas Kenne, the son of Henry Kenne, and Elizabeth Knight were married the 23d May, 1677; theire sonn Thomas borne the 27th of Julie, 1678; Joseph borne 7th Sept, 1680; Danll born 23d July, 1682; Jonathan 27th May, 1686. Lott Killum and Hana Goodell were marry wife, bo 28th 6th mo, '60, and dyed ye 15th ed 22d May, 1666; daughter Hanna in March, 7th mo., '60. Arther Kippen, his son Arther bo by Abigaile his wife 6th 11th mo., 1660; theire da Abigaile, 4th 11th, '58, was borne; theire son William deceased 14th 7, '6-; dar Abigaile deceased 3d 8th mo.,'62; dar Eliza borne 12th 3d mo, '62; son Joseph bo 23d Feby, 166—; daughter Hana borne 28th June, '69; Sara borne last of May, '70. Henry Kene, his son Thomas born by Ann his wife 1st 1st mo., '55; da Hanna born 2d Ist mo., '57; Sara da of Henry Keny by Ann his wife bo 20th 6th mo., 1661; theire son John in January, 1651; daughter Mary borne in May, 1659; Elizabeth borne in December, 1662; Lidea borne in April, 1666; Henry borne 1st May, 1669. John Kene deceased October, '70. Elisha Kebbe and Rachell Cooke were maryed the 12th 10th mo., 1667 ; theire son John borne the first of ye 12th mo., 1667; theire son Edward borne 2d 12th mo., '69; son Elisha horne ye 28th March, 1673; son James borne the 27th December, 1675. Charles Knite and Sara Lemon were maryed the 9th May, 1667; theire daughter Elizabeth horne ye 18th of May, 1668; theire daughter Mary borne ye 7th April, 1670; daughter Sara borne ye 22d July, 1673. Arther Kebben, his daughter Jerusha by Abigaile his wife borne the 19th April, 1672. John Kenne, the son of Henry Kenne and Elizabeth Looke were married the 17th day of '66-7; sonn James borne May, ('69); sonn Ephraim borne in June, ('72) and both James and Ephraim deceased in a short time after they were borne. Ruth borne September (73) and dyed the same day; daughter Ruth borne 15th January, ('75). John King and Elizabeth Goldthwrite were marryed in Sept., 1660; theire son John born in October, '62; son Samuell borne in May, '64; son William borne in June, 1669; daughter Elizabeth borne in February, 1671; son Jonathan borne in February, 1674; son Thomas borne in February, 1677, and deceased in October, 1680; theire daughter Hannah borne 15th Aprill, 1681; Mary King borne 28th March, 1687. Elizer Keazer and Mary Collens were marry ed the ninth day of December, 1679; daugh ter Sarah born December 6th 1686. Jno Kettle dyed 12th October, 1685. Jno and Nathll Kettle, twins of James Kettle, borne 9th 10th mo., 1689. ye Danll Kenny, son of Danll and Mary Ken-ied ye 11th 7th mo., 1673; theire Son Phillip ny, born October 19th, 1705. -- Alis, the wife of Hugh Laskin, dyed 28th 5th mo., '58, and Hugh Laskin died Henry Keny, his son Thos born by Ann his wife 11th 2d mo., 1655; theire daughter Hanna bo 2d 1st mo., 1657. Abigaile Lovet, dar of John Lovet, bo by Mary his wife 20th 6th mo., 1654, and deceased 27th 3d mo., '59. borne 27th 6 mo., 1673; daughter Mary borne 16th 6 mo., 75: daughter Abigail borne ye 24th June, 1687; Abraham born March 14th, 1688-9. Timothy Lindall and Mary Veren were married the last of February, 1672; his daughter Mary by Mary his wife borne ye 7th 2d mo., 1674; theire son James borne the first day of February, 1675; son Timothy borne the 4th of November, 1677; son Nathaniell borne ye John Looms, his daughter Mary bo by Mary 4th 9th mo., 1679; theire daughter Abigaile his wife 16th 10th mo 1659. John Lambert, his dar Sara by Preserved his wife bo ye 7th 12th mo., '60; theire son Danyell bo by Preserved his wife ye 3d 8th mo., '58; Ezekiell borne the 3d of March, 1661; son Samuell dyed ye 7th 5th mo.. 1662; son Samuell bor 16th 1st mo., 1664; dar Mary borne the 26th of Aprill, 1667; Jonathan born 27th 10th mo., '69; Hana borne in December, '71, and died 8 daies after. Ebenezer borne 2d April, '74. William Lake maryed to Ann Stratton about Gth mo., '61; dar Ann bo 1st 4th mo., '62, and dyed 10th 4th, '62; dar Abigaile borne 21st April, 1667; dar Mary borne the 1st 12th mo., 1668; son William borne 12th March, 1674-5. Eliza, dar of Robert Lemon, deceased 15th 10th mo., '62. Willm Lord, his son Willm by Jane his wife bo 27th 12th mo., '56; da Eliza bo 26th April, 59; dar Margaret bo ye 21st 7 mo., '60 ; son Joseph bo 1st 11th mo., '62; son Jeremiah borne the 2d Aprill, 1667; daughter Jane borne May, 1668; son Rowland borne ye 7th April, 1672, and dyed 5th 10th mo., '74; daughter Dina borne 4th 9th mo., '74; Willm Lord senr died ye 14th January, 1672, being the 97 year of his age. James Lyon deceased 30th 6th mo., '61. John Leach and Elizabeth Flint were maried ye 20th May, 1667. borne the 15th 7th mo., 1681; theire daughter Sara borne the 4th March, 1682-3; son Caleb borne the 5th Feby, '84; theire daughter Rachell borne 3d December, 1686; son Veren borne 12th Feby, 1689-90; their daughter Rachell died Augt 30th, 1743. John Longly, his son John borne by Pricillia his wife the 11th 11th mo., 1680. William Lord Junr and Mary Moulton were marryed ye 7th Aprill, 1680; their sonn William borne the 3d 12th mo., 1680; theire daughter Abigaile borne the 21st December, uary, 1693. Margaret Lambert, daughter of Eben`r Lambert and Mary his wife Born July 26th, 1696; their daughter Mary born March 26th, 1702–3, their daughter Eunice born Aprill 3d, 1706. John Lightfoot was married to Elizabeth Swasey, in May, 1680; their son Joseph borne the 14th day of Aprill, 1681; sone Samuell Phillip Logee and Mary Snasher were mar-borne 23d day Octob`r, 1683. VOL. II. 33A |