From Generation to Generation Dwigbt Stone "Olive Evans Class (■•0_..^ZjL- From Generation to Generation n^^Hi The Genealogies of Dwight Stone and Olive Evans COMPILED BY JULIA EVANS (STONE) NEIL COLUMBUS, OHIO MCMVII The Champlin Press Columbus. Ohio %^S \ PREFACE When Mrs. Neil began this work, nothing was far- ther from her mind than pubHcation. Her only thought was to make more intimate acquaintance with her own people; to gain some knowledge of their lives, how they met the dangers and difficulties of those earlier days, what they thought and said and did ; in short, what man- ner of men and women they were. To learn a little of all this and perhaps, find a story or two for her grand- children, was the height of her desire. In consequence, comparatively little care was taken in the beginning to preserve the names of authorities, once the fact itself was esta'blished to her own satisfac- tion. Later when the material began to accumulate, she decided to embody it in two type-written volumes one containing the ancestry of her father, Dwight Stone ; the other, that of her mother, Olive Evans. In the spring of 1906, Professor George E. Stone, of Amherst, with whom she had carried on some corres- pondence, suggested that she should publish the book, as- suring her that the number of those whom it would in- terest was far greater than she would dream was possi- ble. She accepted the suggestion and, since then every effort has been made, not only to trace each line as far back as records would permit, but to keep the names of all authorities and to recover, when it could be done, those that had been lost. From the very first, however, no pains have been spared to verify each fact and whenever doubt remained it is so stated in the book. In the gen- ealogies all persons from whom descent is claimed but not proved, are marked with an asterisk; and in the ac- companying text, all stories are mentioned as probable or only possible as the case may be. The work has far more than paid for itself in the in- creased knowledge of Colonial and Revolutionary days and in the strengthening of that feeling for one's own clan that has made "Highlanders, shoulder to shoulder!" the watchword for loyalty the wide world over. Not the least of the reward has been the discoverer's joy in find- ing a missing name or date, or greater triumph still, the clue to the history of some line whose records had seemed to be forever lost in the shadows of the past. She now sends the book upon its way, hoping it may prove of real value to others enlisted in the same pur- suit and that all whom it may personally concern, may draw inspiration from the energy, industry and sound judgment, the courage and endurance, best of all, the staunch integrity of the men and women who have given them life. Alice Fay Potter. Columbus, Ohio, February, 1907. EXPLANATORY NOTE The plan of this book is very simple. It is divided into two sections. In the first, the ancestry of Dvvight Stone, the Stone lineage is given first and all others follow in alphabetical order. Each line begins with the earliest of that name from whom direct descent is proved and is continued down from father to son until the spin- dle comes into play. Of course the descendants of an ancestress must be sought among her husband's people. Turning to their records, this second line can be traced upward to its source and downward to where it also ends in a daughter, whose children's names must be sought in a third genealogy. The direct ancestry only is given and any name on which rests any shadow of doubt is marked with an asterisk. Savage's "Genealogical Dictionary," Bond's "His- tory of Watertown," Paige's "History of Hardwick" and other local histories; the "New England Historical and Genealogical Register" and many family records have been faithfully studied. Much has been learned through personal examination of town records, family Bibles and moss-covered headstones and a great deal of valuable information has been received from Mr. Sum- ner W. Stone, of New York, Mr. George Burnham, of North Windham, Conn., and Mr. George E. Porter, of Norwich, Conn. The second section, the ancestry of Olive Evans, follows the same plan, the Evans line coming first and the others in alphabetical order. _ THE ANCESTRY OF DWIGHT STONE THE ANCESTRY OF DWTGHT STONE STONE 1. Symond Stone ""(of Much Bromley, Essex, Eng- land) (made will May 12, 1506) married, Elizabeth. 2. David Stone * married. 3. Symond Stone ♦ (of Much Bromley), married (made will July 28, 1558) married, Agnes. 4. David Stone, married, Aug. 23, 1585, Ursula, (written on the parish register of Much Bromley as Ursley.) 5. Gregory Stone, bom in England, 1592; died Nov. 30, 1672; married at Nayland, England, July 20, 1617, Margaret Garrad, bap., Dec. 5, 1597; died Aug. 4, 1626. 6. Elder John Stone, born in England, 1618; died May 5, 1683; married, 1638, Ann Howe, bom 1625; died May 20, 1719. 7 7. Nathaniel Stone, bora May 11, 1660; died Oct. 17, 1732 ; married, April 25, 1684, Sarah Wayt, bom 1672; died 1732. —9— 8. Hezekiah Stone, born March 5, 1711; died July 18, 1771; married, Ruth Howe, born Feb. 23, 1714-5; died Aug. 2, 1809. 9. Col. Jesse Stone, bom Sept. 28, 1737; died July 26, 1803; married Elizabeth Livermore, born Jan. 7, 1734-5; died April 15, 1814. 10. Capt. John Stone, born May 15, 1763; died Feb. 20, 1849; married 1785, Nancy Rice, born Oct. 29, 1762; died Feb. 6, 1849. 11. John Stone, born Nov. 26, 1786; died July 28, 1852; married, Nov. 26, 1807, LoRA Parish, born May 3, 1786; died Dec. 13, 1864. 12. Dwight Stone, born May 14, 1817; died Jan., 1901; married, May 25, 1840, Olive Evans, born Oct. 29, 1815; died Oct. 28, 1888. 13. Julia Evans Stone, born Feb. 5, 1843; married June 4, 1863, Henry Moore Neil, born Aug. 4, 1832. Children of Henry Moore Neil and Julia Evans (Stone) Neil. William Neil, born Dec. 28, 1864; Olive Neil, born Oct. 26, 1866. Hannah Neil, born July 10, 1868; married Nov. 12, 1891, Guy Ward Mallon, born April 28, 1864. Alice Josephine Neil, born Aug. 21, 1870; mar- ried, Dec. 31, 1903, Rev. Albert Neilson Slayton, born April 21, 1875. Fay Neil, born March 7, 1872. Florence Neil, born Oct. 6, 1873; married, Oct. 6, 1896, Byron Lakin Bargar, born Jan. 12, 1867. Julia Stone Neil, born Feb. 28, 1876; married, Oct. 17, 1900, Alfred Hastings Chapin, born Oct. 19, 1876. STONE 6. Elder John Stone, born in England, 1619; died May 5, 1683; married, Ann Howe, born 1625; died May 20, 1719. 7. David Stone, born Oct. 31, 1646; died 1737; mar- ried, Susanna. 8. Samuel Stone, born May 23, 1685 ; married, Bathsheba. 9. Abigail Stone, born April 13, 1712; married, June 22, 1731, John Livermore, born April 2, 1709. STONE 6. Elder John Stone, born in England, 1619; died May 5, 1683; married, 1638, Ann Howe, born 1625; died May 20, 1719. —11— W 7. Deacon Daniel Stone, born Aug. 31, 1644; died about 1719; married, Nov. 23, 1667, Mary (Moore) Ward, died July 10, 1703. 8. Elizabeth Stone, born Nov. 9, 1678; married, Joseph Livermore, born Jan. 27, 1674-5. A small pamphlet, called "The Stone Souvenir," by Mrs. John Livingston Stone of Marlborough, Mass., gives short accounts of Gregory (often spelled Grig- or)'e), John, Nathaniel, Hezekiah and Daniel Stone. Copy of a description of some property owned by Gregory Stone: "Impr on the comon one dwelling house with out- houses and fyve acr of land more or lesse, Thomas Par- risth south east. An Crosby northwest, Susan Bloget southwest, the comon northwest." "Item beyond the fresh pond forty acrvpland and meadows more or lesse Nathaniel Sparrowhawk south- east, and northwest, Watertown line southwest, comon swampe northeast (sold this to Nathaniel Sparrowhawk later) owned also on the south side of Charles River." Gregory Stone was baptized at Great Bromley, Essex, England, April 19, 1592. After he came to America he settled in Cambridge, where he purchased a house and five acres on the westerly side of Garden street between the Botanic Garden and Concord avenue, which became his home. Both he and Elder John Stone are buried in the graveyard of the First Church. Elder John Stone, third child, was deacon of the church in Sudbury and employed by the town in civil affairs ; returned to Cambridge on the death of his father —12— and occupied the homestead; representative in 1682 and 1683. He died in Cambridge and his stone in the grave- yard adj. the First Church, Unitarian, is inscribed as follows : "Memento tu esse Mortalum Here lyeth ye body of Elder John Stone Aged 64 years Who departed this life ye 5th day of May, 1683." He was baptized at Nay land, England, July 31, 1^>18; came to America; was an original proprietor of Sudbury and built in several places there, first within the limits of Sudbur}', or Wayland, then at Otter Neck now in Framingham, and in 1658, in what is now Saxon- ville on land purchased from the Indians and confirmed b)* a grant of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1656. Nathaniel Stone (ninth child) had eight children. He was selectman four years and was admitted to the church, May 16, 1735. His will is dated June 23, 1732, and was entered Nov. 2, of the same year. His propor- tion of a tax to furnish ammunition, June 27, 1710, was the .second largest in Framingham. He.i:ekiah Stone was a deacon in the church at Marl- boro, N. H. He received from his father the homestead, "Bridgefield"' and his interest in "Baiting Brook Meadow" and purchased land and buildings in Oxford, now Auburn, Nov. 25, 1761, where he removed, remain- ing there until his death in 1771. He was a selectman in Oxford during 1764, '66, '67, '69 and '70, and was a captain in the Revolution. All of his children were born in Framingham. ~1J— Colonel Jesse Stone settled in Framingham; went to Oxford before 1763, where he lived on Prospect Hill, now in Auburn; was a captain in the Revolutionary War; marched on "Bennington Alarm," 1777; was out from July 19 to August 29. There were no Oxford men in the ranks. — (History of Oxford, Daniels.) The Oxford I'ecords give Jesse Stone, fifth son of Hezekiah, as colonel in the Revolution. "Captain John Stone, born May 15, 1763, at Ox ford, Mass., soldier of the Revolution: Date of enlistment, September, 1779; length of 6 weeks ; rank, private ; captain ; colonel, Decker ; State, Connecticut. Date of enlistment. May, 1779; length of service, service, 2 weeks; rank, private; captain, Harvey; colonel, Jackson; State, Connecticut. Date of enlistment, July, 1780; length of service, 3 months; rank, private; captain, L. Parker; colonel, Rand ; State, Connecticut. Resided at enlistment at Ward, Mass. ; applied for pension, August 20, 1832; resided, August 20, 1832, at Worthington, Mass." The above is copied from a paper given by John Stone, of Columbus, Ohio, grandson of above John Stone. Captain Stone probably moved to Worthington after 1802. John Stone (11) lived at Worthington, Mass., al- most all his life and all of his children were born there. He was a captain of militia. Dwight Stone went to Columbus, Ohio, in 1839, and was employed as a clerk in his Uncle Jesse and Sumner's establishment. He subsequently became inter- —14— ested in the firm and in 1859, established a business for himself. During the Civil War, his business reputation and credit was such that Governor Dennison turned to him for financial aid and advice which he willingly gave for the benefit of the state and country. In 1866, he removed to New York and became the head of the im- portant cotton brokers' firm of Stone, Parmelee and Company. He retired from business in 1876 and removed to Worthington, where he died. He owned a large cot- ton plantation in Louisiana which is now carried on by his son, Dwight. From "The Oxford Descendants of Gregory Stone." —15— AVER 1. John Ayer, born about 1592; died March 31, 1657; married, Hannah ; died 1675. 2. Thomas Ayer, died Nov. 9, 1686; married, April 1, 1656, Elizabeth Hutchins, died 1710. 3. John Ayer, born May 12, 1657; died 1743; mar- ried, Sept. 13, 1683, Hannah Travis. 4. Hannah Ayer, born Aug. 10, 1686; married, July 31, 1729, Sylvanus Herrington. The original orthography of this surname isl in doubt. In the old records it appears in many forms, among which are Ayer, Ayers, Ayerst, Ayres. Eire, and Eyre. The arms from Crozier, page 12, are : Gules, three covered cups argent. Crest, A covered cup argent. John Ayer (1) of perhaps Wiltshire, or of Nor- wich, County Norfolk, England, born about the year 1592, married in that kingdom, Hannah, whose maiden name has not been recovered, by whom he became the father of six sons and three daughters. He migrated to New England in 1637. voyaging in the ship "Mary Ann," commanded by Captain Coos, and located in New- —16— bury, Essex County, Mass., which place had been incor- porated May 6, 1635. His wife and children soon joined him when the family removed to Salisbury in the same county, on its incorporation, October 7, 1740, going thence to Haverhill, Essex County, in 16-15, which place became a town the same year. Having devised his home- stead in the last named place to his son, John, he died in Haverhill, March 31, 1657, aged 65 years. His widow survived until 1675. Thomas Ayer, of Haverhill, born in England, bought a house and lot in the former place, in 1648. He married, April 1, 1656, Elizabeth Hutchins, a daughter of John and Frances Hutchins of Newbury and Haver- hill. Thomas Ayer died November 9, 1686, and was survived by his widow until 1710. John Ayer, (3) of Haverhill, born in Newbury, Mass., May 12, 1657, married in Boston, September 13, 1683, Hannah, a daughter of Daniel and Esther Travis of the last named place by whom he had nine children The family removed to Stonington, Conn., in 1695, where its head joined the First Congregational Church, March 31, 1700. September 8, 1714, John Ayer, of Groton, alias Stonington, Conn., and Hannah, his wife, "only surviv- ing daughter of Daniel Travis of Boston," signed a deed from which it appears that Mr. Travis had three daugh- ters, Susan, who died s. p., and Esther, who married John Barnard. John Ayer removed to Saybrook, Conn., where he acquired lands. He and his eldest son, John, built a house at Ayer's Point there, and, the older man being a malster, a malt house was erected in the vicinity, some —17— of the foundations of which still remain. Although an accident had deprived him of an arm, he was still active and energetic. In 1740, a new house replaced the pre- vious one and in this, the old gentleman passed his last days, dying in 1743. Hannah Ayer (4) born August 10, 1686, married in the Second Presbyterian Church of Preston, Conn., as his second wife, July 31, 1729, Sylvanus Herrington of Norwich. -18— BACKUS 1. William Backus, of Saybrook, born 1638; died 1664; married, Sarah Charles. 2. Lieut. William Backus, married May 11, 1660, Elizabeth Pratt, born Feb. 1, 1641; died 1730. 3. Elizabeth Backus, died Dec. 29, 1728 ; married, Feb. 10, 1686-7, Capt. Thomas Huntington, born March 18, 1664; died Nov. 7, 1732. BACKUS William Backus, the pioneer, came from Norwich, England, and was living in Saybrook in 1637. His first wife, Sarah Charles (daughter of the Rev. John Charles or Chodes) was the mother of all his children. He married second, Mrs. Ann Bingham and brought with him to America, three daughters, two sons and a step- son, John Bingham. Since the sons were of mature age, he made over to them his settlements and his name does not appear on the records as proprietor. The name was originally spelled Bockius. -19— BALCOM 1. Henry Balcom, married, Aug. 12, 1668, Elizabeth Haynes, born July 19, 1644. 2. Elizabeth Balcom, born Aug. 16, 1667; married, Gershom Rice, born May 9, 1667; died Dec. 29, 1768. BALCOM Henry Balcom lived in Charlestown in 1674. Elizabeth Balcom and Gershom Rice had sixty-five years of married life. He was 101 years old when he died and she, 80 years old. —20- BENT 1. John Bent, died 1588; married, Edith, died 1601. 2. Robert Bent, born Sept., 1566; died 1631; mar- ried, Oct. 13, 1589, Agnes Gosling, died 1639. 3. John Bent, died Sept. 27, 1672; married, Martha, died May 15, 1679. 4. Martha Bent, born about 1643; died Aug. 29, 1680; married, June 5, 1663, Samuel How, bom Oct. 20, 1642. BENT John Bent (1) died in Penton Grafton, England. Robert Bent (2) was born and died in Penton Grafton. His widow, Agnes, embarked in the "Johna- than" for New England with her daughter, Agnes and her daughter's husband in 1639. When near the banks of Newfoundland she fell ill and died about the time the ship came to anchor in Boston Harbor, where her son- in-law "procured to carry her to shore to be buried." John Bent (3) came from Penton in England in 1638 with his wife and five children all under 12 years. He received a "division of meadow" in Sudbury, Mass., in 1639; was selectman and also one of Major Simon Williard's troopers at Dedham. —21- BOWEN 1. Owen Bowen, married, Ellen Lloyd. 2. Griffith Bowen, married, 1633, Margaret Fleming. 3. Henry Bowen, born 1633; died March 13, 1723-4; married, Dec. 20, 1658, Elizabeth Johnson, died April 20, 1701. 4. Elizabeth Bowen, bap. Jan. 27, 1661; married, Edward Morris, born March, 1658-9. BOWEN Another authority gives the following as the ances- try of Griffith Bowen : bowen of blade 1. Griffith Bowen (son of Owen), married. An, daughter of Berry in Berrymembert in Devon. 2. Philip Bowen, of Slade, married, Elspet, daughter and heir of Hopkin John Vychan of Kilsey. 3. Francis Bowen, married, 4. Griffith Bowen, married, Margaret Fleming. This pedigree was sent to the author of the "Bowen Memorial" by the Rev. J. D. Davies, M. A., Laumadoc, Glamorgan, Wales. —22— Griffith Bowen, who came to America in 1638, and his wife, Margaret, were probably the parents of Henry Bowen. They came from Llangenydd, Glamorgansh. He was admitted freeman of Roxbury in May, 1639. Later researches have verified the fact that he was the son of Griffith Bowen and Margaret Fleming, daughter of Henry Fleming. Henry Bowen (3) emigrated with his father, com- ing from Wales to Boston in 1638. He moved with the first planters from Roxbury to Woodstock in 1686. His tombstone record in Woodstock, Conn., is as follows: "Here lies buried The body of Lieutenant Henry Bowen Who deceast March ye 13 1723 in the 90th year of his age." —23— CAPEN 1. Bernard Capen, born 1562; died ^ov. 8, 1638; married, Whitmonday, 1596, JoANE PuRCHis, born March 25, 1578; died March 26, 1653. 