Professor Charles Henry Chandler

THE
HISTORY OF NEW IPSWICH
NEW HAMPSHIRE
1735-1914
WITH GENEALOGICAL RECORDS OF THE
PRINCIPAL FAMILIES

COMPrLBD AND WRITTEN BY
CHARLES HENRY CHANDLER
WITH THB ASSISTANCE OF
SARAH FISKE LEE

FITCHBURG, MASS.
SENTINEL PRINTING COMPANY
1914

YALE

MEMORIAL
'T~^HE life of Charles Henry Chandler was spent in the
^ devoted service of his fellowmen.
Born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, in 1840, Mr.
Chandler prepared for college at its district schools and acad
emy, in each of which he had been teacher as well as pupil. In
1865, he entered Dartmouth College, from which he was grad
uated with highest honor in 1868. Although first scholar of
his class, his greatest achievement was not that of scholarship.
A classmate has said of him: "I doubt if he committed a
single act in college which he would wish concealed from his
oldest friends : so consistent was his life with his profession of
Christian principles." The integrity of such a character, to
gether with his sound mind and high ideals, made him a great
power for good among his associates.
After a useful experience in academic teaching, he was
called in 1871 to the chair of Physics and Chemistry in Antioch
College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. He occupied this position for
ten years. Efficient along various lines, Professor Chandler's
work was peculiarly valuable to a college not at that time rich
in resources; and he left upon it a permanent impress of his
abilities and character. From Antioch, in 1881, he went to
Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin, as professor of Chemistry,
Physics, and Mathematics. In this service he remained until
1906, being then retired as Professor Emeritus. The words
of one formerly a student at Ripon are an impressive tribute
to his value and influence :
"He was a rare teacher. He knew his subject and spoke
in terms of his pupils. Being thus found in fashion as a pupil,
we highly exalted him as a teacher. He imparted that intangi
ble force which is the true essence of a teacher: teaching
what he was, not voluntarily but involuntarily. We remember
rare pauses and parentheses in recitation — the getting ofif the

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track, which is characteristic of a teacher whose tracks are
laid into the souls of his pupils, as well as into the more
definable lines of a text. He was a teacher who lived in his
pupils, made better by his presence; a teacher who scorned
all aims which end in self. He revealed himself who was, to
us, even better than the mathematician. Scientist, yes, but
also something of a mystic in the best sense. A college is
essentially its men who teach and are taught; and in this
sense Ripon College is very much Professor Chandler."
Though mathematics and applied science were the channels
of Professor Chandler's most marked abilities, he was a good
classical scholar. An habitual reader of the best English wri
ters, his teaching in these branches, during his academic
experience, had been thorough and eflfective. Accurate and
demanding accuracy, he possessed the rare gift of clear ex
planation, reenforced by characteristic illustration. His habits
of mind were direct and forceful, as of a man with something to
impart. His literary productions in the classroom were en
livened by a vivid imagination and a keen sense of humor.
Something poetic in his nature also found expression at times,
in quaint guise. With a keen love of nature and reverence for
the creative plan, he saw in it the vital truths : love, faith, and
promises to which the eyes of many are blinded. Deeply in
terested in the church, he took an active and important part
in its work, wherever he might be, and won the respect and
affection of many whom he did not reach through professional
channels. After 1906 he returned to the town he loved and in which
he was born. He devoted himself to its interest; a loyal
citizen, always, with high civic ideals. Wise and broad-
minded, his counsel and efforts were applied not merely to
present but to future welfare. An educator, he gave largely
of his experience to the problems of the public schools and
served upon the School Board for a number of years.
In the midst of many other interests and duties, he
devoted himself to the writing of the present History — a labor
of love for the people dear to him. It is difficult to estimate
adequately this great service — a service which speaks strongly
for itself, but which in all its detail of tireless, persistent effort.

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can be realized by few. Its value will be wholly appreciated
only by following generations. To them will come a knowl
edge not only of its historic worth, but a knowledge also
of the man who so greatly loved the history and people of his
birthplace. Of such a son as Charles Henry Chandler, New Ipswich
may be justly proud — a son who represented the highest
standards of honor, and whose achievements were possible
because of an unfaltering fidelity to his ideals.
Katharine Preston.

PREFACE
pOR many years citizens of New Ipswich have felt the need
¦*- of a history of the town which should not only give the
history of the last half century, but should put in accessible
and permanent form the many facts and traditions which have
come to light in later years. This feeling took tangible form
from the offer of Professor Charles H. Chandler to give his
services as a historian, and in October, 1907, a meeting of
those interested in this project was held at the Library. A
Committee was chosen to aid as might be needed, consisting
of Caroline F. Barr, Sarah F. Lee, Frederic W. Jones, Anna
A. Goldsmith, and Edward O. Marshall.
It was thought most convenient for Professor Chandler to
have his office at my house. For more than four years each
morning he came to his task, and each hour until the twilight
was filled with the work of a mind trained to systematic and
patient, accurate labor. His purpose was to make the work
largely a Genealogy of the older families of the town. This
necessitated research and inquiries that would have discour
aged one less persistent and determined. He deemed the
conclusion of the work near at hand, but while away seeking
for final data, at Leominster, Mass., his life ended. March 29,
1912, while conversing with a friend he ceased speaking, and
"was not, for God took him."
His children. Professor Elwyn F. Chandler and Miss Edith
B. Chandler, at once felt that they wished to ensure the com
pletion of the work which had become so dear to their father's
heart. Through all these years I had been able to keep in
touch with Professor Chandler's methods of research, and they
asked me to finish the History as he would have done it. I
consented to try to do this so nearly as I should be able.
Fortunately the chapters relating to the earliest history were
completed; all the genealogy was outlined and many family
records had been written in full. His children, therefore, were
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had planned in that department. It is their wish that this
History should be a tribute to their father's memory, and for
its completion they have given a trained proficiency that could
not otherwise have been available, have taken time needed by
them for rest, and have given more than five hundred dollars
in money. For the imperfections of the Index I alone am responsible.
My only regret is that my part of the work has not been done
in a better way. It is given to the town which has been the
home of my lifetime with the hope that it may help to quicken
and cherish reverence for those who laid the broad founda
tions on which later generations should build the structure of
education and enterprise which has given New Ipswich its
honored place among New England towns.
Personal thanks are due from me to the children of Pro
fessor Chandler, who have done all that was possible to lighten
my labors, to friends who have aided me by literary criticism
and in proof-reading, and to the intelligent and helpful advice
of the Sentinel Printing Company. Sarah Fiske Lee.
New Ipswich, N. H.

Preface
BY PROFESSOR CHARLES H. CHANDLER
The following page in Professor C. H. Chandler's hand
has been found, which evidently he intended to insert in the
preface :
"Little more than half a century ago, by the careful and
patient labor of two efficient sons of New Ipswich was pro
duced a town history, now a rare book but still mentioned
with rare encomiums by students and lovers of local history.
At the time of the loyal labors of Mr. Kidder and Dr. Gould
the facilities for work like that which they so successfully ac
complished were far less than at the present time. Many old
documents, then only to be found after long search, have now
been collected and laid open to the student in convenient form ;
the work of national surveys has given accurate measurements
in place of the estimates formerly necessarily used; and the
accessible volumes of family history are probably twenty
times as numerous as those which were published prior to
1850. "It has therefore seemed best that a volume presenting
the last fifty years of New Ipswich history should not be
entirely confined to those limits, but rather that the special
field should rest upon a second presentation of the story of
earlier times, with such additions and amendments as the suc
ceeding years have made practicable.
"In order, however, to avoid an undue extension of the
volume it has been thought best to follow a medium course,
abbreviating much that was fully related by the authors of
the previous volume, and in cases where the importance of
the topic or the close dependence of later history upon it
makes such abbreviation undesirable, by the kindly consent
of near representatives of the authors considerable extracts
have been made in the language retaining its attraction for
those who remember the former history."

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NOTE
It was the original intention of Professor Charles H.
Chandler to prepare one large map of the town, showing
on the same map the town with its villages, and all the
roads, houses, and former houses, and also the lot lines, and
he personally traversed with compass in 1908 or later every
road in the town (except a few in the northwest corner and
west of the mountain) in making surveys for this map. There
are doubtless some accidental errors, but it may be considered
as in general a very excellent map ; it is probable that there
are few portions where any distances are more than a dozen
rods in error.
The final drawing of all the maps was done under the
direction of E. F. Chandler, and it was found advisable to
make separate village maps on a larger scale; the surveys for
these were accordingly made by E. F. Chandler in August,
1912, and they are in general accurate within two rods. It was
also found that it would detract from clearness to place the
lot lines on the town map, so their general location has been
shown on a separate plan.
Chapters I, II, III, IV, and V of the history had been com
pletely written by Professor Charles H. Chandler, and were
finished except for such small amendments as he would have
made in the final revision; the material had been collected by
him for large parts of Chapters VI to IX, but the final ar
rangement and writing of the greater portion of each of
these has been done by Miss Sarah Fiske Lee. All the work
on the history, from its first inception to its conclusion, has
been greatly forwarded by the indefatigable efforts of Miss
Lee ; her complete knowledge of local conditions and relations,
her enthusiastic assistance, and her keen-eyed examination of
every statement have been indeed indispensable.
E. F. C.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. — The Old Country Road — Later Roads and
Early Settlers. The Old Country Road; New Highways;
the Turnpike ... . . 1-19
CHAPTER n. — New Ipswich in Various Forms — Grants,
Claims, Charters, and Surveys. Error in Early Grants; the
Massachusetts Claims, Gorges and Mason Claims; Survey of
State Line; the Ipswich Grant; Changing Boundaries; Early
Settlers; Fear of Indian Invasion; John Tufton Mason; Ma-
sonian Proprietors ; Col. Blanchard's Changes ; Masonian Char
ter; Final Incorporation .... . 20-43
CHAPTER III. — On the Way to Maturity — Proprietors and
Lots. Origin of the Settlers; First Proprietors' Meetings;
Assignment of Lots ; Table of Lots ; Proprietors' Work Ended ;
Plan of Lots and Principal Roads . ... 44-56
CHAPTER IV.— The Old School-houses. First School in 1762;
Grammar School; Division into Districts; Town Appropriates
Money; First School-houses; Location of District Bounds;
School-house Locations; Consolidation of Districts; School
Appropriations; Wages of Teachers; Prudential Committee;
Superintending School Committee; Statistics 57-72
CHAPTER v.— The Revolutionary Period. The First Uprising ;
Roll of Men Who Went at the First Call ; Capt. Towne's Com
pany; Call from Gen. John Sullivan; New Hampshire's Lead
ership; Praise from Gen. Washington; Help Given to North
ern Army; Capt. Smith's Company; reinforcements for Ticon
deroga; Continental Army; Col. Heald's Detachment; Capt.
Briant's Company; Col. Hale's Regiment; Three-Months Men;
Equipment of Soldiers ; Ephraim Adams' Resolution ; Bounties
and Pay; Depreciation of Currency; New Ipswich Tories;
Committee of Correspondence 73-106
CHAPTER VI.— The Civil War— 1861-65. Action of the Town;
Bounties for Volunteers; First Recruits; Record of Sixth
Regiment; Thirteenth Regiment at Richraond, 1865; Work of
Women; Death of President Lincoln; Freedmen's Aid; Prices
during Civil War; Union League; Soldiers' Monument . 107-121

Contents
CHAPTER VII. — Ecclesiastical History. First Meeting-house;
Seeking a Minister; Church Organized and Mr. Stephen
Farrar Ordained; Meeting-house Completed 1770; Assign
ment of Pews; "Great Revival" in 1785-86; Death of Parson
Farrar ; Mr. Richard Hall Ordained ; Sunday School in 1818 ;
Ordination of Mr. Charles Walker; Pastorate of Rev. Samuel
Lee; Meeting-house Remodeled; Centennial Anniversary of
Church; Ordination of Mr. Calvin Cutler; Several Brief Pas
torates ; Church Burned ; Program of Stated Meetings ; Baptist
Church; Organized, List of Pastors; Unitarian Church; Meth
odist Church; Second Congregational Church . 122-136
CHAPTER VIII. — New Ipswich Academy. Incorporation;
Buildings; Gifts from Boston Friends; New Building; Change
of Name; List of Preceptors; Faculty Sketches; Alumni As
sociation; Present Condition . 137-143
CHAPTER IX. — Miscellanies. Manufactures; Library; Coun
try Club; Children's Fair; Revere Bell; Cemeteries; Stearns
Lecture Fund; Homestead Inn; Iowa Colony; Drinking Foun
tain; Telegraph and telephone; Sidewalks and Street Lights;
Post Office; Free Masons; Fire Department; Children's Oak;
Portraits in Town Hall; Census Returns; Valuation of New
Ipswich, 1914 . 144-157
Genealogy 171-720

ILLUSTRATIONS.
Portrait of Professor Charles Henry Chandler frontispiece
The Soldiers' Monument opposite 113
Group of Churches " 129
New Ipswich Appleton Academy . " 137
The Library . . "147
Forest Hall, Residence of George R. Barrett " 215
Maps :
The Old Country Road 1
The Grants . 20
Plan of Lots . cr
New Ipswich . opposite 161
Center Village jg2
Bank, High Bridge, and Smith Villages . . . . 164

HISTORY OF NEW IPSWICH

NEW IPSWICH

CHAPTER I

"THE OLD COUNTRY ROAD"— LATER ROADS AND EARLY
SETTLERS

AT a meeting of

the Proprietors of
"Upper Ashuelot,"
(now the city of
Keene,) held at
Concord, Massa
chusetts, on the
last Wednesday
of May, 1735, a
'committee was
appointed to "join
with such as the
lower town pro-
I prietors shall ap
point, to search
and find out whether the ground will admit of a convenient
road from the two townships on Ashuelot river, down to the
town of Townsend." On June 30, 1737, a meeting was held
at the meeting-house frame, and "Jeremiah Hall was recom
pensed for his services in searching for, and laying out, a road
to Townsend." At that time the Townsend grant extended farther to the
north and west than in later years, and embraced about 800
acres now included in the southeastern corner of New Ipswich,
shown upon an ancient map of the town as granted by
Massachusetts. That map shows a straight line dotted di
rectly across the map and bearing the explanatory note "This
Single Prick* line is the Clear'* way to Ashawelott." This
line enters the town from^ Townsend a short distance north
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though the region now occupied by the Center Village, and,
passing a little south of the position of Wilder Village, crosses
the western line of the town a half-mile south from its
northwestern corner.
Without a doubt this perfectly straight road was easily
constructed upon paper, but it is somewhat remarkable that
the turnpike, constructed almost seventy years later, should
have followed so nearly the early line, in no place departing
from the route there marked greatly more than half a mile.
But the former New Ipswich history, recalling the construc
tion of the turnpike, declares that "its location was as bad
as it well could be;" and it is not strange that the committee
of the Keene proprietors chose a route less steeply inclined,
even though it were somewhat more devious, as is shown on
the small map presented above. For the road there shown,
called in the records for many years the "main road," or in
earlier times the "old countrey road," is undoubtedly a part
of the Keene road of 1735-37, preceding the first permanent
settler in New Ipswich by at least a year ; and the preliminary
temporary residence of two or three others, which may have
been in the summer of 1737, may safely be said to have been
of later date than the location of the road reported by Jere
miah Hall, but of course at first hardly more than a marked
trail. The "old country road," the first token of civilization
established within the town bounds, naturally had a great in
fluence in locating the sturdy pioneers in the wilderness, as
is indicated by the positions of the homes of twenty early
settlers placed upon the map with the belief, after careful
examination, that they were the earliest twenty resident
"fathers of the town."
That the position of this road was well chosen is shown
by its long continuance, more than three of the four miles
of its length within the town bounds being still open for
travel, and a considerable part of the abandoned portion ap
parently owing its abandonment to other causes than unwise
location. The records show some slight changes in its loca
tion from time to time, but practically the present position
of the part still open is as it was when Abijah Foster settled
but a few rods from its faint line of communication almost
175 years ago. The more definite course of this early high
way, so early that more than twenty years after its location
the town voted "not to fell the trees on the main road

The Old Country Road
through the town," may be traced upon the larger map in
this volume, and any difficulties in following it may be re
moved by reference to the following descriptive notes.
It entered the town only a little distance south of its pre
viously mentioned successor, the turnpike, that is a little
south of the site of the house of entertainment long known
as "Wheeler's tavern," giving to Timothy Heald, a few years
later, a desirable position for establishing his home in the
northern part of 186 A. D. Passing on a mile toward the
northwest, from the first half of which the road is practically
obliterated, the home of Jonas Woolson appears in IV: 2,
S. R., the present property of the Country Club, and but a
short distance farther, in V: 2, S. R., that of his early asso
ciate, Benjamin Hoar, now the Preston place. Crossing the
river, where later the first bridge of the town was to be built,
the old road passed the place soon to be the home of Moses
Tucker, continued over the hill and then between the loca
tions of the first meeting-house, denoted on the small map
by a square and affixed cross, and the first burying-ground,
both situated in the eastern part of VIII: 1, S. R., to the
house long the home of Judge Farrar, and now the summer
residence of Charles S. Brown. Descending the hill and past
the present grounds of the Academy, the road unites, where
the Soldiers' Monument now stands, with an east and west
road eight or ten rods in width, as laid out upon the early
map before mentioned, and extending upon that map from
the eastern line of the town directly westward through the
centre of that portion of the town, four miles square, which
had been divided into lots. This road is denoted by a dotted
line upon the preceding small map, but no indications have
been found that it has ever been used as a highway except
for the distance of a little less than a mile between the sol
diers' Monument and Davis Village. Along the western part
of this extent the walls still stand, and the coincidence of
the eastern part with the "old country road" from the monu
ment to School street and on past the Preston house until
the latter is turned aside by the steep ascent, gave a broad
space, in later years known as the "Village Green," around
which in due time, despite its marshy location, the activities
of the town largely clustered.
On the north side of this broadened "country road," but
not very far distant from it, on 33, N. D., a little westward
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of the site of the former bank, and perhaps a little toward
Union Hall, stood the earliest dwelling erected in the town,
that of Abijah Foster, and directly opposite upon the south
side of the road was the home of Joseph Kidder, where since
has been the dwelling of Judge Champney, and later the
home of John Preston, Esq., and his descendants, IX : 1, S. R.
Continued progress due westward in the broad central road
of the early survey being here forbidden by the steep ascent,
a southerly detour of a few rods was necessitated, the first
part along the broad, grassy road still open in the rear of
the Preston land, and the later return to the direct course
on a line still traceable under favorable conditions, through
the northern end of the small triangular wooded spot lying
across the road from the open space north from the old "hill
burying-ground," and south from the site of the second and
third meeting-houses. As this open area was without doubt
included in the "common land" left for a highway, this de
tour, now seeming so considerable that the location of the
"country road" is not always recognized, did not really ex
tend at that place beyond the limits of the broad central
road as surveyed. But that proposed straight highway vv'as
followed by the Keene surveyor only a very short distance.
It may, indeed, have gone directly across the later meeting
house site, at least until the erection of such a building caused
travel to be carried on a little farther west. At all events,
from very nearly that spot the road entered upon an almost
direct northwesterly line across the lot upon which the
meeting-house afterward was built, 37 N. D., later the prop
erty of Oliver Proctor ; then past the site of the first dwelling
of Isaac Appleton on the southern side and that of his
second house, still standing and bearing over its entrance the
figures 1756, upon the northern side, both in 41, N. D. Be
tween these two sites the old road crossed the line of the
present turnpike, and from the meeting-house site to that
point of crossing all traces of the ancient highway have dis
appeared. Continuing the same general northwesterly direc
tion it passed in 46, N. D., the future home of Reuben Kidder,
on the east, and a little farther that of Samuel Perham, an
employee of Mr. Kidder, upon 50, N. D., on the west. The
remaining route, through lots 51, 52, and 56, N. D., to the
northern line of the town is not known to have passed other
early dwellings. The last quarter-mile or more before leaving

The Old Country Road
New Ipswich was not along the present Temple road, but
by the "Todd road" diverging toward the west, now legally
discontinued, but still clearly defined and passable.
The efiectual charter of New Ipswich, known as the
Masonian charter, of which an account is given later in this
volume, was issued in 1750, and in it are named thirty
grantees, thirteen of whom are designated as being "of a
place called New Ipswich," and their names are included in
the twenty names presented upon the preceding small map.
The names of two sons of one of the grantees named in the
charter as a resident of Ipswich, Mass., and one son of an
other grantee of the same town, a brother and an employee
of one of the New Ipswich grantees, and two other early
settlers, constitute the twenty pioneers in New Ipswich
who, as far as careful examination determines, were resident
in their new homes before the close of the year in which the
charter was granted. Nine of this number made their homes
beside the old "country road," and of the remaining eleven
seven were apparently within a half-mile of that route. There
can be no doubt of the determining influence of that road,
then hardly more than a trail, upon the location of the early
settlements in the northeastern corner of the town, and an
examination of the records giving in order the story of later
roads, demanded by the increasing population, presents quite
clearly the direction and progress of advance.
Unfortunately, whatever local records may have been made
prior to the Masonian grant, they have entirely disappeared,
and the lines of intercommunication between the twenty
families which gathered in those early years can be learned
only by inference, occasionally aided by traces of old path
ways by which the early pioneers, like their immediate suc
cessors, were prone to connect their homes, by the nearest
or most practicable route, to the older main line of communi
cation with the towns and settlements above and below. But
the later records containing references to "paths" and some
times officially legalizing highways "where the people now
travel" suggest that the stern demands of daily life left the
first occupants of the coming town but little time or energy
for public labors, especially after it was found, as related in
a later chapter, that the title by which they held their lands
was far from secure. They might be expected to content
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trails of their Indian predecessors, and so the roads located
by the most convenient footpaths from cabin to cabin, wind
ing deviously around the varied obstructions of the wilder
ness, might almost be said, like Topsy, never to have been
made but to have "growed."
But with the Masonian charter came an assurance that
the work was to continue, and on June 20, 1750, only two
months after the signing of that charter, the proprietors of
the township voted to build a bridge "near where the former
bridge was built," that is, at the crossing of the river by the
"country road," and less than a year later a second bridge
was voted "near the mills," or practically in the place now
held by its successor below the "High Bridge." Abundant
provision for meeting the principal obstruction to free com
munication between the different parts of the settled region
having thus been made, at the same meeting in May, 1751,
Timothy Heald, Joseph Stevens, and Reuben Kidder were
chosen a committee to lay out and repair highways, and were
directed "to lay out a way from the saw mill &c. up by the
Path leading to John Brown's and also to Abijah Foster's as
it will best accommodate both, and if said Committee thinks
Proper to lay out a way to Archibald White's, as also to
Aaron Kidder's." The exact position of the home of John
Brown is uncertain, but it was in the northeastern part of
the town, near the locality afterward long occupied by the
family of Supply Wilson, and most probably near the site
of an old cellar in 31, N. D., still faintly visible upon the
east side of the Temple road a little farther north than the
house of Ralph E. Parker. Abijah Foster must have lived
at that time on the present site of Davis Village, 45, N. D.,
which must have made the duty of the committee to "accom
modate both" somewhat difficult. Archibald White, upon 19,
N. D., afterward occupied by the Prichards and later by the
Tenneys, was in the same general region as John Brown, and
there are indications of an early road connecting them.
Aaron Kidder was upon XV: 1, S. R., a mile beyond Abijah
Foster, and very probably the now long-closed road through
XIII : 1 and XIV : 1, N. D., north of the house of George S.
Wheeler, was located at that time.
In obedience to instructions given at this meeting that the
committee should "view and lay out a Road from the line of
said township so as it will accommodate the travelling up to
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New Highways
Peterboro and lay the same before said Proprietee at the
next meeting," the committee a month later recommended
action at once adopted by the meeting, and it was "Voted to
Except the countrey Road as it is Layed out from Timothy
Healds or the province line near his house and up by Ruben
Kidders & to the line of Striptown or Peterborow Slip so
called near about the road wheare people now Travil and as
marks direct."
At the same meeting it was voted to "lay out a road Down
from the mills by Benjamin Hoar to the Town Road by
Timothy Healds," which seems to be the authority for the
present road from the Taylor house on the turnpike up
through Bank Village to the crossing of the "country road"
and the road to the Gibson corners.
In the following year, 1753, a desire for nearer relation
to the neighbors at the west was manifested by a vote "to
lay out a way through our town to Rowly Canada line;" and
a year later it was "Voted to turn the road that goes to
Rowly Canada through Oliver Proctor's lot to the road that
was formerly laid out and travelled in." As no record of the
position of the "former road" has been found, it is perhaps
a fair inference that the removal of a portion of the road to
Rowley Canada (Rindge) from Oliver Proctor's lot, 37, N. D.,
located it in the broad road extending due west before men
tioned as shown on the map of the Massachusetts grant, and
still plainly existent from the Center Village to Davis Village,
and that it continued on the road provided for Aaron Kidder
two years earlier, and thence through the uninhabited wilder
ness, over the mountain between the Barrett and Pratt peaks
practically as shown upon the map. This road can be traced
with difficulty through the thick undergrowth, but the dwell
ings upon it farther west than the Ephraim Adams farm,
61, N. D., have been very few.
On November 24, 1754, the proprietors by a single vote
accepted four miles of road or more, probably including many
short roads and "paths" previously used, but having no legal
existence as highways. This long and devious thoroughfare
commenced in I: 3, S. R., upon the "country road" about
one-fourth of a mile after its entrance from that part of the
Townsend grant which had become Mason, and extending to
the north and west, passed the house of Ebenezer Bullard in
1 : 2, S. R., and of Joseph Bullard in II : 2, S. R., through II :
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1, S. R., not yet the home of Moses Tucker, still resident on
the "country road," and through III : 1, S. R., to Chandler's
mills in IV : 1, S. R., immediately below the site of the pres
ent factory below the High Bridge. Thence the road con
tinued northwesterly a little north of the present position of
the road, and entered upon the route to be occupied a half-
century later by the turnpike a short distance eastward of
the position of the present bridge across Kidder or Saw Mill
Brook. From that point the road has remained practically
unchanged in position, through lots 21, 25, 29, 30, 31, and 32,
N. D., to the Temple town line, passing the homes of Ephraim
and Benjamin Adams, Jonathan Stevens and John Brown.
The year 1755 saw the birth of several new highways,
testifying to a considerable advance of the populated region
toward the south and the west, two of which are here given
in detail. The first of these extended from the northeast
corner of the lot of Zachariah Adams, X : 3, S. R., past the
house of Abijah Foster, who had built his third residence
on IX : 2, S. R., the present residence of Walter S. Thayer
being across the road from its site, and continued on an
easterly course not very distant from, the present road to the
Congregational church, although that later road is much more
nearly straight than the ancient highway, four sections, to
gether constituting more than half its length, having been
moved northerly or southerly in some places as much as
twenty rods. The early road passed the site of the coming
church near the present southern limit of the common, and
ended in "the road that goes out of the Country road to the
dwelling house of Benjamin Safford," which was thirty rods
or more south from the church site. The road designated as
going from the "country road" is now obliterated for a con
siderable part of its length, but is still known as "Safford
lane." The cellar of Zachariah Adams, still remaining in a
pasture rapidly becoming forest, is shown upon the map.
The second new road, apparently accepted very largely in
anticipation of expected new residents, began "at the South
of lot Number 187, at the head of the road that goes from
said lot to the east line of said Township." Lot 187, as also
Nos. 44, 29 (or 2), 28, and 24, through which the road from
the east township line passes, lie in "New Laid Out" range
of lots, and there appears no record of residence in any of
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Perhaps, however, the travel to and from Townsend, then
holding the position of a connecting link with the older set
tlements, may have called for the new road to "the old meeting
house hill so called" eastward from the site of the present
Academy. From 187, ere long to be occupied by Col. Thomas
Heald, and later by the Estabrooks tavern and by Job Davis
and his son John U. in succession, the new road passed
through lots 12 and 1, N. L. O., then the property of Samuel
Whittemore, to the "south side of Jesse Fletcher's house
said house standing on lott No. 4 in the Sth range," long
after the farm of Dr. Stillman Gibson, then turned toward
the north, and in VI : 4, S. R., crossed the North Branch of
the Souhegan at a point still marked by remaining stone
work of a bridge, passed, in VI : 3, S. R., the place soon to
be known as the home of Peletiah Whittemore, later the sum
mer home of Dr. F. W. Jones, in VII : 3, S. R., the future
site of the home of the Shattucks, the Farwells, and the Wil-
lards in succession, and finally along the western line of VII :
2 and VII: 1, S. R., passing the house of Benjamin Safiford
and ending at the "country road," having in its progress legal
ized as a highway "Safford lane," mentioned in the record
two months earlier, but then probably a private way.
In the same year a road was accepted "beginning at the
Country Road neare the Bridges by Joseph Kidder's meddow
so on the Comon land to lott No. 29, N. D.," that is, referring
to present conditions, fromi the bridge between the Baptist
church and the Soldiers' Monument eastward past the Dr.
Preston house, afterward that of Seth King. Thence the road
continued as at present across the turnpike, "over the saw
mill Brook and on as marks direct into the road that from
mr. Jonathan Stevens to the mills and so in that road to said
Stevens house" (26, N. D., later owned by Mark Farrar, and
at present by A. E. Jowders). The road thence passed on
the south side of the Stevens house to lot 22, N. D., where
it passed on the north of the Benjamin Knowlton — later the
Chickering — house and northerly across the corner of lot 23,
N. D., the future home of Capt. Ezra Towne, to 19, N. D.,
the home of Archibald White.
In 1756 a road was accepted "from Abba Severons to the
North end of Zachariah Adams' Lot," but the location of
the beginning of that road is not quite definite. Abba Sev
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the lot named in the road record must have been in "New
Laid Out" range, probably lot 64, since the road ran northerly
through the lot of David Nevins, XI : 4, S. R., and, as it can
now be seen, along the eastern end of the south burying-
ground, which was not established until twenty years later.
Having crossed the river a short distance north of the present
burying-ground, it continued its northerly course nearly upon
the line between the tenth and eleventh south ranges for
almost half a mile, and then turning eastward across X: 3,
S. R., it soon connected with the road to Abijah Foster's,
and seemed about to become a principal highway. But its
route is now entirely obliterated, except its first quarter-mile,
which is perhaps still the road to the farm so long owned
by William Wheeler and his sons, and the brief extent be
side the burying-ground, which was longer retained in use
by the later opening of another road extending in a more
westerly direction than the first road, past the "Spaulding
house" on XI: 3, S. R., a short distance to the west, and,
at the northeast corner of the lot of Robert Crosby, later
the "Fox farm," XII : 3, S. R., uniting with a road, accepted
in 1759, along the eastern side of XII: 2, S. R., then the
property of Amos Taylor, but afterward for many years
known as the "Bucknam farm." A road from Amos Taylor's
had been accepted at about the same date as the one from
Abba Severance's, running easterly across XI : 1, S. R., and
northerly along the east side of the same lot to a point on
the broad central line of the town before mentioned about
a quarter-mile west from the meeting-house, then in process
of construction. This road was long known as the "malt-
house road," and the cellar of the malt-house still remains
on the east side of its namesake thoroughfare and a quarter-
mile south from the central road. The "malt-house road" is
still easily followed, but only the part lying on the west side
of the road from Davis Village is now open. The three
roads together for a considerable period furnished the favorite
route to the meeting-house for the residents in the south
western part of the town. Apparently there were two or
more dwellings on this road south of Amos Taylor's, but the
names of the residents do not appear.
In 1757 money was voted to make a road between Zacha
riah Adams's and Thomas Adams's, and as a bridge was nec
essary upon this way it may be inferred that the residence
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New Highways
of this latter Adams was on the southern side of the North
Branch of the river. Probably this road through the greater
part of its length was the road to Smith Village over "Apple-
ton Hill," in nearly its position until its improvement fifty
years ago by removal a little way toward the east.
At the meeting in 1757, however, the needs of other than
the newer portion of the township were considered, as a new
road, now nearly if not quite obliterated, was recorded ex
tending from the road accepted two years before between
Jonathan Stevens and Benjamin Knowlton, northerly to the
central part of 27, N. D., a lot now long vacated, but then
the home of Benjamin Proctor; and also another road be
ginning at the road between Benjamin Adams's, 25, N. D.,
(now Reed Tenney's,) and Jonathan Stevens's, 26, N. D., (now
A. E. Jowders's,) extending westward to Benjamin King's, 34,
N. D., (now H. Rafeuse's,) thence westerly and southerly to
the mill upon "Saw Mill Brook," and south through Oliver
Proctor's lot, 37, N. D., to the "country road." The follow
ing condition affixed to the acceptance of that road brings
into clear recognition one difference between those days and
this age of automobiles: "The road from the mill brook to
Oliver Proctor's house and to the main road shall be a bridle
road free from any incumbrance of the sd. Proctor's except
good gates which are to be built and maintained at his cost
except the outside gate next y° main road which is to be
built by the Prop'^ and maintained by said Proctor."
The highways of the town seem to have been but slightly
extended during 1758, but the records present the acceptance
of two short roads ; the first from the home of Abba Severance,
then resident in 14, N. D., for many years the "Mansfield farm,"
through 18, N. D., owned by Peter Fletcher, to the house of
Benjamin Knowlton, on 24, N. D., thus nearly completing
the present "back Greenville road" to the town line; and a
short road now traced with considerable difficulty, from the
home of Benjamin King, 34, N. D., to the southwesterly cor
ner of Joseph Stevens's lot, 35, N. D.
Three roads of 1759 in as many different sections show the
steady progress during that year. The first extended from
Ebenezer Heald's in III: 4, S. R., northerly "to y° Main
Road." Indications of several cellars remain on or near its
line, but the road has now practically disappeared, as also
the probably older road of which no record appears, half a
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mile or more in length, running southerly from Ebenezer
Heald's to Col. Thomas Heald's, 187, N. L. O., on the "South
Road" located two years earlier, as previously stated.
A second road of 1759 continued the "South Road" a mile
farther westward, from the home of Simeon Fletcher, who
had succeeded Peter Fletcher, resident upon V: 4, S. R., in
1755, past the farm perhaps already owned by John Brooks,
but since Revolutionary days occupied by successive genera
tions of the Goen family, to Smith Village, which, however,
it did not enter as at present near the bridge, but farther
southward, where since 1838 the Smithville school-house has
stood. The third road of that year shows the advance of
the line of settlements toward the western part of the town
by the provision for a road, still traceable, between the lots
of Thomas Fletcher, 45, N. D., and Ichabod Howe, 49, N. D.,
to the "country road a little south of Reuben Kidder's dwell
ing," and at its southern end connecting with the Rindge
road of five or six years' earlier establishment. A portion of
the southern Rindge road also took its place as a road from
Thomas Adams's house, one of the very few then on the
present site of Smithville, to the home of Simeon Hildreth
on XII : 4, S. R., later the "Chandler farm."
The records of 1760 and 1761 show few new roads, but
one should perhaps be mentioned from the home of Simeon
Gould, 40, N. D., through the Joseph Stevens lot, 35, N. D.,
for many later years the "Wilson farm," to the "road to the
meeting house" along the eastern side of Stevens's lot. Dur
ing the earlier period of Mr. Gould's residence, probably quite
brief, it may be assumed that the route of his Sunday travel
was along the still remaining path extending southerly
through 43, N. D., the home of his brother Nathaniel, and 38,
N. D., ten years later the home of Francis Appleton, and
thence probably on or near the line of the road, the northern
half-mile of which is now unused, to the mill road, already
three or four years old.
In 1762 the settlement of Nathaniel Carlton upon the farm
long the home of Phineas Pratt and later of Amos J. Proctor,
XIV: 2, S. R., called for the road, still in constant use, ex
tending westerly and northerly from the Carlton home and
joining the Rindge road at a point a little westward from the
old school-house of the "North District," No. 7, serving for
many years as a poultry-house on the farm of George S.
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Wheeler; and the progress of settlement in that part of the
town is further evidenced by the record, less than a year
later, of roads from the home of Isaac Howe to those of two
of his neighbors on this frontier line, William Spear and
Thomas Brown. Mr. Howe was the predecessor of Samuel
C. Wheeler in the possession of 57, N. D., living in the
wooden house, or at least on the same site, occupied by Mr.
Wheeler until his erection of a brick dwelling a little northerly
on the turnpike. William Spear's lot was the next to Mr.
Howe's on the west, 61, N. D. His house long ago vanished,
and the road by which it was approached can be followed
only by careful search. The position of Thomas Brown is
not quite certain, as the name is recorded as that of an early
resident of 58, N. D., the nearest lot to that of Mr. Howe
upon his north, and also in the same manner, on a different
record, as living upon 70, N. D., a half-mile farther toward
the west. It seems probable that he first settled upon the
more distant lot, removing later to the more eastern one.
If so, no successor chose the more elevated residence, while
the nearly unbroken line of dwellers in the somewhat more
accessible location testifies to its more desirable character and
makes the assumed removal probable. But the road upon
which Mr. Howe would have sought lot 70 would have taken
him through lot 58, and is clearly evident through its full
extent, although entirely impassable after crossing the turn
pike; a new road leaving the turnpike some distance farther
west than the old road now offers somewhat easier access
to the house on 58, in later years known as the "Gilson
house," which is now at the end of the road. For many
years the road there divided, one branch extending to the
"old country road," a quarter-mile north of Reuben Kidder's,
and the other to lot 70, as above stated, but midway thither
sending off a branch meeting the north line of the town at
a point near the common corner of Temple and Sharon. That
the farther of the two lots was the home of Mr. Brown at
the time now considered is made more probable by the record
of acceptance, two years later, of a "Bridle Road Beginning
at the southwest corner of Josiah Walton's lot thence on the
west line of Josiah Brown's lott to the Road from Thomas
Browns Down to Isaac How's." The value of those roads
in the early days is indicated by a vote passed eight years
later to "Except the Road from Ringe by Josiah Browns to
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Edmund Briants," evidently composed of both the roads just
mentioned as diverging from lot 58, and also nearly three
miles of road now nearly or quite unused, but in early days
passing the homes of Timothy Stearns, 151, A. D., Henry
Fletcher, 152, A. D., David Rumrill, 138, A. D., and others,
and leaving the town three-fourths of a mile south from its
northwest corner.
In 1764 a road was accepted from the north line of the
town past the house of Capt. Joseph Parker in 44, N. D.,
afterward the site of the New Ipswich Water Cure, to the
home of Simeon Gould in 40, N. D., where it joined the
earlier road to the embryonic Center Village. There are
quite clear indications that before this new road was opened
there had been a primitive thoroughfare from northern lo
calities which passed by Simeon Gould's and was probably
continuous with the southerly path previously mentioned as
passing the Francis Appleton house. Very possibly the tra
ditions of the youthful matrons of Temple who were accus
tomed to come, in equestrian style of those days, to the
Sunday services of New Ipswich, antedating those of their
later settled homes, may have survived in recollections of the
passage through that woodland path. At the same meeting
was accepted a road commencing at the road "from Dor
chester Canada" (now Ashburnham) a little north of the
house of Hezekiah Corey on 79, A. D., and extending south
westerly to the house of Joel Crosby on 81, A. D., the lo
cation of which is still preserved by the remaining traces
of a cellar upon the west side of the old road, now barely
passable at that point, which leads from Smith Village to
the old "Breed farms," 80, A. D.. now owned bv Frederic
and Willis Mansfield, and 82, A. D., at the end of the road,
long the home of the retired seaman, Samuel Chandler.
By action taken in 1765 and somewhat modified in 1767
and 1770, provision was made for the convenience of a sec
tion of the town near the southern line, along which settle
ment was apparently advancing at that date, but in which
the means of intercommunication seem in most places to
have been private roads not yet legalized by the town. The
various votes of that period of adjustment located two roads ;
first, a part of the present southern road to Rindge, extend
ing fromi the eastern side of XII : 4, S. R., then the home of
Lieut. Stephen Adams, Jr., and later the property of Roger
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Chandler and his descendants, through a corner of XIII : 4,
S. R., then the home of Col. Joseph Parker, and onward
through the land of Simeon Wright, 98, N. L. O., later the
home of Roger Ryan, John Nutting, and Almon A. Hill in
succession, to a point somewhat west of the summit of Binney
Hill, 100, N. L. O., where were then the homes of John
Walker and Oliver Wright. From that point it would seem
that a passable way, private or accepted by the town, may
be assumed as offering passage to the "Governor's Road,"
extending from "Governor's Hill," as the western side of
Binney Hill was termed, across the state line at lot 86,
A. D.The second road of that location and period diverged
southerly from the first road just given near the line be
tween XI : 4 and XII : 4, S. R., passed just west of the barn
of Samuel Parker, whose home was on XI : 4, where a cellar,
now entirely evident, probably marks the place of his resi
dence, through the land of Simeon Hildreth, a part of XII :
4, whence the traces of his cellar were removed more than
fifty years ago, to the home of Dea. James Chandler on the
summit of "Page Hill," XIII : 2, N. L. O., thence through the
farms of Jesse and Abraham Carlton, 85, A. D., later the
Stone farm, and that of Stephen Adams, Sr., 84, A. D., for
many years the Blanchard farm, and finally reached the
lot of John Wheeler, 86, A. D., at or near the state line,
where in due time union was made with the "Governor's
Road" before mentioned. The part of that road lying north
of Dea. Chandler's has long been discontinued, having been
replaced by the road ascending Page Hill from Smith Vil
lage more directly, but the old way is easily followed through
most of its extent. The more southern portion of the road
was subjected to frequent minor changes of position in early
years, but the road practically the same still continues to
do the duty for which it was designed.
In 1768 it was voted "to open the Road through m''.
Joseph Kidder's Land to accomodate the South East Treavil
to the Meeting House" and also through Benjamin Safford's
land to his barn; that is the half-mile of road known in the
former history as Main or Barrett street.
In 1770 the facility of communication between the north
ern and southern lines of farms advancing toward the moun
tain line at the west was much increased by a road from the
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road between XIV: 2 and XV: 2, S. R., built for the ac
commodation of Nathaniel Carlton eight years before, to the
region soon to be the home of Stephen Hildreth, if he had not
already arrived; there seems to have been some practicable
route not definitely recorded between his home, XIV : 2, S. R.,
and the road to Binney Hill.
At this date the greater part of the town had acquired
so complete a network of streets, including no small number
concerning the origin of which no record has been found,
that a further continuance of the record of the creation of
additional thoroughfares does not seem expedient, as it will
not throw sufficient additional light upon the progress of
the town. Occasionally, however, a record of later date
seems to have relations that ought not to pass unnoticed.
In 1771 the "bridle road" toward Rindge extending from
Simeon Wright's to John Walker's was made an "Open Road"
and continued to Rindge line, passing, by an old route noAV
traceable through the woodland with considerable difficulty,
a short distance south of Binney Pond and on to the Rindge
line not more than forty rods farther north than the present
road past the ruins of the old school-house of the union
New Ipswich and Rindge district. A branch from that road
not far west from Binney Pond turned northerly to lot 106,
N. L. O., the home of "Capt. James Preston," later of Richard
Wheeler. The last quarter-mile of that road is located with
out difficulty.
In 1775 a road from the house of Aaron Chamberlain,
(now of I. E. Aldrich,) 56, N. L. O., to the road from Smith
Village to the Breed farms was accepted. Doubtless that
was the more northerly of the two roads which might be
thus described, that is the one meeting the Breed road at
the old "Collins house," 60, N. L. O., now closed. The south
erly road meeting the Breed road near the Breed house on
80, A. D., then occupied by Daniel RamsdeH, was voted in
1843. The road easterly from the Chamberlain house to the
Ashburnham road was not voted until 1832, the only high
way to that farm before that date being the one first pre
sented above under the date of 1775.
In 1780 the road was accepted from Col. Thomas Heald's
house upon 187, N. L. O., later the Estabrooks tavern, south
erly to Abel Hildreth's on the Ashby line, 68, A. D.
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In 1816 the demand for a more direct route from the
eastern part of the town to the Congregational church re
cently erected on the spot now held by its successor was
satisfied by the construction of the road from the hill west
of the farmhouse of Benjamin Champney to the church.
In 1817 the present road ascending Page Hill from a
point upon the Rindge road about one-fourth of a mile
southerly from Smith Village and meeting the old road be
tween the Joseph Warren house and that of Stillman Gib
son, previously the property of Dea. Joseph Chandler, on
XIII : 2, N. L. O., was accepted. The southerly branch
road to the house of Jeremiah Prichard, since for a long time
known as the "William Wheeler farm," was made at the same
time. In 1828 the river road from the High Bridge to the Mason
(now Greenville) town line was constructed, and in 1836 the
road extending southeasterly from, the Congregational church
and meeting the road from the Bank Village to Dr. Stillman
Gibson's at "the whirlpool."
That part of the Rindge road passing just westerly of
Smith Village which lies farther north than the shop built
by Charles Taylor, but now owned by Hughes, was built in
1847, and the southern portion three years later.
In 1853 the road from the western part of the Bank Vil
lage to a point on the turnpike about midway between the
Center Village and the High Bridge was built through VI : 1,
S. R., and also the road from the northern end of Gibson
Village to the "Willard house" near the center of VII : 3,
where it connects with the old road of 1755 running past
that house.
The record of the prominent roads of the town would
be far from complete if the story of the turnpike, following
approximately the line appearing earliest upon maps of New
Ipswich, were omitted. Although that enterprise, designed
for public convenience and private emolument, long ago met
the fate of similar projects elsewhere, it really for a time
was a noteworthy element in the activities of the town, and
it seems strange to those who can recall the middle of the
preceding century that members of the younger generation
hardly know accurately what its name means, or that it ever
was anything more than a street of the Center Village. But
this promising highway, entering New Ipswich at the Wheeler
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History of New Ipswich
tavern in 5, A. D., and leaving it near the northwest corner
of the town, was a noted route for rapid travel a century
ago, and still more valued by the owners of the four- or
six-horse wagons which in those days conveyed the farmer's
crops to market, and the desired goods, bought in the same
lower country towns, on the return trip. But the turnpike and
the four rather noted taverns scattered along the nine miles of
its length within the town, elements in the circulatory system
of those earlier days, have no place in the age of railroads
and have disappeared.
The story of the turnpike, written by one who clearly
remembered the days of its activity, is here copied from the
former history of the town.
"At the very commencement of the century the 'Third
New Hampshire Turnpike' was projected. It was very
strongly opposed by those in the westerly part of the town
through whose lands it was to pass, and who wished to have
it take a more southerly route, and gave rise to some riotous
proceedings by no means creditable to those concerned. One
party sustained the contractors in breaking through the lands,
while another did what they could, by threats and annoy
ances, to drive off the working party. Ploughs, shovels, and
other implements were carried off or mutilated, and not a
few bruised heads and lawsuits resulted.
"The turnpike was fifty miles long, extending from
Townsend to Walpole. Its location was as bad as it could
well be, and was laid out on the idea that the most direct
course was both the shortest and the most expeditious ; hence
there was the tugging directly over the summit of steep
hills, when it would have been as near to go round them on
nearly level ground. The contract for constructing it was
chiefly taken by Col. Bellows of Walpole, assisted by Squire
Hartwell and others; and sections of it were undertaken in
this town by Seth Wheeler and Maj. Adams. It proved an
unprofitable enterprise. It cost about $50,000, divided into
shares of $200. A very small dividend was declared for a
few years; but in 1813 the stock had depreciated so much
that it sold for twelve dollars a share; and about the year
1819, for some small sum, which was raised by voluntary sub
scription, it was made a free road and adopted by the town.
The toll-gates were placed, one at the foot of the hills in
M?ison, and the other near where the Rindge road turns off
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above the Flat Mountain. The people above this latter gate,
however, did not choose to pay toll for coming to the village,
and therefore cut a road around it. Travellers and teams
soon learned to avail themselves of the same loophole, and
the directors found it more judicious to allow the citizens
and their neighbors to travel two or three miles free, and
catch those who travelled long distances ; so the gate was
removed westward to near the borders of the town."

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CHAPTER II

NEW IPSWICH IN VARIOUS FORMS— GRANTS, CLAIMS,
CHARTERS, AND SURVEYS

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local matters,
and so with passing years
it became expedient to
recognize the more or less
divergent desires of different sections, and to make such divi
sions as would permit local differences and yet retain harmo
nious action upon broader common interests. Such were
many of the early New England units. But New Ipswich
had no such experience ; it was never a part of an earlier town,
nor did it witness the birth of a younger town in its own area.
It might, therefore, seem that its form must have been
ever the same, and that no such rather complicated figure
as is presented in the margin could have a place in its his
tory. But this graphic presentation gives no suggestion of
the division by some stress within a larger unit; the causes
of the varying boundaries must be sought at a distance.
Space cannot be taken here for a full discussion of the vary
ing interests which had a part in the decision of the loca
tion and conditions of New Ipswich, and without doubt some
threads in the tangled web of causes and effects left no
clearly formed, intelligible figures in the result,
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But perhaps a brief presentation of two of the more po
tent causes of the tardy determination of the town bound
aries will satisfy the general reader. These causes were,
first, the general ignorance of the English authorities in re
lation to the immense American areas under their rule, and
second, the long continued hostility between the parties of
the Puritan and the Cavalier.
The permanence of the first of those causes is suggested
by a map of the New England region published as late as
1768 in an atlas evidently prepared for the use of the upper
classes in England, as its price was six guineas, in which
the name "New Ipswich" was applied to the southern part
of Winchendon, Mass., previously known as "Ipswich Can
ada," while the true New Ipswich, which at that time had
been an incorporated town for six years, was shown, as on
an older map of 1748, as a square designated by the words,
"To Ipswich," which was so misplaced by a rotation of
twenty-five degrees that its southern and eastern sides crossed
the state line, thus locating one-twentieth of the area of the
town, at its southeastern corner, in Massachusetts. But this
was a very insignificant error in comparison with those of
the early grants, apparently sometimes the result of care
lessness, but more frequently due to a more or less defined
belief that the American rivers flowing into the Atlantic
necessarily flowed approximately parallel fromi the western
region, so that grants of land might conveniently be bounded
by these streams and by lines running westwardly from their
headwaters to the Pacific Ocean, the distance to that body
of water being entirely unsuspected. Evidently any consid
erable deviation of the rivers from their assumed parallel di
rections must superimpose two or more grants and present
for decision very difficult problems of ownership. The case
of New Ipswich presented difficulties due in part to a care
less overlapping of grants, but in part also to the unwarranted
assumption concerning the lines of river courses, both the
errors of "the Council established at Plymouth in the County
of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing
of New England in A-merica," in whose charter granted by
King James I, November 3, 1620, the territory included in the
grant was defined as "lying and being in breadth from Forty
Degrees of Northerly Latitude from the Equinoctial Line to
the Forty Eighth Degree of the said Northerly Latitude, in-
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History of New Ipswich
clusively, and in length of and within all the breadth afore
said throughout all the Main Lands from Sea to Sea."
Two grants made by that "Council of Plymouth" demand
attention in considering the troubles of the settlers in New
Ipswich more than a century afterward, although later ac
tion of King Charles I and also of King William and Queen
Mary complicated the question to some extent. On August
10, 1662, the Council granted to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and
Capt. John Mason, both members of the Council and the one
first named its president,
all that part of the main land in New England lying upon the sea-coast
betwixt y° rivers of Merrimack and Sagadahock, and to the furthest
heads of the said rivers, and soe forwards up into the land westward
until three-score miles be finished from y° first entrance of the afore
said rivers, and half way over; that is to say, to the midst of the said
two rivers w"" bounds and limitts the lands aforesaid together with all
the islands and isletts within five leagues distance of y" premises and
abutting upon y° same or any part or parcell thereof.
Later grants to the same parties apparently cover the same
ground in part, but confirm the center line of the Merrimack
river as the southern boundary.
But upon March 19, 1627/8, the Council granted to "Sir
Henry Roswell, Sir John Young, Knights, Thomas Southcott, John
Humphreys, John Endicott, and Simon Whetcombe"
all that part of New England in America aforesaid, which lyes and ex
tends between a great River there, commonly called Monomack alias
Merrimack, and a certain other River there called Charles River, being
in a bottom of a certain Bay there commonly called Massachusetts, alias
Mattachusetts, alias Massatusetts Bay, and also all and singular those
Lands and Hereditaments whatsoever, lying and being within the space
of three English Miles on the South part of the said Charles River, or of
any and every Part thereof ; and also all and singular the Lands and He
reditaments whatsoever, lying and being within the space of three English
Miles to the Southward of the southernmost part of said Bay called
the Massachusetts, alias Mattachusetts, alias Massatusetts Bay; and also
all those Lands and Hereditaments whatsoever which lye and be within
the space of three English Miles to the Northward of the said River
called Monomack, alias Merrimack, or to the Northward of any and
every part thereof, and all Lands and Hereditaments whatsoever lying
within the limits aforesaid North and South in Latitude, and in Breadth,
and in Length, and longitude, of and within all the breadth aforesaid
throughout the Main Lands there, from the Atlantick and Western Sea
and Ocean on the East part to the South Sea on the West part, and
all Lands and Grounds, Place and Places, Soil, Woods and Wood-
Grounds, Havens, Ports, Rivers, Waters, Fishing and Hereditaments
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whatsoever, lying within the said bounds and limits, and every part
and parcell thereof.
A year later this grant was confirmed by King Charles I,
who at the same time constituted the grantees and others
who had been admitted during the year as their associates, a
corporation bearing the title "The Governor and Company
of the Massachusetts Bay in New England."
Obviously the strip of land three miles in width along
the northern bank of the Merrimack River which was in
cluded in both of those grants was certain to cause trouble
sooner or later ; but the unrecognized fact that the river flowed
in a southerly direction instead of toward the east until within
about thirty miles of the sea was still more threatening, as
it was uncertain which grant included the large extent of
land lying westerly from that part of the Merrimack above
the point of change in its direction. While the doubtful ter
ritory remained inhabited only by Indians and hunters no
practical questions demanded solution, and the location of
the "furthest head" of the river from which, according to
Gorges and Mason's grant, the bounds were to extend "soe
forwards up into the land westward," was left unsettled, al
though the claims of each party were known. Massachusetts
claimed the three-mile strip on the eastern side of the river
nearly to Lake Winnipisaukee, where, as was claimed, the
river was formed by the union of two smaller streams, while
New Hampshire asserted that the name had never been rightly
applied to the stream above the farthest incoming of the salt
water at high tide, which was near Haverhill, Mass.
For many years there was no appeal to English authority ;
but had the attention of the home powers been invoked there
seems little doubt that there would have been a clear division
along the party lines so sharply drawn in the middle of the
seventeenth century, the Royal-Episcopalian sentiment favor
ing Gorges and Mason, and the dissenting element which
brought the Commonwealth into power their fellow-partisans
in Massachusetts. At all events it is a striking coincidence
that 1653, the year in which Cromwell turned the key behind
the Long Parliament, also saw the name of Governor John
Endicott cut upon a rock, afterward covered by the rising
waters of Lake Winnipisaukee, as establishing the north
eastern corner of Massachusetts.

History of New Ipswich
The Gorges and Mason claim was divided at an early
date, the doubtful section being taken by Mason, but neither
he nor those to whom later the Masonian claim was as
signed thought it advisable to enter upon a vigorous contest.
But about 1725 settlers began to multiply on the disputed
region by virtue of grants from Massachusetts, which was
not at all averse to securing that possession which so often
proves to be "nine points of the law," and an era of pro
tests, committees, and commissions ensued, with a final refer
ence to the King, George II, who on March 5, 1739/40,
decided that the river should be followed only as far as its
course was from the west, and in determining the point of
departure from the river, he gave New Hampshire a strip
fourteen miles in width which she had not claimed, including
of course New Ipswich, in which the only settlers were
Abijah Foster with wife and daughter and probably infant
son Ebenezer in their new home near the spot to be afterward
occupied by Union Hall. Perhaps Jonas Woolson had re
turned from his winter sojourn in Littleton, Mass., and may
have been at work preparing a home for his future wife where
now stands the home of the Country Club, or he may have
been in company with Benjamin Hoar, who had come with
similar purpose to the next lot toward the river.
Immediately after the decision of the king, Jonathan
Belcher, governor-in-chief over both provinces, sought a joint
survey of the common state line from the designated point,
three miles north from Pawtucket Falls, due west to the
Hudson River. New Hampshire at once assented, but for
some reason the Massachusetts authorities delayed action,
and on March 24, 1740/1, Surveyor Richard Hazzen with
chainmen and other suitable assistants entered upon that duty,
which he completed seventeen days later. A few lines from
his private journal are here quoted which show the changes
in town boundaries made necessary by the establishment of
the new line, that the line might not divide any town.
In the Course from the point where I first Set out the Line Cros'
through part of Dracutt and Nottingham, and leaves but a small part
of Dracutt Northerly of it; but, the Greatest part of Nottingham, the
Greatest part of Dunstable falls on the Northerly side and but a Small
part of Groton, and Townsend; the Greatest part of the Towns of New
Ipswich Rowley Cannada & Sylvester, fall Northerly of the line, by
the best Information I can gett: the Greatest part of Winchester if
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not all falls on the Northerly Side, and a third part of the lands of
Northfeild, if not more, tho but Two Houses Only: There are many
other Towns further North which were beyond my observation laid out
& peopled by the Massachusetts Bay.
The result of the conditions which have been considered
upon the formation of New Ipswich may now be presented
in more definite form, and perhaps the motive of the initial
step can be stated no better than in the words of the early
American historian. Dr. William Douglass, quoted in the for
mer history of the town as follows : "About the middle of the
last century, the General Assembly of Massachusetts was in
the humor of distributing the property of much vacant or
Province land; perhaps in good policy and forethought, to
secure to the Massachusetts people, by possession, the property
of part of some controverted lands." .... "Our Assem
bly, at that time, were in such a hurry to appropriate vacant
lands, that several old towns were encouraged to petition for an
additional new township ; and when they were satiated, the As
sembly introduced others, by way of bounty to the descend
ants of the soldiers in the Indian War of King Philip, so
called, (1675,) and these were called Narragansett townships;
and others to the soldiers in Sir William Phipps' expedition
into Canada, (1690,) which were called Canada townships."
Many of those grants were made in 1735/6, and on Janu
ary 15 of that year New Ipswich was granted to petitioners
largely from Ipswich, Mass., whence the name of the new
social unit, not yet a town, although later events destroyed
the original predominance of settlers from Ipswich and neigh
boring towns. The grant was made in the following terms :
PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY.
Jany ISth, 1735-36. In the House of Representatives.
In answer to the Petition of John Wainwright and John Choat
Esqr. Representatives of the town of Ipswich, In behalf of sundry in
habitants of sd town, Voted that the prayer be granted and that John
Wainwright and John Choat Esqrs, with such as shall be joyned by
the Honorable board be a committee at the charge of the Grantees
and such of the Inhabitants as they shall think proper, to lay out a
township of six miles square in some of the unappropriated lands of
the Province and that they return a plat thereof to this court within
twelve months for confirmation, and that for the more effectual bringing
forward the settlement of the sd new town; Ordered that the said
town be laid out into sixty-three equal shares, one of which to be for
the first settled minister, one for the ministry and one for the school,
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History of New Ipswich
and that on each of the other sixty shares, the Grantees do within
three years after the confirmation of the plan settle one good family
who shall have a house built on his home lot of eighteen feet square
and seven feet stud at the least, and finished; that each right or Grantee
have six acres of Land brought to and plowed or brought to English
Grass and fitted for mowing, that they settle a learned and orthodox
minister and build a convenient Meeting house for the public worship
of God, and that said committee take bond of each Settler of forty pounds
for his complying with the conditions of settlement, and that each settler
that shall fail of performing the aforesaid conditions shall forfeit his
share or right in the new town to the Government and the same to be
disposed of as they shall see cause.
In Council read and concurred and Thomas Berry, Esqr. is joined
with the committee in the said affair.
Consented to, J. BELCHER.
In accordance with the above action a township six miles
square was soon after laid out by Surveyor Jonas Houghton
of Ipswich, and the plot, a mere outline, was returned to the
General Court for approval. In the record of action thereon
it is described as "bordering Southerly on a township laid
out to Tileston and others, Canada Soldiers, and adjoyning
to the town of Townsend," but apparently the word "adjoyn
ing" was not to be taken literally, as it was voted that it
"be accepted as it is reformed by the pricked lines as within
set forth so as it adjoyns to Townsend," showing that, as was
often the case in the early township surveys, such land was
chosen as seemed most desirable to the grantees with little
consideration whether the strips lying between the new town
ship and its nearest neighbors were sufficient for the forma
tion of other new townships in due time. In this case, how
ever, the General Court deemed it advisable to leave no such
intermediate space, and so removed the new township nearly
four miles eastward, at the same time changing its form
from a square to a figure not far removed from a rhomboid
in order that it might conform to the western line of Towns-
end, then considerably larger than in later years.
The embryonic New Ipswich is represented in the initial
diagram of this chapter by the square ABCD, and its figure
after legal birth by EFGHJK. The exact position of the square
is somewhat uncertain, but probably it included a little more
than one-half of the present New Ipswich, its eastern bound
ary line passing a little eastward of the summit of Kidder
Mountain, thence southerly just east of Davis Village and
through the site of Smith Village, and crossing the state
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The Changing Boundaries
line in the region long known as the "Breed farms," lots 80,
82, A. D., it located the southeastern corner, C, in Ashby, a
few rods south of the state line. The other corners were
situated approximately as follows: The northwestern cor
ner, A, in Jaffrey, a mile northward from Squantum Village;
the northeastern corner, B, in Temple, south of Temple
Mountain, but a mile eastward from Spofford Gap; and
the southwestern corner, D, near the point where the state
line crosses the eastern side of Monomonac Pond.
According to the plat of Surveyor Houghton the direc
tion of the western side of the square was N. 12° E., but as
at that date the western variation of the needle was not far
from ten degrees, the deviation of the southern line from a
true east and west direction must have been about two de
grees, which agrees with later determinations as nearly as
could be expected.
The accepted position of the town after its removal to
the east between its prolonged northern and southern bound
aries is less uncertain than that of the square, but the existing
early records are not such as can give great accuracy. That
its northwestern corner, E, was in Sharon, and about three-
fourths of a mile southerly from the site of the present brick
schoolhouse; the northeastern corner, F, in the southwestern
corner of Wilton, near the Temple line ; the southeastern cor
ner, H, a few rods beyond the Massachusetts line, and nearly
south from the site of the "George RamsdeH house" east of
Whittemore Hill, on 70, A. D. ; and the southwestern corner,
/, about three-fourth of a mile west of the present south
western corner near the Rindge turnpike, is nearly correct.
The records of the Massachusetts Proprietors are not
known to be in existence, and the details of the work of the
early years is very imperfectly known. It is evident, however,
that the conditions in respect to improvement of shares within
three years were by no means fulfilled, probably to a great
extent because the title to the lands soon became understood
to be very uncertain. The most valuable of the early papers
which have been found is perhaps the map mentioned on the
first page of chapter one. It bears no date, but the words
"Province Line on this Side" written a little way beyond
the northern line of the township show that it antedated
Hazzen's survey of 1740-1 ; and the abbreviated name of some
tree at nearly every lot corner indicates that the survey was
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made while yet the entire town was practically a wilderness.
Only 128 lots are designated upon the map, those included
in the North Division and the South Ranges, comprising a
block four miles square. The positions of the streams, as
given on this early map, make it certain that the lots are
identical with those bearing the same numbers on later maps,
but by some error, probably of a draughtsman who constructed
the map from the notes of the surveyor without visiting the
land himself, the portion of the township there represented
is made its southeast corner, and a now somewhat indistinct
line of writing seems to declare it to border on Dorchester
Canada, located where now are Ashburnham and Ashby.
Without doubt those lots numbered in the earliest survey
should have been represented one mile from the southern line
of the town, thus leaving a strip not divided into lots one
mile in width along the north line of the town, as well as the
south line. The boundaries of the lots were naturally laid
out parallel to the township lines, and hence there were no
rectangular lots, a condition continuing to the present day
to the great discomfiture of surveyors seeking boundaries de
pendent upon early lot lines,^ an inconvenience greatly in
creased by a small angle in the Townsend line, necessarily
transferred to the New Ipswich line and thence to the approx
imately north and south boundaries of lots throughout the en
tire block now considered, and containing about one-half the
area of the town. It may be here added that the later division
of the remaining half was so made as to give additional
variety to the angles, and to make reference to ancient land
marks still more difficult.
But despite the serious defects mentioned, that ancient
map is very valuable, if for no other reason than its presenta
tion of the names of those owning the lots settled in the
early days of the town, there being only four lots of the
entire number in the sixteen square miles the ownership of
which is not designated. But it is somewhat surprising to
find how few are the names continuing from "Old Ipswich"
far into the history of New Ipswich. It is not certain that
even one of the sixty-one lot-owners whose names are borne
upon that early map became a resident in the town, although
apparently William Brown, the owner of lot 30, N. D., after
ward long the home of his son Ebenezer, probably came to
New Ipswich about 1763 and remained several years. Thomas
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The Early Settlers
Dennis, owner of lot 57, N. D., appears as owner of the same
lot in 1750, but he resided in town very briefly, if at all.
Thomas Adams and Isaac Appleton, however, earnestly con
tinued their interest in the town, were the two largest land
owners at the time of its second birth, and although neither
of them changed his own residence to New Ipswich, their
sons, Benjamin and Ephraim Adams and Isaac and Francis
Appleton, were among the prominent citizens of their genera
tion. No descendants of any of the four Ipswich grantees
here mentioned have continued one of these family names
in town to the present time, although it is by no means im
probable that some of the later settlers bearing the names
Foster, Howe, Knowlton, Potter, Safford, Smith, Start, or
Warren, may have descended from kinsmen of the early lot-
owners. But a considerable amount of careful search has
failed to disclose any lines of direct descent.
Two conditions joined to cause such a change, so unusual
in New England history. Those early settlers were by no
means fickle and impetuous men, expecting, like many who
have in later years left New England for the West, to acquire
wealth in only a few years, and in default of such success
ready to remove again. In a large majority of cases they
were earnest, deliberate workers, planning to secure by
sturdy, continued effort, a comfortable home in which they
might rear children like themselves among whom, in the home
they planned to make, they might pass their later years. Such
plans do not change for nought, nor from sudden impulse.
But in the case of New Ipswich and other towns granted by
Massachusetts at about the same date, in the southwestern
portion of New Hampshire, a special potent condition had
a place. The claim of John Mason, presented earlier in this
chapter, at the time now under consideration more than a
hundred years old, and in the hands of John Tufton Mason,
sixth in. the line of descent from its original owner, was so
long neglected during the time of special strength in English
councils of the dissenting party that apparently it was al
most forgotten, and after the English Restoration its possible
value found recognition very slowly. But at about the time
of the rapid creation of Massachusetts townships in the dis
puted territory, perhaps indeed caused by that forward move
ment, the ancient claim became more real in public thought,
with a resulting delay on the part of grantees to enter upon
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History of New Ipswich
their distant possessions and a sad loss of enthusiasm on
the part of those who had entered upon the work of wresting
from the wilderness a home which, after all the faithful labor,
might not be theirs. And when immediately after the first
three or four little spots had been opened beside the old
"country road" the surveyor ran the line which so clearly
might utterly invalidate all their claims, it is not surprising
that enthusiasm weakened and the advance nearly ceased.
Still a few settlers came from various places ; Jonas Woolson
from Watertown in some way succeeded to the lots of Mark
Howe, an Ipswich grantee, Benjamin Hoar from Littleton
secured the lots of Robert Potter, another Ipswich grantee,
but made his home on the "country road" near the home of
Jonas Woolson, Joseph Stevens from Townsend instead of
Jeremiah Smith, and so on until there may have been a
dozen or more dwellings in the eastern part of the town.
But in 1748 the second adverse condition appeared. Hitherto
the settlers had seen little of the Indians, and no trouble in
this respect had been experienced, nor at this time did the
Indians enter New Ipswich. But they came with hostile pur
pose altogether too near the few isolated houses of the little
settlement to make it seem expedient for the families to
rem'ain thus exposed. A party of about eighty Indians burned
the house of John Fitch near the southern line of Ashby, and
carried him with his wife and children to Canada, where they
were held prisoners for several months. The inhabitants of
New Ipswich with a single exception fled to a blockhouse at
Townsend, where they remained several weeks, until they
learned that the Indians had passed the Connecticut River
on their way to Canada. The one resident who refused to
abandon his home was Capt. Moses Tucker, who had won
his title in previous contest with the Indians and disdained
a retreat. The meeting-house which, in accordance with the
conditions of the grant, had been built on the north side of
the "country road," midway between that road and the sum
mit of the hill just east from the present Academy, was burned
during their absence.
It cannot be denied that the prospect of a long continu
ance for that little group of families, dwelling in a few cleared
openings in the wilderness scattered over an area perhaps
two by three miles in extent, was by no means hopeful. The
details of the condition are practically unknown. Probably
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John Tufton Mason
no official records were made within the settlement — the
methods of life were too primitive to require them ; the greater
part of the Proprietors were still resident in Ipswich, Mass.,
where Thomas Norton, a graduate from Harvard College, was
their clerk and treasurer, and undoubtedly kept a record of
the Proprietors' meetings ; but very few facts concerning their
activities are now known. Some light is thrown upon the
early activities of the settlement by a later petition signed
by twenty-eight of the sixty-one grantees or their successors,
who in 1767 asked of the General Court compensation for
their losses caused by the failure of the title which they had
received from the Court, and relying upon which they had
"built a Meeting House, a saw mill. Bridges, &c, besides Ex
pending a great deal on their Several Rights."
However, ere long the fathers of the town, who with their
wives and children could not have far exceeded one hundred
in number, found a way by which they might "out of the
nettle danger pluck the flower safety," but the presentation
of that process demands the recall of John Tufton Mason,
before mentioned, who in 1746 was thirty-three years of age
and was a captain stationed at Louisburg. Apparently the
founding of towns and similar activities were not his chosen
avocation, and he desired that he might, for a due considera
tion, transfer his title to the government of the Province, a
change which he believed would be "Expedient to the Well-
fare of the Inhabitants." But failing to effect such transfer,
apparently, in part at least, by reason of an Entail in John
Mason's will, he proceeded, according to a letter believed to
have been written by George Jaffrey, afterward clerk of the
purchasers, to John Tomlinson, to dispose of it as stated in
that letter below :
In June 1746 Cap* Mason at his own Expence had a Common
Recovery pass'd at y° court of Common Pleas to dock y' Entail of his
Ancestor's Will, and being determin'd to make Sale of his Right in
New Hampshire which descended to him by that will he generously
offered to Sell it to People of New Hampshire before any others, from
a just Apprehension of y° pernicious Consequence the Selling it to our
friendly Neighbors would be to all y" Inhabitants within a short time
after y" Process of y" Common Recovery was Compleated Cap' Mason
offered to make Sale of his Said Right to Gentlemen whom he know
were Friends to the Prosperity of this Province or nearly related to
Such & none refused to purchase of him, and of those Persons I
believe every man in a political or private Capacity Sollicited the mem-
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History of New Ipswich
bers of y" Assembly to Comply with your Agreement with Mason.
Cap' Mason being then under Order to repair to his Post at Louis-
bourg in a few days, hasten'd y° Coming to a Conclusion of the Sale in
his Right, and a meeting was proposed at his Request to agree with him
upon the affait, & when met it was proposed to defer y" matter, to
See if y' Assembly who were then Sitting would not comply with y*
Agreement but Cap' Mason considered y" length of time Since it first
lay before them and more than a month since y' Common Recovery
pass'd to dock y° entail, and y° disdainfull usage his personal Applica
tions met with from y" Assembly that he was then Resolved to have
no further communication with them upon y' affair so nothing further
could be offered upon that head — there were twelve of ye purchasers
present and it was proposed that you should have a part equal to any
of y" purchasers and Cap' Mason reserved and equal part for you and
an equal part Designed for Jn° Rindge and the Sum in Consideration
of y" Sale was by halfe as much more than you agreed with Mason for
y' Government, then the Form of a Deed was y' Subject of Considera
tion Coll" Atkinson was to have V-is conveyed to him one for himselfe
& two of w"' intended to be reconvey to Mason one of w""" he designed
for you another for himselfe M H. W — th ^As his own and for Jn°
Rindge then a minor — the other ten part to y" Persons named.
The plan sketched in that letter was carried into effect
upon July 30, 1746, the consideration named being £1500, for
which sum John Tufton Mason conveyed the broad expanse
of country with western boundary still somewhat uncertain,
but including many settlements from whose inhabitants the
establishment of the northern line of Massachusetts had taken
all legal title to the farms upon which they had labored, to
new owners afterward known as the "Masonian Proprietors."
The twelve purchasers named in the deed were "Theodore
Atkinson, Richard Wibird, John Moffatt, Mark Hunking
Wentworth, Samuel Moore, Jotham Adiorne jun'' & Joshua
Peirce Esqrs. Nathaniel Meserve, George Jaffrc}'- jun'' & John
Wentworth jun'' Gentlemen all of Portsmouth aforesaid &
Thomas Wallingford of Summerworth in said Province Esq''
& Thomas Packer of Greenland in y° Province aforesaid
Esq''," but in fulfilment of the arrangement with Messrs. At
kinson and Wentworth at the time of the purchase, John
Tufton Mason, John Tomlinson, and John Rindge were soon
added to the numbers, and before action was taken in respect
to New Ipswich the list was further lengthened bv the names
of Samuel Solley, Clement March, Matthew Livermore, Wil
liam Parker, and Joseph Blanchard, the last three being given
membership in return for legal assistance and advice. Daniel
Peirce and Mary Moore succeeded to the place of Samuel
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Moore, and since Solley and March together had but one right,
and the same ownership appears between Tomlinson and Ma
son, the power holding the fate of the town contained only
eighteen units, although bearing twenty-one names on its roll.
It may reasonably be inferred that the renewed assertion
of the Masonian claim, and the sale of the land to an able
and influential body of proprietors, who could not be expected
to release to the former owners the land they had thus legally
acquired, caused the Ipswich proprietors to think that their
own entire loss was unavoidable unless the vigorous denials
made in some quarters of the legality of certain steps in the
claim and procedure should produce in some way a more
favorable outlook, and so they remained quiet awaiting re
sults until the methods of the Masonian Proprietors awakened
a new hope. The first act of the new owners was to release
by a quitclaim all title which they might have to sixteen towns
in the eastern part of New Hampshire included in the Mason
ian claim, even though Massachusetts had won the disputed
region westward from the Merrimac, and they then also
adopted a liberal and conciliatory policy to any Massachusetts
grants whose inhabitants acknowledged their changed condi
tion and desired to retain the lands and improvements in
dividually held by them. For some reason, which perhaps the
lost records would make evident, New Ipswich seems to have
been inactive in the matter, the first movement being revealed
by the record of a meeting which escaped the general fate
of other records.
At a Legal Meeting of the Prop" of New-Ipswich at the Dwelling
House of Joseph Newhall in Ipswich on Tuesday the 14th of February
A D 1748—
Col° Thomas Berry Moderator —
Voted That Col" Daniel Appleton Col° John Choate & Col° Thomas
Berry be a Committee fully Authoriz'd & Impower'd in the Name &
Behalf of the Proprietors to Treat with the late Grantees of Mason's
Grant so call'd, or with Col° Joseph Blanchard or both as they shall
see meet respecting their Supposed Title to s'' New Ipswich and to make
a full & final Agreement and Settlement of any Differences or Disputes
that are between y' s" Grantees of s" Mason & y" s* New Ipswich
Prop" relating to y' Title & Settlement thereof; and what they, or
either two of them do on the premisses to be Binding to the Proprietors.
And if they Apprehend it not best to Agree, then to Report to the
Prop" (as soon as may be) what may be best further to be done.
Tho. Norton Pro Cler.
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Joseph Blanchard, named in the vote at Ipswich, had acted
as agent of the Masonian Proprietors in the settlements with
various neighboring towns, and the case of New Ipswich was
put into his hands. The following letter written by him to
that body is instructive.
Gentlemen Coll" Choat & Coll" Appleton a Com"" On Behalf of New Ipswich
has bin With me Treating Ab' your title to that township And are
disposed to Accom'odate Matters if they Can the lines of the town may
be Continued, nea the Same, & you will See by their plan 120 Lotts
are Lay'd out & Drawn they Request to hold them lotts as Lay'd out
and their Town Lines to Stand, of, 'Which the northeast Corner; I must
take off, I Expect it will Intersect and Cut off ab' 8 Lotts, it Should
Shut Home to the province line & in Liew of What I take off on y°
East made up as per a plan I Send you the Seasonable & Effectuall
forwarding the Settlem' they Are 'Willing to. But they are not Willing
to Comply with the quantity to be Reserved therefore I have for that
Article in Special Referred to your detemination. And to have them
Easyly dealt with & their being Accom'odated, in the best way will
be very pleasing to y' Hum' Ser* J. Blanchard.
Dunstable March 3".— 1748
As may be seen, the foregoing meeting was just before
the Indian fright which so nearly depopulated New Ipswich
for some weeks, and probably delayed negotiations for a longer
period; but they were certainly resumed and on Tune 16, 1749,
the Masonian Proprietors authorized Joseph Blanchard to
lay out several towns, among which were No. 1, (Mason,)
No. 2, (Wilton,) and also "the lands lying between Peter
borough on y" north the said new Towns on y^ East and
so far South as to leave a Town on Square lines joining -y"
Province line of Six miles Square in and adjoyning to New
Ipswich and to Extend westerly even with y° west line of
Peterborough." But this description in some way was greatly
modified, and nearly a year later Joseph Blanchard, present
ing that vote as his authority, issued the Masonian Charter
making the town only about five-sixths as large as the "six
miles square" specified therein. Neither was its form a square,
as the descriptive term "on square lines joining the Province
line" would certainly indicate. Nor was its change from that
form made in order to conform to the oblique angles of the
Massachusetts survey and thus retain unmutilated the first
lots, as desired by the inhabitants who had improved them.
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But the "old Townsend line" inclining northeasterly was re
placed in the eastern town boundary by a line inclining north
westerly to about the same degree, and crossing the former
line two miles or more from the Province line, which cut from
the northeastern part of the town eight entire lots and a part
of eight others, together amounting to more than 800 acres
and including the present site of the village of Greenville, and
added at the southeastern corner a triangular area of some
what smaller dimensions.
Apparently the change was made to the advantage of
Mason, Wilton, and "Peterborough Slip," (now Temple and
Sharon,) authorized by the same vote as New Ipswich, and
it is also probable that the southern line of Peterborough was
found to be nearer the Province line than had been anticipated,
thus leaving scanty room for "Peterborough Slip" between
Peterborough and New Ipswich, if the latter town should be
allowed its original dimensions of six miles from north to
south. There can be no doubt that it was supposed that the
block of lots comprising the North Division and the South
Ranges could be left unchanged, except those now forming
a part of the town of Greenville, and that there remained an
undivided strip one mile in width between the original lots
and the Province line. The square town authorized by the
Masonian Proprietors would have included a like strip one
mile in width along the northern side of the town but north
of the retained block of lots. This strip Blanchard made a
part of "Peterborough Slip." The former historian of New
Ipswich writes as follows concerning the unexplained change :
When we consider his non-compliance with these conditions, and the
injurious change made in this township, both by curtailment of its ter
ritory and change of its location, we cannot but surmise some fraud
or injustice on the part of Col. Blanchard, as well as a strange disregard
to their rights and interests on the part of the grantees. We do not
learn, however, of any misgivings at that time. On the contrary, both
the contracting parties seem to have been satisfied; as is evinced on the
part of the Masonian Proprietors by their giving Col. Blanchard a
right in the township with themselves; and on the part of the grantees
by the liberal compensation they voted for his service.
It perhaps, however, may justly be considered that the
grant of a township right made by the Masonian Proprietors
to Col. Blanchard was really made at the expense of the
grantees, as it added the land held by this eighteenth right to
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History of New Ipswich
the number otherwise to be reserved by the grantors, and
the grantees were in no position to refuse compliance with
whatever terms the representative of the Proprietors saw fit
to offer. One of the honored sons of New Ipswich whose
views receive weight from his official position, the younger
Judge Timothy Farrar, left in an interleaved copy of the for
mer history a review of those early transactions, from which
the following estimate is copied :—
Such was the state of things when the town came within the juris
diction of New Hampshire, and the land within the claim of the owners
of the Masonian patent. Their true policy and their practice was to
quiet all possessions and all active claimants, so as to raise no interested
body of opponents to their absolute title, and enable them to appropriate
quietly all the ungranted lands. They obviously intended to pursue the
same course here. But their agent. Col. Blanchard, was a land surveyor
and speculator, and he found the simple-hearted young men, who had
taken up and improved their lands, were only anxious to retain their
possessions, and the non-resident Massachusetts Proprietors, having
neither residence nor possession, were passive in their position. He
therefore undertook to make a speculation for himself and his principals
by regranting the township contrary to his instructions. In doing this
he satisfied such of the Massachusetts Proprietors as either by them
selves or their proxies came forward, made grants to such new friends
as he wished, reserved eighteen full rights to himself and his employers,
and changed the location and curtailed the limits to suit their interests.
A letter of Col. Blanchard to the Masonian Proprietors
and their reply are given below, as casting some light upon
the spirit prompting their action. Apparently the original
plan was to reserve for the Grantors one-half of each town
ship, to be held without payment of taxes of any kind, await
ing the so-termed "unearned increment" of the present day
which would arise from the labor of the grantee owners of
the remaining half, and only the refusal of the grantees forced
their acceptance of from sixteen to twenty shares out of an
entire number in each town of from sixty to eighty. Evi
dently there was a line beyond which the proposed "alarm"
was not effectual.
The venerable Society of Mason Hall —
Gentlemen —
In pursuance of your desire I have proceeded to measure the Lands
directed to make Setlement on, and find enough for five townships :
have not time to transmitt you a plan but shall Send it next week T
have Wrote to the Prop" Clerk of Groton and the Prop" Clerk of
townshend. Intimating y" Authority you gave me. Particularly that at
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my Discretion I was to Admitt Inhabitants, and if they inclined to
Setle I should Accommodate them as far as I Could in faithfullness to
my trust provided I had their Answer in twenty days to the Same
purpose I have Wrote Coll" Berry one of y" Principal Prop" of New
Ipswich & to Severall of the Prop" of Rowley Canada desireing them
to Communicate it to their prop" Desireing a positive Answer — This
has Sufficiently Allarm'd the vicinity. And Application has already been
made for twice the Quantity of Land you left with me to Dispose of
All the Inhabitants of New Ipswich And Rowley Canada (both of which
fall within my Diocess) have Applyed to be Continued As Setlers under
Your Conditions And many others of y" Prop" of each town, I ap
prehend I Shall Quietly Succeed, unless Coll Berry be Poutey & Sullen
on Behalf of New Ipswich, Which Since I have entered upon it Desire
under your directions my Liberty may be Continued to Setle with him,
or Any Others that Shall be Obstinate: I can readily Compound that
the Eighteen Shares proposed As Owners to Draw one third of Each
town Clere, have proposed to Equalize the towns Quantity for Quality,
And the Setlers to Draw lotts which towns to fall into, a Sufficient
Sum of money Advanced on entrance to pay the Charge of Survey
Roads a Meetinghouse and for preaching the first Six months to begin
the Setlement next June at furthest if peace In Six months from Draw
ing their Lotts to have Housen built and Inhabit there, and so to make
a progressive Improvement for four years Stating a Certain Quantity
for each year & for them by Indenture to your Lordships on failure
at any time of any part to Surrender the Whole under a Sufficient
Penalty: by the Same Indenture to pay by the Setlers all town Charges,
untill Your lotts are Improved and so fait them to become Chargable
According to the Incombe; In Case a Lawsute Should Arise from Other
Claimers you to be at that Charge, (which I had not your Speciall
Authority for) excepting that your Quitclaim to be their title with
Severall Other Contingent Articles of Duty on their part which all
who have Applyed readily Concur with — if this be not Acceptable or
anything further Occurrs to your minds for my Direction you may Write
by Cap' Goffe & may be Assured of my faithful Complyance I have
Likewise proposed An Injunction that they Joyn with the non Setlers
in Applying to the Gov' & Council for an Incorporation And as soon
As I have Answer from the Massachusetts Claimers Shall fill up the
lists of y' Severell Towns —
The Writings I am not Capable of forming, shall depend on them
being done at Portsmouth. — The Prop" of Souheegun 'West, Since I
was at Portsmouth have Divided their Com'ons & I hear bid Defiance
to your Title, if no Notice be taken of them I apprehend it will have
An ill effect p'haps create you a Squable with many other towns, and
your Setting up your Bristles early might put an end to it. (but as
to y' you know best what to do.) I have Nothing to add but Wish
you Success in the Affairs before you And rest Y' Hum' Ser' at
Com'and Joseph Blanchard
Dunstable Nov' 30'" 1748.
To the Hon' Theodore Atkinson Esq' moderator &c please to
Com'unicate the aforewritten Y" ut Supra J B —
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History of New Ipswich Portsm" Dec' 3* 1748
S' We have both your letters before us as to that of y' 30"" of the
last month for which we are obliged we greatly approve of your Scheme
& y" Progress you have made and hereby give you full Power of agreeing
with any Person of note that can be Serviceable in Secureing y" Peace
& Quiet of the Settlers either in new Ipswich of other Town as to
Souhegan West if they should be troublesome they can expect no favour
from this Society and we shall soon prosecute Some of the foremost in
the Opposition which if you think proper please to inform them of
and let us know the men as to our bearing the Charge of a lawsuit
in contesting mason's Right we set out upon that footing at first &
in Case any Suit is Commenced we expect to pay that cost, we are now
finishing the Grant of the Town above souhegan & think that a vote
of the Proprietors at a Regular meeting better than any other Con
veyance you will see our's to Cap' Goffe & Associates with the particular
Reservations & Articles — this is the Method prescribed by y' Gentlemen
of y° law and is the most Customary & familiar way for such Proprieties
to Act in — I am in behalfe & at y" Request of y' Society y' purchased
mason's Right y' very Hum"' Serv° Theodore Atkinson.
P. S. with respect to y" affairs of Cohas between Goffe & Dunkin &
y" Proprietors it is referred entirely to your adjustment & Settlement
as you think is just the Society desire to see you as Soon as possibly
you can leave your private affairs and bring all y° Plans you can procure
that will give any insight to their Concerns — Goffe has offered but one
third but we think one halfe for y" Proprietors y" ut Supra T Atkinson
To Joseph Blanchard Esqur at Dunstable
Copy Examined & Geo: Jaffrey jur Prop" CI
It may be believed that the process of adjustment and
agreement progressed rather slowly between the Masonian
Proprietors and the would-be Proprietors of New Ipswich;
but a little more than two years later each party seems to
have concluded that the probability of further concessions by
the other would not justify further delay and the second birth
of New Ipswich took form in
THE MASONIAN CHARTER.
Province of } Pursuant to the Power & Authority Granted & Vested
New Hampshire! in me by the Proprietors of Lands purchased of John
Tufton Mason Esp' in the Province of New Hamp
shire aforesaid by their Vote the 16'" of June 1749, passed at their
Meeting held at Portsmouth in said Province —
I Do by these Presents give & grant unto Reuben Kidder, Archible
White, Jonas Woolson, Abijah Foster, John Brown, Benj" Hoar jun'
Timothy Heald, Joseph Kidder, Joseph Bullard, Ebenezer Bullard, Joseph
Stevens, Henry Pudney, John Chandler all of a place called New Ipswich,
Hannah Dinsmore, Peter Powers, Daniel Emerson, David Nevens, all of
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Holies, Zaccheus Lovewell, Joseph French, both of Dunstable, & all in
the Province of New Hampshire, Jon° Hubbard, John Stevens Esq' of
Townshend, Isaac Appleton, Thomas Adams, Robert Choat, William
Brown, Nathaniel Smith, Col° John Choat, Francis Choat, Thomas
Dennis all of Ipswich, Andrew Spaulding of Westford, Isaac Patch of
Groton, William Peters of Medfield, John Marsh of Mendon, & Benj'
Hoar of Littletown. To them, their Heirs & Assigns, on the Terms
Conditions, Reservations & Limitations, & in the Respective Proportions,
hereafter expressed, all the Right, Title, Interest & Property of the
Grantors aforesaid, of, in & to that Tract of Land, or Township lying
in the Province of New Hampshire aforesaid Extending Six Miles in
length, & five Miles in Breadth bounded as followeth, beginning at the
line between the Province of New Hampshire aforesaid and the Province
of the Massachusetts Bay at the Southwest Corner of the Township
call'd No. 1, from thence North Eighty Degrees West Six Miles to the
South East Comer of the Township called South Manadnock or Manad-
nock Number one, from thence North by the Needle five Miles to the
North East Corner of said South Manadnock, from thence South Eighty
Deg' East by the Line of Peterborough Slip, Six Miles to the North
West Corner of No one, & from thence South five Miles to the Bounds
first Mentioned. To have and to hold to them, their Heirs & Assigns
Excepting as aforesaid, & on the following Terms & Conditions with
the Reservations aforesaid, the Lots already laid out, & the several Pro
portions of Common Land, yet to be divided out to each one as followeth,
[The assignment of lots to the individual grantees here follows in
the charter, but will be given later in a tabular form more convenient
for reference.] That is to say that Eighteen full & Equal Shares in said
Town in the following Manner viz' Thirty Six Lots of Eighty Acres
each already Laid out & Eighteen Shares in the after Divisions to be
drawn for in some Equitable Manner, that is to say two Lots of Seventy
Acres each for each Share to be reserved for the Use of the Grantors,
their Heirs & Assigns forever, & the Like Number of Lots & Quantity
of Land for each Share of each Grantee holding in the after Division,
& the Remainder besides what is before Granted to be to the Use of
the Grantees — that the Division of the two Seventy acres Lots for each
Share be laid out, & Equitably Coupled together & drawn for in some
open Equitable Manner at or before the last day of August 1751, and
that the aforesaid Eighteen Shares reserved as aforesaid for the Grantors
be Exonerated, acquitted & fully Exempt from paying any Charge towards
making a Settlement, & not held to the Conditions of the other Shares
respecting a Settlement nor liable to any Tax or Assessment or Charge,
until improved by the owners or some one holding under them Respec
tively, that the Grantees at their own Expence make Settlement, be at
the Charge of dividing the whole of the Lands, Clearing & making
feacible Roads & that all the Lots in said Town be Subject to have all
necessary Roads lay'd through them as there shall be Occasion free from
Charge, that the Grantees according to the Number of their Shares or
Lots herein after named make Settlement in the following Manner viz'
that within two Years from this Date on each Settling Lot or Share
there be three Acres of Land Cleared & fitted for Mowing or Ploughing
& have a Comfortable Dwelling House, the Room to be at least Sixteen
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History of New Ipswich
feet Square, & a Family or some Person dwelling in each House, &
that within five Years from this Date there be nine Acres more cleared
inclosed & fitted for Mowing or Tillage on some Lot to each Settling
Right as aforesaid, that the Grantees to make Settlement, & the Number
of each be as followeth viz' Reuben Kidder to make Settlement on
three Shares or Rights, Archible White, Jonas Woolson, Abijah Foster,
John Brown, on one Share each, Benjamin Hoar Jun' on two Shares,
Timothy on one Share, Joseph Kidder on one Share, Joseph Bullard one,
Ebenezer Bullard one, Joseph Stevens one, Henry Putney one, John
Chandler one, Hannah Dinsmore two, Peter Powers one, David Nevens
one, Jonathan Hubbard one, John Stevens one, Isaac Appleton Six,
Thomas Adams five, Robert Choat one, William Brown one, Nathaniel
Smith two, Francis Choat one, Thomas Dennis one, Andrew Spaulding
one, Isaac Patch one, William Peters one, John Marsh one, & Benjamin
Hoar two in manner as aforesaid. — That each of the Grantees at the
Executing of this Instrument, pay fourteen Pounds Cash old tenor, to
pay the Charges risen and Ariseing in said Township, to be Deposited
in the hands of some Person chosen by them for that Purpose —
That a Convenient Meeting House be Built in said Township, within
Seven Years from this Date as near the Center of said Town, and at
such place as the Major part of the Interest of Grantors and Grantees
shall Determine by a Major Vote in publick Proprietors Meeting called
for that Purpose, Giving forty days Notice of such Meeting, and ten
Acres of Land reserved there for publick Use — That the aforesaid
Grantees or their Assigns assess such further Sum or Sums of Money
in equal Proportion to each Grantees Interest, Exclusive of the publick
Lots as shall be Necessary for Compleating any of the publick Articles
aforesaid, & for such further Payment of any Sum or Sums that shall
by the said Grantees or their Assigns be raised for hireing Preaching,
or settling & Support of the Minister there and on Failure of Payment
for the Space of three Months for the Space of three Months after such
Tax is agreed upon & Posted up at such Place or Places as the Proprie
tors, the Grantees aforesaid, or their Assigns shall appoint for calling
Proprietors Meetings, that so much of such Delinquents Right be Dis
posed of as will pay such Tax or Assessment & all Charges arising
thereon. That all White Pine Trees fit for his Majesties Use for Masting
his Royal Navy Growing on said Land be and hereby are Granted to
his Majesty his Heirs & Successors for ever, and in Case any of the
s* Grantees or their Assigns, shall neglect or refuse to perform any of
the Articles, Matters and Things aforementioned by him respectively
to be done he shall forfeit his Share & whole Right in said Tovmship
& every part thereof to those of the said Grantees or their immediate
Assigns that shall have Complyed with the Conditions on their parts
herein Exprest. and it shall and may be lawfull for them or any Person
or Persons in their Stead, & by their Authority, to enter into & upon
the Right or part of such Delinquent Owner, & any and every part thereof,
in the name of the whole of the Settlers that shall fulfill as aforesaid,
and him utterly to amove. Oust & Expel for their Use, their Heirs &
Assigns Provided they Settle or cause to be Settled each such Delinq"
Right or Share, within the Space of One Year at the furthest from the
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The Masonian Charter
Period of such Condition, Articles, Matters & things that is by this
Instrument Stipulated to be done as the Condition of this Grant, &
fully discharge & Comply with all the Duty & Expence such Delinquents
ought to have done, & every part of Duty enjoyn'd, such Right to be
finished at the Several Periods thereof, & in Case the said Grantees
or their Assigns that shall fuUfiU their parts as aforesaid, & shall omit
& neglect for the Space of one Year as aforesaid, improveing. Building,
& Settling and fuUfilling every part as herein is Conditioned to be done
that all such Share & Right as are thus delinquent in said Township, &
every part & Parcel of such Delinquents shall be forfeited, revert &
belong to the Grantors of the Premises their Heirs & Assigns with full
Authority to enter into and upon all such Delinquents Rights & the
Posseesor thereof utterly amove, oust & expel for the use of such
Grantors, Provided there be no Indian Wars within any of the Terms
& Limitation of time aforesaid for doing the Duty Condition'd in this
Grant, and in Case that should happen the same time to be allowed for
the Respective Matters aforesaid after such Impediment shall be removed
— Lastly the said Grantors do hereby promise and engage to the said
Grantees their Heirs & Assigns, to defend thro' the Law to King &
Council, if need be One Action that shall & may be brought against
them or any Number of them, by any Person or Persons whatsoever
Claiming the said Land or any part thereof by any other Title than
that of the said Grantors, or that by which they hold & derive their's
from Provided the said Grantors are avouched in, to defend the same,
and that in case on final Tryal the same shall be recovered against the
Grantors, that such Person or Persons shall recover nothing over against
the Grantors for the Lands, Improvments or Expence in bringing for
ward the Settlements, and further that the said Grantors will pay the
Necessary Expence of time & Money that any other Person or Persons
shall be put to by any other Suit or Suits that shall be brought against
them or any of them the said Grantees for tryal of the Title before
any one Suit shall be fully Determined in the Law —
To all which Premises Joseph Blanchard Esq' Agent, for & in
Behalf of the Grantors hath hereunto set his Hand & Seal this seventeenth
day of April 1750— Joseph Blanchard — [L S]
It is evident that the Masonian Charter definitely located
the boundaries of the township, but later survey showed a
considerable difference between their location and that which
was expected at the time of their adoption. As has been
told upon a previous page, it was supposed that the Massa
chusetts survey had placed the block of lots assigned in charter
midway between the northern and southern lines of the town
ship, and thus had left an undivided strip one mile in width
between those lots and the southern boundary, and a like
strip on the northern side, which latter strip Col. Blanchard
had made a part of Peterborough Slip, leaving, as was sup-
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History of New Ipswich
posed, the northern line of the northern tier of lots coinci
dent with the northern boundary of the township. Had that
been the case, the township would have been represented on
the diagram by the rhomboid LMNO, but unfortunately the
assumption was not in accordance with facts. The block of
lots had been laid a considerable distance farther toward the
north than was intended, perhaps as much as fifty rods, al
though the inaccuracy of the survey in the early wilderness
and the conflicting statements in different records make the
estimate of the displacement subject to considerable uncer
tainty. There can be no doubt, however, that it was suffi
cient to make the northern slip less than a mile in width and
to cause the northeastern corner of the Masonian grant to
fall forty-eight rods farther south than the northern line of
lot 24, in which said corner fell.
The problem of equitable boundaries was somewhat
further complicated by the triangular slip cut from the south
eastern corner of New Ipswich by the establishment of the
Province line. The width of that strip is uncertain, but prob
ably at the eastern extremity, where it was widest, it was
not more than twenty rods, perhaps even less. But whatever
that loss may have been it should have resulted in an equal
removal toward the north of the northern boundary made by
the Masonian Charter parallel to the Province line, and the
strip of land cut from the northern ends of the lots should
have narrowed toward its eastern end. Instead of that, for
some inexplicable reason, exactly the opposite is true; each
lot, proceeding toward the west, had one acre less cut away
by the northern line than was lost by its eastern neighbor.
The entire unwarranted removal from the twelve northern
lots, remaining after the loss caused by the new eastern line,
was about 220 acres. In view of those losses, whether due
to haste and difficulties of accurate survey through the wilder
ness or to dishonest acts of interested parties, it may be well
to recognize that in accordance with the frequent practice of
early surveyors to be "sure to give full measure," the town,
both in length and in breadth, very appreciably exceeds its
charter dimensions of five by six miles, its area being between
thirty-two and thirty-three square miles. Its Masonian figure,
retained until the present time, is presented upon the diagram
showing its successive changes of form by the figure LPNO.
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The Incorporation
There remain to be mentioned, in this record of official
transformations, only two further changes. The first of these
is an evolution though an Act of Incorporation bearing the
date September 9, 1762, and signed by Governor Benning
Wentworth, a brother of John and Mark Hunking Wentworth
before active as Masonian Proprietors, and countersigned by
Theodore Atkinson, Provincial Secretary, also of the Mason
ian board and long its presiding officer. This document
changed the mere proprietary organization with no officers
except a temporary moderator chosen for each meeting, a
clerk, a treasurer, and such committees as any business asso
ciation might appoint, into a complete town with all the politi
cal and governmental abilities of such a New England unit.
The new town, however, had no promise of an existence to
be continued beyond January 1, 1766, and for some reason,
perhaps a mere error of the penman, it bore only the name
"Ipswich." A second similar act, dated March 6, 1766, but for some
unknown reason neither recorded nor transmitted to the town
until the following year, restored the complete name borne
by the early settlement; and no period having been assigned
to its life, the New Ipswich of to-day derives thence its legal
powers.

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CHAPTER III.
ON THE WAY TO MATURITY— PROPRIETORS AND LOTS
^ I ¦^HE Masonian Charter gave to the new Proprietors of the
-*- "place called New Ipswich" a right to the land upon
which, if prospered, they might expect to found a New Hamp
shire town, and the word "town" appears twice in that char
ter. But more frequently, and more correctly, the new land
thus transferred was designated by the word "township,"
since New Ipswich had really neither civic existence nor legal
name, which, however, it attained at an earlier date than any
of the surrounding New Hampshire settlements mentioned
in the charter as "Number One," (Mason,) "South Monad-
nock," (Rindge,) and "Peterborough Slip," (Temple and
Sharon) ; the Province line separated it from "Dorchester
Canada," now included in Ashburnham and Ashby.
As shown in the charter, only thirteen of the thirty mem
bers of the new body were resident within the limits of the
township, the homes of the complemental seventeen being
scattered in nine different places, but only four in Ipswich,
Mass., and of the thirteen named as already resident in New
Ipswich, only two, Abijah Foster and Henry Pudney, had
come from that mother-town.
The silence of the records in relation to Henry Pudney
shows that he was not a resident for a sufficient period to
affect the town in any way; of the four proprietors resident
in Ipswich, Robert Choate apparently never became a citizen
of the new place, while if Thomas Dennis ever really had a
home in New Ipswich, his residence was too brief to leave
decisive evidence.
The history of the period of proprietorship and the pass
age of New Ipswich through youth to the attainment of its
majority as a town was not wrought out by Ipswich men
as largely as the name would suggest. Abijah Foster was
the first settler within the township bounds. He built three
houses as his three successive homes, and his blood has flowed
in the veins of many sons and daughters of the later New
Ipswich generations. Thomas Adams and Isaac Appleton
however, were the two largest land-owners among the pro-
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Origin of the Settlers
prietors, each being the possessor of between two and three
square miles, and although probably neither of them ever
relinquished his Massachusetts citizenship to forward in per
son the growth of the Granite State, they were each repre
sented by two sons resident for many years on the family
possessions, and the two names were prominent in the town
activities of several generations.
In default of Ipswich blood, the question arises, Whence
in fact came the early vigor of the settlement and of the en
suing town? From what region came the men who gave
New Ipswich a place among the most active and progressive
New Hampshire towns? A few came from Ipswich in the
years soon succeeding the Masonian grant and a few more
from other parts of Essex County. But of the names ap
pearing on the records of the expected town during its twelve
years of active development into fitness for that designation,
three-fourths came not from. Essex, but from Middlesex
County, and especially from Concord, whither so many an
cestral lines converge from all sections, and from the line of
towns between Concord and Boston. A brief quotation from
Walcott's "Concord in the Colonial Period" seems to have
a place here.
The Kentish infusion was very strong in the early population of
Concord, and, indeed, of Middlesex County.
The proud distinction of the Kentishmen was the tenacity with which
they held to their rights and customs, and the unhesitating courage, re
gardless of difficulties or consequences, shown in their defence. They
formed the foremost rank at the battle of Hastings, and made terms
with the Conqueror at Swanscombe.
It is by no accident that the people of Middlesex County have been
equally quick to rise in the defence of their rights, and to put down the
oppressor; for the people of Middlesex derive their origin, in a great
part, from the freest and most independent of English counties. The
patriots of Concord Bridge, Lexington, and Bunker Hill found their
prototypes at Hastings and Swanscombe.
It is believed that New Ipswich, during its twelve years
of life as a pure democracy managed directly by its Proprie
tors, somewhat more than trebled its population, and that,
although the rate of increase in later years was less rapid,
before the opening of the Revolutionary contest the number
of inhabitants was nine hundred or more, which is about the
same as at the present time. Naturally the incoming move
ment of residents was largely from the regions whence had
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come the earlier settlers, and the story of the town's part in
the seven years of natal strife, presented in a later chapter,
certainly accords with the belief that Kentish blood had lost
naught of its power during its sojourn in Middlesex.
But the first work of the new proprietors was not warlike.
There were no indications that the locality had ever been
a favorite abode of the Indians, and the settlers made very
few preparations to meet an attack. Ephraim Adams, son
of Thomas Adams recently mentioned, had "flankers" about
his house, still standing near the crossing of the Turnpike by
"Saw Mill Brook" on 21, N. D., and perhaps the house of
Moses Tucker, on VI : 1, S. R., or his later dwelling on I :
2, S. R., gave him similar protection during his experience
as sole resident of the township in 1748. But no public
structure was ever thought needful for safety, nor did the
Proprietors see fit to repair the flankers around the Adams
house when for some reason their attention seems to have
been called to their weakened condition.
Evidently the first duty of the settlement, awakened to
fresh activity by its renewed title to its land and its enlarged
membership, was to complete an equitable division of the
township among the Proprietors. About one-half of its area,
the North Division and the South Ranges, had been divided
under the Massachusetts grant, and the divisions were re
tained, although, as stated in a previous chapter, the bounds
of the Masonian grant had sadly mutilated the North Divi
sion. Apparently a few additional lots had been also assigned,
but about one-half of the entire township remained to be
surveyed and drawn by the grantors and grantees not later
than August, 1751 ; this division was ultimately accomplished,
but it was by no means an easy duty, nor, although the rec
ords are nominally complete, are the methods and principles
of the division easy to follow. The first meeting of the new
Proprietors was held one year before the charter which con
stituted them Proprietors was granted, but it proceeded to
business, as is shown by a copy of the record.
At a meeting of the Proprietors of the Township of New Ipswich
lying in the Province of New hampshire in New England Appointed by
Joseph Blanchard, Esq'. Agent to the Claimers of the Patant under
John Tufton Mason, Esq', who are Grantors of said Township Heald
at the House of Cap'. Joseph French in Dunstable in said Province on
the 16 : of April A : D : 1749 : Colonel Joseph Blanchard chosen modera-
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First Proprietors' Meeting
tor for said meeting. John Stevens chosen Proprietors Clark Colo'
Blanchard chosen Treasurer, and it was Voted as Follows (viz) that
all the Lotts that was heare to fore laid out in said township and are
now Taken off by the other Townships (viz) by the Township Nomber
one and Nomber Two: shall be by a Committee to be chosen for that
Purpus Laid out in the Common land in said Township and Quallefied
by said Committee. Said Lotts that are to be laid out are to be laid
adjojming to the other lotts formerly laid in said town and as con-
veniant for settling as may be and that those persons formerly owning
s' Lotts Being Grantees to Have s* Lots which are new laid out in Lue
of the Lotts Taken off as a fore said
Also Voted that if any of said grantees have or had any lands in the
Township or any part there of formerly called Townsend and now falls
into the Township of New Ipswich shall have a whole wright or part
there of laid out in the same place to them said Commitee Quallifying
the same Eaqual to other shares.
Voted that the whole of said wrights in said Township to be but Sixty
three also Voted that the said Committee Do as soon as may be with
a Surveyer under oath Proceed and lay out to each of said Sixty three
Rights Two Seventy acre Lotts and that thay copple the same togather
makeing them as neare as may be of Equel valine, and that said lotts
Be Prepaired to be Drawn on the Last Tuesday of October next at this
Place at ten of the Clock in the morning. Voted that the Lotts Taken
off the Towns afore said be Laid out and Compleated fit for a Draught
by the Eight of May next.
Voted and Chose for a Com'"', to Lay out the Lotts Taken of as afore
said Major Jonathan Hubbard and John Stevens But wheare the said
Stevens hath lands to lay out then Benj*. Hoar to Help lay out s*
Stevens land.
Also John Stevens chosen Surveyer for said Service.
Voted that the Com"', and Surveyer afore said be Directed to lay out
to m'. Benj'. Hoar a Lott adjoyning Oliver Hoars lott Equel in 'Valine
to his former lott laid out in or near the same place.
Voted to chuse five men as a Com'", to lay out and Copple the Seventy
acre lotts afore said Chose for said Com'". M'.". Jsaac Appleton Jona
than Hubbard Ruben Kidder Benjamin Hoar of Littleton and John
Stevens.
Voted that said Com"*, shall have for there Service in laying out said
Lotts and Coppicing the Same while thay are in said Township about
said service thirty shillings per Day old tenour
voted to pay Colonol Blanchard for his Service and Expence in Pro-
cureing said Township and granting out the same Two Hundred and
Ten pounds old Ten'.
Voted to Rayse on Each of the forty Two Settleing Rights in said
Township fourteen pounds old Ten', to Defray the Charges of the Same
Voted to Chuse a Com*", to agree for a mill place if need be and also
to agree with Sum proper person to Build a Cornmill and Sawmill in
said Town in the most Conveniant place to accomidate the Proprietors.
Chose for said Com'"- Ruben Kidder Deak° Benj*. Hoar m. Isaac
Appleton and John Stevens.
A true Coppey Attest John Stevens Proprietors Cler
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Evidently the Proprietors present at that initial meeting
had definite plans in the charter issued a year later. But
in that charter appear other acts which are not recorded
until June 20, 1750, two months after the date of the charter.
At that later meeting, held at the house of Benjamin Hoar
in New Ipswich, Thomas Dennis, Francis Choate, Nathaniel
Smith, and William Peters were admitted as Proprietors, but
their names appeared upon the list given in the earlier char
ter. References are made to the lots held by the new mem
bers under the Massachusetts grant which are not in accord
ance with the old map showing that first assignment of lots.
Apparently action universally held desirable was not delayed
by close adherence to technical order. Apparently the divi
sion of the common land into seventy-acre lots, ordered at
the first meeting, was modified in accordance with that prin
ciple. Under the Massachusetts grant the township was six
miles square and land seemed to abound. Surveyors were
accustomed to make abundant allowance for "uneven ground
and swag of chain," and in that survey they seemed to have
made an allowance for the obliquity of the angles of the lots
nearly twice as large as was required. Moreover, much
space was left for roads between the lots, and finally the
Masonian township was only five-sixths as large as its pre
decessor, and the "common land" was not sufficient to allow
the later lots to contain seventy acres each, wherefore the
committee, in violation of their instructions, laid out lots
containing nominally only sixty-six acres, which action in
due time was formally accepted. Even after such recognition
of necessity the difficulty seems to have persisted, as is indi
cated by the official records and maps presenting lots upon
one side of a straight line as being considerably wider than
the lots extending between the same limits upon the other
side of the line. In most places the discrepancy may have
been merely the result of greater care in measurement and
an omission of such allowances as had place in the earlier
surveys, but in one section of the town, where the lots were
probably laid out latest, or where, as later records indicate.
the survey was not fully completed except upon the map,
apparently a more heroic treatment was believed to be de
manded, and the remaining land was forced to meet the de
mands. There seems to be no escape from the conclusion
that the narrow lots comprising the western two miles of the
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Assignment of Lots
"New Laid Out" must be considerably narrower than the
recorded dimensions. This belief is supported by a vote
passed in 1757, after ineffectual attempts at a preceding meet
ing, "to Run the line through the township thats not yet run
on the New Laid Out Land," for which action a committee
was chosen. No report of that committee is to be found, but
more than ten years later, in 1768, the matter again rises and
a second committee was chosen "to Examan the narrow Lotts
so called," and three years later a report from that committee
or one of later appointment simply stated the correct num
bers of the lots from 98 to 109, which were said to have
been previously uncertain on account of trees falsely marked
at lot corners. But the real difficulty, without doubt a re
sult of a too liberal distribution of the agrarian wealth be
lieved to be almost limitless, was apparently kept carefully
unacknowledged, like many an analogous transaction of later
years. The complete assignment of town lots, as shown in the
record of John Stevens, Proprietors' clerk, is presented in the
following table, with a few entirely obvious errors corrected,
and a few changes also inserted, as borne upon the record
of later action taken to remedy cases of injustice, most of
which were cases due to the unexpected difficulty in the
north line of the town before stated at considerable length.

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Grantors

Atkinson, Theodore .
Blanchard, Joseph .
Jaffrey, George . .
Livermore, Matthew
Meserve, Nathaniel
Moffat, John .
Odiorne, Jotham
Packer, Thomas
Parker, William
Peirce, Joshua
Peirce, Daniel
Moor, Mary
Rindge, John
Solly, Samuel )
March, Clement ^
Tomlinson, John )
Mason, John Tufton ^
Wallingford, Thomas
Wentworth, John .
Wentworth, Mark H.
Wibird, Richard . .

North
Division

43, 61

29 62
14
23

5813

59

38, 39

South Ranges

II: 4, IV: 4
VII: 1
V: 1
XIV: 2
V: 3
VII: 4, XIII: 4
Villi 3
XV: 3
IX: 3
XV: 4

IV: 3, VIII: 4
VIII: 1

New
Laid Out

107

24, 10,

172
102'

44 •7

11
6460

56, 109
28, XIII: 2

After
Division 84
155, 157
173
126, 128
93
80, 81
68, 95
82, 83
160, 161
89, 90
167, 169
176, 177
181, 182
163, 164
85, 86
87
67, 94
162, 165

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Assignment of Lots

Graktees

Adams, Thomas .
Appleton, Isaac .

Brown, John . .
Brown, William .
Bullard, Ebenezer
Bullard, Joseph .
Chandler, John .
Choate, John . .
Choate, Francis .
Choate, Robert .
Dennis, Thomas .
Dinsmore, Hannah
Emerson, Daniel .
Foster, Abijah .
French, Joseph .
Heald, Timothy .

Hoar, Benjamin . .
Hoar, Benjamin, Jr.
Hubbard, Jonathan .
Kidder, Joseph . .
Kidder, Reuben . .

Lovewell, Zaccheus

Marsh, John
Minister, — first
Ministerial . .
Nevins, David .
Patch, Isaac .
Peters, William
Powers, Peter .
Pudney, Henry
School . . .

17, 18, 21,
22,24,25, SO, 51
9, 41, 42,
63 64

31, 60
30

Smith, Nathaniel
Spaulding, Andrew
Stevens, John . .
Stevens, Joseph .
White, Archibald
Woolson, Jonas .

North
Division

X: 2, XIV: 4,
XVI: 1
III: 2, VI: 2,
VIII: 2, XI:
1, XVI : 2

VI: 4
II: 2, II: 3
I: 2
III: 1, IV: 1

27

56, 57
54

33

26, 36, 53
404748
46,55

37 3220

15

49

45

28, 34, 52
35, 44
19

South Ranges

VI: 3
1 : 4, X : 1
'VII: 2, IX: 4

I: 3
III : 4, X : 3

II : 1, V : 2, VI :
1 IX: 2
IX: 1
III: 3, XIII: 1.
XIV: 1, XIV:
3
XI: 2, XI: 3
XII: 3

XIII : 2
XVI: 4
XI: 4
V: 4

New
Laid Out

XH: 4, XIII: 3,
XVI: 3
XII: 1
X: 4, XH: 2,
XV: 1
VII: 3

IV: 2, XV: 2

69, 72

65
105, i08
66" 67'
'71'

16, 104

186

106

187

70
1, 12
7

After
Divisions

70, 156, 158,
166, 168,
178, 180
72, 116, 117,
119, 123,
138, 139,
170, 171,
183, 184,
Yi of 185
126, 144
129, 130
179
113, 114
97 73
125, 137
112, 133
152, 159
146, 147
65, 66, 142,
186
69, 135, 136,
65, 66, 74,
149, 150
88, 92
148, 151
76, n, 96,
131, 132,
y, of 185
115, 140,143,
145
Vi of 153
75

103

98, 99, 101

78, 79

71
122, 124
110, 111,134,
174 91, 154
H of 153
5, 127, 141

175
118, 121

History of New Ipswich
This history of the township, as shown in the records of
the meetings of its Proprietors, is full of interest to those
whose personal relations to the town give a vision which
recognizes the outcome of the everyday plans and acts of
their ancestors. They may not have been large men, but
they were earnest men, and although sometimes perchance
the Kentish tenacity of grasp upon that which they believed
to be their own may have had an unlovely aspect, yet in it
lay much of the honorable history then unwritten.
Largely isolated and thrown upon their own resources,
they felt themselves sufficient. They rarely sought the aid
of authority from without in the settlement of their dif
ferences; the threatened appeal to courts seems to have been
made rarely, if ever, in that time of pure democracy.
New Ipswich in those days had no rulers; its few officers
had no stipulated terms of service, but were removable at
pleasure with no delay beyond that of the few days' required
notice for a meeting of the Proprietors. There were really
only two officers, the clerk and the treasurer. In 1751 Jonas
Woolson, Ebenezer Bullard, and Joseph Kidder were made
a "Committee to Draw Orders on the Treasurer for any sum
or sums of money that shall be voted to any person or persons
by the proprietors for service done for them," which commit
tee was later mentioned as the committee to "take care of
the prudentials of the place," and in 1753 Reuben Kidder,
Ephraim Adams, and Benjamin Hoar succeeded to the same
duties under the latter title. But that step toward the crea
tion of a board of selectmen was not permanently approved,
and in October of the same year it was voted to "dismiss the
Prudential Committee formerly chosen." In 1754 Francis
Appleton was chosen a "Referee to peruse the accounts laid
before the Proprietors," and in later years this forerunner
of an auditor was occasionally appointed. Evidently orderly
conduct of a meeting of the Proprietors required a presiding
officer, and such meetings were quite frequent. But sixteen
different moderators presided over one or more of the thirty-
seven different meetings recorded during the twelve years
before the incorporation of the town, and of these no one was
chosen more than four times. Such public duties as could not
be completed in a full Proprietors' meeting were usually
placed in the hands of special committees whose work was
usually not considered complete until formally approved at
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Proprietors' Work Ended
In the years of laying foundations necessarily the recorded
action was largely in relation to three matters that might not
safely be deferred. The division of the town among the
grantors and the grantees came first, and the adjustments
demanded by the encroachments upon the lots by the new
boundaries of the township were very difficult to make when
the "common land" of the Proprietors was exhausted. The
question remained open till the incorporation of the town
and for ten years afterward, during which latter period the
records of Proprietors' meetings, held only at intervals of
about one year, were nearly occupied by that topic. Practi
cally, however, all that is of interest at the present time is
given in the preceding table.
The location and maintenance of highways formed a sec
ond matter for consideration almost equally imperative in its
demands, which has been presented in the first chapter of
this book; and the requirements of the charter in relation
to the building of a meeting-house and the settlement of a
minister, conditions without doubt in accord with the per
sonal views of by far the greater part of the proprietors,
formed a third subject for long discussion prior to efficient
action. This matter is presented later in connection with
other church matters.
On April 5, 1762, it was "Voted to apply to the General
Court to get the Place called New Ipswich incorporated,"
and also "Voted Capt. Reuben Kidder to go down to Court
to get the Incorporation effected and that the said Kidder
shall Proceed in the affair as he shall think best & that his
Necessary Charge shall be Paid by the Propriety." The act
of incorporation, as given on a previous page, was issued on
the ninth of September following, and the activities of the
Propriety ceased except as far as action was requisite in re
lation to the settlement of claims mentioned above and the
disposal of the meeting-house.
The successive Proprietors' clerks and dates of service
were: John Stevens, 1749-1752; Benjamin Adams, 1752-1755;
Timothy Heald, 1755-1761; Ichabod How, 1761-1768; Isaac
Appleton, 1768-1772.
The treasurers were: Joseph Blanchard, 1749-1751; Jo
seph Stevens, 1751-1755; Benjamin Hoar, 1755 — .
The last Proprietors' meeting found recorded met Decem
ber 17, 1772, but by successive adjournments continued until
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December 30, when it adjourned for a fortnight, and no
further record follows the name of Isaac Appleton, Proprie
tors' Clerk.
Perhaps the story of New Ipswich prior to its attainment
of a legal majority may best be closed in the words of the
former historian of the town, who wrote of the period :
We find the whole number of tax-payers to be ninety-five. They
were all in the prime of life, the oldest of them, Capt. Tucker, being
only fifty-eight years of age. Among them we find four widows, show
ing that the universal destroyer had already commenced his work here,
and ten or twelve had already become tenants of the old burying-
ground; besides which, tradition says there were five buried near the
head of Safford lane, previous to the opening of the old cemetery in
1753. Among these were a son and daughter of Ebenezer Bullard; a
son of Joseph Bullard; two sons and a daughter of Benjamin Adams;
the wife of Ephraim Adams; a daughter of Benjamin King; two sons
and a daughter of Benjamin Hoar; Samuel Perham, his wife and a son;
Abijah Foster, the first settler, and one of his sons had died in the army.

