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Title: Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771

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DIARY OF ANNA GREEN
WINSLOW
A BOSTON SCHOOL GIRL OF 1771

EDITED BY

ALICE MORSE EARLE

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1895

Copyright, 1894,
By ALICE MORSE EARLE.
All rights reserved.

THIRD EDITION.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

Editor's Introduction
List of Illustrations
Anna Green Winslow's Diary
Editor's Notes

This Book
IS DEDICATED
TO
THE KINSFOLK OF
ANNA GREEN WINSLOW

ANNA GREEN WINSLOW

FOREWORD.

I N the year 1770, a bright little girl ten years of age, Anna Green
Winslow, was sent from her far away home in Nova Scotia to Boston, the
birthplace of her parents, to be "finished" at Boston schools by Boston
teachers. She wrote, with evident eagerness and loving care, for the
edification of her parents and her own practice in penmanship, this
interesting and quaint diary, which forms a most sprightly record, not only
of the life of a young girl at that time, but of the prim and narrow round of
daily occurrences in provincial Boston. It thus assumes a positive value as
an historical picture of the domestic life of that day; a value of which the

little girl who wrote it, or her kinsfolk who affectionately preserved it to our
own day, never could have dreamed. To many New England families it is
specially interesting as a complete rendering, a perfect presentment, of the
childish life of their great grandmothers, her companions.
It is an even chance which ruling thought in the clever little writer, a love of
religion or a love of dress, shows most plainly its influence on this diary. On
the whole, I think that youthful vanity, albeit of a very natural and innocent
sort, is more pervasive of the pages. And it is fortunate that this is the case;
for, from the frankly frivolous though far from self-conscious entries we
gain a very exact notion, a very valuable picture, of the dress of a young
girl at that day. We know all the details of her toilet, from the "pompedore"
shoes and the shifts (which she had never worn till she lived in Boston), to
the absurd and top-heavy head-decoration of "black feathers, my past comb
& all my past garnet marquasett and jet pins, together with my silver
plume." If this fantastic assemblage of ornament were set upon the "Heddus
roll," so graphically described, it is easy to understand the denunciations of
the time upon women's headgear. In no contemporary record or account, no
matter who the writer, can be found such a vivacious and witty description
of the modish hairdressing of that day as in the pages of this diary.
But there are many entries in the journal of this vain little Puritan devotee
to show an almost equal attention to religion; records of sermons which she
had heard, and of religious conversations in which she had taken a self-
possessed part; and her frequent use of Biblical expressions and
comparisons shows that she also remembered fully what she read. Her
ambitious theological sermon-notes were evidently somewhat curtailed by
the sensible advice of the aunt with whom she resided, who thereby checked
also the consequent injudicious praise of her pastor, the Old South minister.
For Anna and her kinsfolk were of the congregation of the Old South
church; and this diary is in effect a record of the life of Old South church
attendants. Many were what Anna terms "sisters of the Old South," and nine
tenths of the names of her companions and friends may be found on the
baptismal and membership records of that church.
Anna was an industrious little wight, active in all housewifely labors and
domestic accomplishments, and attentive to her lessons. She could make

"pyes," and fine network; she could knit lace, and spin linen thread and
woolen yarn; she could make purses, and embroider pocket-books, and
weave watch strings, and piece patchwork. She learned "dansing, or
danceing I should say," from one Master Turner; she attended a sewing
school, to become a neat and deft little sempstress, and above all, she
attended a writing school to learn that most indispensable and most
appreciated of eighteenth century accomplishments—fine writing. Her
handwriting, of which a fac-simile is here shown, was far better than that of
most girls of twelve to-day; with truth and justice could Anna say, "Aunt
says I can write pretily." Her orthography was quite equal to that of grown
persons of her time, and her English as good as that of Mercy Warren, her
older contemporary writer.
And let me speak also of the condition of her diary. It covers seventy-two
pages of paper about eight inches long by six and a half inches wide. The
writing is uniform in size, every letter is perfectly formed; it is as legible as
print, and in the entire diary but three blots can be seen, and these are very
small. A few pages were ruled by the writer, the others are unruled. The old
paper, though heavy and good, is yellow with age, and the water marks
C.F.R. and the crown stand out distinctly. The sheets are sewed in a little
book, on which a marbled paper cover has been placed, probably by a later
hand than Anna's. Altogether it is a remarkably creditable production for a
girl of twelve.
It is well also to compare her constant diligence and industry displayed to
us through her records of a day's work—and at another time, of a week's
work—with that of any girl of her age in a corresponding station of life
nowadays. We learn that physical pain or disability were no excuse for
slothfulness; Anna was not always well—had heavy colds, and was
feverish; but well or ill was always employed. Even with painful local
afflictions such as a "whitloe," she still was industrious, "improving it to
perfect myself in learning to spin flax." She read much—the Bible
constantly—and also found amusement in reading "a variety of
composures."
She was a friendly little soul, eager to be loved; resenting deeply that her
Aunt Storer let "either one of her chaises, her chariot or babyhutt," pass the

door every day, without sending for her; going cheerfully tea-drinking from
house to house of her friends; delighting even in the catechising and the
sober Thursday Lecture. She had few amusements and holidays compared
with the manifold pleasures that children have nowadays, though she had
one holiday which the Revolution struck from our calendar—the King's
Coronation Day. She saw the Artillery Company drill, and she visited brides
and babies and old folks, and attended some funerals. When she was twelve
years old she "came out"—became a "miss in her teens"—and went to a
succession of prim little routs or parties, which she called "constitutions."
To these decorous assemblies girls only were invited,—no rough Boston
boys. She has left to us more than one clear, perfect picture of these formal
little routs in the great low-raftered chamber, softly alight with candles on
mantel-tree and in sconces; with Lucinda, the black maid, "shrilly piping;"
and rows of demure little girls of Boston Brahmin blood, in high rolls and
feathers, discreetly partaking of hot and cold punch, and soberly walking
and curtsying through the minuet; fantastic in costume, but proper and
seemly in demeanor, models of correct deportment as were their elegant
mammas.
But Anna was not solemn; she was always happy, and often merry—full of
life and wit. She jested about getting a "fresh seasoning with Globe salt,"
and wrote some labored jokes and some unconscious ones home to her
mother. She was subject to "egregious fits of laughterre," and fully proved
the statement, "Aunt says I am a whimsical child." She was not beautiful.
Her miniature is now owned by Miss Elizabeth C. Trott of Niagara Falls,
the great grand-daughter of General John Winslow, and a copy is shown in
the frontispiece. It displays a gentle, winning little face, delicate in outline,
as is also the figure, and showing some hint also of delicacy of constitution.
It may be imagination to think that it is plainly the face of one who could
never live to be old—a face typical of youth.

L ET us glance at the stock from whence sprung this tender and engaging
little blossom. When the weary Pilgrims landed at Cape Cod before
they made their memorable landing at Plymouth, a sprightly young girl
jumped on shore, and was the first English woman to set foot on the soil of
New England. Her name was Mary Chilton. She married John Winslow, the

brother of Governor Edward Winslow. Anna Green Winslow was Mary
Chilton's direct descendant in the sixth generation.
Anna's grandfather, John Winslow the fourth, was born in Boston. His son
Joshua wrote thus in the Winslow Family Bible: "Jno Winslow my Honor'd
Father was born ye 31 Dec. at 6 o'c. in the morning on the Lords Day,
1693, and was baptized by Mr. Willard the next day & dyed att sea Octo.
13, 1731 aged 38 years." A curious attitude was assumed by certain Puritan
ministers, of reluctance and even decided objection and refusal to baptize
children who were unlucky enough to be born on the Lord's Day; but
Samuel Willard, the pastor of the "South Church" evidently did not concur
in that extraordinary notion, for on the day following "Jno's" birth—on New
Year's Day—he was baptized. He was married on September 21, 1721, to
Sarah Pierce, and in their ten years of married life they had three children.
Joshua Winslow, Anna's father, was the second child. He was born January
23, 1727, and was baptized at the Old South. He was "published" with his
cousin Anna Green on December 7, 1758, and married to her four weeks
later, January 3, 1759. An old piece of embroidered tapestry herein shown
gives a good portrayal of a Boston wedding-party at that date; the
costumes, coach, and cut of the horses' mane and tail are very curious and
interesting to note. Mrs. Winslow's mother was Anna Pierce (sister of
Sarah), and her father was Joseph Green, the fourth generation from
Percival Green, whose descendants have been enumerated by Dr. Samuel
Abbott Green, the president of the Massachusetts Historical Society, in his
book entitled "Account of Percival and Ellen Green and some of their
descendants."
Mrs. Joshua Winslow was the oldest of twelve Green children, hence the
vast array of uncles and aunts and cousins in little Anna's diary.
Joseph Green, Anna's maternal grandfather, was born December 12, 1703,
and was baptised on the same day. He died July 11, 1765. He was a wealthy
man for his time, being able to pay Governor Belcher £3,600 for a tract of
land on Hanover Street. His firm name was Green & Walker. A fine portrait
of him by Copley still exists.

Thus Anna came of good stock in all lines of descent. The Pierces were of
the New Hampshire provincial gentry, to which the Wentworths and
Langdons also belonged.
Before Joshua Winslow was married, when he was but eighteen years of
age, he began his soldierly career. He was a Lieutenant in Captain Light's
company in the regiment of Colonel Moore at the taking of Louisburg in
1745. He was then appointed Commissary-General of the British forces in
Nova Scotia, and an account-book of his daily movements there still exists.
Upon his return to New England he went to live at Marshfield,
Massachusetts, in the house afterwards occupied by Daniel Webster. But
troublous times were now approaching for the faithful servants of the King.
Strange notions of liberty filled the heads of many Massachusetts men and
women; and soon the Revolution became more than a dream. Joshua
Winslow in that crisis, with many of his Marshfield friends and neighbors,
sided with his King.
He was in Marshfield certainly in June, 1775, for I have a letter before me
written to him there by Mrs. Deming at that date. One clause of this letter is
so amusing that I cannot resist quoting it. We must remember that it was
written in Connecticut, whence Mrs. Deming had fled in fright and dismay
at the siege of Boston; and that she had lost her home and all her
possessions. She writes in answer to her brother's urgent invitation to
return to Marshfield.
"We have no household stuff. Neither could I live in the terror of constant
alarms and the din of war. Besides I know not how to look you in the face,
unless I could restore to you your family Expositer, which together with my
Henry on the Bible & Harveys Meditations which are your daughter's (the
gift of her grandmother) I pack'd in a Trunk that exactly held them, some
days before I made my escape, and did my utmost to git to you, but which I
am told are still in Boston. It is not, nor ever will be in my power to make
you Satisfaction for this Error—I should not have coveted to keep 'em so
long—I am heartily sorry now that I had more than one book at a time; in
that case I might have thot to have bro't it away with me, tho' I forgot my
own Bible & almost every other necessary. But who can tell whether you

may not git your Valuable Books. I should feel comparatively easy if you
had these your Valuable property."
Her painful solicitude over the loss of a borrowed book is indeed refreshing,
as well as her surprising covetousness of the Family Expositor and
Harvey's Meditations. And I wish to add to the posthumous rehabilitation of
the damaged credit of this conscientious aunt, that Anna's book—Harvey's
Meditations—was recovered and restored to the owner, and was lost at sea
in 1840 by another Winslow.
Joshua Winslow, when exiled, went to England, and thence to Quebec,
where he retained throughout his life his office as Royal Paymaster. He was
separated many years from his wife and daughter, and doubtless Anna died
while her father was far from her; for in a letter dated Quebec, December
26, 1783, and written to his wife, he says,
"The Visiting Season is come on, a great practice here about Christmas and
the New Year; on the return of which I congratulate my Dearest Anna and
Friends with you, it being the fifth and I hope the last I shall be obliged to
see the return of in a Separation from each other while we may continue
upon the same Globe."

She shortly after joined him in Quebec. His letters show careful
preparations for her comfort on the voyage. They then were childless;
Anna's brothers, George Scott and John Henry, died in early youth. It is
interesting to note that Joshua Winslow was the first of the Winslows to give
his children more than one baptismal name.
Joshua Winslow was a man of much dignity and of handsome person, if we
can trust the Copley portrait and miniature of him which still exist. The
portrait is owned by Mr. James F. Trott of Niagara Falls, New York, the
miniature by Mrs. J. F. Lindsey of Yorkville, South Carolina, both
grandchildren of General John Winslow. His letters display much
intelligence. His spelling is unusually correct; his penmanship elegant—as
was that of all the Winslows; his forms of expression scholarly and careful.
He sometimes could joke a little, as when he began his letters to his wife
Anna thus—2. N. A.—though it is possible that the "Obstructions to a free
Correspondence, and the Circumspection we are obliged to practice in our

Converse with each other" arising from his exiled condition, may have
made him thus use a rebus in the address of his letter.
He died in Quebec in 1801. His wife returned to New England and died in
Medford in 1810. Her funeral was at General John Winslow's house on
Purchase Street, Fort Hill, Boston; she was buried in the Winslow tomb in
King's Chapel burial ground.

W E know little of the last years of Anna Green Winslow's life. A journal
written by her mother in 1773 during their life in Marshfield is now
owned by Miss Sarah Thomas of Marshfield, Mass. It is filled chiefly with
pious sermon notes and religious thoughts, and sad and anxious reflections
over absent loved ones, one of whom (in the sentimental fashion of the
times) she calls "my Myron"—her husband.
Through this journal we see "Nanny Green's" simple and monotonous daily
life; her little tea-drinkings; her spinning and reeling and knitting; her
frequent catechisings, her country walks. We find her mother's testimony to
the "appearance of reason that is in my children and for the readiness with
which they seem to learn what is taught them." And though she repeatedly
thanks God for living in a warm house, she notes that "my bason of water
froze on the hearth with as good a fire as we could make in the chimney."
This rigor of climate and discomfort of residence, and Anna's evident
delicacy shown through the records of her fainting, account for her failing
health. The last definite glimpse which we have of our gentle little Nanny is
in the shape of a letter written to her by "Aunt Deming." It is dated Boston,
April 21, 1779, and is so characteristic of the day and so amusing also that
I quote it in full.

Dear Neice,
I receivd your favor of 6th instant by nephew
Jack, who with the Col. his trav'ling companion, perform'd an easy journey
from you to us, and arriv'd before sunset. I thank you for the beads, the
wire, and the beugles, I fancy I shall never execute the plan of the head
dress to which you allude—if I should, some of your largest corn stalks,
dril'd of the pith and painted might be more proportionable. I rejoice that

your cloths came off so much better than my fears—a troublesome journey,
I expected you would have; and very much did I fear for your bones. I was
always unhappy in anticipating trouble—it is my constitution, I believe—
and when matters have been better than my fears—I have never been so
dutifully thankful as my bountiful Benefactor had a right to expect. This,
also, I believe, is the constitution of all my fellow race.
Mr. Deming had a Letter from your Papa yesterday; he mention'd your
Mama & you as indispos'd & Flavia as sick in bed. I'm at too great a
distance to render you the least service, and were I near, too much out of
health to—some part of the time—even speak to you. I am seiz'd with
exceeding weakness at the very seat of life, and to a greater degree than I
ever before knew. Could I ride, it might help me, but that is an exercise my
income will not permit. I walk out whenever I can. The day will surely
come, when I must quit this frail tabernacle, and it may be soon—I certainly
know, I am not of importance eno' in this world, for any one to wish my stay
—rather am I, and so I consider myself as a cumberground. However I shall
abide my appointed time & I desire to be found waiting for my change.
Our family are well—had I time and spirits I could acquaint you of an
expedition two sisters made to Dorchester, a walk begun at sunrise last
thursday morning—dress'd in their dammasks, padusoy, gauze, ribbins,
flapets, flowers, new white hats, white shades, and black leather shoes,
(Pudingtons make) and finished journey, & garments, orniments, and all
quite finish'd on Saturday, before noon, (mud over shoes) never did I behold
such destruction in so short a space—bottom of padusoy coat fring'd quite
round, besides places worn entire to floss, & besides frays, dammask, from
shoulders to bottom, not lightly soil'd, but as if every part had rub'd tables
and chairs that had long been us'd to wax mingl'd with grease. I could have
cry'd, for I really pitied 'em—nothing left fit to be seen—They had leave to
go, but it never entered any ones tho'ts but their own to be dressd in all
(even to loading) of their best—their all, as you know. What signifies it to
worry ones selves about beings that are, and will be, just so? I can, and do
pity and advise, but I shall git no credit by such like. The eldest talks much
of learning dancing, musick (the spinet & guitar), embroidry, dresden, the
French tongue &c &c. The younger with an air of her own, advis'd the
elder when she first mention'd French, to learn first to read English, and

was answered "law, so I can well eno' a'ready." You've heard her do what
she calls reading, I believe. Poor creature! Well! we have a time of it!
If any one at Marshfield speaks of me remember me to them. Nobody knows
I'm writing, each being gone their different ways, & all from home except
the little one who is above stairs. Farewell my dear, I've wrote eno' I find
for this siting.
Yr affect
Sarah Deming.

It does not need great acuteness to read between the lines of this letter an
affectionate desire to amuse a delicate girl whom the writer loved. The
tradition in the Winslow family is that Anna Green Winslow died of
consumption at Marshfield in the fall of 1779. There is no town or church
record of her death, no known grave or headstone to mark her last resting-
place. And to us she is not dead, but lives and speaks—always a loving,
endearing little child; not so passionate and gifted and rare a creature as
that star among children—Marjorie Fleming—but a natural and homely
little flower of New England life; fated never to grow old or feeble or dull
or sad, but to live forever and laugh in the glamour of eternal happy youth
through the few pages of her time-stained diary.
Alice Morse Earle.
Brooklyn Heights, September, 1894.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE
Anna Green Winslow. From miniature now owned by Miss
Elizabeth C. Trott, Niagara Falls, N.Y. Frontispiece.

