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A LO N^O KIMBALL- AND GRANDDAUGHXEIRS 
 
 ALICE RUTH SALE AND MARJORIE WESTON KIMBALL 
 
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 Contents* 
 
 Page 
 Introduction 5 
 
 Paternal Ancestry of Alonzo Kimball: 
 
 Kimball, Witt, Carr, Hayward, Roekwood, Albee and Cook 
 lineages 9 
 
 Maternal Ancestry of Alonzo Kimball: 
 
 Mather, Atherton, Stoughton, Wadsworth, Buttolph, Gardner, 
 Fuller, Emerson, Wood, Hanchett, Langton, Prichard, 
 Church, Churchill, Foote, Dickinson. Cowles, Montague, 
 Downing, Smith, Hitchcock, Partridge, Root, Kilbourn and 
 
 Ashley lineages , 18 
 
 Paternal Ancestry of Sarah Weston: 
 
 Weston, De la Noye, Soule, Nash, Shaw, Watson, Hicks, Pratt, 
 
 Dunham and Pomeroy lineages 42 
 
 Maternal Ancestry op Sarah Weston: 
 
 Dean, Stephens, Kingsley, Leonard, Washburn, Mitchell, Cooke, 
 Packard, Howard, Hayward, Keith, Edson, Byram, Shaw, 
 Edson, Hayward, Mitchell, Cooke, Leonard, Watson, Hicks, 
 King, Whitman, Walker, Phillips, Brooks, Wiuslow, Rich- 
 mond and Rogers lineages 60 
 
 Descendants of Alonzo and Sarah (Weston) Kimball: 
 
 Compiled by Mary Cornelia (Kimball) Walker 90 
 
 In Memoriam: 
 
 Almira Barnes Mahan 95 
 
 Linus Bonner Sale t-<'T7^ 96 
 
 Richard Weston and Robert Kimball Sale 99 
 
 Alice Ruth Sale 101 
 
 ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Alonzo Kimball and granddaughters Marjoi-ie Weston Kimball and 
 
 AUce Ruth Sale Frontispiece 
 
 Sarah (Weston) Kimball 0pp. p. 46 i 
 
 Berry Pomeroy Castle, from an old print at Fern Hill,Vt " 58 
 
 Alonzo Weston Kimball " 90 
 
 Ancestral Chart of the Family In pocket of cover 
 
IFntrobuction* 
 
 It is probable that very few people begin more or less ex- 
 tended genealogical researches Avitli an adequate notion of 
 what lies before them. A rather common curiosity to know 
 who are the ancestors of one's self or one's friends, develops 
 into a lively interest sosoon as a trail is found and followed. 
 Let difficulties arise, however, as they are sure to, and the 
 trial of one's wits in the solution of a problem believed to be 
 soluble has a fascination which one will hardly believe who 
 has not experienced it. 
 
 The present pamphlet makes no claim to originality except 
 in the fixing definitely of the lines of descent. Much of the 
 information herein contained may be found in other works, 
 which have been freely cited, but which are hardly accessible 
 outside of a large genealogical library. The library of the 
 State Historical Society of Wisconsin, in which most of the 
 works cited may be found, is now excelled in the wealth of its 
 genealogical works by but two, or at most three, libraries in 
 the country. 
 
 The book has two main objects in transcribing and collect- 
 ing data, to-wit: first, tO' give the bare vital records, uninter- 
 esting as some of them may be, which are necessary to fix 
 definitely the lines of descent; and, second, to add biogTaph- 
 ical sketches when the matter upon record is sufficiently full 
 to allow of it. The length of individual sketches is depend- 
 ent, therefore, not alone upon the prominence of the individ- 
 ual, but upon the amount of material which the accidents of 
 history have left us. It cannot be claimed that the book is alto- 
 gether free from errors, though care has been exercised to ex- 
 
elude them. The material has necessarily been gathered from 
 many sources of different degrees of reliability, but some 
 judgment has been used in selecting the matter introduced and 
 in discarding otlier material. 
 
 For some lines, notably those of Church and Fuller, spe- 
 cial investigations have been necessary, and the services of 
 Mr. Horace E. Mather of Hartford, Conn., a professional 
 genealogist, have been engaged. In some instance's the pa- 
 tience of Town Clerks in l^ew England towns has been taxed 
 in order to secure the important entries from the official 
 records. To Mrs. Sutherland Orr (nee Florence Dean) of 
 Ascot, Berks, England, Miss Carolyn Weston of Dalton, Mass., 
 and Mrs. M. H. Walker of Green Bay, the compiler is under 
 special obligations either for the loan of valuable papers or for 
 an opportunity to transcribe genealogical data collected by 
 others. 
 
 The greatest difficulties have been encountered in tracing the 
 Pomeroys. The data secured are, however, of much interest 
 and are given with considerable fulness. The Kimballs first 
 settled at Watertown, Mass., and the first Kimball born 
 in America was Sarah Kimball, who first saw the light in 1635. 
 
 Of the emigrant male ancestors of the family that have been 
 found, fifteen came over before 1630, more than thirty came 
 in the 1630's, and only six came later than 1650. Three came 
 in the "Mayflower" to Plymouth, to-wit: George Soule, 
 Thomas Rogers, and Francis Cooke, the latter an ancestor to 
 
 ♦The ancestral chart included in the pocket of the cover was printed 
 some months in advance of the book and differs from it in several 
 important particulars. In the Atherton lineage the chart gives Cath- 
 erine as the daughter of Gen. Atherton who married Timothy Mather. 
 This corresponds to the Mather Genealogy and is based upon an old 
 chart. This is, however, an error, for Timothy's wife was Elizabeth, 
 Atherton. The introduction of the Winslow lineage upon the chart 
 through the supposed alliance of Elizabeth Winslow with Gilbert 
 Brooks, is authorized by the Winsloiv Memorial and other authorities, 
 but recent work shows rather conclusively that the wife of Gilbert 
 Brooks was not Elizabeth Winslow. (See Winslow Lineage.) The 
 Peter Montague of the chart who married Eleanor Allen and who was 
 the father of Richard Montague did not come to America. The Peter 
 Montague who went to Virginia was his son. The ancestor of the 
 Kingsley line was probably John, not Stephen. 
 
two distinct lines of the family. All were signers of the 
 "Mayflower Compact." In tlie next vessel, the "Fortune," 
 came in 1621 Philip De la Noye, the Huguenot Pilgrim, and 
 Eobert Hicks. The "Ann," 1623, brought Experience 
 Mitcliell and Joshua Pratt. BotJi Mitchell and Hicks were 
 like Cooke, ancestors each to two branches of the family. The 
 wives and children of a number of Pilgrims came in tlie 
 "Fortune" and "Ann." One of the family ancestors, William 
 Wadsworth, went to the settlement of the other great English 
 colony in Virginia in 1621. Inasmuch, however, as he settled 
 Jater in Massachusetts, the family's history is but little con- 
 nected with the fortunes of that colony. 
 
 While the majority of the forebears were of that sturdy mid- 
 dle class which has always been the strength of the English peo- 
 ple, there were several among them who belonged to families of 
 distinction at home. Abigail Downing was descended through 
 the royal line from William the Conqueror. Her husband, 
 Richard Montague, and the ancestor of Nathaniel Dickinson, 
 both claimed descent from men who came into England with 
 the l^ormans in 1066. The pedigree of John Richmond is also 
 traced to one of the leaders under William the Conqueror at 
 the battle of Hastings. His grand-daughter, Sarah Richmond, 
 was the first of eight Sarahs in the dire'ct line to Winifred 
 Sarah Weston Hobbs. Philip de la 'Noje, the Huguenot of 
 the Plymouth Colony, was descended from one of the most dis- 
 tinguished families of France, the recorded pedigree of which 
 extends to Charlemagne, Alfred the Great, and William the 
 Conqueror, and includes many of the royal blood. 
 
 From Plymouth and Duxbury the ancestors of Sarah Weston 
 emigrated to the west to found Bridgewater and Taunton. 
 From tlie Massachusetts Bay Colony the maternal ancestors of 
 Alonzo Kimball — ]\father and Stoughton of DorchesteT, Wads- 
 worth of Cambridge, Gardner of Gloucester, Fuller and Emer- 
 son of Ipswich, and others — all emigrated to Connecticut, 
 where they allied themselves with the Churchills, Montagues, 
 Dickinsons, Churclies, Smiths, Footes and other prominent 
 
8 
 
 Connecticut families, which played a leading role in the settle- 
 ments of Hartford and Wethersfield. W^ien dissension arose 
 in church affairs they were the '"withdrawers" who again 
 marched away through the forest to found Hadley and Hat- 
 field, and eventually to settle much of western Massachusetts. 
 This book is published through the generosity of Mr. A. W. 
 Ximball, for distribution in the family, in order that the pres- 
 ent and future generations may know how goodly is their heri- 
 tage in ancestors who have wrought manfully and successfully 
 amid privations and sacrifices, and by mighty hammer blows 
 have weilded a commonwealth whose foundations of liberty and 
 justice are alike our pride and our bulwark. In some sense 
 the book is a memorial to the founders of the Green Bay branch 
 of the Kimball family. Beside the more or less extended bio- 
 graphical sketches of the founders themselves, such sketches 
 are included of the deceased members of the families of their 
 descendants. 
 
Zhc paternal Hncestt^ of Hlonso 
 
 mtmbalL 
 
 Zbc Ikimball %\ncmc. 
 
 The common ancestor of the great majority of the Kimballs 
 in America was Richard Kimball of the parish of Rattlesden, 
 county Suffolk, England. The name was originally spelled 
 Kemball or Kembolde. The Kemble family seems to have been 
 distinct from the Kimball family for the last four centuries, at 
 least, and according to Morrison and Sharpies, the family his- 
 torians, these families have always been distinct.* 
 
 RiCHAKD^, the immigrant ancestor of the family, was b. 
 in England, probably at Rattlesden, County Suffolk. He m. 
 Ursula, dan. of Henry Scott. With his wife and eight chil- 
 dren he came to America in the ship "Elizabeth," William An- 
 drews, Master, in 1634, embarking at Ipswich, England, April 
 10th of that year. In the party on the ship was Thomas Scott, 
 his wife's brother. Reaching Boston Harbor Richard soon 
 went to Watertown and settled there with his family. The 
 first Kimball bom in America was Sarah Kimball, dau. of 
 Richard^, who first saw the light at Watertown, Mass., 1635. 
 She married Edward Allen of Ipswich, Mass., and d. June 12, 
 1690. 
 
 By trade Richard was a wheelwright and his services were in 
 such demand that he was soon called to leave the Watertown 
 settlement and go to Ipswich, where he was given a house lot 
 and other privileges on condition that he become the town wheel- 
 
 *History of the Kimball Family in America from 1634 to 1897 and of 
 its ancestors the Kemballs or Kemboldes of England, by Leonard Alli- 
 son Morrison and Stephen Parschall Sharpies, pp. 1278, Boston, 1897. 
 
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 wriglit. At Tpsv/icli his two otlier (lOtli and lltli) chiklreai 
 were born. Oct. 23rd, 1661, he m. (2) Mrs. Margaret Dow of 
 Hampton, K". H. Richard d. June 22, 1675, aged 80 years and 
 over, and his wife d. March 1, 1676. He was very well to do 
 for those days, the inventory of his estate amounting to over 
 £737, although he had ah'eady given to his numerous children 
 at their marriages. 
 
 RiCHAKD^, fourth child and second son of Richard^ and Ur- 
 sula, was b. at Rattlesden about 1623 and came to America with 
 
 his father in 1634. He m. (1) Mary , who died Sept. 2, 
 
 1672. He subsequently married (2) Mary (probably 
 
 Mary Gott). He d. 1676, leaving eight children living. He 
 was a wheelwright and removed to Wenham, Mass., between 
 1652 and 1656. He was selectman of Wenham for twenty 
 years. From the circumstance that the inventory of his prop- 
 erty at the time of his death show^ed that wages were due him 
 from the country, it is probable that he had been engaged in 
 the war with the Indians, and ''he was probably with his 
 nephew, Caleb Kimball, at the time the latter was killed at 
 Bloody Brook."* He had nine children. 
 
 Ensigx Samuel^, second son (and child) of Richard' and 
 Mary (1st wife), was b. at Ipswich about 1651 and d. Oct. 3, 
 1716. He m. Sept. 20, 1676, Mary, dau. of John and Sarah 
 Witt of L}am, Mass. Samuel lived at Wenham and was ensign 
 in the militia. He v/as made freeman in 1682 and held the of- 
 fices of surveyor, constable, and selectman. 
 
 Ebenezek*, eighth child and fifth son of SamueP and Mary, 
 was b. about 1690 and d. at Hopkinton, Mass., 1769. He m. 
 June 9, 1712, Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Carr of Salisbury, 
 Mass. He lived in Wenham and Beverly, but in 1740 removed 
 to Hopkinton, where he lived the residue of his life. His wife 
 survived him. He was a yeoman and a mason. His children 
 numbered nine, three sons and six daughters. 
 
 BoYCE^, the youngest child of Ebenezer^ and Elizabeth, was 
 b. in Wenham June 18, 1731, and d. at Shutesbuiy, Mass., May 
 
 *Ibid. p. 39. 
 
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 13, 1802. He m. Dec. 4, 1755, Eebecca Haward, who was b. 
 Jime 9, 1739, and d. July 23, 1790. He lived in Wenliam, 
 Hopkinton, and Shutesbnrj and liad twelve children, seven of 
 whom were sons. Three of his brothers ser\^ed in the War of 
 the Revolution. 
 
 Rev. Ruel*^,* the eleventh child and seventh son of Boyoe'^ 
 and Rebecca, was b. Dec. 20, 1778, and d. at Easthampton^ 
 Mass., Oct. 1, 1847. He m. Jan. 1, 1799, Hannah Mather, 
 dau. of Timothy Mather of Marlboro, Vt. He was a Presby- 
 terian minister and his charges were at Marlboro, Vt., until 
 1804, then Leroy, ISJ". Y., until 1816, and Ley den, ]^. Y., where 
 he remained mitil his death. He died while on a visit to his 
 son, David M. Kimball, of Massachusetts. A brother, Boyce®, 
 served in the War of the Revolution 
 
 ALONZO,^ the fifth child and third son of RueP and Hannah 
 was b. in Leroy, jST. Y., Nov. 20, 1808. He was graduated from 
 Union College, Schenectady, I^. Y., in 1836, and entered An- 
 
 *The children of Rev. Ruel and Hannah (Mather) Kimball were: 
 i Ruel, b. Marlboro, Vt., Dec. 24, 1799. He m. three times, his last 
 wife, Sarah Lord, having survived him several years. He 
 d. at Leyden, N. Y., May 1, 1867. 
 
 ii Amanda, b. Marlboro, Vt, April 13, 1802. She m., Jan. 13, 1825, 
 Alanson Merwin and lived to celebrate her golden wedding, 
 having d. at Leyden, N. Y., April 17, 1878, her husband' fol- 
 lowing her Oct. 7, 1888. She was the mother of Judge Milton 
 H. Merwin of the Supreme Bench of New York, whose resi- 
 dence is in Utica, N. Y. 
 
 iii Cotton, b. Leroy, N. Y., June 7, 1804. His widow, Ruth, survived 
 him and reached an age of 97 years. 
 
 iv Huldah, b. Leroy, N. Y., Aug. 1, 1806; d. Aug. 22, 1827. 
 
 V Alonzo, b. Nov. 20, 1808; m., at Hudson, N. Y., Oct. 1, 1840, Sarah 
 Weston; d. Aug. 7, 1900. 
 
 vi Davfd Mather, b. Nov. 25, 1810; d. Aug. 1, 1813. 
 
 vii David Matlier, b. Aug. 26, 1813; twice married, his second wife 
 having been Charlotte Maria, dau. of Col. Warren Lincoln of 
 Warren, Mass.; d. Oct. 23, 1857. 
 viii Lucy, b. July 31, 1815; m. Aug. 12, 1840, Rev. Henry Bannister, 
 D. D.. of Evanston, 111.; d. Oct. 18, 1886. Her husband d. April 
 15, 1883. 
 
 ix Mary H., b. Dec, 18, 1817; m. Jan. 8, 1844, Serene T. Merrill of 
 Beloit, Wis.; d. Mch. 4, 1852. 
 
 X Harriet, b. Jan. 14. 1820; d. Feb. 12, 1823. 
 
 xi Martin Luther, b. Sept. 24, 1826; m. (1) Mary Buttrick. and (2) 
 Jan. 13, 1862, Frances Ann Richards, who survives him. He 
 d. at Oshkosh, Wis., Mch. 18, 1891. 
 
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 dover Theological Seminary to prepare for the ministry, but 
 was aompelled to abandon his studies in 1839 because of ill 
 health. In 1840,* while principal of an academy at Lee, Mass., 
 he met and married Sarah, daughter of Rev. Isaiah Weston of 
 Dalton, Mass. In 1848 he removed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 
 and two years later to Green Bay, Wis. Until 1852 he con- 
 tinued to teach, but at that time he established himself in the 
 hardware business at Green Bay, which since his death has been 
 conducted under the firm name, Alonzo Kimball, by his second 
 son, Charles Theodore^. For more than forty years Mr. Kim- 
 ball was a deacon in the First Presbyterian church of Green 
 Bay, now known as the Union Congregational church. 
 
 In 1890 he celebrated his golden wedding anniversary with 
 the united families of his five children. His wife died June 
 27, 1891. He d. at Green Bay, Aug. 7, 1900, and Aug. 9th was 
 buried from his church home, the Rev. J. M. A. Spence offi- 
 ciating. 
 
 The Unionist, a bright Congregational magazine published 
 by members of his Green Bay church, says of him : 
 
 ''Gifted souls now passed beyond will fill out the measure of 
 our testimony in fitting phrase. To them, also, years of asso- 
 ciation had made 'Father Kimball' a loving parent in all but tie 
 of blood, and though he made few protestations there are many 
 who treasure memories of unexpected thoughtfulness and affec- 
 tion. 
 
 "In the slight cloud that fell upon the advanced years of our 
 friend there was little of real bitterness. Weary and restless, 
 sometimes ; lonely, often, there was yet in the very conceits of 
 his feebleness a touch of that merry brightness which had al- 
 ways made his companionship most enjoyable. 
 
 ******** 
 
 "He was a student always ; whether his work as a teacher 
 made him fond of the young, or his love of youth made him 
 a successful teacher, this thing is certain, he cherished for books 
 and children a love that was unusual. 
 
 *OGt. 1, 1840. 
 
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 "His Greek Testament was a pocket companion for scores of 
 
 years and there was no self-infliction in its continual perusal. 
 * « * * * * *■* 
 
 "Dear old friend ! May the memoiy of thy well-doing prove 
 an abiding stimulas to greater service and unselfishness."* 
 
 ZEbe Mitt OLtneage, 
 
 Joiix^, tlie emigrant, was in Lynn in 1650. He was perhaps 
 selectman of Groton in 1655, but, if so, was soon back in Lynn. 
 
 He m. Sarah , and his first child was b. in 1659. He d. 
 
 De<?. 2, 1675. 
 
 Mary-, dau. of Jolm^ and Sarah, m. Sept. 20, 1676, Ensign 
 Samuel Kimball. 
 
 Continuation. — Ebenezer Kimball, Boyce Kimball, Rev. 
 Ruel Kimball, Alonzo Kimball, 
 
 ^be Carv XtneaQC* 
 
 "Mr." George^, the emigrant, is supposed to have been at 
 Ipswich in 1633, t and to have owned a house lot there in 1635. t 
 He was a shipwright and received grants of land in Salisbury 
 in 1640, '41, and '44. He m. Elizabeth, supposed to have been 
 the dau. of Elder Thomas Oliver of Boston. The son James 
 Oliver was a captain in King Philip's War and d. in 1682. 
 Elizabeth was a member of the Salisbury church in 1687. 
 
 *See Kimhall Family Neivs, vol. iv, pp. 193-5, Jan., 1901. 
 
 tThe Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, by 
 David W. Hoyt, Providence, 1897, pp. 84, 85, 87. 
 
 The Carr Family Records, embracing the record of the first families 
 who settled in America and their descendants, etc., by Edson I. Carr. 
 Pp. 540. Rockton, 111., Herald Printing House, 1894. 
 
 tThe Carr Records print what purport to be extracts from a family 
 bible and from a diary of Mrs. William Carr. These are so clearly fab- 
 rications that one is surprised to find them printed in the work. They 
 make George Carr and wife, Lucinda Davenport, "Mayflower" pilgrims 
 and William Carr and wife, "Fortune" pilgrims. It is needless to say 
 there is ample evidence that they were not emigrants as stated and 
 the attempt to manufacture by supposed family records "Mayflower" 
 ancestors cannot be too strongly condemned. 
 
14 
 
 George was granted the largest island in tlie Merrimac for a 
 home and a shipyard. This island received the name Carr's 
 Island and was for a number of generations the Carr home. Its 
 possession gave the family the monopoly of the ferrying busi- 
 ness, which at George's death was considered to be worth £400. 
 The large house on Carr's Island was destroyed by fire in 1797. 
 George d. in Salisbury April 4, 1682 (when his "bro-in-law" 
 James Oliver was 64 years old), and his widow Elizabeth fol- 
 lowed May 6, 1691. They had ten children, all born in Salis- 
 bury. 
 
 Capt. Eichard-, ninth child of George^ and Elizabeth, was 
 b. April 2, 1659. He followed his father's vocation of ship- 
 
 wi'ight. He was m. four times: (1) to Elizabeth ; (2) to 
 
 Dorothy , who d. Aug. 3, 1694; (3) to Mrs. Sarah Healey; 
 
 and (4), to Sarah Greely. He d. in Salisbury Sept. 11, 1727, 
 a month after the death of his fourth wife. 
 
 Elizabeth^, oldest child of Capt. Richard" and Dorothy, 
 was b. in Salisbury Jime 9, 1691. She m. June 9, 1712, Eben- 
 ezer Kimbail. She was living in 1731. 
 
 Continuation. — Boyce Kimball, Eev. Ruel Kimball, Alonzo 
 Kimball. 
 
 ^be 1bai^wart) Xtueage (Mtlltam)/ 
 
 "WiLLiAiM^ was of Braintree, Mass., in 1648. Owing to the 
 confusion Avitli Howard and Haward, considerable uncertainty 
 exists regarding the first two generations. That given here is 
 furnished me by Mr. S. P. Sharpies, the well kno\vii genealo- 
 gist. William m. Margery (according to Savage, Margery 
 Thayer) and was drowned in 1659. He had several children. 
 
 William^, probably the _son of "William^ and Margeiy, was 
 of Swanzey and m. Sarah" ^"'--"^ . His oldest daughter was 
 Margery. 
 
 Jonathan^, son of William^ and Sarah, according to Ballon, 
 was of Swanzey and came to Milford when yet a minor as far 
 
 *Ballou's History of Milford, pp. 805-6. 
 
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 back as 1692. He probably owned several Imndred acres. He 
 m. (1) Trial Rockwood, dan. of the first John Rockwood of 
 Mendon. She was b. in 1676 or 1677. Hem. (2) Grace , 
 
 JoisTATHAN ■*, scGond child of Jonathan^ and Trial, was b. 
 April 8, 1699. He m. Jan. 22, 1717, Lydia Albee, and d. 
 Nov. 21, 1750. His widow d. in Douglas, Oct. 3, 1776. 
 
 Rebecca^, ninth child of Jonathan* and Lydia, was b. at 
 Milford, jMass., June 9, 1739. She m. at Hopkinton Dec. 4, 
 1755, Boyce Kimball. She d. July 23, 1790. 
 
 Continuation. — Rev. Ruel Kimball, Alon^o Kimball. 
 
 ^be 1Roc??woob (IRocf^et) Olincage/ 
 
 Richard^ was one of the first settlers of Dorchester and per- 
 haps a brother of John of Dorchester. He was in Dorchester 
 as early as 1635, but removed to Braintree in 1613. He m. 
 in 1636 or early in 1637 Agnes, the widowf of Zachary Bick- 
 nell of Weymouth, the emigrant ancestor of the American Bick- 
 nells. She had come in the ship ''Assurance" from Gravesend, 
 ]ient, Eng., in the spring of 1635, together with her husband, 
 Zachary Bicknell, their son John, and a. servant. She was then 
 37 years of age. They belonged to a company of 106 emi- 
 grants, mainly from the counties of Dorset and Somerset, un- 
 der the pastoral care of Rev. Joseph Hull. Agnes d. July 9, 
 1643. 
 
 The name of the family was frequently spelled Rochet or 
 Rockettj though it appears that the family wa^ote the name Rock- 
 Avood. 
 
 John", only child of Richard^ and Agues, w^as b. Dec. 1, 
 1611. He -was one of the earliest proprietors of Mendon, but 
 Avas driven aw^ay under great losses by the savages during King 
 Philip's War in 1675-6. He returned in 1678-9, purchased 
 
 *Savage, Genealogical Dictionary; Ballou's History of Milford, pp. 
 805, 996; A Memorial of a Respectable and Respected Family and es- 
 pecially of Joshua Bicknell, compiled by Thomas Williams Bicknell, 
 pp. 21 and xvi. Boston, 1880. Hist, of Dorchester, pp. 39, 80. 
 
 fSavage says dan. instead of widow. 
 
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 land of James Albee, and settled on Muddy Brook, Mendon. He 
 prospered and became an extensive land owner. 
 
 Tkial^, dau. of John^, was b. in 1676 or 1677. She m. 
 Jonathan Hay ward. Her husband survived her and m. (2) 
 Grace . 
 
 Continuation. — Jonathan Hay ward, Eebeeca Hay ward, Kev. 
 Euel Kimball, Alonzo Kimball. 
 
 Zbc aibee Xtncagc* 
 
 Benjamin^ Albee or Alby, the common ancestor, is first 
 mentioned as of Braintree, 1641, and made freeman there in 
 1642. His nativity is somewhat uncertain and it is not clear 
 whether he was the emigrant ancestor. He removed to Med- 
 field in 1649. In 1664 he became interested in Mendon, and 
 made an agreement to erect and maintain a corn mill on Mill 
 River. He built a large dam and mill, the first water power 
 grain mill in all those parts. The plantation afterward voted 
 him a bounty of fifty acres of land for building and maintain- 
 ing the mill. Benjamin was also a public land surveyor. He 
 was one of the first selectmen of Mendon and held other oflBces. 
 His buildings were all burned by the savages in King Philip's 
 War. He fled to Medfield, at which place he probably died. 
 His wife's name was probably Hannah . 
 
