Steven Eric Brann
Sex: M
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Birth: 10 May 1956 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 1
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Father: Sherwood Eugene Brann (1935-1967)
Mother: Annette Gertrude Pratte (Est 1936- )
Abigail Brasier
Sex: F
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Birth: Est 1668 - Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay
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Death: 12 Oct 1746 - Rehoboth, Massachusetts 2
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1. *James Sabin (1 Jan 1664 - 11 Dec 1748)
Marriage: 16 Oct 1689 - Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony 3
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1. Hosea Sabin (1690- )
2. Noah Sabin (1692- )
3. Joseph Sabin (1694- )
4. James Sabin (1696- )
5. Abigail Sabin (1698-1698)
6. David Sabin (1699- )
7. Martha Sabin (1702- )
8. Abigail Sabin (1704- )
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Marriage Notes (James Sabin)
May have married in Charlestown.
Alice Brasier
Sex: F
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Birth: 1597 - of Bristol, England
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Death: 1636
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1. *Thomas Makepeace (22 Sep 1595 - Jan 1667)
Marriage: Cir 1620
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1. Hester Makepeace (1634-1685) 4
2. William Makepeace (Cir 1630-1681)
Nellie J Braslin
Sex: F
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Birth: Est 1860 - Cambridge, Massachusetts
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1. *Samuel T Snow (5 Nov 1854 - 8 Jun 1883) 5
Marriage: 8 Sep 1878 - Somerville, Massachusetts 6
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1. Lilian M Snow (1881-1882) 5
Major Thomas Brastow
Sex: M
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Birth: 1 Aug 1763 - Wrentham, Massachusetts
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Death: 28 Apr 1810 - Orrington, Maine
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1. *Priscilla Brown (8 Dec 1775 - 28 Jun 1868) 8
Marriage: 15 Sep 1796 - Orrington, Maine 9
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He was the son of Captain Thomas Brastow and Susanna Fisher.Marriage Notes (Priscilla Brown)
Priscilla married Major Thomas Brastow who was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts 1 Aug 1763 and died 28 Apr 1810. They lived near the Orrington/Brewer line. The marriage took place on 15 Sep 1796. Both Priscilla and Thomas are buried in the Marston Cemetery in Orrington.
Children of Priscilla Brown and Thomas Brastow are:
iPolly Brastow was born 6 Apr 1797 and married Henry Rogers.
iiThomas Brastow was born 28 Oct 1798 and died 15 Apr 1874. He married Cordelia Dunham 5 Nov 1852. [She] was born about 1814 probably in Attelborough, Massachusetts and died 15 Dec 1866.
iiiSamuel Brastow was born 28 Dec 1800 and died 29 May 1847. He was buried in Brewer, Maine.
iiivPriscilla Brastow was born 22 Jan 1803 and married Rev. Samuel Drake. He was born in Blanchard, Maine.
vBrasier Brastow was born 10 Apr 1805 and married Maria Sampson.
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Dante M Bratti
Sex: M
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Birth: 13 Mar 1923
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Death: 26 Oct 1997 - West Yarmouth, Massachusetts
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1. *Roberta Elizabeth Gilbert (13 Apr 1923 - 6 Nov 2011)
Marriage: 29 Jul 1946 - West Harwich, Massachusetts
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Elizabeth Brattle
Sex: F
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Birth: 30 Nov 1660 - Boston, Massachusetts Bay
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Death: May 1719
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1. *Nathaniel Oliver (8 Mar 1652 - 15 Apr 1704) 10
Marriage: 3 Jan 1677 - Boston, Massachusetts Bay 10
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1. Brattle Oliver (1689-1736) 11
Captain Thomas Brattle
Sex: M
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Birth: Abt 1624
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Death: 5 Apr 1683
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1. *Elizabeth Tyng (6 Feb 1638 - 9 Nov 1682)
Marriage: 1656 - Massachusetts Bay
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Children:
1. Thomas Brattle (1657-1713)
2. Rev William Brattle (1662-1717)
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CAPT. THOMAS BRATTLE AND HIS MEN
