1764.

The officers of the Artillery Company elected in 1764 were: John Winslow (1764), captain; James Cunningham (1761), lieutenant; Richard Boynton (1759), ensign. William Bordman (1758), was first sergeant; Andrew Symmes, Jr. (1760), second sergeant; Moses Pitcher (1760), third sergeant; Samuel Simpson (1759), fourth sergeant, and John Edwards (1747), clerk.

The year 1764 is memorable on account of the great depression in Boston, occasioned by the prevalence of the small-pox. Many of the merchants and traders moved, with their goods, into the country. It afflicted fourteen families on Fish Street, among which were Richard Bulkley (1722), Benjamin Eustis (1763), who "lived near the Mill Ponds"; Edward Proctor (1756), "Schooner Tavern in Fish Street"; Paul Revere, Capt. Levi Jennings (1764), John Coburn (1751), William Dawes (1760). June 30, 1764, the selectmen reported that during the preceding six months, of the six hundred and forty-four white persons who had the small-pox "the Natural way," one hundred and two died, and of four thousand six hundred and ninety whites who had it by inoculation, forty-three died. One thousand five hundred and thirty-seven persons removed into the country.

The birth and coronation days of George the Third were celebrated, as usual, in 1764, but the Artillery Company, as a body, very seldom participated in those festivities. This year, as the election anniversary of the Artillery Company, and the twenty-seventh anniversary of the birth of the king, both occurred on Monday, June 4, the latter was celebrated at Concord, where the branches of the colonial government were then sitting.

Dec. 3, 1764, the governor made the following promotions in the regiment of militia in Boston, of which Joseph Jackson, Esq. (1738), was colonel; William Taylor, Esq. (1738), lieutenant-colonel; Thomas Marshall, Esq. (1761), major; Richard Boynton, Esq. (1759), captain; Daniel Bell (1733), captain-lieutenant; Adino Paddock (1762), captain-lieutenant of the train of artillery; Christopher Clark (1759), first lieutenant.

The members of the Artillery Company recruited in 1764 were John Brocas, Thomas Bumstead, William Hickling, Jr., Levi Jennings, John Osborn, Jr., John Winslow.

John Brocas (1764), sailmaker, of Boston, was probably a son of John and Ann Broccus (Brocas) and was born in 1704

Oct. 17, 1764, the selectmen passed upon Mr. John Brocas' (1764) Province Account, amounting to four pounds nineteen shillings and ten pence half penny. He was second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1766 and became ensign in the militia. He died in 1770, aged sixty-seven years, when administration was granted on his estate.

Thomas Bumstead (1764), coach-maker, of Boston.

Thomas Bumstead (1647), the emigrant, died in 1697. He had a son, Jeremiah, born Oct. 14, 1678, who married, (1) June 16, 1700, Sarah Abraham, and, (2) March 8, 1704, Elizabeth Bridges. Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Bridges) Bumstead had Jeremiah, born March 26, 1708, who married, (1) Bethia Sherwin, Feb. 2, 1726, and, (2) Sarah Howard, March 18, 1729. He was a glazier, and died about Nov. 1, 1747.

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John Brocas (1764). AUTHORITY: Boston New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1864; Boston Records. Thomas Bumstead (1764). AUTHORITIES:

1764.

The officers of the Artillery Company elected in 1764 were: John Winslow (1764), captain; James Cunningham (1761), lieutenant; Richard Boynton (1759), ensign. William Bordman (1758), was first sergeant; Andrew Symmes, Jr. (1760), second sergeant; Moses Pitcher (1760), third sergeant ; Samuel Simpson (1759), fourth sergeant, and John Edwards (1747), clerk.

The year 1764 is memorable on account of the great depression in Boston, occasioned by the prevalence of the small-pox. Many of the merchants and traders moved, with their goods, into the country. It afflicted fourteen families on Fish Street, among which were Richard Bulkley (1722), Benjamin Eustis (1763), who "lived near the Mill Ponds"; Edward Proctor (1756), "Schooner Tavern in Fish Street"; Paul Revere, Capt. Levi Jennings (1764), John Coburn (1751), William Dawes (1760). June 30, 1764, the selectmen reported that during the preceding six months, of the six hundred and forty-four white persons who had the small-pox "the Natural way," one hundred and two died, and of four thousand six hundred and ninety whites who had it by inoculation, forty-three died. One thousand five hundred and thirty-seven persons removed into the country.

The birth and coronation days of George the Third were celebrated, as usual, in 1764, but the Artillery Company, as a body, very seldom participated in those festivities. This year, as the election anniversary of the Artillery Company, and the twenty-seventh anniversary of the birth of the king, both occurred on Monday, June 4, the latter was celebrated at Concord, where the branches of the colonial government were then sitting.

Dec. 3, 1764, the governor made the following promotions in the regiment of militia in Boston, of which Joseph Jackson, Esq. (1738), was colonel; William Taylor, Esq. (1738), lieutenant-colonel; Thomas Marshall, Esq. (1761), major; Richard Boynton, Esq. (1759), captain; Daniel Bell (1733), captain-lieutenant; Adino Paddock (1762), captain-lieutenant of the train of artillery; Christopher Clark (1759), first lieutenant.

The members of the Artillery Company recruited in 1764 were John Brocas, Thomas Bumstead, William Hickling, Jr., Levi Jennings, John Osborn, Jr., John Winslow.

John Brocas (1764), sailmaker, of Boston, was probably a son of John and Ann Broccus (Brocas) and was born in 1704

Oct. 17, 1764, the selectmen passed upon Mr. John Brocas' (1764) Province Account, amounting to four pounds nineteen shillings and ten pence half penny. He was second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1766 and became ensign in the militia. He died in 1770, aged sixty-seven years, when administration was granted on his estate.

Thomas Bumstead (1764), coach-maker, of Boston.

Thomas Bumstead (1647), the emigrant, died in 1697. He had a son, Jeremiah, born Oct. 14, 1678, who married, (1) June 16, 1700, Sarah Abraham, and, (2) March 8, 1704, Elizabeth Bridges. Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Bridges) Bumstead had Jeremiah, born March 26, 1708, who married, (1) Bethia Sherwin, Feb. 2, 1726, and, (2) Sarah Howard, March 18, 1729. He was a glazier, and died about Nov. 1, 1747.

John Brocas (1764). AUTHORITY: Boston New Eng. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1864; Boston Records. Records.

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