 James ^, oldest son of Benjamin^, was b. at Braintree, pro]> 
 ably between 1640 and 1649. He m. in Medfield Oct. 18, 1671, 
 Hannah Cook. All his father's property was deeded to him. 
 He was a man of large landed possessions and social influence. 
 He d. probably about 1720. 
 
 Lydia^, youngest child of James" and Hannah, was b. in 
 Mendon about 1690. She m., Jan. 22, 1716, Jonathan Hay- 
 ward, 3rd. 
 
 Continuation. — Rebecca Hay ward, Rev. Ruel Kimball, 
 Alonzo Kimball. 
 
 *Ballou's History of Milford, p. 522 et seq. 
 
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 ^be dooU Xineaoe, 
 
 The ancestry of Hannah Cook who in 1671 m. James Albee^ 
 at Medfield, has not been ascertained. It seems improbable 
 that she had been long a resident of Medfield and it is quite 
 likely that she was among those who left tlie outlying settlement 
 of Mendon (now Milford) when the threatening attitude of the 
 Indians developed in the 1670's. Medfield was settled largely 
 from Dedham about 1650. There were no Cooks among its 
 earlj- settlers, nor were there indeed among tlie early settlers 
 of Dedham. In Mendon (Milford), on the contrary. Cooks 
 were very numerous, the greater number being descended from 
 "Walter Cook who was of Weymouth in 1643. Benjamin Albee, 
 a founder of Milford and the father-in-law of Hannah Cook, 
 not only had been a resident of We^anouth, but between 1649 
 and 1664 or 1665 he had been a resident of Medfield. Med- 
 field was the town through which the Mendon settlers had com- 
 munication with the civilization to the east of them, and when 
 King Philip's War broke out in 1675 it was to Medfield that 
 they fled for refuge. If descended from Walter Cook, Hannah 
 must have been his dau., from the early date of her marriage. 
 His first dau. and second cliild had that name. Walter was of 
 Weymouth in 1643, was admitted freeman in 1653, and settled 
 in Mendon as early as 1664. 
 
Maternal Hncestr^ of Hlonso 
 IkinibalL 
 
 ^be riDatber Xineage* 
 
 The Matlier iRuiilj^ has included many brilliant men.* 
 Dr. Increase ]\Iather^, son of Kev. Richard Mather, and his 
 sons, Dr. Cotton Mather and Rev. J^athaniel Matherf, are so 
 well known as to require no treatment here. The English home 
 of the family was in Lowton, ^Vin^vick Parish, Lancashire, Eng- 
 land, where it is of record that Thomas, the father, and John, 
 the grandfather, of the American ancestor resided. The fam- 
 ily arms as preserved in the family of the early Mathers of Bos- 
 ton are described thus:? 
 
 Arms: — Ermine on a fesse wavy Azure, three lions rampant, Or. 
 
 Crest: — A lion sedant. Or. 
 
 Tnis coat of arms is found in MS. : '^Promptuarium Arm- 
 orum," and is there recorded as the arms of Wm. Mather of 
 
 ♦See Lineage of Rev. Richard Mather, by Horace E. Mather, pp. 539, 
 Hartford, 1890. 
 
 tSee A Colonial Boyhood, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 88 (1901), p. 651. 
 JLineage of Rev. Richard Mather, p. 27. 
 
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 Salop, 1602. The motto is sometimes given "Sunt Fortia Pec- 
 tora Nobis," and sometimes "Virtus Vera Nohilitas Est." 
 
 Althougli the ancestor of the family settled at Dorchester, his 
 grandsons removed to Connecticut and founded the Windsor, 
 Lyme, and Suffield branches of the Mather family. All the 
 Mathers now living are descended from Timothy Mather^ of 
 Dorchester, the "Farmer Mather," the other lines having ended 
 a,t the death of Samuel Mather, the grandson of Dr. Cotton 
 Mather. Many persons claim descent from Dr. Cotton Mather, 
 but they are in error, though some are descended from Mathers 
 who bore the name of Cotton. 
 
 Rev. Richard^, the American ancestor of the Mathers, was 
 b. in Lowton, Winwick Parish, Lancashire, England, in 1596. 
 He m. (1) Sept. 29, 1624, Catherine, dau. of Edmund Holt 
 of Bury, England, from wliom this branch of the family is de- 
 scended. They came to America from Bristol, reaching Boston 
 Aug. 17, 1635, and settling at Dorchester. The wife Catherine, 
 who bore all the children of Rev. Richard Mather, died in 1655, 
 and he m. (2) the widow of Rev. John Cotton. All his sons 
 who came to mature age, five in number, were ministers, with the 
 exception of Timothy, the "Farmer." Timothy's brother, In- 
 crease, was the president of Harvard College and a great man 
 in the Colony. Richard^ died April 22, 1669. 
 
 Timothy^, second son of Rev. Richard^ and Catherine, was 
 b. in Liverpool, England, 1628, and d. in Dorchester, Mass., 
 Jan. 14, 1684. He m. (1) Elizabeth, the dau. of Maj. Gen. 
 Humphrey Atherton of Dorchester, who bore all his children, 
 five sons and one daughter. In March, 1678-9, he m. (2) 
 Elizabeth, dau. of Amiel Weeks. 
 
 Atherton^, youngest son of Timothy" and Catherine, was 
 b. at Dorchester, Oct. 4, 1663, and d. at Suffield, Conn., 'Nov. 
 
 9, 1734. Hem. (1) ; (2) Sept. 20, 1694, Rebecca Stough- 
 
 ton, dau. of Thomas Stoughton; and (3) October 24, 1705, 
 Mary Lamb of Roxbury, Mass. He removed to Suffield in 1712 
 and founded the Suffield branch of the Mather family. He rep- 
 resented the town of Suffield in Boston for four years in the Gren- 
 
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 eral Court. He was a cousin of Dr. Cotton Mather. He had 
 five sons and three daughters. 
 
 William'*, oldest son of Atherton^ and Rebecca, was b. at 
 Windsor, Ct., March 2, 1698, and d. at Suffield, Ct., in 1747. 
 He) m., Nov. 7, 1721, Silence Buttolph, dau. of David Buttolph 
 of Simsbury, Ct., and had six sons and one daughter. 
 
 Timothy^, oldest son of William* and Silence, was b. at 
 Greenwich, ]Sr. J., Aug. 4, 1722, and lived at Suffield, Ct, He 
 m. (1) Oct. 25, 174S, Hannah Fuller, who d. April 7, 1757. 
 By her he had two sons and two daughters. March 6, 1760, he 
 m. widow Lucy Kellogg, by whom he had three sons. 
 
 Timothy®, second son (fourth child) of Timothy^ and Han- 
 nah, was b. at Suffield, Ct, March 2, 1757, and d. March 8, 
 1818. In 1779 he m. Hannah, dau. of Dea. John Church, who 
 d. Oct., 1827. He lived at Marlboro, Vt., and had six sons 
 and four daughters. (See p. 31.) 
 
 Hannah^, second dau. (second child) of Timothy® and Han- 
 nah, was b. in Marlboro, Vt., July 1, 1781. She lived at Ley- 
 den, K Y., and d. March 9, 1680. She m. Jan. 1, 1799, Eev. 
 Ruel Kimball, who d. Oct, 1, 1847. They had six sons and 
 five daughters. 
 
 Continuation. — Alonzo KimbalF. 
 
 Zbc atberton Xlncagc* 
 
 Ma J. Gen. Humphrey^. Thei-e is strangely enough but lit- 
 tle known of the antecedents of this eminent man. His name 
 first appears on the church records of Dorchester in 
 1636. He appears to have come from Winwick parish, 
 England, and to have reached Boston in the ship "James," 
 Capt. Taylor, Aug. 7, 1635. He was admitted freeman and 
 granted lands in Dorchester in 1637. He was Captain of the 
 Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company from 1650-1658, 
 
 *This account is taken from the History of Dorchester, Mass., by a 
 Committee of the Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society, Bos- 
 ton, 1859, pp. 102-104. See also Pope's Pion. Mass., p. 22. 
 
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 and commenced the first train band formed in Dorchester in 
 1644. He commanded the Suffolk Regiment with the title of 
 Major General and was the chief military officer in 'New Eng- 
 land. He was deputy to the General Court in 1638 and 1641, 
 and in 1659 he was chosen Speaker. His wufe was Mary 
 Wales. 
 
 He wae much respected for his religious character and pub- 
 lic spirit and was often employed by the Colonial Government 
 in civil and military matters. He had great skill and experience 
 in the treatment of the Indians, and manifested much human- 
 ity and sympathy for their ignorant and degraded condition, 
 but exercised great energy and decision of character when neces- 
 sary. His efforts to instruct them were referred to in the New 
 England Confederation, and Eliot applied to him in behalf of 
 the Neponsett tribe. He was employed in several expeditions 
 against the Narragansett Indians. In 1645 the Commissioners 
 of the United Colonies appointed a council of war, with Capt. 
 Standish at the head and Leverett and Atherton of Massachu- 
 setts and Mason of Connecticut. 
 
 The general's death in southern Boston on Sept. 16, 1661, was 
 occasioned by a fall from his horse. On his gravestone is the 
 following effusion : 
 
 Here lyes ovr Captaine, & Major of Svffolk was withall; 
 
 A Godly Magistrate was he, and Major Generall, 
 
 Two Troops of Hors with him heare came, svch worth his love did 
 
 crave ; 
 Ten Companyes of Foot also mourning marcht to his grave. 
 Let all that Read be sure to keep the Faith as he has don. 
 With Christ he lives now Crowned, his name was HvmpTirey Atherton. 
 
 Elizabeth', dau. of Humphrey^ and Mary, was bapt. at 
 Winwiek, Eng., Dec. 26, 1629; m. Timothy Mather.f 
 
 Coniinuaiion. — Atherton Mather, "William Mather, Timothy 
 Mather, Timothy Mather, Hannah Mather, Alonzo Kimball. 
 
 tSee p. 6. Also Pope's Pion. Mass., p. 22. 
 
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 Zbc ^tougbton Xtneaae.* 
 
 E^-^siGX Thomas^, the emigrant, was at Dorcliester in 1630 
 and a freeman in 1031. In the same year lie was constable and 
 fined for undertaking to marry a couple. He was called ''x\n- 
 cient" or Ensigii. He was one of the first settlers of Windsor, 
 going there in 1G40, and member of the first court held in tlie 
 River Colony. The old Stone Fort of Windsor stood on his 
 lot. He d. at Windsor March 25, 1661. 
 
 His brother Israel was one of the prominent men of Dor- 
 chester, and as Captain was Connnander-in-Chief of the success- 
 ful expedition against the Pequot Indians. He was after- 
 wards Lieutenant-Colonel in the Parliamentaiy forces under 
 Cromwell. Col. Israel's son was Governor of the Colony of 
 Massachusetts, and as C^hief Justice acquired a fearful notoriety 
 in connection with the witchcraft craze. The arms of the 
 Stoughtons are as follows:! 
 
 Arms: — Azure, a cross engr. erm. 
 Ckest: — A robin redbreast, ppr. 
 
 Thomas^, son of Thomas^, was b. in England, He had his 
 fathers homestead in Windsor, which has remained in the pos- 
 session of his descendants. He m., Xov. 30, 1655, Mary Wads- 
 worth. They had four sons and three daughters b. between 
 1657 and 1673. He d. Sept. 15, 1684. 
 
 Rebecca^, youngest child of Thomas" and Mary, was b. June 
 19, 1673. She m. Sept. 20, 1694, Atherton Mather. She d. 
 in 1704. 
 
 Continuation. — William Mather, Timothy Mather, Timothy 
 Mather, Hannah Mather, Alonzo Kimball. 
 
 *Triimbull's Hist, of Hartford Co., Ct., vol. H, p. 558. The History 
 and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Conn., by H. R. Stiles, Hartford, 
 1892, pp. 721-725. Drake's Histi^,of Boston. Hist, of Dorcliester, p. 8d. 
 
 t Drake's Hist, of Boston, p. 210. 
 
 Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 1164. 
 
William^, the ancestor, accompanied Mr. Daniel Gookin to 
 the Virginia Plantation in 1621, arriving in the ''Flying 
 Ilarte" Xov. 22nd of that year. In Hotten's List of Emi- 
 grants to America, 1600-1700, William Wadsworth is associ- 
 ated with Daniel Gookin and stands first on the list said to have 
 come in the ''Flying Ilarte." With Gookin he took up his set- 
 tlement at Xe^vport j^ews. Four months after his arrival, 
 Mch. 22nd, 1622, came the sudden attack by the Indians upon 
 the plantation in wliicli three hundred and forty-nine of the col- 
 onists were massacred. Gookin with his followers, some thirty- 
 five in all, would not obey the order of the council to abandon 
 the outlying posts but "thought liimself sufficient against what 
 could hap^x^n, and so did to his great credit and tlie content of 
 his adventures."! William a]^p'^ars to have returned with 
 Gookin to England in the "Sea Flower" in July, 1622. In 
 1632 William again started for the new world, this time in tlie 
 ship "Lion," which reached Boston Sept, 16, 1632. He settled 
 in Cambridge with the Rev. Thomas Hooker's company and on 
 JSTov. 6tli took the oa.tli of a freeman. He w^as one of the first 
 selectmen of Cambridge and in 1636 was one of Hooker's com- 
 pany of one hundred of both sexes and all ages who traveled 
 over a hundred miles through a trackless wilderness to found 
 the city of Hartford. They carried no guide but the compass. 
 According to TnunbullJ they drove with them one hundred and 
 sixty head of cattle and by the way subsisted on the milk of 
 their cows. Making their way through swamps, over hills and 
 tlirough dense woods they were nearly a fortnight upon the jour- 
 ney. William's age was about forty-one years at this time, he 
 having been b. in 1695. Little is known of his first wife, but it 
 
 *Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Wadsworth Family in America, 
 by Horace Andrew Wadsworth, pp. 257, Lawrence, Mass., 1S83. 
 t Smith's History of Virginia, vol. 11, p. 76. 
 + Hist. of Conn., vol. I, pp. 64, 65. 
 
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 is probable that lie m. in England, as lie possessed a house and 
 home soon after he settled at Cambridge. By her he had four 
 children. He m. (2), in 1G44, Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Samuel 
 Stoneof Hartford, by whom he had six children, including Capt. 
 Joseph, The mother Elizabeth, according to an old record, died 
 in 1659. William^ resided in Hartford till his death in 1675 
 when eighty years old. Savage* says of him, "He seems to 
 have lived in the highest esteem ; no man more often chosen 
 representative, for between Oct., 1656, and May, 1675, hardly 
 a year misses his services." It was his son, Capt. Joseph, who 
 saved the liberties of Connecticut by carrying away and con- 
 cealing in the hollo-w of an oak the Connecticut charter. Gen. 
 James S. Wadsworth, the distinguished division commander 
 who was killed in the Battle of the Wilderness, was a descendant 
 in the sixth generation from William. 
 
 Mary^, dau. of William^ and first wife, was b. about 1632. 
 She m., alx)ut 1656, Thomas Stoughton. 
 
 Continuation. — Eebecca Stoughton, William Mather, Tim- 
 othy ]\rather, Timothy JMather, Hannah Mather, Alonzo Kim- 
 ball. 
 
 Zbc Buttolpb Xincaac^t 
 
 Thomas^, the emigrant, was b, in 1603 and came over in the 
 "Abigail" from London in 1635. He was a freeman in Boston 
 in 1641. He d. in 1667, and his will was probated in Boston, 
 
 June 25, 1667. The will of his wife Ann , who came 
 
 with him from Eng., was probated Xov. 10, 1680. 
 
 Lieut. John^, son of Thomas^ and Ann, was b. Feb. 28, 
 1639. He m. (1), Oct. 16, 1663, Hannah Gardner. She d. 
 in Wethersfield, whore he had settled, Juno 6, 1681. They had 
 five children: Jonathan, Joseph, John, David, and George. 
 He m. (2), June 27, 1682, Abigail , and had Abigail 
 
 ♦Genealogical Dictionary, vol. IV, p. 38. 
 
 fSavage, Gen. Diet., vol. I, p. 323; Hinman, Puritan Settlers of Con- 
 necticut, p. 461. 
 
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 and Tames. He d. Jan. 18, 1082, and his v/ife Abigail fol- 
 lowed June 5, 108 7. He was a man of wealth in those days, 
 his estate being valued at £1,0-12. He owned lands in Wethers- 
 field, Hartford, Glastonbury, Lancaster, and Boston. 
 
 David^, son of Lieut. John and Hannah, was b. in 1670. He 
 m. Mary , and d. 1717. He removed from Wethers- 
 field to Simsburv. 
 
 SiLEJTCE"*, dau. of David'^ and Mary, m., Xov. 7, 1721, Will- 
 iam I^Lather. 
 
 Continuation.. — Timothy Mather, Timothy Mather, Hannah 
 Mather, Alonzo Kimball. 
 
 Zbc (3art)ner Xtneatje. 
 
 Thomas^, the ancestor, a husbandman, was from Weymouth, 
 Dorsetshire, England, where the Gardners had lived for more 
 than three centuries. He came to America in tlie spring of 
 1021 as superintendent of the planting of the colony sent out 
 by the Western Adventurers of Dorchester, England. He w\t.s 
 at Cape Ann the following summer and winter with thirteen 
 men uiider him. At the close of the year he was succeeded by 
 Roger C*onant, who also held office only a year when the under- 
 taking was abandoned. Thonnas then settled (1620) at Salem 
 and appears in the earliest records as proprietor. He d. in 
 1635. 
 
 Thomas^, son of Thomas^, was b. in England in 1592 and d. 
 in 1674. He was an eminent merchant of Boston. Hem. (1) 
 Margaret and (2) Mrs. Damaris Shattuck. 
 
 Geoiige", son of Thomas", was b. and d. Aug. 20, 1679. 
 
 He came to Hartford in 1673. He m. Elizabeth Orne,* who, 
 some claim, was the widow of his brother Thomas. She was 
 probably dau. of Dea. John Orne of Salem who died 1685. 
 
 ♦According to the History of Hartford Co., Ct. he m. in 1671 Eliza- 
 beth Allen of Boston, who was the widow by second marriage of Rev. 
 Samuel Stone (m. 1641). Horace E. Mather, the genealogist, gives the 
 marriage with Elizabeth Orne. The will of John Orne is printed in the 
 Essex Coll., IV, p. 68. 
 
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 George was a merchant in Hartford. In his will he gives £300 
 to his dan., Mrs. Bnttolph. 
 
 Hannah* was dan. of George^ and Elizabeth. She m. Oct. 
 16, 1603, Lient. John Bnttolph. 
 
 Continuation. — David Bnttolph, Silence Bnttolph, Timothy 
 Mather, Timothy ]\Iatlier, Hannah Mather, Alonzo Kimball. 
 
 abe fuller Xincaoe.* 
 
 JoiiN^ the first settler of the line in America, came in the 
 "Abigail" in 1635 and settled at Ipswich, Essex Co., Mass., 
 in 1037. He m. Elizabeth, dan. of Thomas Emerson. Their 
 children mentioned in his will, proven at Salem Sept. 25, 1006, 
 were John, James, William, Thomas, Joseph, Snsannah, Eliza- 
 beth, and Sarah. He d. Jnne 4, 1666. ' 
 
 Joseph", son of John^ and Elizabeth, was b. abont 1648. 
 He m. in 1685 Mary Wood. 
 
 Joseph^, son of Joseph" and Mary, removed to Snffield, Ct., 
 where he m., Sept. 18, 1715, Bathsheba Hanehett, and d. Mch. 
 7, 1744. Their children were Mary, Bathsheba, Mary, Sarah, 
 Hannah, and Joseph. 
 
 Hannah'', dan. of Joseph^ and Bathsheba, m. Oct, 25, 1748, 
 Timothy ^Mather. She d. April 7, 1757, and her hnsband remar- 
 ried. 
 
 Continuaiion. — Timothy Mather, Hannah Mather, Alonzo 
 Kimball. 
 
 *This lineage differs from that given by Sheldon, the Snffield ("Conn.) 
 historian, who gives for the ancestor, John Fuller of Newton, Mass., 
 (d. 1696). The lineage here given is based on extensive searches by Mr. 
 Horace E. Mather of Hartford, who has examined the records at Salem, 
 Northampton, and Springfield, and who is convinced that this is the 
 correct line. He finds also that another of John's family, Elizabeth, 
 removed to SuflSeld. See Pope's Pioneers of Massachusetts, p. 178. 
 
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 ^be jemereon Xlncacje** 
 
 Thomas-^, the ancestor, was probably b. at Sedgefield Parish, 
 Co. Durham, England, and d. at Ipswich, ]\[ass., ^May 1, 166G. 
 Tradition says he came to America from England in the "Eliz- 
 abeth Ann" in 1635. He was at Ipswich as early as 1638 
 when SO acres of land was gTanted him. He m. before coming 
 
 to America Elizabeth who suryived him. The poet, 
 
 Ivalph Waldo Emerson, was his descendant in the seyenth gen- 
 eration, and Prof. Benjamin Kendall Emerson, the well knowm 
 geologist, a discendant of the eighth generation. 
 
 Elizabeth^, dan. of Thomas^ and Elizabeth, was l>. in Eng- 
 land. She m., probal)ly in England, John Fuller, who later re- 
 sided at Rocky Hill, Ipswich. He d. June 4, 1666, she suryiv- 
 ing him.- 
 
 Continuation. — Joseph Fuller, Joseph Fuller, Hannah Ful- 
 ler, Timothy ]\rather, Hannah ]\rather, Alonzo Kimball. 
 
 cTbc W(oot> Xlncacjc, 
 
 Thomas^, was of Rowley, Mass., in 1651-. He was b. aboui 
 1635, and m. Ann A.pril 7, 1654. They had eleyen chil- 
 dren. The wife's name was probably Hunt and she appears 
 to haye been from Ipswich. Thomas d. in 1687 and wa,s buried 
 Sept. 12th of that year.. The wife d. Dec. 28, 1714. 
 
 Mary, oldest child of Thomias^ and Ann, was b. in Rowley 
 Jan. 15, 1655. Amasa Wood's genealog7y' says of her: ''Her 
 history is entirely unknown," f and the eyidence that she m. 
 Joseph Fuller is that Joseph Fuller of the a,djacent town of Ips- 
 wich (her mother's home also) m, a ]\Iary Wood Oct. 1, 1685, 
 
 *The Ipswich Emersons A. D. 1638-1900, etc., by Benjamin Kendall 
 Emerson, assisted by Capt. Geo. A. Gordon. Secretary N. E. Hist. 
 Geneal. Soc, pp. 537, Boston, 1900. 
 
 tBrief History of the Descendants of Thomas Wood and Ann his v/iie. 
 by Amasa Wood, p. 34, "Worcester, Daniel Seagrave, Printer, 1884. 
 
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 at wliicli time she was thirty years of age. Joseph was b. in 
 1645. 
 
 Continuation: — Joseph Fuller, Hannah Fuller, Timothy 
 Mather, Hannah Mather, Alonzo Kimball. 
 
 ^be Ibancbett Xlneaae.* 
 
 Dea. Thomas^ and his sons John and Thomas were original 
 proprietors of the town of SufSeld, Hartford Co., Ct.f Dea. 
 Thomas, Sr., was, probably, a brother of John of Boston. He 
 was in Wethersfield in 1649 but removed to New London in 
 1651. He remained at oSTew London three years and is next 
 heard from at i^ortliampton, 1660. He Avas deacon in 1668. 
 He removed to Westiield, and vdth. the founding of Suffield in 
 1671 to that place. His wife was Deliverance Langton. He 
 d. at Suffield, June 11, 1686. 
 
 JoHN^, oldest son of Dea. Thomas^ and Deliverance, was b. 
 at Wetherefield, Sept. 1, 1649. While living at Westfield he 
 m. (1), in 1677 Esther Pritchet of Suffield. There they had 
 two children, biit removed in 1680 to Suffield, where he was a 
 freeman and a voter at the first town meeting. He held many 
 offices and was deacon for many years. He had six children 
 born at Suffield. His first wife d. Nov. 29, 1711, and he m. 
 (2) Mrs. Mary Harmon, who d. Sept. 17, 1730. He m. (3) 
 Mrs. Sarah Tayler who d. Jan 6, 1733, and (4) Mrs. Mary 
 Southwell, who survived him. He d. Oct. 23, 1744, aged 95. 
 His house lot at Suffield was as late as 1879 in the possession 
 of Betsey Hauchett, his descendant of the fifth generation. 
 
 Batiisheba^, dau. of Jolm"^ and Esther, m. Sept. 18, 1715^ 
 Joseph Fuller. 
 
 Continuation.. — Hannah Fuller, Timothy Mather, Hannah 
 Mather, Alouzo Kimball. 
 
 *The Loomis Family. Female Bracclies, vol. I, p. 275. Also, Docu- 
 mentary History of Suffield, etc., 1660-1679, by Hezeklah Spencer Shel- 
 don, pp. 35, 81. Springfield, 1879. 
 
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 Zhc XanGton Xtncaoc* 
 
 George \ the ancestor, was one of the early settlers of Weth- 
 ersfield hnt removed to Springfield and Avas at the latter place 
 in ]6-^<i. He was a town officer in 1650. His first wife he 
 married either in England or shortly after coming to America. 
 Of her children was Deliverance who ni. Dea. Thomas Han- 
 chett. He m. (2), June 29, 1648, the widow Haynes of 
 Springfield. His will dated Nov. 28, 1676, made bequests to 
 his wife, son Thomas Hanchett, daughters Corber, Prichett and 
 Easter Hannam, son John, and grandson Samuel Lang-ton. 
 
 Deliverance", dau. of George^ and first wife, m. Dea. 
 Thomas Hanchett. Their elder child was b. in 1649. 
 