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New Hampshire \

3eALC, Onc MikCi
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CHAPTER IV
THE OLD SCHOOL-HOUSES
TO one whose childhood and youth was spent in a country
town of New England few memories are more distinct
than those of "the little red school-house," in or near which
were received so many impressions leaving indelible traces on
his character that such educational experience seems to him
almost an essential part of a complete life. The district
school, despite its undeniable serious defects, did a work that
could hardly have been done equally well in any other way,
a work of education for the citizens as well as for their chil
dren sometimes amusingly democratic in the development of
its details. It is proposed here to present its growth in New
Ipswich, as presented in the official records.
The former history prefaces the story with these words:
"The cause of learning has been well sustained, and has done
much for the reputation of the town; not so much, however,
in its earlier history, as could have been desired. In the grant
of the township it was provided that one right should be set
apart for the support of schools; and thus, with enlightened
foresight, the Proprietors did all that was incumbent upon
them, to furnish the means of education to the settlers. But
we have no intimation that any school was kept until after
the incorporation of the town, fourteen years after the actual
settlement. It is true there could have been very few who
were not either too young or too old to attend schools at
that early period, and those few must have been widely scat
tered. Doubtless they received private instruction at home
from their parents, who, we have abundant evidence, were
intelligent and well-educated people. In 1762, the year of all
others most memorable in the history of the town, it was
'voted that a school be kept in town three months this year,
and no more, as near the meeting-house as a house can be
provided.' "
This action was taken at the second meeting of the town,
held only about a month after the first meeting at which the
only business was the organization by election of officers un
der the charter of incorporation. The article in the warrant
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for the second meeting under which the action concerning
the school was taken read as follows: "To see if the Town
will vote the Number of months the school shall be Kept in
said Town and what part or parts of said Town it shall be
Kept in," which would seem to suggest that the school was
already established in some form.
The records give nothing further for two years, but Octo
ber 8, 1764, it was "Voted to hire three months Schooling
this fall and Winter Coming." The next year an advance
was made, and it was "Voted to have four months Schooling
this fall and Winter coming at several places at the Discres
sion of the Select men viz four and if any persons Refuse to
provide a place for Schooling after Sutable Notice from the
Select men that quarter shall be Destitute & the other parts
shall have the Benefit that do provide a sutable place."
The year 1766 was the period of governmental interregnum
between the expiration of the first town charter and the re
ception of the second, during which no records were written,
and it is uncertain whether the school was continued, and in
1767 the vote provides school for only three months, the divi
sion however evidently being maintained, as the selectmen
were to "order where the school shall be kept." In 1768 ac
tion was taken earlier and the idea of a permanent division
into school districts seems to be in evidence, as on March 14
it was "Voted to Divide the Town into Destricts for the
benefit of Schooling & Each Destrict to have their proportion
according to there pay. Voted to Choose a Committee to Di
vide the Destricts & proportion ye money Choosen for said
Committee Lieu*. Aaron Kidder. Lieu'. Nath. Stone Lieu'.
Joseph Bates Cap'. Moses Tucker m^ Samuel Whittemore
m'. James Chandler & Reuben Kidder Esq"^. Voted to Raise
twenty Pounds Lawful money for the Benafit of Schooling
this year."
A new element appears in 1769 when it was "Voted to
Raise Twenty Pounds Lawful Money for Schooling", but it
was added "Voted to Indemnifie the Select men from all
fines that they may be Exposed to by their not providing a
Grammer School Master." This somewhat peculiar action
was an attempt to avoid compliance with a law requiring
towns above a certain population to maintain a grammar
school where Latin might be taught, an additional expense
naturally objectionable to a large part of the citizens. The
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The Grammar School
same action was taken in 1770 and 1771, but in this latter year
a formal protest was entered for record by Ebenezer Champ
ney, Benjamin Hoar, John Dutton, Isaac Appleton, William
Shattuck, and Thomas Farnsworth, and on the following year
seventeen men signed a dissent against similar action as being
"Repugnant to the Law of the Land in such case made and
provided." Probably it was on account of this protest that at
a meeting a few months later it was "Voted that the Grammer
School shall move to the Several Distrects beginning at the
middle Distrect & so on, to the next highest Distrect accord
ing to their pay and in the same manner the several Distrects
in said Town, the East Distrect being the least is to have a
months schooling and the other Distrects as much longer as
their pay is more." This arrangement after a few years seems
to have been changed by an appropriation of £20 for a gram
mar master in the middle district, where grammar scholars
from all parts of the town might go, an arrangement which
seems to have soon been made unnecessary by the founding
of the Academy. The vote for this grammar school was re
freshingly frank, as the record says : "Voted to pay the mid
dle district £20 towards keeping a grammar school through
the year so as to keep the town from being presented and the
town have liberty to send to said school."
Although a committee was chosen to divide the town into
districts in 1768, no record of their action appears, and the
first assignment of money was recorded in January, 1770,
and apparently that was stated to be in obedience to a vote
passed only a week previously in accordance with which the
selectmen divided the school money voted the preceding
March. This action of the town was as follows :
Voted to Divide the Town into Distrects for the Benefit of Schooling
our Children.
Voted to abide in Distrects during the Towns pleasure.
Voted that the West part of the Town be a Distrect for a School
according to their Request (viz) to have their proportion of the money
Raised in Town for that use according to their pay with appropriating
the money wholly to the use of a School.
Voted that the Northeast part of the Town be a Distrect for a
School Beginning at Dea°. Ephraim Adams's to m'. Smith's m'. Francis
Appleton and to m'. Bakers to the Northeast part of the Town under
the same Scituation with the first Distrect.
Voted that the East Side of the River be a Distrect for a School
(Exclusive of Cap*. Hoar) to the East side of said Town under the
same Scituation with the first Distrect leaving it to the Selectmen
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wheather m'. Horsley's pasture be annext to them or Joyn to the South
Distrect. Voted that a Distrect be formed on the Country Road from Cap'.
Hoar's on to m'. Farnsworth with familys adjoyning said Road under
the same Scituation with the first Distrect.
Voted that the South East part of the Town be a Distrect from
Mr. Wilkins to Sam". Foster's to m'. Breed's and all to y' East under
the same Regulations with the first.
Voted that the South West part of the Town be a Distrect for a
School taking m. Zechariah Adams Tho. Spaulding & Joseph Parker
and so to the South west corner of the Town, and to the East to the
Famelys above mentioned Leving it to the Select men wheather they
shall not have some help of the Towns money to make them Equal with
other Distrects in proportion to their Children
Voted that each Distrect shall Choose a man to take the Names of
the men in Each Distrect an Cary the list of Names to the Select men.
Voted that the Select men give of to the men so choose by the
Distrects the proportionable part of money to Each Distrect That is
Voted by the Town for the use of the School.
The second of the votes given above concerning the new
departure seems to indicate a feeling of uncertainty in rela
tion to its wisdom and consequent permanence, although it
was expected to continue without further action as long as
it should prove satisfactory. But no provision for the needed
buildings was made at that time, and an article in the warrant
for the annual meeting two months later, "To see if the Town
Raise money to build School Houses in the Several Districts
in said Town according to their particular pay," was dis
missed without action. But at the next annual meeting the
schools received especial attention, as shown by the number
of votes relating to different included matters.
Voted to Raise forty Pounds lawful Money to be laid out in
Schooling. Voted to Employ an English School Master nine months this year.
Voted to Raise money to Build School-Houses in the Several Dis
trects in this Town.
Voted not to alter the Distrects.
Voted to Raise Twenty Pounds more for Schooling.
Voted to divide the money among the Several Squadrons according
to their pay.
Voted that Each Squadron draw their proportion of the money
Raised to Build the School-Houses according to their pay.
And after these was passed the vote which called out first
the protest of Mr. Champney and others.
But the action at this meeting was more liberal than the
general desire for schools would sustain, and at a meeting
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the following September it was "Voted that Twenty Pounds
that was Raised for Schooling be used for Defraying the
Town Charges."
The tax lists show that the sum raised for building school-
houses in accordance with the vote on that matter was £80,
a sum that it would seem could hardly have been sufficient
for even the simplest buildings, but no further action concern
ing the subject appears during a period of eighteen years,
at the end of which time, in 1789, it was "Voted to raise three
hundred pounds for the purpose of Building and repairing
School Houses in New Ipswich," but three months later the
action was modified by a vote that "the Selectmen shall not
assess the Town for the three hundred pounds voted to build
and repair School Houses till the last of Sep', next to give
those who are delinquents opportunity to pay their propor
tion. And in case each district do not make it known to
the Selectmen that s* delinquents have paid their proportion
s'* Selectmen are to proceed to make s'* assessment." The
exact purport of this vote is rather obscure, but it had delayed
the assessment, and for some reason no subsequent assess
ment of that money is to be found.
At the annual meeting in 1800 it was "Voted to raise £630
to build school houses," but here again the sum is not in
cluded in the recorded assessments of the year. It seems
probable that it was determined to leave the decision in re
spect to building to the districts separately, as it had already
been voted that the expenditure of the assessed money should
be left. The records of the "Southwest District" show that
this district had just completed a new school-house.
The districts formed in 1770 with so much hesitation and
uncertainty, with no expressed sanction of law, and with
exceedingly indefinite powers, were a necessity of the condi
tions of the time, and a part of the great movement in all
parts of the state by which the district school system came
into existence, to be recognized by the state and given defined
duties and methods of performing them only after a consider
able period of years.
The six first districts, from which eight others were in
due time developed, were destined to more than a century
of vigorous life; and if it prove true that present conditions,
which have made a diminution of their number necessary,
also demand a complete reversion to the earlier methods, it is
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evident that the greatest care is needed to retain for the
scholars in the larger and far better equipped schools the
sturdy self-reliant tone which has been characteristic of the
New Hampshire country boys.
The boundaries of the six original districts were not very
closely defined in the creative vote, and it seems probable that
at first each citizen was allowed to choose with which dis
trict he would connect himself, and in many cases when ad
joining districts had their schools at somewhat differing times,
the children not too far from the dividing line attended in
both districts. In fact, this arrangement was sometimes made
in order to allow such mutual helpfulness, with a resultant
increase of the scholars attending each school such that a
well-known New Ipswich teacher of eighty years or more
ago, who bore the names of two early settlers in the town
from whom he was descended, Reuben Kidder Gould, said
that he had taught in every district of his time, and he had
hardly ever had less than forty scholars in any school, the
number often rising to fifty or sixty.
An examination of scattered records giving the names of
certain residents of some school district leads to a somewhat
more definite location of the district bounds than can be de
termined by the initial record alone.
Apparently the "West District" did not greatly vary from
the district which in the days of the greatest number of dis
tricts was termed the "North District," or officially was No.
7, except by including the later No. 8, which was not yet
sufficiently settled to receive separate consideration. The
"North East District" seems to have been very nearly identi
cal with the later "Wilson District," or No. 2. The East
District was the later No. 3, or the "Wheeler Tavern Dis
trict," with the houses on the road past the site of the
present Country Club house afterward included in District
No. 11. The "Middle District" was No. 1, with an extension
to meet the "East District" a little east of the bridge at
Bank Village. The "South East District" included No. 4,
(the "Gibson District,") and all of No. 5, (Smithville,) except
the part on Page Hill. The "South West District" included
the remaining part of No. 5, the whole of No. 6, (the "Tenney
District,") and the few families beyond Binney Hill in the
later No. 9.
The first addition to the original six was the "North West
District," which in some unexplained manner received £2
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10s. 6d. of the £30 raised in 1770 for use in 1771, but then
disappeared for six years, at the end of which it again ap
peared and remained as No. 9. In 1782 the Smithville Dis
trict was formed by a vote that "there be another School
District near Thomas Spalding's." The residence of Mr.
Spalding was the first on the road running westerly from
Smithville by the house long owned by Timothy Fox and his
descendants. The district was known as the "New District"
until 1795, when its recorded name becomes the "Mill Dis
trict." In 1786 it was "Voted to set off James Preston, Thad
deus Taylor, Peter Baker, and Asa Brown in a school dis
trict," and the "Little South West District" afterwards be
coming the "Southwest corner District" was formed, later
being No. 9, and forming a Union district by uniting with
the adjacent district of Rindge. District No. 10, known some
times as the "Carr District" and sometimes as the "District
over the mountain," was formed in 1820 by a committee
authorized by vote of the town to make needed changes of
that character. The erection of the cotton factory, and the
subsequent development of the mills early in the nineteenth
century, necessarily was accompanied with a considerable in
crease of inhabitants in that portion of the town and a result
ing call for a new district. This reasonable request was
ignored or refused for several years, but in 1824 District
No. 11 was formed on recommendation of a competent com
mittee of investigc^tion, and this constantly increasing district
was divided in 1840 by the formation of District No. 12,
about the High Bridge. After a somewhat continued struggle
District No. 1 was divided in 1842, District No. 13, containing
the part of the district about the Congregational church and
along the street from the church to the foot of Meeting House
Hill, being cut off from the southern portion, and District
No. 14, lying about Kidder Mountain and the Saw Mill Brook,
from the northern portion. This last district, however, was
situated upon two roads meeting but a short distance from
the school-house of No. 1, and after three years of vain at
tempt to agree upon a site for a school-house, in 1845 it was
returned to its former relations.
There is considerable uncertainty in respect to the loca
tions of the early school-houses. The former history says
that at the time of its publication there were no traditions
of any such buildings of an earlier date than 1771, when £80
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were voted for their erection, the schools prior to that date
having been kept in private houses, the earliest in the resi
dence of Reuben Kidder, which was probably the most com
modious dwelling of that day. Tradition gives the name of
William Shattuck as its teacher.
Evidently the normal position for the building of the "Mid
dle District" was designated in the first vote for a school nine
years earlier, "as near the meeting-house as a house can be
provided," and the former history locates it a short distance
to the northwest of that early temple, and says that it later
became a carpenter's shop. Probably that building met all
the needs of the district until the erection of the house which
the same authority places "in the orchard opposite the north
east corner of the old burying-ground," adding that "after
the road to the turnpike was built, it was removed down the
hill, and placed at the corner of Mr. Hill's garden." This
road to the turnpike was built in 1802, and the new location
of the school-house after its removal soon after that date
seems to have been the corner diagonally opposite to the
present Baptist church, and only a few rods south of the brick
building which succeeded it in 1829, and was converted into
a blacksmith shop after the erection in 1857 of the present
house upon the hill.
No records or traditions disclose with certainty the posi
tions of the early school-houses in Districts Nos. 2 and 3;
but the situation of the present and past highways in those
districts makes the conclusion almost unavoidable that the
only positions for the general convenience of the district
must have been very near those of the buildings in use during
recent years; a conclusion also in harmony with some inci
dental references to those school-houses in early records re
lating to the roads.
The school-house in District No. 4 was preceded by one
about half a mile south of the "Gibson Four Corners" on the
road to Ashburnham, but no more definite information con
cerning its location can be secured.
A school-house which was probably the first in District
No. 5, although it was possibly preceded by one at some point
more in accordance with the vote creating the district "near
Thomas Spaulding's," stood very near the millpond on the
south side of the bridge, practically on the spot now occu
pied by the store and Smithville postoffice, and served the
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district until 1838, when the present house was erected at a
cost slightly exceeding $400. According to tradition, this
structure, which for a time was considered the model school-
house of the town, had birth in the motion of a citizen of the
district that "we build a white house with green blinds and a
pretty one," which was duly adopted by the district.
The original school-house in District No. 6 stood a few
rods west of the house long occupied by different members
of the Chandler family, situated about a quarter-mile west of
the South burying-yard. This was succeeded, probably in the
last years of the eighteenth century, by a building half a mile
farther west near the point where the long-disused road to
Ashburnham over Nutting Hill in that town branches from
the Rindge road which passes over Binney Hill. The third
house, built in 1838 on the spot occupied by the second at a
cost slightly less than $200, became a dwelling after the clos
ing of the school in that district, and was destroyed by fire
a few years ago.
It is not certain where the first school was held in the
district afterward No. 7. It is reported to have been in the
first house of "Davis Village" on the left hand of one ap
proaching from the "Hodgkins Four Corners," now the resi
dence of William E. Davis, but whether a part of that building
was built for that purpose, or it was a case of continuance of
the previous conditions when all the schools were kept in
dwelling-houses, tradition is silent.
An early school-house whose foundations are perhaps even
yet visible was located on a road now discontinued, but for
merly extending westward from the termination of the road
branching northward from the turnpike about a quarter-mile
east of the site of the old "Peppermint Tavern," and crossing
Flat Mountain nearly half a mile north of the turnpike, and
rejoining that road a few rods west of the house of Aaron
Brown and his son Hermon, the school being situated
where the two roads were so near together that the late Rev.
John S. Brown related his recollection of plainly hearing from
his home the blows of the rod applied by a sturdy school-
ma'am to the back of a delinquent lad, whose cries of pain
and promises of amendment added to the awe of the little
fellow, as yet too young to go where such methods of instruc
tion were still in full vigor. Probably it was after the sepa
ration of the region beyond the summit, and the formation
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of District No. 8, that the No. 7 school-house, now in existence
but used as a henhouse, was built near the house long occu
pied by George W. Wheeler, and at present by his son
George S. * * * *
(At this break in the manuscript Prof. Chandler evidently intended
to insert descriptions of other school-houses, but as it is now difficult
to learn those facts and the location of each is plainly marked on the
map of the town, and as most of the structures were plain and unpre
tentious, a description of each one is omitted. — S. F. L.)

In 1896 the town voted "To have the Selectmen sell No.
6 and 7 school-houses and convert the No. 13 school-house
into a storehouse for road machines and other tools."
In 1899 the town voted "to give No. 8 school-house to the
inhabitants of Wilder Village, so-called, if they would move
it, provided the town could use it for school purposes if they
would." A review of the appropriations made by tKe town for the
maintenance of its schools, despite the proverbial lack of gen
eral interest in a presentation of columns of figures, is found
to speak more clearly than other methods concerning the
town's fidelity to the interests of the successive rising gene
rations. It exhibits a steady rise in amount, or at least a
rise broken only by occasional brief displays of economy,
sometimes evidently demanded by existing conditions, as in
1775, when the necessities of preparation for the coming strug
gle with England caused the town to take for such purposes
three-fourths of the highway appropriation and one-half of
that previously granted for schools, or as during a portion of
the Civil War, when the school money was diminished twenty
per cent. Omitting such cases and an occasional increase
for one or two years, probably equally explainable if the facts
were now known, the appropriations have increased as fol
lows: The £20 of 1768 and the £40 of 1771 before mentioned
were increased to £50 in 1773 and £60 in 1775, this last being
reduced to £30 a few weeks later, as has been said. The
nominal appropriations through the earlier years of the Revo
lution greatly increased despite the demands for military ex
penses, on account of the depreciation of the lawful currency,
the grant for schools in 1780 being £5000. But since the
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price allowed for work on the highways in payment of taxes
was $40 per day, the aspect of those figures is changed. In
1781 there was a reversion to silver money and the school
appropriation was £60. The schools of 1783 had £70, of
1784 £100, of 1787 £120, which dropped through the £110
of 1788 to £100 in 1789 and the succeeding six years; it rose
to £125 in 1796 and £150 in 1797, at which grade, changing
to its equivalent $500 in 1801, it remained during eight years.
Although in 1806 and the succeeding two years it temporarily
rose to $700, that permanent elevation was not attained until
1825. The year 1833 gave $800, which rose through inter
mediate allowances of $840 and $850 to $900 in 1841, and $1000
in 1845. After rising and falling, in six years apparently $1500 was
adopted as a minimum appropriation in 1851 ; the grant has
not fallen below that sum since that date save in the three
years of the Civil War before mentioned. The prosperous
years of 1868 and 1869 saw a rise to $1800 and $2000 grants,
the last-named remaining permanent for seventeen years with
the exception of two years at $1900, and one at $2500. The
year 1886, however, gave only $1500, 1887 $1800, 1888 $2000.
Since that time the appropriation has varied about equally
between $1500 and $1800; until 1907 again set the figures at
$2000, and 1908 broke the record by voting for $2250.
A comparison of these later sums with the earlier one
raises a mental query concerning the way in which those
smaller sums met the supposed needs of the schools, and an
examination of some of the old district records may go far to
solve the problem. The report of the "Trustee" of the
"South West District" reported the expenses of the year
1798. There had been but a single term of school, which was
kept by a "master" at three dollars per week, and with a
term nine weeks in length instruction for the year required
$27, besides payment for the master's board, which called for
$9.97 more. The twelve cords of wood consumed during those
nine weeks in the huge fireplace occupying one corner of the
school-room was probably cut enough by the boys of the
school to allow it to be placed upon the fire, but nevertheless
$9.69 more of the school money was used before the fuel
reached the school-house. Repairs to the building cost $4.84
more, and the entire expenditure was $51.50. In later years
there were nearly always two terms even in the smaller dis-
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tricts, but the summer school usually called for only $2 per
week, equally divided between the "mistress" and the one
who at the school meeting had "bid off" her board. As the
term in the smaller district was usually only seven or eight
weeks in length, there would be nearly or quite the sum of
$40 remaining for the winter term, which with wood at little
over one dollar per cord, and teacher's board requiring from
seven to nine shillings, that is from $1.16% to $1.50 per week,
would pay a young man, often only sixteen or eighteen years
old, or a more experienced woman for perhaps ten weeks'
service. Even as late as 1850 the necessary expenses were still
so moderate that the records of the Smithville District, which
at that time had sixty names on its school roll in the winter
and three-fourths as many in the summer, and employed a
"master" and "mistress" of long and successful experience,
show the possibility of providing for six or seven months'
schooling with the one hundred and fifty dollars which was
the amount usually received from the town.
From the days when the schools were entirely under the
control of the selectmen, subject only to the vote of the town,
as fully as were all other town interests, to the conditions of
the twentieth century, is a long course passing in its progress
through a period analogous in some respects to the times of
"States' Rights" agitation. The school districts of 1770 could
hardly be called civic entities in any sense whatever. They
were simply geographical divisions of the town made for the
convenience of the scholars, but entirely under the control
of the central magnates, the selectmen. Although the vote
of that year directed the choice of a man by each district to
receive the money assigned for its use, it is evident that for a
time this was not done, and the mone}'- was placed in the
hands of some one chosen by the selectmen as their agent
for expending the money, or as a "trustee," this name con
tinuing after he was chosen by the district, as is shown in
the old district records made after the districts had assumed
civic personality. But the time of this assumption is uncer
tain. The term "prudential committee" first appears in the
town records in 1828, when it is voted that they be chosen
by the districts, and District No. 1 employed that term in
the following October; but the new phrase, probably origi
nated by the Legislature in making formal recognition of
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the district system, did not reach District No. 6 until six years
later. With the district's step into full life came a marked
dislike of any outside supervision, manifested in occasional
attempts to disregard all town authority. This "district
rights" feeling was shown by the insertion of articles in the
town warrant like the following considered about 1840: "To
see if the town will dispense with any part of the work of
the Superintending School Committee, so far as relates to
examination or inspection," which suggests entire ignorance
of any state control of school activities. Probably this diffi
culty was recognized later, for in 1854 the following action
of the town was recorded: "Voted to accept the following
resolution, Whereas the laws relative to the Superintending
School Committee are unjust in their inception, and arbitrary
in their enactment, inasmuch as they deprive the people of
their right of controlling their own schools, therefore. Re
solved that the Representatives of this Town be requested
to use their influence to procure such an amendment of School
laws as shall restore the District their rights which have been
unjustly taken from them." The records give nothing further
concerning this action which seems so inexplicable in these
days of the centralization of power; but some of the older
citizens of the town remember that only a few weeks before
this action there had been very serious trouble in one of the
larger districts of the town, where a considerable majority
of its citizens had become dissatisfied with the teacher of
their school, and had applied for his dismissal by the superin
tending committee. In reply to the petition an investigation
was held before this committee at which both the petitioners
and the teacher were represented by legal counsel, and during
two or three days witnesses were examined under oath. After
due consideration the committee declined to assent to the
request, and the petitioners established a private school for
their children, who constituted about three-fifths of the school.
As the committee at that time consisted of the pastors of
three of the four churches of the town, who were known to
have differed in their views of the question, and as the divi
sion in the district unfortunately was along church lines, the
dissension ran through the town and probably gave the votes
required for the passage of the resolution. The representa
tives elected at the meeting which passed this resolution
were Hosea Eaton and Jonathan Hall, the latter being the
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Methodist pastor and a member of the school comimittee
which had considered the petition. The records of the Legis
lature show that he presented a bill concerning the duties
and privileges of superintending school committees, which
was referred to the Judiciary committee, and soon after upon
the recommendation of that committee indefinitely postponed.
The superintending school committee seems to have been
evolved quite slowly from the earlier condition of rule by the
selectmen. The term first appears in the town records at
about the same time with prudential committee, in some men
tion of its reports, but the names of the men composing this
committee do not seem to be recorded until 1833. But its
forerunner is in evidence thirty years earlier, as in 1803 it
was "Voted to appoint a committee to inspect the several
schools in town," and they "chose the Rev*. M''. Farrar,
B. Champney Esq. Supply Wilson, Seth Wheeler, Josiah
Davis, Jun''. Dea". James Chandler, Thaddeus Taylor, Lieut.
Noah Bartlett, Maj"^. Benj. Williams and Isaac Appleton
Jun''.," evidently one from each of the nine districts then
existing with the addition of the pastor by virtue of his office,
although no mention is made of that condition of selection
for several years. But the committee was appointed every
year, being varied by the addition of sundry members ex
officio, such as the preceptor of the Academy, the Baptist
pastor, and the selectmen. The year 1808, however, seems
to have had a faint vision of a future improvement, as the
committee for that year was smaller and evidently selected
on account of their fitness instead of for geographic reasons.
The members were: — "The Selectmen, Rev* Stephen Farrar,
the Hon. Tim°. Farrar Esq. the Preceptor of the Academy,
Benjamin Champney Esq. & Nath'. D. Gould." It was also
"Voted that said committee inspect the several schools on the
first & last week of keeping, also call upon the Master for
his credentials."
This last vote suggests an inquiry concerning the nature
of the "credentials" required in those days antedating all
superintending committees, normal schools, or other official
examiners provided to stand sponsor for satisfactory scholas
tic ability. A few aged persons still recall the days when the
certificate of any liberally educated person, as the members of
the "learned professions" were supposed to be, was deemed
sufficient. The last member of the specially qualified com-
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mittee, elected a century ago, furnishes an apt illustration.
At the meeting of the Academy alumni held in 1861, Nathaniel
D. Gould, probably the oldest of the large number present who
were former students, was elected to preside over the fes
tivities, and on taking his seat began his extemporaneous in
augural by saying, "I claim to be one of the Alumni. Sixty-
four years ago, I spent two weeks within the walls of the
building first erected by the founders of the Academy." He
did not at that time state publicly what motives prompted
that brief academic career, but it was soon divulged that at
least that period of attendance was necessary to obtain the
preceptor's certificate of his fitness to fill a teacher's desk in
some neighboring district school-house.
The ponderous committee of from nine to twice nine mem
bers was chosen annually under names varying a little from
year to year but with the same power, or lack of power, as
at first, until 1827, but is not recorded in 1828, in which year
two new terms appear, probably as a result of state action in
formal recognition and authoritative regulation of the dis
trict schools previously evolved. New Ipswich "Voted that
the Prudential Committees be chosen by the respective school
Districts," and at the same time the superintending committee
begins to be in evidence by the acceptance of its annual re
ports and the occasional appointment in some years of one
citizen from each district "to visit schools in conjunction
with School Committee." The new office did not acquire
sufficient importance in public estimation to have its choice
or appointment recorded among that of other town officers
until 1838, and therefore the first incumbents are now un
known; but there seems to be little doubt that it was practi
cally composed of the pastors of the several churches of the
town, when their number was sufficient to form it, since such
was the case for some years after the record of its membership
begins, and it is recalled by some who were scholars in those
years that in common speech there was no mention of visits
from "the committee," but that there were periods when it
was expected that "the ministers" would come in.

(From 1848 to 1854 the committee consisted of three men ;
from 1854 to 1885, of one man, usually elected by ballot,
otherwise appointed by the selectmen. Beginning with 1886
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the committee has been composed of three members as in
earlier years, and since 1890 one of the board has been a
woman, an innovation which has proved of benefit to both
scholars and teachers.
In 1835 there were four hundred children in our schools.
Now in 1913 there are one hundred and thirty names on the
records. As the population decreased the number of schools less
ened, and from the thirteen schools in 1883 the number has
diminished to four in 1913. Following the change now nearly
universal, our schools, ere many years, will be thoroughly
graded, and necessarily consolidated. Thus, with the further
advantages of the training at our Academy now open to every
child in town, we may feel that the educational outlook for
future generations is well up to the standard set in the earliest
years. — 5*. F. L.)

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CHAPTER V
THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD
AT the time of the publication of the former history of New
-^^ Ipswich there were still a few Revolutionary soldiers
surviving, and a very large number who had heard the story
of that strife from the lips of those who participated in it.
There still remained a spirit in the tale which must needs
have weakened and become faint, as the events of those criti
cal years have been obscured by later contests until they
seem almost to have their place amid the tales of ancient his
tory. But on the other hand the last half-century has seen
the scattered records of Revolutionary events collected and
published, giving a story which may indeed be somewhat
more prosaic than oft-repeated olden tales, but presents
greater assurance of certainty.
There are many problems still unsolved. Not only were
there parties of New Ipswich patriots who devoted their
energies for a longer or shorter period to the contest for free
dom, of whose names no list is known to exist and of whose
activities while away from their homes we have no record
save the uncertain one of tradition, but it is often uncertain
to whom carefully preserved official records refer. The prac
tice, common at that time and unfortunately not yet by any
means extinct, of giving a son the name of his father without
any change, an abundant source of error in all historical work,
combined with the frequent omission of the affixed "jr." in
the case of records made at a distance from the home of the
father, causes frequent uncertainties, several of which it has
not been found possible to remove from the following reg
ister of the Revolutionary work of New Ipswich. A second
fact is productive of still greater uncertainties. In the early
days of this country middle names among the common people
were almost unknown, and as a result the number of persons
bearing identical names was very large. The concurrence of
a name in each of several neighboring towns was not at all
infrequent, and as the members of a company formed for
military service were rarely from a single town, a familiar
New Ipswich name upon a company roll is by no means
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conclusive evidence of New Ipswich service in that company.
While careful search has been made for determining evidence
in such cases, it is most probable that some questions have
been incorrectly judged, with an admission to the roll or
exclusion from it as a result.
New Hampshire has done especially valuable work in this
prolonged and oft perplexing labor of search, comparison, and
publication; and a few lines from the pen of Isaac W. Ham
mond, the editor and compiler of the Revolutionary Rolls
and other documents of that period, and a man guided by
a true antiquarian spirit, may perhaps fitly introduce the rec
ords of the men of New Ipswich, beginning with the firing
at the North Bridge of "the shot heard round the world."
Of that time he writes:
Companies were formed and drilled, and when, on the nineteenth
day of April, 1775, the crisis came, the men of New Hampshire dropped
their implements of industry, seized whatever they could of implements
of warfare, and by companies, by tens, by fives, and by twos hurried
to the front. The same spirit pervaded the women, many of whom
spent the nights of the nineteenth and twentieth in making clothes, bak
ing bread, and moulding bullets for their husbands and sons, bidding
them good-bye at daylight, with a God-speed upon their tremulous lips;
and while the men went forth to repel the invading army, the women
tilled the soil, spun the yarn, and wove the cloth that clothed the family.
The number of men who went from this state to Cambridge at that
time is unknown; many were not organized in companies, some returned
after being absent from one to two weeks, and many enlisted for eight
months, forming the nucleus for the regiments of Stark and Reed, which
did admirable service at Bunker Hill.
Very few rolls of those earliest companies have been found.
Probably in very many cases no rolls were ever written, but
the men gathered and united under those among them selected
at the time, because they were of those "born to command."
But the "Roll of the men who marched from New Ipswich
before daylight on the morning of April 20, 1775," attested
by their captain, is preserved among the state archives. It
contains ninety-eight names, including that of their pastor,
whose time of service, recorded with those of his parishioners
and fellow-soldiers, is more than twice as long as that of any
one of them, except those who before returning home enlisted
in other companies.
The list of names is given below; and it is believed that
each name borne upon it is that of a resident in the town.
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The First Uprising
The spontaneous, indignant uprising, the almost instantaneous
departure to protect or avenge their brother patriots, waited
not to seek more distant organizations; then was the time
when the town moved as a unit.

Days

Days

Thomas Heald Capt.

13

Hezekiah Corey Ensign

6

?Ezra Town Lieut.

William Start Clerk

13

Joseph Parker

13

Isaac How Seg't

13

Saml. Whittemore

3

Tim° Farrar

5

Simeon Hildrith

7

Jno. Wilkins

5

Eben' Brown

2

Dan' Mansfield

5

Jonas Wilson Jr

7

Peter Fletcher

5

Simeon Gould

4

Jno. Sartell

8

Jona. Davis

4

Abel Miles

13

Francis Fletcher

10

Wm Speer

6

Joseph Pollard

13

?Elijah Davis

13

Nath' Pratt

9

David Sanders

8

Edm* Bryant

5

Joseph Warren

5

William Hodgkins

5

Moses Tucker

2

James Chandler

5

Thomas Fletcher

5

Jon. Brookes Serj

13

Dan' Clary

6

Jno. Cutter

11

Isaac Farwell

5

Nath' Swain

9

Tim" Farwell

5

Tim" Wheelock

4

Nath' Melvin

8

Joel Wheelock

8

Jno. Walker

5

Nath' Reed

5

Wm Kendall

8

Jesse Carlton

13

Danl. Stratton

5

Jno. Brown Jr.

7

James Tidder

13

Joseph Wright

7

?Nath' Carlton

13

*Samuel Soper

13

Allen Breed

13

Stephen Davis

5

Jona. Wheet

7

Robert Campbell

3

Whitcomb Powers

13

Thos Brown

13

Joseph Bates

5

Jonas Wheeler

7

Chas. Barrett

1

*Josiah Walton

13

Isaac Appleton

5

Leonard Parker

7

Reuben Kidder

5

Joseph Tinney

5

Jere" Underwood

7

Wm Faris

7

Benj. Pollard

13

Ephraim Foster

8

Abr"" Abbott

13

Daniel Foster

13

Josiah Rodgers

5

Samuel Foster

8

Saml Haywood

5

*Timo. Stearns

13

Thos Farnsworth

8

Benj a Gibbs

8

Stephen Parker

5

?Supply Wilson

13

Nath' Stone

5

Saml. Kinney

13

Timo. Fox

4

Jno. Melvin

5

Nath' Farr

13

?David Melvin

13

Saml. Bartlett

3

Josiah Davis

S

James Barr

3

Benj a Hoar

7

Amos Boynton

7

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Days

Days

Aaron Chamberlain

9

Elear Cummings

5

Rev. Stephen Farrar

30

Isaac Clark

5

Elijah Flagg

6

Wm Shattuck

3

?Josiah Brown Sgt.

13

Eph" Adams Jr

7

?Benj. Williams

13

Robert Harkness

7

Attest Tho" Heald
?Those marked with an asterisk enlisted in Capt. Archelaus Towne's
company for eight months.
It may be seen that ten of the names in this initial list
are marked as of those who had enlisted in the company of
Capt. Archelaus Towne, who was a resident in Amherst. But
none of their names appear on the roll of his company, the
organization of which did not commence until April 28, and
then proceeded somewhat more slowly than was perhaps
thought proper by these members of Capt. Heald's command.
At all events, on April 23 one of their number, Ezra Towne,
by request of the (Committee of Safety, commenced the or
ganization of a company and had thirty names upon his roll
on that day, which number rapidly increased to sixty-five,
and this roll included the remaining nine names starred upon
the roll of Capt. Heald, Josiah Brown being first lieutenant,
Benjamin Williams first sergeant, and Supply Wilson first
corporal. This was the fourth company in Col. James Reed's
regiment, and its term of service is recorded as terminating
on August 1. But the former history of the town states,
probably on reliable authority, that "they continued to form
part of the army employed in the Siege of Boston" until the
departure of the British fleet.
This company had a notable part in the battle of Bunker
Hill, belonging as it did to the regiment of Col. James Reed,
which was a part of the little force "at the rail fence and on
the bank of the Mystic" of which the historian Drake says,
"The weight of the first and second attacks was borne by
the defenders of the rail fence, where Gen. Howe in person
attacked, with the very flower of his army, supported by artil
lery." And it is said in the account of the battle made by
the Massachusetts Committee on Safety, that "The retreat of
this little handful of brave men (under Col. Prescott) would
have been effectually cut off had it not happened that the
flanking party of the enemy, which was to have come up on
the back of the redoubt, was checked by a party of provin
cials, (Stark's, Reed's, and Knowlton's men,) who fought with
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the utmost bravery and kept them from advancing farther
than the beach."
An examination of the roll of Capt. Ezra Towne's com
pany, as given below, shows thirty-five members enrolled from
New Ipswich, eighteen from Temple, four from Washington,
three from Peterborough, two from Mason, two from Nelson,
while one remains with his home unmarked, but other evi
dence shows that he was a fourth from Peterborough. Ben
jamin King is recorded from Mason, but he had probably
but just removed from town and in July is found in the roll
of a Massachusetts regiment credited to New Ipswich.
As shown by the note at the close of the roll its original
is to be found in the Massachusetts archives ; and it has been
copied for insertion here rather than the one in the New
Hampshire archives on account of the interesting facts con
cerning residence not given on the New Hampshire roll. The
two lists of names differ sufficiently to show that neither is
a copy of the other, and yet they are practically the same,
the differences, with the exception of "Arthur Kirkwood" in
one being "Archer Churchwood" in the other, being such
errors as might result from misunderstanding of a name un
familiar to the recording officer. There is, however, one
rather more important difference in respect to the date of
the death of David Scott, which according to the New Hamp
shire record should be "kill'd June 17," while the Massa
chusetts one gives June 16 as the day of his death. The color
of the ink in this record suggests a comparatively recent date
for that inscription, and the greater probability of death on
the day of the battle has caused a change to be made to the
New Hampshire date in the roll here given.
The loss sustained by the New Ipswich company in this
so sharply contested struggle is not recorded, and tradition
after this length of time cannot be very reliable. But it seems
to have been much smaller than would have been expected
in such conditions. Apparently there was no other death
beside that above mentioned, and the names of but few
wounded men are known. Josiah Walton was not expected
to recover from a severe wound in his shoulder and neck,
but his recovery proved sufficient to return him to his place
in the ranks before the discharge of the company from ser
vice. Asa Adams was also seriously injured, but the former
history gives no more names, and other sources fail to make
more definite the statement that "several were wounded."
77

MUSTER ROLL OF THE NEW IPSWICH COMPANY.
Led by Capt. Ezra Towne in the 3d regiment of foot, commanded by James Reed, belonging to the Army of the
United Colonies of North America. This company was at Bunker Hill June 17, 1775.

Namb xnd Rank

Ezra Towne, Capt. . . .
Josiah Brown, 1st Lieut. .
John Harkness, 2d Lieut. .
Benj. Williams, Sergt. . .
Peletiah Whittemore, Sergt.
Elisha Hubbard; Sergt. .
Samuel Breeding, Sergt.
Supply Wilson, Corp.
Elijah Morse, Corp. .
Stephen Adams, Corp
Levi Adams, Corp. .
Jesse Carlton, Drummer
Wilder Kidder, Fifer
Jonathan Stevens .
Benjamin King .
Nathaniel Carlton
Nathan Weston .
Arthur Kirkwood
Josiah Walton . .
Josiah Stone . .
Timothy Stearns .
Jeremiah Andrews
Ezra Fuller . . .
Ephraim Stevens .
Elijah Davis . .
Abraham Dinsmore
David Marshall .
Archer White . .
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History of New Ipswich
The roll of Capt. Jonathan Whitcomb's company, also in
the regiment of Col. Reed, bears the names of Moses Tucker,
Abel Estabrooks, and Sergt. Amos Boynton, and the roll of
Capt. Benj. Mann's company in the same regiment the names
of Nathaniel Farr, Simeon Hildreth, and John Thomas.
The next military activity of New Ipswich, manifested very
soon after the battle of Bunker Hill, is recorded in the former
history in the following words : "It was supposed that the
British would march out to attack our lines at Cambridge,
and a company of about thirty left town immediately, and
soon reached the army; but after a short stay, finding their
services could be dispensed with, they returned home." No
further record of this expedition has been found. Very prob
ably the company did not really enter the service, and their
names were never recorded.
No further service is known to have been offered from
the town for several months; but near the close of the year
a very urgent call was made, to which a response was given
with no less promptness and ardor than had characterized
the previous action of the town. The urgency of the need is
presented by the following extract from a letter of Gen. John
Sullivan, in command at Winter Hill near Boston, to the New
Hampshire Committee of Safety, bearing date NoVember 30,
1775. "I have by command of General Washington to inform
you. That the Connecticut forces (Deaf to the entreaties of
their own as well as all other officers & regardless of the con
tempt with which their own Government threatens to treat
them on their return) have absolutely refused to tarry till
the first day of January, but will quit the lines on the 6th of
Decemb'' They have deceived us & their officers by pretend
ing there would be no difficulty with them till they have got
so near the close of their term ; and now to their Eternal In
famy demand a bounty to induce them to tarry only the three
weeks. This is such an Insult to every American that we
determined to release them' at the expiration of their term
at all hazards & find ourselves obliged immediately to supply
their places with Troops from New Hampshire & Massachu
setts Bay." The call upon New Hampshire was for thirty-
one companies, a little less than two thousand men, to serve
until the fifteenth of January. The Committee met on De
cember 2, and the companies were raised and forwarded with
such alacrity that only six days later Gen. Sullivan wrote to
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New Hampshire's Leadership
the Committee saying: "General Washington and all the
other officers are extremely pleased & bestow the highest
encomiums on you and your troops, freely acknowledging that
the New Hampshire Forces for bravery & resolution far sur
pass the other Colonies & that no Province discovers so much
zeal in the common cause."
It is very unfortunate that no record is kiiown to exist
of the New Ipswich men who had a part in this act of relief
to the army and of rebuke to those who had failed to accept
their opportunity for special service. There is a roll of the
commissioned officers of each one of the thirty-one companies,
in which New Ipswich is credited with one company of which
Eleazer Cummings was captain, Henry Forgerson first lieu
tenant, and Ezekiel Goodale second lieutenant. Blood's his
tory of Temple gives the names of eighteen men of that town
who enlisted at that time for a period of six weeks and the
name of Ezekiel Goodale is among them. Moreover, at a
later date he is termed "Lieut. Goodale." It may therefore
be concluded that New Ipswich and Temple united in the
formation of this company; and as the former New Ipswich
history states that the New Ipswich contribution to its ranks
numbered twenty-six, there remain twenty men of the full
company' who came from some other place or places not yet
identified. The year 1776, during which the issues of the contest
were so unmistakably defined, witnessed the response of New
Ipswich men to six calls for service in what was really, though
still but dimly, becoming recognized to be a national army.
Concerning the first of these no record of details is known
to exist, and tradition has so faded that nothing concerning
the part of New Ipswich can be added to the few lines given
in the former town history, where it is said : "In February
of this year a call was made for men to reinforce the army
attempting the conquest of Canada. Seventeen men were
raised, who proceeded, under Capt. Towne, by the way of
Lake Champlain, as far as St. Johns; but the failure of
Arnold's attempt on Quebec, and the retreat from Montreal,
terminated the expedition, and they returned." The practi
cal truth of this tradition is certified and a few additional
details are furnished by a petition of Capt. Towne now in
the New Hampshire archives and published in the State Pa-
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History of New Ipswich
pers which have given so great aid in the preparation of this
chapter. The petition is as follows :
To the General Court of the State of New Hampshire
The Petition of Ezra Town of New Ipswich in said State humbly
shows that he in January AD 1776 commanded a company in the service
of the United States, and that his Men went into Canada then to Albany
in the same year and on the first of December in the same year his
company marched to Pennsylvania and continued there until the first
day of Jan'' following and soon after his company was dismissed without
rations or any subsistence money to carry them home.
New Ipswich 30"' Jan'' 1786. Ezra Towne
This petition receiving no favorable attention, two years
later he presented another containing the additional facts that
his company was in Gen. James Reed's regiment, and that
they were discharged at Morristown, N. J., February 13, 1777.
The next call for aid was from the Northern army on
Lake Champlain ; and during the spring Capt. Joseph Parker
raised a company which joined the army in July. Eighteen
men of New Ipswich are said in the former history to have
enlisted in this company; but it is by no means an easy task
to determine which fourth part of the ninety-three names
borne upon its roll were from the town. Capt. Parker was
the only one of the commissioned officers included in this
portion of the company, as Ensign John Taggart was from
Peterborough, and the Lieutenants, Daniel Rand and David
Hunter, bear surnames not found in the New Ipswich records
of that date. The following list, however, seems to contain
the New Ipswich section of the company.
Joseph Parker, Capt.
Simeon Bullard Serjt. Samuel Parker
Isaac Preston, Corp. Whitcomb Powers
Allen Breed, Corp. William Scott
Jonas Adams, Corp. Nathaniel Stratton
Stephen Adams Peter Shattuck
Ephraim Adams Nathaniel Melvin
Allen Breed Jr. James Wilson
James Chandler Levi Spaulding
Simeon Hildreth Jonathan Wheat
Leonard Parker John Thomas
The period of this company's service is uncertain; they were
mustered in July 18, and are believed to have served through
the autumn.

82

Captain Smith's Corapany
In the following September a company enlisted from New
Ipswich and neighboring towns included with it in the militia
regiment of Col. Enoch Hale was united with seven or more
companies raised from different militia regiments and marched
under the command of Col. Nahum Baldwin to reinforce the
army in New York. This company was under the command
of Capt. Abijah Smith of New Ipswich, Lieut. James Crombie
being from Rindge, and Ensign Robert Fletcher from Temple.
They served about three months, during which they were
in the battle at White Plains, but were not so situated as to
suffer. The entire body returned home early in the winter.
The same difficulty is presented in this company as in that
of Capt. Joseph Parker, but it is believed that the following
names form nearly the correct list for New Ipswich.
Abijah Smith, Capt.
Benjamin Adams Abel Estabrook
Eli Adams Jonathan Kinney
Ephraim Adams John Knowlton
Thomas Adams Stephen Pierce
Isaac Appleton Nathaniel Stone
Benjamin Cutter Supply Wilson
John Cutter Joseph Wright
Jonas Dutton
Under date of Oct. 24, 1775, Oliver Prescott wrote to Henry
Gardner: "Twenty-six men march this day from the town
of New Ipswich" to Ticonderoga. — American Archives, Vol.
2, p. 1227.
In October there marched from the counties of Hills
borough and Cheshire, on the requisition of General Gates, a
small body of men to reinforce the army at Ticonderoga. It
is doubtful if the only roll of this force which is known to
have been preserved, and which was discovered in the Pen
sion Bureau at Washington, is at all complete, as of the
thirty-nine names which it bears are those of Lieut.-Col.
Thomas Heald and Adjutant Isaac How of New Ipswich, a
captain and a lieutenant from Rindge, the same from Temple,
eight sergeants, a corporal, and only twenty-four privates.
In this roll the residence of each man is stated, and New Ips
wich is credited with Sergeants William Strate, John Brooks,
and Benjamin Williams, and Privates Josiah Brown, Peter
Fletcher, Francis Fletcher, Edmund Towne, Stephen Parker,
Thomas Farnsworth, Timothy Wheelock, Joseph Wright,
Joel Wheelock, Timothy Stearns, Henry Fletcher, Daniel
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History of New Ipswich
Adams, and Nathaniel Pratt. This detachment was absent
about three months, having been on duty at Fort Independ
ence. The conditions of the next call for troops are thus stated
in the first volume of "Revolutionary Rolls" of New Hamp
shire. "In answer to a requisition from General Washington,
the legislature on the fourth day of December, 1776, 'Voted,
That five hundred men be Draughted from the several Regi
ments in this State as soon as possible, and officered & sent
to New York.' * * * * ^he cause of this call
was, that the terms of service of the troops in garrison at
Port George and Ticonderoga would expire on the last day
of December, and if their places were not filled those posts
would fall into the hands of General Sir Guy Carleton."
Francis Towne of Rindge was captain of a company in
Col. David Gilman's regiment of this levy, and the roll of his
company bears the following names the same as those of
residents in New Ipswich, and names which appear on other
rolls with those of New Ipswich soldiers.
Simeon Gould, Serjt. David Sanders
Stephen Parker, Serjt. Thomas Adams
John Bryant, Drum'. William Priest
Isaac Adams Isaac Proctor
Elijah Mansfield Daniel Adams
Abel Dutton Edmund Towne
Asa Gibbs Peter Fletcher
Asa Perham
The record of New Ipswich soldiers of 1776 closes with
the names of Thomas Brown, Josiah Fletcher, Simeon Gould,
William Hodgkins, Henry Knowlton, Abner Preston, Jesse
Walker, and Jonas Wheeler, found upon the roll of the com
pany of Capt. Samuel Atkinson "stationed at Coos in Haver
hill under the directions of the Committee appointed for said
purpose Decemb"' 1, 1776," and they are added to the previous
lists of the year on similar evidence to that which seemed
to demand the same recognition of the list immediately
preceding. It may justly be claimed that New Ipswich, during the
year of the nation's birth, held a worthy place in the state
of which it has been written that "New Hampshire performed
her share of the work of 1776 in full, as she had the year
before, responding ably and patriotically to every call made
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upon her for men. In several instances her troops remained
in the service beyond their terms of enlistment, notwithstand
ing they were of necessity scantily fed and clothed, and poorly
provided with protection against the inclemency of the
weather. In no instance, when the exigency of the occasion
seemed to require their services beyond their terms of en
listment, were they appealed to in vain."
The next year was entered with the same spirit, and with
a clearer realization of the true issue. The last town meeting
called in New Ipswich "In His Majesty's Name" was the
annual meeting held in March, 1775. No authority had been
named in the warrants for the numerous meetings necessi
tated by the conditions of the succeeding two years, but the
annual meeting held March 10, 1777, was called "In name of
the Government and People of the State of New Hampshire."
During this year the military interest of the state naturally
centered upon the Northern army and the movements in the
region of Ticonderoga. The strengthening national thought
was evidenced in the three New Hampshire Continental regi
ments commanded by Colonels Joseph Cilley, Nathan Hale,
and Alexander Scammell. The comparative inefficiency of
brief periods of service had been demonstrated by sad ex
perience, and some more systematic method of filling the
ranks had become necessary. The return of Enoch Hale of
Rindge, colonel of the Fourteenth Regiment of militia, made
early in this year, shows the radical change in conditions
since the day of the "Concord Fight." A portion of it is given
below: —
State of New Hampshire
To the Hon"" Committee of Safety for said State Pursuant to
orders Received in April A. D. 1777 directing me to Raise one hundred
and nineteen men to serve in the Continental Armey for three years
or during the war I have Proportioned the men to the several Towns
or Companys in my Regiment as follows (viz)
New Ipswich 22 Marlborough 6 6542
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17

Stoddard

Temple

13

Packersfield

Peterborough

14

Washington

Jaffrey

14

Slip Town

Fitzwilliam

8

Dublin

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New Ipswich Returned Twenty one men
Silas Gill Jacob Potter
Ephraim Foster Ephraim Severance
John Yeaman Moses Farnorth
Levi Adams Ithamar Wheelock
Jonas Adams William Prichard
Rolins Colburn Abner Preston &
Nath' Hase William Hueitt
in Capt. Farwells Com'y Col° Silleys Regiment — and
Asa Gibbs Daniel Foster
Asa Pearham Ebenezer Fletcher &
Sam' Foster John Johnson
in Cap' Carr' Comp'y Col° Hale' Regiment — they likewise Returned
William Scott in said Carr' Company that they hired from Peterborough
Slip Being one that Sliptown Returned and say that Sliptown neglect
to pay back their money.
It should not be inferred that the men responding to the
definite call upon each town had been secured by means of
a draft. In fact, the payroll of Capt. Farwell's company dated
nearly a year later has several of the names in this list credited
with service beginning at an earlier date than the time of
the reception of the order to Col. Enoch Hale mentioned in
his return, but probably they had not been reported to the
Committee of Safety before the order for new recruits had
been issued. This later list differs from the one given above
by having the name of Samuel Potter, which other records
show correct, instead of Jacob Potter, and by the absence of
the name of John Yeaman and William Hueitt. What was
undoubtedly an error is also corrected and Moses Farnsworth
appears in place of the earlier abridged form. Bunker Clark,
who was certainly a resident in New Ipswich, is credited to
Packersfield. William Hewitt appears in other places as a
member of that company and receipts for his bounty and
wages at Valley Forge in 1778. John Yeaman also is found
(with a slight change in his name) in another company of
the same regiment. Capt. Isaac Farwell was of Charlestown,
and is probably not the Isaac Farwell who went from New
Ipswich at the time of the Concord alarm. The first lieutenant
was James Taggart of Peterborough, the second lieutenant
Jeremiah Pritchard of New Ipswich, and the ensign Jonathan
Willard of Charlestown. Rawlins Colborn and Levi Adams
held warrants of first and second sergeants. The company
of the Second Regiment containing the remainder of the April
levy was commanded by Capt. James Carr of Somersworth,
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the first lieutenant being Samuel Cherry of Londonderry, the
second lieutenant Peletiah Whittemore of New Ipswich, and
the ensign George Frost of Greenland.
The service of these men did not terminate in three years,
as the names of several of them are found later to continue
"during the war." But now attention, which had been tempo
rarily somewhat diverted from the region of Ticonderoga, was
abruptly recalled. "On the evening of the 2d day of May,
1777, dispatches were received by the committee of safety
of this state, informing them that the garrison at Ticonderoga
was in danger of being taken by the enemy, and urging that
the militia be sent forward at once to reenforce that important
post." Messages were at once sent to the colonels of the
regiments situated along the western line of the state urging
them "by all that is sacred to raise as many of your Militia
as possible and march them to Ticonderoga." Col. Enoch
Hale was not one of those nearest to the seat of danger, and
therefore specially called upon, but none the less fifty-four
men were gathered from that regiment who marched on May
6 for Ticonderoga, under the command of Capt. Josiah Brown
of New Ipswich. It is impossible to be perfectly sure how
many of this company were from New Ipswich. The former
history speaks of this as "a company of twenty-four men,"
which probably is the traditional number of its New Ipswich
members. The entire roll is here presented, and those names
which are doubtless the names of New Ipswich men, or which
from other facts seem most probably to be of that town, are
marked with an asterisk.
?Josiah Brown, Capt Jos. Stanley
Asa Sherwin, 1st Lt. Moses Hale
?Samuel Howard, 2d Lt. John Emery
?Benj. Williams, Ens. Abel Platt
Jona. Ingals, Serjt. Saml. Chaplin
?Ezra Morse, Serjt. Moses Chaplain
Abraham Brooks, Serjt. Peter Webster
William Robb, Serjt. Amos Ingals
?Abel Easterbrooks, Corp. ?Thomas Brown
Jona. Putnam, Corp. ?James Tidder
Jona. Morse, Corp. ?Nathl. Pratt
Israel Keys, Corp. ?Nathl. Farr
Silas Angier ?Jona. Parker
David Adams ?John Wheeler
?Samuel Adams ?Isaac Farwell
William Thomson ?Daniel Clary
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?Nathan Cutter
?Saml. Walker
?Jesse Walker
?Elijah Davis
?Peter Shadduck
?John Thomas
?John Yarmon
David Townsend
John Patten
?Richard Stickney
Eben Severance
Benj a. Severance

Jona. Marshall
?Danl. Morse
Joshua Greenwood
?Asa Pratte
Thos. Smith
Thos. Davidson
Joseph Farrar
Jason Rice
Eben Spaulding
John White
Aaron Beals

Most of this company continued in service at Ticonderoga
about six weeks, and were then discharged. But they had
hardly scattered to their homes when the capture of Crown
Point and the rapid advance of Burgoyne upon Ticonderoga
made the crisis more imperative in its call for aid from the
militia. On June 29 Capt. Brown again started at the head
of a company of forty-eight men, this time a solid company
of the town; having reached Number Four (Charlestown),
they were ordered to return, and arrived at Rindge on July 3.
But here they were overtaken by orders again reversing their
course, and the first anniversary of the Declaration of Inde
pendence was spent while following again the route westward.
Only as far as Rutland, however, for there they met the army
in retreat. Apparently about half the company returned home
directly from Rindge, as they are credited on the roll with
only five days' service and were discharged on the third of
July instead of the twelfth.
The roll is given below:

Josiah Brown, Capt.
Edmund Bryant, Lieut.
Isaac Clark, Lieut.
Hezekiah Corey, Ensign
John Brooks, Serjt.
Thomas Brown, Serjt.
Josiah Walton, Serjt.
Elijah Davis, Serjt.
Elijah Morse, Corpl.
Stephen Hildreth, Corpl.
Allen Breed, Corpl.
Nathan Wesson, Corpl.
William Kendall
Ebenezer Bullard
William Hodgkins
Asa Parker

Ephraim Stevens
Joseph Felt
Whitcomb Powers
Jona Easterbrooks
William Spear, Junr.
Nehemiah Stratton
Phineas Adams
John Knight
John Thomas
Peter Shattuck
Joseph Pollard
Edmund Sawtel
Jonathan Davis
Stephen Adams
Leonard Parker
David Melvin

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Amos Wheeler William Richards
Nat. Carlton Timothy Fox
Nat Swain Josiah Rogers
Zebediah Whittemore Joseph Tinney
Nat Melvin John Warner
Peter Fletcher John Cutter
Stephen Parker Wm Spears
Josiah Fletcher David Elliot
Thirty of the members of this company were provided
with horses, and it is said that the march was largely taken
by the "ride and tie" method.
Apparently the other companies of Col. Enoch Hale's reg
iment did not turn out in response to the call to Ticonderoga
in as large numbers as that under Capt. Josiah Brown; but
a detachment of the regiment marched under command of
Lieut.-Col. Thomas Heald of New Ipswich, Francis Fletcher,
the adjutant, being also from that town. This detachment
contained portions of five companies, and the names of New
Ipswich men are found on the roll of each of those companies,
although it is impossible to determine with certainty they
were not residents of other localities bearing the same name.
But no evidence appears to cause the following names to be
refused as New Ipswich soldiers.
In the company of Capt. Salmon Stone of Rindge : Reuben
Russell, Samuel Russell, Samuel Walker, John Knowlton.
In the company of Capt. Roger Gilmore of Jaffrey:
Thomas Adams.
In the company of Capt. Silas Wright of Stoddard: Asa
Adams, Eli Adams, William Dutton, Henry Spaulding, Jotham
Hoar, Stephen Parker, John Harkness, Amos Prichard, Jonas
Wheeler, Samuel Haywood, Benjamin Safiford, Josiah Davis,
Simeon Blanchard, Richard Wheeler, Jesse Walker, John
Sartwell, (probably Sawtell,) Simeon Hildrick, Josiah
Fletcher. In the company of Capt. Alexander Robbe of Peter
borough: William Scott, William Blair.
In the company of Capt. James Lewis of Marlborough :
Moses Tucker, Ezra Town, Oliver Wright.
These men in Col. Heald's detachment, like those under
Capt. Brown, served not more than fourteen days, and about
half of them only five days.
A company also marched on the same errand from Fitz
william and towns adjacent, under the command of Capt.
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John Mellin, and on the roll of this company appear the names
of Moses Tucker, Oliver Wright, Samuel Soper, and Abel
Estabrooks. It is evident that the distinction between father
and son was neglected in respect to the name of Capt.
Tucker; but even that explanation is insufficient for the name
Oliver Wright, which not only appears in the rolls of Cap
tains Lewis and Mellin, and as both ensign and private in the
latter company he was apparently promoted, but also on the
rolls of the companies of Capt. Christopher Webber and of
Lieut. Henry Adams, which also made brief expeditions to
relieve the endangered Ticonderoga. There can be little
doubt that the Oliver Wright in at least one of these com
panies was of New Ipswich.
The threatening advance of Burgoyne after his successes
at Ticonderoga and Hubbardton left to the Americans no
escape from more strenuous endeavor than the recent move
ments had proved to be, and on the tenth of July a company
of seventy-one men, of whom thirty-seven were from neigh
boring towns, mostly from Peterboro or Temple, left New
Ipswich and joined the Northern army under General Gates
at Stillwater. The thirty-four men believed to be from New
Ipswich were as enrolled below:
Stephen Parker, Capt. Richard Wheeler
Benjamin Williams, Ensign. Amos Wheeler
Archibald White, Sergt. William Upton
Whitcomb Powers, Corpl. Edmund Sawtel
Samuel Lewis, Corpl. Nehemiah Stratton
Samuel Lowell, Drummer. John Knight
Simeon Hildreth, Fifer. Francis Appleton
Allen Breed Jotham Hoar
Allen Breed, Jr. Samuel Wheeler
Samuel Walker Daniel Foster
Benjamin Safiford Richard Stickney
Josiah Walton William Blair
David Rumrill Levi Spaulding
Zebediah Whittemore Henry Spaulding
Peter Fletcher Abel Dutton
Ephraim Stevens Silas Taylor
Jonathan Parker EU Adams
This company's service extended through two months,
during which it had a part in the battle of Bennington, and
it was discharged on the twenty-sixth of September. A few
of the names are doubtful, and are claimed by other towns
having citizens bearing the same name.
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The former history of the town gives a brief account of
an attempt to divide the American force made by the British
at about this time, in the form of a false alarm concerning
a projected raid from the north for the purpose of chastising
the towns along the Connecticut river. The plan succeeded
in New Ipswich to the extent of starting a party of eleven
men northward to take a part in the needed defence, their
absence continuing about a month. No names are given ex
cept that of their commander, William Clary; and no record
of its doings having come to light, it is necessarily left with
out further mention.
At almost exactly the time of the discharge of Capt.
Parker's company another company of fifty-five men was
formed and marched from the town to join the army at Sara
toga. All the commissioned officers were of New Ipswich,
as were the greater part of the other members, only about
twelve being from other towns. The roll, omitting the names
from other towns, is here given:
Edmund Briant, Capt. Ephraim Hildreth
Moses Tucker, Lieut. William Hewett
Isaac Clarke, Lieut. Amos Prichard
Simeon Gould, Serjt. Samuel Parker
John Brooks, Serjt. Nat Pratt
William Start, Serjt. Joel Russell
Joseph Tinney, Corpl. William Richards
Joseph Pollard, Corpl. Nat Stone
Thomas Brown, Corpl. Joseph Stickney
Nathaniel Swain, Drum. William Spear
Jonas Wilson, Fife Peter Shattuck
Francis Appleton David Sanders
Ephraim Adams John Scott
Phineas Adams Edmund Towne
Aaron Chamberlain James Tidder
Henry Carlton John Thomas
John Clarey Jonas Wheeler
Francis Fletcher Jesse Walker
Thomas Farnsworth Elijah Morse
William Farr Abel Miles
Robert Harkness Jonathan Wheelock
Stephen Hildreth
This company was discharged on October 25, but that
brief month of service included the time of the battle of Still
water and the surrender of Burgoyne, and so to the people
of New Hampshire it ever seemed the "beginning of the end."
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And in truth the frequent calls for service of a few days
or a few weeks had ceased, and during the first half of the
year 1778 attention to necessarily neglected home duties could
be resumed. Still, as early as June, 1777, Governor Nicholas
Cooke of Rhode Island had applied to the legislature of New
Hampshire for aid against three thousand British troops from
whom an attack seemed imminent, and about three hundred
men were sent in response to the call. But no names recog
nizable as being of New Ipswich men are found on the rolls
of those companies, and the officers whose places of residence
are recorded were from somewhat distant localities, from
which it may reasonably be concluded that New Ipswich had
no part in that expedition. Just before the close of the six
months which was the term of enlistment of that detach
ment, another message from Governor Cooke was received
asking that troops might be sent to take their place, and
stating "that they would be in a deplorable condition without
continued military aid from New Hampshire." This request
was considered by the state authorities and on January 1,
1778, the House of Representatives voted to send the needed
assistance. But the enlistments seemed to be less prompt
than at the time of the previous call, and while the exact
time of the departure for Rhode Island is uncertain, an order
to the colonels of militia, passed on May 29, to draft three
hundred men for that service shows that there was probably
nearly six months interval between the call and its full an
swer. This second levy of troops was discharged December
30, having served for different periods, but few longer than
six months. The three hundred men comprised six compa
nies, one of which, commanded by Capt. Simon Marston of
Deerfield, bore upon its roll the following New Ipswich
names : Joseph Farrar, Timothy Farrar, Joseph Felt, Simeon
Gould, Samuel Morse, whose periods of service varied from
three to six months.
This regiment, apparently raised with great difficulty, al
though the lists of recruits and of the bounties paid them
make it probable that the required men were secured without
resort to the draft, was yet insufficient to drive the British
forces from the state, and in August New Hampshire sent a
brigade to assist, containing five regiments and amounting
to a little over one thousand men, who served three or four
weeks. One of these regiments, containing only one hundred
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and twenty men, was commanded by Col. Enoch Hale of
Rindge, the major and adjutant being Joseph Parker and
Isaac Howe, both of New Ipswich. Each of its three compa
nies contained men from the same town, the greater part of
them being in the company of Capt. Robert Fletcher of Tem
ple, the roll of which is here given omitting names of men
believed to be from other towns.
Moses Tucker, Lieut. John Knight
Benjamin Williams, Ensign Joseph Pollard
Simeon Gold, Serjt. Maj. Nehemiah Stratton
John Brooks, Serjt. William Spear
Leonard Parker, Serjt. Thomas Spaulding
Whitcomb Powers, Corpl. Peter Fletcher
Jonathan Davis, Corpl. James Tidder
Francis Appleton John Thomas
Stephen Adams Jr. William Webber
Allen Breed Josiah Walton
Ebenr. Bullard Jonas Wheeler
Nathan Cutter Samuel Wheeler
Nathan Champney Abel Dutton
Henry Carlton Samuel Farnsworth
Benjamin Gibbs David Haws
William Hodgkins Daniel Kenney
Jona. Kenney
The second company, commanded by Capt. Samuel
Twitchell of Dublin, seems to have contained the following
New Ipswich men: Ephraim Adams, Benjamin Cutter, John
Knowlton, Daniel Morse, Ezra Morse, Isaac Proctor; and the
third company, commanded by Capt. James Lewis of Marl
borough, had Moses Tucker, first sergeant, and Samuel
Adams, corporal.
Still the Rhode Island problem remained unsolved, and in
June, 1779, the regiments of militia were called upon to fur
nish a third time three hundred men for the same duty. Of
this number. Col. Enoch Hale was directed to raise eighteen,
and if New Ipswich maintained the same ratio to the other
towns of the regiment that she had two years previously, the
town quota was necessarily three; it is recorded that on July
5 that number of men were mustered into service for six
months to the credit of the town by Col. Thomas Heald, one
of them, however, coming from Temple, one from Westmore
land, leaving only Isaac Taylor as a New Ipswich resident,
and he in other places is credited to Temple, unless there
were two soldiers bearing that name.
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A little later the following men were mustered in to aid
in filling the three New Hampshire Continental regiments, all
being credited to New Ipswich, although some of them may
have been so in the most technical sense only. The list was :
Jonathan Parker, James Whipple, Hezekiah Wetherbee, Heze
kiah Sartwell (Sawtell probably), Asahel Powers.
No record is found of the New Ipswich men who joined
the expedition against the Indians near Seneca Lake, nor of
the thirty-one others who went under Capt. Joseph Parker
on the enduring Rhode Island concern, both mentioned in
the former history as among the activities of the year, and
therefore nothing can be added to the brief mention there
given. The review of the events from 1775 to 1779 shows a change
analogous to that which the older men of the present recall
in the later years of the Civil War. The enthusiasm of the
first months had paled, and however firm the determination
yet remained, the expectation of marked victories to be
achieved during a few weeks' campaign had passed like the
dreams of childhood. The picturesque element in the strife
had disappeared, and the necessity of an equable distribution
of the burdens of the war in constantly increasing measure
controlled the methods employed for the maintenance of the
army in the field. Soldiers still were found to fill the quota
required of each regiment or town, and this without resort
to a draft; but the nominal volunteering became more and
more a business proceeding, a service in the field in response
to a bounty which greatly tended to equalize the burden. The
following statement by the editor of the Revolutionary Papers
before mentioned indicates the extent to which the commer
cial element had of necessity become closely incorporated
with patriotic movements of that date. He writes :
"On the 16th day of June, 1780, the legislature passed an
act ordering six hundred men to be raised to recruit the three
regiments in the continental army from this state. The com
mittee of safety was directed to give orders to the regimental
commanders to raise their several quotas. * * *
The men were to furnish their own clothing, knapsacks, and
blankets, and serve till the last day of December next follow
ing, or be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars. They were
to be paid forty shillings per month 'in Money equal to In
dian Corn at Four Shillings a Bushel, Grass-fed Beef at Three
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Pence per Pound, or Sole-Leather at Eighteen Pence a Pound.'
They were also to have five pounds each for clothing money,
two dollars in paper currency per mile for travel, and money
for rations until they could draw continental rations." In
response to this very definite proposal the six men required
of New Ipswich volunteered. They were John Goold, Allen
Breed, Henry Carlton, Peter Bullard, Ebenezer Bullard, and
Samuel Walker. These men probably served in New Jersey.
Before the close of the month of June, the legislature
voted to raise 945 men for a term of three months, to reen
force the army at West Point. Sixty-three of this number
were to be furnished by Col. Enoch Hale's regiment, from
which it would seem that the quota of New Ipswich was
either eleven or twelve. A careful examination of the rolls
of the sixteen companies composing the two regiments into
which this levy was divided fails to determine with full satis
faction the names of the New Ipswich men there included.
But the following list is probably approximately correct.
In the company of Capt. Benjamin Spaulding: Daniel
Adams, Ensign, Isaac Preston, Sergt., Jeremiah Underwood,
Abel Dutton, John Breed, William Upton, Eli Upton, Asa
Pratt. ' '
In the company of Capt. Jonas Kidder : Simeon Fletcher,
Jonathan Davis, Joseph Davis.
Some time during the year a sally of tories from Canada
into the state of Vermont, proceeding as far as Royalton,
awakened a spontaneous movement like those of the earlier
years, and sixty-five men, all or very nearly all of whom
were from New Ipswich, started on horseback to meet the
especially offensive attack. This force, under the command
of Lieut.-Col. Thomas Heald, was divided into two companies,
the rolls of which are given below. They were gone only
four days, during which the smaller company travelled forty-
five miles, for which they presented an account amounting
to £34 10s., and the larger thirty-five miles, with an account
of £90 2s. They were:
Edmund Bryant, Capt. Silas Davis
Isaac Clark, Lieut. John Gould
Benjamin Williams, Lieut. Joseph Stickney Jr.
Jeremiah Prichard Benjamin Adams Jr.
Thomas Brown John Adams
Josiah Walton Amos Baker
John Brown Jr. Samuel Speer
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William Speer Jr.
John Cutter
William Prichard
Jonathan Fletcher
Ephraim Adams Jr.
Elijah Davis
Joseph Parker, Capt.
Moses Tucker, Lieut.
James Chandler, Ens.
John Brooks, Sergt.
Leonard Parker
Allen Breed, Sergt.
William Faris
Ebenezer Knight
Enos Knight Jr.
Samuel Cummings
Ebenezer Fletcher
Thomas Spaulding
Timothy Fox
William Shattuck
Jonathan Twist
William Hodgkins
Levi Farr
Nathaniel Farr
Isaac Bartlett
Jotham Hoar

Josiah Brown
Thomas Kidder
Thomas Fletcher Jr.
William Clary
Edmund Town

Ephraim Hildreth
Joseph Warren
Jesse Walker
Amos Boynton
Joel Baker
Stephen Pierce
Samuel Fletcher
Stephen Adams Jr.
John Pratt
Edward Pratt
Nathaniel Pratt
Isaac Farwell
Edmund Farwell
John Gowing
Robert Cambell
Thad Taylor
Reuben Taylor
Hezekiah Hodgkins
John Wheeler, Jr.

It may be noticed that two of the names on the Royalton
Alarm list, John Gould and Allen Breed, are also included
in the six names of men enlisting on the six-months call of
the year, and recorded as serving from July 2 to December 14.
Evidently therefore the Royalton event was earlier than
July. The records mention it as an occurrence of the year
1780 several times, but give no more definite date.
In February, 1781, the town was called upon to furnish
twelve more soldiers for the Continental army, and is credited
with the following recruits, eight of whom had before been
credited with from one to five terms of service.

Nehemiah Stratton
Phineas Adams
Samuel Walker
Peter Bullard
Amos Baker
John Adams

Stephen Adams
Jesse Walker
John Bullard
Joel Baker
Joseph Proctor
John Thomas

A few names more complete the roll of names found on
record of New Ipswich Revolutionary soldiers. The "Muster
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Roll of a Company of Men Commanded by Capt. Othniel
Thomas In Colo. Runnell's Regt. of New Hampshire Militie
(1781)" found in the Pension Bureau at Washington, D. C,
contains the following names of soldiers, two of whom are
said to "go for" the town of "Ipswitch," and four for "Ips
wich:" Reuben Baldwin, James Turnar, John Goold, Paul
Sticknee, Ephraim Hildreth, John Gould, Jr.
In a New Hampshire record New Ipswich is credited with
Silas Whitney and Ezra Meriam, recruits of July 15, 1782.
From the Massachusetts Revolutionary Rolls preserved in
the State House at Boston the following names of New Ips
wich men are taken. Col. William Prescott's regiment, Capt.
John Nutting's company, Samuel Cummings; Capt. Joseph
Moor's company, John Sawtell; Capt. Abijah Wyman's com
pany, Samuel Kinney ; Col. Jonathan Brewer's regiment, Capt.
Thomas Drury's company, Abraham Abbot. Seth Wheeler
was lieutenant in the company of Capt. John Parker of Litch
field, in the regiment of Col. Timothy Bedel, with the North
ern division of the army under Gen. Montgomery in 1775 ;
and captain under the same colonel on service in Canada
from December 15, 1777, to March 3, 1778.
It is believed that the foregoing is practically a complete
outline of the work of New Ipswich in the field during the
birth-struggle of the nation. In comparison with the broader
and more fierce contests required in later years that the nation
might continue to live, perchance in the thought of some this
earlier story is almost insignificant. In truth, that initial
strife presented very little of what is sometimes called the
"glory of war." In the provincial army gorgeous uniforms,
or in most cases any costumes that could receive such a name,
were conspicuous by their absence. The graphic description
of the departure of Capt. Stephen Parker's company for Still
water in 1777, given in the former history of the town as
related by one who remembered the event, tells the thought
ful reader so much of the home conditions of those days left
unwritten that it is repeated here.
"To a man, they wore small-clothes, coming down and
fastening just below the knee, and long stockings with cow
hide shoes ornamented by large buckles, while not a pair of
boots graced the company. The coats and waistcoats were
loose and of huge dimensions, with colors as various as the
barks of oak, sumach, and other trees of our hills and swamps
could make them, and their shirts were all made of flax, and
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like every other part of the dress, were homespun. On their
heads was worn a large round-top and broad-brimmed hat.
Their arms were as various as their costume; here an old
soldier carried a heavy Queen's arm, with which he had done
service at the conquest of Canada twenty years previous,
while by his side walked a stripling boy, with a Spanish
fusee not half its weight or calibre, which his grandfather
may have taken at the Havanna, while not a few had old
French pieces, that dated back to the reduction of Louisburg.
Instead of the cartridgebox, a large powderhorn was slung
under the arm, and occasionally a bayonet might be seen
bristling in the ranks. Some of the swords of the officers
had been made by our Province blacksmiths, perhaps from
some farming utensil ; they looked serviceable, but heavy and
uncouth. Such was the appearance of the Continentals to
whom a well-appointed army was soon to lay down their arms.
After a little exercising on the old Common, and performing
the then popular exploit of 'whipping the snake,' they briskly
filed off up the road, by the foot of the Kidder Mountain, and
through the Spafford Gap, towards Peterboro, to the tune of
'Over the hills and far away.' "
Furthermore, it may be thankfully realized that the weap
ons of the warfare of those days were such as gave compara
tively slight occasion for scenes of such appalling glory as
are depicted in the panoramas of mutilation and death at
Gettysburg and other battles of the Civil War.
At the close of the Revolution the population of New
Ipswich was 1033, of which number only 206 were ratable
polls. But this small population sent into the field for a
longer or shorter time about 275 men, no small number of
whom, either by a single enlistment or several briefer ones,
served nearly or quite three years. As has been seen, the
collection of scattered records has necessitated a considerable
modification of the traditional number of New Ipswich sol
diers, but these documents give very little aid in any attempt
to make more definite or complete the record of deaths and
injuries among the New Ipswich men that is given in the
former history. It is there stated that "but one or two were
killed in battle; eight or ten were very severely wounded,
among whom were Josiah Walton, Ebenezer Fletcher, Jeremiah
Fletcher, and Jonas Adams ; and about twenty died of sick
ness in the army, or soon after they were brought home, of
whom were John Adams, Simeon Hildreth, Daniel Hall,
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Samuel Campbell, Jonathan Wheat, Samuel Foster, Ephraim
Forster and Asa Perham." David Scott is recorded as having
lost his life at Bunker Hill, but although he was in the com
pany of Capt. Ezra Town, there seems to be very little doubt
that he was of a Peterborough family and resident in that
town. It is very evident that by far the most serious sufferings
which assailed, weakened, and often, despite the power of
patriotism and indomitable Anglo-Saxon energy, discouraged
the body of the soldiers so that the unconquerable leaders
knew not how to meet the apparently impending disaster,
were not those which are met where the excitement of the
contest gives courage and endurance, but those due to lack
of proper clothing, food, and shelter ; to weakness and disease
due largely to the inability to supply such necessities, but
sometimes, it would seem, in part to a lack of appreciation of
the greatness of the need by the provincial authorities. A
characteristic incident is related of a leading citizen of New
Ipswich which so well illustrates this difficulty that it is here
again told. Dea. Ephraim Adams, although in the second
half-century of life at the time of the first call to arms, did
not hesitate to take the field with his juniors, but in the later
years of the war was called to different duties by his fellow
townsmen, and it is said that "while representing the town in
the Provincial Congress, he attempted one day to call their
attention to procuring suitable clothing for the soldiers during
the then approaching winter, but without much success. On
the following day he rose in his place with much solemnity,
and read a resolution, in substance that it was the opinion of
that body, that the soldiers from their state should have wool
grow on their backs, to protect them from the cold during win
ter. This drew the attention of the House immediately, and
a committee was chosen, of which he was the chairman, and
his wishes were promptly carried into effect." It was a year
or two previous to that incident, that a record still extant
tells of the discharge of twenty-one newly enlisted soldiers
because of their lack of clothes.
Still such incidents must not be considered without recog
nition of the almost insuperable difficulties before the home
authorities at almost every point. Not the soldiers alone
suffered ; their absence from the work so strenuously demanded
in a new country of course demanded of their families exces-
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sive labor and the loss of absolutely needed comforts in very
many cases; and still farther, the power of production was
so much lessened that the provincial governments often knew
not how to find the money imperatively demanded. Of course
money rapidly disappeared, and, as is always the case under
such conditions, the paper currency began to depreciate in
value, making necessary a constantly increasing issue, with
a resultant still more rapid depreciation, the lawful currency
falling from nearly its full face value at the beginning of
1777 to only one hundred and twentieth of that value at the
middle of 1781.
Supplies for the army were levied in kind, and in 1781
each town in the state was assessed a designated weight of
beef for the support of the army, of which assessment New
Ipswich was required to provide about one-eightieth part,
which was 17,164 pounds. Another necessity, according to
the ideas of that period, and especially for men working
severely or especially exposed, was a supply of rum, and of
this the town was called upon to find 122 gallons. Under
such conditions it is no cause for wonder to read in the New
Ipswich town record the record of action taken in January,
1782, when it was "Voted that the Selectmen shall procure
clothing for the former Continental Soldiers, if they can." As
the chairman of the selectmen that year, however, was Deacon
Adams before mentioned, it may probably be assumed with
safety that the selectmen could do it. The incident related
on a later page, in the Locke genealogy, illustrates the exer
tions that were made to meet the necessities of the times.
Through this period of intense stress, when often the issue
of the strife must necessarily have seemed doubtful, if not
hopeless, to the Americans, New Ipswich kept steadily on,
supplying about one-eightieth of whatever men or money or
supplies were the part of New Hampshire. Evidently as the
expectations of early success, born while the untrained Pro
vincials pursued the fleeing troops from Concord to refuge in
Boston, faded and it became recognized that the war could
not be carried on by a series of brief enlistments in response
to some special peril, the question of recruits took precedence
with a multitude of financial problems almost insoluble. At
first enlistments were abundant without the payment of
bounty or with a small one of perhaps £2, designed probably
to meet any little expenses due to the sudden change of life.
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But before the year 1776 had passed the state offered a bounty
of £20, although its value ere long was somewhat diminished
by its payment being deferred for four years during which it
was to draw interest at six per cent. But the necessity of
an increased inducement became evident, and many devices
were employed to enable the town to meet the requirements.
New Ipswich secured the twelve recruits sent in response to
the call in February, 1781, by dividing the town into twelve
classes, each of which was to furnish one soldier by such
means as might be found most expedient. The town records
contain receipts for bounties signed by most of the men pre
viously named as sent on the call of April, 1777, and a few
others not found in that list, each of whom seems to have
received £20, although at that time the bounty for a three-
months man was apparently £30. The next year the names
are recorded of nineteen citizens headed by the pastor. Rev.
Stephen Farrar, who had subscribed the sum of £118 for
the purpose of hiring soldiers.
As the pressure became more stringent the bounty rose
to £40, £50, £60, £70, and probably if search were made
in the right place, still higher rates might be found.
The rate of pay promised to the soldiers, which at first
ranged from £12 per month for a captain to £2 for a private,
gradually rose, although only for privates and non
commissioned officers at first, but the usual rate for privates,
although not entirely uniform, was apparently about £3 per
month in 1776, £4 in 1777, and £5 in 1778. But now the
pound which in lawful paper currency was at the beginning
of 1778 worth a little more than six silver shillings, sank so
rapidly that at the close of 1779 its purchasing value was
little more than ten pence, so that the rise of pay in some
regiments even as high as £12 per month really relieved the
severity of the soldier's condition very slightly. Evidently
this could not continue without absolute ruin, and payrolls
of the next year show an effort to remedy the injustice, the
sum due to each soldier being multiplied in one case by 67,
and the product placed to his credit. And very soon rolls
were made out known as "depreciation rolls" in which the
attempt was made to transfer the loss from the soldier to
the authority which had promised to pay him a certain sum.
But the immense amounts resulting from this process in
many cases could not be found; the "times were hard" to an
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extent never seen by the people of New Ipswich at any earlier
or later date. In many cases the government was unable to
supply rations, as is shown by records now on file in which
against each soldier's name is placed not merely his wages,
earned and promised, but remaining unpaid, but also the num
ber of rations, often larger than the number received, for
each of which he was to receive the sum of eight pence.
A consideration of these facts may perhaps lead to the con
clusion that even though the risk of sudden death or cruel
mutilation was less in wars of the eighteenth century than
in those that have followed, it does not follow that the men
of those days were less worthy of respect for their bravery
in war. They fought and conquered against fearful odds, and
as has been said earlier, their courage was maintained under
conditions in which they had little support from the excite
ment of personal combat. Of course it could not be expected
that New Ipswich in a period of revolt against constituted
authorities as audacious as the American purpose appeared
to be, should have had no citizens who hesitated, or perhaps
refused to enter into or approve the movement. Nor is it at
all at variance with the lesson taught by all such uprisings
that some of the most influential and prominent citizens
should have been in this conservative class, which has been
designated by the offensive term "tories." It is now generally
recognized that even though the sturdy resistance to the pur
poses and efforts of men like Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall"
Jackson was a national duty, and the overthrow of their forces
an ethical, as well as political necessity, none the less they
were moved by a sense of duty; and it should also be recog
nized that the more or less positive "tories" of New Ipswich
were not necessarily bad men, even though they must be
considered to have been at that time bad citizens. Probably
they believed the Revolutionary movement, a defiance of a
nation believed to be the strongest of the world, by a handful
of scattered colonists, to be utterly hopeless and certain to
make any conditions which furnished ground for complaint
much worse.
Further, some of them held offices, and had long felt the
support of the enacted laws against popular feeling to be their
duty, and the natural result followed. Fortunately, however,
this conservative element among the leading citizens of the
town did not hold the "tory" principles so aggressively that
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very serious results ensued, although temporarily the names
of Barrett, Champney, and Kidder were not held with what
seems to the present time the excessive respect, almost rever
ence, that those days accorded to the leading families.
But the town records show that on May 22, 1775, the po
sition of the head of one of these families was considered, and
it was "Voted that Charles Barret be not confined also that
his plans and Principles are Notwithstanding Erroneous." It
is not entirely easy to determine the relation between this
action and the fact that the name Charles Barrett is on the
roll of the men who had marched only a month before in
response to the Concord alarm, although he is credited on
that roll with only one day's service, a shorter period than that
of any other of the ninety-seven names on the roll. Possibly
his speedy return was a potent cause of the town's attention
to his case. But whatever stress may have come in those
days upon the bonds of town fellowship, they were not broken,
and he is found, no later than in 1787, to have been con
sidered a sufficiently loyal American to represent the town
in the legislature, which position he held continuously during
seven years and also by two isolated elections afterward.
Judge Ebenezer Champney is said by his biographer in the
former town history to have been "a moderate tory, and dep
recating a resort to arms, believed that with wise and pru
dent counsels all causes of disaffection might be satisfactorily
adjusted. He wished to preserve his loyalty and the peace
of the country; but like many others who forebore to take
part in the contest, he lived to acknowledge the beneficent
effects of that struggle which gave us our liberties and free
institutions." There were several potent conditions tending to hold Col.
Reuben Kidder from joining the provincial cause. His mili
tary position, his commission as "His Majesty's Justice of the
Peace," and his large estates, all of course acted against any
bias of his judgment in that direction. He is said to have
"always expressed his opinions freely as averse to the war,
and therefore must have been extremely unpopular, still the
respectability of his character seems to have preserved him
from any of the annoyances which many of the loyalists of
that day had to encounter." Tradition, however, gives one
incident which forms a slight exception to what was doubt
less the general truth of the last statement. It is told how
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a soldier returning home from his term of service stopped
over night at the Colonel's inn, and relating his experiences
to an admiring group, referred to General Washington in
terms which chanced to be especially offensive to his host,
who responded with a very emphatic execration upon the
leader of the rebels, and receifed a reply in the form of a
clenched fist. The Colonel was said to have arisen from his
hearthstone and maintained a discreet silence.
It cannot be doubted, however, that less prominent loyal
ists were more emphatically admonished of the error of their
ways than those who had long been recognized as able and
worthy leaders of the town, but with later years their stories
have passed into oblivion. The former town history pre
serves the record of one case which was probably especially
obnoxious to the town. It chanced that a deserter from the
British forces was captured in New Ipswich, and before being
returned to Boston was confined for a short time at the tavern
of Jonathan Dix, then standing on the site now held by the
house occupied for more than forty years by Rev. Samuel
Lee. The popular disapproval of the tavern-keeper's part in
that incident was expressed, not only by hanging him in
tHigy, but also by other methods of annoyance, some of which
probably would hardly bear relation in detail, so annoying
that he soon left the town and the country; and his property
in due time was confiscated to the state.
The former history names one member of Capt. Towne's
company whose fears amid the shot which greeted them be
fore their ascent of Bunker Hill were sufficient to overcome
not only whatever patriotism may have prompted his enlist
ment, but also the personal pride which had been manifested
by abundant boasts before reaching the line of danger, and
on the plea of sickness he sought release from duty, and also
some one to accompany him. The first part of his request
was granted, but the courage to go alone was supplied by
Capt. Towne's threat that "if he did not instantly scamper
he would run him through," and the induced activity was
sufficient to give rise to the tradition that he never stopped
running till he reached home. If this was really the case, his
rapid departure from the region of peril must have been of
considerably greater length than the fifty miles intervening
between Charlestown and New Ipswich, as the company roll
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The former history also names one soldier who traitor
ously deserted from his company, went over to the British,
and was included in the proscribing act of 1778, with the
penalty of death if he returned. The latter part of this story
of course must have rested upon the record, but, as the name
of Daniel Farnsworth does not appear on any of the 3500
pages of company rolls and other Revolutionary documents,
supposed to include all that have been found, the question
unavoidably arises whether he really broke the soldier's
pledged faith, or was only one of the tories who by some act
more offensive than that of most of his fellow loyalists brought
his name, like that of Jonathan Dix, upon the roll of proscrip
tion. There is much of interest that might be drawn from the
town records suggesting the caution and discretion with which
the questions arising amid the difficulties which were ever
demanding resolute decisions were considered. Conclusions
were sometimes reached which now seem to have been errone
ous, but the marvel of the record is that, walking in a path
so nearly untrodden, the leaders of the town should have
decided so wisely as the result proves that they did.
The device adopted by the colonies at the time when it
was sought to deprive them of such measure of self-
government as they had previously been granted was the or
ganization of the town and state "Committees of Correspon
dence," called sometimes by other names but practically the
same in effect, with powets so undefined as to be capable of
almost instantaneous abridgement or expansion, as the con
dition required. This has been regarded with wonder and
admiration by students of history because of its general es
cape from the errors of action the probabilities of which nec
essarily inhere in such form of control, and especially at the
successful and peaceful passage from this temporary and un
lawful expedient to a formal government fitted to endure.
Those things could not have been but for the wonderfully
balanced powers of perception and of judgment developed by
the severe but most instructive experience of the Pilgrim and
the Puritan settlers whose children guided the early steps of
the colonies. The consideration of the story of the part borne
by New Ipswich in this struggle which marked an epoch in
the world's history must not close without naming the men of
the town who did the work of these committees within its
bounds, as written in the town records.
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March 13, 1775. "Chose as Committee of Correspondence
and inspection Ephraim Adams, Joseph Bates, Josiah Brown,
Isaac How, John Breed, William Shattuck, Eleazer Cum
mings, Edmond Briant, Benj. Knowlton."
May 29, 1775. "Nathaniel Stone was substituted in place
of Josiah Brown and the Committee was made a Committee
of Safety." Oct. 27, 1775. "Chose a new Committee of Inspection,
Safety and Correspondence. Chose Ephraim Adams, Paul
Prichard, Peter Fletcher, Samuel Whittemore, Joseph Bates."
Mar. 11, 1776. "Chose as Committee of Inspection, Safety
and Correspondence, — Josiah Brown, James Chandler, Benja
min Gibbs, Thomas Brown, Josiah Walton."
July 8, 1776. "Samuel Bartlett was substituted in place
of Thomas Brown."
Mar. 10, 1777. "Chose as new Committee of Inspection
Safety and Correspondence, — Thomas Heald, Nathaniel
Stone, Benjamin Hoar, Isaac Appleton, Ephraim Adams."
Mar. 9, 1778. "Chose as Committee of Safety, — Samuel
Whittemore, Francis Fletcher, Josiah Brown, Paul Prichard,
Benjamin Williams."
Mar. 8, 1779. "Chose as Committee of Safety, — Jonathan
Davis, Benjamin Adams, Thomas Heald, Josiah Walton,
Thomas Brown."

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CHAPTER VI
THE CIVIL WAR— 1861-65
^^HE patriotic spirit which had been shown so abundantly
-*- in the Revolutionary War, and continued through the War
of 1812, became strongly tinged with opposition to slavery.
This intense feeling was evinced by the long dispute through
out the country which culminated in the Missouri Compro
mise. New Ipswich was ever at the front in all that had to
do with liberty of act or thought or person. Later in the
earlier half of the nineteenth century this feeling was shown,
though in a less obtrusive way, by Anti-Slavery and Aboli
tion societies. Thus it was ready to be aroused to new life
by the outbreaking of the Civil War in April, 1861. Public
spirit was at white heat.
A special town meeting was called May 1, 1861, "to see
if the town will vote to appropriate such sum or sums of
money as will be necessary to arm and equip such persons as
enlist from the town of New Ipswich for the defence of our
country in the present crisis." At this meeting no definite
action was taken, but another meeting was called to meet
on May 21, with a broader outlook. Three articles with
very practical points were offered:
"To see if the Town will raise money or authorize the
selectmen to borrow money to arm and equip a voluntary
company, and to provide uniforms for the same."
"To see if the Town will take measures to provide for
the families of such persons as may be called into actual
service." "To adopt any other measures which may be deemed
proper to aid in quelling Rebellion, arresting traitors, if un
fortunately any should be found in our vicinity, and provide
such sums of money as may be necessary to accomplish the
object." At the meeting three resolutions were adopted :
"Resolved, that a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars be raised
by the town for the purchase of materials for a uniform for the Military
Company now formed in town and that the selectmen be instructed to
assess the same upon the polls and taxable estate in the town. The
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cost of each uniform to the town not to exceed the sum of ten dollars,
and the property in the uniforms to be vested in the town, said uniforms
to be loaned by the town to the company, as long as they shall be or
ganized and shall perform military duty."
"Resolved that the selectmen be instructed to render aid to the families
of such residents of this town that have enlisted in this state or any
other, or that may enlist for the term of three years, or the war, and
be actually called into service by the Authority of this State as may
from time to time be necessary, and that a sum not exceeding two
thousand dollars be raised for that purpose to be assessed upon the
polls and taxable estates, whenever such sum or any part of it may
become necessary."
"Resolved that a Committee of five be appointed, whose duty it
shall be rigorously to prosecute any person or persons who may be
deemed by them guilty of Treason to our Country in this hour of peril,
and that the sum of one hundred dollars be appropriated to pay necessary
expenses. No part of said sum however to be received by said Com
mittee for their own services, and all bills to be approved by the
selectmen." The committee appointed by the moderator, Hosea Eaton,
and accepted by vote of the town, was John Preston, Nathan
Sanders, William Prichard, James Chandler, John U. Davis.
Another town meeting on October 31 was called "To see
if the town will vote to raise money to aid the families of
volunteers agreeable to Chapter 248 of the Pamphlet Laws
passed June session 1861 or anything relating thereto."
At this meeting "The following resolution offered by John
Preston Esquire was passed unanimously. Resolved that the
selectmen be authorized to borrow on the credit of the town
from time to time such sums as may be necessary to pay
to the full extent authorized by law the families of soldiers,
and that in so doing they give the most liberal construction
of the law in deciding upon those entitled to relief."
No war action was taken at the annual meeting of 1862,
but on August 12 the town was called upon to say "what
the town will do in relation to paying a bounty to volunteers
should any hereafter be called for to fill up the quota from
this town for the present war," and it was voted "That a
bounty of one hundred dollars be paid by the town to every
volunteer who shall be accepted and mustered into the service
of the United States for the term of three years or during
the war under the recent call of the President for three hun
dred thousand volunteers, and also that a bounty of fifty
dollars be paid by the town for each of so many volunteers
as may be necessary to supply the quota of men required
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for service for the term of nine months, and that the select
men be authorized to borrow so much money on the credit
of the town as may be necessary to pay all such persons
who may be accepted and mustered into the service of the
United States, under the said requisition of the President, and
also that the families of those who volunteer for the nine
months shall have the same aid allowed to them by the town
as is now allowed to the three years men."
Again in 1863 the annual town meeting took no action in
reference to the war, but on August 31 three articles were
presented for the consideration of a special meeting.
"To see if the town will vote to pay to every man belonging
to New Ipswich who may be drafted under the law of the
United States and may be mustered into the service of the
United States or to any Substitute of any man so drafted the
sum of three hundred dollars in ten days after such drafted
soldier or his substitute shall be mustered into such service,
and also furnish aid to the families of drafted men or sub
stitutes." "To raise money by a loan or otherwise to pay such sums
as may be required to carry into effect the provisions of the
above article and to raise any committee or committees nec
essary." "To see if the town will vote to pay a bounty of one hun
dred dollars to all volunteers from New Ipswich who are
now in the service of the United States who have not received
a town bounty, and likewise to the heirs of those who have
died in the service."
To the first question the town replied by the following
resolution offered by John Preston,. Esq.
"Resolved that the town will pay to every soldier who may
be drafted, accepted and actually mustered into the service
of the United States under the recent conscription law of
Congress the sum of three hundred dollars in ten days after
said drafted soldiers shall have been mustered into said ser
vice, and also that the town will pay for a substitute for any
such man so drafted a sum not exceeding three hundred dol
lars to be paid when such substitute shall have been accepted
and been mustered into said service ten days."
To meet the second one it was "voted that the selectmen
be a committee to borrow on the credit of the town so much
money as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of
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the above act, and that they be the disbursing committee."
The remaining article was indefinitely postponed.
November 25, 1863, the problem had taken the form pre
sented in the warrant for another meeting: "To see if the
town will raise money by loan or otherwise to pay a bounty
for a sufficient number of volunteers to meet the requisition
upon the town under the recent call of the president of the
United States for three hundred thousand volunteers or to
take any measure to raise a sufficient number of men to
avoid the necessity of a draft on the fifth of January next."
It was "resolved that the town treasurer be authorized to
borrow on the credit of the town the sum of seven thousand
two hundred dollars to pay as a bounty for eighteen volun
teers, the number of men required of the town, and that the
treasurer be further authorized to take the transfer of the
said volunteers of the bounty from the State and the United
States and to collect said bounties and make payment of the
same as far as may be to liquidate said town."
This action was taken on the motion of Esquire Preston,
as was also a vote of thanks to "Hon. Hosea Eaton for his
prompt action in procuring volunteers to the number re
quired of the town."
At the annual meeting in March, 1864, it was "voted to
pay the sum of three hundred dollars to all veteran volun
teers that have or may reenlist."
On August 4 the town met the question of filling its
"quota for five thousand soldiers called for by the United
States 18th of July 1864" with a vote "that the selectmen
be authorized to fill the quota of the town for the present
call for troops, and also be authorized to borrow on the credit
of the town such sums of money, not exceeding fifteen thou
sand dollars, as may be necessary for that purpose."
The condition at the time of the presidential election in
the following November and the frame of mind at that time
is lecalled by an article in the warrant for that meeting: "To
see if the town will continue to pay a bounty in anticipation
of a call that may be made by the President of the United
States for soldiers," and still more plainly by the answer of
the town when it "voted that the selectmen be authorized
to pay bounty for soldiers, the amount of money to be paid
to be left to their discretion."
The whole amount expended by the town as given in the
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"Report of the Commissioners upon the War Expenditures
of the towns and cities in the State of New Hampshire" was
$13,150. Selectmen, 1861-65: 1861-62, George W. Wheeler 2d,
George Whiting, Sewell O. Chandler; 1863, John U. Davis;
George C. Campbell, Charles B. Preston ; 1864, John U. Davis,
George C. Campbell, Emerson Howe ; 1865, Emerson Howe,
Reuben Taylor, Horace Wheeler.
Within a few days after the first call for troops a squad
of men were drilled on the common near the church twice a
week by Capt. Jonas Nutting of the state militia. Capt.
Nutting, himself past middle life, was one of the first to
enlist and was soon followed by four of his sons. In Novem
ber the New Ipswich men were mustered in at Keene. De
cember 25, the Sixth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers,
for which New Ipswich furnished twenty-three men, was
ordered to Washington and began the soldier's life, which
was to continue for three years.
"The Regiment during its term of service in seventeen
different states was in 21 engagements, meeting all the re
quisitions of duty however onerous or perilous with cheerful
and ready efficiency. While it is not asserted that the Sixth
was the best regiment sent out from New Hampshire the
claim may be made, and can be maintained, that it was equal
to the best. Its record has added a brilliant chapter to the
history of New Hampshire's always glorious achievements
in war." (Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of Neiv
Hampshire in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-66. A. D. Ay ling.
Adjutant General.)
New Ipswich was also specially interested in the Thirteenth
Regiment, as nineteen of her men were in the ranks, having
been enrolled in October, 1861. The regiment was in "more
than twenty engagements, beside days and days of skirmish
ing.'" It had the proud distinction of being the first Union regi
ment and its flags the first flags of the Union army to enter
Richmond on its occupation April 3, 1865. "At once the
Brigade was engaged in restoring order, putting out fires and
gathering into Libby prison more than two thousand soldiers
of Lee's army." Later in May it had the honor to receive
Gen. Sherman's army as it passed through Richmond. "Its
character for efficiency, patriotism, intelligence, bravery, and
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trustworthiness made it surely one of the nation's most prom
inent historic Regiments." (Ayling.)
Meantime the women of New Ipswich were bravely doing
their part. A Soldier's Aid Society was organized in October,
1861, and carried on its work with vigor and enthusiasm. To
the army in the field were sent woolen garments, stockings,
"comfort bags" — more than _ five hundred — and in large
amount dried apples and other fruits. To the hospitals were
sent pillows, dressing-gowns, lint, bandages, cordials, and all
that could be found in a New England home for the comfort
of an invalid. To all were sent newspapers and writing ma
terials. If sometimes a letter was added to a package the
recipient thought himself specially fortunate. House mothers
gave until only enough was left of their treasured supplies to
meet the needs of their own households. It must be remem
bered that supplies of all kinds were held at fabulous prices;
that stockings and nearly all garments were made by hand,
bandages rolled, and lint scraped in the same way; but the
hearts of the workers were warm and for four years they lived
at high pressure.
At length, after four years of strife and sufferings in camp
and on the field, four years of wearisome suspense and fear in
the homes of all the land, the struggle was ended. Lee had
surrendered, and there was jubilant rejoicing in this quiet, lit
tle village ; ringing of bells, firing of cannon, illuminations, con
gratulations of all who met in the street. The day was given
up to varied expression of joy. That was Monday, April 10;
Saturday, April 15, President Lincoln died and joy was changed
to bitter sorrow. On the Sabbath the church was draped with
black. Mr. Cutler, the young pastor, in the church service
voiced the griefs of all hearts.
After the close of the war the wants of the Freedmen — so
helpless in their sudden release from the care as well as the
bondage of their masters — ^appealed the more to the people of
the North, since the conquered South was unable to care for
them, and for years relief was given until help could be ren
dered by organized charities. By the payment of $200 a year
New Ipswich for three years supported a teacher for the
Freedmen. Prices During the Civil War. — From an expense book,
1862-65, we quote these prices, most of them in the hand
writing of William W. Johnson: Meal (bag), $3.90; sugar
(pound), 30 cents; molasses (gallon), $1.00; kerosene oil
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The Union League
(gallon), $1.10; nutmegs (pound), $2.00; butter (pound), 50
cents; cotton cloth, unbleached (yard), $1.00; gold, $2.S5j4.
In Boston flour by the carload was sold per barrel $25.00.
During the Civil War there were in the Northern States
many sympathizers with the South who used all their power
and influence to have the Confederacy recognized by foreign
powers. To counteract the effect of this party the Union
League was organized. It included patriotic men who for age
or any other reason were unable to go to the front, but who
by every means in their power bravely upheld the cause of
Liberty here in the North. A branch of the league was or
ganized in New Ipswich. Its work, though necessarily quiet,
was effective and a power in the region. Prof. E. T. Quimby
was the president of the local league and Prof. C. H. Chandler
held some office, probably that of secretary. No records can
be found which give any clue to the number of members.
In 1878 a soldiers' monument was erected on the Village
Green at the foot of the Academy campus. Its height is
twenty-two feet and six inches — a simple granite shaft above
a base standing four-square, bearing this inscription on the
north side : NEW IPSWICH
TO THE
MEMORY OF
HER BRAVE SONS
WHO GAVE THEIR
LIVES FOR THEIR
COUNTRY DURING
THE WAR OF
THE REBELLION

ERECTED 1878
The following names are inscribed on the other sides of
the base. William L. Weston Allen A. Nutting
John Pike John F. Knowlton
Abner P. Cragin John K. Walker
Warren P. Locke Josiah P. Wheeler
Walter Ray Warren C. Nicholas
Patrick Ready Andrew L. Swallow
John P. Shattuck William A. Mansur
Francis Nutting Albert H. Davis
George H. Nutting Edward E. Davis
Charles L. Nutting 113

History of New Ipswich NEW IPSWICH SOLDIERS IN

Namb

Appleton, Eugene F. .
Avery, James E. . . .
Baxter, Albert F. . .
Blanchard, Edwin F. .
Blanchard, Thomas W.
Blood, Luther .
Bolton, Charles L. . .
Boodry, Augustine W.
Bucknam, John B.
Carr, Edward J. .
Chamberlin, Charles
Chandler, James O.
Cragin, Abner P. .
Davis, Edward E.

Davis, Albert H. .
Donley, Michael P. .

Eddy, John 
Edwards, George F. .
Fisher, Albert G. . .
Fletcher, Benjamin M.
Fowler, Archibald C. .
Fowler, John H. . . .
Freeman, Sherwood A.
Frissel, William B. . .
Fuller, Andrew C. . .
Garland, James . .
Goulding, Charles H. .
Greenleaf, Paul . . .

Dublin, N. H. . .
Peterboro . . .
Central Falls, R. I.
New Ipswich . .
Westmoreland Groton, Mass .
Paisley, Scot. .
Pawtucket, R. I.
New Ipswich .
New Ipswich .
Newbury . .
Pittsfield . . .

Temple

Ashby, Mass.
Trim, Ireland
Northboro .
New Ipswich
Francestown
Albany . .

Madrid, N. Y.
Thetford, Vt.
WestminsterEllsworth, Me.
Millbury, Mass.
Pittsfield . . .

Agb

24 23 181918
26
23 18
20 19
33 24
23

242438 18
23 35 19
41 23 36 2931
2424

Rbsidbncb

New Ipswich

Eni,istbd

Aug. 15, 1862
Aug. 14, 1862
May 15, 1861
Aug. 26, 1864
Aug. 20, 1862
Aug. 16, 1862
July 2, 1861
Aug. 9, 1862
Aug. 8, 1862
Aug. 16, 1862
July 25, 1862
May 22, 1861
Aug. 12, 1862
July, 1863
Oct. 22, 1861
Aug. 7, 1861
Sept. 24, 1861
Nov. 18, 1861
Oct. 2, 1861
Aug. IS, 1862
Sept. 29, 1862
Sept. 29, 1862
Aug. 20, 1862
Nov. 14, 1861
Aug. 9, 1862
Oct. 19, 1861
May 24, 1861
Oct. 17, 1861

114

New Ipswich Soldiers
THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.

RBGT. Co.

Rbmarks.

Died

Rank Whbn
DiSCHARGBD

13 N. H. Inf., G

Discharged disabled May 5,
1863.

Mar. 11, 1874

13 N. H. Inf., G

Discharged disabled Feb. 28,
1863.

2 N. H. Inf., G

Wounded and missing at Get
tysburg July 2, 1863.

4 Mass. H. Art. H
Wound, sev. at Fort Harrison,
Va., Sept. 29, 1864.
.
Corporal
13 N. H. Inf., G
13 N. H. Inf., G
Wound. Mar. 8, 1865. Disc.
for wounds Dec. 22, 1865.
17 Mass. Inf. H
13 N. H. Inf., G
Wound, sev. at Cold Harbor,
Va., June 7, 1864.
• •
Corporal
9 N. H. Inf., I
13 N. H. Inf., I
9 N. H. Inf., D
Died of disease, Falmouth, Va.
Dec. 7, 1862
2 N. H. Inf., I
Discharged disabled May 28,
1863.
. . .
Captain
13 N. H. Inf., G
Discharged disabled May 26,
1863.
1 Minn. Inf., F
Died at Fortress Monroe of
wounds neglected while in
prison.
6 N. H. Inf., K
Killed at Fredericksburg, Va.
Dec. 13, 1862
3 N. H. Inf., E
Capt. Co. E, Apr. 6, 1865 . .
May 31, 1910,
at Tilton
Captain
4 N. H. Inf.
Enlisted as Musician ....
Aug. 11, 1866
3 Mass. Cav., M
Discharged disabled June, 1862.
2 U. S. Sh. Shooters
Discharged disabled June 6,
1863.
13 N. H. Inf., G
Sept. 11, 1871
1st Lieut
47 Mass. Inf., F
X. O L .L-tfJLVL4W»
47 Mass. Inf., F
13 N. H. Inf., G
Afterwards served Co. C, 1 H.
Art.
6 N. H. Inf., K
Discharged Nov. 28, 1864. .
.
1st Sergt.
13 N. H. Inf., G
6 N. H. Inf., K
Discharged disabled Jan. 23,
1863.
2 N. H. Inf., G
Discharged disabled Aug. 8,
1861.
6 N. H. Inf., K
Discharged disabled Oct. 4,
1862.
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Hickoch, Thomas J. .
Hubbard, John .
Hull, Charles H. .
Isaacs, Charles E.
Judkins, Samuel E. .
Knowlton, John F. . .
Knowlton, William R. .
LeRoy, David . . .
Locke, Warren P.
Mansfield, Jonathan N.
Mansur, Wilham E. . .
Marvin, James H. .
McConnell, Jonathan .
McDonald, Michael
Nicholas, Warren C. .
Nutting, Charles P. . .
Nutting, Charles S.
Nutting, George H. .
Nutting, George P. . .

Nutting, James Francis
Nutting, John C. .
Nutting, Jonas . . .
Nutting, Allien A. . .
Oliver, Lucius C. . .

Peavy, Wallace .
Pike, John . . .
Potter, George F.

Pratt, Charles H.
Pratt, Daniel F. .
Proctor, Amos J. .

Cambridgeport, Mass.
Mason 
Lowell, Mass. . .
Plymouth, Mich. .
New Ipswich . . .
New Ipswich . . .
Westboro, Mass. . .
New York City .

FitchburgTemple . .
Williston, Vt.
Paisley Scot.
Lowell, Mass. .
New Ipswich .
New Ipswich
New Ipswich .
New Ipswich . .
Ashburnham, Mass
New Ipswich
Ashburnham, Mass.
Westford, Mass .
New Ipswich . .
New Ipswich . .
Peterboro . .
Haverhill, Mass.
New Ipswich
Marlboro Marlboro Stoddard . . .

Residence

20 20 27 18 22 19
4134
2243 51
2838
20 2824 23 25 25

18
28 56 18
22

19
4526
24
22 31

New Ipswich

June Oct.

JulyAug. Aug. Oct.

June 13, 1861

14, 1861
15, 1861

Feb. 16, 1865

19, 1861
18, 1862
15, 1861
31, 1861

Nov. 7, 1861
Oct. 27, 1861
Oct. IS, 1861
Nov. 23, 1861
Aug. 12, 1862
Nov. 21, 1861
Aug. 13, 1862
Aug. 29, 1861
Oct. 29, 1861
Aug. 15, 1862
Aug. 20, 1861
Oct. IS, 1861
Sept. 14, 1861
Nov. 30, 1861
May 25, 1861
Aug. 9, 1862
Mar. 14, 1864
Oct. 28, 1861
July 14, 1863
Aug. 14, 1862
Aug. 16, 1862
Aug. 14, 1862

116

New Ipswich Soldiers
THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.

RBGT. Co.

Remarks

Died

Rank Whbn
Discharged

11 Mass. Inf., K

Missing at Bull Rvm Aug. 29,
1861.

10 Mass. Inf., K

Appt. Captain Jan. 13, 1863. .

6 N. H. Inf., K
Discharged disabled Jan. 13,
1863.
Totally blind from spotted
fever.
2d Lieut.
6 N. H. Inf., K
Discharged Apr. 1, 1863. . .
13 N. H. Inf., G
Died Newport News. . . .
Mar. 4, 1863
24 N. H. Inf., E
6 N. H. Inf., K
Musician, discharged disabled
Jan. 23, 1863.
32 Mass. Inf., B
Killed at Bethesda Church, Va.
June 3, 1864
6 N. H. Inf., K
Killed at Petersburg, Va. .
July 7, 1864
6 N. H. Inf., K
Died from wounds 
Sept. 25, 1862
6 N. H. Inf., K
Discharged June 29, 1865. . .
13 N. H. Inf., G
3 Mass. Cav., M
Discharged June 6, 1865. . .
1st Lieut.
13 N. H. Inf., G
Killed at Cold Harbor, Va. .
June 1, ' 1864
4 N. H. Inf., C
Discharged Sept. 27, 1864. .
6 N. H. Inf., K
Died of disease, Roanoke Is
land, N. C.
Mar. 29, 1862
13 N. H. Inf., G
Died of wounds, Washington,
D. C.
July 4, 1864
3 N. H. Inf., E
Appt. 1st Sergeant Oct. 11,
1862. Disch. dis. Mar. 11,
1863.
Mar. 20, 1874
6 N. H. Inf., K
Died of disease, Annapolis,
Md.
Jan. IS, 1862
4 N. H. Inf., I
Appt. Sergeant.
6 N. H. Inf., K
Discharged May 15, 1862. .
June 20, 1873
1st Lieut.
2 Mass. Inf., D
Appt. Sergeant. Killed. . .
June 9, 1863
13 N. H. Inf., G
First Lieut. Co. I, Mar. 1,
1865. Mustered out June 1,
1865.
1 N. H. Cav. M
Wounded Nov. 12, 1864.
Mustered out July 15, 1865.
6 N. H. Inf., K
Died of disease, Winchester,
Ky.
Apr. 12, 1863
Musician
16 Mass. Inf., H
Wounded June 18, 1864. . .
13 N. H. Inf., G
Discharged Sept. 18, 1865. .
13 N. H. Inf., G
Discharged disabled Jan. 28,
1863.
Sergeant
13 N. H. Inf., G
Discharged disabled May 28,
1863.
117
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NEW IPSWICH SOLDIERS IN

Namb

Ray, Walter . . .
Reddy, Patrick . . .
Robinson, Charles 1st

Saunders, Edward A.
Shattuck, George W.
Shattuck, John B. .
Sheldon, Charles B. .
Simons, Willard
Simpson, James . .
Smith, Augustus . .
Smith, George 3rd .
Smith, Gideon H.
Spear, Joseph A. . .
Stratton, Charles H.

Stratton, James S. .
Swallow, Andrevc S.
Tebbits, George B. .
Thayer, Edward A.
Walker, John K. . .
Walton, Charles . .
Weston, William L.
Wheeler, Josiah P. .

Whitney, John H.
Wilson, George W.
Wilson, William H.
Wright, Albert F.
Wright, Charles A.
Wright, Edward .
Weston, Frank .

Born

Manchester, Eng.

IrelandMason

Westburne, N.
New Ipswich .
Temple . . .

Groton, Mass.
New York City
Underbill, Vt.
England . . .

Central Falls, R.
New Ipswich .
New Ipswich .

New Ipswich .
Dunstable, Mass.
New Ipswich
New Ipswich .
New Ipswich .
Rindge . . .

Westminster, Mass.

Dudley, Conn. .
New Ipswich .
New Ipswich .
Mason . .
Mason Westford, Mass.
Nashua, N. H.

118

18
3645 1818
26 3025 30
22
27 21
25 15

19
3720 18
2S 45 18
28

23 18
21 19 19
38

Residence

New Ipswich

Enlisted

Dec. 7, 1861
Nov. 12, 186
July 31, 186
Nov. 12, 186
Oct. 21, 186
Sept. 5, 186
Dec. 3, 186
Oct. IS, 186
Nov. 12, 186
Dec. 23, 186
Nov. 10, 1863
Dec 16, 186
Oct. 7, 186
Aug., 186

June, 186:
Oct. 16, 186
Sept. 20, 186
Nov. 12, 186:
July 12, 186
Oct. 14, 186:
Nov. 12, 186:
Aug. 29, 186

Aug. 9. 1862
Sept. 13, 1862
Aug. 13, 1862
Nov. 12, 1861
Nov. 12, 1861
May 20, 1861
Apr. 23, 1861

New Ipswich Soldiers
THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.

Co.

N. H. Cav. M.

6 N. H.
3 N. H.

Inf., K
Inf., E

3 Mass. Cav., M

6 N. H.
4 N. H.
N. H.
6 N. H.
6 N. H.
N. H.

Inf., K
Inf., I
Cav. M
Inf., K
Inf., K
Cav., M

8 N. H. Inf., A

N. H.
8 N. H.
25 Mass.

Cav., M
Inf., D
Inf., F

21 Mass. Inf., G
6 N. H. Inf., K
5 N. H. Inf., I
3 Mass. Cav., M
IS Mass. Inf., B
6 N. H. Inf., K
3 Mass. Cav., M
4

13 N. H. Inf., G
6 N. H. Inf., K
13 N. H. Inf., G
6 N. H. Inf., K
6 N. H. Inf., K
2 N. H. Inf., G
11 Mass. Inf., E

Re-enlisted Jan. 1, 1864; killed,
Lac/s Springs, Va.,
Died of disease, Milldale, Miss.
Discharged disabled Feb. 11,
1862.
Discharged disabled June 16,
1862.
Discharged Dec. 11, 1865. . .
Died of disease 
Twice captured. Discharged
June 14, 1865.
Discharged Jan. 31, 1863.
Captured. Killed Columbia
Furnace.
In prison more than six mo.
Mustered out Oct. 28, 1865.
Mustered out July IS, 1865. .

Lost leg at Roanoke Island,
but served through the war
in Vet. Reserve Corps.
Killed at Antietam 
Died of disease 
Discharged disabled Sept. 13,
1862.
Capt. Co. H, 1st Lousiana Cav.
Resigned Dec. 14, 1863.
Killed 
Discharged Mar. 4, 1863. . .
Discharged disabled June, 1862.
Accidentally killed on cars
while a prisoner enroute
from Andersonville to Sa
vannah.
Mustered out June 21, 1865. .
Discharged May 12, 1865. . .
Discharged Sept. 18, 1865, .
Discharged disabled Oct. 16,
1862.
Mustered out July 17, 1865. .
Discharged for wounds Oct.
28, 1862. Died at Rindge.
Disch. June 24, 1864. Cap
tured at Malvern Hill July,
1862. In Libby prison, pa
roled Aug. 7, 1862.

Dec. 26, 1864
July 30, 1863

Aug. 9, 1863

Oct. 6, 1864

Sept. 17, 1862
July 4, 1862
Apr. 24, 1867

Oct. 21, 1861
Sept. 13, 1864

Feb. 25, 1873

Rank Whbn
Discharged

Corporal
Corporal

Sergeant

1st Serg.
Corporal

CaptainSergeant
Wagoner Sergeant

119

History of New Ipswich BORN IN NEW IPSWICH,

Name

Aiken, George H. .
Aiken, John C. . .
Ainsworth, William P
Austin, Albert T. .
Baldwin, Edwin T. .
Boyce, James L. . .
Brown, Marshall L. .
Chapman, Charles .
Cragin, Clark . . .
Emory, George E. .
Felt, George D. . .
Fuller, Granville L. .
Hardy, William H..
Harvey, Charles L. .
Hildreth, William H.
Joslin, Charles . . .
Lawrence, Charles A.

Lee, Samuel W. . .
Livingstone, Harrison M.
Matthews, Frank . .
Maxwell, Henry F. .
Preston, George P. .
Preston, Seth . . .
Prichard, George H.
Stearns, John E. . .
Tenney, George F. .
Tyler, Humphrey M.
Wheeler, H. B. . .

Born

Age

New Ipswich

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Credited to

Amherst MilfordNashuaMasonNashua

Walpole Keene .
Dublin

Jaflfrey . . .
Lowell, Mass. .
Temple . . .
Manchester Sharon . . .
Chesterfield . .
Ashby, Mass. .
Deering . . .
Nashua . . .

Chicago
Mason

Peterboro . .
Woburn, Mass.

Jaffrey MasonHillsboroMason
Hollis . .
Milford .
Peterboro

Enlisted

Aug. 21, 1862
Aug. 21, 1862
Dec. 2, 1861
Sept. 27, 1862
June 4, 1861
Nov. 21, 1862
Nov. 12, 1861
Aug. 23, 1862
Oct. 8, 1861
Dec. 5, 1861
Apr. 30, 1861
Oct. 1, 1861
Oct. 15, 1861
Aug. 29, 1861
Aug. 26, 1864
Aug. 29, 1861
Sept. 30, 1861
Aug., 1863
Sept. 2, 1862
Aug. 30, 1861
Sept. 10, 1864
Oct. 22, 1861
Oct. 2, 1861
Aug. 12, 1862
Sept. 15, 1862
Sept. 1, 1862
Sept. 3, 1864
Aug. 12, 1862

120

New Ipswich Soldiers
BUT ENLISTED ELSEWHERE.

Regt.

Co.

Remarks

Died

Rank When
Discharged

10 N. H.

Inf.,

H

Appointed Hospital Steward.
Mustered out June 1, 1865.

10 N. H.

Inf.,

H

Twice wounded. Mustered out
June 7, 1865.

1st Serg.
N. H.
Cav.,
M
Killed Fort Royal, Va. . . .
May 30, 1862
16 N. H.
Inf.,
C
Died of disease. Port Hudson,
La.
Aug. 1, 1863
1 N. H.
Inf.,
C
Leader of Baldwin Cornet
Band.
16 N. H.
Inf.,
E
Mustered out Aug. 20, 1863. .
Aug. 25, 1863
6 N. H.
Inf.,Inf.,
E F
Mustered out July 17, 1865. .
Asst. Surgeon
10 N. H.
Discharged disabled Jan. 16,
1863.
5 N. H.
Inf.,
D
Mustered out Oct. 29, 1864. .
8 N. H.
Inf.,
D
Mustered out Oct. 28, 1865. .
2 N. H.
Inf.,
G
Died of wounds 
Nov. 6, 1862
7 N. H.
Inf.,
A
Mustered out July 20, 1865 .
Jan. 18, 1869
6 N. H.
Inf.,
K
Discharged disabled June 2,
1865.
2 N. H.
Inf.,
C
Discharged disabled Nov. 29,
1862.
4 Mass.
H. Art. H
Mustered out June 17, 1865. .
4 N. H.
Inf.,
C
Discharged Sept. 1, 1865. . .
7 N. H.
Inf.,
B
Twice wounded. Appt. Capt.
Co. B, Nov. 2, 1864.
6 111.
Cav.
F
16 N. H.
Inf.,
C
Appt. Serg. Mustered out
Aug. 20, 1863.
4 N. H.
Inf.,
Vol.
E B
Mustered out Aug. 23, 1865. .
Corporal
11 Mass.
Mustered out June 4, 1865. .
6 N. H.
Inf.,
K
Discharged on account ol
wounds Jan. 26, 1863.
8 N. H.
Inf.,
B
Mustered out Oct. 28, 1865. .
Dec. 19, 1867
Sergeant
11 N. H.
Inf.,
D
Twice wounded. Discharged
disabled Oct. 25, 1864.
Aug. 19, 1864
16 N. H.
Inf.
C
Mustered out Aug. 20, 1863 .
IS N. H.
Inf.,
E
Discharged Aug. 13, 1863. Died
at Townsend.
Aug. 27, 1863
18 N. H.
Inf.
F
Mustered out June 10, 1865.
Died at Togus.
May 26, 1887
Sergeant
13 N. H.
Inf.,
G
Wounded. Mustered out June
22, 1865. Died at Rindge.
Feb. 28, 1884
Lieutenant
121
CHAPTER VII
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY
IVTEW Ipswich was originally settled by men who feared
¦^ * God and recognized their obligation to sustain the in
stitutions of religion. Previous to the coming of the settlers
under the Massachusetts Grant men were sent forward "to
erect a convenient meeting house," and the first structure of
any kind reared within the territory of the town was for
religious worship. The Masonian charter (June 16, 1749)
specified that the Grantees reserve ten acres of land there,
i. e., around said meeting-house. "And said Grantees shall
within seven years settle a learned and orthodox minister in
said township, and for whom suitable provision shall be
made." The site of the first meeting-house was located by the
son of Judge Timothy Farrar at the time of the church cen
tennial (1860) as being on the hill east of the Farrar house
"on a small plat ten rods S. 6° SCX E. from the highest point
on the hill." This building was burned in the winter of 1748.
Among the papers of Prof. Chandler I find this note (authority
not given) : "The meeting-house stood on the Farrar's hill
and was thirty feet square, built of logs being nicely hewn
and roofed with bark. The superior elegance of this temple
excited the wonder of the neighboring towns."
In 1752 the town voted to build a meeting-house, and
after much discussion it was decided to place it on "Lott No.
1 in the 10th Range." Meantime, (October, 1753,) it was
voted to "meet at the house of Joseph Kidder for the future,"
which stood on the site of the house now occupied by Mrs.
Frank W. Preston. This house was finished in February,
1759. At once it was voted "to sect ye meeting house" and
a committee was chosen for the purpose. As seats were as
signed to individuals in the supposed order of their social
standing, it would seem to modern estimate that there would
be an abundant opportunity for criticism, but the majesty of
the law, even as represented by a committee chosen from one's
social peers, was then of more practical power than at the
present day. 122

Rev. Stephen Farrar
While waiting for an abidingplace the town had sought
to find a minister and a call was given to Mr. Peter Powers,
which he did not accept. Also Mr. Deliverance Smith declined
to settle here, although it was voted to give him "53 pounds
6 shillings & 8 pence Lawful Silver money as yearly sallery
if he settles with us so long as he sustains the Carator of our
Gospel Minister."
We will believe that a kindly Providence prevented these
two men from coming to this town that a better infiuence
might be brought to it in the person of Mr. Stephen Farrar,
who was called "to be our Gospel Minister in this place,"
November 28, 1759. His "Sallery was to be 40 pounds Starling
money of Grate Britton and 30 cord of good wood, Cord wood
length to be delivered at his house anually." This call was
accepted by Mr. Farrar July 30, 1760.
The formal organization of the church took place Octo
ber 21, 1760, and the following day Stephen Farrar was
ordained and installed pastor of the church. It is not an
overstatement to say that no one event in the history of the
town has been of greater importance. The infiuence of this
young pastor in the formative period of the growth of the
town, coming here in the vigor and enthusiasm of early man
hood, aided by the prestige in those early days accorded to
his profession, has made itself felt to the present day. The
bond between pastor and people was strong, and increasing
year by year was broken only by his death.
The church at its organization consisted of twenty-one
members; to these, before 1772, thirty-eight others were
added. The records are tantalizingly imperfect. Save a par
tial record of admissions and baptisms, only one item of
business is recorded previous to 1800, and all the records are
written on four leaves measuring six by four inches. In that
year a bound volume was obtained which contains the records
of 1800-1834, but they were written with no regard to chrono
logical order and the confusion is misleading and discouraging.
Fortunately for the historian of the future, the contents of
this volume have been transcribed in proper order and are
now accessible.
Within three years the growing population of the town
made the meeting-house too small for its needs, and in 1762
an article was in the warrant for town meeting "to see if they
[the Proprietors] will make preparations for Building a meet-
123

History of New Ipswich
ing house." Controversy as to the location and dimensions
of the house ensued and it was not finished until 1770. When
it was "erected and covered," after long discussion it was
decided that the "Pews shall be sold at public vendue to the
highest bidder." This auction was held November 25, 1768.
A list of the buyers is given.
Charles Barrett £82 Is. No. 29 A body pew, pews on three sides.
Thomas Heald £80 1 Next to S. door.
Francis Appleton £80 7 Next to East door.
Benjamin Adams £80 10 In amen corner next to N. E. pew.
Moses Tucker Jr. ],^^ ^q 3^^ ^^^^^^ ^f ^^^^
Benjamin Wheat \
Ephraim Adams £77 9 N. W. corner pew.
Jonathan Dix £76 16 N. E. corner pew.
Nathan Cutter £71 11 Amen corner, next to B. Adams.
Timothy Fox £66 34 Body pew, corner of block.
Peter Fletcher £64 31 Body pew, corner of block.
Eleazer Cummings £58 12 Amen corner, next to pulpit.
Josiah Brown £43 21 S. W. corner pew, next to stairs.
Andrew Spaulding £42 4 S. E. corner pew, next to stairs.
This house was directly opposite the old cemetery.
The "Great Revival" began in the winter of 1785-86 and
continued nearly a year. Early in the winter, at the quarterly
fast which the church had been accustomed to observe for
several years, an unusual number were present, and the pres
ence of the Holy Spirit was manifest in power. The people
could not go away "but remained to converse on their own
personal religion." Through the winter the work went on.
The season was one of great severity, but people went on
the crusted snow through the fields from one meeting to
another at a later hour. It is said that even the sick were
carried on beds. Sometimes Mr. Farrar preached in a barn
with the hearers seated on the floor and the scaffold. Ninety-
eight persons were added to the church within two years.
Mr. Farrar's pastorate was not marked by any other
events of special interest. He lived the quiet life of a country
minister, doing his duty to all, and was a power for good in
giving tone and direction to every project for the benefit of
the town. To him revered and beloved as "the Good Parson,"
June 23, 1809, the end came suddenly, and he went to join in
another world those of his flock to whom he had shown the
way to the heavenly gates.
Rev. Seth Payson preached the funeral sermon from the
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words, "And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and
made great lamentation over him." The town paid the ex
penses of his funeral and placed over his grave a marble slab
with the inscription. The people of his charge leave this stone
To mark the place
Where they have laid him.
On the one hundreth anniversary of Mr. Farrar's death
a simple service was held at his grave. An appreciative sketch
of his character and influence written by Miss Katharine
Preston, who is of his lineage, and read by Rev. C. R. Pea
cock, a poem by Dea. James Roger, formerly of Edinboro,
with prayer by Rev. W. R. Thompson, fitted the quiet sunset
hour, serene and beautiful, typical of the close of the life
which we met to commemorate.
Each year on June 23, a young woman whose heart is
filled with reverence for those who laid the broad foundations
of all that is good in the town places upon Mr. Farrar's grave
flowers gathered from the garden of his lifelong home.
Immediately after Mr. Farrar's death the town looked for
a successor. One or two candidates were heard, but it was
not easy to find a man who would fill the place of the lamented
and revered pastor. One candidate, so tradition relates, was
rejected because he wore white stockings, so unlike the black
and inconspicuous garments which were worn by Mr. Farrar.
December 5, 1811, a call was given by the town to Mr. Richard
Hall, and he was ordained March 12, 1812. In August of
that year he strengthened his relation to the people by his
marriage with Lucy, eldest daughter of Hon. Timothy Farrar
and niece of Rev. Mr. Farrar.
Before Mr. Hall came to the church a revival was in
progress which was greatly helped by his ministrations. In
1821-22 there was another revival of great power, and as the
fruit of the two there were added to the church about one
hundred and fifty persons. During his ministry a creed and
confession of faith was adopted, and all who were admitted
to the church were required to subscribe to it. It embodied
very strictly the theological tenets of the day.
The meeting-house became too small, and also so dilapi
dated that a new one was needed. The new building on the
spot where the present one stands was begun in 1812, and
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completed in 1813. "Modeled after Park Street meeting-house
in Boston, it was a stately building with graceful spire, a
perfect type of the colonial church and dear to the heart of
every one within sound of its sweet-toned bell."
In 1818 the first Sunday School was organized by the women
of the church. During the following winter it was suspended
but revived in the following spring, and has continued to this
day, the instrument of untold good. The widow Abigail Davis
was the first superintendent.
Mr. Hall died July 13, 1824, after a prolonged illness.
"His ministry was faithful and successful." "His mental
powers were above the ordinary grade, and he was noted
for his decision of character."
In 1823 a Religious Society was formed to cooperate with
the church by having special care of financial matters and
of general temporalities. It began with one hundred mem
bers, and George F. Farley was the first secretary. Thus
at the termination of Mr. Hall's ministry the official connec
tion of the town with the church ceased.
After much indecision and discussion the church gave a
call to Rev. Isaac R. Barbour October 4, 1824, and the in
stallation took place March 8, 1826. On August 22, of the
same year, on account of the health of his wife, he asked a
dismission. This request was granted only too willingly.
In choosing a successor to Mr. Barbour the church and
society were unanimous in the choice of Mr. Charles Walker,
who came here directly from Andover Theological Seminary.
The salary offered was $700, and he was ordained February
28, 1827. His ministry was conscientious and successful, es
pecially in enlisting a more general activity in the church.
Protracted meetings were held repeatedly, and conversions
were numerous. June 21, 1827, a committee was chosen to
visit the members of the church "to converse particularly on
the subject of religion." A committee of discipline was
chosen which did its work too faithfully for the peace of the
church. Members were disciplined for the most trivial causes,
and long-continued discussions were wasted on trifles light
as air. During the ministry of eight years there were one
hundred and six church meetings on business, many of them
beginning at nine o'clock in the morning and continuing until
late at night; also there were five councils or references, be-
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sides those of ordination and dismission. Mr. Walker was
dismissed August 26, 1835.
Rev. Charles Walker was born in Rindge, N. H., November
21, 1795. His father was a farmer of moderate means and the
son had to earn his education by his own exertions. He
graduated at Dartmouth College in 1823 and at Andover
Theological Seminary in 1826, being then more than thirty
years old. A man of fair talents, an impressive preacher, and
of a gentle spirit. After leaving this church he was settled
March 9, 1836, at Windsor, Conn. The last years of his life
were spent at Groton, Mass., where he died October 23, 1847.
At a meeting of the church January 18, 1836, "A subject
was presented by the Moderator for consultation, as to the
propriety or expediency of calling a man to settle with us as
a minister of the gospel without attending to the usual pre
liminary course of probation." "After some little consultation
it was moved and seconded that we present Rev. Samuel Lee
of Sherburne, Mass., a call to settle with us in the work of
the gospel ministry. The above motion was carried into
effect by vote of the church." The church knew of Mr. Lee
only from the report of a committee who had attended a
protracted meeting at Ashburnham, where he had been called
to assist the pastor.
The call, one of several under consideration at that time
by Mr. Lee, was accepted, and the installation took place on
May 5, 1836. Early in his ministry some changes took place.
So far as is known it had always been the custom of the
church that candidates for membership should appear before
a public church meeting, relate their religious experience, or
read a paper which they had written, and then be questioned
by any member of the church. This in itself was an ordeal
from which nearly every one would shrink. In July, 1837,
it was voted "That candidates for admission to the church
meet the Committee of Examination, and if by them approved,
be propounded three weeks at least previous to the time of
admission." Another revival came to this church in 1841-42, but unlike
some of previous years there was no excitement, but a calm,
intense earnestness which continued during nearly two years.
"There were added to the church one hundred and ten per
sons, several husbands and wives side by side, and most of
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them persons in middle life." In 1857-58 there was again
much religious interest, fifteen being added to the church,
beside a much larger number of students of the Academy
who would join their home churches.
Notwithstanding this increased religious interest other
agencies were at work. In 1841 the use of wine at the com
munion table was brought before the church. After pro
longed discussion and thought the church voted to continue
the use of wine as had been the custom ever since the time
of Christ. The vote stood eighty-four in favor of the use of
the wine, four against it. Thus that special question was defi
nitely settled. But the germ of discord grew with the years
and the church became divided on many questions. Advice
was asked and given by two ecclesiastical councils, and at
the suggestion of the second, many of the dissatisfied mem
bers asked for dismission and recommendation to other
churches, although it is certain that at Mason Village they did
not receive a cordial welcome.
The meeting-house, built in 1813, had become dilapidated
and in need of repair to render it comfortable or pleasing to
the eye. In 1851 it was remodeled by raising the floor and
removing the galleries, thus making the auditorium specially
fine in its acoustic properties. The beautiful proportions of
the former spire were retained, and from its height came the
tones of the sweet-voiced bell presented in 1815 by citizens of
the town. Within a few years it has been learned that this
bell came from the foundry of Paul Revere. This building
was burned July 15, 1902.
The church celebrated its centennial anniversary October
22, 1860. An historic discourse had been prepared by the
pastor, but as on account of ill-health he was not able to
deliver it, it was read by Rev. Mr. Fisher of Mason Village,
Rev. Mr. Bell of Ashby, and Rev. Isaac Stearns Perry of
Bellows Falls, Vt. The following was the programme pre
pared by the committee in charge.
Gathering at the site of the old meeting-house.
Prayer and brief address, 10 a. m.
Procession to the church.
Historical Discourse, 11 :00 a. m.
Dinner in the basement of the church with addresses.
Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in the church.
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A flag had been reared on the site of the first meeting
house on Farrar Hill, which could be seen from the place of
gathering. There are those living who remember the under
pinning stones of that house, and can identify the spot.
Mr. Lee's health failing, he resigned his pastorate and was
dismissed December 9, 1860. Save the life-long pastorate of
Parson Farrar, that of Mr. Lee was the longest recorded in
the history of the church and its influence was proportionate,
especially in connection with the Academy. One who was
often a member of the congregation said of him : "Mr. Lee
has a logical and metaphysical mind; is an independent and
liberal thinker; announces his convictions with great decision
and earnestness; is a faithful and devoted pastor; an active
and enlightened friend of education ; and is greatly beloved
by his people." Another adds, "His prayers carried one into
the presence of a helpful Heavenly Father."
January 23, 1861, an ecclesiastical council met for the pur
pose of authorizing the union of the two Congregational
churches here existing. From their result we quote: "Voted
that we approve the basis on which the two churches have
agreed to unite, and that we consummate the union here in
tended." Soon after this union the church received a legacy
from the estate of Mrs. Dolly Everett of $4,000. The
dwelling-house of Mrs. Everett was given the church for a
parsonage. After a long period of hearing candidates, a call was given
to Mr. Calvin Cutler, which he accepted, and he was ordained
March 12, 1862. After a pastorate of five years Mr. Cutler
asked a dismission, and although the church voted "that we
earnestly request him to withdraw his request for dismission,"
he felt that "his work here was done." A council of dismis
sion met April 11, 1867. Mr. Cutler gained in a marked
degree the affection and confidence of the church and they
parted with him most reluctantly. He became the pastor of
the church in Auburndale, Mass., and remained there until
his death.
January 1, 1868, Rev. Prescott Fay was installed pastor
of the church, and dismissed October 6, 1869.
Several of the succeeding pastorates were so brief that
there is little to record save the date of the commencement
and the closing of the ministries to the church.
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Rev. B. F. Ray began his work as a pastor July 10, 1870,
and was most earnest in his efforts to aid the church. He
died here January 7, 1872.
Rev. Thomas S. Robie became acting pastor in April, 1873,
and retired April 1, 1874.
Rev. B. N. Seymour became acting pastor September 27,
1874, and retired March 10, 1878.
Rev. Horace Parker became acting pastor March, 1879,
having previously supplied the pulpit for nearly two years ;
he retired June 1, 1880.
Mr. Sumner G. Wood was ordained and installed as pas
tor December 30, 1880, and dismissed February 14, 1883.
From here he went to Fall River, Mass.
Rev. George F. Merriam became acting pastor here in
connection with his charge in Greenville, June, 1883, and
retired in 1891. After a pastorate of more than thirty-five
years at Greenville he was called to the historic church in
Deerfield, Mass., but soon failing health caused his resigna
tion, and he passed the remainder of his life with his children.
He held the pen of a ready writer, and his services were much
in demand for the writing of biographical and historic articles
for the press. His ministrations to this church were most
helpful, and his memory is precious. He died August 5, 1912.
Rev. G. W. Johnson became acting pastor December 27,
1891, and resigned August 11, 1892.
Mr. A. L. Parsons became acting pastor October 2, 1892.
He died suddenly March 25, 1894.
Rev. H. H. Loomis became acting pastor September, 1894,
and resigned July, 1896.
Rev. G. F. Bradford became acting pastor September, 1896.
Resigned July 1, 1900.
Mr. H. A. Barber, although still a theological student, be
gan the supply of the pulpit December, 1900, was ordained
here August 22, 1903, and resigned July, 1904.
Rev. Lyman Mevis was acting pastor from December,
1904, until October, 1905.
Mr. Charles R. Peacock supplied the pulpit in November,
1905, was ordained here July 30, 1908, and resigned January
15, 1911.
Rev. Orlando M. Lord was invited to become pastor of
this church July 27, 1911, and retired May 1, 1914.
The invested funds of the church amount to about $12,000.
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July 15, 1902, our church was struck by lightning and
wholly destroyed. While the flames were still burning Mrs.
George R. Barrett promised a gift of $5,000 toward building
a new church. Later she purchased two pews, paying for
them $1000. The bell which she gave to the town at the same
time bears her name, Elizabeth M. Barrett, and was rung
for the first time by the donor and her granddaughter. Mrs.
Barrett added a personal touch to the value of her gift by
having the furniture for the pulpit made to order from designs
of her own choice. Other friends were generous, and August
22, 1903, the new church was dedicated. It is convenient and
with its pleasant interior and sweet-toned organ meets the
wants of the congregation, but to the older people it can
never fill the place of the former edifice, so suited to this
old colonial town.
The church observed the one hundred and fiftieth anni
versary of its organization August 25, 1910. In the morning
there was a brief service at the site of the old meeting-house,
and at the church an informal reception dinner, served at
noon, was followed by brief addresses by friends and neigh
boring ministers. In the afternoon religious services were
held in the auditorium; the sermon was by Rev. G. Ernest
Merriam, son of a former pastor. An interesting history of
the church written by Miss Katharine Preston was read by
Rev. C. R. Peacock, and a large choir led in the singing of
old hymns.
So far as can be learned there have been admitted to this
church 1557 people. For many years the records were so
imperfect that we may estimate the total number to be at
least 1800, probably more. A catalogue of members is in
process of preparation, giving dates of admission, dismission,
and death so far as they can be learned. From the families of
this church there have gone missionaries, ministers and min
isters' wives, and teachers beyond computation.
In 1843 the number of members of the church was 402,
thus making it the largest but one in the state.
A program of stated meetings may be of interest. Sunday
morning services at 10:30 o'clock; Sunday School, followed
by exchange of books at the two libraries, filled the time
until the afternoon service, which lasted until 3 o'clock. A
third service was held in the evening at the brick school-
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house, or later in the chapel and more recently at the church.
Weekday prayer meetings were held Wednesday evening in
the school-house; Thursday afternoon at the church; Friday
afternoon in Davis Village at a private house, and Saturday
evening at the school-house. This was previous to 1860.
The meetings at Davis Village were distinctive. Rev.
Perley B. Davis writes of them, "The Davis meetings began
at the home of Joseph Davis in 1810 for the benefit of the
three Davis brothers, their two sisters, and their families.
Later, they were held at four or five different houses, and
I do not know how long they were continued, but certainly
for more than fifty years. In the summer time the brothers
and sometimes one or two others would leave their farms
and gather, in very humble apparel, for the hour's service.
The women would come wearing a calash. In the winter the
meetings would be larger. The rooms were lighted by an
open fireplace and tallow candles. The singing was from the
village hymnbook and was, I think, not very artistic." In
the autumn of 1860 a semi-centennial meeting was held at
the house of Joseph Davis, the place of the first meeting.
"The Maternal Association organized May 15, 1817, was
the earliest in the country." (Sketch of New Ipswich, 1836,
Rev. Charles Walker.) The mothers met once a month for
discussion concerning the training, physical, mental, and re
ligious, of their children, and every three months the children
were brought to the meetings to exemplify methods and their
progress in the Bible and Catechism." (K. P.) One woman
still preserves a copy of the Life of Mary Lyon given her for
perfectly committing to memory the Westminster Catechism.
Fast days were numerous and were kept by all the con
gregation. Their observance was no idle form. Very little
food was provided for breakfast, and only a moderate meal
for dinner, and with a church service, the absence of work
save that of necessity, and the entire absence of amusements,
the day seemed almost as distinctive as the Sabbath.
Few churches have had better examples in those who have
guided their labors and influence for the past one hundred
and fifty years. May we never lower the standard of earnest,
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The Baptist Church
The Baptist Church

In the latter part of the eighteenth century a few persons
in New Ipswich, uniting with others in Temple, Jaffrey, and
Rindge, formed a Baptist church. Meetings were held in
private houses and later in the old meeting-house formerly
used by the Congregational church. In 1815 a house was
erected by Deacon Aaron Brown, chiefiy at his own expense.
"It stood on the north side of the road to Mill Village [now
Smithville] a few rods from the Academy corner, a small,
plain structure." "In 1850 it was taken down and removed
to its present location at the center of the village. A base
ment and spire have been added, and it is now an ornament
to the village." Its cost, $2600, was paid before its dedication.
In 1814 the members living in Temple united with those
here and formed the Baptist church in New Ipswich of thirty-
three members. Elder John Parkhurst, the first pastor, was
installed March 10, 1814, and remained until 1821.
The succeeding pastors were:
Ferris Moore . .  1821-24
Joseph Elliott  1824-27
Benjamin R. Skinner  1827-28
Calvin Greenleaf  1828-30
Asaph Merriam  1830-36
Johnson Howard  1836-39
L. M. Wilmarth  1840-42
Jacob Weston  1842-43
Harrison W. Strong  1843-
A. H. House  1850-
E. W. Pray  1853-54
Edwin Dibell  1854-60
Church closed much of the time for several years.

