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• FSID: KNSN-ZKN

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Daniel and Provided, a son and daughter of Lawrence Southwick, were fined 10 pounds for absence from church and for siding with the Quakers. Being unable to pay the fine, their parents' estates having been reduced by fines and distraints, they were ordered to be sold for bond-slaves, the county treasurer's being empowered " to sell the said persons to any of the English nation at Virginia or Barbadoes, to answer the fines." But no ship- master could be induced to take them. It was from this son, Daniel, that Mrs. Ayer was directly descended. Under the title of Cassandra Southwick, Whittier has described the sublime courage of Provided Southwick, which was born of faith that refused to yield to persecution and recant, and how she passed the night in prison before the day set for carrying out the diabolical sentence that had been passed upon her :' All night I sat unsleeping, for I knew that on the morrow The ruler and the cruel priest would mock me in my sorrow ; Dragged to their place of market and bargained for and sold, Like a lamb before the shambles, like a heifer from the fold ! " He tells what temptations beset her, alone in her wretched cell, to purchase freedom by renouncing what she had been taught was the way of salvation, and how these gathered force as she contemplated her future : " And what a fate awaits thee ! a sadly toiling slave, Dragging the slowly lengthening chain of bondage to the grave ! Think of thy woman's nature, subdued in hopeless thrall, The easy prey of any, the scoff and scorn of all ! " The poet describes how her faith finally triumphed over the weakness of the flesh : " Bless the Lord for all his mercies ! for the peace and love I felt, Like dew of Hermon holy hill, upon my spirit melt ; When ' Get behind me, Satan ! ' was the language of my heart, And I felt the evil tempter with all his doubts depart. In the morning her prison doors were opened, and with the sheriff at her side and a wondering throng at her heels, she was.marched down to the beach : " Then to the stout sea-captains the sheriff, turning, said, ' Which of ye, worthy seamen, will take this Quaker maid ? In the Isle of fair Barbadoes, or on Virginia's shore, You may hold her at a higher price than Indian girl or More.' " Grim and silent stood the captains ; and when again he cried, ' Speak out, my worthy seamen ! ' no voice, no sign replied ; But I felt a hard hand press my own, and kind words met my ear,' God bless thee and preserve thee, my gentle girl and dear ! ' " A weight seemed lifted from my heart, a pitying friend was nigh, I felt it in his hard right hand, and saw it in his eye ; And when again the sheriff spoke, that voice so kind to me, Growled back it's stormy answer like the roaring of the sea :" ' Pile my ship with bars of silver pack with coins of Spanish gold,From keel piece up to deck plank, the roomage of her hold- By the living God who made me I would sooner in your bay Sink ship and crew and cargo, than bear this child away ! ' " ' Well answered, worthy captain, shame on their cruel laws ! 'Ran through the crowd in murmurs loud the people's just applause. ' Like the herdsman of Tekoa, in Israel of old, Shall we see the poor and righteous again for silver sold ? ' "

Provided married Gaskill, Samuel Sr on 30 Oct 1662 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. Samuel (son of Gaskill, Edward Filius and Parker, Sarah) was born on 7 Jun 1639 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; was christened on 7 Jun 1639 in First Congregational Church, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; died on 6 Oct 1720 in Shelter Island, Suffolk, New York, USA; was buried after 6 Oct 1720 in Shelter Island, Suffolk, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Gaskill, Edward was born on 23 Oct 1667 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1748 in Northampton Township, Burlington, New Jersey, USA; was buried in 1748 in Mount Holly Friends Cemetery, Mount Holly, Burlington, New Jersey, USA.

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• Occupation: Glass Blower & Farmer
• Baptism: 24 Feb 1639, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

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Find A Grave Memorial 6615081; Birth ; Southwick Genealogy Topographical dictionary by Charles Edward Banks
(1937/81) of 2885 Emigrants to New England 1620-1650
He is listed from Tetnall Parish Staffordshire. (NOTE: added by Will Chapman a memorial to him indicates that he was born in the northern English County of Lancashire rather than in Staffordshire which is in the West Midlands.
Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 14 November 2017), memorial page for Lawrence Southwick (1598–1660), Find A Grave Memorial no. 6615081, citing Sylvester Manor Burial Ground, Shelter Island, Suffolk County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Thomas (contributor 46543873).)