Thomas Brattle was born about 1624. Was a merchant of good standing in Boston in 1656; was of the Artillery Company in 1675. He was an enterprising land-purchaser, and bought large tracts on the Kennebec and the Merrimac, the latter of the Indians. He owned valuable iron works at Concord, and was deputy from that town from 1678-1681; also from Lancaster, 1671--2. Was one of the founders of the Old South Church, and in 1671 one of the commissioners sent to treat with Philip at Taunton; and in nearly all the relations of public life he appears as one of the most active and influential men of the colony. He married, probably in 1656, Elizabeth Tyng, daughter of Capt. William and Elizabeth (Coytemore) Tyng, whose tragic death, Nov. 9th, 1682, is recorded in Judge Sewall's Diary. Their children, born in Boston, were -- Thomas, born Sept. 5, 1657, died same day; Thomas, born June 20, 1658; Elizabeth, born Nov. 30th, 1660; William, born Nov. 22, 1662; Katharine, born Sept. 26, 1664; Bethiah, born Aug. 13, 1666; Mary, born Aug. 10, 1668; Edward, born Dec. 18, 1670. Thomas Brattle was appointed Cornet of the Suffolk troop, May 30th, 1670; Lieutenant, Oct. 13, 1675; Captain, May 5, 1676. When the war broke out, Capt. Brattle was an immediate and important friend of the colony. He loaned the colony two hundred pounds, and in the first few months of the war he is personally credited with cash, supplies and service to the amount of fifteen hundred pounds upon the treasurer's accounts.
Sept. 8, 1675, the Council orders Cornet Thomas Brattle, with a party of horsemen under his command, to take fifty soldiers who are appointed to meet him at Leftenant Thomas Henchman's, in Groton, and distribute them according to his discretion in the towns of Dunstable, Groton and Lancaster; and to arrange with the inhabitants for the support and aid of their garrisons; also to settle affairs, so far as possible, with the friendly Indians at Wamesit, Nashoba and Marlborough, to induce the chief Wannalancet to return and live quietly at Wamesit, giving his son as a hostage into the hands of the English, etc. The issue of this affair will appear in the account of the Pennacooks. Capt. Brattle was engaged in the organization and supply of the several expeditions west and south. He was personally with the forces at Narraganset, in the reorganization of the army after the Swamp Fight. On May 15th, 1676, in the expedition to Hassanamesit under Capt. Henchman, Capt. Brattle, with a party of horse, fell upon the Indians between Mendon and Hassanamesit and killed about twenty, of whom four were squaws. The enemy dispersed into the swamps, and the main body escaped.
On May 24th, Capt. Brattle "with a troope of horse," about fifty, went in pursuit of the Indians "that had newly done spoyle at Seaconcke." With a small party of foot, he arrived at the Falls of "Pocatuck River," being on the Seaconck side. The Indians appeared on the opposite side in force. Leaving the foot behind, Capt. Brattle led the troopers up the river, where they crossed with great difficulty, and soon came down upon the Indians and put them to a disastrous flight, capturing large store of their fish and other supplies, killing several. One of the English was killed, and Cornet Elliot was wounded in the hand. The dead soldier was carried to Seaconck and buried. An Indian boy was captured who testified that these Indians were three or four hundred, and belonged to "Nepsachuit." See Col. Records, vol. v. p. 96, the full letter of the General Court. June 30th, 1676, Capt. Brattle is sent on an expedition towards Mount Hope with instructious as follows:
Instructions for Capt. Thomas Brattle
You are to take twenty of your Troope with such officers as you shall see meete, together with an officer & ten Trooprs of Left. Hassey's Troope and with them to march with all expedition to Dedham where are ordered to be an officer with eighteen foote souldiers mounted from Dorchester, sixe from Roxbury and twenty from Dedham with an officer. All appointed to be at Dedham the Rendevous this day at fower of the clock this afternoone, whom you are to take under your Conduct and the officers and souldiers are Required to obey you as theire Commander for this Service of the Country. You are to march with your Troopers & Dragoons to be at John Woodcocks by midnight where you shall meete with an Indian Pylot and two files of musketeers which Pylot hath engaged to bring you upon Phillip and his Company who are not above thirty men as he saith & not ten miles from Woodcocks; be sure to secure your Pylot to prevent falsehood and escape. You are to endeavour with your utmost diligence to Come up with the enemy and Coming up with him, or any other of them, you are to subdue kill and destroy, in your marches take heed of Ambushments and see you keepe your souldiers in Comand and that they moove with as much sylence as may be, that you be not prevented. In case the ennimy should be past to Mount Hope and that you Can meete with Plymouth forces you are to Joyne with them. If upon Intelligence you may probably Come up with ennemy to fight subdue & destroy them.
