Southwick Lawrence b. d. 1660

- 1660

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Died 1660 [1]

Person ID I5353 Alan Donald Vibber

Last Modified 08 Dec 2009

Family Burnell Cassandra, d. 1660

Married Y [2]

Children

1. Southwick Daniel, b. 1637, d. Abt 1718/19

Family ID F2285 Group Sheet

Notes	Lawrence and Cassandra* Southwick, both baptised 2 mo., 24th, 1639, at First Church, Salem. Their children were: 2. John, born 1620, died Oct. 25, 1672 ; married first, Sarah Tidd ; second. Hannah Flint; third, Sarah Burnett (or Burnell) 3. Mary, born 1630; married Henry Trask, son of Capt. Wm Trask. 4. Josiah, born 1632, died 1693; married Mary . 5. Provided, born 1635. died 1640; was baptized in First Church, Salem, Dec. 6, 1639. — Salem Court Records. 6. Daniel, born 1637, died 1718-19; married Esther Boyce, 1663: 7. Provided, born Dec., 1641; married Samuel Gaskill, Dec. 30. 1662. In 1653, Lawrence Southwick is overseer Wm. Bacon's will.— Town Records, p. 235. April 8, 1659, Lawrence Southwick of Salem bought of Edward Lummus, of Ipswich, 3 acres of land.— Salem Records. Henry F. Waters, of Salem, Mass., says: "The names Southwick and Eastuic (Eastwic), found on our Salem records both suffered more or less change by the slighting of the w; the former occasionally appears as Scthick, Southerick, Suderick, etc., and the latter being rather fixed as Estick." "In 1639 there were two acres of land set off for each of the persons Annanias Conklin, Obediah Holmes, and Lawrence Southwick; and there was granted to the glass men several acres of ground adjoining to their houses. This was in the neighborhood of Aborn street and near Strong Water Brook," (now, 1881, Salem and Peabody).—Felt's Annals of Salem. Daniel Appleton White's records, First Church, Salem: "This covenant was renewed by the church o;1 a solemn day of humiliation, March 6, 1660, when also considering the power of temptation amongst usby reason of ye Quaker doctrine to the leavening of some in the place where we act and endangering of others, doe see cause to remember the admonition of our Saviour Christ to his disciples, Matt. 16, 'take heed and beware of ye leaven of the doctrine of the Pharisees', and do judge so far as we understand it yt ye Quaker doctrine is as bad or worse than that of ye Pharisees, Therefore we do covenant by the help of Jesus Christ to take heed and beware of the leaven of the doctrine of the Quakers." What an impious act, as the Quakers have no creed. Cassandra, according to Homeric Legend, was the fairesl daughter of Priam and Hecuba, and the twin sister of Helenus. The children playing in the court of the temple of the Thym- brucan Apollo, not far from Illium, till it was too late for them to return home, a bed of laurel twigs was made for them in the temple, and there in the morning two snakes were found licking their ears, from which resulted such an acuteness of hearing that they could hear the voice of the Gods. Cassandra afterward attracted the love of Apollo by her beauty, and he taught her the secrets of prophecy; but displeased by her rejection of his suit, laid upon her the curse that her vaticinations should never be believed. Accordingly she prophesied in vain of the treachery of the Grecian horse and the destruction of Troy. On the capture of the city she fled to the temple of Minerva, and being captured she fell to the share of Agamemnon, to whom she bore twins, but she was murdered by Clytemnestra.— Chamber's Encyclopedia. Lawrence Southwick, the immigrant, was born in England, and according to the family tradition was from Lancashire, coming first in 1627, returning to England to bring his wife Cassandra, son John anddaughter Mary, on the ship "Mayflower," in company with William Bradford and others and settled at Salem. We find no mention of his name in the Salem records until 1639, when he and his family were admitted to the First Church, and two acres of land were granted to him by the town to carry on the business of manufacturing glass and earthen ware. Some writers state that he was the first to manufacture glass in America. His two acres of land was called Glass House Field. This name has followed the property to the present time, although the manufacture of glass there ceased long ago. It is in a valley running easterly from Aborn street, and on the south side of what is called Gallows Hill, where several persons were hanged during the Salem witchcraft delusion. Lawrence Southwick and his family became Friends, or Quakers, and were conspicuous sufferers from the bigoted Puritan authorities. Lawrence and his wife Cassandra, his son Jo- siah and daughter Mary,were