d; "brother's name. Benjamin is a
family name, and a good one. Benjamin of old, into whose sack Joseph put
the silver cup, was a right kind of a man. What do you say, Abiah
Folger?"

"Benjamin is a good name, and a name lasts for life. But your brother
Benjamin has not succeeded very well in his many undertakings."

"No, but in all his losses he has never lost his good name. His honor
has shown over all. 'A good name is rather to be chosen than great
riches, and loving favor rather than silver or gold.' A man may get
riches and yet be poor. It is he that seeks the welfare of others more
than wealth for himself that lives for the things that are best."

"Josiah, this is no common boy--look at his head. We can not do for him
as our neighbors do for their children. But we can give him a name to
honor, and that will be an example to him. How would Folger do--Folger
Franklin? Father Folger was a poet like your brother Benjamin, and he
did well in life. That would unite the names of the two families."

John Folger, of Norwich, England, with his son Peter, came to this
country in the year 1635 on the same ship that bore the family of Rev.
Hugh Peters. This clergyman, who is known as a "regicide," or king
murderer, and who suffered a most terrible death in London on the
accession of Charles II, succeeded Roger Williams in the church at
Salem. He flourished during the times of Cromwell, but was sentenced to
be hanged, cut down alive, and tortured, his body to be quartered, and
his head exposed among the malefactors, on account of having consented
to the execution of Charles I.

Among Hugh Peters's household was one Mary Morrell, a white slave, or
purchased serving maid. She was a very bright and beautiful girl.

The passengers had small comforts on board the ship. The passage was a
long one, and the time passed heavily.

Now the passengers who were most interesting to each other became
intimate, and young Peter Folger and beautiful Mary Morrell of the
Peterses became very interesting to each other and very social. Peter
Folger began to ask himself the question, "If the fair maid would marry
me, could I not purchase her freedom?" He seems somehow to have found
out that the latter could be done, and so Peter offered himself to the
attractive servant of the Peterses. The two were betrothed amid the
Atlantic winds and the rolling seas, and the roaring ocean could have
little troubled them then, so happy were their anticipatio