2. Susanna Capen, born April 11, 1602; died Nov. 13, 1666; married, William Rockwell, died May 15, 1640. CAPEN The early records of the Capen family were found on a fly leaf of a copy of the Old Testament, published in London in 1615. Barnard Capen and his wife, are buried in the church yard in Dorchester, Mass. Their epitaph is as follows : Here lies the Bodies of Mr. Barnard Capen & Mrs. Joane Capen his wife; He died Nov. 8 1638 Aged 76 years & She died March 26, 1653 Aged 75 years. -24- CHESLEY. 1. Philip Chesley, married, Elizabeth. 2. Thomas Chesley, born about 1644; died Nov. 15, 1667; married, Aug. 23, 1663, Elizabeth Thines (or Thomas). 3. Susanna Chesley, born' about 1668 ; died Sept. 28, 1746; married, John Smith, born July 13, 1672; died May 8, 1739. CHESLEY Philip Chesley (1) of Dover in 1642, and who was still living in 1685, married first, Elizabeth (maiden name not given), who became the mother of his son, Thomas. She died and some time after 1661, the wid- ower married Sarah (name not given) ; after whose death, her husband took a third wife, Joanna, who sur- vived him. Thomas Chesley (2) born about 1644, married, August 22, 1663, Elizabeth Thines (or Thomas) and was killed by the Indians, November 15, 1667, when only twenty-three years of age. Susanna Chesley (3) born after the tragic death of her father, married John Smith before 1695 and went with him from Watertown to Preston, Conn., and later to Stonington where she died, September 28, 1746, after seven years of widowhood. —25— CHOATE 1. Robert Choate, married, Sarah. 2. John Choate, bap. June 6, 1624; died Dec. 4, 1695 ; married, Anne, born 1637; died Feb. 16, 1727. 3. John Choate, born June 15, 1661; died July 17, 1733; married, Elizabeth ( ) Giddings. 4. Anne Choate, born May 22, 1691; died Aug. 1, 1730 ; married, Nov. 29, 1706, George Martin, Jr., died Aug. 1, 1755. CHOATE The early origin of the Choates is lost in obscurity. Possibly they emigrated from France to Holland. Later, the Van Choates went from Holland to England and settled in Essex and Suffolk. They then dropped the Van. John Choate (1) was baptized in Groton Boxford, Colchester, Essex, England, June 6, 1624. He emi- grated to America and was one of the first settlers of Ipswich, Mass. He gradually acquired nearly the whole of Hog Island, purchasing the site of the present Choate House in 1678; was made a freeman, 1667, and sergeant of militia. He was a member of the Congregational —26— Church, but was thus described: "A hard case and no- body but a clergyman could deal with him — charged with stealing apples and triumphantly acquitted ; charged with lying, which was disproved; his wit and brains were largely exercised in getting himself out of his law scrapes and he seems to have stamped his personality on his descendants to such a degree that large numbers of them lipve taken to the law as naturally as ducks to water." John Choate (3) and John Wainwright were granted a township for service of Ipswich men in Can- ada expedition of 1690, dated January 15, 173G. It was subsequently comprised in New Hampshire and called New Ipswich. He married first, Elizabeth Graves; sec- ond, Mrs. Elizabeth ( ) Giddings; third, Mrs. Sarah Perkins, and fourth, Mrs. Prudence Marshall. —27- CLARK 1, John Clark, married, 2. Elizabeth Clark, married, 1636, Lieut. William Pratt. CLARK John Clark of Saybrook in 1640 may have been of Wethersfield, afterwards of Milford; representative for Saybrook, 1650-1664. He is named in the royal chart of 1662. —28- DEATH 1. John Death, married, Mary Peabody, born 1656. 2. Hepsebah Death, born June 5, 1680; married, Dec. 25, .,^_ David How, born Nov. 2, 1674. DEATH John Death, of Sudbury in 1672, bought of Benja- min Rice, 40 acres of land on the old Connecticut road near Beaver Dam. He was received to Sherb'l, January 1, 1677-8, and was rated in Fra'ham, 1710 and on town committees in 1700 and after. —29— FOSTER 1. Renold Foster, born about 1595; married, Judith, died Oct., 1644. 2. Mary Foster, died April 9, 1705 ; married May 18, 1642, Francis Peabody, born about 1614; died Feb. 19, 1697-8. FOSTER The family of Foster or Forster is honorably men- tioned in "The Lay of the Last Minstrel." Renold (sometimes written Reginald) Foster as is generally accredited, was born in Exeter, County of Devon, England ; the descendant of an ancient and re- spectable family; came to America in one of the vessels embargoed by King Charles I, accompanied by his wife, Judith, five sons and two daughters, and settled in Ips- wich about 1636. He was a large land owner on Plum and Hog Islands and it is supposed that what remains of the old Foster House was the site of his residence. He was twice married, first to Judith, who died at Ipswich in October, 1664, and second, to Sarah Martin. His will, made April 30, 1680, codicil attached, March 5, 1680-1; and proved June 9, 1681, mentions his "daugh- ter, Mary, wife of Francis Peabody." He left property valued at 744 pounds, 16 shillings, including some real estate. —30— Foster's Genealogy gives the English ancestry of Renold Foster, back through Alfred the Great and Char- lemagne. RENOLD FOSTER'S ANCESTRY. Penold Foster, who left his home in Devon, Eng- land, in J 638, to become one of the pioneer settlers of Ipswich, Mass., lived quietly enough in the little New England village, but when he and his children gathered of an evening around the great fire-place in the living room, he could tell them tales without end of the valor and beauty and glory of the men and women of their line. For the family of Foster, or Forster, can show its descent in unbroken records from Pepin le Vieux, Mayor of the Palace for Sigebert II, King of Austrasia in 638. The record follows : 1. Pepin le Vieux, (of Landen), Mayor of the Palace in 638. 2. Begga, a daughter of Pepin, married, AusEGis, son of St. Arnulf. 3. Pepin d' Heristal, Mayor of Austrasia, who broke the power of a rival Neustrian family in a de- cisive battle near Testri in 687 and united Aus- trasia, Neustria and Burgundy under one head. He died in 714. 4. Charles Martel, son of Pepin d' Heristal and Alpaide, won the same ascendancy that his father had achieved in three sanguinary battles, Amblene, 716; Vinci, near Cambrai, 717; and Soissons, 718. His greatest exploit was the re- —31— pulse of the Arabs and Moors at Tours in 733. He died in 741. 5. Pepin le Bref, who contented himself as his father, grandfather and great-great-grandfather had done before him, with the title of Mayor of the Palace until 752 when, with the approval of the Pope and by the act of a great assembly of leudes and bishops, he was lifted on the shield and crowned and anointed King of the Franks. He reigned until his death in 768. 6. Charlemagne, was born in 743 and in 768, suc- ceeded his father as King of the Franks. After many victories at home and abroad he was crowned Emperor of the West by Pope Leo the Third at Rome on Christmas Day in the year 800. He died full of years and honors in 814. 7. Louis the Pious, or the Debonaire, son of Charle- magne and Hildagarde, married for his second wife, Judith, daughter of Welf the Bavarian, "an ambitious and dangerous lady." Louis died in 843. 8. Charles the Bald, born 823 ; died 877. 9. Judith, daughter of the above, married, Baldwin I of Flanders, who was called "The Iron Arm" because of his great strength. He was king of Neustria (the greater part of modern France) and built castles at Bruges and Ghent. 10. Baldwin H of Flanders, died 919; married, Alfrith (or Elfrida) daughter of Alfred the Great of England. —32— 11. Arnulf the elder of Flanders, died 989 ; married, Adela (or Alice) daughter of Herbert II, Count of Vermandois. 12. Baldwin III of Flanders, died 961 ; was given the government of Flanders by his father who, after the younger man's death, resumed con- trol. Baldwin married, Matilda, daughter of Herman Billung, Duke of Saxony. 13. Arnulf the younger, married, Rosalie (or Susanna), daughter of Berenger II, King of Italy. 14. Baldwin IV, called "he of the handsome beard," was a great Vvarrior and defended Flanders against the united forces of the emperor, Henry II, King Robert of France and the Duke of Burgundy. He married. Ogive, daughter of Frederick, Count of the Moselle. 15. Baldwin V, le DeBonnaire, died 1067; married, Adela, daughter of Robert II of France, who was a son of Hugh Capet, grandson of Hugh the Great, great-grandson of Robert I, and great- great-grandson of Robert the Strong. 16. Sir Richard the Forester, who (with his father) came to England in 1066 with his brother-in- law, William the Conqueror. 17. Sir Hugo Foresterious or Forster, died 1131; marched against Magdus, King of Norway, when the latter invaded England in 1101. —33— 18. Sir Reginald Forster, died 1156; was knighted by King Stephen for his valiant conduct at the Battle of the Standard, August 22, 1138. 19. Sir William Forster took part in suppressing the formidable insurrection in Wales in 1163 and 1165, after which he went to France. The peo- ple of Brittany rebelled against their duke, Conan, but the rebellion was quelled by Henry II of England. Sir William was about return- ing to England, but Henry II, being involved in hostilities with Louis VII of France, he re- mained and took part in all the engagements till peace was concluded at Montmirail, Janu- ary 6, 1169. 20. Sir John Forster accompanied Richard I to Pales- tine, where he received the honor of knighthood for his valor. He was one of the barons who compelled King John to sign Magna Charta in 1215. 21. Sir Randolph Forster accompanied Prince Rich- ard, brother of Henry III to France in 1225 for the purpose of regaining the French prov- inces. After a year's fighting, an armistice was declared, but the French king dying, very little was accomplished. 22. Sir Alfred Forster, died 1284; assisted Prince Edward, after his escape from the rebel barons, in raising an army for the purpose of releasing Henry III and Prince Richard from their con- finement; was appointed one of the king's of- —34— ficers; took part in the battle of Evesham, August 4, 1265, and received the honor of knighthood on the battlefield. 23. Sir Reginald Forster, died 1328; fought at Ban- nockburn in 1314. His descendants were great chieftains and closely allied to royalty, in Scot- land, Ireland, Wales and England. There is a monument to Sir John Forster, 1190 in Bam- borough Abbey, bearing his effigy in full armor. 24. Sir Richard Forster, died 1371 ; fought at Crecy August 25, 1346, and at Poitiers, September 19, 1356 and was knighted for his valor. 25. Sir John Forster took an active part against the French under Henry V, by whom he was knighted. 26. Sir Thomas Forster of Etherston Castle, Knight, was born in 1397, and married, Joan Elverden, co-heiress to the earldom of Angus, no^v in abeyance. 27. Sir Thomas Forster, knight, married a daughter of Fetherstanbaugh of Stanhope Hall, Dur- ham. (This family was of Saxon origin. Their house was upon a hill where there were two f etherstones. ) 28. Sir Thomas Forster, knight, of Etherston Castle, married a daughter of Lord Baron Hilton of Hilton Castle. 29. Sir Thomas Forster, married in 1572, Dorothy, daughter of Ralph, Lord Ogle of Ogle —35— and Baron of Bothall of Bothall Castle, by Mary, his wife, daughter of William Gast- iorgne. The Ogle family is of great antiquity in Northumberland. Sir Robert was the eighth in descent from Humphrey Ogle, who settled at Ogle at the Conquest. His wife was the daugh- ter of Lord Bothall. William Gastiorgne was of Lowthorp and a knight of Yorkshire. 30. Sir Thomas Forster, knight, of Etherston, mar- ried, Feorina, daughter of Thomas, Lord Wharton of Wharton. He was of Adderstone and will was dated, April 4, 1589. 31. Cuthbert Forster, will dated 1589; married, Elizabeth Bradford. 33. Thomas Forster, Esquire, of Bremton ; married, Margaret Forster, daughter of Richard Forster, Esquire, of Zungwell Hall ; married second, Elizabeth Carr, daughter of William Carr, Esquire. 33. Reginald Forster, born in Bremton, England, came to America in 1638. He married, Judith, died October, 1664. 34. Mary Foster, married, Francis Peabody. FOSTER 1. Elmund, King of Kent, great-grandson of Ingild, the West Saxon, and descendant of Cerdic, who founded the kingdom of Essex. —36— 2. Egbert, the daring and ambitious West Saxon, who triumphed over all his competitors and became King of England. He was a friend of Charle- magne. 3. Aethelwulf, in whose reign the Danes made many attempts to invade England. He married, OsBURGHA^ daughter of Oslac, the king's cup- bearer, and through her mother, a descendant of Caedwalla, who took the Isle of Wight from Cerdic. Osburgha is said to have been "noble alike in family and by her own disposition." 4. Alfred, the Great, born 849 ; died 901 ; who drove the Danes from England; advanced learning, founding schools and founding or re-establish- ing Oxford; restored order; rebuilt London and other cities; constructed a fleet, the begin- ning of the English Navy, and extended the power of the Christian Church. He married, Elswitha, daughter of Ethelred Mucel, the Great, Earl of the Gaini, and Edburgha, a princess of the royal house of Mercia. 5. Elfrida (or Alfrith), died 929; married, Baldwin H of Flanders. ANCESTRY OF RENOLD FOSTER 1. GuNTHiCAR, king of Burgundy, married, 2. GuNDiCAR, king of Burgundy, died 451 ; married, 3. GuNDERic, king of Burgundy, killed 477; married, 4. St. Clotilde, died 540; married, Clovis, king of the Franks. —37— ANCESTRY OF RENOLD FOSTER 1. Meroveaus, married, 2. Childeric I, married, Basin A. 3. Clovis, bom 466; died 511; who in 486 broke the only Roman power then left in Gaul, the legions of Syagnius of Soissons, sweeping them away "like autumn leaves before the wind." After a great victory over the Allemans in 496, he with all his warriors, received baptism. He mar- ried, St. Clotilda, niece of the Burgundian king. 4. Clothair I, married, 5. Blithilda, married, Ansbert, ANCESTRY OF RENOLD FOSTER 1. Ansbert^ married, Blithilda, daughter of Clothair I. 2. Arnoald, married, Oda. 3. St. Arnulf, born 582; died Aug. 16, 640; married, DoDA, a Snabian lady. 4. AusEGis, married, Begga, daughter of Pepin. —38— St. Arnulf (3) a noble Frank, was advanced at the court of Theodebert, by Gundulf, Mayor of the Palace, when only sixteen years of age. S. Baring-Gould says "He served the king in war and peace and became accom- plished in every art then cultivated. He could read, but he could also fight, write but also hunt." He remained at court after the accession of Clothair H, but "it may easily be imagined that Arnulf, a man loving God, seek- ing righteousness, should feel ill at ease in attendance on the throne of a prince like Clothair. He would have retired to the monastery at Lerina, but was not suffered to do so by the king." He was made Bishop of Metz about 599. After an episcopate of twenty-three years he was again called to court as principal adviser of King Dagobert, from whom he, however, finally won consent to retire to a cell in the Vosges Mts., where he died August 16, 640. -39— FRENCH 1. Lieut. William French, born 1603; married, Elizabeth Symmes, died March 31, 1668. 2. Sarah French, born March, 1638; died Oct. 14, 1694; married Aug. 15, 1660, Jonathan Peake, born Dec. 17, 1637. FRENCH Lieut. Wihiam French was bom in Halstead, Essex, England, March 15, 1603; came to America with the Rev. Thomas Shepherd in the ship, "Defence" in 1635 and settled in Cambridge; was one of the original proprietors and settlers of Billerica; lieutenant and after- ward, captain of militia; selectman, 1660-68; and repre- sentative in 1660. He married second, Mary Lothrop Stearns and he and this second wife were ancestors of Olive Evans. —40- GRANT 1. Christopher Grant, married, Sarah. 2. Mary Grant, married, Feb. 22, 1668, Daniel Smith, born Sept. 27, 1642; died June 7, 1681. GRANT In Bond's "History of Watertown" we find the fol- lowing: "January 19, 1691-2, Caleb, Christopher and Joseph Grant and their sisters, Sarah Sevorns and Mary Smith, state to the court that their father died about six years since intestate, that their mother is now deceased and they pray for a division of the estate." Christopher Grant therefore died about 1685-6 and his wife before January 19, 1691-2. —41- HAYNES 1. married, Alice. 2. Walter Haynes, born in England, about 1583; died Feb. 14, 1664-5; married, Elizabeth, died June 15, 1659. 3. John Haynes, born in England, about 1622; mar- ried, Dorothy Noyes, died April 8, 1715. 4. Elizabeth Haynes, born July 19, 1644; married, Aug. 12, 1666, Henry Balcom. HAYNES 3. John Haynes, born in England, about 1622; mar- ried, Dorothy Noyes, died April 8, 1715. 4. Peter Haynes, born April 7, 1654; married, Jan. 2, 1677, Elizabeth Rice, born Oct. 26, 1656. 5. Hester (or Esther) Haynes, born Jan. 28, 1697; died Aug. 16, 1770; married, Lieut. Gershom Rice, born about 1696; died Sept. 24, 1781. —42— HAYNES The family of Haynes is said to go back through Einem, Prince of Powys, Wales, distinguished in wars against Henry I, 1100-1135, to Gwyn, a descendant of Brockwel Yschithrog, who reigned over Powysland in 607. John Haynes and Alice Lambert were married, October 23, 1575, at Sherburne, Dorset, not three-quar- ters of a mile from the English home of Walter Haynes, and may very possibly have been his father and mother. Walter Haynes (3), one of the first proprietors of Sudbury, was born in Sutton Mandeville, Wilts, in 1583. He also owned a house and out-buildings in the village of Shaston on the Island of Purbeck, Dorsetshire. In 1638, he came to America in the ship "Confidence" with his wife, Elizabeth, five children (John was one) and three servants. Before his emigration he was a linen draper in Sutton Mandeville. The Order of Court establishing the town of Sud- bury says: "The order of this court upon the petition of the inhabitants is that PETER NOYES, Bryan Pendleton, J. Parm (enter), WALTER HAYNES and EDMUND RICE have commission to lay out lands," etc., etc. "History of Watertown." The three names capitalized are our ancestors. Alice Haynes (Walter's mother) left an interesting will. "It — my son, Walter, shall have use of my biggest brass pann during his life who pann I give to Thomas Haynes his son." —43— "The Old Petition," quoted in "The History of Sudbury," says: "The Enemy well knowing Our grounds, passes, avenues and situations had near surrounded Our town in ye morning early (wee not knowing of it) till dis- covered by firing severall deserted houses; the Enemy with great force and fury assaulted Deacon Haines house, well fortified yet badly situated as advantageous to ye Enemy's approach and dangerous to ye Repellant yet (by ye help of God) ye Garrison not onely defended ye place fro betweene five and six of ye clock in ye morning till about One in ye afternoon, but forced ye Enemy with considerable slaughter to draw off. Many observables worthy of record happened in this assault, vizt. : that noe man or woman seemed to be possessed with feare. Our Garrison men kept not within their Garrisons, but issued forth to fight ye Enemy in their skulking approaches. We had but two of Our townsmen slain & yt by indis- cretion, none wounded." The grave of Captain Wadsworth is not far from the Haynes Garrison house. In the attack on the town of Sudbury, April 21, 1676, the great chieftain, Philip, directed his warriors in person. John Haynes (3) resided in Sudbury. HERRINGTON 1. Isaac Herrington, died 1727; married, Sarah. 