E. J. Emery .
A. Snyder
L. M. Barnes .
J. M. Cobum .
W. R. Thompson
J. M. Coburn (d.
Elisha Sanderson
H. N. Wiggin .
C. J. Wilcomb
T. V. Caulkins
J. W. Tingley .
C. L. Eldredge

Feb.

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1867-71 1876-78 1879-801880-871887-891889-95
1895-99 1900-031903-071908-10
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So far as can be learned from the records the total mem
bership since the organization of the church in 1814 is 405.
Present membership, 27. Rev. C. L. Eldredge, Pastor. Mary
E. Blanchard (Mrs. Edwin F.), Clerk. Dea. William H.
Wilson, Treasurer.
Like all country churches in New England a majority of
the members are women, and the work of sustaining the
various church activities largely rests on them. The women
of this church have met their demands most nobly. By the
work of the "Ladies' Aid Society" and help from friends out
of town the church has been kept in good repair. For some
years they have wished for a bell which would tell of the
hours of their service, and for a clock which should be of
use to the village. Some friends, children of former mem
bers, under the influence of Mrs. Dixon D. Wheeler became
practically interested, and November 19, 1910, Mrs. Frederick
Jones (with the help of a stronger hand) rang the new bell
for the first time. Mrs. Emma L. Tucker has solicited funds
for the purchase of a clock, which is now placed on the church.
It first struck the hour at noon September 26, 1912.
The welfare of the village is largely helped because this
place of worship is easily accessible, and is open to many
who cannot go to the more distant Congregational Church.
The church deserves great credit for its courage and energy
in continuing the services. Sabbath and midweek, though with
limited numbers. Unitarian Church
In 1833 a number of the people of the town united to
form a Unitarian church. Mr. Charles Barrett erected near
High Bridge a fine building with a handsome interior. The
ministers who officiated there were Rev. Mr. Harding, Rev.
Reuben Bates, Rev. Warren Burton. Mr. Bates left in 1835.
No list of members of this church can be found, but the
following list of parents whose children were baptized by
Rev. Mr. Bates may be of interest: Ayers, John and Mary
B. ; Barnard, Loring and Sarah ; Clark, Benjamin and Martha ;
Farwell, Moors and Sarah; Porter, Samuel and Elvira C;
Prichard, Jeremiah and Nancy; Webster, Jonathan and
Abigail. After a few years the church was weakened by the death
of its principal supporters, and soon became extinct.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
The records of this church having been destroyed, its his
tory can be learned only from the reports of various Confer
ence meetings.
The church was organized in 1842 and the meeting-house
in the Center Village was dedicated June 25, 1842. In 1849
the Sunday School had 95 scholars, and a library of more
than 150 volumes. That year a church was built in the Sou
hegan village. "About this time the members of the church
formed themselves into a society to have charge of the finan
cial concerns of the church. The first signers were Rev.
Jonathan Hall, Amos Merrill, Joseph Turner, Nathaniel Bar
rett, Ezra Webber." In 1854 there was often an attendance
of 200, and the Sunday School was prosperous. In 1872 there
was a membership of 38.
Removals for various causes, and the gradual introduction
of French Canadians to take the place of the American and
Scotch families at High Bridge, all tended to lessen the atten
dance, until in 1889 the society felt that it could no longer
support a pastor. For more than fifteen years the pulpit
was occasionally supplied by pastors of neighboring churches ;
but in November, 1905, the church was finally closed.
For many years this church had a special field of useful
ness, ministering to the spiritual needs of many in those vil
lages who could not attend church elsewhere.
"October 13, 1907, Rev. George H. Hardy of Ashburnham,
assisted by other clergymen, conducted an impressive fare
well service in the church. The audience filled the house.
Thirteen days later, for the sum of $150, the church building
became the property of Bank Village. The library and book
case were presented to the New Ipswich Baptist church, and
the communion service to the new Finnish church in town."
(A. A. G.)
During the sixty-four years of its existence the church
was under the care of thirty clergymen, nine of whom each
remained less than a year, and three of them each only a
year. The other pastorates were:
J. W. Guernsey  1846-48
Jonathan Hall  1849-51
Jonathan Hall  18S2-SS
S. G. Kellogg  1856-58
A. P. Hatch  1859-61
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The church was closed several years between 1862 and 1870.
Irad Taggart  1870-72
Jacob Spaulding  1872-75
Israel Ainsworth  1875-77
G. M. Curl  1877-79
The Second Congregational Church
October 9, 1851, a Second Congregational church was or
ganized, consisting of persons dismissed by advice of council
from the Congregational church in New Ipswich and some
others from neighboring churches. The number of members
was fifty-seven. The pastors were:
Rev. Josiah Ballard, installed July 14, 1852, dismissed
April 26, 1855.
Rev. William Russell, installed June 25, 1856, dismissed
September 22, 1858.
Rev. Sylvanus Hayward supplied the pulpit for a year or
longer, but was not installed.
January 23, 1861, an ecclesiastical council met and "con
summated the union of the two churches here existing."

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CHAPTER VIII
NEW IPSWICH ACADEMY
TN 1790 the main road from Townsend and the region
-^ toward the seaboard was little more than a bridle-path,
scarcely passable for a carriage, but the adventurous traveler
who persisted in pursuing the upward path found his reward.
New Ipswich had not only a large and flourishing church,
but an academy incorporated, and in so successful operation
that at Dartmouth College in 1791 "There were no less than
ten students from New Ipswich."
As early as 1762 there was a public school in New Ipswich
and in 1772 a migratory grammar school, the master going
from one district to another. June 18, 1789, by act of the
New Hampshire state legislature, this school was incorporated
as New Ipswich Academy, for the purpose of promoting piety
and virtue, and for the education of youth in the English and
Latin and Greek languages, in writing, arithmetic, music, and
the art of speaking, practical geometry, logic, geography, and
such "others of the liberal arts and sciences or languages as
the Trustees shall direct."
Hon. Samuel Appleton wrote many years ago of the early
trustees : "The zeal they had for education was so great that
some of them even mortgaged their houses and lands to
raise money to educate their children." "The first sixty-five
years of the existence of the Academy were marked by con
tinued donations of money, books, apparatus, and labor from
the loyal citizens of New Ipswich and the trustees and alumni
of the academy, and the marked success of the graduates of
the school in all walks of life attests its vigorous internal
growth during that period." (Prospectus, ipio-ii.)
This was the second academy incorporated in the state,
Phillips Exeter being five years its senior, although the town
of Exeter is a century older than New Ipswich. It is the
third in the United States to be co-educational ; Leicester
Academy and the Derby School at Hingham — the first school
in America founded by a woman — were, so far as can be
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The first academy building, erected in 1789 about one
hundred rods north of the meeting-house, was on land donated
by Rev. Mr. Farrar, and was a one-story building 40x38 feet.
It is now a dwelling house owned by Dea. William H. Wilson.
In 1816 it was thought wise to erect a new building nearer
the geographical center of the town. As the town was then
realizing the need of better accommodations for town meet
ings, an arrangement was entered into by which one building
should answer both purposes, the lower story being used by
the town and the second story by the Academy. In 1831 a
fine bell was given the institution by Mrs. Dolly Appleton
Everett, and for more than eighty years it has noted the
hours of the school. During the administration of Mr. Shedd
a house was built for the use of students who wished to board
themselves. After the building of the present academy this
house was moved to the spot now occupied by the girls'
dormitory, and was used as a boarding-house, for many years
being well filled, one or more of the faculty being in charge.
"Soon after the centennial celebration, a meeting of New
Ipswich gentlemen residing in Boston was held at the house
of Jonas Chickering, which resulted in a subscription in aid
of the Academy amounting to $7000, viz. : from Samuel Apple-
ton $4000, Samuel Batchelder $1000, Jonas Chickering $1000,
Nathan Appleton $500, Frederick and Edward Kidder $250,
Edward W. and George M. Champney $250. As the trustees
were satisfied that the school could not be successfully con
tinued without a new building the subscribers consented that
their contributions thereto should be applied for this purpose,
provided the residents would contribute to purchase the nec
essary land and lay the foundations. Some rivalry arose be
tween the advocates of a southern or a northern locality,
but the northerners finally prevailed and secured the beauti
ful location between Preston and Farrar streets, facing the
Village Green, and containing about three acres. The corner
stone was laid August 11, 1853, at which an address was made
by Rev. Mr. Lee, and speeches by others present; original
hymns were sung, etc. The building was occupied by the
school March, 1854, and was appropriately dedicated Septem
ber 6, 1854, the address being given by Rev. Frederick A.
Adams. The edifice is of brick and slated, containing five
recitation rooms [now changed to four], apartments for the
Library, Cabinet, and Philosophical Apparatus, and a large
hall to seat about six hundred persons.
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"In consequence of the numerous and important dona
tions from Samuel Appleton and others of the family, the
name of the academy was changed to 'New Ipswich Appleton
Academy' in June, 1853, about the time of Mr. Appleton's
death, and his executors decreed the sum of $20,000 from funds
left by him for similar purposes as an endowment. This,
with other donations from non-resident sons of New Ipswich
who desired to give some token of their local attachment and
their interest in the prosperity of the Academy, were an
nounced at the dedication. Among them were an electrical
machine from Ira Holden of New Orleans, air-pump and mi
croscope from Jeremiah Prichard, Jr., pianoforte from George
N. Davis of Boston, barometer from Timothy Perry, 100 vol
umes of books from Charles D. Gould and Joshua Lincoln,
several thousand specimens to found a cabinet of natural his
tory from Dr. A. A. Gould of Boston, a bust of Samuel Apple-
ton from Mrs. Appleton, an epitome of the history of the
academy written on a large sheet to be hung in the hall by
Dea. N. D. Gould.
"In a cavity of the corner-stone laid under the southwest
corner of the building is a leaden box six inches square and
three inches deep, containing a calatogue of the Academy for
1852-3, circular for 1852-3, regulations of the police of New
Ipswich, invoice of the polls and estates of New Ip.swich,
report of the Superintending School Committee, 1852-3, Scien
tific American, Daily Evening Traveller, Aug. 10, 1853, Daily
Advertiser, Aug. 10, 1853, Barnums Illustrated News, Aug.
13, 1853, Farmer's Cabinet, Aug. 4, 1853, bills of the New
Ipswich Bank, coins of the United States, 1853, Boston Semi-
Weekly Post, Boston Daily Journal, and a history of the
building, with the names of the Donors." (T. F.)
During Mr. Westgate's administration the small building
south of the Academy was provided for the use of pupils in
drawing and painting. This was sometimes called the "Gas
House." In 1868 the building north of the main cemetery,
formerly used as a church, was moved to the lot east of the
girls' dormitory and used as a gymnasium. Later it was sold
and taken away. At the Appleton Alumni reunion, February
14, 1912, Mrs. James Barr Ames gave to the trustees the
dwelling-house formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. S. T.
Ames, thus carrying out the purpose of her late husband,
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present academy building was first occupied in March, 1854,
and thus has been in use for sixty years.
The following is believed to be a complete list of the
preceptors. John Hubbard  1789-95
Samuel Worcester  1796-97
David Palmer  1797-98
Peter Cochrane  1799-
Warren Pierce  1799-1801
Closed two years.
Joseph Mulliken . . .... 1804-07
Benjamin White  1807-
Oliver Swain Taylor  1808-11
Luke Eastman  1812
Hart Talcott  1813
Jesse Smith  1814-15
Horace Hatch  1816
Elijah Demond  1817
Earl Smith  1818-20
Amasa Edes  1820-22
Rufus A. Putnam .... . . 1822-25
Cranmore Wallace  1825
Luther Smith  1826
Seth H. Keeler  1827
Robert A. Coffin .  1828-33
Asahel Foote  1833
Stephen T. Allen  1833-34
Charles Shedd ... ... 1834-41
Josiah Crosby ... .... 1841
James K. Colby  1842
Abner S. Warner  1842-44
Edward A. Lawrence  1844-51
E. T. Quimby . .  1851-65
E. T. Rowe  1865-66
E. W. Westgate  1866-71
John Herbert  1871-74
William A. Preston  1874-1903
John Preston  1903-04
Charles P. Poor  1904-05
Herschel W. Lewis  1906-
The teacher in charge of the Academy was first styled
rector after the Scotch custom, then preceptor, and during
these later years, principal, or more familiarly. Prof. Many
of the principals were men of marked ability and worthy of
note. John Hubbard, son of Jonathan, was the first preceptor,
and "soon brought the school into public favor." "A public-
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spirited citizen, the town is much indebted to him for the
spirit he infused and the institutions he founded. He was
noted for his musical taste and talents."
"It was during the administration of Mr. Mulliken in
1806 or 1807 that Miss Allen, daughter of Rev. Mr. Allen of
Bradford, Mass., and afterward the wife of Thos. A. Mirrill,
D. D., of Middlebury, Vt., was engaged as preceptress. She
was an accomplished teacher and had a large class of young
ladies whom she instructed in the higher branches of litera
ture, and in the collateral branches of refinement and taste
then taught in the best schools of female education. The
spare rooms in the Academy were not large enough to accom
modate her school, and she used the hall in Mr. Barrett's
house for a schoolroom. No female school of a higher charac
ter than hers has ever been taught in this place, and few any
where else." (T. F.)
Oliver Swain Taylor, a native of this town, born Decem
ber 17, 1784, died April 19, 1885, at Auburn, N. Y. "He ex
ercised the duties of the position with much success, and the
school reached an unusual degree of prosperity."
After one of those periods of depression which are certain
to occur in all associations, under the care of Mr. Coffin, as
sisted by his wife, the Academy "rose to a high pitch of
prosperity," which was maintained by his successor, Mr.
Allen. Judging from accessible records the greatest number of
students was in 1838, during the administration of Mr. Shedd,
as there were 278 different students during that year. Tradi
tion tells of his success and popularity as a teacher.
Under the leadership of Mr. Quimby the school reached a
high standard of activity. His influence over many of his pu
pils was very great. Prof. C. H. Chandler, whom we mourn,
said that his school life here was of more value to him than
his college course.
Mr. Herbert came here immediately after graduating at
Dartmouth. Though so young, his discipline was worthy of
note; "like one of the forces of nature, quiet, unostentatious,
but powerful and all-pervasive."
"Mr. Preston was a rare scholar and his instruction was
of a high order. Of brilliant and versatile mind, he possessed
the true genius of teaching. Himself a poet, his instruction
in Latin, Greek, and English poetry is to be remembered as
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a rare privilege. Mr. Preston's teaching was supplemented
in the department of mathematics by that of his brother, Mr.
Frank W. Preston, no less gifted as a scholar and a teacher."
(A former student.)
In 1810 there were eighty students, thirty-five of whom
were young women. At that very year in the (then) town
of Boston, girls were allowed to attend the public schools in
the summer only, and not then unless there were seats left
vacant by boys.
"Mrs. Preston (Betsy Champney) gives the following
names of the members of the school in 1787: Samuel Farrar,
(Andover,) William Sherwin, Thomas Cordis, (Boston,) Eben
Lawrence, (physician, Hampton,) Rev. John Miles, (Grafton,)
Rev. David Kendall, (Hubbardston,) Thomas Hazen, (Shir
ley,) Polly Farrar, (Mrs. Dakin,) Nancy Lawrence, (Mrs. I.
Brown Farrar,) Dolly Appleton, (Mrs. Everett,) Jesse Apple-
ton, John Ware, John Sparhawk, Polly Hartwell, (Mrs. Bel
lows,) Milly Woods, (Pepperell,)  Crombie." (T. F.)
In 1790 tuition was 12 shillings per quarter; in 1805 from
17 to 25 cents per week at discretion of the preceptor; in
1835, $3.50 to $4.00 per term, and needlework 25 cents to $1.00
per term ; in 1879 tuition was $6.00 or $8.00 per term. Now
it is $40.00 per year. "In 1852 Monochromatic, Calligraphic,
Mezzotint, or Crayon drawing was $3.00 per term." In 1845
the price of board was $1.33 to $1.50 per week. "Instruction
was given in music, vocal and instrumental, penmanship, elo
cution, and book-keeping, and there were lectures on Anatomy
and Physiology, Geology and Botany." Before the days of
state normal schools, there was a "Teachers' class" giving
instruction in the theory and practice of teaching, and the best
methods of governing schools. In 1851 Mr. Quimby, the new
principal, was requested to outline a course of study, both
English and classical, which, when completed, should entitle
a student to a diploma.
In 1890 a reunion of Appleton alumni was held in Boston,
an association formed, and a board of officers chosen with
Mr. John Herbert as president. This was followed in a short
time by a meeting at New Ipswich, and a great deal of en
thusiasm was aroused. Now the meetings are held in Boston
in mid-winter once in five years, and in the summer midway
between the Boston meetings one is held in New Ipswich on
the familiar campus. A dinner is served in a large tent, with
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after-dinner speaking, an informal social evening in Academy
hall, and much interchange of reminiscences and the life-
history of friends. In 1891 a catalogue of the alumni was
published containing more than 1500 names. We may well
be proud of our alumni. Scattered throughout the world, many
of them have made their names famous, and wherever they
may be found they are, with few exceptions, helping the world
along in the right direction.
In the latter part of the last century the school passed
through a period of depression, as it had several times pre
viously in its history, and the number of pupils became small.
With the coming of the new century several new trustees
were added to the board, who contributed liberally to its im
provement. Over $5000 was spent in repairs. The building
was renovated; laboratories, chemical and physical, equipped
with the needful apparatus; new floors laid; a furnace in
stalled which provides a comfortable temperature ; important
additions made to the library, and everything brought up to
modern requirements. The Academy has a fund of about
$50,000 carefully invested.
We now have a man as principal and two young women
as, assistant teachers, all college graduates. To quote from
the annual prospectus, "The course of study at New Ipswich
Appleton Academy is designed primarily to give the students
an all-round training and to develop their practical as well
as their mental abilities, that they may become good farmers
and good business men, as well as good lawyers, doctors, or
teachers. To this end two courses of study are laid out, desig
nated as the College course and the General or English course.
A special elective course in Science is provided for those who
desire to enter a scientific school." To these is added more
recently a course in domestic science, to be followed so soon
as possible by one in practical agriculture.
The general intelligence and literary cultivation of the
people of New Ipswich is spoken of by strangers as unusual for
a country town. This is due in very large measure to the
opportunities given by the Academy for a larger education
and broader knowledge of the world of literature and science.
May the sons and daughters of Appleton cherish the mem
ory of their Alma Mater and help her to be more and more a
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CHAPTER IX
MISCELLANIES
Manufactures
'npHE necessities of frontier life made it essential that the
-*- abundant waterpower of the region should be utilized
for the daily needs of the people and, later, its use for manu
facturing purposes has been one of the chief sources of the
enterprise and prosperity of the town. The earliest known
record is of a sawmill built by the Massachusetts proprietors
prior to 1741, probably on the site of the Farrar mills. To
carry grain ten miles to Townsend over the rough road was
burdensome, and a committee representing the town con
tracted with John Chandler of Westford to build a sawmill
which should be "ready for service by the last of October,
1750, and the corn mill in October, 1751." In 1768 these mills
were purchased by Capt. Eleazar Cummings.
Zachariah Adams and John Breed built the mills in Mill
Village (now Smithville) as early as 1764. Though burned
at least three times, they have always been at once rebuilt and
constantly in use. The plant is now owned and used by
Charles Wheeler and sons.
Farrar's mill on Saw Mill Brook, built about 1790, was
first a gristmill. In 1816 a carding machine was added. The
mill privilege has been used by Hervey Batcheller, and later
by Warren Pratt for making cigar boxes. On the opposite
side of the road, and on the same stream, a mill was built
later f(jr making potato starch, but it was not a financial suc
cess. The name still clings to the beautiful little sheet of
water, and it has been the place where the boys of the village
have taken their first lessons in the art of swimming. In
1860-65 cotton batting was manufactured there. About 1870
Charles C. Bellows purchased the mill privilege and there
made washing machines, spring beds, and creasing machines.
After the death of Mr. Bellows, the work was carried on by
F. N. Gibson for many years. It is now used as a grist and
sawmill by W. D. Ashley, who has rebuilt the dam that he
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In 1776 a "Clothier's Works and Fulling Mill" was built
on the present site of the Waterloom mill. In 1800 it was
purchased by Ephraim Hartwell, who there made linseed oil,
and oatmeal for the druggists of Boston, who had previously
imported the article. This was done under the direction of
James Barr of Scotland. They also manufactured malt.
"Before the year 1800 John Putnam, under the patronage
of Ephraim Hartwell, commenced the manufacture of scythes.
He first had a trip-hammer at Mill Village, but later erected
the works down the stream." It is perhaps on this account
that the mill is spoken of as the "Old Iron Works." In 1810
the mill became a cotton factory, and in 1826 it was converted
into a sawmill. Bedsteads, washing machines, churns, etc., were
made there and many varieties of work which come under
the head of wood-turning. It is now owned by Albert F.
Walker & Son, who are developing a fine and growing
business. About 1845 Charles Taylor built a sawmill and manufac
tured doors, blinds, window sashes, chairs (cane seat), and
churns. The plant is now owned by Charles Hughes, who
uses it as a gristmill and also for wood-turning.
In the old sawmill Jonas Nutting and Stephen Sylvester
made wooden chairs, and also used it as a saw and gristmill.
Balch's mill, formerly Gibson's, built about 1800, is now
owned by A. L. Balch, who uses it as a sawmill and also does
wood-turning. The Waterloom mill in Bank Village, a substantial brick
structure erected in 1821, was originally 84 feet long, 40 feet
wide, and three stories high, each story being ten feet high,
well lighted, and all in one room. Some years later the build
ing was considerably enlarged. At first there was woven
sheeting, and later jeans and flannels, and a fine, heavy quality
of blue denim, which found a ready sale in foreign markets.
The Columbian Manufacturing Company bought the mill in
1855. In May, 1895, the building was condemned as unsafe,
was dismantled, and the machinery removed elsewhere. This
mill is said to have been the first one in New Hampshire in
which power looms were used.
The first mill at High Bridge went into operation about
1825, and was burned August 31, 1838, with an estimated loss
of $30,000. It was rebuilt and again destroyed by fire in
1872. In 1875-76 the present beautiful brick structure was
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erected and put in operation on the same site near the Souhe
gan River, from which it largely derives its motive power.
This mill is 150 feet long, 60 feet wide, and five stories high,
with a picker-house and a cotton-house attached. A large and
handsome tower ornaments its front and affords a fine en
trance to the building. At the present writing (1913), the
mill has 5800 spindles and 148 looms in operation, requiring
the employment of 80 hands. It is lighted by electricity, and
its whole equipment is up-to-date and of the most approved
kind. Men now run from sixteen to twenty looms where
formerly they could run only four looms. The mill uses 90
bales of cotton per week, which is converted into 800 cuts of
blue and mixed denim and striped cheviot. The plant has a
waterwheel of 300-horse power, and when the supply of water
is short, two engines in the basement of 250 and 80-horse
power keep the machinery in action. The mill is operated
almost without interruption, and at the present time is the
town's largest and strongest business enterprise. Careful re
search shows that ten cotton mills have been operated in
town. At present there is only one, that at High Bridge.
"During the Revolution window glass was very scarce."
An establishment for its manufacture was started just over
the town line in Temple, but it was financed and directed by
New Ipswich men. At the close of the war glass was im
ported at very low prices and the enterprise was financially
a failure, but its promoters have the glory of manufacturing
the first glass in America. There are many specimens of the
work to be found among the ancient treasures in our homes.
"A lanyard was very early established on the west side
of the Jo Kidder brook, and the north side of the road, where
the blacksmith's shop now stands. By whom the business
was carried on, I do not recollect. The building was after
ward turned into a pottery establishment, and brown earthen
ware was made and burned in a kiln there near the close of
the last century, after the suppression of the tannery." (T. F.,
IS55-) For many years the making of cigars was a prominent in
dustry carried on by Stephen Thayer and Moses Brickett, who
each employed forty or fifty people, also -there were several
smaller establishments.
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Tradition tells us that at the "Forge" there were made
nails and stove-castings, and it is said that the iron fence
before the Barrett mansion was made there.
Bakehouse Village was so named because in 1785 Samuel
Batcheller had a bakery there. This business was carried on
there and in the Center Village by various parties until the
later years of the last century.
Among other manufactures in the past we may note:
broadcloths, satinet, velvets, ticking, wagons, windows, doors,
chairs, carriages, blinds, coffins, printing-sticks, barrels,
matches, trunks, saddles, harness, shoes, hats, guns, earthen
ware (1792), ink, essences, ashes (pot, 1795, and pearl), soap
(hard and soft). Library
In 1793 a town library was established by subscriptions
and held in shares. This library of three or four hundred
volumes was burned in 1812.
In 1866 the women of New Ipswich, under the leadership
of Miss Caroline F. Barr, took measures to raise funds for a
public library. Former residents and all interested in the
town were asked to help us, and we used all means in our
power to raise money. At first we were given a room in the
Bank building, but when those quarters became too crowded
measures were taken to provide suitable accommodations
elsewhere, and the beautiful building which was first occu
pied in 1895 is not only a delight to the eye but helpful to
the village as a rallying center for much that is both pleasura
ble and uplifting.
We have a carefully selected and well-balanced library of
more than 6000 volumes; a reading-room with best periodi
cals ; a fine reference library ; a department for the children
with table and chairs of suitable size, games and periodicals
to attract them ; an Arts and Crafts department of more than
140 volumes ; a Farmer's shelf ; nature books in wide variety ;
a well-chosen Biblical library; and the object of our greatest
pride, a case devoted to books written by natives or residents
of New Ipswich and containing more than 80 volumes. We
have complete files of the Farmers' Almanac for the last cen
tury and catalogues of our Academy. The rooms are open
Wednesday and Saturday in the afternoon and evening.
Books can be taken out by anyone resident or visiting in the
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town, and there is no fee. The shelves are accessible to all,
a privilege highly prized by those who are accustomed to
select from a catalogue only.
In 1902 Mrs. Sarah (Fletcher) Hubbard left a bequest of
$4,000, $1,000 of which was to be spent at once for books;
her will named the committee who were to select them, and
the books purchased with this bequest were to be called "The
Helen Fletcher Collection" in memory of her sister. The
building was not large enough to accommodate this addition
and an annex was built and paid for by Prof. James Barr
Ames, who then paid the salary of the librarian.
William Boynton, a trustee, left $5,000 to the library, the
income to be used for books and periodicals. Samuel H.
Wentworth, a former student of the Academy, left $1,000 in
memory of his sister, Mrs. Lydia C. Wentworth Lee. Henry
Ames Blood, a former resident, left $10,000 in trust to his
widow for the use of the library. The recent deaths of mem
bers of his household make this available for use so soon as
the estate is settled.
"An ideal village library in appearance, management, and
influence." The good done here cannot be overestimated and
it will go on. Country Club
Our fathers, unwittingly it may be, chose a beautiful situ
ation for the town of their care and hope. Standing nearly
at the base of the foothills, it combines the power and majesty
of the hills with the charm and beauty of the river and the
plain. When during the latter part of the last century dwell
ers in city homes learned the value of country life in the sum
mer, New Ipswich thus received her full share of guests. It
is said that one year there were six hundred summer so
journers in town. Families who came here repeatedly became
so attached to the region that they purchased houses or farms
to be occupied in summer as homes. Thus a new element
came into our social life, and the young people must be
amused. A croquet ground was laid out in the Barrett mea
dow, of such excellence that it received complimentary notice
in the New York Independent; tennis courts were laid out
in the same field; bath-houses built at the river.
Most important of all was the organization of the Souhegan
Country Club. In 1899 eight men bought the Jonas Woolson
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farm on "Sol Davis Hill," and they now lease it to the club.
The house, built in 1743, retains the vast fireplaces, the huge
chimney, and the steep and narrow stairs; otherwise it has
been modernized most tastefully. The men's room is fitted
up in the fashion of an English grill-room. The view from
the lookout is one of the finest in this town of glorious views.
There are golf links and a tennis court. The clubhouse is
open for the entertainment of members and their friends every
Saturday during the summer, and daily through the month
of August, and is a delightful social center. There are more
than one hundred members, including people of neighboring
towns, and others who are interested in the life of New
Ipswich. The owners are Edward O. Marshall, Ralph E.
Parker, Frank W. Preston, and John Preston, of New Ipswich ;
Frederic W. Ely and Herbert J. Taft of Greenville; Simpson
C. Heald of Wilton; and John W. Bemis of Temple.
The Children's Fair
Among all the reasons for our pride in our beloved town,
not the least is the fact that the Children's Fair was invented
here. Rev. Calvin Cutler and Prof. E. T. Quimby of the Acad
emy, while considering ways in which the children of the
Congregational church might be interested in the various
charities of the church, evolved the plan which later took
form as the Children's Fair. Each child was encouraged to
earn money during the summer. A boy had a space given
him for a garden where he raised vegetables or what he chose.
Girls had other ways of earning money, and later there was a
fancy table devoted to their contributions.
Wednesday in early October the large room under the
auditorium of the old church was open early in the morning.
The posters had said "Donors admitted free," and every child
had the proud consciousness of being a "Donor," spelling it
with a Capital D. Each gift was labeled with a number, the
name of the giver, and the object to which the proceeds of
its sale were to be given. The vegetables and fruits were
placed on a broad table which extended nearly the length of
the room, to be seen and admired by all. Tables were laid
for a dinner, and at noon every seat was taken. The baked
beans, brown bread, cold meats, doughnuts, pumpkin pies,
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were all of the best quality and very tempting to the appetite
of those who had come perhaps from a neighboring town. At
another table sandwiches and food that could be taken in the
hand were provided for a nominal price for those who did
not go to the dinner table.
After dinner the children recited their "pieces," perhaps
written for the occasion, and dialogues and singing filled an
hour. Then came the event of the day — the Auction. Each
donation was held up on high by the auctioneer, bids were
called for and came thick and fast with good-natured rivalry
and fun. The day was given up to the children and they en
joyed it to the full. On the Common the boys played base
ball or kindred games, watched by many who were not in
terested in the auction.
In more recent years similar fairs have been held in other
towns as they have seen the success of this original institution.
The first fair was held in 1862, and without a break they
have continued for more than fifty years. The amount of
money raised during that time for various benevolent objects
is $4,265, and it is distributed between twenty-eight different
charities, mostly out of town. These are the gifts. The good
gained by the givers cannot be reckoned here or in the present
years. The Revere Bell
In 1815 a few individuals by private subscription raised
the sum of $593 for the purchase of a bell, which we have
recently learned was from the foundry of Paul Revere. The
following correspondence is of interest. 55 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston.
To the Town Clerk, New Ipswich, N. H.
Dear Sir: I am trying to trace the bells cast by Paul Revere, a
complete list of which has recently been found, contained in his old
stock-book. In the year 1815 a bell weighing 1116 pounds was sold to the town
of New Ipswich, presumably hung in the parish church.
I shall be greatly obliged if you can ascertain for me whether this
bell is still in use, or if otherwise, when it was destroyed. Thanking
you in advance for this favor, I am Yours very truly,
March 8, 1910. Arthut H. Nichols.
An answer to this letter was sent at once, saying that the
bell was destroyed when the church was burned. Dr. Nichols
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Dear Mr. Phelps: March 14, 1910.
I am very grateful to you for your courteous reply to my inquiry
about the old Revere bell of New Ipswich. The very full and accurate
history given will be very helpful to me.
The bell was sold by Paul Revere May 2, 1815. Its weight was
1089 pounds, that of its tongue 27 pounds.
You say that it was sweet-toned. I do not doubt that it was of
superior quality, for about that period Revere was casting his best bells,
and the weight of your bell was above the average. It is a pity to have
lost such a historic object. I shall take pleasure in mailing to you a
copy of my paper when published. Yours very truly,
March 8, 1910. Arthur H. Nichols.
Cemeteries
The earliest cemetery was on the Farrar Hill opposite
the first meeting-house. In 1752 the Hill burying-ground
was laid out. In 1778 the South cemetery near Smithville
was devoted to the burial of the dead, and John Breed was
probably the first person buried there. The land for the Main
cemetery was bought in 1809 and Mrs. Elizabeth Appleton
was buried there in October of that year. Twice since then
needed additions have been made by the purchase of land in
the rear of the cemetery until now it comprises a territory of
about ten acres.
In 1849 public-spirited citizens, prominent among whom
were Mrs. Henry Isaacs and Dr. T. H. Cochrane, greatly im
proved the appearance of the Main cemetery and for many
years it was attractive; but lacking the care that is needed
by all public domains, it grew to look neglected and unsightly.
In 1889 Capt. G. H. Hubbard had taken a lot for himself and
family, and he said "I would give $300 toward improving that
place if anyone else would help." Finding that he meant
all that he said two women, Mrs. S. T. Ames and Miss Sarah
F. Lee, aided on some points by the wise advice of Mr. George
R. Barrett, took the matter in charge and within six months
the whole appearance of the cemetery was changed. A high
and long bank which had been deeply washed by rain was
turfed and made most beautiful. Trees were trimmed, shrubs
were cut down, thus revealing monumepts which had been
concealed for years, tombs the walls of which were broken
were closed and made sanitary, headstones were cleaned and
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set in straight lines, and a quagmire was cleared and became
a beautiful pond. Funds for this work were contributed by
persons out of town whose relations are buried here. The
amount expended was more than $900, besides the first gift
of $300 and $200 given by the town.
Several citizens have left liberal amounts of money for
perpetual care of their lots.
It is hoped that the town will appoint a cemetery com
mission as has been done in many places. In that case many
other lots would be left in care of the town.
In 1906-07 Prof. C. H. Chandler copied all the inscriptions
on the gravestones in the three cemeteries in the town. They
are arranged, indexed, and will eventually be given to the
town by his children. At that date there had been 1673 burials,
besides many that are not marked in any way.
Stearns Lecture Fund
In 1899 Capt. Albert Stearns of Syracuse, New York,
whose boyhood was passed here, gave the town $3,000 as a
fund, the income of which should be devoted to lectures and
entertainments, musical or otherwise. In 1907 Capt. Stearns
added $2,000 to the fund and again in 1912 another gift of
$2,000 was added to the endowment, making $7,000 in all.
These entertainments have been both instructive and amusing
and have given pleasure to large audiences.
Homestead Inn
Among the many charities of the present time there is no
one more beautiful than the sharing by fortunate ones of the
fresh air and sunlight of the country with those to whom it
is denied in the crowded city.
Some twenty years ago Rev. George J. Prescott, rector of
the Church of the Good Shepherd in Boston, purchased the
house formerly occupied by Rev. Richard Hall and later by
Mrs. Clary; members of his parish and others supplied money
for the needed changes and furnishings, and it became a house
of refuge for weary shopgirls and self-supporting women who
need the rest and tonic of quiet, fresh air, abundant food, and
social cheer. All this is given them for a nominal sum that
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house receives thirty guests and sometimes a larger number.
Every Sunday morning there is an Episcopal service in the
little chapel, which is open to the people of the village who
wish to attend. Many a weary woman after spending a few
weeks here goes home cheered and refreshed and ready to
meet the work another year.
The New Ipswich Colony in Iowa
In 1836 four families emigrated from this town and church
to Denmark in what was then Wisconsin Territory, now in
Iowa. Within a short time they were followed by eight other
families. They all carried with them the same standard of right
living and wise planning for the best interest of those who
should come after them that they had known here. Those
who "laid out the town of Denmark, which is three-fourths
of a mile square, into town lots for building, donated one-half
of those lots to the purpose of Education." In the building of
a church and of an academy they followed as closely as possi
ble the example set by the founders of New Ipswich. This is
the oldest Congregational church in Iowa. They were early
known as champions of freedom. "Under the leadership of
their pastor. Rev. Asa Turner, they joined with others in the
election of Governor Grimes in 1854, which changed the politi
cal history of Iowa and gave birth to the Republican party in
the nation."
Dr. Turner and Rev. Mr. Lee were classmates at Yale
College and lifelong friends. His pastorate continued for
thirty years; and his influence led to Iowa the eleven young
men from Andover Seminary who formed the "Iowa Band,"
one of whom, their historian, was Rev. Ephraim Adams, a
son of New Ipswich. Drinking Fountain
At the foot of turnpike hill, going west from the village,
is a drinking fountain for the use of horses and also of human
beings, with this inscription: "Presented to the town of
New Ipswich by Capt. John S. Hubbard of Concord, N. H.,
Sept. 12, 1893."
This generous "cup of cold water" is a blessing to those
who pass by and "its draught
Of cool refreshment drained by fevered lips,"
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shall for many years invoke blessings on the head of the
giver. Telegraph and Telephone
A telegraph line was established here in 1877.
A telephone line was built from Greenville to the Center
Village in 1901, by F. W. Preston, John Preston, Wilbur L.
Phelps, and Eugene B. Beard. They owned it for five years
and then sold the line to the New England Telegraph and
Telephone Co. It has been extended during the past few
years, having more than sixty subscribers here, so that it now
practically covers the town. {A. L. P.)
Sidewalks and Street Lights
Many years ago (1872) the wife of a minister who had just
come to the Congregational parsonage deplored, with abun
dant reason, the absence of sidewalks in our village. Under
her active leadership in many and various ways money was
raised to make good sidewalks, to set out shade trees, and to
provide street lamps. Within a few years an association has
been organized to carry on this work still farther and several
dilapidated buildings have been purchased and taken down.
This Village Improvement Society has lately become an in
corporated body capable of holding real estate, and as such
it has received the gift of Union Hall. It is hoped that the
rent of this hall will add materially to the income for various
uses. The town now has charge of lighting the lamps.
Postoffice
A postoffice was established in New Ipswich in the autumn
of 1800. The following is the list of postmasters and the date
of appointment given by the Postoffice Department in Wash
ington.

Samuel Batchelder
Benj amin Champney
Sampson Fletcher .
Josiah W. Spaulding
Charles Hastings, Jr.
Charles Chickering
Edward M. Isaacs .
John Peabody . .
John U. Davis . .

Jan. 1, 1801.
Feb. 2, 1802.
July 8, 1822.
March 23, 1839.
March 10, 1843.
July 31, 1845.
April 23, 1849.
Feb. 3, 18SS.
July 23, 1855.

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John G. Leonard
Charles A. Whitney .
Henry O. Preston . .
Charles S. Brown . .
Joseph E. F. Marsh, Jr.
Bessie M. Tarbell . .
Bessie M. T. Thompson
Bessie M. Cushing

Oct. 24, 1857.
May 31, 1861.
June 13, 1878.
Aug. 24, 1885.
Feb. 10, 1890.
July 22, 1893.
June 29, 1896.
Sept. 27, 1909.

Samuel Batchelder had the office at his store in Bakehouse
(now Davis) Village. Benjamin Champney at first had the
office in his law office, a small building "situated under the
shade of a large willow tree on the north side of the road
just across the brook, near the late Dr. Barr's residence."
Later it was at the old corner store, and in 1822 was removed
to the house of Mr. Fletcher across the street.
Tradition tells us that Mr. Hastings had the office in the
building east of the Appleton Inn, formerly the apothecary's
shop of Dr. Preston. Mr. Chickering occupied a room in the
old hotel. Mr. Leonard had the office at the Nichols house
east of the old hotel ; Mr. Isaacs, at the old corner store, where
has been its abiding-place since 1861, so long that the stone
doorsteps have been hollowed by the tread of many feet. For
many years we have for such a small town been exceptionally
fortunate in our postal facilities, three mails each day to Bos
ton and as many in return. A postal car on our branch rail
road makes it possible for a letter to go from New Ipswich
to Chicago as quickly as would an individual.
In 1801 one letter was received. Who was the recipient
of this historic document? In 1913 the number of letters sent
away was approximately 30,000 and a much larger number
was received.
In 1884 a postoffice was established at Bank Village;
postmasters, Charles L. Tarbell, 1884-1895, Ida M. Frye,
1895-. In 1892 a postoffice was established at Smithville
(formerly Smith or Mill Village) ; postmasters, Lyman M.
Chandler, 1892-95, Carrie B. Chandler, May, 1895, Herbert W.
Chandler, December, 1895-. Free Masons
Bethel Lodge, No. 24, A. F. & A. M., was instituted
in 181S, the members constituting it having been dismissed
from a lodge in Ashby. John Everett was the first master,
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and N. D. Gould was his successor. For many years their
meetings were held in what was long known as "Silver's
store." In 1903, through the untiring efforts of the late Frank
W. Preston, assisted by the generosity of Mrs. George R.
Barrett and others, the entire building was purchased and
fitted up in a way suitable for their needs and convenience.
Its members are few and widely scattered, and the scythe of
time has made sad inroads in the lodge during the past few
years. (A. L. P.) Fire Department
Arthur E. Chase, chief of the fire department, states that
"the firemen number four engineers and seventy-eight men,
with three hand fire engines," and also that "the town com
pared to its population is one of the best-equipped towns in
the state." The Children's Oak
Nearly fifty years ago the building originally erected for
the use of the Methodist church and later occupied by the
Second Congregational church was purchased by the trustees
of the Academy and moved to the corner east of the girls'
dormitory to be used as a gymnasium. In the journey the old
oak tree beside the road was in the way and plans were made
to cut it down.
Mr. William Preston, with his reverence for the old land
mark, felt that such a sacrilege should not be allowed, and he
at once purchased the tree of its owner, and added a touch
of sentiment by giving it to the children of the district school
nearby, thus ensuring its perpetual ownership and care.
Others older than the children are Mr. Preston's debtors for
this graceful conservation of an important unit in our forests.
Some years ago an expert estimated the age of the tree to
be more than 250 years, thus making it our oldest inhabitant.
The Children's Oak ! may its beauty continue for other
centuries. Portraits in the Town Hall
A fine portrait of Judge Timothy Farrar was given the
town in 1870 by the widow of Hon. Charles G. Atherton and
it was hung in the town hall directly behind the speaker's
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desk. In 1895 Mr. Frank W. Preston and family gave several
other portraits of deceased citizens of the town. Others have
been added, until now the walls are well filled with pleasant
reminders of those who formerly were prominent in town
affairs. A list of them is given in the order in which they are
arranged. Hon. Timothy Farrar Stephen Thayer
Rev. Samuel Lee Benjamin Champney
George Barrett John Preston
Henry O. Preston William A. Preston
George W. Wheeler, 2d. Frank W. Preston
Stephen Wheeler Charles R. Fletcher
Rodney Wallace Charles A. Whitney
Francis Prichard Nathan Sanders
William W. Johnson George Sanders
Peter H. Clark Albert Stearns
James Clark Isaac C. Stearns
John C. Hildreth George H. Hubbard
James Chandler Elihu T. Quimby
George C. Gibson Silas Bullard
Stillman Gibson Eli Foster
Samuel Gibson George C. Campbell
Census Returns
The Department of Commerce and Labor gives the census
returns oi population for the town as follows :
1790  1,241 1860  1,701
1800  1,266 1870  1,380
1810  1,395 1880  1,222
1820  1,278 1890  969
1830  1,673 1900  911
1840  1,578 1910  927
1850  1,877
Valuation of New Ipswich, 1914.
Number of polls, 222, value $22,200.00; improved and unimproved
land and buildings, value $576,460.00; number of horses, 184, value
$23,402.00; mules, 4, value $680.00; oxen, 6, value $660.00; cows, 294,
value $13,196.00; neat stock, 25, value $873.00; sheep, 4, value $24.00;
hogs, 11, value $144.00; fowls, 1156, value $891.00; vehicles and auto
mobiles, value $7,529.00; stock in trade, value $29,802.00; money on hand,
at interest, or on deposit, $14,145.00; mills and machinery, value
$138,842.00; undesignated buildings, value $12,400.00. Total valuation,
$841,248.00. Soldiers' exemption, $4,250.00. Rate percent on $1000, $12.30.
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Map of New Ipswich

INDEX TO NUMBERS.

1 School-house No. 9.
2 Brooks
3 Brooks, Walton
4 Maxwell
5 Brooks, A. N.
6 Harris
7 Sylvester
8 Emerson
9 Taylor, Jona.
10 Tenney
11 Tenney
12 Tenney
13 Hill, A. A.
14 School-house No. 6.
15 Tenney
16 Carlton
17 Chandler, J. L.
18 Underwood
19 Chandler
20 Knowlton
21 Wheeler
22 Chandler, Roger
23 Page
24 Herskanen, John
25 Conant
26 Wheeler, John
27 Blanchard, William
28 Collins, J.
29 Parmenter, O.
30 Goen
31 Chamberlain
32 Collins, J.
33 Mansfield Bros.
34 Breed
35 Jaquith, G. R.
36 Wilkerson, C.
37 Kivela
38 Jaquith. G. R.
39 Siren, J.
40 Whitney, Newton
41 Johnson, Nile
42 Mansfield, A. F.
43 Perry, C. R.
44 Willard, Leon
45 School-house No. 4.
46 Linna, Matti
47 Matson, Matti
48 RamsdeH, Daniel
49 Warren

50 RamsdeH, Willis
51 Lahtanen
52 Nykanen
53 Nelson, C.
54 Davis Bros.
55 Davis, Gardner
56 Whitney, W. D.
57 French, Orren
58 Russell, C. L.
59 Davis, Edward H.
60 Hosmer
61 Hodgman, Lewis
62 Tracy
63 School-house No. 3.
64 "Wheeler Tavern"
65 Winship and Hodgman
66 Barrett, Charles
67 Wheeler, Seth
68 Davis, Solomon
69 Woolson. (Country Club)
70 Preston, W. E.
71 Preston, John
72 First Church
73 First Burial Ground
74 Wolcott, J.
75 Sargent, G. W.
7() Bucknam, W. T.
77 Thayer, W. S.
78 Jones, F. W.
79 Adams, Zachariah
80 Hildreth, J. B.
81 South Burial Ground
82 Erickson, H.
83 Nelson
84 Wheeler, R.
85 Sawmill
86 Aho, John
87 Finnish Hall
88 Lampi, M.
89 Lampi
90 Jalkanen, Aron
91 Walker, S. B.
92 Nelson, C.
93 Parmenter, J.
94 Farwell, D.
95 Farwell, D.
96 Antilla, A.
97 Kaiku, K.
98 Finnish Church

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INDEX TO NUMBERS.

99 Somero, L.
100 Somero, L.
101 Locke
102 Gedenberg, M.
103 School-house No. 7.
104 Wheeler, G. S.
105 Wheeler, G. W.
106 School-house
107 Burrows
108 Kasti, Peter
109 Lougee
110 Lougee
112 Lougee
113 Coleman
114 Davis, W. E.
115 Aho, Emanuel
116 Aho, Isaac
117 Cutter
118 Cutter
119 Drywood
120 Mastin
121 Tenney, Alfred
122 Tenney, Barnard
123 Jowders, Fred
124 Chickering
125 Tenney, O.
126 Sawyer, C. E.
127 Flagg
128 Bourgault
129 Bourgault
130 Phillipi, John
131 Tenney, A. R.
132 Knowlton, J. C.
133 School-house No. 2.
134 Somero, J.
135 Abbott, Reuben
136 Parker, Ralph E.
137 Wilson
138 Wilson, Isaac
139 Tenney, O.
140 Wilson
141 Stowell, H. B.
142 Stowell, H. B.
143 Stowell, H. B.
144 Matilla
145 Prindle
146 Rafuse, H. C.

147 Ashley, W. D.
148 Withington, H.
149 Appleton, Isaac (1756)
150 Molloy
151 Chandler, G. W.
152 Kidder, Reuben
153 Boynton, Earl
154 Peavey
155 Boynton, Earl
156 Gould, John
157 Gordon, Robert
158 "Peppermint Tavern"
159 Leel, David
160 Brown
161 Walton
162 Brown, H.
163 Kaskine, E.
164 School-house No. 8.
165 Proctor's Mills
166 Proctor, A. J.
167 Blakey
168 Hanson, E.
169 Frederick, E.
170 Hood, Helen
171 Wilder Chair Shop
172 Wallace, G. R.
173 Nichols, W. K.
174 Carr, Ezra
175 Miller
176 School-house No. 10
177 Spaulding
178 Wright
179 Carr, Emory
180 Carr, James
181 Thayer, W. S.
182 Salo, Peter
183 Aldrich, I. E.
184 Taft, H. J.
185 Jones, F.
186 Gibson, F.
187 Putnam, R.
188 Balch's Mills
189 Walker, A. L.
190 Corbett
191 Walker's Mills
192 Antilla
193 Sawmill

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CENTER VILLAGE

Engine Hous*
Old Burial Ground
Old Meotins Houst
School Heuso
Bnok School Houto
Union Holl
Bank Library
Old Comer Store
Clarks Hotol
Apploton Inn
Masoni't Holl
Blaoktmith Sli«p

Index to Map

MAP OF CENTER VILLAGE.

1 Palmer

36

Barr, C. F.

2 Brown

37

Champney, E. & B. (office)

3 Perrin

38

Homestead Inn

4 Gordon, P. F.

39

Fox, E. M.

5 Cummings, J. W.

40

Barr, C. F.

6 Ames, R.

41

Brooks, H. M.

7 Spofford, H.

42

Farwell, H. E.

8 Ames

43

Chandler, J. C.

9 Cushing, F. A.

44

Pratt, C. H.

10 Roger, J.

45

Hudson, D.

11 Preston, J.

46

Prescott, G. J.

12 Davis, J.

47

Champney, H. T.

13 Taylor, M.

48

Phillips, J. W.

14 Congregational Parsonage

49

Wilson, W. H.

15 Lowe, G. N.

50

Pratt, W. H.

16 Hardy, G. H.

51

Hardy, F. E.

17 Obear, C. H.

52

Phelps, W. L.

18 Taylor, E. M.

53

Russell, M. A.

19 Gould, E. L.

54

Travis, A. L.

20 Knowlton, C. L.

55

Robinson, E. M.

21 Barrett, G. R.

56

Hudson, E. M.

22 Barr, L. M.

57

Thompson, W. R.

23 Tucker, E. L.

58

Barnett, J.

24 Parker, E. M.

59

Thayer

25 Batcheller, H.

60

Royce, H. S.

26 Farwell, E. H.

61

Wheeler, J. A.

27 Coleman

62

Balch, M. M.

28 McKown

63

Wright, A. F.

29 Preston, F. W.

64

Hastings, G. W.

30 Brown, C. S.

65

Lawrence, E. A.

31 Hardy, L. M. P.

66

Beard, E. B.

32 Tidder

67

Silver

33 Lee, S. F.

68

Whitney

34 Pollard

69

Presby

35 Kayser

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BANK VILLAGE
and
HIGH BRIDGE VILLAGE

School HeuM No M
Poll Off.t*
Waterloom Mill
Bank
M«thedt*t Church
dbhool HouM No 12
Hijh Bridge Milt

SMITH VILLA

A School House No. 5

Whttttrs Mill
Olacksmith Shop
Engine House
5tor« and Po5t Offi
Blanchard* Mil'
Hughat Mill

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164

Indexes to Maps

MAP OF BANK AND HIGH BRIDGE VILLAGES.

1

He3rwood, S. M.

2

Marshall, E. 0.

3

Tabraham

4

Knight, D.

5

Johnson's Store

6

Tarbell, M. H.

7

Goldsmith, A. A.

8

Muzzey, E.

9

Vincent, P.

10

Fournier

11

Belanger, A.

12

Taylor, B. G.

13

Vincent, J.

14

Fortin, Louis

15

Rochon, A. .

16

Chouinard, L.

17

Fontaine, J.

18

Duval, D.

1

Taylor

2

Ferrin, A.

3

Chandler, A. E.

4

Davis, R. H.

5

Cushing, G.

6

Blanchard, E. F.

7

Wheeler, C.

19

Brunault, F.

20

Fournier, E.

21

Barrett, J.

22

Ely

23

Whiting

24

Tindall

25

Moore

26

Clark

27

Corporation boarding house

28

Wilson

29

Corporation

30

Corporation

31

Corporation

32

Corporation

33

Corporation

34

Bourgault

35

Bourgault

36

Bourgault

I VILLAGE.

8

Wheeler, E. R.

9

Hendrickson

10

Hughes, C.

11

Blanchard, G.

12

Hildreth, J. L.

13

Howe, G.

14

Shirland

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INTRODUCTION.
After my father's death, when the question of the com
pletion of the History of New Ipswich came up, it was under
stood that he had said that is was "nearly done." It was, so
far as the gathering of available data was concerned, but it
was like the gathering of threads which were dropped before
the knot was tied.
My father had often mentioned the invaluable aid given
him in this work by Miss Lee, and accordingly she was asked
if she would undertake the completion of the historical part,
to which she consented. It seemed best that I should take up
the genealogical part, and I did so. I found that many
families had been written up in great detail, (full data having
been received,) with the probable intention of future conden
sation to proportions suitable for this book. Other families
had been partially written up awaiting further data, while a
large number of families had not yet been written up at all
because of a lack of authentic data. As a result, some of the
families have not received here the attention justly due their
importance in the town.
Even the completed work was found to need careful re
vision, for old age leaves its marks on the works of one's
hands and brain, such as the exchange of figures in copying
dates, but these and other mistakes we have endeavored to
discover and remove. The task of a genealogist is not an
easy one; in many cases people to whom letters requesting
information about their families are sent reply six months or
a year later saying that they know nothing of the family, but
that perhaps a certain cousin can give the information, and
then another six months may bring a similar answer from the
cousin; in other cases someone apparently very much inter
ested in the genealogy may give data showing that his aunt
was married at the age of two years, died twenty years before
she was born, or some other equally impossible combination
of dates; less absurd errors will often pass undetected. It
has not been possible to avoid all mistakes in such a work
as this, but lenience is besought in the criticism of what may
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In writing a town genealogy there are manifold questions
as to how much should be included. It was decided to insert
no family unless two generations of voters bearing that name
had resided here. This rule eliminated several who, though
living here but a few years, were marked factors in the town's
history, but some line had to be drawn. To many readers
the ancestry of residents of the town has very little interest,
but to the historian and genealogist it is of great value; so
the ancestors of each family name have been inserted as far
as they could be discovered.
I wish to thank Miss Sarah Fiske Lee for her aid, without
which this work would have been impossible. Miss Caroline
F. Barr for her generous support of the work, the other mem
bers of the Town Historical Committee, and many others who
have given aid in gathering the material for this book.
Edith B. Chandler.
Springfield, Missouri,
September 20, 1913.