 Continuation. — John Hanchett, Bathsheba Hanchett, Han- 
 nah Fuller, Timothy Mather, Hannah Mather, Alonzo Kimball. 
 
 Zbc pricbart) (jPrtcbett) %\ncnQC, 
 
 The Prichard line while not proven is with great probability 
 as given below. The Springfield Prichards, from whom it was 
 first thought Esther misht have been descended, had no daughter 
 Esther of which records are found. 
 
 Sgt. William^ was of Lynn in 1645, but removed to Ipswich 
 before 1648 as he was a subscriber in 1648 to the fund to re- 
 tain Maj. Gen. Denison in charge of Military Affairs. He had 
 two shares in Plum Island (Ipswich) in 1664. Various rec- 
 ords of land grants made to him are found. He was one of 
 the first settlers of Brookfield, Mass., was Clerk of the Writs 
 and Sergeant in the militaiy company. He was killed by the 
 Indians, together with his son Samuel, Aug. 3, 1675. He had 
 nine children: John, Samuel, William, Joseph, Elizabeth, 
 Sarah, Mary, Hannah, and Esther. His son William m. Eliza- 
 beth, dau. of Edward Allen or Allyn of Suffield (a soldier un- 
 
 * Savage, Genealogical Dictionary; Pope's Pion. Mass., p. 277. 
 
30 
 
 der Cromwell), lienco probably he had previously removed from 
 Brookfield to Siiffield taking his yomigest sister, Esther, with 
 him, as there are no Prichards recorded at Suffield before Will- 
 iam and Esther. 
 
 EsTHEK", probably the yomigest dan. of William^, m. in 1677 
 while at Suffield John Ilanchett of Westfie'ld. 
 
 Continuation. — Bathsheba Hanchett, Hannah Fuller, Timo- 
 thy Mather, Hannah Mather, Alonzo Kimball. 
 
 ITbe Cburcb XtneaGC* 
 
 Richard^, the emigrant, was an original proprietor of Hart- 
 ford, Ct., in 1637. He removed in 1659 with the "Withdraw- 
 ers" to Hadley, ]\Iass., and d. there Dec. 16, 1667. He m. Anne 
 who d. in Hatfield, Mcli. 10, 1684, in her Sith year. 
 
 Samuel^, son of Richard^ and Anne, was freeman of Con- 
 necticut in 1657, and d. Apr. 13, 1684. He m. Mary, dau. of 
 Josiah Churchill. His son Richard v/as killed by Indians Oct. 
 15, 1696. 
 
 Bejn^jamin^, son of SamueP and Mary, was b. Sept. — , 1680, 
 and d. Jan. 15, 1755. He m. (1), Jan. 13, 1709, Miriam 
 Hovey; (2), Sept. 23, 1714, Hannah Dickinson (b. Sept. 6, 
 
 1684) ; and (3), May 29, 1724, Sarah , widow of Elisha 
 
 Perkins. 
 
 Dea. John*, son of Benjamin^ and Hannah, was b. Sept. 23, 
 1716. He m. Mch. 24, 1741, Jemima Montague (b. Jan. 28, 
 1719). Dea. John d. May 6, 1779, aged 63. He removed 
 from South Hadley to Marlboro, Vt., and was first deacon of the 
 church there. His children were Joseph, Moses, Jemima, and 
 Hannah.t 
 
 Hannah'', dau. of John* and Jemima, was b. in South Had- 
 ley, Mass., Nov. 26, 1756, and d. Oct. 13, 1827. She m. in 
 1779 Timothy Mather. Land records at Marlboro show that in 
 1783 John Church deeded real estate to his sons Moses and 
 Joseph and to his son-in-law, Timothy Mather. 
 
 Continuation. — Hannah Mather, Alonzo Kimball. 
 
 *Sylvester Judd's History of Hadley, Northampton, 1883, pp. 460-461. 
 fHistory of Windham Co., Vt., p. 448. 
 
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 Zhc Cburchill Xtncagc* 
 
 JosiAii^, the American ancestor came from Devonshire, Eng- 
 land, where John Churchill, who became Duke of Marlborough, 
 was b. June 24, 1650. The Duke's father, Winston Churchill, 
 and Josiah must have been about of the same age, and it is a 
 tradition in the American family that they were of the same 
 familj'. Josiah settled in Wethersfield in 163(3 and, it is sup- 
 posed, came to this country shortly before. He appears to have 
 been a prominent man in the community. He was b. in Eng- 
 land about 1614, m. in 1638 Elizabeth Foote, and d. Jan. 1, 
 1686. 
 
 Mary^, oldest child of Josiah^ and Elizabeth, w^as b. Mch. 
 24, 1639. She m., probably about 1664, Samuel Church of 
 Hadley. 
 
 Continuatmn. — Benjamin Church, Dea. John Church, Han- 
 nah Church, Hannah Mather, Alonzo Kimball. 
 
 ZTbe jfootc Xineagc.t 
 
 Nathaniel^ came to this country from England probably 
 about 1633, since he was a freeman at Watertown in 1634. He 
 was a descendant of James Foote to whom a coat of arms was 
 given by King James. Nathaniel was b, probably in 1593 and 
 m. in England Elizabeth Deming, sister of John Deming, who 
 m. Honor Treat. Elizabeth was b., probably in 1595, and d. 
 in Jan., 1683. J^athaniel removed from Watertown to become 
 one of the original settlers of Wethersfield, Ct. He was one 
 of the patentees of the Connecticut charter. He became a mag- 
 istrate, and in 1641, was Representative to the General Court, 
 a position which he held till his death in 1644. His widow be- 
 came the second wife of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut. 
 
 ♦Hodge Genealogy, by Orlando John Hodge, Boston, 1900, pp. 356-7. 
 See also Judd's History of Hadley, p. 4C0. 
 t Hodge Genealogy, pp. 354-5. 
 
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 Elizabeth^, eldest cliild of IS^athaniel and Elizabeth, was b. 
 about 1616. She m., in 1638, Josiali Churcliill, and d. S&pt. 
 8, 1700. 
 
 Continuation. — Mary Churcliill, Benjamin Church, Dea. 
 John Church, Hannah Church, Hannah Mather, Alonzo Kim- 
 ball. 
 
 ^be Dickineon Tlineage. 
 
 The Dickinsons of Xew England are descended from ISTathan- 
 iel and Anna Dickinson who settled in Wethersfield in 1636.* 
 JSTathaniel's pedigree in England has been traced by Mr. Whar- 
 ton Dickinson of Is^ew York City from Walter de Caen, the great 
 great grandson of the Scandinavian Rolf or Rollo who overran 
 Normandy in 910. Walter de Caen (Walter de Kenson in 
 England from the name of his manor in Yorkshire) accompa- 
 nied William the Conqueror to England. Erom Walter de 
 Kenson the pedigree is traced through a line of freeholders to 
 Nathaniel Dickinson, the American ancestor, and the fourteenth 
 in descent. The Dickinson anus are: 
 
 Arms: — Azure, a fesse ermine- between two lions passant, or, 
 Ceest: — A demi lion rampant perpale erminois et azure. 
 
 JSTathaniel, the ancestor, was b. in Ely, Cambridge, Eng- 
 land, in 1600. He m. at East Bergholat, Suffolk, Jan., 1630, 
 Anna, widow of William Gull. In 1630 he came in the fleet 
 of Gov. Jolm Wintlirop to Salem and settled at Watertown 
 where he remained until 1635-36, when he removed to Wethers-- 
 field, Ct. In 1659 he went with "the withdrawers" to Hadley, 
 Mass., being of the original committee to lay out the town. He 
 held many offices both at Wethersfield and Hadley. At the lat- 
 ter place he was a member of the Hampshire Troop, an assessor, 
 a town magistrate, and of the first Board of Trustees of the Hop- 
 kins' Academy. All of his nine sons took an active part in 
 
 *The Descendants of Thomas Dickinson, son of Nathaniel and Anna 
 Gull Dickinson of Wethersfield, Ct., and Hadley, Mass. [Comp. by Fred- 
 erick Dickinson, 26 Bryant Ave., Chicago], 1897, pp. 144. 
 
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 King Philip's War, the two eldest and the youngest being killed 
 ill it. Nathaniel d. at Iladley June 16, 1G76. Says Trum- 
 bull,* "The people of Wethersfield should remember with pride 
 the part taken in the war of 1075-1677 by this family." 
 
 Neiiemiah^, son of Nathaniel^ and Anna, was b. 1643. He 
 in. 1670 at Iladley Sarah Cowles. He was a soldier in King 
 Philip's War and was in the Falls (Turner's) Fight May 19, 
 1676. 
 
 Hannah^, eighth child of Neliemiah" and Sarah, was b. Sept. 
 6, 1684. She m., Sept. 23, 1714, Benjamin Church. 
 
 CoMinuation. — Dea. John Church, Hannah Church, Hannali 
 Mather, Alonzo Kimball. 
 
 JoiiTs"^, the first settler, was at Farmington, (^'t., in 1652, 
 from whence he removed about 1664 to Hatfield, Mass. Ho 
 Avas freeman there in 1666 and d. in September, 1675. His 
 wife Vv-as Hannah , who made her will at Hartford in 1680. 
 
 Maky", fourth child of John^ and Hannah, m., in 1670, Xehe- 
 miah Dickinson, 
 
 Continuation. — Hannah Dickinson, Dea. John C^hurch, Han- 
 nah Ciiurch, Hannah Mather, Alonzo Kimball. 
 
 ♦Memorial Hist, of Hartford Co., vol. II, p. 465. 
 
 fJudd's Hist, of Hadley, p. 471. See also, The Descendants of 
 Thomas Dickinson, p. 87. 
 
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 Zbc fTDontafiuc ILineage. 
 
 RiCHAKD^ the emigrant Montague of the New England 
 branch of the family, was b. about 1614 in Bovenoy, Parish of 
 Burnham, Buckinghamshire, England, where his ancestors had 
 resided for several generations. They in turn were descended 
 from the Montagus of Normandy through Drogo de Montagu 
 (or Monteacuto) who was b. about 1040 and became the trusted 
 compa^nion, follower and intimate friend of Robert, Earl of 
 Moritan, the favorite brother of William, Duke of Normandy 
 (William the Conqueror). The pedigi*ee of the family traced 
 from Drogo (1040) is given in the Montague Genealogy.* 
 
 The arms of the family were : 
 Argent, three fusils in fess gules, between three pellets (or ogresses). t 
 
 Richard was the son of Peter Montague and Eleanor Allen 
 (dau. of William Allen of Burnham, England). It is supposed 
 that Ricliard came to America about 1034 with his brother, but 
 no record exists earlier than 1646 when he removed with his 
 wife from Wells, Me., to Boston. His wife was Abigail, dau. 
 of Rev. Dr. Downing of Norwich, Eng. Richard removed in 
 1651 to Wethersfield, Conn., and withdreav from there with the 
 fifty-nine who founded Hadley, Mass. His dwelling house 
 which stood at Hadley for a century and a half was pulled down 
 in 1830. He seiwed as selectman and clerk of writs (town 
 clerk) and d. at Hadley Dec. 14, 1681. His widow d. Nov. 8, 
 1094. During King Philip's War, Richard baked the biscuits 
 for the soldiers of tlie campaign. 
 
 JoHN^, youngest child of Richard^ and Abigail, was b. in 
 Wethersfield about 1655, and removed to Hadley with his par- 
 
 ♦History and Genealogy of the Montague Family of America, de- 
 scended from Richard Montague of Hadley, Mass., and Peter Montague 
 of Lancaster Co., Va. Compiled by Geo. Wra. Montague, revised and 
 edited by Professor Wm. L. Montague of Amherst College, Amherst, 
 1886. Also by the same author. History and Genealogy of Peter Mon- 
 tague of Nansemond and Lrancaster Counties, Virginia, and Their De- 
 Bcendants. Amherst, 1894. 
 
 fSee Hist, and Genealogy of Peter Montague, pp. 30-31. Also frontis- 
 piece plate. 
 
35 
 
 eats. He m., Marcli 23, 1681, in Hadley, Hannah Smith of 
 Hadley. He was selectman in 1G97 and d. about 1732. 
 
 JoiiN^, first bom of John^ and Hannah, was b. in Hadley 
 Dec. 31, 1681. He was one of the Hadlej men who partici- 
 pated in the fight incident to the assault and massacre by the 
 Trench and Indians at Deerfield in the winter of 1704. He 
 ni. (1) Mindwell Lyman of Northaliipton (who d. April 4, 
 1713), and (2), Sept. 29, 1714, Abigail Smith of Hadley. 
 
 Jemima*, fourth child of John^ and Abigail, was b. Jan. 28, 
 1719. She ra. March 24, 1741, I)ea. John Church. 
 
 Continuation. — Hannah Church, Hannah Mather, Alonzo 
 Kimball. 
 
 Zbc Downing Xtncaoe* 
 
 The descent of Abigail Downing from William the Con^ 
 ■queror through Henry I, the Empress ]\Iaud, Henry II, King 
 John, Henry III, Edward I, etc., is given in full by Geo. Wm. 
 and Wm. L. Montague.* 
 
 The arms of the family are : 
 
 Barry of Eight, Argent and Vert, over all a Gryphon Segreant, Or. 
 
 Abigail^ was the dau. of Rev. Dr. Downing, a clergyman of 
 ISTorwich, Norfolk Co., England. She is said to have com© to 
 America with William Montague, the elder brother of Richard 
 of Hadley. There is little room for doubt that on her arrival 
 in America she went to the home of her relative Emanuel Do\vn- 
 ing in Salem. It was probably here that Richard Montague 
 found and married her. It is also probable that the English 
 families were acquainted and that William brought her by 
 previous arrangement. Sir George Downing, who was with 
 Cromwell at the Battle of Worcester and was afterward Scout- 
 
 ♦History and Genealogy of the Montague Family ia America, Amherst, 
 1886, pp. 34-S8. 
 
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 inaBter General of the army of Scotland, foreign minister, 
 knight, and baronet, was a son of Emanuel Downing, cousin of 
 Abigail. Writing to his cousin, John Winthrop of Wethers- 
 field, Ct., from Salem, Jan. 15, 1652, Emanuel Downing says: 
 "I wrote this winter to yon with letters enclosed to my cousin 
 Mountagew," by whom could be meant only Abigail Downing. 
 She d. Nov. 8, 1694. 
 
 Continuation. — John Montague, John Montague, Jemima 
 Montague, Hannah Church, Hannah Mather, Alonzo Kimball. 
 
 ^be Smitb Xincaae (Cbilcal)).* 
 
 Lieut. Samuel^, the ancestor, sailed for New England with 
 his wife Elizabeth and three children, April, 1634, in the ship 
 ''Elizabeth" of Ipswich. He and his wife were both at that 
 time 32 years of age. He settled at Wethersfield, Ct., where 
 he became a leading man, and later removed to Hadley. He died 
 1680 ( ?), aged about 78. The inventory of his property was 
 taken in 1681. His widow Elizabeth d. March 16, 1686, 
 aged 84. According to some historians, Judd among them, the 
 regicides Goffe and Whalley were harbored for a time in the 
 house of Lieut. Samuel Smith. His son, Lieut. Philip, ren- 
 dered great service in the early struggles. 
 
 Chileab^, son of Lieut. SaniueP, and older brother of John, 
 was b. about 1635. He m. Oct. 2, 1661, Hannah Hitchcock, 
 dau. of Capt. Luke Hitchcock. He d. March 7, 1731, ae. 95. 
 
 Hannah^, daughter of Chileab^ and Hannah, was b. July 7, 
 1662. She m. March 23, 1681, John Montague. 
 
 Continuation. — John Montague, Jemima Montague, Hannah 
 Church, Hannah Mather, Alonzo Kimball. (See below another 
 line from Lieut. Samuel Smith.) 
 
 ♦Judd's History of Hadley, p. 566. 
 
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 Zbc Ibitcbcoc?? XincaQC.*^ 
 
 Capt. Luke^, the Hitchcock ancestor, was b. . He 
 
 took the freeman's oath in Xew Haven Jnly 1, 1G44, prob- 
 ably soon after coming to America, and removed in 1(346 
 or earlier to Wethersfield, Conn. He was peculiarly fortu- 
 nate in cultivating the friendship of the Indians, who, ac- 
 cording to an account l)y his great grandson in 1801, gave 
 him a deed of the town of Fannington, Ct. This deed was lost, 
 however. Luke was captain at Crown Point in 1645, and a 
 selectman at Wethersfield in 1653 and 1656. He m. Eliza- 
 beth, sister of William Gibbons of Hartford, both of whom 
 came from Fenny Compton, Warwick Co., England. In 1659 
 Luke signed an agreement to remove to Hadley, Mass., but d. 
 60on after (Xov. 1, 1659). His widow Elizabeth m. (2) Oct. 
 2, 1661, William Wariner of Springfield, to which town she 
 removed with her sons John and Luke. Her husband d. in 
 1676 and she m. (3), Sept. 17, 1678, in Milford, Mass., Joseph 
 Baldwin of Hadley. Surviving him she d. at Springfield, April 
 25, 1696. President Edward Hitchcock of Amherst College, 
 the eminent geologist, was fifth in descent from Luke.^ Charles 
 Dudley Warner was also a descendant of Luke Hitchcock. 
 
 Hank^ah^, second child of Capt. Luke^ and Elizabeth, was b. 
 in 1645. She m. Oct. 2, 1661, Chileab Smith of Hadley, Mass. 
 She d. Aug. 31, 1733, ae. 88. On her tombstone, now standing 
 in Hadley, is found an inscription of which the following is a 
 part: "It is a worthy memorial they lived in mariag stat 70 
 year." 
 
 Continuation. — Hannah Smith, John Montague, Jemima 
 Jklontague, Hannah Church, Hannah Mather, Alonzo Kimball. 
 
 *The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family who are descended from 
 Mathias Hitchcock of East Haven, Conn., and Luke Hitctcock of 
 Wethersfield, Conn. Compiled by Mrs. Edward Hitchcock, Sr., of Am- 
 herst, Mass., Amherst, 1894. 
 4 
 
38 
 
 ^be Smitb Xineage Oobn).* 
 
 Lieut. Samuel^ (See page 36). 
 
 John", son of Lieut. SamueP and Elizabeth, was b. about 
 1640 and m., Nov. 12, 1673, Mary, dau. of William Partridge. 
 He was in Capt. Turner's C'Ompany and was slain in 1676 in 
 the Fall's Fight with Indians. 
 
 JoHN^, called "Orphan John," the son of John^ and Mary, 
 was b. May 15, 1665. He m. in 1687 Mary Root of Westfield, 
 Mass. He d. Jan. 20, 1724. 
 
 Abigail'*, dau. of John^ and Mary, was b. Oct. 26, 1691. 
 She m., Sept. 29, 1714, John Montague. 
 
 C ontinuationi. — Jemima Montague, Hannah Church, Han- 
 nah Mather, Alonzo Kimball. 
 
 Z\)c partridge Olincage.t 
 
 William^ came from Berwick-upon-Tweed, England, and 
 was an early settler of Hartford, Ct., whence he removed to 
 Hadley, Mass., at which place he d. June 27, 1668. He m. 
 Dec. 12, 1644, Mary Smith of Hartford, who d. July 20, 1680, 
 aged 55. They had two children, Samuel, b. Oct. 15, 1645, 
 and Mary. 
 
 Mary-, dau. of William^ and Mary, m. (1), N'ov. 12, 1663, 
 John, son of Lieut. Samuel Smith, and (2), Sept., 1679, Peter 
 Montague. She d. May 20, 1683. 
 
 Continuation. — John Smith, Abigail Smith, Jemima Mon- 
 tague, Hannah Church, Hannah Mather, Alonzo Kimball. 
 
 *Judd's History of Hadley, pp. 565-568. 
 
 tGenealogies of the Lymans of Middlefield, of the Dickinsons of Mom- 
 treal, and of the Partridges of Hatfield. [By James T. Dickinson.] p. 
 29, Boston, 1865. 
 
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 ^be IRoot Xtneage.* 
 
 JoHN^. The first settler is believed to have been the son of 
 John and Mary (Russell) Roote of Badby, Northamptonshire, 
 England. They were m. in 1600. John, the settler, was b. 
 in Badby Feb. 26, 1608. It appears that at the time of his 
 emigration to America his father had died and he had been 
 living with his uncle, a man of wealth advanced in years and 
 perhaps of the nobility. Being a zealous opponent of popery, 
 the uncle insisted that John should fight against Charles I. 
 in the Parliamentary forces under Cromwell ; but as he was a 
 man of peace, the nephew preferred to join a company of Puri- 
 tans going to America. On his arrival there in 1640, he went 
 at once to Farmington, Ct., and was one of its first settlers. 
 Soon after he m. Mary Kilbourn. He d. Aug., 1684 (ae. 76), 
 leaving an estate valued at £819. His wife, who was eleven 
 years his junior, survived him and d. in 1698. Their children 
 were six sons and two daughters. Joim^, who was known as 
 "Goodman Rote," subscribed to the articles of settlement of 
 Mattatuck, afterward Waterbury, Ct., and in behalf of one of 
 his sons was accepted as an original proprietor. He appears 
 to have been a man of prominence, and was chosen "one of the 
 committee, in 1677, to take into consideration the expediency 
 of changing the village site." Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of 
 War under McKinley and Roosevelt, is eighth in descent from 
 John^ 
 
 John-, son of John^ and JNIary, was b. about 1642 in Farm- 
 ington, Ct. It WHS on his account that his father was in 1678 
 accepted as an original proprietor of Waterbury, Ct., but it 
 is probable that the son never lived there. He lived at West- 
 field, Mass., and m. Oct. 18, 1664, Mary Ashley. He was 
 made freeman in 1669. He held at one time the office of Com- 
 missary at Westfield, as he was in 1680 allowed £14 for his 
 
 ♦Root Genealogical Records 1600-1870, by James Pierce Root. New 
 York, 1870, pp. 314-317. 
 
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 services. He d. Sept, 24, 1687, and his wife followed Mch. 9, 
 1702. His estate was valued at £505. 
 
 Maky^, dau. of John- and Mary, was b. Sept. 22, 1607. She 
 m. Feh. 23, 1686, John Smith, Jr., of Hadley, Mass. 
 
 Continuation. — Abigail Smith, Jemima Montague, Hannah 
 Church, Hannah Mather, Alonzo Kimball. 
 
 Z\)c Iktlbourn OltncaGC.* 
 
 Thomas^, the common ancestor of the Kilboumes, Kilbourns, 
 Kilbums, and Kilborns in America, was b. in 1578 in the par- 
 ish of Wood Ditton, Co. Cambridge, England, his baptism be- 
 ing recorded as May 8, 1578. Unlike most of the pioneers of 
 New England he was a member of the Church of England and 
 "Church Warden" of his native parish in 1632. He m. Frances 
 • , who was b. ab. 1585, and they had eight children : Mar- 
 garet, Thomas, Elizabeth, George, Mary, Lydia, Frances and 
 John. He embarked for America with all his family except 
 Thomas, Elizabeth and George, April 15, 1635, in the ship 
 ''Increase," Robert Lee, Master. They settled in Wethersfield, 
 Ct., where Thomas d. before 1639. His wife d. 1650. 
 
 Mary^, the sixth child and fourth dau. of Thomas^ and 
 Frances, was b. in Wood Ditton, England, in 1619. She m. 
 John Root, Sr., of Farming-ton, Ct. They were both members 
 of the church in Farmington in 1679. He d. Aug., 1684, his 
 wife surviving him. 
 
 Continuation. — John Root, Mary Root, Abigail Smith, Je- 
 mima Montague, Hannah Church, Hannah Mather, Alonzo 
 Kimball, 
 
 ♦The History and Antiquities of the Name and Family of Kilbourn 
 (in its varied orthography), by Payne Kenyon Kilbourne, A. M., pp. 444, 
 New Haven, Durrie & Peck, 1856. 
 
41 
 
 abe asblc^ Xincagc* 
 
 EoBEKT^ first appears as a resident of Roxbury, Mass., but 
 afterwards removed to S])rinofield with Hon. Wm. Pynclion's 
 company. On Jan. 13, 1638-9, he disbursed £1 and 16s. for the 
 minister's residence and maintenance, showing that he was in 
 Springfield in 1638. While not proven by marriage record 
 there can be little doubt that he m. ab. 1641 Mary, the widow of 
 Thomas ITorton of Springfield, her former husband having died 
 the previous summer, leaving her with two children. He kept 
 the ordinary or inn for several years. About 1661, after giv- 
 ing up his inn, he built on his extensive property west of the 
 Connecticut river (now West Springfield) and lived there the 
 remaining twenty years of his life. He frequently held public 
 office as juryman, selectman, constable, sealer of weights, etc. 
 He d. IS^ov. 29, 1682, at West Springfield, and his wife followed 
 Sept. 19, 1683. 
 
 Mary", third child and second dau. of Robert^ and Mary, 
 w-as b. April 6, 1644, and was m. Oct. 18, 1664, to John Root 
 of Westfield, Mass. 
 
 Cooitinuation. — Mary Root, Abigail Smith, Jemima Mon- 
 tague, Hannah Church, Hannah Mather, Alonzo Kimball. 
 
 *A History of the Descendants of Robert Ashley of Springfield, Mass., 
 by Francis Bacon Trowbridge, pp. 464, New Haven, 1896. Root Genea- 
 logical Records, p. 316. 
 
XLhc IPaternal Hncestr^ of Sarab 
 Meston. 
 
