APPENDIX.

A. p. 54.

The following notice of the Rev. Samuel Newman is found in "WooD's ATHENE ET FASTI OXONIENSES," 3d edition, London, 4to. 1817, with additions by Philip Bliss, Esq. Fellow of St. John's College, vol. III. p. 648.*

"SAMUEL NEWMAN, a learned divine of his time, received some education in this university; but, being puritanically affected, he left it, went into New England, became a Congregational man, minister of the church of Rehoboth there, a zealous man in the way he professed, indefatigable in his studies, and marvelously read in the holy scriptures. He hath written,

"A Concordance of the Bible. Lond. 1643, 50. in a large thick fol. [Bodl. C. 2. 9. Th. B. S. Printed also at Cambridge, 1682, Bodl. G. 6. 17. Th.] and dying in December, or thereabouts, in sixteen hundred and sixty and three, was buried at Rehoboth.-I find one Sam. Newman, born at or near Chadlington, in Oxfordshire, who was entered into Mayd. coll. in the condition, as it seems, of a servitour, in the latter end of 1616, aged 16 years, and to have taken a degree in arts as a member of S. Edm. hall, and soon after to have left the university. Whether this Samn. Newman be the same with him who wrote the Concordance before mentioned, I cannot affirm, because I have been informed by the letters of Mr. Increase Mather, president of Harvarden coll. in New England, dated 6 Jan. 1690, that he thinks Mr. Sam. Newman, author of the Concordance, was born in Yorkshire, and that [as he takes it,] he was in the 65th year of his age when he died."

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"[Samuel Newman was born at Banbury, 1600; ob. in New England July 5, 1663. V. Hist. of New England, lib. 3, BAKER.]" Note by the Ed. [I should not have offered my readers this meagre note, but Cotton Mather's History of New England is not in the Bodleian library. I have, however, hopes that the next editor of the ATHENE may have the use of the book, since I have repeatedly urged the propriety of procuring it.]"

Ibid.

The following is an extract from a letter of Anthony Wood, author of *There is a copy of this edition of the "ATHENE," in the library of Harvard University, and also in the splendid private library of Thomas Dowse, Esq.-Cambridge

port.

"ATHENE ET FASTI OXONIENSES," to Rev. Dr. Increase Mather, respecting Mr. Newman; and may be found in the Mass. Hist. Coll. vol. VII. p. 187, New Series.

"Sir your kind and civil letter I have received for which I doe by these returne you thanks. As for the age of Sam. Newman (65) it agrees with my manuscript, but the county, you say wherein he was borne (Yorkshire) doth not. For my Sam. Newman, whom I take to be him of Rehoboth and author of the Concordance, was borne in Oxfordshire."

The letter of which this is an extract is dated

"From my lodging neare

Merton Coll. in Oxford.

12 June, 1690."

Wood was probably misled by the incorrectness of the date of the death of Mr. Newman, and his age, erroneously stated to him by Dr. Mather, to suppose the two Samuel Newmans mentioned in his sketch might be different individuals; whereas it is very evident, that the accounts both relate to the same person, and that the "Sam. Newman," who "entered Magd. coll. in the condition of a servitour," in 1616, at the age of 16, was the same with "him of Rehoboth, and author of the Concordance."

The following is the title-page of the third edition, London, 1658, with an extract from one of the two advertisements to the reader.

A LARGE

AND COMPLEAT

CONCORDANCE

TO THE BIBLE

IN ENGLISH.

According to the last Translation.

A like Worke formerly performed by CLEMENT COTTON.

Now this third impression corrected and annexed in many things formerly omitted, for the good both of Scholars and others; far exceeding the most perfect that was ever extant in our Language, both in ground-work and building.

By SAMUEL NEWMAN, now Teacher of the Church at Rehoboth in New

England.

The manifold use and benifit of this Work is sufficiently declared in the PREFACES to the READER.

JOHN, 5, 39.

ACTS, 11, 17.

Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life; and they are they which testifie of me.

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily whether those things

were so.

LONDON,

Printed for THOMAS DOWNES, and ANDREW CROAK, and are to be sold at the Green Dragon in St. Paul's Church-yard.

