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REV. JOHN HARRIMAN, or HERRIMAN, M. A., was son of John Harriman, of New Haven, Connecticut, who "kept the ordinary, at that time an office of trust and dignity under the town." He died, "stricken in years," 21 November, 1683; his wife, Elizabeth, having died 10 January, 1681.

According to Hatfield, the son "was trained from childhood under the eye of that rigid old Puritan, the Rev. John Davenport, by whom he had been baptized" 24 January, 1647-8. "In his 13th year, he came under the instruction of his townsman, Mr. Jeremiah Peck, at that time, principal of the grammar-school at New-Haven. At the age of fifteen, he was sent to" college. "After his graduation, he returned to New Haven, and taught the

“June 17. 1667. Ordered by ye Corporation yt ye batchellours shall have the forenoon on ye comencement day for ye pformance of their work & yt for ye future it shall be

looked upon as their due ordinarily; except there doe appear to the president & fellows any just reason moveing them to order it otherwise.". Corporation Records, i. 38.

Hopkins grammar school, several years, being occasionally employed as a preacher in New Haven, East Haven, and Wallingford, Ct. During the lifetime of the Rev. Mr. Street, he had probably preached for him occasionally at New Haven; and at his death, Ap. 22, 1674, he was frequently called upon to supply the vacant pulpit. In the latter part of that year, or the early part of the next, he went over to Southampton to preach as a candidate for the pulpit, made vacant by the decease, in 1674, of the Rev. Robert Fordham. He accepted their call, and was put in possession of the parsonage, 'upon termes y towne and he hath agreed on,' April 12, 1675.”

According to Howell, he "ministered as pastor" at Southampton, Long Island, "from 1675 to 1679," when he removed. Prime says he "was the third minister of this church, from 1675 to 1680," and "that after his return to Connecticut" he sent a dunning letter "for some supposed arrearages of salary"; to which, in town meeting, "the following answer was voted: 'Mr. Herriman was so long absent, and the town paid so much for him which he himself promised to repay; also considering the manifold inconveniences that he exposed the town unto, Mr. Herriman in equity ought [rather] to make the town compensation, than that they should pay him one penny for his last half year's pains among us.' For aught that appears, this was the final settlement between them."

"Early in 1676, he returned to New Haven, and, in July of that year, became the stated supply of the pulpit in his native town." January 12, 1677-8, the New Haven church "appointed that hee bee payd from the time of his coming (which was in July 76) untill ye 1 of March 76-7, which is about 8m ye sum of forty pounds." He continued there until 1682, preaching most of the time; but the people were divided between him and Mr. Joseph Taylor [H. U. 1669], who preached "part of the time,

from 1676 to 1679, and was then settled at Southampton." According to tradition, the strife was between the adherents of the two preachers; but it is quite as probable to have been on the question of the "half way covenant" or church government.

May 19 and 20, 1679, Harriman made observations on the latitude of Hartford, to determine the boundary between Connecticut and Massachusetts, and to correct Woodward and Saffery's line.

January 17, 1681-2, the East Haven people appointed a committee to " 'goe to Mr. Harriman, and treat with him, and desire his help in the ministry amongst" them, "and further, to give him an invitation to a settlement in the worke of the ministry." "The Village raised by tax £50 for his support - 'current money with the merchant.'" In November, 1683, they gave him a formal call, and voted to build at once a house for their minister, thirty-six feet long, of two stories; for which they subscribed one hundred and four pounds ten shillings. The house was not built, and he remained but a short time.

According to the records at New Haven he began to teach the grammar school there 22 April, 1684, and probably continued till 1687. Among his pupils were John Jones, Samuel Mansfield, Stephen Mix, and Thomas Buckingham, all graduates in 1690. Some of the rules adopted by the Trustees and published in the school under him in 1687 were these: Boys should have learned to "spell their letters well," and begun to read, and "all girls be excluded as improper and inconsistent with such a grammar-school as the law enjoins." School hours "from 6 to 11 A. M., from 1 to 4 P. M., in winter; in summer till 5 P. M." Scholars to be seated in order of scholarship, and not to leave their seats. Misbehavior at church to be corrected. No Latin Boys allowed to absent themselves. Boys to be examined Monday morn

ing on the sermons, and Saturday afternoon to be catechised. Harriman was succeeded by John Davenport, H. U. 1687, who "entered upon ye schoole Imploym on 2 day or Monday ye 29th of Aug 1687."

May 8, 1684, the General Court at Hartford appointed Harriman to run the boundary line between New York and Connecticut. With him, in October, 1684, was associated Robert Vauquellin, who had been employed for a long time in East Jersey. For this service, in October, 1685, there was granted to Harriman "the sume of five pownds... besides the three pownd payd him last yeare.”

Possibly Vauquellin had some influence in introducing him as a preacher at Elizabeth, where Harriman, as well as the Southampton people, had many old friends. He was installed as pastor of the Presbyterian Church there, probably 30 September, 1687, as under date of 1 November, 1694, he writes, "we Reckoned & my 7th year payd wch ended 7br 30th last pceeding this date." All his reckonings with his parishioners are from the same date. His salary was sixty pounds a year. Hatfield says: "He received, also, a grant of one hundred acres of land, which, as well as his parish, he cultivated diligently. He was a man of great exactness and regularity. One of his account books, a long, narrow folio, has survived, in good condition, the ravages of time. This book covers the period from 1694 to his death. It has a debtor and creditor account with each of his parishioners, in which every particular of produce, etc., received in payment of his salary, is duly entered, & from which may be gathered much of the domestic history of the town, at the close of the seventeenth century. He remained in charge of the church until his death," probably of apoplexy, in the afternoon of 20 August, 1705. At a church meeting in the forenoon of that day he "told his people that the time of his departure drew near, and exhorted them to Peace and Unity

one with another, and to stand fast in the Covenant that they had engaged themselves to." "His ashes now repose

beneath the present church edifice."

Harriman was a man of large business. His one hundred acre lot “in the plains" he cleared and cultivated. He charges "my lot in ye plaines," June 6, 1701, with cost of "beer, cake & rum to ye volunteers at ye clearing sd lott —£1 7. 1." He rented a mill, for which he and his partner paid twenty-five pounds a year. In 1698 he began a house, which he finished and moved into in the fall of 1701. In 1702 he built a barn "length 24 feet: breadth 22, height 11 feet." Six persons are credited with "carting for it one load." The builders received seven pounds, in addition to which the cost was seven pound fourteen shillings; the "timber getting & framing given" him, "except 18s To ye carpenters."

"Not content with preaching, pastoral visitation, farming & carrying on a flour mill, he had, also, a cider press"; an agency for furnishing glass to his neighbors; occasionally surveyed lands; and in 1693, 1694, 1695, and 1698, he was elected Deputy to the Legislature. From 1695 to 1702 he had pupils, most, if not all, of whom boarded with him, the price for board being five shillings a week, and for teaching "the art of Navigation" three pounds.

He dealt considerably in real estate. He also purchased slaves, at least for his own use, at one time being in part owner of the negro Toney; and 28 October, 1701, buying "an indian girle named Hagar." Occasionally he records the hire of a horse, or of a man and horse, for a journey to New England.

Samuel Melyen, H. U. 1696, was settled as his colleague about 20 May, 1704.

As early as 1673 Harriman married Hannah, daughter of Richard Bryan, the richest man in Milford, ConnectiShe survived her husband many years. They had

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