 Zbc OTcston Xincaac* 
 
 Edmund Weston^, the American progenitor of this branch 
 of the family, came to Boston in the ship "Elizabeth and Ann," 
 and settled in Diixbury in the Plymouth Colony in 1635. In 
 the passenger list his age is given as thirty years. There is a 
 tradition that in England he was a thresher of grain. Soon 
 after coming to Duxbnry he entered himself as an apprentice to 
 John Winslow and N'athaniel Thomas, and in 1639 formed a 
 copartnership with John Carver for planting and farming. In 
 1640 he had a grant from the Colony of four acres at Stony 
 Brook, Duxbury, and a tract of land near Green Harbor. In 
 1643 he was one of the men who were enrolled to bear arms. 
 In 1652 he was a surveyor of highways, and from this time his 
 name frequently appears in connection with town affairs and in 
 various public matters. Justin Winsor, late librarian of Har- 
 vard University, in his History of Duxbury, speaks of Edmund 
 Weston as "the enterprising ancestor of an enterprising family 
 whose descendants have been numerous, and most of them have 
 resided in town." He married a De la Noye (Delano). t 
 
 A copy of Edmund Weston's will is found in the early rec- 
 ords of Plymouth (B. 8, p. 16) bearing date Feb. 18, 1686, and 
 admitted to probate June 3, 1686. He d. in Duxbury in his 
 
 *Most of the data regarding the "Weston Lineage have been taken 
 from The Descendants of Edmund Weston of Duxbury, Mass., for Five 
 Generations, by Thomas Weston, Jr., Esq., A. M., pp. 23, Littlefield, Bos- 
 ton, 1887. (Reprinted from the N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg., July, 1887.) 
 
 tMr. Thomas Weston, Esq., writes that he has never been able to find 
 any record which substantiates this, but it is a tradition so widely 
 
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 80th year respected and honored by all who knew him. He 
 left three sons and a daughter. 
 
 Edmund^, the second son and third child of Edmund^, was 
 b. in 1660, and resided in Plympton, where he was one of the 
 first settlers. He owned and operated a grist mill at Dun- 
 ham's Point. The land he owned has, on the authority of 
 Thomas Weston, Esq., always been in possession of his descend- 
 ants. He m. Rebecca, dau. of John, and granddaughter of 
 George Soule of the "Mayflower." He d. Sept. 23, 1727, aged 
 67 years. His wife d. Nov. 18, 1732, in her 76th year. They 
 had Ave sons and a daughter. 
 
 Zachaeiah^, the second son and second child of Edmund^ 
 and Rebecca, was b. Dec. 16, 1690. He lived during the early 
 part of his life on Dunham's Neck, Plympton, but afterward 
 removed to Middlelx»ro'. He m. June 20, 1717, Mehitable 
 Shaw and d. Sept. 27, 1763. They had four sons and a daugh- 
 ter. 
 
 Zaciiariah'*, the youngest child of Zachariah^ and Mehita- 
 ble, was b. Dec. 21, 1728. He resided in Plympton on Stand- 
 ish Neck. He m., 1751, Rebecca Standish, the fourth in de- 
 scent from Capt. Myles Standish.* She d. July 28, 1769, ''in 
 her 38th year." (Ins. Middleboro' Green Cemetery.) His sec- 
 ond wife was Sarah Pomeroy Wood, widow of Manassah Wood 
 of Middleboro'. By his tirst wife Zachariah had two sons and 
 two daughters, and by his second wife a son and two daughters. 
 Zachariah"^ d. April 9, 1794, "aged 65 yrs." (Ins. Middleboro' 
 Green C Vmetery. ) 
 
 held in the family that it probably rests on a fairly secure foundation. 
 The records in Duxbury which would probably show this marriage, were 
 destroyed by fire in the early part of the 17th century. She must have 
 been a daughter of De la Noye, the Huguenot, who in 1621 founded 
 the American family of Delano. The European as well as the Ameri- 
 can ancestry of this distinguished Huguenot family has been published 
 under the title, "The Genealogy, History and Alliances of the Ameri- 
 can House of Delano, 1621 to 1899." Compiled by Maj. Joel Andrew 
 Delano. With the History and Heraldry of the Maison de Franchimont 
 and De Lannoy to Delano, 1096 to 1621," etc., pp. 561, New York, 1899. 
 *Capt. Miles' of "Mayflower," Alexander* of Duxbury (m. (1) Sarah, 
 dau. of John Alden), Ebenezer,^ Lieut. Moses,* Rebecca.^ 
 
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 Rev. Isaiah^, the first child of Zachariah* by his second 
 wife, Sarah Pomeroy, was b. in Middleboro' Feb. 1, 1773. He 
 m. (1) May 14, 1795, Sarah, dan. of Hon. Josiah Dean.* They 
 lived at Raynhani, later at ISlew Bedford, and still later they 
 removed to Dalton in Berkshire connty.f He ni. (2), Isov. 
 24, 1818, Mary Wright, and d. Feb. 17, 1821. He joined the 
 chnrch at Middleboro', Jan. 19, 1794, and was "discharged" to 
 'New Bedford the same year. He was a man of liberal educa- 
 tion and became pastor of a Unitarian chnrch at Fair Havem 
 In 1809 he was appointed by President Madison, collector of 
 the port of Xew Bedford. In 1814 he ren oved to Dalton 
 where he bnilt the first woolen mill and also engaged with his 
 brother-in-law, Thomas Green, in establishing a smelting fur- 
 nace and a foundry. The canal for the mill was dusr bv Brit- 
 
 c/ Of 
 
 ish prisoners of war from the Pittsfield cantonment, they being 
 permitted in this way to earn a little money. He had nine chil- 
 dren, seven of them sons.l 
 
 ♦These data differ from those given by Thomas Weston, Esq., but are 
 taken from Isaiah's family bible. 
 
 fSee sketch of his life in History of Berkshire County, vol. I, p. 669. 
 +The children of Rev. Isaiah Weston were as follows, the data being 
 largely transcribed from his family bible, now the property of Sara 
 (Kimball) Hobbs: 
 
 i A son, b. July 19, 1796; d. July 27, 1796. 
 
 li Grenville Dean, b. Nov. 16, 1797; was colonel of militia and gen- 
 erally known as "Colonel Weston"; was twice married, and d. 
 at Dalton, Mass., Dec. 1, 1865. 
 iii Franklin, b. June 19, 1800; did not marry; d. at Dalton, Mass.. 
 
 Feb. 10, 1868. 
 iv A son, b. May 29, 1803; d. same day. 
 
 v Isaiah, b. Sept. 27, 1804; m. Caroline Curtis. The late Lieut. Gov. 
 Byron Weston, head of the Weston paper mills of Dalton, 
 Mass., was his son. Isaiah d. at Pleasant Grove, 111., July 30, 
 1835. 
 vi A son, b. Jan. 9, 1807, but d. after a few hours, 
 vii Josiah Dean, b. April 27, 1810; m. Lucinda, only dau. of the late 
 Zenas Crane, the pioneer paper manufacturer of Massachu- 
 setts, and left one child, Minnesota, who m. John D. Carson 
 of Dalton. Josiah was a physician. He d. at Washington, 
 D. C, Feb. 1. 1857. 
 viii Sarah Weston, b. Aug. 17, 1811; d. Aug. 21, 1811. 
 ix Sarah Weston, b. Aug. 17, 1811; m. Oct. 1, 1840, Alonzo Kimball; 
 d. June 27, 1891. 
 
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 SAKAH'^^ the younijcst child of Rev. Isaiah'"' and Sarah, was 
 b. in New Bedford, Mass., Aug. 17, 1811, and d. at Green Bay, 
 Wisconsin, June 27, 1891. A twin sister who died in infancy, 
 had borne the name of Sarah, and at her death, not wishing to 
 loose the old family name which had already passed through five 
 generations, this surviving daughter was christened Sarah in- 
 stead of Mary, as was first intended. 
 
 When only ten years old she became an orphan, her mother 
 having died in 1818, and the father who had been considerably 
 broken in health, survived his wife but three years. A portion 
 of her girlhood days was passed in the families of her brothers 
 Grenville I)., Franklin, Isaiah and Josiah, all of whom grew to 
 manhood; and at Hadley and Westfield, where were some of 
 the best schools of the day. Her mind was keen, and she was 
 especially appreciative of what was best in literature. She de- 
 veloped also marked artistic ability, and some of her paintings 
 and exquisite embroideries and tapestries are treasured posses- 
 sions of children and grandchildren today. 
 
 On October 1, 1810, she was married to Alonzo Kimball at 
 Hudson, New York. The early years of their married life 
 were passed at Lee, Mass., where as principal of a boys' acad- 
 emy, Mr. Kimball fitted many a lad for college. Here two 
 children were born, Mary C^ornelia (Mrs. M. H. Walker) and 
 Alonzo Weston. Their second son, Charles Theodore, was bom 
 during a brief residence at Dalton, Mass. In 1848 they re- 
 moved to Wisconsin, where more than forty years of her life 
 were passed in the old historic town of Green Bay. Soon after 
 coming to her new home, she united with the First Presbyterian 
 •church, now the Union Congregational church, and always bore 
 an active part in the work of the society so long as health and 
 strength v/ere hers. During the last eleven years of her life 
 •she was an invalid, the result of a severe stroke of paralysis, 
 from which she never recovered. From her invalid chair she 
 was an interested spectator of all that passed about her, and 
 when in the autumn of 1800 the golden wedding anniversary 
 ■was celebrated with husband, children and grandchildren about 
 
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 her, she was filled with pride and contentment that she had been 
 permitted to live to see this day. 
 
 We know that for a time life in this new western country was 
 filled with many unaccustomed hardships, but these early years 
 of self-sacrificing devotion served to develop a strong and noble 
 womanhood, and have won from her children a lasting debt of 
 affectionate gratitude. 
 
 i->^ 
 
 Zbc H)e la Boi^e Xincaac* 
 
 This Huguenot family was one of the most distinguished of 
 the French nobility, claiming descent from Charlemagne, Will- 
 iam the Conqueror, and Alfred the Great. 
 
 Philip^ came to Plymouth in the ''Fortune," 1621, when 19 
 years of age. He was admitted a freeman in 1632 and early 
 removed to Duxbury. He was a man of much respectability 
 and employed in surveying lands, and was often one" of the grand 
 inquest of the Colony. He was b. at Leyden, Holland, in 1602, 
 and was a member of the Puritan church there. He m. (1),, 
 Dec. 19, 1834, Hester Dewesbury, and (2), in 1657, Mary, 
 widow of James Glass. Philip d. 1681, aged 79 years. His 
 children were Philip, Thomas, John, Jane, Rebecca, Samuel, 
 Mary, Jonathan, and Hester. 
 
 m., it is supposed, Edmund Weston.'^ 
 
 Continuation. — Edmund Weston, Zachariah Weston, Zach- 
 ariah Weston, Rev. Isaiah Weston, Sarah Weston. 
 
 Z\yc Soulc Xincaoc.t 
 
 The Soules of the United States, with unimportant excep- 
 tions, are the descendants of George Soule, one of the May- 
 
 *Winsor's Hist, of Duxbury, p. 251. See also Delano Genealogy, and 
 foot note p. 42. 
 
 fThe account here given is taken with slight changes from "The Soule 
 Family of North Yarmouth and Freeport, Maine," by Dr. Charles E. 
 Banks and Enos Chandler Soule, pp. 31. "Old Times" Office, Yarmouth, 
 Maine, 1882. To this have been added some data from Haxtun's "Sign- 
 ers of the Mayflower Compact," Pt. II. 
 
/ ^ 
 
 SARAH (WESTON) KIMBALL 
 
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 flower Pilgrims, and the thirty-fiftli signer of the famous so- 
 cia] compact. 
 
 George^ came to this country a minor, for we find him en- 
 tered in the list of "Mayflower" passengers as an apprentice of 
 Gov. Edward Winslow of Plymouth, and later as living in his 
 family. It is quite probable that he came in common with 
 others of that religious band from the quarter of England 
 which is today recognized as the cradle of the Dissenters, — the 
 point of junction of the three counties of York, Lincoln, and 
 Nottingham. 
 
 How long the relations of apprenticeship to the Governor 
 continued is not known, but as early as 1623 he was granted in 
 his own right one acre of land "on the south side of the brooke 
 to the baywards,"* and in 1627, in the division of cattle, was 
 allotted "one of the 4 black Heyfers that came in the Jacob, 
 caled the smoothe horned Heyfer, and. two shee goats." In 
 1663 he became a freeman of the Colony, and was taxed that 
 year 9s for his share in the current expeiiises of their simple 
 government. He had by that time married, and built a house, 
 as his wife, Mary Beckett, was one of the passengers in the 
 "Ann" and her consorts of 1623, ^*n company with Barbara 
 Standish and Patience and Fear Brewster. 
 
 His house and lot was near Eel River at first, but at sundry 
 times he had subsequent grants at Powder Point and "ye water- 
 ing place," but these possessions were sold in 1638, when, with 
 Capt. Myles Standish and others, he removed across the bay 
 to Duxbury, to found that town. This place then became his 
 permanent residence, and, besides acting as one of the earliest 
 selectmen, often re-elected, he represented the town in the Gen- 
 eral Court of Plymouth Colony in 1642, '45, '46, '50, '51, '53, 
 and '54, having for colleagues, Alden, Southworth, Pabodie and 
 StaiT. A record shows that he and Anthony Thatcher "were 
 shosen a committee to draw up an order concerning disorderly 
 drinking of tobacco." He was one of the petitioners for a 
 church in Duxbury and one of the original company for a canal 
 
 *Plymouth Col. Rec, XII, 4. 
 
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 across the isthmus of Cape Cod. When Bridgewater was set 
 off from Diixbury he was one of the original proprietors of the 
 town, but soon disposed of his rights and subsequently became 
 one of the earliest purchasers of Dartmouth and Middle]>oro'. 
 He thus became an original proprietor in the foundation of four 
 new settlements, an evidence of his enterprise and thrift. 
 
 During the trouble with the Pequot Indians (1637) he was 
 a volunteer, and five years later, when the plot of Miantonomah 
 was discovered, he was put on the conunittee "for offensive and 
 defensive warr." 
 
 But one record is found of his appearance in court, as a party 
 to an action to convince the jury of the righteousness of his 
 ease, and he obtained a verdict. This was in January, 1637, 
 when he sued and was sued by x^athaniel Thomas to obtain 
 control of some heifers. On March 1, 1658-9, Goodwife Mary 
 Soule was indicted for absence from church, but that was a 
 common charge against the saints of those times. 
 
 Without enumerating the various minor offices which he 
 filled, it Avill be sufficient to refer to one important duty to 
 which he was assigned in company with Governors Prince and 
 Winslow and Constant Southworth, — the revision of the Colony 
 laws, which must have been a work requiring more than ordi- 
 nary ability. 
 
 Winsor* says of him : "Though not a man distinguished in 
 the government of the colony, yet he was of essential service in 
 bis town, . . . holding office to which he could not have 
 been elevated had he not been a man of integrity and probity." 
 The History of Plymouth Colony/^ article Duxbury, says: 
 "Among the earlier settlers of this town were some of the ablest 
 men in the colony, including John Alden, William Brewster, 
 Governor Thomas Prince and George Soule," and, to the same 
 effect, an article on the "Standish House," in Duxbury,| thus 
 discourses : "In this house on Captain's Hill, Standish removed 
 after his second marriage, and here he drew around him a de- 
 
 *History of Duxbury, p. 64. 
 
 tP. 36. . , : 
 
 tHarper's Monthly Magazine, 1876. 
 
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 voted class of friends, among whom were Elder Brewster, John 
 Alden, George Soule," and others. 
 
 George Soule had at least eight children whose names have 
 come down to ns, all born before 1650, for in Bradford's His- 
 tory of Plymouth Plantations,* of that date, it is stated 
 that, — "Georg Sowle is still living and hath 8 childre(n)." 
 The order of their births is not known. His wife Mary died 
 in 1677, and his death occurred in 1680, being "very aged," as 
 the Colony records state. He outlived nearly all of the ''■]\Iay- 
 llower" Pilgrims, his old friend and companion, John Alden, 
 surviving him, however, by more than seven years. A gonrd 
 which belonged to him may be seen among the relics in Memor- 
 ial Hall, Plymouth. 
 
 John", son of George^ and Mary, was born about 1632, and 
 in the will of his fatherf is called "eldest son . . . who 
 hath in my extreme old age and weaknes ben tender and care^- 
 ful to mee and very hcalpful to mee." He was made a free- 
 man in 1653, in which year he became involved in a quarrel 
 with "Kenelm Winslow "for speakeing falsly of and scandalicing 
 his daughter in carying diuers falce reports betwixt Josias 
 Standish and her." After various devices of delay he was fined, 
 June 8, 1654, £10 and costs in a suit of defamation for £200.t 
 During the excitement against the Quakers he was fined, Oct. 2, 
 1660, for attending their meetings. He was surveyor of high- 
 ways, 1672, 1694; grand jurjanan, 1675-6-7-8; '82-3; arbitra- 
 tor between Marshfield and Duxbury, and Plymouth and Dux- 
 bury, 1698, involving land disputes; witness to the Indian deed 
 of Bridgewater, dated Dec. 23, 1686 ; he joined also in a remon- 
 strance against increasing the salary of Rev. Ichabod Wiswell. 
 He w^as administrator of the estate of Samuel Chandler, 1683, 
 and the same year chosen guardian for John Simmons and 
 Samuel Sampson, minors. 
 
 It has long been supposed that he married Hester De La 
 Noye, dau. of Philip De La N'oye (Delano), but it has re- 
 
 *P. 447. 
 
 ■\Hist. Duxhury, p. 310. 
 
 tPlym. Col. Rec, VII, 70. 
 
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 centlj been shown that his wife was Hester Kash, dau. of 
 Lieut. Samuel ISTash. John d. in 1707, aged 75 years. 
 Among the items in the inventory of his property we find 
 a library mentioned, a rare thing in those times, except in 
 the case of ministers, and it shows him to have been a man of 
 literary tastes and undoubtedly of a cultivated mind. 
 
 Rebecca^, the dau. of John- and Hester, was b. about 1657. 
 She m., probably ab. 1688, Edmund Weston (b. 1660) of 
 Plympton, and d. Nov. 18, 1732.* They had five sons and a 
 dau. Rebecca. 
 
 Continuation. — Zachariah Weston, Zachariah Weston, Rev. 
 Isaiah Weston, Sarah Weston. 
 
 ^be IRasb lincaoe.t 
 
 Lieut. Samuel^, one of the early settlers of Duxbury, was 
 b. in 1602. He was appointed sheriff of the Plymouth Colony 
 in 1652 and served for many years. He was also a represen- 
 tative, probably of Bridgewater. In his old age he lived with 
 his son-in-law, Clark. 
 
 Hestek^, dau. of Lieut. SamueP, m. John Soule. (See 
 above. ) 
 
 Continuation. — Rebecca Soule, Zachariah Weston, Zachariah 
 Weston, Rev. Isaiah Weston, Sarah Weston. 
 
 *If these dates could be definitely established it would remove aa 
 element of uncertainty connected with the lineage. 
 tWinsor's History of Duxbury, p. 284. 
 
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 ^be Shaw Xinca^e (3obn). 
 
 JoHN^, the emigrant, settled iu Plymouth before 1627. In 
 1662 he removed to Middleboro', where he d. Oct. 24, 1694. 
 His wife Alice d. March 6, 1655. They had four chil- 
 dren. 
 
 Jonathan^, third child of John^ and Alice, was in Ply- 
 mouth 1654, and m. (1), Jime 22, 1657, Phebe, dau. of George 
 Watson, and (2), Persis, dau. of Dea. John Dunham and 
 widow of Benajah Pratt. (Benajah and Persis were m. Kov, 29, 
 1655.) There were eight children. 
 
 Lieut. Jonathan^, the fourth child of Jonathan^ and son of 
 Phebe, the first wife, was b. in 1663. He m. (1), Mehitable 
 Pratt, who was b. in 1667 and d. Oct. 19, 1712. He m. (2), 
 Nov. 16, 1715, Mary Darling, who surviving him d. in 1754. 
 He lived at Plympton and had in all eleven children. He d. 
 Jan. 18, 1729-30. 
 
 Mehitable"*, the fourth child of Jonathan^ and Mehitable, 
 m., June 23, 1717, Zachariah Weston.^ 
 
 Continuation. — Zachariah Weston, Rev. Isaiah Weston, 
 Sarah Weston. 
 
 Z\)c IDClatson Xincagc (pbebe), 
 
 Geokge^, the emigrant ancestor, was one of the prominent 
 early settlers of Plymouth, having been a resident there in 1633 
 and a freeman in 1637. In 1635 he purchased of Dea. Rich- 
 ard Masterson a dwelling and became a householder. He m. 
 Phebe, dau. of Robert Hicks who was a passenger in the "For- 
 tune" in 1621, and whose wife Margaret, with dau. Phebe and 
 others of family, followed in the "Ann" in the summer of 1623. 
 Mr. Watson held several offices of trust in the Colony and 
 owned large tracts of land, becoming quite independent. He 
 had seven children, four of whom came to maturity. A very 
 quaint and beautiful silver bowl bearing his initials, which was 
 
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 brought by him to this country, was in 1864 the property of a 
 descendant, Xehemiah Hall of Mansfield. "Seldom," says 
 W. R. Dean, "is such an authentic memorial preserved in any 
 family so many generations."* 
 
 Mr. Watson d. Jan. 31, 1680, in his 87th year. His wife 
 Phebe d. May 22, 1663. 
 
 Phebe^, dau. of George^ and Phebe, m., Jan. 22, 1656-7, 
 Jonathan Shaw. 
 
 Continuation. — Lieut. Jonathan Shaw, Mehitable Shaw, 
 Zachariah Weston, Rev. Isaiah Weston, Sarah Weston. (See 
 also another line from George Watson in Dean branch of the 
 family.) 
 
 Z\K 1b\c\\B Xiueaac (iphcbe TOatson). 
 
 Robert^, the PilgTim, came in the "Fortune" in 1621 to 
 Plymouth. Before 1634 he removed to Duxbury and in 1639 
 purchased land there from George Soule. He afterwards re^ 
 moved to Scituate. He m. (1) Elizabeth and (2) Mar- 
 garet . He d. before 1662. 
 
 Phebe -, youngest dau. of Robert^ and Margaret, his second 
 wife, was b. in England and was with her mother a passenger 
 on the "Ann" to Pl^'mouth in 1623. She m. George Watson 
 of Plymouth. 
 
 Continuation. — Phebe Watson, Lieut. Jonathan Shaw, Me- 
 hitable Shaw, Zachariah Weston, Rev. Isaiah Weston, Sarah 
 Weston. ( See also another line from Robert Hicks in Leonard 
 branch of family.) 
 
 ♦Watson Genealogy, by William R. Deane, Esq., of Brookline. 
 N. E. Hist, and Gen. Register, vol. XVIII, p. 363. Reprinted in "A Bio- 
 graphical Sketch of Elkanah Watson with a brief Genealogy of the 
 Watson Family," by Wm. R. Deane, Albany, 1864. 
 
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 Hbc Pratt XineaGC* 
 
 Joshua^, the emijjrant, came to Plymoutli in the "Ann," the 
 third vessel to reach the Colony, in 1623. He m. Bathsheba 
 • and had three children. 
 
 Benajah^, the son of Joshua^ and Bathsheba, m., ISTov. 29, 
 1655, Persis Dunham, who afterwards (subsequent to 1667) 
 m. Jonathan Shaw, Sr., and was therefore both stepmother and 
 mother-in-hiw to Jonathan, Jr. 
 
 Mehitable^, sixth and youngest child and second dau. of 
 Benajah^ and Persis, was b. in 1007. She m. Lieut. Jonathan 
 Shaw and d. in 1712. 
 
 Co7\tinuatwn. — Mehitable Shaw, Zachariah Weston, Ker. 
 Isaiah "Weston, Sarah Weston. . ' 
 
 ^be S)unbain Xineaoe. 
 
 Dea. Joiin^, the emigrant, was b. ab. 1589 and settled in 
 Plymouth ab. 1033. He m. Abigail and had eleven chil- 
 dren. He was chosen Representative in 1639. He d. Mch. 
 2, 1669, at the age of 80. 
 
 Persis-, sixth child of Dea. John^ and Abigail, m. (1), Nov. 
 29. 1655, Benajah Pratt, and (2) (after 1667) Jonathan 
 Shaw, Sr. 
 
 Continuation. — Mehitable Pratt, Mehitable Shaw, Zach- 
 ariah Weston, Rev. Isaiah Weston, Sarah Weston. 
 
 Z\)c poinero^ XincaGC. 
 
 The determination of the name and ancestry of the mother of 
 Rev. Isaiah Weston has offered great difficulties for the geneal- 
 ogists who have given it their attention. As regards the evi- 
 dence now in print, Mr. Thomas Weston, Jr., Esq., in The De- 
 5 
 
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 scendants of Edmund Weston of Duxhurij,'^ states that Zach- 
 ariah Weston,* the father of Isaiah, married as second wife 
 Sarah Pomerov, daughter of "Dr. Pomeroy of Middlehoro', 
 and gives Isaiah as their first child, h. in 1770. He also gives 
 Zachariah, Jr., as the third child of Zachariah by his lirst wife 
 and states that he married Sarah Wood. 
 
 A personal letter from Mr. Weston, the author of the geneal- 
 ogy, states that his father, Mr. Thomas Weston of Middle- 
 horo' (d. 1834), who was particularly well informed regarding 
 his family history, w^as authority for the statement that Zach- 
 ariah Sr.'s wife was Sarah Pomeroy. 
 
 In the Biographical Account of Dv. John Pomeroy, Dr. 
 Samuel W. Thayer states that the paternal grandfather of this 
 eminent Vermont surgeon Avas a deacon in the church of Middle- 
 horo', Mass., and that he had a son Francis, the father of the 
 surgeon, who m. Sarah ISTye about 1763 and settled in Middle- 
 horo' ; further that the deacon had three daughters, one of 
 whom married a Bradford, another a Weston, and the third died 
 unmarried.! 
 
 An unpublished genealogical chart in the possession of Mrs. 
 Byron Weston of Dalton, Mass. (prepared by the late Chas. 
 L. Shaw, the genealogist of the family), states that the 
 second wife of Zachariah Weston^ was Sarah Pomeroy, daugh- 
 ter of Dea. Pomeroy. When the town records are consulted the 
 difficulties appear. Mr. Amos H. Eaton, the town clerk of Mid- 
 dlehoro', reports that the only marriage record of a Pomeroy 
 upon his books is that of Susanna Pomeroy to Philip ISTye in 
 1768. In the Early Massachusetts Marriages, edited by 
 Frederick W. Bailey, which are copied from the returns of 
 marriages to the court of Plymouth county, I find an additional 
 entry Avhich is of great value, to wit : the marriage of Manassah 
 Wood and Sarah Pomeroy at Middlehoro' on July 27, 1756.$ 
 There is no record of the death of Manassah Wood in ]\Iiddle- 
 
 *P. 16. 
 
 tN. E. Hist. Geneal. Register, vol. 2 (1848), pp. 279-280. 
 $Vol. 2, p. 83. 
 