The first of our Southwicks to settle in America were Lawrence, his wife, Cassandra and two children, John and Mary from England. According to the records, Lawrence came to America in 1627, returned to England and returned with his family in 1630 to Salem, Mass.

In 1639, the family was accepted into the First Church of Salem and granted two acres of land on which Lawrence established one of the first businesses of manufacturing glass and earthware. This land is described as being on the south side of Gallowa Hill where people were hung during the period of the Salem witchcrafts. (baptized 2 mo. 24th, 1639)

Lawrence and Cassandra were amongst the first to be arrested , tried, have their property confiscated and be put in prison by the Puritans for not attending their meetings and for attending meetings of the Friends (Quakers) They were banished from the colony and they sought refuge on Shelter Island. This happened in 1659, and Lawrence and Cassandra, being old people, could not stand the hardships. They died in early 1660 within three days of one another.( Lawrence first) Shelter Island lies in an inlet of the sea near Long Island. It was owned by Nathaniel Sylvester , who befriended the persecuted Quakers. It was with Nathaniel that Lawrence and Cassandra spent their last days. A monument has been erected on the Island paying tribute to Nathaniel Sylvester. On the steps of this monument is inscribed "Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick. Dispoiled, imprisoned, starved, whipped, banished. Who fled here to die This quote was taken from the Holders of Holderness by Charles Fredrick Holder LLD 1902

Sep 21, 1657 Christopher Holder and John Copeland , Quakers, attempt to address our people after Minister closed. They are secured until Monday then sent to Boston where they received thirty stripes and were imprisoned nine weeks. Samuel Shattuck, for interfering when Holder was apprehended was imprisoned at Boston till he gave bonds. Lawrence Southwick and his wife, for entertaining Holder and Copeland were confined in the same town.

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 slighting of the w; the former occasionally appears as Sethick, Southerick, Suderick etc and the later being rather fixed as Estick.

"In 1639 there were two acres of land set off for each of the persons Annanias Conkin, Obediah Holmes, and Lawrence Southwick; and there was granted to glass men several acres of ground adjoining to their houses. This was in the neighborhood of Aborn street and near String Water Brook" ( now 1881, Salem ans Peabody) Felt's Annals of Salem

Lawrence and his 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 after him.

Lawrence made his will at Shelter Island in 1659; his will proved in Salem in 1660 in which he mentions sons John, Josiah and Daniel and daughters Provided and Mary(who married Henry Trask) and some grandchildren

I, Lawrence Sethick, late of Salem in New England, now being at the house of Nathaniel Sylvester, on Shelter Island, being weak 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 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.
Item. My will is that 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 of 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 and Thomas Gardner to be overseers of this my last will and testament.

Descendants of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick of Salem, Massachusetts
1--LAWRENCE.
Salem, Mass., Shelter Island, N. Y.
He was a glass-blower and farmer.
1639. He was Freeman at Salem this year.
1639, 4, 24. He and his wife were baptized.
1639, 12, 11. At this date, grants were made by the town to the "glassmen," as follows: 1 acre to Ananias Concklin, and 2 acres each to Lawrence Southwick and Obadiah Holmes, to be added to their former house lots. Other allusions are made to the glassmen and glass houses at Salem; and the land granted to Lawrence Southwick is still called, as it was then, glass house field.
1639, 12, 16. His children John, Josiah, Daniel and Provided, were baptized.
1640, 3, 30. He and William Woodbury were deputed by a general town meeting to have the care of milch cattle and heifers that are like to calve this summer; and such bulls as are necessary for the herd, excluding all other dry cattle. They were to have care of the cattle from April 6th till November 15th; driving the cattle out when the sun was half an hour high in the morning, and bringing them in when the sun was half an hour high in the afternoon. Their compensation to be œ36; and the owners of three bulls that were to go with the herd, were to have 20s. apiece for the season, for the use of their bulls.
1641, 12. The General Court voted, that if the town of Salem loaned the glassmen œ30, they should be allowed it again out of the next rate; and the glassmen to repay it again "if the works succeed, when they are able." It is supposed that they manufactured the more common glass for domestic use, including the window glass such as was then used, diamond shaped; and perhaps the glass was cast. Pieces have frequently been turned up from the soil where the factory was situated; and specimens are preserved at the Essex Institute at Salem.

