PHILOSOPHIA DISCUTIENDE, SUB CAROLO CHAUN.CEO SS. THEOL. BAC. PRESIDE COL. HARVARD. CANTABRIGIÆ, NOV-ANG L. IN COMITIIS PER INCEPTORES IN ARTIBUS, DIE OCTAVO SEXTILIS M. DC. LXV. I. U O Trum Deus puniat peccata necessitate naturæ. tu, que sapis alta nimis, Sapientia prima, • Every member of this class lived more than forty-six years after graduation. Disce Φρονέιν & σωφρονεείν - NON subdere fata Balos! hic clama miser, & mirare videndo 11. AN II. N ulla substantia creata sit immaterialis. Negat Respondens Moses Fiskæus. NAturam Angelicam, mentesque hac lege teneri, Iudice quis sensu vel ratione putet? Verum est quod carnem nec habet, neque spiritus ossa, Quatuor ex causis effectum existere constat, JOHN HOLYOKE. Born 1642, died 1712, aged 69. JOHN HOLYOKE, B. A., of Springfield, Massachusetts, born 5 August, 1642, was son of Elizur Holyoke, of Springfield, whose wife was Mary, daughter of William and Frances (Sanford) Pynchon. He was among the 1667, when public early settlers of Westfield, where, in worship was first held on Lord's days, he preached about six months. Soon after the death of his father, 6 February, 1675-6, he returned to the old homestead in Springfield, was made freeman 23 May, 1677, Town-Clerk, Reg ister of Deeds for the county of Hampshire, Magistrate, Clerk of the Courts in 1686, and Representative in 1691 and 1692. In the assignment of "Outward Commons' by the town in 1685, he had lot No. 25 of twenty-six rods and four feet. He died, a bachelor, 6 February, 1711-12, bequeathing his estate to two sisters and the widow and children of his brother, Elizur Holyoke, father of President Edward Holyoke, H. U. 1705. AUTHORITIES. - G. Bliss, Address to the Bar at Northampton, 79. J. G. Holland, Western Massachusetts, i. 65; ii. 141. S. Judd, Letter, 1846, June 25. Massachusetts Bay Records, v. 537. New England Histor ical and Genealogical Register, xviii 82. J. Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, ii. 456, 457. R. P. Stebbins, Historical Address at Wilbraham, 196. W. H. Whitmore, Massachusetts Civil List, 32. BENJAMIN TOMPSON. Born 1642, died 1714, aged 71. BENJAMIN TOMPSON,' B. A., of Boston, Charlestown, Braintree, and Roxbury, youngest son of the Reverend William and Abigail Tompson, and probably brother of William Tompson, H. U. 1653, was born 14 July, 1642, at Quincy, then a part of Braintree, Massachusetts. Thomas Blanchard, of Charlestown, in his will proved 24th of the (11) mo, 1654, says: "I doe dispose and betrust Beniamin Tompson vnto, and with my wife to provide for, and bringe vp in learninge (at her owne pleasure) so as to fitt him for the vniversitie, in case his parents please to leaue him with her, . . . and she liue to that time." There are charges on the College Steward's Account So written by himself. The various ways of spelling the surname have been noticed on page 354 of the first volume of these Sketches. Books from 3-7-58 to 2-10-59 for tuition, gallery, and "sizinges," each quarter-bill containing "detrementes," but no credits, the leaf being cut out. Lunt says, Tompson "was the earliest schoolmaster I can find mention of in this town [Quincy]." From 1667 to the end of 1670 he taught in Boston, Cotton Mather, H. U. 1678, probably being one of his pupils. At a meeting of the Governor, Magistrates, and Selectmen, "with the addition of Mr. Hezekiah Usher," at the house of the Governor, 29 December, 1670, Ezekiel Cheever of Charlestown was chosen head master of the "Free Schoole," known since 1690 as the Latin School, and Tompson "to be an assistant to Mr. Cheevers." Tompson declined 3 January, 1670-1, having received an invitation to Charlestown, and on the sixth of the next month "resigned up the possestion of the schoole and schoole house to the Govern' & ca, who delivered the key and possestion of the schoole house to Mr. Ezechiell Cheevers as the sole Mast! thereof." In Charlestown he was to "teach to read, write, and cypher," and "prepare such youth as are capable of it for the college, with learning answerable"; to be "paid thirty pounds per annum by the town, and to receive twenty shillings a year for each particular scholar that he shall teach, to be paid him by those who send children." There was to be "half a years warning... before any change or remove on either side." He "retained the charge of the school until November 7, 1674, when the Selectmen, ‘with the advice and consent of Mr. Thomas Shepard [H. U. 1653] and Mr. Joseph Brown [H. U. 1666], gave Mr. Samuel Phipps [H. U. 1671] of this town a call to the work.'" Adams says, "At a public Town Meeting it was voted," at Braintree, 3 March, 1678-9, that Tompson "shall have this year for his salary, the rent of the Town's land made up thirty pounds; and that the Town give him a piece of land to put a house on upon the common, ... not exceeding an acre and a half or there-about; and, in case he leave the Town, the land to return to the Town, they paying for his building and fencing as it is then worth; but if he die in the Town's service, as Schoolmaster, the land to be his heirs' forever. It was also agreed that every child should carry in to the schoolmaster half a cord of wood beside the quarter money every year." ... October 7, 1679, it was voted, "that the acre and a half of land formerly granted by the town conditionally . . . for the time of his abode, shall be to him and his heirs forever absolute." November 25, 1683, he writes to Increase Mather: "It is not so much an ambition of Honour, as of a full imployment, and its comfortable attendants, which have moved mee to try what interest a branch of an auncient Lancashire Christian, and your most precious and renowned friend and fellow sufferer may find, with your Christian selfe, who influence so many others. I had by my brother a copie of New Laws, one wherof being for multiplying Schooles, in observance wherof I thought you would not bee backward, or in any other designe of publiq good. My yeare being up in the place where I am, I am bold to present my service to you, as your parishioner & Schoolemaster. It being the first time of offering myselfe in like case. Whether the place bee open for mee or not, I begge that no forreigner or stranger may have it, if those of our owne Countrey and acquaintance may fitt the And though I sit unimployed, same. My Loyalty is still the same, Whither I win or loose the game, True as a Dial to the Sun, Althô it bee not shin'd upon. "If you have an hora vacua in the long winter nights, |