Facsimile of Writing of Anna Green Winslow. From original
diary 1
Wedding Party in Boston in 1756. From tapestry now owned by
American Antiquarian Society 20
General Joshua Winslow. From miniature painted by Copley,
1755, and now owned by Mrs. John F. Lindsey, Yorkville, S.C. 34
Ebenezer Storer. From portrait painted by Copley, now owned
by Mrs. Lewis C. Popham, Scarsdale, N.Y. 45
Hannah Green Storer. From portrait painted by Copley, now
owned by Mrs. Lewis C. Popham, Scarsdale, N.Y. 65
Cut-Paper Picture. Cut by Mrs. Sarah Winslow Deming, now
owned by James F. Trott, Esq., Niagara Falls, N.Y. 74

Transcription

DIARY OF ANNA GREEN
WINSLOW.
1771-1773.

. . . . . . . .

Lady, by which means I had a bit of the wedding cake. I guess I shall have
but little time for journalising till after thanksgiving. My aunt Deming 1 says
I shall make one pye myself at least. I hope somebody beside myself will
like to eat a bit of my Boston pye thou' my papa and you did not
(I remember) chuse to partake of my Cumberland 2 performance. I think I
have been writing my own Praises this morning. Poor Job was forced to
praise himself when no man would do him that justice. I am not as he was.
I have made two shirts for unkle since I finish'd mamma's shifts.
Novr 18th, 1771.—Mr. Beacons 3 text yesterday was Psalm cxlix. 4. For the
Lord taketh pleasure in his people; he will beautify the meek with salvation.
His Doctrine was something like this, viz: That the Salvation of Gods
people mainly consists in Holiness. The name Jesus signifies a Savior.
Jesus saves his people from their Sins. He renews them in the spirit of their
minds—writes his Law in their hearts. Mr. Beacon ask'd a question. What is
beauty—or, wherein does true beauty consist? He answer'd, in holiness—
and said a great deal about it that I can't remember, & as aunt says she hant
leisure now to help me any further—so I may just tell you a little that I
remember without her assistance, and that I repeated to her yesterday at Tea
—He said he would lastly address himself to the young people: My dear
young friends, you are pleased with beauty, & like to be tho't beautifull—
but let me tell ye, you'l never be truly beautifull till you are like the King's
daughter, all glorious within, all the orniments you can put on while your
souls are unholy make you the more like white sepulchres garnish'd
without, but full of deformyty within. You think me very unpolite no doubt
to address you in this manner, but I must go a little further and tell you, how
cource soever it may sound to your delicacy, that while you are without
holiness, your beauty is deformity—you are all over black & defil'd, ugly
and loathsome to all holy beings, the wrath of th' great God lie's upon you,
& if you die in this condition, you will be turn'd into hell, with ugly devils,
to eternity.
Nov. 27th.—We are very glad to see Mr. Gannett, because of him "we hear
of your affairs & how you do"—as the apostle Paul once wrote. My unkle
& aunt however, say they are sorry he is to be absent, so long as this whole
winter, I think. I long now to have you come up—I want to see papa, mama,
& brother, all most, for I cannot make any distinction which most—I should

like to see Harry too. Mr. Gannett tells me he keeps a journal—I do want to
see that—especially as Mr. Gannett has given me some specimens, as I may
say of his "I and Aunt &c." I am glad Miss Jane is with you, I will write to
her soon—Last monday I went with my aunt to visit Mrs. Beacon. I was
exceedingly pleased with the visit, & so I ought to be, my aunt says, for
there was much notice taken of me, particylarly by Mr. Beacon. I think I
like him better every time I see him. I suppose he takes the kinder notice of
me, because last thursday evening he was here, & when I was out of the
room, aunt told him that I minded his preaching & could repeat what he
said—I might have told you that notwithstanding the stir about the
Proclamatien, we had an agreable Thanksgiven. Mr. Hunt's 4 text was Psa.
xcvii. 1. The Lord reigneth,—let the earth rejoice. Mr. Beacon's text P M
Psa. xxiv. 1. The earth is the Lord's & the fulness thereof. My unkle & aunt
Winslow 5 of Boston, their son & daughter, Master Daniel Mason (Aunt
Winslows nephew from Newport, Rhode Island) & Miss Soley 6 spent the
evening with us. We young folk had a room with a fire in it to ourselves. Mr
Beacon gave us his company for one hour. I spent Fryday with my friends
in Sudbury Street. I saw Mrs. Whitwell 7 very well yesterday, she was very
glad of your Letter.
Nov. 28th.—I have your favor Hond Mamma, by Mr. Gannett, & heartily
thank you for the broad cloath, bags, ribbin & hat. The cloath & bags are
both at work upon, & my aunt has bought a beautifull ermin trimming for
my cloak. AC stands for Abigail Church. PF for Polly Frazior. I have
presented one piece of ribbin to my aunt as you directed. She gives her love
to you, & thanks you for it. I intend to send Nancy Mackky a pair of lace
mittens, & the fag end of Harry's watch string. I hope Carolus (as papa us'd
to call him) will think his daughter very smart with them. I am glad Hond
madam, that you think my writing is better than it us'd to be—you see it is
mended just here. I dont know what you mean by terrible margins vaze.
I will endeavor to make my letters even for the future. Has Mary brought
me any Lozong Mamma? I want to know whether I may give my old black
quilt to Mrs Kuhn, for aunt sais, it is never worth while to take the pains to
mend it again. Papa has wrote me a longer letter this time than you have
Madm.

November the 29th.—My aunt Deming gives her love to you and says it is
this morning 12 years since she had the pleasure of congratulating papa and
you on the birth of your scribling daughter. She hopes if I live 12 years
longer that I shall write and do everything better than can be expected in the
past 12. I should be obliged to you, you will dismiss me for company.
30th Nov.—My company yesterday were

Miss Polly Deming, 8
Miss Polly Glover, 9
Miss Peggy Draper,
Miss Bessy Winslow, 10
Miss Nancy Glover, 11
Miss Sally Winslow 12
Miss Polly Atwood,
Miss Hanh Soley.

Miss Attwood as well as Miss Winslow are of this family. And Miss
N. Glover did me honor by her presence, for she is older than cousin Sally
and of her acquaintance. We made four couple at country dansing; danceing
I mean. In the evening young Mr. Waters 13 hearing of my assembly, put his
flute in his pocket and played several minuets and other tunes, to which we
danced mighty cleverly. But Lucinda 14 was our principal piper. Miss
Church and Miss Chaloner would have been here if sickness,—and the
Miss Sheafs, 15 if the death of their father had not prevented. The black Hatt
I gratefully receive as your present, but if Captain Jarvise had arrived here
with it about the time he sail'd from this place for Cumberland it would
have been of more service to me, for I have been oblig'd to borrow. I wore
Miss Griswold's 16 Bonnet on my journey to Portsmouth, & my cousin
Sallys Hatt ever since I came home, & now I am to leave off my black
ribbins tomorrow, & am to put on my red cloak & black hatt—I hope aunt
wont let me wear the black hatt with the red Dominie—for the people will
ask me what I have got to sell as I go along street if I do, or, how the folk at
New guinie do? Dear mamma, you dont know the fation here—I beg to
look like other folk. You dont know what a stir would be made in sudbury
street, were I to make my appearance there in my red Dominie & black

Hatt. But the old cloak & bonnett together will make me a decent bonnett
for common ocation (I like that) aunt says, its a pitty some of the ribbins
you sent wont do for the Bonnet.—I must now close up this Journal. With
Duty, Love, & Compliments as due, perticularly to my Dear little brother
(I long to see him) & Mrs. Law, I will write to her soon.
I am Hond Papa & mama,
Yr ever Dutiful Daughter
Anne Green Winslow.
N.B. My aunt Deming dont approve of my English & has not the fear that
you will think her concernd in the Diction.
Decbr. 6th.—Yesterday I was prevented dining at unkle Joshua's 17 by a
snow storm which lasted till 12 o'clock today, I spent some part of
yesterday afternoon and evening at Mr. Glovers. When I came home, the
snow being so deep I was bro't home in arms. My aunt got Mr. Soley's
Charlstown to fetch me. The snow is up to the peoples wast in some places
in the street.
Dec 14th.—The weather and walking have been very winter like since the
above hotch-potch, pothooks & trammels. I went to Mrs. Whitwell's last
wednessday—you taught me to spell the 4 day of the week, but my aunt
says that it should be spelt wednesday. My aunt also says, that till I come
out of an egregious fit of laughterre that is apt to sieze me & the violence of
which I am at this present under, neither English sense, nor anything
rational may be expected of me. I ment to say, that, I went to Mrs.
Whitwell's to see Madm Storers 18 funeral, the walking was very bad except
on the sides of the street which was the reason I did not make a part of the
procession. I should have dined with Mrs. Whitwell on thursday if a grand
storm had not prevented, As she invited me. I saw Miss Caty Vans 19 at
lecture last evening. I had a visit this morning from Mrs Dixon of Horton &
Miss Polly Huston. Mrs Dixon is dissipointed at not finding her sister here.
Decr 24th.—Elder Whitwell told my aunt, that this winter began as did the
Winter of 1740. How that was I dont remember but this I know, that to-day
is by far the coldest we have had since I have been in New England.

(N.B. All run that are abroad.) Last sabbath being rainy I went to & from
meeting in Mr. Soley's chaise. I dined at unkle Winslow's, the walking
being so bad I rode there & back to meeting. Every drop that fell froze, so
that from yesterday morning to this time the appearance has been similar to
the discription I sent you last winter. The walking is so slippery & the air so
cold, that aunt chuses to have me for her scoller these two days. And as
tomorrow will be a holiday, so the pope and his associates have ordained, 20
my aunt thinks not to trouble Mrs Smith with me this week. I began a shift
at home yesterday for myself, it is pretty forward. Last Saturday was seven-
night my aunt Suky 21 was delivered of a pretty little son, who was baptiz'd
by Dr. Cooper 22 the next day by the name of Charles. I knew nothing of it
till noonday, when I went there a visiting. Last Thursday I din'd & spent the
afternoon at unkle Joshua's I should have gone to lecture with my aunt &
heard our Mr Hunt preach, but she would not wait till I came from writing
school. Miss Atwood, the last of our boarders, went off the same day. Miss
Griswold & Miss Meriam, having departed some time agone, I forget
whether I mention'd the recept of Nancy's present. I am oblig'd to her for it.
The Dolphin is still whole. And like to remain so.
Decr This day, the extremity of the cold is somewhat abated. I keept
27th Christmas at home this year, & did a very good day's work, aunt
says so. How notable I have been this week I shall tell you by & by. I spent
the most part of Tuesday evening with my favorite, Miss Soley, & as she is
confined by a cold & the weather still so severe that I cannot git farther,
I am to visit her again before I sleep, & consult with her (or rather she
with me) upon a perticular matter, which you shall know in its place. How
strangely industrious I have been this week, I will inform you with my own
hand—at present, I am so dilligent, that I am oblig'd to use the hand & pen
of my old friend, who being near by is better than a brother far off. I dont
forgit dear little John Henry so pray mamma, dont mistake me.
Decr Last evening a little after 5 o'clock I finished my shift. I spent the
28th evening at Mr. Soley's. I began my shift at 12 o'clock last monday,
have read my bible every day this week & wrote every day save one.
Decr I return'd to my sewing school after a weeks absence, I have also
30th paid my compliments to Master Holbrook. 23 Yesterday between

meetings my aunt was call'd to Mrs. Water's 13 & about 8 in the evening Dr.
Lloyd 24 brought little master to town (N.B. As a memorandum for myself.
My aunt stuck a white sattan pincushin 25 for Mrs Waters. 13 On one side, is
a planthorn with flowers, on the reverse, just under the border are, on one
side stuck these words, Josiah Waters, then follows on the end, Decr 1771,
on the next side & end are the words, Welcome little Stranger.) Unkle has
just come in & bro't one from me. I mean, unkle is just come in with a letter
from Papa in his hand (& none for me) by way of Newbury. I am glad to
hear that all was well the 26 Novr ult. I am told my Papa has not mention'd
me in this Letter. Out of sight, out of mind. My aunt gives her love to papa,
& says that she will make the necessary enquieries for my brother and send
you via. Halifax what directions and wormseed she can collect.
1st Jany I wish my Papa, Mama, brother John Henry, & cousin Avery & all
1772. the rest of my acquaintance at Cumberland, Fortlaurence,
Barronsfield, Greenland, Amherst &c. a Happy New Year, I have bestow'd
no new year's gift, 26 as yet. But have received one very handsome one, viz.
the History of Joseph Andrews abreviated. In nice Guilt and flowers covers.
This afternoon being a holiday I am going to pay my compliments in
Sudbury Street.
Jany 4th I was dress'd in my yellow coat, my black bib & apron, my
1772 pompedore 27 shoes, the cap my aunt Storer 28 sometime since
presented me with (blue ribbins on it) & a very handsome loket in the shape
of a hart she gave me—the past pin my Hond Papa presented me with in my
cap, My new cloak & bonnet on, my pompedore gloves, &c, &c. And I
would tell you, that for the first time, they all lik'd my dress very much. My
cloak & bonnett are really very handsome, & so they had need be. For they
cost an amasing sight of money, not quite £45 29 tho' Aunt Suky said, that
she suppos'd Aunt Deming would be frighted out of her Wits at the money it
cost. I have got one covering, by the cost, that is genteel, & I like it much
myself. On thursday I attended my aunt to Lecture & heard Dr Chauncey 30
preach a third sermon from Acts ii. 42. They continued stedfastly—in
breaking of bread. I din'd & spent the afternoon at Mr. Whitwell's. Miss
Caty Vans was one of our company. Dr. Pemberton 31 & Dr Cooper had on
gowns, In the form of the Episcopal cassock we hear, the Docts design to

distinguish themselves from the inferior clergy by these strange habits [at a
time too when the good people of N.E. are threaten'd with & dreading the
comeing of an episcopal bishop] 32 N.B. I dont know whether one sleeve
would make a full trimm'd negligee 33 as the fashion is at present, tho' I cant
say but it might make one of the frugal sort, with but scant triming. Unkle
says, they all have popes in their bellys. Contrary to I. Peter v. 2. 3. Aunt
says, when she saw Dr P. roll up the pulpit stairs, the figure of Parson
Trulliber, recorded by Mr Fielding occur'd to her mind & she was really
sorry a congregational divine, should, by any instance whatever, give her so
unpleasing an idea.
Jany I have attended my schools every day this week except wednesday
11th afternoon. When I made a setting up visit to aunt Suky, & was
dress'd just as I was to go to the ball. It cost me a pistoreen 34 to nurse Eaton
for tow cakes, which I took care to eat before I paid for them. 35 I heard Mr
Thacher preach our Lecture last evening Heb. 11. 3. I remember a great deal
of the sermon, but a'nt time to put it down. It is one year last Sepr since he
was ordain'd & he will be 20 years of age next May if he lives so long.
I forgot that the weather want fit for me to go to school last thursday.
I work'd at home.
Jany I told you the 27th Ult that I was going to a constitation with miss
17th Soley. I have now the pleasure to give you the result, viz. a very
genteel well regulated assembly which we had at Mr Soley's last evening,
miss Soley being mistress of the ceremony. Mrs Soley desired me to assist
Miss Hannah in making out a list of guests which I did some time since,
I wrote all the invitation cards. There was a large company assembled in a
handsome, large, upper room in the new end of the house. We had two
fiddles, & I had the honor to open the diversion of the evening in a minuet
with miss Soley.—Here follows a list of the company as we form'd for
country dancing.

Miss Soley & Miss Anna Greene Winslow
Miss Calif Miss Scott
Miss Williams Miss McCarthy
Miss Codman Miss Winslow
Miss Ives Miss Coffin

Miss Scolley 36 Miss Bella Coffin 37
Miss Waldow Miss Quinsy 38
Miss Glover Miss Draper
Miss Hubbard

Miss Cregur (usually pronounced Kicker) & two Miss Sheafs were invited
but were sick or sorry & beg'd to be excus'd. There was a little Miss Russell
& the little ones of the family present who could not dance. As spectators,
there were Mr & Mrs Deming, Mr. & Mrs Sweetser Mr & Mrs Soley, Mr &
Miss Cary, Mrs Draper, Miss Oriac, Miss Hannah—our treat was nuts,
rasins, Cakes, Wine, punch, 39 hot & cold, all in great plenty. We had a very
agreeable evening from 5 to 10 o'clock. For variety we woo'd a widow,
hunted the whistle, threaded the needle, & while the company was
collecting, we diverted ourselves with playing of pawns, no rudeness
Mamma I assure you. Aunt Deming desires you would perticulary observe,
that the elderly part of the company were spectators only, they mix'd not in
either of the above describ'd scenes.
I was dress'd in my yellow coat, black bib & apron, black feathers on my
head, my past comb, & all my past 40 garnet marquesett 41 & jet pins,
together with my silver plume—my loket, rings, black collar round my
neck, black mitts & 2 or 3 yards of blue ribbin, (black & blue is high tast)
striped tucker and ruffels (not my best) & my silk shoes compleated my
dress.
Jany Yesterday I had an invitation to celebrate Miss Caty's birth-day with
18th her. She gave it me the night before. Miss is 10 years old. The best
dancer in Mr Turners 42 school, she has been his scoller these 3 years. My
aunt thought it proper (as our family had a invitation) that I should attend a
neighbor's funeral yesterday P.M. I went directly from it to Miss Caty's
Rout & arriv'd ex . . . . . .