2. Sylvanus Herrington, married, July 31, 1729, Hannah Ayer, born Aug. 10, 1686. 3. Hannah Herrington, died Feb. 9, 1777; married, Oct. 18, 1750, John Parish, born IMarch 10, 1726-7; died Feb. 11, 1817. HERRINGTON Isaac Herrington appeared in Norwich, Conn., as early as the year, 1703, as is instanced by the deed of land to him of which the following is an abstract : January 26, 1702-3, John Hurd, of Stratford, colony of Connecticut, yoeman, in consideration of 11 Lds. paid "by Isaac Herrington, now dwelling in Norwich in the county of New london in the Colony aforesaid, hus^ bandman," deeded unto him sixty acres of land in Nor- wich, "on the east side of the river Quenebauge at a place known by the name of Pabaquanesque." (Norwich Lands, 167.) Isaac Herrington died in 1727; left wife, Sarah, and four children, Isaac, Sylvanus, James and Patience. (History of Norwich, 231.) —45— Sarah Herrington, Isaac's widow, was living in Norwich in 1733, as is evidenced by the following: March 17, 1733, there was recorded to her 'The ten acres of Land given to me ye Subscriber by my Deceased Husband, Isaac Herrington of said Norwich, Dec'd." her Sarah X Herrington. Entered Nov. 11, 1734. mark (Norwich Book of Grants, 548-4.) Sylvanus Herrington of Norwich, married for his first wife, in the Congregational Church in Newent, in Norwich, (the town of Lisbon since May, 1786), June 26, 1727, Elizabeth Lambert, who evidently died soon. He married for his second wife, in the Second Congre- gational Church in Preston (since October, 1815, the town of Griswold) July 31, 1729, Hannah Ayer, the records of these churches furnishing the evidence. She was the daughter of John and Hannah (Travis) Ayer. Sylvanus Herrington, by his wife, Hannah Ayer, had at least one daughter, Hannah, as is proved by the following : April 9, 1751, Sylvanus Herrington of Norwich, "husbandman, for a valuable Consideration" paid "by my Son-in-law John Parish of Preston," deeded "unto ye sd. John Parish and to his wife, Hannah," "Between thirty and forty acres of Land Situate in Norwich afores'd." (Norwich Lands, 10, 415.) Hannah Herrington married in the Third Congre- gational Church of Windham (Scotland parish), Octo- ber, 1750, John Parish of Preston. (Records of that church.) Day of month is omitted. —46— John Parish of Preston and Hannah Harrington of Windham were married, October 18, 1750. (Preston Vital Records, 2, 40.) The children of John and Hannah (Herrington) Parish were: 1. Cyprian Parish, born September 8, 1751. 2. Phebee Parish, born June 17, 1753. (Preston Vital Records, 2, 40.) —47— HILLS 1. Joseph Hills, born 1602; died Feb. 7, 1687; mar- ried, July 22, 1624, at Burstead Magna, Rose Cleerke, died March 24, 1650. 2. Mary Hills, married, Captain John Wayte. HILLS Recent researches point to the ancestry of Joseph Hills as of considerable importance and antiquity. He came from Maldon, Essex, England, to Maiden, New England in 1638, and was closely identified with the early history of the latter town, where he filled many positions of trust. "Joseph Hills and Capt. Wayte divided with Brackenbury and Sergent the education and honors of the community. His home was at the corner of Salem and Main streets, where his well-known well yielded cool- ing draughts to man and beast till the year 1894." "History of Maiden." "Mr. Hills did say at his daughter, Harris, her wed- ding, in the hearing of Mr. Sims, line lieutenant Wayte and others that his wife must be his master and that since that speech of Mr. Hills and by means thereof, he (the speaker) never had a quiet day with his wife." "History of Maiden." —48— HOWE 1. John Howe, married, Mary. 2. Samuel How, born Oct. 20, 1642; married, June 5, 1663, Martha Bent, died Aug. 29, 1680. 3. David How, born Nov. 2, 1674; married, Dec. 25, 1700, Hepsebah Death, born June 5, 1680, 4^. Ruth How, born 1715 ; married, Hezekiah Stone, born 1711. HOWE According to tradition handed down in the family, John How (1), whose will was proved in 1689, was a son of John How of Warwickshire, England, who was a son of John How of Hodinhall and connected with the family of Lord Charles How of Lancaster in the reign of Charles L John How (1) of Sudbury and Marlborough, took the freeman's oath, May 13, 1640; was an early landed proprietor, selectman and marshal ; was appointed by the pastor to "see to the restraining of youth" during public service. His will was proved in 1689. Samuel How (2) and Samuel Gorkin purchased of the Natick Indians, 1700 acres of land along the road from Sudbury to Sherburne. -49— David How (3) kept the How Tavern at Marlbor- ough when there were only two houses between the tavern and Worcester. This tavern, afterward known as the Red Horse Tavern, is Longfellow's "Wayside Inn." "On the Boston road through Sudbury is the old Howe Tavern or "The Wayside Inn." It was built about the beginning of the 18th century by David Howe or How, who in 1702, received of his father, Samuel How (a son of John) a tract of 130 acres. During the pro- cess of construction the workmen resorted to the Par- menter Garrison at night for safety from the Indians. About the time of its erection it was opened as a public house and in 1646, Ezekiel Howe of Revolutionary fame put up the sign of the Red Horse, which gave it the name of the "Red Horse Tavern." In 1796 Ezekiel Howe died and his son, Adam, kept the tavern for 40 years; his son, Lyman, continued it as a tavern till 1866 when it passed out of the hands of an owner by the name of Howe. "Annals of Sudbury, Wayland, etc." "But first the landlord will I trace Grave in his aspect and attire; A man of ancient pedigree. A justice of the peace was he Known in all Sudbury as the Squire. Proud was he of his name and race Of old Sir William and Sir Hugh, And in the parlor full in view His coat of arms, well framed and glazed, Upon the wall in colors blazed; He beareth gules upon his shield, —50— A chevron argent in the field, With three wolf's heads, and for the crest, A Wyvern part-per-pale addressed Upon a helmet barred; below The scroll reads 'By the name of Howe' And over this no longer bright Though glimmering with a latent light Was hung the sword his grandsire bore In the rebellious days of yore Down there at Concord in the fight." "As ancient is this hostelry As any in the land may be Built in the old Colonial day When men lived in a grander way With ampler hospitality. A kind of old Hobgoblin hall, Now somewhat fallen to decay. With weather stains upon the wall And stairways worn and crazy doors And creaking and uneven floors And chimneys huge and tiled and tall." "The Wayside Inn." — Longfellow. —51- HOWE 1. Elder Edward Howe, died June 14, 1644; mar- ried, Margaret. 2. Ann Howe, born 1625; died May 20, 1719; mar- ried, 1638, Elder John Stone, born 1619; died May 5, 1683. HOWE The name Howe is spelled both with and without the e; in the earlier generations, more often without; in the later generations, more often, with. Edward Howe ( 1 ) , known as Goodman Howe, was a ruling elder of Watertown; admitted freeman, May 14, 1632; selectman, 1637-39-41-42-43; representative, 1642-43; one of the largest original proprietors of Watertown, where he was part owner with Mathew Craddock of a mill. He was often made umpire in dis- putes. "In a case where a pumpkin vine sprang up within the premises of one Indian and bore fruit on the premises of another Indian, the dispute over the owner- ship of the pumpkin was brought to him for settlement. Inspired by the wisdom of Solomon, he called for a knife and severed the fruit, giving a moiety to each." He died in June or July, 1644, leaving a widow, Margaret, and two daughters, Sufferana and Anne, wife of John Stone of Sudbury, (see his will in Gen. Rec. —53- Ill, 77; Barry, 397; and Winthrop II, 50-1.) His widow, who had married George Bunker, owner of Bunker Hill, gave in her will, one-sixth of her estate to her sister, Mary Rogers, and children, John and Elizabeth, of Boxted in Old England; two-sixths to John Stone of Sudbury; and three-sixths to Nathaniel Tread- way. "History of Watertown." Ann Howe (3) was born in England. "November 4, 1646, Mrs. Margaret Howe (widow of Edward) and Nathaniel Treadway, her son-in-law, are granted liberty to draw two butts of wine, which they received for debt, and cannot put off in the butts. (See the map.) "History of Watertown." -53— HUNTINGTON 1. Simon Huntington, born about 1583; died 1633; married, Margaret Beret, born about 1593. 2. Christopher Huntington, died 1691; married, Ruth Rockwell, born Aug., 1633. 3. Capt. Thomas H. Huntington, born March 18, 1664; died Nov. 7, 1732; married, Feb. 10, 1686, Elizabeth Backus, died Dec. 29, 1728. 4. Ruth Huntington, born Aug. 8, 1699; died Oct. 6, 1757; married, Aug. 22, 1723, Samuel Lincoln, born Nov. 29, 1693; died 1794. HUNTINGTON Simon Huntington (1) is supposed to have come from Norwich, England, and his wife, Margaret Beret, may have been the daughter of Christopher Beret, mayor of Norwich in 1634. Simon's brother, Samuel Hunting- ton, was a captain in the Life Guards and in high favor. Simon died in 1633, while on his way to America. Christopher Huntington (2) probably accompanied his mother, who afterward married a man named Stoughton, to Windsor, Conn. ; remained there till 1660. His name appears in the earliest records of the town and always in honorable relations. The general court —54— granted him 100 acres of land in 1688; in 1678 he was town clerk; and in 1688 his name occurs as one of the committee to make provision for maintaining the min- ister. He died in 1691. Captain Thomas H. Huntington (3) attained the distinction of always being called, Thomas Huntington, Esquire; and was surveyor for the south end of Wind- ham. He was born in Norwich. The inscription on his tombstone is as follows : "After he had served God and his people boath in church and state, he fell asleep in Jesus." —55- HUTCHINS 1. John Hutchins, born about 1604; died 1674; married, Frances. 2. Elizabeth Hutchins, married April 1, 1656, Thomas Ayer, died Nov. 9, 1686. HUTCHINS John Hutchins is first mentioned as living in New- bury, Mass., and later removed to Haverhill. He died in 1674, aged 70. —56— JOHNSON 1. John Johnson, died Sept. 20, 1659; married, Margery, died about June 9, 1055. 2. Isaac Johnson, died Dec. 19, 1675; married, Jan. 20, 1637, Elizabeth Porter. 3. Elizabeth Johnson, born Dec. 20, 1638; died April 20, 1701; married, Dec. 20, 1658, Henry Bowen. JOHNSON John Johnson (1) came in fleet with Winthrop, bringing wife, Margery, and son, Isaac. Sailed from England in the ship, "James" in July, 1635. History of Roxbury. Isaac Johnson (2), freeman in 1635; in 1631 he was in public life. He represented this town (Roxbury) for 14 years. He was also a military man. The public stores were kept in his house. This was burned and the town records destroyed. He kept tavern and many pub- lic meetings were held at his home. Captain Isaac Johnson, with five other captains, was killed while storming the Narragansett stronghold, when that fierce tribe was destroyed at the famous Fort Fight, December 19, 1675. —57— LEAVENS 1. John Leavens, married, July 5, 1639, Rachel Wright. 2. John Leavens, born April 27, 1640; married, June 17, 1665, Hannah Woods, died Oct. 16, 1756. 3. Hannah Leavens, born Oct. 17, 1666; married, JoH NATHAN PeAKE, Jr. LEAVENS John Leavens (1) with his wife, Elizabeth, came over in the "William and Frances," leaving London, March 9, 1632; was made freeman of Roxbury in March, 1634. His wife died after a long illness and he married, second, July 5, 1639, Rachel Wright, "a godly maid." Both he and Rachel were members of John Eliot's church. John Leavens, Jr., (2), was a carpenter and lived in Roxbury. In October, 1691, John Leavens, Edward Morris (2), Jonathan Peake and John Chandler, Sr., were chosen a committee to build a meeting-house In Woodstock. —58— LINCOLN 1. Samuel Linkon, married, June 2, 1692, Elizabeth Jacobs. 2. Samuel Linkon, born Nov. 29, 1692; died 1794; married, Aug. 22, 1723, Ruth Huntington, born Aug. 8, 1699; died Oct. 6, 1757. 3. John Lincoln, born July 28, 1726; died June 7, 1810; married. May 30, 1758, Hannah (Martin) Stowell, born June 15, 1725; died Feb. 3, 1791. 4. Hannah Lincoln, born Jan. 21, 1759; died Dec. 14, 1846; married, Cyprian Parish, born Sept. 8, 1751 ; died Aug. 30, 1830. LINCOLN In the town records of Windham, the spelh'ng is *'Linkon" and "Stoel," but John Lincoln's family Bible gives the modern spelling "Lincoln and "Stowell." The family of Thomas Lincoln, the miller, is Id^.n- tified with the flourishing city of Taunton, where they were proprietors of iron works, two centuries since. Town records burned in 1836 ; all prior to 1800. The remarkable family of Lincolns of Windham, Conn., may properly be mentioned in this connection: —59— Samuel Lincoln was there in 1693 and his descend- ants claim to have originated in Hingham, upon evidence entitled to some consideration. His son, Samuel, reached the age of 101 years, lacking a few days. His grandson, Nathaniel Lincoln, attained the age of 105 years and three months. This Nathaniel was great-uncle to Lora Parish Stone, who received a cedar bucket made by him after he was 105 years old. Samuel Linkon's wife, Elizabeth Jacobs, was from Norwich, Conn. From "The Lincoln Family of Wareham, Mass." Copy of record as found in great-great-grandfather Lincoln's Bible in North Windham, Conn., on the old Lincoln farm : "John Linkon, born July 28th, 1726; married, 1753, to Rebecca Fenton; buried my wife March 26, 1758 ; mar- ried. May 30, 1758, to Annah Stoel; Hannah Linkon, born January 21, 1759 ; Jonah and Jerusha were born November 15, 1760; Olive Linkon born June 24, 1763. Brother Eleazer Linkon died November 13, 1754. My mother, Ruth Huntington Linkon died October 6, 1757. Hannah, my wife, died February 3, 1791." The above was written by John Lincoln. Below, in another's writing is : "John Lincoln died June the 7th, 1810, aged 84." In 1904 the old house was still standing where John Lincoln lived, but was not occupied as a dwelling. De- scendants of Jonah Lincoln are living on the farm and the old Bible is in their possession. In 1696, Samuel Linkon (1), was surveyor for the north end of Windham and Thomas Huntington, for the south end. ^60— LIVERMORE 1. John Livermore, born April, 1606; died April 14, 1684; married, Grace Sherman, born 1595; died Jan. 14, 1670. 2. Lieut. Joseph Livermore, born 1630-1; died Feb. 9, 1718-9; married, Hannah. 3. Joseph Livermore. born Jan. 27, 1674-5 ; married, Elizabeth Stone, born Nov. 9, 1678. 4. John Livermore, born April 2, 1709; married, June 22, 1731, Abigail Stone, born April 13, 1712. 5. Elizabeth Livermore, born Jan. 7, 1734-5 ; died April 15, 1814; married, Jesse Stone, born Sept. 28, 1737; died July 26, 1803. LIVERMORE Peter Livermore and his wife, Marbella Wysbych, are supposed to have been the parents of John Liver- more (1). Peter had a son, John, baptized September 30, 1604. He lived in Little Thurloe, Suffolk ; was nnr- ried to Marabella Wysbych, June 3, 1594; was buried November 15, 1611. His wife was buried July 12, 1612. —61— John Livermore (1) embarked at Ipswich, Eng- land, in April, 1634, aged 28 years, in the ''Francis." This would make him younger by one or two years than the parish register of Little Thurloe. He was one of the original settlers of New Haven, June 4, 1639, and signed the fundamental agreement of New Haven Colony in the same year. His house lot was on the west side of Fleet street, next but one to the harbor. He was re- peatedly a selectman and held other offices of trust. It is probable that he visited England, 1647-49, and in May, 1650, he left New Haven to return to Watertown. In 1666 he made a complaint of that town for rating him according to his trade (he was a potter). A hear- ing was offered him before a committee of indifferent men or men of his own choosing, but he refused to at- tend. He was selectman of Watertown, 1665-6-7-8-9, and died there, April 14, 1684, leaving considerable property. His wife, Grace Sherman, was an obstetrician and was sometimes summoned to court to testify when she had acted professionally. She died in Chelmsford. There is a tradition that there is a large sum in the English funds belonging to the heirs of the first John Livermore, which they might obtain if they could furnish legal proof of their descent. His will mentions wife, Grace, and eldest son, John. His inventory, dated March 2, 1684, mentions "first, Cowpen Farm, 40 acres, upland and 12 acres meadow, formerly of Henry Curtis which he (John L.) purchased of the town, November 7, 1664, for his son, John, and confirmed to him in his will." (History of Watertown.) —62— LIVERMORE. Lieut. John Livermore (2) was tythingman of Watertown in 1679; selectman, 1692; collector of rates, 1692-3; assessor of rates, 1695; soldier in the Mt. Hope campaign. King Philip's War; lieutenant and ensign. Joseph Livermore (3) lived in Weston and was representative from there, 1738-39-40-42-43-48-49. John Livermore (4) was first of Weston, after- wards, of Framingham. June 23, 1731, he married Abigail Stone, daughter of Samuel Stone and Bath- sheba. After his death, his widow married Samuel Gleason. Perhaps in some Gleason records, Bathsheba's maiden name may be found. -63— MAKIN 1. Tobias Makin, died 1610; married, Katherine. 