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 boro' records, nor is liis gravestone inscription inckided in tlie 
 collection of 18,000 or more wlncli ISlr. Charles M. Thatcher has 
 made from the cemeteries of Middleboro' and vicinity. He was 
 not a member of the First Church of Middlehoro'. The records 
 of Plymouth county, however, show that the estate of Manassali 
 Wood of Middlehoro' was settled in ITG-i, in which year ISTathan- 
 iel Wood was appointed administrator. There was no will, but 
 the account filed by tlie administrator mentions a widow and five 
 children, whose names are not mentioned. In 177-4 a guardian 
 was appointed for Pelham, TsTichols, Manassah, Thomas, and 
 Sarah, children of Manassah Wood of Middlehoro', the two first 
 named being above the age of fourteen years. 
 
 In tlie Middlehoro' records are the following entries : 
 
 "1770, September 15. Then I published a purpose of mar- 
 riage betvv'een Mr. Zachariah Weston and Mrs. Sarah Wood, 
 both of Middlehoro'. Pr. John Morton, Town Clerk."* 
 
 "Dec. Gth, 1770. Zachariah Weston and Sarah Wood, both 
 of Middlehoro wr married by me Silvanus Conant."f 
 
 The estate of Zachariah Weston (Division of Dower) was set- 
 tled in 1794. He left a widow Sarah and seven children, 
 among whom were Isaiah and Sarah (Perkins). There is 
 no town record of the death of Sarah Weston nor is her 
 tombstone inscription in the collection of Mr. Thatcher, and 
 the only record of her death which has been found is the letter 
 granted the administrator of her estate in Plymouth County 
 Probate Records. As Xichols Wood was appointed administra- 
 tor, Feb. 25, 170r», she probably died shortly before that date. 
 Her second husband, Zachariah Weston, is buried beside his 
 first wife Rebecca Standish, in the Middlehoro' Green Cemetery, 
 and it is probable that Sarah Weston is buried beside her first 
 husband, Manassah Wood, both Vv-ithout stones. 
 
 It would thus seem to admit of little doubt that Sarah Pom- 
 
 eroy m. (1) Manassah Wood and (2) Zachariah Weston. The 
 
 *Vol. 2, p. 28o! 
 tVol. 4, p. 9. 
 
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 records of tlie First Church of Micldleboro' show that Pomeroys 
 canie to Middleboro' at this period from Halifax, the adjoining 
 township, and from a search of the town and church records of 
 Halifax, Pljmpton, Middleboro' and Pembroke, the following 
 has been compiled, the H, P or M in parentheses indicating 
 that the entry is copied from Halifax, Plympton, or Middleboro' 
 town records. A Ch following the initial letter indicates a 
 church record. 
 
 Fkaintcis Pomeroy of record at Halifax. Wife Hannah 
 joined the Halifax church Kov. 23, 1735 (H Ch*) and was dis- 
 missed to the church at Middleboro' 'Nov. 27, 1748. (H Ch.) 
 
 Childi^en. 
 
 Susannah, b. Jan. 6, 1735-6 (H) ; bapt. Feb. 8, 1735-6 
 (H Ch) ; m. Philip ISTye in 1768 (M). 
 
 Hannah, b. Oct. 18, 1737 (H) ; bapt. Nov. 20, 1737 (H Ch) ; 
 m. (1) John Eddv, Jr., May 20, 1760 (M)t; m. (2) John 
 Bradford of Kingston, sixth in descent from William Brad- 
 ford of the "Mayflower." John Bradford was b. in 1732, 
 and his first wife was Ruth Cobb,$ 
 
 Feancis, Jr., b. Jan. 12, 1739-40 (H) ; bapt. Feb. 27, 1739-40 
 (H Ch) ; m. Aug. 26, 1762 (P M Ch) Sarah Is^ye, who 
 was b. in Pl^>mipton, 3 June (O. S.), 1741, and d. in Bur- 
 lington, Vt., Feb. 15, 1837, aged 95 yrs. (Insc.) ; joined 
 First Church in Middleboro' in 1757 (M Ch) ; son Dr. 
 John b. in Middleboro' in 1764, d. in Vermont in 1844, age 
 80(MCh). 
 
 No other Pomeroys are of record in these towns and it is 
 highly probable that the Sarah Pomeroy who m. Manassah 
 Wood in 1756 and Zachariah Weston in 1770, was an older sis- 
 ter of Susannah, as Thayer§ says there were three daughters 
 and one married a Weston. She could hardly have been younger 
 
 ♦Halifax town organized in 1734 and First Church organized the 
 same year. 
 
 tEarly Mass. Marriages, II, p. 82. 
 
 IBradford Genealogy, Boston, 1850, p. 19. Entry is "to Mrs. Hannah 
 Eddy of Middleborough." 
 
 §1. c. 
 
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 than Francis as she M'onld in that case have been but fifteen 
 years of age wlieii she ni. Manassah Wood ; bnt if ohler we 
 should not expect her birth to be at Halifax, since the records 
 of church and town begin less than a year before the birth of 
 Susannah. 
 
 The town from which Francis, Sr., emigrated to Halifax it is 
 difficult to determine. The descendants of Eltweed of Dor- 
 chester early emigrated to the Connecticut Valley, and the only 
 one who is known to have subsequently found his way to eastern 
 Massachusetts in early Colonial days is Joshua^ (Joshua^, Elt- 
 weed^) who, with wife Esther, was made captive by the Indians 
 in the attack upon Deerfield in 1704. His subsequent appear- 
 ance in Dorchester in 1706 and his later history the compiler 
 has traced to his decease at ISTorton in 1750, and it seems clear 
 that he can not have been an ancestor of Francis of Halifax. 
 Thayer states that there is a tradition that the great grandfather 
 of Dr. John Pomeroy (the father of Francis, Sr.) came from 
 France, but in view of the fact that all Pomeroys doubtless 
 came originally from that country, the statement has but little 
 value, particularly as inaccuries occur in Thayer's account. 
 
 There is now in tlie possession of ]\lrs. Ellen D. Brown, of 
 Burlington, Vt., an old print of Pomeroy Castle in Devon- 
 shire, which John Norton Pomeroy, greatgrandson of Francis 
 Sr. of Halifax, told his grandchildren was the home of his an- 
 cestors. This family heirloom has been treasured at Fern Hill, 
 the Vermont home of the Pomeroy family, to which they emi- 
 grated from jMiddleboro' shortly after the Kevolutionary war. 
 The magnificent ruins of Berry Pomeroy Castle, the finest in 
 Devonshire, stand in the midst of a thick wood near Totnes. 
 The manor of Beri was given with fifty-seven others by William 
 the Conqueror to his follower, Ralph de Pomeroy, whose former 
 castle had been, it is said, at Cinglais, near Falaise, in K'or- 
 mandy. This family of nobles maintained their lands at Berry 
 until Sir Thomas, who had served with distinction in France 
 in 1549, led an insurrection caused by an act reforming the 
 church service. After a month of resistance, during which he 
 
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 besieged Exeter, he was at last defeated by a strong force un- 
 der Lord Russell. Sir Thomas escaped with the loss of his 
 lands, which afterwards came into the' possession of Lord Ed- 
 w^ard Seymour, son of the Protector. 
 
 According to Mackenzie, the descendants of Sir Thomas re- 
 sided in the parish of Llarberton till the beginning of the eight- 
 eenth century.* According to Tuckettf it would appear that 
 Sir Thomas had one son, Thomas, whose sons were Valentine, 
 Edward, and John, all living at the time of the Herald's Visita- 
 tion in 1620. But Thomas, Jr., son of Sir Thomas, is given 
 as of Binglcy near Leeds. The English records should be e'x- 
 amined to learn all the descendants of Sir Thomas who lived 
 between 1549 and 108-4 and to determine if possible whether 
 any emigrated to America. 
 
 The only Pomeroys that are found of record in Eastern 
 Massachusetts previous to 1735, Avith the exception of Eltweed's 
 family, were resident in Boston. The only one who bore tlie 
 name Francis resided in 1711 near or at the corner of Fish 
 Street and Wood Lane in Boston, as is shown by the fact that 
 he was assessed £1 12s. 6d. for a sea wall which drained his cel- 
 lar in common with those of othersljl. He had married Me- 
 hitable Orchard Feb. 7, 1694. Mehitable Pomeroy, presum- 
 ably the same, was July 18, 1701, granted by the Selectmen of 
 Boston the privilege of keeping a victualling house and to sell 
 beer and cider. § These are the only certain references to the 
 immediate family of Francis, though it is probably that he was 
 the "Mr. Pomeroy" who in 1733 was assessed £8 for repairs to 
 the town pump, which he in common with others used. This 
 Francis, if the Francis, Sr. of Halifax, 1735, as seems not un- 
 likely, had at that time remarried, as the mother of the chil- 
 dren of his old age was Hannah. 
 
 The earliest American record of a Pomeroy not connected 
 ■with the family of Eltweed in Dorchester is of John Pomeroy of 
 
 *Castles of England, vol. 2, pp. 23-25. 
 fDevonshire Pedigrees, p. 160. 
 JBoston Selectmen's Records, 1701-1715. 
 §lbid., p. 6. 
 
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 Boston, whose wife was Sarah and who had Sarah, b. June 21, 
 1GS4-. The most probable theory of the descent of Sarah Pom- 
 eroy of Middleboro' is that the above John was the emigrant who 
 brought his wife Sarah and certain children to America wnth 
 him. Among those who may have been his children (per- 
 haps in part brothers or cousins) are Edw^ard, who was an in- 
 habitant of Boston in 1G95, Francis who was several times men- 
 tioned in Boston records in 1694 and later, Joseph wdio married 
 in 1723 Mary Maycom aiid w^as Constable of Boston in 1730, 
 and the John who was a shipwright and in 1690 put to sea, mak- 
 ing his will in favor of Mary Brookings (as Savage surmises, 
 probably his sweetheart). Among the probable daughters who 
 may have accompanied him to America are Rachel, who m. j^ov. 
 11, 1714, Thomas Frank, and Mary, whose purpose of marriage 
 with Samuel x\vis of Boston w^as published in 1696. The prob- 
 ability that the John who was lost at sea before' 1691 (when 
 Mary Brookings received his property) was a son of John^, 
 makes it likely that the John who by wife Lydia had in Boston 
 John (b. 'Nov. 20, 1712), Thomas (b. April 5, 1715), Lydia 
 (b. Aug. 25, 1717), Mary (b. Aug. 16, 1722), and Samuel (b, 
 Aug. 4, 1730) was the original emigrant remarried or a nephew. 
 The evidence is supported so far as this is possible by the recur- 
 rences of the names John and Sarah, the presumptive emigrants, 
 in the children of the first generation and in the descendants of 
 Francis of Halifax and Middleboro'. It is hoped that any evi- 
 dence bearing on this question may be preserved and collected so 
 that the ancestors of the Middleboro' Pomeroys may be definitely 
 determined.* 
 
 *The missing links of the chain are with little doubt contained in 
 the records of the First Church of Middleboro. which are in the cus- 
 tody of the pastor. All attempts to induce him to examine them or 
 allow them to be examined have availed nothing. 
 
Cbe Maternal Hncestr^ of Sarah 
 Meston. 
 
 ^be Dean %incnQC. 
 
 This line is descended from John Dean (Deane) who with 
 his brother, Walter, came to this conntry in 1637, with little 
 doubt from Chard near Tannton, Somersetshire, England. 
 It has been supposed that they were descended from the Deanes 
 of Denelands, but all attempts to fix definitely their ancestry 
 have thus far yielded no positive data. The brothers, accord- 
 ing to a record in the possession of ]\Irs. Orr (nee Florence 
 Dean), settled at Cohannet (?) 1637, and at Taunton, ]\Iass., 
 in 1639. Rev. Samuel Deane of Scituate is authority for the 
 statement that they stopped nearly or quite a year at Dorchester 
 before going to Taunton. They were among the very first set- 
 tlers of Taunton and took up their farms on the west bank of 
 the river, about one mile from the center of the present village. 
 "What is known or sunnised about the ancestry of John and 
 Walter has been put upon record.* 
 
 JoHN^, common ancestor of the Taunton Deans, was b. about 
 1600, having died between April 25 and June 7, 1660, "aged 
 sixty years or thereabouts." His wife, Alice, survived him 
 and was probably living as late as 1668 (from Plymouth Court 
 records). His strong Puritan faith is well brought out in an 
 item of his will : 
 
 "Item, My will is tiiat these my Overseers with the Consent of my 
 Wife shall in Case heer be no Settled Ministry in Taunton; they shall 
 
 *Brief memoirs of John and Walter Deane, two of the first settlers 
 of Taunton, Mass., and of the early generations of their descendants, 
 by Wm. Reed Deane, assisted by others, pp. 16, Boston, 1849. 
 
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 have full power to sell either the whole or a parte of these my Hous- 
 ings and Lands, soe as my Children and Posteritie may remove else- 
 where, where they may enjoy God in his Ordinancies."* 
 
 Thomas -, second son of Jolin^ and Alice, was b. 1642, and 
 d. 1600. He m. Jan. 5, 166!), Katharine Stephens, dan. of 
 Kichard Stephens from Plymonth, England. She died in 
 1726. The will of Katharine Dcane Avas proved Jan. 12. 
 1726-7. 
 
 Thomas*^, second son of Thomas^ and Katharine, was b. 
 abont 167;3, having d. Sept. 10, 1747, in his 74th year. He 
 was m. Jan. 7, 1696, to Mary, dan. of John Kingsley of Milton. 
 Mass. She d. Feb. 1, 1749-50, in her 74th year. He o^vned 
 the first npright, two-story honse in Tannton. 
 
 JosiAH'*, second son of Thomas'^ and Mary, was b. 1703 and 
 d. March 23rd, 1778, in his 76th year. He m., Ang. IS, 1737, 
 Jane, dan. of Capt. jSTehemiah Washbnrn of Bridgewater, who 
 was b. 1715 and d. May 26, 1790. He lived in his father's 
 house and was for many years Town Clerk of Raynham. 
 
 Hoif. JosiAH^, M. C, fonrth son of Josiab^ and Jane, was 
 b. in Raynham, March 6, 1748, and d. Oct. 14, 1818. He m. 
 Sarah Byranij dan. of Rev. Eliab Byram of ^ew Jersey, who 
 was b. 1749 and d. Jan. 10, 1850, aged 99 years. They had 
 two sons and six daughters.y The second son, Eliab Byram, 
 m. Charlotte Williams, whose dan. Harriet^ m. Prof. John W. 
 
 *Plymouth Probate Record, II, p. 61. 
 
 tAu old family record in the possession of Mrs. Orr (Florence Dean) 
 gives the following list of the children of Josiah and Sarah. The com- 
 piler has supplied from the Josiah Dean family bible and other sources 
 some dates which were missing in the original list: 
 
 1. Polly, b. Dec. 24, 1771; m. Bphraim Raymond of Norton; d. March 
 26, 1844. 
 
 2. Jane, b. May 8, 1774; m. Thomas Green of Dalton; d. — . 
 
 3. Sarah, b. Nov. 5, 1776; m. Isaiah Weston of Dalton; d. June 9, 1818. 
 
 4. Hannah, b. June 9, 1779; m. Rev. Morrill Allen of Pembroke; d. — . 
 
 5. Temperance, b. June 23, 1782; m. Daniel Gilbert of Norton; d. Dec. 
 8, 1852. 
 
 6. Josiah, b. March 2, 1785; m. Caroline E. Waldo of ; d. June 
 
 5, 1832. 
 
 7. Eliab Byram, b. June 26, 1788; m. Charlotte Williams, of Taunton; 
 d. Nov. 2, 1871. 
 
 8. Cornelia, b. Dec. 2, 1794; m. Nahum Mitchell of Taunton; d. July 9, 
 1825. 
 
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 Sterling, Vice President of the University of Wisconsin. lion. 
 Josiah^ was for many years Justice of the Peace, Assemblyman 
 and Senator in the ]\Iassachnsetts Legislature. He was a Pres- 
 idential Elector in 1805, a Representative in Congress, 1807-9, 
 and Chief Justice of the Court of Sessions of the county of 
 Bristol, Mass. 
 
 Sarah*', third child and third daughter of Hon, Josiali^ and 
 Sarah, was b. in Eaynham, ISTov. 5, 1776, and d. June 9, 1818. 
 She m.. May 14, 1795, Eev. Isaiah Weston. 
 
 Contimmtion. — Sarah Weston. 
 
 ^be Stephens Xtneage. 
 
 PiCHAKD^ was an early settler of Taunton, Mass. 
 
 Kathaeiin'e", dau. of Eichard, m. Jan. 5, 1669, Thomas 
 Dean. She survived her husband, her will being proved Jan. 
 12, 1726-7 and his July 15, 1697. 
 
 Contimiation. — Thomas Dean, Josiali Dean, Hon. Josiah 
 Dean, Sarah Dean, Sarah Weston. 
 
 Zhc Mm^lc^ Xtneage. 
 
 The father of John Kingsley of Milton who m. Abigail 
 Leonard is not definitely knoA\m but it is probable that he was 
 John^, who was of Dorchester in 1635. His eldest son of 
 whom we have knowledge Avas John-. This John^ of Dorches- 
 ter was one of the original purchasers of Taunton and is sup- 
 posed to have died at Eehoboth in 1679. There was another 
 John^ of Milton, a son of Elder Stephen^ of Dorchester, but 
 he m. a dau. of William Daniels, and in 1674 Mary Maury 
 or Morey and d. in 1679, whereas the John^ who m. Abigail 
 Leonard d. in 1698. 
 
 JoHN^, son of Stephen, m. Abigail Leonard. He d. about 
 1698. 
 
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 Mary^, dan. of Jolin^ and Abigail, was 1). about 167G. She 
 m. Jan. 7, 109C, Thomas Dean, and d. Feb. 1, 1749-50. 
 
 Conilnnation. — Josiah Dean, Hon. Josiah Dean, Sarah 
 Dean, Sarah Weston. 
 
 Zbc Xconart) XtncaGC (Hbioail), 
 
 This branch of the Leonard family is noted alike for its con- 
 nection with the development of the American iron industry, 
 its friendly relations with the Indians, its military prominence, 
 and its longevity. It is descended from Thomas Leonard, 
 whom we know only by name, since he did not emigrate to 
 America. An account of the family in America down to 1790 
 is believed to have been the first family genealogy of any impor- 
 tance printed in IsTew England.* It is by Eev. Peres Fobes, 
 LL. D., pastor of the Congregational church in Raynliam, 
 Mass., who was connected by marriage with the family. 
 
 According to Dr. Fobes, the brothers, James and Henry Leon- 
 ard, came at an early date to Kew England from Pontypool, 
 county Monmouth, Wales, a place celebrated for its working of 
 iron. It is supposed also that they had some claim to the owner- 
 ship of iron works at Bilston, county Stafford, England. James 
 was at Lynn as early as 1G51, where, and at Braintree, iron 
 works were early established under a special monopoly by 
 grant from the Massachusetts Colony. He and his brother 
 Henry were skilled workmen. The second iron enterprise un- 
 dertaken in ilN'ew England embraced a furnace and forge at 
 Braintree, about ten miles from Boston. Llenry Leonard as- 
 sisted by his brother James, is said to have superintended the 
 erection of the Braintree works. In 1653 James removed to 
 
 *Mas3. Hist. Collections, Vol. Ill (1794), p. 173. A somev/hat fuller 
 account has been printed by Wm. R. Deane, N. E. Hist, and Genealog. 
 Reg., Vol. V (1851), p. 403; and Vol. VII (1853), p. 71; also published 
 separately as "A Genealogical Memoir of the Leonard Family." It is 
 understood that Mr. Elisha Clark Leonard, who d. in New Bedford, 
 Mass., Sept. 7, 1894, left in MS. a large amount of genealogical and his- 
 Ical matter pertaining to the Leonard Family of Taunton. It is to be 
 hoped that this matter will soon be printed. 
 
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 TaiTiitoii. Henry, liis brother, was aftenvards at Eowley, 
 where lie carried on the iron works, but left about 1674 for 
 ]S[ew Jersey, where he established the iron manufacture of that 
 state. The brothers established the forge at Taunton (now 
 Eaynham), probably near 1652, as appears from a record in the 
 tovm book, which grants ITenry and James Leonard with Ealph 
 Eussell, consent to join with "certain of our inhabitants to set 
 up a bloomery work on the Two Mile Eiver." So extensive 
 were the interests of the Leonards in iron works that it used to 
 be said : "Where you can find iron works there you will find 
 a Leonard." The forge established at Eaynham was the 
 earliest in the old colony, and the oldest successful smelter in 
 America.* 
 
 James Leonard, the progenitor of the Taunton and Eaynham 
 Leonards, and his sons often traded with the Indians and es- 
 tablished such friendships that when the war came, King Philip 
 gave strict orders to his men that the Leonards be not harmed. 
 King Philip's summer residence was at Eaynham, only about 
 a mile from the forge. 
 
 In 1665, King Philip gave to James Leonard the deed for a 
 neck of land embracing about one hundred and fifty acres, "ly- 
 ing by Mr, Brinton's land at Metapoyset, being bounded on 
 each side by a brook," it being the intention of Mr. Leonard to 
 "set up a mill or iron work if occasion were." This deed was 
 not, however, confirmed by the colonial authorities and so the 
 chieftain's gift could not be utilized. f 
 
 The old Leonard House, which stood by the forge, was begun 
 probably about 1670 and had been occupied by the family down 
 to the seventh generation. When demolished about the middle 
 of the lOtli century, it was probably the oldest mansion in ^ew 
 England, if not in the country. It was apparently modeled 
 after an English fashion of the 18th century, modified for de^ 
 fense against the Indians. In the cellar was deposited for some 
 time the head of King Philip. 
 
 *Sv/ank, Iron in All Ages, Chapter X. 
 
 tElisha Clarke Leonard in address before the Old Colony Historical 
 Society at Taunton in 1886. 
 
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 It has been supposed that the Leonards are of the family of 
 Lennard Lord Dacve, a distinguished family of nobility in the 
 United Kingdom and descended in two lines from Edward III., 
 through two of his sons, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, 
 and Thomas Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, Leonard being 
 undoubtedly the equivalent of Lennard, and the arms similar, 
 but no proof has been adduced. 
 
 The arms of the Leonards are thus described : — 
 
 Arms: — Or, on a fesse azure three fleur de lis Argent. 
 Crest: — Out of a ducal coronet, Or, a tiger's head Argent. 
 
 The arms of the Lennards (Lord Dacre) are very similar. 
 
 Arms: — Or, on a fesse gules three fleur de lis of the first or field. 
 Crest: — Out of a ducal coronet, Or, a tiger's head Argent. 
 
 Some indication of the longevity of the family, as well as of 
 its activity in military affairs, at the bench and bar, and in af- 
 fairs of state, is afforded by the data which are found in the 
 Genealogical Memoir of the Leonard family by W. R. Deane. 
 
 Ja]mes^, first son of Thomas Leonard, was the emigrant an- 
 cestor and was at Lynn in 1651, Braintree in 1652, and 
 settled at Taunton in 1652. The forge which he and his 
 brother erected at Kaynham doubtless became soon after the 
 principal one in America. His wife, Margaret, survived him 
 and d. about 1701. He was dead in 1691. He may have been 
 a brother of Solomon Leonard of Duxbur}", since Dr. Fobes 
 gives the names of two brothers and mentions a third. 
 
 Abigail-, third child and first daughter of James ^ and first 
 wife, m. John Kingsley of Milton who d. ab. 1698. 
 
 Contmvation. — Maiy Kingsley, Josiah Dean, Hon. Josiah 
 Dean, Sarah Dean, Sarah Weston. (See also another line from 
 James Leonard in the Byram branch of the family.) 
 
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 Zbc ^aebburn Uineage** 
 
 The "Washburns are descended from the Evesham branch of 
 the English Washboiirne family, which with the Wickenford 
 branch comes from the Difford and Great Washbonrne family. 
 In Herald's College, London, Vol. I, p. 54, is given : "Wash- 
 BOUENE. A name of ancient Norman descent; the founder 
 was knighted on the field of battle by William the Conqueror 
 and endowed with the lands of Little AVashlx»ume and Great 
 Washbourne, Counties of Gloucester and Worcester." The earl- 
 iest mention of the Evesham Washbournes is in the reigns of 
 Henry III and E.lward I [121G-1307]. 
 
 Arms: — Argent on a fesse between six martletts gules, three cinque- 
 foils of the field. 
 
 Crest: — On a wreath a coil of flax argent, surmounted with another 
 wreath argent and gules, thereon flames of fire proper. 
 
 JoHN^, the American emigrant ancestor, was b. at Evesham, 
 County Worcester, Eng., and came to Duxbury, probably in 
 
 1631. His wife. Margery , aged 49, and two sons 
 
 joined him there in 1635. In 1634 he purchased Edward Bom- 
 passe's place called "Eagle's JSTest." With his son John he was 
 one of the original purchasers of Bridgewater, Mass., in 1645. 
 He went there to live in 1665 and d. there before 1670. 
 
 John", first born of John^ and Margery, was b. in Evesham, 
 Eng., about 1621, coming to Duxbury with his mother in 1635. 
 He m. at Duxbury, in 1645, Elizabeth Mitchell. He d. at 
 Bridgewater before 1690. 
 
 Sgt. Samuel^, son of John" and Elizabeth, was b. in Dux- 
 bury in 1651. He is called "Sergeant Washburn." He m. 
 Deborah, dau. of Samuel Packard, who came from Windham, 
 near Hingham, England, in the ship "Delight of Ipswitch," 
 
 *Genealogical Notes of the Washburn Family with a brief sketch of 
 the family in England, etc. Arranged by Mrs. Julia Chase Washburn, 
 pp. 104, Lewiston, Me., 1S98. 
 