Boston January 25 1772.
Hon'd Mamma, My Hon'd Papa has never signified to me his approbation of
my journals, from whence I infer, that he either never reads them, or does
not give himself the trouble to remember any of their contents, tho' some

part has been address'd to him, so, for the future, I shall trouble only you
with this part of my scribble—Last thursday I din'd at Unkle Storer's &
spent the afternoon in that neighborhood. I met with some adventures in my
way viz. As I was going, I was overtaken by a lady who was quite a
stranger to me. She accosted me with "how do you do miss?" I answer'd
her, but told her I had not the pleasure of knowing her. She then ask'd "what
is your name miss? I believe you think 'tis a very strange questian to ask,
but have a mind to know." Nanny Green—She interrupted me with "not
Mrs. Winslow of Cumberland's daughter." Yes madam I am. When did you
hear from your Mamma? how do's she do? When shall you write to her?
When you do, tell her that you was overtaken in the street by her old friend
Mrs Login, give my love to her & tell her she must come up soon & live on
Jamaca plain. we have got a nice meeting-house, & a charming minister, &
all so cleaver. She told me she had ask'd Unkle Harry to bring me to see her,
& he said he would. Her minister is Mr Gordon. I have heard him preach
several times at the O. South. In the course of my peregrination, as aunt
calls it, I happen'd in to a house where D—— was attending the Lady of the
family. How long she was at his opperation, I know not. I saw him twist &
tug & pick & cut off whole locks of grey hair at a slice (the lady telling him
she would have no hair to dress next time) for the space of a hour & a half,
when I left them, he seeming not to be near done. This lady is not a
grandmother tho' she is both old enough & grey enough to be one.
Jany I spent yesterday with Aunt Storer, except a little while I was at Aunt
31 Sukey's with Mrs Barrett dress'd in a white brocade, & cousin Betsey
dress'd in a red lutestring, both adorn'd with past, perls marquesett &c. They
were after tea escorted by Mr. Newton & Mr Barrett to ye assembly at
Concert Hall. This is a snowy day, & I am prevented going to school.

WEDDING PARTY IN BOSTON IN 1756

Feb. 9th.—My honored Mamma will be so good as to excuse my useing the
pen of my old friend just here, because I am disabled by a whitloe on my
fourth finger & something like one on my middle finger, from using my
own pen; but altho' my right hand is in bondage, my left is free; & my aunt
says, it will be a nice oppertunity if I do but improve it, to perfect myself in
learning to spin flax. I am pleased with the proposal & am at this present,
exerting myself for this purpose. I hope, when two, or at most three months
are past, to give you occular demonstration of my proficiency in this art, as
well as several others. My fingers are not the only part of me that has
suffer'd with sores within this fortnight, for I have had an ugly great boil
upon my right hip & about a dozen small ones—I am at present swath'd hip
& thigh, as Samson smote the Philistines, but my soreness is near over. My
aunt thought it highly proper to give me some cooling physick, so last
tuesday I took 1-2 oz Globe Salt (a disagreeable potion) & kept chamber.

Since which, there has been no new erruption, & a great alteration for the
better in those I had before.
I have read my bible to my aunt this morning (as is the daily custom) &
sometimes I read other books to her. So you may perceive, I have the use of
my tongue & I tell her it is a good thing to have the use of my tongue. Unkle
Ned 43 called here just now—all well—by the way he is come to live in
Boston again, & till he can be better accomodated, is at housekeeping
where Madm Storer lately lived, he is looking for a less house. I tell my
Aunt I feel a disposician to be a good girl, & she pleases herself that she
shall have much comfort of me to-day, which as cousin Sally is ironing we
expect to have to ourselves.
Feb. 10th.—This day I paid my respects to Master Holbrook, after a week's
absence, my finger is still in limbo as you may see by the writeing. I have
not paid my compliments to Madam Smith, 44 for, altho' I can drive the goos
quill a bit, I cannot so well manage the needle. So I will lay my hand to the
distaff, as the virtuous woman did of old—Yesterday was very bad weather,
neither aunt, nor niece at publick worship.
Feb. 12th.—Yesterday afternoon I spent at unkle Joshuas. Aunt Green gave
me a plaister for my fingure that has near cur'd it, but I have a new boil,
which is under poultice, & tomorrow I am to undergo another seasoning
with globe Salt. The following lines Aunt Deming found in grandmama
Sargent's 45 pocket-book & gives me leave to copy 'em here.—
Dim eyes, deaf ears, cold stomach shew,
My dissolution is in view
The shuttle's thrown, my race is run,
My sun is set, my work is done;
My span is out, my tale is told,
My flower's decay'd, & stock grows old,
The dream is past, the shadows fled,
My soul now longs for Christ my head,
I've lived to seventy six or nigh,
God calls at last, & now I'll die. 46

My honor'd Grandma departed this vale of tears 1-4 before 4 o'clock
wednesday morning August 21, 1771. Aged 74 years, 2 months & ten days.

Feb. 13th.—Everybody says that this is a bitter cold day, but I know nothing
about it but hearsay for I am in aunt's chamber (which is very warm always)
with a nice fire, a stove, sitting in Aunt's easy chair, with a tall three leav'd
screen at my back, & I am very comfortable. I took my second (& I hope
last) potion of Globe salts this morning. I went to see Aunt Storer yesterday
afternoon, & by the way Unkle Storer is so ill that he keeps chamber. As I
went down I call'd at Mrs Whitwell's & must tell you Mr & Mrs Whitwell
are both ill. Mrs. Whitwell with the rheumatism. I saw Madm Harris, Mrs
Mason and Miss Polly Vans 47 there, they all give their love to you—Last
evening I went to catechizing with Aunt. Our ministers have agreed during
the long evenings to discourse upon the questions or some of 'em in the
assembly's shorter catechism, taking 'em in their order at the house of Mrs
Rogers in School Street, every wednesday evening. Mr. Hunt began with
the first question and shew'd what it is to glorify God. Mr Bacon then took
the second, what rule &c. which he has spent three evenings upon, & now
finished. Mr Hunt having taken his turn to show what the Scriptures
principly teach, & what is God. I remember he said that there was nothing
properly done without a rule, & he said that the rule God had given us to
glorify him by was the bible. How miraculously (said he) has God preserv'd
this blessed book. It was once in the reign of a heathen emperor condemn'd
to be burnt, at which time it was death to have a bible & conceal it, but
God's providence was wonderful in preserving it when so much human
policy had been exerted to bury it in Oblivion—but for all that, here we
have it as pure & uncorrupted as ever—many books of human composure
have had much pains taken to preserve 'em, notwithstanding they are buried
in Oblivion. He considered who was the author of the bible, he prov'd that
God was the author, for no good man could be the author, because such a
one would not be guilty of imposition, & an evil man could not unless we
suppose a house divided against itself. he said a great deal more to prove
the bible is certainly the word of God from the matter it contains &c, but
the best evidence of the truth of divine revelation, every true believer has in
his own heart. This he said, the natural man had no idea of. I did not
understand all he said about the external and internal evidence, but this I
can say, that I understand him better than any body else that I hear preach.

Aunt has been down stairs all the time I have been recolecting & writeing
this. Therefore, all this of own head, of consequence.
Valentine day. 48—My cousin Sally reeled off a 10 knot skane of yarn today.
My valentine was an old country plow-joger. The yarn was of my spinning.
Aunt says it will do for filling. Aunt also says niece is a whimsical child.
Feb. 17.—Since Wednesday evening, I have not been abroad since
yesterday afternoon. I went to meeting & back in Mr. Soley's chaise. Mr.
Hunt preached. He said that human nature is as opposite to God as darkness
to light. That our sin is only bounded by the narrowness of our capacity. His
text was Isa. xli. 14. 18. The mountains &c. He said were unbelief, pride,
covetousness, enmity, &c. &c. &c. This morning I took a walk for Aunt as
far as Mr. Soley's. I called at Mrs Whitwell's & found the good man & lady
both better than when I saw them last. On my return I found Mr. Hunt on a
visit to aunt. After the usual salutations & when did you hear from your
papa &c. I ask'd him if the blessing pronounced by the minister before the
congregation is dismissed, is not a part of the publick worship? "Yes."
"Why then, do you Sir, say, let us conclude the publick worship by
singing?" "Because singing is the last act in which the whole congregation
is unanimously to join. The minister in Gods name blesses his i.e. Gods
people agreeable to the practice of the apostles, who generally close the
epistles with a benediction in the name of the Trinity, to which, Amen is
subjoined, which, tho' pronounc'd by the minister, is, or ought to be the
sentiment & prayer of the whole assembly, the meaning whereof is, So
be it."
Feb. 18th.—Another ten knot skane of my yarn was reel'd off today. Aunt
says it is very good. My boils & whitloes are growing well apace, so that I
can knit a little in the evening.
Transcribed from the Boston Evening Post:
Sep. 18, 1771. Under the head of London news, you may find that last
Thursday was married at Worcester the Widow Biddle of Wellsburn in the
county of Warwick, to her grandson John Biddle of the same place, aged
twenty three years. It is very remarkable. the widdow had one son & one
daughter; 18 grandchildren & 5 great grandchildren; her present husband

has one daughter, who was her great granddaughter but is now become her
daughter; her other great grandchildren are become her cousins; her
grandchildren her brothers & sisters; her son & daughter her father &
mother. I think! tis the most extraordinary account I ever read in a News-
Paper. It will serve to puzzel Harry Dering with.
Monday Feb. 18th—Bitter cold. I am just come from writing school. Last
Wednesday P.M. while I was at school Aunt Storer called in to see Aunt
Deming in her way to Mr Inches's. She walk'd all that long way. Thursday
last I din'd & spent the afternoon with Aunt Sukey. I attended both my
schools in the morning of that day. I cal'd at unkle Joshua's as I went along,
as I generally do, when I go in town, it being all in my way. Saterday I din'd
at Unkle Storer's, drank tea at Cousin Barrel's, was entertain'd in the
afternoon with scating. Unkle Henry was there. Yesterday by the help of
neighbor Soley's Chaise, I was at meeting all day, tho' it snow'd in the
afternoon. I might have say'd I was at Unkle Winslow's last Thursday Eveg
& when I inform you that my needle work at school, & knitting at home,
went on as usual, I think I have laid before you a pretty full account of the
last week. You see how I improve in my writing, but I drive on as fast as I
can.
Feb. 21 This day Jack Frost bites very hard, so hard aunt won't let me
Thursday. go to any school. I have this morning made part of a coppy
with the very pen I have now in my hand, writting this with. Yesterday was
so cold there was a very thick vapor upon the water, but I attended my
schools all day. My unkle says yesterday was 10 degrees colder than any
day we have had before this winter. And my aunt says she believes this day
is 10 degrees colder than it was yesterday; & moreover, that she would not
put a dog out of doors. The sun gives forth his rays through a vapor like that
which was upon the water yesterday. But Aunt bids me give her love to
pappa & all the family & tell them that she should be glad of their company
in her warm parlour, indeed there is not one room in this house but is very
warm when there is a good fire in them. As there is in this at present.
Yesterday I got leave (by my aunt's desire) to go from school at 4 o'clock to
see my unkle Ned who has had the misfortune to break his leg. I call'd in to
warm myself at unkle Joshua's. Aunt Hannah told me I had better not go

any further for she could tell me all about him, so I say'd as it is so cold I
believe aunt won't be angry so I will stay, I therefore took off my things,
aunt gave me leave to call at Unkle Joshua's & was very glad I went no
further. Aunt Hannah told me he was as well as could be expected for one
that has a broken bone. He was coming from Watertown in a chaise the
horse fell down on the Hill, this side Mr Brindley's. he was afraid if he fell
out, the wheel would run over him, he therefore gave a start & fell out &
broke his leg, the horse strugled to get up, but could not. unkle Ned was
affraid if he did get up the chaise wheels would run over him, so he went on
his two hands and his other foot drawing his lame leg after him & got
behind the chaise, (so he was safe) & there lay in the snow for some time,
nobody being near. at last 2 genteelmen came, they tho't the horse was dead
when they first saw him at a distance, but hearing somebody hollow, went
up to it. By this time there was a countraman come along, the person that
hollow'd was unkle Ned. They got a slay and put him in it with some hay
and a blanket, wrapt him up well as they could & brought him to Deacon
Smith's in town. Now Papa & Mamma, this hill is in Brookline. And now
again, I have been better inform'd for the hill is in Roxbury & poor Unkle
Ned was alone in the chaise. Both bones of his leg are broke, but they did
not come thro' the skin, which is a happy circumstance. It is his right leg
that is broke. My Grandmamma sent Miss Deming, Miss Winslow & I one
eightth of a Dollar a piece for a New Years gift. My Aunt Deming & Miss
Deming had letters from Grandmamma. She was pretty well, she wrote aunt
that Mrs Marting was brought to bed with a son Joshua about a month
since, & is with her son very well. Grandmamma was very well last week.
I have made the purchase I told you of a few pages agone, that is, last
Thursday I purchas'd with my aunt Deming's leave, a very beautiful white
feather hat, that is, the out side, which is a bit of white hollond with the
feathers sew'd on in a most curious manner white & unsullyed as the falling
snow, this hat I have long been saving my money to procure for which I
have let your kind allowance, Papa, lay in my aunt's hands till this hat
which I spoke for was brought home. As I am (as we say) a daughter of
liberty 49 I chuse to wear as much of our own manufactory as pocible. But
my aunt says, I have wrote this account very badly. I will go on to save my
money for a chip & a lineing &c.

Papa I rec'd your letter dated Jan. 11, for which I thank you, Sir, & thank
you greatly for the money I received therewith. I am very glad to hear that
Brother John papa & mamma & cousin are well. I'll answer your letter papa
and yours mamma and cousin Harry's too. I am very glad mamma your eyes
are better. I hope by the time I have the pleasure of hearing from
Cumberland again your eyes will be so well that you will favor me with one
from you.
Feb. 22d.—Since about the middle of December, ult. we have had till this
week, a series of cold and stormy weather—every snow storm (of which we
have had abundance) except the first, ended with rain, by which means the
snow was so hardened that strong gales at NW soon turned it, & all above
ground to ice, which this day seven-night was from one to three, four &
they say, in some places, five feet thick, in the streets of this town. Last
saturday morning we had a snow storm come on, which continued till four
o'clock P.M. when it turned to rain, since which we have had a warm air,
with many showers of rain, one this morning a little before day attended
with thunder. The streets have been very wet, the water running like rivers
all this week, so that I could not possibly go to school, neither have I yet got
the bandage off my fingure. Since I have been writing now, the wind
suddenly sprung up at NW and blew with violence so that we may get to
meeting to-morrow, perhaps on dry ground. Unkle Ned was here just now
& has fairly or unfairly carried off aunt's cut paper pictures, 50 tho' she told
him she had given them to papa some years ago. It has been a very sickly
time here, not one person that I know of but has been under heavy colds—
(all laid up at unkle Storer's) in general got abroad again. Aunt Suky had not
been down stairs since her lying in, when I last saw her, but I hear she is got
down. She has had a broken breast. I have spun 30 knots of linning yarn,
and (partly) new footed a pair of stockings for Lucinda, read a part of the
pilgrim's progress, coppied part of my text journal (that if I live a few years
longer, I may be able to understand it, for aunt sais, that to her, the contents
as I first mark'd them, were an impenetrable secret) play'd some, tuck'd a
great deal (Aunt Deming says it is very true) laugh'd enough, & I tell aunt it
is all human nature, if not human reason. And now, I wish my honored
mamma a very good night.

Saturday Dear Pappa, do's the winter continue as pleasant at
d
noon Feb. 23 Cumberland as when you wrote to me last? We had but
very little winter here, till February came in, but we have little else since.
The cold still continues tho' not so extreme as it was last Thursday. I have
attended my schools all this week except one day, and am going as soon as I
have din'd to see how Unkle Ned does. I was thinking, Sir, to lay up a piece
of money you sent me, but as you sent it to me to lay out I have a mind to
buy a chip & linning for my feather hatt. But my aunt says she will think of
it. My aunt says if I behave myself very well indeed, not else, she will give
me a garland of flowers to orniment it, tho' she has layd aside the biziness
of flower making. 51

GENERAL JOSHUA WINSLOW

Feb. 25th.—This is a very stormy day of snow, hail & rain, so that I cannot
get to Master Holbrook's, therefore I will here copy something I lately
transcribed on a loose paper from Dr. Owen's sermon on Hab. iii, 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. "I have heard that a full wind behind the ship drives her not
so fast forward, as a side wind, that seems almost as much against her as

with her; & the reason they say is, because a full wind fills but some of her
sails.
Wednesday.—Very cold, but this morning I was at sewing and writing
school, this afternoon all sewing, for Master Holbrook does not in the
winter keep school of afternoons. Unkle Henrys feet are so much better that
he wears shoos now.
Monday I have been to writing school this morning and Sewing. The day
noon being very pleasant, very little wind stirring. Jemima called to
th
Feb. 25 . see me last evening. She lives at Master Jimmy Lovel's. 52 Dear
mamma, I suppose that you would be glad to hear that Betty Smith who has
given you so much trouble, is well & behaves herself well & I should be
glad if I could write you so. But the truth is, no sooner was the 29th
Regiment encamp'd upon the common but miss Betty took herself among
them (as the Irish say) & there she stay'd with Bill Pinchion & awhile. The
next news of her was, that she was got into gaol for stealing: from whence
she was taken to the publick whipping post. 53 The next adventure was to
the Castle, after the soldier's were remov'd there, for the murder of the 5th
March last. 54 When they turn'd her away from there, she came up to town
again, and soon got into the workhouse for new misdemeanours, she soon
ran away from there and sit up her old trade of pilfering again, for which
she was put a second time into gaol, there she still remains. About two
months agone (as well as I can remember) she & a number of her wretched
companions set the gaol on fire, in order to get out, but the fire was timely
discovered & extinguished, & there, as I said she still remains till this day,
in order to be tried for her crimes. I heard somebody say that as she has
some connections with the army no doubt but she would be cleared, and
perhaps, have a pension into the bargain. Mr. Henry says the way of sin is
down hill, when persons get into that way they are not easily stopped.
Feb. 27.—This day being too stormy for me to go to any school, and
nothing as yet having happen'd that is worth your notice, my aunt gives me
leave to communicate to you something that much pleas'd her when she
heard of it, & which I hope will please you my Papa and Mamma. I believe
I may have inform'd you that since I have been in Boston, Dr. Byles 55 has
pretty frequently preached & sometimes administer'd the sacrament, when

