tutor in the family of the Bertrams. It was not until 1790 that clerical associations in Massachusetts assumed the function of " approbating" or "licensing" young men to preach; although, as the late Dr. Joseph S. Clark insisted, these associations have not claimed, and never rightfully can claim, the authority implied in the word "license." Early in December, 1711, Mr. Sewall went to Salem, and, as the result of his preaching there, received an invitation to settle as pastor of a church about to be gathered in the middle district in that town. He says: "I declined it, though not without pain. Their expressions of love and respect were truly affecting and extraordinary." At the same time, or previously, there seems to have been a desire on the part of some to settle him at Brattle Street Church, Boston, as colleague with the Rev. Benjamin Colman, for whom he had preached several times. "September 28. Messrs. Coleman, Palmer, Davenport speak to me about settling in their Church; they say that the most seem to be inclin'd to it, tho as yet no Church Vote hath passed about it." We have found no other reference to this proposition, except the following in a letter addressed by Mr. Sewall to Mr. Colman from Cambridge, February 22, 1711-12: "I received your courteous Letter this morning, and could not read it without a deep sense of the great respect shewn me in it, which I must acknowledge to be much above my merit. I humbly thank you and the Gentlemen concerned for the honor you did me in the privat motions, which your Letter makes mention of. I can't tell how God will dispose of me; but desire to resign myself to his care and Providence in all things. It will be a great satisfaction to me, if I may always enjoy that Affection which you are pleased so generously to express in your Letter; and I hope I shall ever retain a gratefull Remembrance of it."* It was the policy of the Old South Church, during the first century of its existence, to have two pastors of like functions and with equal authority; there were intervals of time when it had one only, yet it so happened that from the installation of Mr. Thacher in 1670 to that of Mr. Bacon and Mr. Hunt on the same day in the autumn of 1771, every minister who was settled there was settled as an associate. From Mr. Thacher's settlement until Dr. Sewall's death in 1769, the Church was never without at least one pastor. Since the death of Mr. Willard in 1707, Mr. Pemberton had been alone in the work; and, after Mr. Sewall began to preach, it was natural that his friends in the Church should think of him as a colleague. At a meeting, March 19, 1712, two candidates were put in nomination, Mr. Sewall, and Mr. Joseph Stevens, afterward of Charlestown; at a succeeding meeting, April 25th, the former had forty-seven votes, and was chosen, and the latter had twenty. Early in the summer of this See Sewall's Letter Book, Vol. I., pp. 414, 415. Three years later, the Rev. William Cooper was settled as colleague pastor at Brattle Street. His wife was Judith, youngest child of Judge Sewall. year Mr. Sewall had a severe illness, and his formal acceptance of the call was not presented to the Church until October. His ordination did not take place until the autumn of the next year. In the great fire of October, 1711, the First Church and Congregation lost their meeting-house, and for the next year and a half they worshipped at Brattle Street and the Old South; their two ministers, Mr. Wadsworth and Mr. Bridge, preaching alternately at the two places with Mr. Colman and Mr. Pemberton. While this pleasant arrangement continued, Mr. Sewall's services were not required at the Old South; but after the completion and occupancy of the new house of worship, which came to be known as the Old Brick, May, 1713, Mr. Pemberton, whose health was poor, needed the assistance of his colleague-elect, and preparations were made for the ordination