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GENEALOGICAL RECORDS OF PRINCIPAL
NEW IPSWICH FAMILIES
ADAMS (Henry).
Adams was a common name among the early colonists in New Eng
land, and descendants of three seventeenth-century immigrants bearing
that name are found in New Ipswich.
Henry' Adams is believed to have come to Boston with his wife,
eight sons, and a daughter in 1632 or 1633, and to have settled at "Mount
Wollaston" in what was afterward the town of Braintree, where he died
Oct. 6, 1646. His wife's name is not known.
Thomas" (Henry'), b. England, 1612; d. Chelmsford, July 20, 1688;
m. Braintree, 1642, Mary Blackmore (?). He removed to Concord in
1646, and settled in what is now the west part of Chelmsford in 1650
or a little later. He held nearly all the important town offices and rep
resented the town in the General Court.
Samuel" (Henr/), b. England, 1617; d. Chelmsford, Jan. 24, 1688/9;
m. (1) Rebecca, dau. of Thomas Graves [d. Oct. 8, 1662 or 1664];
(2) May 7, 1668, Esther, dau. of Nathaniel Sparhawk of Cambridge
[d. Nov. 4, 1745]. Resided in Charlestown, later removed to Concord,
thence to Cambridge.
Timothy* (Thomas', Henry'), b. Concord, Feb. 15, (or Apr. 2,)
1648; d. Chelmsford, July 1, 1708; m. Mary  .
Joseph' (Samuel", Henry*), b. Nov. 27, 1672; d. Jan. 22, 1717; m.
Mary  . Resided at Chelmsford.
Thomas* (Timothy", Thomas", Henry*), b. Chelmsford, 1675; d.
Dunstable, Feb. 18, 1746; m. Judith  [b. 1680; d. Apr. 15, 1754]. He
was a carpenter and passed most of his life in Dunstable. Three of his
sons came to New Ipswich.
Benjamin' (Joseph*, Samuel", Henry*), b. Dec, 1701; d. Oct. 30,
1738 or 1739; m. Olive  . Resided in Chelmsford.
I. Stephen" (Thomas*, Timothy^, Thomas^, Henry^), b.
Chelmsford, Feb. 5, 1715 ; d. Andover, Vt., Aug. 3, 1801 ; m.
Rebecca  [b. 1715; d. Andover, Vt., Sept. 29, 1813]. He
is said to have come to New^pswich about 1750, but the
reputed places of birth of his children would indicate that
he was not a permanent resident until some years later. He
is believed to have lived for a time a little north of the
present site of the Congregational church near the place long
occupied by Stedman Houghton, and also for a time near
the south line of the town on the place long known as the
Blanchard farm., (84, A. D.) In 1771 he bought land in Hollis
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and perhaps lived there for a time before his final removal
to Andover, Vt. Children — the first nine born at Dunstable,
the last three at New Ipswich :
4. i. Stephen, b. Dec. 29, 1738. He was of New Ipswich in 1769,
when he sold land to Oliver Wright; he was in Capt.
Ezra Towne's company at Bunker Hill and served later
in the Revolutionary struggle, becoming lieutenant, but the
number of soldiers bearing the same name makes his
record somewhat indefinite.
5. ii. Civn., b. Nov. 23, 1740.
6. iii. Olive, b. Jan. 25, 1742/3.
7. iv. Silas, b. June 8, 1745.-|-
8. v. Levi, b. Apr. 2, 1747.-H
9. vi. Phinehas, b. Oct. 15, 1749. He was a member of Capt.
Towne's company, also it has been said that he was killed
at Bunker Hill; but as his name is found upon a receipt
signed by the members of that company in the following
October, it would seem that he survived that battle and
served later in the war, as given on the rolls of Capts.
Briant and Brown.
10. vii. Rebecca, b. Jan. 2, 1752.
11. viii. Hannah, b. Nov. 8, 1754.
12. ix. Jane, b. Nov. 28, 1756.
13. X. Jonas, b. Aug. 18, 1758.-|-
14. xi. Luther, b. about 1760.
15. xii. A son, name not given.
2. Zachariah^ (Thomas*, Timothy^, Thomas^, Henry^), b.
Chelmsford, Nov. 5, 1718 ; m. Anna  . He lived in Dunsta
ble in 1744, but was in New Ipswich before 1754 and built a
sawmill, probably at Smithville. He lived near Hodgkins
corner, his house being at the north end of lot X : 3, S. R.,
a few rods west of the brook and perhaps twenty rods west
of the present road to Smith Village, but upon an old road
running in nearly a westerly direction which has long ago
disappeared. He sold sixty acres to Eleazer Cummings in
1773 and his name disappears about that time.
3. Thomas^ (Thomas*, Timothy', ThomasS Henry^), b.
Dunstable, 1727 ; d. West Windsor, Vt., June 9, 1800 ; m. Ruth
Eliot [b. 1730; d. West Windsor, Vt., Feb. 4, 1806]. He was
at New Ipswich as early as 1754, but left little to tell his
history. He removed to Andover, Vt., and thence to West
Windsor, Vt., where he seems to have been more in evidence,
as he was listed higher than any of his fellow-townsmen in
1782. Children — the first three born at Dunstable, and the
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16. i. Ruth, b. Dec. 19, 1749; d. Jan. 21, 1826; m. about 1771,
Simeon Bullard (G. 3).
17. ii. Phebe, b. Dec. 31, 1752.
18. iii. Abel, b. Feb. 25, 1755.4-
19. iv. Isaac, b. May 9, 1761.+
20. V. Judah, b. Mar. 12, 1764.
7. SiLAS« (Stephen^, Thomas*, Timothy^ Thomas^,
Henry^), b. June 8, 1745 ; m. Susanna  . He is said to have
given Revolutionary service, but his name does not appear
upon the roll of any New Ipswich company. It appears,
however, as that of one of the Committee of Safety at Dun
stable in 1776-77, and the record of his children's births in
the town ceases during the time of the war, although one
birth in 1777 is found in another record. It may be inferred,
therefore, that he returned to his native town and made that
his home during those years. In 1786 Silas and Susanna "of
New Ipswich" sold land to John Pratt, Jr., and his name is
not found after 1788. Children — born in New Ipswich :
21. i. Susanna, b. Jan. 30, 1772.
22. ii. Jane, b. Jan. 27, 1775.
23. iii. Rebecca, b. Jan. 20, 1777.
24. iv. Hannah, b. May 29, 1783.
25. V. Sibil, b. May 19, 1785.
26. vi. Lydia, b. Jan. 18, 1788.
8. Levi" (Stephen^, Thomas*, Timothy', Thomas^, Henry^),
b. Apr. 2, 1747; m. (1) Mary Abecca Perry; (2) Lydia Patch.
He was in Capt. Towne's company, and at different times
served to the extent of four and one-half years during the
war. He removed to Rindge, thence to Andover, Vt., and
Ludlow, Vt. Children — those of the first marriage, seven in
number, a part born in New Ipswich and a part in Rindge,
those of the second marriage at Andover, Vt. :
27. i. Becca, b. Mar. 19, 1772.
28. ii. Asenath, b. June 13, 1774; d. Milton, Vt., 1860; m. (1)
Thomas Chandler of Chester, Vt. ; (2) Oct. 29, 1812, Lynde
Sargent, also of Chester. Three children.
Abigail, b. Apr. 23, 1776.
Rhoda, b. Feb. 18, 1778 (?); d. Proctorsville, Vt., Feb. 5,
1873; m. Aug. 10, 1796, David Dickinson. Ten children.
Phinehas, b. July 24, 1782; d. Moriah, N. Y., Feb. 28, 1838;
m. Apr. 24, 1809, Hannah Kibling. Seven children.
Ebenezer, d. aged eighteen years.
James, b. Apr. 5, 1789; d. Feb. 22, 1885; m. Apr. 28, 1817,
Nancy Pingry of Shrewsbury, Vt.
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34. viii. Charles, d. unm.
35. ix. Mary Abecca, d. unm.
36. X. Roxanna, b. Oct. 22, 1802; m. Oct., 1824, Reuben Emery of
Ludlow, Vt.
37. xi. Lydia, d. unm.
38. xii. Stillman.
39. xiii. Dorcas, m. Otis Archer of Bridgewater, Vt.
13. JoNAS^ (Stephen^, Thomas*, Timothy', Thomas^,
Henryi), b. Aug. 18, 1758; m. Phebe Hoar (9). He also is
said to have been wounded at Bunker Hill and to have re
ceived a pension in his later years; but as his name does not
appear upon Capt. Towne's roll, it is probable that the wound
was received during one of the later terms of service credited
to him. He removed to Jaffrey in 1784, and later to Andover,
Vt., where he died. Children :
40. i. Lucy C, b. New Ipswich, Mar. 22, 1784; d. Westminster,
Vt., Feb. 4, 1813; m. Dec, 1803, Cyrus Dickinson. Two
children.
41. ii. Jerry, b. Jaflfrey, Aug. 15, 1785; d. Weston, Vt., Dec. 20,
1873; m. Feb. 21, 1816, Dorcas Austin. He represented
Weston in the legislature, and was a captain. Five children.
42. iii. Jonas, b. Jaflfrey, Aug. 25, 1785; d. Sept. 28, 1790.
43. iv. Phinehas, b. Jaffrey, Oct. 20, 1789; d. Dec. 18, 1845; m.
Feb. 5, 1813, Rebecca Gibson. He lived in Grafton, Vt.,
and Ludlow, Vt.
44. v. Molly, b. Jaflfrey, Sept. 2, 1791; d. Weston, Vt., Mar. 15,
1857, unm.
45. vi. Nancy, b. Jaffrey, Feb. 25, 1794; m. Mar. 9, 1814, James
Estabrook. Settled in Elizabethtown, N. Y., and removed
thence to Iowa. Ten children.
46. vii. Achsa, b. Andover, Oct. 29, 1799; d. Apr. 8, 1879; m. July
26, 1818, David Austin. Six children.
Laura, b. Andover, Apr. 18, 1802; d. June 1, 1879, unm.
Alvin, b. Andover, June 16, 1804; d. Watertown, Mass.,
Sept. 1, 1877; m. Nov. 10, 1831, Ann Rebecca Bridge of
Boston. He was founder of the Adams Express Company.
Stillman, b. Andover, Aug. 26, 1806; d. Apr. 10, 1807.
Orson, b. Andover, Dec. 13, 1807; d. South Boston, Nov. 7,
1869; m. July 28, 1834, Cynthia Prescott. He lived in
South Boston.
14. Luther" (Stephen^ Thomas*, Timothy', Thomas^
Henryi), b. about 1760; d. Jan. 12, 1842; m. Oct. 2, 1792,
Fanny, dau. of Josiah and Esther Stanford of Dublin. He
lived in Dublin and removed thence to Weston, Vt., about
1802. Children — the first four born before the removal:
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51. i. Polly, b. Jan. 8, 1793; d. Apr. 13, 1877; m. Mar., 1816,
Robert Nichols. She lived in Concord, Vt., where she died.
52. ii. James, b. Aug. 2, 1795; d. young.
53. iii. Luther, b. Nov. 6, 1796; d. St. Johnsbury, Vt., Aug. 8, 1878;
m. Mar. 20, 1822, Ada Brown. He settled in Littleton,
N. H., but later lived at St. Johnsbury. Nine children.
54. iv. SiKENE, b. Apr. 1, 1801; d. North Littleton, N. H., Apr. 13,
1841 ; m. Ira Caswell. Five children.
55. V. Elvira, b. Mar. 30, 1803; d. Fond du Lac, Wis.; m. Mar.
20, 1828, Daniel Howe. Four children.
56. vi. Mercy, b. June 3, 1805; d. June 7, 1840; m. Levi Ball of
Concord, Vt. Removed to Sutton, Vt., in 1839. Four
children.
18. Abel" (Thomas^, Thomas*, Timothy", Thomas',
Henry^), b. Feb. 25, 1755; d. July 12, 1821; m. Feb. 2, 1780,
Hannah Proctor of Dunstable. He lived at West Windsor,
Vt. Children:
57. i. Hannah, b. Dec. 20, 1783; d. Feb. 13, 1826; ra. Mar. 23, 1802,
Bezaleel Bridge of Windsor.
58. ii. John, an adopted son, b. June 4, 1785.
19. Isaac" (Thomas', Thomas*, Timothy', Thomas^
Henryi), b. May 9, 1761; d. Nov. 12, 1824; m. Nov. 7, 1780,
Mary Blanchard of Ashby. He served in the Revolution, but
his record is somewhat difficult to ascertain, as there were
two soldiers bearing the name. Afterward settled at West
Windsor, Vt. Children — all born at West Windsor:
59. i. Isaac, b. May 3, 1784; d. May 23, 1784.
60. ii. John, b. Aug. 27, 1785 ; d. May 27, 1792.
61. iii. Isaac, b. Sept. 7, 1787; d. June 19, 1789.
62. iv. Polly, b. Jan. 13, 1790; d. May 6, 1855; m. Feb. 4, 1808, Daniel
Wetherby.
63. V. Ruth, b. May 3, 1792; d. Nov. 19, 1840, unm.
64. vi. Phebe, b. May 4, 1794; d. Aug. 8, 1845.
65. vii. Abel, b. Jan. 17, 1797.
66. viii. Ira, b. Sept. 6, 1799; m. Mar. 6, 1823, Hannah Robinson.
67. ix. Judes, b. Feb. 17, 1802; m. (1) Jan. 7, 1819, Elijah Robinson
of Windsor, Vt. ; (2)  Woodward.
Oliver" (Benjamin*, Joseph", Samuel", Henry*), b. Oct. 27, 1729; m.
Dec. 2, 1756, Rachel Proctor of Chelmsford. He lived in Chelmsford
and was a Revolutionary soldier.
Oliver' (Oliver', Benjamin*, Joseph*, Samuel", Henry*), b. Jan. 7,
1767; d. Rindge, Dec. 28, 1813; m. Betsey Marshall of Chelmsford. Re
sided in Chelmsford and in Rindge.
Marshall' (Oliver", Oliver', Benjamin*, Joseph*, Samuel", Henry*), b.
Rindge, Mar. 14, 1801; m. May 9, 1826, Sarah G., dau. of Thaddeus and
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Dorothy (Coolidge) Richards of Rindge. He was a woolen manufac
turer at New Boston and later a farmer; deacon in the Presbyterian
church. 68. Joseph G.^ (Marshall^, Oliver", Oliver^ Benjamin*,
Joseph', SamueP, Henry^), b. Dec. 12, 1836; m. May 10, 1858,
Martha W., dau. of Samuel and Martha (Stone) Perry. He
was a merchant in Natick, Mass., whence he came to New
Ipswich in 1878, and conducted the "Corner store" for a few
years. 69. Eugene Francis' (Joseph G.*, Marshall, Oliver',
Oliver', Benjamin*, Joseph', SamueP, Henry^), b. Natick,
Mass., Oct. 14, 1859; m. 1892, Annie P., dau. of William P.
Felch [d. Sept. 9, 1896]. He left New Ipswich in 1883 and
has since been in the grain business at Manchester except
during three years passed upon a cattle ranch in Nebraska.
He was town clerk in 1882. Child :
70. i. Beulah, b. Mar. 9, 1894.
It should perhaps be added that this family of patriotic instincts is
the same as that of those patriots in higher positions. President John
Adams and his cousin Samuel, the line of descent being as follows :
Henry,* Joseph", Joseph*, John*, President John'.
ADAMS (Robert).
Robert* Adams, b. 1602; d. probably Oct. 12, 1682; m. (1) Eleanor
(Wilmot?) [d. June 12, 1677]; (2) Feb. 6, 1678, Sarah (Glover), widow of
Henry Short [d. Oct. 24, 1697]. In 1635 he with wife and two children
came to Ipswich, where he was a tailor, but in 1640 he was at Newbury,
where he obtained a large farm and other property.
Abraham" (Robert*), b. Salem, 1639; d. Newbury, Aug., 1714; m.
Nov. 10, 1670, Mary, dau. of Richard and Joanna (IngersoU) Pettengell
[b. July 6, 1652; d. Sept., 1705].
Isaac" (Abraham", Robert*), b. Newbury, Feb. 26, 1678/9; d. 1738/9;
m. (pub. Feb. 24, 1707) Hannah, dau. of Samuel and Sarah (Burpee)
Spofford of Rowley [b. Feb. 12, 1684; d. Sept. 3, 1775]. He was a weaver
and afterward a farmer in Rowley and in Boxford successively.
Isaac* (Isaac", Abraham", Robert*), b. Rowley, May 25, 1713; d. Mar.
20, 1797; m. Apr. 1, 1743, Mary (or Mercy), dau. of Dr. David Wood
[b. 1720; d. 1794]. He settled at Boxford in 1738, where he was select
man fourteen years, representative four years, and captain.
David' (Isaac*, Isaac", Abraham", Robert*), b. Boxford, June 20,
1747; d. Nov. 17, 1831; m. May 5, 1773, Phebe, dau. of Dea. Abner
and Sarah (Coleman) Spofford of Byfield [b. Jan. 6, 1757; d. Feb. 17,
1822]. He settled in Rindge at about the time of his marriage. He
served in the Revolution, and was afterward captain in the militia.
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1. Moody' (David^ Isaac*, Isaac', Abraham^ Robert^), b.
Rindge, Mar. 25, 1784; d. Feb., 1868; m. Jan. 18, 1814, Betsey,
dau. of Samuel and Elizabeth Batchelder (24). His name ap
pears upon the New Ipswich records not very long after he
reached the age of twenty-one, but he may not have become
a permanent resident until the time of his marriage. He lived
in the Center Village the succeeding three years, and then for
twenty years was proprietor of the "Peppermint Tavern,"
leaving it only when the changed methods of travel had left
no patronage. During the remainder of his life he lived in
the Center Village, nearly opposite the Barrett mansion, and
for a few years was associated in business with Isaac Sander
son at the slaughter-house occupied for that purpose for many
years near the foot of the old Meeting-house Hill. Children :
2. i. Elizabeth Woodbury, b. Sept. 18, 1815 ; d. Oct. 29, 1885, unm.
3. ii. William Moody, b. Feb. 9, 1818; d. Oct. 3, 1826.
4. iii. Myra Jane, b. Sept. 9, 1823 ; d. Oct. 12, 1826.
5. iv. Myra Jane, b. Feb. 18, 1828; d. Mar. 30, 1890; m. Jan. 8,
1852, George Boyden (2). They lived for some years in
the neighboring house, and then removed to Washington,
D. C.
6. V. Wn,LiAM Moody, b. June 18, 1830; d. Oct. 30, 1830.
ADAMS (William).
William* Adams, b. Shropshire, England, Feb. 3, 1594; d. 1661. He
came to America in 1628; was at Cambridge in 1635 or earlier; freeman
in 1639; removed to Ipswich, Mass., before 1642, probably living in the
part which is now Hamilton. His widow was living in 1681, but her
name is not known.
Nathaniel" (William*), b. Ipswich, 1642; d. Apr. 11, 1715; m. June
30, 1668, Mercy, dau. of Thomas Dickinson of Rowley, Mass. [d. Dec. 12,
1735]. It is possible that he was the son of William", and grandson of
William*, and that all the following generation numbers should be one
larger. Thomas* (Nathaniel", William*), b. June 14, 1672; d. Oct. 14, 1729;
m. Bethiah  [d. Jan. 12, 1742].
Thomas* (Thomas', Nathaniel", William*), b. Aug. 31, 1699; d. 1765;
m. Apr. 17, 1722, Deborah, dau. of Thomas and Margery (Goodhue)
Knowlton [b. Dec. 31, 1698; m. (2) Feb. 6, 1770, William Wigglesworth
of that part of Ipswich which is now Hamilton, in which Thomas Adams
had also lived]. He was early interested in the settlement of New
Ipswich, having two eighty-acre lots under the Massachusetts grant, which
he probably lost, but he held five shares under the Masonian charter,
giving him a title to more than two square miles of land, upon 240 acres
of which, at least, his sons were the original settlers.
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1. Ephraim'' (Thomas*, Thomas', NathanieP, William^),
bapt. Oct. 18, 1724; d. Mar. 26, 1797; m. (1) Apr. 6, 1749,
Lydia Kinsman [b. about 1728; d. Nov. 5, 1760] ; (2) Nov. 18,
1761, Rebecca, dau. of James and Elizabeth (Burnap) Locke
[b. May 13, 1735; d. 1822]. He was a soldier against the
French about 1746, and after his return from service was
married and came to New Ipswich, probably at the same time
as his brother Benjamin, and settled upon N. D., 21, where
his house, built at that early period, is still standing, another
house of more recent construction having been added to it
at the west side. This house was surrounded by "flankers"
for protection against the Indians. There is, however, no
tradition of their having been attacked, and in 1757 the town
voted not "to repair Mr. Adam's flankers in order for defence."
He was a leading citizen and had great influence in public
matters, due not only to his sound sense but also to the clear
and quaint methods in which his views were presented. He
was not elected to office as frequently as his brother, being a
selectman for only a single year, but he was relied upon in
times of special stress. He represented the town in the Pro
vincial Congress and for five years in the state legislature,
was chairman of the Committee of Inspection, Correspondence
and Safety when it was first chosen, and also at a later time
when its duties were very arduous and its power was necessa
rily almost dictatorial, so that skilful management was almost
as essential as earnest purpose ; and in general his record bears
the mark of a conscientious, patriotic, and well-balanced man.
He also served in the field, but evident carelessness in the com
pany rolls makes it impossible to determine with certainty
between his name and that of his oldest son. There seems
to be no doubt, however, that he was in Capt. Smith's com
pany at the battle of White Plains. He was one of the two
deacons elected at the organization of the church. Children :
3. i. Ephraim, b. Dec. 26, 1749.-|-
4. ii. Thomas, b. Sept. 12, 1751; d. Oct. 11, 1820; m. Dec. 18, 1777,
Molly Farnsworth [b. about 1756; d. June 24, 1842]. He
served in the Revolution, and probably was the one bearing
the name upon the company roll of Capt. Abijah Smith or
of Capt. Francis Towne or of both.
5. iii. Stephen, b. Nov. 6, 1753. He is said to have enlisted from
Rindge in the company of Capt. Philip Thomas in 1775,
but identification is hardly practicable on account of dif
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6. iv. Daniel, b. Aug. 24, 1755.-]-
7. v. Lydl*., b. July 16, 1757; d. Oct., 1800; m. Nathan Wheeler
[b. Concord, Mass., Jan. 9, 1744; d. May 7, 1834]. Res. in
Temple. Children: i. Nathan Wheeler, b. Oct. 20, 1781_;
he was a prominent citizen of Temple and a deacon, ii.
Lydia Wheeler, b. Aug. 19, 1783. iii. Josiah Wheeler, b. May
11, 1786; m. Dolly Shattuck.
8. vi. John, b. Nov. 10, 1762; d. Dec. 9, 1763.
9. vii. John, b. Feb. 29, 1764; d. 1781 in the army, where he was
probably the one who enlisted in the February of that year
"for three years or the war."
10. viii. Ebenezer, b. Oct. 2, 1765.-|-
11. ix. Rebecca, b. July 27, 1767; ra. Jan. 20, 1802, Abel Shedd.
12. x. James, b. May 20, 1769; m. Nov. 3, 1795, Ruth Conant (9).
Res. Grafton, Vt.
13. xi. Betsey, b. Mar. 13, 1772; d. Apr. 14, 1816; m. Feb. 7, 1779,
Dr. Luther Jewett of St. Johnsbury, Vt. Eight children.
14. xii. Quincy, b. Sept. 29, 1775.-|-
2. Benjamin^ (Thomas*, Thomas', NathanieP, William^),
bapt. Aug. 6, 1728; d. May 5, 1815; m. (1) Apr. 18, 1751, Pris
cilla, dau. of Joseph* (Thomas') and Priscilla (Warner)
Adams [b. Jan. 3, 1729; d. Feb. 19, 1791] ; (2) Feb. 19, 1795,
Susannah, dau. of Stephen Ralph and widow of David Everett
of Princeton, Mass. [d. May 2, 1815]. He came to New Ips
wich with his brother Ephraim or very soon after, and set
tled upon the same lot and the adjoining lot at the west, N. D.,
25, since occupied by Benjamin A. Clark and by Reed Tenney,
where the two brothers held their land in common for many
years, although later Benjamin removed his home to the last-
named lot. He, like his brother, was a valued citizen and an
approved holder of official positions, being Proprietors' clerk
before the incorporation of the town for several years and
town clerk afterward, and selectman for nine years. He served
upon at least two calls for troops in the Revolutionary strug
gle, and failed to have a part in the contest at Lexington only
because the patriotic uprising was so general that, with some
other men from New Ipswich and other more distant towns,
he was dismissed before reaching Cambridge. He was in the
company of Capt. Smith, and while encamped near White
Plains his blanket was stolen from him while asleep, the re
sulting exposure causing a life-long lameness and ultimately
a complete inability to walk. He was chosen a deacon at the
same time as his brother. Children :
IS. i. Joseph, b. Feb. 3, 1752; d. Mar. 30, 1752.
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16. ii. Priscilla, b. Mar. 15, 1753; d. Feb. 17, 1777; m. Oct. 12, 1772,
John Warner.
17. iii. Sarah, b. Feb. 1, 1755; d. Mar. 15, 1755.
18. iv. Benjamin, b. Feb. 7, 1756; d. May 6, 1758.
19. V. Mary, b. Mar. 1, 1758.
20. vi. Deborah, b. June 5, 1760; d. July 19, 1760.
21. vii. Hannah, b. Aug. 27, 1761.
22. viii. Benjamin, b. Sept. 9, 1763.-|-
23. ix. Joseph, b. Dec. 13, 1765.-|-
24. X. Sarah, b. Aug. 11, 1768; d. Nov. 20, 1768.
25. xi. Eunice, b. Mar. 8, 1770; m. Nov. 17, 1799, Aaron Appleton
(6).
3. Ephraim" (Ephraim^, Thomas*, Thomas', NathanieP,
William^), b. Dec. 26, 1749; d. Apr. 15, 1825; m. (1) 1772,
Elizabeth, dau. of Timothy and Dinah (Pierce) Stearns of
that part of Lancaster which is now Leominster [b. Nov. 11,
1751; d. Mar. 29, 1810]; (2) Bridget  [b. about 1747; d.
Oct. 25, 1813]. Soon after reaching the age of manhood he set
tled upon a lot then entirely wilderness, N. D., 61, which was
occupied by him and his descendants for 125 years, but under
later conditions has passed into the hands of Antti Raketti,
sometimes preacher at the Lutheran church erected in that
part of the town by the Finnish townsmen, a possession cer
tainly in harmony with its occupancy for more than sixty
years by father, son, and grandson in succession, all deacons
in the Congregational church. The house prepared for the
new home upon this lot was situated a little farther west than
the present house, built by the owner of the farm in the next
generation, nor did the road end at the house as it has now
for many years. In early days the road divided, one branch
passing directly over the mountain, being the first road opened
to Rindge, and the other turning northward to the region
afterward occupied by the "Peppermint Tavern." The ruling
spirit of this home is perhaps sufficiently evidenced by the
calls to service made upon its head by the neighbors who
knew him, as he served the town as selectman for sixteen
years and the church as deacon for an equal period. He
responded to the Concord alarm in 1775 and to the Royalton
call in 1780. Children :
26. i. Ephraim, b. Oct. 15, 1773.-|-
27. ii. Isaac, b. July 13, 1775.-H
28. iii. Lydia, b. June 7, 1777; m. William Perkins of Leominster,
Mass. Res. at Enosburg, Vt. Thirteen children.
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29. iv. Elizabeth, b. Dec. 13, 1778; d. Feb. 22, 1868; m. (1) June 21,
1801, Joseph Spear (8); (2) Dec. 19, 1820, John, son of
Samuel and Lizzie (Cummings) Cross of Litchfield, N. H.
[d. 1825] ; (3) Joseph Joslyn of Jaffrey.
30. V. John, b. Feb. 10, 1781.-1-
31. vi. Rebekah, b. Nov., 1782; m. Feb. 3, 1803, Aaron Knight.
32. vii. Sarah, b. July 30, 1784; d. Mar. 19, 1814; m. Nicholas
Richards of Enosburg, Vt., where she lived and died. Three
daughters.
33. viii. Susanna, b. Nov. 4, 1785 ; d. Nov. 6, 1819 ; m. Thomas Stearns
of Leominster, Mass., later of Enosburg, Vt. [b. 1789; d.
Feb. 27, 1832]. Five children, one of whom, Thomas Adams
Stearns, b. Sept. 2, 1812, lived in New Ipswich for a few
years when a young man, but removed to Jaffrey, where
he d. July 28, 1879.
34. ix. Lucinda, b. Jan. 26, 1788; d. 1848; m. May 14, 1807, Jonas,
son of James and Sarah (Stearns) Boutelle of Leominster,
Mass. Res. at Enosburg, Vt.
35. x. Melinda, b. Feb. 8, 1790; d. 1868; m. Feb. 6, 1817, Asa Knight.
Res. in Hancock, where she had eight children; later in
Milford and New London.
36. xi. Timothy Kinsman, b. Sept. 30, 1791.-f-
37. xii. Benjamin Stearns, b. Aug. 6, 1794. He married and re
moved to Tennessee.
38. xiii. Cynthia, b. Sept. 5, 1796; d. 1883; m. Hiram, son of Judge
Amos and Anna Fassett. Res. Enosburg, Vt.
6. Daniel" (Ephraim^, Thomas*, Thomas', NathanieP,
William^), b. Aug. 24, 1755; d. about 1790; m. Sarah, dau. of
William and Sarah (Locke) Clark [b. Townsend, Mass., Nov.
21, 1754]. Her mother and her husband's stepmother were
sisters. He removed about 1778 to a part of Fitzwilliam
which is now Troy. Children :
39. i. Stephen, b. Oct. 29, 1779; m. Dec. 1, 1803. Res. at Hinesburg,
Vt. Eight children.
40. ii. Daniel, b. Mar. 22, 1781 ; m. Dec. 3, 1806, Mercy Olney. Res.
at Zingwick, Quebec. Seven children.
41. iii. William, b. Mar. 10, 1783; d. Oct. 15, 1851; m. (1) Susan
Raymond; (2) Betsey Tarbell; (3) Phebe Hatch. Res. in
Boxboro, Mass., and later in Westford, Mass., where he
died.
42. iv. Thomas, b. Mar. 9, 1785; d. Sept. 12, 1841; m. June, 1805,
Sarah Sawtelle of Jaffrey [d. Oct. 25, 1828]. Res. at Jeffrey.
Ten children.
43. V. Sarah, b. Jan. 25, 1787; m. Mar. 11, 1805, John Frost [d. July
4, 1847]. Res. at Jaffrey. Nine children.
44. vi. Lydia, b. July 13, 1789. Res. at Nashua.
45. vii. Samuel, b. Apr. 30, 1791. He removed to Canada, and was
last known as a soldier in the British army in 1812.
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10. Ebenezer" (Ephraim^ Thomas*, Thomas', NathanieP,
William^), b. Oct. 2, 1765: d. Aug. 15, 1841; m. (1) July 9,
1795, Alice, dau. of Dr. John Frink [b. Rutland, Mass., Mar.
1, 1769; d. June 20, 1805] ; (2) May 17, 1807, Beulah, dau. of
Dr. John Minott [b. Concord, Mass., June 28, 1775]. He pre
pared for college at New Ipswich, and graduated from Dart
mouth College in 1791. He was principal of the academy at
Leicester, Mass., for fourteen years, of an academy at Port
land, Me., two years, instructor at Phillips Academy, Exeter,
two years, and in 1809 was appointed professor of Latin,
Greek, and Hebrew in his Alma Mater, but a year later was
transferred to the chair of Mathematics and Natural Philoso
phy, in which he remained until his death thirty-one years
later, although during the last eight years he was relieved of
its duties and remained as professor emeritus. In all of those
positions he was an eminently successful teacher and a highly
respected citizen. He was postmaster at Leicester. Had
athletics held at that time such a place in college activities as
they now claim, he would without doubt have had additional
claims for popularity, as it is related that at the age of nine
teen he was selected as the champion to maintain the honor
of New Ipswich against the challenge of three brothers from
Ashburnham who came across the state line upon town-
meeting day to win the honor of a wrestling victory over the
boys of New Hampshire, but were forced to admit the defeat
of their best man by the embryonic professor from a muscular
New Ipswich family. That his mental activities were not
limited by the walls of his class-room is evidenced by his being
an original member of the Northern Academy of Arts and
Sciences, and also by his connection with many other societies,
including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
New Hampshire Historical Society, the Royal Society of
Northern Antiquities, and the American Antiquarian Society.
Children, the first five born at Leicester and the last two at
Hanover :
46. i. Alice Amelia, b. June 2, 1796; d. Portland, Me., Feb. 11,
1820; m. June 16, 1819, Rev. Thomas Jewett Murdock.
47. ii. Adeline Augusta, b. Jan. 17, 1798; m. June 28, 1819.
48. iii. John Frink, b. Nov. 3, 1799; m. July 2, 1835, Elizabeth Lovell
Walker. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1817,
and became a lawyer at Mobile, Ala. Three children.
49. iv. Charles Augustus, b. Oct. 2, 1801 ; d. in South Carolina,
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50. V. Harriet Russell, b. Sept. 14, 1804; d. July 30, 1830; m. Nov.
14, 1826, Hon. John Aiken, who graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1819, was a lawyer in Manchester, Vt., and a
business man at Lowell, Mass., and at Boston. Charles A.
Aiken, professor of Latin at Dartmouth College 1859-1866,
was their son.
51. vi. Eliza Minott, b. Feb. 9, 1810; m. Aug. 23, 1833, Ira Young,
who graduated from Dartmouth College in 1821 and suc
ceeded to the chair of Prof. Adams upon his becoming
professor emeritus. Charles A. Young, professor of Physics
and Astronomy at Dartmouth College 1866-1872, and later
at Princeton, N. J., who succeeded to a portion of the duties
of Prof. Ira Young, was their son, and Anne S. Young,
professor of Astronomy at Mt. Holyoke College, is their
granddaughter.
52. vii. Ebenezer, b. Aug. 6, 1813; d. July 23, 1837. He graduated
from Dartmouth College in 1831.
14. Quincy" (Ephraim^ Thomas*, Thomas', NathanieP,
William^), b. Sept. 29, 1775; d. about 1815; m. Dolly Elliot.
He lived upon the paternal farm for a few years after reaching
manhood, but about 1805 he exchanged farms with Francis
Cragin of Temple and removed to that town, where he lived
for about ten years before receiving fatal injuries by falling
through his sled. Children :
53. i. John Quincy, b. Dec. 18, 1800.
54. ii. Maria, b. Nov. 14, 1802.
22. Benjamin" (Benjamin^, Thomas*, Thomas', NathanieP,
William^), b. Sept. 9, 1763; d. about July 1, 1825; m. June 22,
1794, Olivia (1), dau. of David and Susannah (Ralph) Everett
[b. Princeton, Mass., July 22, 1768]. He passed most of his
life upon the paternal farm, (N. D., 25,) but for a few years
soon after the opening of the turnpike through the town, in
the early years of the nineteenth century, he kept a tavern
in the old parsonage at the corner (N. D., 37,) where the road
turns to Mill Brook. It was an exceptionally orderly house,
as might be inferred from the fact that he is said to have been
the first man in the town to carry on his farm without the
use of rum. He was interested in military matters, and at
tained the rank of major, by which title he was known until
his death. Children:
55. i. David Everett, b. July 4, 1795; m. Sept. 28, 1833, Nancy
Walker (J. 9).
56. ii. Olivia, b. Sept. 6, 1796; m. Rev. Robert Page [b. Readfield,
Me., Apr. 25, 1790; d. Jan. 12, 1876]. He was a pastor in
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Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Ohio, in which last
state they died. Seven children.
57. iii. Clarissa Priscilla, b. May 12, 1798. She became a perma
nent resident in Keene, with her aunt Eunice (Adams) Ap
pleton, when only a child.
58. iv. Benjamin Franklin, b. Mar. 1, 1800; d. July 28, 1886; m.
Feb. 20, 1828, Louisa Ruth, dau. of Isaac and Mercy (Dana)
Redington of Walpole and Keene [b. Aug. 13, 1805; d. Mar.
12, 1883]. He went in childhood, like his sister, to the home
of his aunt Eunice Appleton in Keene, in which town he
lived until 1853, when he removed to Chicago. He had
eight children, one of whom, George Everett, graduated
from Harvard College in 1860, and from Harvard Law
School in 1865; he entered upon legal practice in Chicago;
was a state senator 1881-83, and a representative in Congress
1883-91.
59. V. Charles, b. Dec. 21, 1802; m. Susan, dau. of John and Susan
(White) Shedd of Rindge and Jaffrey. He was a tanner
at the foot of Meeting-house Hill for several years about
1830, but removed to Derby, Vt., before 1835, and later to
the New Ipswich colony at Denmark, Iowa. Children: i.
A daughter, d. in childhood, ii. A daughter, d. soon after
marriage, iii. Charles Kendall, b. Jan. 24, 1835; d. Red-
lands, Cal., July 26, 1902. He graduated from the Univer
sity of Michigan in 1861, and was a member of the faculty
of that institution until 1885, at first as an instructor, but
rising to the professorship of History, and being also Dean
of the School of Political Science, and at the same time
a professor "in absentia" at Cornell University, to the pres
idency of which he was called in 1885, but resigned in 1892
to accept the presidency of the University of Wisconsin,
which he held for nine years.
60. vi. Sophronia, b. Mar. 11, 1804; m. May 20, 1828, Dr. Hibbard,
son of Dr. Luther and Betsey (Adams) (13) Jewett. She
also passed her youth with her aunt Eunice in Keene.
61. vii. Eunice Augusta, b. Aug. 30, 1805; d. Dec. 22, 1846; m. Jan.
3, 1833, James Adams, son of Capt. Abel and Rebecca
(Adams) (11) Shedd.
62. viii. Frederic Augustus, b. July 19, 1807; d. Apr. 8, 1888; m. Oct.
23. 1839, Mary Jane, dau. of Col. David McGregor Means of
Amherst [b. Jan. 1, 1811; d. Mar. 28, 1882]. He graduated
from Dartmouth College in 1833, and from Andover Theo
logical Seminary in 1837, teaching during his professional
study, being a tutor at Dartraouth in 1836-37. He was pas
tor at Araherst for three years, and then devoted himself
to teaching in academies and private schools in Byfield,
Mass., Orange, N. J., and Newark, N. J., until 1882. He
died at East Orange, N. J. He was a trustee of New Ips
wich Academy 1837-44. He had three daughters who died
young, and one son, Frederic, b. Oct. 9, 1840; m. (1) Oct.
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27, 1870, Ella, dau. of John S. King of Putnam, O. [d.
Nov. 14, 1896] ; (2) July 20, 1904, Ella, dau. of Morris K.
King of Norfolk, Va. ; six children.
63. ix. Emily Appleton, b. Feb. 3, 1810.
23. Joseph" (Benjamin^ Thomas*, Thomas', NathanieP,
William^), b. Dec. 13, 1765. He married, and probably left
New Ipswich immediately after, as his name appears on the
town records only in 1787. Children :
64. i. Isaac. He was a minister, and d. leaving one daughter.
65. ii. Hiram. He had two children.
66. iii. Mary, m.  Johnson. One son.
67. iv. Minerva, unm.
26. Ephraim^ (Ephraim", Ephraim^ Thomas*, Thomas',
NathanieP, William^), b. Oct. 15, 1773; d. July 16, 1833; m.
(1) 1800, Sally, dau. of James and Sarah (Stearns) Boutelle
of Leominster, Mass. [d. Enosburg, Vt., July 29, 1814] ; (2)
Dec. 29, 1814, Polly, sister of his first wife [d. about 1830] ; (3)
Salome (Grant), widow of Rev. James Parker, who survived
him. In 1796, when he was not yet 23 years of age, he with
his brother Isaac and two fellow-townsmen, Charles Barrett
and Nathan Wheeler, with the spirit which in later years set
tled the western areas of the country, went to northern
Vermont, and bought 1000 acres of land in "Knight's Gore,"
now the eastern part of the town of Bakersfield, and settled
there, keeping "bachelor's hall" while clearing and planting
their land during three seasons, but returning to New Hamp
shire each winter and there teaching school. Communication
with the towns upon the lake to the west was not difficult,
and the young men had visions of a thriving town in the
future centering in Knight's Gore. But as the forest was
cleared, it was found that the surrounding mountains forbade
advance to the east, and that the busy town would never lie
as they planned. This experience, familiar in later years to
so many who have deserted the eastern states and sought
homes in the unsettled West, caused a complete abandonment
of the Knight's Gore enterprise. But Ephraim Adams did
not resume residence in New Ipswich; he went a few miles
farther to the north and settled in Enosburg, whither he soon
took his young wife, and where all his children were born.
Children :
68. i. John, b. Dec, 1801; d. Nov. 30, 1802.
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69. ii. Ephraim, b. Dec. 27, 1802; d. Oct. 20, 1837; m. May 26, 1825,
Lydia Wheeler. He was a farmer and a tin-peddler. He
removed to Fitchburg while yet a young man. Three
children.
70. iii. James B., b. Oct. 14, 1805; d. 1869; m. Mehitable Pope. Res.
in Troy, Vt. Three children.
71. iv. Fidelia, b. 1807; d. 1808.
72. v. George, b. Dec. 27, 1809; d. Apr. 27, 1891; m. (1) Feb. 27,
1833, Arvilla Stevens [d. May 13, 1843] ; (2) July 13, 1843,
Mrs. Elmira (Stevens) Stone [b. Feb. 5, 1805; d. Feb. 5,
1888]. He lived in Enosburg, Vt., which town he repre
sented in the Legislature in 1876. Six children.
73. vi. Julia, b. 1812; d. Aug., 1817.
74. vii. Thomas Spencer, b. Feb. 3, 1816. Res. in Boston.
75. viii. Sally, b. Feb. 20, 1819; d. June 2, 1837.
76. ix. Benjamin Stearns, b. Aug. 27, 1820; m. Apr. 16, 1843, Susan
S. Pierce [b. Brighton, Mass., June 2, 1822]. Res. Troy, Vt.
77. x. Henry Martyn, b. Nov. 20, 1823 ; d. Aug. 13, 1856. He gradu
ated from Amherst College in 1851, and from the Theo
logical Institute of Connecticut in 1854. He was ordained
soon after, at Enosburg, and sailed for the Gaboon Mission
in Western Africa, where he labored less than two years
before his death.
78. xi. Joanna K., b. Apr. 12, 1827; d. Dec. 27, 1891; m. Mar. 31,
1847, Samuel Henry Dow of Enosburg [b. Dec. 6, 1822; d.
Mar. 27, 1907].
79. xii. John Scott, b. Jan. 22, 1829; d. Oct., 1858; m. Cordelia Ab
bott [d. Mar., 1849]. Res. Gardner, Mass. Two children.
27. Isaac' (Ephraim", Ephraim^, Thomas*, Thomas', Na
thanieP, William^), b. July 13, 1775; d. July 7, 1849; m. Dec.
8, 1803, Sally, dau. of Benjamin and Lydia (Hawks) Perkins
of Leominster, Mass. [b. Dec. 10, 1779; d. June 26, 1856]. He
had a part with his brother Ephraim in the Knight's Gore
settlement, as related above, but unlike his brother, he re
turned to his native town and there passed his life, succeeding
his father not only in ownership of the paternal farm but also
as selectman in 1805, and as deacon in 1814. He was also
an Academy trustee. Children :
80. i. Sally, b. Sept. 29, 1805; d. Mar. 18, 1879; m. Dec. 26, 1837,
Nathan, son of John and Sarah (Merrill) Perley [b. Haver
hill, Mass., June 11, 1794; d. June 18, 1882]. Res. Enos
burg, Vt. Children: i. Ellen S. Perley. b. Feb. 18, 1839;
d. Aug. 10, 1845. ii. Laura Perley, b. Mar. 8, 1842; d. Jan.
14, 1879; m. Feb., 1865, Edward H. Smith; one child, iii.
Ephraim Adams Perley, b. Aug. 29, 1844; d. Jan. 19, 1905;
ra. Sept. 10, 1879, Susan Paul; one child, iv. Ormond T.
Perley, h. Sept. 19, 1846; d. Sept. 13, 1882; m. Laura Annette
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81. ii. Henry, b. Nov. 23, 1807.-J-
82. iii. Marinda, b. Nov. 25, 1810; d. Jan. 19, 1879; m. Dec. 11, 1833,
William Dana Locke (12).
83. iv. Ephraim, b. Dec. 13, 1812; d. Aug. 1, 1816.
84. V. Elizabeth Stearns, b. Jan. 18, 1816; d. Aug. 7, 1818.
85. vi. Ephraim, b. Feb. 5, 1818.-f
30. John' (Ephraim", Ephraim^, Thomas*, Thomas', Na
thanieP, William^), b. Feb. 10, 1781; m. Rebecca, dau. of
James and Sarah (Stearns) Boutelle of Leominster, Mass.
Res. at Enosburg, Vt. Children :
86. i. John.
87. ii. Fidelia.
88. iii. Emily.
89. iv. Charles.
90. v. Cyrus.
91. vi. Joseph.
92. vii. Ephraim.
93. viii. Lucinda.
94. ix. Josiah.
95. x. Rebecca.
36. Timothy Kinsman' (Ephraim", Ephraim^, Thomas*,
Thomas', NathanieP, William^), b. Sept. 30, 1791; m. Mary
Nichols. Res. at Enosburg, Vt., and removed thence to
Minnesota, where they passed their lives. Children :
96. i. Clarissa.
97 . ii. Cynthia.
98. iii. Mary.
99. iv. Bartlett.
100. V. Melinda.
101. vi. Dorothy.
102. vii. Elizabeth.
103. viii. Stearns.
104. ix. Thomas.
81. Henry' (Isaac', Ephraim", Ephraim^, Thomas*,
Thomas', NathanieP, William^), b. Nov. 23, 1807; d. Oct. 21,
1892; m. (1) Jan. 1, 1835, Deborah Clark (4) [b. Oct. 12, 1811 ;
d. June 18, 1865] ; (2) Aug. 5, 1875, Mrs. Adeline Proctor.
He was a farmer, succeeding to the farm of his father and
his grandfather, and like them he was a deacon, being chosen
to that office upon the formation of the Second Congregational
church in 1851, and holding that position until the reunion
of the two churches ten years later. He passed his later
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109. i. Louisa Deborah, b. Dec. 23, 1837; m. Oct. 9, 1860, George
Thompson Hastings [b. Nov., 1836; d. Nov. 15, 1885]. She
res. with her sister in Decorah, Iowa. One daughter who d.
young.
110. ii. Mary Hannah, b. Feb. 11, 1844; m. Dec. 25, 1863, Samuel
Allen Thayer (9).
111. iii. Henry C, b. June 7, 1846; d. May 12, 1850.
112. iv. Caroline Elizabeth, b. Jan. 29, 1848; ra. Oct. 8, 1869, Newton
Henry, son of Cyrus and Mary Ann (Weaver) Adams [b.
Suffield, O., Oct. 6, 1849]. He is a dealer in grain and seeds
at Decorah, Iowa. Children : i. Burton Henry Adams, b.
Aug. 29, 1870; m. Mrs. Winnie Landers; he is in business
with his father, ii. Grace Deborah Adams, b. Nov. 18,
1875; m. Severt Rebay Ringoen, a cashier in Decorah, Iowa.
iii. Walter Clark Adams, b. Apr. 8, 1882; m. Marie Gene
vieve Cutler; res. in Decorah, Iowa.
85. Ephraim' (Isaac', Ephraim", Ephraim', Thomas*,
Thomas', NathanieP, William^), b. Feb. 5, 1818; d. Nov. 30,
1907; m. Sept. 16, 1845, Elizabeth Sylvia, dau. of Jabez Avery
and Elizabeth (Ingalls) Douglass of Hanover [b. Jan. 1, 1821 ;
d. July 12, 1905]. He fitted for college at New Ipswich
Academy and Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and was one
of fifty students who left that institution upon being forbidden
to form an anti-slavery society there. He graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1839, and from Andover Theological
Seminary in 1843. He was one of the noted "Iowa band" of
eleven young men who in that year left Andover for service
under the American Home Missionary Society in the region
with unfamiliar name "divided between the Indian, the pioneer
and the buffalo," where they believed that they were "needed
and most needed." In the work of that band this son of New
Ipswich is abundantly testified to have done his full part, not
merely as a minister of the gospel, but in all the activities of
the territory and the state which, built in from the foundation,
have given that state its honored position. He was ordained
at Denmark, was pastor at Mt. Pleasant, Davenport, Decorah,
and Eldora, and was also for many years missionary superin
tendent, and for some time engaged in active labor for Iowa
College, of which he was one of the founders and president
of the trustees for many years. The ability of this service
was formally recognized in 1882 by the degree of D. D. After
46 years of strenuous and successful endeavor he nominally
retired from active labors and was granted 18 years of a rest,
by no means slothful or useless to others, which normally
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has place in such a life, and which his able and equally faith
ful companion in almost sixty years of service was spared to
pass with him in their home at Waterloo, where they died.
Children :
113. i. Theodore Douglass, b. Davenport, Iowa, July 31, 1846; d.
Decorah, Iowa, Sept. 5, 1872; m. May 30, 1870, Elizabeth
Sawyer.
114. ii. Elizabeth Camilla, b. Davenport, Iowa, Oct. 20, 1848; d.
Feb. 22, 1877.
115. iii. Henry Carter, b. Davenport, Iowa, Dec. 31, 1851; ra. Sept.
3, 1890, Bertha, dau. of Asa H. and Harriet B. (Hammond)
Wright [b. Port Huron, Mich., Apr. 11, 1865]. He gradu
ated from Iowa College in 1874, was at Andover Theological
Seminary for a year, and afterward a fellow at Johns Hop
kins University and a student in Germany at the Universities
of Heidelberg and Berlin. He has been a lecturer on Politi
cal Economy and Finance at Cornell University and the Uni
versity of Michigan for several shears, and for a time at
Johns Hopkins. He was elected professor at the Univer
sity of Michigan in 1887, and has made his home at Ann
Arbor. He has also been statistician to the Interstate Cora
merce Comraission, and has had charge of other expert
work for the governraent. He is author of several ap
proved works on living public questions. He has received
the degree of Ph. D. frora Johns Hopkins, and of LL. D.
frora Iowa College and the University of Wisconsin. Chil
dren : i. Henry Carter, b. Oct. 8, 1891. ii. Theodore
Wright, b. Jan. 20, 1896. iii. Thomas Hammond, b. Sept. 1,
1901.
116. iv. Sarah Sidnie, b. Hanover, Nov. 20, 1857; d. Decorah, Iowa,
June 9, 1865.
117. V. Ephraim Douglass, b. Decorah, Iowa, Dec. 18, 1865; m. June
8, 1893, May Stevens, dau. of William and Jane Elizabeth
(Stevens) Breakey [b. Ann Arbor, Mich., Sept. 6, 1867].
He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1887,
and was afterward a graduate student, receiving the degree
of Ph. D. in 1890. He was a meraber of the faculty of
the University of Kansas for eleven years, and since 1902,
professor of European History in Leland Stanford Uni
versity. He is the author of several books. Children : i.
James Douglass, b. Apr. 6, 1894. ii. Sidney Francis, b. July
9, 1895. iii. William Forbes, b. Feb. 25, 1898.
AINSWORTH.
Edward" Ainsworth, b. in England about 1652 ; d. Mar., 1740/1 ; ra.
Jan. 11, 1687/8, Joanna, dau. of Joshua and Joanna (Evans) Heming
way [b. Sept. 21, 1670; d. Dec. 23, 1748]. Res. in Roxbury, Mass., until
1702/3, when he removed to Woodstock, Conn. He was a farmer.
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Edward" (Edward"), b. Roxbury, Aug. 18, 1693; d. June 16. 1758;
m. Apr. 5, 1722, Joanna, dau. of Matthew and Margaret (Corbin) Davis
of Porafret, Conn. [b. Oct. 22, 1696; d. Apr. 25, 1753]. He was a pros
perous farmer at Woodstock, Conn.
William' (Edward', Edward'), b. July 12, 1733; d. Nov. 14, 1815;
m. May 29, 1753, Mary Marcy [b. 1783; d. Nov. 23, 1815]. Res. at Lev
erett, Mass., until 1802, when he reraoved to Wales, Mass., where he died.
Laban' (William", Edward', Edward'), b. July 19, 1757; d. Mar. 16,
1858; ra. Dec. 4, 1787, Mary, dau. of Jonas and Mary (Hall) Minott of
Concord, Mass. [b. Feb. 1, 1761; d. Feb. 3, 1845]. He graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1778, was licensed to preach in 1779, and served
as army chaplain for a time. He preached a short time in New Jersey,
but in 1782 he entered upon his pastorate at Jaffrey and there continued
until his death, raore than seventy-five years later.
1. William' (Laban*, William', Edward'', Edward^), b.
Aug. 24, 1792; d. June 14, 1842; m. Sept. 29, 1818, Mary Morse
Stearns. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1811. He
studied law and practised at Jaiifrey until 1831, when he was
elected cashier of the "Manufacturers' Bank," which had been
established a few years before in the small brick building
upon the north side of the street opposite the short street
leading down to the "Waterloom Factory," as it was then
named, and he continued in the successful management of that
enterprise until his death. He was also a trustee of the Acad
emy during most of his residence in town. He died at Con
cord while representing the town in the Legislature. Children :
2. i. Frederick Smith, b. Apr. 17, 1820.-|-
3. ii. Mary Minot, b. Feb. 24, 1822; d. June 9, 1890; ra. Oct. 17,
1849, Theodore P. Greene, afterward an admiral in the
U. S. Navy.
4. iii. William Parker, b. Dec. 22, 1825; d. May 29, 1862, unm.
He was treasurer of the Nashua & Lowell railroad, but
resigned that position to serve in the Civil War. He was
captain of a New Hampshire corapany attached to the 1st
Rhode Island Cavalry. He was killed in a charge at Port
Royal, Va.
5. iv. Josiah Stearns, b. Aug. 7, 1832; d. Oct. 23, 1833.
2. Frederick Smith" (William^, Laban*, William', Ed-
ward^ Edward^), b. Apr. 17, 1820; d. Oct. 5, 1878; m. Apr. 22,
1856, Mary C. Harris [d. 1893]. He graduated from Dart
mouth College in 1840, studied medicine, and received his
degree from Harvard Medical School in 1844. He practised
in Boston, and also served as surgeon of the 22d Massachu
setts Regiment and as brigade surgeon from 1862 to 1865.
Child: 6. i. Wn-LIAM, b. June 29, 1861 ; d. June 12, 1863.
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AMES.
It has not been found practicable to present the citizens of New
Ipswich bearing this family name as raerabers of a single faraily, but the
lineage is given below as far as it has been ascertained.
AMES (David).
David' Ames, b. Oct. 14, 1752; d. Sept. 24, 1834; m. Margaret, dau.
of Dea. Samuel and Janet (Morrison) Mitchell [b. Aug. 14, 1751 ; d. May
27, 1822]. He removed from Peterboro to Hancock about 1779, and
afterward resided there.
1. Jacob^ (David^), b. May 20, 1776; d. June 22, 1825; m.
Mar. 7, 1799, Melia, dau. of Joseph and Mittie (Cummings)
Symonds [b. Oct. 24, 1778; d. Jan. 13, 1836]. He was a car
penter and auctioneer at Hancock, where he was a prominent
citizen and captain of the artillery company. He came to
New Ipswich in 1823, but lost his life two years later by a
fall from a building which he was erecting. Children :
2. i. Asa, b. Sept. 4, 1800.
3. ii. Gilman, b. 1802.-|-
4. iii. Amelia, b. 1802; m. June 12, 1828, George Barr (6).
5. iv. Lavinia, b. Feb. 11, 1805; d. June 6, 1870; ra. (1) June 2,
1835, Ephraim W. Blood'; (2) Feb. 9, 184-2, Sampson
Fletcher (13).
6. V. Jacob, b. Sept. 7, 1806.-|-
7. vi. Winslow, b. 1808.-)-
8. vii. Lucy Matilda, b. 1811; d. Aug. 29, 1817.
9. viii. John, b. Sept. 15, 1815.4-
10. ix. George Leonard, b. 1819; d. Sept. 12, 1838.
11. X. Arethusa, b. Feb., 1822; d. in infancy.
3. Oilman' (Jacob^ David^), b. 1802; d. Mar. 27, 1862; m.
(1) Oct. 6, 1825, Ann E., dau. of Jeremiah Bacon of Hancock
[b. about 1802; d. Apr. 11, 1834]; (2) June 4, 1835, Hannah
Newhall (20). He was a carpenter at Bank Village. Children:
12. i. Elizabeth Ann, b. July 8, 1826; m. (1) Dec. 23, 1849, Richard
Baxter, son of Dea. Asa and Betsey (Russell) Siraonds
of Hancock; (2) Nov. 4, 1862, Williara W. Johnson. Three
children.
13. ii. Sarah Jane, b. 1828; m. Daniel P. RamsdeH (13).
14. iii. Leonard, d. young.
15. iv. Charles B., b. about Apr., 1834 ; d. Aug. 13, 1834.
6. Jacob' (Jacob^ David^), b. Sept. 7, 1806; d. Aug. 27,
1889; m. (1) Rhoda Coburn of Dracut, Mass. [b. about 1807;
d. May 1, 1880] ; (2) Oct. 14, 1880, Mrs. Lucy Ann Keyes of
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New Ipswich [b. Peterboro, Jan. 4, 1829; d. Jan. 24, 1908].
Res. in Dracut and Lowell, Mass. Children:
16. i. Romanzo, b. Sept. 21, 1833; d. Oct. 2, 1852.
17. ii. Gilbert, b. Aug. 28, 1835 ; d. Sept. 14, 1836.
18. iii. Jacob, b. July 14, 1837 ; d. Dec. 15, 1841.
19. iv. Charles, b. June 4, 1839 ; d. June 20, 1857.
20. V. Eveline Aurelia, b. Sept. 3, 1841 ; d. June 28, 1852.
7. Winslow' (Jacob^ David^), b. 1808; d. Feb. 9, 1888; m.
(1) Sept. 10, 1835, Lucy R., dau. of Elisha Barret of Mason
[d. Oct. 21, 1838] ; (2) Sept. 11, 1839, Harriet, dau. of James
H. Wood of Mason [b. Mar. 14, 1816; d. Dec. 2, 1881]. He
lived many years in Nashua, but removed to Jersey City,
N. J., in 1869, and thence to Montclair, N. J. Engaged in iron
works. Child :
21. i. James H., b. Apr. 23, 1841 ; m. Lucia, dau. of W. W. Pratt of
Jersey City. Also engaged in iron business.
9. John' (Jacob^, David^), b. Sept. 15, 1815; m. (1) Oct.
12, 1843, Sarah T., dau. of Luke N. and Mary Perry of Wor
cester, Mass. ; (2) Jan. 3, 1859, Cynthia, dau. of Liberty and
Rachel Rice of Brookfield, Mass. A tanner and currier, and
later a farmer. Res. Warren, Mass. Children :
22. i. Mary Lavinia, b. July 18, 1844. Res. Warren, Mass.
John, b. Dec. 1, 1845. Res. California.
Leonard Herbert, b. Apr. 4, 1848; d. Sept. 9, 1850.
Sarah Emma, b. Feb. 9, 1850; m. Edward L. Foskit of
Warren. Two children.
Helen Gertrude, b. July 14, 1853; d. Mar. 4, 1892.
Carrie Emeline, b. Oct. 29, 1860.
AMES (Elijah).
Elijah Ames, m. Prudence  (?).
Jonathan' (Elijah'), b. Sept. 20, 1771; d. July 16, 1818; m. Dec. 9,
1797, Sarah Tarbell. Res. at Pepperell, Mass.
1. Samuel Tarbell' (Jonathan^ Elijah^), b. Mar. 23, 1810;
d. Cambridge, Mass., May 25, 1897; m. July 14, 1843, Mary
Hartwell Barr (16). He removed in 1842 from Pepperell to
Boston, where he was in the wholesale woolen business and
later in real estate. Res. in Boston and Medford, summers in
New Ipswich. Children :
2. i. James Barr, b. June 22, 1846.-}-
3. ii. Mary Frances, b. Medford, Apr. 8, 1856; d. Florence, Italy,
June 18, 1907; m. Nov. 29, 1881, Heman M. Burr. Children:
i. Roger Ames Burr, b. Aug. 28, 1882; m. in Berlin, Ger-
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many, Oct. 27, 1908, O. A. O. Siemers; two children, ii.
Francis Hardon Burr, h. Sept. 14, 1886; d. Dec. 5, 1910.
iii. Mary Hart-well Burr, h. Dec. 1, 1898.
2. James Barr* (Samuel T.', Jonathan-, Elijah^), b. June
22, 1846; d. Jan. 8, 1910; m. June 28, 1880, Sarah Russell [b.
Sept. 22, 1851]. He graduated from Harvard College in 1868,
from Harvard Law School in 1872. He was a tutor and in
structor in Harvard 1871-73. Admitted to the bar in 1873, he
never practised but was connected with the Harvard Law
School ever after as assistant professor and dean. He has
been called the foremost teacher of law of his time, being
not only an exceptionally broad and accurate scholar, and a
profound student of the history of common law, but also
having special ability in the development of clear and exact
thought in those under his instruction. His writings published
in legal periodicals and elsewhere are authoritative. He re
ceived the degree of LL. D. from six universities. Children :
4. i. Robert Russell, b. Feb. 12, 1883; m. May 27, 1911, Margaret
F. Glover. One son.
5. ii. Richard, b. May 26, 1885 ; m. Dorothy Abbott. One son.
APPLETON.
Samuel' Appleton, b. Little Waldingfield, Suffolk, England, 1586; d.
Rowley, Mass., June, 1670; m. (1) Jan. 24, 1616, Judith Everard [d. about
1630] ; (2) Martha  . He was in Ipswich with wife and five children
in 1636, and was deputy to the General Court the following year. His
services in that capacity, however, terrainated during the sarae year,
apparently because he was not considered to be sufficiently intolerant in
relation to Mrs. Hutchinson and her adherents.
Samuel^ (Samuel'), b. Little Waldingfield, 1625; d. Ipswich, May 15,
1696; m. (1) Apr. 2, 1651, Hannah, dau. of William Paine of Ipswich;
(2) Dec. 8, 1656, Mary, dau. of John Oliver of Newbury [d. Feb. 15,
1698]. Isaac' (Samuel', Samuef), b. 1664; d. May 22, 1747; ra. Priscilla,
dau. of Thomas Baker of Topsfield [d. May 26, 1731].
Isaac' (Isaac', Samuel', Samuel'), b. May 30, 1704; d. Dec. 18, 1794;
m. (1) pub. Apr. 25, 1730, Ehzabeth, dau. of Francis Sawyer of Wells,
Me. [b. 1710; d. Apr. 29, 1785]; (2) Dec. 11, 1785, Mrs. Hephzibah (prob.
Swain) Appleton, widow of Dea. Joseph* Appleton, (Oliver', Samuel',
Sarauel'), [d. July 7, 1788]. He was the largest proprietor of New Ips
wich, having six shares; but he is not believed to have been an actual
resident in the town.
1. Isaac' (Isaac*, Isaac', SamueP, SamueP), bapt. May 30,
1731; d. Feb. 26, 1806; m.. Apr. 24, 1760, Mary, dau. of Joseph
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Adams of Concord [b. Mar. 14, 1742; d. May 22, 1827]. He
came to New Ipswich about 1750, and settled upon one of the
24 lots owned by his father (N. D., 41,) building his house
near the southeast corner of the lot, upon the west side of the
old "country road" not far from the point where the turnpike
was to intersect it fifty years later. But in 1756 he removed a
short distance farther up the country road and there built
the house which still bears over its entrance the date of its
erection, and which was to be his home for half a century,
during which he was a power in the town for all that tended
to true prosperity. He held the office of town clerk and of
selectman each for several years and was a deacon for thirty
years. He responded to the call to arms from Concord, and
also served under Capt. Smith. Children — all born in New
Ipswich :
3. i. Isaac, b. June 6, 1762.-|-
4. ii. Joseph B., b. June 25, 1764; d. Keene, Dec. 2, 1791. He grad
uated from Dartmouth College in 1791.
5. iii. Samuel, b. June 22, 1766; d. July, 1853; ra. Boston, Nov.,
1818, Mary, dau. of John Lekain, widow of John Gore
[d. May 19, 1870]. The years of his childhood and youth
were passed upon his father's farra, where his monetary
resources bore little sirailarity to those of his later life.
Many years afterward he related the story of his first trip
to Peterboro in his fourteenth year, which he made on foot
while aiding in the management of a drove of cattle, for
which assistance his father had received in advance the
sum of "ninepence" (125^ cents). But at the end of the
stipulated ten miles an extension of the contract was nego
tiated, by virtue of which he continued service over an
additional ten railes, and placed in his own pocket in return
therefor "fopence ha'penny" (6^4 cents). It was probably
a little before his arrival at his majority that Hon. Charles
Barrett (5) suggested that he should remove to his settle
ment in the Maine forests, then known as Barrettstown,
and presented him with land for a farm, such as he was
selling to the other settlers for one hundred dollars, which
proposition he accepted, and labored upon his new domain
for about three years, also acting as Mr. Barrett's agent.
He did not, however, choose a perraanent farmer's life,
but returned to New Ipswich, was one of the earliest stu
dents at the newly founded Academy, and received from
Principal John Hubbard the first certificate of ability to
teach issued from that institution. He availed himself of
the privilege thus conferred for only two or three terms,
and about the age of twenty-five he opened a store in Ash
burnham, Mass. This business he transferred the following
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year to his native town, and occupied the low store-building
standing until recently at the foot of Meeting-house Hill,
which Mr. Barrett had built for his use. In 1794, by advice
of that discerning friend, he reraoved to Boston, and en
tered upon a quarter-century of eminently successful cora
raercial activity in that city, accumulating a fortune reck
oned araong the largest of those earlier days, and maintaining
in all things a spotless reputation. Near the close of his life
he declared that Mr. Barrett's confidence and aid were the
origin of his wealth; and he gave form to his grateful
appreciation in gifts to the descendants of his thus avowed
benefactor amounting to $10,000. He retired from active
business about 1820, and for more than thirty years his
useful life was occupied with worthy interests of the city
and the bestowal of discriminating assistance upon deserv
ing benevolences. His estate, according to the estiraate ot
his will, amounted to almost $1,000,000, of which $200,000
were bequeathed to "Scientific, literary, religious and chari
table purposes" at the discretion of his executors. In the
history of the Acaderay, previously given in this volume,
it is shown how he probably saved its life at the time of a
serious crisis, and also gave later aid commemorated by its
assumption of his narae.
6. iv. Aaron, b. Aug. 6, 1768; d. Keene, June 20, 1852; ra. (1) Nov.
17, 1799, Eunice Adaras (W. 25) ; (2) Keziah, dau. of
Nathan Bixby of Keene [b. about 1798; d. June 4, 1870].
He was a successful merchant in Dublin, but in 1814 he
removed to Keene, where he continued his business as a
general merchant, and also was interested in a glass factory.
He was one of the largest tax-payers of the town.
7. v. Dolly, b. Sept. 6, 1770; d. Jan. 16, 1859; m. Dec. 29, 1799,
David, son of David and Susannah (Ralph) Everett of
Princeton, Mass. [b. 1769; d. Dec. 21, 1813]. Mr. Everett
was not a son of New Ipswich, but Dea. Benjarain Adaras
(W. 2) was his stepfather, and Maj. Benjamin Adams
(W. 22) was his brother-in-law, which facts, together with
his preparation for college at New Ipswich Academy and
his marriage, made hira a citizen of the town in spirit, and
his widow's long residence in town after his death seems
to give his life a place which demands recognition. He
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1795 and afterward
resided in Boston, except for a few years in Amherst, N. H.,
and a few months in Marietta, O., where he died. He was
in practice as a lawyer, but was also largely occupied with
political and literary activities, being connected with several
newspapers and also publishing works from his pen as di
verse as dramas and theological essays, all showing good
mental power and exceptional adaptive ability. But nothing
from his pen is likely to be remembered longer than the
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"You'd scarce expect one of my age
To speak in public on the stage,"
which he wrote while teaching in New Ipswich, during his
preparation for college, to be spoken by Ephraim H. Farrar
(17), then a lad of seven years, at an exhibition of his
school. Mrs. Everett returned to New Ipswich after her
husband's death, and lived in the house a little below the
central burying-ground which she bequeathed to the Congre
gational church for a parsonage.
8. vi. Moses, b. Mar. 17, 1773.+
9. vii. Mary, b. June 2i2, 1775; d. Dec. 16, 1853; m. Oct. 3, 1809,
Joseph Barrett (2).
10. viii. Ebenezer, b. Oct. 17, 1777; d. July 7, 1780.
11. ix. Nathan, b. Oct. 6, 1779.-|-
12. x. Emily, b. Nov. 7, 1781; d. Burlington, Vt, June 4, 1809; m.
Nov. 6, 1804, Moses Jewett [d. Columbus, O., Aug. 12,
1847].
13. xi. Eben, b. June 7, 1784.-|-
14. xii. Emma, b. Apr. 14, 1787; d. Dec. 30, 1791.
2. Francis' (Isaac*, Isaac', SamueP, SamueP), bapt. Mar.
25, 1733; d. Jan. 29, 1816; m. May 5, 1758, Elizabeth Hubbard
of Ipswich [d. Nov. 7, 1815]. He came to New Ipswich a
little before 1770 and settled on the lot next northeast of that
of his brother, N. D., 38, where he lived quietly, scarcely en
tering any public activities, although he enlisted at least once
in the Revolutionary service, and was present at the surren
der of Burgoyne. But his son also had a part in the contest,
so that it is uncertain who is designated by the common name
upon the company rolls. Children— born in Ipswich with
the exception of the youngest :
15. i. Francis, b. May 28, 1759.-f-
16. ii. Isaac, b. Jan. 14, 1761.+
17. iii. John, b. Mar. 28, 1763.-|-
18. iv. Mary, b. 1764; d. New Ipswich, 1820.
19. V. Elizabeth, b. 1767; d. New Ipswich, Nov. 27, 1850.
20. vi. Jesse, b. Nov. 17, 1772. -|-
3. Isaac" (Isaac*, Isaac*, Isaac', SamueP, SamueP), b.
June 6, 1762; d. Dublin, N. H., Aug. 19, 1853; m. Dec. 9, 1788,
Sarah, dau. of Ebenezer Twitchell of Dublin. Children — all
born in Dublin:
21. i. Sarah, b. Mar. 5, 1790; m. James B. Todd of Byron, N. Y.
22. ii. Joseph, b. Dec. 5, 1791.-f
23. iii. Emily, b. May 15, 1794; d. Sept. 9, 1842; m. June 9, 1825,
Samuel Estabrook.
24. iv. David, b. July 16, 1796; d. Mar., 1870.
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25. V. Mary, b. Mar. 12, 1800; m. (1) Jan. 30, 1823, Cyrus B. Davis;
(2) Mar. 10, 1853, Asa Holt of Ashby.
26. vi. Samuel, b. July 12, 1803.-f!
27. vii. Isaac, b. Feb. 21, 1806; d. Nov. 26, 1827.
28. viii. Harriet, b. Dec. 1, 1811; m. May 27, 1844, Rev. Henry A.
Kendall of Dublin.
8. MosEs' (Isaac', Isaac*, Isaac', SamueP, SamueP), b.
Mar. 17, 1773; d. Waterville, Me., May 5, 1849; m. 1801, Ann
Clark [d. Jan. 4, 1864]. Children— all born at Waterville:
29. i. Ann Louisa, b. Sept. 26, 1802; m. May, 1826, Sarauel Wells
of Portland, Me.
30. ii. Samuel, b. Sept. 30, 1803.
31. iii. Mary Jane, b. Dec. 14, 1805; m. June 22, 1830, Samuel Plasted
of Waterville.
32. iv. George Alfred, b. June 15, 1809; d. Nov. 5, 1811.
33. V. Moses Larke, b. Feb. 3, 1811.-|-
11. Nathan' (Isaac', Isaac*, Isaac', SamueP, SamueP), b.
Oct. 6, 1779; d. July 14, 1861; m. (1) Apr. 13, 1806, Maria
Theresa, dau. of Thomas Gold of Pittsfield, Mass. [b. Nov.
8, 1786; d. Feb. 10, 1833] ; (2) Jan. 8, 1839, Harriot C, dau. of
Jesse Sumner of Boston [d. Oct. 10, 1867]. Children — all
born at Boston:
34. i. Thomas Gold, b. Mar. 31, 1812.
35. ii. Mary, b. Oct. 18, 1813 ; m. Dec. 26, 1839, Robert James Mack
intosh of London.
36. iii. Charles Sedgwick, b. Oct. 9, 1815 ; d. Oct. 25, 1835.
37. iv. Frances Elizabeth, b. Oct. 6, 1817 ; d. July 10, 1861 ; m. July
13, 1843, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow of Cambridge.
38. V. George William, b. Oct. 1, 1826; d. May 25, 1827.
39. vi. William Sumner, b. Jan. 11, 1840.-f-
40. vii. Harriot, b. Nov. 16, 1841; m. Nov. 17, 1863, Greely Steven
son Curtis of Boston.
41. viii. Nathan, b. Feb. 2, 1843.
13. Eben' (Isaac', Isaac*, Isaac', SamueP, SamueP), b.
June 7, 1784; d. Lowell, Apr. 29, 1833; m. Oct. 12, 1809, Sarah
Patterson [d. July 12, 1837]. Children:
42. i. Sarah, b. Liverpool, Eng., July 12, 1810; d. June 5, 1837.
43. ii. Samuel, b. London, Eng., Dec. 26, 1811.-|-
44. iii. William Stuart, b. Cambridge, June 1, 1814.-|-
45. iv. Caroline Francis, b. London, Eng., Aug. 27, 1817; m. Dec.
17, 1844, Samuel Blatchford of Auburn, N. Y.
15. Francis' (Francis', Isaac*, Isaac', SamueP, SamueP),
b. May 28, 1759; d. Dublin, July 16, 1849; m. June 2, 1789,
Mary, dau. of Noah Ripley of Barre [d. Aug. 2, 1840]. He
served under Capts. Briant, Stephen Parker, and Fletcher in
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the earlier years of the Revolution, unless, as has been earlier
suggested, a part of this service should be credited to his
father. In 1779 he removed to Dublin, where he passed the
remaining 70 years of his life, and where he was a deacon
for 36 years. Children — all born at Dublin:
46. i. An infant, b. Mar. 9, 1790; d. Mar. 10, 1790.
47. ii. Mary, b. Sept. 22, 1792; m. Feb. 16, 1813, Jonathan Warren
of Dublin.
48. iii. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 12, 1795; d. Sept. 11, 1798.
49. iv. Ashley, b. Dec. 23, 1796.4-
50. v. Francis Gilman, b. Feb. 24, 1799.-|-
51. vi. Eliza Ann, b. May 28, 1801; d. July 19, 1840; m. Dec. 31,
1823, John Gould (32).
52. vii. Serena, b. June 1, 1804; m. June 28, 1832, Thaddeus Morse of
Dublin.
53. viii. SoPHLA., b. Nov. 15, 1806; m. Apr. 19, 1832, Thomas Fisk of
Dublin.
54. ix. Jesse Ripley, b. Apr. 25, 1809.-I-
16. Isaac' (Francis', Isaac*, Isaac', SamueP, SamueP), b.
Jan. 14, 1761; d. Aug. 27, 1838; m. June 2, 1791, Hepzibah
Foster (8). He lived at the north end of Smith Village, S. R.,
X : 3. His house was the first upon the right hand side of the
road from the Center Village, but it now occupies the second
place on the same side of the road, Capt. Nutting, who oc
cupied the place for many years, having moved it down the
hill about 1850, and built the present house upon the site of
the Appleton house, and another house having been erected
still nearer the Center Village. Children — born in New
Ipswich :
55. i. Isaac H.
56. ii. Emily, b. 1800; d. Boston, Dec, 1866; m. May 23, 1850, Joseph
Noyes of Boston.
17. John' (Francis', Isaac*, Isaac', SamueP, SamueP), b.
Mar. 28, 1763 ; d. Feb. 16, 1849 ; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Ephraim
Peabody of Wilton [d. Oct. 28, 1809]. He succeeded to the
occupancy of his father's farm. Children — born in New
Ipswich :
57. i. John, b. July 12, 1804.-|-
58. ii. Elvira, b. Apr. 6, 1807; d. Apr. 24, 1852; m. June 3, 1830,
George C. Gibson (3).
20. Jesse' (Francis', Isaac*, Isaac', SamueP, SamueP), b.
Nov. 17, 1772; d. Brunswick, Me., Nov. 12, 1819; m. Apr. 25,
1800, Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Means of Amherst, N. H. [d.
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Boston, Oct. 29, 1844]. He prepared for college in the acad
emy while at home, and graduated from Dartmouth College
in 1792. He then taught for two years in Dover and in
Amherst, studied theology, and began to preach at the age
of twenty-three, and two years later was ordained at Hampton,
N. H. After ten years he left that post to accept the presi
dency of Bowdoin College, which he held until his death, per
forming not only the duties especially appropriate to that
office, but also, as was necessarily the custom at that time,
giving instruction to a very considerable extent. As a
preacher, as a teacher, and as an executive officer he was
eminently successful, and his personal relations with the stu
dents were exceptionally kind and valuable. He received from
his Alma Mater and also from Harvard the Doctor's degree
in Divinity. Children — the earlier three born at Hampton
and the later at Brunswick :
59. i. Mary Means, b. Oct. 27, 1801; m. May, 1832, John Aiken of
Lowell.
60. ii. Elizabeth Frances, b. Apr. 22, 1804; d. June 2, 1839; m. May
24, 1827, Alpheus Spring Packard of Brunswick.
61. iii. Jane Means, b. Mar. 12, 1806; d. Dec. 2, 1863; m. Nov., 1834,
Franklin Pierce, afterward President of the United States.
62. iv. William, b. Nov. 7, 1808; d. Cincinnati, O., Oct. 19, 1830.
63. V. Robert, b. Dec. 4, 1810.
64. vi. John, b. Aug. 4, 1814; d. Oct. 19, 1817.
22. Joseph^ (Isaac', Isaac', Isaac*, Isaac', SamueP, Sam
ueP), b. Dec. 5, 1791; d. May 9, 1840; m. Mar. 24, 1818, Han
nah, dau. of Elisha Knowlton of Dublin who m. (2) Jan. 23,
1844, Oliver Barrett of New Ipswich. Children:
65. i. Joseph B., b. New Ipswich, Mar. 9, 1819; m. Sept. 18, 1844,
Abby H. Hunt.
66. ii. Mary Theresla Gold, b. New Ipswich, Oct. 20, 1820; m. Apr.
20, 1843, Edward F. Preston (50).
67. iii. Isaac Henry Clay, b. New Ipswich, July 20, 1827; d. Mar.
28, 1830.
68. iv. H. Celestla, d. 1859; m. June 26, 1848, N. Gilman Bagley [b.
Candia, N. H., July 19, 1813; d. Aug. 6, 1909]. Res. in
Sharon. Children: i. David Bagley. ii. Mary Celestia
Bagley.
69. v. Henry Clay, b. 1835; d. Feb. 25, 1837.
70. vi. Eugene, b. about 1838; d. Mar. 11, 1874.
26. Samuel' (Isaac', Isaac', Isaac*. Isaac', SamueP, Sam
ueP), b. July 12, 1803; d. June 20, 1830; m. Mar. 20, 1827,
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Emily, dau. of Joseph Hayward of Dublin, who m. (2) June
5, 1833, Calvin Aiken of Francestown. Child:
71. i. Mary Jane, ra.  Farr of Portland, Me.
33. Moses Larke^ (Moses', Isaac', Isaac*, Isaac', SamueP,
SamueP), b. Feb. 3, 1811; d. Bangor, Me., Sept. 25, 1859; m.
Mar., 1835, Jane Sophia, dau. of Thomas A. Hill of Bangor,
Me. Children :
72. i. Edward Larke, b. Sept. 8, 1839; d. Boston, Oct. 25, 1868.
73. ii. Francis E., b. 1841.
74. iii. Alice G.
75. iv. Margaret, b. 1855.
39. William Sumner' (Nathan', Isaac', Isaac*, Isaac',
SamueP, SamueP), b. Jan. 11, 1840; d. Apr. 28, 1903; m. Berne,
Switzerland, Aug. 12, 1871, Edith Stuart Appleton (92). Chil
dren :
7(i. i. Eleanor Armistead, b. Paris, France, May 11, 1872; m. Apr.
12, 1904, Maj. Robert Hargreave Fraser Standen [b. in India,
July 2, 1871]. She resides in Ireland. Children: i. Edith
Appleton Standen, b. Halifax, N. S., Feb. 21, 1905. ii.
Anthony Standen, b. Temple Ewell, Kent, Eng., Sept. 9,
1906. iii. Marjorie Standen, b. Teraple Ewell, Kent, Eng.,
Oct. 20, 1907.
77. ii. William Sumner, b. May 29, 1874.
78. iii. Marjorie Crane, b. May 19, 1875; d. Nov. 19, 1913.
79. iv. Dorothy Everard, b. Jan. 10, 1878; ra. Dec. 8, 1904, George
Francis Weld [b. Apr. 22, 1866]. Res. Santa Barbara, Cal.
Children : i. Dorothy Weld, b. Jan. 31, 1906. ii. Anna Weld,
b. July 26, 1908. iii. George Francis Weld, b. Nov. 4, 1910.
iv. Sumner Appleton Weld, b. June 24, 1912.
80. V. Gladys Hughes, b. Nov. 22, 1881.
43. Samuel' (Eben', Isaac', Isaac*, Isaac', SamueP, Sam
ueP), b. Dec. 26, 1811; d. June 4, 1861; m. (1) London, Eng.,
Sept. 24, 1839, Julia, dau. Daniel Webster of Marshfield, Mass.
[d. Boston, Apr. 28, 1848] ; (2) July 28, 1857, Mary Ann
Whiting [d. Oct. 27, 1870]. Children— all born at Boston:
81. i. Caroline LeRoy, b. Oct. 3, 1840; d. Nov. 19, 1911; m. (1)
Newbold Edgar of New York [d. Ems, Germany, July 26,
1869]; (2) Newport, R. I., Sept. 7, 1871, Jerorae Napoleon
Bonaparte.
82. ii. Samuel, b. Nov. 25, 1841; m. (1) Philadelphia, June 22, 1863,
Mary Ernestine, dau. of J. J. Abercrombie of the U. S.
Army [d. Aug. 27, 1869]; (2) Oct. 9, 1872, Anna Maybin
Jones of Southboro, Mass.
83. iii. Julia Fletcher, b. Feb. 8, 1844; ra. Apr. 12, 1871, Walker
Keith Armistead of New York.
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84. iv. Daniel Webster, b. May 6, 1845 ; d. Boston, May 23, 1872 ; m.
Mary Freeman of Ayer, Mass.
85. V. Mary Constance, b. Feb. 7, 1848; d. Mar. IS, 1849.
44. William Stuart' (Eben', Isaac', Isaac*, Isaac^ Sam
ueP, SamueP), b. June 1, 1814; m. Nov. 27, 1838, Georgiana
Louisa Frances, dau. of George Armistead of the U. S. Array.
Children — all born at Baltimore:
86. i. Louise Armistead, b. Dec. 6, 1839; m. Berlin, Prussia, Oct. 15,
1871, Frederick Irving Knight of Boston.
87. ii. Sarah Paterson, b. Nov. 2, 1840; d. Aug. 4, 1841.
88. iii. William Stuart, b. Nov. 1, 1841 ; d. Jan. 6, 1845.
89. iv. George Armistead, b. Aug. 11, 1843.
90. V. Eben, b. Aug. 19, 1845 ; m. Nov. 24, 1868, Isabel, dau. of John
Slade of New York.
91. vi. Georgiana Louise Frances Gillis Armistead, b. July 15, 1847 ;
m. Sept. 2, 1869, George M. Hunter of Wilmington, Del.
92. vii. Edith Stuart, b. June 11, 1849; d. Jan. 19, 1892; m. Berne,
Switzerland, Aug. 12, 1871, William Sumner Appleton (39).
93. viii. Margaret Armistead, b. Feb. 19, 1851; m. Feb. 23, 1871,
George Livingston Baker of Boston.
94. ix. Caroline Frances, b. July 4, 1853; d. Sept. 21, 1857.
95. X. Alice Maud, b. Sept. 24, 1859.
49. Ashley' (Francis', Francis', Isaac*, Isaac', SamueP,
SamueP), b. Dec. 23, 1796; m. Jan. 27, 1823, Nancy, dau. of
Thaddeus Metcalf of Keene. Children — born at Granby, Vt. :
96. i. George Ashley, b. Nov. 23, 1823; ra. May 11, 1851, Fanny
Reed, dau. of Rev. John Wooster of Granby.
97. ii. Francis Oilman, b. June 15, 1825 ; d. Apr. 27, 1849.
98. iii. Nancy Metcalf, b. Oct. 26, 1831 ; m. June 20, 1855, Oliver L.
Richardson of Atlanta, Ga.
50. Francis Gilman' (Francis', Francis', Isaac*, Isaac',
SamueP, SamueP), b. Feb. 24, 1799; m. Sept. 29, 1825, Mary,
dau. of Joseph Haywood of Dublin. Children — born at Troy,
N. Y.:
99. i. Alfred Curtis.
100. ii. Mary Elizabeth.
101. iii. Frances.
54. Jesse Ripley' (Francis', Francis', Isaac*, Isaac', Sam
ueP, SamueP), b. Apr. 25, 1809; m. (1) Apr. 13, 1841, Louisa,
dau. of Thaddeus Mason of Dublin [d. Nov. 3, 1844] ; (2)
Mar. 11, 1852, Abbie Sophia, dau. of Calvin Mason of Dublin.
Children — born at Dublin:
102. i. Ellen Rebecca, b. Nov. 30, 1853; d. Sept. 14, 1859.
103. ii. Charles Francis, b. Apr. 6, 1856.
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57. John' (John', Francis', Isaac*, Isaac', SamueP, Sam
ueP), b. July 12, 1804; d. Feb. 7, 1891 ; m. Feb. 6, 1834, Sarah,
dau. of Hon. Samuel Allen of Northfield, Mass. He prepared
for college at New Ipswich Academy, entered Bowdoin Col
lege at the age of fourteen, and graduated in 1822. He was a
teacher for a brief period after graduation, then entered upon
the study of the law, and when only twenty-two years old
was admitted to the bar at Amherst. His life thereafter was
spent in Maine, at first at Dixmont, later at Sebec, and after
1832 at Bangor, where he was for many years one of the lead
ing practitioners of the state. In 1852 he was appointed a
justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and ten years later
became chief justice of the Supreme Court, which position he
held for a period of 21 years. He paid special attention to the
law of evidence, and his published writings in that field had
great influence for the removal, in both state and national
courts, of the former legal disability of parties to a suit, either
civil or criminal, to be heard as witnesses. He was a trustee
of his Alma Mater, from which he received the degree of
LL. D. in 1860. Children :
104. i. John Francis, b. Aug. 29, 1838 ; d. Aug. 21, 1870. He graduated
from Bowdoin College in 1860. He was brevet brigadier-
general in United States Volunteers, and held the position
of United States District Judge in the Eastern District of
Texas.
105. ii. Sarah Peabody, b. July 2, 1841 ; d. Jan. 24, 1844.
106. iii. Frederic Hunt, b. Jan. 14, 1844; m. Feb. 18, 1892, Mary Allie
Gibson (20). He graduated from Bowdoin College in
1864, and received the degree of LL. D. He was a lavsryer
at Bangor, Me.
107. iv. Edward Peabody, b. June 11, 1846; d. July 6, 1869.
108. V. Henry Allen, b. Jan. 7, 1849; d. 1903.
BACON.
Michael' Bacon, d. Apr. 18, 1648; m. Alice  [d. Apr. 2, 1648].
He came to New England, probably from Suffolk county, England, in
1640, and was one of the early settlers at Dedham, Mass.
Daniel* (Michael"), probably b. in England; d. Sept. 7, 1691; m.
Bridgewater, Mass., Mary, dau. of Thomas Reed of Colchester, Essex
county, Eng. [d. Oct. 5, 1691]. Res. successively at Dedham, Woburn,
Bridgewater, and Newton, in which last town he died.
Daniel' (DanieP, Michael'), probably b. at Bridgewater; m. Aug. 1,
1664, Susanna, dau. of Michael Spencer of Salem. He lived at Boxford
in 1660, but removed to Salem, where he was a shipwright in 1664.
Michael' (Daniel', Daniel', Michael"), b. Salem, Oct. 23, 1676; m.
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1. Retire' (Michael*, Daniel', DanieP, MichaeP), bapt.
Salem, Apr. 17, 1720; m. (1) Boxford, Mass., Apr. 14, 1741,
Mary, dau. of Jacob and Hannah (Goodline) Hale [b. Feb.
25, 1722; d. about 1762]; (2) Rowley, Mass., Aug. 27, 1764,
Margaret Burnham *of Ipswich, Mass., who died in 1808, at
which time it was said she was 100 years, 5 months, and 21
days of age, and had "drank nothing stronger than small beer
for fourteen years before her death." He probably lived in
Boxford, Mass., until after his second marriage, and he ren
dered military service in 1758, but in May, 1771, he came from
Ipswich, Mass., to New Ipswich, and his name appears on
the tax list until 1787. He lived on the southern part of XI :
1, S. R., on the old "malt-house road" not far from the present
road from Hodgkins corner to Davis Village. He also had
a large tract of land in Sharon, and perhaps he occupied it
for a few years before making his home in New Ipswich.
Children :
2. i. Hannah, bapt. Apr. 22, 1744.
3. ii. Susanna, bapt. May 27, 1744; d. young.
4. iii. Sarah, bapt. Jan. 25, 1747; d. young.
5. iv. Sarah, bapt. Nov. 6, 1748.
6. V. Jacob, bapt. Feb. 17, 1751.
7. vi. Susanna, bapt. July 17, 1757.
8. vii. Molly, bapt. Oct. 8, 1758.
9. viii. Hetty, bapt. May 23, 1762.
BALCH.
John' Balch, d. Salem, Mass., 1648; m. (1) Margery  ; (2)
Agnes (or Annis) Patch. He came from Somersetshire, England, in
1623, landing at Weymouth. He settled at Salem, and was made freeman
in 1631, the earliest date of such action. In 1638 he built a house in the
region which is now Beverly, which house is still standing and in the
possession of the family. He was one of the first board of selectraen.
Benjamin' (John'), b. of first marriage in winter of 1628/9; d. after
Jan., 1714/5; m. (1) about 1650, Sarah, dau. of Thomas Gardner [d. Apr.
5, 1686] ; (2) Feb. 5, 1689, Abigail, widow of Matthew Clarke of Marble-
head, Mass. [b. about 1635; d. June 1, 1690]; (3) Mar. 15, 1691/2, Grace
Mallet [d. before 1704]. Res. in the family home.
John' (Benjamin', John'), b. July 18, 1657; d. Nov. 19, 1738; m.
Dec. 23, 1674, Hannah, dau. of Philip and Joanna Veren [b. 1655]. He
was a carpenter and farmer on the ancestral farm. He was selectraan,
representative, and a lieutenant.
David* (John', Benjamin', John'), b. Oct. 1, 1691; d. Topsfield, Mass.,
Sept. 25, 1769; m. (1) Apr. 29, l7l3, Hannah, dau. of Thoraas and Sarah
(Wallis) Perkins [b. Feb. 10, 1692/3; d. Jan. 1, 1747/8]; (2) Nov. 14,
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1752, Esther, dau. of Thomas and Mary (Perkins) Dwinel of Topsfield
[b. May 1, 1720; d. Jan. 13, 1815/6]. Res. in Topsfield.
John" (David', John', Benjarain', John'), b. Nov. 2, 1716; d. Dec.
31, 1774; m. June 17, 1740, Rebecca, dau. of Samuel and Rebecca (Curtis)
Smith [b. about 1714; d. Mar. 1, 1794]. He was a tanner and currier
in Topsfield. '
Robert" (John', David", John', Benjamin', John'), bapt. July 28, 1745;
d. Aug. 3, 1830; m. Nov. 28, 1769, Sarah, dau. of Dea. Soloraon Dodge
[b. June, 1752; d. Mar. 16, 1822]. He was a farraer in Topsfield, but re
raoved to New Boston, 1791.
John' (Robert", John', David', John', Benjarain', John'), b. June 25,
1779; d. June 20, 1822; ra. Deborah Kenniston of Weare. He was a
farmer at Jericho, Vt.
John Jefferson' (John', Robert', John', David', John', Benjamin',
John'), b. June 27, 1804; d. Mar. 10, 1879; ra. Nov., 1827, Abigail J.
Mudgett. Res. New Boston, but removed to Lyndeboro in 1862.
1. Moses M." (John', John', Robert', John^ David*, John',
Benjamin^, John^), b. Sunapee, Sept. 11, 1831; d. June 5, 1914;
m. Nov. 20, 1856, Harriet Elizabeth, dau. of Asa and Polly
(Tapley) Stiles of Wilton. After reaching the age of man
hood he lived five years at Weare, then in Temple until 1878,
after which time he was a citizen of New Ipswich. He had
previously owned and conducted a saw and grist mill, and
despite the loss of the greater part of his right hand while
sawing, he purchased the mill at the Gibson Village, and con
tinued a similar industry for ten years. His home of later
time was the house in the Center Village upon the north side
of the Turnpike, long the dwelling of Charles A. Whitney.
Children :
2. i. Anna Jane, b. Oct. 11, 1858; m. June, 1908, Frank J. Mc
Laughlin. Res. in Peterboro.
3. ii. Ella Minerva, b. July 3, 1862; m. Jan. 24, 1883, Albert F.
Walker (S. 33).
4. iii. Abbie Louise, b. Feb. 1, 1870; m. Apr. 26, 1892, Wilbur L.
Phelps (4).
5. iv. Albro Leslie, (adopted) b. Jan. 8, 1878; m. June 25, 1902,
Mary Louisa Mansfield (33). Child: i. Hazel Elizabeth,
b. Aug. 25, 1905.
BALLARD.
1. Josiah^ Ballard, b. Apr. 14, 1806; d. Dec. 12, 1863; m.
Oct. 16, 1835, Elizabeth Dorothy, dau. of Rev. Dr. John Mil
ton and Abby (Morris) Whiton of Antrim, N. H. [b. Mar. 7,
1811 ; d. Aug. 10, 1862]. He was the son of William and Mary
(Abbot) Ballard of Peterboro, where he was born and where
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he attended the district schools until he was sixteen years of
age, when he went to Boston and there learned the mason's
trade, at which he labored for several years. He then entered
the academy at Monson, Mass., fitted for college, and gradu
ated from Yale in 1827. After a brief period as a teacher in
the academy at Westfield, Mass., he commenced the study of
theology with Rev. Dr. Whiton at Antrim, was ordained in
1835, and held pastorates at Chesterfield, Nelson, and Sudbury,
Mass., before coming to New Ipswich in 1852 and becoming
the first pastor of the Second Congregational church, just or
ganized as related on a preceding page. The unpleasant con
ditions then existing caused him to believe it well that he
should sever his connection with that church a little before
the close of his third year of earnest labor as its head, and
he afterward served the churches in Plympton, Mass., and
Carlisle, Mass., at which last-named place he died. To the
end of his life there were plainly manifest the characteristics
of an earnest, self-made man. Children :
2. i. Edward Otis, b. Apr. 19, 1837.-|-
3. ii. Catherine Elizabeth, b. Nelson, Apr. 9, 1840; d. Apr. 3,
1877; m. Jan. 23, 1864, Emory B. Smith, a lawyer of Platts
burg, N. Y., and later of Boston. Res. Melrose, Mass.
Children : i. Walton Ballard Smith, b. Sept. 24, 1866 ; m.
Nov. 23, 1893, Edith Hoffnagle; res. Attleboro, Mass.;
four children, ii. Bertha Leland Smith, h. May 12, 1868;
ra. Nov. 13, 1897, Carl Smith; res. Attleboro, Mass. iii.
Catherine Elizabeth Smith, h. Mar. 13, 1877 ; unm. ; res.
Maiden, Mass. ; she is connected with the Massachusetts
State Board of Charities.
2. Edward O.^ (Josiah^), b. Apr. 19, 1837; m. (1) Sept.
24, 1859, Lauretta Sophia Thayer (6); (2) Sept. 4, 1884,
Katherine Agnes McConnellogue. He studied at New Ips
wich Appleton Academy, and in 1854 went to Boston, and has
passed his life in mercantile and insurance industries. Res.
Marlboro, Mass. Children :
4. i. Herbert Edward, b. Aug. 21, 1863; d. Aug. 11, 1864.
5. ii. Clarence Eugene, b. Oct. 9, 1866; d. Feb. 11, 1867.
6. iii. Ettie Elizabeth, b. Aug. 9, 1869; m. June 2, 1892, Dr. Eddy
B. Swett of Marlboro, Mass. Res. Grasmere, N. H. Six
children.
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BANCROFT.
Thomas' Bancroft, b. England, 1622; d. Lynnfield, Aug. 19, 1691; ra.
(1) 1647, Alice Bacon who d. soon; (2) Sept. IS, 1648, Elizabeth Met
calf. He settled in Dedhara, reraoved to Reading about 1650, and thence
to Lynnfield. He was a lieutenant with record of honorable service.
Thomas' (Thomas'), b. Dedhara, Sept. 24, 1649; d. July 12, 1718; m.
Apr. 10, 1673, Sarah, dau. of Jonathan Poole [d. May 20, 1723]. He
reraoved to Reading before his marriage. He was a deacon, and also a
lieutenant with the record of having saved the garrison at Exeter from
an Indian assault.
Thomas' (Thomas', Thomas'), b. Reading, Sept. 8, 1673; d. Nov. 9,
1731 ; m. Aug. 1, 1694, Mary Webster. He served in the Indian wars,
and like his father and grandfather, was a lieutenant. He was repre
sentative in the General Court at the tirae of his death.
Benjamin" (Thoraas', Thomas', Thomas'), b. Reading, May 6, 1701;
d. Apr. 3, 1790; m. Anna, dau. of John and Anna (Tarbell) Lawrence
of Lexington [d. July 21, 1787]. He lived in Charlestown, and removed
thence to Reading, where he was a tanner. He was a captain.
Benjamin' (Benjamin', Thomas', Thomas', Thomas'), b. Sept. 29,
1724; d. Oct. 27, 1804; m. Oct. 18, 1749, Alice, dau. of William and Mary
(Farnsworth) Tarbell [d. Nov. 29, 1781]. He also was a tanner in
Groton. He was a deacon.
Joseph' (Benjamin', Benjamin', Thomas', Thomas', Thomas'), b. July
3, 1760; d. Townsend, Oct. 21, 1815; m. Susannah, dau. of Nathan and
Mary (Patterson) Hubbard [d. July 17, 1825]. He was also a tanner,
living in Groton, Lunenburg, and Townsend successively.
1. James' (Joseph', Benjamin', Benjamin*, Thomas',
Thomas^ Thomas^), b. Sept. 27, 1803; d. Mar. 18, 1884; m.
(1) May 28, 1829, Sarah W., dau. of Oliver and Lucy (Welling
ton) Kendall [b. Mar. 3, 1810; d. Jan. 23, 1861]; (2) Dec,
1865, Jemima, dau. of Emerson and Jemima (Foster) Hale of
Rindge [b. July 26, 1822; d. May 7, 1910]. He came from
Ashby to New Ipswich about 1833, and lived in Wilder Village
about twelve years, near the High Bridge for two years, in
the Newhall house formerly standing at the corner near the
town house, and in 1849 he settled at Hodgkins corner (S. R.,
X : 2,) where he lived until his removal to Rindge in 1857. He
was a carpenter, and a man whose unfailing smile and helpful
kindness attracted the young to the church in which he was
a deacon, and is well remembered as conducting strangers to
seats with a reverent, noiseless footfall along the aisle.
Children :
2. i. Nancy R., b. Dec. 23, 1830; d. Sept. 23, 1833.
3. ii. Henry A., b. June 2, 1832; d. May 27, 1848.
4. iii. Nancy R., b. Sept. 27, 1834; d. Dec. 11, 1906; m. Nov. 11,
1852, Ivers H. Brooks (27).
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5. iv. Susan F., b. Oct. 25, 1836; d. Jan. 3, 1885; m. June 6, 1867,
Albert Conant. Children : i. Alice Bancroft Conant, m.
Frank Wadleigh of Milford. ii. Ann Sanborn Conant, m.
Ernest Horton of Boston, iii. Harry Winthrop Conant; he
graduated from Amherst College and Harvard Law School ;
res. in Somerville, Mass. iv. John Bancroft Conant; he
graduated frora the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and is an electrician at Dallas, Texas.
6. V. Cecil Franklin Patch, b. Nov. 25, 1839. -|-
7. vi. Mary H., b. Apr. 3, 1841; ra. July 15, 1869, Thomas, son of
John and Eleanor (Spence) Annett [b. Dec. 1, 1831; d.
Feb. 22, 1903]. Res. East Jaflfrey. Children; i. Sarah E.
Annett. ii. Elsie C. Annett. iii. Marietta E. Annett. iv.
Mark-well Annett. v. Cecil B. Annett.
8. vii. Caroline, b. Oct. 15, 1842 ; d. Sept. 12, 1865 ; m. Mar. 15, 1860,
George S., son of William and Ruthy (Shedd) Kimball of
Rindge [b. Mar. 1, 1839; d. Jan. 17, 1862, at Annapolis, Md.,
where he was a meraber of the 6th N. H. Regt.]. Two
children who d. young.
9. viii. Henry A., b. Feb. 13, 1849. He lives in California.
6. Cecil Franklin Patch* (James', Joseph^, Benjamin',
Benjamin*, Thomas', Thomas^, Thomas^), b. Nov. 25, 1839;
d. Oct. 4, 1901 ; m. May 6, 1867, Fannie Adelia, dau. of Capt.
Timothy Kittredge of Mt. Vernon, N. H. [b. Feb. 12, 1844;
d. Mar. 29, 1898]. He prepared for college at New Ipswich
Appleton Academy and graduated from Dartmouth (College
in 1860. He was principal of Appleton Academy, Mont Ver
non, N. H., for four years after graduation, was a student at
Union Theological Seminary and at Andover Theological
Seminary for three years, graduating from the last-named in
stitution in 1867, principal of the Lookout Mountain Institute,
near Chattanooga, Tenn., during its brief life of five years. In
1873 he entered upon what may properly be termed, from its
breadth and complete success, his life-work as principal of
Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., where he labored until
he met his death, as he often said he desired, "in the harness."
His entire life was by no means included in his professional
work; to an unusual extent he was identified with the busi
ness interests of the town and of its citizens, until he was
termed "the first citizen of the town." He had a share in the
management of the neighboring State Almshouse at Tewks-
bury; his counsel was valued in the directorates of bank and
of insurance company, and he was one of the trustees of Dart
mouth College, his Alma Mater. He received as honorary
degrees Ph. D. from the State University of New York,
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Litt. D. from Williams College, and LL. D. from Yale Uni
versity. But neither these honors nor his election to the pres
idency of the "New England Association of Colleges and
Preparatory Schools" testify as surely to the strength and
breadth of his work as the practically unanimous testimony
of the six thousand students who camie under his care; these
give his work broader and longer power than has fallen to
the lot of the efforts of any other native of the town. Children :
10. i. Cecil Kittredge, b. Dec. 15, 1868. He graduated frora Phil
lips Acaderay in 1886, from Yale College in 1891; taught at
Morristown, N. J., for two years, and after a year in Eu
rope and another as tutor and instructor at Yale became
instructor and registrar at the institution so long controlled
by his father.
11. ii. Frances Marsh, b. Sept. 12, 1872; m. Sept. 5, 1900, Rev.
William Joseph Long. She graduated from Smith College
in 1894, and taught at Andover in Abbot Acaderay for
three years before her marriage. Res. in Stamford, Conn.
^ Children : i. Lois Long. ii. Frances B. Long. iii. Brian
Long.
12. iii. Arthur Kendall, b. Mar. 10, 1874; d. Aug. 9, 1880.
13. iv. Phillips, b. Apr. 21, 1878. He graduated frora Phillips Acad
emy in 1898, from Yale College in 1902, and has since been
occupied by financial duties at Phillips Academy.
14. v. Mary Ethel, b. May 22, 1882. She graduated from Smith
College in 1904, has taught in New Haven, Conn., and in
Abbot Academy in her native town.
BARR.
1. James^ Barr, son of George and Mary (Whitehill) Barr,
of Kilbarchan, county of Renfrew, Scotland, b. Dec. 12, 1752;
d. Mar. 7, 1829; m. 1783, Molly Cummings (12) [b. Dec. 2,
1764; d. Feb. 23, 1845]. He came to New England when about
21 years of age, and after traveling for a time in the new land
settled in New Ipswich, succeeding Joseph Bullard in the
occupancy of the lot on Knight's Hill, (II : 2, S. R.,) and be
ing associated with Eleazer Cummings in his malting industry,
and in the manufacture of oatm«al, having brought from Scot
land a knowledge of methods of preparing and hulling the
oats, before unknown in this land. But after the death of
Joseph Pollard Mr. Barr removed to his farm at the end of
the road on the east side of Page Hill, (64, N. L. O.,) which
was his home for about forty years. The last few years of his
life he lived on the "Warren farm" at the summit of the hill.
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2. i. James, d. in infancy.
3. ii. Nancy, b. July 25, 1784; d. July 9, 1857; m. Jeremiah Prich
ard (17).
4. iii. Sarah, b. May 25, 1788; d. Sept. 29, 1864; m. Dr. William
Lovejoy. Res. in West Townsend, Mass.
5. iv. James, b. May 23, 1790.-|-
6. V. George, b. Feb. 6, 1792.-|-
7. vi. Caroline Mathilda, b. Jan. 6, 1794; d. Oct. 3, 1874; m. Asa
Prichard (22).
8. vii. Cummings, b. May 9, 1795.-|-
9. viii. RoBENA, b. Feb. 22, 1799; d. Dec. 20, 1873, unm.
10. ix. Charlotte, b. Mar. 13, 1801; d. Aug. 27, 1842, unm.
11. X. William, b. Feb. 7, 1803; d. West Townsend, Mass., unm.
He left New Ipswich soon after attaining his raajority.
Res. for some years with his brother George, and in va
rious other places.
12. xi. Mary Whitehill, b. Dec. IS, 1805; d. Nov. 19, 1830, unm.
13. xii. John, b. Mar. 10, 1808.-|-
14. xiii. Esther Jane, b. Dec. 4, 1810; d. July 26, 1837, unm.
15. xiv. Charles, d. in infancy.
5. James^ (James^), b. May 23, 1790; d. June 6, 1845; m.
Apr. 21, 1824, Laura Livermore (Bellows) (3). After due at
tendance at New Ipswich Academy he studied medicine with
Dr. Haskell of Lunenburg, Mass., and Dr. Twitchell of Keene,
and received his degree from Harvard Medical School in 1817.
He then entered upon practice in his native town, and in close
attention to his professional duties passed his life, attaining
high success, and continuing his desired attention to the needs
of the sick, despite the weakness of fatal pulmonary disease,
almost until the end. Children :
16. i. Mary Hartwell, b. Jan. 16, 1825; d. May 27, 1893; m. July
14, 1843, Samuel T. Ames (E. 1).
Sarah Jane, b. July 11, 1827.-|-
George Lyman, b. Mar. 12, 1830.-|-
James Walter, b. June 7, 1833; d. Apr. 19, 1834.
Caroline Frances, b. Feb. 27, 1835 ; resides in New Ipswich
in the former home of her great-grandfather, Ephraim
Hartwell.
James Henry, b. Sept. 16, 1837; d. Sept. 19, 1838.
Ellen Maria, b. Nov. 10, 1840; d. Feb. 7, 1895. She was a
teacher in the high school of Medford, Mass., for some
years and then established in Boston a successful private
school for girls. Her later years were largely occupied in
traveling.
6. George^ (James^), b. Feb. 6, 1792; m.. June 12, 1828,
Amelia Ames (D. 4). He removed to New York State.
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23. i. Sarah.
24. ii. Caroline.
25. iii. George. One or more others.
8. Cummings^ (James^, b. May 9, 1795; d. 1854; m. Eliza,
dau. of Nathaniel, Jr., and Ruth (Eliot) Peabody of Middle-
ton, Mass. He went to Lowell, Mass., in his early manhood.
He was an engineer in the fire department of the city for a
time, and was a contractor in canal work, etc. Children :
26. i. Eliza Jane, b. 1829 ; d. 1881 ; m. Charles Cheney of Man
chester. Children : i. Evelyn Cheney, b. 1854 ; d. 1878 ; m.
Franklyn P. Johnson; two children, ii. Myra Cheney, b.
1859; ra. Charles Dougan; one son. iii. Maud Cheney, b.
1870; m. Morris C. Austin of Goffstown; two children.
27. ii. Ellen Maria, b. 1833; d. in infancy.
28. iii. George Cummings, b. 1834; d. 1896; m. 1868 Mary Frances,
dau. of John and Mary (Bean) Brown [d. 1906]. He lived
in Manchester after 1852. Child : i. Florence Good-win,
b. 1881.
29. iv. Ellen, b. 1837; d. in infancy.
30. V. John Mortimer, b. 1840; d. 1842.
13. JoHN^ (James^), b. Mar. 10, 1808; m.  . He left
New Ipswich in early manhood, going to Gouverneur, N. Y.
Children :
31. i. John. He enlisted in the Civil War, and was killed at Fort
Pillow.
32. ii. Moses. There were several other children.
17. Sarah Jane' (James^ James^), b. July 11, 1827; d.
Feb. 5, 1897; m. Mar. 15, 1847, Sanford B. Perry [d. Sept.
12, 1884]. Children:
i. Frederic, Barr Perry, b. May 7, 1848; d. Feb. 3, 1908; m.
Oct. 18, 1881, Sarah A. Proctor [d. May 28, 1914]. Chil
dren : i. Helen C. Perry, b. August 10, 1882 ; m. Francis
B. Reynolds; one son. ii. Sarah Barr Perry, b. Nov. 2,
1884; m. Bryan Bell. iii. Bertha Perry, b. July 6, 1889; d.
ii. William Nelson Perry, b. March 9, 1852; d. Nov. 21, 1899;
m. Feb. 15, 1884, Laura O. Barker. Children: i. Ruth
Barker Perry, b. Jan. 29, 1885; m. Edmund F. Saxton.
ii. Elsie Barr Perry, b. Jan. 6, 1888; m. Harold M. Nichols.
iii. George Sanford Perry, b. Nov. 6, 1889.
iii. George Barnum, b. Apr. 12, 1861 ; m. May 24, 1899, Helena S.
Lewandowska. Is a dentist in Chicago.
18. George Lyman' (James^ James^), b. Mar. 12, 1830;
d. Apr. 1, 1877; m. Nov. 20, 1851, Elizabeth Maria, dau. of
Daniel and Elizabeth (Crocker) Lawrence [b. Medford, Mass.,
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Aug. 5, 1835; m. (2) Apr. 21, 1880, George Robert, son of
George and Frances (Ames) Barrett (19)]. He early entered
business life as a clerk in a dry goods store at Boston, but
soon undertook a similar business for himself, and in a few
years became a member of a large distilling firm at Medford,
Mass. He retired from active business in 1867, and divided
his time between city matters (having control of its fire de
partment for several years), and historic antiquarian pursuits,
the collection of rare books, coins, etc. Children :
33. i. Elizabeth Lawrence, b. Mar. 3, 1854; m. 1880, Eugene A.,
son of Jean Baptiste and Madeline (Nehr) Kayser. Res.
Newton, Cambridge, and Boston. Children : i. Paul James
Barr Kayser, b. Nov., 1881. ii. Robert Barr Kayser, h.
Oct. 25, 1889. iii. George Barr Kayser, h. Jan. 15, 1891. iv.
Elizabeth Barr Kayser, h. July IS, 1897.
34. ii. Laura Mabua, b. July 22, 1859; unm. Res. Boston.
35. iii. Caroline Hartwell, b. Nov. 13, 1864; m. Apr. 20, 1897,
Winthrop Howland Wade of Boston. Res. Dedham, Mass.
Child: i. Winthrop Ho-wland Wade, h. Feb. 18, 1898.
36. iv. James Cummings, b. Mar. 15, 1867.-|-
37. V. Daniel Lawrence, b. Nov. 17, 1869; m. Sept. 23, 1908, Mrs.
Morrison Eggers of Pittsburg, Pa. He graduated from
Harvard College in 1896, and later from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. He is an electrical engineer in
Pittsburg, Pa.
36. James Cummings* (George Lyman', James^ James^),
b. Mar. 15, 1867; m. (1) Nov. 5, 1890, Sally, dau. of George
Gordon and Helen (Devens) Crocker of Taunton, Mass.; (2)
June 1, 1910, Lalla (Griffith) Fairfield, dau. of Collin McLeod
and Frances (Chandler) Griffith [b. St. Albans, W. Va., Jan.
17, 1873]. He graduated from Harvard College in 1890, and
upon graduation entered the scientific study of electricity with
the Thomson-Houston Company, in connection with which he
held very responsible positions in relation to the application
of electricity to coal mining. In later years he has been en
gaged in the railway supply business at Boston. For several
years he held commission in the Massachusetts Volunteer
Militia, is prominent in the recent work in aviation, and is a
member of leading clubs in Boston, New York, and Washing
ton. Children :
39. i. Helen, b. July 29, 1891.
40. ii. Elizabeth, b. Dec. 14, 1893.
41. iii. James Cummings, b. Mar. 3, 1898.
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John Barr, who lived for a time in the house opposite the
Barrett mansion and elsewhere, was apparently of a different
family from the one here given.
BARRETT.
Humphrey' Barrett, b. 1592; d. Nov. 7, 1662; m. Mary  [d. Aug.
15, 1663]. He is believed to have come from County Kent, England. He
settled at Concord in 1639, where he had a farra of three hundred acres
and a "house lot" of twelve acres near the centre of the town.
Humphrey' (Huraphrey'), b. England, 1630; d. Jan. 3, 1715/6; m.
July 16, 1661, Elizabeth Paine [d. Dec. 21, 1674] ; (2) Mar. 23, 1674/5,
Mary, dau. of Luke and Mary (Edmunds) Potter [b. 1656; d. Nov. 17,
1713]. He was a deacon in the Concord church, ensign in the foot com
pany, and represented the town in the General Court in 1691.
Joseph' (Humphrey', Humphrey'), b. Jan. 31, 1679; d. Apr. 4, 1763;
m. Dec. 24, 1701, Rebecca, dau. of Jaraes and Rebecca (Wheeler) Minott
[b. Feb. 9, 1685; d. June 23, 1738]. He was town treasurer, and also
captain of the foot corapany. He was one of the original grantees of
Grafton. Benjamin' (Huraphrey', Humphrey'), b. May 7, 1681; d. Oct. 25,
1728; m. Jan. 3, 1704/5, Lydia, dau. of James and Rebecca (Wheeler)
Minott [b. Mar. 12, 1686/7]. Like his brother, he was a farmer and
general business raan, and one of the original grantees of Grafton.
John* (Joseph', Huraphrey', Humphrey'), b. Feb. 14, 1719/20; d.
Apr. 19, 1790; m. 1744, Lois, dau. of Joshua and Lydia (Wheeler) Brooks
[b. June 29, 1723; d. Apr. 12, 1805]. He was in service at the North
Bridge Apr. 19, 1775.
Thomas' (Benjamin', Humphrey', Humphrey'), b. Oct. 2, 1707; d.
June 20, 1779; m. about 1730, Mary, dau. of Samuel and Ruth (Brown)
Jones [b. Mar. 23, 1715; d. Jan. 30, 1804]. He was a prominent business
man of Concord and a deacon. Col. James Barrett, comraander of the
Provincial troops in the "Concord fight," was his younger brother.
Joseph' (John', Joseph', Huraphre/, Huraphrey'), b. Jan. 5, 1745; d.
Dec. 20, 1831 ; m. Sarah, dau. of John and Lucy Brooks. He removed
to Mason in his early manhood, and settled upon the farm which has
descended to successive generations of Barretts. He held all the more
important town oflfices, and represented the town in the Legislature for
several years. His inherited military traits are shown by his title of
captain. 1. Charles'" (Thomas*, Benjamin', Humphrey^, Hum-
phreyi), b. Jan. 13, 1739/40; d. Sept. 21, 1808; m. 1764, Re
becca, dau. of Samuel and Dorcas (Prescott) Minott [b. Jan.
14, 1744; d. 1838; m. (2) about 1810, Francis Cragin (1)].
He left Concord in early manhood, and after a brief sojourn
in that part of Mason which is now Greenville, where his
characteristic business habits were foreshadowed by his part
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with a brother in the erection of a saw and grist mill, at about
the period of his marriage in 1764, he settled in New Ipswich.
At first he was near the Mason line, (1 : 2, S. R.,) in which
neighborhood he quickly became a leader; in 1780 he removed
to the Center Village, and purchased the Joseph Kidder lot,
(IX: 1, S. R.,) then considered a proverbially poor tract of
land, but destined to show very different capabilities under
the handling of its new manager. He there built for his resi
dence the "Bullard house," just north from the well-known
Barrett mansion of later days, which he built 25 years after
for the second bearer of his name.
The business operations upon which he entered seem al
most petty when compared with the activities of the twentieth
century, but at that period a journey to New York was a
greater undertaking than is a trip to the Pacific coast in the
present days. The settlement of Barrettstown, now known
as Hope, in Lincoln county, Me., the erection of the mill upon
the neighboring George's River, the construction of canals and
locks upon the same river, the aid given to the glass manu
factory just across the Temple line upon Kidder Mountain, and
the cotton mills of the town, said to have been undertaken
at his suggestion and with his cooperation, all these were en
terprises to be promoted only by a man of broad outlook and
exceptional business confidence and sagacity. That he had
ability to know when he saw a man, is illustrated by the
incident related in the account of the Appleton family on a
previous page. This power doubtless had a part in making
it true that his failure to take a position satisfactory to his
fellow townsmen, in the "times that tried men's souls" when
the nation had its birth, did not permanently alienate public
feeling, as is conclusively shown, not merely by his repeated
elections to represent New Ipswich in the Legislature, and in
the convention called to ratify the national Constitution, but
also by the votes from a larger territory giving him place as
a state senator and as councillor. Children :
3. i. Charles, b. Jan. 8, 1765; d. June 10, 1766.
4. ii. Dorcas, b. Apr. 20, 1767; d. Jan. 31, 1818, unm.
5. iii. Charles, b. Sept. 24, 1773.-|-
6. iv. George, b. Feb. 27, 1777 ; d. Aug. 14, 1812, unm.
7. V. Rebecca, b. Sept. 4, 1779; d. May 11, 1834; m. Dec. 5, 1795,
Hon. Samuel, son of Rev. Samuel and Anna (Kendrick)
Dana of Groton [d. 1837]. Children: i. Charles Dana. ii.
Anna Dana, m. Col. John Sever, iii. George Dana. iv.
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Rebecca Dana, m. Kilby Page. v. Samuel Dana. vi. Martha
Barrett Dana, ra. Gen. George C. Greene, vii. James Dana.
viii. Thesta Dana, ra. Gen. James J. Dana.
8. vi. Seth, b. May 20, 1784; d. Jan. 9, 1792.
2. Joseph^ (Joseph^, John*, Joseph', Humphrey^, Hum
phrey^), b. Mason, Jan. 25, 1774; d. Oct. 31, 1852; m. Oct. 3,
1809, Mary, dau. of Isaac and Mary (Adams) Appleton (9).
His name appears upon the town record at about the date of
his marriage, but soon after he removed to Bakersfield, Vt.,
where he was a farmer for ten or twelve years, during which
all his children were born. About 1821 he came to New Ips
wich and occupied the Appleton farm, his wife's early home,
for twenty years, removing thence in 1842 to the John F.
Hills place upon the Turnpike, afterward the residence of his
son-in-law, S. W. Bent, where the last ten years of his life
were passed. He was a quiet, unassuming man, but one whose
opinion was prized, especially in the church, although he de
clined official station when chosen deacon. Children :
9. i. Joseph Appleton, b. July 22, 1812; d. Apr. 20, 1833. He was
a student in Yale College at the time of his death.
10. ii. Emily Maria, b. Oct. 23, 1814; d. June 11, 1833, unm.
11. iii. Mary Narcissa, b. Aug. 24, 1816; d. May 28, 1872; m. Aug.
3, 1836, Samuel W. Bent (1).
12. iv. Dora Everett, b. Jan. 10, 1820; m. June 23, 1842, Dr. Edward,
son of Dr. Matthias and Rebecca Spalding. She lived at
Nashua, where she had three children.
5. Charles^ (Charles'", Thomas*, Benjamin', Humphrey^,
Humphrey^), b. Sept. 24, 1773; d. Sept. 3, 1836; m. at Concord,
Mass., Oct. 15, 1799, Martha, dau. of Jonas and Mary (Hall)
Minott [b. Oct. 17, 1771; d. 1842]. He graduated from Dart
mouth College in 1794, and soon after entered into trade at
the foot of the old Meeting-house Hill in partnership with
Samuel Appleton, whom after a few years he followed to
Boston, and there continued busily engaged in commercial
matters until 1814, when he returned to his native town. For
the remainder of his life he was a prominent figure in its
activities, having a leading place in the formation of the man
ufacturing companies and in the establishment of the bank,
representing the town in the Legislature for several years,
and being practically the founder of the Unitarian church and
the leading supporter during its brief life. Children — the
first three born in New Ipswich, the last two in Boston:
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14.

ii.

15.

iii.

16.

iv.

17.

V.

Barrett
George, b. Dec. IS, 1801.-1-
Mary Ann, b. Nov. 12, 1802; d. Aug., 1875; m. (1) May 1,
1820, Silas Bullard (J. 8); (2) Sept. 13, 1838, Alfred C.
Hersey [d. Mar. 8, 1888].
Juliet Maria, b. Dec. 22, 1804; d. May 22, 1808.
Charles, b. Jan. 11, 1807.-f-
Edward Augustus, b. June 17, 1811; d. May 2, 1834.
13. George' (Charles^, Charles^, Thomas*, Benjamin',
Humphrey^ Humphrey^), b. Dec. 15, 1801; d. Oct. 4, 1862;
m. at Greenfield, Mass., Sept. 1, 1831, Frances Hall, dau. of
Ambrose and Hannah (Allen) Ames [b. Nov. 18, 1809; d.
1887]. In early manhood he entered into business in Boston,
and thus continued until 1842, when he returned to New
Ipswich and assumed the cashiership of the bank, which he
successfully managed until removed by disease. He lived for
a few years after his return in the brick dwelling built by
his father at Bank Village; after the removal of the bank to
the Center Village, first the "Bullard house" and afterwards
the family mansion became his home. Children :
18. i. Edward Augustus, b. May 18, 1834.-)-
19. ii. George Robert, b. May 17, 1844; m. Apr. 21, 1880, Elizabeth
M., dau. of Daniel and Elizabeth (Crocker) Lawrence, and
widow of George L. Barr. For a few years he was occu
pied in the sale of books, but afterward devoted himself
to the collection of historical letters, broadsides, and en
gravings relative to the Colonial and Revolutionary period,
of which rare treasures his collection is exceptionally large
and valuable. His interleaved and illustrated copy of Ban
croft's History is unique in its magnitude and value. While
preferring a city residence during the greater part of the
year, he is still of New Ipswich, retaining and keeping in
order the family mansion and serving as president of the
trustees of Appleton Academy.
16. Charles' (Charles', Charles^ Thomas*, Benjamin',
Humphrey^ Humphrey^), b. Jan. 11, 1807; d. Feb. 9, 1862;
m. May 31, 1830, (by Ralph Waldo Emerson,) Abby B., dau.
of Edmund (builder of the old ship Constitution) and Mehit
able (Lambert) Hart [b. Nov. 17, 1809; d. Nov. 24, 1877.] At
the age of five years he lost his hearing from the action of
medicine given during a severe illness. He was educated in
the asylum for deaf-mutes in Hartford, Conn., and he was
treasurer of the New England Gallaudet Association of Deaf-
Mutes from its formation in 1852 until his death. For a few
years he was engaged in trade at Bank Village, William W.
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Johnson being his partner, and he resided in the brick
dwelling-house erected for him by his father at the time of
his marriage; after the death of his mother he removed to
the homestead mansion; this he sold to his brother George
in 1848, and passed his remaining years in Boston. His bodily
deprivation could not shut him within himself. Of him it was
said: "To all who were permitted to know him his short and
comparatively uneventful life suggests many sweet and beau
tiful memories — memories of gracious, kindly intercourse, of
serene cheerfulness, of Christian content." Children — born
in New Ipswich :
20. i. Julia Maria, b. May 11, 1832; m. Dec. 21, 1858, Charles, son
of Reuben and Mary (Wetherbee) Marsh [b. 1829; d. July
9, 1886]. She lived in Boston. Children: i. Edith Barrett
Marsh, b. Mar. 24, 1863; ra. Oct. 21, 1884, George Binney.
(Children: i. George Hayward Binney, Jr., b. Jan. 20, 1886.
ii. Edith Marsh Binney, b. Jan. 10, 1888; d. March 6, 1895.)
ii. Mabel Minott Marsh, b. Mar. 4, 1867; m. June 9, 1888,
Arthur N. Milliken. iii. Charles Reuben Marsh, h. Mar. 2,
1872; d. at Sharon, Mass., Mar. 16, 1908.
21. ii. Mary Darracott, b. June 28, 1840.
22. iii. Charles, b. July 21, 1844; d. Aug. 31, 1845.
18. Edward Augustus* (George^, Charles', Charles^
Thomas*, Benjamin', Humphrey^, Humphrey^), b. May 18,
1834; d. Mar. 11, 1883; m. Sept. 26, 1860, Georgianna M., dau.
of Wells and Maria (Bailey) Chase [b. 1840; d. 1883]. He
was in business in the West for a few years, but passed the
later years of his life in the family home. Children :
23. i. George Wells, b. Aug. 1, 1863.-|-
24. ii. Charles Edward, b. Sept. 14, 1865.-1-
25. iii. Frances Ames, b. Nov. 10, 1867; ra. May 24, 1893, George
Augustus Hopkins of Boston. Child : i. Barrett Hopkins,
h. Jan. 30, 1906.
26. iv. Blanche, b. Dec. 26, 1872; d. May 2, 1874.
23. George Wells^ (Edward A.', George', Charles',
Charles^ Thomas*, Benjamin', Humphrey', Humphrey^), b.
Aug. 1, 1863; m. Jamestown, N. Y., Sept. 9, 1890, Caroline
Whitney. He was engaged in banking, and later in the in
ternal revenue service. Children :
27. i. Agnes, b. June 13, 1902.
28. ii. Frances Ames, b. Nov. 22, 1903; d. Dec. 16, 1906.
29. iii. Jean, b. Mar. 3, 1912.
24. Charles Edward' (Edward A.^ George', Charles',
Charles^, Thomas*, Benjamin', Humphrey', Humphrey^), b.
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Sept. 14, 1865; m. May 31, 1894, Beulah Gertrude Hildreth
(30). He is bank cashier in Winchester, Mass., where he
resides. Children :
30. i. Hildreth, b. Apr. 27, 1899.
31. ii. Rebecca, b. May 24, 1904.
BARTLETT.
Joseph' Bartlett, d. Dec. 26, 1702; m. Oct. 27, 1668, Mary Waite
[d. Dec. 21, 1721]. He was early at Newton, Mass., whither he probably
came from Cambridge. His home was on the side of the hill where now
is the Baptist Theological Seminary.
Joseph' (Joseph'), b. Mar. 5, 1673; d. 1734; m. (1) Hannah [d. Dec,
1730] ; (2) 1732, Mercy Hyde [b. about 1671; d. June, 1750].
Joseph' (Joseph', Joseph'), b. Apr. 8, 1703; m. Feb., 1731, Zebiah
1. Samuel* (Joseph', Joseph', Joseph^), b. Mar. 9, 1732; d.
Jan. 27, 1812; m. (pub. Sept. 1, 1760) Elizabeth, sister of
Isaac Appleton (1) [bapt. Oct. 24, 1736; d. May 4, 1817]. He
seems to have lived in his ancestral town of Newton until
1771, when he came to New Ipswich and settled upon XIII :
2, S. R., afterward long the home of Richard Wheeler, and
there he passed his life. Children :
2. i. Isaac, b. Oct. 8, 1761.
3. ii. Samuelj b. July 18, 1763.
4. iii. Elizabeth, b. Apr. 9, 1765; d. 1790.
5. iv. Daniel, b. Jan. 8, 1767.
6. V. Noah, b. Dec. 25, 1768.+
7. vi. Lydia, b. Feb. 3, 1771.
8. vii. Elizabeth, b. July 20, 1773; d. Jan. 28, 1790.
9. viii. Sarah, b. Sept. 10, 1776; d. Nov. 27, 1803; m. May 16, 1802,
Tiraothy Fox (2).
10. ix. John, b. May 7, 1779; d. Oct. 4, 1802.
11. X. Mary, b. Dec. 9, 1781; m. Aug. 21, 1817, Daniel Giles (4).
6. NoAH^ (Samuel*, Joseph', Joseph', Joseph^), b. Dec. 25,
1768; d. Sept. 14, 1809; m. Nov. 17, 1799, Mary Hills (3). He
remained at the home of his boyhood, and although he died in
middle life he became a leading citizen. He was town clerk
for two years, a selectman during the last twelve years of his
life, and also represented the town in the Legislature the last
seven years. He was elected a deacon two years before his
death. Children :
12. i. George Everett, b. May 17, 1801; d. Sept. 24, 1820.
13. ii. Lydia, b. Aug. 14, 1802; d. Nov. 11, 1804.
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14. iii. John, b. Jan. 22, 1804; d. about 1826, unm. He had purposed
to enter the ministry, and had studied at Andover Theo
logical Seminary; but before the completion of his course
of study he, the last survivor of a family which had per
ished from consumption, was attacked by the same disease,
and while on his way south in hope of relief, he died in
New Jersey. What remained of the family property he
bequeathed to the American Board of Missions.
BATCHELDER— BATCHELLER.
The New Ipswich records and gravestones present this family name
in several varying forms, but an exaraination of early records forbids
the conclusion that such orthographic variations necessarily indicate dif
ferent origins. The New England farailies bearing sorae form of this
name appear to have descended frora several different eraigrant ancestors;
but the two branches appearing in New Ipswich are found to have sprung
from a common stock, despite the fact that, with by no means infrequent
variations, each of them has adhered to its chosen one of the two forms
given above.
The name of their comraon ancestor is uncertain, but probably was
Joseph. He is not known to have removed from England, but it is be
lieved that three of his sons, Joseph, John, and Henry came from Canter
bury, Kent, England, about 1636, and founded the Salem branch of the
family. Henry and his wife, Martha, ' however, left no issue ; the de
scendants of both the other brothers have had a part in the building of
New Ipswich.
Joseph' Batcheller, d. about 1657; ra. Elizabeth  . He is be
lieved to have made a home in that part of Salem which was afterward
set off as Wenham.
John' Batchelder, b. about 1610 ; d. Nov. 13, 1675 ; m. Elizabeth 
[d. Nov. 10, 1675]. He had a grant of land in 1639, in that part of
Salem which is now Beverly, and was made a freeman in the following
year. John' (Joseph'), bapt. Jan. 20, 1638; d. Mar. 22, 1729; m. (1) July
12, 1661, Mary Dennis; (2) May 4, 1666, Sarah, dau. of Robert Goodale
of Salera. He probably resided near the place of his birth.
John' (John'), b. June 23, 1650; d. Aug. 6, 1684; m. Aug. 14, 1673,
Mary, prob. dau. of Zachariah and Mary (Dodge) Herrick [b. Oct. 10,
1654; d. Aug. 19, 1684]. He was a cooper living in that part of Salem
which is now Beverly.
Ebenezer" (John', Joseph'), b. about 1673; d. 1747; m. Sarah, dau.
of Samuel Tarbox of Lynn, Mass.
Jonathan' (John', John'), b. Mar. 29, 1678; d. Apr., 1740; m. Ruth,
dau. of WilHam and Ruth (Hull) Raymond fb. 1690; d. 1736]. He was a
prominent citizen, and represented Salem in the General Court.
Josiah' (Ebenezer', John', Joseph'), b. Wenham, 1709; d. 1786; m.
1740, Hannah Kimball. He passed his life in Wenham, but all his chil
dren removed to New Ipswich, the sons before his death, and the daugh
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1. i. Hannah, b. Feb. 11, 1746/7; d. Jan. 2, 1827.
2. ii. Joseph, b. Feb. 19, 1748/9.-f-
3. iii. Abigail, b. May 28, 1751; d. Dec. 8, 1838.
4. iv. Josiah, b. Dec. 19, 1753.4-
Jonathan' (Jonathan', John', John'), b. 1720; d. Oct. 19, 1776; m.
Apr. 10, 1745, Hephzibah, dau. of Daniel and Lucy (Dodge) Conant [b.
Beverly, Oct. 16, 1729]. He was lieutenant in the company which marched
from Salem on the Concord alarm, 1775.
2. Joseph' (Josiah*, Ebenezer', John', Joseph^), b. Feb.
19, 1748; d. Wallingford, Vt, 1812; m. (1) Dec. 31, 1771,
Elizabeth Merry of Marblehead, Mass. [b. Aug. 10, 1752, N.
S. ; d. Feb. 1, 1809] ; (2) Rebecca  , who soon became in
sane. He came to New Ipswich in 1780 and followed the busi
ness of a carpenter and cabinet maker, the occupation of many
members of the family, until his removal from town after the
loss of a home caused by his wife's insanity. His first place
of residence in the town was on or near the site afterward
occupied by the house of Rev. Stephen Farrar, a short dis
tance northwesterly from the church, but he soon built a
house nearer the church in a southeast direction, long occu
pied by his family, afterward by the widow Fisk, and now the
summer home of Henry T. Champney. Children:
6. i. Joseph, b. Marblehead, Mass., Jan. 27, 1773.-|-
7. ii. John Merry, b. Marblehead, Mass., Mar. 14, 1775; d. Oct. 13,
1849; ra. Mary Simonds of Billerica [b. about 1777; d. Dec.
22, 1861]. He passed his Hfe as a carpenter and cabinet
maker, his first home after marriage being in a small house
near the brook crossing* the road a little to the east of the
present Baptist church, until he built a house between the
present sites of the two cottages upon the north side of
the turnpike fifteen or twenty rods below the crossing of
the road from the starch factory. Child: 37. i. Frederic
M., b. about 1805 ; d. Sept. 19, 1830.
8. iii. Elizabeth, b. Wenham, Nov. 1, 1779; d. Feb. 6, 1842. She
passed her life in New Ipswich, living for many years in
the family of her youngest brother, and conducting a very
successful business as a tailoress, often having four em
ployees in her shop.
9. iv. Hannah, b. New Ipswich, July 30, 1782; d. Feb. 4, 1838. She
passed her life as a tailoress in her native town, living for
many years on the spot afterward occupied by the school-
house of District No. 13, and also caring for her aunts,
Hannah and Abigail, often called the "two old bachelors
and the two old maids."
10. V. Josiah, b. Sept. 2, 1783 ; d. Mar. 25, 1784.
11. vi. Josiah, b. Jan. 30, 1785; d. Feb. 4, 1785.
12. vii. Polly, b. May 2, 1786; d. May 6, 1786.
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13. viii. Polly, b. Nov. 30, 1787 ; d. Nov. 30, 1787.
14. ix. Oliver, b. Jan. 6, 1791; d. July 1, 1816; unm. He was a
cabinet maker.
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4. JosiAH^^ (Josiah*, Ebenezer', John', Joseph^), b. Dec. 19,
1753; d. May 2, 1812; m. Ruth Fletcher (37). He came to New
Ipswich at about the same time as his brother, and was the
village blacksmith for many years, living in the house upon
the west side of the street running southerly from the Baptist
church, and since occupied in succession by Dea. John Clark
and his son Peter. His shop was situated just across the
street from his house, and was destroyed by fire in 1812.
Children — all born in New Ipswich :
17. i. Josiah, b. Nov. 20, 1787. -|-
RuTH, b. Mar. 27, 1789; d. June 1, 1811.
Peter, b. July 20, 1794; d. New Orleans, La., while a young
man.
William Kimball, b. Aug. 4, 1798; d. Aug. 4, 1811.
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5. Samuel^ (Jonathan*, Jonathan', John', John^), b. Jan. 1,
1755; d. Feb. 17, 1814; m. (pub. Jan. 13, 1782) Elizabeth, dau.
of Peter and Mary (Rea) Woodbury [d. Feb. 11, 1835] and
also great-granddaughter of John and Hannah (Tarbox) Batch
eller, brother and sister of Ebenezer' and Sarah (Tarbox)
Batcheller. He served in the company with his father at the
time of his father's death. He removed from Beverly to New
Hampshire in 1785, and commenced business as a baker in a
very small way in the house long occupied by Benjamin Davis
in the Davis Village, (northeast corner of XIII : 1, S. R.)
He also had a small store, which in time came to be managed
by his sons. He prospered in his business, and upon the open
ing of the Turnpike he erected the "Peppermint Tavern," (61,
N. D.,) which for a long time had such a reputation as being
the best public-house between Boston and Keene that travel
ers and teamsters, whose wagons drawn by four horses served
the public in place of the freight trains of the present, would
often shorten or extend the day's journey in order to rest at
it. Children — all born at New Ipswich, except the eldest:
22. i. Samuel, b. Jaffrey, June 8, 1784.-|-
23. ii. Peter, b. Sept. 12, 1786.-|-
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25. iv. William, b. May 24, 1791; d. Nov. 18, 1811.
26. V. Nancy, b. June 20, 1793; ra. Rev. Phineas Pratt (2).
27. vi. Daniel, b. 1795 ; d. 1796.
28. vii. Mary, b. Apr. 18, 1797; d. Feb. 9, 1879; ra. Silas Wheeler (75).
29. viii. Czarina, b. Dec. 22, 1800; m. Joel Parker.
30. ix. Fanny, b. June 16, 1804; ra. Rev. Jonathan Tucker of Saco,
Me.
6. Joseph' (Joseph', Josiah*, Ebenezer', John', Joseph^),
b. Marblehead, Mass., Jan. 27, 1773; m. 1796, Hannah, dau.
of Samuel Trull. He left his native town soon after reaching
his majority, and pursued his father's calling of cabinet maker
in other parts of the state; for a time he resided in Billerica,
where his wife died. Children :
Joseph, b. Apr. 25, 1797.
Josiah, b. May 28, 1799.
Hannah, b. Oct. 28, 1800; m. June 25, 1822, James H. Fames
of Reading, Mass.
Sophronia, b. May 20, 1802 ; m. May 17, 1825, William Taintor
of Boston.
Eliza, b. Feb. 20, 1804.
Brooks Trull, b. Jan. 7, 1813.
15. MosEs' (Joseph', Josiah*, Ebenezer', John', Joseph^),
b. June 2, 1793 ; d. Jan. 12, 1829 ; m. (pub.' Jan., 1818) Lucy M.
Nash of Dorset, Vt. He was a carpenter in Williamstown and
died there. Children :
38. i. Harriet M., b. Jan. 19, 1819.
39. ii. George H., b. Jan. 7, 1820.
40. iii. Kimball, b. May 22, 1821.
41. iv. Addison, b. Nov. 16, 1822.
42. V. Eliza May, b. May 8, 1824.
43. vi. Alva N., b. Mar. 2, 1826.
44. vii. Alvin B., b. Mar. 2, 1826.
45. viii. Oliver, b. Dec. 2, 1828; d. June 25, 1830.
16. Hervey" (Joseph', Josiah*, Ebenezer^, John', Joseph'),
b. Nov. 28, 1795; d. Sept. 16, 1857; m. Apr., 1832, Sally, dau.
of James and Nabby (Childs) Buchanan of Waltham^, Mass.
[b. Apr. 1, 1805; d. June 10, 1865]. He continued the family
industry as carpenter and cabinet maker, and lived in the
house at the foot of Meeting-house Hill around which the
road to the Baptist church and postoffice bends. Children :
46. i. Sarah Elizabeth, b. Apr. 11, 1833; d. Aug. 20, 1909. She
was educated at New Ipswich Academy, and at the age of
nineteen began her work as a teacher in which she con
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to make further evidence of success superfluous. Her work
was largely in the cities of Boston and New York, and the
latter was her horae after the end of her work.
47. ii. Hervey Buchanan, b. May 16, 1836; d. Jan. 28, 1912, unm.
His Hfe was largely occupied with the duties of a pro
fessional nurse in New York.
48. iii. Mary Abigail, b. Apr. 13, 1838; d. Mar. 9, 1842.
49. iv. Oliver Merry, b. May 1, 1840; unm. He is a business man in
Minneapolis, Minn.
17. Josiah' (Josiah', Josiah*, Ebenezer', John', Joseph'), b.
Nov. 20, 1787; m. Rebecca Billings. He was a blacksmith,
and for a time was his father's partner. Children :
50. i. Ira Alonzo, was fatally scalded in early life.
William Kimball.
Ruth Ann, m. (1) about Mar. 1, 1836, Levi Ward [d. Mar.
22, 1836] ; (2)  Chase.
Mary Rebecca.
Martha Maria.
21. Washington Adams' (Josiah', Josiah*, Ebenezer',
John', Joseph'), b. Apr. 30, 1808; m. his cousin, Adelaide
Fletcher (63). He removed to Brooklyn, N. Y. Children:
SS. i. Adelaide A.
56. ii. Clara, d. unm.
57. iii. Josephine, d. unm.
58. iv. LuciLLA, d. young.
59. v. Eugene, d. young.
60. vi. Henry Kent.-|-
22. Samuel' (Samuel', Jonathan*, Jonathan', John', John'),
b. Jaffrey, June 8, 1784; d. Feb. 5, 1879; m. Aug. 26, 1810,
Mary, dau. of Gen. John Montgomery of Haverhill, N. H.
[b. Mar. 5, 1780; d. Apr. 24, 1869]. He early showed his
mercantile instincts, and at the age of sixteen he practically
conducted his father's store. At the age of twenty he opened
a store in Peterboro, later removing to Exeter, but in 1808
he returned to New Ipswich and occupied the store on the
Turnpike at the corner of the Temple road until it was burned
in 1812, when he built the brick building known since that
time as "the corner store" and traded there until his removal
from town. While still a young man he became greatly in
terested in the manufacture of cotton goods, then taking form
in the town, entered upon it, and for the rest of his life was
especially devoted to that interest. With the birth of Lowell
he went thither and came to have a very prominent position
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president of the Hamilton Manufacturing Company, the Ap
pleton Company, the Essex Company, the Everett Mills, the
York Manufacturing Company, and the Exeter Manufacturing
Company, together possessing capital, truly enormous in those
days, of $5,000,000. His own inventions had no small place
in the prosperity of the various undertakings in which he was
so earnestly engaged for a period of 62 years, and during
those years of constant advance in methods his mind kept pace
with the increasing demands of the market and he wielded
a facile pen in support of his own views. His tastes were
literary, and he was a frequent contributor to magazines and
journals, even till he reached four score years and ten. He
represented New Ipswich in the Legislature for six years,
and he afterward sat in the Massachusetts Legislature. He
resided in Lowell for several years and was one of the first
board of selectmen of that new town. He removed to Saco,
Me., in 1831, and there made his home for fifteen years, after
which he established himself in Cambridge, Mass., where he
was a member of its first board of aldermen and resided for
a third of a century. Children :
61. i. John Montgomery, b. Oct. 12, 1811.-|-
62. u. William, b. Dec. 12, 1813; d. May 21, 1857; m. Nov. 14,
1842, Caroline Augusta, dau. of Dr. Thomas G. and Sarah
(Cutto) Thornton [b. Saco, Me., Aug. 14, 1814; d. Saco,
1899]. He prepared for college at Lancaster, Mass., and
entered Harvard College in 1830, but did not complete his
course of study. He resided at Andover, Mass., where he
was an amateur farraer.
63. iii. Mary Anne, b. Aug. 2, 1815; d. Lowell, Oct. 31, 1827.
64. iv. Horace, b. Oct. 11, 1817; d. Saco, Feb. 11, 1842, unra.
65. V. Isabella, b. Sept. 2, 1819. -|-
66. vi. Edward Everett, b. Sept. 19, 1821; d. Sept. 24, 1821.
67. vii. Eugene, b. Nov. 13, 1822.-|-
68. viii. Francis Lowell, b. Apr. 2, 1825.-|-
69. ix. Samuel, b. Jan. 9, 1830.-}-
23. Peter' (SamueP, Jonathan*, Jonathan', John', John'),
b. Sept. 12, 1786 ; d. Sept., 1867 ; m. Margaret Mitchell. Child :
70. i. A daughter, ra.  Bradford. Res. in Francestown.
60. Henry Kent^ (Washington Adams', Josiah', Josiah*,
Ebenezer', John', Joseph'). He resided in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Children :
71. i. Estella, a teacher in Brooklyn.
72. ii. Harry.
73. iii. Adeline.
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61. John Montgomery' (Samuel', Samuel', Jonathan*, Jon
athan', John', John'), b. Oct. 12, 1811 ; d. July 8, 1892; m. (1)
1843, Mary Elizabeth Wood; (2) Eliza Constantia (Bird)
Beardsley [d. 1898]. He was a civil engineer at York, Me.,
and at Lawrence, Mass., and for a time had charge of a mill
in Ipswich, Mass. He then became connected with the United
States Coast Survey, and was active in the investigation of a
great variety of scientific questions, in which he was asso
ciated with many of the leading American scientists. He was
the inventor of many valuable scientific devices. He was
elected member of the American Academy, and was also a
member of many other scientific societies, retaining his earnest
and active interest in such matters to the end of his long life.
Children :
75. i. Horace, b. Saco, Me., 1844; d. 1844.
76. ii. Isabella, b. Sept. 28, 1846. Resides in Boston.
77. iii. Arthur Montgomery, b. 1851 ; d. 1856.
65. Isabella'' (Samuel', Samuel', Jonathan*, Jonathan',
John', John'), b. Sept. 2, 1819; d. Aug. 6, 1901 ; m. Dec. 3, 1851,
Thomas Potts James of Philadelphia. She lived in Philadel
phia until 1869, then in Cambridge until 1885, and afterward
in England, her home being at Ottery-St. Mary, Devon,
where she died. During the Civil War she devoted much
time to the Sanitary Commission and hospital work, being
prominent in patriotic activities, and she was afterward presi
dent of the Pennsylvania Freedmen's Commission, and also
interested in other similar work. In later life she was largely
engaged in antiquarian, historic, and genealogical study, and
was a member of many societies of that general character.
A worthy ode from^ her pen sung at the Centennial Celebra
tion of New Ipswich may be recalled here. Children :
i. Mary Isabella James, b. BurHngton, N. J., Sept. 19, 1852;
m. Feb. 4, 1885, Silvio M. de Gozaldi of Denno, Tyrol,
Austria. She lived in Europe until 1898, and since that
time in Cambridge, where she succeeded to her father's
horae. Four children.
ii. Montgomery James, b. Philadelphia Dec. 20, 1853; d. Phila
delphia Dec. 24, 1895, unra. He graduated from Harvard
College in 1876, receiving the degree of S. B. He was a
civil engineer in Mexico and in South Africa, served in
the British array during the Zulu war, and was afterward
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iii. Clarence Gray James, b. June 30, 1856; d. Mar. 13, 1892,
unm. He pursued special work in chemistry at Harvard
College, and was afterward a manufacturing chemist in
Philadelphia.
iv. Frances Batchelder James, b. Sept. 26, 1859; ra. John Rose-
Troup, son of Gen. Sir Colin Troup. She resides at Ottery-
St. Mary, Devon, England. One son.
67. Eugene' (Samuel', Samuel', Jonathan*, Jonathan',
John', John'), b. Nov. 13, 1822; d. Oct. 8, 1878; m. June 16,
1864, Caroline Augusta Deshon [d. Sept., 1904]. He studied at
Harvard Law School, receiving the degree of LL. B. in 1845.
He lived at Dover, Mass. He was greatly devoted to English,
French, and German literature, and had the poet's place at
the centennial celebration of his native town. A very con
siderable number of poems were published. Child :
78. i. Maude Augusta, b. Apr. 28, 1872; m. Apr. 14, 1909, Charles
Peter Vosburgh of New York City. She studied at Rad
cHffe College, and follows on practically the lines of her
father's literary pursuits.
68. Francis Lowell' (Samuel', Samuel', Jonathan*, Jona
than', John', John'), b. Lowell, Apr. 2, 1825; d. Feb. 9, 1858;
m. Dec. 2, 1851, Susan Cabot, dau. of Charles Chauncy Foster
[d. Apr., 1900]. He prepared for college at Saco, Me., studied
at Harvard College and Harvard Law School, receiving the
degree of A. B. in 1844 and LL. B. in 1848. He practised
law in Boston for some years, having his home at Cambridge,
until failing health caused him to seek a milder climate at
Hibernia, Fla., where he died. Children :
79. i. Amy, b. Sept. 9, 1852; d. July 5, 1881, unm.
80. ii. Charles Foster, b. July 15, 1856; m. Laura P., dau. of Lin
coln R. Stone of Newton. He prepared for college at
Cambridge high school, and graduated from Harvard Col
lege with the degree A. B. in 1878. He devoted himself
to ornithology, and for many years was president of the
National Ornithological Society. He has four sons : Philip
Stone, Francis Lo-well, Charles Poster, and La-wrence.
69. Samuel' (Samuel', Samuel', Jonathan*, Jonathan',
John', John'), b. Jan. 9, 1830; d. Apr. 24, 1888; m. June 20,
1867, Marianne Giles, dau. of Gov. Emory Washburn [b. Wor
cester, Nov. 24, 1831]. He was a lawyer in Boston. Children :
81. i. Emory Washburn, b. Apr. 4, 1868; d. Aug. 20, 1869.
82. ii. Samuel Francis, b. Mar. 10, 1870. He graduated from Har
vard College and Law School, A. B. 1893, LL. D. 1898. He
is a lawyer in Boston, and is also engaged in historical and
literary pursuits.
83. iii. Mary Emory, b. Mar. 25, 1873.
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BATEMAN.
Thomas' Bateman, d. Feb. 6, 1669; m. (1) Martha  [d. Aug. 3,
1665] ; (2) Jan. 27, 1668, Margaret Knight [m. (2) Feb. 7, 1670, Nathaniel
Ball; d. Apr. 18, 1709]. According to tradition he carae frora England
in 1630 and settled in Concord, Mass., in 1635, and there is little doubt
that he was the man to whom the Concord records given above relate.
The record of his children is apparently incomplete, but circumstantial
evidence strongly supports the following line of descent.
Thomas' (Thomas'), m. Apr. 25, 1672, Abigail, dau. of George and
Susanna Meriam [b. (probably) July 15, 1647; d. July 14, 1684]. He
lived in Concord, where he was known as "Sergeant Bateman."
John' (Thomas', Thomas'), b. Apr. 12, 1679; ra. Elizabeth  [d.
Nov. 20, 1715]. He lived in Concord.
John' (John', Thomas', Thomas'), b. Oct. 18, 1706; m. Feb. 10,
1731/2, Anna, dau. of Timoth/ and Lydia' Wheeler [b. Nov. 26, 1713].
He also passed his life in Concord.
Jonas" (John', John', Thomas', Thomas'), b. June 17, 1735; ra. Jan.
27, 1757, Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel and Elizabeth Fletcher [b. Sept. 20,
1736]. He continued the family in Concord.
Jonas' (Jonas', John', John', Thomas', Thomas'), b. Nov. 21, 1769;
d. Oct. 17, 1824; ra. 1791, Lydia Buttrick [b. 1763; d. Mar. 9, 1845]. He
reraoved from Concord after the birth of his first child and settled in
Chelmsford, Mass.
1. Charles' (Jonas', Jonas', John*, John', Thomas',
Thomas'), b. about 1793; d. May 7, 1861; m. 1817, Czarina
Thompson of Swanzey [b. about 1800; d. May 17, 1853]. He
came from Harvard, Mass., to New Ipswich about 1823, and
passed his life in the town as blacksmith, for many years in
the shop at the west end of the Village Green, under the wil
low near the Jo Kidder Brook, and later in other places in
the Center Village. His first home was in the old tavern
building of Jonathan Dix, and after its destruction by fire in
1826 he built upon its site the present house long the home
of Rev. Samuel Lee. He was a selectman in 1843. Children:
3. i. Lucy Williams, b. Swanzey July 10, 1819; d. July 3, 1890;
m. May 16, 1847, George E. Nutting, who for a tirae was
a butcher on the Woolson farra, IV: 2, S. R., but later re
moved to Jersey City, N. J. She had two daughters while
resident in New Ipswich, both of whom died young.
4. n. Amanda Malvina, b. Harvard, Mass., Nov. 5, 1820; d. Apr.
3, 1902; m. Mar. 25, 1852, Charles Boardraan. Res. in Bos
ton, where he was in the employ of the Boston & Lowell
railroad.
5. iii. Ann Maria, b. Harvard, Mass., Dec. 10, 1821; d. May 6,
1893; ra. Mar. 8, 1849, Isaiah W. Barnum of New York
city.
6. iv. Arabella Semira, b. July 20, 1823 ; d. Jan. 2, 1824.
7. V. Josephine Angelia, b. Nov. 27, 1824; d. Aug. 2, 1825.
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8. vi. Arabella Augusta, b. Mar. 14, 1826; m. (1) May 16, 1847,
Samuel S. Brown (J. 1) ; (2) John Warner.
9. vii. Charles Thompson, b. July 17, 1828; d. Sept. 27, 1828.
10. viii. Charles Augustus, b. Aug. 20, 1830. -f-
11. ix. Alfreda Thompson, b. Sept. 21, 1831 ; ra. Mar. 16, 1854, James
R. Elliot of Mason. He was a publisher in Boston. Res.
in Everett, Mass. Children : i. James Elliot, d. aged 2
days. ii. Arthur Elliot, d. aged 4 years, iii. Grace Elliot,
b. May 28, 1860. Supervisor of public schools of Everett.
12. x. Semira Jane, b. Apr. 13, 1833; d. Sept. 23, 1861. She had a
large tailoring establishraent in Boston.
13. xi. George Frederic, b. about 1835. -|-
14. xii. Andrew Plummer, b. Mar. 10, 1837. -|-
15. xiii. Harriet Josephine, b. Dec. 1, 1838; m. Sept. 21, 1865, George
H., son of Charles Bullard. Res. Dorchester, Mass. Chil
dren: i. George Arthur Bullard, b. July 14, 1866; unm.;
he has an advertising agency in Boston, ii. William Osgood
Bullard, b. May 30, 1868; unra.; he is in the eraploy of a
boot and shoe house in Boston, iii. Clarence Paul Bullard,
b. Sept. 11, 1872; d. Feb., 1874. Three other children who
died young are not borne upon the record.
2. John' (Jonas', Jonas', John*, John', Thomas', Thomas').
He came to New Ipswich a few years later than his brother,
and worked with him several years, afterward removing to
Ohio. 10. Charles Augustus' (Charles', Jonas', Jonas', John*,
John', Thomas', Thomas'), b. Aug. 20, 1830; d. Oct., 1906;
m. Aug. 20, 1854, Elizabeth Miller of Fitchburg, Mass. He
was a hardware dealer in Charlestown, Mass. Children :
16. i. Harriet, d. aged 4 years.
17. ii. Frederic, d. in infancy.
18. iii. Leon Herbert, d. aged 26 years. He entered Tufts College,
afterward studied law and had begun practice in Boston.
19. iv. Frank Elliot. He graduated from Tufts College in 1887,
from Harvard Medical School in 1894, and is in practice at
Somerville, Mass.
20. V. Ernest, d. aged 17 years, while a student in Tufts College.
13. George Frederic' (Charles', Jonas', Jonas', John*,
John', Thomas', Thomas'), b. about 1835; d. in Colorado.
Pie went westward in early manhood, settled in Colorado, and
"grew up with the state," living in different places, but finally
becoming a dealer in tin and hardware at Salida. Children :
21. i. Semira, d. young.
22. ii. Alfreda, d. in infancy.
23. iii. Frederic. He succeeded to his father's business.
24. iv. Walter. He is also in the family business.
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14. Andrew Plummer' (Charles', Jonas', Jonas', John*,
John', Thomas', Thomas'), b. Mar. 10, 1837; d. June, 1906;
m. Mary Page of Westminster, Mass. He was a dealer in tin
and hardware at Winchendon, Mass. Children :
26. i. Jennie Louise, b. 1858; m. Frank W. Puffer of Fitchburg,
Mass. One daughter.
27. ii. Myra, b. 1860; d. Nov. 8, 1907; m. Gilraan Fogg of Charles
town, Mass.
28. iii. Harry Osgood, b. Nov. 24, 1879. Five children. He suc
ceeded to his father's business.
29. iv. Hattie, b. 1872; d. aged 4 years.
30. V. Clara, b. 1875 ; m. Frank R. Smith of Grand Junction, Colo.
31. vi. Gertrude, b. about 1882; m. Alvin E. Donnie of Bellows Falls,
Vt.
BATES.
John' Bates, b. about 1642; d. about 1720; m. Mary  . He was
a cooper and yeoman at Chelmsford, Mass.
John' (John'), d. about 1722; m. Deborah — -. Res. at Chelmsford.
Edward' (John', John'), b. about 1696; m. Mary, dau. of John Snow
of Nottingham, Mass. Res. in that part of Chelmsford which is now
Westford. 1. Joseph* (Edward', John', John'), b. Nov. 3, 1726; m. (1)
Phebe  ; (2) Dec. 12, 1781, Mary Davis. He came from
Westford, Mass., to New Ipswich in 1751 and bought of Abi
jah Foster the lot upon which he had built the first house of
the town, 33, N. D., including most of the land now occupied
by the Center Village north of the Village Green, now marked
by the soldiers' monument. He perhaps had a store earlier
than that of Jonathan Dix, who has generally been considered
the first trader in the town. If so, it probably was on the site
of the present Appleton House, and was sold with the farm
to David Hills about 1772. He was a very energetic chairman
of the Committee of Correspondence and Inspection in 1775,
and he gave military service in the Revolution at least on the
occasion of the Concord alarm. He is said to have been a
lieutenant and to have been present at the capture of Bur
goyne, but his name does not appear on the State Revolu
tionary Rolls of that time. He removed to Jaffrey about 1778,
and was a member of the Committee of Safety in that town
for that year, and later held important town offices. About
1801 he removed to the northern part of the state of New
York. Children :
2. i. Joseph, b. May 29, 1757; m. Apr. 7, 1795, Lucy, dau. of Job
Dodge of Jaffrey. He gave Revolutionary service. Child:
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3. ii. Hannah, b. Sept. 10, 1759; d. May 14, 1762.
4. iii. Philip, b. July 8, 1763; d. Dec. 4, 1764.
5. iv. Hannah, b. Oct. 26, 1765; m. Lieut. Daniel Emery of Jaffrey.
6. V. Sarah, b. Jan. 1, 1767; d. Dec. 18, 1787; m. Alexander Emes
of Dublin. Child: i. Sally Emes, d. Sept. 12, 1838; m.
Farnum Fisk; res. at Potsdam, N. Y.
7. vi. Peter, b. Mar. 21, 1770; m. Elizabeth Milliken of Sharon.
Removed to Potsdam, N. Y., 1808, Eight children.
8. vii. Anna, b. Aug. 13, 1775.
[Here the New Ipswich record of births ceases, but the
History of Jaffrey gives additional names without dates of
birth.]
9. viii. Samuel, d. Oct. 14, 1838; m. June 21, 1810, Jenny, dau. of
Moses Cutter of Jaffrey. Res. Bradford.
10. ix. Nancy, m. Apr. 21, 1803, Alexander Milliken of Sharon.
11. X. Isaac, m. Oct. 14, 1796, Charlotte Bryant. Removed to St.
Lawrence Co., N. Y., and thence to Springfield, 111., in 1831.
Children : i. James, b. Mar. 2, 1803 ; res. Potsdam, N. Y.,
and Springfield, 111. ii. Oliver; res. Potsdam, N. Y. ; four
children. Six more children of Isaac were born in Potsdam.
BELLOWS.
John' Bellows, b. about 1623; d. 1683; m. May 9, 1655, Mary, dau.
of John and Mary Wood of Concord and Marlboro, Mass. [d. Sept. 16,
1707]. He is believed to have corae to New England at the age of 12,
in the "Hopewell," but with whom he came at that early age is unknown.
His name first appears in the Concord records in 1645, and his life was
passed in that town and in Marlboro, which last-named town was the
place of his death and that of his wife.
Benjamin' (John'), b. Concord, Jan. 18, 1676/7; m. Jan. 5, 1703/4,
Dorcas (Cutler), widow of Henry WiHard [d. Sept. 8, 1747]. He lived
in Lancaster, Mass., whence he removed about 1728 to Lunenburg, Mass.,
where he and his wife died.
Benjamin' (Benjamin', John'), b. May 26, 1712; d. July 10, 1777;
m. (1) Oct. 7, 1735, Abigail' Stearns of Watertown (John', Samuel',
Isaac'), [b. June, 1708; d. Nov. 9, 1757]; (2) Apr. 21, 1758, Mary (Hub
bard), widow of John Jennison of Lunenburg, Mass. [b. Groton, Mass.,
Apr. 12, 1725; d. Feb. 21, 1794]. He went with his parents to Lunenburg,
Mass., in 1728, and remained there until the age of forty, being a leading
citizen and elected to all the important town offices. But in 1752 he
removed to Walpole, N. H., incorporated in that year, and in this new
enterprise he held so prominent a place that he was termed the founder
of the town. The neighboring Bellows Falls perpetuate his name. In
the necessary contests with the Indians he was brave and skilful, and held
the positions of major and colonel. Henry W. Bellows, D. D., the Uni
tarian divine and president of the Sanitary Commission during the Civil
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Benjamin' (Benjamin', Benjamin', John'), b. Sept. 25, 1740; d. June
4, 1802; m. Nov. 4, 1766, Phebe, dau. of Lieut. Caleb and Phebe (Lyman)
Strong and sister of Governor and Senator Caleb Strong of Massachusetts
[b. Jan. 2, 1740; d. Jan. 15, 1817]. He succeeded to his father's place as
leading citizen of Walpole, and in addition to town honors he was a
member of the state council, and also as Presidential elector voted for
George Washington, and later for John Adams. His service in the field
during the Revolution was long, and he rose to the position of general.
Caleb" (Benjamin', Benjamin', Benjarain', John'), b. July 29, 1767;
d. Apr. 17, 1822; m. Mar. 6, 1791, Mary Hartwell (2). Like his father
and grandfather he passed his life in Walpole, which, however, had then
becorae too large to allow any man so pronounced leadership as they had
exercised. He, however, held important town offices and was a colonel in
the railitia. He was a farmer and owned a very large araount of land.
He had twelve children, of whora four may be claimed by New Ipswich.
1. Ephraim Hartwell, b. Jan. 29, 1792.-}-
2. Benjamin Franklin, b. Oct. 22, 1795 ; d. Dec. 24, 1818. Little
is recorded concerning this meraber of the family, who died
in early manhood, but apparently he was a resident in New
Ipswich for several years, as his admission to the church
six years before his death is a matter of record.
3. Laura Livermore, b. Sept. 17, 1804; d. Jan. 9, 1878; m. Apr.
21, 1824, Dr. James Barr (2).
4. Charles Cotesworth, b. May 6, 1813.-|-
1. Ephraim Hartwell' (Caleb', Benjamin*, Benjamin',
Benjamin', John'), b. Jan. 29, 1792; d. Jan. 5, 1861; m. Nov.
24, 1818, Sarah, dau. of Roger and Mary (Hartwell) Brown,
a cousin of her mother-in-law [b. Oct. 15, 1786; d. Feb. 15,
1866]. He was adopted by his grandfather, Ephraim Hart
well, at the age of two years. New Ipswich became his home,
and in due time he attended the Academy. He removed to
Concord, Mass., where he was a manufacturer of cotton cloth.
That heredity had its place in forming his character is in
dicated by his captaincy of a military company in Concord.
Children :
5. i. Benjamin Franklin, b. Oct. 9, 1819; d. Feb. 27, 1823.
6. ii. Mary Brown, b. Nov. 14, 1821; d. June 19, 1837.
7. iii. Sarah Elizabeth, b. Mar. 6, 1823 ; d. Oct. 28, 1909.
8. iv. Ephraim Hartwell, b. Jan. 10, 1825; d. Dec. 16, 1825.
9. v. Ephraim Hartwell, b. Aug. 18, 1826; d. Apr. 22, 1905; m.
Apr. 30, 1848, Jane L. Read [d. July 30, 1849]. Res. in
Cuba for twenty years; later after 1880 in Salera, Mass.
An inventor and manufacturer.
10. vi. George Lyman, b. Apr. 6, 1828; d. Nov. 26, 1863, unm. He
was in business at Boston for some years, and later at
Chicago. He served in the Civil War, entering as captain
in the 51st Illinois Regt., and was promoted to major. He
was killed at the battle of Missionary Ridge.
11. vii. Frances Maria, b. Feb. 18, 1831; d. Jan. 15, 1835.
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4. Charles Cotesworth' (Caleb', Benjamin*, Benjamin',
Benjamin', John'), b. May 6, 1813; d. Sept. 7, 1872; m. Oct.
7, 1838, Abby Parker Champney (40). He followed mercan
tile pursuits in Dubuque, Iowa, Toledo, O., and Buffalo, N. Y.,
and was also occupied with useful inventions. He was en
gaged in the work of the Sanitary Commission during the
Civil War. All of these activities forbade for a large part of
the time his permanent residence with his family, which for
many years occupied the house built by Rev. Stephen Farrar
a little northwest from the old meeting-house on the hill.
Children :
12. i. Mary Narcissa, b. Feb. 1, 1841 ; d. July 15, 1842.
13. ii. Richard Mott, b. July 6, 1843; drowned July 18, 1857.
14. iii. Mary Abby, b. May 10, 1845; d. July 27, 1914; m. Nov. 23,
1867, Dr. Francis N. Gibson (1).
15. iv. Charles Parker, b. Apr. 27, 1848; d. Oct. 1, 1863.
16. v. Ellen Phebe, b. Nov. 13, 1851; d. Mar. 8, 1864.
BENT.
John' Bent, b. Penton-Grafton, County Essex, England, 1596; d.
Sept. 27, 1672; m. about 1624, Martha  ; [d. May 15, 1679]. He came
to America in 1638, and settled in Sudbury, Mass., where he died.
John' (John'), b. Jan., 1636; d. Sept., 1717; m. (1) Hannah, dau. of
John and Anne Stone of Cambridge, Mass. [b. June 6, 1640] ; (2) Martha,
dau. of Matthew Rice [b. Aug. 17, 1657]. He lived in Framingham, his
name being the first upon the petition for its formation.
David' (John', John'), b. Framingham about 1691; d. Framingham,
Feb. 15, 1730 ; ra. Jan. 1, 1713, Mary, dau. of Capt. Thoraas Drury.
David* (David', John', John'), b. Mar. 30, 1730; d. Rutland, Mass.,
Jan. 15, 1798; ra. (1) Apr. 3, 1751, Lucy, dau. of Peter Moore of Rut
land; (2) Oct. 2, 1783, Martha, dau. of Jaraes and Elizabeth Browning
of Rutland [b. Nov. 21, 1744; d. July 9, 1817]. He was a blacksmith and
farmer in Rutland. He served as a captain in the Revolution.
Samuel Browning' (David', David', John', John'), b. Nov. 27, 1784;
d. Middlebury, Vt., Dec. 4, 1858; m. (1) Jan. 1, 1807, Hannah, dau. of
Oliver Watson, Jr. [b. Feb. 13, 1786; d. Sept. 7, 1813]; (2) Mar. 13, 1816,
Catherine, dau. of Rev. Joseph Avery of Holden, Mass. [b. Feb. 3, 1788;
d. Oct. 3, 1865]. He was a manufacturer of machine cards in Middle
bury, Vt.
1. Samuel Watson' (Samuel Browning', David*, David',
John', John'), b. Rutland, Oct. 27, 1811; d. Feb. 6, 1861; m.
Aug. 3, 1836, Mary Narcissa, dau. of Joseph and Mary (Apple-
ton) Barrett (11). He passed his boyhood in Middlebury;
about 1827 he went to Boston, and five years later commenced
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1849, and soon after his return in 1851 he removed to New
Ipswich and located upon the farm of his father-in-law, Joseph
Barrett, to the management of which he gave careful attention
during the rest of his life. Children :
2. i. Samuel Arthur, b. July 1, 1841.-(-
3. ii. Joseph Appleton, b. Feb. 22, 1843; d. Aug. 12, 1869. He
graduated frora Yale in 1865 with honorable record, and
entered upon the study of law in Columbia Law School; his
failure in health forbade the completion of his course of
study.
2. Samuel Arthur' (Samuel Watson', Samuel Browning',
David*, David', John', John'), b. July 1, 1841 ; m. Aug. 30, 1890,
Mary Edna Thompson of Bridgewater, Mass. He graduated
from Yale in 1861, and from Harvard Law School in 1865. He
practiced in Boston for some years, and was at that time an
active member of the school board of the city. He was in
Europe from 1870 to 1878, and after his return for a few years
was superintendent of the schools of Nashua and afterwards
of Clinton, Mass. During those and later years he has been
especially devoted to literary pursuits, a considerable amount
of his work having been published. Child :
4. i. Mildred, b. Nov. 6, 1891.
BIGELOW.
John' Bigelow, b. about 1617; d. July 14, 1703; ra. (1) Oct. 8, 1642,
Mary, dau. of John and Margaret Warren [d. Oct. 19, 1691] ; (2) Oct. 2,
1694, Sarah, dau. of Joseph Bemis. He was an early resident at Water-
town, Mass., his raarriage being the first recorded, the record being as
follows: "1642-30-8 John Bigulah and Mary Warin joyned in mariag."
He was chosen selectman several times. Inventory of his estate, i627, 12s.
Joshua' (John'), b. Nov. 5, 1655; d. Feb. 1, 1745; ra. Oct. 20, 1676,
Ehzabeth, dau. of Thomas and Mary Flagg [b. Mar. 22, 1657; d. Aug. 9,
1729]. He lived in Watertown during most of his life, but d. in West
minster, Mass., whither his youngest son had reraoved. He was wounded
in King Philip's war, for which he had a grant of land in Westminster.
Joshua' (Joshua', John'), b. Nov. 25, 1677; d. May 9, 1728; m. Oct. 7,
1701, Hannah, dau. of Nathaniel Fiske. He lived in that part of Water-
town which is now in Weston.
1. John* (Joshua', Joshua', John'), b. June 24, 1715; d.
1787; m. Nov. 29, 1739, Grace Allen. He lived successively
in Weston, Stow, Acton, and Westford, Mass., and in the last
year of his life he came to New Ipswich, whither his son had
come the preceding year, and he is said to have remained un
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2. Silas' (John*, Joshua', Joshua', John'), b. Stow, Mass.,
Mar. 17, 1750; d. May 17, 1797; m. Rachel Pitts of Townsend,
Mass. [b. Dec. 25, 1755; d. Jan. 4, 1829]. He had lived in
Westford, Lunenburg, and Ashburnham, Mass., before coming
to New Ipswich. He bought the house of Samuel Whitte
more on lot 1, N. L. O., enlarged it and became an innholder
there. It is uncertain whether the old "Bigelow tavern" build
ing is still included in the ruined house yet standing a little
eastward from the "Gibson schoolhouse." Children :
3. i. Silas, b. Jan. 9, 1775; d. Aug. 31, 1801.
4. ii. Daniel, b. Apr. 3, 1776; m. Betsey T., dau. of Jonathan Wil
kins of Amherst. He remained in New Ipswich but a few
years after reaching manhood. Ten children.
5. iii. Samuel, b. Nov. 11, 1777; d. by drowning while engaged in
lumbering at Holland Purchase, N. Y. He, too, remained
in town but a few years.
6. iv. Joel, b. Feb. 27, 1779; d. Aug. 2, 1807, unm.
7. v. John, b. July 7, 1781; d. Nov., 1809, unm.
8. vi. An infant, b. and d. Aug. 1, 1783.
9 vii. Joseph, bapt. Nov. 13, 1785 ; d. June, 1786.
10. viii. Betsey, b. Nov. 8, 1788; d. Nov. 25, 1867; m. 1804, Danforth
Walker (S. 6).
11. ix. Milly, b. Feb. 17, 1792; m. Sept. 23, 1813, David Walker
(S. 8). Res. in Middlebury, Vt.
12. X. Luther, b. Jan. 13, 1794; d. Oct. 6, 1832. He was a doctor
in Carthage, Tenn., and Nashville, Tenn., in which last place
he died.
BINNEY.
John' Binney, d. Nov. 10, 1698; m. Mercy  [d. Jan. 19, 1708/9].
He came to Hull, Mass., about 1769, probably from Worksop, Notting
hamshire, England. He is styled "fisherman" and "gentleman."
John' (John'), b. May 31, 1679; d. Hull, June 30, 1759; m. (1) May
31, 1704, Hannah, dau. of Thoraas and Hannah (Shaw) Paine [b. about
1685; d. Jan. 14, 1757] ; (2) Dec. 15, 1757, Mrs. Sarah Crosby of Boston.
John' (John', John'), b. HuH, Apr. 23, 1705; d. Lincoln, Mass., Aug.
14, 1760; ra. Oct. 21, 1726, Hannah Jones. He was a doctor. He reraoved
from Hull to Mendon about 1730, and to Weston or Wayland about 1745.
1. John* (John', John', John'), b. Hull, Dec. 21, 1727; d.
Jan. 23, 1784; m. (1) Dec, 1753, Elizabeth Ward of Mendon
[d. Sept. 3, 1756] ; (2) (pub. Oct. 21, 1757), Dinah, dau. of
Gamaliel and Mary Beaman of Lancaster, Mass. [b. Sept. 20,
1728; d. Dec. 24, 1791]. He was a farmer in Weston, Lincoln,
and Marlboro, Mass., before coming to New Ipswich in 1781.
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He lived upon the summit of the hill which took his name,
on lot 100, N. L. O. Children :
2. i. Elizabeth, b. June 21, 1756; d. HiUsboro, N. H., before 1802;
m. Jan. 3, 1782, Elijah Fiske of Natick. Eight children.
3. ii. Mary, b. Sept. 24, 1759; m. (1) Solomon Rice; (2) Ebenezer
Parker. Three children.
4. Hi. Moses, b. Sept. 19, 1761.-f
5. iv. Abigail, b. Apr. 11, 1763; m. after her sister's death, EHjah
Fiske, then a resident of Hillsboro, N. H.
6. v. John, b. May 25, 1764. -|-
7. vi. David, b. about 1769; prob. d. young.
8. vii. Thomas, b. Apr. 24, 1771; d. Dec. 10, 1853; ra. (1) Mar. 7,
1796, Lucinda, dau. of Col. Richard Roberts [b. Dec. 4,
1776; d. Mar. 10, 1845]; (2) May 7, 1846, Hephzibah, dau.
of John and Grace Davis of Whitinghara, Vt. He removed
from New Ipswich soon after 1800, and was a farmer in
Barre, Mass.. Westminster, Vt., and Wilmington, Vt.
4. MosEs' (John*, John', John', John'), b. Sept. 19, 1761;
d. Concord, Mass., Sept. 28, 1788; m. June 8, 1786, Elizabeth,
dau. of Stephen and Elizabeth Hosmer of Concord, Mass. [b.
Jan. 21, 1765 ; d. Mar. 3, 1847]. Res. Concord, Mass. Children :
9. i. Polly, b. Oct. 17, 1787.
10. ii. Betsey, b. May 18, 1789.
6. John" (John*, John', John', John'), b. May 25, 1764; d.
New York state, Aug. 6, 1844; m. (1) June 6, 1793, Anna
Walker (J. 3) ; (2) Jan. 25, 1816, Lucretia Fox (9). He suc
ceeded to his father's farm on Binney Hill. Children :
11. i. Mary, b. Feb., 1794; d. Oct. 11, 1794.
12. ii. John, b. about 1795 ; d. in infancy.
13. iii. Moses, b. Aug. 20, 1796; d. Somerville, Mass., Jan., 1880; m.
(1) Phebe, dau. of John and Susanna (Page) Wetherbee
of Rindge [b. Mar. 8, 1793 or 91 ; d. Nov. 10, 1837] ; (2)
1838, Elizabeth Perham of Boston. He was a leather dealer
in Boston, and a leather cushion maker in Cambridge. He
had seven children, of whora most died young.
14. iv. Polly, b. June 19, 1798; m. Apr. 12, 1819, Williara Merriam
of Princeton, Mass. Five children.
15. V. John Walker, b. Aug. 4, 1800; m. May 9, 1826, Susan, dau.
of Isaac and Elizabeth (Hartwell) Wood of Rindge [b.
1792; d. 1873]. Res. in Keene, where he was a deacon.
16. vi. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 7, 1802; ra. Sept. 26, 1833, John Evans, a
farraer in New York, Indiana, and Florida. Two children.
17. vii. Sarah, b. Nov. 6, 1804; m. Jan. 25, 1825, Emory Conant, a
farmer of Sudbury, Mass. Six children.
18. viii. Anna W., (first named Ruth, but legally changed,) b. Mar.
27, 1807; d. Jan. 9, 1844; m. Aug. 28, 1832, Jonathan Rand
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BLANCHARD.
The early ancestral line of this family is not easily deterrained, as
the apparently reliable published statements are somewhat contradictory.
But the following facts of colonial days appear to be satisfactorily evi
denced. John' Blanchard, b. in England; d. 1693/4; m. (1) about 1657,
Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph and Rose (Clark) Hills [bapt. Oct. 21, 1627; d.
about 1662] ; (2) Hannah, dau. of Richard and Alive Brackett, and widow
of Samuel Kingsley [b. or bapt. Jan. 4, 1633/4; d. July 3, 1706]. He res.
in Charlestown, Chelmsford, and Dunstable. He was a deacon.
Thomas' (John'), b. 1668; d. Mar. 9, 1727; m. (1) Feb. 13, 1688/9,
Tabitha, dau. of Michael and Isabel Lepingwell [b. May 18, 1661; d. Nov.
29, 1696]; (2) Oct. 4, 1698, Ruth, dau. of Peletiah' Adams (Thomas',
Henry') [b. Mar. 8, 1673].
Joseph' (John'), b. Nov. 1, 1672; d. 1727; m. May 25, 1696, Abiah,
dau. of Joseph Hassell [b. about 1676; d. Dec. 8, 1746]. He was a leading
man in Dunstable, and bore the title of captain.
William' (Thomas', John'), b. Sept. 5, 1714; d. Feb. 17, 1805; m.
Feb. 28, 1733/4, Deliverance, probably dau. of Nathaniel and Lydia Parker
[b. July 28, 1714] ; but possibly dau. of Samuel Searles of Dunstable, and
widow of  Parker. Res. in Dunstable and in Litchfield. He was
taken prisoner by the Indians, while in service at the Ashuelot garrison,
and was held some months.
1. Joseph' (Joseph', John'), b. Feb. 11, 1704; d. Apr. 7,
1758; m. Sept. 26, 1728, Rebecca Hubbard, dau. of Major Jona
than and Rebecca (Brown) [b. Feb. 11, 1710/11; d. Apr. 17,
1774]. Although he was never an actual resident in New
Ipswich, he was so closely connected with its early history
that he rightly has a place in this record. As agent of the
Masonian Proprietors he signed the Masonian Charter giving
title to the land. He was owner of one of the 63 original
rights and was the first treasurer of the Proprietors of the
town. Very probably he might have had a part in its develop
ment but for his death a few years later. He was a colonel.
2. Simeon* (William', Thomas', John'), b. Groton, Mass.,
June 11, 1747; d. June 22, 1822; m. Feb. 28, 1776, Elizabeth,
dau. of John and Elizabeth Shattuck [b. about 1752; d. Feb.
9, 1844]. He settled in New Ipswich a little before his mar
riage, and bought a farm upon the Massachusetts line (84,
A. D.,) where he passed his life. He served a few days in the
company of Capt. Silas Wright of Stoddard which marched
upon one of the Ticonderoga alarms in 1777. Children:
3. i. Simeon, b. Nov. 25, 1776.-|-
4. ii. Betsey, b. Nov. 25, 1778; m. Sept. 6, 1797, Siraeon Wright.
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6. iv. Louisa, b. Jan. 1, 1783 ; ra. Jan. 22, 1805, Isaiah Wright.
7. V. Sarah, b. July 24, 1785; d. Jan. 18, 1859, unra. Res. New
Ipswich.
8. vi. William, b. May 3, 1788.-f
9. vii. James, b. Apr. 29, 1790.-|-
10. viii. Charlotte, b. Aug. 16, 1792 ; m. Dec. 12, 1815, David Whitney.
Res. Ashby, Mass. Children : i. James N. Whitney, ii.
Lucius M. Whitney, iii. George S. Whitney, iv. Mary C.
Whitney, v. Harriet M. Whitney, vi. Charles E. Whitney.
3. Simeon" (Simeon*, William', Thomas', John'), b. Nov.
26, 1776; m. Submit Winship. He settled in Roxbury, N. H.
Children :

11. i.

Hosea, b. Mar. 20, 1801.

12. ii.

Charles G.

13. iii.

Nancy.

14. iv.

Susan.

15. V.

Sarah.

16. vi.

Amos M.

17. vii.

Joseph Winship, b. Dec. 21, 1822.

