Book Purge - Genealogies of Pennsylvania Familes

Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families, Vol. 1 Arnold - Hertzel, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1982.

Page 261 - Herndon, John. "Notes on the Ancestry of Robert Burton (1730-1785) of Sussex County, Delaware, & Some Related Lines: Cotton, Leatherbury, Bagwell, Robinson, Rickards & Russell," 1951, 1970.

The deposition of Joshua Robinson aged fifty seven or thereabouts deposeth and sayeth that about 16 years ago he heard Joshua Burton, exec. of William Burton, late of Worcester County, Md., say that they (meaning the Representatives of the sd William Burton) had made a Division of all the estate they had come at but the Bonds, and some time after, the sd Deponent heard the sd Joshua and his sisters Elizabeth Burton and Sarah Ingram who was (sic) the Representatives of the sd. William Burton say that they had made a division of the Bonds, and further this Deponent who was executor of his sister, the above sd William Burton's widow, never say or complain that she was not satisfyed or that she had not received her full part of her deced husband's estate, nor never heard any of the heirs or representatives of the said William complain until about a year ago since the above Joshua Burton's [page 262] widow has bin married to William Tunnell and further this Deponent sayeth not.   

Sept. 6th 1766. Then was the Above Deposition taken by Direction of the Comm'ry Genl before Benton Harris, Deputy Commissary for Wor County /s/ Joshua Robinson . . . 

Book Purge - Cape Cod Library of Local History & Genealogy, Vols. 1 & 2

Smith, Leonard Jr., compiler. Cape Cod Library of Local History & Genealogy, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1992.  

Volume 1

Page 18 - Crowell, Joshua, "Cape Cod Byways," 1935.  North Shore Ways of Barnstable - The village of Barnstable, with its abundance of stone walls winding along above a rock-ridged foundation, commands an outlook unique in character and unexcelled in beauty. Sandy Neck, seven miles of irregular glistening dunes forming a giant protecting arm, gives the bay within a distinction and charm which can only be measured by frequent visits with varying ide, cloud, sun and seasonable effects.

One space along the highway presents a beautiful picture, signifying that the few but choice approaches to Barnstable Bay will amply repay investigation.

Of these approaches, beginning at the Yarmouth end of the highway through Barnstable, Keveney Lane is rural and picturesque, Indian Trail compelling but almost too narrow for comfort and Commerce Road has advantages not to be denied. Besides the fact it is a fishing village at the signs at the sandy lanes disclose with gleaming touches of bay and dune in the distance it is primarily a long curving sweep around the edge of thicket, swamp growth, marshes and creek.

Pausing at the bridge over the creek, with the storage plant opposite, we try to locate the ship-yards of

Book Purge - First Parish Church of Scituate, Massachusetts - Part II

Scituate Harbor

Stower, Richard. A History of the First Parish Church of Scituate, Massachusetts: Its Life & Times, Scituate, MA: Converpage, nd

Page 51 - . . . The purpose of the Plymouth colony . . . was singular. It was an "experiment in Christian living." The Pilgrims came to New England to carry on their lives as the first Christians did. To be sure, the Pilgrims who came on the Mayflower and those who followed them to Plymouth sought a better life and economic [page 52] self-sufficiency. Still, no one can deny that the driving force for the emigration to the New World was "English Puritanism desiring to realize itself." They sought to restore the primitive, apostolic church "pure and unspotted by human accretions or inventions."  . . . 

Mayflower Compact

The Pilgrims were following their theology that people by mutual consent "combine together" to form a governmental structure which gives its due to King James but nevertheless [page 53] exacts "laws . . . for the general good of the colony . . . "  Thus, the Pilgrims expanded their view of their congregations toward a view of government.

Forty-one adult men of the original Plymouth settlers signed this understanding on November 11, 1620, and it provided a first step toward setting up a government that could claim legitimate authority over the conduct of Colony inhabitants. [William Bradford & Richard Warren were signers] . . . 

Book Purge - First Parish Church of Scituate, Massachusetts - Part I

Stower, Richard. A History of the First Parish Church of Scituate, Massachusetts: Its Life & Times, Scituate, MA: Converpage, nd

Page 1 - On January 18, 1634 a small group of people huddled together near the warm hearth in a simple house along the edge of Scituate Harbor and to the north of the cold brook, the Satuit, that gave the town its Wampanoag name. The house belonged to James Cudworth, a salter, and with him that evening were his wife, Mary, his friend, Timothy Hatherly, and several others who assembled there for a very serious purpose: to gather the first church in the town. Leading them in prayer was the Rev. John Lothrop, newly arrived from London, by way of Boston. Thus was assembled the First Church of Scituate, a settlement in the Plymouth Colony of the Pilgrims. 

The Rev. Samuel Deane, in his History of Scituate, Massachusetts (1831) wrote, "Few subjects are more agreeable (at least to many minds) than that of contemplaing the characters of the men who first broke the soil which we now cultivate, and few things can more excite the imagination, than to muse upon the st where hey lighted their domestic fires, or to walk over the green turf that covers their remains." 

Page 4 -  In order to appreciate the early history of the Scituate church we must understand the historical context in which it came to be gathered, first led by the Rev. Henry Jacob in the Southwark borough of London in 1616 and later by his successor, the Rev. John Lothrop, in Scituate in 1634. This means we must start in sixteenth century England with the rise of the Puritan movement; then to the split between