ffor that you are victualled onely for sixe days, you are to order that your march out may be proportionably thereto for your Returne unless by the longer stay you shall see you have very probable advantage against the enemy & you may have Recruite of proper officers from our Confederates or cann give timely notice to us to send you supply.
In case you meete not with a Pylot at Woodcoks you are to send to Mr. Newman at Rehoboth and lett him know of your being there, and wayting to endeavour to surprise Phillip; And In case that faile, if upon Intelligence you have oppertunity to fall upon any other of the ennemy you are to attend that; Upon all occasions & opportunity you are to Advise us of your motions and of Gods dealings with you; for your so doing these are your order and warrant. Given at Boston the thirtieth day of June 1676.
By the Gouvernour & Council of the Massachusetts.
Mass. Archives, vol. 69, pp. 24, 25. J. L. G.
In this expedition Capt. Mosely was joined, as related by Mr. Hubbard. The plan was carried out, but when they arrived at the swamp they found the wily chief and his body guard "newly gone." They, however, joined with the Plymouth forces under command of Major Bradford, and succeeded, before their return home in the latter part of July, in securing the Plymouth and southern towns, and in killing or capturing one hundred and fifty of the enemy.
Capt. Thomas Brattle died April 5th, 1683. He left, it is said, the largest estate1 in New England at that time. His son (1 In the old Court files, Book 8, is preserved the following, which may be of interest as describing) Capt. Brattle's Kennebec grant:
"Thomas Brattle in behalf of himself & other the Heirs of Capt. Thomas Brattle, Mr. Antipas Boyes, Mr. Edward Tyng & John Winslow claims a certain Tract of Land in America in or between & extending from the utmost Bounds of Cobbeseconte which adjoineth to the River of Kennebeck towards the Western Ocean, and a Place called the Falls at Nequamkeek & a Place of fifteen English Miles on both Sides the River called Kennebeck River & all the said River that
lyeth within the said Limits & bounds Eastward, Westward, Northward & Southward as per Deed from the Governmt of Plimouth Colony dated 27 Octor 1661 & Orderly recorded. "A true copy Examined pr THOs CLARKE Depty Sec'ty."
Thomas administered upon the estate. This son Thomas graduated at Harvard, 1676, and was eminent for his scholarship, especially in mathematics. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, which was a mark of great distinction to an American. He was celebrated for his opulence, talents and benevolence; was treasurer of Harvard College from 1693 to his death, May 18, 1713. He was never married. William Brattle, second son of Capt. Thomas, graduated at Harvard College in 1780, and received degree of B.D. in 1692, and in 1696 was ordained pastor of the church in Cambridge. He was a celebrated scholar and preacher, being especially liberal for his time. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Hayman, of Charlestown, Nov. 3, 1697, and by her had two sons, of whom William, the eldest, inherited his grandfather's Narraganset claim. 12
Thomas Brattle
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 5 Sep 1657 - Boston, Massachusetts Bay
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Death: 18 May 1713 - Boston, Massachusetts
Burial: in King's Chapel, Boston, Massachusetts
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Events
• Alt Birth 13, , Boston, Massachusetts Bay in Boston, Massachusetts Bay
Parents
Father: Captain Thomas Brattle (Abt 1624-1683)
Mother: Elizabeth Tyng (1638-1682)
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Appleton's Cyclopedia:
BRATTLE, Thomas, merchant, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 5 September, 1657; died there, 18 May, 1713. He was graduated at Harvard in 1676, and became treasurer of the College. He wrote "Eclipse of the Sun and Moon observed in New England," published in the "Philosophical Transactions" for 1704; "Lunar Eclipse, New England, 1707"; and a private letter giving an account of the witchcraft delusion in 1692, which is preserved in the "Massachusetts Historical Collections."
