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of thirty pounds, this 14''^ of Sept., 1652." This house is on High Street,
and one of the oldest in Ipswich. It is still standing, 1883, being more than
two hundred and thirty years old. For an engraving of this ancient dwelling,
known as "The Old Waldo House," vid. " Ipswich Antiquarian Papkrs " for
March, 18S0. Aug. 31, 1654, Dea. Waldo sold this house, in consideration of
£2(i, to John Caldwell, whose descendants still own it, although it has passed
out of the name.
In that part of Ipswich which is now Wenham, Rev. John Fiske early
gathered a church, of which he became the pastor, Oct. 8, 1644. Of this
church Cornelius Waldo was one of the first deacons. In May, 1657, Rev.
Mr. Fiske, with the greater part of his church, removed to the new town of
Clielmsford Dea. Waldo and family removed with them, and continued in
the office of deacon of the church in its new settlement, Rev. Mr. Fiske remain-
ing the minister for some twenty years after the removal. Dea. Waldo had a
farm, a store, and in later life he kept a tavern. His license as an innkeeper
u.is dated May 9, 1690. It was granted in consideration of his not allowing
"cards, a dice table, bowles, ninepins, billiards, or any other unlawful game."
He lived to good age ; his death occurred June 3, 1701. Mrs. Hannah ('Cogs-
well) Waldo was the ancestress of Ralph Waldo Emerson. The time of her
deal.', is unknown.
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Mr. ,2„d Mn. Jostah Br^ukctt resided in Killerica, Mass.
Sus.iiiiia Adams, the wife of Daniel Waldo, was a daughter of Capt. .Samuel and Rebecca
(firaves) Adams, and a sister of Rebecca Adams, the wife of John Waldo. Capt. Samuel
.\dams was a descendant of Henry Adams, who was of the same ancestr\ as the two Presi-
dents, and the Revolutionary father, .Samuel Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Waldo had four
children: Bethiah, b. Aug. 20, 168S; Rebecca, b. Feb. 5, 1693; Marah, b. Feb. 10, 1695; and
Esther, b. Jan. 3, 169S.
Mr. and Mrs. John I lu/do removed t.. Windham, Conn., in 169S, where he died in 1700.
They had five children, viz.: Shubael, [ohn, Edward, b. April :3, 16S4, Catharine, Rebecca,
b. Aug. 6, 16S6.
CorndiKs ll'.ildo, twin brother of John, lived in Dunstable, .Mass. He was one of the
founders of the church in that town, which was organized Dec. 16, 16S5. He represented the
town, 16S9. He married .l/rs. Faith /a,-isoii, nee Peek, widow of Jeremiah Jackson. In latei
life they lived in Lancaster, and afterwards in Boston, Mass.
Rebecca Waldo, the fourth daughter of Dea. Cornelius and Hannah (Cogswell) Wald...
married Edward Emerson, son of Rev. Joseph and Elizabeth (Hulkeley) Emer.son, of Concord.
Mass. They were the ancestors of R.\LPH W.VLDO EmkrsON, LL. D., who was born in Boston,
Mass., May 25, 1S03, and died .'Vpril 27, 18S2, in Concord, Mass. Edward and Rebecca (\Vald..|
Emerson had a son. Rev. Joseph Emerson, who was pastor of Maiden, 1721,10 his dcatli,
July 13, 1767. Rev. Joseph and Marv (Moodv) Emerson had three sons, ministers, Joseph.
William, and John.
Ralph Wai.i.o Emerson, son of Rev. William Emerson, descended from Rev. I'cler
Bulkeley, of Woodhill, in Bedfordshire England. This I'uritan minister, unwilling to obev the
bishops of Charles I., emigrated to .Massachusetts in 1634 with several of his English flock. :ind
in company with Major .Simon Willard, a Kentishman, planted the town of Concord, Mass.,
.Sept., 1635. He was the first minister of the church there, and at his death, in 1659, trans-
mitted his ofhce to his son, Edward Bulkeley. whose daughter Elizabeth, born in e'oncord,
163S, married Rev. [..^eph KnKTs.m in 1665, and became the mother of a lonu line of mini-