 Mitchell's History of Bridgewater, p. 342. 
 
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 and settled at Hiiigiiam, Mass., in 163S. He afterward lived 
 at Yv'est Bridgewater, ]\Iass. 
 
 Capt. ISTehemiak^, fourth son and fonrtli child of Sgt. Sam- 
 uel'^ and Deborah, was b. in IGSG. In 1713 he m. Jane How- 
 ard, 
 
 Jaxe'"^, dan. of Capt. Xehemiah^ and Jane, was b. in 1715. 
 She ni. in 1737 Josiah Dean. 
 
 Coiitinuatio)}. — Hon, Josiah Dean, Sarah Dean, Sarah Wes- 
 ton. 
 
 ^be ruMtcbcU Xincaoe (leiisabetb)** 
 
 Experience \ the ^'Forefather," came in the "Ann" to Ply- 
 month in 1G23. He sold his i^lace in Plymouth in 1631 and 
 removed to Duxbury in 1645, v/here he purchased another prop- 
 erty in 1650. He m. (1) Jane Cook, dan. of Francis Cook, of 
 the "Mayflower." Jane had been a passenger with Experience 
 
 on the "Ann." He m. (2), in his old age, Mary . He 
 
 was an original proprietor of Bridgewater, but did not remove 
 there till late in life. He d. there in 1689, aged about 80. 
 His will is dated 168-1. He was at lieyden with the Pilgrims 
 and left a brother who died in Holland. He had a share in the 
 first division of lots at Plymouth in 1623. There is an inter- 
 esting document among the Plymouth Colony deeds in which 
 Henry Howland, to settle differences with Exj^erience Mitchell, 
 deeds him the use of a spring and brook near the boundary be- 
 tween their lands. This is acknowledged before Miles Standish 
 and John Alden. 
 
 Elizabeth^, dan. of Experience^ and Jane, m. between Dec. 
 6th and Dec. 16th, 16-45, John Washburn. Other important 
 dates unknown. 
 
 Continuation. — Sgt. Samuel Washburn, Capt. Nehemiah 
 
 . *Winsor's History of Duxbury, p. 282; also The Mitchell Family of 
 North Yarmouth, Me., by William Mitchell Sargent, p. 9, Yarmouth, 
 Me., 1878; Mitchell's History of Bridgewater; The Mayflower Descend- 
 ant, vol. 1, 1899, pp. 97-98. 
 
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 Washburn, Jane Washburn, Hon. Josiah Dean, Sarah Dean, 
 Sarah Weston. (See also another line from Experience 
 Mitchell in Byram branch of the family. ) 
 
 ^be Cooke Xineaoe* 2. 
 
 Francis.^ The ancestors of Francis Cooke, the seventeenth 
 signer of the Compact in the cabin of the "Mayflower," were 
 from Scrooby, England, the home of the Separatists. Francis 
 appears in the list of those designated as "exiles from Scrooby." 
 He joined Brewster and Bradford in worship there, went with 
 them to Leyden, and eventually to Plymouth. Francis was b. 
 subsequent to August, 1583. In Holland he was an inmate 
 of the home of Pastor Eobinson, This house Avas also the 
 meeting place for their religious services, and to these serv- 
 ices came Hester (a Walloon from the southern 
 
 province of Belgium) to whom Francis was subsequently 
 married. t When the "Speedwell" was compelled to turn 
 back, Hester Cooke, the ^ife, was left behind in "charge 
 of many yonge children," to follow at the first opportunity. 
 One only, John, went with his father. The mother and remain- 
 ing portion of the family came to Pljinouth in the "Ann" in 
 1623. In Plymouth the house of Francis Cooke was on Ley- 
 den St., adjoining the residences of Gov. Edward Winslow and 
 Isaac Allerton. 
 
 On Friday, 16/26 February, 1620/1, Avhile Capt. Myles 
 Standish and Francis Cooke were at work in the woods, they 
 were recalled by an alarm at the approach of Indians, who did 
 no damage except to carry oif the tools, and these they subse- 
 quently returned. 
 
 When the reinforcements came in the "Ann" in 1623, expan- 
 sion was necessary and Francis Cooke deserted the sterile soil 
 of Plymouth for Eocky IN'ook on James Eiver within the limits 
 of Kingston. He was made freeman in 1633, and in 1634 ref- 
 
 *Francis Cooke and 7iis Descendants, by George Ernest Bowman. 
 Mayflower Descendant, vol. Ill, pp. 95-105. 
 tProbably between 1609 and 1611. 
 
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 ere© in the settlement of various affairs between members of tbe 
 Colony. In 1640, with his son John, he received a large grant 
 of land ''bounding on the North River," and between 1642 and 
 1648 this was followed by the grant of land at "a Medden" by 
 James River, In 1662, wnth his son John, he was allowed to 
 settle upon a tract purchased for a new settlement — New Bed- 
 ford. There is no record that he settled there, as he died Tues- 
 day, April 7/17, 1663,, aged 87 years. Bradford states that he 
 lived to see ''his children's children have children." 
 
 Prior to 1645 when Francis Cooke's active life seems to have 
 come to an end, there was scarcely a year in which he did not 
 serve in some official capacity; but after 1645 he was engaged 
 in public duty but three times. He was one of the purchasers 
 who in 1627 bought all the rights of the "Adventurers" (See p. 
 27). He was frequently juryman, arbitrator, and surveyor of 
 highways. 
 
 Jane-, dau. of Francis^ and Hester, was b. in Holland. She 
 m., about 1627, Experience Mitchell, who was a fellow passen- 
 ger in the "Ann" in 1623. He was one of the founders of 
 Duxbury. 
 
 Continuation. — Elizabeth Mitchell, Sgt. Samuel Washburn, 
 Capt. Nehemiah Washburn, Jane Washburn, Hon. Josiah 
 Dean, Sarah Dean, Sarah Weston. (See also another line from 
 Francis Cooke in Byraim branch of the family.) 
 
 Zlbe |[^ac??ar^ Xtneaoc* 
 
 Samuel^, with wife and child, came from Windham, near 
 Hingham, Eng., in the ship "Delight of Ipswitch," and settled 
 at Hingham, Mass., in 1638. From there he went to West 
 Bridgewater where he d. about 1684. He was constable in. 
 1664 and licensed to keep an ordinary or tavern in 1670. 
 
 ♦Mitchell's History of Bridgewater, p. 264. 
 
 6 
 
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 Deborah^, eleventli child of Samuel, m. Thomas Washburn. 
 Continuation. — Capt. ISTehemiali Washburn, Jane Washburn, 
 Hon, Josiah Dean, Sarah Dean, Sarah Weston. 
 
 ITbc 1bowar^ Xineaoc* 
 
 JoHisr^ came from England with his brother James and set- 
 tled in Duxbury. The ancestors of the Howards in England 
 were among the noblest of the realm and their record of service 
 to the state was a most enviable one. Sajs Pope : 
 
 "What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? 
 Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards." 
 
 Hajward and Howard have been often changed the one to 
 the other in the course of time. The name is also spelled Haw- 
 ard or Haieward. John was among those able to bear arms at 
 Duxbury in 1643. He became one of the original proprietors 
 and settlers of West Bridgewater in 1651. He was young 
 when he came over and, it is said, lived in the family of Capt. 
 Myles Standish. He was one of the first military officers of 
 Bridgewater and a man of much influence. He was licensed to 
 keep an ordinary or tavern as early as 1670 and a public house 
 had been kept there by his descendants until about 1840. He 
 m. Martha, dau. of Thomas Hayward, and d. about 1700. 
 
 Epheaim^, son of John^ and Martha, m. Mary Keith. 
 
 Jane^, dau. of Ephraim^ and Mary, was b. 1689. She m.. 
 in 1713 Capt. N'ehemiah Washburn. 
 
 Continuatwn. — Jane Washburn, Hon. Josiah Dean, Sarah 
 Dean, Sarah Weston. 
 
 ♦Mitchell's History of Bridgewater, pp. 197-8. 
 
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 Z\)c 1ba^war^ Xtncaoc (flDattba),* 
 
 Thomas^, and his wife Susanna , were b. in England, 
 
 and were last there at Aylsford in the county of Kent. They 
 came to America with their five sons in the ship "Hercules," of 
 200 tons, in the summer of 1635. They first settled in Dux- 
 bury, he being one of the original proprietors. He was also 
 one of the earliest of the settlers of Bridgewater. He d. in 
 1681, his wife having d. before 1678. 
 
 Martha^, youn£:est child of Thomas^ and Susanna, m. John 
 Howard. 
 
 Continuation. — Ephraim Howard, Jane Howard, Jane Wash- 
 burn, Hon. Josiah Dean, Sarah Dean, Sarah Weston. See 
 also another line from Thomas Hayward in Byram. branch of 
 the family.) 
 
 ^be Ikeitb Xincagc.t 
 
 E.EV. James \ a Scotchman, was the first minister of Bridge- 
 water, Mass. He was educated at Aberdeen in Scotland and 
 came over in 1662 when about 18 years of age. He was 
 ordained in 1664 and m, (1) Susanna (or Susan), dau. of his 
 deacon, Samuel Edson. He m. (2), in 1707, Mary, widow of 
 Thomas Williams of Taunton. 
 
 Mary-, dau. of Rev. James ^ and Susanna, m. Ephraim How- 
 ard. 
 
 Continuation. — Jane Howard, Jane Washburn, Hon. Josiah 
 Dean, Sarah Dean, Sarah Weston. 
 
 ♦Centennial gathering of the Hayward Family with address by 
 George W. Hayward, etc., pp. 35. Taunton, Mass. John G. Sampson, 
 Printer, 1879. 
 
 t Mitchell's History of Bridgewater, p. 214. 
 
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 Z\)C iBbson OLtneaGe (Susanna)** 
 
 Dea. Samuel^ was from Salem and one of the first settlers 
 of Bridgewater. He owned and probably built the first mill 
 there. He m. Susanna Orcutt before he went to Bridgewater. 
 He d. in 1692, ae. 80. His wife d. in 1699, ae. 81. 
 
 SiJSAi;rNA^, probably oldest daughter of Dea. Samuel and 
 Susanna, m. Eev. James Keith. 
 
 Continuation. — Mary Keith, Jane Howard, Jane Washburn, 
 Hon. Josiali Dean, Sarah Dean, Sarah Weston. (See also an- 
 other line from Dea. Samuel Edson in Byram branch of the 
 family. ) 
 
 ^be Bi^ram Xineagct 
 
 Dk. Nicholas ^, according to family tradition, was son of an 
 English gentleman of the county of Kent, who removed to Ire- 
 land about the time of his birth. At the age of sixteen I^icholas 
 was sent by his father to visit friends in England in charge of a 
 inan who betrayed his trust, robbed him of his money and sent 
 him to the West Indies. Here he was sold to service to pay his 
 passage, but after his term expired he made his way to IN'ew 
 England and settled at Weymouth in 1638, where he remained 
 24 years. He was a physician. He m. Susanna, dan. of Abra- 
 ham Shaw of Dedham, before ISTov. 13, 1639, and had six chil- 
 dren, of whom was jSTicholas", all born at Weymouth. $ He re- 
 moved with his family about 1662 to Bridgewater, being one of 
 
 ♦Mitchell's Hist, of Bridgewater, pp. 154-5. 
 
 fThis lineage has been compiled largely from the matter contained 
 in Mitchell's History of Bridgewater, Mass., 1840 and 1897, pp. 127-8, 
 and from the now very rare pamphlet, "The Life and Character of 
 Mrs. Sarah Byram Dean," a monograph by Rev. Enoch Sanford, D. D., 
 published at Raynham, Mass., Oct., 1885, pp. 30. A copy of this pam- 
 phlet which is of such interest to the family was handed down from 
 Sarah (Weston) Kimball to her daughter, Mary Cornelia (Kimball) 
 Walker. 
 
 J According to Mass. Hist. Coll. (2), vol. VII, p. 154, he had but 
 one son, Nicholas. 
 
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 the first settlers of that place. lie d. about 1687. His will 
 mentions among others, wife Susannah and brother John Shaw.* 
 
 Capt. Nicholas^, eldest child of Nicholas^, was b. . 
 
 He m. Mary, dan. of Samuel Edson, in 167G, and had nine 
 children, bom between 1678 and about 1700. He and his wife 
 were the eldest and first named members of the church first in- 
 stituted in East Bridgewater in 1724. Both died in 1727. 
 Capt. !N^icholas is said to have been distinguished for bravery in 
 the Indian War, He is said to have been one of a party of 
 nineteen men who surprised a party of five hundred Indians 
 and captured forty of them, with much booty, without the loss 
 of a man. 
 
 Ma J. Ebenezer^, sixth child and second son of I^icholas^ 
 and Mary was b. Oct. 1, 1692. He m. Hannah, dau. of Joseph 
 Hay ward, in 1714, and had eight children, bora between 1716 
 and 1732. He had two plantations of considerable extent and 
 value at East Bridgewater, but these he sold and with all his 
 children went to Mendham in Morris county, 'N. J., about 1744. 
 He there kept the Black Horse Tavern, became a major of mili- 
 tia and judge of the county court. He died in 1753, aged 61. 
 
 Rev. Eeiab"*, son of Ebenezer^ and Hannah, was b. Dec. 4, 
 1718. He was graduated from Harvard University in 1740, a 
 member of the same class as Samuel Adams of Revolutionary 
 fame, who became governor of Massachusetts. He studied 
 divinity and commenced his ministry in North Middleboro', 
 Mass., but subsequently settled in Mendham, 'N. J,, where he 
 remained about eight years. He was some time a missionary 
 at Piles Grove. He was on a journey to the Susquehanna In- 
 dians with the celebrated David Brainard when Mr. Brainard's 
 mare broke her leg at a point thirty miles from any house.f 
 Under date of Oct. 1, 1744 that distinguished missionary wrote 
 in his journal as folloAvs : 
 
 "Was engaged this day in making preparations for my intended jour- 
 ney to the Susquehanna Towards night rode about four 
 
 miles and met Brother Byram (minister at a place called Rockciticus. 
 
 *Genealog. Advert., vol. 1, p. 20. 
 
 fSee Dr. Jonathan Edward's Life of Rev. Mr. Brainard. 
 
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 now Mendham, about forty miles from Brainard's lodgings), who was 
 come at my desire, to be my companion in travel to the Indians; I re- 
 joiced to see him, and, I trust, God made his conversation profitable 
 to me. I saw him, as I thought, more dead to the world, its anxious 
 cares and alluring objects, than I was, and this made me look within 
 myself, and gave me a greater sense of my guilt, ingratitude and 
 misery. 
 
 "October 2. Set out on my journey in company with dear Brother 
 Byram and my interpreter and two chief Indians from the Forks of 
 Delaware. Traveled about twenty-five miles and lodged in one of the 
 last houses on our road, after which there was nothing but a hideous 
 and howling wilderness." 
 
 Eev. Eliab ra. (1) Dec. 3, 1741, Phebe, daii. of Ephraim 
 Leonard, and third in descent from Solomon Leonard of Dux- 
 bury. Hem. (2), in Raynbam, Oct, 23, 1749, Sarab Leonard, 
 dau. of Thomas Leonard, Jr., and Sarah Walker of Raynham, a 
 different branch of the Leonard family from that of his first 
 wife, Sarah having been fourth in descent from James Leonard 
 of Lynn. 
 
 Mr. Byram left Mendham in 1751, having accepted a call 
 to Amwell (now Ringoes, J^. Y.), where he was pastor of the 
 First Presbyterian church, and where he d. in April, 1754, aged 
 thirty-six years. His widow returned with her dau. Sarah to 
 Raynham, where she m., Dec. 16, 1756, Thomas Dean, Esq. 
 She d. at Raynham Sept. 20, 1778, in her forty-ninth year. 
 
 Sarah ^, dau. of Eliab* and Sarah, was b. in Mendham, 
 ]Sr. J., Oct. 10, 1750. Her father d. when she was about three 
 years old. At the age of twelve her family removed to North 
 Middleboro', Mass., where they resided seven years. Her half- 
 brother, Seth Dean, to whom she was quite devoted, was in the 
 army under Washington in the suburbs of Boston, and entered 
 Boston with him after the British had been driven out. In 
 1771 she m. Josiah Dean. Her husband was the o^vner of the 
 Raynham forge and there he employed a large number of men, 
 as well as upon his farm. During the Revolutionary War her 
 house often afforded entertainment to the weary soldiers. It 
 was also the resort of many civil and military officers, and as 
 her mother's family, the Leonards, were "among the leading 
 
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 and affluent, she liad peculiar advantages not only for improv- 
 ing but for displaying her amiable natural talents to the best 
 advantage." Dr. Sanford's biography shows her to have been 
 a somewhat remarkable woman and a power in the community. 
 She d, at the age of ninety-nine years. 
 
 Continuation. — Sarah Dean, Sarah ^Yeston. 
 
 Zbc Sbaw Xineage (Susanna)** 
 
 Abraham Shaw^, the emigrant, was freeman at Dedham in 
 1637. ISTicholas Byram was one of the witnesses to the inven- 
 tory of his property taken in 1638, presumably after his death. 
 No wife is recorded, so it is assumed she was dead before he 
 came over. He had four children. His will in Boston records 
 is without date. Much confusion has arisen in regard to the 
 early generations of Shaws, owing to the recurrence of names ; 
 but Mr. J. L. Eeed of Weymouth, Vv-ho has made a special study 
 of this line is authority for the statement that Susanna, who m. 
 Nicholas Byram, was undoubtedly a sister of Abraham. 
 
 Continuatio7i. — Capt. Nicholas Byram, Maj. Ebenezer By- 
 ram, Rev. Eliab Byram, Sarah Byram, Sarah Dean, Sarah 
 Weston. 
 
 ^be I£^5on lineage (fJDar^), 
 
 Dea. Samuel! . (See p. 72.) 
 
 Mary^, dau. of Dea. SamueP and Susanna, m. in 1676 
 Capt. Nicholas Byram. 
 
 Continuation. — Maj. Ebenezer Byram, Eev. Eliab Byram, 
 Sarah Byram, Sarah Dean, Sarah Weston. 
 
 ♦Mitchell's History of Bridgewater, pp. 303-4. 
 
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 Zbc Iba^warb Xincage Oosepb). 
 
 Thomas^. (See p. 71.) 
 
 Dea. Joseph 2, the fourth son of Thomas^ and Susanna, was 
 b. in England, and came to Duxbury with his father in 1635. 
 He m. (1) Alice, dau. of Elder William Brett, (2) name not 
 known, and (3), about 1682, Hannah, dau. of Experience 
 Mitchell. 
 
 Hannah^, the sixth child of Dea. Joseph^, and second of 
 Hannah Mitchell, his wife, was b. 1691. She m., 1714, Maj. 
 Ebenezer Byram, who removed with all his children to Morris 
 county, iST. J., about 1744. 
 
 Continuation. — Kev. Eliab Byram, Sarah Byram, Sarah 
 Dean, Sarah Weston. 
 
 iL\K flDitchell Xtncacjc CflDannab). 
 
 Experience^. (See p. 67.) 
 
 Hannah^, dau. of Experience^ and Jane, m. Dea. Joseph 
 Hayward, son of Thomas Hayward of Duxbury. Important 
 dates unknown. 
 
 Continuation. — Hannah Hayward, Rev. Eliab Byram, Sarah 
 Byram, Sarah Dean, Sarah Weston. 
 
 ZThe Coolfte Xincage* 
 
 Francis^ and Jaxe^. (See p. 68.) 
 
 Coniinuation. — Hannah Mitchell, Hannah Hayward, Rev. 
 Eliah Byram, Sarah Byram, Sarah Dean, Sarah Weston. 
 
 Zhc Xeonar^ Xincage (^bomas). 
 
 James''. (See p. 65.) 
 
 Maj. Thomas-, first son of James^ and Margaret, was b. 
 about 1641 ; (from age at death) ; m. Mary Watson, August 21, 
 
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 1662 ; d. ^OY. 24, 1713, age 72. His Avife d. Dec. 1, 1723, at 
 age 81. He was a physician, major, justice of the peace, town 
 clerk, deacon, and became the ancestor of a very distinguished 
 family. 
 
 JoHN^, the second son of Thomas^ and Mary, was b. May 18, 
 1668. He ni. Mary, dan. of Philip King. 
 
 Thomas^, the son of John^ and Mary, m., June 23, 1726, 
 Sarah AValker. 
 
 Sakaii*^, the dan. of Thomas'* and Sarah, was b. in 1729 and 
 m. (1) Oct. 23, 1749, :^ev. Eliab Byrani of Mendham, N. J. 
 She was the mother of Sarah Byram, who m. Hon. Josiah Dean 
 of Raynham, in his day the o"v\aier of the Raynham forge built 
 by James and Henry Leonard. She m. (2) Thomas Dean, 
 Esq., and d. Sept. 20, 1778. 
 
 Continuation. — Sarah Byram, Sarah Dean, Sarah Wes- 
 ton. 
 
 ^be IKIiatson ILineagc (flDari^). 
 
 George^ (Seie p. 51.) 
 
 Mary^, third dan. of George^ and Phebe, was b. about 1641. 
 Shem. Aug. 21, 1662, Thomas Leonard of Taunton, and d. Dec. 
 1, 1723, aged 81. 
 
 Continuation. — John Leonard, Thomas Leonard, Sarah Leon- 
 ard, Sarah Byram, Sarah Dean, Sarah Weston. 
 
 trbe 1btck0 Xtnca^c (flDari? UClatson). 
 
 Egbert^ and Phebe^. (Se'e p. 52.) 
 
 Continuation. — Mary Watson, John Leonard, Thomas Leon- 
 ard, Sarah Leonard, Sarah Byram, Sarah Dean, Sarah Weston. 
 
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 ^be Iking Xtneagc* 
 
 Philip^, the ancestor of the Taunton King family, was of 
 Weymouth prior to 1672, at which time he m. Judith Whit- 
 man, dau. of John Whitman^ of that placet In 1680 he? 
 removed to Taunton (tradition says from Braintree). Sanford 
 refers to him as Capt. Philip and states that he was a great 
 friend of the Indians, ^\^th whom he traded, bringing his goods 
 on horseback from Plymouth. It is also stated that Thomas 
 King of Scituat© was his brother. Philip's children were seven 
 daughters and a son John. 
 
 Mary-, dau. of Philip and Judith, m. John Leonard. They 
 settled at Taunton and had four children, all sons. 
 
 Continuation. — Thomas Leonard, Sarah Leonard, Sarah By- 
 ram, Sarah Dean, Sarah Weston. 
 
 Zhc IKIlbitman Xincage.l 
 
 JoHN'% the ancestor, was one of the earliest settlers of the 
 town of Weymouth having arrived some months and probably a 
 year or more prior to December, 1638, at which time he was 
 made a freeman. In 1642 he received an allotment of land in 
 Weymouth. In 1645 he was by the Governor and assistants ap- 
 pointed an Ensign, probably the first military appointment in 
 the town. This office he held until March 16, 1680, He was 
 deacon in the Weymouth church, probably from its first estab- 
 lishment until his death. There are on record many transfers 
 of real estate in which John Whitman was concerned, and he 
 is sho^vn to have been one of the largest land holders in the 
 
 *Parnam, descendants of John Whitman of Weymouth, Mass., p. 28; 
 Savage, Genealogical Dictionary; King family of Taunton, by Rev. 
 Enoch Sanford. 
 
 fSanford gives Rev. William Whitman of Milton as the father of 
 Judith, but this seems clearly to be an error. 
 
 $History of the Descendants of John Whitman of Weymouth, Mass., 
 by Charles H. Farnam, A. M., Asst. in Ai'cheology in the Peabody Mu- 
 seum, Yale University, pp. xv and 1246. New Haven, 1889. 
 
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 town. The first deed on record made by him transfers 22 
 acres of land in "Braintry" to William Hayward and bears 
 date of March 19, 1648. (See p. 14.) He was by the Gen- 
 eral Court in 1664 allowed four shillings a day "for his paynes" 
 and use of "his horse in ye journey he was employed in for the 
 countrye's services to the ISTarrowgansetts." In 1645 and 1646 
 the Court authorized John Whitman with others to end small 
 causes and controversies at Weymouth. 
 
 It is probable that John was b. about 1602 and that he lived 
 little, if any, short of ninety years. His death occurred 'Nov. 
 13, 1692. His oldest son Thomas was b. in 1629. John m. 
 in England probably about 1625. He came to America before 
 1638 leaving his wife, whose name was probably Ruth, and sev- 
 eral children n England. There is a tradition that they joined 
 him in 1641. Of the four sons and five daughters six lived 
 to be over eighty. 
 
 Judith^ w^as probably the youngest dau. of the ancestor. She 
 m. prior to 1672 Philip King of Weymouth. His will made 
 in 1706 mentions his wife Judith. 
 
 Continuation. — Mary King, Thomas Leonard, Sarah Leon- 
 ard, Sarah Byram, Sarah De'an, Sarah Weston. 
 
