The history of the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, By a committee of the Dorchester antiquarian and historical society ...

HISTORY OF DORCHESTER. 89
Nicholas Upsal shall keep a house of entertainment
for strangers." Mr. Upsal died in 1677, aged 70.
His wife died Sept. 18, 1675, aged 73 years. They
were both buried in Copp's Hill grave-yard.
In 1656, the General Court fined Mr. Upsal ~20
and imprisoned him, for his countenancing and
befriending Quakers. In 1661, "on occasion of
his drawing many Quakers & others affected to that
sect thither" [to the place of his imprisonment], he
is removed to Castle Island, "there to remain vpon
his own charge." His wife petitioned for his release
soon after, upon which the court ordered that he
"be moued ovt of prison forthwith to ye house of
John Capen, in Dorchester, and there be confined a
prisoner vntil ye latter end of ye 8th moneth next."
How long his confinement lasted we cannot state,
but the next year, 1662, the court record recites,
" Nicholas Vpshall being formerly sentenced to perpetual Imprisonment, & obteyning a Reprivall, hath
greatly abused their lenity, doe therefore Order him
to be Confined again to ye house of John Capen."
By " a reprivall" we are to understand banishment;
for he was sentenced to remain in prison until the
fine was paid, or if he would not pay it, his effects
were ordered to be seized by the marshal; but, they
say, " ye fine being paid, he shall depart this Jurisdiction within one moneth, and not returne Vnder
ye poenalty of Imprisonment," &c.
In that rare book, "Persecutors Maul'd with
their own Weapons," is this passage.
"Nicholas Upshall, an old Man full of years, seeing their [the authorities of Boston] Cruelty to the
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