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Lawrence married Burnell, Cassandra. Cassandra was born in 1598 in Old Swinford, Worcestershire, England; was christened on 24 Feb 1639 in First Church Unitarian Church, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1660 in Shelter Island, Suffolk, New York, USA; was buried in Jul 1660 in Sylvester Manor Burial Ground, Shelter Island, Suffolk, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Find A Grave Memorial 6783049; Lawrence Southwick came from Lancashire, England, to America in 1627. He returned to England and brought his wife Cassandra and two children to Massachusetts in 1630, on the Mayflower, in company with William Bradford, and settled at Salem, Massachusetts. James Savage, in his Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers of New England, says: "In the dark days of delusion against the Quakers the whole family of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick suffered much from fines and imprisonment." In Felt's Annals of Salem we find that on October 14, 1656, the Court of Assistants took into consideration the appearance of Friends in their jurisdiction. They charged them with claiming to be inspired, writing erroneous doctrines, and despising the orders of Church and State. They ordered that if any Friend came into Massachusetts he should be confined in a house of correction, severely whipped, be kept at hard work, and not suffered to speak. On October 14, 1657, the Court of Assistants enacted, that each male of the Friends, if re- turning after the law had been executed on him, should have one of his ears cut off ; for the second return he should have the other ear cut off ; each female so doing- should be whipped ; if either sex came back a third time, they should have their tongues bored through with a hot iron. From the Massachusetts Colonial Records we find that in 1656 Cassandra Southwick was arrested and fined for non-attendance at church. After this, she and her husband were excommunicated from the Church.

In 1657, Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick were committed to a Boston prison for having entertained two Quakers at their house. Lawrence was released, but Cassandra served a sentence of seven weeks' imprisonment for having a Quaker paper in her possession. In May, 1658, Lawrence, Cassandra, and their son Josiah were arrested, whipped, and imprisoned for twenty weeks at Boston for being absent from public worship and owning the Quaker doctrine. In October, 1658, they were again imprisoned, with others, in Ipswich, for the same offence, Cassandra being again whipped. According to the Massachusetts Colonial Records, the Quakers imprisoned at Ipswich were sent for October 19, 1658. All six, including the three Southwick's, were "enjoyed at their peril to depart out of this jurisdiction before the first day of the Court of election next." They still remained; and on May 11, 1659, was passed the sentence of banishment : " It is ordered that Lawrence Southwick and Cas- sandra his wife, Samuel Shattock, * Nicholas Phelps, Joshua Buffum and Josiah Southwick hereby are sentenced, according to the order of the General Court in October last, to banish- ment, to depart out of this jurisdiction by the 8th of June next, on pain of death ; and if any of them after the 8th of June next shall be found 'within this jurisdiction, they shall be apprehended by any constable or other officer, there to lie till the next Court of Assistants, when they shall be tried, and being found guilty of a breach of this law, shall be put to death." Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick went to Shelter Island, Long Island Sound, and soon died there, within three days of each other, from privation and exposure ; his wife died three days after him. Of Endicott and his minions Gough writes : " The proceedings of these haughty rulers are strongly marked throughout with the features of self-importance, inhumanity, and bitter malig- nity ; but I know of no instance of more persevering malice and cruelty, than that wherewith they persecuted the aforesaid Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick and their family. Thus despoiled of their property, deprived of their liberty, driven into banishment, and in jeopardy of their lives, for no other crime than meeting a part and dissenting from the estab- lished worship, the sufferings of this inoffensive aged couple ended only with their lives " (Gough's History of the Quakers