--His brother, William, was pastor of the church in Cambridge, having been previously a tutor in Harvard College. He published a treatise on logic entitled "Compendium logicae secundum Principia died Renati Cartesii," which was long used as a recitation-book in the College. His death, at the age of fifty-four, occurred on 15 February, 1717.
--William, son of William, loyalist, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, about 1702 ; died in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in October, 1776. He was graduated at Harvard in 1722, studied theology, and preached acceptably; then became a lawyer, and was for many years a member of the legislature and of the governor's council. He also practiced medicine extensively, and was besides a military man, becoming captain of the artillery company in 1733, and afterward major general of militia. His talents and attractive manners made him a favorite with the governor, and popular among the people. When the revolutionary war began, his attachment to General Gage impelled him to side with the British. He withdrew to Boston, and, when the troops evacuated that City, accompanied them to Halifax. A well-known street in Boston commemorates the family.
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Encyclopedia Britannica:
Little is known of Brattle's career in business, except that he amassed a considerable fortune and made several generous gifts to Harvard. He was made treasurer of the college in 1693 and held this office until his death; under his supervision the financial assets of the college were notably augmented.
Brattle was an accomplished amateur mathematician and astronomer and took an abiding interest in the forms of religious worship. He leaned toward the Church of England and for this reason incurred the displeasure of Cotton Mather. Brattle declined to be drawn into serious religious controversies and instead proceeded quietly to organize, with others, the Brattle Street Church in Boston. This edifice was completed in 1699. He was an influential protester against the persecution of “witches” in 1692 and, in that year, circulated a pamphlet “giving a full and candid account of the delusion called witchcraft.”
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Salemwitchmuseum.com
Thomas Brattle, one of the most outspoken opponents of the witchcraft, is buried beneath a black table stone with a brick foundation in the northeast portion of the [King's Chapel] cemetery. The inscription on the stone can barely be discerned. It reads:
HERE LYES THE BODY OF THOMAS BRATTLE ESQR ONE OF HER MAJESTYES JUSTICES FOR THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK & TREASURER OF HARVARD COLLEGE WHO DYED MAY THE 18th 1713 ANNO AETATIS 55.
Brattle graduated from Harvard College in 1676 and later became a fellow of London's Royal Society. In October 1692, he wrote his famous "Letter" which denounced the witch trials and helped bring them to a close. It is widely believed that Brattle supplied much of the material contained in Robert Calef's More Wonders of the Invisible World. 14
Rev William Brattle
Sex: M
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Birth: 22 Nov 1662 - Boston, Massachusetts Bay
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Death: 15 Feb 1717 - Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Father: Captain Thomas Brattle (Abt 1624-1683)
Mother: Elizabeth Tyng (1638-1682)
Spouses and Children
1. *Elizabeth Hayman (Est 1677 - 28 Jul 1715)
Marriage: 1697
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Children:
1. Major General William Brattle (Abt 1702- )
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Appleton's Cyclopedia:
[William Brattle] was pastor of the church in Cambridge, having been previously a tutor in Harvard College. He published a treatise on logic entitled "Compendium logicae secundum Principia died Renati Cartesii," which was long used as a recitation-book in the College. His death, at the age of fifty-four, occurred on 15 February, 1717.
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Brattle, William (22 Nov. 1662-15 Feb. 1717), teacher and minister, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Thomas Brattle, a merchant, and Elizabeth Tyng. Up to the time William was seven years old, his father was a principal participant in the controversial founding of Third (South) Church of Boston, a church advocating ecclesiastic reforms suited to the fast-growing colony. Extending the example of his father, William devoted his later life to reforming Puritan churches and education to best adapt the formerly isolated colony into the more integrated British empire of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
At Harvard College, where he earned an A.B. in 1680, Brattle met his closest associate, John Leverett. The two men devoted the rest of their lives to the college, church, and community. For his M.A. thesis, Brattle published An Ephemeris of Celestial Motions (1682), in which he advocated adopting the Gregorian calendar reforms and searching "everything to the bottom." In 1685 President Increase Mather invited Brattle and Leverett to become the two tutors at the college. Because Mather was mostly an absentee president and the college had no professors, Brattle and Leverett were the faculty and on-site administration of the college from 1685 to 1696. The two remained leaders, sometimes unofficially, of the college until their deaths. In 1686, under the influence of the newly immigrated minister Charles Morton, Brattle and Leverett upgraded the content of the curriculum, greatly enhancing the intellectual sophistication of the provincial college. Aside from encouraging a broad range of reading and "searching things to the bottom," Brattle also modified several European textbooks for students' use. The two most influential textbooks were based on the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld's Port-Royal Logic (1662), which merged Augustinian with Cartesian epistemology and method. Brattle's logical works and courses were designed to strengthen the Puritan assurance of students while abandoning the outdated Ramist logic of the forefathers. Brattle's textbooks were used long into the eighteenth century and were widely dispersed in the form of student notebooks.