our Candidates have preached to the O.S. Church, because they are not tho't
qualified to administer Gospel Ordinance, till they be settled Pastours.
About two months ago a brother of the church sent Dr Byles a Card which
contain'd after the usual introduction, the following words, Mr W—— dont
set up for an Expositor of Scripture, yet ventures to send Dr. Byles a short
comment on 1 Cor. ix. 11. which he thinks agreeable to the genuine import
of the text, & hopes the Dr will not disapprove it. The comment was a
dozen pounds of Chocolate &c.—To which the Dr return'd the following
very pretty answer. Dr Byles returns respects to Mr W & most heartily
thanks him for his judicious practical Familie Expositor, which is in Tast.
My aunt Deming gives her love to you mamma, and bids me tell you, as a
matter you will be very glad to know, that Dr Byles & his lady & family,
have enjoy'd a good share of health & perfect harmony for several years
past.
Mr Beacon is come home. My unkle Neddy is very comfortable, has very
little pain, & know fever with his broken bone. My Unkle Harry 56 was here
yesterday & is very well. Poor Mrs Inches is dangerously ill of a fever. We
have not heard how she does today.
March 4th.—Poor Mrs Inches is dead. Gone from a world of trouble, as she
has left this to her poor mother. Aunt says she heartyly pities Mrs Jackson.
Mr Nat. Bethune died this morning, Mrs Inches last night.
We had the greatest fall of snow yesterday we have had this winter. Yet
cousin Sally, miss Polly, & I rode to & from meeting in Mr Soley's chaise
both forenoon & afternoon, & with a stove 57 was very comfortable there. If
brother John is as well and hearty as cousin Frank, he is a clever boy. Unkle
Neddy continues very comfortable. I saw him last saturday. I have just now
been writing four lines in my Book almost as well as the copy. But all the
intreaties in the world will not prevail upon me to do always as well as I
can, which is not the least trouble to me, tho' its a great grief to aunt
Deming. And she says by writing so frightfully above.
March 6.—I think the appearance this morning is as winterish as any I can
remember, earth, houses, trees, all covered with snow, which began to fall
yesterday morning & continued falling all last night. The Sun now shines

very bright, the N.W. wind blows very fresh. Mr Gannett din'd here
yesterday, from him, my unkle, aunt & cousin Sally, I had an account of
yesterday's publick performances, 58 & exhibitions, but aunt says I need not
write about 'em because, no doubt there will be printed accounts. I should
have been glad if I could have seen & heard for myselfe. My face is better,
but I have got a heavy cold yet.
March 9th.—After being confined a week, I rode yesterday afternoon to &
from meeting in Mr Soley's chaise. I got no cold and am pretty well today.
This has been a very snowy day today. Any body that sees this may see that
I have wrote nonsense but Aunt says, I have been a very good girl to day
about my work however—I think this day's work may be called a piece
meal for in the first place I sew'd on the bosom of unkle's shirt, mended two
pair of gloves, mended for the wash two handkerchiefs, (one cambrick)
sewed on half a border of a lawn apron of aunts, read part of the xxist
chapter of Exodous, & a story in the Mother's gift. Now, Hond Mamma,
I must tell you of something that happened to me to-day, that has not
happen'd before this great while, viz My Unkle & Aunt both told me, I was
a very good girl. Mr Gannett gave us the favour of his company a little
while this morning (our head). I have been writing all the above gibberish
while aunt has been looking after her family—now she is out of the room—
now she is in—& takes up my pen in my absence to observe, I am a little
simpleton for informing my mamma, that it is a great while since I was
prais'd because she will conclude that it is a great while since I deserv'd to
be prais'd. I will henceforth try to observe their praise & yours too. I mean
deserve. It's now tea time—as soon as that is over, I shall spend the rest of
the evening in reading to my aunt. It is near candle lighting.
March 10, 5 o'clock P.M.—I have finish'd my stent of sewing work for this
day & wrote a billet to Miss Caty Vans, a copy of which I shall write on the
next page. To-morrow if the weather is fit I am to visit. I have again been
told I was a good girl. My Billet to Miss Vans was in the following words.
Miss Green gives her compliments to Miss Vans, and informs her that her
aunt Deming quite misunderstood the matter about the queen's night-Cap. 59
Mrs. Deming thou't that it was a black skull cap linn'd with red that Miss
Vans ment which she thou't would not be becoming to Miss Green's light

complexion. Miss Green now takes the liberty to send the materials for the
Cap Miss Vans was so kind as to say she would make for her, which, when
done, she engages to take special care of for Miss Vans' sake. Mrs. Deming
joins her compliments with Miss Green's—they both wish for the pleasure
of a visit from Miss Vans. Miss Soley is just come in to visit me & 'tis near
dark.
March 11.—Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a
day may bring forth. Thus king Solomon, inspired by the Holy Ghost,
cautions, Pro. xxvii. 1. My aunt says, this is a most necessary lesson to be
learn'd & laid up in the heart. I am quite of her mind. I have met with a
disappointment to day, & aunt says, I may look for them every day—we
live in a changing world—in scripture call'd a vale of tears. Uncle said
yesterday that there had not been so much snow on the ground this winter
as there was then—it has been vastly added to since then, & is now 7 feet
deep in some places round this house; it is above the fence in the coart &
thick snow began to fall and condtinu'd till about 5 o'clock P.M. (it is about
1-4 past 8 o'clock) since which there has been a steady rain—so no visiting
as I hoped this day, & this is the disappointment I mentioned on t'other
page. Last saturday I sent my cousin Betsy Storer a Billet of which the
following is a copy. Miss Green gives her love to Miss Storer & informs her
that she is very sensible of the effects of a bad cold, not only in the pain she
has had in her throat, neck and face, which have been much swell'd &
which she is not quite clear of, but that she has also been by the same
depriv'd of the pleasure of seeing Miss Storer & her other friends in
Sudbury Street. She begs, her Duty, Love & Compliments, may be
presented as due & that she may be inform'd if they be in health. To this I
have receiv'd no answer. I suppose she don't think I am worth an answer.
But I have finished my stent, and wrote all under this date, & now I have
just daylight eno' to add, my love and duty to dear friends at Cumberland.

EBENEZER STORER

March 14.—Mr. Stephen March, at whose house I was treated so kindly last
fall, departed this life last week, after languishing several months under a
complication of disorders—we have not had perticulars, therefore cannot
inform you, whether he engag'd the King of terrors with Christian fortitude,
or otherwise.
"Stoop down my Thoughts, that use to rise,
Converse a while with Death;
Think how a gasping Mortal lies,
And pants away his Breath."

Last Thursday I din'd with unkle Storer, & family at aunt Sukey's—all well
except Charles Storer who was not so ill but what, that I mean, he din'd
with us. Aunt Suky's Charles is a pretty little boy & grows nicely. We were
diverted in the afternoon with an account of a queer Feast that had been
made that day in a certain Court of this town for the Entertainment of a
number of Tories—perhaps seventeen. One contain'd three calves heads
(skin off) with their appurtinencies anciently call'd pluck—Their other dish

(for they had but two) contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we
suppose, * & all roosters at this season no doubt. Yesterday, soon after I
came from writing school we had another snow storm begun, which
continued till after I went to bed. This morning the sun shines clear (so it
did yesterday morning till 10 o'clock.) It is now bitter cold, & such a
quantity of snow upon the ground, as the Old people don't remember ever to
have seen before at this time of the year. My aunt Deming says, when she
first look'd abroad this morning she felt anxious for her brother, & his
family at Cumberland, fearing lest they were covered up in snow. It is now
1-2 after 12 o'clock noon. The sun has been shineing in his full strength for
full 6 hours, & the snow not melted enough anywhere in sight of this house,
to cause one drop of water.
* There was six as I have since heard.
March 17.—Yesterday, I went to see aunt Polly, & finding her going out,
I spent the afternoon with aunt Hannah. While I was out, a snow storm
overtook me. This being a fine sun shine (tho' cold) day I have been to
writing school, & wrote two pieces, one I presented to aunt Deming, and
the other I design for my Honor'd Papa, I hope he will approve of it. I sent a
piece of my writing to you Hon'd Mamma last fall, which I hope you
receiv'd. When my aunt Deming was a little girl my Grandmamma Sargent
told her the following story viz. One Mr. Calf who had three times enjoy'd
the Mayorality of the city of London, had after his decease, a monoment
erected to his memory with the following inscription on it.
Here lies buried the body of
Sir Richard Calf,
Thrice Lord Mayor of London.
Honor, Honor, Honor.

A drol gentleman passing by with a bit of chalk in his hand underwrote thus
—
O cruel death! more subtle than a Fox
That would not let this Calf become an Ox,
That he might browze among the briers & thorns
And with his brethren wear,
Horns. Horns. Horns.

My aunt told me the foregoing some time since & today I ask'd her leave to
insert it in my journal. My aunt gives her love to you & directs me to tell
you that she tho't my piece of linnin would have made me a dozen of shifts
but she could cut no more than ten out of it. There is some left, but not
enough for another. Nine of them are finish'd wash'd & iron'd; & the other
would have been long since done if my fingers had not been sore. My
cousin Sally made three of them for me, but then I made two shirts & part
of another for unkle to help her. I believe unless something remarkable
should happen, such as a warm day, my mamma will consent that I dedicate
a few of my next essays to papa. I think the second thing I said to aunt this
morning was, that I intended to be very good all day. To make this out,
"Next unto God, dear Parents I address
Myself to you in humble Thankfulness,
For all your Care & Charge on me bestow'd;
The means of Learning unto me allow'd,
Go on I pray, & let me still pursue
Those Golden Arts the Vulgar never knew."

Yr Dutifull Daughter
Anna Green Winslow.
The poetry I transcrib'd from my Copy Book.
March 19.—Thursday last I spent at home, except a quarter of an hour
between sunset and dark, I stepped over the way to Mr. Glover's with aunt.
Yesterday I spent at Unkle Neddy's & stitched wristbands for aunt Polly. By
the way, I must inform you, (pray dont let papa see this) that yesterday I put
on No 1 of my new shifts, & indeed it is very comfortable. It is long since I
had a shift to my back. I dont know if I ever had till now—It seem'd so
strange too, to have any linen below my waist—I am going to dine at Mrs.
Whitwell's to day, by invitation. I spent last evening at Mrs Rogers. Mr
Hunt discoursed upon the doctrine of the Trinity—it was the second time
that he spoke upon the subject at that place. I did not hear him the first time.
His business last eveg was to prove the divinity of the Son, & holy Ghost, &
their equality with the Father. My aunt Deming says, it is a grief to her, that
I don't always write as well as I can, I can write pretily.

March 21.—I din'd & spent the afternoon of Thursday last, at Mrs
Whitwell's. Mrs Lathrop, & Mrs Carpenter din'd there also. The latter said
she was formerly acquainted with mamma, ask'd how she did, & when I
heard from her,—said, I look'd much like her. Madam Harris & Miss
P. Vans were also of the company. While I was abroad the snow melted to
such a degree, that my aunt was oblig'd to get Mr Soley's chaise to bring me
home. Yesterday, we had by far the gratest storm of wind & snow that there
has been this winter. It began to fall yesterday morning & continued falling
till after our family were in bed. (P.M.) Mr. Hunt call'd in to visit us just
after we rose from diner; he ask'd me, whether I had heard from my papa &
mamma, since I wrote 'em. He was answer'd, no sir, it would be strange if I
had, because I had been writing to 'em today, & indeed so I did every day.
Aunt told him that his name went frequently into my journals together with
broken & some times whole sentences of his sermons, conversations &c.
He laugh'd & call'd me Newsmonger, & said I was a daily advertiser. He
added, that he did not doubt but my journals afforded much entertainment
& would be a future benefit &c. Here is a fine compliment for me mamma.
March 26.—Yesterday at 6 o'clock, I went to Unkle Winslow's, their
neighbor Greenleaf was their. She said she knew Mamma, & that I look like
her. Speaking about papa & you occation'd Unkle Winslow to tell me that
he had kiss'd you long before papa knew you. From thence we went to Miss
Rogers's where, to a full assembly Mr Bacon read his 3d sermon on R. iv.
6, I can remember he said, that, before we all sinned in Adam our father,
Christ loved us. He said the Son of God always did as his father gave him
commandment, & to prove this, he said, that above 17 hundred years ago he
left the bosom of the Father, & came & took up his abode with men, & bore
all the scourgings & buffetings which the vile Jews inflicted on him, & then
was hung upon the accursed tree—he died, was buried, & in three days rose
again—ascended up to heaven & there took his seat at the right hand of the
Majesty on high from whence he will come to be the supream and impartial
judge of quick & dead—and when his poor Mother & her poor husband
went to Jerusalem to keep the passover & he went with them, he disputed
among the doctors, & when his Mother ask'd him about it he said "wist ye
not that I must be about my Father's business,"—all this he said was a part
of that wrighteousness for the sake of which a sinner is justafied—Aunt has

been up stairs all the time I have been writeing & recollecting this—so no
help from her. She is come down now & I have been reading this over to
her. She sais, she is glad I remember so much, but I have not done the
subject justice. She sais I have blended things somewhat improperly—an
interuption by company.
March 28.—Unkle Harry was here last evening & inform'd us that by a
vessel from Halifax which arriv'd yesterday, Mr H Newton, inform'd his
brother Mr J Newton of the sudden death of their brother Hibbert in your
family 21 January ult. (Just five months to a day since Grandmamma
Sargent's death.) With all the circumstances relating to it. My aunt Deming
gives her love to Mamma & wishes her a sanctified improvement of all
God's dealings with her, & that it would please him to bring her & all the
family safe to Boston. Jarvis is put up for Cumberland, we hope he will be
there by or before Mayday. This minute I have receiv'd my queen's night
cap from Miss Caty Vans—we like it. Aunt says, that if the materials it is
made of were more substantial than gauze, it might serve occationally to
hold any thing mesur'd by an 1-2 peck, but it is just as it should be, & very
decent, & she wishes my writing was as decent. But I got into one of my
frolicks, upon sight of the Cap.
April 1st.—Will you be offended mamma, if I ask you, if you remember the
flock of wild Geese that papa call'd you to see flying over the Blacksmith's
shop this day three years? I hope not; I only mean to divert you. The snow
is near gone in the street before us, & mud supplys the place thereof; After a
week's absence, I this day attended Master Holbrook with some difficulty,
what was last week a pond is to-day a quag, thro' which I got safe however,
& if aunt * had known it was so bad, she sais she would not have sent me,
but I neither wet my feet, nor drabled my clothes, indeed I have but one
garment that I could contrive to drabble.
N.B. It is 1 April.
* Miss Green tells her aunt, that the word refer'd to begins with a
dipthong.
April 3.—Yesterday was the annual Fast, & I was at meeting all day. Mr
Hunt preach'd A.M. from Zac. vii. 4, 5, 6, 7. He said, that if we did not

mean as we said in pray's it was only a compliment put upon God, which
was a high affront to his divine Majesty. Mr Bacon, P.M. from James v. 17.
He said, "pray's, effectual & fervent, might be, where there were no words,
but there might be elegant words where there is no prayr's. The essence of
pray's consists in offering up holy desires to God agreeable to his will,—it
is the flowing out of gracious affections—what then are the pray'rs of an
unrenewed heart that is full of enmity to God? doubtless they are an
abomination to him. What then, must not unregenerate men pray? I answer,
it is their duty to breathe out holy desires to God in pray's. Prayer is a
natural duty. Hannah pour'd out her soul before the Lord, yet her voice was
not heard, only her lips moved. Some grieve and complain that their pray's
are not answered, but if thy will be done is, as it ought to be, in every
prayer; their prayers are answer'd."
The wind was high at N.E. all day yesterday, but nothing fell from the dark
clouds that overspread the heavens, till 8 o'clock last evening, when a snow
began which has continued falling ever since. The bell being now ringing
for 1 o'clock P.M. & no sign of abatement.
My aunt Deming says, that if my memory had been equal to the memory of
some of my ancestors, I might have done better justice to Mr. Bacon's good
sermon, & that if hers had been better than mine she would have helped me.
Mr Bacon did say what is here recorded, but in other method.
April 6.—I made a shift to walk to meeting yesterday morning. But there
was so much water in the streets when I came home from meeting that I got
a seat in Mr Waleses chaise. My aunt walk'd home & she sais thro' more
difaculty than ever she did in her life before. Indeed had the stream get up
from our meeting house as it did down, we might have taken boat as we
have talk'd some times of doing to cross the street to our oposite neighbor
Soley's chaise. I remember some of Mr Hunts sermon, how much will
appear in my text journal.
April 7.—I visited yesterday P.M. with my aunt at Mr Waldron's. This
afternoon I am going with my aunt to visit Mrs Salisbury who is Dr
Sewall's granddaughter, I expect Miss Patty Waldow will meet me there. It
is but a little way & we can now thro' favour cross the street without the
help of a boat. I saw Miss Polly Vans this morning. She gives her love to

you. As she always does whenever I see her. Aunt Deming is this minute
come into the room, & from what her niece has wrote last, takes the liberty
to remind you, that Miss Vans is a sister of the Old South Church, a society
remarkable for Love. Aunt Deming is sorry she has spoil'd the look of this
page by her carelessness & hopes her niece will mend its appearance in
what follows. She wishes my English had been better, but has not time to
correct more than one word.
April 9.—We made the visit refer'd to above. The company was old Mrs
Salisbury, 60 Mrs Hill, (Mrs Salisbury's sister she was Miss Hannah Sewall
& is married to young Mr James Hill that us'd to live in this house) Miss
Sally Hill, Miss Polly Belcher Lyde, Miss Caty Sewall, My Aunt & myself.
Yesterday afternoon I visited Miss Polly Deming & took her with me to Mr
Rogers' in the evening where Mr Hunt discours'd upon the 7th question of
the catechism viz what are the decrees of God? I remember a good many of
his observations, which I have got set down on a loose paper. But my aunt
says that a Miss of 12 year's old cant possibly do justice to the nicest
subject in Divinity, & therefore had better not attempt a repetition of
perticulars, that she finds lie (as may be easily concluded) somewhat
confused in my young mind. She also says, that in her poor judgment, Mr
Hunt discours'd soundly as well as ingeniously upon the subject, & very
much to her instruction & satisfaction. My Papa inform'd me in his last
letter that he had done me the honor to read my journals & that he approv'd
of some part of them, I suppose he means that he likes some parts better
than other, indeed it would be wonderful, as aunt says, if a gentleman of
papa's understanding & judgment cou'd be highly entertain'd with every
little saying or observation that came from a girl of my years & that I ought
to esteem it a great favour that he notices any of my simple matter with his
approbation.
April 13th.—Yesterday I walk'd to meeting all day, the ground very dry, &
when I came home from meeting in the afternoon the Dust blew so that it
almost put my eyes out. What a difference in the space of a week. I was just
going out to writing school, but a slight rain prevented so aunt says I must
make up by writing well at home. Since I have been writing the rain is
turn'd to snow, which is now falling in a thick shower. I have now before