2. Joane Makin, married, Edmund Sherman, died 1641. MAKIN 1. Tobias Makin, died 1610; married, Katherine. 2. Grace Makin, died March 6, 1661-2; married, be- fore 1625, Thomas Rogers, born 1588; died Nov. 12, 1638. MAKIN Tobias Makin of Fingrinhoe, County Essex, Eng- land, in the time of Queen EUzabeth, yeoman, married Katherine, whose maiden name is unknown, by whom he became the father of seven sons and three daughters. He died in 1610 as his will of May 14, that year, was proved, September 10, following. An abstract of that instrument is here appended : Wife Katherine to have my lands, etc., (described) for life, she to bring up my children and also to pay to Grace Sherman, my daughter, ten pounds, and to John Makin the elder, my son, ten pounds, —64— After the decease of my wife, my son John Makin the younger, to have the lands, etc., and to pay to Joan and Rebekah, my daughters, five pounds apiece, and to John Makin, my eldest son, twenty pounds, and to Grace Sherman, my daughter, ten pounds, etc. If said son John, die before entering to be seized of the land, it shall remain, etc., to Thomas my youngest son, upon the same conditions. If he die, etc., then to Samuel, my son. Certain house and land to wife for life; then to son Westbroome Makin, who shall pay to my son, Thomas, thirty pounds. If Westbroome die, then it shall remain to son Robert, and if he die, then to Thomas. Other bequests to children, including a son, Tobias. To Elizabeth Potter, my grandchild, at one and twenty years of age, five pounds of lawful English money. The same to Richard Sherman, the son of Edmund Sherman, at twenty-one. It is proved by this will that Mrs. Makin survived her husband. Grace Makin married for her first husband, John Sherman of Dover, County Kent, a son of Henry Sher- man of Dedham, County Essex, clothier, by his wife, Susan Hilles. Mr. Sherman died prior to 1625, as in her will of September 2nd, that year, his cousin, Mrs. Anne (Sherman) Anger of Dedham, bequeathed "to the two children of the wife of Thomas Rogers, John Sher- man and Richard Sherman, my kinsmen, ten shillings apiece, at their ages of one and twenty." Mrs. Grace (Makin) Sherman married for her sec- ond husband, Thomas Rogers, born in 1588, with whom —65— she migrated to New England and located in Water- town, Mass., in 1630. Mr. Rogers became a freeman of the colony May 17, 1637, lived about eighteen months thereafter and died, November 12, 1638, aged fifty years, leaving one daughter, Elizabeth Rogers. The twice bereaved widow then married for her third husband and as his second wife, Walter Palmer of Watertown and subsequently of Hampton, who died after 1650. She then married for her fourth husband, and as his second wife, Roger Porter, formerly of Long Sutton, England, who was born in the year, 1583. He was the American pioneer of 1630 who returned to England, came a second time to these shores in 1638 and located in Watertown, Mass., where he died, April 3, 1654, aged seventy-one years. Mrs. Grace (Makin) (Sherman) (Rogers) (Palmer) Porter, the widow of four husbands, died in Watertown, March 6, 1661-2, leaving a will which was proved June 17th, following, in which she mentions among others, her son, John Sherman, and her daughter, Elizabeth Smith. —66— MARTIN 1. George Martin, married, 2. George Martin, Jr., died Aug. 1, 1755; married, Nov. 29, 1706, Anne Choate, born May 22, 1691; died Aug. 1, 1730. 3. Anna (Martin) Stowell, born June 15, 1725; died Feb. 3, 1791 ; married. May 30, 1758, John Lincoln, born July 28, 1726; died June 7, 1810. MARTIN The history of the Martin family in New England begins with Christopher Martin, who was the ninth signer of the "Compact" and who was treasurer of the "Mayflower." His wife, two sons and two servants ac- companied him to this country, where he died shortly after landing. His character and standing were evinced by the fact that he was one of the few men to be called "Master" among the pilgrims. Extensive research has failed to reveal the exact line of descent, yet it is hardly to be doubted that George Martin of Ipswich, Mass., who married Anna Choate in 1706, was a lineal descendant of the only surviving son of Christopher. George Martin (1) lived in Chebacco, Ipswich, Mass. —67— George Martin (2) bought 100 acres of land on the west side of Little River and another 100 acres in what is now Hampton on the 19th of October, 1713. His will, certified to, September 3, 1755, mentions his daugh- ter, Anna Stowel, as equal heiress with other daughters. Later, she and two other sisters sold their right to their father's estate. See "Weaver's Genealogy." The original will of George Martin, Jr., is probably in the Court House in North Windham, Conn. Anna Martin (3) married first, Ebenezer Stowell; was a widow in 1755 ; married second, John Lincoln, and lived in North Windham, Conn. —68— MASTERTON 1. Richard Masterton, married, 2. Sarah Masterton, married, John Woods, born 1610. -69— MOORE 1. John Moore, born 1611, married, Elizabeth Whale. 2. Mary (Moore) Ward, died Jan. 10, 1703; mar- ried, Nov. 2, 1667, Daniel Stone, born Aug. 31, 1644; died about 1719. MOORE John Moore (1) came over in the "Planter" in 1635; Hved in Sudbury in 1643 and was deacon of the church there; married second, Ann, daughter of John Smith. Mary Moore (2) married first, Richard Ward, who was drowned March 31, 1666, and second, Daniel Stone, deacon of the church of Sudbury. -70— MORRIS 1. Thomas Morris, married, Aug. 24, 1639, Grissie Hewsome. 2. Edward Morris, born Aug. 1630; died Sept. 14, 1689; married, Nov. 29, 1655, Grace Bett, died June, 1706. 3. Dea. Edward Morris, born March, 1658-9; mar- ried, Elizabeth Bowen, baptized, Jan. 27, 1661. 4. Lieut. Edward Morris, born Nov. 9, 1688; mar- ried, Jan. 12, 1715, Bethia Peake, born Feb. 20, 1698. 5. Martha Morris, born April 4, 1731; died June, 1812; married, Jan. 1, 1755, Comfort Rice, born Aug. 10, 1729; died Aug. 1, 1816. MORRIS Thomas Morris (1) came from Nazing, the north- west corner of Waltham. Edward Morris (2) born in England, was (the compiler believes) the son of Thomas Morris and Grissie Hewsome of Waltham, Holy Cross Abbey. He mar- ried Grace Burr (some authorities say the name was Bett), November 29, 1655. —71— Sen. Edward Morris (2) was member of the House of Deputies during the greater part of the early contest of Massachusetts with Charles II, for the preservation of her charter; selectman of the town at January 11, 1674, meeting and held the office as long as he lived in Rox- bury; was made lieutenant in 1689; buried on Wood- stock Hill, Mass. On his tombstone is : "Here lies buried the body of Sen. Edward Morris Deceased September 14, 1689." From the "Morris Genealogy." Deacon Edward Morris (3) took his father's place at his death; married Elizabeth Bowen, May 24, 1623, was baptized by Rev. John Eliot, March 13, 1658-9, as were all his father's children. From the "Morris Genealogy." Lieut. Edward Morris (4), born at Roxbury; bap- tized by Nehemiah Walter; married to Bethia Peake by John Chandler, January 12, 1715, daughter of Jonathan Peake and Hannah Leavens and grand-daughter of Christopher Peake of Woodstock. Voted — "That Ed- ward Morris with his wife and family occupy the pew that was his father's." He was on the committee to settle the bounds of Woodstock. -72— NOYES 1. Peter Noyes, born 1591 ; died Sept. 23, 1667; mar- ried, Abigail. 2. Dorothy Noyes, born about 1626; died about April 8, 1715; married, 1642, John Haynes, bom about 1622. NOYES Peter Noyes, one of the five men appointed to lay out the town of Sudbury, came in the ship "Confidence" in 1638, with son, Thomas, and daughter, Elizabeth; returned to England and came back to America with daughter Dorothy and other children in the "Jonathan." Agnes Bent came on the same ship in 1639. Mr. Noyes was a freeman, May 13, 1640; a select- man, 18 years; represented the town at the General Court in 1640-41 and '50; and died September 23, 1657. Three years before his death, he gave his estate in Eng- land to his son, Thomas, and the day before his death, he made a will in which he made his son, Thomas, his executor and named the following other children, Peter, Joseph, Elizabeth (wife of Josiah Haynes), Dorothy (wife of John Haynes), etc., etc. (See Hudson's "History of Sudbury.") —73— PARISH 1. John Parish, married, Mary Wattell. 2. William Parish, born Feb. 11, 1694; died Oct. 21, 1763; married, Nov. 8, 1716, Jerusha Smith, born May 8, 1695; died March 23, 1726-7. 3. John Parish, born March 10, 1726-7; died Feb. 11, 1817; married, Oct. 18, 1750, Hannah Herrington, died Feb. 9, 1777. 4. Cyprian Parish, born Sept. 8, 1751 ; died Aug. 30, 1830; married, Hannah Lincoln, born Jan. 21, 1759; died Dec. 14, 1846. 5. Lora Parish, born May 3, 1786; died Dec. 13, 1864; married, Nov. 26, 1807, John Stone, born Nov. 26, 1786; died July 28, 1852. PARISH John Parish (1) and his wife, Mary, were received into the First Church at Preston, Conn., from the church in Ipswich, Mass., November 15, 1704. He Hved in Braintree, Mendon, Groton and Ipswich, Mass., and in Preston and Stonington, Conn. —74— William Parish (2) in 1720, went to Scotland, Conn., where all of his children were born. He had three wives, Jeriisha Smith, Bethiah Brewster and Jerusha Ayer. John Parish (3) moved from Scotland to Worth- ington, Mass., where he died. He married, second, Hannah Hebbard, April 16, 1778. Cyprian Parish (4), born in Preston, Conn., Sep- tember 8, 1751; moved to Worthington, Mass.; was bap- tized May 14, 1780, and united with the church at Worthington. His wife, Hannah, was received into the church in 1791. During the Revolution he served with the Massachusetts troops, in Captain Webber's com- pany, Lieut. Colonel Samuel Williams' regiment; en- listed December 17, 1776; discharged March 20, 1777; service, 3 months, 14 days at the northward, including 11 days (220 miles) travel home; roll sworn to at Chesterfield and endorsed Major Clapp's regiment. Also private in a company commanded by Captain Ebenezer Webber of Worthington, Major Jonathan Clapp's regiment; enlisted July 10, 1777; discharged August 12, 1777; service, 1 month, 8 days under Gen- eral Schuyler at the westward, including 5 days (100 miles) travel home. From "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors." ^75- PEABODY 1. John Peabody, died 1666; married, Isabel. 2. Francis Peabody, born about 1614; died Feb. 19, 1698-9; married, May 18, 1642, Mary Foster, died April 9, 1705. 3. Mary Peabody, married, John Death. PEABODY The house and name of Peabody date back to Boadie, a kinsman of Boadicea, who fought with her against the Romans. In the final battle between the British queen and the invader, Boadie was one of the very last on the field and when he was forced to retire, took with him the armor and medal of honor of a young patrician, whom he had slain. He and his followers found a refuge in Wales, where after many years, one of his descendants, Peabodie (meaning Mountain-Man) and his tribe joined King Arthur's forces. The Roman medal was still a treasured family possession and, as a reward for Peabodie's valiant service the king granted to him and his heirs forever, the right to wear the insig- nia on the medal as a coat of arms. John Peabody (1) of Duxbury in 1637, had 10 acres of Blue Fish property; of Bridgewater in 1645; —76— will dated July 15, 1649; died 1666. His wife, Isabel, survived him. His children were Thomas, Francis, Wil- liam and Annie, who married John Rouse. Francis Peabody (2) of St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, came to New England in the "Planter" in 1635. He was one of the original settlers of Hampton, N. H., and was living there in 1638. —77— PEAKE 1. Christopher Peake, died May 22, 1666; married, Jan. 3, 1637, Dorcas French. 2. Jonathan Peake, born Dec. 17, 1637; married, Aug. 15, 1660, Sarah French, born May, 1638; died Oct. 14, 1694. 3. Jonathan Peake, Jr., bap., Oct. 15, 1663; mar- ried, Hannah Leavens, born Oct. 17, 1666. 4. Bethia Peake, born Feb. 20, 1698; married, Lieut. Edward Morris, born Nov. 9, 1688. -78— PRATX 1. Thomas Pratt, died 1589; married, Joan. 2. Andrew Pratt, married, 3. Rev. William Pratt, born 1562; married, Elizabeth. 4. Lieut. William Pratt, married, 1636, Elizabeth Clark. 5. Elizabeth Pratt, born Feb. 1, 1641; died 1730; married, May 11, 1660, Lieut. William Backus. PRATT Thomas Pratt (1) was of Baldeck, Hertfordshire, England. His will was dated, 1589. Lieut. William Pratt (4), first settler of the name, is supposed to have come over with Rev. Thomas Hooker to Newton, now Cambridge, in 1633; thence to Hartford, Conn. In 1636, he married Elizabeth Clark, daughter of John Clark. He and his brother, John, came from Stevenage in Hertfordshire. —79— PURCHAS 1. Oliver Purchas (or Purchis), married, 2. JoANE Purchas, born March 25, 1578; died March 26, 1653; married, Whitmonday, 1596, Bernard Capen, born 1562; died Nov. 8, 1638. -80— RICE 1. Edmund Rice, born 1594; died May 3, 1665; mar- ried, Thomasine, died June 13, 1654. 2. Thomas Rice, died Nov. 16, 1681; married, Mary King. 3. Gershom Rice, born May 9, 1667; died Dec. 29, 1768; married, Aug. 12, Elizabeth Balcom_, born Aug. 16, 1672. 4. Lieut. Gershom Rice, born about 1696; died Sept. 24, 1781; married, Esther Haynes, born Jan. 28, 1697; died Aug. 16, 1770. 5. Comfort Rice, born Aug. 10, 1729; died Aug., 1818 ; married, Martha Morris, born 1731 ; died June, 1812. 6. Nancy Rice, born Oct. 27, 1762 ; died Feb. 6, 1849 ; married, John Stone, born May 15, 1763; died Feb. 20, 1849. RICE The name is of Welsh origin and in Wales is writ- ten "Ap Rice." —81— Edmund Rice (1) was from Barkhamstead, County Herts, England, and was among the first settlers of Sud- bury (1639). After the death of his wife, Thomasine, he married second, Mercy (Hurd) Brigham, widow of Thomas Brigham. Mary, daughter of Thomas and Mercy (Hurd) Brigham, was wife of John Fay and ancestress of Olive (Evans) Stone. Edmund Rice was deacon of the church in Sudbury and one of the five men appointed to lay out that town. The inventory of his effects was taken by Thomas King, John Woods and John Stone. Thomas Rice (3) moved to Marlborough in 1664 and died there in 1681. Gershom Rice (3) married Elizabeth Balcom at Charlestown. He was residing in Groton, April 1, 1713, but moved to Marlborough, Mass., before the 13th of October of that year. He had 80 acres of land and the first meetings for religious worship were held at his house. He is accounted the second settler of Worcester, his brother, Jonas, being the first, and they have ever since been called the fathers of the town. When he died, he was in his one hundred and first year. In August, 1723, a Gershom Rice and 65 others petitioned for land between Turkey Hills and Rutland, including Wachusett. Lieut. Gershom Rice (4) married Esther (or Hes- ter) Haynes and they resided in Sudbury, where she died, September 24, 1781. Comfort Rice (5) married Martha Morris of Wood- stock and resided in that part of Worcester called Au- burn. —82— RICE 1. Edmund Rice, born 1594; died May 3, 1665; mar- ried, Thomasine, died June, 13, 1654. 2. Samuel Rice, born May 2, 1634; married Nov. 8, 1655, Elizabeth King, buried Oct. 30, 1667. 3. Elizabeth Rice, born Oct. 26, 1656; married, Jan. 2, 1677, Peter Haynes, born April 7, 1654. RICE Samuel Rice (1) was born in England. He mar- ried first, Elizabeth King, who died in 1667 ; second, Mary Brown, who died in 1675; third, Sarah, widow of James Horner. —83- ROCKWELL 1. William Rockwell, died May 15, 1640; married, Susanna Capen, born April 11, 1602; died Nov. 13, 1666. 2. Ruth Rockwell, born Aug., 1633; married, Christopher Huntington, died 1691. ROCKWELL The Rockwell family in England traces its line back to Sir Ralph de Rockville, a Norman knight, who ac- companied the Empress Maude into England when she laid claim to the throne. He ultimately joined King Henry I and received a grant of three knights of land in the County of York. Deacon William Rockwell (1) was a member of the church formed in the New Hospital, Plymouth, England, of which the Rev. Mr. Warham was pastor and the Rev. Mr. Maverick, teacher. Rockwell came to America with Warham and Maverick in 1630 in the "Maiy and John." He was admitted freeman of Dorchester October 19, 1630; was one of the first two deacons of the church in that town and died in Windsor, May 15, 1640, leaving a widow, Susanna (Capen) Rockwell. —84— ROGERS 1. Thomas Rogers, born 1588; died Nov. 12, 1638; married, Grace (Makin) Sherman, died March 6, 1661-3. 2. Elizabeth Rogers,, married about 1640. Daniel Smith, died July 14, 1660. ROGERS Thomas Rogers (1), born in 1588, married before 1625, Mrs. Grace (Makin) Sherman and brought her with him to New England, where they settled in Water- town, Mass., in 1630. Mr. Rogers became a freeman of the colony. May 17, 1637, lived about eighteen months thereafter and died, November 12, 1638, aged fifty years, leaving one daughter. Elizabeth Rogers (2) married about 1640, Daniel Smith of Watertown, whom she survived. -85— SHERMAN 1. John Sherman* died 1504; married, Agnes Fullen. 2. Thomas Sherman * died 1551 ; married, Jane Waller*. 3. Henry Sherman, died 1590; married, Agnes, buried Oct. 14, 1580. 4. Edmund Sherman, died 1601 ; married, Anne Pellatte, buried June 8, 1584. 5. Edmund Sherman, died 1641; married, Joane Makin. 6. Grace Sherman, born about 1595; died Jan. 14, 1670; married, John Livermore, died April 14, 1684. SHERMAN John Sherman (1) lived in Yaxley, Suffolk, and married Agnes, daughter of Thomas Fullen. His will was proved December 13, 1504. Thomas Sherman (2) of Yaxley (will proved in 1551) had money, plate and large landed property; in Norfolk, the manors of Royden and Royden Tuft and lands in Royden, Bressingham and Diss; in Suffolk, the manors of Eye and Eye Hall (of which he was the lord J —86— and lands in Yaxley, Eye, Thrandeston and Little Thornham. He married Jane, probably the daughter of John Waller of Northam and Margaret Thorold of Thornham, Suffolk. Henry Sherman (3) lived in Colchester, Essex. His will was probated July 25, 1590. Edmund Sherman (4) lived in Dedham, England. Edmund Sherman (5) came to America, lived in Wethersfield and died in New Haven in 1641. His wife, Joan, was the daughter of Tobias Makin of Fin- grinhoe, for whose will, see Historical and Genealogical Register April and July, 1876. This will was made May 14, 1610, and proved September 10, 1610. In the will of Edmund Sherman (4) of Dedham is found the following: "After my sister's death, I give the field and tenement before given to her during life, to the Governors of the Public Grammar School in Ded- ham, to be improved for a dwelling house for a school master that shall teach children to read and write, which said school master shall freely teach one poor child which shall be from time to time appointed unto him by my son, Edmund, and after him, by his heirs forever." —87— SMITH 1. John Smith,* married. Isabel, born 1579; died July 12, 1639. 