More influential than Brattle's textbooks was the example he gave to his students of an orthodox Puritan, committed to the ideals of the founders of New England but open to the beginnings of the Enlightenment and desirous of ecclesiastical reforms that would help Puritans remain powerful in an increasingly cosmopolitan colony, where Britain was imposing religious toleration. A generation of young ministers, including Benjamin Colman and John Barnard, and important laymen, including Massachusetts chief justice Paul Dudley, were educated by Brattle and Leverett, and a surprising number of accounts survive testifying that Brattle was universally loved, respected, and sought after for advice.
Brattle left the role of tutor to become minister of the Cambridge church in 1696. In 1697 he married Elizabeth Hayman. They had one son who survived to adulthood, General William Brattle, for whom Brattle Street in Cambridge and Brattleborough, Vermont, are named. Increase Mather, Brattle's lifelong patron, recommended him to the Cambridge pulpit, which permitted him to retain intimate contact with the students and faculty as unofficial chaplain and professor of divinity. In his ordination ceremony Brattle insisted that no layperson participate in the laying on of hands. This innovation along with another diminishing the role of the congregation in deciding who should be given full membership in the church enhanced the power of the minister over the laity. Many of the young ministers trained by Brattle made similar innovations. The laity of the churches tended to be more conservative and rigid, fearful of the extensive changes in society being forced by new imperial policies and rapid immigration. Brattle and the young clergy believed that ministers needed more power to embrace new members and set aside old antagonisms to other Protestant groups if Congregationalism were to continue to be a vital part of New England. Tensions reached their height in 1699 and 1700, when Brattle and his former students became embroiled in a complex power struggle over the leadership of the college and the founding of a new church in Boston, the Brattle Street Church.
Many young clergy, former students of Brattle, supported removing Increase Mather from the presidency of Harvard. Cotton Mather and Increase Mather fought hard against what Cotton described in his diary as "a company of head-strong men . . . full of malignity to the holy ways of our churches." Increase Mather eventually had to leave the presidency, and Leverett replaced him in 1707. From 1697 to 1707 Brattle was the on-site, de facto leader of the college. Increase Mather recommended that Brattle's role be formalized as vice president, but Brattle turned down the title in 1714. He also later turned down an offer to become a fellow of the Royal Society of London. Unlike the Mathers, who sought titles and recognition in London, Brattle focused on the duties and rank of being a shepherd to his congregation and students.
Brattle, a peace-loving man, tried to avoid being drawn into the controversy surrounding the Brattle Street Church. One of his students, Benjamin Colman, the church's first minister, wrote a reform Manifesto (1699) that extended ideas and attitudes long taught by Brattle. The powerful Brattle family was also involved. In the end, the new church became one of the leading churches of New England and the most visible extension of Brattle's ecclesiastical influence. On Brattle's death, Colman insisted on preaching a sermon honoring his mentor even though Brattle had requested no funeral sermon.
The struggles over the college and church died down after a few years as the young clergy who were trained by Brattle continued to fill more pulpits in New England. Brattle was above all a peacemaker, even maintaining the affection and respect of Increase Mather. Brattle similarly helped his former student Joseph Green, the new minister in Salem after the 1692 witch trials crisis, successfully bring peace to that community.