me, hond. Mamma, your favor dated January 3. I am glad you alter'd your
mind when you at first thought not to write to me. I am glad my brother
made an essay for a Post Script to your Letter. I must get him to read it to
me, when he comes up, for two reasons, the one is because I may have the
pleasure of hearing his voice, the other because I don't understand his
characters. I observe that he is mamma's "Ducky Darling." I never again
shall believe that Mrs Huston will come up to Boston till I see her here.
I shall be very glad to see Mrs Law here & I have some hopes of it. Mr
Gannett and the things you sent by him we safely receiv'd before I got your
Letter—you say "you see I am still a great housekeeper," I think more so
than when I was with you. Truly I answer'd Mr Law's letter as soon as I
found opportunity therefor. I shall be very glad to see Miss Jenny here & I
wish she could live with me. I hope you will answer this "viva vosa" as you
say you intend to. Pray mamma who larnt you lattan? It now rains fast, but
the sun shines, & I am glad to see it, because if it continues I am going
abroad with aunt this afternoon.
April 14th.—I went a visiting yesterday to Col. Gridley's with my aunt.
After tea Miss Becky Gridley sung a minuet. Miss Polly Deming & I
danced to her musick, which when perform'd was approv'd of by Mrs
Gridley, Mrs Deming, Mrs Thompson, Mrs Avery, 61 Miss Sally Hill, Miss
Becky Gridley, Miss Polly Gridley & Miss Sally Winslow. Coln Gridley
was out o' the room. Coln brought in the talk of Whigs & Tories & taught
me the difference between them. I spent last evening at home. I should have
gone a visiting to day in sudbury street, but Unkle Harry told me last night
that they would be full of company. I had the pleasure of hearing by him,
that they were all well. I believe I shall go somewhere this afternoon for I
have acquaintances enough that would be very glad to see me, as well as
my sudbury street friends.
April 15th.—Yesterday I din'd at Mrs. Whitwell's & she being going abroad,
I spent the afternoon at Madm Harris's & the evening at home, Unkle Harry
gave us his company some part of it. I am going to Aunt Storer's as soon as
writing school is done. I shall dine with her, if she is not engaged. It is a
long time since I was there, & indeed it is a long time since I have been able
to get there. For tho' the walking has been pretty tolerable at the South End,

it has been intolerable down in town. And indeed till yesterday, it has been
such bad walking, that I could not get there on my feet. If she had wanted
much to have seen me, she might have sent either one of her chaises, her
chariot, or her babyhutt, 62 one of which I see going by the door almost
every day.
April 16th.—I dined with Aunt Storer yesterday & spent the afternoon very
agreeably at Aunt Suky's. Aunt Storer is not very well, but she drank tea
with us, & went down to Mr Stillman's lecture in the evening. I spent the
evening with Unkle & Aunt at Mrs Rogers's. Mr Bacon preach'd his fourth
sermon from Romans iv. 6. My cousin Charles Storer lent me Gulliver's
Travels abreviated, which aunt says I may read for the sake of perfecting
myself in reading a variety of composures. she sais farther that the piece
was desin'd as a burlesque upon the times in which it was wrote,—&
Martimas Scriblensis & Pope Dunciad were wrote with the same design &
as parts of the same work, tho' wrote by three several hands.
April 17th.—You see, Mamma, I comply with your orders (or at least have
done father's some time past) of writing in my journal every day tho' my
matters are of little importance & I have nothing at present to communicate
except that I spent yesterday afternoon & evening at Mr Soley's. The day
was very rainy. I hope I shall at least learn to spell the word yesterday, it
having occur'd so frequently in these pages! (The bell is ringing for good
friday.) Last evening aunt had a letter from Unkle Pierce, he informs her,
that last Lords day morning Mrs Martin was deliver'd of a daughter. She
had been siezed the Monday before with a violent pluritick fever, which
continued when my Unkle's letter was dated 13th instant. My Aunt Deming
is affraid that poor Mrs Martin is no more. She hopes she is reconcil'd to her
father—but is affraid whether that was so—She had try'd what was to be
done that way on her late visits to Portsmouth, & found my unkle was
placably dispos'd, poor Mrs Martin, she could not then be brought to make
any acknowledgements as she ought to have done.
April 18th.—Some time since I exchang'd a piece of patchwork, which had
been wrought in my leisure intervals, with Miss Peggy Phillips, 63 my
schoolmate, for a pair of curious lace mitts with blue flaps which I shall
send, with a yard of white ribbin edg'd with green to Miss Nancy Macky for

a present. I had intended that the patchwork should have grown large
enough to have cover'd a bed when that same live stock which you wrote
me about some time since, should be increas'd to that portion you intend to
bestow upon me, should a certain event take place. I have just now finish'd
my Letter to Papa. I had wrote to my other correspondents at Cumberland,
some time ago, all which with this I wish safe to your & their hand. I have
been carefull not to repeat in my journal any thing that I had wrote in a
Letter either to papa, you, &c. Else I should have inform'd you of some of
Bet Smith's abominations with the deserv'd punishment she is soon to meet
with. But I have wrote it to papa, so need not repeat. I guess when this
reaches you, you will be too much engag'd in preparing to quit your present
habitation, & will have too much upon your head & hands, to pay much
attention to this scrowl. But it may be an amusement to you on your voyage
—therefore I send it.
Pray mamma, be so kind as to bring up all my journal with you. My Papa
has promised me, he will bring up my baby house with him. I shall send
you a droll figure of a young lady, 64 in or under, which you please, a tasty
head Dress. It was taken from a print that came over in one of the last ships
from London. After you have sufficiently amused yourself with it I am
willing . . .
Boston April 20, 1772.—Last Saterday I seal'd up 45 pages of Journal for
Cumberland. This is a very stormy day—no going to school. I am learning
to knit lace.
April 21.—Visited at uncle Joshua Green's. I saw three funerals from their
window, poor Capn Turner's was one.
April 22d.—I spent this evening at Miss Rogers as usual. Mr. Hunt
continued his discourse upon the 7th question of the catechism & finish'd
what he had to say upon it.
April 23d.—This morng early our Mr Bacon set out upon a tour to
Maryland, he proposed to be absent 8 weeks. He told the Church that
brother Hunt would supply the pulpit till his return. I made a visit this
afternoon with cousin Sally at Dr. Phillip's.

April 24th.—I drank tea at Aunt Suky's. Aunt Storer was there, she seemed
to be in charming good health & spirits. My cousin Charles Green seems to
grow a little fat pritty boy but he is very light. My aunt Storer lent me 3 of
cousin Charles' books to read, viz.—The puzzeling cap, the female Oraters
& the history of Gaffer too-shoes. 65
April 25th.—I learn't three stitches upon net work to-day.
April 27th.—I din'd at Aunt Storer's & spent the P.M. at aunt Suky's.
April 28th.—This P.M. I am visited by Miss Glover, Miss Draper & Miss
Soley. My aunt abroad.
April 29th.—Tomorrow, if the weather be good, I am to set out for
Marshfield.

MRS. EBENEZER STORER

May 11.—The morning after I wrote above, I sat out for Marshfield. I had
the pleasure of drinking tea with aunt Thomas the same day, the family all
well, but Mr G who seems to be near the end of the journey of life. I visited
General Winslow 66 & his son, the Dr., spent 8 days very agreeably with my
friends at Marshfield, & returned on saterday last in good health & gay
spirits which I still enjoy. The 2 first days I was at Marshfield, the heat was
extream & uncommon for the season. It ended on saterday evening with a
great thunder storm. The air has been very cool ever since. My aunt Deming
observ'd a great deal of lightning in the south, but there was neither thunder,
rain nor clouds in Boston.
May 16.—Last Wednesday Bet Smith was set upon the gallows. She
behav'd with great impudence. Thursday I danc'd a minuet & country
dances at school, after which I drank tea with aunt Storer. To day I am
somewhat out of sorts, a little sick at my stomach.
23d.—I followed my schools every day this week, thursday I din'd at aunt
Storer's & spent the P.M. there.
25.—I was not at meeting yesterday, Unkle & Aunt say they had very good
Fish at the O.S. I have got very sore eyes.
June 1st.—All last week till saterday was very cold & rainy. Aunt Deming
kept me within doors, there were no schools on account of the Election of
Councellers, 67 & other public doings; with one eye (for t'other was
bound up) I saw the governer & his train of life guard &c. ride by in state to
Cambridge. I form'd Letters last week to suit cousin Sally & aunt Thomas,
but my eyes were so bad aunt would not let me coppy but one of them.
Monday being Artillery Election 68 I went to see the hall, din'd at aunt
Storer's, took a walk in the P.M. Unkle laid down the commission he took
up last year. Mr Handcock invited the whole company into his house in the
afternoon & treated them very genteelly & generously, with cake, wine, &c.
There were 10 corn baskets of the feast (at the Hall) sent to the prison &
almshouse.
4th.—From June 1 when I wrote last there has nothing extraordinary
happen'd till today the whole regiment muster'd upon the common. Mr
Gannett, aunt & myself went up into the common, & there saw Capt

Water's, Capt Paddock's, Capt Peirce's, Capt Eliot's, Capt Barret's, Capt
Gay's, Capt May's, Capt Borington's & Capt Stimpson's company's exercise.
From there, we went into King street to Col Marshal's 69 where we saw all
of them prettily exercise & fire. Mr. Gannett din'd with us. On Sabbath-day
evening 7 June My Hond Papa, Mamma, little Brother, cousin H. D.
Thomas, Miss Jenny Allen, & Mrs Huston arriv'd here from Cumberland,
all in good health, to the great joy of all their friends, myself in particular—
they sail'd from Cumberland the 1st instant, in the evening.
Aug. 18.—Many avocations have prevented my keeping my journal so
exactly as heretofore, by which means a pleasant visit to the peacock, my
Papa's & mamma's journey to Marshfield &c. have been omitted. The 6
instant Mr Saml Jarvis was married to Miss Suky Peirce, & on the 13th I
made her a visit in company with mamma & many others. The bride was
dress'd in a white satin night gound. 70
27.—Yesterday I heard an account of a cat of 17 years old, that has just
recovered of the meazels. This same cat it is said had the small pox 8 years
ago!
28.—I spent the P.M. & eve at aunt Suky's very agreeably with aunt Pierce's
young ladies viz. Miss Johnson, Miss Walker, Miss Polly & Miss Betsey
Warton, (of Newport) Miss Betsey is just a fortnight wanting 1 day older
than I am, who I became acquainted with that P.M. Papa, Mamma, Unkle &
aunt Storer, Aunt Pierce & Mr & Mrs Jarvis was there. There were 18 at
supper besides a great many did not eat any. Mrs Jarvis sang after supper.
My brother Johny has got over the measels.
Sept. 1.—Last evening after meeting, Mrs Bacon was brought to bed of a
fine daughter. But was very ill. She had fits.
September 7.—Yesterday afternoon Mr Bacon baptiz'd his daughter by the
name of Elizabeth Lewis. It is a pretty looking child. Mrs Whitwell is like
to loose her Henry Harris. He is very ill.
8.—I visited with mamma at cousin Rogers'. There was a good many.
14.—Very busy all day, went into the common in the afternoon to see
training. It was very prettyly perform'd.

18.—My Papa, aunt Deming, cousin Rogers, & Miss Betsey Gould set out
for Portsmouth. I went over to Charlestown with them, after they were
gone, I came back, & rode up from the ferry in Mrs Rogers' chaise; it drop'd
me at Unkle Storer's gate, where I spent the day. My brother was very sick.
Sepr 17. 18.—Spent the days at aunt Storer's, the nights at home.
19.—Went down in the morng & spent the day & night there. My brother
better than he was.
20.—Sabbath day. I went to hear Mr Stilman 71 all day, I like him very
much. I don't wonder so many go to hear him.
21st.—Mr. Sawyer, Mr Parks, & Mrs Chatbourn, din'd at aunt Storer's.
I went to dancing in the afternoon. Miss Winslow & Miss Allen visited
there.
22d.—The king's coronation day. In the evening I went with mamma to Coln
Marshal's in King Street to see the fireworks.
23d.—I din'd at aunt Suky's with Mr & Mrs Hooper 72 of Marblehead. In the
afternoon I went over to see Miss Betsy Winslow. When I came back I had
the pleasure to meet papa. I came home in the evening to see aunt Deming.
Unkle Winslow sup'd here.
24.—Papa cal'd here in the morng. Nothing else worth noticeing.
25.—Very pleasant. Unkle Ned cal'd here. Little Henry Harris was buried
this afternoon.
26. 27.—Nothing extraordinary yesterday & to day.
28.—My papa & unkle Winslow spent the evening here.
29. 30.—Very stormy. Miss Winslow & I read out the Generous Inconstant,
& have begun Sir Charles Grandison. . . .
May 25.—Nothing remarkable since the preceding date. Whenever I have
omited a school my aunt has directed me to sit it down here, so when you
dont see a memorandum of that kind, you may conclude that I have paid my
compliments to messrs Holbrook & Turner (to the former you see to very
little purpose) & mrs Smith as usual. The Miss Waldow's I mentioned in a

former are Mr. Danl Waldo's daughters (very pretty misses) their mamma
was Miss Becca Salisbury. 73 After making a short visit with my Aunt at
Mrs Green's, over the way, yesterday towards evening, I took a walk with
cousin Sally to see the good folks in Sudbury Street, & found them all well.
I had my HEDDUS roll on, aunt Storer said it ought to be made less, Aunt
Deming said it ought not to be made at all. It makes my head itch, & ach, &
burn like anything Mamma. This famous roll is not made wholly of a red
Cow Tail, but is a mixture of that, & horsehair (very course) & a little
human hair of yellow hue, that I suppose was taken out of the back part of
an old wig. But D—— made it (our head) all carded together and twisted
up. When it first came home, aunt put it on, & my new cap on it, she then
took up her apron & mesur'd me, & from the roots of my hair on my
forehead to the top of my notions, I mesur'd above an inch longer than I did
downwards from the roots of my hair to the end of my chin. Nothing
renders a young person more amiable than virtue & modesty without the
help of fals hair, red Cow tail, or D—— (the barber). 74 Now all this
mamma, I have just been reading over to my aunt. She is pleas'd with my
whimsical description & grave (half grave) improvement, & hopes a little
fals English will not spoil the whole with Mamma. Rome was not built in a
day.
31st May.—Monday last I was at the factory to see a piece of cloth cousin
Sally spun for a summer coat for unkle. After viewing the work we
recollected the room we sat down in was Libberty Assembly Hall,
otherwise called factory hall, so Miss Gridley & I did ourselves the Honour
of dancing a minuet in it. On tuesday I made Mrs Smith my morning &
p.m. visits as usual, neither Mr. Holbrook nor Turner have any school this
week, nor till tuesday next. I spent yesterday with my friends in sudbury St.
Cousin Frank has got a fever, aunt Storer took an emmetick while I was
there, cousin Betsy had violent pains almost all the forenoon. Last tuesday
Miss Ursula Griswold, daughter of the right Hon. Matthew Griswold Esq
governer of one of his Majesty's provinces, was made one of our family, & I
have the honor of being her chambermade. I have just been reading over
what I wrote to the company present, & have got myself laughed at for my
ignorance. It seems I should have said the daughter of the Hon Lieut.

Governor of Connecticutt. Mrs Dixon lodg'd at Capn Mitchell's. She is gone
to Connecticutt long since.
31 May.—I spent the afternoon at unkle Joshua's. yesterday, after tea I went
to see how aunt Storer did. I found her well at Unkle Frank's. Mr Gerrish &
wife of Halifax I had the pleasure to meet there, the latter sends love to you.
Indeed Mamma, till I receiv'd your last favour, I never heard a word about
the little basket &c. which I sent to brother Johny last fall. I suppose Harry
had so much to write about cotton, that he forgot what was of more
consequence. Dear Mamma, what name has Mr Bent given his Son?
something like Nehemiah, or Jehoshaphat, I suppose, it must be an odd
name (our head indeed, Mamma.) Aunt says she hopes it a'nt Baal Gad, &
she also says that I am a little simpleton for making my note within the
brackets above, because, when I omit to do it, Mamma will think I have the
help of somebody else's head but, N.B. for herself she utterly disclames
having either her head or hand concern'd in this curious journal, except
where the writing makes it manifest. So much for this matter.

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NOTES.

Note 1.
Aunt Deming was Sarah, the oldest child of John Winslow and Sarah
Peirce, and therefore sister of Joshua Winslow, Anna Green Winslow's
father. She was born August 2, 1722, died March 10, 1788. She married
John West, and after his death married, on February 27, 1752, John Deming.
He was a respectable and intelligent Boston citizen, but not a wealthy man.
He was an ensign in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery in 1771, and a
deacon of the Old South Church in 1769, both of which offices were patents
of nobility in provincial Boston. They lived in Central Court, leading out of

Washington Street, just south of Summer Street. Aunt Deming eked out a
limited income in a manner dear to Boston gentlewomen in those and in
later days; she took young ladies to board while they attended Boston
schools. Advertisements in colonial newspapers of "Board and half-board
for young ladies" were not rare, and many good old New England names
are seen in these advertisements. Aunt Deming was a woman of much
judgment, as is shown in the pages of this diary; of much power of graphic
description, as is proved by a short journal written for her niece, Sally
Coverly, and letters of hers which are still preserved. She died childless.

Note 2.
Cumberland was the home in Nova Scotia of Anna Green Winslow's
parents, where her father held the position of commissary to the British
regiments stationed there. George Green, Anna's uncle, writing to Joseph
Green, at Paramaribo, on July 23, 1770, said: "Mr. Winslow & wife still
remain at Cumberland, have one son & one daughter, the last now at Boston
for schooling, &c." So, at the date of the first entry in the diary, Anna had
been in Boston probably about a year and a half.

