ignatures
of their scholars, Boston patriots, clergy, and statesmen, redound
to the credit of the Masters Holbrook.

Other Holbrooks taught in Boston. From the Selectmen's Minutes of
that little town, we find that on November 10, 1773,--

"Mr Holbrook, Master of the Writing School in the Common, and Mr
Carter the Master Elect of the school in Queen St having recommended
Mr Abiah Holbrook, a young man near of age, as a suitable person to
be usher at Mr Carters school--the Selectmen sent for him, and upon
discoursing with the young man thought proper to appoint him usher
of said school."

And from the _Boston Gazette_, of April 17, 1769, we learn that Mr.
Joseph Ward "Opened an English Grammar School in King St where Mr
Joseph Holbrook hath for many years kept a Writing School."

These entries of Anna's relating to her attending Master Holbrook's
school have an additional value in that they prove that both boys
and girls attended these public writing schools,--a fact which has
been disputed.

NOTE 24.

Dr. James Lloyd, born March 14, 1728, died March 14, 1810. He began
his medical practice in 1752. He was appointed surgeon of the
garrison at Boston, and was a close friend of Sir William Howe and
Earl Percy, who for a time lived in his house. He was an
Episcopalian, and one of the indignant protesters against the
alteration of the liturgy at King's Chapel. Though a warm Tory and
Loyalist, he was never molested by the American government. He was
one of Boston's most skilful and popular physicians for many years.
While other city doctors got but a shilling and sixpence for their
regular fee, he charged and received the exorbitant sum of half a
dollar a visit; and for "bringing little master to town," in which
function he was a specialist, he charged a guinea.

NOTE 25.

A pincushion was for many years, and indeed is still, in some parts
of New England, a highly conventional gift to a mother with a young
babe. Mrs. Deming must have made many of these cushions. One of her
manufacture still exists. It is about five inches long and three
inches wide; one side is of white silk stuck around the edge with
old-fashioned clumsy pins, with the words, "John Winslow March 1783.
Welcome Little Stranger." The other side is of gray satin with green
spots, with a cluster of pins in the centre, and other pins winding
around in a vine and forming a