Brattle's first wife died on 28 July 1715. Sometime in late 1716, a few months before his death, Brattle married Green's widow, Elizabeth Garrish Green. Long after Brattle's death in Cambridge, one of his students, John Barnard, in praising the liberality of his education, described Brattle as "cherished by candidates for the ministry, exceeding prudent, to whom all addressed themselves for advice" (Sibley, p. 204). Such was Brattle's importance. Students long studied his textbooks, and those who knew him honored his teaching and counsel. Harvard tutor Henry Flynt, a former student of Brattle and future teacher of John Adams, wrote in his diary at Brattle's death of losing a father figure, someone with whom he could "unbosom" himself, a "comfort and relief." Brattle was a key figure intellectually and emotionally as New Englanders made the transition from colony to province.
Bibliography
Brattle's manuscript sermons are in the Houghton Library at Harvard University. Other manuscripts by Brattle, reminiscences by students, and student notebooks including his textbooks are scattered primarily among the Harvard University Archives, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the American Antiquarian Society, which owns a student notebook by Joseph Sewall that transcribes Brattle's textbook derived from Henry More, Enchiridium Metaphysicum (1688). Brattle's will is published in Edward-Doubleday Harris, An Account of Some of the Descendants of Capt. Thomas Brattle (1867). See Benjamin Colman, A Sermon . . . after the Funerals of . . . Mr. William Brattle . . . and . . . Mr. Ebenezer Pemberton (1717). Increase Mather remembered Brattle in the preface to Joseph Sewall, Precious Treasure in Earthen Vessels (1717). John L. Sibley, Biographical Sketches of Harvard Graduates, vol. 3 (1873), and Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century (1936), give citations of the many disparate sources of information on Brattle. Recent works dealing specifically with Brattle are Rick Kennedy, "Thy Patriarchs' Desire: Thomas and William Brattle in Puritan Massachusetts" (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, 1987), and Kennedy, ed., Aristotelian and Cartesian Logic at Harvard: Morton's "Logick System" and Brattle's "Compendium of Logick" (1995).
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Major General William Brattle
Sex: M
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Birth: Abt 1702 - Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Father: Rev William Brattle (1662-1717)
Mother: Elizabeth Hayman (Est 1677-1715)
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William [Brattle], son of William, loyalist, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, about 1702 ; died in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in October, 1776. He was graduated at Harvard in 1722, studied theology, and preached acceptably; then became a lawyer, and was for many years a member of the legislature and of the governor's council. He also practiced medicine extensively, and was besides a military man, becoming captain of the artillery company in 1733, and afterward major general of militia. His talents and attractive manners made him a favorite with the governor, and popular among the people. When the revolutionary war began, his attachment to General Gage impelled him to side with the British. He withdrew to Boston, and, when the troops evacuated that City, accompanied them to Halifax. A well-known street in Boston commemorates the family. 14
Benjamin Brattles
Sex: M
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Birth: Est 1802 - Sandwich, Massachusetts
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1. *Betsey Long (15 Aug 1804 - )
Marriage: 22 Sep 1825 - Harwich, Massachusetts 16
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Ella A Brawn
Sex: F
AKA: Ella A Brown
Individual Information
Birth: 20 Apr 1864 - Maine 18
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Death: 16 Mar 1916 - Perkins, Maine 18
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1910 US census, Perkins
William F Reed, 56, single
Ella A Brown, 44, single
Addie May Bray
Sex: F
AKA: May
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Birth: 1889 - Deer Isle, Maine
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1. *Merton Kidder Ames (1888 - )
Marriage: 17 Feb 1908 - Deer Isle, Maine 19
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Children:
1. Alice Armenia Ames (1911- )
2. Dennis E Ames (1914-1979)
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General:
Addie May and Mary may be the same woman.Marriage Notes (Merton Kidder Ames)
1910 US census Deer Isle, Maine
April 15 Merton K Ames age 22 born in ME, father and mother born in ME, a yacht seaman living in Deer Island, Hancock County, ME with wife Addie M age 21, married 2 years, 1 child / 1 live, Harriet E age 1 all born in ME.
1917 June 5 Merton Kidder Ames of 66 Blake Land , Rockland, ME age 29 born on Deer Island, a chef at F.L. Newbert Resturant in Rockland, Me. Has wife and 5 children. Is med in hight, slight built, gray eyes and brown hair.