 ZTbc umalker Xineacje* 
 
 James ^, son of the "Widow Walker" of Eehoboth, was b. in 
 England in 1619 or 1620. He came to America probably in 
 the "Elizabeth" from London April 15, 1635. He first appears 
 at Taunton in 1643, and was made freeman in 1650. He m. 
 (1) Elizabeth, dau. of William and Elizabeth (Parker) Phil- 
 lips. They had five children who survived them. Elizabeth 
 d. Aug. 14, 1678, aged 59 ; and he m. (2), Nov. 4, 1678, Sarah 
 Hew, widow of Edward Rew, and a daughter of John Richmond. 
 James ^ d. Feb. 15, 1691, aged 73. He and wife Elizabeth 
 were buried in the Walker grave yard on the bank of the Taun- 
 ton river, her grave stone being older by eight years than any 
 other in the town. There are many references to James ^ in 
 
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 the court records which indicate that he had some quarrels 
 with his neighbors, also that many complaints were lodged 
 against him because his mill prevented the alewives from going 
 up the Taunton river to breed. Aug. 23, 1671, by a council 
 of war James Walker was chosen to go "vnto the said Phillip, 
 the said Sachem to require his psonall appeerance att Plymouth 
 in the 13th day of September next in reference to the pticulares 
 aboue mentioned against him ; this letter was sent by Mr. James 
 Walker, one of the councell, and hee was ordered to request the 
 companie of Mr. Roger Williams and Mr. James Browne to goe 
 with him att the deliuery of the said letter." (Plymouth rec- 
 ords. ) 
 
 He was a member and chairman of the town "Councell of 
 Warr," 1667, 1675, and 1678. He w^as also one of the "Coun- 
 cell of Warr" for Plymouth Colony, in 1658, 1661, 1671, 1681, 
 and was associated with its most energetic and sagacious men. 
 He had correspondence with Gov. Winslow, Gov. Prince and 
 others, a.part of which is preserved.* 
 
 James ^, son of Janies^ and Elizabeth, was b. 1645-6 and d. 
 June 22, 1718, aged 72 yrs. He m.j Dec. 23, 1673, Bathsheba, 
 dau. of Gilbert Brooks of Rehoboth. She was b. 1655 and d* 
 Feb. 24, 1738, in her 85th year. James^ was constable in 
 Taunton in 1689, in which year he w^as admitted to freedom. 
 His father is always distinguished from him in the records as 
 Mr. James Walker. 
 
 Lieut. James^, son of James^ and Bathsheba, was b. Dec, 
 1674^ and d. Sept. 12^ 1749, ae. 74 yrs., 8 mos. and 19 days. 
 (Inscription.) He m. (1), Oct. 6, 1699, Sarah, dau. of John 
 Richmond of Taunton, and (2) Mrs. Sarah , who sur- 
 vived him, and d. 1759, ae. ab. 75 yrs. He was styled Lieut, 
 in 1744 and upon his grave stone is called Ensign. 
 
 Sakah*, dau, of Lieut. James^ and Sarah, m., June 23, 1726^ 
 Thomas Leonard^ Jr.^ of Raynham. 
 
 Cooitinuation.—Samh Leonard, Sarah Byram, Sarah Dean, 
 Sarah Weston. 
 
 *See Memorial of the Walkers of the Old Plymouth Colony, etc., by 
 James Bradford Richmond Walker, A. M., pp. 451, Northampton, Met- 
 calf & Co., 1861. 
 
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 Zhc ipbillips Olineaae.* 
 
 William^ was of Taunton 1643. He m. Elizabeth Parker, 
 sister of William and John Parker, leading men of Taunton. 
 
 Elizabeth-, dau. of William^ and Elizabeth, was b. about 
 1619. She m. James Walker. She d. in July or August, 1678, 
 ae. 59. Her grave stone in the Walker grave yard has an earlier 
 date by eight years than any other in the tOAvn. They had five 
 children who survived them. 
 
 Continuation. — James Walker, Lieut. James Walker, Sarah 
 Walker, Sarah Leonard, Sarah Byram, Sarah Dean, Sarah Wes- 
 ton. 
 
 ^be :Brook0 Xtneage^t 
 
 Gilbert^, came to this country in the "Blessing" from Lon- 
 don in 1635 at the age of fourteen years. With his brother 
 William he went to Scituate, where it is recorded that he was 
 in the family of William Vassall in 1638. He m. (1) Eliza- 
 beth, who according to some authorities was the dau. of Gov- 
 ernor Edward Winslow of Plymouth and Marshfield. He had 
 sons Gilbert and John, probably born in Marshfield, and seven 
 daughters, all born in Scituate. 
 
 In 1675 he kept a garrison at Governor Josiah Winslow'a 
 house at Marshfield. Gilbert^ was in Rehoboth 1679-1683 
 and member of a committee "to treat with the Rev. Samuel 
 Angier concerning his settlement in the ministry there.^ He 
 m. (2), at Rehoboth, Jan. 18, 1687, Sarah, the widow of Sam- 
 uel Carpenter, 
 
 Bathsheba", fifth daughter and seventh child of Gilbert and 
 Elizabeth, was b. in Scituate in 1655 and baptized there in the 
 
 ♦Walker Memorial, p. 8. 
 
 t History of Scituate, Mass., by Samuel Deane, Boston, 1831, pp. 224-5. 
 Also Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, vol. I, p. 260. Haxtun's Signers 
 of the Mayflower Compact, part I, p. 7. Winslow Memorial, vol. 1, p. 58. 
 
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 ^56Cond church. She m., Dec. 23, 1673, James Walker of Taun- 
 ton. She d. Feb. 24, 1738. 
 
 Continuation. — Lieut, James Walker, Sarah Walker, Sarah 
 Leonard, Sarah Byram, Sarah Dean, Sarah Weston. 
 
 GovEENOE Edwaed^, the remarkable man who has been 
 called the head of the Plymouth Colony as Capt. Standish waa 
 its right arm, was b. at Droitwich, Worcestershire, England, 
 Oct. 19, 1595. He was the son of Edward Winslow of Kemp- 
 sey and Droitwich, England, and Magdalene OUyver, his wife, 
 and grandson of Kenelm Winslow, whose estates were Clerken- 
 leap and ISTewports' Place. In 1617 he joined the congrega- 
 tion of the Pilgrim Church at Leyden. Here he m. (1), May 
 16, 1618, Elizabeth Barker. When the Leyden Pilgrims 
 started for the 'New World in 1620 Edward and his wife and 
 his brother Gilbert went with them. Edward's family consisted 
 of himself and vdie, George Soule, a boy, Elias Story, and a girl 
 Ellen Moore. Of the five the future governor and George Soule 
 (see p. 47) were the only ones to survive the winter. Eliza- 
 beth, the wife, passed away on the 24th of March, 1621. On the 
 12th of May following Edward m. Mrs. Susanna (Fuller) 
 White, whose babe, Perigrine^ White, then five months old, was 
 bom on the ''Mayflower," and whose husband, William White, 
 had died but a month or two earlier. Some explanation of the 
 apparent haste of each party to the marriage in renewing mari- 
 tal relations may be found in the unprotected condition of the 
 mother and child and the cruel necessities of the time, which 
 crowded one hundred and two persons into nineteen houses of 
 one room each. This marriage was the first in ISTew England 
 and being a civil one before a Magistrate (Bradford) — then 
 contrary to English law — was in some sense a declaration of 
 rights on the part of the colonists. 
 
 *See under Elizabeths below. 
 
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 Winslow was of better family than the other colonists and 
 partly on this account and partly because of his sagacity and 
 intellectual poAver, he was always regarded with more than 
 ordinary respect by the colony. From the start he was the dip- 
 lomatist of the infant state. He was the envoy to Massasoit on 
 more than one occasion, and by curing him of a severe illnesa 
 secured to the colonists a life long friend and peace with the 
 tribe during the chief's lifetime. He made several voyages to 
 England as the agent of the colony to conduct difficult matters 
 with the home government, a task for which his advantages of 
 birth, his personal appearance and his courtliness, as well as 
 his qualities of mind, especially fitted him. On one of these 
 visits he Avas imprisoned for seventeen weeks in the Fleet prison 
 through the influence of Archbishop Laud because as a layman 
 he had taught publicly in the church, and because he had offici- 
 ated at marriages, notwithstanding the fact that the colony had 
 no minister. In 1635, while on one of these visits, he suc- 
 ceeded in disconcerting a plot to abolish the self government 
 enjoyed by the colonists. He was, in contrast with the men of 
 his time, unusually tolerant. When Roger Williams, the 
 apostle of liberty, had been forced to leave Massachusetts and 
 had been reduced to want, Winslow gave him advice and money. 
 Williams said: "It pleased the Father of Mercies to touch 
 many hearts with relentings, among whom that great and pious 
 soul, Mr. Winslow, melted, and he kindly furnished me at Prov- 
 idence, and put a piece of gold into the hands of my wife, for 
 our supply." Winslow was three times governor of the colony, 
 in 1635, 1636, and 1644. He went to England for the last 
 time in 1649 when he was influential in the formation of the 
 Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians of I^ew 
 England, and John Eliot began his successful work as apostle 
 to the Indians. 
 
 Winslow's worth and accomplishments were so appreciated 
 by the parties now in power in England that he found no oppor- 
 tunity to return to the colony. He Avas appointed a Commisr- 
 sioner to determine the value of English ships destroyed by the 
 
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 King of Denmark, and when Cromwell sent Admiral Penn and 
 Gen, Yenables to execute an expedition planned against the 
 Spanish in the West Indies, Winslow was appointed at the head 
 of three Commissioners to superintend and direct operations. 
 The commission w^as appointed, it is supposed, partly because 
 many of the officers were suspected of loyalty to the Stuarts. 
 The commanders disagreed in temper and views and would not 
 submit to the control of the Commissioners. The expedition 
 against San Domingo ended in disaster, but the fleet soon after 
 captured Jamaica. It was on the way to Jamaica while suffer- 
 ing from the chagrin of defeat that Winslow was attacked by a 
 climatic fever of which he died. May 8, 1655, before the fleet 
 reached Jamaica. His body was committed to the deep with 
 the honors of war, the fleet firing a salute of forty-two guns. 
 
 Palfrey says in his History of New England: "After Brad- 
 ford — or after Bradford and Brewster — the first colony owed 
 to no man so much as to Edward Winslow. Always intelli- 
 gent, generous, confident and indefatigable, he was undoubt- 
 edly tnisted for any service, at home or abroad, which the infant 
 settlement happened to require For foreign em- 
 ployment his better birth and breeding gave him advantages 
 over his fellow emigrants. Among the gentlemen of the British 
 Parliament Winslow moved as one of themselves ; and his ad- 
 dress and winning qualities, no less than his sagacity and dili- 
 gence, justified the choice, which, when he went abroad for the 
 last time, the larger colony overlooked her own statesmen to 
 
 make Cromwell saw at once the worth of the 
 
 honest, religious, capable, strenuous envoy from N^orth America, 
 and took care never to lose his services while he lived, which was 
 for nine years after he left Plymouth for the last time." 
 
 By his second wife, Susanna Fuller, the widow of William 
 White, he had a daughter Elizabeth. Josiah, the only other 
 child by this marriage who reached maturity, was afterward a 
 Magistrate, governor of Pl^miouth, and in 1675, in the war with 
 the Indians, he was the Commander-in-Chief of all the colonial 
 forces in ISTew England. Before his departure from ISTew 
 
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 England Governor Edward Winslow had made a settlement on. a 
 valuable tract of land in Marshfield to which he gave the name 
 of "Careswell." This place has since been famous as the resi- 
 dence of Daniel Webster. 
 
 Elizabeth^, dau, of Gov. Edward and Susanna, m. (1) Gil- 
 bert or Kobert Brooks and (2) C'apt. George Curwon of Salem.* 
 
 A number of authorities make Elizabeth Winslow, dau. of 
 Gov. Edward Winslow, the wife of Gilbert Brooks, among them 
 Samuel Deane in his History of Scituate, the Holtons in their 
 extensive ^Yinslow Memorial of two large volumes, and Nahum 
 ^^([itchell in the History of Bridgewater. Thomas in Memorials 
 of Marshfield, Mass., says that Elizabeth Winslow was married 
 j&rst to "Gilbert or Robert Brooks." On the other hand Davis 
 in his Landmrn-ks of Plymouth says she m. Robert Roaks. Sav- 
 age in one place gives Robert Brooks and in another (on the au- 
 thority of Deane) Gilbert Brooks, stating, however, that this is 
 disputed by some. 
 
 The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (vol. 
 4, p. 30), states that Elizabeth Winslow's first husband was Rob- 
 ert Brooks^ by whom she had a son John, and her second hus- 
 band was George Curwen of Salem. Wyman's Cliarlestown 
 says John Brooks, d. 25 Dec, 1687, a son of Mrs. Curwin of 
 Salem. Mr. George A. Dary of Boston, who has recently given 
 much time to this question, believes he has proven that Eliza- 
 beth, the wife of Gilbert Brooks, was not the dau. of Governor 
 Winslow, and if the Gilbert Brooks of Rehoboth is the Gilbert 
 Brooks of Scitiiate and Marshfield, it is difficult to see how he 
 can be in error. 
 
 The wall of Governor Josiah Winslow (son of Gov. Edw. 
 W^inslow) proved in 1681 {Old Colony Records, vol. J^, pt. 2, 
 p. 115), gives his "loving sister Elizabeth Corwin a pocket 
 
 ♦Winslow Memorial, Family Records of Winslows and their Descend- 
 ants in America, with the English ancestry as far as known, by David- 
 Parsons Holton, A. M., M. D., and Mrs. Frances K. (Forward) Wins- 
 low. Two volumes, New York, 1877. 
 
 Haxtun's Signers of the Mayflower Compact. 
 
 Elizabeth (Winslow) (Brooks) Corwin, by George Ernest Bowmaa, 
 Mayflower Descendant, vol. 1 (1839), p. 238. 
 
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 ■watch that was sometimes our Honored Father's" and a legacy 
 "to my kinsman John Brook, son of my said sister." Now the 
 Rehoboth records give the date of burial of Elizabeth, wife of 
 Gilbert Brooks, as July 17, 1687, though they also give the 
 date of his remarriage to Mrs. Sarah Carpenter as Jan. 18, 
 1687, before the death of his first wife. There may be an error 
 in one of these dates. In any case Gilbert himself appears to 
 have been living at the time the will of Josiah Winslow was 
 written, hence his wife could not be Elizabeth Corwin, the dau. 
 of Governor Winslow. 
 
 Capt. George Corwin d. at Salem June 3, 1684-5, and among 
 the documents relating to the settlement of his estate is "A 
 Liste of Severall Things Inventoried wth the Estate of Capt. 
 Geo. Corwine wch in Right belong to Elizabeth, his Relict 
 Widow, etc." Included in this list is the following; ''To a 
 Large Tankerd, plate, yt was my fomr Husbands Mr. Robt. 
 Brookes, wth or Armes To a plate sugr box. Given me pr 
 Govr Winslow, etc." 
 
 Continuation. — Bathsheba Brooks, Lieut. James Walker, 
 Sarah Walker, Sarah Leonard, Sarah Byram, Sarah Dean, 
 Sarah Weston. 
 
 ^be IRicbmon^ Xineage, 
 
 The Richmond family had its origin in Brittany, France. 
 The family lineage has been traced from John Richmond, the 
 American ancestor, to Roaldus Musard de Richmond, one of the 
 most powerful leaders who accompanied William the Conqueror 
 to England.* The line of English ancestors given is also that 
 of the Ashton-Keynes and other Wiltshire Richmonds: the 
 former for five generations bore the alias of Webb, first assumed 
 by William Richmond about 1430 when he married Alice, the 
 daughter and heiress of Thomas Webb of Draycott, Wiltshire, 
 
 *The Richmond Family, 1594-1896, and Pre-American Ancestors, 
 1040-1594 by Joshua Bailey Richmond, Member of the New England 
 Historic Genealogical Society, pp. xviii and 614, Boston, 1897. 
 
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 England. Francis Thackeray, the uncle of William Make- 
 peace Thackeray, who descended from the "Wiltshire Rich- 
 monds, compiled the records of the ancestors of the Ashton- 
 Keynes Richmonds.* 
 
 John\ the eldest son of Henry, alias Webb^^, was an officer 
 of distinction during the English civil wars. He was b. in 
 1594 and was the American ancestor of the Richmonds. He 
 came from xlshton-Keynes, Wilts., to America probably in 
 1635 to Saco, Me. He was one of the purchasers of Taunton 
 in 1637 and o\\Tied six shares. He was probably m. before 
 coming to America, but nothing is known of his wife. He was 
 aAvay from Taunton much of his life and is known to have been 
 at l^e^vport and other place!s, but returned to Taunton and d. 
 there Mch. 20, 1664, aged 70. He was one of the Commis- 
 sioners, for N^ewport, of the Court of Commissioners, held at 
 Portsmouth in 1656. He took the oath of fidelity at Taunton 
 in 1640. The family were large lando-wners in the easterly 
 part of the town and gave that section the name Richmondville 
 which it still bears. 
 
 JoHN^, son of John^, was b. probably in Ashton-Keynes 
 about 1627, before his father came to America. He m. in 1641 
 Abigail Rogers, dau. of John Rogers of Duxbury. She d. Aug. 1, 
 1727, aged eighty six, and is buried at Taunton. As this would 
 make her but thirteen years of age when Johns's dau., Mary, 
 was bom, it has been supposed by some that there was a former 
 wife. Deeds of land show that Johns's son, Joseph, was son of 
 Abigail, hence probably that the earlier wife died about 1662 
 and that he m. Abigail Rogers early in 1663. On Sept. 28, 
 1671, Wm. Brenton, Jas. Walker (See p. 79), Wm. Harvey, 
 Walter Dean and John Richmond purchased of King Philip and 
 his Sachems the tract of land which included Taunton. John 
 Richmond was at other times employed to purchase land of the 
 Indians, was constable, member of the town council, commis- 
 sioner, and surveyor. His residence at "Neck of Land" was 
 
 * This brief summary is taken from the work of Joshua Bailey Rich- 
 mond above cited, to which reference should be made for fuller data 
 and authorities. 
 
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 three-fourths of a mile from the "green" and with his wife he 
 is buried there. In Mch., 1677, he was a distributer of Taun- 
 ton's apportionment of the ''Irish Charity" sent from Dublin, 
 Ireland, to "distressed sufferers" by King Philip's War. He 
 was a very important man of the town and on nearly every com- 
 mittee on purchase, division, and settlement of land. He d. 
 Oct. 7, 1715. 
 
 Sarah ^, the eighth child of John^ (and daughter of Abigail 
 Rogers), was b. at Taunton Feb. 7, 1670-1. She m. Oct. 6, 
 1699, James Walker, son of James and Bathsheba (Brooks) 
 Walker. She d. 'Nov. 27, 1727. 
 
 Continuation. — Sarah Walker, Sarah Leonard, Sarah Byram, 
 Sarah Dean, Sarah Weston. 
 
 Thomas^ was one of the "Mayflower" Pilgrim Fathers and 
 the eighteenth signer of the Compact in the cabin of the "May- 
 flower," where he placed his name immediately beneath that of 
 Francis Cooke. His son Joseph came out with him on the 
 "Mayflower." Bradford says of Thomas: 
 
 "He was one of the forty-one persons who signed the Constitutions of 
 government on board the Mayflower, and was one of the Pilgrim 
 Fathers. His son Joseph came with him, is married, and has six chil- 
 dren. The other children came over afterward, including John, mar- 
 ried, and have many children. Thomas died ^n 1621." 
 
 The sons Josej^h and John subsequently removed to Duxbury, 
 the annex of Plymouth, where were Standish, Brerwster, Soule, 
 and other important men of the colony. In Aug., 1643, their 
 names appear in the list of men of Duxbury able to bear arms. 
 Joseph was a Lieutenant and a military man of importance in 
 the colony. 
 
 JoHN^, son of Thomas^, was b. . He followed his 
 
 father to Plymouth probably either in the "Fortune" (1621) 
 or the "Ann" (1623), and resided in Duxbury. He proposed 
 
89 
 
 to take lip freedom Mch. 5, 1638-9. April 16, 1639, he m. Ann 
 Churchman (perhaps dan. of Hngh Chnrchman' of Lynn, 
 1640), hence probably quite a young child when the '^May- 
 flower" sailed. His will,* dated Aug. 26, 1691, and proved 
 Sept. 20, 1692, contains a paragi^aph as follows: 
 
 5. To his daughter Abigail Richmond, "that twenty shillings a year 
 which is my due for four score acres of land which I sold to my two 
 grandsons, Joseph Richmond and Edward Richmond." 
 
 Continuation. — Abigail Rogers, Sarah Richmond, Sarah 
 Walker, Sarah Leonard, Sarah Byrani, Sarah Dean, Sarah 
 Weston. 
 
 ♦Haxtun's Signers of the Mayflower Compact, Pt. II, p. 11. 
 
Zhc 2)e8cenbant8 of Hlotiso anb 
 Sarab Meston IkimbalL 
 
 (Compiled by Mary Cornelia Kimball Walker.) 
 
 Mary Cornelia Kimball^, b. Lee, Mass., Jan, 4, 1842; m. 
 Green Bay, Wis., Aug. 16, 1866, Matthew Henry Walker, for- 
 merly of Cliffe House, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. Mr. 
 Walker is a dealer in real estate at Green Bay. 
 
 CHILDREN, BORN IN GREEN BAY. 
 
 i Edwin Eaton Walker,^ b. Aug. 15, 1869, living in Montpelier, Ind. 
 ii William Kimball Walker,^ b. May 5, 1872, Green Bay. 
 lii Anne Carolyn Walker," b. Jan. 8, 1884. 
 
 Alo:xzo Westojst Kimball^, b. Lee, Mass., March 7, 1844; 
 m. 1st Aug. 4, 1869, Almira Barnes Mahan (d. Green Bay, ISTor. 
 28, 1882), youngest daughter of late President Asa Mahan, 
 of Oberlin College, 0., and his wife, Mary Dix; m. 2d Sept. 
 24, 1884, Ella Celestia Peak, dau. of the late James Peak, 
 M. D., of Cooperstown, I»J". Y. He entered Beloit College in 
 1863, but left to enter the Union army. After the war he en- 
 gaged in the insurance business in Green Bay and Milwaukee. 
 Later he was appointed general agent of the Northwestern Mu- 
 tual Life Insurance Co., with headquarters in Chicago. In 
 1902 he took into partnership Mr. Charles D. K"orton, who for 
 several years had been Assistant General Agent. Resides in 
 Evanston, 111. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 i Theodore Mahan Kimball,' b. Green Bay, July 9, 1870. (See below.) 
 ii Alonzo Myron Kimball,* b. Green Bay, Aug. 14, 1874. (See below.) 
 iii Marjorie Weston Kimball,' b. Milwaukee, March 12, 1886. 
 
ALONZO Vv/ESTON KIMBALU 
 
91 
 
 Charles Theodore Kimball-, b. Dalton, Mass., Oct. 10, 
 1847; m. Green Bay, Wis., Sept. 5, 1871, Hannah Elizabeth 
 Cawthorne, of Port Hope, Canada. He received a business 
 education and was associated with his father in the hardware 
 business, which is still conducted bj him under the old name. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 i Mary Bell Kimball,' b. March 5, 1873. 
 ii Myra Weston Kimball/ b. Sept. 7, 1875. 
 iii Charles Theodore Kimball,' Jr., b. July 27, 1877. 
 
 Mather Dean Kimball-, b. Green Bay, Wis., Dec. 4, 1849 ; 
 m. in Chicago, 111., Jan. 30, 1875, Anna Lewis. He graduated 
 from the J^orthwestem University, Evanston, 111., in 1872. 
 Besides in Milwaukee, Wis. With the ISTorthwestem Mutual 
 Life Insurance Co. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 i Katharine Lewis Kimball,' b. Green Bay, Nov. 8, 1876. (See below.) 
 ii Sara Weston Kimball,' b. Green Bay, Jan. 7, 1879. (See below.) 
 iii Anna Mather Kimball,' b. Ravenswood, 111., Aug. 17, 1886. 
 
 William Dwight Kimball^, b. Green Bay, Sept. 18, 1852 ; 
 and d. Sept. 17, 1854. 
 
 Sara Kimball-, b. Green Bay, Wis., July 25, 1857; m. 1st, 
 Green Bay, Oct. 6, 1880, Linus Bonner Sale. Mr. Sale was a 
 lawyer of English descent. On Aug. 10, 1892, he with his 
 two little sons, Richard and Robert, was drowned in Fox river 
 at Green Bay while bathing. Married 2d, at Evanston, 111., 
 June 23, 1896, William Herbert Hobbs, professor of mineral- 
 ogy and petrology at the University of Wisconsin. Reside at 
 Madison, Wis. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 i Richard Weston Sale,' b. Aug. 9, 1881; d. Aug. 10, 1892. (See be- 
 low.) 
 
 ii Robert Kimball Sale,' b. Aug. 25, 1883; d. Aug. 10, 1892. (See be- 
 low.) 
 
 iii Alice Ruth Sale,' b. Aug. 24, 1886; d. Mch. 5, 1901. 
 
 iv Winifred Sarah Weston Hobbs,3 b. Nov. 11, 1899. 
 
&2 
 
 Theodore Mahan Kimball^, b. Green Bay, July 9, 1870; 
 m. in Chicago, 111,, Mch. 3, 1898, Dixie Bagshaw. Reside in 
 Evanston, 111. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 i Myra Mahan Kimball/ b. Orizaba, state of Vera Cruz, Mexico, July 
 4, 1899. 
 ii Alfrefl Qianning Kimball,* b. Evanston, 111., Aug. 8, 1901. 
 
 Alonzo Mykon Kimball^ b. Green Bay, Aug. 14, 1874; m. 
 April 24, 1902, Madelaine Williams. Eeside at Chicago, 111. 
 
 Katharine Lewis Kimball'', b. Green Bay, Nov. 8, 1876 ; 
 m. at Milwaukee, Wis., Frederick Albert Foster. Eeside in 
 Milwaukee, Wis. 
 
 Sara Weston Kimball^, b. Green Bay, Jan. 7, 1879; m. 
 May 6, 1902, at Milwaukee, George Arthur Carhart, M. D. 
 Reside at Pittsburgh, Pa. 
 
Tnt)ci: to Xineaaes. 
 