Note 3.
Anna Green Winslow had doubtless heard much talk about this Rev. John
Bacon, the new minister at the Old South Church, for much had been said
about him in the weekly press: whether he should have an ordination dinner
or not, and he did not; accounts of his ordination; and then notice of the sale
of his sermons in the Boston Gazette.
All Mr. Bacon's parishioners did not share Anna's liking for him; he found
himself at the Old South in sorely troubled waters. He made a most
unpropitious and trying entrance at best, through succeeding the beloved
Joseph Sewall, who had preached to Old South listeners for fifty-six years.
He came to town a stranger. When, a month later, Governor Hutchinson
issued his annual Thanksgiving Proclamation, there was placed therein an
"exceptionable clause" that was very offensive to Boston patriots, relating
to the continuance of civil and religious liberties. It had always been the
custom to have the Proclamation read by the ministers in the Boston
churches for the two Sundays previous to Thanksgiving Day, but the ruling

governor very cannily managed to get two Boston clergymen to read his
proclamation the third Sunday before the appointed day, when all the
church members, being unsuspectingly present, had to listen to the
unwelcome words. One of these clerical instruments of gubernatorial
diplomacy and craft was John Bacon. Samuel Adams wrote bitterly of him,
saying, "He performed this servile task a week before the time, when the
people were not aware of it." The Boston Gazette of November 11
commented severely on Mr. Bacon's action, and many of his congregation
were disgusted with him, and remained after the service to talk the
Proclamation and their unfortunate new minister over.
It might have been offered, one might think, as some excuse, that he had so
recently come from Maryland, and was probably unacquainted with the
intenseness of Massachusetts politics; and that he had also been a somewhat
busy and preoccupied man during his six weeks' presence in Boston, for he
had been marrying a wife,—or rather a widow. In the Boston Evening Post
of November 11, 1771, I read this notice: "Married, the Rev'd John Bacon
to Mrs. Elizabeth Cummings, daughter of Ezekiel Goldthwait, Esq."
He retained his pastorate, however, in spite of his early mistake, through
anxious tea-party excitement and forlorn war-threatened days, till 1775,
with but scant popularity and slight happiness, with bitter differences of
opinion with his people over atonement and imputation, and that ever-
present stumbling-block to New England divines,—baptism under the Half
Covenant,—till he was asked to resign.
Nor did he get on over smoothly with his fellow minister, John Hunt. In a
curious poem of the day, called "Boston Ministers" (which is reprinted in
the New England Historical and Genealogical Register of April, 1859),
these verses appear:—
At Old South there's a jarring pair,
If I am not mistaken,
One may descry with half an eye
That Hunt is far from Bacon.
Wise Hunt can trace out means of grace
As leading to conversion,
But Hopkins scheme is Bacons theme,
And strange is his assertion.

It mattered little, however, that Parson Bacon had to leave the Old South,
for that was soon no longer a church, but a riding school for the British
troops.
Mr. Bacon retired, after his dismissal, to Canterbury, Conn., his birthplace.
His friendly intimacy with Mrs. Deming proved of value to her, for when
she left Boston, in April, 1775, at the time of the closing of the city gates,
she met Mr. Bacon in Providence. She says in her journal:—
"Towards evening Mr & Mrs Bacon, with their daughter, came into town.
Mr Bacon came to see me. Enquir'd into my designs, &c. I told him truely I
did not know what to do. That I had thot of giting farther into the country.
Of trying to place Sally in some family where she might earn her board, &
to do something like it for Lucinda, or put her out upon wages. That when I
left the plain I had some faint hope I might hear from Mr Deming while I
continued at Providence, but that I had little of that hope remaining. Mr
Bacon advised me to go into Connecticutt, the very thing I was desirous of.
Mr Bacon sd that he would advise me for the present to go to Canterbury,
his native place. That he would give me a Letter to his Sister, who would
receive me kindly & treat me tenderly, & that he would follow me there in a
few days."
This advice Mrs. Deming took, and made Canterbury her temporary home.
Mr. Bacon did not again take charge of a parish. After the Revolution he
became a magistrate, went to the legislature, became judge of the court of
common pleas, and a member of congress. He did not wholly give up his
disputatious ways, if we can judge from the books written by and to him,
one of the latter being, "A Droll, a Deist, and a John Bacon, Master of Arts,
Gently Reprimanded."
His wife, who was born in 1733, and died in Stockbridge in 1821, was the
daughter of Ezekiel Goldthwait, a Tory citizen of Boston, a register of
deeds, and a wealthy merchant. A portrait of Mrs. Bacon, painted by
Copley, is remarkable for its brilliant eyes and beautiful hands and arms.

Note 4.

Rev. John Hunt was born in Northampton, November 20, 1744. He was a
Harvard graduate in the class of 1764, a classmate of Caleb Strong and John
Scollay. He was installed colleague-pastor of the Old South Church with
John Bacon in 1771. He found it a most trying position. He was of an
amiable and gentle disposition, and the poem on "Boston Ministers"
asserted that he "most friends with sisters made." Another Boston rhymester
called him "puny John from Northampton, a meek-mouth moderate man."
When the gates of Boston were closed in 1775, after the battle of
Lexington, he returned to Northampton, and died there of consumption,
December 20, 1775. A full account of his life is given in Sprague's Annals
of the American Pulpit. See also Note 3.

Note 5.
"Unkle and Aunt Winslow" were Mr. and Mrs. John Winslow. He was the
brother of Joshua Winslow, was born March, 1725-26, died September 29,
1773, in Boston. He was married, on March 12, 1752, to Elizabeth Mason
(born September, 1723, died January, 1780). They had five children: I. Gen.
John Winslow, born September 26, 1753, married Ann Gardner, May 21,
1782, died November 29, 1819. II. Sarah, born April 12, 1755, married
Deacon Samuel Coverly, of Boston, on November 27, 1787, died April 3,
1804. See Note 13. III. Henry, born January 11, 1757, died October 13,
1766. IV. Elizabeth, born November 28, 1759, died September 8, 1760.
V. Elizabeth, born September 14, 1760, married John Holland, died
November 21, 1795.
Gen. John Winslow was the favorite nephew of Joshua Winslow and of his
wife, and largely inherited their property. He remained in Boston through
the siege, and preserved the communion plate of the Old South Church by
burying it in his uncle Mason's cellar. He was an ardent patriot, and it is said
that his uncle Joshua threatened to hang him if he caught him during the
Revolutionary War. The nephew answered, "No catchee—no hangee,
Uncle;" but did have the contrary fortune of capturing the uncle, whom he
released on parole. He was the sixth signer and first treasurer of the Society
of the Cincinnati. General Winslow's daughter, Mary Ann Winslow, born in
1790, lived till 1882, and from her were obtained many of the facts given in
these notes.

Note 6.
Miss Soley was Hannah Soley, daughter of John Soley and Hannah Carey,
who were married October 11, 1759. Hannah Soley was born June 5, 1762,
and married W. G. McCarty.

Note 7.
William and Samuel Whitwell and their families were members of the Old
South Church, and all were friends of the Winslows and Demings. William
Whitwell was born September 3, 1714, died April 10, 1795. He was a
prosperous merchant, an estimable and useful citizen, and church member.
His first wife was Rebecca Keayne, his second Elizabeth Scott (or Swett),
who died May 13, 1771; his third, the widow of Royal Tyler. The Mrs.
Whitwell here referred to must have been Mrs. Samuel Whitwell, for
William Whitwell just at that interval was a widower. Samuel Whitwell was
born December 17, O.S. 1717, died June 8, 1801. His first wife was
Elizabeth Kelsey; his second, Sarah Wood; his third, Mary Smith.

Note 8.
Polly Deming was a niece of John Deming.

Note 9.
Miss Polly Glover was Mary Glover, born in Boston, October 12, 1758,
baptized at the Old South Church, married to Deacon James Morrell, of the
Old South, on April 23, 1778, and died April 3, 1842. She was the daughter
of Nathaniel Glover (who was born May 16, 1704, in Dorchester; died
December, 1773), and his wife, Anne Simpson. They were married in 1750.
Nathaniel Glover was a graduate of Harvard, and a wealthy man; partner
first of Thomas Hancock, and then of John Hancock.

Note 10.
Miss Bessy Winslow was Elizabeth, Anna's cousin, who was then about ten
years old. See Note 5.

Note 11.

Miss Nancy or Anne Glover was Mary Glover's sister. See Note 9. She was
born in Boston, March 28, 1753, baptized in the Old South Church, died in
Roxbury, August, 1797. She married Samuel Whitwell, Jr., son of Samuel
Whitwell, a prominent Boston merchant. See Note 7.

Note 12.
Miss Sally Winslow was Sarah, daughter of John Winslow (see Note 5), and
was, therefore, Anna's cousin. She was born April 12, 1755, died April 3,
1804. She married, November 27, 1787, Samuel Coverly, deacon of the Old
South Church. She was the Sally Coverly for whom Mrs. Deming's journal
was written. Several of Sally Coverly's letters still exist, and are models of
elegant penmanship and correct spelling, and redound to the credit of her
writing teacher, Master Holbrook. All the d's and y's and t's end with
elaborately twisted little curls. A careful margin of an inch is left on every
side. The letters speak so plainly of the formal honor and respect paid by all
well-bred persons of the day to their elders, even though familiar kinsfolk,
that I quote one, which contains much family news:—
Boston, Feb. 17th, 1780.
I thank you my dear Aunt for your kind Epistles of April 9th & Nov'r 10th,
the kind interestedness you yet continue to take in my concerns merits the
warmest returns of Gratitude.
The Particular circumstances you wish to know I shall with pleasure inform
you of—Mr. Coverly is the youngest son of a Worthy Citizen late of this
town but his Parents are now no more. His age is thirty-five. His
Occupation a Shopkeeper who imports his own goods. And if you should
wish to know who of your acquaintance he resembles, Madam, I would
answer He has been taken for our Minister Mr Eckley, by whom we were
married in my Aunt Demings sick chamber the 27th of Nov'r last twelve
months since. He has two Brothers who both reside in town. I have been
remarkably favor'd the last year as to my health & we are blest likewise
with a fine little Daughter between 4 & 5 months old, very healthy, which
we have named Elizabeth for its Grandmamas and an Aunt of each side. My
Brother call'd today & inform'd me that Mr Powell intended setting out
tomorrow for Quebeck & left a Letter for you which I shall send with this.

He is almost if not quite as big as my uncle was last time I saw him—he
was well & his family, he has three sons, the youngest about eleven months
old, he has buried one.
In your last you mention both my Uncle & yourself as not enjoying so great
a share of health. I hope by this time you have each regain'd that blessing
more perfectly. Be pleased with him My Dear Aunt to accept My Duty in
which Mr Coverly joins me.
My Sister was very well last week & her son John who is a fine child about
3 months old. Capt. Holland has purchas'd a house near fort hill which has
remov'd her to a greater distance from me. She is now gone to the West-
indies, she is connected in a family that are all very fond of her. We expect
soon to remove. Mr Coverly has taken a lease of a house for some years
belonging to Mr John Amory, you will please to direct your next for us in
Cornhill No 10, I shall have the pleasure of your friend Mrs Whitwell for my
next neighbor there. I had not the pleasure of seeing Mr Freeman whiles
here altho' I expected it, as his brother promis'd to wait on him here.
In one of your kind Epistles, Madam, you mention'd some of your
Movables which you would wish me to take possession of which were at
my Uncle Demings. The Memorandum you did not send me & my Uncle
Deming has none nor knows of any thing but a great wheel.
He is now maried to the Widow Sebry who is very much lik'd and appears
to be a Gentlewoman, they were very well today. My Aunt Mason was to
see me a few weeks since with Mrs Coburn Mrs Scolly & Miss Becky Scolly
from Middleborough. Mrs Scolly has since married her youngest daughter
to Mr Prentice, Minister of Medfield.
Please to give my Love to Cousin Sally Deming if she is yet with you I
hope she has regain'd her usual health. I should be very glad to be inform'd
how her Mamma is & where & her family.
Be pleased to continue your Indulgence, as your Epistles My Dear Aunt will
at all times be most gratefully receiv'd by
Yr Oblidg'd Niece

Sarah Coverly.

Note 13.
Josiah Waters, Jr., was the son of Josiah and Abigail Dawes Waters. The
latter lived to be ninety-five years old. Josiah Sr. was a captain in the
Artillery Company in 1769, and Josiah Jr. in 1791. The latter married, on
March 14, 1771, Mary, daughter of William and Elizabeth Whitwell. See
Note 7. Their child, Josiah Waters, tertius, born December 29, 1771, lived
till August 4, 1818. He was a Latin School boy, and in the class with Josiah
Quincy at Harvard.

Note 14.
The life of this slave-girl Lucinda was a fair example of the gentle form of
slavery which existed till this century in our New England States. From an
old paper written by a daughter of Gen. John Winslow, I quote her
description of this girl:—
"Lucinda was born in Africa and purchased by Mrs Deming when she was
about seven years of age. She was cherished with care and affection by the
family, and at Mrs. Demings death was 'given her freedom.' From that time
she chose to make her home with 'Master John' (the late Gen. John
Winslow, of Boston), a nephew of Mrs Demings—at his house she died
after some years. The friends of the Winslow family attended her funeral;
her pastor the Rev Dr Eckley of the Old South and Gen. W. walking next
the hearse as chief mourners. A few articles belonging to her are preserved
in the family as memorials of one who was a beloved member of the
household in the olden time."
Lucinda figures in Mrs. Deming's account of her escape from besieged
Boston in 1775, and was treated with as much consideration as was Sally,
the niece; for her mistress remained behind for a time at Wrentham; rather
than to allow Lucinda to ride outside the coach in the rain.
In a letter written by Sally Coverly, August 6, 1795, to Mrs. Joshua
Winslow, at Quebec, she says: "You enquire about Lucinda, she is very

much gratified by it. She has lived with my Brother this ten years and is
very good help in their family."

Note 15.
The "Miss Sheafs" were Nancy and Mary Sheaffe, youngest daughters of
William Sheaffe, who had recently died, leaving a family of four sons and
six daughters. He had been deputy collector of customs under Joseph
Harrison, the last royal collector of the port. He left his family penniless,
and a small shop was stocked by friends for Mrs Sheaffe. I have often seen
her advertisements in Boston newspapers.
Mrs. Sheaffe was Susanna Child, daughter of Thomas Child, an
Englishman, one of the founders of Trinity Church. She lived till 1811. The
ten children grew up to fill dignified positions in life. One son was Sir
Roger Hale Sheaffe. Susanna, at the age of fifteen, made a most romantic
runaway match with an English officer, Capt. Ponsonby Molesworth.
Margaret married John R. Livingstone; she was a great beauty. Lafayette,
on his return to France, sent her a satin cardinal lined with ermine, and an
elegant gown. Helen married James Lovell. (See Note 52.) Nancy, or Anne
Sheaffe, married, in September, 1786, John Erving, Jr., a nephew of
Governor Shirley, and died young, leaving three children,—Maria, Frances,
and Major John Erving. Mary married Benj. Cutler, high sheriff of Boston,
and died December 8, 1784, leaving no children. These Sheaffes were
nearly all buried in the Child tomb in Trinity Church.

Note 16.
Governor Matthew Griswold was born March 25, 1714, died April 28,
1799. He married, on Nov. 10, 1743, his second cousin, Ursula Wolcott,
daughter of Gov. Roger Wolcott. A very amusing story is told of their
courtship. Governor Griswold in early life wished to marry a young lady in
Durham, Conn. She was in love with a physician, whom she hoped would
propose to her, and in the mean time was unwilling to give up her hold upon
her assured lover. At last the governor, tired of being held in an uncertainty,
pressed her for a definite answer. She pleaded that she wished for more
time, when he rose with dignity and answered her, "I will give you a
lifetime." This experience made him extremely shy, and when thrown with

his cousin Ursula he made no advance towards love-making. At last when
she was nineteen and he ten years older she began asking him on every
occasion, "What did you say, Cousin Matthew?" and he would answer her
quietly, "Nothing." At last she asked him impatiently, "What did you say,
Cousin Matthew?" and when he answered again "Nothing," she replied
sharply, "Well, it's time you did,"—and he did.
Their daughter Ursula, the visitor at Mrs. Deming's, was born April 13,
1754, and was a great beauty. She married, in November 22, 1777, her third
cousin, Lynde McCurdy, of Norwich, Conn.

Note 17.
"Unkle Joshua" was Joshua Green, born in Boston, May 17, 1731, "Monday
1/2 past 9 oclock in the morng" and died in Wendell, Mass., on September
2, 1811. He attended the Boston Latin School in 1738, and was in the class
of 1749 at Harvard. He married, as did his brother and sister, a Storer—
Hannah, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary Edwards Storer—on October 7,
1762. After his marriage he lived in Court Street, the third house south of
Hanover Street. His wife Hannah was for many years before and after her
marriage—as was her mother—the intimate friend and correspondent of
Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams. Some of their letters may be found in
the Account of Percival and Ellen Green and Some of their Descendants,
written by Hon. Samuel Abbott Green, who is a great-grandson of Joshua
and Hannah Green.

Note 18.
Madam Storer was Mary Edwards Storer, the widow of Ebenezer Storer,
a Boston merchant. She was the mother of Anna's uncle Ebenezer Storer, of
her aunt Hannah Storer Green, and of her aunt Mary Storer Green. See
Notes 19, 32, 59.

Note 19.
Miss Caty Vans was the granddaughter of Hugh Vans, a merchant of
Boston, who became a member of the Old South Church in 1728. He was
born in Ayr, Scotland, in 1699. He married Mary Pemberton, daughter of

Rev. Ebenezer Pemberton, and died in Boston in 1763. They had four sons,
John, Ebenezer, Samuel, and William. One of the first three was the father
of Caty Vans, who was born January 18, 1770. There are frequent
references to her throughout the diary, but I know nothing of her life.
William Vans married Mary Clarke, of Salem, and had one son, William,
and one daughter, Rebecca, who married Captain Jonathan Carnes. The
Vans family Bible is in the library of the Essex Institute.

