Height, 72 in.; diameter of the mouth, 4} in., and of the base, 31 in.
London date-letter for I 63 1 -3 2. Maker's mark: IT, with two pellets above and
one below, in a heart (Jackson's English Goldsmiths andtheir marks, I 65 1-5 2).
Plate LVI.
This cup was probably brought from England by the donor's father, Rev. Samuel
Newman, first pastor of Rehoboth and compiler of a Concordance on the Bible,
who was born about i 6oo at Chadlington in Oxfordshire, matriculated in i616
at Magdalen college, Oxford, where he took the degree of B.A. from St Edmunds
hall, October 17, 1620. He emigrated to New England about 1636. Rev.
Noah Newman succeeded his father as pastor of this church in I 6 63. He mar-
ried, December 30, 1669, Joanna, daughter of Rev. Henry Flint, minister of
Braintree in Massachusetts, and, according to the above inscription, died April i 6,
167 8. His nephew, Samuel Newman, was the donor of the second beaker.
The second cup is similar to the first but has a different stem. Inscription:
Cap' Willets' donation toI y Ch: of Rehoboth, 1674.
Height, 7 in.; diameter of the mouth, 41 in., and of the base, 4 in.
Makers' marks:      r, for Robert Sanderson (1610-93) and John Hull
(1624-8 3) of Boston.
Plate LVII.
Captain Thomas Willet, the donor, was one of the last of the Leyden company
who crossed to New England. A considerable owner of property in and about
Rehoboth, his estate was valued at C2,798 14s. at his death, which occurred
August 4, 1674, at Swansea in Massachusetts. His wife was Mary, daughter of
John Brown. He had several children, one of whom, Martha, married John Saffin of
Scituate and Swansey, whose beaker is in the Old South church at Boston (see
page 5 1). Another daughter, Esther, married Rev. Josiah Flint, and a beaker given
by her to the First church at Dorchester is preserved there (see page 145). He was
the first English mayor of New York, after it was reduced by colonel Nicholls.
Captain Willet was a benefactor to three churches, as will be noticed from the
following clause in his will, dated April 26, 167 1: "I give & bequeath unto the
Church of Plymouth ten pounds, and to the Church att Swansey ten pounds, and
unto the Church att Rehoboth five pounds to be disposed of as the said severall
churches shall see most convenient." The above cup was bought with the last
bequest; and if silver cups were acquired with the legacies to the other two
churches, they are not now in existence. The sum of ten pounds was also left by
captain Willet to Rev. John Myles, pastor of the Baptist church of Swansea, then
a part of Rehoboth. He was buried at the head of Bullock's Cove, and the follow-
ing is a copy of the inscription on his tombstone: " 1674 Here lyes ye body of
wor. Thomas Willett Esq, who died August 4 in 64 yr of his age, who was the
first Mayor of New York and twice did sustain ye place."
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