he other
minister of the two who sprung the Governor's hated Thanksgiving
proclamation of 1771 on their parishes a week ahead of time, as told
in Note 3, and the astounded and disgusted New Brick hearers, more
violent than the Old South attendants, walked out of meeting while
it was being read. Dr. Pemberton's troubled and unhappy pastorate
came to an end by the closing of his church in war times in 1775. He
was of the 1721 class of Harvard College. He died September 9, 1777.

NOTE 32.

We find frequent references in the writings and newspapers of the
times to this truly Puritanical dread of bishops. To the descendants
of the Pilgrims the very name smacked of incense, stole, and monkish
jargon. A writer, signing himself "America," gives in the _Boston
Evening Post_, of October 14, 1771, a communication thoroughly
characteristic of the spirit of the community against the
establishment of bishops, the persistent determination to "beate
down every sprout of episcopacie."

NOTE 33.

A negligee was a loose gown or sacque open in front, to be worn over
a handsome petticoat; and in spite of its name, was not only in high
fashion for many years, but was worn for full dress. Abigail Adams,
writing to Mrs. Storer, on January 20, 1785, says: "Trimming is
reserved for full dress only, when very large hoops and negligees
with trains three yards long are worn." I find advertised in the
_Boston Evening Post_, as early as November, 1755: "Horse-hair
Quilted Coats to wear with Negligees." A poem printed in New York in
1756 has these lines:--

"Put on her a Shepherdee
A Short Sack or Negligee
Ruffled high to keep her warm
Eight or ten about an arm."

NOTE 34.

A pistareen was a Spanish coin worth about seventeen cents.

NOTE 35.

There exists in New England a tradition of "groaning cake," made and
baked in honor of a mother and babe. These cakes which Anna bought
of the nurse may have been "groaning cakes." It was always customary
at that time to give "vails" to the nurse when visiting a new-born
child; sometimes gifts of money, often of trinkets and articles of
clothing.

NOTE 36.

Miss "Scolley" was Mary Scollay, youngest of the thirteen children
of John Scollay (who was born in 1712, died October, 1799), and his
wife Mary. Mary was born in 1759. She married Rev. Thomas Prentiss
on February 9, 1798, had nine child