5. Levi' (Simeon*, William', Thomas', John'), b. Dec. 17,
1780; d. Mar. 12, 1857; m,. Apr. 16, 1807, Hannah, dau. of
Kendall and Hannah Nichols [b. Jan. 28, 1791; d. Oct. 28,
1871]. At about the age of twenty-five years he settled in
the western part of Sharon, where he had a sawmill for twenty
years or more, returning to New Ipswich in 1829, and after a
brief residence near Kidder Mountain (N. D. 55,) he settled
in the Pratt Pond region, living for several years upon the
farm at the end of the road just east from the pond, (XV: 3,
S. R.,) and afterward with his son Gilman, one lot farther to
the north. Children :
18. i. Betsy, b. June 5, 1809; m. Oct. 31, 1833, Nathan Stone (26).
19. ii. Marinda, b. Mar. 8, 1812; m. Dec. 24, 1835, Lebanon Brown
(T. 87).
20. iii. Elvira, b. July 21, 1814; d. Jan. 3, 1876; m. Dec. 4, 1834,
George W. Wheeler (64).
Oilman, b. May 4, 1817.-|-
Hannah, b. Aug. 20, 1819; ra. Apr. 6, 1848, Hosea Snow of
Keene. Child : i. Francella Maria Sno-w.
Levi Monroe, b. June 16, 1822.-]-
Clarissa, b. July 29, 1824; d. Apr. 7, 1895; m. May 2, 1851,
Elijah Edwards of Natick, Mass. Children: i. Franklin
Elijah Edwards, ii. William Alfred Edwards.
25. viii. Julia Ann, b. Sept. 17, 1827; d. Mar. 31, 1845.
26. ix. Horace Kendall, b. June 9, 1830.-(-
27. X. Charles Rodney, b. June 10, 1832.-|-
28. xi. Sophronia, b. Aug. 22, 1835.
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8. William' (Simeon*, William', Thomas', John'), b. May
3, 1788; d. Mar. 31, 1869; m. Susan Farnsworth (19) [b. about
1787; d. Dec. 23, 1873]. He passed his life as a farmer, suc
ceeding to his father's farm. (Children :
29. i. Louisa, b. July 14, 1811; m. (1) Austin Dinsmore; (2) 
Johnson; (3) Jonathan Sherwin. Children: i. Maria Dins
more. ii. George A. Dinsmore. iii. Mary Jane Dinsmore.
iv. Louisa, d. young.
30. ii. Susan, b. Jan. 29, 1813; d. Jan. 29, 1846; ra. May 7, 1833,
Webster Reed. Res. at Maiden, Mass. Children: i.
Charles Reed. ii. George Reed.
31. iH. Harriet Maria, b. Oct. 2, 1814; d. Sept. 7, 1900; m. Sept. 29,
1836, John C. Hildreth (10).
32. iv. William Hale, b. Feb. 8, 1816.-f-
33. v. Eben H., b. Apr. 11, 1818; d. Aug. 7, 1819.
34. vi. Mary Ann, b. Dec. 19, 1819; d. Aug. 27, 1853; m. William
Billings. She lived in Worcester. Children : i. William
Billings, ii. Clarence Billings.
35. vii. Andros J., b. Apr. 15, 1821; d. Mar. 2, 1907; ra. 1856, Ehza
beth, widow of Hiram Shepard of Worcester, Mass. He
left his home at the age of nineteen and was engaged in the
manufacture of shoes at Hartford, Ct., Albion, N. Y., and
Worcester, Mass., successively until 1866, when he returned
to his native town, and passed his reraaining years on the
farra of his boyhood.
36. viii. Asenath Taylor, b. Oct. 28, 1822; d. Mar. 12, 1914; m. June
5, 1844, Richard H. Davis (107).
37. ix. Henry C, b. Mar. 5, 1824; ra. 1847, Sarah Jane Eraory [b.
Sept. 20, 1824; d. Aug. 26, 1902]. He was a farraer at
Sherman, Wis. Children: i. Ernest D. ii. Edith, m.
C. G. Sedgwick.
38. X. George H., b. Nov. 3, 1825; m. Vianna L. Wood. He was a
machinist in Worcester, Mass. Children : i. George; he
is a provision dealer in Worcester, ii. Emma.
39. xi. LuRENA B., b. Jan. 20, 1829; d. Sept. 24, 1863; m. Kendall
Bailey. Res. Templeton and Gardner, Mass. Children : i.
Ada Bailey, ii. George K. Bailey; res. in Boston.
9. James' (Simeon*, William', Thomas', John'), b. Apr. 29,
1790; m. June, 1822, Lydia Brown of Ashby. He lived in
Peterboro. Children :
40. i. Nancy.
41. ii. Jason.
42. iii. Joseph.
43. iv. Maria, d. Feb. 7, 1859; m. Horace Davis (98).
44. V. Elizabeth.
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21. Gilman' (Levi', Simeon*, William', Thomas', John'),
b. May 4, 1817; d. Mar. 28, 1894; m. Jan. 2, 1844, Sarah Eliza
beth Wheeler (40). He passed his life as a farmer on XV: 2,
S. R., where he also had a sawmill. Children :
47. i. Julia E., b. July 26, 1845 ; d. May 1, 1847.
48. ii. George Oilman, b. May 13, 1849; d. Aug. 14, 1872.
49. iii. Emma L., b. Jan. 12, 1858; ra. (1) Jan. 31, 1876, Fred A.
Wheeler (167), from whora she was separated by divorce;
(2) Sept. 15, 1893, George H. Woodward [d. Dec. 26, 1896] ;
(3) Feb. 20, 1901, Freeraan S. Tucker [d. June 1, 1903].
Three children.
50. iv. Carrie M. H., b. June 19, 1862; ra. Apr. 16, 1884, Herbert W.
Chandler (122).
51. v. Guy Clifford, b. Feb. 21, 1868.+
23. Levi Monroe' (Levi', Simeon*, William', Thomas',
John'), b. June 16, 1822; d. June 15, 1893; m. Apr. 22, 1845,
Eliza Nutting, dau. of Ezekiel' [b. Dec. 5, 1819; d. Apr. 1,
1891]. He lost one arm while a young man by an accident
in the shop in which he was working, but still supported him
self and family by agricultural and mechanical labor in New
Ipswich and Ashby. Children:
52. i. George Monroe, b. Dec. 15, 1849.-|-
53. ii. Herbert J., b. June 5, 1856.-]-
26rTl0RACE Kendall' (Levi', Simeon*, William', Thomas',
John'), b. June 9, 1830; d. Nov. 23, 1899; m. (1) Nov. 2, 1856,
Mary Ellen, dau. of Jacob and Martha Puffer of Leominster,
Mass. [d. Feb. 20, 1888] ; (2) Sept. 23, 1889, Mary J. Cochran
of Clinton, Mass. Children :
54. i. Mary Frances, b. Aug. 29, 1858; ra. Feb. 10, 1879, John
Trirable of Clinton, Mass. Children : i. Frederick Elmon
Trimble; he died while returning from service in the Cuban
War. ii. Walter Henry Trimble, iii. Albert Everett Trim
ble, iv. Mabel Frances Trimble, v. Elmer Trimble.
55. ii. Arthur Horace, b. June 8, 1859.-|-
56. iii. Cora Adelia, b. Aug. 12, 1863; ra. Nov. 28, 1888, William H.
Benson of Clinton, Mass. Children : i. George Edward
Benson, ii. Arthur Frederick Benson.
57. iv. Carrie Bernice, b. Nov. 21, 1870; ra. Nov. 6, 1889, Myron F.
Scott of Clinton, Mass. Children : i. Harold Floyd Scott.
ii. Bernice Marion Scott.
27. Charles Rodney° (Levi', Simeon*, William', Thomas',
John'), b. June 10, 1832; d. Apr. 13, 1908; m. May 2, 1858,
Matilda Miller [d. Jan. 25, 1907]. He lived in Rindge and in
Ashby. Child:
58. i. Charles M., b. East Rindge, May 13, 1864.-]-
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32. William Hale' (William', Simeon*, William',
Thomas', John'), b. Feb. 8, 1816; d. Nov. 1, 1859; m. 1839,
Hannah Conrey [b. about 1815; d. July 16, 1866]. He was
a machinist at Nashua in his early manhood, but in 1845 he
returned to his native town and passed his remaining life
upon the paternal farm, except four years during which he
lived at Smithville in the most easterly house in the village
upon the road to Gibson Village. Children :
59. i. Josephine, b. Nashua, Sept. 17, 1841; d. Dec. 16, 1854.
60. ii. Edwin Franklin, b. Feb. 18, 1845. -|-
61. Hi. Jennie H., b. Sept. 7, 1854; m. Jan. 1, 1877, WilHam Rayner.
She has lived at Andover, Neponset, and Newton. Chil
dren : i. William A. Rayner. ii. Ed-win R. Rayner. iii.
Fred I. Rayner. iv. Harry W. Rayner. v. George F. Ray
ner. vi. Herbert C. Rayner.
62. iv. Susan J., b. Apr. 13, 1858; d. Apr. 16, 1863.
51. Guy Clifford^ (Gilman', Levi', Simeon*, William',
Thomas', John'), b. Feb. 21, 1868; m. Nov. 28, 1889, Ida L. A.
Partridge. He lives at Smithville. Children :
63. i. Grace E., b. Apr. 19, 1894.
64. ii. Helen L., b. Dec. 14, 1895.
65. iii. James M., b. Dec. 19, 1897.
66. iv. Inez, b. Oct. 13, 1901.
52. George Monroe'' (Levi Monroe', Levi', Simeon*, Wil
liam', Thomas', John'), b. Dec. 15, 1849; m. 1872, Hattie E.
Lawrence of Ashby, Mass. [d. Feb. 18, 1904]. He lives in
Ashby. Children :
67. i. George Levi, b. July 12, 1873.
68. ii. Fred Monroe, b. Dec. 23, 1876.
69. iii. Amos Andrew, b. Dec. 12, 1879.
70. iv. Cora Martha, b. Mar. 17, 1884; d. Jan. 15, 1904.
71. V. Grace Amanda, b. Oct. 8, 1889.
53. Herbert J.'' (Levi Monroe', Levi', Simeon*, William',
Thomas', John'), b. June 5, 1856; m. Lizzie Booth of Ashby.
Children :
72. i. Nelson Herbert, b. Aug. 5, 1875.
73. ii. Francella Eliza, b. Mar. 15, 1877.
74. iii. Horace Levi, b. Jan. 14, 1879.
75. iv. Linnie Etta, b. Jan. 23, 1881.
76. V. Elmer, b. June 18, 1885.
55. Arthur Horace^ (Horace K.', Levi', Simeon*, Wil
liam', Thomas', John'), b. June 8, 1859; m. Isabella Colton.
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77. i. Mary Ellen, b. Aug. 30, 1881 ; d. Jan. 25, 1886.
78. ii. Cora Bernice, b. Jan. 10, 1884.
79. iii. William Colter, b. Oct. 4, 1889.
80. iv. Arthur Perley, b. July 12, 1892.
58. Charles M.' (Charles R.', Levi', Simeon*, William',
Thomas', John'), b. May 13, 1864; m. Oct. 19, 1898, Sarah J.
Gnider. Res. at Natick, Mass. Children :
81. i. Dorothy Alice, b. Oct. 2, 1907.
60. Edwin Franklin' (William Hale', William', Simeon*,
William', Thomas', John'), b. Feb. 18, 1845; m. Oct. 21, 1868,
Mary E. Knowlton (72). He succeeded to his father's home
in Smithville, and has lived there except during a few years
of his early manhood. He also occupies the shop and water-
power a few rods above the Smithville bridge, where he has
facilities for various kinds of woodwork. He has held the
office of selectman for several years, and has also represented
the town in the Legislature and in Constitutional Convention.
He served in the Civil War for a year, 1864-65, in the 4th
Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. Children :
82. i. Susie E., b. July 25, 1869; d. July 6, 1903; ra. Sept. 17, 1890,
Elwood E. Livingston. Res. in Fitchburg, Mass. Child:
i. Ruth Harriet Livingston, b. July 6, 1892.
83. ii. Edith A., b. Mar. 1, 1874; m. 1897, Charles W. Woodward.
Res. in Fitchburg, Mass. Child: i. Mildred Mary Wood
ward, b. Apr. 24, 1898.
84. iii. Alice M., b. Feb. 23, 1877; m. Oct. 28, 1897, Charles Hardy.
Res. at Concord Junction, Mass.
BLISS.
Thomas' Bliss, of Belstone parish, Devonshire, England, b. 1550-60;
d. 1635-40. He was a Puritan, ruined in health and estate by the perse
cution of Archbishop Laud.
Jonathan' (Thomas'), b. at Belstone, 1575-80; d. 1635-36. He was
a victim of the same persecution as his father, and died from a fever
contracted while in prison.
Thomas' (Jonathan', Thomas'), b. at Belstone; d. Rehoboth, Mass.,
June, 1649; ra. probably a widow Ide (or Hyde). He came to America
in 1636, and having landed at Boston, went to Braintree, Mass., thence
to Hartford, Conn., and then back to Weymouth, before settling with
others at Rehoboth in 1643.
Jonathan' (Thomas', Jonathan', Thomas'), b. about 1625; d. about
1687; m. Miriam Harmon. He probably came to America with his father.
He was a blacksmith at Rehoboth.
Jonathan" (Jonathan'', Thomas', Jonathan', Thomas'), b. Rehoboth,
Sept., 1666; d. Oct. 16, 1719; m. (1) June! 23, 1691, Miriam Carpenter [b.
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Oct. 24, 1674; d. May 23, 1706] ; (2) Apr. 10, 1711, Mary French of Reho
both. He was a blacksmith and a leading citizen of his native town.
Ephraim' (Jonathan", Jonathan*, Thomas', Jonathan', Thomas'), b.
Rehoboth, Aug. 15, 1699; m. Dec, 1723, Rachel Carpenter. He held a
lieutenant's commission.
Abadial' (Ephraim', Jonathan", Jonathan', Thomas', Jonathan',
Thomas'), b. Dec 15, 1740; d. Calais, Vt, June 10, 1805; m. Nov. 6, 1759,
Lydia Smith of Rehoboth [b. 1740; d. Mar. 27, 1820]. He was a farmer
in Rehoboth, and also at Calais, whither he removed about 1798. He
represented Calais in the legislature.
Abadial' (Abadial', Ephraim", Jonathan", Jonathan', Thomas', Jona
than', Thomas'), b. Rehoboth, July 8, 1768; m. Jan. 20, 1785, Sybil Whea
ton [b. Feb. 28, 1755; d. June 13, 1850]. He remained in his native town,
not removing with the rest of his father's family to Verraont.
1. James Wheaton' (AbadiaP, Abadial', Ephraim', Jona
than', Jonathan*, Thomas', Jonathan', Thomas'), b. Rehoboth,
Nov. 8, 1792; d. June 17, 1867; m. July 27, 1817, Dolly Claflin
[b. Rome, N. Y., Mar. 14, 1798; d. May 16, 1870]. He came
to New Ipswich in 1821 and settled in Bank Village, where
he was a machinist and carpenter. He built himself a house
upon the north side of the main road, it being the second house
northerly from the brick bank building. This was his home
until his death and has since been occupied by his descendants.
He was a skilful and trustworthy mechanic in largely varied
lines of work, as is evidenced by his long-continued connection
with the cotton factories. He superintended the erection of
three of the factories upon the Souhegan, the "Waterloom,"
now standing unused in the Bank Village, the "Souhegan,"
standing until its destruction by fire in 1838 on the site of the
present Columbian factory below the High Bridge, and the
first of the factories of the same company at Greenville.
Nearly all of the machinery in those mills was made by him
or under his inspection in the machine shop connected with
the "Waterloom" mill, and he was manager of all those mills
until a division of such duties in 1835. Children :
2. i. Mary B., b. Nov. 19, 1819; d. in infancy.
3. ii. Harriet Newell, b. Nov. 1, 1821; d. Feb. 26, 1907; m. Aug.
30, 1842, Dr. Jeoffard E. Goldsraith [b. Wilton, June 14,
1817; d. Sept. 28, 1843]. He had taken his raedical degree
at Harvard Medical School, and had settled in Rindge, but
his brief practice was closed by a fatal illness. She re
turned to New Ipswich and was a successful teacher for
many years, and the same is true of her only child, Anna
Augusta Goldsraith, who was also one of the first women to
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4. iii. Sarah Claflin, b. Mar. 24, 1824; d. Nov. 23, 1895; m. Oct.
12, 1853, Andrew Henry, an engineer on the Fitchburg
railroad for more than thirty years [b. Worcester, Mass.,
Oct. 22, 1821]. Children: i. James Wheaton Henry, b. Sept.
25, 1854; d. Nov. 26, 1911; he graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1878, and was a teacher in Missouri and Cali
fornia, ii. Anne Claflin Henry, b. Dec. 11, 1856; d. June 2,
1858. iii. William Claflin Henry, b. Mar. 6, 1859; he is treas
urer and manager of the Waltham Clock Co.
5. iv. James Wheaton, b. Mar. 1, 1826; d. Mar. 29, 1826.
6. V. Martha Ann, b. June 29, 1828; d. Oct. 28, 1828.
7. vi. George Barrett, b. July 12, 1830; d. Teraple, Feb. 9, 1888. He
- was a machinist.
8. vii. James Henry, b. Sept. 27, 1834; d. Jan. 29, 1888; m. Oct. 31,
1874, Elvira L. Lane. Children: i. Anna Sophronia, b. July
23, 1875 ; d. Dec 23, 1875. ii. James Henry Wheaton, b. Nov.
3, 1876.
BLOOD.
James' Blood, d. Dec. 17, 1683; m. Ellen  [d. Aug. 1, 1674]. He
is said to have come from England and to have settled in Concord, Mass.,
about 1638, and to have made that place his home until his death.
Richard' (James'), d. Dec. 7, 1638. He was a prominent original
proprietor of Groton, Mass., holding the offices of selectman and town
clerk. Robert' (James'), d. Oct. 27, 1701; m. Apr. 8, 1653, Elizabeth, dau.
of Maj. Siraon Willard of Concord [d. Aug. 29, 1692]. He was a large
landowner in that part of Concord, Mass., which is now Carlisle.
James' (Richard', James'), d. Sept. 16, 1692; m. (1) Sept. 7, 1669,
Elizabeth Longley; (2) after 1675, Abigail  . Res. Groton, Mass. He
was killed by the Indians.
Josiah' (Robert', James'), b. Apr. 6, 1664; d. July 2, 1731; m. (1)
March 4, 1688, Mary Barrett; (2) Feb. 3, 1690/2, Mary Tory. Res. Con
cord, Mass.
John' (James', Richard', James'), b. March 16, 1689; d. Aug. 23,
1758; ra. July 13, 1712, Joanna Nutting. Res. Groton, Mass.
Stephen' (Josiah', Robert', James'), b. Feb. 22, 1703/4; m. Mary
 . Res. Concord.
Caleb' (John', James', Richard', James'), b. Nov. 23, 1734; d. Dec.
9, 1804; m. (1) Nov. 1, 1753, Hannah Holden [b. July 6, 1735; d. Sept. 1,
1773] ; (2) March 3, 1774, Elizabeth Farnsworth [d. Dec. 9, 1819]. Res.
Groton, Mass.
Francis" (Stephen', Josiah', Robert', James'), b. March 18, 1735/6; m.
Elizabeth Spaulding of Pepperell, Mass. He removed from his native
town, Concord, Mass., in 1763, and settled in Temple, where he passed
his life, acquiring a large property for those days, holding nearly every
office in the gift of the town, sitting in the Senate and Council of the
state, and holding a commission as brigadier-general.
Timothy" (Caleb", John', James', Richard', James'), b. Sept. 8, 1778;
m. Nov. 15, 1798, Sibbel, dau. of Levi and Sibbel (Gibson) Woods of
Pepperell, Mass. [b. Apr. 23, 1777; d. July 28, 1812]. Res. Groton, Mass.
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Ephraim" (Francis", Stephen', Josiah', Robert', James'), b. Mar. 6,
1779; ra. (1) Patty, dau. of Oliver Whiting of Temple [b. Feb. 13, 1780;
d. Jan. 17, 1800] ; (2) Apr. 6, 1802, Rebecca, dau. of Caleb Maynard of
Temple; (3)  Goldsmith. Res. Temple.
Ephraim Whiting' (Ephraim', Francis", Stephen', Josiah', Robert',
James'), b. July 26, 1799; d. Dec. 29, 1837; m. (1) June 8, 1828, Fanny,
dau. of Oliver Whiting, Jr., of Temple [b. Mar. 17, 1807; d. July 18, 1830] ;
(2) June 2, 1835, Lavinia Ames (5). Res. Temple.
1. Calvin'' (Timothy', Caleb', John*, James', Richard',
James'), b. Sept. 10, 1806; d. Nov. 2, 1894; m. (1)  ; (2)
Caroline, dau. of Stephen and Asenath (Shedd) Woods of
Pepperell, Mass. [b. Aug. 1, 1814; d. March 20, 1895]. He
came to New Ipswich about 1858 and settled upon the Abijah
Smith farm, (34, N. D.,) where he passed his life. Children :
2. i. Luther, b. March 20, 1836; m. (1)  Walker; (2)  .
Res. South Easton, Mass. Three sons of first marriage.
3. ii. Elizabeth, m. James Hitchings. Res. Groton, Mass.
4. iii. Sarah, m. Luther Blodgett. Seven children.
5. iv. Calvin, m. Nov. 22, 1864, Nettie E. Wright of Pepperell,
Mass. Res. Ayer, Mass.
6. V. Stephen Dana, b. Dec, 1842.-|-
7. vi. Albert, b. May 28, 1845.-]-
6. Stephen Dana' (Calvin^, Timothy', Caleb', John*,
James', Richard', James'), b. Dec, 1842; m. Nov. 27, 1867,
Jennie E. Withington. Res. New Ipswich. Children:
9. i. Orange Adams, b. June 16, 1869; d. Oct. 21, 1869.
10. H. Alice Cordelia, b. Oct. 8, 1870; ra. May 25, 1891, Andrew H.
Willard, Jr. (14).
11. iii. Henry Herbert, b. Apr. 5, 1873; d. Aug. 25, 1876.
12. iv. Gilbert Calvin, b. Nov. 19, 1874.
13. V. Caroline Isabel, b. Dec. 29, 1876.
14. vi. Eugene Nelson, b. June 13, 1879.
15. vii. Waldo, b. May 30, 1881.
16. viii. Oscar, b. Oct. 8, 1884.
17. ix. Mabel Elsie, b. Jan. 12, 1887; m. Dec. 8, 1908, C. Alvah
Farwell.
18. X. Edith May, b. Sept. 21, 1891.
7. Albert' (Calvin', Timothy', Caleb', John*, James',
Richard', James'), b. May 28, 1845; m. Sept. 12, 1872, Sarah
Jane, dau. of Albert Taylor [b. Jan. 20, 1852]. Res. New
Ipswich. Children :
19. i. George A., b. May 12, 1875; d. Sept. 12, 1897.
20. ii. Charles A., b. Oct. 25, 1877; m. Oct. 11, 1899, Lottie A.
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8. Henry Ames' (Ephraim W.^ Ephraim', Francis',
Stephen*, Josiah', Robert', James'), b. June 7, 1836; d. Dec.
30, 1900; m. (1) August 15, 1862, Mary Jane Marshall (7);
(2) Oct. 14, 1880, Mary Ellen Miller of Salem, Mass. [b. about
1842; d. Aug., 1905]. He passed his youth with his mother
in New Ipswich, preparing for college at Appleton Academy.
He then entered Dartmouth, graduating in 1857. The follow
ing years were devoted to writing the History of Temple,
published in 1860. After teaching for two years he removed
to Washington, D. C, where he passed the remainder of his
life, being for many years a clerk in the State Department. He
was favorably known as a writer, especially of short poems.
Child :
21. i. Royal Henry, b. July 29, 1884; d. Oct. 18, 1892.
BOLTON.
1. James' Bolton, b. about 1804; d. Mar. 21, 1874; m.
Margaret McGregor [b. about 1810; d. Mar. 27, 1874]. He
lived in Paisley, Scotland, where he was a weaver of Paisley
cashmere shawls. He came to America with his wife and
younger children in 1859, his older sons having come, one by
one, somewhat earlier. They settled at the High Bridge Vil
lage. Children :
2. i. Alexander, b. about 1835.-|-
3. ii. James, b. about 1837; d. young.
4. iii. Charles S., b. about 1838. -(-
5. iv. George G., b. about 1840.-|-
6. V. John S., b. about 1843.-}-
7. vi. Margaret, b. about 1845; m. Henry Wilkes. Res. Lawrence,
Mass. Four children.
8. vii. James, b. May 1, 1847.-|-
9. viii. Thomas King, b. about 1849.-|-
10. ix. Lizzie K., b. about 1851 ; m. Walter Thorn, an artist in Bos
ton.
2. Alexander' (James'), b. about 1835; d. Dec, 1908; m.
Margaret Bisland. He was the first of the family in America,
coming about 1854, and working for a time in the Columbian
mills, but later removing to New York city, where he was
occupied with stoves and tinware and also as a plumber.
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4. Charles S.' (James'), b. about 1838; d. about 1905; m.
Abby Eldredge of Bangor, Me. He was a soldier in the British
army, but purchased his discharge and came to America about
1856. He was for a time a machinist at Andover, Mass. He
served through the Civil War in the I7th Massachusetts Regi
ment, and was crippled for life in one of the last battles. He
resided in Boston, and was for many years the superintendent
of Faneuil Hall. Children :
13. i. A son, d. young.
14. ii. Fred E. Res. in Boston, of which he is an assessor.
5. George G.' (James'), b. about 1840; m. Lizzie Sterling.
He was a teacher, and later has been engaged in the tuning
department of the Smith Organ Co. Res. at Boston. Four
children. 6. John S.' (James'), b. about 1843; m. Nettie Taylor. He
was a machinist at Lowell, Mass. He removed to California
in 1864, and lived there until 1906, when he lost his life in the
earthquake of that year. Children :
15. i. Walter, d. about 1900. He was an organist.
8. James' (James'), b. May 1, 1847; m. June 10, 1870, Mar
garet White of New Brunswick [b. Feb. 8, 1846; d. Feb. 15,
1910]. He has been in the employ of the Columbian Co., ex
cept a very few years, since his arrival in America in 1859.
Children :
16. i. James Benjamin, b. Mar. 31, 1874; unm. He was a drug
gist in Ashland, Ore., and removed thence to California.
He is supposed to have perished in the earthquake of 1906,
as nothing has been heard from him since a brief time be
fore that event.
17. ii. Oscar King, b. July 18, 1877; d. May 22, 1908; m. (1) May
Richmond; (2) Maude Laporte. He was a decorator and
paper hanger in Boston. Children, one of each marriage:
i. Raymond, ii. Mildred.
9. Thomas King' (James'), b. about 1849; m. Jan. 4, 1875,
Lizzie Brooks (54). He is a druggist and jeweler at Ashland,
Ore. Children :
18. i. Walter.
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BOYCE.
Joseph' Boyce, b. about 1609; d. 1684/5; m. Ellenor  [d. about
1694]. He was a tanner in that part of Salem, Mass., which is now
Peabody. Joseph' (Joseph'), bapt. Salem, March 31, 1644; d. 1709; ra. Dec 4,
1667, Sarah Meacham. He was a tanner and succeeded to his father's
home. Joseph' (Joseph', Joseph'), b. about 1672; d. 1723; m. about 1695,
Rebecca (Trask), widow of Samuel Potter [m. (2) 1731/2, Benjamin
Very of Salem]. He was a tanner and miller on the paternal homestead.
John' (Joseph', Joseph', Joseph'), m. Jan. 18, 1728, Elisabeth Osborne
of Salem. He continued the family industry of tanning for a time, and
then became a seaman, removing to Smithfield, R. I. He served in the
French and Indian War.
Paul" (John', Joseph', Joseph', Joseph'), b. about 1736; d. 1817; m.
(1) Hannah Staples [d. 1803]; (2) PhylHs, widow of Nicholas Cooke
[b. Oct. 31, 1738; d. March 21, 1815]. He removed from Smithfield, R. I.,
to Richmond, where he was a large landowner. He served in the Revolu
tion. Silas" (Paul", John*, Joseph', Joseph', Joseph'), b. Richmond, Nov.,
1770; d. Oct. 1, 1818; m. 1798, Comfort, dau. of Moses Allen [b. about
1774; d. Sept. 29, 1838]. He succeeded to his father's fafm. He studied
medicine and was called doctor, but never practiced.
1. Paul^ (Silas', Paul', John*, Joseph', Joseph', Joseph'),
b. Richmond, March 6, 1804; d. March 30, 1850; m. March 24,
1829, Hannah Russell Hannaford [b. Northfield, Oct. 3, 1808;
d. Peterboro, May 10, 1889]. In early manhood he came to
New Ipswich and for some years he had a small iron foundry,
trip-hammer, etc., in the shop formerly standing on Saw Mill
Brook at the south end of the Adams lot (21, N. D.) Later
he was engaged in the manufacture of friction matches in the
building formerly facing on the north side of the Village
Green, which had previously been the hat shop of Seth King.
Children : Harriet Newell, b. Apr. 20, 1830; d. March 14, 1860.
Diana Perry, b. Sept. 30, 1831; m. May 28, 1850, George W.
Conant (20).
Silas, b. July 14, 1833.-|-
LucY Jane, b. Sept. 24, 1835; d. Rindge, Jan. 14, 1890; m.
George W. Cragin. Five children.
Moses Allen, b. Jan. 20, 1838; d. May 19, 1839.
James Lysander, b. June 9, 1840; d. Aug. 25, 1863. He
served during the Civil War in the 16th New Hampshire
Regiment, and died soon after reaching his home.
Jacob Francis, b. Sept. 7, 1842; d. Oct. 20, 1843.
Charles Allen, b. Feb. 21, 1847; d. July 15, 1876.
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4. Silas' (PauP, Silas', Paul', John*, Joseph', Joseph', Jo
seph'), b. July 14, 1833; d. Washington, D. C, May 23, 1910;
m. (1) Sarah A., dau. of Charles and Sarah (Jones) Baldwin
[b. Oct. 15, 1833; d. Dec. 20, 1893] ; (2) Mrs. Sarah (Bartlett)
Everson. Children :
10. i. Frederick P., b. 1857; d. Oct. 10, 1858.
11. ii. Harriet Angeline, b. May 17, 1859; d. June 8, 1912; m. John
W. Cummings (142).
12. iii. Sarah Almira, b. Dec 5, 1861; d. Feb. 29, 1884; m. June 15,
1879, John F. Hedge. One child.
13. iv. Lydia Josephine, b. July 28, 1868; d. Feb. 12, 1905; m. Oct.
6, 1901, Charles H. Williams.
BOYDEN.
Thomas' Boyden, b. about 1613; m. (1) Frances  [d. Mar. 17,
1658]; (2) Nov. 3, 1658, Hannah (Phillips), widow of Joseph Morse
[d. Oct. 3, 1676]. He came from Ipswich, Suffolk, England, and lived
successively in Scituate, Boston, Medfield, Groton, and Watertown.
Jonathan' (Thomas'), b. Boston, Feb. 20, 1652; d. May 30, 1732;
m. (1) Sept. 26, 1673, Mary, dau. of Joseph and Abia Clark of Medfield,
Mass. [b. Mar. 12, 1649]; (2) Anne  [d. 1735]. He was one of the
early settlers of Dedham and of Medfield.
Jonathan' (Jonathan', Thomas'), b. Medfield, July 30, 1674; d. Mar.
3, 1719; m. (1) Nov. 7, 1698, Rachel, dau. of John and Hannah (Adams)
Fisher [b. Mar. 24, 1680; d. Mar. 31, 1712]; (2) Feb. 12, 1713, Esther,
dau. of John and Mary (Wood) Thurston [d. Mar. 10, 1755; m. (2)
John Turner]. Res. Medfield.
John' (Jonathan', Jonathan', Thomas'), b. Sept. 30, 1702; d. Dec 24,
1754; m. Oct. 19, 1728, Prudence, dau. of Ebenezer and Prudence (Stet
son) Leach of Bridgewater, Mass. [d. May 22, 1759]. Res. Walpole, Mass.
John" (John', Jonathan', Jonathan', Thomas'), b. Oct. 4, 1734; d.
Apr. 25, 1813; m. (1) Nov. 3, 1757, Hannah Hartshorn [d. May 22, 1759] ;
(2) Aug. 2, 1761, Sarah Foster [b. about 1740; d. Apr. 9, 1762]. Res.
Walpole, Mass.
Elijah" (John", John*, Jonathan', Jonathan', Thomas'), b. Oct. 19,
1763; d. July 22, 1814; m. Nov. 17, 1791, Amity Fisher of Walpole [b.
Feb. 13, 1766; d. Oct. 29, 1841]. He removed from Walpole, Mass., to
Marlboro about 1806.
1. Oliver'^ (Elijah', John', John*, Jonathan', Jonathan',
Thomas'), b. Apr. 28, 1798; d. Dec. 11, 1854; m. Dec. 31, 1821,
Eliza Prescott [b. about 1793; d. July 7, 1869]. He came to
New Ipswich about 1840, and after a few years bought for his
home the house on Barrett street second below the Congrega
tional parsonage. He was a farmer and mechanic. Children:
2. i. George, b. June 26, 1826.-|-
3. ii. Henry K., b. and d. Apr. 8, 1831.
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2. George' (Oliver^ Elijah', John', John*, Jonathan', Jona
than', Thomas'), b. June 26, 1826; d. Sept. 30, 1905; m. Jan.
8, 1852, Myra Jane Adams (R. 5) [b. Feb. 18, 1828; d. Mar. 30,
1890]. He succeeded to his father's home, and was maker of
cigar boxes. He removed to Washington, D. C, about 1872.
Children :
4. i. Frances Cornelia, b. Sept. 21, 1856. She removed with her
parents to Washington, and becarae a successful teacher.
BOYNTON.
William Boynton', b. 1606; d. Dec. 8, 1686; ra. Elizabeth Jackson
[d. 1687]. He was a son of Williara Boynton of an ancient family of
Yorkshire, England, and carae to New England in 1637. He settled in
Rowley, Mass., where he is mentioned as a plumber, and also as a tailor.
He was probably the first schoolmaster in the town, and taught from
1656 to 1681.
John Boynton', b. 1614; d. Feb. 18, 1670; ra. about 1644, Ellen Pell
of Boston [m. (2) Aug. 30, 1671, Dea. Maxmilian Jewett of Rowley].
He was also a son of William of Yorkshire, and he came to New England
at the same time as his brother. He also settled in Rowley, where he was
a tailor. Joshua' (WilHam'), b. Mar. 10, 1646; d. 1736 or earlier; ra. (1) Apr.
9, 1678, Hannah Barnet [d. Jan. 12, 1722]; (2) Nov. 29, 1725, widow
Mary Syles [d. July 28, 1727] ; (3) Oct. 30, 1727, Mary, widow of Simon
Wainwright of Bradford, Mass., and later of John' Boynton (John').
He removed to Newbury, Mass., in early manhood, and lived there upon
the same farm for more than fifty years. He served in the Indian wars.
Joseph' (John'), b. 1644; d. Dec 16, 1730; m. (1) Sarah, dau. of
Richard and Ann Swan of Rowley [b. 1646; d. Feb. 27, 1718]; (2) Mar.
11, 1720, Elizabeth Wood. He was town clerk of Rowley and its rep
resentative in the General Court. He reraoved to Groton, Mass., about
1715, but returned to Rowley sorae years later.
Joshua' (Joshua', WHHam'), b. May 4, 1679; d. Oct. 29, 1770; m.
May, 1708, Mary, dau. of John and Mary (Gerrish) Dole [b. Newbury,
Nov. 14, 1681; d. Dec. 26, 1777]. Res. Newbury.
Joseph' (Joseph', John'), b. Mar. 23, 1669/70; d. Nov. 25, 1755; m.
Jan. 30, 1692/3, Bridget, dau. of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Hazen) Harris
of Rowley [b. Nov. 26, 1672; d. Oct. 14, 1757]. He was a housewright
in Rowley and a deacon of its church.
Joshua' (Joshua', Joshua', William'), bapt. Jan. 20, 1717; d. Feb. 4,
1763; m. Apr. 14, 1743, Martha, dau. of Benjamin and Mary (Palmer)
Stickney of Rowley [bapt. Aug. 15, 1714]. Res. HolHs.
Nathaniel' (Joseph', Joseph', John'), b. Dec. 11, 1694; d. before
1759; ra. (1) 1720, Hannah, dau. of Joseph and Dorothy Perham [d.
Sept. 16, 1733]; (2) Sept. 13, 1735, EHzabeth Shedd of Billerica, Mass.
[m. (2) Aug. 15, 1759, Thomas Heald of Westford, Mass]. Res. suc
cessively in Littleton, Mass., Westford, Mass., and Pepperell, Mass. He
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Elias" (Joshua', Joshua', Joshua', William'), b. Feb. 24, 1755; d.
Jan. 20, 1842; m. Mar. 31, 1781, Elizabeth, dau. of Gen. Francis Blood of
Temple [b. Jan. 5, 1762; d. Oct. 13, 1853]. He removed from HolHs to
Temple soon after the close of the Revolutionary War, in which he had
rendered service at Bunker Hill and at the capture of Burgoyne. He was
a prominent citizen of Temple and a captain in the militia. Three of
his sons becarae citizens of New Ipswich.
1. Abijah' (Nathaniel*, Joseph', Joseph', John'), b. Mar.
24, 1740; d. Dec. 26, 1821; m. Mar. 23, 1769, Sarah Chamber
lain of Westford, Mass. [d. Oct. 2, 1818]. His name appears
upon the New Ipswich tax list in 1764, and he was probably
a resident at that time. But he passed most of his life in
Pepperell, Mass., where he was a farmer and cabinet maker.
He responded to the call of April 19, 1775, and he afterward
served as a lieutenant. Children :
7. i. Sarah, b. Mar. 8, 1770; d. Dec 13, 1848; ra. James Parker
[b. Apr. 10, 1769]. Res. in Brookline. Eight children.
8. ii. Abigail, b. Oct. 3, 1771 ; d. Feb. 11, 1851 ; m. Feb. 27, 1798,
Jesse" Shattuck (Samuel", Samuel', Samuel', John', Wil
liam'), a farmer in Pepperell. Seven children.
9. iii. Betsey, b. Aug. 11, 1773; d. Nov. 2, 1853; m. Asa Ames. Two
children.
10. iv. Abijah, b. May 3, 1775; m. Feb. 23, 1800, Eunice Shepley.
Nine children.
11. V. Abel, b. 1777; d. 1798, unm.
12. vi. Eli, b. May 24, 1780; d. Aug. 7, 1856; m. Dec. 17, 1809, Mary
McDonald [b. Brookline, Sept. 10, 1780; d. Apr. 14, 1882].
Six children.
2. Nathan' (Nathaniel*, Joseph', Joseph', John'), b. June
16, 1742; d. Oct. 7, 1823; m. Lucy Smith. His name appears
on the New Ipswich tax list of the same year as that of his
brother Abijah, and continues for three years, but he soon re
moved to Plymouth, Vt., and thence to Cavendish in the same
state. He was a joiner. Children :
13. i. Lucy, d. Cleveland, O., Feb. 17, 1842; m. (1) Mar., 1787, Sam
uel Foster; (2) Sept. 3, 1794, Levi Stevens [d. Feb. 21.
1842]. Thirteen children.
14. H. Nathan, b. 1772; d. Providence, O., Aug. 4, 1838; ra. Lydia,
dau. of Aaron, or of Dr. Isaiah Parker, two brothers from
Chelmsford, Mass., who resided in Cavendish [d. Port
Huron, Mich., July 12, 1837]. Seven children.
15. iii. Nathaniel, d. 1840. He was a manufacturer of sewing silk
in Boston. Eight children.
16. iv. Charles. Three children.
17. V. Jonah, b. Feb. 3, 1783; m. 1808, Phebe Russell of Albany,
N. Y. He was an architect at Albany. Eight children.
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3. Amos' (Nathaniel*, Joseph', Joseph', John'), b. 1744; m.
Jan. 9, 1770, Mary Parker. His name is borne upon the New
Ipswich records of the same years as those of his two brothers,
and the three probably came from Westford at about the same
time. But his name continues until 1781, although he seems
to have finally removed, like his brother Nathan, to Plymouth
and Cavendish, Vt. His activities during the Revolution
seem to be located by the record of his military service for
a considerable part of that period. His name is found upon
the roll of volunteers aroused by the Concord alarm, but his
later enlistments, concluding with one for the period of three
years, credit him to Fitzwilliam, from which he probably re
ceived a bounty. Children :
18. i. Isaiah, b. Oct. 20, 1770; d. June 12, 1851; m. (1) 1796, Re
becca Page of Plymouth, Vt. [d. May 12, 1816]; (2)
Hannah Parker. Nine children.
19. ii. Mary, ra.  Williams. Reraoved to Illinois.
20. iii. Joseph, m.  . Reraoved to New York.
21. iv. Abigail, b. Sept. 11, 1777; d. Jan. 30, 1854; ra. Moses Pollard.
Res. Plymouth, Vt.
22. v. Amos, d. Ludlow, Vt., about 1860; m. Mirey Perry. Five
children.
23. vi. Lydia, m.  Weston.
4. Earl' (Ellas', Joshua*, Joshua', Joshua', William'), b.
Apr. 20, 1788; d. Aug. 25, 1871; m. Nov., 1808, Sally Fisk of
Temple (2). He came to New Ipswich in 1811 and passed
his life as a farmer on the "country road," at first upon 52,
N. D., his cellar still remaining upon the east side of the road
near the separation of the "Fish road" from the "Todd road."
Later he removed southerly to the house near the division
line between 50 and 51, N. D., a little south of the road diverg
ing to the "Pevey place." Children :
24. i. Mary Caldwell, b. May 19, 1810; m. William J. Fisher.
25. ii. Sally, b. Jan. 4, 1814; d. Mar. 1, 1815.
26. iii. Sarah, b. Jan. 2, 1816; d. Apr. 30, 1906; ra. Dec. 31, 1835,
Albert G. Thayer (2).
27. iv. William, b. Jan. 15, 1818; d. Feb. 10, 1905. He passed his
life in New Ipswich, engaged in various occupations. He
was greatly interested in the town library, and so disposed
of the sura of $5000 in his will that it will ultimately revert
to that institution.
28. V. Isabel, b. Dec 20, 1821; d. Jan. 10, 1892; ra. July 21, 1841,
Nehemiah M. Smith [b. about 1814; d. Apr. 17, 1885]. He
was al baker, carrying on his business in the Center Village
at the stand upon the north side of the turnpike.
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29. vi. Francis, b. June 6, 1824; d. Sept. 2, 1888; m. Apr. 14, 1847,
Rhoda Butters. He was a plumber and tinsmith at Hyde
Park, Mass. Children : i. Henry, d. Wichita, Kan. ii.
Albert.
30. vii. Martha Ann, b. June 16, 1826; d. July 29, 1827.
31. vin. Emily M. B., b. Aug. 16, 1828; d. Oct. 9, 1912; m. Solomon
Augustus Russell.
32. ix. Charles Hastings, b. Nov. 10, 1830; d. Apr. 14, 1896; ra.
Orissa Clark. He was a hotel-keeper in Temple. Three
children.
33. X. George Henry, b. Nov. 21, 1832; d. Sept. 19, 1870; m. twice.
He was a photographer at Boston.
5. Oliver' (Elias', Joshua*, Joshua', Joshua', William'),
b. May 8, 1799; d. May 2, 1879; m. Jan. 25, 1820, Mary
Howard. He was a farmer, having his residence in the Cen
ter Village, for a considerable time in the large house upon
the southern side of the turnpike near the Jo Kidder Brook.
Children :
34. i. William Elias, m. Mary E. Grover. He was a farmer in
Jaffrey. Three children.
35. ii. James F., m. Harriet R. Tapley.
36. iii. Mary I., m. Clifton C. Stark. He was a cigar maker in New
Ipswich, but removed to Hyde Park, Mass. Children : i.
Henry Stark, ii. Ellen Stark.
37. iv. Elizabeth, m. Jaraes P. Carroll. He was a cigar maker,
living for some years in the house above named as the
home of his father-in-law. Removed to Boston. Children :
i. Sarah Carroll, ii. Margaret Carroll.
6. Spaulding' (Elias', Joshua*, Joshua', Joshua', Wil
liam'), b. Sept. 15, 1801; d. July 1, 1869; m. Nov. 29, 1823,
Lavinia J. Wilder. He lived for a time on XV : 2, S. R., and
later in the Center Village. He was a peddler of tinware and
similar articles. Children :
38. i. Hannah H., b. Aug. 5, 1828; m. (1) June 29, 1848, Nathan
C. Lear; (2) Charles Frost of Orange, Mass.
39. ii. William Spaulding, b. Apr. 14, 1830; m. July 30, 1857, Ase
nath L. Webb. Children: i. William F. ii. Ed-win S. iii.
Walter K.
40. iii. James Hildreth, b. Apr. 3, 1832; d. Feb. 9, 1896; ra. (1)
Aug. 9, 1853, Eliza F. Grummet; (2)  . He was a car
penter and tinworker. Children: i. Clara F. ii. Effie L.
41. iv. Lavinia J., b. Sept. 10, 1834; d. Feb. 27, 1869; ra. (1) Jan. 6,
1853, Robert Paine [d. Sept. 4, 1856]; (2) Apr. 6, 1857,
Joseph Poleicho.
42. V. Susan A., b. May 12, 1839; d. Aug. 31, 1881; m. Mar. 5, 1859,
Noah P. Shipley.
43. vi. Mary E., b. Mar. 30, 1844; m. Dec. 2, 1856, Michael Harrigan.
44. vii. Theresa I., b. Aug. 2, 1851; d. Jan. 13, 1869.
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BREED.
Allen' Breed, b. 1601; d. Mar. 17, 1691/2; m. (1)  ; (2) Mar. 28,
1656, Elizabeth, widow of James Ballard and later of William Knight of
Lynn, Mass. He came frora England in 1630 with his first wife, whose
narae is not known, and his two oldest children and settled at Lynn, where
he reraained until his death, except during a few years spent at Southamp
ton, L. I. He was a farraer and was a selectman of Lynn.
Allen' (Allen'), b. 1626; d. 1704-1707; m. Mary  [d. Nov. 30,
1671]. Res. in Lynn.
Allen' (Allen', Allen'), b. Aug. 30, 1660; d. Dec 27, 1730; m. May 22,
1684, Elizabeth Ballard [d. July, 1743]. He was a farraer and wheelwright
at Lynn. John' (Allen', Allen', Allen'), b. Oct. 10, 1689; d. Apr. 16, 1774; m.
Jan. 2, 1717, Lydia Gott of Wenham, Mass. [b. Apr., 1699; d. Aug., 1789],
He was a yeoman and coaster. Res. L3mn.
1. John' (John*, Allen', Allen', Allen'), b. Sept. 13, 1720;
d. July 25, 1780; m. 1743, Jane, dau. of Elisha* and Jane
(Breed) Newhall [b. Aug. 9, 1721; d. 1790]. This marriage
forms a part of a somewhat complicated union between the
families engaged, as Elisha* Newhall and his brothers, Ebene
zer, Samuel, and Daniel, and their sister Susannah, had
married members of the Breed family, three of whom, at least,
Jane the wife of Elisha, Elizabeth the wife of Ebenezer, the
ancestor of the Newhalls of New Ipswich, and Joseph the
husband of Susannah, were children of Joseph* Breed, and
Keziah the wife of Samuel was his niece. John came from
Lynnfield to New Ipswich about 1764, and settled near the
state line upon 82, A. D., and developed an excellent farm
there at the end of the highway. Children:
4. i. Allen, b. Jan. 19, 1744.-|-
5. ii. Lydia, b. Sept. 25, 1745; m. Daniel Mansfield (2).
6. iii. Rebecca, b. Sept. 2, 1747; m. Peter Shattuck (6).
7. iv. John, b. Aug. 28, 1749.
8. V. Jane, b. June 23, 1751.
9. vi. Susanna, b. Apr. 24, 1753.
10. vii. Elisha Newhall, b. Apr. 21, 1755.
11. viii. Martha, b. Oct. 9, 1758.
12. ix. Timna, b. Mar. 19, 1762.
13. X. Deliverance, b. Mar. 24, 1764; probably "DeHa," who d. 1816.
2. Nathaniel' (John*, Allen', Allen', Allen'), b. July 22,
1728. His name appears upon the New Ipswich tax-lists
from 1781 until 1789, but most of his life was spent elsewhere.
He was resident at Easton, Mass., in 1757, but removed to
Sudbury, Mass., in 1760, and thence to Packersfield, now
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Nelson, five years later. In 1775 he enlisted as surgeon of
the company leaving Nelson, and appears later as surgeon's
mate of the regiment of Col. James Reed. Children :
14. i. John, b. Oct. 15, 1757. He enlisted from Nelson at the same
time as his father, but upon reaching Boston he was en
rolled in the company of Capt. Ezra Towne. At Bunker
Hill his hat was struck by a bullet, and also his cartridge-
box. He enlisted several times before the close of the
war. He continued his residence in Nelson until 1828, when
he removed to Sandy Creek, N. Y.
15. ii. Thomas K., b. Apr. 10, 1761; d. Feb. 2, 1849; m. Dec 15,
1791, Polly Keyes. His place of residence appears to have
been quite changeable. He seems to have lived in New
Ipswich from 1783 until 1788, then for some years in Nel
son, afterward in Antrim, and later still in Lowell, Mass.
He enlisted several times during the Revolution, serving in
corapanies frora Rindge, Fitzwilliara, and vicinity.
16. iii. Abigail.
3. Josiah' (John*, Allen', Allen', Allen'), b. Lynn, Dec.
16, 1731; d. Dec. 12, 1790; m. (1) Dec. 18, 1755, Mary' (Jo
seph*, Joseph', Allen', Allen') Breed [b. Jan. 6, 1733; d. May
7, 1767] ; (2) June 30, 1768, Hannah, dau. of Henry Bacheller
[b. 1729; d. Aug. 16, 1805]. He was in the contest of Apr.
19, 1775, and was captured by the British, but was later ex
changed for a captured lieutenant. He did further service in
Massachusetts troops. Res. in Lynn. Children :
17. i. Mehetable, b. Jan. 8, 1757; m. Theophilus Bacheller.
18. ii. Allen, b. July 14, 1759.-f
19. iii. Nathaniel (twin), b. Aug. 30, 1761.
20. iv. Charles (twin), b. Aug. 30, 1761.
21. V. Joseph, b. Mar. 29, 1764.
22. vi. Mary, b. Apr. 29, 1772; d. Nov. 17, 1813.
4. Allen' (John', John*, Allen', Allen', Allen'), b. Jan. 19,
1744; d. Apr. 16, 1806; m. Jan. 15, 1767, Lydia Mansfield (1).
He came to New Ipswich, probably with his father, about
1764. He seems to have lived upon his father's farm, and to
have succeeded him in its ownership. Apparently he was in
service during the greater part of the Revolutionary war,
although it is difficult to certainly distinguish in the records
between his service and that of his cousin bearing the same
name. Children :
23. i. Lydia, b. Jan. 8, 1768; d. Feb. 1, 1807, unm.
24. ii. John, b. Dec 1, 1769.-)-
25. iii. Elisha Newhall, b. Dec 30, 1771.-f-
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26. iv. Allen, b. Feb. 8, 1774.-f
27. V. Jane, b. Dec 9, 1775.
28. vi. Enoch, b. Apr. 2, 1780.-1-
18. Allen' (Josiah', John*, Allen', Allen', Allen'), b. July
14, 1759; d. Apr. 2, 1842; m. July, 1781, Lucy, dau. of Reuben
Taylor (10) [b. Jan. 10, 1762; d. Mar. 23, 1825]. When his
father enlisted at Lynn, he came to New Ipswich and served
in the companies of both Capt. Joseph Parker and Capt.
Stephen Parker, and in later service held a lieutenant's com
mission. Children :
29. i. Josiah, b. Apr. 25, 1782; d. Mar. 5, 1855.
30. ii. Mehetable, b. Dec. 8, 1783; d. Feb., 1856.
31. iii. Lucy, b. Dec 17, 1785; d. July 2, 1819.
32. iv. Mary, b. May 20, 1789; d. May 26, 1869.
33. v. Milly, b. Feb. 28, 1790.
34. vi. Allen, b. Jan. 20, 1792; d. Mar. 13, 1827.
35. vii. Rachel, b. Feb. 8, 1794.
36. viii. Hannah, b. Dec. 14, 1795; d. 1856.
37. ix. Ira, b. Dec. 23, 1797; d. Jan. 9, 1823.
38. X. George Washington, b. Jan. 14, 1800.
39. xi. Harriet, b. Feb. 28, 1802.
40. xii. Lucretia, b. July 15, 1804; d. Aug. 15, 1804.
41. xiii. Reuben Taylor, b. July 28, 1806.
24. John^ (Allen', John', John*, Allen', Allen', Allen'), b.
Dec. 1, 1769; d. June 28, 1807; m. Nov. 16, 1797, Abiah Lamp-
son [b. June 2, 1777; d. Apr. 14, 1808]. He was a farmer
upon the next farm eastward from that of his father (80,
A. D.) Children :
42. i. Abiah, b. Aug. 17, 1798; d. Sept. 1, 1883. She resided in New
Ipswich and in Ashby, Mass., and was for many years a
nurse and general helper in times of need. She was the
last member of the family here recorded as resident in
town, and the date borne upon the raarble stone marking
her grave is separated by more than fifty years from the
date upon the latest of the long line of olden slate stones
in the South graveyard at the end of which it stands.
43. ii. John, b. June 8, 1800.
44. iii. Moses, b. Mar. 12, 1802.
45. iv. Daniel, b. Apr. 8, 1804.
46. V. Susan, b. Mar. 10, 1807.
25. Elisha Newhall^ (Allen', John', John*, Allen', Allen',
Allen'), b. Dec. 30, 1771; d. Mar. 6, 1802; m. Rebecca 
[b. about May, 1779; d. Oct. 14, 1806]. He probably passed
the years of his brief manhood on the ancestral farm.
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47. i. Elisha Newhall, b. Feb. 14, 1802; d. Sept. 20, 1805.
26. Allen^ (Allen', John', John*, Allen', Allen', Allen'),
b. Feb. 8, 1774; d. Mar. 8, 1849; m.. Esther Lampson of Little
ton, Mass. Children:
48. i. Esther, b. Sept. 24, 1797.
49. ii. HuLDY, b. May 25, 1799.
28. Enoch' (Allen', John', John*, Allen', Allen', Allen'),
b. Apr. 2, 1780; d. June 26, 1811 ; m. Dec. 29, 1807, Sarah, dau.
of John* and Susanna (Page) Wetherbee of Rindge [m. (2)
Dea. Adin Cummings of Rindge] . Res. in Rindge. Children :
50. i. Joseph Baxter, b. Nov. 27, 1808. -(-
51. H. Marinda, b. 1810; d. young.
50. Joseph Baxter' (Enochs Allen', John', John*, Allen',
Allen', Allen'), b. Nov. 27, 1808; d. Sept. 23, 1864; m. June
6, 1833, Mary Wilson (16). He was a merchant in Rindge,
and was a deacon there. Children :
52. i. Mary Elizabeth, b. June 8, 1834; m. Jan. 12, 1860, John C.
Spenser. Res. Geneseo, 111.
Martha Jane, b. and d. June 8, 1834.
Sarah Marinda, b. Nov. 15, 1835; d. Dec 3, 1835.
Marinda, b. Oct. 10, 1836; m. Nov. 3, 1865, John L. Corabs.
Res. Geneseo, 111.
Harriet Wilson, b. Aug. 9, 1838; d. Sept. 5, 1839.
Augustus Baxter, b. Sept. 12, 1840; d. May 31, 1863, while
serving in the Civil War.
58. vii. George Henry, b. May 28, 1844; ra. Caroline A. Albro of
Providence, R. I. Res. Geneseo, 111.
The readiness of the members of this family for Revolutionary
service suggests mention of the fact that Ebenezer Breed, the owner
of the larger part of Breed's Hill, upon which the battle of "Bunker HiU"
was fought, was a kinsman of the New Ipswich faraily, his lineage as
follows : Allen', John', Ebenezer', John', Ebenezer^.
The early disappearance of this faraily from the town, probably
largely due to the tendency of its merabers to consumption, the wide
dispersion of the descendants of the residents in New Ipswich, and also
the prevalence of two or three given names causing an exceptional un
certainty in the interpretation of records, have together made entire
accuracy hard to attain. It is hoped, however, that the resulting errors
are not very great.
BRIANT.
Abraham Briant', m. (1) 1664, Mary, dau. of Dea. Thomas Kendall
of Reading, Mass. [d. 1688] ; (2) Ruth, widow of Samuel Frothingham
of Charlestown, Mass. [d. 1693]. He was a blacksmith in Reading. Dea.
Kendall had no sons living to adult age, but each of his eight daughters
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Kendall' (Abrahara'), b. Sept. 8, 1680; m. 1704, Elizabeth, dau. of
Maj. Jeremiah and Mary (Sraith) Swain. He foHowed his father's
occupation as a blacksmith.
1. Kendall' (Kendall', Abraham'), b. Mar. 7, 1709; m.
Oct. 5, 1736, Mary Parker. He followed the family trade
of a blacksmith in his native town until middle life. In 1754
he and his wife were dismissed to the church in Concord,
Mass., but his residence there must have been brief, as his
name does not appear upon the Vital Records of that town,
and he came to New Ipswich as early as 1763, apparently
from Pepperell. He purchased a small farm from Col. Reuben
Kidder, .(46, N. D.) The probable location of his house may
still be seen on the eastern side of the old "country road"
about midway between the Kidder cellar and the house nearer
the Center Village which has bpen developed by additions
from the ancient smaller dwelling of Col. Kidder's negro
slave, Cffisar. Near the Briant house was his blacksmithy.
No list of children of this family has been found.
2. Edmond* (Kendall', Kendall', Abraham'), b. June 3,
1744; d. Sept. 28, 1786; m. (1) Abigail Fletcher (7); (2) Dec
30, 1778, Hannah Sprague [b. about 1748; d. Sept. 7, 1830].
He continued the family calling in his father's shop and later
in Smith Village. He served three times during the Revo
lution, first in response to the Concord alarm, second as lieu
tenant in the company of Capt. Josiah Brown in 1777, and
third, later in the same year, as captain of another New Ips
wich company. It is characteristic of the enlistments in the
earlier years of the war that these three terms of service to
gether covered a period of only about six weeks. Children :
3. i. Joseph, b. Sept. 25, 1765.-|-
4. ii. Edmond, b. May 20, 1768; ra. Nov. 27, 1788, Nabby Fox (3).
5. Hi. Abigail, b. Jan. 6, 1775.
6. iv. Aaron, b. 1783.
3. Joseph' (Edmond*, Kendall', Kendall', Abraham'), b.
Sept. 25, 1785; m. Anna  . Children:
7. i. Joseph, b. Jan. 8, 1786.
8. ii. John, b. Apr. 25, 1788.
9. iii. Anna, b. June 13, 1790.
10. iv. Benjamin, b. Aug. 20, 1792.
The New Ipswich tax lists bear also the names of Amos, Edward,
Jaraes, John, and Nathan Briant, who were perhaps residents for a year
or two at about the tirae of the arrival of Kendall Briant, and were
probably his kinsmen. But no record of such relationship has appeared.
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BROOKS.
This name has been borne by citizens of New Ipswich descended
from two immigrant ancestors, Thomas and Henry Brooks; but as ac
cording to reliable tradition these ancestors were brothers, their de
scendants are here presented together.
Thomas' Brooks, b. County Suffolk, England; d. Concord, Mass.,
May 21, 1667; m. Grace, dau. of Capt. Timothy Wheeler of Concord [d.
May 12, 1664]. He was a preacher in London and came to America in
1634, remaining at Watertown, Mass., for a time, but soon reraoving to
Concord, settled in that part which is now Carlisle. He was a deacon,
and represented the town in the General Court for several years.
Henry' Brooks, d. Apr. 12, 1683; m. (1) Susanna  [d. Sept. IS,
1681] ; (2) July 12, 1682, Annis Jaquith. He is beHeved to have come to
America with his brother Thomas, and to have reraoved to Concord a
little later than Thomas. But he resided there only a few years, as the
birth of only one child, in 1641, is recorded there. He was a proprietor
of Woburn, Mass., in 1652 and apparently resided there.
Joshua' (Thomas'), b. England, 162S; d. Concord, Mass., Oct. 10,
1698; ra. Oct. 17, 1653, Hannah, dau. of Capt. Hugh Mason. Res. Con
cord, Mass.
John' (Henry'), b. England, Jan. 1, 1624; m. Nov. 1, 1649, Eunice,
dau. of Dea. John and Joanna Monsal.
Noah' (Joshua', Thomas'), b. Concord, 1657; d. Feb. 1, 1738-9; m.
Dorothy Wright of Sudbury, Mass. [b. about 1663; d. Mar. 15, 1752].
Res. Concord.
John' (John', Henr/), b. March 1, 1664; d. Aug. 7, 1733; m. Feb. 25,
1684, Mary Richardson.
Thomas' (Noah', Joshua', Thomas'), b. May 28, 1701; d. Dec 22,
1790; m. June 24, 1725, Hannah, dau. of Joseph and Dorothy (Wooster)
Dakin [b. Oct. 23, 1704; d. July 3, 1784]. Res. Lincoln, Mass.
Nathan' (John', John', Henry'), b. Nov. 1, 1706; d. Jan. 6, 1751;
m. Sarah, dau. of Jonathan and Hannah (Fowie) Wyman. Res. Woburn.
Aaron" (Thomas', Noah', Joshua', Thomas'), b. Concord, Aug. 24,
1727; d. Feb. 23, 1811; m. Jan. 2, 1755, Mary Stone.
William' (Nathan', John', John', Henry'), b. Mar. 3, 1737; d. Oct.
11, 1804; m. Mar. 29, 1759, Abigail Kerap. On attaining his majority
or earlier he removed to Hollis, of which he was one of the proprietors.
In the Revolution he gave two terms of service, once as lieutenant; he
enlisted a third time as captain, but was not called upon to leave the
state; later he reraoved to Lyndeboro.
1. Stephen' (Aaron', Thomas*, Noah', Joshua', Thomas'),
b. Lincoln, Mass., Mar. 22, 1759; d. Jan. 30, 1848; m. June 7,
1791, Rachel Taylor (20). In early manhood he settled in
Rindge near the New Ipswich line where the road over Binney
Hill enters the Rindge turnpike, but in 1798 he exchanged
farms with his brother Aaron and removed a half mile east
ward to the farm for many years owned by his descendants,
(97, A. D.,) where he passed an honorable life; his house
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was the western one of the two houses now standing. He
rendered service at least three times, 1775, 1777, 1780, before
leaving Massachusetts. Children:
3. i. Rachel, b. July 6, 1792; d. Feb. 20, 1795.
4. ii. Stephen, b. Oct. 31, 1794; d. Mar. 24, 1795.
5. iii. Stephen, b. Jan. 27, 1796.-|-
6. iv. Joseph, b. Aug. 31, 1798.-H
7. V. Walton, b. Sept. 4, 1800.-f-
8. vi. Rachel, b. Dec. 29, 1802; ra. Feb. 11, 1847, Joseph Davis, son
of Ebenezer B. and Huldah (Lawrence) Davis of Rindge.
She was his third wife.
9. vii. Harvey, b. May 30, 1805.-|-
10. viii. Oliver, b. May 14, 1810; d. Feb. 25, 1895; m. Eliza C. Farrar
[b. Oct., 1811; d. Nov. 28, 1892]. He passed his Hfe in
Denmark, Iowa, of which he was one of the first settlers
and where he was a deacon.
11. ix. Newton, b. March 13, 1812.-|-
2. Aaron' (Aaron', Thomas*, Noah', Joshua', Thomas'),
b. Lincoln, Mass., Jan. 10, 1765; d. Aug. 4, 1823; m. Mary
Taylor (23). He came to New Ipswich about 1790 and set
tled on the farm next south of that of Thaddeus Taylor, (97,
A. D.,) where he lived for a few years and then exchanged
with his brother Stephen as before stated and lived in Rindge
until his death.
William" (William', Nathan', John', John', Henr/), b. Hollis, May
1, 1760; d. Greenfield, Sept. 5, 1843; m. (1) Deborah Parker of Groton,
Mass.; (2) Hepzibah Draper.
5. Stephen^ (Stephen', Aaron', Thomas*, Noah', Joshua',
Thomas'), b. Jan. 27, 1796; d. Apr. 2, 1876; m. May 22, 1823,
Narcissa Tweed Pratt (John, 7). Res. Ashby. Children:
12. i. Amella. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 2, 1826; d. July 7, 1864; m. Dec.
19, 1861, Franklin Wyman of Westminster, Mass. She
attended the academies at New Ipswich and Groton, Mass.,
and taught for several years before her marriage. Res.
Westminster. Child: i. Alfred Aurelius Wyman, b. Oct.
26, 1863; d. Nov. 9, 1907; m. Flora Wright of Fitchburg,
in which city he was a successful business man. Six sons.
13. ii. Myron Dwight, b. Aug. 26, 1828; d. Jan. 29, 1832.
14. iii. Ellen Mariah, b. May 16, 1831; d. Jan. 26, 1832.
15. iv. Louisa Langdon, b. June 25, 1833. She attended New Ips
wich Academy, graduated from the Westfield (Mass.) Nor
mal School, and has passed her life as a teacher and reader.
Res. Boston.
Horace Stephen, b. July 22, 1835.-H
Myron Dwight, b. May 9, 1838.-|-
Henry Winslow, b. May 17, 1845.-(-
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6. Joseph' (Stephen', Aaron', Thomas*, Noah', Joshua',
Thomas'), b. Aug. 31, 1798; m. May 5, 1825, Emily Taylor
(46). He was a farmer in Rindge. Children:
19. i. Warren Taylor, b. Sept. 21, 1827 ; d. Oct. 2, 1827.
20. ii. Emily Taylor, b. Mar. 25, 1829; d. June 24, 1852; m. Apr.
25, 1850, Samuel ,W.', son of Walter' (Lyman', Joshua', Jo
seph', Joshua', William', Robert') Fletcher of Westford,
Mass. He is a merchant in West Rindge. One son.
21. in. Calista A., b. Aug. 19, 1831; ra. Pliny F. Towne (39).
22. iv. Caroline M., b. Sept. 28, 1834; m. Nov. 9, 1852, her brother-
in-law Samuel W. Fletcher. Four children.
23. V. Charles B., b. Nov. 2, 1841 ; d. Council Bluffs, Iowa, July 18,
1871. He served in the Civil War in the 9th N. H. Regt.
7. Walton' (Stephen', Aaron', Thomas*, Noah', Joshua',
Thomas'), b. Sept. 4, 1800; d. May 5, 1881; m. Mar. 28, 1822,
Arethusa, dau. of Thomas Piper [b. April 19, 1803; d. Apr.
30, 1895]. He succeeded to his father's farm, living in the
eastern of the dwelling-houses upon it. Children :
24. i. Nancy Piper, b. Aug. 20, 1823; d. Feb. 23, 1898; m. Sept. 23,
1841, George W. Stearns.
25. ii. Eveline Jewett, b. Sept. 14, 1825 ; d. May 6, 1901 ; m. June
17, 1846, Joshua Chadwick Towne of Rindge [d. Feb. 3,
1893].
26. iii. Harriet Taylor, b. Sept. 14, 1828; d. Nov. 3, 1831.
27. iv. IvERS Harvey, b. Apr. 27, 1831.-|-
28. V. Mary Ann, b. Nov. 21, 1833; m. (1) Oct. 2, 1851, George
Raymond Thomas [d. May 20, 1873]; (2) Oct. 1, 1884,
George G. WilHams (16). Res. Rindge. Five children.
29. vi. Albert Newton, b. June 6, 1836.-|-
9. Harvey' (Stephen', Aaron', Thomas*, Noah', Joshua',
Thomas'), b. May 30, 1805; d. Jan. 20, 1899; m. Lois Burgess
of Ashburnham, Mass. [d. Jan. 19, 1892]. Res. Gardner,
Mass. Children :
30. i. Harvey P.
31. ii. Euclid L.
32. iii. Newton.
33. iv. Luella.
11. Newton' (Stephen', Aaron', Thomas*, Noah', Joshua',
Thomas'), b. Mar. 13, 1812; d. Feb. 28, 1898; m. June 2, 1841,
Harriet A. Campbell (6). He left New Ipswich a few years
after attaining his majority and was in Boston or its vicinity
for about ten years, returning to his native town in 1846 and
purchasing for his home the house built by John Crosby at
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Barrett mansion on the south. This was his home for about
thirty-five years until, after the death of his wife, he left the
town, passing his later years with his son in Chicago. He
was a man of artistic temperament and for a considerable
time was occupied in the production of oil portraits. After
the development of the daguerreotype, however, he turned his
attention in that direction, and at a very early date made use
of the gallery upon wheels for offering' the later forms of that
line of work to the public. He was a trustee of the Academy
for a considerable period. Child :
34. i. Newton Vinelle, b. Aug. 3, 1845; m. (1) Mary J. Reynolds
[d. May 3, 1892] ; (2) Mar. 23, 1896, Mary Partridge Frank.
Res. in Chicago. One son.
James Hosley' (WiIliam^ William', Nathan', John', John', Henry),
d. in Greenfield, Dec. 30, 1885; m. Sabrina H. Person of Francestown.
Gardner Towne' (Williara', William', Nathan*, John', John', Henr/),
b. Hancock, May 18, 1794; d. Fitchburg, Mass., June 3, 1841; m. Mina
Gove [b. about 1794; d. Oct. 31, 1879].
16. Horace Stephen" (Stephen', Stephen', Aaron^
Thomas*, Noah', Joshua', Thomas'), b. July 22, 1835; m.
Ashby, Mass., Sarah Elisabeth Rice. Res. in Springfield,
Mass., and is a farmer in Ashby. Has been a teacher and
member of the Legislature. Children :
38. i. Frederic Pratt, b. Springfield; m. Dec. 18, 1906, Ada Comer
Waterman. He graduated frora Boston School of Phar
macy and has been successful in business. Res. Norwood,
Mass.
39. ii. Mabel Rice, b. Sept. 1, 1868. She graduated from Worcester,
Mass., Normal School and is a teacher in Worcester.
40. iii. Lucy Hubbard, b. Ashby, Mass., Feb. 8, 1880. She graduated
from Worcester Normal School and is a teacher.
17. Myron Dwight** (Stephen', Stephen', Aaron',
Thomas*, Noah', Joshua', Thomas'), b. May 9, 1838; m. in
Boston, May 28, 1867, Susan Ann Field. He has been a busi
ness man in Boston, Florida, and Georgia. Child:
41. i. Amy Louise C, b. May 12, 1870; ra. June 12, 1899, Dr. Fred
eric S. Snow. One daughter.
18. Henry Winslow' (Stephen', Stephen', Aaron',
Thomas*, Noah', Joshua', Thomas'), b. May 17, 1845; m. (1)
June 11, 1868, Jeannette Wilson Wright [d. Dec. 20, 1877] ;
(2) Feb. 23, 1880, Lucy Reade Wright [d. Oct. 26, 1905].
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42. i. Maude Wright, b. Apr. 10, 1869; d. New York, Feb., 1896.
Graduated frora Norraal School in Philadelphia and was a
teacher.
43. ii. Robert Montgomery, b. Nov. 6, 1872; d. Johnstown, Penn.,
Jan. 27, 1897; m. Oct., 1896, Margaret Donnegan. He was
a civil engineer.
44. iii. Henry Winslow, b. Dec 20, 1877; m. Mar. 23, 1911, Lucy
Bennet Claxton. He graduated frora a business college
in New York city, where he had entered upon a business life.
27. IvERS Harvey' (Walton', Stephen', Aaron', Thomas*,
Noah', Joshua', Thomas'), b. Apr. 27, 1831; m. (1) Nov. 11,
1852, Nancy R. Bancroft (4); (2) Jan. 1, 1908, E. Urania
Wright. He has been a farmer in Rindge and in Ashby,
Mass., and has held the office of deacon. Children:
45. i. Ancil W., b. April 2, 1855; m. Nettie M. Frost of Ashby,
Mass. Three children.
46. ii. Mary Eveline, b. Sept. 14, 1858; m. Howard P. Lamb of
Rindge. Four children.
47. iii. James William, b. Apr. 17, 1861 ; ra. M. Emma Walker of
Fitchburg, Mass. Four children.
48. iv. Jennie Harriet, b. Sept. 19, 1863; m. Edward R. Wilder of
Fitchburg. Four children.
49. V. Helen, b. June 13, 1866; d. Sept. 25, 1890; m. Charles J.
Hubbard of Ashby, Mass. Two children.
50. vi. Frederick Eugene, b. Nov. 7, 1867; ra. Nellie E. Whitney of
Ashby. Three children.
29. Albert Newton' (Walton', Stephen', Aaron',
Thomas*, Noah', Joshua', Thomas'), b. June 6, 1836; d. Sept.
25, 1881 ; m. Oct. 22, 1857, Clementine M. Hale of Rindge [b.
Mar. 23, 1841]. He was a farmer and succeeded to the family
estate. Children :
51. i. George Henry, b. Feb. 29, 1864; ra. Dec. 23, 1896, Esther
Jane Green [b. Ashby, Mass., Nov. 20, 1873]. Res. Ashby.
Children: i. Ruth Elizabeth, b. Nov. 16, 1904. ii. Clara
Helen, b. Nov. 8, 1906.
52. ii. Oliver Newton, b. Jan. 12, 1866; ra. Sept. 5, 1893, Martha
Bell, dau. of Williara and Isabel (MaxweH) Corbett [b. Apr.
18, 1877]. Res. Ashby. Children: i. Minnie Arthusa. ii.
Walton Albert, iii. Laura Abbie. iv. Hazel Emma.
35. Frederick A.' (James H.', William', William', Na
than*, John', John', Henry'), b. Nashua, Mar. 20, 1836; d.
Apr. 18, 1882; m. Sept. 15, 1860, Helen M. Mansur (15). He
came to New Ipswich in early manhood and until his death
conducted a private express to Boston, living during nearly
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53. i. Lena A., b. July 20, 1861; m. May 11, 1891, Frederic Preston
(110).
36. Square Gage' (Gardner', William', William', Nathan*,
John', John', Henry'), b. Merrimac, April 4, 1833; d. Dec. 26,
1907; m. Dec. 30, 1855, Sarah L. Griggs of Roxbury. He re
sided for a short time in Bank Village. Six children, the
youngest of whom, Herbert Griggs, succeeded to his father's
business in Roxbury.
37. Edward Chase' (Gardner', William', William', Na
than*, John', John', Henry'), m. March 13, 1848, Hannah
Merrill, dau. of Charles Porter [b. Mar. 4, 1826; d. May 6,
1881]. Lived on the "Moses Wilkins" farm 1861-72. Chil
dren:
54 i. Lizzie, m. Jan. 4, 1875, Thomas K. Bolton (9).
55. ii. Charles Edward, d. July 27, 1873.
56. iii. Susan P.
57. iv. Gertrude. BROWN (Abraham).
Abraham' Brown, d. about 1650; m. Lydia  [d. Sept. 27, 1686;
m. (2) Nov. 27, 1659, Andrew Hodges of Ipswich, Mass.]. He was a
very early settler at Watertown and a leading citizen.
Jonathan' (Abraham'), b. Oct. IS, 1635; d. 1691; m. Feb. 11, 1661/2,
Mary, dau. of William and Susanna Shattuck of Watertown [b. Aug. 25,
1645; d. Oct. 23, 1732].
Benjamin' (Jonathan', Abraham'), b. Feb. 27, 1681/2; d. Mar. 11,
1753; m. Feb. 27, 1702/3, Anna, dau. of Capt. Benj. and Elizabeth (Bridge)
Garfield of Watertown [b. June 2, 1683; d. Sept. 13, 1737]. He lived in
that part of Weston afterwards a part of Lincoln.
William' (Jonathan', Abraham'), b. Sept. 3, 1684; d. Oct. 28, 1756;
m. (1) Jan. 10, 1704/5, Hannah Pease of Cambridge, Mass. [d. Mar. 10,
1717/8] ; (2) Dec. 11, 1718, Sarah, dau. of Jonas and Grace (Coolidge)
Bond [b. about 1699; d. June 10, 1777]. He was a member of the first
board of selectmen of Waltham, Mass.
Joseph' (Benjamin', Jonathan', Abraham'), b. Feb., 1717/8; d. Apr.
2, 1788; m. Feb. 7, 1744/5, Abigail, dau. of Joseph and Elizabeth Munroe
of Lexington [b. Jan. 21, 1723; d. Mar. 18, 1793]. Res. in Lincoln and
Waltham. 1. Isaac* (William', Jonathan', Abraham'), b. Dec. 5,
1711; d. Oct. 6, 1759; m. Apr., 1736, Mary, dau. of Thomas
and Mary (Prentiss) Balch [b. about 1714; d. Apr. 29, 1782;
m. (2) May 22, 1760, Nathan Brown of Lincoln, Mass.] He
may not have been a resident in New Ipswich, but his imme
diate family is so closely identified with the town that it is
here presented as though he were himself a townsman. His
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widow is said to have spent her last days with her youngest
son in New Ipswich. Children:
2. i. Mary, b. Mar. 17, 1738/9; d. Nov. 18, 1740.
3. ii. Isaac, b. Apr. 14, 1740; d. Nov. 16, 1740.
4. iii. Mary, b. Aug. 22, 1741; d. Oct. 7, 1742.
5. iv. Elizabeth, b. Mar. 3, 1742; d. young.
6. V. Eunice, b. Oct. 10, 1744; d. Sept. 9, 1818; m. 1764, Rev.
Stephen Farrar (1).
7. vi. Isaac, b. June 24, 1746; d. about 1752.
8. vii. Moses, b. Apr. 6, 1748; d. June 16, 1820; m. (1) Oct. 16, 1774,
Elizabeth, dau. of Osmyn Trask of Beverly [d. July 7,
1788] ; (2) May 3, 1789, Mary, dau. of Rev. Matthew and
Anna (Perkins) Bridge [b. Sept. 7, 1760; d. Feb. 21, 1843].
He graduated frora Harvard College in 1768. He was a
merchant in Beverly, Mass., was a captain in the Revo
lutionary War, president of the Provincial Congress, mem
ber of the Legislature, and a Presidential Elector in 1808.
Three children.
9. viii. Mary, b. Dec. 29, 1749; d. Nov. 30, 1824; m. June 1, 1769,
Ephraim Hartwell (1).
10. ix. Sarah, b. Oct. 6, 1751.
11.x. Aaron, b. Sept. 16, 1752; d. Nov. 14, 1811; m. (1) 1774,
EHzabeth, dau. of Thomas and Rebecca (Whitney) Stowell
of Waltham, Mass. [b. June 14, 1752; d. Aug. 4, 1797];
(2) Dec, 1799, Thesta, dau. of Hon. Stowell Dana of
Brighton, Mass. He was a merchant in Boston, and is
said to have removed to New Ipswich in his later life, but
neither records nor tradition give further details. Nine
children.
Ephraim' (Joseph', Benjamin', Jonathan', Abraham'), b. Lincoln,
Mass.. Aug. 30, 1756; d. Mar. 3, 1813; m. Oct., 1779, Elizabeth, dau. of
Jacob Wyman of Wayland, Mass. Eleven children.
12. William' (Ephraim', Joseph*, Benjamin', Jonathan',
Abraham'), b. Lincoln, Mass., May 22, 1807; d. Jan. 8, 1877;
mi. June 10, 1830, Lucy Taylor (45). For several years after
his marriage he had a general store at what is now Smithville,
succeeding Peter Felt in the house at the corner around which
the road from the Center Village turns toward the "Fox place"
and the present "Little Finland." Jeremiah Smith, from
whom the village was later to receive its name, was asso
ciated with him for a time, but the firm was not of long dura
tion; after its dissolution Mr. Smith opened just across the
street a store which was to have a longer life than any other
store of that village, while Mr. Brown entered the colony of
New Ipswich people then forming a settlement in Iowa, to
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his remaining forty years of life, having a part in founding
and shaping a New England town upon what was then al
most the extreme frontier. Children :
13. i. William Taylor, b. Apr. 17, 1831.-|-
14. ii. Charles Kendall, b. May 9, 1833.-|-
15. iii. Edward Hills, b. May 9, 1836.-]-
16. iv. George Stewart, b. Feb. 16, 1838. -J-
17. V. Mary Elizabeth, b. Oct. 21, 1841; d. Feb. 14, 1911; m. Feb.
7, 1870, John J. Day. Res. in Denmark, Iowa. They had
no children but adopted in her infancy, Lilian Anna, b.
Aug. 9, 1879; ra. Feb. 5, 1902, Charles Wharton; she resides
upon the family homestead in Denmark.
18. vi. Harriet Rebekah, b. Oct. 29, 1844; ra. Feb. 7, 1870, Newton
L. Mills [b. Gustavus, O., Mar. 23, 1845].
19. vii. Lucy Henrietta, b. Nov. 30, 1846; d. Eldon, Iowa, Aug. 21,
1907, unra.
20. viii. Ellen Sophronia, b. Mar. 14, 1853; m. Feb. 15, 1883, Rev.
Dallas D. Tibbetts. Five children.
13. William' Taylor (William', Ephraim', Joseph*, Ben
jamin', Jonathan', Abraham'), b. Apr. 17, 1831; d. Aug. 30,
1894; m. (1) Apr. 23, 1856, Almira Jane Dudley [d. Dec. 12,
1891] ; (2) Feb. 22, 1894, Mrs. Martha Sutter. Res. in Den
mark, Iowa. Children :
Olive E., b. July 25, 1859; d. Aug. 2, 1909; m. J. E. Trevett.
Walter W., b. Aug. 20, 1862.
Laura L., b. July 23, 1864; d. Feb. 26, 1897; m. Hiram Ken
nedy.
Bertha G, b. Feb. 10, 1866.
Frank O., b. June, 1868; d. Oct. 20, 1868.
LiLiA, b. Oct., 1870; d. Jan., 1871.
14. Charles Kendall' (William', Ephraim', Joseph*,
Benjamin', Jonathan', Abraham'), b. May 9, 1833; d. Fairhope,
Ala., June 17, 1909; m. Nov. 1, 1860, Harriet N. Briggs [b.
Utica, N. Y., June 11, 1836]. Children:
27. i. Frank L., b. Dec 26, 1861.
28. ii. Nellie M., b. Sept. 28, 1863.
29. iii. Anna D., b. Feb. 9, 1868.
15. Edward Hills' (William', Ephraim', Joseph*, Benja
min', Jonathan', Abraham'), b. May 9, 1836; d. Middletown,
Iowa, July 18, 1911; m. (1) Oct. 23, 1856, Clara Ellen Dudley
[b. Oct. 23, 1856; d. Oct. 31, 1888]; (2) Jan. 14, 1889, Mrs.
Anna Diemer. Children :
30. i. Arthur Allen, b. Oct. 13, 1857; m. Alice Purcell. He is a
farmer and veterinarian at Columbia, Mo. Four children.
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31. ii. Clarence Edward, b. May 1, 1859; ra. Lesta Purcell. He is
raerchant, Nevada, Mo.
32. iii. Etalea Latoria, b. Apr. 2, 1866; m. William Taylor. Res.
at Keene, Tex. Five children.
33. iv. Charles, b. Aug. 7, 1872; m. Clara Van Syke. He is a well
driller at Rocheport, Mo. Five children.
16. George Stewart' (William', Ephraim', Joseph*, Ben
jamin', Jonathan', Abraham'), b. Feb. 16, 1838; d. Geneseo,
111., Feb. 19, 1888; m. Feb. 24, 1870, Sophie E. Mills of Lewis,
Iowa. Children :
34. i. Fred Oliver, b. Dec. 3, 1870.
35. ii. William G., b. July 2, 1875.
36. iii. Edward F., b. July 2, 1875.
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BROWN (John).
John' Brown, b. England, 1608; d. Ipswich, Mass., Sept. 13, 1677;
m. Mary  . He came to America in 1635, and had settled at Ipswich
as early as 1640. He was a farmer and tailor.
John' (John'), b. about 1639; d. Apr. 9, 1727; ra. (1) Hannah 
[b. about 1650]; (2) EHzabeth  ; (3) Hannah  [d. Nov. 17, 1727].
Res. Ipswich.
William' (John', John'), b. 1683; d. about 1753; ra. Apr. 17, 1703,
Dorothy, dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth Giddings. He was a weaver at
Ipswich. William' (William', John', John'), d. Dec. 31, 1799; m. Jan. 1, 1726,
Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph and Susanna (Dutch) Kinsman [b. Nov. 11,
1707]. Res. Ipswich (prob. 1713-76).
1. Ebenezer' (William*, William', John', John'), bapt.
Oct. 14, 1744; d. June 7, 1814; m. Mar. 24, 1768, Elizabeth Per
kins [b. about 1745; d. Mar. 19, 1837]. He came to New
Ipswich about 1776, and settled upon lot 30, N. D., where he
was a farmer and also a blacksmith. Children :
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3. ii. Isaac, bapt. Nov. 18, 1770.
4. iii. William, bapt. Nov. 15, 1772.
5. iv. Elizabeth, bapt. Apr. 11, 1775; d. Apr. 30, 1775.
6. V. Elizabeth Perkins, b. Apr. 21, 1776.
7. vi. Eleazer, b. 1778.4-
8. vii. Lucy.
9. viii. James.
10. ix. Susan, b. about 1786; d. Apr. 21, 1857.
11. x. Saras.
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2. Ebenezer' (Ebenezer', William*, William', John',
John'), b. Feb. 19, 1769; d. May 20, 1849; m. (1) Feb. 25,
1796, Lydia, dau. of Daniel and Lydia (Breed) Mansfield (7) ;
(2) Cynthia Holbrook. He was a clothier in Rindge and a
deacon in the church of that town. Children :
13. i. Ebenezer Wilder, b. Feb. 22, 1797; d. Jan. 15, 1839; m. Nov.
29, 1821, EHza, dau. of Thaddeus and Dorothy (Coolidge)
Richards. He succeeded to his father's business. Children:
i. Franklin Wilder, b. Aug. 24, 1822; d. Aug. 4, 1827. ii.
Eliza Ann, b. Oct. 19, 1830; m. Warhara H. Rugg.
14. ii. Franklin, b. Apr. 17, 1799; d. Oct. 24, 1819.
15. iii. Eliza, bapt. Feb. 4, 1810; ra. Horace A. Breed of Fitchburg,
Mass.
7. Eleazer' (Ebenezer', William*, William', John', John'),
b. 1778; d. July 24, 1855; m. Feb. 6, 1806, Hannah Morgan [d.
Jan. 25, 1867]. In middle life he became interested in cotton
manufactures, then steadily increasing in New Ipswich, and
about 1825 in connection with Samuel Batchelder he estab
lished a factory for the manufacture of tickings, between the
sites of the mills known at different periods as the "Upper
Factory" and the "Lower Factory," as the "Waterloom" and
"Souhegan Mills," and still later as the "Columbian, No. 3"
and the "Columbian, No. 2." "Brown's Factory" was active
until, in the changing methods of competition, the smaller
mills were unable to maintain a profitable activity. For a
considerable period the tax assessed against Mr. Brown was
exceeded by that of only one fellow townsman. He was in
terested in military affairs, and his command of one of the
militia companies caused him to be generally mentioned as
"Capt. Brown." Children:
16. i. Hannah Maria, b. Dec. 9, 1806; d. 1819.
17. ii. Elvira, b. July 25, 1808; d. 1809.
18. iii. Elvira E., b. Jan. 1, 1810; d. 1810.
19. iv. Louisa Reed, b. Mar. 4, 1811; d. Macon, Ga., Mar., 1838; m.
R. R. Graves.
20. V. Lucy Ann, b. Jan. 8, 1813; d. Oct. 22, 1909; m. Jan. 13, 1836,
George M. Champney (16).
21. vi. George, b. Apr. 14, 1815; d. 1816.
22. vii. Henrietta, b. Jan. 16, 1817; d. Macon, Ga., 1848; ra. Dec 25,
1837, Edwin Graves.
23. viii. Charles Bradford, b. Oct. 8, 1818; d. Feb. 11, 1825.
24. ix. Mary Jane, b. Jan. 28, 1821 ; d. Feb. 21, 1825.
25. X. Horace Willard, b. Oct. 31, 1822; m. Aug. 6, 1849, Harriet
N. Tucker.
26. xi. Sarah, b. Dec 8, 1824; d. Dec, 1824.
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BROWN (Jonathan).
Jonathan' Brown, of Westminster, Mass., is assuraed to have been
descended from Nicholas Brown of Westminster and Reading, but no
certain evidence of such descent is known. He m. Mehitable, dau. of
James Hay. Res. Westminster, Mass.
Jonathan' (Jonathan'), b. about 1740; d. Mar. 14, 1820; ra. Huldah
Hawkes [b. about 1743; d. Jan. 1, 1818]. Res. Reading and Westrainster,
Mass. Jonathan' (Jonathan', Jonathan'), b. Reading, Mass., Aug. 30, 1765;
d. July 24, 1840; m. Beulah, dau. of Elisha and Beulah (Taylor) Jackson
[b. about 1772; d. Nov. 24, 1839]. He was a farmer in Gardner, Mass.
Charles' (Jonathan', JTonathan', Jonathan'), b. Mar. 12, 1800; d. Oct.
16, 1863; m. Susan Morehead of Gloucester, Mass. He was a grocer in
Boston. 1. Charles Severance' (Charles*, Jonathan^ t
Jonathan'), b. Boston, Nov. 18, 1844; m. (1) 1867, Frances,
dau. of Adrian and Abbie (Harding) Partridge [d. New Ips
wich, 1889] ; (2) 1891, Ruth, dau. of Ephraim Miller of Salem,
Mass. He has been engaged in carriage service in Boston
since 1872, but passes his summers in his country home in
New Ipswich, formerly the home of Judge Timothy Farrar,
(VIII : 1, S. R.) Children :
2. i. Albert Edward, b. Feb. 19, 1871; m. Oct. 29, 1894, Grace
Joanna Thayer (20). He is an electrician in Hartford,
Conn.
3. ii. Susan Morehead, b. Jan. 1, 1885.
4. iii. Philip, b. Nov. 18, 1892.
BROWN (Joshua).
Joshua Brown', m. Prudence Welch. They came from England to
America and settled at Coventry, Ct.
Benjamin' (Joshua'), m. Jerusha Edwards of Coventry.
Benjamin' (Benjarain', Joshua'), b. Coventry, Feb. 1, 1787; d. Sept.
23, 1857; m. Azuba, dau. of Samuel and Hannah (Butterfield) Searles
[b. Townsend, Mass., Feb. 19, 1790; d. Nov. 29, 1839]. He, came to
Townsend, Mass., in early manhood, and passed his life there as a farmer.
1. Samuel S.* (Benjamin', Benjamin', Joshua'), b. Oct. 27,
1814; d. Sept. 7, 1876; m. May 16, 1847, Arabella Augusta Bate
man (8). He came to New Ipswich while yet a young man and
was actively engaged for many years as a teamster, his home
being one of the houses formerly standing upon the north side
of the turnpike easterly from the High Bridge, which were
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2. i. Arabella A., b. Nov. 9, 1848; ra. Nov. 20, 1878, Joseph Allen,
son of Joseph B.' (Stephen", Joseph", John', John', Isaac',
Isaac'), and Mercy L. (Covell) Cummings [b. May 16,
1847], a machinist in Orange, Mass. Two children.
3. ii. Charles S., b. Jan. 17, 1851; d. Apr. 12, 1902; m. Apr. 27,
1872, Clara L., dau. of Daniel W. and Nancy (Parkhurst)
Rugg of Fitchburg, Mass. He was a tinsmith at Taunton,
Mass., for many years. Two children.
4. iii. William H., b. May 19, 1852; m. Oct. 6, 1875, Isabelle McNabb
of Clinton, Mass. He was a tinsmith, but later has been
superintendent of the waterworks at Shirley, Mass. Three
children.
5. iv. James E., b. Apr., 1854; d. June 12, 1854.
6. V. James Frederick, b. May 10, 1855; ra. June 13, 1886, Etta E.,
dau. of George V. and Lorena (Warner) Davis [d. Apr.
7, 1909]. He is a marble worker and undertaker at Shirley,
Mass.
BROWN (Thomas).
Thomas' Brown came from England, and he settled in Concord,
Mass., in 1640. He died Nov. 3, 1688, and his wife, Bridget  , Mar. 5,
1681. BoAz' (Thomas'), b. Feb. 14, 1641/2; d. Apr. 7, 1724; m. (1) Nov.
8, 1664, Mary, dau. of Edward and Jane Winship; (2) Oct. 10, 1716,
Abigail (Ballard) Wheat [d. July 20, 1726].
Thomas' (Boaz', Thomas'), b. May 12, 1716; d. May 13, 1739; m.
Rachel Poulter.
John' (Thomas', Boaz', Thomas'), b. Sept. 18, 1694; d. Mar. 6, 1750;
m. Feb. 23, 1714/5, Elizabeth, dau. of Judah and Grace (Brooks) Potter
[b. July 23, 1699]. Two of his sons were araong the early settlers in
New Ipswich.
1. John' (John*, Thomas', Boaz', Thomas'), b. July 1,
1724; d. 1803; m. Elizabeth Bateman. He came from Concord
to New Ipswich during the early period of the Revolution,
and settled in an elevated position between Barrett and Kidder
Mountains, only two or three hundred feet below their sum
mits, very near to the crest of the turnpike which was destined
to cross the range more than a quarter-century later. His
children, of whom only the youngest was born after his arrival
in New Ipswich, were:
3. i. Elizabeth, b. June 30, 1753; d. Feb. 24, 1812; m. Lieut.
Samuel', son of Dea. Ephraim* (Thomas', Thomas',
Thomas'), and Abigail (Wheeler) Brown [b. Feb. 18, 1752;
d. Oct. 29, 1818]. Eleven children.
4. ii. John, b. Dec. 5, 1755.-1-
5. iii. Thaddeus, b. Mar., 1758.
6. iv. Asa, b. Apr. 10, 1759; d. Feb. 25, 1834.
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7. V. Anna, b. May 8, 1761; d. Apr. 28, 1825; m. Dec. 6, 1785,
WiHard Spaulding [b. 1761; d. 1822].
.8. vi. Rebecca, b. Mar. 17, 1763; d. Mar. 13, 1813; m. Josiah French
[d. 1840]. Five children.
9. vii. Joseph, b. Feb. 21, 1765.-|-
10. viii. Hannah, b. Apr. 28, 1767; d. Feb. 15, 1852; m. Apr. 16,
1795, Aaron Brown (19).
Reuben, b. Mar. 15, 1769.+
Hepzibah, b. Aug. 27, 1771; d. 1834; m. Nov. 17, 1796,
Stephen Davis (58).
Thomas, b. June 25, 1774.
Polly, b. Aug. 24, 1779; d. Feb. 24, 1832; m. about 1798,
Samuel Wyman.
2. Josiah' (John*, Thomas', Boaz', Thomas'), b. Jan. 30,
1742; d. Mar. 18, 1831; m. Oct. 31, 1765, Sarah, dau. of Joseph
and Rebecca (Heywood) Wright [b. Nov. 27, 1744; d. 1821].
He came to New Ipswich immediately after his marriage, and
settled upon Flat Mountain, half a mile eastward from his
brother, (62, N. D.,) and soon became a prominent man in
military and in religious matters. His name is borne upon
the Concord roll as that of a sergeant, he was first lieutenant
in Capt. Towne's company at Bunker Hill, and claimed to
have fired the last gun before the retreat; and he afterward
was captain in command of a company largely composed of
his fellow townsmen which responded with great prompt
ness to the calls for immediate aid as related in the earlier
part of this volume. He was one of the foremost in the
organization of the Baptist church, in which he was made
the first deacon. Like many men of intense vision and prompt
action, he may have lacked something in breadth of view, but
conscientious and faithful, he was one of those men whose
work in the evolution of a new society can hardly be over
valued. Children — all born in New Ipswich :
Josiah, b. Oct. 1, 1766.-1-
JosEpH, b. Oct. 10, 1767.-I-
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Sarah, b. Nov. 22, 1770; d. Apr. 20, 1822; m. Reuben Brown
(11).
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Amos; b. Sept. 11, 1774.-I-
21. vii. Abner, b. July 27, 1776.-\-
22. viii. Rebecca, b. July 5, 1778; d. June 9, 1853; m. Nathan Perry.
23. ix. Levi, b. Aug. 6, 1780; d. Sept. 10, 1840; ra. May 15, 1803,
Betsey Temple.
24. X. Nathan, b. July 25, 1782.-f
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26. xii. Betsey, b. Feb. 7, 1787; d. July 11, 1793.
27. xiii. Abigail, b. June 22, 1790; d. Apr. 24, 1864; m. Asa Farnsworth.
4. John" (John', John*, Thomas', Boaz', Thomas'), b. Dec.
5, 1755; d. Nov. 17, 1830; m. Nov. 9, 1780, Patty Wright. He
came from Concord, probably with his father, in the later
part of his youth, and remained during the earlier years of
his married life. Later he removed to Sharon, and in 1817 he
sold his farm in that town and removed to Alexander, N. Y.
He had received a good common-school education before leav
ing Concord, and during his life he often added to his agricul
tural labors the duties of a Baptist minister. Children:
28. i. Abigail, b. Sept. 1, 1781; d. June 21, 1803; m. Apr. 19, 1801,
David Nay [b. 1781; d. 1803]. One child.
29. ii. Patty, b. 1783 ; d. about 1803, unm.
30. iii. Cyrus, b. Mar. 20, 1785.+
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32. V. Edward, b. 1789; d. May 2, 1863; m. 1818, Almira Jones [d.
.1868].
33. vi. Sally, b. 1791 ; m. 1818, George Adams.
9. Joseph' (John', John*, Thomas', Boaz', Thomas'), b.
Feb. 21, 1765; d. Dec. 16, 1840; m. (1) Sept., 1795, Rebecca
Walker [b. 1770; d. 1811]; (2) Nov. 5, 1811, Lucy Proctor.
He was a Congregational minister at Shapleigh, Me., 1795, at
Alfred, Me., 1805, at Cavendish, Vt., 1812. Children :
34. i. Mary, b. Oct. 8, 1796; d. Mar. 7, 1866; m. Dec 31, 1819, Israel
Moore. Three children.
35. ii. John, b. July 5, 1801; d. Feb. 22, 1843; m. (1) Nov. 10,
1829, Clarissa B. Whipple [d. 1832] ; (2) Harriet Doolittle.
He was a physician. He had one son, John Henry, b. Aug.
15, 1830.
36. iii. Lucy Amelia, b. Feb. 15, 1813; m. Apr. 11, 1839, Anson
Spaulding. Two children.
37. iv. George Wellington, b. Oct. 4, 1814; m. (1) Dec. 2, 1841,
Sophia Soper [d. 1843] ; (2) Mar. 7, 1849, Irene Woodbury.
Three children.
11. Reuben' (John', John*, Thomas', Boaz', Thomas'), b.
Mar. 15, 1769; d. July 17, 1853; m. July 1, 1793, Sarah Brown
(18). He removed from New Ipswich to Whitingham, Vt.,
about 1800, and thence ten or twelve years later into Canada,
settling in a new town which received the name of Browns
ville in his honor. He was a prosperous farmer. Children :
38. i. Charles B., b. May 10, 1796; m. Nov. 14, 1816, Sophia Stone.
He was a minister.
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Reuben, b. 1798.
Olive, b. May 11, 1801; d. July 6, 1883; m. Jan. 21, 1819, Zenas
Carey. She lived in Paraelia, N. Y., and Richland, N. Y.
Seven children.
Jesse, b. Oct. 22, 1802.
Betsey, b. Mar. 4, 1804.
Abner, b. July 27, 1805; ,m. Sept. 27, 1829, Lucy French [b.
1805; d. 1882]. Nine children.
45. viii. Hannah, b. July 27, 1805.
46. ix. Sarah, b. Mar. 13, 1807.
47. X. John Bateman, b. Mar. 10, 1811; m. Sept. 13, 1837, Mary
Herrick. Three children.
48. xi. Lyman Lockwood, b. Mar. 18, 1815.
15. Josiah' (Josiah', John*, Thomas', Boaz', Thomas'), b.
Oct. 1, 1766; d. Jan. 20, 1858; m.. Apr. 19, 1792, Milicent, dau.
of Edward and Thankful Wright [b. June 25, 1767; d. 1849].
He removed to Whitingham, Vt., where he passed his life as
a farmer. Children :
49. i. Josiah, b. Sept. 24, 1793; d. July 19, 1794.
50. ii. Cyrus, b. Apr. 20, 1795; d. Sept. 21, 1797.
51. iii. Rufus, b. Jan. 12, 1797; d. Aug. 9, 1875; m. (1) May 1, 1820,
Polly Smead [b. 1802; d. 1839]; (2) Ruth (Greenwood)
Belknap, 1841 [d. 1847] ; (3) Dec 13, 1848, Mrs. Eliza M.
Winn, dau. of Abiatha and Betsey Edwards. He lived in
Whitingham. Four children.
Peter, b. July 28, 1798; d. July 30, 1798.
Clement, b. May 23, 1800; d. Aug. 7, 1849; ra. 1823, Polly
Fames.
Milicent, b. July 3, 1802; d. Feb. 24, 1803.
Abram, b. Dec. 10, 1803 ; d. Dec. 19, 1803.
Edmund, b. July 13, 1805; d. Oct. 11, 1866; m. May 5, 1831,
EHzabeth, dau. of Samuel Potter and Elizabeth (Brown)
Prescott. He lived in Whitingham. Six children.
57. ix. George Witherell, b. Mar. 18, 1810; ra. Oct. 4, 1832, Frances
E. Bemis.
16. Joseph' (Josiah', John*, Thomas', Boaz', Thomas'), b.
Oct. 10, 1767; d. Mar. 2, 1827; m. Sally Preston (10). Like
his brother Josiah he became a farmer in Whitingham, Vt.
Children :
58. i. Joseph Wright, d. July 18, 1855.
59. ii. James Preston.
60. iii. Jemima.
17. Jonas' (Josiah', John*, Thomas', Boaz', Thomas'), b.
Mar. 4, 1769; d. Feb. 23, 1836; m. Feb. 20, 1796, Lois, dau. of
Samuel and Abigail Russell. He too passed his life as a
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61. i. Jeremiah, b. Nov. 29, 1796; d. Mar. 4, 1849; m. Clarissa
Fowler.
62. ii. Nancy, b. Mar. 16, 1798; m. Jaraes Peebles.
63. iii. Gratis, b. Apr. 16, 1800; d. Apr. 22, 1868; ra. Joseph Eames.
64. iv. Harvey, b. Dec. 15, 1801; d. Feb. 13, 1874; m. Lucena Fuller.
65. V. Abigail, b. June 25, 1803; d. Mar. 3, 1873; ra. 1823, Joseph
Peebles.
66. vi. Leonard, b. Sept. 24, 1806; ra. Feb. 9, 1834, Lucinda Martin.
Five children.
67. vii. Lois, b. Aug. 25, 1808; m. Jan. 29, 1829, Daniel Fowler. Five
children.
68. viii. Jonas, b. Apr. 8, 1810; d. Apr. 20, 1856; ra. EmeHne Aldrich.
69. ix. Russell, b. Feb. 21, 1812; d. May 7, 1835, unra.
70. X. Martin, b. Nov. 7, 1813; d. July 11, 1861; m. Mary A. Stacey.
71. xi. Abel W., b. Nov. 2, 1817; m. Lucy Horsley.
19. Aaron' (Josiah', John*, Thomas', Boaz', Thomas'), b.
Dec. 8, 1772; d. Feb. 15, 1828; m. Apr. 16, 1795, Hannah
Brown (10) [b. Apr. 28, 1767; d. Feb. 15, 1852]. He was a
farmer, occupying the farm of his father-in-law, John Brown,
on the crest of the mountain. He also for a few years after
the construction of the turnpike kept a store near his home.
He sturdily maintained the activities of his father, Capt. Jo
siah Brown, being a lieutenant and also a prominent supporter
of the Baptist church, and like his father, a deacon. Children :
72. i. Betsey, b. Jan. 23, 1796; d. Jan. 26, 1804.
73. ii. Aaron, b. Sept. 28, 1797; d. May 22, 1798.
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76. v. Mary, b. Feb. 14, 1803; d. Dec. 1, 1837; m. 1836, William
Billings.
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20. Amos' (Josiah', John*, Thomas', Boaz', Thomas'), b.
Sept. 11, 1774; d. May 10, 1864; m. Apr. 5, 1803, Sarah Tar
bell [b. 1782]. He was also a farmer, and the fourth of the
brothers at Whitingham, Vt. Children :
78. i. Elliot, b. Aug. 15, 1804; d. 1902; ra. June 7, 1826, Polly Kings
bury. He was a physician. Seven children.
79. ii. Alois, b. Dec 1, 1805; m. (1) Mary Goodenough; (2) Phila
F. Tenney.
Amos, b. July 9, 1807 ; d. Apr. 2, 1810.
Sally, b. Aug. 13, 1809 ; d. Dec. 4, 1849 ; ra. T. G. Davis.
Clarissa, b. Oct. 11, 1811; d. July 24, 1855; m. Dr. Alien
Carkins.
Hannah, b. Jan. 5, 1816; d. June 13, 1817.
Amos A., b. Oct. 18, 1817; d. Jan. 2, 1869; m. Nov. 28, 1839,
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21. Abner' (Josiah', John*, Thomas', Boaz', Thomas'), b.
July 27, 1776; d. Apr. 4, 1824; m. (1) Dec. 10, 1805, Polly
Jaquith; (2) May 16, 1815, Polly Ayer, dau. of Ebenezer and
 (Hevey) Ayer. He succeeded to his father's farm, and
like his father, held the office of captain. Children :
85. i. Mary, b. June 23, 1807; d. Nov. 6, 1835.
86. ii. Almhsa, b. Apr. 30, 1809; d. Jan. 23, 1857; m. June 9, 1833,
John G. Wilson (26). Two children.
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88. iv. LuRENA, b. Dec 19, 1812; d. July 6, 1833.
89. V. Abner Hartwell, b. July 6, 1816.-)-
90. vi. Marshall H., b. Mar. 1, 1817; d. Apr. 16, 1835.
91. vii. Fidelia O., b. Dec. 13, 1820; m. 1840, David M. Dodge. Two
children.
92. viii. Sophronia P., b. Nov. 4, 1822; d. Oct. 18, 1826.
24. Nathan' (Josiah', John*, Thomas', Boaz', Thomas'),
b. July 25, 1782; d. Jan. 21, 1862; m.. June 3, 1806, Betsey Gold
smith. He remained in New Ipswich for four or five years
after attaining his majority, and then joined his four brothers
at Whitingham, Vt., where he was a successful farmer. Chil
dren: Nathan, b. June 22, 1807.-]-
SoPHiA Burnham, b. Oct. 27, 1809 ; ra. May 23, 1833, Jonathan
Ballard [b. 1798; d. 1862]. Five children.
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JosiAH W., b. June 15, 1815 ; d. July 5, 1816.
Mary E., b. Sept. 9, 1818; d. Sept. 9, 1872, unm.
25. Heywood' (Josiah', John*, Thomas', Boaz', Thomas'),
b. July 2, 1784; d. Mar. 2, 1867; m. Feb. 5, 1809, Sally Wolcott
[b. 1788; d. 1876]. His eldest child was born at Lewis, N. J.,
the second at Concord, Mass., but the greater part of his life
was passed at Acton, Mass. Children :
98. i. James Madison, b. Feb. 8, 1810; ra. (1) Aug. 17, 1839, Laura
Keyes [b. 1802; d. 1848]; (2) Dec 26. 1848, Amanda
Pingrey [b. 1826]. He lived at Littleton, Mass. Ten chil
dren.
99. ii. Josiah Wolcott, b. May 18, 1812; m. Oct. 23, 1842, Harriet
Newell Parker [b. 1821]. He was a minister, and lived
successively at Concord, Mass., Derry, N. H., and Manches
ter, Vt. Ten children.
100. iii. Louise Sacharissa, b. Apr. 3, 1815; m. June 1, 1835, John
Wetherbee [b. 1807; d. 1867]. Two children.
101. iv. Jane Ann, b. Apr. 9, 1817; m. June 1, 1835, George Baker
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102. V. Samuel Heywood, b. Aug. 3, 1819; d. Dec 14, 1880; m. Apr.
30, 1850, Elethina Burnham [b. 1822; d. 1863]. He Hved
in Acton and in Littleton, Mass. Three children.
103. vi. Sarah Wright, b. Jan. 8, 1822 ; m. Nov. 29, 1849, S. Augustus
Child [b. 1822]. Four children.
104. vii. Augustus Winslow, b. Aug. 29, 1824; m. Apr. 4, 1848, Lovey
Blodgett [b. 1827]. Ten children.
105. vin. Mary Baker, b. Mar. 4, 1827; m. Nov. 28, 1848, Moses F.
Greenwood [b. 1827]. Six children.
106. ix. Harvey Darkman, b. Aug. 14, 1831 ; ra. July 4, 1855, Jerusha
C. Little [b. 1834]. Five children.
30. Cyrus' (John', John', John*, Thomas', Boaz', Thomas'),
b. May 20, 1785; d. Oct. 30, 1846; m. Dec, 1810, Milla, dau.
of Benjamin and Rebecca Lawrence [d. 1849]. He passed his
early manhood in Sharon, but at about the age of thirty-three
he removed to Pembroke, N. Y. Children:
107. i. Joshua L., b. Aug. 12, 1812; d. June 20, 1860; m. (1) Nov.,
1835, Eliza A. Colby [d. 1836]; (2) Dec 1, 1842, Diana
Osborne. Three children.
108. ii. Abigail W., b. Dec 8, 1815; d. Jan. 4, 1836; ra. Feb., 1835,
Daniel W. Noble.
109. iii. John W., b. May 7, 1817; m. Jan. 1, 1838, Lorette R. Noble
[b. 1818]. Eleven children.
110. iv. Harriet M., b. Aug. 2, 1819; d. Aug. 4, 1880; ra. Dec, 1841,
Joseph M. Gowing.
111. V. Martha W., b. Apr. 3, 1822; ra. (1) Oct., 1843, Robert Den-
hara; (2) Jan. 3, 1865, Mark Kidder [d. 1884].
112. vi. Cyrus, b. Dec 12, 1824; d. Jan. 19, 1849, unm.
113. vH. Sarah Theresa, b. Sept. 23, 1827; d. Jan. 4, 1863; m. Nov.
20, 1850, Nathaniel W. Stowell. Three children.
114. vHi. Edward Dana, b. Oct., 1829; d. July 12, 1850, unm.
115. ix. Levant R., b. Mar. 3, 1832; ra. (1) Mar. 28, 1854, Laura A.
Warner [d. 1877]; (2) June 2, 1882, Erama L. Sweeney.
Four children.
31. John' (John', John', John*, Thomas', Boaz', Thomas'),
b. Mar. 5, 1787; d. Dec. 22, 1852; m. Oct. 12, 1817, Mary Skel-
don [d. 1884]. During most of his life he was in Buffalo,
N. Y., or Darien in the same state. Children :
116. i. John J., b. Toronto, Ont, Jan. 29, 1819; m. (1) Feb. 23, 1845,
Rebecca A. Hadley [b. 1820; d. 1868]; (2) July 12, 1871,
Harriet J. Gallup. He was a doctor, naturalist, and teacher.
Five children of the first raarriage.
117. ii. Mary Ann, b. Nov. 10, 1820; ra. May, 1856, David Flint
[d. 1872]. One daughter.
118. iii. George, b. Apr. 3, 1822; d. Mar. 22, 1833.
119. iv. Thomas, b. Aug. 11, 1825; d. Aug. 17, 1834.
120. V. Sarah J., b. Mar. 24, 1827; m. Dec, 1854, James Coalsworth.
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121. vi. Edward, b. Aug. 10, 1830; d. June 7, 1864; m. Sept. 5, 1853,
Sarah Winans. Three children.
122. vii. Cyrus, b. July 8, 1832; d. Aug. 13, 1863; m. July 7, 1855,
Sabrina Hutchinson. He was a civil engineer. He served
in the Civil War as a lieutenant in the 100th New York
Regiraent, and was fatally wounded at the storming of
Fort Wagner.
123. viii. George, b. Apr. 10, 1834; m. Apr. 5, 1860, Carrie Garlock.
Two children.
124. ix. Abigail, b. Feb. 8, 1836; m. Apr. 5, 1860, Charles Davis. Two
children.
125. X. Millie, b. May 24, 1839; ra. Apr. 3, 1861, Hon. Henry M.
Rich. Two children.
126. xi. Daniel C, b. Apr. 15, 1841 ; m. Sept. 18, 1876, Louisa Brown.
Three children.
74. Addison^ (Aaron', Josiah', John*, Thomas', Boaz',
Thomas'), b. Mar. 11, 1799; d. May 11, 1872; m. Dec. 13, 1832,
Ann Elizabeth, dau. of Abijah and Elizabeth Wetherbee. He
graduated from Harvard College in 1826, studied at the Har
vard Theological School, and was pastor of the Unitarian
church in Brattleboro, Vt., for many years. He was after
ward a teacher in Brattleboro and editor of the Vermont
Phoenix. Children :
127. i. Frances Allen, b. June 15, 1834; d. Aug. 27, 1870, unra.
128. ii. Ann Elizabeth, b. June 26, 1836; d. Feb. 9, 1862; m. May 3,
1853, Christian Schuster. Two children.
129. Hi. Addison, b. June 6, 1838; d. Mar. 3, 1865; m. Feb. 7, 1863,
Florida S. Starr.
130. iv. Charles Wetherbee, b. Nov. 7, 1840; m. Aug. 20, 1867, Eliza
beth, dau. of Nehemiah and Lucretia Starr [b. 1846].
131. V. Mary Hannah, b. July 5, 1842; m. (1) July 31, 1863, Capt.
Dennis W. Farr [d. 1864] ; (2) Feb. 7, 1867, Col. Augustus
T. Dunton.
75. Hermon' (Aaron', Josiah', John*, Thomas', Boaz',
Thomas'), b. Dec. 28, 1800; d. Aug. 23, 1876; m. Sophronia,
dau. of Samuel Potter and Elizabeth (Brown) Prescott. He
occupied the family farm, upon the mountain, and succeeded
his father and grandfather as deacon in the Baptist church.
Children :
132. i. Addison Prescott, b. Aug. 2, 1827; m. Dec. 26, 1850, Frances
Louisa Chase [b. 1829]. He lived in Bellows Falls and
Brattleboro, Vt., and in Worcester, Mass. Three children.
133. ii. Hannah Elizabeth, b. May 21, 1829; d. Sept. 14, 1831.
134. iii. Joseph Aaron, b. May 8, 1831 ; ra. Feb. 8, 1854, Lucy A., dau.
of Benjamin F. and Mary E. Davis.
135. iv. John Humphrey, b. Mar. 22, 1834; d. Feb. 23, 1845.
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136. V. Mary Elizabeth, b. Mar. 16, 1836; m. May 21, 1857, Charles
H. Burrough [b. 1832]. She lived in Boxboro, Mass. Six
children.
137. vi. Alfred Hermon, b. July 14, 1838; ra. Jan. 20, 1872, Margaret
E. Gale [b. 1851]. Three children. Res. Canterbury.
138. vii. George Stillman, b. Nov. 12, 1840; d. Dec. 11, 1840.
139. viii. Sophronia Eliza, b. Aug. 20, 1842; d. Sept. 16, 1842.
140. ix. Hannah Eliza, b. Nov. 19, 1843; d. Sept. 13, 1845.
77. John S.' (Aaron', Josiah', John*, Thomas', Boaz',
Thomas'), b. Apr. 26, 1806; d. 1902; m. Aug. 16, 1836, Mary,
dau. of David and Orra (Bliss) Ripley of Greenfield, Mass.
He graduated from Union College in 1834, taught eight years,
and then after a couple of years with the Brook Farm com
munity he became a Unitarian minister, first at Fitzwilliam,
N. H., whence he removed to Ashby, Mass., and then in 1857
to Lawrence, Kan., where his ministerial duties were supple
mented by various editorial, official, and agricultural occu
pations. Children :
141. i. Sarah Alvord, b. Jan. 23, 1838. She was an Indian teacher
at Lawrence.
142. ii. William Ripley, b. July 16, 1840; m. Oct. 28, 1868, Lizzie E.
Balcora [b. 1845; d. 1884]. He graduated frora Union
College in 1862. Res. in Larned, Kan. He has held the
offices of district judge, representative in Congress, and
register of the U. S. Land Office at Leavenworth, Kan.
Three children.
143. iii. Charles Edward, b. Sept. 15, 1842; d. June 15, 1880; ra. Aug.
16, 1871, Harriet, dau. of William and Sarah Bell. He was
a farmer at Lawrence, Kan. Three children.
144. iv. Mary Whiton, b. Jan. 15, 1845; m. Apr. 4, 1867, Alfred, son
of Edward B. and Nancy Whitman [b. 1842]. Seven chil
dren.
87. Lebanon^ (Abner', Josiah', John*, Thomas', Boaz',
Thomas'), b. Jan. 23, 1811; d. July 21, 1846; m. Dec. 24, 1835,
Marinda Blanchard (19) [b. Mar. 8, 1812]. He removed to
Keene about 1838, and there remained until his death.
Children :
145. i. Marshall Lebanon, b. Apr. 18, 1837; m. Nov. 10, 1869, Mrs.
Helen (Adams) Child. He was a physician at Winchendon,
Mass. One daughter.
146. ii. Milan Howard, b. Nov. 11, 1839; d. July 16, 1840.
147. iii. Mary Miranda, b. Keene, N. H., May 21, 1841; m. Feb. 9,
1865, William D. Parlin.
148. iv. George Abner, b. Keene, N. H., June 8, 1845; m. June 22,
1867, Ida Lavine, dau. of Reuben and Mrs. Caroline E.
(Cowles) Steward. Six children.
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89. Abner Hartwell^ (Abner', Josiah', John*, Thomas',
Boaz', Thomas'), b. July 6, 1816; d. Apr. 21, 1851 ; m. Apr. 13,
1847, Susan Augusta Shurtleff. He was a doctor. Children —
born at Hanover, N. H. :
149. i. Abner Hartwell, b. Dec, 1848; d. Sept. 20, 1849.
150. ii. Susan Anna, b. Aug. 19, 1850; d. May 16, 1885.
93. Nathan^ (Nathan', Josiah', John*, Thomas', Boaz',
Thomas'), b. June 22, 1807; d. Jan. 1, 1886; m. (1) May 6,
1830, Eliza Whitney Ballard [d. 1871]; (2) July 24, 1872,
Charlotte A. (Worth), widow of William Marlett. His pa
rents removed from New Ipswich to Whitingham, Vt., in his
early infancy, and his boyhood was passed in that town. He
entered Williams College at the age of sixteen, and graduated
as valedictorian in 1827. The following five years were passed
in teaching, editorial work, and preparation for the Baptist
ministry, to which he was ordained in 1832; he sailed as a
missionary to Burmah in the same year. In 1835 he was ap
pointed to a new mission in Assam, where he gave twenty
years of eminently successful and honored labor. He re
turned to America in 1855, and for fifteen years was editor of
the American Baptist, but in 1872 he responded to the call
of Japan and gave the last thirteen years of his life to mis
sionary service there, bearing the same stamp of earnest ac
tivity and consecrated scholarship. Children :
151. i. Dorothy Sophia, b. Charlemont, Mass., May 6, 1832; d. Sept.
29, 1838.
152. ii. William Ballard, b. Maulmain, Burmah, June 7, 1835; d.
Aug. 10, 1835.
153. iii. Nathan Ballard, b. Sadiya, Assam, Sept. 8, 1836; d. Feb.
11, 1841.
154. iv. Eliza Whitney, b. Sadiya, Assam, Sept. 30, 1838.
155. V. William Pearce, b. Sibsagor, Assam, Dec. 12, 1842.
156. vi. Nathan Worth, b. Yokohama, Japan, Oct. 22, 1877.
95. William C (Nathan', Josiah', John*, Thomas', Boaz',
Thomas'), b. Mar. 3, 1812; m. Oct. 10, 1839, Eunice Fisher.
He entered Williams College in 1833, but his health did not
permit him to complete his course. He was a teacher for
several years, and then was engaged in editorial work for
about twenty years, having charge successively of the Ver
mont Telegraph and the Voice of Freedom, both being anti-
slavery papers published at Brandon, Vt., and later he had
charge of the Chicopee (Mass.) Journal. Children:
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157. i. Ann Judson, b. Aug. 8, 1840; m. (1) Dec 11, 1869, Capt.
Frank Preston [d. 1880] ; (2) Oct., 1881, James A. Durfee.
Two children of first marriage.
158. ii. Addison W., b. Nov. 25, 1841; m. Nov., 1864, Jula M. Barr.
One daughter.
159. iii. Francis Fisher, b. Dec. 1, 1843 ; m. June 26, 1867, Susie Sea
man Brooks. Ten children.
160. iv. Mary Elizabeth, b. May 10, 1849; m. Oct. 9, 1875, Moses W.
Lyman.
161. V. Frederick C, b. Sept. 21, 1854; m. Mar., 1878, Ada L. Slyter.
BUCKNAM.
William' Bucknam, b. Ipswich, County Suffolk, England, 1602; d.
Maiden, Mass., 1679; ra. (1) Prudence, dau. of John and Prudence Wil
kinson; (2) Sarah, dau. of Thoraas and Mary Knower. He came to
Araerica in the Abigail, one of the Winthrop fleet, both of the women
whora he afterward married coming in the sarae fleet with their parents,
although John Wilkinson is believed to have died during the voyage.
Williara Bucknara settled in that part of Charlestown called "Mystic Side,"
which is now Everett, where he was a carpenter, but later he became
a farmer with a goodly farm in the region now constituting Maiden. The
only child of his first marriage died unmarried, but through ten children
of his second raarriage he founded the American family of his narae.
Joses' ( William'), b. July 3, 1641; d. Aug. 24, 1694; ra. (1) 1664, his
cousin, Hannah, dau. of George and Elizabeth Knower [d. 1673] ; (2)
Judith, dau. of Lionel and Susanna (Whipple) North of Salisbury, Mass.
[b. 1647], who survived her husband, and m. Capt. John Lynde of Maiden.
Joses Bucknam was prominent in town affairs, was a lieutenant in the
miHtia, and served in King Philip's war.
JosES= (Joses', WilHam'), b. July 1, 1666; d. Apr. 5, 1741; m. Feb.
24, 1691/2, Hannah, dau. of Capt. John and Hannah (Andrews) Peabody
of Boxford, Mass. [b. May 6, 1668]. He lived in the part of Maiden
which is now Everett, where he was a farraer and also a weaver, having
erected a mill for making cloth, the first manufacturing enterprise under
taken in Maiden, and which was continued on the same spot by three
generations of the faraily.
Edward" (Joses', WilHam'), b. of second marriage; d. 1773; m. 1716,
Rebecca, dau. of Samuel and Sarah (Green) Sprague. Res. in that part
of Charlestown which is now Stoneham, and was one of the original
members of the First Church of Stoneham, formed in 1729.
Joses- (Joses', Joses', WilHam'), b. Apr. 17, 1692; d. Aug. 25, 1757;
m. Aug. 27, 1713, Phebe, dau. of Edward and Abigail Tuttle [b. Boston,
Aug. 12, 1690; d. May 6, 1767]. He lived upon an estate descended from
his great-grandfather Knower. He was a respected and influential citizen,
especially in the church,, of which he was a deacon. Like his father, he
was both "yeoman" and "weaver."
Edward- (Edward', Joses', WiHiam'), d. 1801; ra. Jan. 5, 1742/3,
Sarah, dau. of Dr. Isaac and Sarah (Wright) Hill. Res. in Stoneham,
Mass., and was a deacon in the First church for 35 years.
JosEs' (Joses-, Joses', Joses', WiHiara'), b. 1714; d. soon after his
father, not having completed the administration of the estate; m. Mary,
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dau. of Bunker and Martha Sprague of Maiden [b. Jan. 12, 1725/6].
He Hved in Maiden.
James' (Joses*, Joses', Joses', WiHiam'), b. Jan. 23, 1724/5; d. 1799;
m. Sept. 17, 1747, Mary, dau. of John Goddard of Roxbury [d. 1790]. He
lived in Maiden and in Medford.
Aaron' (Joses-, Joses', Joses', WilHam'), b. Feb. 23, 1728/9; d. 1778;
m. (1) Nov. 5, 1760, Alice, dau. of Richard and Martha (Barrett) Skinner
of Lynn and Marblehead [b. 1730; d. Aug. 24, 1767]; (2) May 1, 1768,
Joanna Floyd of Chelsea. With the exception of a few years at Chelsea,
his life was passed in his native town, where like his father and grand
father he was both a "yeoman" and a "weaver," but he sold the shop
and waterpower, thus ending a family industry. He served in the Revo
lution in 1776 and 1777.
Ebenezer' (Edward*, Edward', Joses', William'), m. Rachel, dau. of
Dr. Thomas and Miriam (Gray) Hartshorn (Rachel Hartshorn by adop
tion) [b. 1762]. Res. in Stoneham, Mass.
Joses' (Joses', Joses*, Joses', Joses', William'), was the oldest son of
Joses' but the date of his birth is not known; m. Stoneham, Mass., Sept.
19, 1786, Nabby, dau. of William and Phebe (Brown) Hay. He lived at
Medford at the time of his raarriage, but removed to Mason, N. H.,
where he died. He was a selectman for thirteen years, and twice repre
sented the town in the Legislature. He had served in the Revolution,
and received a grant of land at Glenburne, Me., to which his widow
and a part of his large family removed.
Joanna" (Aaron', Joses*, Joses', Joses', William'), b. Sept. 11, 1769;
d. July 26, 1843; ra. Feb. 6, 1788, Phineas Pratt (1).
1. Ebenezer' (James', Joses*, Joses', Joses', William'), b.
Nov. 9, 1762; m. May 29, 1785, Hannah Varder of Medford.
He lived successively at Maiden, Medford, and Charlestown,
and for a few years, beginning in 1821, he was a resident in
New Ipswich, living on or near the road from the turnpike
across Sawmill Brook. He was a Revolutionary soldier,
and was known as Lieut. Bucknam.
2. Benoni' (Aaron', Joses*, Joses', Joses', William^), b.
Aug. 24, 1767; d. Sept. 8, 1833; m. Jan., 1793, Elizabeth, dau.
of Richard and Mary Floyd [b. 1773; d. Apr. 19, 1855]. He
came to New Ipswich at about the time of his marriage, and
settled exactly at the geographical centre of the town, (XII :
2, S. R.,) where he passed his life as a farmer. Children :
5. i. Benoni, b. Sept. 15, 1793.-|-
6. ii. Elizabeth, b. June 22, 1795; d. Nov. 8, 1828; m. Jan. 16, 1814,
John Russell.
7. iii. John, b. May 30, 1797; d. Aug. 25, 1798.
8. iv. John, b. Oct. 2, 1799.-|-
9. V. Sally, b. Nov. 14, 1801 ; d. July 8, 1863 ; m. Joseph Knowlton
(25).
10. vi. Susan, b. Feb. 7, 1804; d. Feb. 24, 1883, unm.
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11. vii. William, b. Nov. 8, 1806.-|-
12. viii. Aaron Skinner, b. Aug. 30, 1809. -|-
13. ix. James, b. Oct. 12, 1811.-(-
14. X. Alice Marinda, b. Mar. 9, 1813; d. Apr. 21, 1856, unm.
3. Edward' (Ebenezer', Edward*, Edward', Joses', Wil
liam^), b. Stoneham, Mass., Aug. 4, 1789; d. New Ipswich,
Nov. 25, 1880; m. 1814, Sarah, dau. of Nathan and Priscilla
(Hadley) Willey [b. Medford, Mass., Nov. 3, 1789; d. Sept.,
1881]. He lived in his native town nearly ninety years, at
tending to his professional duties as a civil engineer until the
last two years. The closing years of himself and his wife
were passed in New Ipswich, at the home of Daniel B. Gil-
son, (58, N. D.,) Mrs. Gilson being a daughter of his son
Dexter Bucknam.
4. Caleb' (Joses', Joses', Joses*, Joses', Joses', William^),
b. Nov. 16, 1795; d. Aug. 3, 1874; m.. (1) Dec. 12, 1818, Debo
rah Barrett [b. 1800; d. Jan. 5, 1820] ; (2) Dec. 26, 1820, Louisa
Brooks Snow of Mason [b. Nov. 30, 1801; d. July 29, 1878].
The home of his youth was in Mason, although he is said
to have been born on board a ship on a voyage from Ports
mouth, N. H., to Norfolk, Va. Until he was thirty-three
years of age he lived in or near Mason, but was for a little
time at West Townsend, and is recorded in New Ipswich
for a few years following his second marriage, apparently liv
ing near the intersection of the old "country road" and the
Turnpike. In 1828 he removed to "the West," stopping for
ten years at Pontiac, Mich., and being county sheriff during
most of the time; thence he removed to Dubuque county,
Iowa, where he purchased land and founded upon it the town
of Cascade, which he saw increase from a mere Indian trading-
post to a thriving town, near which in an honorable position
stands his monument. Children :
15. i. Deborah, b. Dec. 31, 1819; d. about 1870; m. Sept. 27, 1836,
Artemas Russell. Six children.
16. ii. Eliza A., b. Oct. 18, 1821; m. Mar. 14, 1838, George Grimes
Baughart, a successful business man in Pontiac and Cas
cade. Six children.
17. iii. Magnus Johnson, b. Aug. 10, 1822; d. 1894; m. Harriet
Winchell. He lived in Cascade, and removed thence to
California. Three children.
18. iv. Mary Snow, m. W. S. Hall. Four children.
19. V. Wu-LiAM D., b. Oct. 16, 1825; d. 1879; m. (1)  Chadwell;
(2) Mary Tolman. He lived in Cascade. Eight children.
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20. vi. Elvira G., b. Jan. 8, 1833; m. Sept. 6, 1848, James Cooley.
Twelve children.
21. vii. Harriet Augusta, b. Mar. 3, 1835; m. Charles Winchell.
Lived at Exira, Iowa. Two children.
22. viii. Conelia Maria, b. Mar. 3, 1837; d. June, 1838.
23. ix. Charles Eliott, b. June 6, 1838; d. 1840.
5. Benoni' (Benoni', Aaron', Joses*, Joses', Joses', Wil-
liam^), b. Sept. 15, 1793; d. Feb. 10, 1889; m. Anne Coy.
Soon after marriage he removed to Butternuts, Chenango
county, N. Y., where he was a farmer, as he was later at
Gilbertsville, Otsego county, in the same state; increasing
years caused him to follow his son James Orren to Tripoli,
Bremer county, Iowa, where his wife died within a year, while
he survived his son, but remained in his former home with a
granddaughter till he attained the age of ninety-six years.
Children :
24. i. Horatio, b. probably at Butternuts, where he married and
passed his life, dying of consumption and leaving one son,
Charles, who died from the same disease.
25. ii. James Orren, b. Gilbertsville; d. from accidental discharge of
a gun two days before completing his fifty-sixth year. At
the age of thirty-four he removed with a colony of settlers
from New York to Iowa, and passed his remaining years
at Tripoli. He was an earnest Baptist worker and temper
ance advocate. He married and had at least one daughter,
who married  Nape, and succeeded to her father's home.
26. iii. William Otis, b. July 28, 1818; ra. May 4, 1841, Persis Ann
Clark. Children : i. Ellen Maria, ii. William, iii. Thomas.
iv. Fanny H.
27. iv. MiRANDAE, d. young.
28. V. Sarah, b. Unadilla, N. Y.„ Aug. 12, 1824; d. Feb. 1, 1890; ra.
(1) Rev.  Russel; (2) July 8, 1882, Rev. Sarauel Poin
dexter, with whora she lived at Shapleigh, Me. She was
a successful music teacher.
29. vi. Harriet Newell, b. June 16, 1828; m. June 16, 1858, Lewis
P. Norton. She lived in Westfield, Mass. Child : i. Le-wis
F. Norton; he graduated from Harvard College in 1886,
and is a lawyer in Boston.
30. vii. Dwight Livingston, b. Nov. 11, 1833; d. Sept. 1, 1843.
8. John'^ (Benoni', Aaron', Joses*, Joses', Joses', Wil-
liam^), b. Oct. 2, 1799; d. Apr. 28, 1877; m. Dunbarton, N. H.,
Apr. 13, 1826, Sarah, dau. of John and Mary (Robertson)
Washer of Amherst, N. H. [b. Feb. 4, 1804; d. June 22, 1889].
He learned the business of butcher of Jeremiah Prichard at
Concord, N. H., and followed it at New Ipswich for many
years, living opposite the southeast corner of the old burying-
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ground upon the hill, where, after age made him less vigorous,
he worked diligently repairing shoes. Children :
31. i. Sarah Elizabeth, b. Mar. 25, 1827; d. Sherbrooke, Quebec,
Dec. 11, 1896; m. Hiram C. Wilson [b. Bradford, Vt., Jan.
10, 1827; d. Sherbrooke, Quebec, Nov., 1900]. He had a
large rausic store at Sherbrooke. Four children.
32. ii. Helen Miranda, b. May 27, 1833; m. Sept. 1, 1853, Charles,
son of Samuel and Harriet (Conant) Jenkins of Townsend.
She lived in Mason and Greenville raany years, her church
raerabership in the Greenville Congregational church ex
tending through more than half a century. Four children.
33. iii. Martha Jane, b. Apr. 6, 1836; m. July 31, 1862, Braman I.
Wilson of Alstead, N. H. [b. Oct. 29, 1836]. He enlisted
in the 9th N. H. Regt. eight days after his marriage and
was appointed sergeant; but he served only a few weeks,
as he died at Pleasant Valley, Md., Oct. 23, 1862. One
child, Carrie B. Wilson, b. May 1, 1863; lives with her
mother at Leominster, Mass.
34. iv. John Benoni, b. June 20, 1842.-|-
35. V. Harriet Louise, b. June 20, 1842; m. Aug. 19, 1862, Harrison
D. Evans, son of Horace and Lavina (Washburn) Evans
of Peterboro [b. May 2, 1836]. He had entered Dartmouth
College, but in his sophomore year he left his studies and
on the day before his marriage enlisted in the llth N. H.
Regt., in which he served almost three years, his wife at
the same time being a teacher in the South. After the
war they lived in New Ipswich, Sharon, and Milford, but
since 1880 their home has been at Ayer, Mass. He was at
first a farmer, but later became engaged in the nursery
business. Children: i. Minnie H. Evans, b. Dec. 11, 1866;
she is a milliner, ii. Jennie May Evans, b. Sept. 9, 1869; m.
Williara McLean, who has since died. iii. Harrison E.
Evans, h. Aug. 8, 1881.
11. William'^ (Benoni', Aaron', Joses*, Joses', Joses', Wil-
liami), b. Nov. 8, 1806; d. Aug. 11, 1871; m. Sept. 15, 1841,
Ruth Taylor (39). He was a farmer living a quarter-mile
south from the Congregational church. Children — born in
New Ipswich:
36. i. William Taylor, b. Dec. 12, 1842.-|-
37. ii. Harriet Asenath, b. Dec. 12, 1843; d. Mar. 15, 1856.
38. iii. Samuel Lee, b. July 7, 1844.-|-
12. Aaron Skinner' (Benoni', Aaron', Joses*, Joses',
Joses', William^), b. Aug. 30, 1809; d. Mar. 13, 1889; m. (1)
Jan. 23, 1839, Mary Ann Pierce (13) ; (2) June 27, 1866, Mrs.
Rebecca (Wheeler) (115) Weston. He was a farmer on the
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39. i. Harrison Aaron, b. July 14, 1841; d. Sept. 24, 1894; m. Ellen
M. Walton of Boylston, Mass. He Hved in Leominster,
and afterward in Fitchburg, where he died.
40. ii. Mary Jane, b. Sept. 19, 1844; d. Apr. 9, 1898, unm.
41. iii. James Pierce, b. May 16, 1849; d. Jan. 19, 1859.
42. iv. Eleanor Elizabeth, b. July 8, 1854; m. Frank O., son of
Quincy and Araanda Kendall of Ashby. They live in
Ashby.
13. James' (Benoni', Aaron', Joses*, Joses', Joses', Wil-
liam^), b. Oct. 12, 1811; d. Jan. 10, 1890; m. (1) July 17, 1838,
Mehitable, dau. of Phineas and Joanna (Waite) Pratt (11) ;
(2) Nov. 28, 1844, Almira Dunklee [b. Apr. 8, 1818]. He
was a tanner and currier in Rutland, Vt., for ten years, but
in 1849 he removed to Pittsford, Vt., where he remained until
his death. Children :
Annette F., b. Dec. 22, 1839.
Alice Miranda, b. June 23, 1844; ra. Nov. 25, 1874, Frank A.
Newton [b. July 8, 1850; d. Mar. 14, 1896]. She lived in
Northfield, Mass. One child, Carrie D. Ne-wton, b. Feb. 3,
1876; d. Feb. 25, 1876.
James. Marion A., b. Apr. IS, 1852.
34. John Benoni' (John', Benoni', Aaron', Joses*, Joses',
Joses', William^), b. June 20, 1842; m. Jan. 1, 1866, Mary E.,
dau. of Horace and Lavinia (Washburn) Evans of Peterboro
[b. Nov. 23, 1845]. He was for several years a travelling
salesman, and afterward a painter. They have lived in Mel
rose, Lynn, and Swampscott. Children :
51. i. Frank A., b. Nov. 9, 1866; m. EHzabeth French. He has
lived in Melrose and in Swampscott. Three children : i.
Frank W., h. Dec. 21, 1893. ii. Mary C, b. Apr. 27, 1895. iii.
Sarah, b. July 16, 1896.
52. ii. Arthur B., b. Sept. 5, 1868. Lives in Chicago.
53. iii. Carrie, b. Nov. 28, 1870; d. Oct. 24, 1876.
54. iv. John F., b. Sept. 22, 1872; d. Oct. 19, 1872.
36. William Taylor' (William', Benoni', Aaron', Joses*,
Joses', Joses', William^), b. Dec. 12, 1842; m.. Dec. 30, 1867,
Josephine Maria, dau. of James and Hannah (Wood) Simonds
(5). He succeeded to his father's farm. He was a selectman
several years. Children :
55. i. Katherine Maria, b. Jan. 27, 1871; m. Aug. 16, 1905, Rev.
Henry A. Barber. She lives in Rye. Children : i. Alfred
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56. ii. Mary Abbie, b. Oct. 19, 1876; d. Feb. 18, 1911; m. Mar. 29,
1899, George W. Sargent [m. (2) Jan. 1, 1912, Helen
Churchill]. Res. in New Ipswich. Children: i. Eleanor
Maria Sargent, b. July 23, 1903. ii. Marjorie Josephine
Sargent, b. July 20, 1908; d. Oct. 6, 1909. iii. Robert Wil
liam Sargent, b. Feb. 10, 1911.
38. Samuel Lee' (William', Benoni', Aaron', Joses*, Joses',
Joses', William^), b. July 7, 1844; m. July 26, 1881, Mary J.
Wilcox. He lives in Leominster. Children:
57. i. Glen Taylor, b. May 14, 1882.
BULLARD.
No less than seven of the early settlers at Watertown, Mass., some
of whom certainly were brothers, bore this family name, but the tradi
tions concerning their relationship are not reliable. Descendants from
two of these pioneers settled in New Ipswich, as shown below under their
ancestral naraes.
BULLARD (George).
George' Bullard of Watertown took the freeman's oath in 1641; d.
Jan. 14, 1688/9; m. Beatrice  . He lived in the western part of the
town, which is now Weston.
Jonathan' (George'), b. July 12, 1647; m. (1) Dec. 22, 1669, Dester,
dau. of Joseph Morse of Watertown; (2) Mar. 23, 1721/2, widow Eliza
beth Barns of Marlborough.
Jonathan' (Jonathan', George'), b. Dec. 25, 1672; d. Sept. 14, 1719;
m. Anna  [m. (2) Edward Harrington]. He lived in Weston.
1. Ebenezer* (Jonathan', Jonathan', George^), b. Weston,
Oct. 14, 1719; d. New Ipswich, May 11, 1768; m. Mary  .
He was one of the earliest settlers in New Ipswich, probably
preceded by only three or four. He settled in the extreme
eastern part of the town, (1 : 2, S. R.) Children :
2. i. Asa, b. Dec. 7, 1743 ; d. Sept. 12, 1765.
3. ii. Simeon, b. Aug. 19, 1745.-|-
4. iii. Keziah, b. Apr. 22, 1747; d. June, 1843; m. (1) WilHam Start
(3) ; (2) Mar. 20, 1788, Ezra Towne (1) ; (3) Feb. 13, 1800,
Jonathan Hartshorn [d. 1812]. She then removed to Cam
den, Me., where she lived for more than thirty years.
5. iv. John, b. June 10, 1749.
6. V. Ephraim, b. Apr. 13, 1751; d. Dec 1, 1752.
7. vi. Mary, b. Sept. 12, 1753.
8. vii. Ebenezer, b. Apr. 1, 1756.
9. viii. Sarah, b. May 28, 1758.
10. ix. Susannah, b. Feb. 13, 1761 ; d. Mar. 18, 1765.
11. X. Asa, b. Apr. 18, 1765. It is stated in the former history that
he graduated at Dartmouth College, was principal of the
Franklin school in Boston, afterward studied medicine and
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was a successful practitioner, and that he died at Mt.
Vernon about 1826. But the Dartmouth General Catalogue
gives the name as that of a graduate of 1793, who received
a medical degree at Harvard, and died in 1836, aged 61,
which makes it doubtful whether he was Asa, the son of
Ebenezer.
3. Simeon" (Ebenezer*, Jonathan', Jonathan', George^), b.
Aug. 19, 1745; m. about 1771, Ruth Adams (H. 16). Children:
12. i. Ruth, b. Aug. 7, 1772.
13. ii. Azubah, b. July 20, 1774.
14. iii. Caleb, b. Sept. 7, 1776; d. Jan. 1, 1777.
15. iv. Ebenezer, b. Aug. 7, 1780; d. Jan. 15, 1811.
16. V. Mary, b. May 20, 1782.
17. vi. Sarah, b. Feb. 20, 1784; m. Luther Bowers.
18. vii. Asahel, b. Mar. 15, 1786.
BULLARD (John).
John' Bullard, of Watertown, was one of the first settlers at Ded
ham, signing the "Dedham Covenant" in 1636. He was also one of the
original proprietors of Medfield, to which he reraoved about 1650, and
where he died July 4, 1668. He m. (1) Magdalen  [d. Mar. 20, 1661] ;
(2) Ellen, widow of Thomas Dickerman of Dorchester.
Joseph' (John'), b. Apr. 26, 1643; m. Sarah  . He succeeded to
his father's farra at Medfield.
Ebenezer' (Joseph', John'), of Medfield, d. 1765; m. Susanna  [d.
1763]. 1. Joseph* (Ebenezer', Joseph', John^), b. Medfield, Jan.
16, 1719; d. Mason, N. H., Mar. 3, 1792; m. Mar. 22, 1754,
Sarah Proctor of Westford, Mass. [b. Feb. 25, 1729; d. Nov.
5, 1820]. He settled in New Ipswich at about the same time
as Ebenezer of the preceding family, who was probably his
kinsman, although, as is shown above, their connection
through the family name must have been very distant. The
two lived together, however, for ten or twelve years, but
upon his marriage Joseph settled on the next lot to the west,
(II : 2, S. R.,) and soon after he removed to Mason, where
he passed his life upon a farm which has been occupied by
successive generations of his descendants. Children :
2. i. Silas, b. Apr. 2, 1755.-|-
3. ii. Isaac, b. June 29, 1757; d. 1760.
4. iii. Peter, b. Apr. 23, 1760. He lived successively at Wyoming,
Pa., and Marietta, O.
5. iv. Eleazer, lived at Cincinnati, O.
2. Silas' (Joseph*, Ebenezer', Joseph', John^), b. Apr. 2,
1755 ; d. May 15, 1835 ; m. July 1, 1782, Avis Keyes of Ashford,
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Ct. [b. Dec. 30, 1763; d. Mar. 23, 1836]. He lived at Mason,
where were born fifteen children :
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SiLAs, b. Sept. 5, 1786. -|-
Amasa, b. July 22, 1788; d. Aug. 25, 1808, at Copenhagen,
Denmark.
Isaac, b. Nov. 1, 1790.-|-
Sally, b. Feb. 21, 1793; m. Feb. 27, 1812, John Felt of Tem
ple [b. Apr. 20, 1789]. She lived at Wilton, N. H., and had
seven children.
12. vii. Eleazer, b. Nov. 9, 1794; d. July, 1825.
13. viii. Jesse, b. Nov. 3, 1796; d. July 21, 1797.
14. ix. John, b. May 20, 1798; d. May 20, 1798.
15. X. Caleb Emerson, b. Aug. 29, 1799.-|-
16. xi. Charles Keyes, b. Feb. 22, 1801 ; d. May 7, 1860, unm. After
a successful business life he came to New Ipswich and
bought for his residence the house built by Charles Shedd
just north frora the town hall, and here passed his later
years with his sister Clarissa and her husband.
17. xii. Clarissa Page, b. May 26, 1802.+
18. xiii. Abigail Brooks, b. Dec. 20, 1804; m. Elias Taylor of Jaffrey
[b. Dec. 7, 1797]. She lived at Jaffrey, and had seven
children.
19. xiv. George, b. Oct. 26, 1806; d. May 5, 1807.
20. XV. Harriet Keyes, b. Dec. 22, 1808; m. Nov. 2, 1828, John M.
Maynard [b. Jaffrey, May 12, 1801]. She had five children.
6. Joseph' (Silas', Joseph*, Ebenezer', Joseph', John^), b.
Apr. 2, 1783; d. June 9, 1843; m. Oct. 23, 1809, Lucy (Felt)
Cragin of Temple [b. Nov. 26, 1780]. He lived in Rindge.
Children :
21. i. Lucy, b. July 20, 1810.
22. ii. Amasa, b. May 2, 1812.
23. iii. Elvira, b. Sept. 19, 1815.
24. iv. Silas, b. Aug. 29, 1817.
25. V. Stephen Felt, b. June 8, 1823.
7. Sampson' (Silas', Joseph*, Ebenezer', Joseph', John^),
b. Oct. 24, 1784; m. Nov. 8, 1818, Ivah Patterson [b. June 5,
1798; d. July 16, 1854]. He lived successively at Boston, Con
cord, N. H., and Littleton, N. H. Children:
26. i. Enoch P., b. Sept. 16, 1819.
27. ii. Caroline I., b. Apr. 9, 1821.
28. iii. George H., b. Sept. 6, 1823; d. May 17, 1840.
8. Silas' (Silas', Joseph*, Ebenezer', Joseph', John^), b.
at Mason, N. H., Sept. 5, 1786; d. Feb. 5, 1835; m. May 2,
1820, Mary Ann Barrett (14). He lived in Boston.
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29. i. Mary, b. Nov. 6, 1821; m. John S. Dwight of Boston, a
musical critic and publisher. They were at Brook Farm
before their marriage.
30. ii. Charles Barrett, b. Nov. 22, 1823 ; m. Isabel Gould. Two
