ing business man in Milton. He carried on a large and varied trade, and was the medium of exchange for the producers of this town and of many interior towns. In this way he furnished occupation to many citizens and families of Milton dependent on their labor for a subsistence.

When Norfolk County was about to be set off, a great effort was made to establish the county buildings in Milton. Mr. Vose, then owning the land at the corner of Adams street and Churchill's lane, where the mansion of Mr. J. Murray Forbes now stands, offered to give the same for a court-house and jail.

JEREMIAH SMITH BOIES.

He was the son of Capt. James Boies, born in Milton, 1762, and married Miss Clark. He graduated at Harvard, 1783. He was early engaged in manufactures at the Dorchester side of the river. About 1795 he built a dam where the starch-factory now stands, and erected a paper, chocolate, and corn mill, employing Mark Hollingsworth, a young man from New Jersey, as foreman of the paper-mill. In 1801 he gave up the business to Mark Hollingsworth and Edmund Tileston, who had been in the paper business at Needham.

At the decease of his father Mr. Boies came into possession of the paper-mill in Milton, which he improved for a few years. He built the mansion on Mattapan street, Milton, now owned by the heirs of the Hon. Arthur W. Austin. He was one of the trustees of Milton Academy at the opening of the institution; for many years was treasurer of the board of trustees. He filled several offices of trust in the town, and was active and useful in all educational and religious interests during his residence here.

Mr. Boies finally sold out his interest in the mills and removed to Boston, where he became an alderman of the city, and died in 1851.

JOHN MCLEAN.

John McLean was born in Milton in 1761. His father was engaged in business at St. George. His mother went there in a sloop from Boston, and, arriving in the afternoon, went ashore and remained until the vessel was ready to sail on her return voyage, when, being discontented, she returned in the sloop to Boston. She may have gone to her father's, who lived on the Milton side of the river in the old house near the mill, the northerly half of which he conveyed to Richard Clark in 1765; but the tradition is that she went to the house of her kindred,

Jeremiah Smith, who lived at Milton Lower Mills, in the first house below the bridge. From the intimate relations ever existing between the Smith and McLean families, it is highly probable that she made the family of Mr. Smith her home, and that John McLean was born in his house.

The statement is made by President Quincy, in his "History of Harvard College," that John McLean was born in St. George. This is surely an error, as Mrs. McLean never lived at St. George, and was only there while the sloop was unlading and taking in her cargo of wood and lime. The place of his birth was Milton. This is confirmed by a tradition that cannot be doubted, coming directly through living witnesses from persons who were in intimate connection with the McLean and Boies families.

John McLean lived with his father, at Milton, in the Jackson house, through all his early life, until he went to Boston to engage In business there, and then passed more or less of his time in the summer with his mother at the Milton home. He married Ann Amory, of the highly respectable Amory family of Boston. In the latter part of the last century he was unfortunate, and failed in business, caused by an adverse decree of the French Council. A few years subsequently he gave a supper at the Exchange Coffee House in Boston, inviting all of his old creditors; when they assembled at the table every man found under his plate a check covering the amount of his claim, principal and interest. He was a man of handsome countenance and commanding figure, social and genial in his nature.

For many years he was a victim of the gout to such an extent that he was unable to walk in the streets of Boston, and seldom appeared abroad except in his carriage.

At the opening of the war of 1812 he entered the Boston market, and bought up all the molasses that could be purchased; and, on the rise of this article, he realized a large percentage of profit. It is reported that he cleared $100,000 out of this venture.

In his will he made the Massachusetts General Hospital his residuary legatee. When the Massachusetts General Hospital was incorporated the State gave $100,000 to endow it, with the proviso that it might take the name of any donor who should give a larger sum. The result proved that Mr. McLean's legacy not only reached $100,000, but far exceeded that sum. Nevertheless, instead of affixing his name to the Massachusetts General Hospital, they named the institution for the insane at "Barrel's Farm" the "McLean Asylum for the Insane."

His bequests to Harvard College have realized to that insti

tution, up to January, 1886, the sum of $43,062.93. His private legacies were large and numerous; among which was a legacy of $2,000 to the minister and deacons of the First Church, Milton, for the poor, the income of which is annually distributed; and the same amount to the Federal-street Church, Boston, for the same purpose.