Note 20.
In the cordial hatred of the Puritans for Christmas Anna heartily joined. It
was not till this century that in New England cheerful merriment and the
universal exchange of gifts marked the day as a real holiday.

Note 21.
"Aunt Sukey" was Susanna Green, born July 26, 1744, died November 10,
1775. She married, on October 18, 1769, her cousin, Francis Green. The
little child Charles, of whom Anna writes, proved to be a deaf-mute, and
was drowned near Halifax in 1787. Francis Green had two deaf-mute
children by a second wife, and became prominent afterwards in
Massachusetts for his interest in and promotion of methods in instructing
the deaf. In a letter of George Green's, dated Boston, July 23, 1770, we
read: "Frank Green was married to Sukey in October last and they live next
house to Mrs Storers." From another, dated December 5, 1770: "Frank
keeps a ship going between here & London, but I believe understands little
of the matter, having never been bred to business wch was one great
objection with my father to his courting Sukey." I think he must have
developed into a capable business man, for I have frequently seen his
business advertisements in Boston newspapers of his day. Anna's mother
bequeathed seven hundred and fifty dollars to Francis Green in her will. He
was a man universally esteemed in the community.

Note 22.
Dr. Samuel Cooper was born March 28, 1725; died December 29, 1783. He
graduated at Harvard in 1743, and became pastor of the Brattle Street
Congregational Church, of Boston. He was a brilliant preacher, an ardent

patriot, the intimate friend of John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, and a
very handsome man.

Note 23.
Master Holbrook was Samuel Holbrook, Anna's writing-master, one of a
highly honored family of Boston writing teachers. Perhaps the best known
of this family was Abiah Holbrook. In the Boston Gazette of January 30,
1769, I find this notice:—
"Last Friday morning died Mr Abiah Holbrook in the 51st year of his Age,
Master of the South Writing School in this Town. He was looked upon by
the Best Judges as the Greatest Master of the Pen we have ever had among
us, of which he has left a most beautiful Demonstration. He was
indefatigable in his labours, successful in his Instructions, an Honour to the
Town and to crown all an Ornament to the Religion of Jesus. His Funeral is
to be Attended Tomorrow Afternoon at Four Oclock."
The "beautiful Demonstration" of his penmanship which he left behind him
was a most intricate piece of what was known as "fine knotting" or "knot
work." It was written in "all the known hands of Great Britain." This work
occupied every moment of what Abiah Holbrook called his "spare time" for
seven years. It was valued at £100. It was bequeathed to Harvard College,
unless his wife should need the money which could be obtained from
selling it. If this were so, she was to offer it first for purchase to John
Hancock. Abiah was a stanch patriot.
Samuel Holbrook was a brother of Abiah. He began teaching in 1745, when
about eighteen years old. A petition of Abiah, dated March 10, 1745-46,
sets forth that his school had two hundred and twenty scholars (Well may
his funeral notice say that he was indefatigable in his labors!), that finding it
impossible to properly instruct such a great number, he had appointed his
brother to teach part of them and had paid his board for seven months, else
some of the scholars must have been turned off without any instruction. He
therefore prayed the town to grant him assistance. Think of one master for
such a great school! In 1750 Samuel Holbrook's salary as usher of the South
Writing School was fifty pounds per annum.

After serving as writing-master of the school in Queen Street, and also
keeping a private school, he was chosen master of the South Writing School
in March, 1769, to supply the place of his brother Abiah deceased. His
salary was one hundred pounds. In 1776, and again in 1777, he received
eighty pounds in addition to his salary. He also was a patriot. He was one of
the "Sons of Liberty" who dined at the Liberty Tree, Dorchester, on August
14, 1769; and he was a member of Captain John Haskin's company in 1773.
He was a member of the Old South Church, and he died July 24, 1784. In
his later years he kept a school at West Street, where afterwards was Amos
Lawrence's garden.
Abiah and Samuel left behind them better demonstrations of their capacity
than pieces of "knot-work"—in the handwriting of their scholars. They
taught what Jonathan Snelling described as "Boston Style of Writing," and
loudly do the elegant letters and signatures of their scholars, Boston
patriots, clergy, and statesmen, redound to the credit of the Masters
Holbrook.
Other Holbrooks taught in Boston. From the Selectmen's Minutes of that
little town, we find that on November 10, 1773,—
"Mr Holbrook, Master of the Writing School in the Common, and Mr Carter
the Master Elect of the school in Queen St having recommended Mr Abiah
Holbrook, a young man near of age, as a suitable person to be usher at Mr
Carters school—the Selectmen sent for him, and upon discoursing with the
young man thought proper to appoint him usher of said school."
And from the Boston Gazette, of April 17, 1769, we learn that Mr. Joseph
Ward "Opened an English Grammar School in King St where Mr Joseph
Holbrook hath for many years kept a Writing School."
These entries of Anna's relating to her attending Master Holbrook's school
have an additional value in that they prove that both boys and girls attended
these public writing schools,—a fact which has been disputed.

Note 24.
Dr. James Lloyd, born March 14, 1728, died March 14, 1810. He began his
medical practice in 1752. He was appointed surgeon of the garrison at

Boston, and was a close friend of Sir William Howe and Earl Percy, who
for a time lived in his house. He was an Episcopalian, and one of the
indignant protesters against the alteration of the liturgy at King's Chapel.
Though a warm Tory and Loyalist, he was never molested by the American
government. He was one of Boston's most skilful and popular physicians
for many years. While other city doctors got but a shilling and sixpence for
their regular fee, he charged and received the exorbitant sum of half a dollar
a visit; and for "bringing little master to town," in which function he was a
specialist, he charged a guinea.

Note 25.
A pincushion was for many years, and indeed is still, in some parts of New
England, a highly conventional gift to a mother with a young babe. Mrs.
Deming must have made many of these cushions. One of her manufacture
still exists. It is about five inches long and three inches wide; one side is of
white silk stuck around the edge with old-fashioned clumsy pins, with the
words, "John Winslow March 1783. Welcome Little Stranger." The other
side is of gray satin with green spots, with a cluster of pins in the centre,
and other pins winding around in a vine and forming a row round the edge.

Note 26.
Though the exchange of Christmas gifts was rare in New England, a certain
observance of New Year's Day by gifts seems to have obtained. And we find
in Judge Sewall's diary that he was greeted on New Year's morn with a
levet, or blast of trumpets, under his window; and he celebrated the opening
of the eighteenth century with a very poor poem of his own composition,
which he caused to be recited through Boston streets by the town-crier.

Note 27.
The word "pompedore" or Pompadour was in constant use in that day. We
read of pompedore shoes, laces, capes, aprons, sacques, stockings, and
head-dresses.

Note 28.

Aunt Storer was Mrs. Ebenezer Storer. Her maiden name was Elizabeth
Green. She was a sister of Mrs. Joshua Winslow. She was born October 12,
1734, died December 8, 1774; was married July 17, 1751, to Ebenezer
Storer, who was born January 27, 1729-30, died January 6, 1807. He was a
Harvard graduate, and was for many years treasurer of that college. He was
one of Boston's most intellectual and respected citizens. His library was
large. His name constantly appears on the lists of subscribers to new books.
After his death his astronomical instruments became the property of
Harvard College, and as late as 1843 his comet-finder was used there.
As Anna Green Winslow spent so much of her time in her "Aunt Storers"
home in Sudbury Street, it is interesting to know that a very correct picture
of this elegant Boston home of colonial days has been preserved through
the account given in the Memoir of Eliza Susan Morton Quincy,—though
many persons still living remember the house:—
"The mansion of Ebenezer Storer, an extensive edifice of wood three stories
in height, was erected in 1700. It was situated on Sudbury Street between
two trees of great size and antiquity. An old English elm of uncommon
height and circumference grew in the sidewalk of the street before the
mansion, and behind it was a sycamore tree of almost equal age and
dimensions. It fronted to the south with one end toward the street. From the
gate a broad walk of red sandstone separated it from a grass-plot which
formed the courtyard, and passed the front door to the office of Mr. Storer.
The vestibule of the house, from which a staircase ascended, opened on
either side into the dining and drawing rooms. Both had windows towards
the courtyard and also opened by glazed doors into a garden behind the
house. They were long low apartments; the walls wainscoted and panelled;
the furniture of carved mahogany. The ceilings were traversed through the
length of the rooms by a large beam cased and finished like the walls; and
from the centre of each depended a glass globe which reflected as in a
convex mirror all surrounding objects. There was a rich Persian carpet in
the drawing-room, the colors crimson and green. The curtains and the
cushions of the window-seat were of green damask; and oval mirrors and
girandoles and a teaset of rich china completed the furniture of that
apartment. The wide chimney-place in the dining room was lined and
ornamented with Dutch tiles; and on each side stood capacious armchairs

cushioned and covered with green damask, for the master and mistress of
the family. On the walls were portraits in crayon by Copley, and valuable
engravings representing Franklin with his lightning rod, Washington, and
other eminent men of the last century. Between the windows hung a long
mirror in a mahogany frame; and opposite the fireplace was a buffet
ornamented with porcelain statuettes and a set of rich china. A large
apartment in the second story was devoted to a valuable library,
a philosophical apparatus, a collection of engravings, a solar microscope,
a camera, etc."
As I read this description I seem to see the figure of our happy little diary-
writer reflected in the great glass globes that hung from the summer-trees,
while she danced on the Persian carpet, or sat curled up reading on the
cushioned window-seat.

Note 29.
As this was in the time of depreciated currency, £45 was not so large a sum
to spend for a young girl's outfit as would at first sight appear.

Note 30.
Dr. Charles Chauncey was born January 1, 1705; died February 10, 1787.
He graduated at Harvard in 1721, and soon became pastor of the First
Church in Boston. He was an equally active opponent of Whitefield and of
Episcopacy. He was an ardent and romantic patriot, yet so plain in his ways
and views that he wished Paradise Lost might be turned into prose that he
might understand it.

Note 31.
Rev. Ebenezer Pemberton was pastor of the New Brick Church. He had a
congregation of stanch Whigs; but unluckily, the Tory Governor Hutchinson
also attended his church. Dr. Pemberton was the other minister of the two
who sprung the Governor's hated Thanksgiving proclamation of 1771 on
their parishes a week ahead of time, as told in Note 3, and the astounded
and disgusted New Brick hearers, more violent than the Old South
attendants, walked out of meeting while it was being read. Dr. Pemberton's

troubled and unhappy pastorate came to an end by the closing of his church
in war times in 1775. He was of the 1721 class of Harvard College. He died
September 9, 1777.

Note 32.
We find frequent references in the writings and newspapers of the times to
this truly Puritanical dread of bishops. To the descendants of the Pilgrims
the very name smacked of incense, stole, and monkish jargon. A writer,
signing himself "America," gives in the Boston Evening Post, of October
14, 1771, a communication thoroughly characteristic of the spirit of the
community against the establishment of bishops, the persistent
determination to "beate down every sprout of episcopacie."

Note 33.
A negligée was a loose gown or sacque open in front, to be worn over a
handsome petticoat; and in spite of its name, was not only in high fashion
for many years, but was worn for full dress. Abigail Adams, writing to Mrs.
Storer, on January 20, 1785, says: "Trimming is reserved for full dress only,
when very large hoops and negligées with trains three yards long are worn."
I find advertised in the Boston Evening Post, as early as November, 1755:
"Horse-hair Quilted Coats to wear with Negligees." A poem printed in New
York in 1756 has these lines:—
"Put on her a Shepherdee
A Short Sack or Negligee
Ruffled high to keep her warm
Eight or ten about an arm."

Note 34.
A pistareen was a Spanish coin worth about seventeen cents.

Note 35.
There exists in New England a tradition of "groaning cake," made and
baked in honor of a mother and babe. These cakes which Anna bought of
the nurse may have been "groaning cakes." It was always customary at that

time to give "vails" to the nurse when visiting a new-born child; sometimes
gifts of money, often of trinkets and articles of clothing.

Note 36.
Miss "Scolley" was Mary Scollay, youngest of the thirteen children of John
Scollay (who was born in 1712, died October, 1799), and his wife Mary.
Mary was born in 1759. She married Rev. Thomas Prentiss on February 9,
1798, had nine children, and lived to be eighty-two years old—dying in
1841. Her sister Mercy was engaged to be married to General Warren, but
he fell at Bunker Hill: and his betrothed devoted herself afterwards to the
care and education of his orphaned children whom he had by his first wife.

Note 37.
Miss Bella Coffin was probably Isabella, daughter of John Coffin and
Isabella Child, who were married in 1750. She married Major MacMurde,
and their sons were officers in India.

Note 38.
This Miss "Quinsey" was Ann Quincy, the daughter of Col. Josiah Quincy
(who was born 1710, died 1784), and his third wife, Ann Marsh. Ann was
born December 8, 1763, and thus would have been in her ninth year at the
time of the little rout. She married the Rev. Asa Packard, of Marlborough,
Mass., in 1790.

Note 39.
In the universal use of wines and strong liquors in New England at that date
children took unrestrainedly their proportionate part. It seems strange to
think of this girl assembly of little Bostonians drinking wine and hot or cold
punch as part of their "treat," yet no doubt they were well accustomed to
such fare. I know of a little girl of still tenderer years who was sent at that
same time from the Barbadoes to her grandmother's house in Boston to be
"finished" in Boston schools, as was Anna, and who left her relative's abode
in high dudgeon because she was not permitted to have wine at her meals;
and her parents upheld her, saying Missy must be treated like a lady and
have all the wine she wished. Cobbett, who thought liquor drinking the

national disease of America, said that "at all hours of the day little boys at
or under twelve years of age go into stores and tip off their drams." Thus it
does not seem strange for little maids also to drink at a party. The
temperance awakening of this century came none too soon.

Note 40.
Paste ornaments were universally worn by both men and women, as well as
by little girls, and formed the decoration of much of the headgear of
fashionable dames. Many advertisements appear in New England
newspapers, which show how large and varied was the importation of hair
ornaments at that date. We find advertised in the Boston Evening Post, of
1768: "Double and single row knotted Paste Combs, Paste Hair Sprigs &
Pins all prices. Marcasite and Pearl Hair Sprigs, Garnet & Pearl Hair
Sprigs." In the Salem Gazette and various Boston papers I read of "black &
coloured plumes & feathers." Other hair ornaments advertised in the Boston
News Letter, of December, 1768, were "Long and small Tail Garnets, Mock
Garland of all sorts and Ladies Poll Combs." Steel plumes, pompons,
aigrettes, and rosettes all were worn on the head, and artificial flowers,
wreaths of gauze, and silk ribbons.

Note 41.
Marcasite, spelled also marcassite, marchasite, marquesett, or marquaset,
was a mineral, the crystallized form of iron pyrites. It was largely used in
the eighteenth century for various ornamental purposes, chiefly in the
decoration of the person. It took a good polish, and when cut in facets like a
rose-diamond, formed a pretty material for shoe and knee-buckles, earrings,
rings, pins, and hair ornaments. Scarce a single advertisement of wares of
milliner or mantua maker can he found in eighteenth century newspapers
that does not contain in some form of spelling the word marcasite, and
scarce a rich gown or headdress was seen without some ornament of
marcasite.

Note 42.
Master Turner was William Turner, a fashionable dancing master of Boston,
who afterward resided in Salem, and married Judith, daughter of Dr.

Edward Augustus Holyoke, of Salem, who died in 1829, aged one hundred
and one years. It was recalled by an old lady that the scholars in the school
of her youth marched through Boston streets, to the music of the fiddle
played by "Black Henry," to Concert Hall, corner Tremont and Bromfield
streets, to practice dancing; and that Mr. Turner walked at the head of the
school. His advertisements may be seen in Boston and Salem papers, thus:
—
"Mr. Turner informs the Ladies and Gentlemen in Town and Country that he
has reduced his price for teaching from Six Dollars Entrance to One
Guinea, and from Four Dollars per month to Three. Those ladies and
Gentlemen who propose sending their children to be taught will notice no
books will be kept as Mr. T. has suffered much by Booking. The pupils
must pay monthly if they are desirous the School should continue."

Note 43.
"Unkle Ned" was Edward Green, born September 18, 1733; died July 29,
1790. He married, on April 14, 1757, Mary Storer (sister of Ebenezer Storer
and of Hannah Storer Green). They had no children. He was, in 1780, one
of the enlisting officers for Suffolk County. In a letter of George Green's,
written July 25, 1770, we read: "Ned still lives gentleman-like at
Southwacks Court without doing any business tho' obliged to haul in his
horns;" and from another of December 5, 1770: "Ned after having shown
off as long as he you'd with his yello damask window curtains &c is (the
last month) retired into the country and lives wth his wife at Parson Storers
at Watertown. How long that will hold I cant say."

Note 44.
Madam Smith was evidently Anna's teacher in sewing. The duties
pertaining to a sewing school were, in those days, no light matter. From an
advertisement of one I learn that there were taught at these schools:—
"All kinds of Needleworks viz: point, Brussels, Dresden Gold, Silver, and
silk Embroidery of every kind. Tambour Feather, India & Darning,
Spriggings with a Variety of Open-work to each. Tapestry plain, lined, and
drawn. Catgut, black & white, with a number of beautiful Stitches. Diaper

and Plain Darnings. French Quiltings, Knitting, Various Sorts of marking
with the Embellishments of Royal cross, Plain cross, Queen, Irish, and Tent
Stitches."
Can any nineteenth century woman read this list of feminine
accomplishments without looking abashed upon her idle hands, and ceasing
to wonder at the delicate heirlooms of lace and embroidery that have come
down to us!

Note 45.
Grandmamma Sargent was Joshua Winslow's mother. Her maiden name
was Sarah Pierce. She was born April 30, 1697, died August 2, 1771. She
married on September 21, 1721, John Winslow, who lived to be thirty-eight
years old. After his death she married Dr. Nathaniel Sargent in 1749.