sons. He went to California in 1849. He had a farm at
Shirley, Mass., and passed his last years in New Ipswich.
31. iii. Martha Ann, b. Dec. 26, 1825 ; m. Charles Reed. Res. at
Boston.
32. iv. Sarah Jane Wollstonecraft, b. Sept. 11, 1828; d. Oct. 13,
1904, unm. She made her home in the old Barrett man
sion during the last twenty-five years of her life.
10. Isaac' (Silas', Joseph*, Ebenezer', Joseph', John^), b.
Nov. 1, 1790; m. Sept. 10, 1816, Nancy Fay [d. Feb. 24, 1827].
He lived at Mason. Children:
33. i. Charles A., b. Jan. 9, 1819; d. Nov. 4, 1850.
34. ii. Mary Ann, b. Mar. 26, 1820.
35. iii. George C, b. Sept. 25, 1822; d. Dec. 24, 1826.
36. iv. George F., b. Jan. 7, 1827.
15. Caleb Emerson" (Silas', Joseph*, Ebenezer', Joseph',
John^), b. Aug. 29, 1799; m. June 2, 1821, Sophronia Kimball
of Nelson, N. H. [b. Aug. 10, 1801.] Children:
37. i. Benjamin K., b. Jan. 22, 1826; d. Aug. 18, 1829.
38. ii. Abigail A., b. Oct. 19, 1828.
39. iii. Franklin K., b. Jan. 20, 1834.
40. iv. Louisa S., b. June 27, 1837.
41. V. Mary C, b. Jan. 3, 1841.
17. Clarissa Page' (Silas', Joseph*, Ebenezer', Joseph',
John^), b. May 26, 1802; d. Aug. 8, 1879; m. Feb. 5, 1819,
Charles Granger [b. Suffield, Ct., June 8, 1799 ; d. New Ips
wich, Nov. 21, 1865]. She lived at Mason and at New Ips
wich. Children :
i. Catherine A. Granger, b. May 13, 1821 ; ra. John H. Coy.
ii. Charles H. Granger, b. Mar. 31, 1823.
iii. James W. Granger, b. Sept. 30, 1825; d. Jan. 24, 1864.
iv. Mary Ann Granger, b. Dec. 10, 1829; m. Aug. 9, 1849,
Frederick H. Moore.
V. George E. Granger, b. Mar., 1832; d. Aug. 5, 1832.
vi. Martha M. Granger, b. Oct. 3, 1833; d. Dec. 14, 1902; m.
Apr. 6, 1859, William A. Preston (70).
vii. Caroline E. Granger, b. Sept. 7, 1840; d. 1905; m. Apr. 2,
1874, James White Moore.
BURROWS.
1. William^ Burrows, b. about 1728; d. 1825. He is said
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nam.e first appears upon the town records in 1785. He first
settled near the south line of the town, a little east of the
point where the river enters from Ashby, on lot 74, A. D.,
but apparently remained there only a few years, removing to
the Francis Fletcher farm, (XIII : 1, S. R.) The place of his
home there, upon a road now almost impassable, extending
from Davis Village to the house of George S. Wheeler, can
still be recognized, but the house was suddenly destroyed by
its owner about sixty years since to prevent its appropriation
by the town authorities for the use of sufferers from smallpox.
Children: 2. i. William, b. about 1766.-)-
3. ii. Hannah.
4. iii. Joseph, m. July 12, 1790, Lydia Preston (9), and reraoved
to Whitingham, Vt. It is not certain that he was a son
of William, but as his narae appears upon the town records
but a little later than that of his assuraed father, and
earlier than that of Williara, Jr., the assuraption seems
reasonable. There are known to have been other children,
probably never residents in the town.
2. William' (William^), b. about 1786; d. Mar. 10, 1807;
m. 1789, Sarah Fletcher (30) [m. (2) Richard Wheeler (13)].
He was a farmer on the same farm with his father. Children :
5. i. Sarah, b. June 7, 1790; m. Sept. 13, 1818, Oliver Harris (1).
6. ii. Lydia, b. Oct. 17, 1792; d. July 10, 1818; m. Nov. 27, 1815,
Rev. John Parkhurst.
7. iii. Ruth, b. Oct. 14, 1795; m. Jan. 4, 1816, Jonas Dutton.
8. iv. Celia, b. May 20, 1798; m. Feb. 22, 1820, Rev. John Parkhurst.
9. V. Laura, b. Apr. 8, 1801; d. Mar. 6, 1820.
10. vi. William Fletcher, b. Apr. 24, 1804.
11. vii. Elvira, b. June 28, 1807; d. Feb. 28, 1850; m. 1832, Leonard
Hastings (2).
BURTON.
Boniface' Burton was one of the earliest settlers of Lynn, Mass.,
where he died June 13, 1669, at which time he was said to be 113 years
old, but a historian of that time adds the remark "I ara afraid that much
exaggeration was forraerly used with respect to the ages of old people."
John' (Boniface'), d. Oct. 14, 1681. Res. Salera, where he was free
man in 1638. He was a Quaker and suffered punishment for his belief.
Isaac' (John', Boniface'), d. 1706. Res. in Topsfield and in Salem.
John* (Isaac', John', Boniface'), d. 1750.
John" (John*, Isaac', John', Boniface'), b. about 1711; d. Feb. 11,
1791; m. May 14, 1734, Abigail Paine of Salem [b. about 1713; d. Aug.
28, 1796]. He resided for a time in Middleton, Mass., and removed thence
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John" (John', John*, Isaac', John', Boniface'), b. about 1738; d. Nov.
18, 1816; m. at Topsfield, Mass., Oct. 7, 1756, Rebecca Gage [b. about
1739; d. Aug. 17, 1831]. He was a farmer and miller in Wilton, where
he held the office of selectman and town clerk. He was called deacon.
John' (John', John', John*, Isaac', John', Boniface'), b. March 25,
1767; m. (1) Jan. 27, 1791, Eunice, dau. of Dea. Peter and Rebecca
(Russell) Heald of Temple [b. Apr., 1771] ; (2) April 20, 1836, Susannah
Carter of Wilton. He removed to Andover, Vt., where he was captain
of militia, but returned to Wilton in 1808.
Dexter' (John', John', John', John*, Isaac', John', Boniface'), b. at
Andover, Vt., Oct. 16, 1802; d. June 3, 1855; ra. April 20, 1824, Clarissa
O., dau. of Jesse and Sarah (Tidder) Spofford of Teraple [b. June 12,
1803]. Res. in Lyndeboro, where he was selectman for several years.
1. Dexter Lionel^ (Dexter', John^, John', John', John*,
Isaac', John', Boniface^), b. Apr. 10, 1825; d. May 3, 1896;
m. Dec. 16, 1853, Emily Frances, dau. of Jonathan and Mary
G. (Newcomb) Ward of Hampton Falls, N. H. [b. Dec. 21,
1828 ; d. Feb. 25, 1908] . Children :
2. i. George Dexter, b. Oct. 26, 1855 ; m. Jan. 16, 1893, Frances R.
Jones (61). Promoter of the Burton Stock Car and many
electrical devices and machines.
3. ii. May Eva, b. Jan. 9, 1858; m. (1) Mar., 1876, Jeremiah
Kittredge Chandler (R. 97) ; (2) June 17, 1908, Stephen
W. Wheeler.
4. iii. Ida.
5. iv. Nellie.
6. v. John.
CAMPBELL.
1. Robert^ Campbell, a native of Scotland, was in New
Ipswich as early as 1760. His name appears upon the tax-
lists of the town from its incorporation until 1791, soon after
which he probably died. He lived upon the "Jesse Stearns
farm," (7, N. L. O.) No record of his family has been found
except that of the census of 1790, according to which it then
consisted of three males above sixteen years of age, one male
below that age, and five females, but the name of only one
child is known.
2. Caleb' (Robert^), b. about 1741; d. 1800; m. (1) Nov.
26, 1789, Nabby, dau. of John and Elizabeth Wilkins [b. Aug.
8, 1769] ; (2) Apr. 22, 1794, Lydia Stratton (S. 4). He suc
ceeded to his father's farm. Only two children are recorded,
but a third is probably known. Children :
3. Caleb, b. about 1791.-|-
4. Mary, m. Dec. 22, 1817, Samuel Cragin (13).
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5. Lydia, m. May 7, 1812, John Kinsman of Fitchburg. She is
not recorded, but probably was daughter of Caleb.
3. Caleb' (Caleb', Robert^), b. about 1791; d. Feb. 5, 1863;
m. Nov. 25, 1813, Lucy Taylor (29). He passed the greater
part of his life as a farmer on the road to Smith Village, his
farm being on the site of the third home of Abijah Foster,
(IX : 2, S. R.) Children :
6. i. Harriet Atwood, b. Mar. 26, 1815; d. July 1, 1879; ra. June
2, 1841, Newton Brooks (11).
7. ii. Mary Ann, b. Apr. 27, 1816; d. Sept. 19, 1886; m. Apr. 10,
1834, Samuel Cushing (1).
8. iii. Maria, b. Dec. 18, 1820; ra. Cheseldon Perry, a hotel pro
prietor at Brattleboro, Vt. Eleven children.
9. iv. George Caleb, b. Jan. 1, 1823; d. Mar. 12, 1885; ra. July 14,
1844, Abby Jane Newton. He succeeded to the paternal
farm, but made the home of his later years at the Center
Village, in the house long occupied by Moody Adams nearly
opposite the Barrett mansion. He was largely interested in
the lumber business and was one of the selectraen.
10. V. Eveline, b. Nov. 14, 1824; m. John Perry. Res. at Brattle
boro, Vt., and removed thence to Wisconsin. Three chil
dren.
11. vi. Myra, b. Apr. 25, 1826; d. Brooklyn, N. Y., Mar., 1900.
12. vii. Lucy, b. Aug. 1, 1830; m. Benjamin H. Chase, a jeweler at
Brattleboro, Vt., and at Chicago.
13. viii. Emily Frances, b. Dec. 17, 1832; d. June, 1884. She gave
the service of many years to the Faith Home for Incura
bles at Brooklyn, N. Y., and died in that institution.
14. ix. Helen, b. Feb. 17, 1835; ra. William Mills, at that time a
worker in the Y. M. C. A. at Providence, R. I., and later
an Episcopal clergyman.
15. X. Abby Henrietta, b. June 1, 1837. She is superintendent of
the Faith Home for Incurables at Brooklyn, N. Y., which
she with her sister Emily Frances established in 1875, and
which has done a most beneficent work for many years.
CARR.
Thomas' Carr of Sudbury, Mass., m. Nov. 2, 1741, Grace Sherman
of Marlboro, Mass. He was a farmer, and his farm, originally of 300
acres, remained in the family for four generations.
Thomas' (Thomas'), b. Sudbury, Dec. 20, 1742; m. Abigail Lovering.
He had a part in the Revolutionary uprising of April, 1775, and served in
the field during later years.
John' (Thomas', Thomas'), b. Feb. 21, 1773; d. Mar. 23, 1855; m.
Dec. 24, 1797, Dorcas Haynes [b. about 1771; d. Oct. 29, 1840]. He served
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1. Emery* (John', Thomas', Thomas^), b. Sudbury, Apr.
3, 1799; d. Nov. 24, 1880; m. Mar. 30, 1825, Abigail Rice of
Stow, Mass. [b. Sept. 13, 1800; d. Nov. 24, 1888]. He lived
in Fitchburg, Mass., during his early manhood, but in 1834
he came to New Ipswich and built a sawmill a little south of
the "white gchool-house" on the Turnpike, on 146, A. D. At
a later date he moved southerly a mile and a half and made
his home near the Rindge line, (131, A. D.) Children :
3. i. Rebecca Smith, b. Sudbury, Feb. 4, 1826; d. Apr. 3, 1844.
4. ii. James Emery, b. Dec. 30, 1827.-1-
5. iii. Abby Ann, b. Jan. 28, 1830; d. Nov. 3, 1831.
6. iv. Ruth Rice, b. Dec 11, 1832; d. Aug. 26, 1849.
7. V. Joseph Fletcher, b. Apr. 28, 1835.
8. vi. John W., b. July 25, 1837; d. Mar. 2, 1842.
9. vii. Edward J., b. Aug. 12, 1841 ; d. Mar. 18, 1842.
10. viii. John Edward, b. July 23, 1843; d. Aug. 9, 1906. He served
during the Civil War, in the 13th New Hampshire Regi
ment, and later in a Pennsylvania battery. Afterward
res. in Carlisle, Mass.
2. Ezra* (John', Thomas', Thomas^), b. Sudbury, Feb. 21,
1807; d. 1875; m. (1) Oct. 6, 1842, Belinda Walker (J. 14);
(2) June 3, 1875, Mary, widow of Ezra Scollay, and previ
ously of Paul Moore. He succeeded to the Jesse Walker
farm on the west side of the mountain, upon the old Rindge
road, now abandoned, (152, A. D.)
4. James Emery' (Emery*, John', Thomas', Thomas^), b.
Fitchburg, Mass., Dec. 30, 1827; d. Apr. 9, 1911; m. Jan. 12,
1858, Irene Amanda, dau. of Benjamin and Lydia (Cass) Dan
forth of Rindge [b. Oct. 23, 1840; d. Apr. 5, 1904]. He for
many years had a mill very near the Rindge line, largely oc
cupied by the manufacture of shingles, for which purpose he
introduced improved machinery before unused in the state.
He was a selectman 1879-81. He removed to West Rindge
in 1885, where for ten years he had charge of the mills and
farms of the Butterick Publishing Company. Children :
11. i. A daughter, b. and d. June, 1859.
12. ii. Ida Amanda, b. Apr. 24, 1860; d. June 26, 1880.
13. iii. Leslie James, b. Nov. 17, 1862; m. Hattie Hayward. A
farmer in Hancock. Two children.
14. iv. A daughter, b. and d. 1864.
15. V. Emma Lillian, b. Apr. 17, 1869; m. Frank A. Wing, a civil
engineer. Three children.
16. vi. Theodore Parker, b. Aug. 14, 1870; d. Mar. 18, 1912; m.
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17. vii. Ernest Edward, b. Sept. 17, 1871; m. Nettie Barker. At
the age of fifteen he was adopted by Waldo Wilson, and
his name was changed to Wilson. He is a farmer in Car
lisle, Mass. Two children.
18. viii. Roy Davis, b. Nov. 2, 1873; m. Fanny Carey. He is an
engineer in Winchendon, Mass. One child.
19. ix. Amy Henrietta, b. May 21, 1876; m. Arthur Bennett, a
machinist in Providence, R. I.
20. X. John Earl, b. May 13, 1882. He is an engineer in Provi
dence, R. I.
21. xi. Edna Dean, b. June 23, 1883; unm. Res. East Templeton,
Mass.
22. xii. Harlan, b. Dec. 13, 1884; d. July 17, 1886.
CHAMPNEY.
Richard' Champney, descended from Sir Henry Champney who
fought under William the Conqueror at the battle of Hastings, came
with his wife Jane frora Lincolnshire, England, to Carabridge, Mass., in
1634/5, and settled in the part which is now Brighton, where he was
made freeman in 1636, and was a ruling elder in the church. He died
Nov. 26, 1669.
Daniel' (Richard'), b. Mar., 1644; d. 1699; ra. (1) Jan. 3, 1665,
Dorcas, dau. of Thoraas and Dorcas Bridge [b. about 1648; d. Feb. 7,
1683/4] ; (2) June 9, 1684, Hepzibah, dau. of Elijah Corlet and widow
of James Minot. Res. in Cambridge.
Daniel' (Daniel', Richard'), b. Dec. 14, 1669; m. Bethiah Danforth.
Solomon* (Daniel', Daniel', Richard'), b. Mar. 17, 1701/2; d. 1760;
m. (1) 1723, Elizabeth Cunningham; (2) Abigail Crackbone [b. about
1710; d. Jan. 18, 1785]. He began life as a mechanic, but entered the
English army and was serving in Castle William, Boston Harbor, at the
time of his death.
1. Ebenezer' (Solomon*, Daniel', Daniel', Richard^), a
son of his father's second marriage, b. Apr. 3, 1744; d. Sept.
10, 1810; m. (1) Abigail, dau. of Rev. Caleb Trowbridge of
Groton [b. about 1740; d. 1775]; (2) 1778, Abigail Parker
(S. 2); (3) Mar., 1796, Susan Wyman [d. Sept., 1796]. He
was born in Cambridge and graduated from Harvard College
in 1762. He then studied divinity and preached about two
years, after which he left that profession, studied law, was
admitted to the bar at Portsmouth in 1768, and settled in New
Ipswich, where he passed his professional life except during
six years when he was located at Groton, which town he rep
resented in the Legislature. After 1795, he was Judge of
Probate for Hillsborough County. For some years he was
the only lawyer between Keene and Groton, and necessarily
rode over a very extended circuit. By successive purchases
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he obtained the farm situated west of Bank Village, since
owned by his grandson, Hon. John Preston, and he built upon
it the farmhouse which was destroyed by fire. He lived in
this house for some years, but later he removed to the house
upon the hillside across the street from the present Baptist
church, which was for so long a time the home of Esquire
Preston. This home was conveniently near Judge Champ-
ney's office, situated, like his home, upon the old "country
road," just east of the Joseph Kidder Brook, and facing upon
the Village Green. Children :
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4. iii. Abigail, b. May 4, 1767; d. 1805; m. Dec. 10, 1789, Thomas
Gardner of Groton. Seven children.
5. iv. Hannah, b. Sept. 23, 1768; m. Feb. 2, 1792, James, son of
James Prescott of Groton. Ten children.
6. V. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 12, 1770; d. Aug. 27, 1775.
7. vi. Sarah, b. Dec. 25, 1771 ; d. Aug. 20, 1775.
8. vii. Ebenezer, b. Feb. 5, 1774; d. Aug. 29, 1775.
9. viii. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 6, 1779; d. June 19, 1869; m. Jan. 21,
1798, Dr. John Preston (14).
10. ix. Ebenezer, b. July 19, 1780.+
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2. Benjamin' (Ebenezer', Solomon*, Daniel', Daniel',
Richard^), b. Aug. 20, 1764; d. May 12, 1827; m. (1) 1791,
Mercy Parker [b. July 3, 1765 ; d. Apr. 4, 1795] ; (2) Oct.,
1809, Rebecca Brooks [b. about 1782; d. Aug. 15, 1849]. He
studied law in his father's office and commenced practice in
Groton during his father's residence in that town. He re
turned to New Ipswich in 1792, and until his decease he
was an influential citizen. He was postmaster for twenty
years, a selectman for eight years, and was one of the pro
prietors of the first cotton mill in the town, this being also
the first in the state. He succeeded to the home of his father
in the Center Village. Children :
12. i. Sarah, b. July 22, 1792; d. July 15, 1864.
Maria, b. July 23, 1793; d. Nov. 1, 1796.
Benjamin, b. Mar. 12, 1795; d. Nov. 13, 1813. He had en
tered Dartmouth College the year preceding his death, but
a stone thrown by a fellow student struck his head and
ultimately caused his death.
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George Mather, b. Mar. 6, 1812.-|-
Marla. Louisa, b. Nov. 14, 1813; d. July 9, 1881; m. Dec,
1837, Francis K. Cragin (23). Res. Woburn, Mass.
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18. vii. Ellen Eliza, b. Oct. 17, 1815; d. June 5, 1888; m. Dec. 31,
1840, John Clough [b. Jan. 26, 1809; d. Nov. 27, 1879].
He was a physician and practiced for a few years, 1837-40,
in New Ipswich, after which he devoted himself to den
tistry in Woburn, Mass. Child : Sarah Maria Clough, b.
Apr. 11, 1842; m. Robert J. W. Phinney.
19. viii. Benjamin Crackbone, b. Nov. 19, 1817.-]-
20., ix. Mary Jane, b. 1819; d. Mar. 2, 1837.
21. X. Henry Trowbridge, b. Sept. 19, 1825; d. Nov. 17, 1913; ra. (1)
Nov., 1849, Lydia Parshley [d. Feb. 21, 1896]; (2) Apr.
30, 1896, Amelia K., dau. of Vernon and Helen (Smith)
Hanson of St. John, N. B. He was a successful merchant
in New York city until failing health necessitated his re
tirement. Res. West Medford, Mass.
3. Francis' (Ebenezer', Solomon*, Daniel', Daniel', Rich-
ard^), b. Jan. 27, 1766; d. 1837; m. 1786, Abigail Trowbridge.
He lived for a time on the "Woolson farm," (S. R., IV: 2,)
said to have been the first farm cultivated in the town, but
he removed to Groton in middle life and resided there until
his death. Children:
22. i. Francis, b. 1788; d. 1791.
23. ii. Samuel, b. 1789; d. 1793.
24. iii. Abigah,, b. 1793; d. 1793.
25. iv. Fanny, b. 1793.
26. V. Francis, b. 1794.
27. vi. Abigail, b. 1796.
28. vii. Samuel, b. 1798.
29. viii. Ferdinand, b. 1800.
10. Ebenezer' (Ebenezer', Solomon*, Daniel', Daniel',
Richard^), b. July 19, 1780; d. Nov. 16, 1829; m. 1803, Mehi
table, dau. of John and Maria (Nichols) Goodridge of Fitch
burg, Mass. [b. Aug. 29, 1782; d. June 24, 1840; m. (2) Isaac
Bigelow of Leominster, Mass.]. He was a farmer upon the
eastern part of the farm of his father, afterward owned suc
cessively by William Prichard and his son Francis W. Eight
of his grandchildren, bearing the family name, served in the
Civil War. Children :
30. i. Ebenezer Nichols, b. May 8, 1804; d. July 21, 1807.
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33. iv. Fred William, b. Oct. 18, 1809; d. Apr. 16, 1810.
34. V. Julius Beresford, b. Feb. 12, 1811.-]-
35. vi. Samuel Parker, b. Oct. 24, 1814.-]-
36. vii. Mary, b. Jan. 7, 1816; d. Mar. 10, 1816.
37. viii. Elizabeth, b. Mar. 9, 1817; m. Dec. 15, 1843, Daniel Coburn
of Lowell, Mass. [b. Dracut, Mass., Sept. 14, 1819]. She
lived in Lowell. Five children.
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11. Jonas Cutler' (Ebenezer', Solomon*, Daniel', Daniel',
Richard'), b. Apr. 17, 1783; d. Feb. 7, 1824; m. Phebe Parker
(S. 14). He was a farmer upon the "Woolson farm," previ
ously owned by his brother Francis. Children :
39. i. Horatio Nelson, b. 1809; d. May 10, 1849, unm..
40. ii. Abby Parker, b. Aug. 29, 1813; d. Oct. 14, 1894; m. Charles
C. Bellows (4).
IS. Edward Walter^ (Benjamin', Ebenezer', Solomon*,
Daniel', Daniel', Richard'), b. Aug. 18, 1810; d. May 1, 1886;
m. (1) Oct. 8, 1845, Caroline L. Floyd [b. 1820; d. Oct. 6,
1865] ; (2) Apr. 8, 1868, Esther Agnes Frost [b. Feb. 7, 1837].
He was a successful wholesale dealer in dry goods, associated
with his brother George M. in Boston for many years. Res.
at Woburn. Children :
41. i. Walter Frost, b. Jan. 29, 1869.
42. ii. George Kuhn, b. Oct. 17, 1872; d. July 8, 1877.
16. George Mather' (Benjamin', Ebenezer', Solomon*,
Daniel', Daniel', Richard'), b. Mar. 6, 1812; d. Jan. 4, 1882;
m. Jan. 13, 1836, Lucy Ann, dau. of Eleazer Brown (20) [b.
Jan. 8, 1813; d. Oct. 22, 1909]. For many years he was a
partner of his brother Edward W., in the wholesale dry goods
trade of Boston; and in later years devoted his attention to
literary pursuits, being also librarian of Winn Library at
Woburn, where he made his home. Children:
43. i. Georgiana, b. Sept. 29, 1837; d. Aug., 1838.
44. ii. George Edward, b. Feb. 12, 1839; d. Apr. 20, 1842.
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46. iv. Ellen Frances, b. Mar. 2, 1844; m. Feb. 24, 1883, Edward
D. Hayden [d. Nov. 15, 1908].
47. V. Anna Louisa, b. Mar. 8, 1846; m. Dec. 22, 1870, Henry T.
Remick. One daughter. Bertha Remick, b. Dec. 15, 1872.
19. Benjamin Crackbone' (Benjamin', Ebenezer', Solo
mon*, Daniel', Daniel', Richard'), b. Nov. 19, 1817; d. Dec.
11, 1907; m. (1) July, 1853, Mary Caroline Brooks [b. July 17,
1829; d. Oct. 24, 1876] ; (2) June 26, 1879, Margaret Steven
son [b. Feb. 26, 1841; d. Nov. 17, 1895]. He was an artist
of recognized ability. Res. in Boston. Children:
48. i. Benjamin Kensett, b. Dec. 15, 1854.
49. ii. Grace, b. July, 1856; d. Dec, 1863.
SO. iii. Edith, b. Dec, 1859; d. Dec, 1863.
51. iv. Alice Cone, b. Dec. 14, 1869; m. Feb. 5, 1896, Arthur C.
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31. Jonas Cutler' (Ebenezer", Ebenezer', Solomon*, Dan
iel', Daniel', Richard'), b. Jan. 9, 1806; m. 1828, Evelina B.
Allen of Boston. Soon after the death of his father he went
to Dover, N. H., and there learned the machinist's trade,
which he followed through his life with excellent success,
meeting the demands of the passing years with new imple
ments and methods of manufacture. He lived for many years
in South Adams, Mass. Children :
52. i. Evelina B., b. Feb. 8, 1829; m. June 25, 1848, B. T. Sanders
of Pittsfield, Mass. Eight children.
53. ii. Jonas A., b. Nov. 24, 1831.-]-
54. iii. Jane E., b. Nov. 24, 1831; m. May 18, 1854, David Leach of
Manchester, England. One son.
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56. V. Eliza M., b. June 1, 1835; m. Nov. 24, 1858, Chad. Field of
Chester, Mass. Three daughters.
57. vi. Orcelia H., b. Aug. 9, 1837; m. Feb. 25, 1863, Leroy Perkins
of Burlington, Vt.
58. vii. Lewis C, b. Dec. 2, 1839.-]-
59. viii. Sarah A., b. Feb. 22, 1843; m. July 9, 1864, George W.
Dodge of Pittsfield, Mass. One daughter.
60. ix. Augustus, b. about 1847; d. about Aug. 5, 1864. He served
in the Civil War, was wounded at Spottsylvania, and had
not recovered when in a succeeding engagement he was
wounded and taken prisoner. He died in a hospital at
Petersburg, Va.
61. X. Augusta, b. about 1847; d. young.
62. xi. Armenia.
32. Ebenezer" (Ebenezer', Ebenezer', Solomon*, Daniel',
Daniel', Richard'), b. Mar. 4, 1808; m. June 17, 1829, Sarah
Nickles [b. Billerica, Mass., Mar. 10, 1811]. He was a ma
chinist, and for about twenty years was engaged in that
industry at Lowell, Mass. In 1840 he became a farmer at
Carlisle, Mass., which town he served as selectman and in
other official positions. Children :
63. i. Sarah Elizabeth, b. Aug. 21, 1831; m. Apr. 23, 1853, Tim
othy Adams of Carlisle. Four children.
64. ii. Mary M. G., b. Apr. 19, 1833; m. Dec. 9, 1853, A. G. Munroe
of Marlow, N. Y. Three children.
65. iii. Ebenezer Nichols, b. May 3, 1834; d. May 23, 1835.
66. iv. John Holland, b. Nov. 8, 1836. -|-
67. V. Clarissa E., b. Feb. 18, 1838; m. Feb. 7, 1859, Marshall M.
Mason of Concord, Mass. One son.
68. vi. George Henry, b. July 5, 1841 ; d. May 16, 1842.
69. vii. Charles Frederick, b. June 2, 1844; d. Mar. 16, 1848.
70. viii. Frances Ellen, b. June 11, 1846; d. Sept. 14, 1846.
71. ix. Lewis Edwin, b. Oct. 15, 1849.
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34. Julius Beresford' (Ebenezer', Ebenezer', Solomon*,
Daniel', Daniel', Richard'), b. Feb. 12, 1811; m. (1) Sept.
10, 1833, Sarah P. Bradford [b. Duxbury, Mass., June 13,
1813 ; d. Jan. 16, 1850] ; (2) Content Almy. He also was a
machinist, commencing to learn the trade as an apprentice
with his brother Jonas, and spent most of his life in railroad
service, as master mechanic on the Fall River & Boston rail
road until 1855, and afterward on the Chicago & Rock Island
railroad. During the first of these engagements he lived at
Fall River, where he was elected alderman. Children :
72. i. Julius Jackson, b. June 30, 1836; d. July 11, 1836.
73. ii. Oscar Bradford, b. May 30, 1837.-|-
74. iii. Helen Marion, b. Dec 30, 1838; d. July 15, 1839.
75. iv. Edgar Lewis, b. Dec 30, 1838; d. Nov. 19, 1864.
76. V. Ruth Anna, b. Sept. 23, 1852; d. Mar. 30, 1864.
77. vi. Julius Beresford, b. Feb. 2, 1855; d. Nov. 4, 1861.
78. vii. Abby Parker, b. Feb. 7, 1857; d. Feb. 16, 1864.
79. viii. Mary A. Livermore, b. Apr. 3, 1859.
80. ix. Lizzie Preston, b. Oct. 26, 1862; d. Aug. 31, 1863.
81. X. Frank Preston, b. Dec. 29, 1864.
35. Samuel Parker' (Ebenezer', Ebenezer', Solomon*,
Daniel', Daniel', Richard'), b. Oct. 24, 1813; d. Sept. 22, 1866;
m. Oct. 10, 1837, Susan, dau. of Oliver Adams of Worcester,
Mass. [b. July 28, 1814]. He learned the watch and jewelry
business when a young man and conducted it at Grafton,
Worcester, and Somerville, Mass., in succession. Children :
82. i. Preston Adams, b. Feb. 23, 1841; d. Aug. 11, 1864. He
served iiu the Civil War, after a short term in the Rifle
Battalion re-enlisting in the 25th Mass. Regiment, in which
he was a sergeant. He was taken prisoner and confined
at Belle Isle, Americus, and Andersonville, in which last
prison he perished of starvation.
83. ii. Samuel Goodrich, b. Jan. 8, 1843; d. Oct. 19, 1864. He also
was a soldier in the 25th Mass. Regiment, served his full
time, but contracted yellow fever and died in quarantine
before reaching his home.
84. iii. Susan Mehitable, b. Dec. 16, 1846; m. M. Goodrich of
Fitchburg, Mass.
85. iv. Eben Fremont, b. Sept. 7, 1850.
38. Lewis Clark' (Ebenezer', Ebenezer', Solomon*, Dan
iel', Daniel', Richard'), b. May 19, 1819; m. Apr. 18, 1846,
Mary E. Ball [b. Holden, Mass., Apr. 15, 1824]. He learned
the watchmaker and jewelry trade of his brother Samuel, and
followed that occupation at Troy, N. Y., during most of his
life, although he was at Boston for a few years about 1860,
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and entered upon the manufacture of daguerreotypes for a
brief period in the earliest days of that industry. Children :
Mary Adella, b. Mar. 9, 1847.
Elizabeth Ella, b. July 4, 1849.
Julius W., b. Jan. 4, 1851 ; d. Jan. 5, 1855.
Emma, b. Feb. 27, 1853.
Frances J., b. Jan. 8, 1856.
Richard L., b. June 19, 1859; d. June 19, 1859.
Harvey Young, b. Apr. 20, 1860; d. June 22, 1860.
45. Edwin Graves' (George M.', Benjamin', Ebenezer',
Solomon*, Daniel', Daniel', Richard'), b. Aug. 24, 1842; m.
July 21, 1880, Martha Ann (Wilson) Capron. Children :
93. i. Margaret, b. Aug., 1882.
94. ii. George, b. Oct., 1884.
53. Jonas A.' (Jonas', Ebenezer', Ebenezer', Solomon*,
Daniel', Daniel', Richard'), b. Leominster, Mass., Nov. 24,
1831; m. Jan., 1851, Koralia E. Haskel of Montague, Mass.
He served in the Civil War, being a captain in the 21st Mass.
Regiment, with which he served through its entire campaign,
and returned with the rank of major. He was in nearly every
battle between Richmond and Petersburg, and was once
wounded. Soon after his return home he was elected to rep
resent the town of Adams, Mass., in the Legislature. Chil
dren: 95. i. Jane E., b. Lee, Mass., Nov. 22, 1860.
96. ii. Jonas A., b. South Adams, Mass., Oct. 8, 1862.
55. Fred W.' (Jonas C, Ebenezer", Ebenezer', Solomon*,
Daniel', Daniel', Richard'), b. Hancock, Mass., Aug. 25, 1833;
m. Nov. 3, 1859, Almira J. Hayle of Tolborton, Ga. He was
in Georgia in 1860, and voted the Bell and Everett ticket. At
the beginning of the war he was forced to leave the state and
narrowly escaped with his life. He engaged in gunboat ser
vice as a chief engineer, and had a part in the capture of New
Orleans by Gen. Butler. Later he served as a lieutenant.
Children :
97. i. Harriet B., b. Colurabus, Ga., Nov. 17, 1860.
98. ii. Mary L. A., b. South Adams, Mass., Aug. 30, 1865.
58. Lewis C (Jonas C, Ebenezer', Ebenezer', Solomon*,
Daniel', Daniel', Richard'), b. Hancock, Mass., Dec. 2, 1839;
d. City Point, Va., June 20, 1864; m. Oct. 2, 1862, Kate A.
Lyons of Constable, N. Y. He served in the Civil War as a
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through eight battles and numerous skirmishes was fatally
wounded at Petersburg, Va. Child:
99. i. Lewis H., b. South Adams, Mass., July 20, 1863; d. Sept. 30,
1863.
66. John Holland' (Ebenezer', Ebenezer', Ebenezer',
Solomon*, Daniel', Daniel', Richard'), b. Lowell, Mass., Nov.
8, 1836; m. 1857, Elizabeth R. Heald of Carlisle, Mass. He
enlisted in the Andrew Sharpshooters and served for two
years in the Civil War, having part in the battles at South
Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg. He
was honorably discharged on account of disease. Children :
WO. i. Adriana Elizabeth, b. Feb. 11, 1858.
101. ii. Anna Belle, b. Sept. 17, 1860.
73. Oscar Bradford' (Julius B.', Ebenezer', Ebenezer',
Solomon*, Daniel', Daniel', Richard',) b. Black Rock, N. Y.,
May 30, 1837; m. Aug. 23, 1863, Julia Cushman of Duxbury,
Mass. He volunteered at the time of the first call for soldiers
in the Civil War and served for two years in the 20th Illinois
Regiment, his service being terminated by a severe wound re
ceived at Pittsburg Landing, necessitating his discharge.
Child :
102. i. Sarah Cushman, b. Mar. 4, 1865.
CHANDLER.
This name has been represented in New Ipswich by descendants
from at least two emigrant ancestors, not known to be fellow-kinsmen,
William of Roxbury, Mass., and Roger of Concord, Mass., whose families
will be presented separately.
CHANDLER (Roger).
Roger' Chandler, b. about 1637; d. Concord, Mass., Jan. 11, 1716/7;
m. Apr. 25, 1671, Mary Simonds, probably dau. of William and Judith
(Phippen) Simonds [b. Woburn, Mass., Dec. 9, 1647; d. Concord, Aug.
29, 1728]. It is beHeved that he was the son of Roger Chandler of Dux
bury, Mass., who m. at Leyden, Holland, July 27, 1615, Isabella, dau. of
James Chilton of the Mayflower, but this is not absolutely proven. He
came from Plymouth Colony to Concord in 1658, and resided there until
his death. He was a builder and general mechanic, and a house built by
him for Dolor Davis, ancestor of the Concord Davis family, was de
stroyed by fire only a few years ago.
Samuel' (Roger'), b. Mar. 5, 1673/4; d. Apr. 27, 1743; m. Dec 11,
1695, Dorcas, dau. of Joseph and Elizabeth (Jones) Buss of Concord
[b. Jan. 26, 1672; d. Jan. 13, 1757]. He succeeded to his father's farm,
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and representative, each for several years, and was largely interested in
the founding of Lunenburg, Grafton, and Templeton.
James' (Samuel', Roger'), b. Aug. 28, 1714; d. Dec 8, 1792; m. (1)
1737, Mary, dau. of Joseph and Elizabeth Wright of Concord [b. Apr.
9, 1720; d. May 4, 1746]; (2) July 2, 1747, Mary, dau. of Joseph and
Mary (Tompkins) Flagg of Concord [b. Jan. 21, 1716/17; d. May 22,
1753] ; (3) Apr. 14, 1756, Mary, probably dau. of David and Mercy
(Hunt) Whittaker of Concord [b. May 16, 1716; d. Dec 2, 1791]. He
succeeded ' to the ancestral farra. He was selectman for several years,
and despite his advanced years served in the Revolutionary force. He
was also a member of the Committee of Correspondence.
1. James* (James', Samuel', Roger'), b. Dec. 24, 1740; d.
May 10, 1824; m. (1) Jan. 1, 1765, Mary Melvin (4) ; (2) about
1808, Deliverance (Blanchard), widow of Col. Thomas Heald.
He came to New Ipswich at about the age of twenty-one,
and settled upon Page Hill, (XIII: 2, N. L. O.,) where he
lived more than forty years, removing after his second mar
riage to the home of his wife. He was a useful and respected
citizen, being deacon, selectman, and a member of the Com
mittee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety. Children:
2. i. Samuel, b. Mar. 23, 1767; d. 1799, at Norwich, Conn., whither
he had removed soon after reaching his majority. Unm.
3. ii. James, b. Jan. 7, 1769. -|-
4. iii. Roger, b. Aug. 7, 1770. -f
5. iv. Mary, b. May 19, 1772; d. 1811; m. Thomas Kenworthy.
Res. in Mason. Child: i. Thomas Chandler Ken-worthy,
b. Dec. 21, 1810; d. Wheatland, Mich., 1861. He graduated
from Illinois College in 1840, and becarae a preacher and
colporteur.
6. V. John, b. May 14, 1774.-)-
7. vi. Sally, b. Sept. 7, 1776; d. Sept. 15, 1844; m. May 14, 1795,
Ephraim Fairbank (1).
8. vii. Rebecca, b. July 3, 1779; d. July 2, 1870; m. May 2, 1804,
Stilman Gibson (1).
9. viii. Lydia, b. Nov. 15, 1781; d. Feb. 5, 1844; m. Benjamin Safford
(7).
10. ix. Daniel, b. Jan. 2, 1784.-]-
11. x. Hannah, b. Mar. 24, 1789; d. Apr. 16, 1807. She was a
devoted Christian, an unusual fact in those days for one
so young.
3. James' (James*, James', Samuel', Roger'), b. Jan. 7,
1769; d. Gibson, Pa., Mar. 30, 1839; m. Lebanon, Conn., Jan.
1, 1799, Huldah Payne [b. Oct. 17, 1774; d. Jan. 30, 1830]. He
removed to Connecticut in early manhood, and was a clothier
in the towns of Lebanon and Columbia for several years. He
then removed to that part of Susquehanna County, Pa.,
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known as Kentuckyville, near the present town of Gibson,
where he took up wild land and passed the la-st thirty years
of his life as a farmer. Children :
12. i. Charles, b. Sept. 24, 1799.-f-
13. ii. Harriet, b. Mar. 3, 1801; d. July 14, 1865; m. Mar. 10, 1846,
Zachariah S. Neely, a farmer at Dallas, Pa., where she died.
14. iH. Mary Melvin, b. Nov. 10, 1802; d. Oct. 31, 1886; m. (1) Jan.
1, 1823, Charles Edwards [b. Nov. 19, 1797; d. May 8,
1852]; (2) 1854, John Wesley Carpenter [d. 1869]. Nine
children of first marriage.
Stephen Payne, b. June 12, 1804. -|-
Huldah, b. Apr. 23, 1806; m. Oct. 25, 1841, Araasa Lewis
Hyde.
James, b. Apr. 28, 1808; d. Jan. 25, 1810.
James, b. May 9, 1810.-]-
Martha, b. Mar., 1812; d. Mar., 1812.
Joshua Tracy, b. Sept. 9, 1813; d. Feb. 7, 1814.
Sarah Adelia, b. July 30, 1815 ; d. Berwick, Pa., about 1891 ;
m. Oct. 14, 1833, Dr. Clark Dickerman [d. Harford, Pa.,
about 1853].
4. Roger' (James*, James', Samuel', Roger'), b. Aug. 7,
1770; d. New Ipswich, Dec. 24, 1845; m. Lydia, dau. of
Thomas and Lydia (Hunt) Marshall of Chelmsford, Mass. [b.
Dec. 19, 1774; d. Shirley, Mass., July 10, 1868]. He passed
most of his life in his native town, although in early man
hood he was a contractor in the construction of the Middle
sex Canal from the present site of Lowell through Billerica
and onwards. Afterward he bought a part of his father's
farm and built the house long occupied by his descendants,
and now owned by Herbert W. Chandler (122). He did not,
however, devote a large part of his time to the farm, but was
interested in the first cotton factory of the town, and later in
similar undertaking at Ashburnham, Mass. He was asso
ciated with Charles Barrett in the store at the foot of Meeting
house Hill, and for a few years carried on a store under the
same ownership at Keene. Children :
22. i. James, b. May 16, 1796. -|-
23. ii. Thomas Marshall, b. Aug. 15, 1798.-|-
24. iii. John, b. Nov. 25, 1800; d. May 9, 1853. He was a machinist
at Waltham and Lowell, Mass., until about 1839, when he
had a paralytic shock, and afterward lived with his mother
and brother Daniel Lyman in Shirley, Mass., where he died.
25. iv. Lydia Maria, b. Dec. 2, 1806; d. Sept. 16, 1826, unm.
26. V. Seth, b. Dec. 2, 1806; d. Oct. 4, 1889; m. Aug. 19, 1831,
Arvilla Tenney (13). He was a machinist at Waltham
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ministry in 1831, and after a short pastorate at Oxford,
Mass., became pastor of the Unitarian church at Shirley,
Mass., which was his home until his death fifty-five years
later, although his active pastorate closed ten years earlier.
He was for twenty-five years a member of the school board,
and was also town treasurer and historian of his adopted
horae.
27. vi. George, b. May 14, 1810; d. Apr. 6, 1891; m. (1) Dec 9,
1835, Clarissa Elizabeth Wright [b. about 1812; d. Nov.
27, 1851]; (2) Apr. 20, 1852, Susan (Treadwell) Barrett
[b. about 1812; d. Aug. 11, 1886]. He left New Ipswich
at the age of sixteen, and learned at Lowell, Mass., the
mason's trade, which industry he followed some years.
In 1840 he became a farmer in Shirley, Mass., where he
lived during twenty years. The later part of his life was
passed in East Acton, Mass.
28. vii. Charles, b. May 14, 1810.-^
29. viii. Daniel Lyman, b. June 13, 1814; d. May 5, 1892, unm. The
early years of his manhood were spent on the faraily farm
in New Ipswich ; after this he became a successful farmer
and fruit-raiser in Shirley, Mass., which town he repre
sented in the Legislature and where he was selectman. In
1854 he removed to Chicago, 111., and thence two years later
to Kansas, then in the raost disturbed years of its history
and its strife with the "border ruffians." On the outbreak
of the Civil War he at once entered service, despite his
age, and passed four years as hospital steward, at first
of the 10th Kansas Regiment, and later of the 3d Cherokee
Regiment, in which on account of the lack of surgeons he
necessarily assumed their duties, and on his return to
Kansas he continued his medical practice thus acquired
until the closing years of his life. He was mayor of
Ogden, Kan., for a long time, and was also a member of
the Kansas Legislature.
30. ix. Abigail Ann, b. Aug. 15, 1817; d. Oct. 9, 1825.
31. X. Henry Pulaski, b. June 18, 1821.-|-
6. John' (James*, James', Samuel', Roger'), b. May 13,
1774; d. Nov. 9, 1858; m. (1) Oct. 16, 1802, Betsey, dau. of
Oliver and Elizabeth (Shed) Richardson of Billerica, Mass.
[b. Feb. 3, 1780; d. Nov. 17, 1805] ; (2) Apr. 10, 1814, Anna,
dau. of Jeremiah and Anna (Chapman) Kittredge of Tewks
bury [b. Apr. 22, 1794; d. Nov. 14, 1874]. In early manhood
he removed to Tewksbury, Mass., and there passed his life as
a farmer. Children:
32. i. John, b. Sept. 1, 1803; d. Mar. 17, 1836.
33. ii. Betsey Richardson, b. May 17, 1815; d. Feb. 5, 1888; m.
June 10, 1840, Moses C. Lang [b. Aug. 15, 1816; d. Mar.
3, 1877]. He lived in New Ipswich from 1855 to 1860, be
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lumber mills at Gibson Village. Later during the Civil War
he was a dealer in naval stores at South Boston, Mass.
His widow left sorae very considerable bequests to various
missionary and benevolent purposes. One son d. young.
34. iH. Pamelia Kittredge, b. Nov. 11, 1816; d. May 11, 1890; m.
Oct. 3, 1837, John C. Jacques. He was also a dealer in
naval stores of the sarae firra as his brother-in-law. Six
children.
35. iv. James Melvin, b. Nov. 14, 1818.-f-
36. V. Hannah Jane, b. Nov. 7, 1820; d. Feb. 4, 1903; m. Nov. 13,
1845, Darkin Trull [b. Apr. 30, 1819; d. Feb. 14, 1903]. He
was a "gentleman farmer" of Tewksbury. One daughter.
37. vi. Jeremiah, b. Oct. 2, 1822. -|-
38. vii. Joseph, b. Oct. 29, 1824; d. Nov. 5, 1824.
39. viii. Maria Frances, b. Mar. 5, 1826; d. Apr. 3, 1905; m. Sept.
22, 1847, Hiram A. Stevens [b. Oct. 18, 1823; d. Jan. 10,
1888]. He was also a member of the same firm with his
brothers-in-law, dealers in naval stores. He was an alder
man of Boston, and also served in the Legislature, both
as representative and as senator. Seven children.
40. ix. Susan Rogers, b. Apr. 24, 1828; ra. Mar. 4, 1852, John T.
Foster [b. Mar. 20, 1827; d. Oct. 14, 1881]. He was a
farmer in Tewksbury. Five children.
41. X. Martha Ann, b. May 26, 1830; m. Oct. 18, 1849, Daniel A.
Gregory [b. May 22, 1826; d. July 28, 1901]. He was a
successful raerchant in Boston. Two children.
42. xi. Jefferson, b. Aug., 1832; d. Oct. 3, 1832.
43. xii. John, b. May, 1836; d. July 14, 1837.
10. Daniel' (James*, James', Samuel', Roger'), b. Jan. 2,
1784; d. Nov. 2, 1846; m. Jan. 11, 1811, Asenath Wheeler (73).
Immediately after his marriage he removed to Waldoboro,
Me., where he had a paper mill, and where he served as cap
tain in the War of 1812. He removed to eastern Pennsylvania
about 1814, and thence in a few years to New York. During
most of his remaining life he resided in different parts of that
state, although he passed three years in Ohio, and died near
Fort Wayne, Ind., whither he had gone and entered upon
wild land. His industries were varied, including paper mak
ing, lumbering, and farming, and at the time of his death he
was engaged in teaching. His changes of residence were
frequent, as is shown by the birthplaces of his children. Chil
dren: 44. i. Isaac Monroe, b. Waldoboro, Me., Oct. 12, 1811; d. Hinsdale,
N. Y., Jan. 11, 1831.
45. ii. Asenath Maria, b. New Ipswich, Mar. 26, 1813; d. Elling
ton, N. Y., Jan. 29, 1908; m. Apr. 19, 1835, Adnah B.
Kinsman [b. May 9, 1805; d. Feb. 13, 1892]. He was a
farmer at Ellington, N. Y. Eight children.
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46. iii. Emily Monroe, b. Harford, Pa., May 7, 1815; d. Tyrone,
N. Y., Sept. 17, 1840; m. Thomas P. Paulding. One son
d. young.
47. iv. Seth Wheeler, b. Tunkhannock, Pa., June 1, 1817.4-
48. V. Harriet Huldah, b. Wayne, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1819; d. Clean,
N. Y., Nov. 23, 1820.
49. vi. Eliza Butman, b. Clean, N. Y., Sept. 22, 1821; d. Great
Valley, N. Y., July 1, 1824.
50. vii. James Moses, b. Great Valley, N. Y., May 30, 1824.-f-
51. viii. David Silas, b. Olean, N. Y., June 1, 1826; d. Howard
Springs, Tenn., 1896; m. Ellington, N. Y., Apr. 11, 1861,
Julia M. Slater [b. Nov. 18, 1829; d. Feb. 9, 1872]. He
was a public school teacher in New York, Canada, and
Tennessee, commencing at the age of fourteen, and striv
ing to keep pace with changing methods by taking a course
of norraal study in Antioch College when sixty years of
age. He was also a printer in Buffalo, N. Y., for several
years, and a fruit-raiser in Pomona, Tenn., for some time.
During the last years of his life he was blind.
52. ix. Daniel Henry, b. Hinsdale, N. Y., Mar. 25, 1829.-|-
53. X. Mary Elizabeth, b. Hinsdale, N. Y., May 14, 1830; d. Hins
dale, Oct. 5, 1830.
12. Charles' (James', James*, James', Samuel', Roger'),
b. Columbia, Ct., Sept. 24, 1799; d. Apr. 23, 1840; m. Nov. 8,
1832, Eveline Trowbridge of Great Bend, Pa. He was a
farmer and prominent citizen of Lenox, Pa. He was sheriff
of the county, and at the time of his death was at Harrisburg
as a member of the Legislature. Children :
54. i. Mary Asenath, b. Mar. 9, 1834; m. 1856, John Carlisle.
55. ii. James Augustus, b. Jan. 27, 1837.-|-
15. Stephen Payne' (James', James*, James', Samuel',
Roger'), b. Columbia, Ct, June 12, 1804; d. Oct., 1885; m. (1)
Nov. 30, 1834, Sarah Caroline Packer [d. about 1867] ; (2)
about 1870, Mrs. Mary Stevens. He was a farmer in the
town of Gibson, Pa., and postmaster at Kentuckyville post-
office in that town, where he was a leading citizen, holding
various local offices. For a time he lived in the neighboring
town of Nicholson. Children :
56. i. Eveline H., b. 1835; m. Horace E. Bennett, a bookseller in
West Pittson, Pa. Four children.
James Adelbert, b. 1837.-|-
Jane, b. about 1839; d. about 1849.
Ellen, b. about 1841 ; m. George Conrad, a farmer at Lenox-
ville. Pa. Four children.
Frances, b. about 1843. Res. Scranton, Pa.
Henrietta, b. about 1847; m. (Jeorge Harding, a farmer at
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18. James' (James', James*, James', Samuel', Roger'), b.
Lebanon, Ct., May 9, 1810 ; d. Oct. 3, 1872 ; m. Nov. 23, 1834,
Lucy Lane Carpenter [b. Attleboro, Mass., May 14, 1811].
He was a preacher in his early years of maturity, but after
ward succeeded to his father's farm and was a leading citizen
of the town. Children :
62. i. Lucy Adelia, b. July 13, 1836; d. Nov. 6, 1856, unm.
63. ii. Huldah Caroline, b. Nov. 1, 1837; m. June 22, 1869, Wil
liara Henry Davoll, who is a farmer on the farm of her
father and grandfather. Four children.
64. iii. Mary Eveline, b. Aug. 19, 1841; ra. Oct., 1865, Charles O.
Davoll, a farmer at Preston, Pa. Four children.
65. iv. Harriet Abbie, b. Nov. 17, 1843; m. May 23, 1867, John S.
Davoll, a farmer at Preston, Pa. Nine children.
The husbands of the three sisters are brothers.
22. James' (Roger', James*, James', Samuel', Roger'), b.
May 16, 1796; d. Jan. 30, 1879; m. (1) Nancy, dau. of David
and Nancy (Drake) White [b. Easton, Mass., May 1, 1796; d.
Mar. 27, 1853] ; (2) June 27, 1854, Abigail Rhoads (5), widow
of James Newhall (19); (3) Nov. 2, 1872, Lucy Rhoads (4),
widow of Luther W. Nichols. He learned the machinist's
trade in New Ipswich, and on attaining his majority went to
Waltham, Mass., and entered the service of a company with
which he remained for more than twenty years, after 1823 at
the new town started in that year by his employers which
became the city of Lowell, by which town he was thrice
elected representative. He returned to New Ipswich about
1838 and conducted the farm previously owned by his father
and grandfather for some years, but in 1850 he removed to
Smithville, where the first house from the school-house on
the north was his home until his death. He was selectman
several years and representative three times. He was also
president of the bank, and was largely occupied in the set
tlement of estates. These varied duties left no large amount
of time free for mechanical labor, but he had a shop in which
he attended to the repairing of guns and other articles need
ing the machinist's hand. His strict honesty and business
reliability were proverbial. Children :
66. i. Nancy, b. July 18, 1821; d. Nov. 27, 1911. She was a teacher
for some time, but finally devoted her life to caring for
the sick or otherwise needy kinsfolk, as conditions re
quired.
67. ii. James Lyman, b. Feb. 8, 1823.4-
68. iii. George Willard, b. July 29, 1825.-f-
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69. iv. Lewis Edward, b. Mar. 28, 1830; d. Oct. 2, 1838.
70. V. Marshall Warren, b. Dec. 15, 1831.-)-
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23. Thomas Marshall' (Roger', James*, James', Samuel',
Roger'), b. Aug. 15, 1798; d. Dec. 1, 1851; m. 1822, Anne
Cooper [b. England about 1804; d. Aug. 16, 1851]. He was a
machinist, working successively at Lowell, Mass., New Ips
wich, Somersworth, N. H., Watertown, Mass., and finally for
many years in the U. S. Navy Yard at Charlestown, Mass.
Children :
72. i. Mary Jane, b. New Ipswich, June 4, 1826; d. Nov. 2, 1890;
ra. Nov. 13, 1854, George N. Fisher, a milk dealer at
Charlestown. She was a public school teacher in Charles
town and Boston from early womanhood until her mar
riage.
73. ii. Sarah Maria, b. Watertown, Mass., Dec. 1, 1829. Begin
ning at the age of sixteen she was a teacher for forty-five
years in the public schools of Charlestown and Boston, ex
cept during two years of service at an academy in Missis
sippi. After retiring she resided at Ayer and Worcester,
Mass.
74. iii. Lyman Marshall, b. Charlestown, Dec, 1846; d. Aug. 7,
1851.
28. Charles' (Roger', James*, James', Samuel', Roger'),
b. May 14, 1810; d. Apr. 12, 1889; m. Nov. 16, 1834, Esther B.
Plympton [b. June 25, 1814; d. Sept. 10, 1857]. He left New
Ipswich with his brother George at the age of sixteen, and
learned the trade of machinist at Lowell of his brother James,
with whom he worked several years. About 1844 he removed
to Shirley, Mass., and conducted a private express line be
tween that town and Boston, and after retiring from business
he resided there until his death. Children:
75. i. Francis Henry, b. Mar. 22, 1836; d. Feb. 20, 1910; m. Mar.
9, 1860, Kate Carter of Shirley. He followed many lines
of mercantile business, but for many years was a dealer in
flour, grain, produce, and fruit in Nashua, where he died.
76. ii. Elizabeth A., b. Jan. 20, 1838; d. Dec. 29, 1842.
77. iii. Elizabeth A., b. June 4, 1844; m. Nov. 1, 1865, Herman S.,
son of Joseph and Ann (Longley) Hazen [b. Shirley, Aug.
25, 1845]. He is a farmer in Shirley, and has held all the
more important town offices, and has also served as rep
resentative. Child : Ethel Hazen, b. May 29, 1871 ; d. Apr.
15, 1882.
78. iv. Charles Plympton, b. Feb. 16, 1847; d. Sept. 25, 1865. At
the age of seventeen he enlisted in the 26th Massachusetts
Regiment and after a year's faithful service was discharged
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with the regiment, only to die in a short time from dis
ease caused by the hardships of the service.
31. Henry Pulaski' (Roger', James*, James', Samuel',
Roger'), b. June 18, 1821; d. July 11, 1891; m. Feb. 13, 1842,
Charlotte Silver [b. Feb. 14, 1822; d. Feb. 9, 1906]. He
learned the machinist's trade of his brother James at Lowell
and worked there until about 1847, when he removed to the
works just begun where is now the city of Lawrence and con
tinued there, except a brief residence at Shirley, Mass., about
1857, until he retired from business with a comfortable com
petence due in no small part to his valuable inventions in the
machinery used in cotton mills. He retired to East Acton,
Mass., in 1882, and there passed his later years. Children :
79. i. John Henry, b. Sept. 28, 1843.-|-
80. ii. Lydia Maria, b. June 20, 1845; m. Feb. 3, 1874, Stillraan P.,
son of Jonas and Eliza (Atherton) Holden of Shirley,
Mass. [b. Nov. 10, 1840]. He was a farmer and carpenter.
Res. at Shirley and Waltham, Mass. Children : i. Leon
Chandler Holden, b. Nov. 23, 1874. ii. Cora Leslie Holden,
b. Oct. 22, 1879; m. Oct. 17, 1907, E. Thomas Charles.
81. iii. Joseph Shirley, b. Dec. 28, 1846; d. Mar. 20, 1847.
82. iv. Charlotte Abby, b. Jan. 30, 1848; d. Nov. 30, 1859.
83. v. Susan Ogden, b. Apr. 21, 1859. A successful teacher.
84. vi. Jesse L., b. Oct. 14, 1863.-J-
35. James Melvin' (John', James*, James', Samuel',
Roger'), b. Tewksbury, Mass., Nov. 14, 1818; d. Dec. 4, 1888;
m. Oct. 1, 1843, Susan J., dau. of Elijah and Susan (Simonds)
Harris of South Boston, Mass. [b. May 3, 1829; d. Sept. 29,
1903]. He was a member of the firm, of dealers in naval stores
in which his brothers-in-law were engaged, and after his with
drawal from it about 1855, he returned to his native town,
and for the rest of his life held an honored place there.
Children :
85. i. John Henry, b. Aug. 26, 1845.-|-
86. ii. Susan Anna, b. Aug. 25, 1847; d. Dec. 8, 1906; m. Nov. 19,
1869, Samuel L. Babcock, a fish dealer in Keene until 1888,
and afterward in railroad employ at Tewksbury. One son.
87. iii. Josephine Maria, b. Aug. 27, 1849; m. Nov. 29, 1876, Albert
S. Briggs, a general mechanic in Lowell. Res. in Tewks
bury. Six children.
88. iv. Mary Frances, b. Nov. 28, 1851; d. June 15, 1902; m. (1)
Aug. 3, 1871, Elverton A. Davis, a carpenter; (2) Apr. 15,
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89. V. Hannah Jane, b. Mar. 2, 1854. Res. on horae farm with her
brother.
90. vi. James Melvin, b. Feb. 3, 1856; m. (1) July 30, 1884, Isabella,
dau. of Alexander Dewar of Nova Scotia [d. Jan. 3, 1887] :
(2) June 6, 1888, Ida C, dau. of John and Princess Ann
(Rawlings) Lane of Lowell, Mass.
91. vH. Hiram Stevens, b. June 12, 1857.-|-
92. viii. Pamelia Kittredge, b. Aug. 12, 1859; d. Aug. 31, 1859.
93. ix. Isabella Lang, b. Sept. 28, 1860; d. July 22, 1887; m. Nov.
25, 1880, George E. Marshall, a farmer in Tewksbury.
Three children.
94. X. Jeremiah Kittredge, b. Sept. 30, 1863.-|-
95. xi. William Abbott, b. May 9, 1868. He is a farraer on the
home farm with his sister Hannah Jane.
Z7 . Jeremiah' (John', James*, James', Samuel', Roger'),
b. Oct. 2, 1822; d. June 27, 1876; m. Jan. 1, 1849, Anne Cor
nelia Gibson (10). He was a farmer, and succeeded to his
father's farm in Tewksbury, but in his later years he became
insane. His widow m. (2) July 20, 1882, her brother-in-law,
Washington Shepley of Canton, 111. Children :
96. i. John Stillman, b. Jan. 8, 1851 ; unm. He was a farmer at
Canton, 111., for some years, and afterward returned to
Tewksbury.
97. ii. Jeremiah Kittredge, b. Aug. 7, 1854.-|-
98. iii. George Washington, b. Mar. 29, 1860; ra. Nov. 9, 1888, Kate
F., dau. of John and Sarah (Dunlap) Allen [b. May 21,
1857]. He fitted for college at New Ipswich Appleton
Academy and graduated from Tufts College with degree
C. E. in 1880. He has been employed upon several railroads
in the United States and Mexico, upon national river im
proveraents, and in later years has been city engineer of
Canton, 111.
99. iv. Charles Henry, b. June 26, 1863; ra. Nov. 3, 1897, Alice A.,
dau. of Charles W. and Erama (Young) Dodge [b. Brook
field, Mo., July 20, 1870].
47. Seth Wheeler' (Daniel', James*, James', Samuel',
Roger'), b. June 1, 1817; d. Mar. 20, 1871; m. Mar. 11, 1838,
Mary Maria Bush [b. Benton, N. Y., July 11, 1820; d. Oct. 4,
1871] . He passed his life after arriving at maturity in Ellington,
N. Y., and the neighboring town of Kennedy, to which he
removed in middle life after the birth of his children. In each
of these towns he was the owner of a gristmill. He was a
justice. Children:
100. i. Josephine, b. Jan. 8, 1841; d. Kennedy, N. Y., Mar. 24, 1869;
m. Nov. 1, 1865, John M. Mills [b. about 1838; d. Vineland,
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101. ii. Emily, b. May 19, 1843 ; d. Jan. 25, 1868.
102. iii. George, b. May 3, 1845; d. May 16, 1845.
103. iv. Mary A., b. Aug. 2, 1847 ; d. Dec. 18, 1867.
104. V. Myra E., b. Feb. 18, 1850; m. Nov. 28, 1881, Nathan A. Reed,
a merchant's clerk at Austin, Minn.
50. James Moses' (Daniel', James*, James', Samuel',
Roger'), b. May 30, 1824; d. Jan. 7, 1861; m. Perrydale, Ore.,
May 20, 1863, Nancy Ann (Wilson) Sargeant [b. Piqua, O.,
July 8, 1827; d. July 5, 1890]. He studied at Otterbein Col
lege, but did not complete a full course. In 1854 he joined a
colony formed to settle in Oregon, whither they journeyed
with ox-teams, being nearly six months on the way. He took
up a half-section of land and became a farmer, but taught
during the winters until nearly the end of his life. He married
a widow with several children and a farm which with his
own amounted to nearly 1000 acres and seemed a comfortable
barony for their children. Children:
105. i. Charles Henry, b. Apr. 8, 1864.-1-
106. ii. Albert Bennett, b. Nov. 27, 1865; m. Dec. 25, 1889, Cora
Bell Graves. He is a farmer, having land in Perrydale and
the adjoining town of Ballston. He has several children.
107. iii. Emma Maria, b. Nov. 14, 1868; m. Sept. 6, 1885, William B.
Davis [b. Cute, Tenn., 1865]. A farmer and livery stabler
in Perrydale, Ore., and afterward a hardware merchant in
Dallas, Ore.
52. Daniel Henry' (Daniel', James*, James', Samuel',
Roger'), b. Mar. 25, 1829; d. Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 25, 1908;
m. (1) July 3, 1849, Ruth A., dau. of John and Naomi
(Thompson) Felt [b. Ellington, N. Y., Nov. 19, 1829; d.
Xenia, O., June 5, 1886] ; (2) Dec. 29, 1887, Polly Calista, dau.
of David and Polly (Hall) Gates [b. Oct. 2, 1822 ; d. Nov. 9,
1891] ; (3) Nov. 24, 1892, Mrs. Sarah A. (Shaw) Hatch [b.
July 17, 1829; d. May 13, 1896]. He was a blacksmith in New
York and Indiana until the Civil War, when he enlisted as
artificer in the 5th Indiana Battery, and served more than
three years, but was brevetted lieutenant at the battle of
Chickamauga and afterward received his commission. He
was afterward a wagon maker in Indiana, a farmer in Penn
sylvania for several years, and later a travelling salesman in
Tennessee. After a brief experience as market gardener in
Xenia, O., he returned to his early home in Ellington, N. Y.,
and to miscellaneous mechanical activities. While a citizen
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108. i. Martha Jeannette, b. ElHngton, N. Y., June 7, 1850; m.
Feb. 20, 1884, Herman Compton, a farmer at McLane and
McKean, Pa. Four children.
109. ii. Asenath Maria, b. Ellington, N. Y., Dec. 28, 1851; d. Etna,
Ind., Aug. 1, 1865.
110. iii. Charles Wheeler, b. Rutledge, N. Y., Apr. 28, 1853; d.
Xenia, O., May 28, 1903; m. June 5, 1895, Susan, dau. of
Rev. Hirara and Mary Jane (Oliphant) Bulkeky [b. May
13, 1853]. He taught for several years in Ptonsylvania,
Tennessee and Ohio, was a travelling salesman for a time,
a dealer in coal and building supplies at Xenia, 0., 1887-99,
and was engaged in Hfe insurance afterward until his death.
111. iv. Mary Wheeler, b. Rutledge, N. Y., May 19, 1855; d. Jan. 10,
1857.
112. V. George Prentiss, b. Albion, Ind., Mar. 26, 1857.-f-
113. vi. Laura Emily, b. Etna, Ind., Mar. 13, 1861; d. McLane, Pa.,
Nov. 27, 1880. She was a teacher.
114. vii. Anna Simonson, b. Etna, Ind., Sept. 16, 1866. Res. with her
brother Seth Virgil in Knoxville, Tenn.
115. viii. William Henry, b. Etna, Ind., Feb. 9, 1870; d. Nov. 16, 1880.
116. ix. Seth Virgil, b. Franklin, Pa., Apr. 28, 1872. He is a mem
ber of the Knoxville Supply Co., Knoxville, Tenn.
55. James Augustus^ (Charles', James', James*, James',
Samuel', Roger'), b. Jan. 27, 1837; d. Hillsdale, Mich., about
1867. He was probably a farmer. Children :
117. i. Charles, a druggist.
118. ii. Clarence, a druggist.
57. James Adelbert^ (Stephen P.', James', James*, James',
Samuel', Roger'), b. 1837; m. about 1868, Rachel Jones.
Child :
119. i. Clara, b. about 1869.
67. James Lyman' (James', Roger', James*, James',
Samuel', Roger'), b. Feb. 8, 1823; d. Mar. 21, 1904; m,. (1)
Mar. 28, 1848, Clarissa Merriam, dau. of Oliver and Sally
(Whitney) Kendall [b. Ashby, Mass., Mar., 1827; d. Oct. 26,
1854]; (2) July 5, 1855, Ann Elizabeth Wheeler (147). His
home after the age of nine years was in New Ipswich, where
he was first a farmer upon the paternal farm, and later upon
the next farm westward, (XII : 4, S. R.,) where he built the
house now standing there, which was his home for more than
thirty years, after which he succeeded to the home of his
father's later years in Smith Village. For many years he
owned the sawmill on XIV : 4, S. R., and was also largely
occupied as a carpenter and general mechanic. Children:
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120. i. Myron Kendall, b. Jan. 24, 1851; d. Dec. 23, 1910; m. July
30, 1882, Ella E., dau. of James and Eliza (Beaman) Gar
land [b. New Orleans, La., July 30, 1849; d. Mar., 1913].
He was a carpenter at Gardner, Mass.
121. ii. Amanda, b. June 14, 1853; d. Feb. 9, 1901; m. Oct. 5, 1884,
Austin C. Drury. One son, b. Aug. 26, 1885; d. Sept. 26,
1885.
122. iii. Herbert Warren, b. Apr. 2, 1856. -f-
123. iv. Lyman Marshall, b. Nov. 16, 1858; d. May 6, 1895, unm.
He was postmaster at Smithville, where he had a country
store.
124. V. William Henry, b. Nov. 22, 1863.-]-
125. vi. Alice Eva, b. July 30, 1866. She is the present owner of the
family home in Smithville in which she resided.
126. vii. Levi L., b. and d. May, 1870.
68. George Willard' (James', Roger', James*, James',
Samuel', Roger'), b. July 29, 1825; d. Manhattan, Kan.; mi.
(1) June 15, 1847, Martha, dau. of John' (Cornelius'), and
Polly (Stratton) Towne [b. Jaffrey, Nov. 29, 1821; d. May
21, 1848] ; (2) Aug. 12, 1849, Hannah Chaplin Towne (42) [b.
Dublin, Oct. 23, 1831 ; d. Dec. 25, 1900]. He learned the ma
chinist's trade in Lowell, Mass., and has followed that indus
try in that city and in New Ipswich, Dublin, and Greenville,
and Winchendon and Ayer, Mass. He was a very skilful
mechanic, and made a number of useful inventions, among
which is the earliest practicable twine-binding reaper; but
most of the advantages of his inventions have been secured
by others. He lived for a few years after 1854 on the home
farm, and during a period of fifteen years near Kidder Moun
tain, on 46, N. D., on which latter farm he had a well-furnished
shop in which he and his sons were largely occupied. Since
1890 he has been a general mechanic in Manhattan, Kan.
Children: 127. i. George Willard Alonzo, b. New Ipswich, Apr. 28, 1848; d.
Feb. 16, 1849.
128. ii. Maria Hannah, b. Dublin, Apr. 27, 1851; d. Maiden, Mass.,
Mar. 1, 1907; m. July 23, 1879, William, son of William and
EHza (Clark) Gray [b. Newburyport, Mass., Oct. 13, 1838].
He was a clerk and accountant of Winchendon, Mass., and
later in Boston. Children : i. Mabel Hannah Gray, b. Sept.
10, 1880. ii. Gertrude Hortense Gray, b. Mar. 6, 1882. iii.
Ethel Marguerite Gray, b. Mar. 30, 1884. iv. Florence
Church Gray, b. Feb. 4, 1887.
129. iii. Laura Jane, b. Dublin, Jan. 6, 1853; ra. July 3, 1875, Charles
Hanson, son of Charles Hanson and Rhoda H. (Buxton)
Parker of Milford. Res. Milford and Ayer, Mass.
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130. iv. Lewis Edward, b. New Ipswich, Feb. 17, 1855; d. Feb. 10,
1858.
131. V. Abbie Ann, b. New Ipswich, May 7, 1857; ra. Sept. 9, 1881,
Fred Emery, son of Sumner and Cordelia G. (Brooks)
Fletcher and grandson of Reuben Fletcher (50). He is a
machinist. Res. Winchendon and Gardner, Mass. Child:
i. Carl Winthrop Fletcher, b. Nov. 13, 1882; d. Apr. 23, 1904.
132. vi. Nancy Ella, b. New Ipswich, June 4, 1859; m. Mar. 30, 1883,
Edward J., son of Seth R. and Esther A. (Jenkins) Holden
[b. Shirley, Mass., May 3, 1856]. Res. Shirley and Ayer,
Mass. Child: i. Seth Chandler Holden, b. Apr. 24, 1884;
d. May 18, 1897.
133. vii. James Cornelius, b. Greenville, June 12, 1861.-}-
134. viii. George Henry, b. Winchendon, Mass., Dec. 15, 1863.-|-
135. ix. Daniel Lyman, b. Winchendon, Mass., Aug. 6, 1866; m. Sept.
28, 1898, Gertrude Virginia Estey. He is a very skilful
machinist and inventor, and is superintendent of the
Chandler Planer Co. of Ayer, Mass. He has also several
other very useful inventions of earlier date than the planer.
136. x. Harriet Elizabeth, b. Fitchburg, Mass., June 14, 1868; m.
Mar. 4, 1897, Alvah B. Mosher. Res. Ayer, Mass. Chil
dren : i. Minta Julia Mosher, b. May 2, 1898. ii. Elva
Harriet Mosher, b. July 22, 1899. iii. Edna Florence
Mosher, b. Jan. 31, 1903. iv. Ruth Lola Mosher, b. Mar. 31,
1905; d. July 14, 1906. v. Chandler Benjamin Mosher, b.
Oct. 13, 1907.
137. xi. Gertrude Esther, b. Greenville, Aug. 16, 1870. Res. Ayer,
Mass.
138. xii. Charles Willard, b. New Ipswich, Mar. 21, 1872; d. June 24,
1890.
139. xiii. Lucy Eliza,, b. New Ipswich, July 19, 1874; ra. Aug. 8, 1897,
Waldo Whitman, son of John H. and Lydia (Doloff)
Sprague [b. Manchester, Aug. 27, 1877]. He has a position
in the express business at Ayer, Mass. Child: i. Lyman
Chandler Sprague, b. July 18, 1902.
70. Marshall Warren' (James', Roger', James*, James',
Samuel', Roger'), b. Dec. 15, 1831; d. Jan. 19, 1912; m. Sept.
7, 1854, Elizabeth Sterne, dau. of Clark B. and Harriet (Mead)
Campbell [b. Putney, Vt., Oct. 10, 1834; d. Aug. 24, 1910].
He was a machinist at Winchendon, Mass., until failing sight
compelled the cessation of such labor. He was selectman,
also a trustee of the Savings Bank in that town for nearly
thirty years, and a deacon for a longer period. Children :
140. i. Harriet Campbell, b. July 13, 1855; d. Nov. 1, 1888; m.
Charles A. Adams [b. Oct., 1856]. He was a druggist at
Winchendon and afterward at Gardner, Mass., where she
died. Child: i. Bernice Chandler Adams, b. Mar. 16, 1878;
m. June 21, 1899, Charles Allen Loring of New Rochelle,
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71. Charles Henry' (James', Roger', James*, James',
Samuel', Roger'), b. Oct. 25, 1840; d. Mar. 29, 1912; m. Aug.
17, 1868, Eliza F., dau. of Hiram and Charlotte Adelia (Wil
lard) Dwinnell [b. Ashburnham, Mass., Jan. 15, 1844; d.
Ripon, Wis., Oct. 28, 1894]. He fitted for college at New
Ipswich Appleton Academy, graduated from Dartmouth Col
lege in 1868, and devoted his life to teaching. Before entering
college he taught for some years in the academy, and later in
three other New England academies. But after 1870 his at
tention was given to mathematical and allied scientific work,
he having for ten years been a professor in Antioch College
of Yellow Springs, O., and since 1881 in Ripon (Wis.) Col
lege, where he became Professor Emeritus in 1906. He then
came to New England to care for his invalid sister, and while
residing in New Ipswich was a member of the school board
for four years and worked for five years on this History of
the Town of New Ipswich. Children :
141. i. Elwyn Francis, b. Aug. 29, 1872; ra. Sept. 7, 1900, Anna
Levina, dau. of John and Jane (Brown) McCuraber [b.
Chinguacoushy, Ont.]. He graduated from Ripon College
in 1894, and studied for two years at the State University
of Wisconsin. In 1899 he became an instructor in the
State University of North Dakota, where he is now pro
fessor in charge of the Civil Engineering course. He also
has been State Engineer of North Dakota, and holds a
U. S. engineering comraission in supervision of sorae
branches of survey work carried forward in Dakota.
142. ii. Edith Beatrice, b. Feb. 26, 1881. She graduated frora Ripon
College in 1904, and has since been occupied by study in
the University of Chicago and in Europe, and by teaching
the modern languages.
79. John Henry' (Henry P.', Roger', James*, James',
Samuel', Roger'), b. Lowell, Mass., Sept. 28, 1843; m. (1) Jan.
17, 1867, Augusta Porter of Shirley, Mass.; (2) June, 1879,
Abbie Smith [d. Pasadena, Cal., Jan. 10, 1888] ; (3) July 20,
1893, Clarinda Smith. He learned the machinist's trade and
has followed it during most of his life at Ballardvale, Mass.,
and Indian Orchard, Mass. He was engaged for a few years
in fruit culture at San Jose, Cal. Children :
143. i. Henry Porter, b. Indian Orchard, Mar. 3, 1880; m. Joliet,
111., Helen Firman Mack. He studied for two years at
Stanford University, and then transferring to Harvard
University graduated there in 1901. He was next an in
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tary, being also a law student, and later he was admitted
to the bar in that city.
144. ii. Ethel, b. Indian Orchard, Aug. 28, 1881. She graduated
from Mt. Holyoke College in 1905.
145. iii. Grant, b. Ballardvale, Aug. IS, 1885. He graduated from
Harvard College.
84. Jesse L.' (Henry P.', Roger', James*, James', Samuel',
Roger'), b. Oct. 14, 1863; m. July 3, 1883, Hattie G. Shaw.
He is a machinist at Lawrence, Mass. Child :
146. i. Charles, d. in infancy.
85. John Henry' (James M.', John', James*, James', Sam
uel', Roger'), b. South Boston, Mass., Aug. 26, 1845; m. Nov.
19, 1869, Annette AuUen. He has passed his life since early
boyhood in his ancestral town, Tewksbury, Mass., where he
has been town clerk. Child :
147. i. Bertha J., b. June 20, 1876.
91. Hiram Stevens' (James M.', John', James*, James',
Samuel', Roger'), b. Tewksbury, Mass., June 12, 1857; m. Oct.
20, 1881, Theresa Schmidt [b. Tewksbury, Oct. 12, 1861].
He is a farmer in his native town. Children:
148. i. Hiram Thaddeus, b. Oct. 2, 1883.
149. ii. George William, b. Oct. 10, 1885.
ISO. iii. Andrew James, b. Sept. 22, 1890.
94. Jeremiah Kittredge' (James', John', James*, James',
Samuel', Roger'), b. Tewksbury, Mass., Sept. 30, 1863; m..
Nov. 26, 1884, Catherine, dau. of Thaddeus and Catherine L.
(Sotting) Schmidt [b. Tewksbury, June, 1863]. He is a
farmer of Tewksbury, living near the ancestral farm. Chil
dren: 151. i. Alice Gertrude, b. Feb. 27, 1886; m. Dec. 20, 1906,  Irving.
152. ii. Larkin Trull Thorndike, b. Oct. 3, 1888.
153. iii. William Albert, b. Nov., 1890.
97. Jeremiah Kittredge' (Jeremiah', John', James*,
James', Samuel', Roger'), b. Tewksbury, Mass., Aug. 7, 1854;
d. Jan. 3, 1881 ; m. Mar., 1876, Mary Eva Burton (3). He was
a farmer of his native town, where he died. Children:
1S4. i. Annie Frances, b. Oct. 21, 1876; m. Oct. 2, 1892, Walter S.
Thayer (21).
155. ii. Nellie, b. Nov. 21, 1878; d. Aug. 20, 1879.
156. iii. Harry Hersey, b. May 28, 1880.-|-
105. Charles Henry' (James M.', Daniel', James*, James',
Samuel', Roger'), b. Ballston, Ore., Apr. 8, 1864; m. June 24,
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1885, Althea Genia Cox. He is a farmer and stock raiser,
and has res. successively at Langlois, Grand Ronde, and
Bandon, Ore. Child :
157. i. Vernon Vance, b. Langlois, Ore., Jan. 14, 1890.
112. George Prentiss' (Daniel', Daniel', James*, James',
Samuel', Roger'), b. Albion, Ind., Mar. 26, 1857; m. IDayton,
O., Mar. 10, 1892, Ella Wright. He was a teacher in Pennsyl
vania, and a traveling salesman for school supplies; in 1885
he entered business with his brother Charles W. as dealers
in coal and building supplies at Xenia, O., where he continued
until 1891, since which time he has been a member of the
Knoxville Supply Co., Knoxville, Tenn. He also is proprietor
of a coal mine at Briceville, Tenn. Children :
159. i. Jamison Wright, b. Oct. 18, 1895 ; d. Oct. 19, 1895.
160. ii. William Lindsley Wright, b. Apr. 8, 1898.
122. Herbert Warren' (James L.', James', Roger',
James*, James', Samuel', Roger'), b. Apr. 2, 1856; m. Apr. 16,
1884, Carrie Mary Hannah Blanchard (50). He is a merchant
and mechanic at Smithville, where he is also postmaster.
Children :
161. i. James Oilman, b. Dec. 23, 1887; d. Feb. 6, 1888.
162. ii. George Blanchard, b. Dec. 9, 1888; d. Dec. 9, 1888.
163. iii. Robert Levi, b. June 5, 1894.
164. iv. Lyman Marshall, b. Apr. 22, 1899.
124. William Henry" (James L.', James', Roger', James*,
James', Samuel', Roger'), b. Nov. 22, 1863; m. Oct. 30, 1887,
Henrietta Florence, dau. of Henry and Rachel A. (Giddings)
Stiles [b. Temple, Mar. 10, 1866]. He has been successively
a farmer in New Ipswich, a merchant in Ashby, Mass., and a
farmer in Ashburnham, Mass. Child :
165. i. Ernest Henry, b. July 20, 1892.
133. James Cornelius' (George W.', James', Roger',
James*, James', Samuel', Roger'), b. June 12, 1861 ; m. Oct.
29, 1885, Ellen Maria, dau. of Albert Freeman and Lydia
Maria (Burgess) Wright. He is a blacksmith, and has res.
successively at Ayer, Mass., Nashua, and New Ipswich. He
has been a selectman in New Ipswich. Children :
166. i. George Freeman, b. May 16, 1889.
167. ii. Cora Lydia, b. June 6, 1892; m. Carl L. Chandler. One
daughter, Madeleine Harriet, b. July 27, 1911.
168. iii. James Ralph, b. Dec. 12, 1898.
169. iv. Gladys Ellen, b. Oct. 26, 1901.
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134. George Henry' (George W.', James', Roger', James*,
James', Samuel', Roger'), b. Dec. 15, 1863; m. Dec. 24, 1891,
Annie V. Webber [b. Buxton, Me., Dec. 23, 1873]. He is a
machinist at Ayer, Mass. Children:
170. i. Lucy Elizabeth, b. Jan. 2, 1894.
171. ii. Lyman Everett, b. Feb. 25, 1895; d. Aug. 26, 1895.
172. iii. Eva Henrietta, b. Nov. 10, 1896.
173. iv. Avis Burns, b. Mar. 17, 1899.
174. V. Dorothy Chaplin, b. July 16, 1901.
175. vi. Charles Henry, b. May 13, 1905.
156. Harry Hersey" (Jeremiah K.', Jeremiah', John',
James*, James', Samuel', Roger'), b. Tewksbury, Mass., May
28, 1880; m,. Dec. 3, 1903, Georgie Hurd Colwell of St. John,
N. B. He is a member of the Chandler Non-Skidding Chain
Co., New York city. Children :
176. i. Paul Douglas, b. July 5, 1905.
177. ii. Ruth Josephine, b. Dec, 1906.
178. iii. Olive Easter, b. Apr. 24, 1908.
Samuel Chandler, formerly a sailor, occupied the "Breed
farm," 82, A. D., for several years about 1850-1860, but ap
parently he was not a member of either of the families con
sidered here.
CHANDLER (William).
William' Chandler, d. 1641; m. Annis  [d. Mar. 17, 1683].
With wife and four children he settled in Roxbur/ in 1637. His widow
m. (1) John Dane; (2) John Parmenter of Sudhary. The church records
say "1683 m. 1; d. 17; died old Mother Parmenter a blessed saint."
Thomas' (WilHam'), b. about 1630; d. 1703; m. Hannah Brewer
of Andover [b. about 1630; d. Oct. 25, 1717]. He was one of the early
settlers in Andover, Mass., and represented that town in the General
Court. From him Hon. William Eaton" Chandler, U. S. Senator from
New Hampshire, is a descendant (John°, John', John', John*, John',
Nathan', Nathan S.'). His lineage does not appear in the published
history of the family, but was discovered later and preserved by the
author of that work.
William'' (WilHam'), b. about 1634; d. 1698; ra. (1) 1658, Mary,
dau. of Dr. John and Eleanor (Clark) Dane [b. Ipswich, Mass., 1638;
d. Andover, Mass., May 10, 1679] ; (2) Oct., 1679, Bridget, dau. of Maj.
Thomas Henchman of Concord and Chelmsford [b. as early as 1631; d.
Mar. 6, 1731]. He was a brickmaker at Andover, and afterward an
innkeeper on the "Ipswich road to Billerica."
William' (Thomas", William'), b. May 28, 1659; m. Apr., 1687,
Eleanor Phelps, who was admitted to the church in Westford, Mass., in
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William' (WiUiam', WilHam'), b. Jan. 31, 1661; d. Oct. 27, 1727; ra.
Sarah Buckrainster of Andover, Mass. [b. about 1661; d. Oct. 19, 1735].
He was a farmer in Andover. From him Hon. Zachariah' Chandler,
U. S. Senator frora Michigan, was descended (Zachariah', Thomas^,
Zachariah", Samuel').
Joseph' (William', William'), b. 1679; d. Apr. 23, 1734; m. Mehitable
Russell. Res. at Andover, Mass.
William' (William', Thomas', William'), b. July 20, 1689; d. July
27, 1756; m. Susanna Burge of Westford, Mass. He seems to have been
a resident at Billerica and also at Chelmsford, Mass., for a considerable
time, but he died at Westford, Mass.
Josiah' (William', WHHam', WiHiam'), b. Dec. 28, 1683; d. Aug. 12,
1752; m. Sarah Ingals. He was a farmer in Andover, Mass.
1. Mehitable* (Joseph', William', William'), b. Andover,
Mass.; m. (1) Feb. 7, 1732, Robert Crosby of Townsend,
Mass.; (2) Nov. 26, 1745, Andrew Spaulding (1).
Moses' (William', WHliara', Thoraas', WilHam'), b. Aug. 19, 1720;
d. Wilton, Me., Mar. 16, 1800; ra. (1) June 28, 1742, Dorothy Marble
[b. Sept. 23, 1719; d. Apr. 11, 1760]; (2) Mar. 19, 1762, EHzabeth Kendal
of Litchfield [b. May, 1725; d. Sept. 7, 1806]. He was a blacksmith. He
served in the French War. Reraoved to Winthrop, Me., where he was
a meraber of the Committee of Inspection and Safety.
2. John' (William*, William', Thomas', William'), b.
Chelmsford, Mass., Sept. 27, 1725; d. Jan. 10, 1812; m. Feb.
14, 1754, Lydia Taylor of Townsend, Mass. He was one of
the very early settlers in New Ipswich, and he agreed to build
mills there, the sawmill to be in operation as early as the last
of October, 1750, and the cornmill within the following year.
In consideration of this agreement he received a full town
right including the falls near the present High Bridge, he
giving bonds for £400 new tenor, amounting in value to about
$140, for satisfactory performance of the contract. The mills
were built and kept in running order for ten years, and despite
occasional complaints concerning the service, it may be be
lieved that they proved as efficient as could reasonably have
been expected under the conditions of the time and place. In
1768 he sold the business to Capt. Eleazer Cummings and re
moved to Winthrop, Me., where he made a similar contract.
He was chairman of the first board of selectmen in his new
location, as also in later years town treasurer for a long time,
and he seems to have been a leading citizen. He was father
of a numerous family, three children being added to the nine
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7. i. John, b. Nov. 27, 1754; ra. June 10, 1783, Hannah Streeter
[b. Mar. 15, 1765; d. Jan. 11, 1854]. He succeeded to his
father's mills in Winthrop, Me. Fifteen children.
8. ii. Noah, b. Apr. 25, 1756. He is said to have served in the
Revolution, to have been taken prisoner, and held despite
an offer frora his father to give a negro in exchange, an
offered ransom the value of which may perhaps be, esti
mated by his later sale for a gun and a watch.
9. iii. Joel, b. Sept. 10, 1757; d. Apr. 11, 1794; m. Deborah Jennings
[b. Sandwich, Mass., Dec. 7, 1760; d. Feb., 1848]. He was
a farmer at Winthrop, Me. Six children.
10. iv. Lydia, b. July 4, 1759; m. Seth Delano.
11. V. Keziah, b. Apr. 17, 1761.
12. vi. Molly, b. Mar. 9, 1763; d. Jan. 5, 1788; ra. Sept., 1780, Dr.
Moses Wing of South Wayne, Me., and also of Winthrop.
Four children.
13. vii. Lucy, b. Mar. 7, 1765; m. Ebenezer Wing of South Wayne,
Me. Five children.
14 viii. Susanna, b. July 22, 1766; d. Jan. 7, 1771.
15. ix. Hannah, b. Jan. 12, 1768; ra. Sept. 20, 1786, Daniel Marrow,
Jr. Res. in Winthrop. Nine children.
16. x. Rhoda, b. Aug. 21, 1769; ra. Ichabod Wing, a farraer of Read-
field, Me.
17. xi. Susanna, b. Sept. 3, 1772.
18. xii. David, b. Jan. 28, 1775.-|-
3. Rachel' (William*, William', Thomas', William'), b.
Apr. 2, 1732; m. Thomas Spaulding (5). Removed to New
Ipswich. 4. Lydia' (William*, William', Thomas', William'), b.
Dec. 10, 1735 ; m. Dec. 22, 1757, Jonah Crosby of New Ipswich.
5. Sarah' (William*, William', Thomas', William'), b.
Mar. 18, 1739; m. Benjamin' Spaulding (James*, Andrew').
David" (Josiah', William', William', William'), b. Dec. 15, 1724; d.
Feb. 11, 1776; m. Aug. 30, 1750, Mary, dau. of Timothy and Hannah'
(John', John', Thomas', WHliam') (Chandler) Bullard of Andover. He
was Heutenant in command of a Provincial company at Cambridge, when
he contracted smallpox, which caused his death.
6. Dorothy' (Moses', William*, William', Thomas', Wil
liam'), b. July 4, 1752; m. Bunker Clark of New Ipswich.
Daniel' (David', Josiah', William', William', William'), b. July 9,
1754; m. Joanna Stevens. He served in the Revolutionary War, and was
afterward a farmer in Milford, whence he removed to Putney, Vt.
Daniel' (Daniel', David', Josiah', William', William', William'), b.
Mar. 4, 1777; d. Mar. 25, 1845; m. Sally, dau. of Dea. Solomon Danforth
of Merrimac [b. Mar. 20, 1784; d. Mar. 26, I860]. He lived in Merrimac,
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19. Sewell Osgood' (Daniel', Daniel', David', Josiah*,
William', William', William'), b. Sept. 11, 1805; d. Aug. 24,
1877; m. (1) Aug. 2, 1832, Rebecca Chickering (7); (2) Apr.
29, 1861, Mary P. Jefts (4), widow of Jacob Blodgett. He
came to New Ipswich soon after the death of his father-in-law,
Abner Chickering, and settled upon his farm, remaining there
fifteen years or more, and then two or three years later re
moving to Iowa. He was selectman for several years. Child :
20. i. James Osgood, b. Nov. 4, 1836; m. Aug. 24, 1864, Inez M.,
dau. of Morrill and Mary E. (Wright) Young of Man
chester. He is a printer. He served in the Civil War,
first in the 2d New Hampshire Regiraent, from which he
was discharged in 1863 on account of disability, and second
in 1864 as captain of a company of the 1st Heavy Artillery
which he had recruited. Child : i. Grace, b. 1865.
CHAPMAN.
Edward' Chapman, d. Apr. 18, 1678; m. (1) at Rowley, Mass., Mar.,
1642, Mary, dau. of Mark and Joanna Syraonds of Ipswich, Mass. [d.
June 10, 1658] ; (2) Dorothy, dau. of Richard Swan, and widow of
Thomas Abbot [m. (2) Archelaus Woodman of Newbury]. He came
from Yorkshire, England, to Boston about 1639; res. for a time in Rowley,
and then made his home in Ipswich, Mass., of which he was one of the
grantees. Simon' (Edward'), b. Rowley, 1643; d. Ipswich, Aug. 25, 1735; m.
Mar. 21, 1666, Mary, dau. of John and Mary Brewer of Ipswich. Res.
in Ipswich, where he was a carpenter.
Edward' (Simon', Edward'), b. May 11, 1669; m. Mary  [d. 1740
or later]. Daniel' (Edward', Simon', Edward'), d. 1745 or later; m. 1733, Mary
(or Mercy) Jewett. He was a weaver at Boxford, Mass.
Daniel' (Daniel', Edward', Simon', Edward'), b. Boxford, Mass.,
1740; m. about 1760, Hephzibah Howe of Ipswich, Mass. [d. July 6, 1799].
Dudley' (Daniel', Daniel', Edward', Simon', Edward'), b. May 19,
1765; d. Oct. 17, 1832; ra. Nov. 15, 1790, Elizabeth Wheaton [b. about
1760; d. Nov. 29, 1826]. Res. in Londonderry, whence he removed in
1788 to Peterboro.
Daniel' (Dudley", Daniel', Daniel', Edward', Simon', Edward'), b.
May 8, 1794; d. Nov. 11, 1832; m. Mar. 11, 1824, Peggy, dau. of Williara
Gowing [b. 1797; d. May 22, 1867].
1. Gates' (Dudley', Daniel', Daniel*, Edward', Simon',
Edward'), b. Feb. 8, 1798; d. Mar. 23, 1873; m. at Meredith,
Apr. 24, 1824, Mary, dau. of Benjamin and Mary (Mash)
Burnham [b. June 16, 1807; d. Jan. 14, 1889]. He came to
New Ipswich in early manhood, and passed his life as a ma
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3. i. Gates, b. at Meredith, Apr. 27, 1825.-)-
4. ii. Mary Elizabeth, b. New Ipswich, Oct. 11, 1827; m. Jan. 21,
1851, Augustus Charles, son of Joshua and Harriet C.
Kenrick [b. HaverhiU, Mass., Feb. 16, 1826; d. Mar. 29,
1890]. He was a painter. Child: i. Charles Adelbert
Kenrick, b. Dec. 27, 1852; d. Oct. 11, 1858.
5. iii. Harriet A., b. June 5, 1829; d. May 19, 1837.
6. iv. Hannah Maria, b. Apr. 11, 1831; m. July 15, 1851, Charles
B. Preston (56).
7. V. George Augustus, b. Aug. 18, 1834. -|-
8. vi. Charles H., b. Jan. 1, 1837.-(-
9. vii. James Wheaton, b. June 17, 1839.-|-
10. viii. Edward W., b. May 3, 1845.-)-
11. ix. Edwin W., b. May 3, 1845.-|-
12. X. Albert H., b. Sept. 27, 1849; m. Dec. 25, 1872, Janette H.
Houghton. A machinist at West Upton, Mass.
2. William Wallace' (Daniel', Dudley', Daniel', Daniel*,
Edward', Simon', Edward'), b. Apr., 1827; d. June, 1881; m.
Sept. 21, 1856, Lydia A. Hannaford. For several years before
and after their marriage they were in the employ of Samuel
Holden on the eastern side of Whittemore Hill, but in 1863
they removed to Ashburnham, Mass. Children :
13. i. Charles H.
14. ii. Fred W.-f-
15. Hi. Kate M.
16. iv. Nellie M.
17. V. Jessie D.
18. vi. Hattie F.
3. Gates' (Gates', Dudley', Daniel', Daniel*, Edward',
Simon', Edward'), b. Apr. 27, 1825; m. (1) May 13, 1846,
Elvira Jefts (11) ; (2) Sept. 9, 1847, Ann Sophia, dau. of
Thomas and Mary Adams [b. Wilton, Aug. 21, 1829; d. Sept
7, 1871] ; (3) Sarah Helen, dau. of Levi and Abby S. Talbot
[b. Gardiner, Me., Jan. 25, 1838]. Children:
19. i. Augusta Elvira, b. Apr. 9, 1847; d. June 17, 1858.
20. ii. Mary Ann, b. Aug. 21, 1848; m. Sept. 26, 1866, Edward
Wallace, son of Edward and Fanny Merrick [b. Hubbards
ton, Mass., May 22, 1843]. Res. Holden, Mass., where he
is a bookkeeper, also deputy sheriff. Child : i. Lula Frances
Merrick, b. July 24, 1867 ; m. Apr. 2, 1890, John Goldthwaite.
21. iii. Harriet Arabella, b. Shirley, Mass., Apr. 25, 1851; d. July
1, 1852.
22. iv. Thomas Gates, b. Millbury, Mass., Dec. 16, 1856; d. Nov.
5, 1884; m. June 21, 1874, Eliza J., dau. of Charles and Mary
A. Howard [b. Sept. 15, 1857]. Child: i. Ernest Gates, b.
Mar. 4, 1876; d. Mar. 7, 1876.
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23. V. Charles Sumner, b. Millbury, Mass., Sept. 23, 1860; m. July
16, 1882, Bertha B., dau. of H. P. and Margaret B. Whitte
more [b. West Boylston, Mass., Feb. 27, 1863]. Res. Wor
cester, Mass., where he is a machinist.
24. vi. Ida May, b. Holden, Mass., Feb. 9, 1862; d. Dec. 31, 1865.
25. vii. Alfred Ellis, b. Holden, Mass., May 16, 1864; d. Sept. 16,
1864.
26. viii. Lilla Sophia, b. Holden, Mass., Sept. 12, 1867; d. Sept. 12,
1867.
27. ix. William H. Harrison, b. Holden, Mass., Oct. 29, 1873; d.
Nov. 2, 1884.
28. X. Benjamin Franklin, b. Holden, Mass., Aug. 27, 1875.
7. George Augustus' (Gates', Dudley', Daniel', Daniel*,
Edward', Simon', Edward'), b. Aug. 18, 1834; m. (1) Apr. 23,
1856, Lucrita A. S. Pheteplace [b. Sutton, Mass., Aug. 30,
1835 ; d. Feb. 9, 1882] ; (2) Apr. 14, 1883, Nettie M. Pheteplace
[b. Bellows Falls, Vt., Nov. 16, 1840]. Children :
29. i. Nellie L. F., b. Millbury, Mass., Oct. 10, 1857; d. Winchen
don, Mass., Sept. 22, 1868.
30. ii. Sylvia Florence, b. Winchendon, Mass., Aug. 24, 1859; ra.
Sept. 16, 1879, Arthur D. Davis [b. Pawtucket, R. I., Jan.
23, 1858]. Children: i. Harry Garfield Davis, b. May 12,
1881. ii. Arthur Frederick Davis, b. Dec. 3, 1883. iii.
Clarence Eugene Davis, b. Sept. 23, 1885.
31. Hi. Edward Harry, b. MHlbury, Mass., Mar. 9, 1869; m. Dec. 31,
1889, Delia St. Armand [b. St. RosaHe, P. Q., Dec. 11, 1870].
Child : i. Harry Edison, b. Dec. 27, 1892.
8. Charles H.' (Gates', Dudley', Daniel', Daniel*, Ed
ward', Simon', Edward'), b. Jan. 1, 1837; m. July 24, 1858,
Mary, dau. of John and Mary B. Crowe [b. Bellia, Ireland,
Dec. 3, 1835]. A mechanic in East Jaffrey. He served in the
10th New Hampshire Regiment during the Civil War. Chil
dren: 32. i. Edward H., b. Nov. 6, 1859; m. Margaret, dau. of James and
Bridget Mitchell [b. Winchendon, Mass., July 10, 1861].
A coachman at East Jaffrey. Children : i. Frederick H.,
b. Aug. 27, 1882. ii. Sidney E., b. Nov. 28, 1883.
33. ii. Mary Loretta, b. Dec. 7, 1865; m. Dec. 26, 1885, Peter E.,
son of Williara and Bridget S. Hogan of East Carabridge,
Mass. He is a butcher.
9. James Wheaton' (Gates', Dudley', Daniel', Daniel*,
Edward', Simon', Edward'), b. June 17, 1839; m. (1) Aug. 28,
1860, Harriet M., dau. of Peter and Susan (Russell) Tufts
[b. June 20, 1839; d. Dec. 13, 1869] ; (2) HornellsviUe, N. Y.,
Nov. 17, 1875, Carrie E., dau. of Harvey and Caroline D.
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Cooper [b. Feb. 24, 1850]. A salesman and railroad engineer.
Children :
34. i. Ada Florence, b. Dunkirk, N. Y., Aug. 16, 1864; m. Oct. 8,
1893, Burt J. Blackmer. Res. Buffalo, N. Y.
35. ii. Percy W., b. Aug. 11, 1866; d. Sept. 27, 1869.
10. Edward W.' (Gates', Dudley', Daniel', Daniel*, Ed
ward', Simon', Edward'), b. May 3, 1845; m. Aug. 27, 1870,
Sarah G., dau. of George W. and Lovina S. Jones [b. Rindge,
Apr. 7, 1851]. Res. West Townsend, Mass. Child:
36. i. Perley Gates, b. Apr. 28, 1872; d. Oct. 8, 1872.
11. Edwin W.' (Gates', Dudley', Daniel', Daniel*, Ed
ward', Simon', Edward'), b. May 3, 1845; m. Dec. 1, 1866,
Melvina, dau. of Ansel and Octavia (Burrell) Baxter [b. Nov.
14, 1842]. A farmer at South Ashburnham, Mass. Children:
37. i. Lillian I., b. Nov. 2, 1876.
38. ii. Mary I., b. Mar. 30, 1879.
14. Fred W.' (William Wallace', Daniel', Dudley', Dan
iel', Daniel*, Edward', Simon', Edward'), m. Bertha Whpeler
(193). Children:
39. i. Zettie Ginevra, b. Jan. 31, 1881; m. 1900, Orrin W. Eaton.
Children: i. Howard Eaton, b. Feb. 24, 1901; d. Feb. 27,
1901. ii. Zettie Katherine Eaton, b. May 20, 1908.
40. ii. George Wallace, b. Mar. 16, 1884; m. Anna Woodward. A
farmer and woodturner. Res. below Walker's several years,
since 1892 at Hodgkins corner. Children : i. Child b. and
d. May IS, 1907. ii. Fred Augustus, b. Nov. 8, 1908. iii.
Mary Elizabeth, b. Feb. 19, 1910; d. Apr. 8, 1910.
41. iii. Leda Hannaford, b. Oct. 27, 1890; m. July 21, 1906, Clarence
Blake. Child : i. Elizabeth Eliza Blake, b. Feb. 16, 1908.
CHICKERING.
Nathaniel' Chickering, b. Oct. 8, 1647, prob. at Wrenthara, Eng
land; d. Dedham, Mass., Oct. 21, 1694; m. (1) Dec. 30, 1668, Mary, dau.
of Sarauel and Mary Judson [b. 1647] ; (2) Dec. 23, 1674, Lydia, dau. of
Capt. Daniel and Abigail (Marriott) Fisher of Dedham, Mass. [b. July
14, 1652; d. July 17, 1737]. She had previously Hved in Hadley, Mass.,
and there had a part in the care of the concealed regicides, Goffe and
Whalley. His name appears on the Dedham tax-list as early as 1669.
In 1694 he settled in that part of Dedham which is now Dover, where he
owned 1000 acres of land. The site of his home on that land has re
mained in the possession of his descendants to the present time.
Nathaniel' (Nathaniel'), b. Mar. 28, 1677; d. Jan. 16, 1746/7; m.
(1) Aug. 24, 1700, Mary, dau. of Jaraes and Hannah Sharp [b. Jan. 23,
1677; d. Sept. 1, 1715]; (2) July 26, 1716, Deborah, dau. of Joseph and
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Deborah (Colburn) Wight [b. July 25, 1684]. He was one of the se
lectmen of Dedham and also a deacon.
John' (Nathaniel', Nathaniel'), b. Aug. 23, 1715; m. (1) Mary Dew
ing; (2) Jan. 9, 1766, Mrs. Elizabeth Gay of Dedhara. He responded to
the Lexington alarm.
1. Abner* (John', Nathaniel', Nathaniel'), b. Holden,
Mass., Oct. 5, 1766; d. July 25, 1841; m. (1) Apr. 19, 1792,
Eunice, dau. of Dea. Amos and Thankful (Minot) Dakin of
Mason [b. about 1777; d. May 7, 1804]; (2) May 9, 1805,
Lydia Stratton (S. 4), widow of Caleb Campbell (2). He set
tled in Mason soon after reaching his majority and was a
blacksmith in that town until about 1805, when he removed
to New Ipswich, and passed his remaining years on the
"Knowlton place," (22, N. D.,) where he was a farmer, al
though not entirely forsaking his former trade. His home
was in the house now standing upon the east side of the brook.
Children :
2. i. Mary, m. Sept. 26, 1816, Josiah G. Heald.
3. ii. Samuel, b. Feb. 18, l796.-{-
4. iii. Jonas, b. 1798. -|-
5. iv. Melinda, m.  Vent.
6. V. Eliza, m. Dec. 19, 1822, Ariel Godding (2).
7. vi. Rebecca, b. Sept. 3, 1803; d. Sept. 28, 1850; m. Aug. 2, 1832,
Sewell O. Chandler (W. 19).
8. vii. Charles, b. about 1807.4-
3. Samuel' (Abner*, John', Nathaniel', Nathaniel'), b.
Feb. 18, 1796; d. May 18, 1836; m. Dec. 31, 1821, Julia Boutelle
of Lancaster, Mass. [d. Aug. 9, 1866]. He was a farmer and
stonemason living upon the same lot as his father, in the house
upon the west side of the brook. Children :
9. i. Eliza Ann, b. 1823; d. 1862; m. Feb. 4, 1853, Abrahara Cram
of Pittsfield.
10. ii. Charles, b. Nov. 5, 1825.-|-
11. iii. Josiah Boutelle, b. Aug. 10, 1827.-|-
12. iv. George, b. July 4, 1829. -|-
13. V. Julia Maria, b. Aug. 10, 1831; ra. May 17, 1855, Archelaus
C. Dakin, a machinist at Clinton, Mass. One daughter,
d. in infancy.
14. vi. Abbie Boutelle, b. Dec. 10, 1833; d. Apr. 26, 1854, unm.
15. vii. Harriet Atwood, b. July 28, 1835 ; ra. Sept. 1, 1860, George M.
Sawyer, a jeweler at Clinton, Mass. Two sons, both dead.
16. viii. Ellen Frances, b. June 23, 1836; d. Apr. 25, 1856, unm.
4. Jonas' (Abner*, John', Nathaniel', Nathaniel'), b. 1798;
d. Dec. 8, 1853; m. Eliza Harrington. He learned the trade
of a cabinet-maker in his early years, and in early manhood
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entered the employ of a piano manufacturer of Boston. At
a very early age he had shown a natural musical ability, and
in a small way had applied his mechanical skill to musical
instruments. This natural inclination was farther developed
by his city occupation, and at the age of twenty-eight he was
conducting his own business as a manufacturer and had en
tered upon the process of development and improvement
which gave the "(Whickering Piano" its eminent position. The
union in his character of the mechanic, the artist, and the
merchant is indicated by his having been president of the
Handel and Haydn Musical Society and the Massachusetts
Mechanic Association. He was a member of the Massachu
setts Legislature. His three sons were associated with him
as "Chickering & Sons." Children:
17. i. Thomas E., b. 1824; d. 1871.
18. ii. C. Frank, b. 1827 ; d. 1891.
19. Hi. George H., b. 1830; d. 1898.
20. iv. Anna, b. 1830; d. 1898; m.  Wilcox.
8. Charles' (Abner*, John', Nathaniel', Nathaniel'), b.
about 1807; d. Aug., 1863; m. Mar., 1831, Julia Ann Obear (6).
Soon after his marriage he removed to Pittsfield, where he
v/as a merchant, and also served as deputy sheriff. His chil
dren were born in that town. Later he returned to New
Ipswich, where he remained for nearly twenty years, at first
upon the family farm and later in the Center Village. He
was postmaster for several years. During a few of his last
years he kept a hotel at Groton Junction, (now Ayer,) Mass.,
where he died. Children :
21. i. Abby Jane, b. 1832; d. 1907; m. Oct. 10, 1855, Henry Eddy,
an overseer in the carpet works at Clinton, Mass. Two
children.
22. ii. Julia Ann, b. Dec. 8, 1834; m. Nov. 3, 1853, George N. Lowe
(1).
23. iii. Charles Abner, b. and d. 1836.
24. iv. Charles Abner, b. 1838; d. 1895; ra. Jeannette Gordon. Res.
Lancaster, Mass. Children : i. Edith, ii. Louise, iii.
Arthur, iv. Benson, v. Horace.
10. Charles' (Samuel', Abner*, John', Nathaniel', Nathan
iel'), b. Nov. 5, 1825; d. Sept. 18, 1903; m. Denmark, Iowa,
Nov. 24, 1859, Hattie Kenny. In 1857 he removed to Iowa,
which was his home for the rest of his life. He lived at
Denmark, near Red Oak, and at Elliott. His principal busi
ness was that of a farmer. He served in the Civil War, being
a member of the First Iowa Cavalry. One child.
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11. Josiah Boutelle' (Samuel', Abner*, John', Nathaniel',
Nathaniel'), b. Aug. 10, 1827; d. Dec. 5, 1881; m. Sarah
Brown. He removed to Cincinnati, O., where he established
and maintained for many years "Chickering Academy," after
ward "Chickering Institute," a highly successful boys' school.
Children :
25. i. Addie Linwood, b. 1858; m. Nelville Hoff, dean of the Dental
College of the University of Michigan.
26. ii. Clifford Cummings, b. Aug. 17, 1862. A member of the
firm of Chickering Bros., dealers in pianos, Chicago, 111.
27. iii. Fred Wiloby, b. Mar. 1, 1864. A meraber of the firm of
Chickering Bros., as above.
28. iv. Howard Everett, b. July 11, 1871. A business man of Cleve
land, O.
29. V. Wallace W., b. Jan. 20, 1874. Also of Chickering Bros., as
above.
12. George' (Samuel', Abner*, John', Nathaniel', Nathan
iel'), b. July 4, 1829; d. Feb. 20, 1905; m. Oct. 10, 1852, Mary
Abigail, dau. of Jacob and Mary P. (4) (Jefts) Blodgett. He
was a farmer at Denmark, Iowa. Children :
30. i. Frank Howard, b. Jan. 20, 1854. A music dealer at Omaha,
Neb.
31. ii. Henrietta, b. 1858; m. Edward Burton. Res. Coffeeville,
Kans.
32. iii. Mary Ellen, b. about 1862; ra. Edward Murphy, a farmer
at Burlington, Iowa.
33. iv. Ernest Dakin, b. Apr., 1871 ; unm. A farmer at Elliott, Iowa.
CLARK (Ebenezer).
Ebenezer' Clark, m.  Allen. Res. in Braintree, Mass.
1. Ebenezer' (Ebenezer'), b. Braintree, Mass., 1754; d.
Nov. 24, 1835 ; m. 1778, Ruth, dau. of William Wilde [b. about
1759; d. Feb. 4, 1840]. His home was in his native town until
1804, when he removed to Bedford, Mass., and thence, eight
years later, to Townsend, Mass., where he resided during most
of his remaining life. His last two or three years were passed
in New Ipswich, whither his second son, Benjamin A., had
come several years earlier. He rendered worthy service in
the Revolutionary War, at first as a private in the company
of Capt. Jacob Gould and regiment of Col. John Greaton, and
later as a sergeant in Washington's Life Guard. He was at
Bunker Hill, served during the siege of Boston, and had a part
at Princeton and Trenton and the famous crossing of the Dela
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2. i. Ebenezer. b. 1781 ; ra. Mary Sampson. He had eleven chil
dren, from whora the branch of the family in Townsend,
Mass., has descended.
3. ii. Ruth, b. 1783; d. Aug. 13, 1849; m. (1) Elias Poole of Brain
tree, Mass. Children : i. Ruth Poole, ii. Mary Ann Poole;
m. (2) Castalio Hosmer (24).
4. Hi. Mary, b. 1786; d. Jan. 10, 1883; m. Stephen Corbin [b. about
1782; d. Greenville, Jan. 22, 1855]. Res. in New Ipswich
several years. Children : i. Stephen Corbin, b. about 1806 ;
d. Apr. 22, 1862. ii. Salome Corbin, b. Jan. 26, 1808; d.
Oct. 5, 1897; m. (1) John Tolman; (2)  Wood. iii.
Sarah Corbin. iv. Ruth Corbin, ra. June 30, 1832, Reuben
Bacon, Jr. v. William W. Corbin, b. about 1820; d. May 2,
1847.
5. iv. Abigail, b. 1788; m. Jonathan Bacon of Bedford, Mass.
Seven children.
6. v. Sarah, b. 1790; m. Reuben Bacon of Bedford, Mass. Six
children.
7. vi. Benjamin Ager, b. \792.-\-
8. vii. James, b. 1794; d. Stonehara, Mass.; m. Hannah Hodgman.
Four children.
7. Benjamin Ager' (Ebenezer', Ebenezer'), b. 1792; d.
Nov. 12, 1870; m. 1812, Martha Hosmer (25). He came from
Townsend, Mass., to New Ipswich about 1825, and lived for
a few years on the Benjamin Hoar farm, (V: 2, S. R.,) being
occupied as a teamster to and from Boston, but later he bought
the Benjamin Adams Farm, (25, N. D.,) and resided there
until his death. Children :
9. i. Elvira, b. about 1812; d. Sterling, 1840; m. Jan., 1832, Samuel
Porter. Children : i. Fred Porter, ii. Henry Porter.
10. ii. John, b. 1814; m. Jan. 1, 1843, Sally Bond, dau. of Christo
pher P. (22) and Nancy (Thompson) Hosmer. Res. in
Araherst.
11. iii. Leander, b. 1816.-J-
12. iv. Reuben B., b. 1818.-f-
13. V. Mary, b. 1820; ra. Castalio Hosmer, Jr. (43).
14. vi. Benjamin Franklin, b. July 4, 1822.-|-
15. vii. George, b. July, 1824; d. Oct. 25, 1825.
16. viii. Maria A., b. Mar. 26, 1827; d. Sept., 1910; m. Aug., 1849,
Charles H. King (5).
17. ix. A son, b. Mar. 11, 1829; d. Mar. 27, 1829.
11. Leander* (Benjamin A.', Ebenezer', Ebenezer'), b.
1816; d. Washington, D. C. ; m. Laura Hosmer (42). He was
a man of literary tastes, and a small volume of his poems was
published. Children :
18. i. Alice, d. Washington, D. C. ; m. Dr. Wm. Green. One son.
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20. iii. Mary.
21. iv. Child, whose name is not known.
22. V. Child, whose name is not known.
12. Reuben B.* (Benjamin A.', Ebenezer', Ebenezer'), b.
1818; d. Sept. 8, 1894; m. (1) Dec. 26, 1848, Margaret E.
Thomas; (2) Oct. 2, 1879, Louisa Densmore. He resided in
Washington, D. C, where he is said to have accumulated a
large property. Children :
23. i. Ida, (of first marriage,) m. Wm. C. Wood. Two sons.
24. ii. Reuben B., (of second marriage).
14. Benjamin Franklin* (Benjamin A.', Ebenezer', Eben
ezer'), b. July 4, 1822; d. Minneapolis, Minn., 1893; m.. Irene
Webber. He removed to Washington, D. C, in early man
hood and there resided nearly forty years. The closing years
of his life were passed in Minneapolis, Minn. Children :
25. i. Ernest Franklin, m. Belle Doe. He has been a dentist in
Minneapolis since 1880. Children : i. Harry Oscar, m.
Gertrude Williams. One son. ii. Ernestine, m. Maurice
Bardwell. iii. Marion, m. Charles P. Taylor. One son.
26. ii. Harry Webber, d. Oct. 11, 1911; ra. Lilla PhiUbrook. He
was also a dentist in Minneapolis. Children : i. PhiUbrook
Wilson, ii. Eleanor Bacon.
CLARK (Hugh).
Hugh' Clark, b. about 1613; d. July 30, 1693; ra. Elizabeth  [d.
Dec. 11, 1692]. He was at Watertown in 1641, and removed to Roxbury
in 1660. Uriah' (Hugh'), b. June 5, 1644; d. July 26, 1721; m. (1) Oct., 1674,
Joanna, dau. of Thomas Holbrook of Braintree [b. about 1657; d. Feb.
28, 1682]; (2) 1682, Mary  ; (3) Martha. He lived at Roxbury untH
he was nearly fifty years old, when he removed to that part of Water-
town which is now Belmont. He was a selectman of Watertown.
Peter' (Uriah', Hugh'), b. Mar. 12, 1693; d. June 10, 1768; ra. Nov.
6, 1719, Deborah, dau. of Dea. Peter Hobart of Braintree [b. about 1702;
d. Feb. 28, 1765]. He graduated frora Harvard College in 1712 and in
1717 became pastor of the church in Danvers, (then Salem Village,)
where in a pastorate of fifty-one years he was noted as a theologian.
Peter' (Peter=, Uriah', Hugh'), b. Oct. 1, 1720; d. Nov. 13, 1747;
m. Oct. 22, 1741, Anna Porter of Danvers. He graduated from Harvard
College in 1739, but declined his father's profession and settled upon the
farm of his grandfather Hobart in Braintree. His widow m. Sept. 14,
1752, Thomas Faxon of Braintree.
Peter' (Peter', Peter', Uriah', Hugh'), b. Feb. 4, 1743; d. Oct. 14,
1826; m. Oct. 20, 1763, Hannah, dau. of Daniel and Hannah (Prescott)
Eppes of Braintree [b. about 1744; d. Dec. 21, 1814]. He removed frora
Braintree to Lyndeboro, N. H., in 1775, and in 1777 received a captain's
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commission in the Provincial service. He held most of the important
town offices in after life, was a justice of the peace and a deacon for
raany years.
1. John' (Peter', Peter*, Peter', Uriah', Hugh'), b. Jan. 4,
1785; d. Mar. 19, 1855; m. (1) Nov. 18, 1806, Margaret Rand
of Lyndeboro [d. Aug. 31, 1846]; (2) Dec. 9, 1847, Nancy
Patterson of Greenfield. He came to New Ipswich in 1814,
and was an overseer in the Davis mills at the waterpower
afterward utilized by the Walker industries. Later he was
for several years upon the "Gould farm," (43, N. D.) He was
also for a time superintendent in the factory of Eleazer Brown.
The later years of his life were variously occupied in the
Center Village, his home being the house upon the north side
of the street midway between the Baptist church and the
street crossing at the foot of Meeting-house Hill, afterward
the residence of his son, Peter H., who replaced it with a new
building, since the residence of his daughter, granddaughter
and great-granddaughter. He was town clerk ten years, a
deacon thirty-five years, and also for a long time leader of the
Congregational choir. He was exceptionally fond of music
and was an early teacher of singing schools. Children :
2. i. Mary, b. Oct. 4, 1807; d. Sept. 24, 1841; ra. Mar. 8, 1832,
Martin Ames.
3. ii. Hannah, b. June 16, 1809; d. Mar. 18, 1843; m. May 24, 1832,
William W. Johnson.
4. iii. Deborah, b. Oct. 12, 1811; d. June 18, 1865; m. Jan. 1, 1835,
Henry Adams (W. 81).
5. iv. John Prescott, b. Apr. 11, 1814. -|-
6. V. Peter Hobart, b. Dec. 11, 1816.-|-
7. vi. James Rand, b. Nov. 27, 1823.-)-
5. John Prescott^ (John', Peter', Peter*, Peter', Uriah',
Hugh'), b. Apr. 11, 1814; d. Mar. 3, 1889; m. 1839, Mary Em
erson, dau. of Lubim and Lydia (Burton) Rockwood of Wil
ton [b. 1821; d. 1904]. He passed his life in New Ipswich,
being engaged in various mercantile pursuits. He lived in
Bank Village until 1854, where for about ten years, as a
partner of William W. Johnson, he was engaged in the man
agement of a general store. Later he was the first conductor
on the Peterboro & Shirley railroad, as the line from Groton
Junction to Mason Village, (now Ayer to Greenville,) was
then termed. In 1854 he removed to the Center Village and
for a brief time was associated with Stephen Thayer in the
ownership of a store at the western corner of the turnpike and
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the old Mason Village road. He inherited very fully his
father's musical ability, which further descended to his chil
dren, as was clearly evidenced by the entertainments of the
"Clark Troupe," composed of him and his brother Peter H.,
with members of their families. Children :
8. i. John Rockwood, b. May 25, 1840; d. May 28, 1840.
9. ii. John Emerson, b. June 29, 1842; d. Feb. 7, 1889; he was a
tin worker in Fitchburg, Worcester and Lancaster in Massa
chusetts.
10. iii. Mary Ellen, b. Sept. 14, 1844; d. Aug. 14, 1878, unm. She
was a professional musician in Boston.
11. iv. William Willis, b. Mar. 3, 1846. He is a musical instructor
in Boston and vicinity.
12. V. Abbie Rockwood, b. Nov. 13, 1848; d. Aug. 31, 1903; m. (1)
Charles R. Ford [b. Dec. 22, 1848; d. Sept. 23, 1886]; (2)
Charles E. Berthoff. She was a professional musician of
Boston, both as a teacher and as a member of leading
concert companies.
13. vi. Frank Burton, b. Sept. 24, 1850. He was a fruit raiser in
Emmett, Colo.
14. vii. Charles Herbert, b. Feb. 14, 1852; m. Jan. 10, 1884, Jeanie
M. Herrick. He is a rausic teacher in New York City.
15. viii. Henrietta, b. Feb. 9, 1854; d. Aug. 14, 1868.
16. ix. Lizzie R., b. May 2, 1856; ra. Albert F. Crowell, a bookkeeper
in Boston. Children : i. Clarence Albert Crowell, b. Mar.
2, 1876; d. Nov. 14, 1908. ii. Marian Follett Crowell, b.
Jan. 27, 1880; d. Oct. 10, 1898. iii. Herbert Clark Crowell,
b. Nov. 6, 1882; m. Oct. 4, 1904, Mabelle Aer of Boston.
He is a salesman in Boston. Two children.
6. Peter Hobart' (John', Peter", Peter*, Peter', Uriah',
Hugh'), b. Dec. 11, 1816; d. Aug. 26, 1891; m. June 1, 1843,
Sarah Barnes, dau. of Jesse and Lydia (Barnes) Patten of
Temple [b. Jan. 18, 1826; d. Dec. 29, 1892]. He passed his
life in New Ipswich, living for many years in the house pre
viously his father's. He was, first of all, a musician, and
around him, as bandmaster and both vocal and instrumental
instructor, the music of the town centered. His wife also was
for a long time a teacher in connection with the Academy,
and each member of his family had place in the "Clark
Troupe" mentioned above. He held an appointment as deputy
sheriff, and was also for ten or more years proprietor of
Clark's Hotel at the old stand on the turnpike next east from
the corner store, which under his care was a popular summer
resort. Children :
17. i. Margaret Barnes, b. Mar. 12, 1847; d. May 26, 1867.
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18. ii. Harriet Patten, b. Nov. 27, 1850; m. (1) Mar., 1870, George
L. Gates of Ashby, Mass.; (2) Jan. 31, 1878, William George
McKown of Boston [d. June 28, 1884]. Children: i. Ethel
McKown, b. Feb. 19, 1879; m. Oct. 28, 1896, Ralph E. Parker
of Boston (N. 14). ii. Annie McKown, h. Aug. 23, 1880;
d. June 16, 1881.
19. iii. Annie, b. Sept. 3, 1853; d. Mar. 16, 1860.
7. James Rand' (John', Peter', Peter*, Peter', Uriah',
Hugh'), b. Nov. 27, 1823; d. Nov. 13, 1888; m. 1854, Elizabeth
Perkins. He was a dealer in sewing machines at Biddeford,
Me., of which city he was mayor for a time. Later he was
proprietor of a livery stable in Boston. Children :
20. i. Edmund Robert, b. Dec. 18, 1854; d. Nov., 1905; m. Mrs. Cora
Betts. A salesman in Boston.
21. ii. Walter Henry, b. Jan. 14, 1861 ; d. young.
22. iii. Eugene Lester, b. Jan. 14, 1861 ; d. June 11, 1907 ; ra. Elenora
Gleason of Boston. He succeeded to his father's stable
business. Child : i. Elizabeth J., b. Aug. 13, 1899.
COLLINS.
1. Joseph' Collins, b. about 1749; d. Jan. 10, 1836; m.
Lydia  [b. about 1744; d. Dec. 14, 1835]. He had a small
farm upon the road from Smith Village to the Breed farms,
and built his house on the west side of that road just north
of the brook crossing it, (60, N. L. O.) The cellar is still
plainly visible.
2. Nathan' (Joseph'), b. Aug. 4, 1785; d. Sept. 4, 1867;
m. Lucy D. Preast [b. Oct. 28, 1786; d. Dec. 28, 1863]. He
passed most of his life upon the same lot, his house, still oc
cupied, being upon the east side of the road a quarter-mile
farther north than that of his father. Children :
3. i. John Augustus, b. Jan. 8, 1814; d. Apr. 16, 1814.
4. ii. Nancy Woodbury, b. Jan. 3, 1816; m. John Pike.
CONANT.
Roger' Conant, son of Richard and Agnes (Clarke) Conant, b. East
Budleigh, County Devon, England, bapt. Apr. 9, 1592; d. Nov. 19, 1679;
m. Nov. 11, 1618, Sarah Horton. He came to Plymouth in 1623. He did
not settle perraanently there, but removed to Nantasket (Hull) in 1624,
was at the Cape Ann settlement on what is now the west shore of
Gloucester Harbor in 1625, and in 1626 was apparently the head of the
colony at Naumkeag (Salera). He lived in the section which became
Beverly, and was a leader in the formation of that town.
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Lot' (Roger'), b. about 1624; d. Sept. 29, 1674; m. Elizabeth, dau. of
Rev. William Walton, who survived him, and married Andrew Mansfield
of Lynn. He lived for a time in Salem, but removed to Beverly.
John' (Lot', Roger'), b. Mar. 10, 1652; d. Sept. '30, 1724; m. May 7,
1678, Bithiah, dau. of Andrew and Bithiah Mansfield of Lynn. He was
a farmer and a weaver in Beverly, and did service in King Philip's war.
Roger' (Lot', Roger'), b. Mar. 10, 1668/9; d. 1745; m. Apr. 25, 1698,
Mary, dau. of Capt. Thoraas and Mary Raymond. About 1720 he re
moved from Beverly to that part of Concord which is now Acton. He
was a weaver.
Lot* (John', Lot', Roger'), bapt. June 1, 1679; d. Sept. 20, 1767;
m. (1) May 15, 1698, Martha Cleaves [b. about 1681; d. Feb. 15, 1725];
(2) Susannah Clark; (3) Mary  . He reraoved frora Beverly to
Concord about 1716.
Josiah* (Roger', Lot', Roger'), b. Dec. 12, 1711; m. Feb. 9, 1745/6,
Catherine, dau. of Peter Emerson of Reading [b. Dec. 20, 1718; d. Aug.
2, 1809; m. (2) Dec. 18, 1777, Moses Thurston]. He settled while a
young man in West Dunstable (now Hollis), where he was a selectraan.
Andrew" (Lot*, John', Lot', Roger'), bapt. Beverly, Jan. 25, 1702/3;
m. (1) Charlestown, May 2, 1723, EHzabeth Taylor [b. about 1704; d.
Sept. 10, 1758] ; (2) Concord, June 6, 1759, Mrs. Mary Hubbard [b. about
1703; d. Nov. 30, 1763]; (3) Danvers, Mass., July 19, 1764, Anna, widow
of Daniel Gardner. He was a farraer in Concord, his farm adjoining
that of his father.
Abel' (Josiah*, Roger', Lot', Roger'), b. Oct. 3, 1755; d. May 2,
1844; ra. (1) Nov. 20, 1681, Margaret, dau. of Jaraes and Margaret Jewett
of Hollis [b. Oct. 18, 1758; d. July 25, 1788]; (2) Lydia Thurston. He
resided in Hollis until 1813 and then reraoved to Hardwick, Vt. He
served several times in the Revolution and was at Bunker Hill. He was
•a deacon in Hollis.
Andrew" (Andrew', Lot*, John', Lot', Roger'), b. Aug. 22, 1725; d.
Sept 17, 1805; m. (1) Nov. 30, 1748, Ruth Brooks [b. about 1729; d.
Feb. 3, 1770]; (2) Mary  [b. about 1734; d. June 20, 1818]. He
passed his life in Concord. He was a captain.
Silas" (Andrew', Lot*, John', Lot', Roger'), b. Aug. 15, 1740; d. Apr.
3, 1803; m. Dec. 30, 1762, Lois, dau. of Samuel and EHzabeth Potter
[b. May 2, 1744; d. Nov. 12, 1815]. He was a farmer in Concord, Mass.
1. Abel' (Abel', Josiah*, Roger', Lot', Roger'), b. June 1,
1784; d. Apr. 12, 1875; m. May, 1822, Harriet Hubbard (4).
He studied law in Townsend and New Ipswich, in the latter
place with Benjamin Champney. He was admitted to the
bar in 1813. He practiced at Townsend and afterward from
1819 to 1826 in New Ipswich. In 1834 he removed to Lowell,
Mass., where he studied chemistry and mechanics and made
some useful inventions. He is said to have made a parlor
organ, a hollow auger nearly as now used, the mortise door
lock, and certain improved means for causing bread to rise.
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4. i. John, b. Apr. 3, 1823; d. Dec. 29, 1876; ra. 1851, Frances,
dau. of Peter and Hannah Crowell, a well-known spiritual
ist raedium. Res. in Boston.
5. ii. Harriet Maria, b. May 20, 1825.
6. iii. Horace J., b. Sept. 17, 1827.
7. iv. Sarah Isabella, b. Jan. 14, 1829.
8. V. James Edwin, b. Feb. 3, 1831; d. Oct. 1, 1886; ra. (1) Feb.
9, 1854, Susan Amelia Rutherford; (2) Sallie Lee. He
served in the U. S. Interior Dept. and in the War Dept,
and for many years engaged in the business of railroad
construction in the South and West.
2. Zebulon' (Andrew', Andrew', Lot*, John', Lot',
Roger'), b. Oct. 29, 1749; m. Mary Wright [b. Feb., 1752].
He lived in Winchendon, Mass., at the time of the Revolu
tion, and went to Cambridge in Capt. Wilder's company at
the time of the Lexington alarm. He removed to New Ips
wich in 1783 or earlier, and was a farmer upon 85, A. D., or
perhaps the next lot to the west of it. His name disappears
from the town records before 1820. Children :
9. i. Ruth, b. May 2, 1772; m. Nov. 3, 1795, Jaraes Adams (12).
10. ii. Mary, b. Feb. 13, 1774; m. May 1, 1794, Jacob S. Clary of
Leominster, Mass.
11. iH. Zebulon, b. May 11, 1776; d. July 8, 1803; m. Mary Wright.
He was drowned.
12. iv. Hannah, b. May 4, 1779; d. 1802; m. Oct. 8, 1801, Jonas
Amsden.
13. V. Joseph, b. Mar. 31, 1781.-|-
14. vi. Rebecca, b. July 31, 1783; m. Nov. 3, 1809, John W. Spaulding
of Franklin, Vt.
15. vii. Betsy, b. Sept. 13, 1785; m. Mar. 25, 1813, Lovander F.
Fuller of Grafton, Vt.
16. viii. Nathan, b. Feb. 9, 1788; d. Oct. 3, 1843.
17. ix. Keziah, b. June 19, 1789; m.  Sanders.
18. x. Nancy, b. Aug. 10, 1793; ra. Jan. 23, 1810, Joseph' Wetherbee.
19. xi. Andrew, b. Feb. 12, 1796.-]-
3. James'' (Silas', Andrew', Lot*, John', Lot', Roger'), b.
May 26, 1788; d. Oct. 26, 1836; m. 1810, Seba, dau. of Jesse
Davis [b. Acton, Mass., June 23, 1789; d. July 5, 1875]. He
was a carpenter in Acton, Mass., from which town he gave
service in the War of 1812. He came to New Ipswich about
1825 and remained eight years, living on the Tenney farm on
the Greenville road, (19, N. D.) Children:
20. i. Luseba Wright, b. Apr. 14, 1811; d. Feb. 2, 1859; m. Dec,
9, 1836, Josiah Webber (1).
21. ii. Louisa J., b. Sept. 26, 1812; d. Oct. 16, 1892; m. (1) May 9,
1839, Jonathan L., son of Williara and Rebecca (Lovejoy)
Cogswell of Rindge; (2) Emerson Howe (J. 1).
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22. iii. James Franklin, b. Nov. 23, 1814. -|-
23. iv. Jesse Davis, b. Oct. 22, 1818; m. Rachel Golopen. He re
moved to the West.
24. V. Mary F., b. July 20, 1820; m. (1) Apr. 5, 1845, Walter Davis;
(2) James Comee of Fitchburg, Mass.
25. vi. Andrew, b. Nov. 13, 1822.-t-
26. vH. Sarah Ann, b. New Ipswich, Feb. 1, 1825; ra. Nov. IS, 1848,
George Henry Rarasdell (10).
27. viii. George Washington, b. New Ipswich, Apr. 11, 1827; ra.
May 28, 1850, Diana P., dau. of Paul and Hannah R.
(Hannaford) Boyce (3). Res. Peterboro.
28. ix. Sylvia Maria, b. Nov. 17, 1829; m. Oct. 3, 1848, David
Thoraas of Woodstock, Vt. Some years later he was pro
prietor of a restaurant beneath Union Hall.
29. X. Harriet Elizabeth, b. Mason, Apr. 5, 1834; ra. July 2, 1857,
Horace Eugene Evans. Res. in Townsend, Mass.
13. Joseph' (Zebulon^, Andrew', Andrew', Lot*, John',
Lot', Roger'), b. Concord, Mar. 31, 1781; m. (1) Sept. 18,
1806, Patience Sawyer of Bolton, Mass. [b. May 10, 1782; d.
May 20, 1845] ; (2) Dec. 25, 1845, Nancy (Simonds) Puffer.
He went to Bolton, but soon removed to Leominster, Mass.,
where he was a shoe manufacturer. He had eight children.
19. Andrew" (Zebulon', Andrew', Andrew', Lot*, John',
Lot', Roger'), b. Feb. 12, 1796; m. Emily Farnsworth [b. July,
1799]. He succeeded to his father's farm, remaining upon it
until about 1840, when he removed to Lunenburg, Mass. He
was selectman the last two years before his removal. Chil
dren: 30. i. Lovander Wright, b. 1820 ; d. about 1901 ; m. AdeHne Hey
wood of Lunenburg, Mass., where he kept a country store.
Two children.
31. ii. Charles Farnsworth, b. 1821. -(-
32. iii. Andiuew Philander, b. May 8, 1823.-|-
33. iv. Samuel Stillman, b. Mar., 1825; d. about 1902.
34. V. Susan E., b. 1827; m. Edward Grossman of Fitchburg, Mass.
35. vi. Lucy Hale, b. 1829; m. George P. Kingsbury of Leominster,
Mass.
36. vii. Adoniram Judson, b. Apr. 30, 1831.-|-
37. viii. Emily Hazelton, b. 1833; ra. George Searles of Leominster,
Mass.
38. ix. James Quincy, b. Apr. 13, 1835.-|-
39. X. Mary Ann, b. 1837; m. J. A. Marshall of Leominster, Mass.
40. xi. George Washington, b. 1839. Lived in North Leominster,
Mass. Two children.
41. xii. Ellen Elizabeth, b. 1843; d. young.
22. James Franklin' (James', Silas', Andrew', Lot*, John',
Lot', Roger'), b. Nov. 23, 1814; d. July 16, 1880; m. Nelson,
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Nov. 5, 1839, Lucy, dau. of Isaac and Susanna (Cobb) Follett
[b. Nov. 26, 1804; d. July 15, 1872]. He came to New Ipswich
with his parents, and on reaching the age of manhood he
settled in Stoneham, Mass. He was a shoemaker. Children:
42. i. Calvin Harrison, b. Aug. 29, 1841.
43. ii. Lucy Ann Seba, b. Nov. 27, 1845 ; m.  Jaquith. Res. in
Reading, Mass.
25. Andrew' (James', Silas', Andrew', Lot*, John', Lot',
Roger'), b. Nov. 13, 1822; m. Brattleboro, Vt., July 3, 1846,
Margaret Annie, dau. of Edward and Martha Chadwell [b.
Mar. 12, 1831]. He came to New Ipswich with his parents
and in early manhood settled in Nashua. He was a cigar
maker. Children :
44. i. Edward Andrew, b. New Ipswich, July 31, 1851.
45. ii. Nellie Frances, b. Nashua, Aug. 30, 1861; d. June 22, 1863.
31. Charles F.^ (Andrew', Zebulon', Andrew', Andrew',
Lot*, John', Lot', Roger'), b. 1821; m. Ora Burt, dau. of
Lyman Bruce. He was in the employ of a large company
for the manufacture of carriages in Leominster, Mass. Chil
dren :
46. i. Charles Edward, b. Mar. 27, 1849.
47. ii. Henry Lyman, b. Aug. 10, 1852.
32. Andrew P.^ (Andrew', Zebulon', Andrew', Andrew',
Lot*, John', Lot', Roger'), b. May 8, 1823; m. (1) name un
known; (2) Aug. 14, 1854, Elizabeth Adelina, dau. of John
and Mary Littlefield of Norridgewock, Me. He owned a
sawmill at Leominster, Mass., for a time, and then removed
to Terre Haute, Ind., where he had a flour mill and was also
proprietor of a mineral spring. Children :
48. i. Austin.
49. ii. Ella.
50. iii. Martha Ella Cobleigh.
51. iv. Ollie Adelina, b. May 29, 1857.
52. v. Ossian Aconda Cromwell, b. Dec. 14, 1862.
53. vi. Ariel Hugo, b. Dec. 29, 1864; d. young.
36. Adoniram" (Andrew', Zebulon', Andrew', Andrew',
Lot*, John', Lot', Roger'), b. Apr. 30, 1831; m. Feb. 11, 1864,
Roxanna, dau. of John Cromwell of Norridgewock, Me. He
removed with his parents to Leominster, Mass., and thence
to Kuttawa, Ky., where he was a miller. He there married
a second and third time. Child :
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38. James Quincy^ (Andrew', Zebulon', Andrew', An
drew', Lot*, John', Lot', Roger'), b. Apr. 13, 1835; m. Apr.
30, 1861, Clara Ann, dau. of Oliver and Clarissa D. (Stone)
Hall [b. Worcester, Mass., Mar. 31, 1841]. He was a grocer
and later a railroad station agent at Mason Village (now
Greenville), and is now a merchant at Leominster, Mass.
Children :
Minnie Barbara, b. Nov. 14, 1862; d. Dec. 25, 1873.
Alice Cornelia, b. Oct. 31, 1864; m. Howard E. Mead, a
piano maker at Leominster, Mass. Two children.
Gertrude Clara, b. Feb. 22, 1871; d. Jan. 12, 1874.
Lillian Adeline, b. Sept. 12, 1873.
COOKE.
Aaron' Cooke, b. about 1610; d. Sept. 5, 1690; m. (1) a dau. of
Thomas Ford; (2) Joan, dau. of Nicholas Denslow [d. 1676]; (3) EHza,
dau. of John Nash of New Haven, Ct. ; (4) Rebecca, dau. of Nathaniel
Foot and widow of Philip Smith of Hadley, Mass. He carae from Eng
land about 1630 and settled in Dorchester, Mass., removing to Windsor,
Ct., about seven years later, and thence in 1660 to Northampton, Mass.,
where he passed his remaining years except about ten years in Westfield,
Mass. He was a farmer in Westfield and also an inn-keeper, and in all
places an influential raan. He rose from private to major, was select
man and representative, and an associate justice.
Aaron' (Aaron'), bapt. Feb. 21, 1640; d. Sept. 16, 1716; m. May 30,
1661, Sarah, dau. of WHHara Westwood [b. 1644; d. Mar. 24, 1730]. He
res. in Hadley, Mass., which town he represented in the Legislature. He
was selectman many years and also held the office of captain.
Westwood' (Aaron', Aaron'), b. Mar. 29, 1670/1; d. June 3, 1744; m.
1692, Sarah Colman [d. after Feb., 1756]. He was selectman and also
lieutenant. Noah* (Westwood', Aaron', Aaron'), b. Apr. 5, 1694; d. June 17,
1760; m. (1) 1716, Sarah Marsh [d. Sept., 1746]; (2) 1747, Esther Chapin.
Noah' (Noah*, Westwood', Aaron', Aaron'), b. Feb. 12, 1730; d.
Apr. 8, 1796; ra. Oct. 23, 1748, Kezia Parsons of Northarapton, Mass.
He was a lieutenant. Res. at Hadley.
1. Noah' (Noah', Noah*, Westwood', Aaron', Aaron'), b.
Oct. 8, 1749; d. Oct. 15, 1829; m,. Jan. 11, 1784, Mary Rock
wood [b. about 1746; d. Oct. 21, 1801]. He graduated from
Harvard College in 1769, afterward studied divinity and was
licensed to preach in 1771. He was a chaplain in the Revo
lutionary army for five years, retiring from^ that position in
1780 and soon commencing the study of law. He was ad
mitted to the bar in 1784 and practiced in this towii until 1791,
when he removed to Keene and there passed the rest of his
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life. He built for his New Ipswich home the house on the
north side of the old country road, and near the meeting
house on the hill, which was long occupied by Stephen F.
Preston and his son Edward F. Children :
2. i. Noah, b. Sept. 16, 1785 ; d. Oct. 2, 1791.
3. H. Josiah Parsons, b. Feb. 15, 1787.-|-
4. iii. Polly, b. Aug. 13, 1788.
5. iv. Noah Rockwood, b. June 17, 1792; d. July 21, 1872; m. Mar.
12, 1850, Maria Louisa L. Mead of Walpole.
3. Josiah Parsons' (Noah', Noah', Noah*, Westwood',
Aaron', Aaron'), b. Feb. 15, 1787; m. Dec. 7, 1826, Mary, dau.
of John Pratt of Boston. He graduated from Dartmouth Col
lege in 1807, studied law in his father's office, was admitted
to the bar at Boston in 1810, and passed his life in that city
as a successful member of the legal profession.
6. Josiah Parsons' (Josiah Parsons', Noah', Noah', Noah*,
Westwood', Aaron', Aaron'), b. Oct. 12, 1827; d. Sept. 3,
1894. He graduated from Harvard College in 1848, was a
tutor there in 1849, and was appointed professor of Chemistry
and Mineralogy the following year. In 1851 he established
what is believed to have been the first chemical laboratory for
undergraduate work instituted in any American college, in
which Charles W. Eliot, afterward president of Harvard, was
one of his earliest students. He lived to see the number of
desks provided for that work, which seven years later num
bered only forty-six, increased to four hundred and sixty, and
he is credited with giving to chemistry its true place as an
exact and disciplinary study. He was popular as a lecturer,
and his scientific publications were recognized as authori
tative.
CRAGIN.
John' Cragin, b. about 1634; d. Jan. 27, 1708; m. Nov. 4, 1661, Sarah
Dawes [b. England, Dec. 23, 1625]. He was born in southern Scotland,
and was sent to America as a prisoner of war by Cromwell in 1652. He
had smallpox on the passage and would have been thrown overboard but
for the intercession of the young English woman whora he afterward
raarried. Res. in Woburn, Mass.
John' (John'), b. Sept. 19, 1677; d. Jan. 26, 1703/4; ra. Apr. 13, 1700,
Deborah Skelton. Res. in Woburn.
John' (John', John'), b. Mar. 25, 1701; d. Jan. 28, 1794; m. about
1727, Judith, dau. of William and Dorothy Barker of Concord, Mass. [b.
Jan. 7, 1701; d. Dec. 26, 1762]. Res. in that part of Concord which is
now Acton, but after the death of his wife he reraoved to Temple,
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John* (John', John', John'), b. Jan. 8, 1728/9; d. May 1, 1797; ra.
(1) Sept. 27, 1755, Sarah Barrett of Chelmsford, Mass. [d. May 30, 1771] ;
(2) about 1780, Sarah Spaulding [b. Townsend, Mass., about 1739; d.