1658.

The first advertisement to the reader is written by DANIEL FEATLY; and the second (for there are two,) by W. Gouge.

The following is an extract from the latter, giving an account of the concordances that had been written in English, previous to this one.

"There have been many years since English Indexes of proper Hebrew and Greek names, with their significations, and Tables of the principal points contained in the Bible; and some so large, as they carry the Title of Concordances; (amongst which the brief Concordance lately collected by Mr. John Doronham, Bachelor in Divinity, and allowed by Authority to be bound with the Bible in all Volumes, may well deserve the precedency;) yet have they come short of perfect Concordances."

Then follows an account of the concordance compiled by Clement COTTON. "He made his first essay in the year 1622, on the New Testament, according to the English Translation, begun at Geneva, in Queen Marie's dayes, by such learned divines as there found great entertainment; and in the year 1627, he added thereunto a Concordance of the Old Testament, according to the last and best English Translation. But observing how inconvenient it was, that one part of his Concordance should be of one Translation, the other of another, like the Bear, he still continued to lick over his works; and in the year 1631, published A compleat Concordance of the whole Bible, according to the aforesaid last Translation." He next added to these a concordance of the Apocrypha. Cotton's, however, the writer states to be deficient in many respects, and points out the particulars; but says that Newman's is more perfect than any before published in the English language.

On the outside of the first lid is stamped in gilt letters

SVB
AVSPICIIS

WILHEMI

III.

On the back is stamped NEWMAN'S CONCORDANCE.

C. p. 55.

The following is the statement referred to, in the life of the Rev. Hugh Peters by the Rev. Samuel Peters, L. L. D. in which the authorship of the Concordance written at Rehoboth (or Seekonk), is ascribed to Cruden. "The Rev. Mr. Cruden, an eminent scholar in the university of Cambridge, England, being a meek and pious man, but also a puritan, emigrated to Boston and was settled by Dr. Mather and Mr. Cotton, at a place called Rehoboth, four miles east of the town of Providence, in the state of Rhode Island, the most barren soil in Massachusetts; for Mather and Cotton acted like moderators or bishops at that time in Boston, and named the town Rehoboth, because the word means, "the Lord hath made room for his beloved." It also was a frontier against the Pequod Indians, at the head of a creek emptying into Narragansett bay; where were plenty of fish and oysters, on which the settlers might live and protect Boston, if the Indians did not scalp them.

"This pious clergyman, with his pious companions, not knowing their danger, went and formed the settlement of Rehoboth: the scite being pleasant, the air salubrious, and the prospect horrible. But the innocence of Cruden and his followers conciliated the savages, and they became friendly. They built a church, and encircled it with a set of houses like a half moon, facing the creek, where they worshipped the Creator with

great devotion, and Cruden taught their children the arts and sciences gratis. That town is yet famous in New-England for the education of its children. In that barren soil, Cruden spent a useful life, and made to himself a name in the christian church, that will last as long as the Bible. There he formed the first Concordance of the Old and New Testaments, which was ever made in the English tongue. It was adopted and printed by the university of Cambridge in England, and, with additions and improvements, has passed through many editions, still under the name of Cruden's Concordance.

"The ingenuity and Herculean labor displayed in this necessary index of the bible even astonished the old and new world: but Cruden got no money for the copy, either in New or Old England; yet he gained everlasting fame in Christendom, and Butler, in his Hudibras, fixed immortality on Cruden's wisdom, perseverance and patience, in making his Concordance, at Rehoboth, bordering on Seekonk Plain, as barren as the Numidian sands, by his sarcastic distich; viz.

Alluding to Cruden's ingenuity at Rehoboth, and to the wisdom of Moses on Mount Sinai.

"Cruden's posterity are numerous and respectable in New-England. His eldest son returned to England, and was much esteemed both in the pulpit and out of it; and one of his sons was the eminent and venerable presbyterian minister of the church near Covent Garden, so highly insulted by Lord George Gordon, one of his parishioners in 1780, because he prayed extempore, and sung by book, and preached by notes; which his lordship said, proved an absurdity, for Cruden prayed by the Spirit, but did not sing and preach by the Spirit."