2. Daniel Smith, died July 14, 1660; married, about 1640, Elizabeth Rogers. 3. Daniel Smith, born Sept. 27, 1642; died June 7, 1681 ; married, Feb. 22, 1668, Mary Grant. 4. John Smith, born July 13, 1672; died May 8, 1739; married, Susanna Chesley, born about 1668; died Sept. 28, 1746. 5. Jerusha Smith, born May 8, 1695; died March 23, 1726-7; married, Nov. 8, 1716, William Parish, born Feb. 11, 1694; died Oct. 21, 1763. SMITH John Smith (1) believed to be the father of Daniel Smith (2) lived in Watertown in 1631 and became a freeman of the Massachusetts Colony, May 25, 1636. His wife, Isabel, whom he probably married in England, died in Watertown in 1639. —88— Daniel Smith (2) of Watertown, who about 1G40, married Elizabeth Rogers, died July 14, 1660. In his will of the same date he made his wife, Elizabeth, execu- trix, named his son, Daniel, and made his own brother, Abraham, Rev. John Sherman of Watertown and others, the overseers. Daniel, the son, was the only issue of this marriage. Daniel Smith (3) the only son and child as appears by the Watertown records, was born there, September 27, 1642. He married, February 22, 1668, Mary, a daughter of Christopher and Sarah Grant, also of Water- town, and by her became the father of three sons and five daughters. He died in Watertown, June 7, 1681, leaving a will which bore date, May 31, that year. In this he says : "1 give unto my deare and loving wife, my whole (estate) both houses and lands and moveables for her comfort and maintenance and ye bringing up of my children so long as she shall contenue a widow after my decease, but if she shall see reason to marrie again, then my will is, she shall enjoy the thirds of ye yearly income of my lands and that onely." John Smith (4) the third child and second son of the above, was born in Watertown, July 13, 1672. He married before 1695, Susanna Chesley, by whom he be- came the father of four sons and five daughters. The family moved to Preston about 1709, as is proved by a deed recorded in that town by which William Dennison, with the consent of Mary, his wife, makes over to John Smith, his heirs, executors and assigns forever, "a certain parcel of upland and swamp land, in estimation, three score acres" for thirty pounds of current money of New England. —89— By 1715 the family had removed to Stonington, as during that year the ear mark of John Smith's cattle was recorded in that town and in 1718, John Smith of Ston- ington purchased additional land from William Denni- son. John Smith and his wife were interred east of the farm owned by Nathan Stewart in the present town of North Stonington, their grave stones being still extant. They bear the following inscriptions: "Mr. John Smith departed this life. May the 8th, A. D., 1739, in the 67th year of his age." "Susannah Smith, who died September 28, 1746, in the 78th year of her age." John Smith left a will beginning "In the name of God, Amen— the fourth day of March, 1729-30. I, John Smith of North Stonington, in ye county of New London, being very weak of body but of perfect mind and memory, thanks be to God for it. Therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and that it is appointed for all men once to die, Doe make and ordain this my last will and Testament, that is to say. First of all, I Recommend my Soul unto the hands of God that is, and my body I Recommend to ye earth to be buried at ye discretion of my executors nothing doubting but at ye general Resurrection I shall receive the same again by ye mighty power of Grod. And as touching my v/orldly Estates wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with all here in this life, I give and dispose of ye same in ye following manner and form : Imprimis — I give and bequeathe unto Susannah my dearly beloved wife ye east end of my dwelling house, half my barn and ye one half of all my housings, with all —90— my moveables excepting sixty pounds thereof (and what my estate is in debt) during the time she continue my widow, but if she marries again then to have but one- third part of my moveables above sd. during her natural life and then to be divided equally among my three daughters or their heirs." The will continues with be- quests to all the children surviving. Jerusha died two or three years before her father. Jerusha Smith (5) was born in Watertown. She married in Windham, Conn., November 8, 1716, Wil- liam Parish of Windham, whose first wife she was. She died in Windham, March 23, 1726-7, and the widower married, May 23, 1738, Bethiah Brewster, who died Feb- ruary 8, 1740-1. Mr. Parish married for his third wife, April 13, 1742, Jerusha Ayer, by whom he had a daugh- ter, Jerusha, who died when she was seven months old. —91— TRAVIS 1. Daniel Travis (or Travers), died Jan. 19, 1683; married, Esther. 2. Hannah Travis, married, Sept. 13, 1683, John Ayer, born May 12, 1657; died 1743. TRAVIS Daniel Travis (or Travers) was living in Boston in 1652, where he worked as a carpenter. He was made a freeman in 1673 and had then been for a long- time, chief gunner. From May 1, 1680, he was allowed 25 pounds, according to the records of the Col. V. He died January 19, 1683. -92— WALLER 1. John Waller, of Northam,* married. Margaret Thorold, of Thornham, Suffolk. 2. Jane Waller *, married Thomas Sherman, died 1551. -93— WARD 1. Ward, Chief Constable of Ravenhall, Essex, mar- ried, 2. Rev. John Ward, died 1598 ; married, Susanna. 3. Mary Ward, married, Samuel Wayte. WARD The Ward, who was Chief Constable of Ravenhall, Essex, Gentleman," was "of such esteem in the county that by an oration he made on Rayne Common, he quieted a commotion of the people." The Rev. John Ward (2) had a parish in Haverhill, Suffolk, and preached also at Bury St. Edmund's. Dr. William Whittaker, Master of St. John's College, Cam- bridge, used to say of him, "Give me John Ward for a text." His epitaph in the church in Haverhill is as follows : "Grant some of knowledge greater store, More learned some in teaching; Yet few in life did lighten more, None thundered more in preaching." (Translated from the Latin.) —94— "Son of thunder, son of ye dove, Full of hot zeal, full of true love; In preaching, truth; in living, right; A burning lamp, a shining light." "John Ward, after he with greate evidence and power of ye Spirit & with much fruit, preached ye Gospel in Suff. 25 yeares, was heere gathered to his fathers. Susan, his widowe, married Richard Rogers, that worthie pastor of Wethersfield. He left three sonnes, Samuel, Nathaniel, John, preachers who for them and theirs, wish no greater blessing than yt they may continue in believing and preaching the same Gos- pel till ye comeing of Christ. Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly." —95— WAYT 1. Samuel Wayt, married, Mary Ward. 2. Capt. John Wayte, married, Mary Hills. 3. Hon. John Wayt, born about 1618; died Sept. 26, 1693 ; married, Sarah, born about 1625; died Jan. 13, 1707. 4. Sarah Wayt, born 1672; died 1732; married, April 25, 1684, Nathanial Stone, born May 11, 1660; died 1732. WAYT Samuel Wayt (1) lived in Wethersfield. Captain John Wayte (2) came with Joseph Hills from the town of Maldon, England, in 1638; married Mr. Hills' daughter, Mary, and settled in Maiden, Mass. His land was laid out in the meadow about Mt. Prospect and Prospect Hill took from him its later names of "Captain's Hill" and "Wayte's Mount." His name ap- pears among those of the board of selectmen, 1651, the first board of which we have record. The Hon. John Wayt (3) was captain of the train band and was representative for an unbroken term of nineteen years, the duration of which is unparalleled. He —96— was identified with the popular party and in 1684, was speaker of the House of Deputies. "It is related how John Wayte, the foremost man in Maiden, upheld the charter against its enemies and how he incurred the wrath of Randolph. After a long struggle the charter fell and the Court of England triumphed, but not for long." His son, John, was with Lieut. Hasey of the three county troops in 1676. Benjamin Mussey and Alice (Dexter) Mussey were probably the parents of Sarah Mussey, wife of John Wayte. Benjamin Mussey was killed by lightning in the great meadow. Alice Dexter was the daughter of Richard and Bridget Dexter. Bridget was one of the friends of the meek preacher, Marmaduke Matthews of Maiden. —97— WHALE 1. Philemon Whale, married, 3. Philemon Whale, died about 1675; married, Elizabeth. 3. Elizabeth Whale, married. John Moore, born 1611. WHALE Philemon Whale (1) clerk, lived in Chickney, Es- sex, England. Philemon Whale (2) one of the early grantees and settlers of Sudbury in 1638-9, sold to Edmund Rice, his house and nine acres of land near the spring. This, in connection with the Axdell land, formed the Edmund Rice estate, remaining in the Rice family for generations. Whale was admitted freeman in 1638. His first wife was Elizabeth (maiden name not given). He mar- ried, second, Sarah Cakebread, and third, Elizabeth Griffin. He owned land in various parts of the town, but his early home is supposed to have been not far from the head of the mill pond, near the Concord Road, as a bridge at the head of the pond is still called "Whale's Bridge" though none of his descendants have lived in Sudbury for many years. —98— WOODS 1. John Woods, born 1610; married, Sarah Masterton. 2. Hannah Woods, died Oct. 16, 1756; married, John Leavens, born April 27, 1640. WOODS John Woods (or Atwood) lived in Plymouth. He married Sarah, daughter of Richard Masterton. —99— THE ANCESTRY OF OLIVE EVANS THE ANCESTRY OF OLIVE EVANS EVANS 1. Cotton Mather Evans, married, Rebecca Lyon. 2. Nathaniel Evans, born Jan. 17, 1773; died June, 26, 1825 ; married, Sept. 8, 1799, Nancy Fay, born March 15, 1781; died July 12, 1825. 3. Olive Evans, born Oct. 29, 1815; died Oct. 28, 1888 ; married. May 25, 1840, DwiGHT Stone, born May 14, 1817; died June 5, 1901. 4. Julia Evans Stone, born Feb. 5, 1843; married, June 4, 1863, Major Henry Moore Neil, born Aug. 4, 1832. CHILDREN OF HENRY MOORE NEIL AND JULIA (STONE) NEIL William Neil, born Dec. 28, 1864. Olive Neil, born Oct. 26, 1866. Hannah Neil, born July 10, 1868; married, Nov. 12, 1891, Guy Ward Mallon, born April 28, 1864. —102 - Alice Josephine Neil, born Aug. 21, 1870; married, Dec. 31, 1902, Rev. Albert Neilson Slayton, born April 21, 1875, Fay Neil, born March 7, 1872. Florence Neil, born Oct. 6, 1873; married, Oct. 6, 1896, Byron Lakin Bargar, born Jan. 12, 1867. Julia Stone Neil, born Feb. 28, 1876; married, Oct. 17, 1900; Alfred Hastings Chapin, born Nov. 19, 1876. EVANS "Nathaniel Evans, when in the seventh year of his age, was taken prisoner by the Indians at the time of the burning of Royalton, Vermont (1780). Among the children taken and carried off was one belonging to the family of a Mrs. Handy, who followed the Indians to their camp and inquired for their chief. She earnestly begged the life of her child, also for the other children. She asked what they intended to do with the children and was told in reply, "We intend to amuse ourselves with them and then scalp them." Mrs. Handy continued to urgently plead for the children until finally she suc- ceeded in obtaining their release and then proceeded to return with these nine children. They had to walk sev- eral miles before they could find a place to ford the river. She forded White River five times carrying these children across on her back." Nathaniel Evans was one of the children rescued by Mrs. Handy. The list follows: —103— Michael Hudson, Roswell Parkhurst (son of Eben- ezer Parkhurst), Andrew Durkee, Sheldon Durkee, Jo- seph Rix, Rufus Fish, Fish, Nathaniel Evans (son of Cotton M. Evans), Daniel Donner. Mr. Evans was later a merchant and farmer of Middlebury, Vermont, and still later, came west and set- tled in Middlebury (now part of Athens), Ohio, where he died, June 2Q, 1825. His wife was taken ill with measles about two weeks after his death and died, July 12, 1825, leaving her younger children to the care of her relatives in Vermont, among them, Olive, who later married Dwight Stone. —104— BARRON 1. Ellis Barron, died Oct. 30, 1676; married, Grace, died 1650. 2. Mary Barron, died Feb. 13, 1715-6; married, Dec. 10, 1650, Daniel Warren, born 1628 ; died 1667. BARRON The Barrens of Waterford County, Ireland, (to which family Ellis Barron belonged) are a branch of the great house of Offaly and were formerly of the Palatin Barrons of Burnchurch. Their surname is given as Fitz- Gerald, alias Barron. "The last branch of the Fitz-Geralds, who were barrons of Burnchurch, retained for several years a sta- tion of rank and influence in Kilkenny, but were involved in the troubles of the seventeenth century and forced to abandon their native shire ; and settled in Waterford, and to escape the rancor of persecution, they assumed instead of their patronymic the cognomen of Barron only. Mau- rice Fitz-Gerald, the first Knight of Kerry, was the third son of John Fitz-Gerald and Hannah O'Connor, his wife, and lineally descended from Gerald, Lord of Off- aly." Ellis (often written Elliz) Barron was probably born in Waterford County, Ireland, about 1600, married —105— while in Ireland, Grace , who died in Watertown, Mass., about 1650; came to America in 1640; was ad- mitted freeman of Watertown, June 2, 1641; was con- stable and selectman. His will was dated October 26, and proved December 19, 1676, and contains bequests to his wife and their sons, then divides the remainder equally among seven children and, to his grand-daugh- ter, gives "the pyed black heifer." Inventory, 139 pounds. He married twice, first, Grace , mother of all his children ; and second, Hannah, widow of Timothy Hawkins. He was with Captain Sill in King Philip's War. —106— BATCHELDER 1. Rev. Stephen Batchelder, born 1561 ; died 1660; married, 2. Deborah Batchelder, born 1592; married, John Wing, died 1629-30. BATCHELDER The Rev. Stephen Batchelder (Bacheller, Bachiler) was born in England, 1561, matriculated at St. John's College, Oxford, November 17, 1581; B. A., 1585-6; studied for the ministry of the Church of England; was ordained and made vicar of the Church of St. Peter and Holy Cross, Wherwell, Hants, where he remained till 1605. He was then ejected from the living, probably for non-conformity. From that time till his emigration, he preached in various churches, but had no regular parish. The name of his first wife, mother of Deborah (Batch- elder) Wing, is unknown. His second wife, Helen , and a daughter, went to Flushing with him in 1631, to visit some of his other children. Mr. Batchelder was among the first in England to be excommunicated for non- conformity and "suffered much at the hands of the bish- ops." In 1632 he came to America in the "William & Frances" and, Sunday, June 8, of that year, became pastor without installation, of the church at Lynn, Mass. Four children were presented for baptism. The oldest, first, but the minister refused him the rite until he had baptized his own grandson. He was admitted freeman. May 6, 1635, but, differing in opinion with the non-conformists, —107— as he had done with the clergy of the Church of Eng- land, he went from one town and one pulpit to another. He was one of the founders of Hampton where over 300 acres of land were granted him, and became pastor of the church there in 1638. In 1639, however, on the arrival of Timothy Dalton as teacher, dissension again arose and charges of non-conformity and immorality were made against Mr. Batchelder. The second charge was vague, never in any way substantiated and is now believed to be absolutely without foundation. The ques- tion of his standing in the Puritan church never was settled. He was excommunicated, then received back into communion, never, however, being given another parish, though called both to Casco and to Exeter. His second wife died in 1635 and he made an un- fortunate marriage with his housekeeper, from whom he later petitioned to be divorced. His plea was refused and (probably in consequence of this refusal and because of other injustice) he returned to England, where he died in Hackney, Middlesex, in 1660. He is described as "tall and sinewy ; features, prom- inent, particularly the nose; dark complexion; coarse, black hair, mouth, large and firm; eyes, black as sloes; features, long rather than broad; strong, clear voice; rather slow in motion and speech ; simple in dress ; obstin- ate and tenacious of his opinions to a marked degree; a powerful preacher, drawing largely from the Scriptures and impressing his hearers with the uncommon power and sanctity of his sermons; strong in his friendships and hates." Winthrop says he was "a gentleman of learning and ingenuity and wrote a fine and curious hand." —108— BREWSTER 1. William Brewster, married, Prudence. 