The history and antiquities of Boston .. . living monument among naturessecond, Edmund and Maiy. Edmuna C^uinc; s noblemen ; and may be long live to elevate the(first na i d) dau. d udiJi, m. Mr. John Hull, 3 character of a city which he has so much ad-Jan. lG4(J-7, as in the text. Besides John, vanced in all its Hull had a son Edward, who m. The conjectural and closing senfcences of theEleanor Newman, 20 Jan. 1652-3. All of note on page 32J, ante, are wrong. AVhenCapt. John Hulls children d. young, except that note was written I had not seen , wife of Judge Sewal
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . living monument among naturessecond, Edmund and Maiy. Edmuna C^uinc; s noblemen ; and may be long live to elevate the(first na i d) dau. d udiJi, m. Mr. John Hull, 3 character of a city which he has so much ad-Jan. lG4(J-7, as in the text. Besides John, vanced in all its Hull had a son Edward, who m. The conjectural and closing senfcences of theEleanor Newman, 20 Jan. 1652-3. All of note on page 32J, ante, are wrong. AVhenCapt. John Hulls children d. young, except that note was written I had not seen , wife of Judge Sewall, as elsewhere Hulls Diary. mentioned. She was b. 14 Feb. 1G57. From * Cromwell did not approve of the severe the Quincy family here noticed, are descended proceedings of the people here against those tlio families of Boston and Quincy (anciently who differed from them in matters of religious Braintree) ; the venerable patriarcb of which, belief. This occasioned the closing remark of tlie Hon. Josiah Quiiu^y, now above 80 years Mr. 1684.] CHARLES II. PROCLAIMED. 451 Mr. Hulls intolerance is often observable in his diary. He recordsthe sentence of death against three Quakers, and then adds— wellthey deserved it. Most of the Godb; have cause to rejoyce and blessthe Lord that strengthens our-Magistrates and Deputies to bear wit-ness against such blasphemers. When, in 1652, the militia of Boston were divided into four compa-nies, Mr. Hull was appointed a ^eant. In regular order he ad-vanced in office till he became Captain of the Artillery Company in1671. He was largely engaged in navigation, and although his lossesby captures, wrecks and other casualties, were, from year to year,large, yet upon the whole his interest wasadvanced. In 1657 he was chosen by theTown to be one of the seven men tolooke after the Townes affiiires. The proclaiming of Charles the Secondin Boston is thus described by Mr. Hull:—Eighth of the sixth, 1661, being the 5thday of the weeke, after
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