It would be a waste of time to merely point out the errors in this short statement; and besides, they are too gross and apparent to escape the most casual observation. The extract is made only to show its absurdity, and as a curiosity, to excite the surprise of the reader, that an author, though he sought not for truth, should not sometimes, by accident at least, stumble upon it. How our author could have confounded the events in the lives of two individuals, who lived at the distance of a century from each other, it is impossible to conceive; as well as to detect in the quotation from Butler, any very obvious reference, to either Newman, Cruden, Moses, or Seekonk Plain. The following are the lines referred to: the poet, in setting forth the literary acquirements of his hero, says,

"For Hebrew roots, altho' they're found

To flourish most in barren ground,

He had such plenty, as suffic'd

To make some think him circumcised."

Hudibras, Pt. I., Cant. I., line 59.

The following quotation from "Johnson's Wonder-working Providence of Sion's Savior, in New-England,” if deficient in poetical excellence, is at least more definite as to the person it would immortalize; and, as Mr. Peters has attempted to cull for our worthy minister a sprig of immortality, (though he made a slight mistake in the name,) we shall be excused for reaching forth the hand to pluck another, bearing his own image and superscription. We give it by way of curiosity.

*

"With little flock doth Newman pack away;
The righteous lips sure might a many feed;
Remov'st for gaine? it's most where most men stay;
Men part for land, why land least helps at need."

Chap. X. p. 130.

[We here give a brief notice of the Factories, &c. in Rehoboth and Seekonk, the materials for which were not obtained in season to be inserted in their proper place.]

ORLEANS FACTORY. The Cotton Factory on Palmer's River, Rehoboth, is situated at the head of tide water, and was built in the year 1811, by a company which was afterwards incorporated by the name of the "Palmer's River Manufacturing Co." The principal stock-holders in this company were, Asa Bullock, and Barnard Wheeler, Esqs. and Capt. Israel Nichols and others of Rehoboth; Thomas Church and John How, Esqs. and Capt. Benjamin Norris, of Bristol; and Richmond Bullock, Esq. of Providence. The business of manufacturing cotton was prosecuted by this company with various success for a number of years, when they leased out the estate to Mr. Nathan Sweetland for several years, until about 1821 or 1822; at which time they sold out the whole Company's property to Ebenezer Ide and others. They continued the business under the name of the Ide Manufacturing Co. until 1825, when they became embarrassed and sold the real and personal estate separately. David Wilkinson, Esqr. and others purchased the real estate, and gave it a thorough repair and put in new machinery, consisting of 48 looms with spindles and preparation to supply them. The spindles consisted entirely of the kind called mules, and this was the first successful attempt to use this kind of spindles, for warp as well as weft in this country. This company assumed the name of the "Orleans Manufacturing Co." and commenced the making of fine cloths for calico printing, which were then in good demand. They continued to prosecute that business with good success, until the memorable embarrassments which pervaded the manufacturing interest throughout New England, in 1829 and 1830, when Messrs. David Wilkinson and Co. who were the principal owners, failed, and the estate was sold to Mr. Benjamin Peck, (who had been concerned in the former company,) and others who continued the business under the same name, until November 10, 1832, when the principal factory building was entirely consumed by fire with the most part of the machinery. The same company rebuilt the mill the year following upon the same foundation with stone. It is 72 feet by 40, two stories high, with attic and basement stories, and contains 60 looms, with spindles and preparation to supply the same. It is now owned by Messrs. Benjamin Peck and James H. Mumford of Rehoboth, and Asa Pierce, Esq. of Providence.

REHOBOTH UNION MANUFACTURING COMPANY. The building of this company was erected in 1809. The company consisted of Dexter Wheeler, Richard Goff, Stephen Carpenter, Thomas Carpenter, James Carpenter, and Peter Carpenter. The number of spindles is 360, hands, about 14, and the number of pounds of yarn manufactured per week is 550. The principal owners now are Nelson and Darius Goff, and Ste

Referring to his removal, with a part of his church, from Weymouth to Seekonk.