of the latter. This took place on the 13th of September, Mr. Sewall having supplied the pulpit in turn with the older minister during the summer. Drs. Increase and Cotton Mather took part in the services, and Mr. Pemberton gave the charge, in the course of which he made a strong plea for the antiquity and validity of New England ordination. Mr. Sewall preached the sermon, according to the custom of the time, and a version of the twenty-third Psalm was sung by the congregation. The young pastor, who had just completed his twenty-fifth year, preached on the next Sunday from the text, "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world." The ministry thus auspiciously entered upon continued without interruption for fifty-six years. Its history is recorded elsewhere, and we will make no reference to it here, except to say a word, in passing, of the colleague pastorate of Mr. Sewall and Mr. Thomas Prince,-friends from youth and college classmates,—which lasted from 1718 until the death of the latter in 1758,-" furnishing an example," says Dr. Wisner, "of mutual affection and union of purpose and pursuit, to which the annals of collegiate charges will be searched for a parallel, I fear, almost in vain." On the 29th of October, 1713, Mr. Sewall was married by Mr. Pemberton to Elizabeth, daughter of the Hon. John Walley, for many years an associate of Judge Sewall on the bench of the Superior Court of Judicature of Massachusetts Bay, and a very distinguished man. Mr. Pemberton having moved into the new parsonage at the head of Milk Street, Mr. Sewall and his bride took possession of the old parsonage on the Green, the historic building in which Governor Winthrop, the Rev. John Norton and Mr. Willard had lived and died. We present a portrait of Mr. Sewall after a picture painted by John Smibert, a Scotchman, who came to New England in 1728, and to Boston in 1730, in which latter year he became a member of the Old South Church. Mr. Sewall was then forty-two years old, and this seems to be about the age represented in our portrait. Smibert was the first portrait painter of any skill whom Boston had known. In later years he went to the West Church, of which the Rev. William Hooper was then the minister. His portraits of the two ministers of Brattle Street Church, Mr. Colman and Mr. Cooper, are familiar to us all in the engravings of Peter Pelham, the step-father of Copley. INTENTIONS OF MARRIAGE-LINCOLN CO., MAINE. Communicated by BENJAMIN N. GOODALE, Esq., of Saco, Me. [The second date, where it occurs, is the endorsed date of marriage]. I SEND some old Lincoln County intentions of marriage. They were among papers in my care. I do not know if they are on record, but probably most of them are. They may be of use to somebody. Readfield.-Feb. 5, 1792.-Mr. Jeremiah Ellsworth. Miss Sally Doddge of Midletown. Harpswell.-Jan. 10, 1793.-Mr. Daniel Webber of H. Mrs. Abigal Sylvestor of Pownalborough. Bristol.-Sept. 26, 1794.-Mr. Stephen Stewart of B. Miss Doley Horin of Pownalborough. Edgecomb.-Nov. 12, 1794.-Solomon Gove Jun'. Ruth Baker, both of this town. Dresden.-May 18, 1795.-Mr. Stephen Munro Junior. Miss Mary Stilphen, both of D. New Milford.-Aug. 17, 1798.-Mr. David Vining. (Jan. 14).-Mrs. Jenny Gonell, both of New M. Pittston.-Jan. 19, 1792.-Mr. Thomas Palmer. 66 66 66 Miss Sarah Parsons of Newcastle. Miss Rebekah Dow, of Balls Town. Miss Mercy Brown, of Ballstown. Nov. 10, 1794.-Mr. Jonathan Moody. Miss Sally Palmer, both of P. Dec. 4, 1797.—Mr. Samuel Palmer. Miss Abigal Pratt, both of P. Wiscasset.-Jan. 9, 1799.-Mr. William Wyman. (m. Jan. 10, 1799).-Miss Nancy Coffin, both of this town. Wiscasset.-Mar. 24, 1804.-Mr. Thomas Dorrel. 66 (Ap. 14).—Mrs. Elizabeth Todd. June 23, 1804.-Mr. Francis Seuil. (June 23, 1804).-Mrs. Hannah Chace, both of W. Dec. 19, 1804.-Mr. Michael Wharton. (Dec. 20, 1804).-Miss Betsey Grover, both of W. Ballstown.-Feb. 24, 1791.