Note 46.
These lines were a part of the epitaph said to be composed by Governor
Thomas Dudley, who died at Andover, Mass., in 1653. They were found
after his death and preserved in Morton's New England's Memorial. They
run thus:—
Dim eyes, deaf ears, cold stomach show
My dissolution is in view;
Eleven times seven near lived have I,
And now God calls, I willing die;
My shuttle's shot, my race is run,
My sun is set, my deed is done;
My span is measur'd, tale is told,
My flower is faded and grown old,
My dream is vanish'd, shadow's fled,
My soul with Christ, my body dead;
Farewell dear wife, children and friends,
Hate heresy, make blessed ends;
Bear poverty, live with good men,
So shall we meet with joy again.
Let men of God in courts and churches watch
O'er such as do a toleration hatch;
Lest that ill egg bring forth a cockatrice,
To prison all with heresy and vice.
If men be left, and other wise combine
My epitaph's, I dy'd no libertine.

Note 47.
Miss Polly Vans was Mary Vans, daughter of Hugh and Mary Pemberton
Vans, and aunt of Caty Vans. She was born in 1733. We have some scattered
glimpses of her life. She joined the Old South in 1755. In the Boston
Gazette, of April 9, 1770, we read, "Fan Mounts mounted by Mary Vans at
the house of Deacon Williams, in Cornhill." We hear of her at Attleborough
with Samuel Whitwell's wife when the gates of Boston were closed, and we
know she married Deacon Jonathan Mason on Sunday evening, December
20, 1778. She was his second wife. His first wife was Miriam Clark, and
was probably the Mrs. Mason who was present at Mrs. Whitwell's, and died
June 5, 1774. Mary Vans Mason lived till 1820, having witnessed the
termination of eight of the pastorates of the Old South Church. Well might
Anna term her "a Sister of the Old South." She was in 1817 the President of
the Old South Charity School, and is described as a "disinterested friend,
a judicious adviser, an affectionate counsellor, a mild but faithful reprover,
a humble, self-denying, fervent, active, cheerful Christian." Jonathan
Mason was not only a deacon, but a prosperous merchant and citizen. He
helped to found the first bank in New England. His son was United States
Senator. Two other daughters of Hugh Vans were a Mrs. Langdon, of
Wiscasset, Maine, and Mrs. John Coburn.

Note 48.
St. Valentine's Day was one of the few English holidays observed in New
England. We find even Governor Winthrop writing to his wife about
"challenging a valentine." In England at that date, and for a century
previous, the first person of the opposite sex seen in the morning was the
observer's valentine. We find Madam Pepys lying in bed for a long time one
St. Valentine's morning with eyes tightly closed, lest she see one of the
painters who was gilding her new mantelpiece, and be forced to have him
for her valentine. Anna means, doubtless, that the first person she chanced
to see that morning was "an old country plow-joger."

Note 49.
Boston was at that date pervaded by the spirit of Liberty. Sons of Liberty
held meetings every day and every night. Daughters of Liberty held

spinning and weaving bees, and gathered in bands pledging themselves to
drink no tea till the obnoxious revenue act was repealed. Young unmarried
girls joined in an association with the proud declaration, "We, the daughters
of those Patriots who have appeared for the public interest, do now with
pleasure engage with them in denying ourselves the drinking of foreign
tea." Even the children felt the thrill of revolt and joined in patriotic
demonstrations—and a year or two later the entire graduating class at
Harvard, to encourage home manufactures, took their degrees in homespun.

Note 50.
The cut-paper pictures referred to are the ones which are reproduced in this
book, and which are still preserved. Anna's father finally received them.
Mrs. Deming and other members of the Winslow family seem to have
excelled in this art, and are remembered as usually bringing paper and
scissors when at a tea-drinking, and assiduously cutting these pictures with
great skill and swiftness and with apparently but slight attention to the
work. This form of decorative art was very fashionable in colonial days, and
was taught under the ambitious title of Papyrotamia.

Note 51.
The "biziness of making flowers" was a thriving one in Boston. We read
frequently in newspapers of the day such notices as that of Anne Dacray, of
Pudding Lane, in the Boston Evening Post, of 1769, who advertises that she
"makes and sells Head-flowers: Ladies may be supplied with single buds
for trimming Stomachers or sticking in the Hair." Advertisements of
teachers in the art of flower-making also are frequent. I note one from the
Boston Gazette, of October 19, 1767:—
"To the young Ladies of Boston. Elizabeth Courtney as several Ladies has
signified of having a desire to learn that most ingenious art of Painting on
Gauze & Catgut, proposes to open a School, and that her business may be a
public good, designs to teach the making of all sorts of French Trimmings,
Flowers, and Feather Muffs and Tippets. And as these Arts above
mentioned (the Flowers excepted) are entirely unknown on the Continent,
she flatters herself to meet with all due encouragement; and more so, as
every Lady may have a power of serving herself of what she is now obliged

to send to England for, as the whole process is attended with little or no
expence. The Conditions are Five Dollars at entrance; to be confin'd to no
particular hours or time: And if they apply Constant may be Compleat in six
weeks. And when she has fifty subscribers school will be opened, &c, &c."

Note 52.
This was James Lovell, the famous Boston schoolmaster, orator, and patriot.
He was born in Boston October 31, 1737. He graduated at Harvard in 1756,
then became a Latin School usher. He married Miss Helen Sheaffe, older
sister of the "two Miss Sheafs" named herein; and their daughter married
Henry Loring, of Brookline. He was a famous patriot: he delivered the
oration in 1771 commemorative of the Boston Massacre. He was
imprisoned by the British as a spy on the evidence of letters found on
General Warren's dead body after the battle of Bunker Hill. He died in
Windham, Maine, July 14, 1814. A full account of his life and writings is
given in Loring's Hundred Boston Orators.

Note 53.
Nothing seems more revolting to our modern notions of decency than the
inhuman custom of punishing criminals in the open streets. From the
earliest days of the colonies the greatest publicity was given to the crime, to
its punishment, and to the criminal. Anna shows, in her acquaintance with
the vices of Bet Smith, a painful familiarity with evil unknown in any well-
bred child of to-day. Samuel Breck wrote thus of the Boston of 1771:—
"The large whipping-post painted red stood conspicuously and prominently
in the most public street in the town. It was placed in State Street directly
under the windows of a great writing school which I frequented, and from
them the scholars were indulged in the spectacle of all kinds of punishment
suited to harden their hearts and brutalize their feelings. Here women were
taken in a huge cage, in which they were dragged on wheels from prison,
and tied to the post with bare backs on which thirty or forty lashes were
bestowed among the screams of the culprit and the uproar of the mob.
A little further in the street was to be seen the pillory with three or four
fellows fastened by the head and hands, and standing for an hour in that
helpless posture, exposed to gross and cruel jeers from the multitude, who

pelted them incessantly with rotten eggs and every repulsive kind of
garbage that could be collected."
There was a pillory in State Street in Boston as late as 1803, and men stood
in it for the crime of sinking a vessel at sea and defrauding the underwriters.
In 1771 the pillory was in constant use in Newport.

Note 54.
In 1770 British troops were quartered in Boston, to the intense annoyance
and indignation of Boston inhabitants. Disturbances between citizens and
soldiers were frequent, and many quarrels arose. On the night of March 5 in
that year the disturbance became so great that the troops, at that time under
command of Captain Preston, fired upon the unarmed citizens in King (now
State) street, causing the death of Crispus Attucks, a colored man, Samuel
Gray and James Caldwell, who died on the spot, and mortally wounding
Patrick Carr and Samuel Maverick. At the burial of these slaughtered men
the greatest concourse ever known in the colonies flocked to the grave in
the Granary Burying Ground. All traffic ceased. The stores and
manufactories were closed. The bells were tolled in all the neighboring
towns.
Daniel Webster said, that from the moment the blood of these men stained
the pavements of Boston streets, we may date the severance of the colony
from the British empire.
The citizens demanded the removal of the troops, and the request was
complied with. For many years the anniversary of this day was a solemn
holiday in Boston, and religious and patriotic services were publicly held.

Note 55.
Mather Byles was born March 15, 1707; died July 5, 1788. He was
ordained pastor of the Hollis Street Congregational Church, of Boston, in
1733. He was a staunch Loyalist till the end of his days, as were his
daughters, who lived till 1837. His chief fame does not rest on his name as a
clergyman or an author, but as an inveterate and unmerciful jester.

Note 56.

Henry Green, the brother of Anna's mother, was born June 2, 1738. He was
a Latin School boy, was in business in Nova Scotia, and died in 1774.

Note 57.
This stove was a foot-stove,—a small metal box, usually of sheet tin or
iron, enclosed in a wooden frame or standing on little legs, and with a
handle or bail for comfortable carriage. In it were placed hot coals from a
glowing wood fire, and from it came a welcome warmth to make endurable
the freezing floors of the otherwise unwarmed meeting-house. Foot-stoves
were much used in the Old South. In the records of the church, under date
of January 16, 1771, may be read:—
"Whereas, danger is apprehended from the stoves that are frequently left in
the meeting-house after the publick worship is over; Voted that the Saxton
make diligent search on the Lords Day evening and in the evening after a
Lecture, to see if any stoves are left in the house, and that if he find any
there he take them to his house; and it is expected that the owners of such
stoves make reasonable satisfaction to the Saxton for his trouble before they
take them away."
The Old South did not have a stove set in the church for heating till 1783.

Note 58.
The first anniversary of the Boston Massacre was celebrated throughout the
city, and a mass-meeting was held at the Old South Church, where James
Lovell made a stirring address. See Notes 52 and 54.

Note 59.
The Queen's night-cap was a very large full cap with plaited ruffles, which
is made familiar to us through the portraits of Martha Washington.

Note 60.
"Old Mrs. Sallisbury" was Mrs. Nicholas Salisbury, who was married in
1729, and was mother of Rebecca Salisbury, who became Mrs. Daniel
Waldo, and of Samuel Salisbury, who married Elizabeth Sewall. See
Note 73.

Note 61.
Mrs. John Avery. Her husband was Secretary of the Commonwealth and
nephew of John Deming, who in his will left his house to John Avery, Jr.

Note 62.
A baby hutt was a booby-hutch, a clumsy, ill-contrived covered carriage.
The word is still used in some parts of England, and a curious survival of it
in New England is the word booby-hut applied to a hooded sleigh; and
booby to the body of a hackney coach set on runners. Mr. Howells uses the
word booby in the latter signification, and it may be heard frequently in
eastern Massachusetts, particularly in Boston.

Note 63.
Peggy Phillips was Margaret Phillips, daughter of William and Margaret
Wendell Phillips. She was born May 26, 1762, married Judge Samuel
Cooper, and died February 19, 1844. She was aunt of Wendell Phillips.

Note 64.
This "droll figure" may have been a drawing, or a dressed doll, or "baby," as
such were called—a doll that displayed in careful miniature the reigning
modes of the English court. In the New England Weekly Journal, of July 2,
1733, appears this notice:—
"To be seen at Mrs. Hannah Teatts Mantua Maker at the Head of Summer
Street Boston a Baby drest after the Newest Fashion of Mantuas and Night
Gowns & everything belonging to a dress. Latily arrived on Capt. White
from London, any Ladies that desire it may either come or send, she will be
ready to wait on 'em if they come to the House it is Five Shilling, & if she
waits on 'em it is Seven Shilling."
These models of fashion were employed until this century.

Note 65.
We can have a very exact notion of the books imported and printed for and
read by children at that time, from the advertisements in the papers. In the

Boston Gazette and Country Journal, of January 20, 1772, the booksellers,
Cox and Berry, have this notice:—
The following Little Books for the Instruction & Amusement of all good
Boys and Girls.

The Brother Gift or the Naughty Girl Reformed.
The Sister Gift, or the Naughty Boy Reformed.
Hobby Horse or Christian Companion.
Robin Good-Fellow, A Fairy Tale.
Puzzling Cap, A Collection of Riddles.
The Cries of London as exhibited in the Streets.
Royal Guide or Early Introduction to Reading English.
Mr Winloves Collection of Stories.
" " Moral Lectures.
History of Tom Jones abridg'd from the works of
" " Joseph Andrews H. Fielding.
" " Pamela abridg'd from the works of
" " Grandison S. Richardson, Esq.
" " Clarissa

Note 66.
General John Winslow was but a distant kinsman of Anna's, for he was
descended from Edward Winslow. He was born May 27, 1702; died April
17, 1774. He was a soldier and jurist, but his most prominent position
(though now of painful notoriety) was as commander of that tragic disgrace
in American history, the expedition against the Acadians. It is told in
extenuation of his action that before the annihilation and dispersion of that
unfortunate community he addressed them, saying that his duty was "very
disagreeable to his natural make and temper as it must be grievous to them,"
but that he must obey orders,—and of course what he said was true.

Note 67.
The exercises attending this election of counsellors must indeed have been
an impressive sight. The Governor, attended by a troop of horse, rode from
the Province House to Cambridge, where religious services were held. An

Election Sermon was preached. Volleys and salutes were fired at the Battery
and Castle. A protest was made in the public press, as on the previous year,
against holding this election in Cambridge instead of in the "Town House in
Boston, the accustomed Ancient Place," and also directly to the Governor,
which was answered by him in the newspapers; and at this election a most
significant event occurred—John Hancock declined to accept a seat among
the counsellors, to which he had been elected. The newspapers—the
Massachusetts Spy and the Boston Gazette and Country Journal—
commented on his action thus:—
"Mr Hancocks declining a seat in the Council Board is very satisfactory to
the Friends of Liberty among his constituents. This Gentleman has stood
five years successively and as often Negativ'd. Whatever may have been the
Motive of his being approbated at last his own Determination now shows
that he had rather be a Representative of the People since he has had so
repeatedly their Election and Confidence."

Note 68.
Boston had two election days. On Artillery Election the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery had a dress parade on the Common. The new officers
were chosen and received their new commissions from the new Governor.
No negroes were then allowed on the Common. The other day was called
"Nigger Lection," because the blacks were permitted to throng the Common
and buy gingerbread and drink beer, as did their betters at Artillery Election.

Note 69.
Col. Thomas Marshall was a Revolutionary officer. He commanded the
Tenth Massachusetts Regiment at Valley Forge. He was Captain of the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery from 1763 to 1767, and at one time
commanded Castle Island, now Fort Independence. He was one of the
Selectmen of Boston at the time when the town was invested by troops
under Washington. He died at Weston, Mass., on November 18, 1800.

Note 70.

A night gown was not in those days a garment for wear when sleeping, but
resembled what we now call a tea-gown. The night attire was called a rail.
Both men and women wore in public loose robes which they called night
gowns. Men often wore these gowns in their offices.

Note 71.
Many Boston people agreed with Anna in her estimate of Rev. Samuel
Stillman. He was called to the First Baptist Church in 1765, and soon
became one of Boston's most popular and sensational preachers. Crowds
thronged his obscure little church at the North End, and he took an active
part in Revolutionary politics. Many were pleased with his patriotism who
did not agree with him in doctrine. In the curious poem on Boston
Ministers, already quoted, we read:—
Last in my list is a Baptist,
A real saint, I wot.
Though named Stillman much noise he can
Make when in pulpit got.
The multitude, both grave and rude,
As drove by wind and tide,
After him hie, when he doth try
To gain them to his side.

Note 72.
Mr. and Mrs. Hooper were "King" Hooper and his wife of Marblehead. He
was so called on account of his magnificent style of living. He was one of
the Harvard Class of 1763; was a refugee in 1775, and died insolvent in
1790. The beautiful mansion which he built at Danvers, Mass., is still
standing in perfect condition, and is the home of Francis Peabody, Esq. It is
one of the finest examples of eighteenth century architecture in New
England.

Note 73.
This "Miss Becca" was Rebecca Salisbury, born April 7, 1731, died
September 25, 1811. She was a fine, high-spirited young woman, and upon
being taunted by a rejected lover with,
"The proverb old—you know it well,
That women dying maids, lead apes in hell,"

(a belief referred to in Taming of the Shrew, Act II. Scene 1), she made this
clever rhyming answer:—
"Lead apes in hell—tis no such thing;
The story's told to fool us.
But better there to hold a string,
Than here let monkeys lead us."

She married Daniel Waldo May 3, 1757. The "very pretty Misses" were
their daughters; Elizabeth, born November 24, 1765, died unmarried in
Worcester, August 28, 1845; and Martha (who in this diary is called Patty),
born September 14, 1761, died November 25, 1828. She married Levi
Lincoln, Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts, and became the mother of
Levi Lincoln, Governor of Massachusetts, Enoch Lincoln, Governor of
Maine, and Col. John Lincoln.

Note 74.
The fashion of the roll was of much importance in those days. A roll
frequently weighed fourteen ounces. We can well believe such a heavy
mass made poor Anna's head "ach and itch like anything." That same year
the Boston Gazette had a laughable account of an accident to a young
woman on Boston streets. She was knocked down by a runaway, and her
headdress received the most serious damage. The outer covering of hair was
thrust aside, and cotton, tow, and false hair were disgorged to the delight of
jeering boys, who kicked the various stuffings around the street. A Salem
hair-dresser advertised that he would "attend to the polite construction of
rolls to raise ladies heads to any pitch desired." The Abbé Robin, traveling
through Boston a few years later, found the hair of ladies' heads "raised and
supported upon rolls to an extravagant height."

Transcription of handwriting facsimile
I hope aunt wont let me wear the black hatt with the red Dominie—for the
people will ask me what I have got to sell as I go along street if I do. or, how
the folk at Newguinie do? Dear mamma, you dont know the fation here—
I beg to look like other folk. You dont kno what a stir would be made in
Sudbury Street were I to make my appearance there in my red Dominie &
black Hatt. But the old cloak & bonnett together will make me a decent
Bonnet for common ocation (I like that) aunt says, its a pitty some of the
ribbin you sent wont do for the Bonnet—I must now close up this Journal.
With Duty, Love & Compliments as due, perticularly to my Dear little brother,
(I long to see him) & M.rs Law, I will write to her soon
I am, Hon.d Papa & mama,
Y.r ever Dutiful Daughter
Anna Green Winslow.
N.B. my aunt Deming dont approve of my English. & has not the fear that you
will think her concernd in the Diction

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