| 8. | Lawrence Southwick, (immigrant) was born about 1598 in Lancashire, England; was christened on 24 Feb 1639 in First Church of Salem, Salem, Essex Co, Massachusetts; died in 1659 in Shelter Island, Long Island, Suffolk Co, New York. Other Events and Attributes:
- Immigration: Bef 1639, Salem, Essex Co, Massachusetts
- Will: 10 May 1659, Shelter Island, Long Island, New York
Notes:
"Lawrence, Cassandra, and their son, Josiah, and daughter, Mary, were fined, whipped, imprisioned and finally banished for being Quakers, and their son, Daniel, and daughter, Provided, were sentenced by the General Court to be sold into slavery. Lawrence and Cassandra went to Shelter Island, Long Island Sound, having been banished under pain of death from Massachusetts in 1659. They died there in Spring of 1660 from privation and exposure, Cassandra dying just 3 days after Lawrence. Their son, Josiah, went to Rhode Island, and established a home for himself and family. He went back to Salem in 1660 to look after his parents' property and found it in very poor condition. He was whipped by the Puritans for returning to Massachusetts.
It seems incredible that any followers of Christ could have so belied their professions, but it was an illustration of the saying of Robert Pollock, in regard to the hypocrite,
"Who stole the livery of the Court of Heaven
To serve the Devil in."
Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier immortalized the persecution and banishment of Lawrence and Cassandra in his poem, Cassandra Southwick."
John Greenleaf Whittier wrote CASSANDRA SOUTHWICK aka The Ballad of Cassandra Southwick. For some reason Whittier chose to used the name of Provided?s mother rather than Provided?s name itself.
The following precedes the ballad which is printed in the Caller & Ober book on pgs. 79-83.)
This ballad, by John Greenleaf Whittier, has its foundation upon a somewhat remarkable event in the history of Puritan intolerance. Two young persons, son Daniel and daughter Provided of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick, of Salem, who had himself been imprisoned and deprived of all his property for having entertained two Quakers at his house, were fined ten pounds each for non-attendance at church, which they were unable to pay. The case being represented to the General Court, at Boston, that body issued an order, which may still be seen on the court records, bearing the signature of Edward Rawson, Secretary, by which the Treasurer of the County was "fully enpowered to sell the said persons to any of the English nation at Virginia or Barbadoes, to answer said fines". An attempt was made to carry this barbarous order into execution, but no shipmaster was found willing to convey them to the West Indies. - Vide Sewall's History, pp. 225-6, G. Bishop.
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Name:
On pg. 69 of Caller & Ober's book: Henry F. Waters, of Salem, Mass., says: "The names Southwick and Eastuic (Eastwic), found in our Salem records both suffered more or less from the slighting of the 'w'; the former occasionally appears as Sethick, Southerick, Suderick, etc., amd the latter being rather fixed as Estick."
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Immigration:
There is a tradition in the Southwick family that Lawrence came from Lancashire, England, to America in 1627, and returned to England and brought his wife Cassandra and son John and daughter Mary to Massachusetts in 1630, on the May Flower, in company with Wm. Bradford and others, and settled at Salem, Mass.
We do not find any mention of his name in the public records of Salem until 1639, when he and his family were admitted as members in the First Church of Salem, and two acres of land was given him by the town of Salem to carry on the business of manufacturing glass and earthen ware.
There is a tradition that he was one of the first to manufacture glass in America. This two acres of land was called glass-house field, as there were two others engaged in the same business, and the land is so designated to-day on the records and maps of said property, although the manufacture has long ceased to be carried on there.
Said land is a valley running easterly from Aborn Street, and is on the south side of what is called Gallows Hill, where several persons were hung during the Salem Witchcraft delusion, a very dark page in the history of sectarian bigotry in Massachusetts.
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Will:
Copy of Lawrence Sethick's Will.
I, Lawrence Sethick, late of Salem in New England, now being
at the house of Nathaniel Silvester, on Shelter Island, being weake in body but of sound mind and memory, do make and ordayne this my last will and testament, tenth day of fifth month, 1659.
I first give and bequeath unto my sonne Daniel Sethick my
dwelling house at Salem, with all the houses, orchards, gardens and appurtenances; and Gyle's lot, provided that John Burnell shall have a house lott on the ground at the further end of the orchard newly fenct in.
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Item. My will is that the lott which I had of Josiah Sethick
shall return to him again.
Item. I give unto John Sethick the lott next to his owne.
Item. My will is that the great meadow which lyes at Ipswich
River, fenct in, shall be divided Daniel Sethick and John
Burnell equally.
Item. I give unto Samuel Burton forty shillings.
Item. I give unto John Burnell, if he stand faithful in the
truth, two young steers and the first mare foal.
Item. I give unto Henry Traske Marshall's lott joining to his orchard, provided that Daniel may have liberty to mow a load of hay every year thereon.
Item. I give unto Mary Traske my daughter, wife of Henry
Traske, ten pounds sterling.
Item. I give unto Deborah Sethwick and young Josiah, each of
them fifty shillings sterling.
Item. I give unto Ann Potter forty shillings, in she thinks
beneficial for her.
Item. I give unto Mary Traske, daughter to Henry Traske, one
good serge suit of clothes; and unto Sarah and Hannah each of them a suit of clothes.
I give and bequeath unto Samuel and Sarah, John Sethick's
children, to each of them thirty shillings sterling.
Furthermore my will is that Daniel my sonne, and Provided my
daughter, shall possess and enjoy all that which remains of my estate after debts and legacies paid, and my will above
mentioned fulfilled, equally to be divided between them so
that Daniel may have that part which belongs to husbandry.
Lastly my will is that in case my wife survives me shee shall be my executrix and keep all possessions during her life, and after her decease my will to be performed according as above expressed; and I do ordayne William Robinson
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and Thomas Gardner to be overseers of this my last will and testament, signed and sealed by me the day and year above written with my hand and seal following.
In presence of
NATHANIEL SILVESTER, signed by
THOMAS HARRIS, LAWRENCE SETHICK.
WILLIAM DURAND,
This will was allowed by the court 29, 9 mo.,
1660.
attest
HILLARD VEREN, Clericus.
Lawrence married Cassandra Burnell on 25 Jan 1624 in Kingswinford, Stafford, Engand. Cassandra was born about 1598 in England; was christened on 24 Feb 1639 in First Church of Salem, Salem, Essex Co, Massachusetts; died about 1660 in Shelter Island, Long Island, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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