-James Wears. Elizabeth Cunningham, both of B. Ballstown.-Nov. 5, 1792.-Mr. John McCurdy. 66 66 66 66 (Dec. 13).-Mrs. Mary Reves, both of this plantation. Dec. 28, 1792.-Mr. William Heel. (Jan. 10, 1793).-Mrs. Susannah Shepherd, both of this planta tion. Jan. 14, 1793.—Mr. Jacob Rowell. (Jan. 17, 1793).-Mrs. Lucia Vining, both of this plantation. Feb. 4, 1793.-Mr. Joshua follensbury Little, of Pittstown. Mrs. Rebekah Dow, of this plantation. Mar. 18, 1793.-Mr. Timothy Plumer. Mrs. Hannah Hutchins, both of this plantation. Mar. 28, 1793.-Mr. Winthrope Weeks. Mrs. Hannah Hogskins, both of this plantation. Sept. 26, 1793.-Mr. Nehimiah Blake. (Nov. 15, 1793).-Mrs. Anna Tibetts, both of Great Pond Settlement. Oct. 22, 1793.-Mr. James Reves Jun. (Jan. 3, 1794).-Mrs. Lucia Trask, both of this plantation. 66 Dec. 13, 1793.-Mr. John James. (Jan. 2, 1794).-Mrs. Sarah Hutchins, both of Great Pond Settlement. Mar. 8, 1794.-Mr. Abner Ford Jun. (Mar. 10, 1794).—Mrs. Susannah Fowles, both of this plantation. Aug. 11, 1794.-Mr. John Parker. Mrs. Lydia Rollens, both of B. Sept. 20, 1794.—Mr. George Manson. Mrs. Susannah Coopper. Oct. 4, 1794.-Mr. Michael Glidden. (Oct. 10, 1794).—Mrs. Sally Hankley, both of B. Oct. 20, 1794.-Mr. Joseph Pulsepher Jun' of Pittstown. Nov. 15, 1794.-Mr. Ebenezer Rollens. Miss Hannah Aulny, both of B. July 29, 1795.-Mr. James Peasley. Mrs. Ruth Peasley, both of this plantation. Sept. 16, 1795.-Mr. Solomon Potter. Mrs. Rachel Bartlett, both of this plantation. Nov. 16, 1795.-Mr. Ezra Baley, of Newmillford. (Nov. 23 or 24).—Mrs. Nancy Heath, of this plantation. feb. 15, 1796.—Mr. Jacob Rowell. Mrs. Hannah Reves, both of this plantation. Mar. 10, 1796.—Mr. John Woodman Jr. Mrs. Betsey Bourn, both of this plantation. Mar. 10, 1796.-Mr. Jonathan Peasley. Mrs. Katherine Murphy, both of this plantation. Mar. 17, 1796.-Mr. Nathan Longfellow Jun., of this planta tion. (Mar. 31).—Mrs. Elizabeth Jewett, of Newmilford. Mar. 22, 1796.—Mr. Daniel Hayward. Mrs. Hannah Greenlief, both of this planta tion. Ballstown.-May 14, 1796.-Mr. James Murphy Jun'. 66 Mrs. Rebekah Laitain, both of this plantation. Pownalboro.-Ap. 18, 1791.-Mr. Joel Pelton, of Seven mile Brook. Miss Anna Cottra, of P. Pounalbour.-Mar. 10, 1792.-James Norrass. Mary Eckorn. Pownalboro.-Oct. 30, 1792.-Mr. Asa Smith, Jun'. 66 (Nov. 29, '92).-Miss Nancy Singelton, both of P. (Dec. 25, 1792).-Miss Betsey Coockson, both of Ballstown. (Jan. 17, '93).-Miss Sarah Currier, of Pownalborough. Jan. 16, 1793.-Mr. Daniel Webber Jun'., of Harpswell. (Jan. 24).-Miss Abigail Sylvester, of Pownalborough. Jan. 21, 1793.-Mr. Nathan Dow. Miss Betsey Prible, both of Pownalborough. Sept. 3, 1794.-Mr. William Hodge. Miss Polly Avirell, both of Pownalborough. Nov. 26, 1794.-Mr. Stephen Stewart, of Bristol. Miss Dolly Horn, of Pownalborough. Nov. 2, 1795.-Mr. Joseph Carleton Jun'. Miss Rebecca Erskin, both of Pownalborough. May 15, 1800.-Mr. Moses Owen. (May 15, 1800).—Mrs. Ami Herrington, both of Pownalbor ough. Ap. 6, 1801.-Mr. Peter Johnson. (Ap. 7, 1801).-Miss Polly Lake, both of Pownalborough. New Castle.-Mar. 15, 1790.-Mr. John Bradstreet, of Sheepscut great 66 Pond. Abigail Gleddin, of Ball-Town. Sept. 29, 1790.-Mr. Daniel Clough. (Oct. 19).-Miss Jude Greely, both of this Town. 66 Nov. 13, 1790.-Joseph Bartlet. 66 46 66 66 66 39 64 (Nov. 18).-Nancy Muney, both of Ball-Town. Nov. 30, 1790.-Mr. Benjamin Plumer. (Dec. 16).-Miss Nancy Bevis, both of Ball-Town. Dec. 21, 1790.-Mr. Francis Choat. Miss Susanna Heath, of Ball-Town. Feb. 24, 1791.-Mr. James Wier (endorsed Wyer). Miss Betsey Cuningham, both of Ball-Town. Sept. 1, 1791.-Mr. Ebenezer Filbrook (endorsed Phill brook). Sarah Osborn, both of Ball-Town. Sept. 29, 1791.-Mr. Benjamin Noice (endorsed Noyce). Miss Lois Turner, both of this town. Dec. 31, 1791.-Mr. Isaac Davis. Miss Elizabeth Boyanton, both of Ball-Town. Jan. 24, 1792.-Thomas Palmer, of Pitts Town. |