uel was probably the settler in Falmouth, who was born in 1678, as was the Benjamin, born 1680. Samuel is supposed to have moved to Ipswich in 1689 or 1690, and "being arrived at old age," in 1767, made his will. Benjamin married Mary Giddings, 1704, and had six children born in Gloucester before 1728, in which year he was admitted an inhabitant of Falmouth. He had previously lived in Falmouth, before the Indian war of 1690, and was living there in 1759, when he was seventynine years old. We find on the Falmouth records the birth of Saralı, daughter of Benjamin and Mary York, April 6, 1724, and Joseph, son of same, August 6, 1728.]

We have not space to give a detailed account of all the settlers in Falmouth between the first and second wars, but we will now subjoin a catalogue of their names as far as we have been able to collect them. In the second war some families were probably entirely destroyed, others lost their male branches in this way we may account for the fact that so few of the ancient names are found in our subsequent history.

[Several of the above names I have met with for the first and only time in a petition to the government in 1689, which is copied entire in chapter IX, p. 283. They are styled in the petition "inhabitants of Falmouth," and although their names are not familiar, I am bound to believe that they speak truly; the names of such are marked by an asterisk.]

[The following tax list, discovered since the first edition of this work was published, furnishes me with some additional names. The tax for town charges in 1683, was twelve pounds sixteen shillings four pence. The province charges were seventeen pounds seventeen shillings ten pence. In the tax for 1683, were the following items, viz:

"Richard Powsland for money lent the town to go for Mr. Burroughs £1.10. twenty or thirty shillings in good pay.

Anthony Brackett to pay part of Mr. Burroughs' passage,
Passage, and boards and nails for ye ministers house and workmen,

5.

5.5.

to 1.10.

To John Ingersoll and George Ingersoll for one thousand boards to floor the meeting-house

"A rate made by the selectmen of the town of Falmouth, the 24th of November, 1684, on the real estate, and all vacant lands of the inhabitants of said town.