fined, whipped,imprisoned, and finally banished. Their son Daniel and daughter Provided were sentenced by the general court to be sold into slavery. Says John Gough, in "History of the People Called Quakers," (1790) : ''I know of no instance of a more persevering malice and cruelty than that wherewith they persecuted the aforesaid Lawrence and Cassandra Southick (Southwick) and their family. First, while members of their church, they were both imprisoned for entertaining strangers, Christopher Holder and John Cope- land, a Christian duty which the Apostle to the Hebrews advises not to be unmindful of ; and after seven weeks imprisonment, Cassandra was fined 40 shillings for owning a paper written by the aforesaid persons. Next, for absenting from public worship and owning the Quakers' doctrine, on the information of one Captain Hawthorne, they, with their son Josiah, were sent to the House of Correction and whipped in the coldest season of the year, and at the same time Hawthorne issued his warrant to distrain their goods for absence from public worship, whereby there were taken from the cattle to the value of four pounds, fifteen shillings. Again they were imprisoned with others for being at a meeting, and Cassandra was again whipped, and upon their joint letter to the magistrates before recited, the other applicants were released but this family, although they with the rest had suffered the penalty of their cruel law fully, were arbitrarily detained in prison to their great loss and damage, being in the season of the year when their affairs most immediately demand their attendance ; and last of all were banished upon pain of death, as before recited, by a law made while they were imprisoned. Thus despoiled of their property, deprived of their liberty, driven into banishment, and in jeopardy of their lives, for no other crime than meeting apart and dissenting from the established worship, the sufferings of this inoffensive aged couple ended only with their lives. But the multipliedinjuries of this harmless pair were not sufficient to gratify that thirst for vengeance which stimulated these persecutors while any member of the family remained unmolested. During their detention in prison they left at home a son Daniel and a daughter Provided ; these children, not deterred by the unchristian treatment of their parents and brother, felt themselves rather encouraged to follow their steps and relinquish" the assemblies of a people whose religion was productive of such relentless persecution; for their absence from which they were fined ten pounds, though it was well known that they had no estate, their parents having been reduced to poverty by repeated fines and extravagant distraints ; wherefore to satisfy the fine they were ordered to be sold for bondslaves at Virginia or Barbadoes. Edward Butler, one of the treasurers, sought out for a passage for them to Barbadoes for sale, but couldfind none willing to take them thither. * * Disappointed in his designs and at a loss how to dispose of them, the winter approaching, he (Butler) sent them home to shift for themselves till he could find a convenient opportunity to send them away." Lawrence and wife Cassandra went to Shelter Island, Long Island Sound, being banished under pain of death in 1659, and died there in the spring of 1660 from privation and exposure ; his wife died three days before him. Their son Josiah went to Rhode Island and ^established a home for himself and family. He came back to Salem in 1660 to look after his parents' property, and found it in very poor condition. He was whipped for returning to Massachusetts. The will of Lawrence Southwick was dated July 10, 1659, bequeathing to son Daniel his property at Salem ; devising also to sons, Josiah Southwick, John Southwick ; to John Burnell, Samuel Burton, Mary Trask, Deborah Southwick, Ann Potter and others. Children : i. John, born 1620, died October 25, 1672 ; married Sarah Tidd, Hannah Flint, and Sarah Burnett (or Burnell). 2. Mary, born 1630, married Henry Trask. 3. Josiah, born 1632. 4. Provided, born 1635, died 1640. 5. Daniel, born 1637 ; mentioned below. 6. Provided, born December 1641 ; married December 30, 1662, Samuel Gaskill.

Sources

[S230] Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, William Richard Cutter, (Name: Lewis historical publishing company, 1908;), 1851 (Reliability: 3).
[S280] Genealogy of the descendants of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick of Salem, Mass: the original emigrants, and the ancestors of the families who have since borne his name, James Moore Caller, Maria A. Ober, (Name: s.n., 1881;), 68 (Reliability: 3).