Aug. 26, 1833]. At an early date, probably before his father, he removed
to Temple, and there passed his life. He was a deacon.
Benjamin* (John', John', John'), b. July 8, 1740; m. May 2, 1766,
Mercy Robinson [d. Apr. 20, 1816]. Res. in Temple and in that part of
Mason which is now Greenville.
1. Francis* (John', John', John'), b. Acton, Mass., Mar.
2, 1742; d. Aug. 16, 1826; m. 1766, Elizabeth Law [b. about
1743; d. about 1767] ; (2) 1773, Sibyl Piper [b. Acton, Feb. 20,
1750; d. May 16, 1809]; (3) about 1810, Rebecca, widow of
Charles Barrett (1). His oldest child was born in Acton,
Mass., but all the others in Temple, to which town he removed
at the same time as his father, and there passed over one-
third of a century, representing the town in the Legislature
several years, and holding other principal town oflfices. He
enlisted several times for service during the Revolution. He
came to New Ipswich about 1804, and lived on the Ephraim
Adams farm, (21, N. D.,) until his third marriage, after which
his home was in the older Barrett house situated next north of
the later mansion. Children :
3. i. Paul, b. Dec. 6, 1766; d. Mar. 17, 1853; ra. Oct., 1793, Polly
Whittemore. Res. Greenfield.
4. ii. Francis, b. Oct. 24, 1773 ; d. Jan. 18, 1852 ; m. June 27, 1795,
Sarah' Cummings (Archelaus', David*, John', Isaac', Isaac')
[b. about 1774; d. Mar., 1867]. Res. in Teraple.
5. Hi. Silas, b. Apr. 16, 1775.-)-
6. iv. Stephen, b. Mar. 16, 1777.-|-
7. V. Sibyl, b. Dec. 12, 1778; d. Feb. 18, 1781.
8. vi. Esther, b. Apr. 10, 1781; d. Mar. 16, 1846; ra. Jan. 27, 1798,
Artemas Wheeler [b. Teraple, Mar. 7, 1774; d. Nov. 2,
1848]. Res. Temple, Keene, and Groton. Nine children.
9. vii. Joseph, b. Aug. 4, 1783.-]-
10. viii. Leonard, b. Aug. 29, 1785.-}-
11. ix. Anna, b. Mar. 24, 1789; d. Sept. 16,- 1791.
12. X. Isaiah, b. June 7, 1791.+
13. xi. Samuel, b. Jan. 24, 1794; m. (1) Dec. 22, 1817, Mary Camp
bell (4); (2) Dec. 26, 1848, widow S. H. Cooper. Res.
Paper Mill ViUage.
John' (John*, John', John', John'), b. Mar. 18, 1769; d. June 21,
1853; m. Dec. 1, 1788, Ruth, dau. of Ephraim* and Sarah (Conant)
Heald (John', John', John') [b. July 23, 1772; d. Jan. 17, 1833]. Res.
Temple, where he was a captain in the militia.
2. Aaron' (Benjamin*, John', John', John'), b. Apr. 16,
1772; d. Feb. 13, 1849; m. Feb. 16, 1797, Sarah Wilkins of
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Carlisle, Mass. He removed to Rindge in 1812, came thence
to New Ipswich about 1821, and seems to have lived in the
Factory Village, as it was then termed, for a few years, after
which he removed to New York state. Three children.
5. Silas' (Francis*, John', John', John'), b. Apr. 16, 1775;
d. May 28, 1849; m. Nov. 20, 1797, Anna Prichard (12). He
was a saddler and seems to have lived, for a few years after
his marriage, in the "Stratton house," formerly standing just
below the southeast corner of the old burying-ground on the
hill, his shop being a short distance southward in a building
now removed, but then the second southerly from the street
crossing. After few years he removed to Billerica, Mass.,
and thence to Harvard, Mass., returning to New Ipswich about
1836, after which he had his home in the brick house built
by Abel Shattuck, a few rods southwesterly from the Con
gregational church. Children :
15. i. Lorenzo Silas, b. Sept. 30, \799.-\-
16. H. Ann, b. Oct. 20, 1801; d. Aug. 14, 1843; m. Nov. 17, 1825,
Stedman Houghton (3).
17. iii. Sophronia, b. July 18, 1805; d. Apr. 5, 1894, unm. She was
a milliner at Shelburne Falls, Mass.
18. iv. Elvira, b. Jan. 9, 1809; d. May 28, 1892, unm. She was also
a milliner at Shelburne Falls, Mass.
19. V. Elizabeth P., b. July 8, 1811; d. Mar. 26, 1850, unm.
20. vi. Rebecca Barrett, b. Feb. 28, 1814; d. July 24, 1881; m. Jan.
25, 1843, George W. Myrick [b. Dec. 14, 1805; d. Feb. 26,
1896]. Res. at Shelburne Falls, Mass. Child: i. Stanley
Cragin Myrick, b. Oct. 23, 1844; d. Nov. 23, 1855.
6. Stephen' (Francis*, John', John', John'), b. Mar. 16,
1777; d. Oct. 29, 1821; m. May 30, 1799, Martha Kimball [b.
Temple, Feb. 26, 1775; d. Jan. 4, 1831]. Res. Temple and
Hancock. Children :
21. i. Eveline, b. May 28, 1800; d. inf.
22. ii. Caroline, b. Apr. 9, 1803; d. Jan. 30, 1851; m. Samuel Fisher.
Two children.
23. iii. Francis Kimball, b. Apr. 5, 1805. -|-
24. iv. Franklin H., b. Feb. 14, 1807; d. May 26, 1810.
25. v. Stephen Dexter, b. Apr. 2, 1812; ra. June 18, 1838, Sarah B.
Wall. Two children.
9. Joseph' (Francis*, John', John', John'), b. Aug. 4, 1783;
d. Apr. 27, 1863; m. (1) Aug. 25, 1803, Hannah Patten [b.
June 16, 1785; d. May 1, 1833] ; (2) May 8, 1835, widow Sarah
Robinson [b. about 1787; d. Feb. 26, 1863]. He was a farmer
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in New Ipswich, first on the Ephraim Adams farm, (21, N.
D.,) and later on the more easterly of the two Breed farms
near the south line of the town, (80, A. D.) At about the
time of his second marriage he removed to the former par
sonage just westward from the first Baptist church on the
road to Smith Village, and here he passed his later years.
Children :
26. i. Hannah, b. Apr. 16, 1805; ra. Feb. 15, 1831, Darius Welling
ton of Ashby, Mass. Res. at Memphis, Mo. Child: i.
Henry D. Wellington. Res. Memphis, Mo.
27. ii. Oilman, b. Aug. 5, 1807; d. Feb. 12, 1808.
28. iii. Roxanna, b. Feb. 9, 1809; d. Nov. 7, 1812.
29. iv. Dorcas Barrett, b. July 26, 1811; d. Apr. 19, 1910; m. (1)
Jan. 3, 1837, Edward H. Holden (9) ; (2) Sept. 24, 1845,
James Hayward of Ashby, Mass. Children : i. Augusta
H. Holden, b. Sept. 13, 1838; ra. Francis W. Wright of
Ashby; one daughter, ii. H. Cornelia Hayward, b. Aug.
31, 1846; d. Feb. 1, 1859. iii. Charles E. Hayward, b. May
16, 1848; d. Nov. 3, 1884; m. Anna Hurd; one son. iv.
George E. Hayward, b. July 21, 1850; d. Aug. 15, 1873.
30. v. Mary, b. Sept. 10, 1813; d. June 17, 1814.
31. vi. James P., b. Apr. 17, 1815; d. Oct. 2, 1886; ra. Charlotte
Wetherbee.
32. vii. Hepzibah C, b. Apr. 26, 1817; d. Sept. 5, 1872.
33. vHi. John F., b. Oct. 10, 1829; d. Dec. 31, 1829.
10. Leonard' (Francis*, John', John', John'), b. Aug. 29,
1785; m. 1805, Margaret Ritchie [b. Temple, Mar. 27, 1784;
d. Westminster, Vt., Dec. 16, 1858]. He lived for several
years after attaining his majority in or near the High Bridge
Village, and later in the central southern portion of the town.
His name disappears from the town records in 1819, but he
is dismissed to' the church at Westmoreland in 1833. His
children are said to have been born in New Ipswich. Chil
dren: 34. i. Philenia, b. Dec. 2, 1807 ; ra. May 10, 1832, Thoraas C. Elliot.
Seven children. Res. Ruraford, Me.
35. ii. Sibyl, b. Apr. 20, 1809; ra. Jan. 22, 1833, Luther Verrill. Res.
for a time at Auburn, Me., but his seven children were
born at Minot, Me.
36. iii. William, b. Dec. 11, 1810; d. July, 1812.
37. iv. Leonard, b. Dec. 29, 1812. Res. New Orleans.
38. V. Seth B., b. Apr. 28, 1815; d. Nov. 3, 1858; m. (1) Oct. 10,
1839, Sarah S. Chase; (2) Apr. 23, 1851, Susan M. Dig-
gens. Res. Geneseo, 111. Two children.
39. vi. Edward, b. July 14, 1817; m. July 25, 1850, Cynthia V. New
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40. vii. Sarah Ritchie, b. Nov. 19, 1822; m. Dec. 3, 1851, Daniel C
Wright. Res. Westminster, Vt. One son.
41. viii. Harriet, b. Apr. 21, 1825; d. Aug. 10, 1855; m. June 12, 1851,
Stephen K. Cobb. Res. Westminster, Vt. One daughter.
12. Isaiah' (Francis*, John', John', John'), b. June 7, 1791 ;
d. Aug., 1874; m. (1) Oct. 18, 1812, Hannah Hildreth [b. West
ford, Mass., June 1, 1791 ; d. Jan. 3, 1823] ; (2) Apr. 30, 1825,
Sivona Davis (92). He was a shoemaker, living during some
years of his early manhood at Alstead, but coming to New
Ipswich about 1820. He lived for a time in the house next
below the home of his brother Silas at the foot of Meeting
house Hill, but after the death of his first wife removed
easterly past the street crossing to the large white house built
by Jeremiah Prichard and long the home of the John P. Clark
family. He also appears to have lived for a time on or near
Page Hill, but about 1836 he removed to Groton, Mass., where
he was a deacon. Children :
42. i. Mary Louisa, b. Aug., 1813; d. Oct., 1814.
43. ii. Mary Reed, b. Nov., 1814; d. Aug., 1818.
44. iii. Charles Hartwell, b. Sept. 7, 1817; m. (1) Oct. 2, 1845,
Mary McKenney; (2) Apr. 16, 1857, Henrietta F. McKen
ney. Res. Georgetown, D. C. Six children.
45. iv. Isaiah Luther, b. Aug. 2, 1819; m. June 2, 1842, Sarah A.
Loring. Res. Groton, Mass.
46. V. Esther Maria, b. Nov. 8, 1826; m. Nov. 5, 1848, Roswell B.
Hodge. Res. Groton, Mass. Three children.
47. vi. Asenath Taylor, b. June 11, 1828; m. (1) Sept. 29, 1852,
Samuel C. Wheeler; (2) Apr. 21, 1859, Isaac Grout. Res.
Putney, Vt.
Rodney Dennis, b. Aug. 16, 1831. Res. Groton, Mass.
Amelia, b. Apr. 12, 1833; d. Dec. 8, 1859; m. Sept. 25, 1858,
George Billings. Res. Groton, Mass.
Joseph Davis, b. Jan. 1, 1838. Res. Groton, Mass.
George Kendall, b. Aug. 16, 1840. Res. Groton, Mass.
Francis Wheeler, b. Apr. 25, 1844. Res. Groton, Mass.
14. John' (John', John*, John', John', John'), b. Jan. 16,
1797; d. Apr. 2, 1858; m. (1) Frances Louisa Reed [b. about
1806 ; d. July 29, 1837] ; (2) 1838, Caroline Elizabeth Reed [b.
Mar. 27, 1808; d. Oct. 26, 1886]. He lived upon the family
homestead in Temple, never removing to New Ipswich, but
his family came to the town soon after his death. Children :
53. i. John Wisner, b. Jan. 1, 1831; d. Mar. 18, 1860. He was a
graduate of St. Charles (Mo.) College and afterward a
professor in the same.
54. ii. Samuel Stuart, b. July 10, 1832; d. Mar. 27, 1842.
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55. iii. Sarah Frances, b. Feb. 15, 1834; d. Mar. 30, 1908; m. Peter
Brown of Watervalley, Minn. [d. Dec. 7, 1872]. Child:
i. Charles Peter Brown.
56. iv. Charlotte Maria, b. Aug. 22, 1836; d. Apr. 4, 1842.
57. V. Caroline Louisa, b. July 10, 1837; d. Aug. 9, 1853.
58. vi. Abner Payson, b. June 13, 1839; d. Aug. 3, 1863. He served
in the Civil War in the 13th New Hampshire Regiraent, and
died of disease contracted while in service.
59. vii. Charlotte Stuart, b. Feb. 6, 1843; d. Oct. 20, 1877; m. Burt
Johnson of Providence, R. I. [d. Dec. 8, 1878]. Children:
i. Arthur E. Johnson, b. July 20, 1870; d. May 16, 1890. ii.
William Burt Johnson. Res. Chicago, 111.
60. vin. Samuel Arthur, b. Oct. 18, 1845; d. Nov. 27, 1870.
61. ix. Edward Stuart, b. Apr. 20, 1848.-)-
15. Lorenzo Silas' (Silas', Francis*, John', John', John'),
b. Sept. 30, 1799; d. Nov. 25, 1876; m. Nov. 21, 1824, Susan
Tyler. He was engaged in mercantile business in Boston.
Children :
62. i. Lorenzo, b. about 1826; d. St. John, N. B., Aug. 27, 1875;
m. Louisa Simmons of Roxbury, Mass. He was a lawyer.
Three children.
63. ii. Henry, m. Abby Blanchard of Roxbury, Mass. Two or more
children.
23. Francis Kimball' (Stephen', Francis*, John', John',
John'), b. Apr. 5, 1805; d. Jan. 1, 1887; m. (1) Mar. 26, 1829,
Lucy Preston (40) ; (2) Oct. 24, 1837, Maria Louisa Champ
ney (17). He lived in Hancock until 1861, when he removed
to Woburn, Mass. Children :
64. i. Mary Jane, b. Jan. 14, 1830; unm. She was a teacher in
Wheaton Female Seminary.
65. ii. Lucy Maria, b. Oct. 13, 1836; m. Charles Cole of Woburn,
Mass.
61. Edward Stuart' (John', John', John*, John', John',
John'), b. Apr. 20, 1848; m. Oct. 21, 1886, Caroline Elizabeth,
dau. of Caleb G. and Henrietta (Shattuck) (109) Weaver of
Lowell, Mass. [b. Apr. 4, 1850]. He is engaged in the publi
cation of music in New York city, being a director of the
Ditson Company, and also treasurer of the Music Publishers'
Association. Child :
66. i. Horace Stuart, b. June 28, 1889. He graduated from Am
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CUMMINGS.
Isaac' Cummings, b. 1601 ; d. May, 1677. He is believed to have
come from England in 1627, and to have settled in Salem, Mass., where,
however, he did not permanently reside. He was a proprietor of Water-
town, where he had a grant of land in 1636. He had a house lot in
Ipswich Village, where he was a ''comraoner" in 1641. In 1652 he was in
Topsfield, where his later years were passed. He was moderator there
in 1676, and a deacon for many years. His wife is not known.
John' (Isaac'), b. 1630; d. Dec. 1, 1700; m. Sarah, dau. of Thomas
and Alice (French) Howlett of Ipswich [d. Dec. 7, 1700]. He succeeded
to his father's land, but he had removed to Boxford about 1657, and
about 1680 to Dunstable, where he was one of the first settlers and a
selectraan. John' (John', Isaac'), b. Boxford, 1657; ra. Sept. 13, 1680, Elizabeth,
dau. of Samuel and Hannah (Brackett) Kinsley [b. Braintree, Nov. 22,
1657; d. July 3, 1706]. He lived in that part of Dunstable which is now
Nashua, N. H., where his wife was killed by the Indians, and he was
wounded at the same tirae.
John* (John', John', Isaac'), b. July 7, 1682; d. Apr. 27, 1759; m.
Oct. 2, 1705, Elizabeth, dau. of Peletiah' (Thomas', Henry') and Ruth
Adams of Chelmsford [b. Apr. 26, 1680; d. Apr. 30, 1759]. He resided in
that part of Chelmsford which is now Westford and his farm, in part still
occupied by a descendant, included the land around the present railroad
station. He was a selectman and town clerk and was the first deacon
chosen by the church.
William* (John', John', Isaac'), b. Apr. 24, 1702; d. Aug. 29, 1757;
m. Sarah, dau. of William and Esther Harwood [b. Dunstable, June 26,
1706; d. 1769]. He settled on the east bank of the Merrimac river in
that part of Dunstable which is now Hudson, N. H. He was a member
of both of the expeditions of Capt. Lovewell against the Indians in 1725,
but a severe lameness compelled him to return before the disastrous
issue of the second one.
John" (John*, John', John', Isaac'), b. June 1, 1710; d. Sept. 20, 1789;
ra. Jan. 28, 1736, Sarah, dau. of Eleazer and Mary Lawrence of Littleton,
Mass. [b. about 1716; d. Oct. 3, 1799]. He settled in Groton, Mass., and
there passed raost of his active life, but in his later years removed to
Hancock, N. H., where he died. He served in the French and Indian
and the Revolutionary wars, and bore the title of lieutenant.
1. Samuel' (John*, John', John', Isaac'), b. Sept. 18, 1718;
d. June 9„ 1796; m. Dec. 1, 1741, Sarah, dau. of Dea. Andrew'
and Abigail Spaulding [b. June 9, 1723; d. Nov. 23, 1801].
He was a farmer in Westford, where most if not all of his
children were born, and he perhaps lived for a time in Dunsta
ble, but his name appears on the New Ipswich records in
1772 and remains for thirteen years. He removed to Cornish,
N. H., and there passed the later years of his life. Soon after
his arrival in New Ipswich he bought the Zachariah Adams
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(H. 2) sixty acres of land, and he rebuilt the mills at the
Smith Village previously owned by Mr. Adams, but burned
two or three years before. Children :
3. i. Samuel, b. Nov. 18, 1742.-|-
4. ii. Abigail, b. Jan. 23, 1745.
5. iii. Sarah, b. May 18, 1747.
6. iv. Benjamin, b. Dec. 28, 1749; d. Oct. 2, probably 1750.
7. V. Betsey, b. June 28, 1752; d. Nov., 1810; ra. WiHiara Farris
(1).
8. vi. Benjamin, b. Mar. 29, 175S.-|-
9. vii. Mary, b. Dec. 16, 1757; d. Feb. 26, 1812; m. Feb. 5, 1781,
Ebenezer Fletcher (14).
10. viii. Andrew, b. Feb. 16, 1761; d. Oct. 1, 1775.
11. ix. Warren, b. Oct. 16, 1768.+
Ebenezer' (William*, John', John', Isaac'), b. Jan. 29, 1730; ra. (1)
Sarah, dau. of Stephen and Sarah (Hale) Chase [b. about 1726; d. Nov.,
1772] ; (2) Apr. 12, 1774, Sarah Stevens. He spent his life upon the
homestead of his father in Hudson, N. H. He was an influential citizen,
and a deacon for a long time. He represented the town in the Constitu
tional Convention in 1788.
2. Eleazer' (John', John*, John', John', Isaac'), b. Groton,
Mass., Nov. 15, 1739; d. Aug. 3, 1815; m. (1) Feb. 15, 1764,
Sarah Reed of Littleton, Mass. [b. 1736; d. Apr. 4, 1802];
(2) June 6, 1803, widow Mary (Read) Russell of Westford.
He came to New Ipswich in 1765 and settled on the "John
Knowlton farm" (76, A. D.) In 1768 he bought the land and
mills of John Chandler, and afterward other adjoining land
sufficient to make his possessions amount to four hundred
acres. He erected new buildings, adding a malt-house, a lin
seed oil mill, and an oatmeal factory, supplying as distant
points as Boston. He served in the Revolution, responding
to the Concord alarm as a private, but is recorded as a captain
in the following December. Children :
12. i. Molly, b. Dec. 2, 1764; d. Feb. 23, 1845; m. James Barr (1).
13. ii. Aaron, b. Dec. 22, 1765; d. June 17, 1766.
14. iii. Matilda, b. June 11, 1768; d. Aug. 27, 1833; m. Feb. 9, 1790,
Timothy Wheelock (5).
15. iv. Charles, b. Dec. 7, 1770.-|-
16. V. Deidamia, b. Sept. 30, 1772; d. Dec. 24, 1840; m. Feb. 16, 1792,
WilHam Prichard (6).
17. vi. Lavina, b. Nov. 4, 1774; d. 1846; m. Feb. 11, 1796, Samuel
Joslin.
18. vii. Barnard, b. Jan. 14, 1777; d. Feb. 2, 1777.
3. Samuel' (Samuel', John*, John', John', Isaac'), b. Nov.
18, 1742; d. Jan. 16, 1826; m. (1) 1765, Sarah Butterfield of
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Dunstable [b. July 4, 1745 ; d. Aug. 31, 1804] ; (2) Mrs. Lydia
Pollard; (3) Mrs. Lucy Willard. He settled in Packersfield,
now Nelson, N. H., where he lived twenty-five years or longer,
and then removed to Cornish, N. H. Children :
19. i. Sally, b. July 7, 1766; d. Dec. 17, 1842; m. Feb. 19, 1786,
Jonathan Morse.
Leonard, b. Dec. 5, 1769.-|-
Betty, b. Feb. 23, 1772; d. Aug. 9, 1825; m. Feb. 23, 1794,
Rufus, son of Peltiah and Mary (Knapp) Day, a farmer at
Cornish, N. H. Eight children.
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Eben, b. June 24, 1779.-H
Charlotte, b. Dec. 15, 1782; d. Sept. 16, 1820; m. Feb. 4,
1807, Caleb Burk.
25. vii. Rebecca, b. June 18, 1786; d. Aug. 26, 1834; m. Nov. 23, 1809,
Isaac French. Four children.
26. viii. Sophia, b. Apr. 10, 1789; d. Sept. 5, 1853; m. Feb. 24, 1814,
Amos Richardson of Cornish, N. H. Eight children :
8. Benjamin' (Samuel', John*, John', John', Isaac'), b.
Mar. 29, 1755; d. Apr. 14, 1813; m. Sept. 5, 1776, Mary, dau.
of John and Mary (Sherman) Cooper [b. July 20, 1753; d.
Dec. 13, 1843]. Res. Cornish, N. H. Children:
27. i. Peninnah, b. June 20, 1777; d. Mar. 11, 1810; m. Dec. 14,
1800, Chester Weld. Four children.
28. ii. Samuel, b. Nov. 3, 1778.4-
29. iii. Polly, b. Feb. 17, 1781, d. Aug. 30, 1847; m. Mar. 1, 1801,
Luther Bingham. Res. Morristown, Vt. Six children.
30. iv. Sherman, b. Jan. 9, 1783.-|-
31. V. Andrew, b. May 6, 1785.-|-
32. vi. Fenno, b. Mar. 21, 1787.+
33. vii. Benjamin, b. Apr. 15, 1789.-]-
34. viii. Betsey, b. Apr. 3, 1791; d. Aug. 17, 1869; m. Feb. 26, 1818,
Moody Smith.
35. ix. Susan, b. Apr. 4, 1793; d. Dec, 1863; m. June 25, 1829,
James Sperry. Res. Claremont, N. H.
36. X. A son, b. Oct. 13, 1795; d. Oct. 13, 1795.
37. xi. A son, b. Oct. 13, 1795; d. Oct. 14, 1795.
38. xii. Julia D. Robigne, b. Apr. 12, 1799; d. May 2, 1858; m. Dec.
27, 1815, Jacob Newell of Lyme, N. H. Seven children.
11. Warren' (Samuel', John*, John', John', Isaac'), b.
Oct. 16, 1768; d. Dec. 12, 1853; m. May 28, 1789, Mary, dau.
of Capt. Joseph and Elizabeth (Sumner) Taylor of Cornish,
N. H. [b. Sept. 18, 1768; d. Nov. 6, 1849]. He was a mechanic
and farmer at Cornish. Children :
39. i. Sally, b. July 10, 1791; d. Nov. 19, 1872; m. William Daily of
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40. ii. William Sumner, b. Apr. 8, 1793; d. Mar. 2, 1875; m. Nov.
19, 1821, Susan Gates.
41. iH. Betsey, b. Apr. 6, 1795; d. Mar. 10, 1863; m. Nov. 19, 1821,
David Sraith. Res. Newton, Mass., and Sparta, N. J.
Seven children.
42. iv. Warren Spaulding, b. June 14, 1797; d. Dec. 1, 1818, unm.
43. V. Taylor Oilman, b. May 15, 1799; d. Aug. 18, 1803.
44. vi. Joseph Sidney, b. Apr. 26, 1801; d. Oct. 21, 1884; m. Jan. 22,
1834, Lydia D., dau. of Andrew and Lydia (Jackson)
Cummings.
45. vii. Hermon Hunt, b. Apr. 9, 1803; d. Weathersfield, Vt., June
30, 1870. He was colonel of the 15th N. H. Regt.
46. viii. Gu-man Taylor, b. July 30, 1805; d. Dec. 16, 1876; m. (1)
May 26, 1832, Amy A. Lockwood; (2) Sept. 1, 1834, Rhoda
J. Worthington. Res. Metuchen, N. J.
47. ix. Maria, b. Mar. 8, 1808; d. Mar. 25, 1876; ra. Nov. 30, 1831,
Joshua W. Bryant, a farmer of Bridgewater, Vt. Four
children.
48. X. Daniel Morris, b. May 16, 1810.
49. xi. Albert Gallatin, b. Mar. 19, 1812.
Samuel' (Ebenezer", William*, John', John', Isaac'), b. Apr. 6, 1781;
d. Mar. 4, 1864; m. 1804, Johanna, dau. of WiUiam and Phebe (Gage)
Wyman [b. Pelham, N. H., Mar. 8, 1780; d. Feb. 15, 1845]. He lived
successively in Hudson, Antrim, and Hollis.
15. Charles' (Eleazer', John', John*, John', John', Isaac'),
b. Dec. 7, 1770; d. Oct. 17, 1809; m. Sarah Willard of Nashua
[b. about 1764; d. Mar. 21, 1867]. He seems to have passed
his life in his native town, living near his father's mill and
engaged in the industries conducted there. Children :
51. i. Sarah, b. Oct. 31, 1792; d. July 10, 1861; m. Henry Campbell.
52. ii. Hepsibeth, b. July 16, 1795; d. Sept. 17, 1874; m. Dec. 12,
1820, Andrew, son of Dea. John and Polly (Bradford)
Wallace, a lawyer and for many years clerk of court. Res.
Amherst. Six children.
53. iii. Mary, b. Nov. 12, 1797; d. July 4, 1859; m. David W. Russell.
54. iv. Eliza, b. Feb. 2, 1800; d. Aug. 9, 1885; m. George Eliot.
55. v. Catherine, b. June 29, 1802; d. Dec. 31, 1883; m. Dec. 29,
1827, Salmon Rice. Five children.
56. vi. Charles, b. July 15, 1804.-]-
57. vii. John Willard, b. Oct. 29, 1806.-f
20. Leonard' (Samuel', Samuel', John*, John', John',
Isaac'), b. Dec. 5, 1769; d. Oct. 25, 1832; m. Sept. 20, 1791,
Nelly Winch [b. Dec. 15, 1768; d. Dec. 30, I860]. He was a
farmer and mechanic at Cornish. Children:
58. i. Uriel, b. Feb. 28, 1793; d. Mar. 14, 1878; m. Feb. 28, 1814,
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59. ii. Cynthia, b. Mar. 18, 1795; d. Sept. 6, 1884; ra. Feb. 10, 1814,
Capt. Obed, son of Col. Samuel and Chloe (Cooper) Pow
ers. Five children.
22. Andrew' (Samuel', Samuel', John*, John', John',
Isaac'), b. Oct. 9, 1776; d. July 11, 1853; m. (1) May 29, 1800,
Lydia, dau. of Benjamin and Lydia (Peck) Jackson [b. May
27, 1773 ; d. May 13, 1849] ; (2) Mrs. Betsey Atwood. He
was a carpenter and a builder at Cornish. Children :
60. i. Farris, b. Feb. 20, 1801; d. Dec. 14, 1803.
61. ii. Ursula, b. May 2, 1802; d. Sept. 5, 1803.
62. iii. William Farris, b. Nov. 13, 1803; d. May 29, 1859; m. (1)
Sept. 17, 1831, Abigail Bryant; (2) Mercy Jenne. Eight
children.
63. iv. Sula Bolona, b. Mar. 12, 1805; d. Apr. 30, 1867; m. Nov. 25,
1830, Joseph Bryant, a farmer at Bridgewater, Vt. Six
children.
64. V. Lydia Delilah, b. Jan. 19, 1807; d. Sept. 19, 1872; m. Jan.
22, 1834, Joseph F. Cummings. Res. Bridgewater, Vt. Six
children.
65. vi. Sophia Maria, b. Sept. 10, 1808; d. July 22, 1818.
66. vii. Nellie Peninnah, b. Aug. 10, 1810; d. Aug. 2, 1838; m.
Oct. 11, 1837, John G. Cross. One child.
67. viii. Marcia Louisa, b. Oct. 13, 1812 ; d. Aug. 15, 1903 ; m. Jan. 25,
1841, Bela J. Fletcher. Res. Claremont. She was a poetess
of ability and local farae. One son.
68. ix. Lucia Ann, b. Jan. 30, 1815; ra. Mar. 5, 1846, Chauncey P.
Jenny. Removed to Toledo, O. One son.
23. Eben' (Samuel', Samuel', John*, John', John', Isaac'),
b. June 24, 1779; d. Oct. 20, 1850; m. Nov. 2, 1806, Ursula, dau.
of Stephen and Mercy (Chase) Child [b. June 2, 1785 ; d. June
29, 1831]. He was a carpenter and farmer at Cornish, whence
he removed to Hanover in 1850. He served as captain in the
war of 1812. Children :
69. i. Sarah, b. July 28, 1808; d. July 14, 1858, Palmyra, Mo., unm.
70. ii. Maria, b. Dec. 3, 1809; d. Dec. 5, 1809.
71. iii. Adaline, b. Feb. 6, 1812; d. Girard, Kan., Feb. 5, 1883; m.
Aug. 5, 1861, William Metcalf.
72. iv. Alice Chase, b. Sept. 16, 1813; d. Oct. 11, 1870; m. Sept. 25,
1850, Dr. John B. Hayes of Palmyra, Mo. Two children.
73. V. Dudley Chase, b. Mar. 19, 1815; d. Ottawa, Kan., Sept 16,
1891, unm.
74. vi. George Philander, b. Aug. 27, 1820 ; m. June 23, 1861, Abigail
Cornelius Walker. Four children.
75. vii. Samuel Edward, b. Oct. 13, 1823; d. Apr. 2, 1894; m. Apr.
26, 1852, Martha Cortz. Three children.
28. Samuel' (Benjamin', Samuel', John*, John', John',
Isaac'), b. Nov. 3, 1778; d. Oct. 10, 1866; m. (1) Jan. 25, 1803,
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Lydia Marsh [b. Mar. 10, 1778; d. Aug. 24, 1813]; (2) Mar.
20, 1814, Martha Aiken; (3) Oct. 19, 1825, Auretta Hopkins
[d. Apr. 8, 1829]. He settled in Berkshire, Vt., in 1803, but
passed his later years with his youngest son in Waldo, Wis.
Children :
76. i. Julia Robigne, b. Nov. 17, 1803; d. Sept. 16, 1884; m. Elijah
Chaffee, a miller of Berkshire, Vt. Six children.
77. ii. Polly, b. Jan. 26, 1805; d. Aug. 24, 1813.
78. iii. RoxALANiA, b. Mar. 11, 1808; m. Oct. 24, 1837, David Babcock
of Georgia, Vt. Five children.
79. iv. Rosalinda, b. Dec. 30, 1811; d. Mar. 20, 1879; m. 1829,
Bandana Smith, a clothier of Enosburg, Vt. Two children.
80. V. Henry, b. Aug. 2, 1813; d. May 23, 1881; m. Jan. 7, 1840,
Sarah Maria Moore. Six children.
81. vi. Mary, b. May 24, 1816; m. Apr. 6, 1842, Chester Olmstead,
a farmer at Franklin, Vt. Removed to Battle Creek, Mich.
Five children.
82. vii. Sherman, b. Dec. 17, 1818; m. Dec. 30, 1840, Elimina Eliza
Stone. Three children.
83. viii. Caroline R., b. Jan. 12, 1821; m. Apr. 6, 1840, H. Nelson
Austin of Berkshire, Vt. Four children.
84. ix. Sarah Fay, b. Aug. 30, 1826; d. Mar. 15, 1850; m. 1845,
Daniel Willey of Waterville, Vt. Two children.
85. X. Harvey, b. Dec. 6, 1827; m. (1) Sept. 12, 1852, Helen Marr
Stone [d. Oct. 14, 1892]; (2) 1896, Martha A. Wagstaff.
Res. Waldo, Wis. A mechanic and farmer.
30. Sherman' (Benjamin', Samuel', John*, John', John',
Isaac'), b. Jan. 9, 1783; d. Apr. 22, 1845; m. 1803, Betsey,
dau. of Caleb and Catherine (Black) Smart [b. Croydon, Sept.
13, 1782; d. Dec. 16, 1834]. He was a tanner and currier in
Cornish and in Plainfield, Vt. Later he removed to Galesburg,
111. Children:
86. i. Orilla, b. May 13, 1804; d. Dec. 11, 1806.
87. ii. Harriet, b. Mar. 13, 1804; d. Oct. 30, 1887; m. Oct. 11, 1824,
George Townsend [d. May 10, 1852]; (2) Oct. 17, 1853,
Linus Ellison. Seven children.
88. iii. Sherman Smart, b. Apr. 15, 1807; d. Sept. 17, 1813.
89. iv. Catherine Black, b. Feb. 27, 1809; m. Apr. 8, 1827, Reuben
Storrs. Five children.
90. v. Harris Newton, b. Jan. 28, 1811; d. Oct. 6, 1813.
91. vi. Betsey Orilla, b. Apr. 10, 1813; d. Dec. 11, 1852; ra. Joseph
Wiseman. One son.
92. vH. Nancy Powers, b. Jan. 1, 1815; d. Feb. 13, 1888; ra. (1) Dr.
John Fox; (2) L. J. Fox.
93. viii. James Ripley, b. Sept. 20, 1817; m. (1) Jan. 25, 1841, Lucy
Jane Kingsley; (2) Mar. 11, 1876, Emma Root Mills. Four
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94 ix. Jerusha Martha, b. Aug. 20, 1819; d. Sept. 27, 1874; m.
Loren Fox.
95. X. A daughter, b. July 19, 1821 ; d. Oct. 8, 1821.
96. xi. Evaline Asenath, b. Jan. 7, 1824; m. Blackburn Browning
Michols. Res. Muskegon, Mich., and Galesburg, Mich. One
son.
31. Andrew' (Benjamin', Samuel', John*, John', John',
Isaac'), b. May 6, 1785; d. Mar. 5, 1854; m. Sept. 10, 1809,
Betsey (Jewett), widow of John Parker [b. Feb. 28, 1784; d.
Apr. 6, 1864]. He was a farmer in Berkshire, Vt. He served
as a sergeant in the war of 1812. Children :
97. i. Benjamin, b. Dec. 2, 1810; d. Oct. 26, 1872; m. Jan. 7, 1835,
Mary Huntington. Ten children.
98. ii. Elam Jewett, b. Apr. 22, 1812; d. Nov. 23, 1894; m. Feb. 1,
1839, Fanny Woodbury Fletcher (185). Four children.
99. iii. Jane C, b. Mar. 2, 1814; d. Apr. 12, 1864; m. James Follett,
a farmer in Central Ohio. Six children.
100. iv. Andrew Clinton, b. Dec. 27, 1818; m. Feb. 25, 1840, Amanda
Janes. Seven children.
101. V. William, b. Dec. 22, 1820; d. Apr. 6, 1823.
102. vi. Horace, b. Mar. 10, 1823 ; d. Aug. 14, 1823.
103. vii. William Alexander, b. May 8, 1826; ra. Mary C. Fletcher
(189). Two children.
32. Fenno' (Benjamin', Samuel', John*, John', John',
Isaac'), b. Mar. 21, 1787; d. Jan. 24, 1830; m. 1809, Rebecca,
dau. of Caleb and Catherine (Black) Smart [b. July 25, 1788;
d. Oct., 1865; m. (2) Rev. Jonathan Kinney of Plainfield, Vt.].
He was a tanner and currier in company with his brother
Sherman in Cornish and in Plainfield, and after 1815 without
a partner in Berlin, Vt. He was a deacon. Children :
104 i. A son, b. Mar. 14, 1810; d. Apr. 4, 1810.
105. H. Peninnah, b. Dec. 1, 1811; d. Apr. 16, 1816.
106. iii. A son, b. Jan., 1813; d. Feb. 1, 1813.
107. iv. William Freeman, b. Jan. 18, 1814; m. (1) May 7, 1835,
Adaline Tenney; (2) 1852, Emeretta Humphrey. Two
children.
108. V. Mary Louisa, b. Jan. 19, 1816; m. Sept. 25, 1836, Harry
Hovey, son of Israel and Nancy (Hovey) Dewey, a farmer
in Berlin and Lunenburg, Vt., and after 1863 in Iowa and
Illinois. Five children.
109. vi. A daughter, b. and d. Oct. 18, 1817.
110. vii. A daughter, b. and d. Oct. 18, 1817.
111. viii. Ursula Frances, b. Nov. 16, 1818; d. Dec. 25, 1866; m. Mar.
9, 1837, Oliver, son of William and Abigail (Flagg) Dewey,
a farmer in Berlin, Vt. Four children.
112. ix. Orrel Farris, b. Sept. 12, 1820; m. May 1, 1845, Bela M.
Howard, a farmer at ShefiBeld, 111. Six children.
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113. X. Ednah, b. Aug. 19, 1822; m. May 1, 1845, William M.
Whipple, a farmer of Croydon, and member of the legis
lature.
114. xi. Fenno Lafayette, b. Aug. 23, 1824; m. Nov. 30, 1848, Annie
Carpenter. Two children.
115. xii. Erasmus Darwin, b. June 17, 1826; d. July 10, 1902; ra.
Jan. 20, 1848, Caroline Susan Smart. Four children.
116. xiii. A son, b. Mar. 13, 1826; d. Apr. 4, 1828.
117. xiv. Hiram Smart, b. July 2, 1829; m. (1) Aug. 26, 1851, Lucy
Maria Wells ; (2) June 13, 1868, Hattie S. Hartshorn. Six
children.
33. Benjamin' (Benjamin', Samuel', John*, John', John',
Isaac'), b. Apr. 15, 1789; d. Nov. 22, 1868; m. Nov. 30, 1815,
Althea, dau. of James A. and Althea (Ripley) Wellman [b.
Nov. 14, 1790]. He was a farmer of Cornish. Children:
118. i. Benjamin Newton, b. Nov. 2, 1816; d. Nov. 17, 1899; m. (1)
July 22, 1847, Betsey M. Righter; (2) Jan. 11, 1877, Mrs.
Helen M. Lewis. Three children.
119. H. Mary Althea, b. Sept. 22, 1818; d. Mar. 17, 1861.
120. iii. Charles Wellman, b. Apr. 23, 1822; m. Mar. 25, 1858, Laura
F. Dewey [b. Feb. 20, 1840], dau. of Ursula F. Curamings
(111) Dewey. One child.
48. Daniel Morris' (Warren', Samuel', John*, John',
John', Isaac'), b. May 16, 1810; d. Mar. 1, 1885; m. Nov. 30,
1836, Emily Maria Hamilton [b. Sharon, Vt., June 17, 1814;
d. Feb. 11, 1895]. He was a general mechanic, machinist, and
inventor. After several removals he settled in 1852 at Enfield.
Children :
121. i. Owen Taft, b. Dec. 5, 1837; m. Dec. 5, 1866, Mary Elizabeth
Gate. Two children.
122. ii. Emma Maria, b. Dec. 7, 1840; unm. Res. in Enfield.
123. iii. Albert Gallatin, b. Nov. 8, 1842; m. Oct. 10, 1871, Nellie
T. Currier. Four children.
124. iv. Perley Martin, b. July 19, 1844; m. (1) Feb. 12, 1874, Eliza
beth Wanzer; (2) Nov., 1888, Mrs. Virginia Ellis. Three
children.
125. V. Homer Hamilton, b. Feb. 3, 1846; m. June 17, 1873, Sarah
Cowden. Seven children.
126. vi. Mary Anna, b. Apr. 18, 1848; d. Mar. 12, 1893, unm.
127. vii. DiLLis Morris, b. Jan. 17, 1850; d. Aug. 23, 1853.
128. viii. Cordelia Elizabeth, b. Jan. 1, 1852; d. Aug. 18, 1853.
129. ix. Delia Minerva, b. Feb. 16, 1854; unra. Res. in Enfield.
130. x. Walter Dn,Lis, b. Nov. 12, 1856; d. Nov. 21, 1863.
49. Albert Gallatin' (Warren', Samuel', John*, John',
John', Isaac'), b. Mar. 19, 1812; d. June 17, 1886; m. June 10,
1838, Cynthia Jewett Robbins [b. July 28, 1820; d. July 8,
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1900]. He was a clergyman in several places in New Hamp
shire and Massachusetts. Children :
131. i. James, b. Mason, Nov. 2, 1839; d. Dec. 3, 1839.
132. ii. Joseph Taylor, b. Salera, Mass. ; d. June 13, 1867 ; ra. Apr.
21, 1864, Sarah Elizabeth Dow. His death resulted from
wounds received in the Civil War.
133. iii. Mary Lydia, b. Boston, Jan. 25, 1844; d. June 22, 1873.
134. iv. Albert Luther, b. Boston, May 21, 1846; m. Aug. 14, 1873,
Emma J. Dow. Six children.
135. V. Millie J., b. Mason, Dec. 3, 1848; d. May 3, 1891; m. Nov.
11, 1874, Daniel E. Plummer. Two children.
136. vi. Willis Johnson, b. Mason, Nov. 5, 1852; m. Oct. 4, 1888,
Marianne B. Chase.
137. vii. Carrie Wheaton, b. Freetown, Mass., Jan. 16, 1858; m. Nov.
2, 1876, Charles K. Weeden. Two children.
138. viii. Frederick Plummer, b. Freetown, Mass., Apr. 11, 1858; unm.
Res. at Tacoma, Wash.
139. ix. Earnest Smith, b. Lee, Oct. 1, 1860; d. Sept. 28, 1886. He
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1884, and was em
ployed in the U. S. signal service.
50. Seneca' (Samuel', Ebenezer', William*, John', John',
Isaac'), b. Antrim, May 16, 1817; d. New Ipswich, Aug. 12,
1856; m. Oct. 28, 1847, Abigail Mary Stearns (20). He gradu
ated from Dartmouth College in 1844 and from Union Theo
logical Seminary in 1847. He sailed for China as a missionary
of the American Board in October of that year, and remained
as stationed at Foo Chow for seven years, when his health
required a vacation and in 1855 he returned to America, and
his expected return the following year was prevented by death.
Children :
140. i. Abby Lucinda, b. Oct. 3, 1850; d. Nov. 21, 1850.
141. ii. George Seneca, b. Aug. 11, 1852; d. Sept. 28, 1857.
142. iii. John Wyman, b. Sept. 16, 1854.-)-
56. Charles' (Charles', Eleazer', John', John*, John',
John', Isaac'), b. July 15, 1804; d. Belleville, 111., Feb. 10, 1845;
m. Nov. 28, 1828, Mary, dau. of John and Mary (Morse) Bill
ings [b. Groton, Mass., Mar. 15, 1809]. He lived at Hancock
during the early years of his manhood, but returned to New
Ipswich about 1831 and was employed in the factory. Chil
dren :
143. i. Mary Jane, b. Sept. 9, 1829; m. Nov. 19, 1852, George L.
Campbell.
144. ii. Charles, b. Jan. 20, 1831; d. Mar. 8, 1857.
57. John Willard' (Charles', Eleazer', John', John*,
John', John', Isaac'), b. Oct. 29, 1806; d. Oct. 16, 1854; m.
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Maria, dau. of Thatcher and Mercy (Foster) Bradford [d. Jan.
5, 1882]. He was a mason in Hancock, where he died. Chil
dren: 145. i. Orville, d. young.
146. H. Maria, b. June 15, 1835; m. Aug. 11, 1859, J. Frank Washburn.
147. iii. Frank M., b. Feb. 15, 1838; d. Gardner, Mass., Feb. W, 1869;
ra. Jan. 1, 1866, Lydia F. Wells. Child : i. Elmer Lincoln.
b. Jan. 5, 1868. He graduated from Harvard College.
148. iv. Nettie Viola, b. June 27, 1842; m. (1) Nov. 16, 1854 Gran
ville Matthews; (2) Jan. 1, 1877, Otis Holden. Res. Acton,
Mass.
149. V. Belle S., b. Feb. 9, 1844; m. Jan. 4, 1866, Henry D. Estabrook
of Lexington, Mass. One child.
150. vi. James M., b. May 1, 1849; ra. Oct. 12, 1876, Nellie Farrar.
Res. Peterboro.
151. vii. John O., b. Mar. 31, 1851; d. Jan. 22, 1875; m. Oct. 28, 1872,
Annie Butler. Res. at Rockford, 111.
142. John W.' (Seneca', Samuel', Ebenezer', William*,
John', John', Isaac'), b. Foo Chow, China, Sept. 16, 1854; m.
Harriet Angie, dau. of Silas Boyce (H). He has been con
nected with the National Temperance Society for a long time
and is now its treasurer. Res. Brooklyn, N. Y. Children :
152. i. John Seneca, b. Dec. 22, 1875.
153. ii. George Bain, b. Feb. 11, 1890.
CUSHING.
Matthew' Cushing, bapt. Hardingham, Norfolk, England, Mar. 2,
1589; d. Sept. 30, 1660; ra. Aug. 5, 1613, Nazareth, dau. of Henry Pitcher,
bapt. Oct. 30, 1586; d. Sept. 30, 1660. He came to Araerica with his wife
and five children in 1638 and settled at Hingham, Mass., where he was
deacon. His house lot of five acres remained in the hands of his family
until 1887. Hon. Caleb Cushing, U. S. minister to China, general in the
Mexican War, and U. S. Attorney General was his descendant by the
line John', Caleb', Caleb*, Benjamin', John N.°, Caleb'.
Daniel' (Matthew'), bapt. Hingham, England, Apr. 20, 1619; d.
Hingham, Mass., Dec. 3, 1700; m. (1) Lydia, dau. of Edward and Mary
(Clark) Gilman [b. England; d. Hingham, Mass., Mar. 12, 1689]; (2)
Mar. 23, 1691, Elizabeth, dau. of Nicholas and Mary Jacob and widow of
Capt. John Thaxter [b. England; d. Hingham, Mass., Nov. 14, 1725]. He
was a magistrate and for many years a selectman of Hingham, also town
clerk and representative to the General Court.
Matthew' (Daniel', Matthew'), b. July 5, 1660; d. June 23, 1715; m.
Dec. 31, 1684, Jael, dau. of Capt. John and Mary (Russell) Jacob [b.
Hingham, Sept. 7, 1662; d. Dec. 23, 1708]. He lived in the ancestral
home at Hingham, where he was selectman, and also a captain.
Samuel* (Matthew', Daniel', Matthew'), b. Feb. 4, 1699; m. (1) pub.
Nov. 7, 1722, Hannah Tileston of Dorchester, Mass. [d. July 17, 1748];
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(2) Aug. 10, 1749, Mrs. Hannah Sparhawk of Scituate, Mass. He lived
in that part of Hinghara which is now Cohasset, where he was selectman
and a justice.
Timothy' (Samuel*, Matthew', Daniel', Matthew'), b. Feb. 2, 1738;
m. June 4, 1765, Desire Jenkins of Scituate, Mass. He was a farraer and
a carpenter. David' (Tiraoth/, Samuel*, Matthew', Daniel', Matthew'), b. Mar. 2,
1771; m. May 29, 1800, Mary Pook of Boston. Res. in Ashby, Mass.,
where he was a farmer.
1. Samuel' (David', Timothy', Samuel*, Matthew', Dan
iel', Matthew'), b. Oct. 15, 1810; d. Nov. 25, 1861; m. Apr.
10, 1834, Mary Ann Campbell (7). He came to New Ipswich
in early manhood and passed his life as a farmer, for several
years on the "Conant farm," (87, A. D.,) and after 1850 at the
end of the road leading northward from the "Gibson school-
house," (IV : 4, S. R.) Children :
2. i. George W., b. Jan., 1836.-|-
3. ii. Ann Maria, b. Mar. 12, 1838; d. Nov. 8, 1861, unra.
4. iii. Sarah Jane, b. Nov. 25, 1840; d. July 5, 1908; m. Jan. 1,
1862, George H. Wheeler (121).
5. iv. Charles G., b. Feb. 7, 1844.-|-
6. V. Henry, b. Apr. 1, 1846.-|-
7. vi. Emma M., b. Mar. 1, 1848; m. Mar. 2, 1866, George M., son
of William and Lucretia Blanchard [d. June 29, 1886]. Res.
Lynn, Mass. Children : i. Frank W. Blanchard, b. Sept.
19, 1867; m. Mabel Libbey of Lynn; he is a traveling sales
man ; res. Lynn. ii. George Ernest Blanchard, b. Feb. 28,
1872; d. July 30, 1882. iii. Edith A. Blanchard, b. Aug. 7,
1874; m. June 13, 1889, Percy DeCoster, a traveHng sales
man; res. Lynn. iv. Elmer Blanchard, b. Feb. 26, 1877; d.
June 9, 1877.
8. vii. Frederic J., b. Mar. 4, 1850.-]-
9. viii. Ardella, b. Sept. 15, 1854; d. June 29, 1869.
10. ix. Fannie, b. Oct. 7, 1858; m. May, 1884, John Woodman. He
is in mercantile business in Lynn. Child : i. Florence
Woodman, b. May, 1885.
11. X. Samuel Ellsworth, b. Apr. 17, 1862; m. Aug. 10, 1892, Susie
Sauble of Delaware, O. Res. at Lynn, where he was con
nected with the Lynn News. Later he removed to Straf
ford, where he is a farmer.
2. George W.' (Samuel', David', Timothy', Samuel*, Mat
thew', Daniel', Matthew'), b. Jan., 1836; d. Apr. 12, 1870; m.
Nov. 23, 1862, Julia Whitney (26). He was a farmer, and
succeeded to his father's farm. Children :
12. i. Arthur Waldo, b. Feb. 20, 1864.-|-
13. ii. Frederic Augustus, b. Nov. 23, 1868; ra. (1) Oct. 19, 1897,
EUa M., dau. of Elias M. and Lucy J. (Waters) Hudson;
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(2) Sept. 17, 1909, Bessie M., dau. of Charles and Mary
Helen (Flagg) Tarbell and widow of Walter N. Thomp
son. He is a farmer and for many years was in the employ
of George S. Wheeler, but later purchased for his horae
the "Safford farra," near the Congregational church, (VII :
2, S. R.) He has been a selectraan for three years.
14. iii. Frances Ann, b. Nov. 23, 1868; m. Mar., 1906, Harry Emer
son Farnum of Peterboro. Res. at Cleveland, O.
5. Charles G.' (Samuel', David', Timothy', Samuel*, Mat
thew', Daniel', Matthew'), b. Feb. 7, 1844; d. Feb. 3, 1900; m.
Cora S. Eastman of Townsend, Mass. [d. 1896]. Res. in Lynn,
Mass. Children :
15. i. Carl.
16. ii. Adelaide.
17. iii. Bertha.
18. iv. Josephine.
6. Henry' (Samuel', David', Timothy', Samuel*, Mat
thew', Daniel', Matthew'), b. Apr. 1, 1846; d. Mar. 2, 1822;
m. Mary, dau. of Asa Sawin of Ashburnham, Mass. Child :
19. i. Walter. Res. in Leominster, Mass.
8. Frederic J.' (Samuel', David', Timothy', Samuel*, Mat
thew', Daniel', Matthew'), b. Mar. 4, 1850; m. (1) Clara A.
Davis of Sandwich; (2)  . He is a real estate dealer in
Tampa, Fla. Children:
20. i. Bradbury, b. Apr. 27, 1872. He is manager of Poland Spring
Hotel, Poland, Me.
12. Arthur Waldo' (George W.', Samuel', David', Tim
othy', Samuel*, Matthew', Daniel', Matthew'), b. Feb. 20,
1864; m. Dec. 15, 1887, Mabel Stanford. Res. Fitchburg,
Mass. He is a plumber. Children :
21. i. Mildred Louisa, b. Feb. 17, 1895; d. June 1, 1905.
22. ii. Frederic Stanford, b. May 9, 1906.
CUTTER.
Elizabeth' Cutter, widow of Samuel Cutter of Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, England; came to America with two sons and a daughter in 1640.
Perhaps the eldest of the sons had come earlier, but in either case he
returned to England before 1654. She lived with her daughter, who
had married EHjah Corlet the school-master at Cambridge, until her
death June 10, 1663/4.
Richard' (Elizabeth'), the younger son, b. about 1621; d. June 16,
1693; m. (1) Elizabeth  [d. Mar. 5, 1661/2]; (2) Feb. U, 1662/3,
Frances (Perriman), widow of Isaac Amsden of Cambridge. He lived
in Menotomy (now Arlington), where he had fourteen children by his
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Ephraim' (Richard', EHzabeth'), b. 1651; m. Feb. 11, 1678/9, Bethia
Wood, probably dau. of Nicholas and Mary (Williaras) Wood of Med
field [b. July 28, 1660; d. Sept. 18, 1731]. He was a glazier, living suc
cessively in Carabridge, Charlestown, and Watertown Farms (now
Weston). He was an officer in King Philip's War.
John* (Ephraim', Richard', Elizabeth'), b. Watertov/n, July 23, 1700;
d. Nov. 20, 1747; ra. Rachel Powers, who survived him and married
Barnabas Davis of Littleton, Mass. John followed his father's trade of
a glazier, and lived at Lexington and at Woburn. Four of his nine
children settled in New Ipswich.
1. John' (John*, Ephraim', Richard', Elizabeth'), b. Wo
burn, Jan. 9, 1726/7; d. New Ipswich, Sept. 27, 1771; m. Nov.
16, 1749, Susanna, dau. of Joseph and Lydia (Brown) Hastings
of Waltham [b. May 26, 1731]. She survived him and married
Simeon Gould (2), and died at Jaffrey, Aug. 5, 1827. He fol
lowed the family occupation, plying the glazier's trade at
Waltham, Lexington, and Shrewsbury. About 1767 he came
to New Ipswich, settled near the Temple line, (32, N. D.,)
and became a farmer, although frequently absent working as
a glazier in the neighboring towns. His mother and step
father made their home with him for several years. Children :
5. i. John, b. Lexington, Aug. 25, 1750.-(-
6. ii. Joseph, b. Lexington, May 13, 1752.-]-
7. iii. Moses, b. Shrewsbury, May 28, 1754; d. Oct. 6, 1756.
8. iv. Benjamin, b. Shrewsbury, June 8, 1756. -(-
9. V. Susanna, b. Shrewsbury, Jan. 5, 1759; d. Aug. 17, 1815; m.
May 15, 1777, Supply Wilson (J. 1).
10. vi. Moses, b. Shrewsbury, Mar. 26, 1760.-|-
11. vii. David, b. Shrewsbury, Oct. 28, 1762.-|-
12. viii. Rachel, b. Shrewsbury, Jan. 20, 1764; d. Jan. 12, 1768.
13. ix. Sarah, b. New Ipswich, Jan. 30, 1767; d. Jaffrey, Apr. 28,
1852; m. (1) Isaac KimbaH of Temple [b. June 17, 1763;
d. June 13, 1804]; eight children; (2) WHliam MarshaH
of Jaffrey [d. 1828] ; two children.
14. X. Rachel, b. New Ipswich, Mar. 2, 1769; d. Mason, Sept. 12,
1863; m. Feb. 5, 1794, Dr. WilHam Barber of Worcester,
Mass. Seven children.
15. xi. Benoni, b. New Ipswich, Oct. 19, 1771.-|-
2. Nathan' (John*, Ephraim', Richard', Elizabeth'), b.
Woburn, Mar. 13, 1733/4; d. Mar. 6, 1778; m. Hannah  .
He was a "housewright." He served as a soldier in Nova
Scotia in 1775. He seems to have come to New Ipswich
earlier than his brother John, as his name is on the first tax-
list after incorporation, that of 1763. He settled one lot far
ther east than his brother, but he afterward removed to
"Cutter's Lane," which probably was nearly the same as the
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road leading to the "Bucknam farm," (XII : 2, S. R.,) first
occupied by Amos Taylor. He served in the Revolution
under Capts. Josiah Brown in 1777 and Robert Fletcher in
1778. Children, probably born in New Ipswich, except per
haps the first:
16. i. Nathan, time and place of birth unknown.-|-
17. ii. Hannah, b. Oct. 24 1761.
18. iii. Rachel, b. Aug. 7, 1763.
19. iv. Barnabas, b. Mar. 17, 1766.
20. V. Isaac, b. Sept. 26, 1768.
21. vi. Rhoda, b. Aug. 27, 1770.
3. Elizabeth' (John*, Ephraim', Richard', Elizabeth'), b.
Lexington, May 24, 1741 ; d. New Ipswich, 1787; m. (1) Elijah
Dutton [d. Dec. 24, 1764] ; two children ; (2) Mar. 8, 1769,
Ezra Towne (1), [d. Dec. 29, 1795] ; six children.
4. Benjamin' (John*, Ephraim', Richard', Elizabeth'), b.
Lexington, Jan. 27, 1744/5 ; d. Temple, Mar. 16, 1821 ; m.. about
1768, Hannah Andrews [d. Oct. 13, 1837]. He came to New
Ipswich and settled witb his brothers, but afterward removed
over the town line into Temple, where his farm is still occupied
by his descendants. He did good service in the Revolution,
under Capts. Ezra Towne in 1775, Abijah Smith in 1776, and
Samuel Twitchell in 1778. He was a selectman in Temple,
and ready in all town activities. Children, all born in Temple :
22. i. Benjamin, b. Oct. 19, 1768.-|-
23. ii. Jeremiah, b. Feb. 10, 1771 ; d. 1773.
24. iii. Hannah, b. Apr. 17, 1773; d. 1815; m. Nov. 26, 1797, Jonathan
Foster of Teraple. They reraoved to Weston, Vt., where
she died.
25. iv. Lucy, b. July 11, 1775; d. Feb. 5, 1807; m. Feb. 4, 1794, James
Bartlett.
26. V. Rachel, b. Oct. 16, 1777 ; d. July, 1857 ; m. 1798, and removed
to Dublin.
27. vi. Jonathan, b. June 16, 1780.-|-
28. vii. Solomon, b. Jan. 10, 1783.-|-
29. viii. Rhoda, b. Mar. 26, 1785; d. Sept. 27, 1850; m. Sept. 18, 1804,
Levi Pierce.
30. ix. Elizabeth, b. Aug. 22, 1787; d. Feb., 1853; m. Feb. 3, 1806,
David Amsden of Mason, where she died.
31. X. Polly, b. May 4, 1790; m. May U, 1811, Joshua P. Searle of
Temple.
32. xi. Louis, b. June 25, 1792; d. Jan. 27, 1814.
5. John' (John', John*, Ephraim', Richard', Elizabeth'), b.
Lexington, Aug. 25, 1750; d. New Ipswich, May 1, 1812; m.
(1) 1773, Rebecca Browning of Rutland, Mass. ; (2) Mrs. Allen
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of New Ipswich. He lived for a time upon his father's farm,
and afterward built a house in Davis Village, (49, N. D.) He
is credited with eleven days' service at the time of the Con
cord alarm, with service in Capt. Smith's company in 1776,
under Capt. Brown in 1777, and he was one of the sixty-five
volunteers to meet the raid from Canada in 1780. Children,
all born at New Ipswich:
33. i. Rebecca, b. Sept. 15, 1774; d. Jaffrey, Sept. 22, 1867; m. Col.
Josiah Mower of Jaffrey [b. Topsfield, Mass., Nov. 17,
1768; d. Jaffrey, May 5, 1852]. Six children.
34 ii. Moody, b. Sept. 1, 1782; d. Stoddard, N. H., July 29, 1827;
m. Apr. 10, 1805, Henrietta, dau. of Isaac and Abigail
(Ayer) Fletcher of Wrentham, Mass. He studied law
with Judge Champney, and in Stoddard he combined the
duties of lawyer, farmer, and teacher. Six children.
35. Hi. Nathan, b. about 1786; d. Nov., 1808.
There were several other children who died before maturity
whose naraes are not found on record.
6. Joseph' (John', John*, Ephraim', Richard', Elizabeth'),
b. Lexington, May 13, 1752; d. Jaffrey, June 25, 1840; m. 1776,
Rachel, dau. of Nehemiah and Rachel (Shattuck) Hobart of
Pepperell, Mass. [b. Apr. 12, 1750; d. Jan. 20, 1835]. He was
a farmer, but in early manhood he removed to Jaffrey, where
he passed the rest of his life, and therefore, although he served
for a time in the Revolution, at least thirteen days on the
Concord alarm, his name does not appear on the roll as from
New Ipswich. Children, all born in Jaffrey :
36. i. Joseph, b. Aug. 23, 1777; d. Jaffrey, Nov. 20, 1860; m. June
17, 1804, Phebe, dau. of Capt. Jaraes and Sarah (Clawson)
Gage of Jaffrey [b. Dec. 15, 1779]. Eight children.
37. ii. Rachel, b. Jan. 9, 1779; d. Jaffrey, Sept. 21, 1825; m. June
28, 1803, John, son of Jerome and Lucy (Wheat) Under
wood [b. Feb. 16, 1777]. Six children.
38. iii. John, b. Oct. 24, 1780; d. Jaffrey, Jan. 15, 1857; m. Mary,
dau. of Daniel and Betsey Batchelder of Wilton [d. June
3, 1859]. He was a farmer and wool-grower. He had ten
children, among whom was Calvin, b. May 1, 1807, who
attended New Ipswich academy, studied medicine, and re
ceived the degree of M. D. from Dartmouth in 1832. He
is well known throughout the land as the author of the
textbooks for which it is hardly too much to say that they
made the study of physiology practicable in the public
schools, not only of this country, but also in many others
into the languages of which they have been translated.
39. iv. Susan, b. June 3, 1782; d. Amherst, July 28, 1826; m. Dec.
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40. V. Daniel, b. Feb. 2, 1784; d. Sept. 23, 1868; m. Nov. 18, 1806,
Sally, dau. of Col. Timothy and Rebecca (Bateman) Jones of
Bedford [b. Aug. 9, 1786; d. July 7, 1864]. He had a
rocky farm upon the side of Monadnock, but by patient
and well-directed labor he supported his family and gave
all his nine children an academic education, three of them
graduating from Dartmouth.
41. vi. Sabra, b. Oct. 11, 1785; d. Jaffrey, Feb. 4, 1843, unm.
42. vii. Nehemiah, b. Mar. 21, 1787; d. Pepperell, Mass., Mar. 15,
1859; m. (1) Lucy Stevens of Middlebury, Vt; (2) Mary,
dau. of Lemuel and Hannah (Gilson) Parker; (3) Eliza
Jones of Boston. He graduated from Middlebury College
in 1814, from Yale Medical School in 1817, and practiced
at Pepperell. He did pioneer work in founding asylums
for the insane.
43. vin. Oldist, b. May W, 1790; d. Mason, Mar. 30, 1838; ra. Feb.
20, 1811, Oliver Barrett of Mason. Four children.
44. ix. Abel, b. Apr. 18, 1793; m. Oct. 10, 1815, Mary, dau. of
Reuben and Polly (Pratt) Spaulding of Jaffrey. He was
a farmer in Jaffrey, but in later life he lived in Boston
and in Cambridge. Ten children.
45. X. Joel, b. Apr. 18, 1793; ra. Feb. 27, 1816, Mary S., dau. of
Col. Timothy and Rebecca (Bateman) Jones [b. June 17,
1793; d. Oct. 13, 1853]. He was a farmer in Jaffrey. Ten
children.
8. Benjamin' (John', John*, Ephraim', Richard', Eliza
beth'), b. Shrewsbury, June 8, 1756; d. Lachute, Quebec, Feb.
7, 1820; m. Catherine Farnsworth [b. about 1760; d. Nov. 12,
1833]. His occupations and places of residence were widely
varied, but he passed most of his life in Northern New Eng
land and Canada. Children :
46. i. Moses, b. Jaffrey, June 22, 1781; d. St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 23,
1858; m. Hannah, dau. of Col. Christopher Webber [b.
Walpole, 1775; d. St. Louis, Mo., 1854]. He was a raer
chant in Royalton, Vt., Cleveland, O., and St. Louis, Mo.,
successively. Four children.
47. ii. Catherine, b. Alstead, 1783; m. John S. Hutchins, and re
moved to Lachute, Quebec. Many children.
48. iii. Betsey, b. Alstead, May 12, 1785; m. William Powers and
removed to Lachute, Quebec. Many children.
49. iv. Benjamin, b. Alstead, June 25, 1787; d. Feb. 23, 1867; m.
Roxey Comstock. He was a farmer in Williamstown, Vt.,
but in 1835 he removed to Bloomfield, O. Three children.
50. V. Tryphosa, b. Alstead, Apr. 2, 1789; d. Winona, Minn., 1864.
51. vi. Nawa, b. Alstead, Mar. 27, 1794; m. at Lachute, Quebec, 
Davis. They removed to Royalton, N. Y. Two children.
52. vii. Orlando, b. Jaffrey, June 5, 1797; m. (1) Feb. 10, 1820,
Phyana M., dau. of Seth and Sarah (Pierce) Phelps of
Painesville, O.; (2) Nov. 8, 1832, Sarah A., dau. of David
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and Lydia (Hudson) Hieland of Cleveland, O. He was
a merchant's clerk in Royalston, Mass., and in Boston,
and a merchant in Cleveland. Twelve children.
53. vHi. Sarah, b. Alstead, Mar., 1800; m. John D. Howe.
54. ix. Abilene L., b. Woodstock, Vt, Dec. 3, 1802 ; d. Cleveland, O.,
Sept 11, 1852; m. Wooster, O., Oct 31, 1831, Mary S.
Humperly [b. Beaver, Penn., Sept. 12, 1816]. He was suc
cessively a clerk for his brother Orlando, and a merchant
in Wooster, O., and in Cleveland, O. Ten children.
10. MosEs' (John', John*, Ephraim', Richard', Elizabeth'),
b. Shrewsbury, Mar. 26, 1760; d. Jaffrey, Apr. 10, 1816; m.
Rachel, dau. of Lieut. William Turner of Jaffrey [b. Sept. 30,
1769; d. Aug. 21, 1839]. He was a farmer at the base of
Monadnock about a mile from his brother Joseph. He served
in the Revolution, being for a time in Washington's Life
Guard. Children :
55. i. Jane, b. Aug. 4, 1787; d. Oct H 1838; m. June 21, 1810,
Samuel Bates of Jaffrey [b. Apr., 1786; d. June, 1854].
Three children.
56. ii. Susan, b. May 19, 1789; d. Bradford, July 7, 1818, unm.
57. iH. Rachel, b. Oct. 31, 1792; d. Oct H, 1848; m. Jan. 1, 1815,
Abel Nutting [b. Groton, Mass., Feb. 13, 1788; d. Marlboro,
June 10, 1863]. Five children.
58. iv. Mary, b. Mar. 22, 1794; d. Albany, N. Y., 1832; ra. Richard
Hoyt of Bradford.
59. V. Moses, b. Nov. 11, 1795; d. Princeton, Mass., Feb. 21, 1854;
m. Dec. 28, 1826, Abigail, dau. of WiHiam and 
(Wright) Davison of Peterboro [b. Jan. 27, 1802]. He
was a farmer. Five children.
60. vi. William T., b. Mar. 5, 1798; d. Jaffrey, June 4, 1866; m.
Mar. 7, 1832, Lydia, dau. of Micah and Lucy (Vose) Jen
nings of Waltham, Mass. [b. June 18, 1808]. He was a
farmer. Five children.
61. vii. Sarah, b. Nov. 13, 1801; m. Artemas Law of Jaffrey [d. Nov.
12, 1836]. Two children.
62. viii. Pamelia, b. Aug. 8, 1803; d. Jaffrey, Oct. 10, 1867; m. (1)
Dec. 25, 1829, Charles G., son of Roger Gilman of Jaffrey
[d. May 12, 1838]; (2) Sept, 1852, Dea. John Sanderson.
Three children of first marriage.
63. ix. Willard, b. July 14, 1806; d. Meadville, Pa., Feb. 8, 1860; m.
July 30, 1830, Eliza, dau. of William and Rebecca (Moore)
Shaley of Waltham, Mass. [b. Sudbury, Mass., Oct 27,
1806]. He was a carpenter, living in Meadville, Pa., after
1835.
64. X. Caroline, b. Oct. 26, 1809; d. Dec. 26, 1861; m. Sept. 15, 1830,
Luther, son of John (38) and Mary (Batchelder) Cutter
[b. Jaffrey, May 1, 1807].
65. xi. John, b. July 11, 1812; d. Jaffrey, Mar. 12, 1842.
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11. David' (John', John*, Ephraim', Richard', Elizabeth'),
b. Shrewsbury, Oct. 28, 1762; d. Jaffrey, June 12, 1826; m.
Sept. 30, 1789, Polly, dau. of Dea. Eleazer and Mary (Flint)
Spofford of Jaffrey [d. Nov. 26, 1857] . He was a farmer living
near "Jaffrey Mineral Spring." Children :
66. i. Isaac, b. July 24, 1793. The time and place of his death are
not known. He served as drummer in the war of 1812,
and later enlisted in the regular army.
67. ii. David, b. June 9, 1795; m. (1) Jan. 5, 1824, Eliza, dau. of
William and Mary (Brown) Tolman of Winchendon,
Mass. [b. 1804; d. Oct. M, 1825]; (2) Dolly, dau. of Rev.
Levi and Sarah (Packard) Pillsbury of Winchendon. He
served in the army through the Mexican War. He was
last heard from in Kansas. One child by first marriage
and two by second.
68. iii. Polly, b. Aug., 1797; d. Aug. M, 1800.
69. iv. John, b. Apr. 29, 1800; m. Mar. 17, 1825, Eliza, dau. of Rev.
Levi and Sarah (Packard) Pillsbury of Winchendon, Mass.
He was a farmer at Winchendon Center, was selectman,
and generally trusted in town and church matters. Four
children.
70. V. Luke, b. Apr., 1802; d. Sept. 12, 1802.
71. vi. Mary, b. Mar. 2, 1803; m. May 20, 1824, Levi Bigelow of
Fitzwilliam. He removed to Iowa. Five children.
72. vii. Luke H., b. Apr. 28, 1805; d. New Ipswich, Mar. 8, 1845;
the name of his wife is not known. He was a farmer in
Peterboro for a time, but he spent a few of his later years
on the "Stratton farm," (9, N. D.,) returning to which on
a cold evening he was frozen. Five children.
73. viii. Nathan, b. Dec. 22, 1807 ; d. Dec. 22, 1807.
74. ix. Adonijah, b. Aug. 29, 1808; d. July 19, 1860; m. Nov. 27,
1840, Maria, dau. of Benjamin and Abigail (Perry) Wilson
of Fitzwilliam. He was a minister in Strafford, Vt., Hano
ver, and Nelson.
75. X. Susan, b. Dec. 22, 1810; d. Dec. 23, 1810.
15. Benoni' (John', John*, Ephraim', Richard', Eliza
beth'), b. New Ipswich, Oct. 19, 1771 ; d. Hollis, Jan. 19, 1816;
m. May 19, 1799, Phebe, dau. of Capt. William and Phebe
(Jewett) Tenney of Hollis [b. Oct. 12, 1777; d. Feb. 12, 1835].
He was a physician in Hollis. He was also a deacon. Chil
dren: 76. i. Phebe C, b. Aug. 3, 1801 ; d. Nov. 17, 1802.
77. ii. Benoni G., b. Jan. 17, 1803; d. Louisville, Ky., July 15, 1849;
m. (1) 1823, Lucy, dau. of Hon. Benjamin and Sarah
(Fletcher) Poole of HolHs; (2) EHza, dau. of Col. Joseph
and Fanny (Haven) Valentine. He was a merchant at
Hollis until 1852, when he removed to Louisville, where he
carried on an extensive business. Five children.
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78. iii. William T., b. Apr. 17, 1805; m. July 1, 1828, Frances M.,
dau. of James and Margaret (Lombard) Bird of Boston.
He was a dry goods merchant in Boston, and afterward
in New York. Fourteen children.
79. iv. John H., b. Aug. 16, 1807; d. HolHs, July 7, 1860; ra. Susan
F., dau. of Hon. Benjarain and Sarah (Fletcher) Poole of
Hollis. He was a manufacturer of Bourbon whiskey in
Louisville, Ky., and having thus become wealthy, he spent
his later years in his native town. Nine children.
80. V. Jeremiah F., b. Jan. 27, 1810 ; d. Cincinnati, O., 1848. He was
for a time in the dry goods business at Detroit, Mich.
81. vi. Phebe, b. Sept. 12, 1812; m. Gardner Searle of Rowley, Mass.
Three children.
82. vii. Charles N., b. Aug. 3, 1815 ; m. May 31, 1836, Mary E., dau.
of Henry E. and Julia R. (Richards) Hoyt of New York.
He was a dry goods dealer in New York and in Kewanee,
111. Eleven children.
16. Nathan' (Nathan', John*, Ephraim', Richard', Eliza
beth'), b. before 1761; d. about 1818; m. Polly, dau. of Capt.
William Pips of Jaffrey. He was a farmer in Jaffrey, and
afterward at Shoreham, Vt. Children :
83. i. Polly, b. about 1781 ; d. Jaffrey, Dec. 29, 1798.
84. ii. William P., b. Jaffrey, June 13, 1785 ; d. Shoreham, Vt., July
8, 1815; m. Mar. 24, 1808, Prudence Evans. He graduated
from Dartmouth in 1805. He was a physician, first at
Peterboro and afterward at Shoreham. Three children.
85. iii. Rhoana, b. Jaffrey; m. Dr. Nicanor Needhara of Shoreham.
86. iv. Orinda, m. Darius Cooder, a farmer.
87. V. Ardilla.
88. vi. RosiRA, m. Leander Case, a saddler. Two children.
89. vii. Nathan.
22. Benjamin' (Benjamin', John*, Ephraim', Richard',
Elizabeth'), b. Temple, Oct. 19, 1768; d. Dec. 25, 1806; m.
Polly, dau. of Gen. Francis and Elizabeth (Spaulding) Blood
[b. about 1771; d. Nov. 23, 1806]. He was a farmer in Tem
ple, a major in the militia. Children :
90. i. An infant, d. Apr. 29, 1792.
91. ii. Jeremiah, b. Mar. 13, 1791; d. Sebec, Me., July 2, 1861; m.
Feb. 1, 1816, Mary, dau. of Ensign Jonas and Hannah
(Heald) Brown of Temple. He went in 1814 as a pioneer
into the Maine wilderness of that day, and made himself
a valuable farm. Nine children.
92. iii. Hephzibah, b. Dec. 23, 1793; ra. July 7, 1817, Jonas Davis.
She lived in Temple. Nine children.
93. iv. Benjamin F., b. Aug. 3, 1796; d. Nov. 5, 1815.
94. V. Seth, b. Jan. 26, 1799; m. (1) Apr. 15, 1823, Abigail, dau. of
Ezra and Rebecca (Knox) Gould of Sebec, Me. [d. Apr.
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2, 1857]; (2) Apr. 16, 1861, Mrs. Rebecca (Sutherland)
Haywood of Sebec. He went to Sebec soon after his
brother Jeremiah and there passed his life. He was an
officer in the Methodist church. Seven children.
95. vi. Polly, b. Feb. 14, 1804; d. Apr. 29, 1805.
96. vii. Thomas, b. June 17, 1806; d. Nov. 1, 1823.
27. Jonathan' (Benjamin', John*, Ephraim', Richard',
Elizabeth'), b. June 6, 1780; d. Temple, Feb. 24, 1807; m.
Polly, dau. of Lieut. Archelaus and Rachel (Rowell) Cum
mings of Temple [b. May 6, 1782]. He was a lieutenant in
the Temple militia. Children :
97. i. Nathan, d. young.
98. ii. Rachel.
99. iii. Polly, m.  Haynes.
28. Solomon' (Benjamin', John*, Ephraim', Richard',
Elizabeth'), b. Jan. 10, 1783; d. Dec. 26, 1831; m. 1803, Dolly
Rowell of Temple. He was a farmer in Temple. He lost his
life by freezing in a deep snow. Children :
100. i. Dolly, b. Oct. 19, 1803; d. July 23, 1841, unm.
101. ii. Benjamin, b. Oct 25, 1805; ra. Sept, 1837, Catherine Foster.
He Hved in Boston and later for a time in New Ipswich.
Four children.
102. Hi. Calista, b. Jan. 2, 1808; m. May, 1834, John Q. Adaras of
Bellinghara, Mass. She lived in Walpole. Three children.
103. iv. James, b. Feb. 1, 1810; d. Spartanburg, S. C, Aug. 27, 1840,
unm.
104. V. Elbridge G., b. July 21, 1812; m. Mar. 10, 1842, Harriet J.,
dau. of Daniel and Mary (Crafts) Bird of Watertown,
Mass. He Hved upon the farm of his grandfather and was
a prominent citizen of Temple. Five children.
105. vi. Sarah, b. Oct. 7, 1814; m. Oct. 29, 1844, John B. Farrington
of Dedham, Mass. Four children.
106. vii. Jonathan M., b. Feb. 25, 1817 ; d. June 8, 1832.
107. viii. Lucy, b. Sept. 28, 1819; d. Nov. 15, 1856; ra. Abiel Lovejoy
of Temple.
108. ix. Syrene, b. Nov. 1, 1824; d. June 8, 1832.
DAVIS (Dolor).
Dolor' Davis, b. about 1600; d. June, 1673; m. (1) about 1624,
Margery, sister of Siraon WiHard [bapt. Nov. 7, 1602; d. between 1658
and 1667] ; (2) about 1671, Joanna, dau. of Rev. Joseph Hull and widow
of Capt. John Bursley of Barnstable, Mass. [b. about 1620; d. after
1683]. He carae from England, probably from County Kent, and first
appears upon the records of Cambridge, Mass., in 1634. He seeras to
have removed to Concord, Mass., with his brother-in-law Simon Willard
in 1636, but if so he did not remain there, as he was in Duxbury and
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Barnstable, Mass., from 1640 to 1655, when he returned to Concord,
where he remained until the death of his first wife. His later years were
passed in Barnstable.
Simon' (Dolor'), b. about 1636; d. June 14, 1715; m. Dec. 12, 1660,
Mary, dau. of James Blood of Concord, Mass. [b. July 12, 1640]. He
resided in Concord, where he was elected delegate to the General Court
several times and held other responsible positions. He was a Heutenant
and was in coraraand at Brookfield in 1675, after Capt. Wheeler was
wounded and thereby disabled.
Samuel' (Dolor'), b. 1639/40; d. 1720; ra. (1) Jan. 11, 1665/6, Mary
Meddows [d. Oct 30, 1710] ; (2) Oct. 18, 1711, Ruth Taylor [d. Aug. 6,
1720]. He was a yeoman at Bedford, Mass.
James' (Simon', Dolor'), b. Jan. 19, 1668; d. Sept 17, 1727; m. Mar.
4, 1700/1, Anne, dau. of John and Sarah Smedley [b. Dec. 12, 1676; d.
May 21, 1761]. Res. in Concord.
Stephen' (Samuel', Dolor'), b. Mar. 30, 1686; d. July 11, 1738;
ra. Mar. 26, 1713, Elizabeth Fletcher of Concord. He resided in Concord
and Bedford, Mass.
Thomas* (Jaraes', Simon', Dolor'), b. Nov. 25, 1705; d. Nov. 18,
1786; m. Sarah  ¦ [b. about 1708; d. Apr. 27, 1783]. He resided in
Concord, where he was a captain.
Joseph' (James', Simon', Dolor'), b. Jan. 1, 1707/8; m. Jan. 10, 1743,
Hannah Brown, probably dau. of Thomas and Hannah Brown [b. Dec.
6, 1716]. He resided in Concord, but nearly all his sons came to New
Ipswich. Children :
i. Joseph, b. Aug. 16, 1744.-\-
ii. Elijah, b. Mar. 26, 1746.+
iii. Silas, b. Apr. 16, 1748.-J-
iv. Simeon, b. Feb., 1749/50.-]-
V. Abraham, b. Nov. 16, 17S2.-|-
vi. Isaac, b. Nov. 17, 1752.
vii. Hannah, b. Apr. 25, 1756.
viii. Mary, b. May 30, 1758.
Stephen' (Stephen', Samuel', Dolor'), b. Mar. 6, 1715; d. July 22,
1787; m. Sept 2, 1736; Elizabeth Brown [b. Sept 15, 1718; d. Dec. 5,
1789]. He resided in Bedford, Mass., and held the office of deacon. He
owned land in New Ipswich for a long time, but he does not appear to
have been a resident in the town.
1. Jonathan' (Thomas*, James', Simon', Dolor'), b. Con
cord, Mass., Mar. 20, 1742; d. Dec. 7, 1819; m. Nov. 27, 1766,
Sarah Melvin (3). He came to New Ipswich in 1764 and
settled upon the old "country road," (II : 3, S. R.,) where he
passed most of his life, although he seems to have lived for a
time, about 1770, not very far from the place where that road
entered Temple. He gave Revolutionary service at the time
of the Concord alarm, and later in the companies of Capts.
Josiah Brown and Robert Fletcher. He was an ensign in the
New Ipswich militia. Children :
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9. i. Sarah, b. Dec. 7, 1767; d. Mar. 29, 1800; m. Jan. 8, 1787, Benja
min Knight of Hancock. Four children.
10. ii. Mary, b. June 3, 1769.
11. iii. Lucy, b. Oct. 4, 1770; d. Jan. 18, 1772.
12. iv. Jonathan, b. Nov. 15, 1771.-|-
13. v. Jonah, b. June 10, 1773; d. Apr. 24 1774.
14. vi. Ruth, b. Dec. 1, 1774; d. Mar. 27, 1812; m. Oct IS, 1795,
Stephen, son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Barker) Poor
[b. Andover, Mass., Feb. 3, 1771]. He was a tanner at
Hancock. Seven children.
15. vii. Solomon, b. July 31, 1776.-|-
16. viii. Thomas, b. Oct. 19, 1781; d. Henniker, July 3, 1834 Eight
children.
17. ix. Rebecca, b. Aug. 30, 1784; m. June 5, 1807, Asa Lewis.
2. Josiah' (Thomas*, James', Simon', Dolor'), b. May 29,
1750; d. Feb. 17, 1815; m. 1772, Abigail, dau. of Thomas and
Abigail (Brown) Hubbard [b. Aug. 26, 1754; d. Oct. 19, 1844].
He came to New Ipswich at about the time of his majority
and settled near the southeast corner of the town on 2, N.
L. O. He was interested in the cotton factory maintained
for several years in the early part of the nineteenth century
and using the waterpower now utilized by Walker's wood-
turning industry. He responded to the Concord alarm, and
later served under Capt. Silas Wright. Children :
Josiah, b. May 23, 1773.
Abigail, b. Dec. 1, 1775; d. Apr. 17, 1833; m. July 18, 1797,
Thomas Danforth.
Jonathan, b. Nov. 5, 1776; d. Mar. 29, 1814
Rebecca, b. Dec. 7, 1778.
Lucy, b. Apr. 19, 1781 ; d. Apr. 30, 1845 ; ra. Jonathan Barrett.
Thomas, b. Mar. 26, 1783; d. Mar. 15, 1809.
24. vii. Joel, b. May 12, 1785.-]-
25. viii. Moses, b. Dec. 10, 1787.-^
26. ix. Lucinda, b. Feb. 18, 1791; d. Oct. 9, 1868; m. June 6, 1811,
Jesse Stearns (I. 5).
27. X. Clarissa, b. July 18, 1793; d. Sept. 19, 1815.
28. xi. George, b. Dec. 1, 1795; d. May 10, 1812.
29. xii. Charles, b. Sept. 21, 1797.
30. xiii. Cyrus, b. Feb. 15, 1800.
31. xiv. Cyrene, b. Feb. 15, 1800.
3. Joseph' (Joseph*, James', Simon', Dolor'), b. Aug. 16,
1744; d. Dec. 12, 1838; m. (1)  ; (2) Oct. 17, 1793, Grace
Allen of Concord, Mass. He came to New Ipswich about
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4. Elijah' (Joseph*, James', Simon', Dolor'), b. Mar. 26,
1746; d. Apr. 21, 1812; m. (1) Hepzibah  [d. about 1790] ;
(2) Hannah Ball [b. about 1724] ; (3) Feb. 26, 1793, Polly
Russell. In early manhood he came to the immediate neigh
borhood of New Ipswich and settled in the southeastern cor
ner of the town or the adjoining portion of Mason which is
now the southwestern corner of Greenville, where the family
continued many years. His name is on the New Ipswich tax-
list from 1768 to 1782 and the births of his four oldest children
are recorded in the town records. He was one of those who
marched to Concord in the early morning of Apr. 20, 1775.
He rendered later service under Capts. Archelaus Town and
Josiah Brown, and went to Vermont to repel the sally from
the north in 1780. Children :
32. i. Hannah, b. Apr. 5, 1773; d. Feb. 19, 1837; m. Dec. W, 1791,
David, son of Oliver and Lydia (Wood) Davis of Harvard,
Mass.
33. iii. Mary, b. May 3, 1775 ; d. young.
34. iii. Hepzibah, b. May 1, 1777; m. 1804, David Pierce of Dublin.
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36. V. Abigail, b. July 30, 1782.
37. vi. Polly, b. Sept. 3, 1789; d. Feb. 18, 1804.
38. vii. Lucy, b. Sept. 30, 1795.
39. viii. Benjamin Franklin, b. Mar. 4, 1801; d. Mar. 10, 1804.
5. Silas' (Joseph*, James', Simon', Dolor'), b. Apr. 16,
1748; d. 1836; m. (1) Nov. 19, 1772, Mary, dau. of Benjamin
and Rebekah (Flagg) Clark [b. Aug. 23, 1753; d. Oct. 26,
1784] ; (2) Sept., 1786, Lydia Brooks of Lincoln, Mass. [d.
Mar. 22, 1787] ; (3) Sept. 8, 1787, Mary Preston (5). He came
to New Ipswich in 1768 and settled in the unbroken wilder
ness on the western slope of Flat Mountain, (71, N. L. O.,)
where he devoted much time to hunting, and was noted for
his eminent success in the destruction of wolves in the early
years, as well as other game remaining after the region be
came less wild. He retained his home on that spot, still
marked by the cellar, for more than fifty years, then removed
for a brief period of residence on the "Gould farm," (43,
N. D.,) and finally passed his later years in Davis Village, at
the southern end of 45, N. D., long after retained in his family.
He served in the Revolutionary movement to Royalton, Vt.,
in 1780. Children :
40. i. Silas, b. Nov. 15, 1773.
41. ii. Mary, b. Feb. 23, 1775; d. Feb. 28, 1775.
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44. V. Betsey, b. Aug. 30, 1779; d. Mar. 27, 1861; m. Feb. 21, 1805,
WiHiam Taylor (17).
45. vi. Benjamin, b. July 20, 1782; d. June 5, 1881; m. Mar. 17,
1806, Abigail Davis. He passed his life in his native town
and for many years drove a baker's wagon, selling goods
from the bakery of his brother Joseph, and afterward from
the bakeries. He was familiarly known to all as "Baker
Ben."
Mary, b. Sept. 25, 1784; d. Oct. 29, 1785.
Lydia, b. July 27, 1788.
Hannah, b. Feb. 15, 1791. She raarried and reraoved to
Ohio. Seventeen children.
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6. Simeon' (Joseph*, James', Simon', Dolor'), b. Feb.,
1749/50. Reliable tradition declares that this younger bro
ther of Silas Davis came to New Ipswich with him or perhaps
a little earlier, and the fact that he was still a minor may ex
plain the absence of his name from the town record. There
are no indications of a long residence in town, and he may
have returned to Concord, where the church record gives the
death of a bearer of that name Oct. 24, 1824, although the age
there is given as 76 years.
7. Abraham' (Joseph*, James', Simon', Dolor'), b. Nov.
16, 1752; d. Hancock, Jan. 7, 1846; m. (1)  ; (2) Sept. 5,
1788, Rebecca, dau. of William Williams [b. July 26, 1766] ;
(3) June 8, 1802, Susanna Williams, sister of his second wife
[b. Aug. 16, 1749]. He must have come to New Ipswich be
fore attaining his majority, as his name is borne upon the
tax lists of 1769 and the two succeeding years, but his day
must have been brief. He became a citizen of Hancock a few
years later and there passed his life. Children :
51. i. Jacob.
52. ii. Abraham, b. Jan. 17, 1790; d. Jan. 2, 1875; m. June 2, 1818,
May, dau. of Nathan Waitt [d. Sept. 16, 1852]. Six
children.
53. iii. John, b. July, 1791. He removed to Vermont.
54. iv. Polly, m. James Blodgett. Resided in Hancock.
55. V. Joseph. He resided in Massachusetts.
8. Stephen' (Stephen*, Stephen', Samuel', Dolor'), b. Nov.
27, 1741 ; mi. Nov. 6, 1766, Lydia Bateman, probably dau. of
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time in Bedford, Mass., but came to New Ipswich about 1770,
and settled on the Thomas Brown farm, (58, N. D.,) upon
the old Sharon road, where a new road from the turnpike now
ends, this land probably being the property of his father but
bequeathed to him fifteen years later. He seems to have lived
there twenty-five years or more, but the time of his death or
removal is uncertain. His two oldest children are recorded in
Bedford, the others in New Ipswich. Children :
56. i. Molly, b. Sept. 18, 1767.
57. ii. John, b. June 7, 1769.
58. iii. Stephen, b. Mar. 24, 1771.-1-
59. iv. Amos, b. Mar. 1, 1774.
60. V. Aaron, b. Feb. 8, 1776.
61. vi. Moses, b. May 23, 1778.
62. vii. Timothy, b. Aug. 28, 1781.
12. Jonathan' (Jonathan', Thomas*, James', Simon',
Dolor'), b. Nov. 15, 1771 ; d. Mar. 14, 1823; m. (1) Jan. 26, 1799,
Relief, dau. of James and Mary Davis of Holden, Mass. [b.
Mar. 25, 1781 ; d. Oct. 16, 1809] ; (2) 1810, his cousin Eunice,
dau. of Edmund and Eunice Davis [b. Feb. 23, 1783; d. May
21, 1814] ; (3) Feb. 23, 1815, Nancy Allen of New Ipswich
[d. Apr. 19, 1859]. He resided in Hancock. Children:
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64. ii. Mary Wheeler, b. Feb. 5, 1802; d. Apr. 13, 1853.
65. iii. Josiah Melville, b. Feb. 23, 1804.-(-
66. iv. Oilman, b. Apr. 1, 1806; d. Aug. 3, 1844; m. Mary McAlpine.
He was engaged with his brother George in the manufac
ture of pianos in Boston.
67. V. Jonathan, b. May 22, 1808; d. May 22, 1867. He res. in
Maiden, Mass., but passed his later years in Hancock.
68. vi. George Hubbard, b. Mar. 29, 1811.-)-
69. vii. Relief, b. Sept. 9, 1812; d. Oct. 4, 1831. ¦
70. viii. Nathan Allen, b. Jan. 27, 1816; d. Oct. 4, 1831.
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72. X. Nancy Allen, b. May 25, 1819; d. Mar. 25, 1854, unm. She
lived with her mother in New Ipswich after her father's
death.
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15. Solomon' (Jonathan', Thomas*, James', Simon',
Dolor'), b. July 31, 1776; d. Nov. 11, 1850; m. (1) Mary 
[b. about 1777; d. June 14, 1809]; (2) June 20, 1810, Esther
Allen, sister of Nancy, wife of Jonathan (12) [b. about 1773;
d. Nov. 11, 1840] ; (3) Sept. 28, 1843, Candace, dau. of James
and Johanna (Davenport) Tarbell [b. Mt. Holly, Vt., Jan. 23,
1809; d. Springfield, Vt., Dec. 18, 1869; m. (2) Nov., 1855,
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James Perry]. He passed the greater part of his life as a
farmer on the paternal farm. He was a captain in the militia.
Children : Mary Brown, b. Jan. \4, 1805; d. Jan. IS, 1805.
Benjamin Lewis, b. Oct. 2, 1808 ; d. May 2, 1814.
Lewis, b. about 1845. He removed to the South in early
manhood.
Mary, b. about 1847; m. Osman Richardson.
George, b. about 1849. Res. in Providence, R. I. Two
daughters.
24. Joel' (Josiah', Thomas*, James', Simon', Dolor'), b.
May 12, 1785; m. (1) May 28, 1807, Rebecca, dau. of John and
Joanna (Munroe) Adams of Ashburnham, Mass. [b. Feb. 22,
1781] ; (2) 1827, Orpah Stearns (8). He was a citizen of New
Ipswich for several years of his early manhood, having an
interest in the cotton factory then in operation upon the water-
power afterward used by the Walker woodenware industries.
Later he was proprietor of the "Children in the Wood" tavern
in the northern part of Ashburnham, Mass., and removed
thence to Lowell, Mass., about 1828. Children :
79. i. Thomas H., b. Dec, 1811; d. Feb. 21, 1814.
80. ii. Clarissa H., b. Jan. 25, 1814; d. Feb. 14, 1815.
81. iH. An infant, d. Mar. 11, 1824.
82. iv. Rebecca.
25. MosEs' (Josiah', Thomas*, James', Simon', Dolor'), b.
Dec. 10, 1787; d. Feb. 25, 1847; m. June 2, 1814, Louisa Wil
kins, probably Lois, dau. of David and Sarah (Taynter) Wil
kins [b. Mar. 29, 1793; d. 1841]. For a brief time after his
marriage he lived in the home of his boyhood, (2, N. L. O.,)
but soon after his father's death he removed to the large
house at the four corners, long the home of Dr. Stillman Gib
son, (V: 5, S. R.,) which had previously be.en the home of
his assumed father-in-law, David Wilkins. He removed from
town about 1822, and soon after was a merchant in Lowell,
Mass. His gravestone in the New Ipswich central burying-
yard gives him the title of deacon. Child :
83. i. Louisa, ra. John S. Currier. Her only child was Louisa D.
Currier, b. about July, 1844; d. May 30, 1849. Moses Davis
had one or more other daughters and perhaps sons.
35. Elijah' (Elijah', Joseph*, James', Simon', Dolor'), b.
June 17, 1779; m. Apr. 2, 1804, Eunice Russell. He was a
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Alfred, m.  Scripture. He was a farmer in Mason. One
daughter.
Calvin, ra. Aug. 13, 1834, Susan Jones. He was a farmer in
Mason.
Solomon, m. Jane Spaulding. He was a farmer in Mason.
Elijah F., b. Nov. 29, 1812. -f
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Samuel, b. Apr. 7, 1818.-t-
EuNiCE, m. Eber Baker. Res. in Westminster, Mass. Three
children.
43. Joseph' (Silas', Joseph*, James', Simon', Dolor'), b.
Jan. 2, 1778; d. Mar. 10, 1876; m. (1) May 30, 1802, Hannah
Taylor (18) ; (2) Nov. 30, 1837, Mary (Parker) widow of
Winslow Ames [b. Mar. 15, 1798; d. Oct. 23, 1881]. He was
a farmer upon 45, N. D., and also conducted successfully dur
ing many years a bakery in Davis Village, supplying the coun
try for twenty miles around with the limited variety of baker's
goods expected in those days. He was a constant attendant
on the services of the Congregational church, and is said to
have been absent only one half day during a period of fifty
years. Children :
91. i. Kendall, b. Dec. 5, 1803.-t-
92. H. Sivona, b. Dec. 9, 1805; m. Apr. 30, 1835, Isaiah Cragin (12).
93. iii. Horace, b. Nov. 11, 1807; d. Nov. 12, 1807.
94. iv. George, b. Nov. 5, 1815 ; d. Feb. 24 1816.
95. V. George, b. Oct. 16, 1817.-(-
96. vi. Emily, b. Oct 18, 1820; d. Mar. 9, 1908; ra. (1) Nov. 7, 1849,
John Smith [d. about 1867], a farmer at Sterling, Mass.,
until about 1853, when he came to New Ipswich and con
ducted the farm of his father-in-law; (2) Roby Fletcher
(74).
97. vii. Mary Ann, b. Apr. 9, 1823; d. Jan. 22, 1910; m. Charles H.
Sweetser [d. about 1898]. He was a shoe-dealer in Read
ing, Mass., and later in Lynn. In middle life they removed
to Iowa, thence to Colorado, and finally to Los Angeles,
Cal., where they died.
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49. James' (Silas', Joseph*, James', Simon', Dolor'), b.
Apr. 6, 1793; d. May 29, 1865; m. (1) Nov. 27, 1823, his cousin
Patty, dau. of Benjamin and Patty (Preston) Bacon of Bed
ford, Mass. [b. about 1798; d. Apr. 5, 1827] ; (2) Cyrene Put
nam of Milford [b. Oct. 22, 1803 ; d. Sept. 2, 1834] ; (3) Sept.
7, 1842, Anna, dau. of Daniel Giles (8) [b. Sept. 29, 1807; d.
Jan. 10, 1874]. He lived for many years on the "Thomas
Brown farm," (58, N. D.,) where the road now terminates,
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but the home of his later years was in 45, N. D., a short
distance from Davis Village. He was a deacon in the Con
gregational church for thirty-three years. Children :
99. i. An infant, mentioned only on its mother's gravestone.
100. ii. An infant, b. and d. Dec. 20, 1825.
101. iii. An infant, b. about Mar. 23, 1827; d. Apr. 15, 1827.
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104. vi. George Henry, b. Nov. 30, 1844; d. Apr. 25, 1866.
50. Thomas' (Silas', Joseph*, James', Simon', Dolor'), b.
May 3, 1795; d. July 15, 1869; m. Mar. 26, 1818, Nancy, dau.
of Ebenezer and Sarah (Cummings) Fletcher (71). He re
moved to Enosburg, Vt., in early manhood, and was a farmer
in that place for about twenty-five years. But when a little
past his fiftieth year, he returned to his native town, and after
a brief residence in Smith Village and a few years on the
"Conant farm," (85, A. D.,) he passed his later years on the
"Campbell farm" by the river, (7, N. L. O.) Children :
105. i. Mary, b. Apr. 20, 1819; d. Apr. 30, 1819.
106. ii. Ebenezer, b. June 13, 1820; d. May 29, 1821.
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108. iv. Mary Sivona, b. Apr. 29, 1827; d. Apr. 7, 1911; ra. July 13,
1847, George D. Jaquith (1).
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58. Stephen' (Stephen', Stephen*, Stephen', Samuel',
Dolor'), b. Mar. 24, 1771; m. Nov. 17, 1796, Hepsibah, dau. of
John and Elizabeth (Bateman) Brown (T. 12). He succeeded
to his father's farm and there remained for a few of the first
years of the nineteenth century. He held the office of lieu
tenant. Children :
110. i. Anna, b. Oct. 30. 1797.
111. H. Almira, b. Dec. 25, 1799.
63. James' (Jonathan', Jonathan', Thomas*, James', Si
mon', Dolor'), b. Jan. 5, 1800; d. Mar. 23, 1874; m. Dec. 14,
1826, Rebecca, dau. of Capt. Joseph and Hannah (Dodge)
Symonds of Hancock [d. Mar. 30, 1874]. He lived on the
family homestead in Hancock for nearly twenty years, and
after 1845 was a merchant in that town. Children :
112. i. Maria, b. Jan. 3, 1828; m. Sept. 7, 1854 J. FrankHn Dyer, a
physician at Annisquam, Mass.
113. ii. Antoinette, b. Sept. 8, 1829. She was a teacher in her native
town.
114. iii. Helen E., b. Aug. 10, 1832; d. Dec. 30, 1833.
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115. iv. Helen E., b. Nov. 9, 1834; m. Feb. 24, 1853, David R. Patten,
a hotel proprietor at San Francisco, later in business at
Salt Lake City.
116. V. Joanna, b. Aug. 27, 1837; d. Sept. 11, 1868; ra. Nov. 8, 1860,
Myron M. Wood, a farmer in Hancock.
117. vi. Heber, b. Nov. 4, 1842. He served during the Civil War in
the 7th N. H. Regiment, and later was in railroad business
at San Francisco.
118. vii. Herbert J., b. June 14, 1844. He was a carpet dealer in New
York and later in San Francisco.
65. JosiAH Melville' (Jonathan', Jonathan', Thomas*,
James', Simon', Dolor'), b. Feb. 23, 1804; d. July 8, 1846; m.
Henrietta Ordway of Francestown. He was a hatter in
Francestown. Child :
119. i. Elizabeth, m. Clarendon M. Sanders.
68. George Hubbard' (Jonathan', Jonathan', Thomas*,
James', Simon', Dolor'), b. Mar. 29, 1811; d. Dec. 1, 1879; m.
(1) Aug. 14, 1834, Charlotte Low [d. May 9, 1841] ; (2) Oct.
31, 1844, Sarah Cleverly French [b. Boston, July 27, 1825 ; d.
Sept. 1, 1873]. He learned the cabinet-maker's trade in Ashby,
Mass., and in Boston, and later was a member of the firm of
Hallet, Davis & Co., piano manufacturers, becoming eventu
ally the sole proprietor of the business. Children :
120. i. George H., b. Sept. 30, 1836; m. (1) June 11, 1861, Maria
Louise Brown [d. July 9, 1876]; (2) Oct 9, 1879, Ella
Parsons. He was a hardwood lumber dealer in Boston.
121. ii. Albert Low, b. June 8, 1838; d. Dec. 7, 1847.
122. iii. Elizabeth French, b. Nov. 18, 1848; m. Feb. 8, 1877, A. D.
W. French of Boston.
123. iv. Edward Windsor, b. June 10, 1856; ra. Jan. 26, 1881, Carrie
L. Esbach of Boston.
71. Horace H.' (Jonathan', Jonathan', Thomas*, James',
Simon', Dolor'), b. May 20, 1817; m. June 3, 1857, Sarah S., dau.
of Asa and Rhoda Maynard of Marlboro. Res. at Salem, Mass.
He was a travelling salesman and also engaged in other busi
ness. Child :
124 i. Fannie M., b. Sept. 18, 1872.
73. Charles S.' (Jonathan', Jonathan', Thomas*, James',
Simon', Dolor'), b. May 28, 1821 ; m.. (1) Aug. 28, 1845, Betsey
R., dau. of Lubin and Lydia (Burton) Rockwood of Wilton
[b. about 1826; d. Boston, Apr. 13, 1857] ; (2) June 14, 1860,
Frances O., dau. of Richard and Mary W. Sykes of Newton,
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Bank Village for a time, and later was similarly engaged in
East Jaffrey. He was then successively a partner of his
brother James in Hancock, a member of the firm of Davis &
Heywood in New Ipswich, for more than twenty years asso
ciated with his brother George in Boston, and finally a mem
ber of the firm of Billings, Clapp & Co., manufacturers of
chemicals in Boston. He resided in Newton, Mass. Children :
125. i. Henrietta R., b. Aug. 28, 1846; d. Sept. 10, 1846.
126. ii. Charles Allen, b. Apr. 7, 1848; m. Agnes Nichols of Wash
ington, D. C. He is a physician in Washington.
127. iii. Walter Rockwood, b. Nov. 9, 1849; d. Apr., 1908; m. (1)
Nellie Loring of Newton, Mass. ; (2) Susan Loring of
Newton, a cousin of his first wife. Children : i. Alice,
(by first marriage,) m. William T. Coppins of Newton, ii.
Robert, (by second marriage).
128. iv. An infant son, d. Mar. 26, 1857.
129. V. Ida, m. William Z. Ripley. He is a professor in Harvard
University. Four children.
87. Elijah F.' (Elijah', Elijah', Joseph*, James', Simon',
Dolor'), b. Nov. 29, 1813; d. Mar. 16, 1886; m.. Hannah Ball,
dau. of Sampson and Ruth (Ball) Spaulding [d. July 18, 1889].
He was a resident in the family region in Mason during the
greater part of his life, but for a few years seems to have been
a citizen of New Ipswich and resident in its southeastern part.
Child: 130. i. Abby Jane, b. July 7, 1841; m. (1) Apr. 10, 1862, Charles
Robbins [b. Nov. 26, 1837; d. Aug. 24 1901]; (2) Charles
B. Samson [d. Mar. 8, 1907]. Child: i. Addie A. Robbins,
b. Dec. 12, 1867.
88. Elisha F.' (Elijah', Elijah', Joseph*, James', Simon',
Dolor'), b. Nov. 29, 1812; m. May 16, 1839, Roxanna, dau. of
Daniel Jefts (6). He was for several years a farmer upon 186,
A. D. His house, since destroyed by fire, stood forty or fifty
rods south from the turnpike, upon the road extending, not
far from the town line, from the "Wheeler tavern" to the
"Pierce farm." The work of his hands is perpetuated by the
sturdy willows set by him, while a young man in the employ
of Dr. Stillman Gibson, beside the road from the Gibson cor
ners to Bank Village, near the point of crossing the North
Branch of the Souhegan River. Pie removed to Luzerne,
N. Y., about 1850. Children :
131. i. Franklin, b. Apr. 10, 1840; d. July 20, 1840.
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133. iii. George Henry, b. Nov. 18, 1842; ra. Sarah Sherraan of Cor
inth, N. Y. Child : i. Bertha E.
134. iv. Harriet Augusta, b. June, 1844; d. Sept., 1907; ra. James
Burritt. Res. at Corinth, N. Y. One child.
135. V. Elvira Willard, b. Sept., 1853; ra. Loren Merritt of Corinth,
N. Y. Six children.
89. Samuel' (Elijah', Elijah', Joseph*, James', Simon',
Dolor'), b. Apr. 7, 1818; d. Mar. 22, 1907; m. Oct. 31, 1847,
Mary Jane Haskell of Brattleboro, Vt. [b. Aug. 5, 1822]. He
was a farmer in Mason until about 1864, when he came to
New Ipswich and held the Josiah Davis farm, (2, N. L. O.,)
afterwards known as the Lewis Robbins farm, until his death.
Several of his children settled in the immediate neighborhood,
and to the present time hold a wide expanse of land showing
exceptionally faithful culture in that part of the town. Chil
dren: Elbridge Fordice, b. Nov. 10, 1848; unm. Res. in Greenville.
Viola M., b. Apr. 21, 1850; m. Sept. 26, 1898, Henry W.
Wilson.
Marcia, b. July 14, 1852 ; ra. Orren French.
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143. viii. Ida Belle, b. Jan. 19, 1866; ra. Dec. 1, 1894, Lewis, son of
Eben and Lucinda (Cutting) Daraon of Ashby, Mass.,
where he is a carpenter. Child : i. Etta May Damon, b.
and d. Feb., 1907.
144. ix. Eliza J., b. Dec. 3, 1868; m. Charles Lysander RusseU.
91. Kendall' (Joseph', Silas', Joseph*, James', Simon',
Dolor'), b. Dec. 5, 1803; m. Apr. 14, 1831, Jane Ann, dau. of
Isaac and Lydia (Keyes) Patten [b. Westford, Mass., May 22,
1807; d. Athol, Mass., Apr. 4, 1898]. He was a physician in
Reading, Mass., and Athol, Mass. Children :
145. i. Milton Kendall, b. 1834; d. 1840.
146. ii. Cornelia, b. 1836; d. 1840.
147. iii. Alice Jane, b. Aug. 31, 1838; ra. Nov., 1867, Dr. Albert S.
Tobin. Child: i. Arthur Patten Davis Tobin, b. Aug. 23,
1869.
148. iv. Lois Ann, b. Feb. 28, 1840; d. Jan., 1898; ra. Nov., 1866,
Stephen E. Bugbee. Children: i. Alice Bugbee, b. Oct.,
1867. ii. Mary Bugbee, b. July, 1869.
149. V. Lucy Kendall, b. Mar. 26, 1842; m. Nov., 1867, Alvin N.
Bugbee. Children: i. Alvin Bugbee, b. 1875; m. Jean Wat
son; three children, ii. Newton Kendall Bugbee, b. 1877;
m. Florence Toms; two children, iii. Lucy Bugbee, b. Oct,
1887. iv. Benjamin Harrison Bugbee, b. 1889.
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95. George' (Joseph', Silas', Joseph*, James', Simon',
Dolor'), b. Oct. 16, 1817; m. Mary Ann Parker of Reading,
Mass. He was a cabinet maker. He died at Longmont, Colo.,
as did also his wife. Children :
150. i. Samuel. He was an organist and music-teacher in Long
mont, Colo., where he died.
151. ii. Leila, d. in Colorado.
152. iii. Mary, m. in Colorado.
153. iv. Charles. Res. in Colorado.
98. Horace' (Joseph', Silas', Joseph*, James', Simon',
Dolor'), b. June 6, 1825; d. Nov. 12, 1887; m. (1) Apr. 4, 1850,
Maria Blanchard (43) ; (2)  . He was a contractor
and builder in Boston and vicinity. Child :
154. i. Charles Horace, b. Feb. 7, 1859; ra. Aug. 18, 1886, Bertha
May Mott, dau. of Alvin Melrose and Abigail May (Smith)
Bridgman of Provincetown, Mass. [b. June 25, 1865]. His
mother dying upon the day of his birth, he was taken into
the family of WilHam D. Locke and reared as a son with
out change of name. He studied dentistry in the University
of Pennsylvania and received the degree of D. D. S. in 1886.
He is a successful dentist in Worcester, Mass., also an
inventor of dental instruments. Child : i. Stanley Bridg
man, b. Mar. 20, 1888.
102. James Putnam' (James', Silas', Joseph*, James',
Simon', Dolor'), b. Dec. 27, 1829; m,. (1) Oct. 25, 1855, Ann
Elizabeth Prichard Houghton (7) ; (2) Sept., 1859, Jane
Elizabeth, dau. of Herman Lake [b. July 21, 1826; d. Dec. 7,
1908]. He was a carpenter. Children:
155. i. Anna, b. Oct., 1857 ; d. Mar. 4, 1858.
156. ii. William Eliot, b. Oct. 27, 1864; m. Mar. 17, 1886, Florence
Josephine Bliss [b. Elmira, N. Y., May 21, 1862]. He was
a theatrical manager and actor, but since 1904 has been a
farmer in Davis Village.
157. iii. Mary Wingate.
103. Perley Bacon' (James', Silas', Joseph*, James',
Simon', Dolor'), b. Apr. 26, 1832; m. Feb. 12, 1862, Mary
Frances Vining of Holbrook, Mass. He was educated at New
Ipswich Appleton Academy, in which he was an assistant
teacher for four years, during two of which, the first two after
the attainment of his majority, he was elected superintendent
of the public schools. He graduated from Andover Theo
logical Seminary in 1861 and has passed his life as a pastor
in Massachusetts churches, five years at Sharon, twenty-five
at Hyde Park, and seven at Dorchester. He resides in West
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158. i. Albert Putnam, b. Jan. 5, 1866. He graduated from Am
herst College in 1887 and from Yale Divinity School in
1894, having been a professor in Lincoln University before
entering upon his professional study. He was for ten
years pastor at Wakefield, Mass., and later at Pomona, Cal.
159. ii. Arthur Vining, b. May 30, 1867. He graduated from Am
herst College in 1888. He resides in Pittsburg, Penn., where
he is president of the Aluminum Company of America.
160. iii. Perley Edwards, b. Aug. 2, 1869; d. July 21, 1870.
161. iv. Florence Wadleigh, b. July 10, 1871. She graduated from
Wellesley College in 1894.
162. v. Edward Kirk, b. Feb. 19, 1880. He graduated from Harvard
College in 1903. He is connected with the Aluminum
Company of America at Pittsburg, • Penn.
107. Richard Hall' (Thomas', Silas', Joseph*, James',
Simon', Dolor'), b. Aug. 24, 1823; d. May 2, 1907; m. June 5,
1844, Asenath Blanchard (36). He came from his native
town, Enosburg, Vt., to New Ipswich in early manhood, and
passed practically his entire later life as a wheelwright in
Smith Village, his shop being the nearest building to the
bridge upon the southeastern side. Children:
163. i. Laura Ann, b. Mar. 26, 1845; m. Jan., 1872, Clifford Prutz-
man of Three Rivers, Midi. Child: i. Ernest Richard
Prutzman, b. Mar. 9, 1873.
164. ii. Mary Jeannette, b. Feb. 22, 1855 ; ra. Dec. 25, 1893, Frank H.,
son of Charles O. and Frances (Holden) Whittemore. Res.
in Smith Village.
165. iii. Alice M., b. Aug., 1859; ra. Mar. 4, 1886, Elwin L., son of
Jaraes E. and Emily E. Edson. Res. in Leominster, Mass.
Children : i. Florence Edson, b. Jan. 24, 1891. ii. Dwight
Edson, b. Oct., 1895.
109. James Benjamin' (Thomas', Silas', Joseph*, James',
Simon' Dolor'), b. Dec. 23, 1832; m. June 3, 1859, Helen M.
Bailey [d. Aug. 14, 1912]. He was a farmer with his father
upon the "Campbell farm," (7, N. L. O.,) but after the father's
death he built a house opposite the northern corner of the
central burying-ground which was his home until 1913, when
he removed to San Diego, Cal. Children :
166. i. Minnie Belle, b. Oct. 7, 1863; d. Nov. 7, 1863.
' 167. ii. Florence G., b. June 5, 1865 ; m. Henry L. Kingsbury, a furni
ture dealer in Fitchburg, Mass., who removed to San Diego,
Cal., in 1913. Children : i. Esther Almira Kingsbury, b.
Aug. 17, 1890. ii. Alberta Gertrude Kingsbury, b. July, 1900.
139. Gardner G.' (Samuel'; Elijah', Elijah', Joseph*,
James', Simon', Dolor'), b. June 14, 1854; m. (1) Sept. 25,
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1877, Ann E., dau. of George H. and Sarah RamsdeH [b.
1858; d. Apr. 15, 1893]; (2) 1900, Mrs. Emma F. (Ward)
Chute, dau. of John and Sarah J. Ward of Portland, Me. [b.
Sept. 27, 1862]. He is a farmer on the Benjamin Wilson
farm, (69, A. D.) Children :
168. i. Eva Marion, b. Aug. 16, 1878; m. June 10, 1902, William E.
Preston (103).
169. ii. Etta, b. Aug. 16, 1882; d. Mar. 2, 1883.
170. iii. Effie May, b. Oct. 1, 1884.
171. iv. Sarah Belle, b. Sept. 7, 1887.
172. v. Hattie Ann, b. July M, 1889; m. Sept. 17, 1910, Kenneth
Allen. Res. in Somerville, Mass.
173. vi. Marion Frances, b. July 4, 1901.
140. Samuel Henry** (Samuel', Elijah', Elijah', Joseph*,
James', Simon', Dolor'), b. May 20, 1857; m. Sept. 30, 1886,
Sarah E., dau. of Isaac B. and iVlary H. (Smith) Heywood of
Temple [b. Dec. 14, 1867]. He is a farmer upon the Russell
farm, (44, N. L. O.) Children :
174. i. Ernest Henry, b. Sept. 2, 1894.
175. ii. Philip Heywood, b. July 18, 1901.
141. Leander J.' (Samuel', Elijah', Elijah', Joseph*,
James', Simon', Dolor'), b. Aug. 4, 1859; m. May 1, 1884,
Alice M. Davis of Ashby, Mass. [b. Jan. 11, 1866]. He also
is a farmer on the Russell farm, (44, N. L. O.) Children :
176. i. Wilbur Joseph, b. Mar. 25, 1891; d. Aug. 19, 1891.
177. ii. Bernice May, b. Jan. 4, 1896.
178. iii. Bertha Hazel, b. Apr. 1, 1900.
142. Edward Hildreth' (Samuel', Elijah', Elijah', Jo
seph*, James', Simon', Dolor'), b. Aug. 8, 1862; m. Oct. 13,
1897, Eliza Annie, dau. of Uriah and Sarah J. (Hadley) Law
rence of Rindge [b. July 27, 1874]. He has succeeded to his
father's farm. Children:
179. i. Ralph Chester, b. and d. Nov. 23, 1901.
180. ii. Edward Lawrence, b. Sept 22, 1903.
DAVIS (Job).
There is a tradition that Job Davis was the son of Jonathan", but
there is no satisfactory proof of the lineage.
1. Job', b. about 1776; d. Apr. 6, 1850; m. (1) Apr. 29,
1805, Mary, dau. of Isaac and Mary (Crosby) Stearns (I. 4)
[b. Feb. 19, 1783; d. July 1, 1846]; (2) Nov. 26, 1846, Sarah
A., sister of first wife (I. 6) [b. Feb. 4, 1786; d. May 13, 1862].
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He lived in Ashby, Mass., but came to New Ipswich about
1843, and made the home of his later days on the Thomas
Heald farm, (187, N. L. O.) Children :
2. i. Isaac Stearns, b. July 11, 1806; d. Feb. 13, 1882; m. July
10, 1833, Lydia Davies, dau. of Daniel and Betsey Blood
[b. Apr. 26, 1807]. He settled in Holden, Mass. Seven
children.
3. ii. Orpah S., b. May 4, 1809; d. Aug., 1868; m. Sarauel Esta
brook. Res. in Ashby, Mass. Two children.
4 iii. John U., b. Feb. 7, 1811.-1-
5. iv. Susan H., b. Feb. 2, 1814; d. Apr. 13, 1889; ra. Sept. 13, 1837,
Williara Swift Bennett. Res. in Ashby, Mass. Four chil
dren.
6. v. Mary A., b. 1816; d. Apr. 10, 1842.
7. vi. Onslow P., b. Apr. 24, 1818; d. Oct 27, 1884; m. Sept 16,
1847, Susan M. Raymond of Gardner, Mass. Res. in Gard
ner, Mass. Two children.
8. vii. Philo, b. 1820; d. Nov. 26, 1841.
9. viii. Jonas B., b. Dec. W, 1821; d. 1868; m. Aug. 4, 1856, Louisa
Horton. He was a teacher in Brooklyn, N. Y. Four
children.
10. ix. Job, b. Jan. 28, 1823; d. Mar. 18, 1866; m. Jan. 1, 1851, Mary
E. Bedell. He was a physician in Brooklyn, N. Y. Four
children.
11. X. Lucinda M., b. Aug., 1825; d. Apr. 8, 1885; m. 1849, SHas
Raymond of Winchendon, Mass. One son.
4. John U.' (Job'), b. Feb. 7, 1811; d. May 14, 1885; m.
(1) Nov. 7, 1834, Mary Taylor [d. Mar. 2, 1844] ; (2) 1846,
Sarah E. Estabrook [d. Dec. 25, 1891]. He lived upon the
farm previously his father's, (187, N. L. O.,) nearly twenty
years from the time of his father's death, and held a prominent
position in the activities of the town. He was selectman for
several years, and twice represented the town in the Legisla
ture. In 1869 he removed to Ashby, Mass. Children :
12. i. Edward E., b. Jan. 4, 1836; d. Aug. 15, 1862. He enlisted
early in the Civil War in the 1st Minnesota Regiment and
was captured, after receiving a fatal wound, at the battle
of Fair Oaks.
13. ii. Albert H., b. July 6, 1837; d. Dec. 13, 1862. He also lost his
life in the Civil War, while a member of the 6th New
Harapshire Regiraent.
14. iii. Abbie L., b. July 12, 1839; ra. Dec. 25, 1858, Joel A. Hayward
of Ashby, Mass. He was a soldier of the Civil War in
the 53d Massachusetts Regiment. Six children.
15. iv. Charles E, b. Sept 12, 1847; m. July 12, 1876, Delia WiHis
[d. June, 1883]. Res. in New York city. Child: i. Fred
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16. V. Samuel A., b. Sept. 18, 1849; d. in New Zealand while yet a
young raan.
17. vi. Emilie Kate, b. Apr. 21, 1854; m. June 6, 1876, John A. Piper
of Ashby, Mass. Four children.
DIX.
Anthony^ Dix came to Plymouth, 1623; d. Dec. 15, 1636; m. Tabitha
 . He was a sea-captain. He moved to Salem in 1632. He was
wrecked on Cape Cod, and there lost his Hfe. His widow m. Nathan
Pitman of Salem.
Ralph' (Anthony^), d. Sept. 24, 1688; m. Esther  . He was a
fisherman and a planter of Ipswich, Mass. Removed to Reading, Mass.,
1661. John' (Ralph^ Anthony^), b. Ipswich, Mar. 12, 1658; d. Reading,
May 12, 1745; m. (1) June 30, 1692, Lydia  [d. June 9, 1699]; (2)
May 28, 1700, widow Anna Fitch. He was a farmer at Reading.
Jonathan^ (John', Ralph^ Anthony'), b. Reading, Apr 11, 1710; d.
Boscawen, N. H., Dec. 24 1804; ra. June 28, 1739, Sarah, dau. of Rev.
Benjamin and Martha (Sherraan) Shattuck [d. Sept. 30, 1775] ; (2)
Mar. 17, 1779, Miriam Kneeland of Harvard, Mass. [d. Jan. 7, 1829]. Res.
Hollis, where his thirteen children were born.
1. Jonathan' (Jonathan*, John', Ralph', Anthony'), b.
Apr. 3, 1742; d. in Nova Scotia; m. (1) Anna Kimball of
Fitchburg; (2) Joanna Foss of Portsmouth. He came to
New Ipswich in 1764, and remained until 1771. He established
the first store in town upon the south side of the old "country
road" where the house long owned by Rev. Samuel Lee now
stands. The building also did duty as a tavern. In 1767 he
was on the committee chosen to "settle with the selectmen,"
the town officer now known as auditor then apparently being
in process of evolution. As the dissatisfaction with British
rule preceding the Revolutionary War developed he remained
loyal to the king, and for some reason this sentiment was not
judged so leniently by his fellow townsmen as the like senti
ments held by a few other prominent citizens. When a de
serter from the British troops in Boston was captured in the
northern part of the town and brought to the tavern and
confined before the return to Boston, and the popular indigna
tion was manifested by hanging the inn-keeper in effigy, hang
ing a dead dog to his door, and other equally offensive tokens
of the popular purpose, it doubtless seemed to him best to
leave the town, and in fact the entire rebellious region, for a
residence in Nova Scotia. He was named in the proscribing
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2. i. Jonathan, d. 1796 in West Indies, unm.
3. ii. An infant.
EATON.
John" Eaton, d. Nov. 17, 1658; m. Abigail Damon. He came with
wife frora London, England, in 1635, and was admitted freeman at Water-
town in 1636. The following year he removed to Dedham, which was
his horae until his death.
John' (John'), b. about 1636; ra. Alice  . He resided at Dedham.
William' (John', John'), b. 1677; d. 1718; m. 1704, Mary Starr. He
res. at Dedham.
Josiah* (William', John', John'), b. 1711; d. 1802; m. 1736, Sarah
Day. He removed from Dedham to Needham, where he died.
John" (Josiah^ William', John', John'), d. Nov. 24 1827; m. May 17,
1779, Mary Larkin of Lancaster, Mass. [d. Sept 22, 1817]. He removed
to Winchendon, Mass., before his marriage and settled in that part which
was afterward detached in the formation of Gardner, in which town he
died. He was a Revolutionary soldier.
Josiah' (John', Josiah*, William', John', John'), b. June 13, 1787; d.
Dec. 7, 1862; m. 1811, Mary, dau. of Jonas and Rhoda (Johnson) Reed
of Ashburnham, Mass. [d. Aug. 12, 1872]. At about 1816 he removed
from Gardner to Ashburnham, which was afterward his home.
1. Merrick' (Josiah', John', Josiah*, William', John',
John'), b. Sept. 30, 1811; d. Feb. 16, 1875; m. (1) Elizabeth
A. Gates of Gardner; (2) June 14, 1860, Rebecca Clarissa, dau.
of Francis and Susanna (Foster) Lane of Ashburnham [b.
Jan. 29, 1827]. He resided in Smith Village from 1840 to
1851, occupying the last house in the village upon the road to
Gibson Village, and then returned to Ashburnham. Children :
5. i. Harriet, b. May 11, 1839; m. Noah Hardy of HolHs, N. H.
6. ii. Albert, d. young.
7. iii. Mary Jane, b. Sept. 10, 1845; m. Apr. 15, 1864, WiUiam H.
Cruse. Res. in South Ashburnham. Three children.
8. iv. Ellen, d. young.
2. Josiah' (Josiah', John', Josiah*, William', John', John'),
b. May 5, 1814; d. Saratoga, N. Y., Mar. 29, 1865; m. Dec. 5,
1839, Abigail Wheeler (79). He res. in the Center Village
for a few years after his marriage. Children:
9. i. Francis Albertus, b. Apr. 14, 1843; m. Dec. 3, 1868, Mary
A. Strong.
10. ii. William Henry, b. July 5, 1849; married.
3. Hosea' (Josiah', John', Josiah*, William', John', John'),
b. Mar. 10, 1820; d. Rindge, Nov. 27, 1879; m. Nov. 27, 1845,
Mary Wheeler (80). He passed the greater part of his ma
ture life in New Ipswich, occupied at first as a carpenter and
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a public school teacher, but later he became largely engaged
in various public duties. He presided as moderator of the town
meetings for more than twenty years, represented the town
in the Legislature for several years, and afterward was elected
to the Senate. During the period of the draft for soldiers to
serve in the Civil War he was provost marshal of the Second
District of New Hampshire, and later received appointment
as Collector of Customs at Boston. Child :
11. i. Frederic H., b. Dec. 10, 1861; d. 1885; m. July 4, 1883, Cora
E. Decker.
4. Otis W.' (Josiah', John', Josiah*, William', John',
John'), b. May 29, 1823; d. Saratoga, N. Y., Nov. 4, 1871 ; m.
Dec. 22, 1842, Harriet Wheeler (81). His residence in town
was brief, but the unusual marriage of three brothers to three
sisters demands recognition in the town history. Children :
12. i. George P., b. June 14, 1850.
13. ii. Henry W., b. Mar. 19, 1857.
14. iii. Nellie A., b. Jan. 9, 1866.
EDWARDS.
Ebenezer' Edwards, b. Acton, Mass., Mar. 23, 1757; d. Mar. 21, 1826;
m. (1) Apr. 26, 1778, Lucy Wheeler of Lincoln, Mass. [d. Nov. 21, 1800] ;
(2) May 12, 1801, Mary Flint of Lincoln, Mass. [d. Jan. 15, 1839]. He
served in the Revolution, having a part in the first encounter at "The
Bridge" and also later. He came to Temple before the close of the war
and soon became a prominent citizen. He held all the principal town
offices. 1. Ebenezer Prescott' (Ebenezer'), b. Nov. 21, 1800; d.
Feb. 11, 1857; m. July 2, 1829, Lucinda Spear (22). He came
to New Ipswich at about the time of his marriage and passed
his life in Center Village, where he was proprietor of the
tavern at the stand on the turnpike just east from the corner
store. He was also deputy sheriff. Children :
2. i. Emily Elizabeth, b. about July, 1833; d. Dec. 5, 1847.
3. ii. George Frederic.
EMERSON.
Thomas' Emerson, b. probably in Sedgefield parish, Durham, Eng
land; d. Ipswich, Mass., May 1, 1666; m. EHzabeth  . He is said to
have come from England in 1635 and settled in Ipswich in 1638 or earHer.
Joseph' (Thomas'), b. in England about 1620; d. Concord, Mass., Jan.
3, 1680; m. (1) Elizabeth, dau. of Margaret and Robert Woodmansey of
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Boston; (2) Dec. 7, 1665, Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Edward Bulkeley, the
first minister of Concord, Mass. [b. 1638; d. Sept. 4, 1693, having m. (2)
Capt. John Brown of Reading, Mass.]. He was a minister in Ipswich,
York, Me., and Milton, Mass. From him diverges the ancestral line of
Rev. Ralph Waldo Eraerson.
Peter' (Joseph', Thoraas'), b. 1673; d. 1751; m. Nov. 11, 1696, Anne,
dau. of Capt. John and Anne (Fiske) Brown of Reading, his step-sister.
He was a farmer in that part of Reading which became South Reading.
Brown* (Peter', Joseph', Thomas'), b. Apr. 16, 1704; d. 1774; m.
June 17, 1725, Sarah, dau. of John and Sarah Townsend [b. Reading,
1705]. He was a leading farraer in Reading, where he was a deacon for
many years, also town clerk and selectman for long periods.
1. John' (Brown*, Peter', Joseph', Thomas'), bapt. Apr.
5, 1739; d. Nov. 14, 1809; m. Dec. 20, 1764, Katherine, dau. of
Noah and Phebe (Lilley) Eaton of Reading [b. Dec. 19, 1744;
d. Jan. 21, 1809]. He was a farmer, but having by some un
fair treatment lost his property, he removed from the family
home and after a few years in Ashby, Mass., came to New
Ipswich about 1783 and settled in the mountain region, prob
ably on 152, A. D., near the later location of the "white school-
house," No. 8, on the turnpike, whence he removed fifteen
years later and passed the last ten years of his life in Han
cock. Children, of whom probably but the two youngest were
born in New Ipswich :
2. i. John, b. Sept. 2, 1765; d. Mar. 15, 1835; m. Prudence Cow-
drey [b. Reading, Mass., 1772, and survived her husband
raany years]. He settled in Reading, Vt., where he was a
successful farmer.
3. ii. Hiram, b. Apr. 9, 1767; d. Mar. 5, 1849; m. (pub. Nov. 14,
1813) Mary Humber of Boston [b. Mar. 13, 1780; d. 1846].
He was a stonemason at Charlestown, Mass.
4. iii. Catherine, b. Apr. 30, 1769; d. Oct. 5, 1796; m. David Smith.
Res. at South Reading, Mass. Six children.
5. iv. Reuben, b. Aug. 12, 1771; d. Mar. 11, 1860; m. Apr. 1, 1800,
Persis Hardy [b. Rindge, 1776; d. Oct 12, 1846]. He
graduated frora Dartmouth College in 1798 and entered the
ministry. He was pastor at Westminster, Mass., for a few
years, and then at South Reading, now Wakefield, until
his death after a pastorate of fifty-five years. He had
five children, of whom one was a physician, one a judge in
Louisiana, one a professor of music, and one a printer.
6. V. Jacob, b. June 10, 1773; d. Apr. 3, 1839; m. (1) Sept 1, 1797,
Dorcas, dau. of Enos and Dorcas (Nooning) Knight of
Hancock [d. Mar. 3, 1816] ; (2) 1818, Martha (Spaulding)
Knight [b. Lyndeboro, Apr. 6, 1768]. He lived at Hancock
until his second marriage, after which he removed to Keene.
Eight children.
7. vi. Noah, b. Aug. 28, 1775; d. Aug. 25, 1777.
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8. vii. Brown, b. Jan. 8, 1778; d. July 25, 1872; m. Oct. 29, 1806,
Mary, dau. of Rev. Daniel and Susanna (Saunders) Hop
kins [b. Salem, Mass., Sept 25, 1778; d. Apr. 4, 1866]. He
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1802, and received
the degree of D. D. from his Alma Mater in 1835. He
was settled in Salem, Mass., in 1805, and held the sarae
pastorate until his death sixty-seven years later, surviving
the entire membership of the church and society at the
time of his ordination. He was absent from his pulpit but
five Sundays during the first fifty years of his ministry. He
had ten children, of whora nine were living five years after
their father's jubilee, and with their husbands and wives
gathered at the horae of their childhood, and on the Sabbath
twelve couples of the faraily, with the venerable doctor and
his wife at their head, entered the church together. Of this
faraily of children the two oldest sons should appropriately
be mentioned at this place : Daniel Hopkins, b. Jan. 23,
1810; d. July 6, 1883; m. Nov. 7, 1836, Lucy Ann Page; he
graduated frora Dartmouth College in 1830, and like his
father afterward received the degree of D. D. Edward
Brown, b. Feb. 10, 1812; d. Jan. 17, 1888; m. May 10, 1841,
Ann Luramus; he graduated from Dartmouth College in
1832 and followed the work of the ministry. The changed
customs of later days did not encourage so long pastorates
as that of their father, and it seemed advisable that they
should labor in different positions as the years passed, but
the elder one served in the pulpit during forty-seven years,
and one of his sons entered the ministry, while the younger
gave twenty-six years of like service, followed by fifteen
years as the head of a faraily school for boys, and two of
his sons followed the family profession, continuing to make
evident the stateraent of the forraer history of the town
that "Piety and preaching might well be the faraily raotto."
9. viii. Phebe, b. June 17, 1780; d. Aug. 25, 1795.
10. ix. RoMANUS, b. Sept. 1, 1782; d. Oct. 10, 1852; m. Nov. 21, 1810,
Joanna, dau. of Joshua Burnham [b. Milford, May 9, 1783;
d. Aug. 5, 1868]. He too in early life intended to become
a rainister, but prevented by a persistent irapediment in his
speech, he becarae a carpenter at South Boston. Seven
children.
11. X. Anne, b. May 8, 1785; d. Oct 4, 1864; m. Mar. 2, 1813, Abel
Hewins. Res. in Roxbury, Mass.
12. xi. NoAH, b. Oct 4, 1787; d. July 8, 1860; m. Feb. 10, 1830, Ama
Smith [b. HolHs, Mar. 29, 1798; d. Jan. 3, 1861]. He
graduated frora Middlebury College in 1814, entered the
ministry, and for twenty-five years was pastor at Baldwin,
Me., and also gave missionary service elsewhere.
Thomas Emerson with five sons, distantly related to the
preceding, settled in 1790 in the south margin of the town.
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EMERY.
The following sketch of this family has necessarily depended to a
great degree upon various isolated traditions. It is, therefore, probable
that it is less nearly accurate than if it were based upon records.
John' Emery, son of John and Agnes of Romsey, Harapshire, Eng
land, b. Sept. 29, 1598; d. Nov. 3, 1683; ra. (1) Mary  [d. Apr., 1649] ;
(2) Oct. 29, 1650, Mary (Shatswell), widow of John Webster of Ipswich,
Mass. [d. Apr. 28, 1694]. He landed at Boston with wife and one or
two children in 1635, and soon settled at Newbury, Mass., and there
passed his life. He was chosen selectman, and held other offices, although
he refused to obey the laws in respect to Quakers, and was fined for
entertaining them.
Jonathan' (John'), b. May 13, 1652; d. Sept. 29, 1723; m. Nov. 29,
1676, Mary, dau. of Edward Woodman [d. Sept. 13, 1723]. He lived in
Newbury. He served in King Philip's War, and was wounded in the
Narragansett fight.
Jonathan' (Jonathan', John'), b. Feb. 2, 1680; m. Ruth, dau. of
Caleb and Mary (Ladd) Richardson [b. Newbury, Dec. 4, 1683; d. Plais-
tow, Sept. 18, 1749]. All his children were born in Newbury.
Thomas'* (Jonathan', Jonathan', John'), bapt. Jan. 6, 1722; ra. Jan. 7,
1745/6, Mary Greenough of the Haverhill district.
1. Thomas' (Thomas*, Jonathan', Jonathan^, John'), b.
Plaistow or near, 1748; d. Dec. 22, 1840; m. Westminster,
Mass., Nov. 15, 1781, Mary, dau. of Samuel and Molly
(Wason) Sawin [b. Nov. 21, 1782; d. Sept. 21, 1850]. He re
moved to Rindge in 1774, and came thence to New Ipswich in
1808. He twice enlisted in the Revolutionary contest from
Rindge, one of these enlistments being in the New Ipswich
company of Capt. Joseph Parker, and later from Hampstead,
which town was perhaps his home for a time, but he was in
Rindge again in 1786. He sold six oxen to procure a gun for
military service. Children :
2. i. Ziba, d. 1808, unm.
3. ii. Mary, ra. William White.
4. iii. Samuel, d. after reaching age of manhood, unm.
5. iv. Betsey, b. about 1797; d. Mar. 2, 1850; m. May 6, 1830, Daniel
Walker (J. 16).
6. V. William, b. about 1794 -|-
7. vi. Thomas, b. about 1795.-|-
8. vH. John, b. about 1800.-1-
9. viii. Hannah.
10. ix. Sarah.
6. William' (Thomas', Thomas*, Jonathan', Jonathan",
John'), b. about 1794; d. Aug. 9, 1862; m. Mary Spofford [b.
about 1794; d. Mar. 3, 1862]. He was a farmer living in dif-
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ferent parts of the town. For several years about 1850 he
lived on the north side of the road from Hodgkins corner to
the Gibson Village, (VIII : 3, S. R.,) in a house now des
troyed, and his later years were passed on the Abijah Smith
farm, (34, N. D.) Children :
11. i. Mary T., b. about Sept, 1818; d. Nov. 20, 1846; ra. John
Langley. Res. Nashua. Child : i. Amos E. Langley, b.
about Oct., 1846; d. Jan. M, 1863.
12. ii. William G., b. about 1819.-f-
13. iii. Almira O., m. (1) George Tower; (2) Edmund Bathrick.
Res. after her second marriage near the center of 38, N. D.
Child: i. Nancy C. Tower, b. Oct 9, 1843; d. Feb. 27, 1844.
14. iv. Amos. He was a stonemason at Peterboro. One son.
15. V. Horace B., b. about 1827; d. Feb. 16, 1866; ra. June 6, 1850,
Melissa Smith of Peterboro.
16. vi. Eveline C, m. Mar. 14, 1850, Charles B. Marshall. Res.
Bank Village.
17. vii. Nancy, ra. Charles Sleeper of Unity.
18. viii. Sarah, d. unra. She was a cripple.
19. ix. Edward. He was drowned in the factory pond at the age of
twenty-one.
20. x. Fanny Jane, b. about 1837; d. May 26, 1859, unm.
7. Thomas' (Thomas', Thomas*, Jonathan', Jonathan^,
John'), b. about 1795; d. June 2, 1860; m. Mar. 9, 1830, Han
nah Barker [b. May 5, 1799; d. Oct. 22, 1876]. He was a
farmer in New Ipswich, but often changed his location in the
town. His longest residence seems to have been upon the
northern road from the Center Village to Greenville, in the
house at the corner of the short street extending to the east,
(29, N. D.) Children:
21. i. Hiram B., b. about 1830; d. Sept. 17, 1852.
22. ii. Martha Ann, b. May 16, 1834; d. Aug. 30, 1854; m. Dec. 22,
1853, Joseph H. Peabody.
23. iii. Thomas, d. aged 34 years.
24. iv. Mary, b. about 1840; d. Nov. 2, 1870; ra. Dec. 2, 1855, William
J. LeFrancis of Cambridge, Mass.
8. John' (Thomas', Thomas*, Jonathan', Jonathan^,
John'), b. about 1800; d. Mar. 8, 1882; m. Abigail Bruce of
Marlboro, Mass. [b. about 1803; d. Nov. 22, 1884]. He was a
farmer owning for fifty years or more the "Hoar farm" on
the old "country road," next to the river, (V : 2, S. R.) Chil
dren: 25. i. Hannah Maria, b. Dec. 5, 1827; m. Leonard Boodry.
26. ii. John B., b. Jan. 21, 1829.-f
27. iii. Abby A., m. Frederic B. Smith.
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12. William B.'^ (William', Thomas', Thomas*, Jonathan',
Jonathan^ John'), b. about 1819; d. Oct. 8, 1884; m. Mary B.
Roby [d. Aug. 30, 1910]. He was a farmer and succeeded to
the occupancy of the Abijah Smith farm, (34, N. D.,) after his
father's death. Children :
28. i. Mary, b. 1848; ra. 1864, Williara White. Res. in Gardner,
Mass. Ten children.
29. ii. Franklin J., b. Nov. 9, 1861; m. (1) Mary B. Levine; (2)
Helen Johnson. He is a machinist, and has worked as such
in New Ipswich and at Chester, Vt. Children : i. Frank,
d. aged six months, ii. Frederic, died. iii. Frank, iv.
Perley.
26. John B.^ (John', Thomas', Thomas*, Jonathan', Jona-
than^ John'), b. Jan. 21, 1829; d. May 22, 1896; m. Nov. 23,
1853, Laura, dau. of Leonard and Phila (Sprague) Stone [b.
Mendon, Mass., May 12, 1832; d. May 4, 1910]. He was a
stonemason in New Ipswich. He lived at the Center Village
in the second house southward from the school-house, and at
the corner of Hills street. Children:
30. i. Eugene Roscoe, b. Nov. 16, 1857; unm. He was a machinist
at Nashua during twenty-five years.
31. ii. John Clarence, b. May 30, 1860; ra. (1) Jan. 2, 1886, Etta
Batchelder of Plyraouth; (2) Jan. 9, 1894, Henrietta Lord.
He is a printer, for a period at Concord, and later at Wor
cester, Mass. Children, b. at Concord : i. Clarence Eugene,
ii. George Lord.
EVERETT.
Richard' Everett, d. July 3, 1682; ra. (1) Mary  [d. 1643]; (2)
Jan. 29, 1643, Mary Winch. He came frora Dedham, England, in 1634/5
and as early as 1636 he was one of the proprietors of Dedham, Mass.,
which was his permanent home after 1638. He was selectman in 1661.
John' (Richard'), bapt. Mar. 15, 1646; d. June 17, 1715; m. May 13,
1662, Elizabeth, dau. of Robert and Elizabeth (Johnson) Pepper of
Roxbury [b. May 25, 1645; d. Apr. 1, 1714]. He passed his Hfe in Ded
ham and was a captain in service against the Indians.
John' (John', Richard'), b. June 9, 1676; d. Mar. 20, 1750/1; ra. (1)
Jan. 3, 1699/1700, Mercy Browne [b. about 1678; d. Nov. 27, 1748]; (2)
Aug. 31, 1749, Mrs. Mary Bennett of Wrenthara. He passed his life in
Dedhara, and was a selectraan for several years and the first deacon of
the Second church. Hon. Edward" Everett, so prorainent for years in
national and state raatters, was his descendant by the line Ebenezer*,
Oliver'. Edward* (John', John', Richard'), b. Oct. 18, 1714; d. June 30, 1745;
ra. Jan. 23, 1738/9, Mary, dau. of Eleazer and Mary Battle Allen [b. Jan.
10, 1717; d. Jan. 1, 1760; m. (2) Gamaliel Gerould of Wrentham]. He
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David' (Edward*, John', John', Richard'), b. Apr. 16, 1745; d. June
26, 1775 ; ra. Oct. 27, 1767, Susannah, dau. of Stephen Rolfe [b. Feb. 22,
1743]. Res. Princeton, Mass. He entered service at the opening of the
Revolutionary War, was engaged in the battle of Bunker Hill and died
while in service. Three of his children were resident in New Ipswich.
1. Olivia' (David', Edward*, John', John^ Richard'), b.
July 22, 1768; d. Dayton, O. ; m. Benjamin, son of Benjamin
and Priscilla Adams of New Ipswich (W. 22).
2. David' (David', Edward*, John', John^ Richard'), b.
Mar. 29, 1770; d. Dec. 21, 1813; m. Dec. 23, 1799, Dorothy,
dau. of Dea. Isaac and Mary (Adams) Appleton (7). He
taught in New Ipswich. He graduated from Dartmouth Col
lege 1795, entered the legal profession, and practiced at Am
herst, 1801-07. Removed to Boston and engaged in editorial
work on the Boston Patriot and Boston Pilot. In 1813 he
removed to Marietta, O., and died within a few months. His
widow returned to New Ipswich and made her home in the
house which she gave the Congregational church.
3. John' (David', Edward*, John', John^ Richard'), b. Feb.
18, 1776; d. Aug. 25, 1859; m. (1) Jan. 7, 1801, Hannah Brooks
Jones [b. Apr. 5, 1775; d. July 21, 1815] ; (2) Dec. 11, 1815,
Elizabeth, dau. of John and Lydia Goen [b. June 15, 1783].
He came to New Ipswich and built a woolen mill on the
North Branch ; first he only dressed cloth woven elsewhere,
then manufactured broadcloths and cassimeres. He continued
this till 1826, and afterward started mills in Mason Village
and in Templeton. He was captain of a militia company,
and then of the Independent Grenadiers. Children :
4. i. John, b. Dec. 23, 1802.-|-
5. ii. William Jones, b. Mar. 14, 1805; d. Enfield, Conn., Dec. 12,
1829.
6. iii. David, b. Mar. 30, 1807; d. Templeton, Aug. 27, 1849; m. (1)
July 26, 1830, Catherine B. Snell [b. about 1808; d. Jan. 17,
1832]; (2) July 1, 1839, Elizabeth H. Stone [b. about 1818;
m. twice after death of first husband].
7. iv. Stephen, b. Jan. 25, 1809.-|-
8. V. Adeline, b. June 10, 1811; d. Nov. 3, 1849; m. Jan. 1, 1834,
Ezra, son of Ezra and Betsy (Perley) Hyde [b. Aug. 17,
1807, at Winchendon, Mass.].
9. vi. JuLLA. Ann, b. Jan. 18, 1813; d. 1891; m. Sept 30, 1837, Elihu
Piper.
10. vii. George, b. May 19, 1817; d. Nov. 19, 1837.
11. vHi. Charles, b. Dec. 1, 1818.-(-
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13. X. Louis, b. Nov. 16, 1822; d. Nov. 21, 1860, unra.
14. xi. Eliza, b. Feb. 28, 1825 ; d. Nov. 25, 1849, unm.
4. John' (John', David', Edward*, John', John^, Richard'),
b. Dec. 23, 1802; d. Nov. 15, 1857; m. Oct. 28, 1828, Ann C.
Adams. Res. Templeton, Mass., and Marshall, Mich. Chil
dren :
15. i. Mary Ann Jones, b. Oct. 8, 1829.
16. ii. Frances Josephine, b. Mar. 18, 1845.
5. Stephen'' (John', David', Edward*, John', John^, Rich
ard'), b. Jan. 25, 1809; d. May 27, 1867, at Dracut, Mass.; m.
Sept. 16, 1832, Alma, dau. of Thaddeus and Mary (Currier)
Richardson [b. Dracut, Mar. 6, 1809; d. June 22, 1881]. He
was a manufacturer in Lowell and Lawrence, Mass., and
Biddeford, Me. Children :
17. i. Alma Adaline, b. Sept. 23, 1833; d. 1856.
18. ii. George Moody Thompson, b. Nov. 18, 1837; m. Sept. 30, 1891,
M. Augusta, dau. of David and Lucy Adaras. Res. Law
rence, Mass.
19. iii. Hannah B., b. May 20, 1843; d. 1846.
20. iv. Charles William S., b. 1846; d. 1850.
11. Charles' (John', David', Edward*, John', John^, Rich
ard'), b. Dec. 1, 1818; d. Nov. 1, 1896; m. Maria P., dau.
of Josiah Wheeler [b. Royalston, Mass., Sept. 10, 1821]. He
was a woolen manufacturer and merchant at Otter River.
Children :
21. i. Sarah Sophia, b. 1844; d. Mar. 7, 1892; m. (1) Porter B.
Webber of Templeton, Mass.; (2) Oct. 16, 1877, Austin L.
Bond of Greenfield, Mass.
22. ii. John Wheeler, b. 1846; d. Sept. 23, 1847.
23. iii. Mary Turner, b. 1850; d. Oct. 29, 1851.
12. Edward' (John', David', Edward*, John', John^ Rich
ard'), b. July 29, 1820; d. Oct. 24, 1853; m. June 2, 1848, Eliza
Ann, dau. of Quincy and Sally Sylvester [b. Townsend, Mass.,
Nov. 18, 1827; m. (2) Alfred M. Adams]. He was a designer
in print mills of Lowell and Lawrence, Mass. Children :
24. i. Innis F., b. Apr. 8, 1849; d. Apr. 4, 1872.
25. ii. Edward, b. Oct 4, 1850; m. Oct 11, 1881, Rosa M., dau. of
Charles and Anna MichalHs [b. New Ulm, Minn., Aug. 26,
1859]. Res. Big Tiraber, Mont. Children: i. Anna
Gretchen, b. Feb. 8, 1890. ii. Inez Francena, b. Jan. 15, 1893.