2. Elder William Brewster, bom about 1560; died April 18, 1634; married, Mary. 3. Patience Brewster, died 1634; married, August 5, 1624, Governor Thomas Prence, born 1601 ; died March 29, 1673. BREWSTER Among the old English families inhabiting the northeastern parts of Suffolk County and the adjoining parts of Norfolk, on the eastern coast of England, was the ancient Brewster family with its connections, ranking among the early "English Landed Gentry." That Elder William Brewster was of this connection is indicated by the oft-repeated name of "William" before the time of Elder William Brewster's father, and is also indicated by the fact that an old copy (and it appears to be a very old copy) of the same coat of arms has been preserved by one branch of the Brewster family in this country, from time immemorial. Elder William Brewster was born about 1560, prob- ably at Scrooby. His father had charge of the relay sta- —109— tion, or post, at that place and, as a child, William must have seen there many of the famous people of the time. He entered Peterhouse, Cambridge, and made his first record there, December 3, 1580. "Though it is quite probable that Brewster did not graduate or take a degree, yet he was long enough at Cambridge to come under the influence of the Puritan preachers and to become most decidedly earnest in his Christian character." He then entered the service of William Davison, Elizabeth's envoy at Antwerp. "The relations between Brewster and Davison must have been close and even affectionate. Bradford declares that Davison trusted Brewster above all that were around him and employed him in all matters of greatest trust and secrecy, esteem- ing him rather as a son than as a servant. In private he talked with him more like a friend than a master and thought much of the lad because of his wisdom and godliness." When the keys of the "Cautionary towns" were turned over to Davison, he put them in charge of young Brewster, "who proudly slept at night with them under his pillow." Brewster saw much of interest in Holland and later at the English court and seemed "destined to become a shining figure in political life either at court, in Parliament or on some foreign embassage." Davison fell into disfavor, however, and was imprisoned for de- livering the death warrant of Mary, Queen of Scots, after Elizabeth had signed it, to those in charge of the prisoner. He was, as he supposed, obeying orders, but Elizabeth said she had never intended the warrant to be executed without further word from her, and sent him off to prison. Brewster remained faithful to his friend, and —110— after his imprisonment, left the court and returned to Scrooby. His father's health was failing and he did the real work of the relay-station where, largely through Davison's exertions, he was later appointed to succeed his father. "As a popular and beloved friend and gentleman, his true character shone as brightly in the country village as at court or in foreign lands." Probably it was about this time that he married. He was the soul of the Puritan colony in England, and, after many troubles, a warrant for his arrest was issued September 1, 1607, and another December 1 of the same year, as "a very dangerous, schismatical Sepa- ratist, Brownist and irreligious subject." He escaped to Holland and became a prominent member of the colony at Leyden, where he remained till 1620, when he sailed for New England in the "Mayflower," landing on Ply- mouth Rock, December 21, 1620. In Leyden he sup- ported himself by teaching English, and afterward by printing, and was very comfortable. But Bradford says : "But now removing into this country (New Eng- land) all those things were laid aside againe and a new course of living, in which he was no way unwilling to bear his part and to bear his burden with the rest. Liv- ing many times without bread or coin many months together. . . .yet he lived by the blessing of God till very old age." Bradford says again : "I am to begin this year with that which was a mat- ter of great sadness and mourning unto us all. On ye 18th of April dyed their Rev. Elder and my dear and loving friend, Mr. William Brewster, a man that had —111— done and suffered much for ye Lord Jesus and for the Gospel's sake and had bore his part in weal and woe with this poore persecuted Church, above 36 yrs. in Eng- land, Holland and in this Wilderness and done ye Lord and them faithful service in his place and calling He had this blessing added by ye Lord to all ye rest, to dye in his bed in peace amongst ye mids of his friends who mourned and wept over him and ministered what help and comfort they could unto him and he again recom- forted them whilst he could A few minutes before his last he drew his breath long as a man falen into a sound sleep without any pangs or gaspings and so swetely departed this life unto a better For his personal abil- ities, he was qualified above many. He was wise and discreet and well-spoken, having a grave and deliberate utterance, of a very cheerful spirit, very sociable and pleasant among his friends; of a humble and modest mind, of a peaceable disposition ; undervaluing himself and his own abilities and sometimes overvaluing others. Inoffensive and innocent in his life and conversation which gained him the love of those without as well as those within ; yet he would tell them plainly of their faults and evils both publicly and privately but in such manner as was usually well taken from him. He was tenderhearted and compassionate of such, as were in miser)'- ; but especially of such as had been of good estate and rank and were fallen into want or poverty, either for goodness' and religion's sake or by the injury and oppression of others. He would say 'Of all men these deserve to be pitied most.' And none did more offend and displease him than such as would proudly and haughtily carry and lift up themselves being risen from —112— nothing and having little else in them to command them but a few fine clothes and a little riches more than others "He had a singular good gift in prayer He always thought it were better for ministers to pray oftener than to be long and tedious in the same, except upon solemn and special occasions For the Govern- ment of the Church which was most proper to his office, he was careful to preserve good order in the same and to preserve purity both in the Doctrine and Communion of the same and to suppress any error or contention that might arise up amongst them. And accordingly God gave good success herein to his endeavor all his days and he saw the fruit of his labors in that behalf." It was also said of the Elder that "he fought as he prayed, and although he would far rather convert an enemy, he would not think of allowing him the first shot." Patience Brewster was born in England and came to America in the ship "Anne" two years after the arrival of the "Mayflower" ; and married Thomas Prence (afterward governor of Plymouth Colony), August 5, 1624, and died in 1634. —113- BRIGHAM 1. Thomas Brigham^ bom 1603; died December 18, 1653; married, 1637, Mercy Hurd, died December 28, 1693. 2. Mary Brigham, died 1676; married. John Fay, born 1648; died December 5, 1690. BRIGHAM Thomas Brigham, aged 32, embarked at London for New England, April 18, 1633, in the ship "Susan and Ellyn." In 1637 he was proprietor of fourteen acres in Watertown on the strip which was later annexed to Cam- bridge (probably Windmill Hill). He had many swine and was continually in trouble with them and fined for their misbehaviour. He was selectman, 164:2-4:7; and constable, 1639-42, but was finally put out of office on account of the hogs. Later he lost money and left his estate so involved that most, except the homestead, had to be sold. His house was spacious, "hall, parlor, kitchen and two chambers, completely furnished and amply stored with necessary provisions, silver spoons and other utensils of silver, join stools, join chairs, cushions, damask cloth, etc., two servants, five horses, etc." He was "truthful and sincere in his vows; faithful in their observance; secured and enjoyed the confidence and love of the first —114— and best of men, and co-operated with them to plant the seed and cherish the germ of our national freedom and greatness." — From "The Brigham Family," by Albert Morse. In 1637, he married Mercy Hurd. His wife, who was ten or fifteen years younger than he, is given a high character by tradition, which says further that she and her sister "were so tantalized in England for their non- conformity, that they resolved on seeking their liberty and fortune in New England and arrived unattended by husbands or lovers. Mercy (Hurd) Brigham married, second, Edmund Rice, and third, William Hunt. —115— CHILD 1. John Child, born 1636; died October 15, 1676; married, May 29, 1668, Mary Warren, born November 29, 1651; died 1734. 2. John Child, born April 25, 1609; married, Octo- ber 5, 1695, Hannah French, born 1676 ; died January 2, 1766. 3. Lydia Child, bap. October 7, 1711; married, De- cember 9, 1727, Deacon James Fay, born December 27, 1707; died June 12, 1777. CHILD John Child (1), a brother of Richard Child and heir with him of Ephraim Child, married first, Mary , and after her death, Mary Warren. In his will he does not mention any daughters. Inventory of his property, taken December 29, 1676, 142 Id., s., lOd. See "History of Watertown." —116— CHILLINGSWORTH 1. Thomas Chillingsworth, died about March, 1652-3; married, Joanna, buried December 4, 1684. 2. Mary Chillingsworth, died September 25, 1702 ; married, John Foster, born October 7, 1642; died June 13, 1732. CHILLINGSWORTH Thomas Chillingsworth was probably the only male bearing the name in New England in the seventeenth century. He resided in Lynn and Sandwich and later, in Marshfield; and was representative in 1648 and 1652. He had no male descendants, but his name appears as a Christian name in the posterity of some of his daugh- ters to this day. After his death his widow married Thomas Doggett. She was buried September 4, 1684. See "History of Hardwick," by Paige. -117— DEVOTION 1. Edward Devotion, died September, 1685, married, Mary. 2. Hannah Devotion, died December 17, 1700; mar- ried, May, 1679, John Ruggles, born May 19, 1657. DEVOTION Edward Devotion, or de Vautien, was a French Huguenot and belonged to a noble family of Rochelle, whose head at the time of his emigration, was Pierre de la Barre de Vautien. He came to America and settled in Roxbury, Mass., living in that part of Boston called "Muddy River." He joined the church in Boston in 1645 and later, his son, Edward, was baptized there. His wife, however, was baptized in Roxbury. His son gave a large sum of money, known as "The Edward Devotion School Fund," to the town of Brookline, where it is still a source of revenue. The Devotion homestead has been preserved by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Hannah Devotion married. May 1, 1679, John Rug- gles, who had first married her older sister. —118— EWER 1. Thomas Ewer^ married, Sarah Learned. 2. Anna Ewer^ married, June 2, 1666, Daniel Wing, died 1698. —119— FAY 1. John Fay, born about 1648 ; died December 5, 1690 ; married, Mary Brigham, died 1676. 2. John Fay, born November 30, 1669; died January 5, 1747; married, December 1, 1690, Elizabeth Wellington, born December 29, 1673; died May 8, 1729. 3. Deacon James Fay, bom December 27, 1707 ; died June 12, 1777; married, Lydia Child, bom October 7, 1711. 4. Daniel Fay, born October 21, 1728 ; died February 28, 1815; married. May 4, 1749, Elizabeth Spooner, born January 14, 1731; died November 24, 1756. 5. Lieut. Daniel Fay, born December 14, 1752 ; died June 21, 1810; married, August 23, 1778, Mary Paige, bom October 19, 1759; died March 27, 1834. 6. Nancy Fay, born March 15, 1781; died July 12, 1825; married, September 8, 1799, Nathaniel Evans, born January 17, 1773; died June 26, 1825. —120— FAY The Fays were of French origin. During the per- secution of the Huguenots they fled to Wales and from Wales, the ancestors of the American family came to the colonies. Morse claims that John Fay (1) was the son of David Fay. "The first mention of his (John Fay's) name or even that of Fay upon the Colonial records is in 1671, when Thomas King, John Fay, John Howe, Sr., Peter Beret and others of Marlboro, petitioned for a grant of land, and 'the Court judgeth it meete to referr the petitioners, in case they cannot rest where they be, to look for a mete place within our line to the westward of the Conecticot river to answer their expectations and then present it to the Court, who will consider thereof.' It does not appear that anything was ever done under this permission of the Court, but in 1675, John Fay appears among the proprietors of Worcester and has a lot of fifty acres assigned to him in the eastern squadron, lying next to the County road to Boston." "Fay Genealogy," He was born in England in 1648 and embarked May 30, 1656, at Gravesend on the ship "Speedwell," arriving at Boston, June 27 of that year. He was one of the proprietors of the Ockoocangenessett plantation, purchased of the Indians in 1684, and, while in Water- town, was made one of the feofifes in trust of the estate of Renold Bush of Cambridge, who proposed to marry Susanna Lowell of Beverly, Wilts, England. His first wife was Mary Brigham, who was born at Watertown; and his second wife was Mrs. Susanna Morse. He died in Marlborough, December 5, 1688. -121— John Fay (2) was the first deacon of the First Con- gregational Church at Westboro, in which town he died, January 5, 1747. Deacon James Fay was the seventh child of John Fay (2). He owned land in Hardwick as early as 1735, but remained at Westboro till after 1739, residing on the old River Road at the place marked A. Rice on the R. map. He was a fanner, a bone-setter and a deacon of the Separate Church. He was denounced as a Tory, but was afterwards forgiven and died in peace, June 12, 1777, aged nearly 70 years. Daniel Fay (4) was an agriculturalist and owner of a large landed estate in Hardwick, Mass., and was an intelligent and highly respected and influential man. He served in the French and Indian War in the company of Captain Samuel Robinson; Colonel (after Brigadier General) Timothy Ruggles' regiment. In 1771, he was commissioned lieutenant of militia and he was a lieuten- ant on the "alarm list" in 1775. He married first, Elizabeth Spooner, and second, Mary Crosby, and had seventeen children : Timothy, Daniel, Jedediah, Moses (died young), Aaron, Elizabeth, Moses, Sarah, Eliakim, David, Jonathan (died young), Mary, Jonathan, Joseph, Fiorina, Benjamin and Hannah. The first three children were the children of Elizabeth Spooner. Lieutenant Daniel Fay (6) was born in Hardwick, Mass. He was a soldier in the company of Captain Samuel Dexter, Colonel Larned's regiment, and was at Camp Roxbury in January, 1776. He was at the seige of Boston; in Washington's army in the retreat from New York; in the Battle of White Plains; saw the sur- —122— render of Burgoyne; was a corporal in the company commanded by Edmund Hedges, one of the minute men who had already become a captain of militia, and was attached to the regiment of Colonel Job Gushing. He must have moved to Bethel, Vt., about 1779-80 and was assessed in the original tax of that town. He died in Randolph, Vt. Nancy Fay, second child of Lieutenant Daniel Fay and Mary (Paige) Fay, married Nathaniel Evans. They had eleven children, Olive being the eighth child. —123— FOSTER 1. Thomas Foster, born about 1600; died April 20, 1682; married, Elizabeth, died June 26, 1695. 2. John Foster, born Oct. 7, 1642; died June 13. 1732; married, about 1663, Mary Chillingsworth, died Sept. 25, 1752. 3. Chillingsworth Foster, born June 11, 1680; died Dec. 22, 1764; married, Mercy Freeman, born Aug. 3, 1687; died July 7, 1720. 4. James Foster, born Jan. 6, 1705; died 1788; mar- ried, July 10, 1729, Lydia Winslow, born Sept. 8, 1709; died Jan. 7, 1770. 5. Mary Foster, born April 11, 1732; died July 21, 1825; married, Oct 24., 1754, Col. Timothy Paige, born May 24, 1727; died Aug. 26, 1791. FOSTER Thomas Foster (1) was a resident of Weymouth as early as 1640; removed later to Braintree and Billerica; was one of the selectmen of Billerica ; and was proprietor of a "great lot" at the Mountain, Mount Wallaston, ^124— Braintree. He came to America from England in the ship "Hercules." He was an early Anabaptist but his posterity were firm adherents to the Established Church. See "Foster's Genealogy." Deacon Chillingsworth Foster resided in Hardwick, now Brewster. He was deacon of the church 33 years, selectman 9 years, treasurer 25 years, town clerk 28 years, representative 8 years. Deacon James Foster (4) was a resident of Roch. till 1774, when he removed to Athol. He was select- man, town clerk and treasurer. See "History of Hardwick," Paige. —125— FREEMAN 1. Anthony Freeman, married, 2. Edmund Freeman, born about 1590; died 1682; married, Elizabeth, died Feb. 14, 1682. o. Major John Freeman, born 1627; died Oct. 28, 1719; married, Feb. 13 or 14, 1619-50, Mercy Prence, born 1631; died Sept. 28, 1711. 4. John Freeman, born Dec, 1651; died Oct. 38. 1719 ; married, Dec. 18, 1672, Sarah Merrick. 5. Mercy Freeman, born Aug. 3, 1687; died July 7, 1720 ; married, Deacon Chillingsworth Foster, born June 11, 1680; died Dec. 22, 1764. FREEMAN Edmund Freeman came to New England in the ship "Abigail" in 1635 and settled first in Lynn, Mass. In 1637 he was one of the purchasers and settlers of Sandwich and apparently the leading man in the enter- prise. He was a selectman of Sandwich, 11 years; rep- resentative in the general court, 1646; and one of the assistants of Plymouth Colony, 1640-46. He was then left out of office, it is supposed because he was thought —126— to be too lenient toward the Quakers and perhaps too Hberal generally in his religious views. He presented Plymouth Colony with twenty corslets or pieces of plate armor. His wife's name was Elizabeth (probably Ben- nett or Beauchamp). He lies beside her under the "sad- dle and pillion, in what was the old burying ground at Sandwich. No other graves have been preserved. A few days after his wife's death, he picked out two stones. One, shaped like a pillion, was placed on her grave; the other which reminded him of a saddle 'where e're long another grave must be digged.' " He fancied these as "emblems of the conveniences on which, in the prime of life and to old age, he and his wife had often traveled to- gether." and said to his sons, "Here, after death shall have called your father, bring my earthly remains and lay them beside your mother. Place the saddle upon my grave and so let us rest until the Resurrection Day." The stones are one and one quarter miles from the town hall of Sandwich, in the angle made by the old and new roads to Plymouth. Major John Freeman early removed from Sand- wich to Eastham. He was one of the most prominent men in the colony ; selectman in his town ; deacon of the church ; major of militia ; representative to the general court when only 32 and six years afterwards; and one of the assistants from 1666 to 16S6 and again, after Andros was deposed, from 1689 till 1692. On the or- ganization of the court under the new government, he was appointed December 7, 1692, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, which office he resigned in 1695 nn account of the infirmities of age. His house was near the line between Eastham (now Griswola) and Harwich —127— (now Brewster). He married Mercy, daughter of Gov- ernor Thomas Prence and Patience (Brewster) Pience. On two stones in the burying ground in Brewster are these inscriptions : "Here lies the body of Major John Freeman who died October 28, 1719, in the 88th year of his age." "Here Hes buried the body of Mercy Freeman, wife to Major John Freeman, who died September 28, 1711." —128— FRENCH 1. Captain William French, born 1603; died Nov. 20, 1681; married, May 6, 1669, Mary (Lothrop) Stearns, born 1640. 