Along one of our public streets, now called Blue Hill avenue, is seen a line of milestones bearing this inscription, "J. M'Lean 1823." These were erected, at his request, by Mr. Isaac Davenport, his partner in business; and, as Mr. McLean died before the work was completed, his name was placed on these way-marks by Mr. Davenport's order, thus converting them into monumental stones.

But the most enduring monument of this noble man is seen in the institutions he has helped to found and endow, revealing the manifest purpose of contributing to mental enlargement in generations to come, and of relieving human suffering in its most aggravated forms.

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CHAPTER XIII.

MILITARY RECORD.

KING PHILIP'S WAR.

UR fathers were not long left to the undisturbed cultivation of their lands and the quiet enjoyment of their homes under the new administration of municipal affairs. In the very infancy of the town rumors of Indian intrigues and hostilities filled the air.

A few years before the incorporation of Milton the Neponset Indians had been removed from Milton Village to their reservation at Ponkapog. They were under the command of Quartermaster Swift, of Milton, a wise and judicious leader, and by his management were kept from contact with the hostile Indians, and remained friendly during the war. In the fall of 1675 they were sent to Long Island, in Boston Harbor, for safety, and in the following spring were remanded to their planting-grounds, at Brush Hill, as near as possible to the English fort. The condition of Milton at this time appears from the following paper found in the State Archives:

Milton Military Commission.

The Council, taking into their consideration the unsettled and weak state of the Town of Milton, being destitute of a sufficient and full Committee of Militia for the management of affairs in this time of Public Danger. They do order and appoint Captain Samuel Wadsworth Srgt. Robert Badcock and those that are the present Select Men to be a Committee of Militia for that Town, they or any three of them Capt Wadsworth or Sargt. Badcock being one of them, to act with full power in all cases until the Council take farther action.

Dated Boston ye 11th of Feb. 1675
Passed by the Council

E. R. S.

This was soon followed by a second order from the Council : —

Feb. 21. 1675. In answer to a petičon of generall inhabitants of Milton, it is ordered that all the inhabitants of Milton not in publicque service be required to attend their duty in that Town, perfecting the fortifica

tions that are appointed by the Committees of Militia there, & yt no person fitt for the diffence of the place to withdraw themselves without liberty from this Court or the Council first obteyned on poenalty of such suffering punishment as souldyers are liable unto that wthdraw from their coul's.

HOSTILE DEVELOPMENTS.

In the spring of 1621 a treaty of commerce, friendship, and mutual defence had been made between the English and Massasoit, the Great Sachem of the Wampanoags. During life he remained a faithful ally of the English. His influence with the Indian tribes kept them peaceful and quiet amid many causes for discontent. But Massasoit had passed away, and his power was no longer felt; his people grew more and more suspicious and uneasy. The progress of fifty years had wrought a great change in their condition. The new race from over the great water had multiplied, and was usurping their lands, and forcing them away from their homes and the graves of their fathers. Philip, the successor of Massasoit, renouncing the friendly policy of his ancestor, bent all his powers to fan the flame of hostility and excitement. He was a wily and ambitious leader. By secret and adroit management he united most of the New England Indians against the English, and prepared them for that barbarous warfare which for fourteen months spread over the settlements, until there was scarcely a family in the Massachusetts or Plymouth colonies but had lost a father, brother,

or son.

The sacrifice of property between June, 1675, and September, 1676, has been estimated at not less than $500,000, which, compared with the population and wealth of the times, was greater than that in the eight years' struggle for independence.

The inhabitants of Milton capable of bearing arms were actively engaged in this conflict. Some were in the company of Capt. Samuel Wadsworth, of Milton, and others under Capt. Robinson, of Roxbury. But our records are meagre, and centre on those who were conspicuous as leaders or sufferers.

OPENING OF HOSTILITIES.

King Philip's war broke out on the 24th of June, 1675, at Swansey, near Mount Hope, the home of Philip. The people were surprised by an attack from the Indians as they were returning from public worship on a day set apart for humiliation and prayer, under the apprehensions of an approaching war.

Thereupon the insidious foe appeared in every quarter, and no one could tell where the tomahawk and scalping-knife would find the next victim. Consternation spread over New England.