 Allen (See Gardner and Montague) 
 
 Ashley 
 
 Atherton 
 
 Becket (See Soule) 
 
 Bicknell (See Rockwood) 
 
 Brooks 
 
 Buttolph 
 
 Byram 
 
 Carr 
 
 Church 
 
 Churchill 
 
 Churchman (See Rogers) 
 
 Cooke (Cook) 
 
 Corwin 
 
 Cowles 
 
 Dean 
 
 De la Noye 
 
 Deming (See Foote) 
 
 Dickinson 
 
 Downing 
 
 Dunham 
 
 Edson 
 
 Emerson 
 
 Foote 
 
 Fuller 
 
 Gardner 
 
 Gibbons (See Hitchcock) 
 
 Gull (See Dickinson) 
 
 Hanchett ' 
 
 Hayward 
 
 Hicks 
 
 Hitchcock 
 
 Holt (See Mather) 
 
 Horton (See Ashley) 
 
 Howard 
 
 Hunt (See Wood) 
 
 Keith 
 
 Kilbourn 
 
 Kimball 
 
 41 
 20 
 
 81,85 
 24 
 72 
 13 
 30 
 31 
 
 17, 68, 76 
 86 
 33 
 60 
 46 
 
 32 
 35 
 53 
 
 72,75 
 27 
 31 
 26 
 25 
 
 28 
 14, 71, 76 
 
 . 52,77 
 37 
 
 70 
 
 71 
 
 40 
 
 9 
 
94 
 
 King 
 
 Kingsley 
 
 Langton 
 
 Leonard 
 
 Mather 
 
 Mitchell 
 
 Montague 
 
 Nash 
 
 Oliver (See Carr) 
 
 Orcutt (See Edson) 
 
 Orne (See Gardner) 
 
 Packard 
 
 Parker 
 
 Partridge 
 
 Phillips 
 
 Pomeroy 
 
 Pratt 
 
 Prichard 
 
 Prichett 
 
 Richmond 
 
 Rocket 
 
 Rockwood 
 
 Rogers 
 
 Root 
 
 Russell (See Root) 
 
 Scott (See Kimball) 
 
 Shaw 
 
 Smith 
 
 Soule 
 
 Stacy (See Dickinson) 
 
 Stephens 
 
 Stoughton 
 
 Wadsworth 
 
 Wales (See Atherton) 
 
 Walker 
 
 Washburn 
 
 Watson 
 
 Weston 
 
 Whitman 
 
 Whotlock (See Kimball) 
 
 Winslow 
 
 Witt 
 
 Wood 
 
 PAGE 
 78 
 
 62 
 29 
 
 63,76 
 17 
 
 67,76 
 34 
 50 
 
 69 
 
 81 
 38 
 81 
 53 
 53 
 29 
 29 
 86 
 15 
 15 
 
 39 
 
 51,75 
 
 36,38 
 
 46 
 
 62 
 22 
 23 
 
 79 
 66 
 
 77 
 42 
 78 
 
 82 
 13 
 
 27 
 
IFn flDemoriam. 
 
 aimira Barnce flDaban, 
 
 Almira Barnes Malian was the youngest child of Rev. Dr. 
 Asa Mahan, President of Oberlin College. Her mother, Maiy 
 Dix Mahan, was a member of the celebrated Dix family. Myra, 
 as she was called by her friends, was born at Oberlin, January 
 11, 181(3. She came to Green Bay, Wis., in the fall of 1866 
 with her sisters and Miss Gillett, where they established a very 
 successful academy. Myra was married August 4, 1869, to 
 A. W. Kimball. Probably no woman who ever lived in Green 
 Bay impressed herself more ])ositively and lovingly on the entire 
 connnunity than she. .Vhvays devoted to church and charitable 
 w^ork of some kind, she will long be remembered by many Avliom 
 the Avorld Avill never hear of or know. 
 
 "Blessing she was, God made her so, 
 Nor did she ever chance to know 
 That aught were easier than to bless." 
 
 Mrs. Kimball organized the Shakespeare Club; and was one 
 of the founders of the Philharmonic Society, being chosen for 
 the part, of Queen in the cantata of Esther, the Beautiful Queeai, 
 the first concert presented by that Society. She was a woman 
 of unusual comeliness and beauty ; of strong and lovely charac- 
 ter, and was warmly and tenderlv beloved by a very wide circle 
 of friends and admirers. Her husband and two sons, Themlore 
 Mahan Kindjall and Alonzo Myron Kimball, survived her. 
 
96 
 
 Xinu9 Bonner Sale/ 
 
 Linus Bonner Sale, youngest child of John F. and Jane 
 Grey Sale, was born at Evansville, Rock county. Wis., on May 
 Y, 1844. The year following his birth, in February, 1845, his 
 father, a young man of thirty years, died, leaving liis widow 
 with four sons to rear and educate. How fittingly she was 
 equipped to fulfill the difficult task and how faithfully it was 
 performed, is borne out in the lives of these sons, all of whom 
 through the inspiration of a loving, cultured mother and in 
 the blessed experience which comes through years of toil and 
 economy, achieved more than average education, each one en- 
 tering a profession. Richard K. is a physician at Colona, 
 111., and Joseph H., of Moline, 111., who has since died, was of 
 the same profession. Judge John W. Sale, of Janesville, Wis., 
 and Linus B. Sale, chose that of the legal fraternity. 
 
 Mr. Sale's early boyhood was spent in the vicinity of Evans- 
 Tille ; he worked on a farm, attended the district school, and 
 later the academy at Evansville. 
 
 In the spring of 18G4, when the call came for troops for 
 the 100 days' service, this young man of 20 years responded, 
 enlisting in the 40th Wisconsin regiment. Col. W. A. Ray in 
 command. During the time of this service he was with liis 
 regiment in the vicinity of Memphis, Tenn. 
 
 Soon after the close of the war, Mr. Sale entered the Univer- 
 sity of Wisconsin, graduating in 1870 with a class of twenty, 
 receiving the degree of Ph. B. He then entered the law 
 department, graduating in 1872, after which he went to Bea,- 
 trice, 'Neb., entering into partnership with S. W. Colby (after- 
 wards assistant attorney general of the United States), in the 
 practice of law. He remained at Beatrice until March, 1874, 
 when, upon the solicitation of Chas. E. Vroman, he came to 
 Green Bay and foniied a law partnership with Mr. Vroman, 
 which continued without interruption until January 1, 1891. 
 
 *This account is adapted from an obituary notice published in the 
 Green Bay State Gazette. 
 
97 
 
 On October C, 1880, Mr. Sale was united in marriage to 
 Miss Sara Kimball, vonngest child of Deacon Alonzo Kim- 
 ball of Green Bay, They made their home with Mrs. Sale's 
 parents until the following May, when they took possession of 
 the home on Monroe avenue where they afterward resided. 
 
 Mr. Sale, while a resident of Green Bay, was a member 
 of the Republican State Central Committee of his congi*es- 
 sional district. He was also on the staff of Governor Smith 
 during his last term of office. From 1879 to 1883 he was a 
 member of the Board of Regents of the State University, a 
 valued member, and for six years continuously, up to July, 
 1891, w^as President of the School Board of Green Bay. 
 
 It is learned from a friend wdio knew him intimately through 
 many years, that Mr. Sale as a student in college Avas a hard 
 worker, popular with his fellows though disinclined to indulge 
 in the pranks of college men. As a lawyer he was careful 
 and painstaking, seeking the quieter lines of practice rather 
 than the field of active litigation. He was a shrewd business 
 man and almost invariably successful in the management of 
 business affairs. His sagacity in this respect brought him many 
 clients who trusted him with most implicit confidence in the 
 management of their business matters, his promptness, method- 
 ical habits, and business acumen well meriting their confidence. 
 As a man he was gentle and quiet, sincere and earnest, and 
 to this was added intelligence, culture, and refinement of char- 
 acter. He possessed a vein of humor, which in earlier years 
 took form in droll sayings that from their wit and originality 
 still linger in the memory of those who shared them. 
 
 Mr. Sale possessed heroic traits of character, as the closing 
 moments of his life attest. On August 10, 1892, in his heroic 
 effort to save liis two sons, Richard Weston and Robert Kim- 
 ball Sale, from drowning, he lost his own life; and in one 
 short moment three lives w^ent out, leaving desolate a happy 
 tome, and a pitiful break in a loving family circle. 
 
 His devotion to his home and its inmates stands revealed in 
 the tcstimonv "that he loved his home and all within it as 
 
98 
 
 few men do." Altliougli reserved in manner lie formed strong 
 ties of friendship and lie was very tender to little children, 
 calling forth thereby their affection in a large degree. It 
 was true of him that in his dealings with '"these little ones" 
 he caught truly the Master's spirt and won the full measure 
 of the blessing which it procures. 
 
 "No better summary of the character of the deceased can 
 be given than that presented by the Rev. H. W. Thompson at 
 the funeral services. He said, as nearly as can be recalled, 
 after speaking of the three beautiful lives that had gone out: 
 "Mr. Sale, as a citizen, was upright and honorable, and I have 
 yet to hear anyone say but that Mr. Sale in his business trans- 
 actions was the soul of honor, the personification of integrity. 
 His life was a reserved life; but, as a life that is reserved in 
 manner is usually deep and runs quietly, we cannot judge it 
 readily, the casual observer cannot fathom it. There are 
 thoughts, precepts, principles, emotions, hopes, not seen by 
 men, which are not on the surface butt are known to God ; that 
 make for the welfare — the peace of the soul." 
 
99 
 
 IRicbar^ Meston an^ IRobcrt Ikimball Sale* 
 
 These bovs, the one eleven, the other eight years of age, were 
 drowned together with their father on the evening of August 
 10th, 1892. The boys were bathing in the Fox river, the father 
 meanwhile watching from the shore. Though no one witnessed 
 this sad calamity, which broke up a happy family and darkened 
 the lives of the two surviving members, it is evident from 
 cries which were heard that the venturesome younger lad got 
 beyond his depth and that the brave little Richard went to 
 his assistance, the father following from his greater distance 
 on the bank. Further than this all is conjecture, but the lo- 
 cality is a treacherous one for bathers and it is probable that 
 Mr. Sale was borne down by the double burden. 
 
 Richard, who thus lost his life in an attempt to rescue his 
 brother, was a very manly and self reliant boy, and on more 
 than one occasion his watchful care of the younger brother 
 saved Robert from harm. Richard was an unusually bright 
 scholar, as was shown by his passing directly from the 5th to 
 the 7th grades in school, and notwithstanding this seeming 
 handicap, by his receiving at the completion of the 7th grade 
 the highest standings of any pupil of that grade in the city. 
 
 Robert was an unusually gentle and Avinsome little fellow. 
 He assumed a friend in everyone and made acquaintance with 
 all sorts of people. Unlike his cautious elder l)rother he was 
 impetuous and venturesome. He had a markedly imselfish and 
 helpful spirit, which with his assumption of friendship in oth- 
 ers, won the hearts of all who knew him. The Green Bay State 
 Gazette of Augiist 17, 1892, says of the little boys: 
 
 "And these happy little brothers, whose birthday frolics were 
 not yet ended, let go their hold on life together, as if even in 
 that other existence there could not be more of blessedness, 
 if it must prove for them a divided one. There comes to mem- 
 ory in peculiar force, recalled by their latest moments, an in- 
 
 LofC. 
 
100 
 
 cident of tlieir nursery days, when tlie older baby saved the 
 younger one from harm by fire, receiving a bum himself. Upon 
 symjiathetic questioning his brave young lips confessed : "Yes, 
 it hurts, but I don't care, because Robert isn't burnt." Fulfill- 
 ing the promise of this tender, self-sacrificing devotion in the 
 years since, we can now believe that into this last peril each 
 entered cheei-fulh^ for the other's sake. 
 
 "Manly, self-reliant Richard and winsome little Robert! 
 
 "The complement of each other's needs, we knew you in your 
 sweet young boyhood, and under and beyond all the heartache 
 of our o'ershadowing loneliness, we rejoice in your continuing 
 and perfected companionship. 
 
 "Our precious boys ! God only measures our surpassing 
 love for them and He does it by His own. 
 
 "Why do we call them 'lost' 
 Because we miss them from our outward road? 
 God's unseen angel, on our pathway crossed, 
 Looked on us all, and, loving them the most, 
 Straightway relieved them of life's weary load." • 
 
101 
 
 aiice IRutb Sale. 
 
 The life of Alice Sale which ijassed out just as she was round- 
 ing into womanhood was of singular sweetness and beauty. 
 She was born at Green Bay, Wis., where when she was but five 
 years old, her father and her two brothers were drowned to- 
 gether while bathing in the Fox liiiver. The great shock 
 of this atliiction and the desolation which it wrought she was 
 then too young to adequately compreheud. She realized only 
 the mother's trouble and strove to cheer her by saying she would 
 take care of her. Childish promise though it was, it was ap- 
 parently never forgotten, for she seemed always to feel a sense 
 of personal responsibility in shielding her mother. 
 
 For the next five years her life flowed on like that of other 
 children of her age. With a child's healthy enjoyment of games 
 she entered into them with real abandon, but exercised thought- 
 fulness and tact beyond her years to avoid giving pain by care- 
 less word or deed. She had a brightness of humor and an 
 unusual quickness in repartee. Her uncle Weston, of whom she 
 was very fond, took pleasure in bringing out her naive ex- 
 pressions and clever responses. After the tragic death of her 
 papa and the little boys she was much in her uncle's home. His 
 fondness for her is reflected in the following lines which con- 
 clude a Christmas greeting in verse sent her in 1900: 
 
 "I pray that Knights of Holy Grail, 
 And all good angels may avail, 
 To shield from sorrow Alice Sale, 
 To crown with blessings Alice Sale." 
 
 Courteous to everyone, to her friends she gave herself with- 
 out reserve, and her loyalty to them recked not of consequences. 
 Her step-father she adopted at once, and the bond of love and 
 sympathy between them could hardly have been stronger had 
 the same blood flowed in their veins. Her friendship for ani- 
 mals was of the warmest and the slightest cruelty to them would 
 bring tears to' her eyes. 
 
102 
 
 Her mind was singularly pure and free from any taint of 
 coarseness. Words or deeds which were lacking- in delicacy or 
 refinement gave her great offense. The happy blending in her 
 of a childish spirit with a mature refinement and tactfulness, 
 led more than one to speak of her as the child woman. 
 
 She early developed an aptitude for drawing and painting, 
 as she did also for writing stories. She was also the best of 
 listeners and would recount a story with much detail after but 
 once hearing it. 
 
 During the last years of her life her health was not always 
 good and she was oblige*.! to be away from school so much as 
 to fall somewhat behind in her classes. This troubled her 
 greatly and when a continuation of languor and sleeplessness 
 at night gave rise to the fear that some insidious disease might 
 be fastening itself upon her, and it was recommended that she 
 give up school for a time, her pleading prevailed over wiser 
 councils and she was allowed to go to a part of the sessions. 
 In December, 1900, an affection of the middle ear developed 
 which did not yield to the ordinary treatment, and in January 
 she took to her bed with a high fever which did not abate until 
 the end came. The story of her last illness is one of heroic 
 courage and fortitude. Without complaint she bore the suf- 
 fering for six weeks, losing nothing of her sweetness of tem- 
 per and unruffied calm. In the long sleepless nights of suffer- 
 ing she would sometimes be heard to sing her favorite hymn, 
 "How gentle God's commands," which had been sung at the 
 funeral of her gTandmother, Sarah Kimball, and at that of the 
 father and little brothers. It had been likewise the favorite 
 hymn of her brother Robert. 
 
 The anniversary of the birthday of her dearest school friend 
 came before she had thought to provide a birthday remembrance 
 and it was characteristic of her that she forgot for a moment 
 all the pain and weakness of the past weeks to blame herself 
 for this neglect. In other ways her friends left her no oppor- 
 tunity to forget them and her room was always filled with a 
 wealth of roses and other beautiful flowers. 
 
103 
 
 One major operation having been performed and a second 
 one determined upon, it became necessary for her mother to 
 tell Alice its serious nature and the possibility that she might 
 not survive it. The old instinct to shield her mother was still 
 uppermost as she calmly replied: "I am not afraid to die, 
 mamma, but God won't tal^e me away from you," and with 
 great fortitude she suppressed her feelings until her mother had 
 left the room. Following the second operation a change for 
 the worse set in and she passed away on the 5th of March, 
 leaving behind the inspiration of a beautiful life and a noble 
 courage and fortitude which triumphed even over weakness and 
 suffering. She was laid to rest beside her father and brothers 
 in the family lot at Green Bay. 
 
3Famtt^ IRecorb* 
 
 flDarrtaGcs*' 
 
 *Make entry for that party to the marriage which enters the family 
 as full as possible, thus: Oct. 1, 1840. at Hudson, N. Y., Alonzo Kim- 
 ball and Sarah Weston, dau. of Rev. Isaiah and Sarah (Dean) We^^tou 
 of Dalton, Mass. 
 
Btrtbe/ 
 
 *Form of Entry: Children of Alonzo and Sarah (Weston) Kim- 
 ball: Mary Cornelia, b. at Lee, Mass., Jan. 4, 1842; Alonzo "Weston, b. 
 at Lee, Mass., Mch. 7, 1844, etc. 
 
:Btrtb9. 
 
2)catb0.* 
 
 *To the record of death add place of death and the age, thus: Josiah 
 Dean Weston, at Washington, D. C, Feb. 1, 1857, age 46 yrs., 9 mos., 14 
 days. 
 
2)eatb94 
 
fll^emoran^a/ 
 
 * Under this head add any miscellaneous notes of interest in the 
 family record, such as removals to a new place of residence, reference 
 to newspaper or other permanent records for obituary notices, bio- 
 graphical sketches, etc.. etc. 
 
 T \ 
 
 R^Q50 
 
T 
 
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mimbalUMeston /iDemorial 
 
 Z\)c Bmerican Hnccstri? anb 2)e0cen^ant0 
 
 of 
 
 Hlonso anb Saiab (Meeton) IRlmball 
 
 of 
 
 ©reen :SBn^, "Omtsconsin 
 
 COMPILED BY 
 
 MilUam Iberbert Ibobbs 
 
 Privately Printed 
 
 MADISON. WISCONSIN 
 
 1902 
 
8^350 
 
AMERICAN ANCESTRY 
 
 ANU THb 
 
 DESCENDANTS 
 
 ALONZO and SARAH (WESTON) KIMBALL 
 
 William Herbert Hobbs 
 
 Alonzo Kimball 
 
 J 
 
 DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Mary Cornelia (Kimball) Walker.' 
 
 Edwin Eaton Walker.- 
 
 William Kimball Walker.' 
 
 Anne Carolyn Walker. ' 
 
 Alonzo Weston Kimball.' 
 
 Theodore Mahan Kimball.' 
 Myra Mahan Kimball.' . 
 Alfred ChannInK Kimball' 
 
 Alonzo riyron Kimball.' 
 
 Mariorle Wenton Kimball.' 
 
 Charles Theodore Kimball.' 
 
 Mary Bell Kimball. 
 
 Myra Weston Kimball.' 
 
 Charles Theodore Kimball, Jr. < 
 
 Mather Dean Kimball. ' 
 
 Katharine Lewis i Kimball) Foater' 
 
 Sara Weston Kimball.' 
 
 Anna Hather Kimball. • 
 
 Sara iKImball Sale) Hobbs.' 
 
 Richard Weston Sale." 
 
 Kobert Kimball Sale."* 
 
 Alice Ruth Sale.'t 
 
 Winifred Weaton llobba.' 
 
 Rev. Ruel KiinliiiU , 
 
 Uauuah Cliun'li 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 The 
 
 ce.stois are printed il 
 irai«kuowii. Iflliedi 
 s the earlioHl uf wbit 
 Plymouth 
 
 blacker type. All came 
 * of arrival in America 
 1 name ha.s beeu found 
 a 11120 were iHuisengera 
 n the "For 
 
 tuf emigrunt 
 
 to America from En(i;lAuil «< 
 
 is not known, the date givt 
 
 on record. All aucestont who cam 
 a the "Mayflower/' thoHe set down HH ■■Plymouth, 1621. '■ 
 ane;" and those nf Plymouth. 11123. came in the ■■Ann 
 
 •First wife of Zuchuriah Weslou. Jr.. was Rebecca Standisli. who 
 waa fourth iu descent from Capt. Myles Standish. 
 
 t Nehemiah Dickinson was a soldier in Rills Fight. King PhiUps War 
 where he bad three brothers killed. 
 
 t Richard Montague is supposed to be deeconded from Drogo de Mon- 
 teacuto who came into F.iigland in 1086 
 
 ^Records .how Abigail Downing to Iw directly descended throuuli 
 the royal line from William the Conquerer 
 
 "I The friend of King Philip «nd one of the founders of the iron 
 Industry in America 
 
 ■" Brought up in the family of Capt Mvl« Standish 
 
 <♦ Descended from Ronldu.s Musard de Richmond, leader under Wil 
 liam the Conqueror at Battle of Hastings. 1001) John Richmond was «i, 
 officer of distinction in English civil wars 
 I tt Brought up in the family of Governor Winslow 
 
 SSPrincipal military olBoer of his timeiu New England 
 
 ^H De.scended from Charlemagne, William the Conqueror and Al/». i 
 1 1'.- Oreat through the De Lonnoy De la Noyes ' 
 
 'Til' '^"'^"^■^ "'""k »' French and Indian, in winter of 1704 
 
 ttt Slam in t\lU Fight with ludiam,, ltl76 
 
 Sarah Weston 
 
 Rev iMaiah Westo 
 
 iSuchariali Wento 
 
 Hun. Jtwirtli Dwiri. M 
 
 Ebene«er Kimball . 
 
 Jouatliau Urtvwunl,, 
 
 Timothy Matlier 
 
 Dea. Joliii Cliun-h. 
 
 ZiK'liariali Westui 
 
 M.-luUible Slmu 
 
 Dr xir Dea) — Pomeroy 
 uf MIddleboro', Mass. 
 
 Kev filial) Byn 
 
 iiAK'ii Hamuli KiiiitiHll 
 
 Miff Witt 
 
 Vn\t Ki<li„rJ Carr 
 
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 .loiitthnii Hay^vanl , 
 
 TribI H(K.-kwood 
 
 Jaiies AlbeB 
 
 Hannah Cook 
 
 Wiliain Mather 
 
 Silaire Buttolph 
 
 J<>8fph Puller 
 
 Bathsheba Hancliett. 
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 Hauuah Dickiiuion . . . 
 Julm Moutague 
 
 Ahinrtil sSmitli .. 
 
 Edmund Weston 
 
 Kebeuca Soule 
 
 Lieut Jonathan Shaw 
 
 Mehitable Pratt 
 
 Mtiiy Kinjpiley 
 
 Ch\A. Nehemiah WuMhburu . 
 
 Jau3 Howard 
 
 Maj. Ebenezer Byraiii 
 
 Huiiuah Hay ward 
 
 Thomas Leonard 
 
 .Sarali Walker 
 
 Richatd Kimball Richard Kimball (Boston I«34) \ Heiirv Scott 
 
 Ursula Scott ( Marth^ Whollock 
 
 John Witt (Lynn. 16fiO) 
 
 Sarah 
 
 OeorgeCarr (I|tawioh, 163S| 
 
 EUzalietb (Oliverr) 
 
 Williitm Haywanl 
 John KockwcHxl 
 
 Benjamin Albea (Braiuti 
 
 William Hayward (Bmiotree. Ift48( 
 
 Athertou Mather . 
 
 Rebecca Stoughtui 
 David Buttolph . . 
 
 , Timothy Mather...; 
 
 ' Catherine Atherton 
 Thomas StouKhtoii 
 Mary Wadsworth . . . 
 
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 4 Thomas Wood (Rtnvlev. IflM 
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 \ MaJ. Qen. Humphrey Atherton »»( Dorchester. 1«-S«| 
 
 \ Thomas StouKhton ( DorclieHt<.r. lOl) 
 
 ) William Wadsworth (Newport News.. Va . 1621 Can 
 t Thomas Buttolph (BoMton. lt(:w 
 ) George Oarduer 
 
 Gardner ) Thomas Qardner (Gloucester. 1634) 
 
 Dea. John Orne (Salem. ) 
 
 Thomas Emerson (Ip-^wich. lOaS) 
 
 Esther Prichett 
 
 Samuel Church [ Wchard Church (Hartford. 1637) 
 
 Joslah Churchill (WetliKnttietd. ItKtO) 
 
 Mary Churchill 
 
 Nehemiah Dlokiosonf 
 
 Mary Cowles... . . 
 
 Joliu Montague . 
 
 Hannah Smith . . 
 
 Elizabeth Fw 
 
 Nathaniel Dickinson (8alem. i68u) 
 
 Mrs \nuii Gull 
 
 John Cowles (Parmintfton, IH.52) 
 
 Richard Montaguet (Boston mfii ' '^*'*'' Montague (VirKiuia. 1834) 
 
 Abigail Downing S ' '••'wmor Allen 
 
 Chileab Smith > y?"t- Samuel Smith (New EdrI. 1694; Wether«fleld. 16356) 
 
 Hannah Hit^-hcook !!. ! ! ! .!!. '!! ! ! ^ i i i ] (Elizabeth 
 
 John Smith } Ensign John Smith 
 
 Mary Partridge 
 
 John Root 
 
 Mary Ashle? 
 
 Edmund Weston (Duxbury. IfSSiH) 
 
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 Juhn Soule } George Soule tt (Plymouth. 1920) 
 
 I Mary Becket ( Plymouth. 1833) 
 
 ) Lieut. Samuel Nash (Duxbury, 1645) 
 
 Hester Nash ( 
 
 Jonatlian Shaw J J**!"* Shaw ( Plymouth, before 1637) 
 
 \ Capt. Luke Hitchcock (N*.w Haven, 1644) 
 
 I EMmliHih CiblKiiLs 
 
 I Lieut. Samuel Smith (New Engl. 1834; Wethursllehl. Iftar. il) 
 
 \Mlliam Partridge (Hanford. 1656) 
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 \ John Root 
 
 * nary Kllbourn 
 
 . ) Robert Ashley (SprinRHeld. 183S) 
 / Mrx Mary H<.rt..ii 
 
 John RootiWethersAeld. IIM-) 
 
 Mary Ruaaell. 
 
 Thomas Kllbourn (New Eugl 1835) 
 
 ) Joshua Pratt (Plymouth, 1633) 
 
 Thonimt Dean \ Jo**" Dean (Taunton. 1638) 
 
 ( Alice — — 
 
 j Richard Stephens (Tauntou. ) 
 
 Katheriue Stephens ) 
 
 JohnKing«ley | Stephen Kingsley ( Dorchester. 163- ) .John Washburn .Dnxbury . 1681) 
 
 1 James Leonard (Lynn. 1851) ' Margery (Dt'xlmry. 1035) 
 
 Abigail Leonanl j (First wife) * Experience nitchell (Plymouth. (1633) 
 
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 \ Dea. Samuel Edaon i.Satem, about 1Q26J ; ' 
 
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