2. Hannah French, born 1676; died Jan. 2, 1766; married, Oct. 5, 1693, John Child, born April 25, 1669. FRENCH Captain William French resided in Billerica and was chosen to sit in the deacon's seat. Evidence of his activity in the cause of Indian instruction is found in a letter written by him to a "godly friend" in England, afterwards published in London in the famous tract "Strength out of Weakness." His first wife was Elizabeth Symmes, mother of Sarah French, who married Jonathan Peake; his second wife was Mary (Lothrop) Stearns, mother of Hannah French, so that Captain French is ancestor both of D wight Stone and Olive Evans. Sarah was his fifth child and Hannah, his fourteenth. After his death, his widow married Isaac Mixer, Jr., of Watertown. -129— GIBSON 1. John Gibson, born about 1601; died 1694; mar- ried, Rebecca, buried Dec. 1, 1661. 2. Mary Gibson, born March 29, 1637; died Dec. 6, 1674; married, April 3, 1655, John Ruggles, born 1633; died Feb. 25, 1713. GIBSON John Gibson was born in England about 1601; came over to America and lived in Cambridge, Mass., "ye newe towne of 1632 & name changed to Cambridge May 2, 1638 ;" and his name and his wife's were re- corded as members of the church in Watertown. His wife was buried in Roxbury, the burial being thus re- corded by John Eliot; "Mon. 10, day 1, 1661, the wife of Goodman Gibson." One Sunday in 1679, the contribution of the church at Cambridge was for the relief of the family of John Gibson, "they being in low condition, they being visited with the small-pox and under many wants." The Gib- son's seem to have had a great deal of trouble. One of the good man's daughters was afflicted with some mental disorder, which she ascribed to the influence of a widow named Holman. Gibson believed her and charged the widow with witch-craft. Fortunately, she was ac- quitted, Gregory Stone being among those who defended —130— her character. Gibson was then found guilty of slander. During the reign of James II, a petition was sent to the king from the inhabitants of Cambridge, asking redress from the oppressive nile of the governor, Sir Edmund Andros. This petition, which was inspired by Increase Mather, was signed by John Gibsori and George Willow and closed with the pathetic words, "If we perish, we perish." No redress came, owing perhaps to the abdication of the king, and John Gibson died a poor man. Mary was his second child. —131— JENNISON 1. Robert Jennison, died 1690 ; married, Elizabeth, born 1608; died Oct. 30, 1638. 2. Elizabeth Jennison, born April 12, 1637; died 1665; married, Oct. 4, 1652, Deacon George Reed, born 1629; died Feb. 21, 1705. JENNISON Robert Jennison was probably several years younger than his brother, William ; his name is not on the earliest list (February, 1636-7) of the proprietors of Water- town. He had however, a daughter born there in 1637, this being the earliest known record of him. His will was dated September 15, 1688, with a codicil dated April 2, 1689. This mentions his son-in-law, George Reed, and others. His grandchildren inherited the prop- erty of his brother, William Jennison. See "History of Watertown." —132— LEARNED 1. William Learned, married, GOODETH. 2. Sarah Learned, bom 1607; married, Thomas Ewer. LEARNED William Learned was born in England; came to America and was living in Charlestown in 1632; made a freeman in 1634; and moved to Wobum in 1641. In the great trouble of 1637 he was on the side of moder- ation so far as to disapprove the banishment of Wheel- wright. He was received into the Charlestown church with his wife, Goodeth; subscribed at Charlestown to "town orders for Woburn" and was one of the first board of selectmen for the latter town. —133— LOTHROP 1. John Lowthroppe, married, 2. Robert Lowthroppe, died 1558 ; married, 3. Thomas Lowthroppe, died 1606; married, Ellen. 4. Rev. John Lothrop, born 1584; died 1653; mar- ried, Mary. 5. Thomas Lothrop, born 1621; married, Dec. 11, 1639, Sarah (Learned) Ewer. 6. Mary Lothrop, bom Oct. 4, 1640, married, May 6, 1669, William French, born 1603; died Nov. 20, 1681. LOTHROP John Lowthroppe (1) of Cherry Burton belonged to the junior branch of his family, but was possessed of extensive landed estates and in 1545 was assessed twice as much as any other member of the parish. Cherry Burton was four miles from Lowthorp Dickering, East Riding of Yorkshire. John Lothrop (4) the emigrant, was baptized at Etton in Yorkshire, December 20, 1584; matriculated in —134— Queen's College, Cambridge, 1601; B. A., 1605; M. A., 1609; curate at Egerton, Kent, of St. James' Church, 1611; later became an Independent and was chosen pas- tor of the First Independent Church on Union street, Southvvark, London, succeeding the Rev. Henry Jacobs, "Only such as could meet the obloquy and risk the danger of worshipping God in violation of human statute were likely to be found in that secret gathering." April 22, 1632, the congregation was discovered by one of Bishop Laud's agents, named Tomlinson. Only eighteen escaped. Forty-two, including Mr. Lothrop, were arrested and sent to the Clink Prison in Newgate and the Gatehouse, where they lingered for months. In the spring of 1634 all but Mr. Lothrop were released on bail. While he was still in prison his wife died. He was allowed to visit her at the last, but was immediately returned to his confinement. Finally in response to a piteous appeal from the minister's motherless children, the bishop consented to release him. He then came to America and was chosen pastor of the church in Scituate which he organized shortly after his landing in Septem- ber, 1634. Difficulties arose between him and his par- ishioners on the subject of baptism and he went to Barn- stable where he organized another church. He was made a freeman of Plymouth Colony in 1637. His house at Scituate is thus described : "The walls were made of poles, filled between with stones and clay, the roof thatched, the chimney to the mantel of rough stone and above, of cob work; the windows of oiled paper and the floor of hand-sawed planks." He left a —135— library valued at five pounds, each of his children receiv- ing one book. Otis says of him: "He was a man of deep piety, great zeal and large ability, and as distinguished for his worldly wisdom as for his piety. Wherever one of his family pitched his tent, that spot soon became a center of business and land in its vicinity increased in value." Thomas Lothrop was probably bom in Egerton, Kent, about 1621. He joined the church in Scituate, Mass., May 4, 1637; and married in Boston, December 11, 1639, Mrs. Sarah Ewer, daughter of William Learned. Mrs. Mary (Lothrop) Stearns-French-Mixer, three times married and the third wife of her third husband, was still living in 1735, being then about 95 years of age. —136- MERRICK 1. Lieut. William Merrick, born 1603; married, Rebecca. 2. Sarah Merrick, born Aug. 1, 1654; died April 21, 1696; married, Dec. 18, 1672, John Freeman, Jr., born Dec, 1651 ; died Oct. 28, 1719. MERRICK "That the Merrick's of America are descended from the purest Celtic stock is established upon the best of authorities, to-wit : Burke's Peerage. "The Meyrick's are of the purest and noblest Cam- brian blood and have possessed the same ancestral estates and residence at Bodorgan Anglesey, Wales, for 1000 years ; they have the rare distinction of being lineally descended both from the sovereign princes of Wales of the Welch royal family and from King Edward I, whose eldest son was the first Prince of Wales." From "The Merrick Family Genealogy." "The following table of births (dates, etc.,) is offered, not only as possible, but very probable and is from the Merrick Genealogy: 1. Meuric ap Llewellyn, Captain of the Guard at the coronation of Henry VIII, April 15, 1509. His —137— castle at Bodorgan, Wales, is still in the Myrick family. Authority, Burke's "Peerage." 2. Rev. John, fifth son of Llewellyn, born 1513, was first in the navy, which he left to enter the ministry. He left three children: William, born about 1545; Owain, rector of St. David's, Pembrokeshire ; Maud, who married a Powell. 3. Rev. William Merrick, son of Rev. John, and nephew of Rev. Roland, born 1546, was at Llandeslied, where he may have been born. 4. John (that is Sion), born about 1579 in Pem- brokeshire. No records have yet been found of John's children, but tradition in several of the American families is that John was the father of four brothers : William, born 1603; James, bom 1612; John, born 1614; Thomas, born 1620. There is good reason to believe that the John of Hingham, who died at Roxbury, leaving a widow, Eliz- abeth, was the father of the four brothers." See "Merrick Genealogy." In the "Merrick Genealogy" is a picture and de- scription of Bodorgan Castle. Lieutenant William Merrick was born in Wales, 1603; arrived at Charlestown in the "James" in 1636; served five years in the Colonial Militia under Myles Standish, first as ensign, then as lieutenant; had prop- erty in Eastham and Duxbury and lived in both places. He was 43 years old when the first of bis ten children was born. In his will, dated December 3, and proved March 6, 1688-9, he is described as being about 86 years —138— old. He might be supposed to be the grandfather rather than the father of this family, were it not that he names his wife, Rebecca, and children, WilHam and Stephen. —139— PAIGE 1. Nicholas Page, married, 2. Henry Page, born 1492; married, 3. John Page, born 1521; married, AwDRY Redding. 4. Richard Page, born 1553; married, Frances Mudge. 5. Richard Page, born 1589; married, 1635, Elmira Whitecliffe. 6. Nathaniel Paige, born 1645; died April 12, 1692; married, about 1677, Joanna Merriam, died July 1724. 7. Christopher Paige, born Feb., 1695; married, May 23, 1720, Elizabeth Reed, born 1700; died 1786. 8. Col. Timothy Paige, born May 24, 1727; died Aug. 26, 1791; married, Oct. 24, 1754; Mary Foster, bom April 11, 1732; died July 21, 1825. 9. Mary Paige, born Oct. 19, 1759; died July 12, 1834; married, Aug. 23, 1778, Lieut. Daniel Fay, born Dec. 14, 1752; died June 21, 1810. —•140— PAIGE The Paige's are descendants of Hugo Page or Page- ham, son of a baron of England, who fulfilled an im- portant mission at the Spanish court for Henry HI and was knighted for his services. The will of Nicholas Page (1) was dated 1547. Henry Page (2) was bom in Wembly, Middlesex; moved to Essex and later, returned to Middlesex, where his descendants lived for several generations. John Page (3) married Awdry, daughter of Thomas Redding of Hedgeston, Middlesex. Richard Page (4) married Frances, daughter of Robert Mudge of London. Richard Page (5) married Elmira, daughter of James Whitecliffe. Nathaniel Page (or Paige) (6), the emigrant, was an active business man and greatly interested in the pub- lic welfare. He was "noted for great strength and courage, tested when he commanded a company of vol- unteers that routed a large band of Indians." He sailed from Plymouth, landing at Boston, August 13, 1675; lived there five years; went back to England in 1677 to marry Joanna Merriam ; and returned to this country, settling in Roxbury, June 2, 1686. He was one of the eight original purchasers of the town of Hardwick from the Indian sachems, December 27, 1686. A copy of the deed of sale by sundry Indians, recorded in the County of Hampshire, in which this territory was then em- braced, is given in Paige's "History of Hardwick," page 15. A continuation of the record reads: —141— "And we do also hereby appoint Captain Samuel Green and Mr. Nathaniel Page and the Rev. Mr. Tim- othy Ruggles to procure a good and well approved of surveyor and two chainmen who shall be under oath to the faithful discharge of their office and trust and shall survey six miles square within our claim and draw a fair platt thereof and the same put on record." On the organization of the government, June 2, 1686, after the abrogation of the first charter, he was appointed by President Joseph Dudley, one of the two marshals of Suffolk county. He was licensed by the County Court of Suffolk, August 2, 1686, as an acre- holder in Roxbury. He bought in 1687-8, a farm of 250 acres in that part of Billerica which is now the east- erly part of Bedford, where he resided during the re- mainder of his life. His will dated on the day next preceding his death is signed "Natt Paige" and the sig- nature is unusually plain and distinct. From "The History of Hardwick," by Paige. He died in Boston, April 12, 1692. Christopher Paige (7) married first, Joanna , who died October 27, 1719, and second. Elizabeth, daughter of Deacon George Reed of Woburn. He was a farmer and joiner; resided on the easterly road to Gil- bertville; transacted business for the settlers in Roxbury and with the general court in Boston, notably in their final and successful effort to incorporate as a town ; was moderator of their first town meeting; selectman seven years and assessor five years ; and was also moderator of all the meetings held in Hardwick until 1761. At the organization of the church, November 17, 1736, his —142— name stands first on the list of members and on Decem- ber 3, 1736, as its first deacon. His obituary was pub- lished in the Massachusetts Gazette, March 31, 1774. "At Hardwick, Deacon Christopher Paige, aged 83 years, 21 days, in a comfortable hope of a better life, he left a widow and has had 12 children, 9 now living and 3 dead; 81 grandchildren, 66 living and 15 dead. A funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Hutchin- son at his farm on Monday following." From "The History of Hardwick," by Paige, which contains much interesting information concerning Christopher Paige. Colonel Timothy Paige (8) was a farmer and much emplo)^ed in the public service; selectman, 3 years; treasurer, 6 years; representative, 1781; member of the Committee of Correspondence and other important com- mittees during the Revolutionary period ; captain of mil- itia and led his company to Bennington at the alarm in August, 1777, and to West Point in 1780, through a campaign of three months. On the organization of the militia, after the adoption of the Constitution, he was commissioned colonel, which office he held during the remainder of his life. He was a staunch supporter of the government and rendered service in the suppression of Shay's Rebellion. He resided on the homestead where he died, August 26, 1791. His wife, Mary, died in New Braintree, July 21, 1825, aged 93, and was buried by the side of her husband in the southwesterly corner of the old burial place. Colonel Paige's father and three brothers are buried near by. The obituary notice is as follows: "In Hardwick, on the 26th ult. Colonel Timothy Paige, aged 61: years, after a distressing sickness which —143— he sustained with Christian fortitude and died in the firm faith and hope of a future resurrection and a happy immortality. He was a gentleman of abilities and filled a number of important stations, both in the civil and military departments with fidelity and honor. A num- ber of gentlemen in the military line attended the inter- ment of his remains, among a numerous concourse of friends and relatives and a company of infantry dressed in uniform, attended the solemnity and performed mili- tary honors. A pathetic and well adapted discourse was delivered on the occasion by the Rev. Thomas Holt, 'O Death, where is thy sting? O Grave, where is thy vic- tory?'" This was probably the first military funeral in the town and the only one until October, 1811, when similar honors were rendered John Warren. Mary Paige (9) is described as "a very fine looking woman, stately and dignified, and so highly educated as to be quite capable of preparing her sons for college." -144— PALGRAVE 1. Dr. Richard Palgrave, died 1657; married, Anna. 2. Mary Palgrave, married, Roger Wellington, born 1609-10; died March 11, 1698-9. PALGRAVE Richard Palgrave (or Palsgrave) "a right godly man and skillful chirurgeon" one of the first physicians of Charlestown; applied October 30, 1630, to be admit- ted freeman ; was admitted next May 18 ; his will was dated June 4, 1651; mentions wife, Anna, daughters Mary (wife of Roger Wellington) Sarah, Elizabeth, Rebecca and Lydia, the first three daughters already mar- ried. His inventory, 313 Id., s., 8 d., dated October 1, 1651. His widow, Anna, then of the parish of Stepney, Middlessex, England, appointed John Pierce of Wapping, Middlessex, mariner, and Edmund Heylett of the parish of Stepney, merchant, to be her attorneys. The will of Anna Palgrave mentions her eldest daughter, wife of Roger Wellington, and other children. —145— PEIRCE 1. Thomas Peirce, born 1583; died 1666; married, Elizabeth. 2. Thomas Peirce, born 1616; died 1683; married, Elizabeth, died 1688. 3. Abigail Peirce, born 1660; died Sept. 9, 1719; married, Feb. 18, 1684, George Reed, born Sept. 11, 1660; died Jan. 20, 1756. -146— PRATT 1. John Pratt, * married, 2. Rev. PIenry Pratt,* married, 3. Phinehas Pratt, married, 1630, Mary Priest. 4. Hannah Pratt, married, March 18, 1652, William Spoon er, died 1684. PRATT "The Rev. Henry Pratt, a non-conformist minister, was imprisoned with 400 religious teachers and con- fined in damp and gloomy jails in England. While thus incarcerated, he communicated with his distressed fam- ily by writing to them with the blood which he drew from his arm for this purpose." From "Pratt's Memorial of Phinehas and Joshua Pratt." Phinehas and Joshua Pratt, supposed to have been sons of the above, were among the 36 original settlers of Dartmouth, and were allotted two acres of land jointly. Tradition has it that John Pratt (1) or his father was a Frenchman who "fled from France during political excitement to England and became armor- bearer to the Monarch of England." —147- PRENCE 1. Thomas Prence, married, 2. Governor Thomas Prence, born 1601; died March 29, 1675; married, Aug. 5, 1624, Patience Brewster, died 1634. 