1920 US census, Rockland, Maine
Broadway
Merton Ames, 32, fish plant laborer
Mary Ames, 29
Harriet, 10
Alice, 9
Florence?, 6
Dennis, 5
Virginia, 3 1/12
Vera, 1 9/12
all b Maine
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Anna Bray
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 25 Feb 1746 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
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Father: Thomas Bray (1701- )
Mother: Mary Crowell (1704-1786)
Spouses and Children
1. *David Hawes (Est 1742 - )
Marriage: 27 Mar 1766 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Status:
Bartlett Bray
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 27 Jan 1805 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 25 Nov 1866 - (Yarmouth, Massachusetts)
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Parents
Father: William Bray (1766-1849)
Mother: Mary Hedge (1774-1846)
Spouses and Children
1. *Hannah Gray (Est 1808 - )
Marriage: Nov 1835
Status:
Children:
1. Thomas Chandler Bray (1838-1889)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Hannah Gray)
Children
Martha Bray b: 17 Nov 1836 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Thomas Chandler Bray b: 15 Mar 1838 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
William H. Bray b: 14 Mar 1840 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Mary Gray Bray b: 17 Jun 1841 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Bartlett Bray b: 21 Jul 1843 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Chandler Bray b: 5 Apr 1848 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Maria Frances Bray b: 14 Mar 1851 in Yarmouth
(420angel)
Bethiah Bray
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 14 Oct 1750 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
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Death: 28 Sep 1825 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Burial: in Woodside cemetery, West Yarmouth 21
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Father: Thomas Bray (1701- )
Mother: Mary Crowell (1704-1786)
Spouses and Children
1. *Gorham Crowell (4 Jun 1747 - 22 Aug 1819)
Marriage: 29 Dec 1769 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Status:
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Marriage Notes (Gorham Crowell)
Children
Zenas CROWELL b: 26 Aug 1771 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Mary (Molly) CROWELL b: 1 May 1772 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Betsey CROWELL b: 7 Jun 1774 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Ebenezer CROWELL b: 11 Sep 1778 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Bethiah CROWELL b: 27 Aug 1781 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Gorham CROWELL b: 30 Aug 1785 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts
David CROWELL b: 3 Jan 1788 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts
George CROWELL b: 4 Feb 1790 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts
George CROWELL b: 16 Dec 1792 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Infant CROWELL b: 1796
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Chandler Matthews Bray
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1871 - Massachusetts
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Death: 16 Jun 1893 - Asheville, North Carolina 23
Burial: in Woodside cemetery, Yarmouthport
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Parents
Father: Thomas Chandler Bray (1838-1889)
Mother: Mary Matthews (1837-1918)
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General:
Barnstable Patroit, 24 Jun 1895
"The remains of the late Chandler Matthews Bray, who passed from earth at Asheveille, N.C., June 16, were committed to earth in Woodside cemetery Thursday evening, June 20, services having been hels in the afternoon at the house of his grandmother, Mrs. Alice Matthews, conducted by Rev. Messrs. Mayhew and Marsh. He was the only son of the late Thomas C. and Mary M. Bray of this town, and went South in April, accompanied by his mother, after a severe attack of pleurisy, in the hope that change of climate might tend to proplong life. --Register."
attended Amherst College (Barnstable Patriot, 10 Dec 1889)
Captain Charles M Bray
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1832 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Eben Bray (Est 1810- )
Mother: Rebecca Matthews (Est 1815- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Kate D Baker (Est 1835 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Notes
Marriage Notes (Kate D Baker)
"Charles M. Bray, son of Eben and Rebecca (Matthews) Bray, and grandson of Edmund Bray, was born in 1832. He followed the sea several years as a master mariner prior to 1868. Since that time he has dealt in lumber and builders' supplies at Yarmouth. He was married to Kate D. Baker, and they have five children: Charles D., Robert, Carrie D., James G., and Sarah E. They lost one child. Mr. Bray has been deputy sheriff thirteen years." 24
David Bray
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 26 Feb 1737 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 14 Mar 1806 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Burial: in Yarmouth Ancient cemetery
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Thomas Bray (1701- )
Mother: Mary Crowell (1704-1786)
Spouses and Children
1. *Rebecca Hallett (27 Feb 1743 - 24 Feb 1813)
Marriage: 27 Feb 1766 - Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Status:
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