3. Mercy Prence, born 1631; died Sept. 28, 1711; married, Feb. 13 or 14, 1649-50, Major John Freeman, born 1627; died Oct. 28, 1719. PRENCE Thomas Prence (2), son of Thomas Prence (1), of Lechdale, Gloucestershire, near Crickdale, Wilts, was born in 1601 and came to America in the ship "Fortune," landing at Plymouth, November 9, 1622. Two years later, August 5, 1624, he married Patience, daughter of Elder William Brewster, this being the ninth wedding in the colony. Mistress Prence died in 1634, the year in which Thomas Prence was, for the first time, chosen governor of Plymouth Colony. In 1635 he married Mary Collier, and on, the expiration of his term of office, moved to Duxbury. After the death of his second wife, he married Mrs. Mary Freeman. In 1638, long remem- bered as the year of the earthquake, he was again chosen governor, holding ofifice for a year. He then again changed his residence, going to Eastham, in 1644. In —148— ence was 'foul and false,' strong words which honor the writer." Prence and his friends felt that, in harrying the Quakers, they were doing God's service; a severe exe- cution of the laws was exceptional and they often exer- cised leniency on slight pretexts. Thomas Prence had over swayed the court in religious matters and he used his influence to emancipate his people from the bonds of a world-wide superstition. He promoted education, was a stern Calvinist, was quiet and kind in his dealings with the Indians (words of Thomas Mayhew), a noble mis- sionary to the Indians. The governor's only son went to England, where he married and died while still a young man, leaving an only daughter. Mercy Prence (3) daughter of Thomas Prence and his first wife, Patience (Brewster) Prence, married Major John Freeman. -151— PRIEST 1. DiGGORY Priest, died Jan. 1, 1621; married, Nov. 4, 1611, Sarah (Allerton) Vincent. 3. Mary Priest, married, 1630, Phinehas Pratt. PRIEST Degory (or Diggory) Priest, one' of the passengers on the "Mayflower," married at Leyden, Holland, No- vember 4, 1611, Sarah (Allerton) Vincent, widow of John Vincent and sister of Isaac Allerton, another of the "Mayflower's" passengers. Diggory Priest was made a freeman of Leyden in 1615. Governor Bradford and Isaac Allerton were the only other Englishman on whom this honor was con- ferred. Edward Allerton of St. Dionis', Backchurch, Lon- don, and Rose Davis of St. Peter's, Cornhill, who were married at St. Dionis', February 14, 1579-80, may have been the parents of Isaac and Sarah. Edward Allerton died in 1590 and his widow in 1596. Diggory Priest died January 1, 1621, only a week or so after the landing of the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock. His family had remained behind in Leyden, where his widow married, within the year, Cuthbert Cuthbertson, with whom she afterwards came to Amer- ica. She died before 1633. —152— \ REED. 1. Edward Read, * married, 2. William Read, * married, Dorothy Beaumont. 3. Thomas Read, * married, Ann Hoo. 4. Sir Thomas Read, * married, Mary Stonehouse. 5. Sir Thomas Read, * married^ Mary Brocket. 6. Thomas Read,* married, Mary Cornwall. 7. William Reed, born 1587; died 1656; married, Mabel Kendall, born 1605; died June 15, 1690. 8. George Reed, born 1629; died Feb. 21, 1705; mar- ried, Oct. 4, 1652, Elizabeth Jennison, bom 1637; died 1665. 9. Deacon George Reed, born Sept. 14, 1660; died Jan. 20, 1756; married, Feb. 18, 1624, Abigail Peirce, born Nov. 20, 1660 ; died Sept. 9, 1719. 10. Elizabeth Reed, born June 14, 1700; died 1786; married. May 23, 1720, Christopher Paige, bom' Feb., 1690; died March 10, 1774. —153— REED The Reeds (or Reads) are an old English family whose history is known as far back as the fifteenth cen- tury, when Edward Read (1), Lord of the Manor of Beedon, was high sheriff of Berkshire, 1439-1451. William Read (2) in 1536 added Barton Court to the family estates. He married Dorothy, daughter of John Beaumont of Cole Orton. Thomas Read (3) married Ann, daughter of Thomas Hoo of Hoo, Hertfordshire. Their son. Sir Thomas Read (4) was lord of the manors of Beedon, Barton and Dunster; and in 1581 was made high sheriff of Bucks. He married Mary, daugh- ter of George Stonehouse, Esq., of Little Peckham, Kent, Clerk of the Green Cloth. Sir Thomas Read (5) married Mary, daughter of Sir John Brocket. Their son, Thomas Read (6) married Mary, daugh- ter of Thomas Cornwall, Lord of Shropshire. The above is supposed to be the ancestry of William Reed (or Reade) who came to America in 1635. He was born in England in 1587; married Mabel Kendall, who with three children came to New England with him; resided successively in Dorchester, Scituate, Bos- ton and Woburn; returned to England, leaving three children in this country; and died at Newcastle-upon- Tyne in 1656, aged about 69. His widow, with the younger children, again crossed the ocean and married, November 21, 1660, Henry Summers of Woburn. After his death she lived with her son, George, until she died, June 15, 1690, aged 85. —154— Deacon George Reed (9) was born in England September 14, 1G60. He was deacon of the church in Woburn to which, in 1711, he presented a silver Com- munion cup. This was still in use in 1861. He died at Woburn. January 30, 1756. —155— RUGGLES 1. Thomas Ruggles, died about 1547; married, 2. Nicholas Ruggles, married, 3. Thomas Ruggles, married, 4. John Ruggles, born 1591; died Oct. 6, 1663; mar- ried, Barbara, born 1605; died Jan., 1637. 5. John Ruggles, born 1633; died Feb. 25, 1713; married, April 3, 1655, Mary Gibson, born March 29, 1637; died Dec. 6, 1674. 6. John Ruggles, born May 19, 1657; married, May 1, 1679, Hannah Devotion. 7. Elizabeth Ruggles, born Oct. 21, 1710; died Aug., 1767; married, Oct. 10, 1728, Daniel Spooner, born Feb. 28, 1694; died 1797. RUGGLES Thomas Ruggles (3), third son of Nicholas, was bom in Sudbury, Suffolk. He came to America and was living in Roxbury in 1637. John Ruggles (4), second son of Thomas (3), was also born in Sudbury, Suffolk. His wife's name was Barbara. John Eliot says of him ''John Ruggles —156— he came to New England in the year, 1635, and soon after his coming, joined to the church; he was a Hvely Christian, known to many of the church in old Eng- land where many of the church injoyed society together. He brought his first-born, John Ruggles, with him and his second son was still-borne in the 11th month, 1636, of which his wife died. Barbara was a godly, Chris- tian woman." He came from Nazig, England and set- tled in Roxbury; was a representative. His second wife was Margery Hamonde, "a maide-servant." His only child who lived to maturity was John Ruggles (5) who lived in Roxbury; married first, Mary Gibson; second, Sarah Dyer of Weymouth; and third, Ruth. John Ruggles (6) married Hannah Devotion and after her death, Mrs. Elizabeth Day. His eighth child by his first wife was Elizabeth, who married Daniel Spooner. Captain John Ruggles, probably (4), was in the Louisburg expedition, in 1645. The "History of Hardwick" gives Nazig as "Naz- ing" and describes it as "a parish in the Hundred of Waltham, near Epping in the County of Essex, Eng- land." Nicholas Ruggely bought an estate in Warwick and was appointed Ranger of Sutton Chase in the second year of Henry IV. In 1428 he was sheriff of Warwick and Leicester. In the tenth year of King Henry V the family was living in Staffordshire. The younger branch moved to Lincolnshire in the sixteenth century, then to Suffolk. These were the ancestors of Thomas Ruggles of Sudbury. —157— SPOONER 1. John Spooner * of Leyden, married, Anna Peck. 2. William Spooner, died 1684; married March 18, 1652, Hannah Pratt. 3. Samuel Spooner, born Jan. 14, 1665; died 1739; married. Experience Wing, born Aug. 4, 1668 ; died after 1731. 4. Daniel Spooner, born Feb. 28, 1694; died 1797; married, Oct. 10, 1728, Elizabeth Ruggles, born Oct. 21, 1710; died Aug., 1767. 5. Elizabeth Spooner, born Jan. 14, 1731 ; died Nov. 24, 1756; married, March 24, 1749; Daniel Fay, born Oct. 21; 1728; died Feb. 28, 1715. SPOONER WilHam Spooner (2) arrived at the New Plymouth settlement early in the year, 1637. Whence he came, whether with Ann Spooner from Leyden, whether direct from the mother country, or whether, which we think most probable, from the little embryo town of Colchester, —158— Massachusetts Colony, is not known. It is known that in 1616 John Spooner was living in Leyden and was the head of a family ; also that Ann Spooner, his widow, was there in 1630. In 1637 an Ann Spooner who, it is supposed was the Ann Spooner of Leyden, was living in Salem and John and Ann are believed to have been the parents of William (2) and of Thomas, who was in Salem in 1637. In the list of August, 1643, William Spooner is mentioned as one "of all the males that are able to beare arms from XVI years old to 60 years within the several townships." He was propounded to take up his freedom (the qualifications to become a freeman were "twenty-one years of age, sober, peaceable conversation, orthodoxy in the fundamentals of religion and a ratable estate of twenty pounds." He resided in Plymouth till about 1660 when he removed to Dartmouth (or rather, Acushnet in the Dartmouth purchase). Samuel Spooner (3) was constable in 1680 and again in 1684 of Dartmouth Province of Massachusetts Bay; served on grand and petit juries and held other positions of trust. An extract from his will follows : "Imp's My will is and I hereby give and bequeath to Experience, my dearly beloved wife, one feather bed and furniture to it, at her election, with all other my household goods and utensils within doors during her widowhood and that with what my three sons are other- wise obliged to do for her interests will be an honorable support for her during her remaining my widow." Daniel Spooner (4) moved from Dartmouth to Newport, R. I., where he was admitted a freeman in —159— May, 1732, and where he carried on the business of a house carpenter. He later returned to New Bedford, but moved again before June 16, 1748, when he was a land owner in Hardwick. He afterwards moved to Petersham where, with his wife, he was admitted to the membership of the First Church, April 2, 1749. He was made a deacon, July 11, 1750. The following de- scription is given of him "an active, thorough-going, re- liable man, devoted to his family and friends and ever alert in the interests of his town and the welfare of his country. In all the trying times of the Revolutionary conflict, although then beyond the allotted age of man, he took a most decided interest and gave his full influ- ence in behalf of his country. As an evidence of his vigorous old age, 'after he had passed his ninetieth year, he made the journey on horseback to Vermont, to visit ;)9. sons. "In his family, where he was ample provider, indul- gent and kindly, giving to his children all the educational advantages afforded by the neighborhood, yet he was a rigid disciplinarian. A great-grandson of his relates that Daniel 'was a carpenter and joiner and worked much from home during the week and, on his return home Sat- urday night, he would call up his large family of boys and, without any inquiry, give each of them a whipping, presuming that, by their conduct through the week, they had deserved it.' " —160— SWEETMAN 1. Thomas Svveetman, died Jan., 1682-3; married, Isabel, died about 1709. 2. Elizabeth Sweetman, born January 6, 1646-7; married, December 7, 1671, Benjamin Wellington, born 1645-6; died Jan. 8, 1709-10. SWEETMAN Thomas Sweetman was a weaver and resided in Cambridge as early as 1645. His house was on what is now the northwest corner of the college grounds. His widow was probably the Mrs. Sweetman who received charity from the church from 1691 to 1709, about which time she probably died. Elizabeth was his eldest daugh- ter. —161— WARDEN 1. Peter Warden, of Yarmouth, married, Mary. 2. Mercy Warden, born 1640; died Sept. 22, 1688; married, Kenelm Winslow, born about 1636; died Nov. 11, 1715. —162— WARREN 1. John Warren, bom 1585; died Dec. 13, 1667; married, Margaret, died Nov. 6, 1662. 2. Daniel Warren, bom 1628; died 1667; married, Dec. 10, 1650, Mary Barron, died Feb. 13, 1715-16. S. Mary Warren, born Nov. 29, 1651 ; died May 12, 1754; married. May 29, 1668, John Child, born 1636; died Oct. 15, 1676 WARREN John Warren (1) was born in Nayland, Suffolk, in 1585, and is said to be the son of John Warren of Nay- land and his wife Elizabeth. His second wife, Margaret, was the mother of his son, Daniel. John Warren (1) came to America in 1630; set- tled in Watertown; was admitted freeman, May 18, 1631; selectman, 1636 to 1640; and in 1635 was ap- pointed with Abraham Brown, to lay out all highways and to see that they were repaired. In October, 1651, he and Thomas Arnold were fined 20 shilHngs each for an offence against baptism. March 14, 1658-9 he was to be warned for not attending public worship, but "Old Man Warren is not to be found in town." The homes of Old Man Warren and Goodman —163— Hammond were ordered to be searched for Quakers. His will dated November 30, and proved November 6, 1662, mentions children John, Mary, Daniel and Eliza- beth, probably all born in England. Daniel Warren (2) took the oath of fidelity in 1652. His will, dated November 30, and proved December 17, 1667, mentions son Daniel and other children. Mary Warren married first, John Child, and second, April 13, 1677, Nathaniel Fiske. —164— WELLINGTON 1. Roger Wellington, born 1609-10; died March 11, 1698-9; married, Mary Palgrave. 2. Benjamin Wellington, born 1645-6; died Jan. 8, 1709-10; married, Dec. 7, 1671, Elizabeth Sweetman, born Jan. 6, 1646-7. 3. Elizabeth Wellington, born Dec. 29, 1673 ; died March 8, 1729; married, Dec. 1, 1690, John Fay, born Nov. 30, 1669; died Jan. 5, 1747. WELLINGTON Roger Wellington was a planter and an early set- tler of Watertown, his name being on the earliest list of proprietors extant; admitted freeman, April 18, 1690. He married Mary, daughter of Dr. Richard Palgrave of Charlestown, who apparently did not survive him as she was not mentioned in his will, dated Dec. 17, 1697, and proved March 11, 1698. His son, Benjamin, and his grand-daughter, Mary Livermore, were mentioned among others. He was selectman 1678-79-81-83-84-91. See "History of Watertown." He owned home stall, adjoining that of Simon Stone, of 16 acres, also 145 acres of land elsewhere. Benjamin Wellington (2) was admitted freeman, in December, 1677. —165— WING 1. Matthew Wynge, died 1614; married, 2. John Winge, died 1629-30; married, Deborah Bachiler, born 1592. 3. Daniel Wing, died 1698; married, June 2, 1666, Anna Ewer. 4. Experience Wing, bom Aug. 4, 1688; died after 1731; married, Samuel Spooner, bom Jan. 14, 1655; died 1739. WING Matthew Wynge (1), of Banbury Cross, tailor, made his will, August 9, 1614, and it was proved, Novem- ber 15, of the same year. In the will he leaves 100 pounds to the poor and requests that his body be buried in the parish church. The Rev. John Winge (2) third son of the above, lived first in Sandwich, England, then at Hanbury, then moved to Flushing, Zealand, where he was chosen pastor of the Puritan Church. Later he lived in The Hague, Holland. Apparently he returned to England, shortly before his death, for in his will he styles himself, "John Winge, late of The Hague, clerk, now living in St. Mary Aldermay, London." The will was made November 2, 1629, and proved, August 4, 1630. In it he disposes of lands in Cuckston and Kent, half to his wife and half to —166- his children. His wife was Deborah Batchelder, daugh- ter by his first wife, of the Rev. Stephen Batchelder. Daniel Wing (3) associated himself with the Society of Friends and, with others, was subjected to the penalties of the law for not supporting the Puritan Church. He was fined frequently and excluded from the number of freemen for the ofifense of being a Quaker. His second wife, Anna Ewer, was the mother of his daughter, Ex- perience. —167— WINSLOW, 1. Kenelm WinsloWj died 1607; married, Catherine. 2. Edward Winslow, born October 17, 1560; died before 1631; married, November 4, 1594, Magdalen Ollyver. 3. Kenelm Winslow, born April 29, 1599; died Sep- tember 12, 1682; married, June, 1634, Ellen ( ) Adams^ born 1598; died December 5, 1681. 4. Kenelm Winslow, born about 1636; died Novem- ber 11, 1715 ; married, Mercy Warden, born about 1640; died September 22, 1688. 5. Major Edward Winslow, born January 30, 1681 ; died June 25, 1760; married, Sarah, born 1682 ; died October 11, 1765. 6. Lydia Winslow, born September 8, 1709; died January 7, 1770 ; married, July 10, 1729, Deacon James Foster, born June 6, 1705; died 1786. WINSLOW Kenelm Winslow (1) of Kempsey, England, died in 1607 in the Parish of St. Andrew, Worcester. —168— Edward Winslow (2) of Droitwich and Kempsey, Worcestershire, married first Eleanor Pelham ; and sec- ond, at St. Bride's Church, London, November 4, 1594, Magdalen Ollyver, mother of his son Kenelm. Kenelm Winslow (3) was born in Droitwich, Wor- cestershire, April 29, 1599, and came to New England, probably about 1629, residing in Plymouth till about 1641, when he removed to Marshfield, which he repre- sented in the General Court for eight years. He also held sundry minor offices. He was a farmer and joiner. In June, 1634, he married Ellen, widow of John Adams, who sui-vived him, dying at Marshfield in 1681, aged 83. He died at Salem (where he had perhaps resorted for medi- cal aid, having long been sick), September 12, 1672, Kenelm Winslow (4) settled in what is now Brew- ster, and married Mercy, daughter of Peter Warden of Yarmouth. She died in 1688 and he married, second, Damaris , who survived him. He died in 1715, aged 79, and his headstone stands in a cemetery near his homestead, but within the easterly border of Dennis. Major Edward Winslow (5) resided in Roch; was a farmer and engaged in the making and forging of iron ; was selectman, town clerk, town treasurer, justice of the peace and of the quorum, and was also major of militia and generally designated by his military title. See "The History of Hardwick," Paige. —169— LIBRARY OF CONGRESS t 021 392 1 81