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FAIRBANK.
Jonathan' Fairbank, ra. Halifax, Yorkshire, England, May 20, 1617,
Grace Smith. He came to New England in 1633 and settled at Dedham,
Mass., where he built the old "Fairbanks House," which is still standing,
and is believed to be the oldest dwelling house in New England which has
been owned and occupied continuously by its builder and his lineal
descendants to the present time. His name is one of the 125 names
attached to the famous covenant which was the foundation of Dedham.
Jonas' (Jonathan'), b. HaHfax, England, Mar. 6, 1624; d. Feb. 10,
1676; ra. May 28, 1658, Lydia, dau. of John Prescott. He reraoved in
1657 from Dedham to Lancaster, Mass., where he was one of the "fathers
of the town." He and his son Joshua were of the thirty residents of that
town who were killed by the Indians on the same day. His widow ra.
(2) Elias Barron of Watertown, Groton, and Lancaster.
Jabez' (Jonas', Jonathan'), b. Lancaster, Jan. 8, 1671; d. May 2, 1758;
m. (1) Mary, dau. of Thoraas and Mary (Houghton) Wilder [b. about
1672; d. Feb. 21, 1718]; (2) Mar. 25, 1719, Elizabeth Whitcomb [b. about
Sept, 1674; d. May 11, 1755]. He was a captain in the Indian wars, and
represented Lancaster in the General Court several times.
Jonas* (Jabez', Jonas', Jonathan'), b. Lancaster, 1703; d. Nov. 4, 1792;
m. Apr. 8, 1731, Thankful, dau. of Josiah Wheeler [bapt. Sept 30, 1711;
d. May 15, 1795]. He res. in Lancaster and was a soldier in the French
and Indian wars.
Josiah" (Jonas*, Jabez', Jonas', Jonathan'), b. May 22, 1734; d. May
9, 1798; m. Jan. 22, 1761, Abigail Carter [d. Nov. 20, 1815; m. (2) Dea.
Samuel Wilder of Ashburnham]. He was a soldier in the Colonial and
Revolutionary wars.
1. Ephraim' (Josiah', Jonas*, Jabez', Jonas^, Jonathan'), b.
Mar. 16, 1770; d. Sept. 11, 1837; m. May 14, 1795, Sally, dau.
of James and Mary (Melvin) Chandler (7). He came to New
Ipswich soon after attaining his majority and established a
blacksmithy in Davis Village. His home was in the house on
the eastern side of the road from Hodgkins' Corner. He re
mained in town about twenty-five years, then removed to Oak
ham, Mass., and thence a few years later to Jacksonville, 111.,
where they both died. Children, all born in New Ipswich :
2. i. John Barnard, b. Mar. 16, 1796.-|-
3. ii. Samuel, b. Sept. 30, 1799; d. Mar. 30, 1803.
4. iii. James Chandler, b. May 24, 1801.-|-
5. iv. Ephraim Wilder, b. Oct. 31, 1804; d. Cincinnati, O., Apr. 22,
1828, unra.
6. V. Daniel Willard, b. Nov. 10, 1808; d. Cincinnati, O., Aug. 27,
1835; m. Susan West, dau. of Elijah and Susanna (Weeks)
Freeman [b. Mar. 27, 1808; d. 1888; ra. (2) Benjamin
Larrabee, president of Middlebury College].
7. vi. Sarah Ann, b. July 10, 1812; d. Oct 6, 1832; m. Phineas
Norton. Res. in Oakham, Mass.
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8. vii. Richard Hall, b. Aug. 7, 1814; d. Sept. 7, 1814.
9. viii. Martha Bacon, b. July 26, 1816 ; d. Sept. 14, 1838 ; m. Barlow
Freeman. Res. in Jacksonville, 111.
2. John Barnard' (Ephraim', Josiah', Jonas*, Jabez',
Jonas^ Jonathan'), b. Mar. 16, 1796; d. June 7, 1873; m. Nov.
6, 1821, Hannah Maria Cressey. He attended the Academy
before leaving town with his parents, and became a successful
teacher. He was for a time principal of the academy at Stam
ford, Conn., where he married. He was engaged for several
years in the manufacture of hats, bonnets, and other straw
goods in Oakham, Mass., and in New York, but in 1837 he
removed to Illinois and became a farmer at Jacksonville, and
later near Concord in that state, where he died. He was a
deacon. Children :
10. i. Samuel Bacon, b. Dec. 24 1822.-|-
11. ii. James Chandler, b. Jan. 13, 1825.-]-
12. iii. Hannah Maria, b. May 25, 1827; d. Aug., 1829.
13. iv. Daniel Wilder, b. Apr. 27, 1829.-(-
14. v. John Barnard, b. Sept. 6, 1831.-|-
15. vi. Hannah Maria, b. Sept 25, 1833; d. Nov. 29, 1835.
16. vii. Sarah Maria, b. May 26, 1835; d. Dec. 30, 1836.
17. viii. May Amelia, b. May M, 1838; d. Aug. 23, 1838.
18. ix. Edward Beecher, b. May 21, 1841; d. Sept. 14, 1863.
4. James Chandler' (Ephraim', Josiah', Jonas*, Jabez',
Jonas^ Jonathan'), b. May 24, 1801 ; d. Mar. 31, 1877; m. June
9, 1825, Lurana, dau. of John and Susanna (Fay) Robinson,
a descendant of John Robinson, the Pilgrims' pastor. He res.
in Oakham, Mass. Children :
19. i. Jeremiah Robinson, b. Oct. 4, 1826; m. Nov. 9, 1856, Margaret
White of New Brunswick. Child : i. Jessie, b. Nov. 27,
1860; d. July 29, 1889.
20. ii. Lurana Wilder, b. July 12, 1828; d. Oberlin, O., July 23,
1892; ra. June 21, 1851, WiHiara Mellen [b. Temple, Feb.
16, 1816; d. Oberlin, O., Feb. 12, 1892]. They were mis
sionaries at Natal, South Africa, for twenty-three years,
and their late Hfe was passed at Oberlin. Nine children.
21. iii. Sarah Chandler, b. Oct. 13, 1830; m. Nov. 24, 1870, Ezra
D. Batcheller. Res. at North Brookfield, Mass.
22. iv. Susan Fay, b. Dec. 29, 1832; unm. Res. at Oakham, Mass.
23. V. Martha Bacon, b. Sept. 30, 1835 ; d. Apr. 30, 1837.
24. vi. James Ephraim, b. Mar. 20, 1838; d. Oct. 14, 1838.
25. vii. John Barnard, b. Aug. 8, 1839; unm. He was a student in
Amherst College at the time of the outbreak of the Civil
War, left his studies, and enlisted as a private in the 36th
Massachusetts Regiment. He completed his service, return
ing a major by brevet, and returned to college, graduating
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in 1867. He studied law in Columbia Law School, receiv
ing the degree of LL. B. in 1869. He practiced in Oakham,
Mass., of which town he was selectraan, raeraber of school
board, and representative. He removed to Dakota and is
in legal practice at Deadwood.
26. viii. Maria Thatcher, b. Apr. 18, 1841; m. Feb. 22, 1882, Daniel
Rugg [d. July 20, 1888]. Res. in Charapaign, 111., but after
her husband's death she returned to Oakhara.
27. ix. Samuel Bacon, b. Aug. 8, 1843; d. Jan. 9, 1872; m. Apr. 6,
1869, Lizzie J. Packard of Oakham. Child : i. James
Packard, b. Nov. 18, 1870.
10. Samuel Bacon' (John B.', Ephraim', Josiah', Jonas*,
Jabez', Jonas^ Jonathan'), b. Dec. 24, 1822; d. May 31, 1898;
m. (1) 1846, Abby Allen [d. 1852] ; (2) July 11, 1856, Mary
Ballantine [b. Sept. 10, 1836; d. Jan. 15, 1879]. He graduated
from Illinois College in 1842, and from. Andover Theological
Seminary in 1845. He went to India as a missionary of the
American Board the following year, and spent his life in that
service. He was stationed at Ahmednagar, Western India.
He received from his Alma Mater the degree of D. D. Chil
dren: 28. i. Emily Marla, b. Nov. 21, 1846; m. 1871, Rev. Thomas Snell,
a missionary of the American Board in Ceylon. Six chil
dren, all born in Ceylon.
29. ii. Mary Crocker, b. and d. July, 1847.
30. iii. John Melville, b. May 8, 1852; d. Nov., 1854.
31. iv. Anna, b. Nov. 1, 1857; m. Rev. Robert M. Woods, pastor at
Hatfield, Mass.
32. V. Katie, b. May 8, 1859 ; m. Rev. Robert H. Hume, a missionary
of the American Board at Ahmednagar. Four children.
33. vi. Melvin, b. Mar. 7, 1861 ; d. 1864.
34. vii. Henry, b. June 30, 1862; m. Sept. 16, 1886, Ruby Elizabeth,
dau. of Rev. Charles and JuHa (Terry) Harding of Shola-
pur, India [b. Bombay, India, Oct. 23, 1860; educated at
Wellesley College]. He came to America at the age of ten
years, prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy,
graduated from Amherst College in 1883, studied for the
ministry at Yale Theological School, and returned to India
as a missionary of the American Board in 1886. Children :
i. Samuel Ballantine, b. Dec. 7, 1887. ii. Allen Melvin, b.
Sept. 27, 1889. iii. Ruth Elizabeth, b. Feb. 29, 1892.
35. viii. Grace, b. Nov. 2, 1864. She is a kindergarten teacher.
36. ix. Edward, b. June 5, 1867; m. June 14, 1893, Mary Adelaide,
dau. of Ephraira and Mary A. (Young) Caskey of Morris
town, N. J. [b. May 24, 1871]. He came to America at
the age of eleven years, prepared for college at Williston
Seminary, graduated from Amherst College in 1889, and
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from Andover Theological Seminary in 1892. After a
year's pastorate at Roxbury, Mass., he returned to India as
a missionary of the American Board. Child : i. Adelaide
Ballantine, b. Mar. 26, 1895.
37. X. James, b. June, 1870; d. 1870.
38. xi. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 10, 1871; m. June 22, 1897, William H.
Hastings of Staten Island, N. Y. She graduated from Mt.
Holyoke College in 1893.
39. xii. Rose, b. Aug. 1, 1874. She graduated from Sraith College in
1895.
40. xiii. Mary Darling, b. Jan. 5, 1878. She graduated from Smith
College in 1899.
11. James Chandler' (John B.', Ephraim', Josiah', Jonas*,
Jabez', Jonas^ Jonathan'), b. Jan. 13, 1825; d. Feb. 7, 1893;
m. (1) Oct. 4, 1847, Hannah B., dau. of Ebenezer Carter [d.
Mar. 28, 1862] ; (2) Jan. 1, 1865, Mary Lucy, dau. of Samuel
and Mary (Safford) Daniels. He went with his parents to
Illinois at the age of twelve years, and spent his life in Jack
sonville or its neighborhood. He completed his Junior year
at Illinois College, and then entered into mercantile business
with his brother Daniel Wilder. Later in life he became a
farmer. He was a director of the First National Bank of
Jacksonville, and held the office of deacon. Children :
41. i. Samuel Allen, b. Jan. 13, 1850.
42. ii. Ellen Maria, b. Mar. 24, 1853; ra. Oct. 7, 1873, Milton 0.
Matthews of Joy Prairie, 111. One child.
43. iii. Mary Amelia, b. Apr. 16, 1858; m. Aug. 26, 1890, Charles H.
Smith. Two children.
44. iv. Georgia May, b. May 1, 1868.
45. V. James Edward, b. Jan. 7, 1871.
46. vi. Arthur Daniels, b. Mar. 17, 1876.
13. Daniel Wilder' (John B.', Ephraim', Josiah', Jonas*,
Jabez', Jonas^ Jonathan'), b. Apr. 27, 1829; d. Feb. 19, 1893;
m. Aug. 21, 1850, Sarah, dau. of John Epler. He studied in
Illinois College with a view to the ministry, but ill-health
changed his plans and he became a teacher, and also a part
ner of his brother James Chandler in mercantile pursuits. He
was a member of the city council of Jacksonville, 111., and also
a trustee of Illinois College. Children :
47. i. Evelyn Hall, b. June 7, 1851; m. June 4, 1872, George
Wyckoff Brown. Three children.
48. ii. Fanny Gertrude, b. May 22, 1854; ra. Dec. 16, 1880, Edward
C. Carter of Chicago, 111. Three children.
49. iii. Sarah Maria, b. Nov. 22, 1861.
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14. John Barnard' (John B.', Ephraim', Josiah', Jonas*,
Jabez', Jonas^ Jonathan'), b. Sept. 6, 1831; m. (1) May 12,
1859, Emily P. Mack [d. June 12, 1860] ; (2) Aug. 31, 1863,
Ruth A. Boyce [d. June 20, 1889]. He graduated from Illinois
College in 1857 and from Union Theological Seminary in
1860. He has been pastor successively in Illinois, Wisconsin,
Michigan, Indiana, and Minnesota, returning to his early home
in Jacksonville, 111., in 1902. He received the degree of D. D.
from his Alma Mater in 1895. Children :
50. i. Herbert Augustus, b. Apr. 19, 1860. He res. in San Fran
cisco, Cal., where he is connected with the California Fruit
Union.
51. ii. Edward Boyce, b. July 1, 1865; d. Oct. 24 1868.
52. iii. John Wilder, b. Feb. 15, 1867; d. Feb. 9, 1890.
53. iv. Marion Emily, b. Jan. 18, 1871. She graduated from Carle
ton College in 1890.
54. V. Arthur Boyce, b. Oct. 31, 1873.
FARIS.
William' Faris, b. about 1700; d. May 5, 1789; m. twice, his second
wife d. 1781. He was captain in the English army in 1745, and served as
late as 1759. After retiring upon half pay he lived at West Carabridge,
Mass., and later at Needham, where he was a justice of the peace.
1. William^ (William'), b. about 1749; d. Oct. 22, 1814;
m. Betsey, dau. of Samuel and Sarah (Spaulding) Cummings
(7) [d. Nov. 28, 1810]. He was probably son of his father's
first marriage, and there are indications that he passed his
youth in some New Ipswich family. At all events, soon after
reaching the age of twenty-one he bought lot 87, A. D., where
he probably lived for about fourteen years. The vestiges of
a cellar long visible a quarter-mile to the westward from the
site of the former Conant house on Page Hill probably mark
the place of his dwelling, situated upon a road now nearly
obliterated extending from the "Blanchard house," (84, A. D.,)
to a point on the old "Tenney road" a little south from No. 6
school-house. His name is borne upon the roll of those march
ing from New Ipswich on the morning of April 20, 1775.
About 1785 he removed to the part of Needhami, Mass., which
is now included in Natick, where he was a selectman and
otherwise a prominent citizen. Children :
2. i. William. He settled in Natick.
3. ii. Robert Pateshall, d. 1830. He inherited the New Ipswich
property, but there are no indications of his ever having
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removed to the town. He graduated from Harvard College
in 1815. He was a successful lawyer in Missouri.
4 iii. Sally, m. Michael Gay of Watertown, Mass.
5. iv. Jane, b. Jan. 11, 1788; d. Feb. 9, 1865; m. June 11, 1811, Wil
liam Fiske of Cambridge, Mass.
FARNSWORTH.
The town records give very little concerning this family, and the
family history presents the New Ipswich branch with too raany omissions
and certain errors to give assurance of accuracy. It is feared that the
following sketch is only approximately correct.
Matthias' Farnsworth, b. about 1612; d. Jan. 21, 1688/9; ra. (1)
probably in England, but his wife's narae is unknown; (2) Mary, dau.
of George Farr of Lynn, Mass. [d. 1717]. He probably came from
Farnsworth, Lancashire, England. He settled at Lynn, where his name
first appears in 1657, although he raay have arrived sorae years earlier.
He removed to Groton, Mass., about 1660, where he was a weaver and
also a farmer. He was a selectraan in Groton and held other offices.
Matthias' (Matthias'), b. 1649, probably of first ra.; d. about 1693;
m. 1681, Sarah, dau. of John' and Sarah (Eggleton) Nutting [b. May
29, 1663; ra. (2) John Stone]. He passed his life in Groton, holding
various town offices and serving in King Philip's war.
Benjamin' (Matthias'), b. 1667; d. Aug. 15, 1733; m. 1695, Mary,
dau. of Jonas and Mary (Loker) Prescott [b. Feb. 3, 1674; d. Oct. 28,
1735]. He Hved in his native town, holding the office of selectman and
various other offices.
Ebenezer' (Matthias', Matthias'), b. about 1684; ra. Apr. 17, 1707,
Elizabeth, dau. of Joshua and Abigail (Tarbell) Whitney of Watertown,
Mass. [b. about 1686]. Res. Groton.
Josiah' (Matthias', Matthias'), b. Feb. 24, 1687; d. Sept, 1744; m.
(1) Mar., 1719/20, Mary, dau. of Ephraim Pierce [b. Aug. 9, 1696]; (2)
June 1, 1710, Mary (Green), widow of Jonathan Nutting. Res. Groton.
Jonas' (Benjamin', Matthias'), b. Oct. M, 1713; d. Dec, 1803; m.
1739, Thankful Ward of Worcester, Mass. [b. Feb. 15, 1712; d. May 1,
1799]. Matthias* (Ebenezer', Matthias', Matthias'), b. Sept. 20, 1709; d.
1796; m. (1) Feb. 24, 1730, Abigail, dau. of Samuel and Elizabeth Shedd
[b. Nov. 7, 1708; d. May 11, 1748] ; (2) Azubah (Burt) [d. 1812, aged 100
years] widow of his brother Phineas, who d. 1752. Res. in Harvard, Mass.
1. Thomas* (Josiah', Matthias^ Matthias'), b. Apr. 1, 1731;
m. (1) Elizabeth Tuttle; (2) Nov. 12, 1753, Elizabeth Davis
of Littleton, Mass. He lived in Lunenburg, Mass., whence
he came to New Ipswich apparently as early as 1757, and
certainly before the first town meeting after the incorporation,
as at that meeting he was chosen one of the surveyors of
highways. His residence continued until 1779. His home
was in the northern half of the town, but its location therein
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is not known. He was a revolutionary soldier, responding to
the Concord call, and enlisting twice afterward. Children :
3. i. Moses, b. Jan. 17, 1750; d. Oct 23, 1837; m. (1) Annie Wilson
of Alstead [d. Aug. 29, 1790]; (2) Rohanna Beckwith
Crocker. He res. for a time in Alstead, but removed, hav
ing several different places of residence, the last being
Sugar Grove, Pa. He served in the Revolution in the com
pany of Capt. Isaac Farwell.
4. ii. Mary, b. Jaffrey about 1755; d. July, 1832.
5. iii. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 20, 1757 ; m. Daniel Emery. Two children.
6. iv. Catherine, b. Mar. 17, 1760; d. Williamstown, Vt., 1857.
7. V. Lucy, b. Apr. 16, 1762; m. thrice. Res. Mexico, N. Y., 1847.
8. vi. Hannah, b. June 7, 1767; d. 1817; m. Aug. 4, 1785, Abijah
Stone. Res. St. Albans, Vt. The wife of U. S. Senator
Jacob Collamer of Vermont was her daughter.
9. vH. Thomas, b. May 30, 1768; m. Feb., 1791, Dirarais Ladd. Res.
Alden, N. Y.
10. viii. Rachel, b. Sept. 9, 1770. Res. Lancaster, 1847.
11. ix. Joseph, b. June 25, 1772; d. Newport, July 19, 1837; m. (1)
Feb. 27, 1803, Martha Shepherd [b. Nov. 4, 1780; d. Apr.
2, 1834] ; (2) Nov. 27, 1834 Tryphena, widow of Col. Wil
liam Cheney of Newport, N. H.
12. X. Jonathan, b. Aug. 12, 1774; m. Olive Kingsbury.
13. xi. Sarah, b. June 11, 1776. Res. Alden, N. Y., 1847.
2. Daniel* (Jonas', Benjamin^, Matthias'), b. Oct. 14,
1748. His name appears upon the tax-lists from 1772 to 1775,
and he is said to have been a student in the office of Judge
Champney. His name is not found on the printed roll of any
body of Revolutionary troops, but the former town history
records that he "deserted from his company, and went over
to the enemy," and that he was named in the list of those who
in 1783 were forbidden to return under penalty of death.
Ebenezer" (Matthias*, Ebenezer', Matthias', Matthias'), b. May 10,
1731; d. May, 1760; m. Feb. 20, 1755, Mary Nichols. Res. Boston.
14. Harbor' (Ebenezer", Matthias*, Ebenezer', Matthias^,
Matthias'), b. June 10, 1756; d. Mar. 5, 1826; m. Mar. 12, 1778,
Lucy Hale [b. about 1758; d. Jan. 29, 1838]. His unusual
name was due to his birth on a boat while approaching the
shore in Boston Harbor. He lived in Harvard, Mass., and
later in Stoddard, but when nearly sixty years of age he came
to New Ipswich and there made the home of his later years,
living for a time on the south end of XII : 4, S. R., in the east
erly house of the two formerly standing upon the north side
of the old road now discontinued, and later in the most south
erly house of Smith Village, built in part, at least, by Samuel
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Foster. The list of his children is probably incomplete, and
their order is uncertain. Children :
Isaac Lucy, b. about 1780; d. June 27, 1852; m. Stephen Spaulding
(30).
John. Asa, b. about 1786; d. June 18, 1831; ra. Mar. 24, 1823, Lucy
ScoHay [b. Ashburnhara, Mass., Mar. 31, 1768; d. Sept,
1842]. Res. Lancaster, but was in New Ipswich, 1807-09.
19. v. Susan, b. about 1787 ; d. Dec. 23, 1873 ; ra. Williara Blanchard
(8).
20. vi. Ebenezer, b. Nov. 2, 1790; d. Oct. 18, 1863; m. Feb. 23, 1816,
Mary Jane Ames [b. Hanover, Nov. 2, 1798; d. July 22,
1870]. He was a shoe dealer in Detroit, Mich.
21. vii. Nancy, m. Mar. 1, 1815, Warren Skinner of Brownville, N. Y.
22. viii. Mary, m. Sept. 10, 1818, Ichabod Robbins of Chester, Vt.
Two children.
23. ix. Emily, b. July, 1799; m. Apr. 20, 1820, Andrew Conant (19).
24. X. Sally, m. Dec. 27, 1823, Jonas Stone (23).
25. Levi Farnsworth probably was a member of the fam
ily already considered, but the line of connection has not ap
peared. He married Eunice  and the births of seven
children are found in the New Ipswich records, which are
silent in matters concerning him. Children :
26. i. Jonathan Hadley, b. Aug. 15, 1776.
27. ii. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 17, 1778.
28. iii. Nathan, b. Feb. IS, 1780.
29. iv. Rufus, b. Feb. 15, 1782.
30. V. Timothy Jones, b. Aug. 6, 1783.
31. vi. Eunice, b. Sept. 22, 1785.
32. vii. Levi, b. May 4, 1788.
Samuel Farnsworth is named upon the roll of the com
pany of Capt. Robert Fletcher, 1778, which was so largely
composed of New Ipswich men that his residence in the town
is probable, but nothing more definite in relation to him has
come to light.
FARRAR.
Two brothers, John and Jacob Farrar, were among the original pro
prietors of Lancaster, Mass., in 1653. There is a tradition, not entirely
certain, that they came frora Lancashire, England. The New Ipswich
faraily has descended frora the younger brother.
Jacob' Farrar, b. 1620 or earlier ; d. Aug. 14, 1687 ; m. Ann  . He
had four children, whom he left with their mother in England until he
had made a home for them in Lancaster, to which they carae in 1658.
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the massacre by the Indians in the latter year he with his wife, son, and
daughter and her husband went to Woburn, Mass., where he passed the
brief remainder of his life.
Jacob' (Jacob'), b. about 1642; d. Aug. 22, 1675; m. 1668, Hannah,
dau. of George and Mary Hayward of Concord, Mass. [b. Apr. 20, 1647].
He came to Lancaster about 1658, and lived there until killed by the
Indians, as stated above. His widow, with her four children, returned to
Concord, where the children were brought up and settled.
George' (Jacob', Jacob'), b. Aug. 17, 1670; d. May 15, 1760; ra. Sept
9, 1692, Mary Howe, probably dau. of Sarauel and Mary (Wolley) Howe
[b. Jan. 17, 1674; d. Apr. 12, 1761]. He became a large landowner in
that part of Concord which is now Lincoln, his land being possessed by
successive generations of his descendants. He was urged to settle farther
in the interior of the country, and is said to have been offered one-half
of the township of Southboro, Mass., for "two coppers per acre," and to
have journeyed thither and examined the proposed purchase, but on his
return to have declared that "it was so far off that it never could be
worth anything," a remark which now seems worthy of utterance by his
great-great-great-great-grandson, Artemus Ward. He was a selectman
of Concord for several years. Descendants of two of his sons settled
in New Ipswich.
Joseph* (George', Jacob', Jacob'), b. Feb. 26, 1693/4; d. about 1732;
m. 1715, Mary  . He settled in Chelmsford. He was in "Lovewell's
fight" in 1725.
Samuel* (George', Jacob', Jacob'), b. Sept 28, 1708; d. Apr. 17, 1783;
m. Jan. 13, 1731/2, Lydia, dau. of Capt. Benjamin' (Humphrey') and
Lydia (Minot) Barrett [b. Aug. 2, 1712; d. June 27, 1802]. His home
was near the home of his boyhood, and he was one of the most influential
townsmen, being at different times selectraan, town clerk, and represent
ative, and also chairraan of the Committee of Correspondence, meraber
of the Middlesex Convention of August, 1774, which at so early a date
clearly declared the purpose of Revolution, and also of the first Provincial
Congress a few weeks later; and despite his age had a part in the prac
tical support of his belief in the "Concord Fight" the next year. He
was a deacon of the church in whose building the Provincial Congress
met. He owned land in New Ipswich, and four of his children settled
in this town.
Isaac" (Joseph*, George', Jacob', Jacob'), b. Chelmsford, Mass., Aug.
10, 1719; d. 1807; m. Mar. 1, 1743/4, Sarah Brooks. Res. in Townsend,
Mass. 1. Stephen' (Samuel*, George', Jacob^, Jacob'), b. Sept. 8,
1738; d. June 23, 1809; m. 1764, Eunice, dau. of Moses Brown
of Beverly, Mass. He graduated from Harvard College in
1755, being a classmate of John Adams, second president of
the United States, fitted for the ministry, and commenced
preaching at New Ipswich before he had completed his
twenty-first year, was called to settle in the following year,
and is believed to have drawn up the covenant under which
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a year later he organized the church over which he was first
ordained pastor; this position he retained until his death, al
most half a century after his or
dination, his entire ministry
somewhat exceeding that peri
od. The story of his pastorate is
a part of the church history and
PASTOR PATRIOT jg presented on a preceding
counsellor page, but its enduring influence
 is evidenced by the tablet
this tablet placed with appropriate ser-
is PLACED BY vices, one hundred years after
the children of his people his death, beside the pulpit of
TO honor ^^^ building which has suc
ceeded the place of his minis
try. He represented the town
in the Third Provincial Con
gress, held in May, 1775. His
home during the greater part of his pastorate was in the
house at the corner formed by the Turnpike and the road
leading from the summit of the hill northward to the Mill
or Starch Factory Brook, but his last few years were passed
in the house built by his son Stephen a short distance to the
southwest, about equally distant from his earlier home and
the old "meeting-house upon the hill." Children:
5. i. Eunice, b. Aug. 18, 1765; d. Sept. 3, 1765.
6. ii. Stephen, b. Aug. 17, 1766.-f-
7. iii. Eunice, b. Feb. 26, 1768; d. Apr., 1838; m. Peter Jones. Five
children.
8. iv. James, b. June 23, 1769 ; d. 1812 ; m. Araminta TurreU. Lived
in Vermont.
9. V. Isaac Brown, b. Mar. 27, 1771.-|-
10. vi. Samuel, b. June 30, 1772; d. 1846; m.  Deming. He
graduated at Harvard College, 1793; lived at or near Fair
fax, Vt. Had a large family.
11. vii. Prentice, b. Nov. 12, 1773; ra. Elizabeth Osgood of Rutland,
Vt. He settled in Canada. Seven children.
12. viii. Polly, b. June 26, 1775; m. Samuel Dakin. He graduated
from Dartmouth College in 1797. Five children.
13. ix. Moses, b. Mar. 12, 1777; m. Electa Turrell.
14. x. Lydia, b. Dec. 30, 1778; d. Aug., 1868; m. Mar. 6, 1800, Rev.
Warren Pierce. He graduated from Dartmouth College in
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16. xH. Nancy, b. June 14, 1782; m. (1) John Muzzy; (2)  Hodg
kins ; (3)  Lovegrove.
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2. James^ (Samuel*, George', Jacob^ Jacob'), b. July 24,
1741; d. July 11, 1767, unm. He came to New Ipswich after
attaining his majority and settled upon VIII: 1, S. R., a short
distance west from the site of the first church, burned during
the temporary desertion of the town in 1748; here he com
menced the erection of the large house afterward occupied by
his brother Timothy, which was occupied until the closing
years of the nineteenth century before it was replaced by the
present building upon the same spot. His position in the town
was exceptionally honorable for so young a man, duties being
intrusted to him such as were usually held by older citizens.
At the time of his death he was a member of the committee
for the building of the third meeting-house.
3. Rebecca^ (Samuel*, George', Jacob^, Jacob'), b. Aug.
13, 1743; d. Apr., 1829; m. Nov. 29, 1764, Dr. John Preston
(3) and passed her entire life in the town.
4. Timothy" (Samuel*, George', Jacob^, Jacob'), b. June
28, 1747; d. Feb. 21, 1849; m. Oct. 14, 1779, Anna, dau. of
Capt. Edmund Bancroft of Pepperell, Mass. [d. May 1, 1817].
He graduated from Harvard College in 1767, taught in and
near Concord two or three years, came to New Ipswich as a
teacher in 1770, and according to the vote of the town in the
next spring he must have been the first teacher to teach in all
the districts in succession, the grammar scholars from the
entire town being supposed to follow him around from district
to district. He soon became the possessor of the land upon
which his brother James had begun to build. In 1774 he had
not only the lot but also a part of each of the lots adjoining
it upon the east and west. And now, at the age of twenty-
seven years, his fellow citizens seem to have begun to recog
nize a broader ability to be employed in public matters, and
gave him a responsible duty as chairman of a committee to
protest and finally to refuse payment of a tax held to have
been unjustly assessed by the King's justices sitting as a Court
of Sessions. In 1774 he was chosen first selectman. His
military experience was comprised in five days' service at the
time of the Concord alarm. The Revolutionary government
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Exeter, acting in conjunction with the Committees of Corres
pondence, on the same day issued to him a commission as
major in the Minute-men then being enrolled and comprising
about one-fourth of the militia of the state, and also appointed
him Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, with a request that
he would accept the latter as being the most difficult to fill.
With this request he complied and held the position for six
teen years, when his judicial success was recognized by an
appointment to the Supreme Bench of the state as associate
justice, and eleven years later as chief justice. This last ap
pointment, however, he accepted with reluctance, and retained
only a single year, but in 1803, having resigned his seat on the
Supreme Bench, he was reappointed to the Court of Common
Pleas of his own county. Here he presided for ten years,
which with three years in a newly formed judicial circuit
comprising three counties, completed a period of over forty
years devoted to judicial service. The value of that service
is perhaps sufficiently evidenced by the statement of Daniel
Webster that he "never knew a judge more calm, dispassion
ate, impartial, and attentive, or more anxious to discover
truth and to do justice." He seemed to feel that his judicial
duties left no place for partisan activities, and although re
peatedly urged to be a candidate for election to Congress and
to the governorship of the state he constantly refused, and
declined office when once elected to represent the town in the
Legislature. He made an exception, however, of the brief
duties of a Presidential Elector, which he performed four times,
perhaps having a different feeling in that matter on account of
the strenuous endeavors which he had felt called to undertake
in the critical year when it was to be decided that the several
states were really to form a nation. An apparently reliable
tradition concerning this critical period perhaps rightly has
place here. In June, 1788, the prospect of the adoption of the
Federal constitution was by no means bright. Eight states
had accepted it, but the ninth one, necessary to make the pre
vious ones effective, was very doubtful. The New Hampshire
convention was in session, and was not far from evenly divided
on the question. Judge Farrar was not a member of the con
vention, but his Federal belief was too strong to permit him
to rest without putting forth all his logical and persuasive
powers to influence the decision. He seems to have been
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unable to move the New Ipswich delegate, Charles Barrett,
who was an Anti-Federalist in belief, but tradition declares
that at that time he was said to have convinced a sufficient
number of the delegates of the absolute necessity of a real
union in place of an hardly more than nominal confederation,
and that the resulting vote was 57 to 47. When it was re
membered that four days later Virginia, the largest of the
thirteen states, by the earnest labor of James Madison decided
in the same way, and a month later the eminently potent ef
forts of Alexander Hamilton barely won the approval in New
York by a very small majority, withotit which the union in
name would have been geographically disunited, it seems that
the three names of Madison, Hamilton, and Farrar stand
locked together in the efforts of a national birth.
Judge Farrar's public life closed in 1816, and at the age of
sixty-nine years he retired to his farm, his books, and an
honorable ease. His latest years were passed at the home of
his daughter in Hollis, where he died at the age of one hundred
and one years, seven months, and twenty-four days. In 1847,
when he had lived a few days more than a century, his
Alma Mater bestowed upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws,
which without doubt pleased him, but which educed only the
remark, "They have given me a feather to stick in my night
cap." Children :
18. i. Anna, b. Mar. 31, 1785; d. Oct. 7, 1789.
19. ii. Timothy, b. Mar. 17, 1788.-|-
20. iH. Lucy, b. Dec. 6, 1789; d. Jan. 21, 1873; m. (1) Aug. 10, 1812,
Rev. Richard HaH [b. Aug., 1784; d. July 13, 1824]; (2)
June 6, 1826, Rev. Joseph W. Clary.
21. iv. Anna, b. Nov. 22, 1791; d. Feb. IS, 1825; m. Sept. 1, 1813,
Rev. Joseph W. Clary.
22. v. Eliza, b. May 19, 1794; d. Oct. 25, 1861; ra. Nov. 8, 1838,
Oliver, son of Oliver and Jane Scripture [b. June 16, 1783 ;
d. Nov. 7, I860]. He was a physician in Hollis.
Mr. Hall and Mr. Clary, the sons-in-law of Judge Farrar, as given
above, were intimate friends, classmates, and roomraates at Middlebury
College and Andover Theological Serainary; their ordinations, the former
at New Ipswich and the latter at Dover, were separated by only a few
weeks, their marriages by about a year, and the close of their family
lives by death only a few raonths. The later marriage of Mr. Clary and
Mrs. Hall formed a single family of the two, and seems to demand a
modification of the usual forms of record in the presentation of the fam
ilies below.
Children of Richard and Lucy (Farrar) Hall:
i. Richard Hall, b. July 1, 1815; d. Dec. 31, 1815.
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ii. Richard Hall, b. Aug. 6, 1817; d. about 1907; m. Sept., 1850,
Elizabeth Chapin. He graduated from Dartraouth College
in 1847; studied at Union Theological Seminary, was or
dained at New Ipswich in 1850, and entered upon home
I missionary work in Minnesota, to which he devoted himself
with eminent success throughout a long life.
iii. Horace Hall, b. Apr. 6, 1819 ; d. Feb. 27, 1842. He graduated
from Dartmouth College in 1839, and was a theological
student and a teacher.
iv. William Hall, b. Mar. 11, 1812; d. June 15, 1845.
V. Lucy Farrar Hall, b. Jan. 1, 1823; d. July 16, 1870; m.
George Buck of Hartford, Conn. Seven children.
Children of Joseph W. and Anna (Farrar) Clary:
i. Joseph Ward Clary, b. June 28, 1815; d. Milwaukee, Wis.,
Jan. 11, 1859.
ii. Timothy Farrar Clary, b. Apr. 25, 1817; m. Nov. 17, 1852,
Sarah S. Willard of Oxford. He graduated from Dart
mouth College in 1841 and became a minister. Five chil
dren.
iii. Edward Warren Clary, b. Nov. 6, 1819; d. June 16, 1852;
m. Aug. 17, 1847, Charlotte Russell. Two children.
iv. Anna Farrar Clary, b. Feb. 6, 1822; ra. Sept. 20, 1854, Henry
Walter of New Britain, Conn.
V. William Clary, b. Jan. 3, 1824; d. Feb. 15, 1826.
Children of Joseph W. and Lucy (Farrar) Clary:
i. Eliza Farrar Clary, b. Mar. 23, 1827; unm. Res. in Connec
ticut.
ii. George Clary, b. Apr. 13, 1829; ra. Dec. 5, 1867, Mary Rebecca
Dorance. He graduated frora Dartmouth College in 1852,
studied raedicine, and was a physician at New Britain, Conn.
Four children.
Isaac" (Isaac", Joseph*, George^, Jacob', Jacob'), b. 1760; d. 1840; m.
Nov. 30, 1786, Hannah, dau. of Rev.  Dix of Townsend, Mass. [b.
May 29, 1766]. He removed from Townsend to Hillsboro in 1798, and
remained there until his death.
6. Stephen" (Stephen', Samuel*, George', Jacob^, Jacob'),
b. Aug. 17, 1766; d. Oct. 14, 1829; m. Oct. 11, 1795, Nancy
Morse [b. about 1776; d. Feb. 22, 1854]. He lived in New
Ipswich until the middle of his life, and for a time at least
was proprietor of the mill half a mile north of the meeting
house, which was probably the first in town fitted for the pro
duction of wheat flour. He built the house situated in a north
west direction from the meeting-house of those days, occu
pied for a considerable time in later years by Dr. F. N. Gibson.
He afterward lived in Groton, but returned to New Ipswich
before his death. Children :
24. i. Louisa, b. 1797; m. 1815, Daniel Smith. Three sons.
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Laura, b. Nov. 24, 1802; m. Sept. 23, 1826, Jabez Pratt of
Boston. Two sons.
Mary Ann, b. Mar. 2, 1804; m. John Higgins.
Stephen Franklin, b. 1806; m. Catherine Jones.
John Morse, b. 1815.
George, b. 1817.
31. viii. Prentice, b. 1819; d. 1820.
9. Isaac Brown^ (Stephen^, Samuel*, George', Jacob^,
Jacob'), b. Mar. 27, 1771 ; d. 1838; m. Anna, dau. of Dr. Ebene
zer Lawrence of Pepperell, Mass. He lived in New Ipswich
for a few years after reaching manhood, and had a tavern,
and perhaps a store also, in a large one-story house previously
occupied for the same purposes by Jonathan Dix, on the spot
afterward occupied by the home of Rev. Mr. Lee near the
foot of the Academy grounds. He then moved to Enosburg,
Vt., of which town, organized in 1798, he was the first clerk.
He had a large family, but the names of only the following
have been found. Children :
Betsy Lawrence, b. June 26, 1796.
Anna Fisk, b. June 4, 1798. She was the first child born in
Fairfax.
Ebenezer Lawrence. Lived in Burlington, Vt.
Stephen, m. Anna, dau. of John and Nancy (16) (Farrar)
Muzzy.
36. V. Ephraim Hartwell, b. Sept. 20, 1808. He graduated from
Middlebury College in 1831.
37. vi. Isaac B., m. Eveline Farrar (38) of Middlebury, Vt.
15. Caleb' (Stephen^ Samuel*, George', Jacob^ Jacob'),
b. June, 1780; d. June, 1849; m. Mar. 25, 1804, Sarah Parker
(S. 13). Res. Middlebury, Vt. Children:
Eveline, m. Isaac B. Farrar (37) of Fairfax, Vt.
Edward William, d. May 15, 1845.
Clarissa R., ra. Daniel West of New Haven, Vt.
Louisa, b. Mar. 5, 1816; d. Oct. 8, 1838.
Henry Brown, b. Mar. 3, 1818. He graduated from Middle
bury College in 1841 and reraoved to North Carolina.
Martha, b. 1820; m. 1849, Philander V. Hathaway.
George Parker, b. 1822. He was a merchant in Manchester,
N. H.
17. Ephraim Hartwell' (Stephen', Samuel*, George',
Jacob^ Jacob'), b. Dec. 8, 1783; d. Jan. 8, 1851 ; m. 1826, Phebe
Parker (S. 14), widow of Jonas C. Champney. In early man
hood he went to Boston, where he taught for nearly twenty
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marriage, and living in the house which had been the home
of his father's last years and of his widowed mother. He held
the office of town clerk for fourteen years, and was a trustee
of the Academy until his death. Child :
45. i. Sarah Eunice, b. Aug., 1827; d. Mar. 18, 1867. She was a
successful teacher for several years in Buffalo, N. Y., and
for shorter periods in New Ipswich Appleton Academy
and elsewhere.
19. Timothy" (Timothy", Samuel*, George', Jacob^, Jacob'),
b. Mar. 17, 1788; d. Oct. 27, 1874; m. Sept. 14, 1817, Sarah
Adams of Portsmouth, N. H. [b. May 22, 1789; d. June 30,
1875]. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1807, studied
law in the office of Daniel Webster, was admitted to the bar
in 1810, and commenced the practice of his profession in New
Ipswich, where he remained only about three years before he
removed to Portsmouth and became a partner of Mr. Webster
for an equal length of time. He remained in practice at Ports
mouth until 1822, and this was followed by a few years' ser
vice as secretary and treasurer of Dartmouth College and by
nine years upon the bench of the Court of Common Pleas.
The remainder of his life was devoted to his legal practice
and various business relations, the latter including the work
of eight years as cashier of a bank in Exeter, N. H. His home
after 1844 was in Boston, from which city he was sent as rep
resentative to the General Court. Perhaps, however, his work
which will be longest remembered is his "Manual of the Con
stitution," which he wrote after attaining the full age of three
score years and ten with the purpose of counteracting in some
degree the perversions of the intent of that instrument at that
period in the interests of slavery, and which at once received
the fullest recognition in legal circles. Like his father, he re
ceived the degree of LL. D. from his Alma Mater. Children :
46. i. Anna Bancroft, b. May 20, 1819; d. Nov. 3, 1909; m. Jan.
25, 1842, Edward Crane. Res. in Boston. Children: i.
Timothy Farrar Crane, b. Feb. 8, 1843. ii. Mary Orpah
Crane, b. Oct. 27, 1844; m. George S. Jackson, iii. Edward
Barrows Crane, b. May 8, 1849; d. May 4, 1911.
47. ii. Sarah Elizabeth, b. Sept. 15, 1820; m. May 16, 1848, Wil
liam Burke, a physician of New York city. Children : i.
William Craige Burke, b. Oct. 18, 1851. ii. Timothy Farrar
Burke, b. Feb. 27, 1855. iii. Anna Burke, b. Dec. 28, 1857.
iv. Frederick White Burke, b. Sept. 13, 1862.
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23. Mark' (Isaac', Isaac'', Joseph*, George', Jacobs Ja
cob'), b. Feb. 15, 1804; d. May 8, 1888; m. May 16, 1839, Ann
(27) Wilson. He came from Hillsboro to New Ipswich in
1839, and was a farmer living at the corner of the Temple and
old Greenville roads, (26, N. D.,) until about 1865, when he
removed to Grafton, Mass. Children :
48. i. Charles Augustus, b. May 24 1840; d. Sept. 20, 1855.
49. ii. Harriet Adeline, b. Dec. 6, 1843; m. Nov. 20, 1866, George
Augustus Fay, a farmer of Grafton, Mass. Four children.
50. iii. Anna Maria, b. Dec. 22, 1849; m. June 2, 1872, Jefferson A.
Dea of Shrewsbury, Mass. Two children.
FARWELL.
Daniel' Farwell, m. Mary Parker.
Edmund' (Daniel'), b. Groton, Mass., July 13, 1750; d. Mar., 1843;
m. July 8, 1775, Mary RusseH [b. Sept. 19, 1753; d. Dec. 14 1833].
1. Daniel' (Edmund^ Daniel'), b. New Ipswich, May 6,
1780; d. July 19, 1825; m. at Harvard, Mass., 1807, Susan, dau.
of Joel Estabrooks [b. 1786; d. Sept. 14, 1853]. Children:
2. i. Mary, b. Dec. 25, 1807; d. Aug. 2, 1887; ra. Apr. 15, 1828,
Bezaleel Keith. Five children.
3. ii. Lucinda, b. Sept. 12, 1809; d. June 10, 1813.
4. iii. Russell, b. June 10, 1813.-|-
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7. vi. Royal Estabrooks, b. Oct. 1, 1824. -|-
4. Russell* (Daniel', Edmund^, Daniel'), b. June 10, 1813;
d. Jan. 28, 1899; m. Aug. 2, 1837, Lucy, dau. of Zebedee Tay
lor. Children :
8. i. Emily, b. Jan. 19, 1839; d. Jan. 27, 1895.
9. ii. Almeda, b. Jan. 23, 1845; m. Oct. 1, 1899, Levi E. Ferrin [b.
1836; d. Nov. 30, 1904].
5. Sophia* (Daniel', Edmund^ Daniel'), b. Aug. 11, 1815;
d. May 22, 1891 ; m. May 10, 1837, Jonathan Russell. Children :
i. James Russell, b. May 21, 1838.
ii. Jason Russell, b. Feb. 20, 1840.
iii. Samuel Howard Russell, b. May 23, 1842; d. Nov. 28, 1880.
6. Daniel* (Daniel', Edmund^ Daniel'), b. Feb. 27, 1820;
d. Feb. 4, 1892; m. Nov. 21, 1844, Lucinda Giles (12). Chil
dren: 10. i. James Hildreth, b. May 16, 1847; d. Feb. 18, 1909; m. Oct.
8, 1874, Emma A. Barrett of Zumbrota. Children: i.
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11. ii. John Bartlett, b. July 29, 1848; m. Mar. 31, 1878, Annie C.
Coleman [d. Oct. 26, 1908]. Children: i. Irving Edgar, h.
Sept. 10, 1879. ii. Edna Marden, b. Oct. 31, 1886.
12. iii. Lucy Ann, b. Mar. 16, 1852; m. Sept. 17, 1878, Milo Phelps.
One child.
7. Royal E.* (Daniel', Edmund^ Daniel'), b. Oct. 1, 1824;
d. July 4, 1908; m. (1) Sept., 1846, Sarah, dau. of John and
Rebecca (Newhall) Walcott of Pepperell, Mass. [d. Oct. 11,
1861] ; (2) Dec. 25, 1862, Martha (Walcott) Stoddard, sister
of the first wife. Children :
13. i. Elizabeth J., b. Jan. 7, 1852; d. Mar. 10, 1907; m. 1875, John
H. Peabody.
14. ii. Hattie, b. Jan. 22, 1854; d. Oct. 22, 1857.
15. iii. Mary W., b. Dec. 18, 1859; m. Charles F. WHley.
16. iv. Edwin, b. Aug. 21, 1861 ; ra. Oct. 7, 1885, Mildred Bent. Five
children.
FELT.
George' Felt, b. 1601 ; d, 1693 ; m. Elizabeth, dau. of widow Prudence
Wilkinson [d. 1694]. He came from England to Salem in 1628, the fol
lowing year reraoved to Charlestown, then only a year old, and a little
after 1640 to North Yarraouth, Me., where he lived for forty years, then
returning to his forraer home in that part of Charlestown which is now
Maiden, where he died.
Moses' (George'), b. about 1651; m. Lydia  probably. He lived
in the region of North Yarmouth, Me., for fifty years, but passed the
later part of his life in "Rumney Marsh," which is now Chelsea, Mass.
Aaron" (Moses', George'), d. about 1769; m. (1) Dec. 25, 1739, Mary
Wyatt of Lynn, Mass.; (2) Jan. 22, 1765, Hannah AtweH [d. about 1769].
He was a husbandman and cooper at Lynn the greater part of his life.
Aaron* (Aaron', Moses', George'), b. Sept. 1, 1742; d. July, 1801;
m. (1) Reading, Mass., May 21, 1766, Tabitha, dau. of Williara and Lydia
Upton [b. Mar. 20, 1745; d. 1769] ; (2) Jan. 21, 1791, Azubah Weston of
Townsend, Mass. [d. Aug. 18, 1837]. On attaining his majority he re
moved to Temple, and there passed his life as a farmer and tavern-
keeper. He was a selectman. He had thirteen children.
Peter* (Aaron', Moses', George'), b. Nov. 3, 1745; d. Jan. 2, 1817;
m. (1) Nov. 8, 1769, Lucy, dau. of Jeremiah and Lucy Andrews of Ips
wich, Mass. [b. Nov. 24, 1748; d. Mar. 26, 1805] ; (2) Mar. 21, 1809, Mrs.
Polly Gilmore of Jaffrey. About 1763 he settled in Temple, and there
remained until his death. He was a shoemaker, gave service in the
Revolutionary war, and had seventeen children.
1. Daniel^ (Aaron*, Aaron', MosesS George'), b. Sept. 26,
1799; d. Sept. 22, 1882; m. Apr. 18, 1826, Eliza, dau. of Josiah
Taylor of Temple [b. Harvard, Mass., June 27, 1806 ; d. Mar.
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wich on the "Cutter farm.," (28, N. D.,) and there his four
oldest children were born, but about 1833 he returned to his
native town, where he was a farmer. He was a selectman,
and also represented Temple in the Legislature. Children :
4. i. Charles Walker, b. Mar. 24 1828; d. May 18, 1891; ra. Feb.
13, 1855, Harriet Angeline, dau. of Augustus and Judith
(Hyde) Harris. He was a traveling dealer in Yankee
notions for sorae years, and later a wholesale dealer in
flour at Boston. Eight children :
5. ii. Emily Maria Barrett, b. Apr. 17, 1830. A teacher at Platte-
viUe, Wis.
Mary Elizabeth, b. Aug. 26, 1832; d. Dec. 13, 1845.
George Daniel, b. May 15, 1835; d. Nov. 6, 1862. He enlisted
in the 2d New Hampshire Regiment and was fatally
wounded in the second battle of Bull Run.
Sarah Adeline, b. Nov. 24, 1837. Res. Beloit, Wis.
Edward Augustus, b. Sept. 15, 1840; d. Dec. 30, 1840.
Edward Wilson, b. Dec. 1, 1841 ; d. Feb. 8, 1863. He enlisted
in the 10th New Hampshire Regiment and died of disease
while in service.
11. viii. Louis Webster, b. Dec. 31, 1844; m. Mar. 9, 1871, Frances
Rebecca, dau. of Thoraas and Mary (Mouton) Odion. He
succeeded to the home farm in Temple. Two children.
12. ix. Elizabeth Taylor, b. May 18, 1847; m. May 13, 1869, Rev.
Sullivan French Gale. Res. in Georgia and Florida. Five
children.
13. X. Mary Frances, b. Aug. 29, 1850. Res. Ravenswood, IH.
2. PeterB (Peter*, Aaron', Moses^, George'), b. Dec. 1,
1784; d. Quincy, 111., July 31, 1866; m. (1) June 5, 1807, Polly
Fletcher (66) ; (2) Jan. 7, 1841, Alice (Morey) Towne [d. Oct.
11, 1882]. He lived in Smith Village from 1806 to 1830, and
had his store ati the foot of the hill, his dwelling being the
house now gone but then standing a short distance up the hill
and across the street. He was an energetic man, and had an
interest in the cotton factory established on the waterpower
since utilized by the Walker furniture and turning industries.
He was a trustee of the Academy and held the office of select
man for several years. He removed to Quincy, 111., and twenty
years later to Columbus in the same state. Children :
14 i. Mary, b. Feb. 21, 1808; m. Nov. 26, 1829, Rev. Seth, son of
Seth H. and Fanny (Carver) Keeler of Brandon, Vt., who
was pastor in various places in Maine, New Harapshire,
and Massachusetts. Seven children.
15. ii. Albert, b. Apr. 15, 1810; d. Quincy, 111., Nov. 17, 1874; m.
(1) Jan. 2, 1835, Sarah, dau. of Cyrus Field [d. Nov. 9,
1865] ; (2) Aug. 13, 1868, Mrs. Carrie B. Sartel [d. Oct. 13,
1872]. Res. Quincy, 111. Eight children.
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16. iii. Adaline, b. Sept. 15, 1812; d. Mar. 17, 1880; ra. Mar. 28, 1833,
Ebenezer, son of Ebenezer and Polly Sumner Turner, a
farraer near Quincy, 111. Nine children.
17. iv. Jeremiah Andrews, b. June 17, 1814; d. July 23, 1816.
18. V. Jeremiah Andrews, b. May 2, 1817 ; ra. Dec. 5, 1839, Adriana,
dau. of Matthias and Lydia (Chandler) Leach, a farmer
in Quincy and Galesburg, 111. Nine children.
19. vi. Charles Milton, b. Oct. 11, 1819; m. Oct. 15, 1840, Britannia,
dau. of Sylvester and Rebecca (Hoyt) Hecox, a farmer at
Galesburg, 111. Twelve children.
20. vii. Caroline Augusta, b. June 14, 1823; d. Nov. 23, 1828.
21. viii. George, b. Oct. 28, 1825; d. Nov. 14, 1828.
22. ix. Edward Aurelius, b. May 14, 1828.
23. x. Peter Francis, b. Aug. 24, 1843; m. May 12, 1864, Mary
Louisa, dau. of Charles D. and Elizabeth (Payne) Seaton
of Columbus, 111. He served during the Civil War in the
38th and 137th Illinois Regiments, was captured and held
prisoner several months. He was a dealer in furniture and
agricultural implements at Laclede, Mo. Eight children.
3. Thomas' (Peter*, Aaron', Moses^ George'), b. Aug. 10,
1791; d. Newburyport, Mass., Nov., 1842; m. Sybil Jefts of
Mason. He lived for several years in the southeast part of the
town, probably between the mills and Mason line. Children :
24. i. Lucius Galvan, b. in Temple, Aug. 16, 1815.
25. ii. Alney Orville, b. Apr. 24, 1818.
26. iii. Parnal Crombie, b. Apr. 30, 1820.
27. iv. Alonzo Montgomery, b. June 10, 1823.
28. V. Gilbert Hambledon, b. Oct. 30, 1825.
The tax-lists of the town present the names of several other citizens
bearing the name of Felt, and probably members of this family, the
large farailies of the two brothers Aaron and Peter settling at an early
date in Teraple presenting names which may well be believed to denote
these unlocated residents of New Ipswich, but a correct line of relation
ship is not easily determined in respect to those residents, of whom little
is known except their names.
FISKE.
Nathan' Fiske, b. Weybred, Suffolk, England, about 1615; d. June
21, 1676; m. Susanna  . He came to Watertown, Mass., in 1642, and
there lived. He was a selectman.
Nathan' (Nathan'), b. Watertown, Oct. 17, 1642; d. May 15, 1696;
ra. Elizabeth Fry. He was a selectman at Watertown several years, and
also a lieutenant.
Nathan' (Nathan', Nathan'), b. Jan. 3, 1672; d. Jan. 26, 1741; m. (1)
Oct. 14 1696, Sarah, dau. of Ensign John Coolidge [d. Nov. 27, 1723] ;
(2) Hannah, dau. of Simon Coolidge and widow of Daniel Smith, Jr.
[b. Dec. 7, 1671; d. Oct. 4, 1750]. He was a selectman at Watertown for
several years, also town clerk, town treasurer, and representative. He was
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Josiah' (Nathan', Nathan', Nathan'), b. Oct. 10, 1704; d. Oct. 27,
1778; m. Sarah, dau. of John and Anne (Tarbell) Lawrence of Lexing
ton, Mass. [b. June 20, 1708; d. 1798]. Res. Watertown, Waltham, Gro
ton, and Pepperell. He was town clerk at Groton and Pepperell.
Josiah' (Josiah*, Nathan', Nathan', Nathan'), b. Waltham, Feb. 12,
1733; d. Apr. M, 1766; ra. Sarah Colburn of Dracut, Mass. [b. 1737; d.
1825; m. (2) Levi Blood of Groton, Mass.]. Res. Groton.
Josiah' (Josiah', Josiah*, Nathan', Nathan', Nathan'), b. Sept. 3, 1755;
d. May 29, 1832 ; m. Nov. 25, 1779, Mary Caldwell of Cambridge, Mass.,
[b. Apr. 20, 1755; d. Dec. 25, 1834]. He served in the Revolution. In
1784 he removed from Pepperell to Temple. Four of his children lived
in New Ipswich.
1. Josiah' (Josiah^ Josiah', Josiah*, Nathan', Nathan^,
Nathan'), b. Pepperell, Nov. 14, 1781; d. July 19, 1817; m.
Betsey Kimball of Temple [b. about 1786; d. June 21, 1866].
He lived in Temple until 1808, when he removed to Andover,
Vt., but returned in about five years, and passed the last four
years of his life in New Ipswich, for a part of the time on the
Briant place, southward from Col. Reuben Kidder's home,
(46, N. D.,) but before that apparently a little farther to the
east. He lost his life at Medford, Mass., where he was acci
dentally drowned. Children:
5. i. Eliza, b. Nov. 2, 1802; m. Benjamin F. Stevens of Mason.
Removed to Osage, Iowa. Five children.
6. ii. Mary, b. July 20, 1804; m. Simon Farrar of Temple. Re
moved to New York city. Three children.
Jeremiah, b. Jan. 4, 1807; d. Jan. 28, 1830, unra.
Prescott, b. Dec. 22, 1808; m. Elizabeth F. Vickery of He
bron, N. H. Res. Boston. Two children.
Alonzo, b. June 24, 1811; m. Rebecca Locke of Boston. Two
children.
George Kimball, b. Aug. 28, 1813; d. Oct. 10, 1849, unm.
Abigail Raymond, b. July 21, 1816; m. Isaac D. Brower of
New York city. Four children.
2. Sally' (Josiah', Josiah', Josiah*, Nathan', Nathan^,
Nathan'), b. Feb. 25, 1788; d. Sept. 27, 1863; m. Nov., 1808,
Earl Boynton (4).
3. Artemas' (Josiah', Josiah^, Josiah*, Nathan', Nathan^,
Nathan'), b. Sept. 11, 1792; d. Mar. 26, 1829; m. Apr. 6, 1819,
Lucy Jones of Templeton, Mass. [b. June 29, 1799; d. Jan. 20,
1884]. He came to New Ipswich in early manhood and was
a farmer on the Archibald White farm, (55, N. D.) Children :
12. i. Charles Adams, b. Oct. 29, 1820; m. Dec. 30, 1841, Sylvia C.
Fuller of Summit, Pa. Res. Hayfield, Pa. A carpenter and
farmer. Children: i. Charles Anthony, b. Oct. 1, 1849; m.
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Ella A. Morse, ii. Royal Alonzo, b. Sept. 7, 1851; m. Ida
Satterlee. iii. Benjamin Wooster, b. Aug. 5, 1853; ra. Oris
McGalrey.
13. ii. Lucy, b. June 15, 1822; d. Nov. 24 1889; ra. Oct. 19, 1843,
James A. Tyler of Conneautville, Pa. Two children.
4. David' (Josiah", Josiah', Josiah*, Nathan', Nathan^
Nathan'), b. Jan. 12, 1797; d. Nov. 26, 1880; m. Milly Sheldon
[b. Jan. 5, 1798; d. Mar. 10, 1884]. He was a farmer in New
Ipswich on the farm at the corner of the Temple and the
North Greenville roads for several years after attaining his
majority, and then removed to Oxford, N. Y. Children:
14. i. Horace, b. July 23, 1829; m. Oct. 30, 1850, Martha Padgett
[b. 1831; d. May 15, 1872]. A farmer at Oxford, N. Y.
Children : i. Sheldon W., b. Dec. 6, 1851 ; ra. Feb. 22, 1877,
Sarah R. Jones; res. Oxford and De Ruyter, N. Y. ii.
Charles H., b. May 30, 1853; ra. Nov. 10, 1874 Alice Sweet;
res. Oxford, N. Y. iH. James V., b. Dec. 16, 1855; d. Sept.
14 1879.
15. ii. Emily, b. Feb. 25, 1833; ra. Dec. 31, 1857, Joseph Esterbrook,
a blacksmith at Oxford, N. Y. Five children.
16. iii. Lucy Ann, b. Feb. 3, 1823; m. June 9, 1853, Charles E. Pea
cock. Res. Norwich, N. Y. Three children.
17. iv. Lydia P., b. 1827; d. Feb. 12, 1868; ra. Dec, 1854, Chauncey
H. Barstow. Five children.
FLETCHER.
Robert' Fletcher, b. 1592; d. Apr. 13, 1677. With his wife, whose
name is not known, and three children, he came frora England, it is be
lieved from Wiltshire, in 1630, and settled in Concord, Mass., probably
in the part which is now Acton, where he became a wealthy and influential
citizen. William' (Robert'), b. England, 1622; d. Nov. 6, 1677; m. Oct. 7,
1645, Lydia Bates [d. Oct. 12, 1704]. He settled in Chelmsford, where he
was a large landowner, possessing rauch of the present »site of Lowell.
His farra near the Chelmsford meeting-house remained in the possession
of his descendants and was recently owned by a meraber of the eighth
generation. Samuel' (Robert), b. 1632; d. Dec. 9, 1697; m. Oct. 14 1659, Marga
ret Hailston. He lived in that part of Chelmsford which is now Westford.
Francis' (Robert'), b. 1636; m. Aug. 1, 1656, Elizabeth, dau. of
George and Katherine Wheeler [d. June 14, 1704]. He remained with his
father in Concord, where he held rauch land.
Joshua' (William', Robert'), b. Mar. 30, 1648; d. Nov. 21, 1713; m.
(1) May 4 1668, Grissles Jewell [d. Jan. 16, 1682]; (2) July 18, 1682,
Sarah Willy. He lived in Chelmsford.
Paul" (William', Robert'), d. Jan. 8, 1736; m. Apr. 12, 1705, Deliver
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Samuel' (WHHam', Robert'), b. July 23, 1664; m. (1) Hannah 
[d. Dec. 11, 1697] ; (2) June 7, 1699, Sarah Bale of Concord [d. Apr. 29.
1703] ; (3) Dec. 20, 1708, Elizabeth Proctor of Chelmsford.
William' (Samuel', Robert'), b. Chelmsford, Jan. 1, 1671; d. about
1743 ; ra. Dec. 10, 1701, Mary  . His home was in Chelmsford.
Samuel' (Francis', Robert'), b. Aug. 6, 1657; d. Oct. 23, 1714; m.
Apr. 15, 1682, Elizabeth Wheeler [d. Oct. 26, 1734]. He was a respected
citizen of Concord, being a selectman during several years and town clerk
for a considerable period.
Joseph' (Francis', Robert'), b. Apr. 15, 1661; m. June 17, 1688, Mary
Dudley [d. Apr. 27, 1705].
Joshua* (Joshua', William', Robert'), b. about 1669; d. Oct. 19, 1732;
m. about 1700, Dorothy Hale [b. Scotland; d. Aug. 20, 1770]. He lived
in that part of Chelmsford which in 1729 was set off to form Westford,
and he was the first clerk of the new town.
Joseph* (Joshua', William', Robert'), b. June 10, 1689; d. Oct. 4,
1772; m. Nov. 17, 1712, Sarah Adams of Concord [b. 1691; d. Apr. 24,
1761]. He lived in Westford, where he had the title of captain.
Timothy* (Paul', William', Roberf), b. Sept. 30, 1707; d. May 7,
1780; ra. Mary  . He was a raan of varied activities, being a cooper
and also a farmer, and he carried on a little store. His life was passed
in Westford. He held commission as lieutenant, serving in that capacity
in the French and Indian War.
William* (Samuel', William', Robert'), b. Oct. 23, 1693; d. Jan. 27,
1741/2; ra. Mary  . He spent his life in his native Chelmsford,
although by its division his home was located in the north part of West
ford. William* (William', Samuel', Robert'), b. 1702; d. Sept. 22, 1784; m.
(1) Nov. 16, 1731, Elizabeth Remington; (2) June 22, 1762, Susanna
(Fassett) Fletcher, widow of Zachariah Fletcher, son of Joshua* [b.
about 1718; d. June 30, 1763]. His horae, like that of the preceding, was
in Chelmsford and Westford. He had eleven children, of whora Lydia,
bapt. Feb. 22, 1741, m. Dec. 28, 1769, Silas (1) Richardson of New Ipswich.
Samuel* (William', Samuel', Robert'), b. 1707; d. Mar. 11, 1780; ra.
Sept. 17, 1729, Mary, dau. of Eleazer and Mary Lawrence of Littleton,
Mass. [b. about 1710; d. Dec. 4, 1780]. He was a large landowner in
Westford, where he lived. He had the rank of captain.
Joseph* (Sarauel', Francis', Robert'), b. Concord, Mar. 26, 1686; d.
Sept. 11, 1746; m. (1) Dec. 20, 1704, Elizabeth Carter; (2) July 11, 1711,
Hepzibah (Chandler) Jones, dau. of Roger' Chandler and widow of
Ephraim' Jones. His home was in the part of Concord which was set
off as Acton, and he was a deacon in the Acton church.
Timothy* (Samuel', Francis', Robert'), b. Concord, Aug. 28, 1704; m.
Elizabeth  . His home was in Concord. He was a great hunter and
Indian fighter.
1. Francis* (Joseph', Francis^, Robert'), b. Concord, Nov.
12, 1698; m. Abigail, dau. of Hugh and Abigail (Barker)
Brooks of Concord [b. Mar. 15, 1703 ; d. New Ipswich, Sept.
28, 1778]. He passed most of his life in Concord, not coming
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to New Ipswich until he had nearly or quite attained the age
of three-score and ten, two of his sons probably preceding
him. No record of the time or place of his death has been
found. Children :
4. i. Josiah, b. Nov. 11, 1726.-|-
5. ii. Thomas, b. Dec. 10, 1729.-(-
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7. iv. Abigail, b. Aug. 12, 1739; d. Aug. 12, 1778; m. July 4, 1765,
Edmund Briant (2).
Gershom' (Joshua*, Joshua', William', Robert'), b. July 27, 1702; d.
June 28, 1779; m. Lydia Townsend. He passed most of his life in his
native town, Westford, but lived for a few years in Groton, Mass., and at
another time in Plymouth, N. H. He had nine children, of whom Sarah,
b. Apr. 14, 1744, m. Hezekiah Corey of New Ipswich.
Ephraim' (Joshua*, Joshua', WilHam', Robert'), b. Mar. 12, 1710; m.
Hannah  . He lived in Westford, enlisted in the French War, was
captured at Oswego in 1756 and never returned home.
Peletiah' (Joseph*, Joshua', William', Robert'), b. May 3, 1727; d.
Feb. 23, 1807; m. (1) Jan. 13, 1757, Dorothy, dau. of James Hildreth [b.
Aug. 26, 1736; d. June M, 1782]; (2) Oct. 13, 1782, Betty (HartweH)
Keyes. He lived in Westford, where were born his twelve children of
whom Dorothy, b. Dec. 21, 1759, d. May 12, 1858, m. Sampson' Fletcher.
2. Simeon' (Timothy*, Paul', William^ Robert'), b. June
30, 1737; d. Sept. 7, 1773, being one of those who were killed
by the fall of the frame of the Wilton meeting-house then be
ing raised; m. Rachel  . He came from Westford to New
Ipswich about 1762, and was probably the first settler upon
V : 4, S. R. Children :
9. i. Susanna, b. Oct. 11, 1759; d. Sept. 11, 1837; m. Isaac Preston
(6).
10. ii. Rachel, b. Dec. 24, 1764.
11. iii. Jane, b. Apr. 8, 1770; d. Jan. 21, 1849; m. William Stickney
(4).
James' (Timothy*, Paul', William', Robert'), b. Sept. 3, 1743; d. West
Boxford, Mass., Sept. 27, 1806; ra. Feb. 21, 1770, Rebecca, dau. of Ebenezer
and Elizabeth (Sprague) Prescott of Westford. He was a farmer of
Westford, and had a part in the Revolutionary contest of Lexington and
Concord. He had twelve children, of whom Rebecca, b. July 3, 1776, m.
Joseph Warren of New Ipswich.
Reuben' (William*, Samuel', William', Robert'), b. July 12, 1720; m.
Susannah Chandler. He was a farmer at Westford, and a prominent
Baptist of that town. He wrote and published in 1772 a controversial
reHgious pamphlet.
Sampson' (Samuel*, William', Samuel', Robert'), b. Westford, Aug.
24 1758; d. Sept. 2, 1828; ra. Feb. 1, 1785, Dorothy, dau. of Peletiah'
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3. JoHN= (Timothy*, Samuel', Francis^ Robert'), b. Sept.
7, 1732; d. Jan. 14, 1763; m. 1759, Elizabeth Foster (4), the
first girl born in the town. He came from Concord to New
Ipswich about 1758. He succeeded to the last of the three
homes taken by his father-in-law, situated near Hodgkins'
Corner toward the Center Village, where he built a house and
planted one of the early orchards of the town. He lost his life
by the falling of a tree near his home. Children :
14. i. Ebenezer, b. Feb. 5, 1761.-f-
15. ii. Joseph, b. July 19, 1762; d. 1782.
4. Josiah' (Francis*, Joseph', Francis^, Robert'), b. Con
cord, Nov. 11, 1726. The record of his life is very scanty;
and it is probable that he never was a resident of New Ipswich.
The list of his descendants is probably incomplete. Children :
16. i. Gideon. He had five sons.
17. ii. Daniel. He lived in Dunstable, Mass., and reraoved thence
to Canterbury, N. H. He had eleven children, eight of whora
joined the Shakers, but after a time two of thera abandoned
that coramunity and married. They were farmers at Lou
don, N. H.
18. iii. Josiah.
19. iv. Levi, m. twice, his second wife being Esther  . He lived
at Groton, N. H., where he had four children.
5. Thomas' (Francis*, Joseph', Francis^, Robert'), b. Dec.
10, 1729; d. Mar. 16, 1811; m. Esther Hoar [b. about 1729; d.
Mar. 5, 1812]. He came to New Ipswich in 1754, and bought
of Abijah Foster the second home made by that initial pioneei
in the town, situated at the southerly end of 45, N. D., where
he was a successful farmer, earnestly interested in town in
terests, as is indicated by his being one of the founders of
the Academy and among the most liberal contributors for its
early support. He was a militia captain in 1770. Children :
20. i. Sarah, b. Sept. 27, 1756.
21. ii. Josiah, b. June 13, 1758. -f-
22. iii. Thomas, b. May 1, 1760.-J-
23. iv. Esther, b. Sept. 9, 1762; d. Mar. 19, 1783.
24. V. Abigail, b. Mar. 28, 1765.
25. vi. Anna, b. Sept. 21, 1768.
26. vii. Benjamin, b. Dec. 13, 1771 ; m. Feb. 26, 1795, Zilpah Hildreth
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6. Francis' (Francis*, Joseph', Francis^, Robert'), b. Oct.
22, 1733; d. Aug. 27, 1797; m. June 11, 1760, Sarah Parker of
Westford [b. about 1740; d. Antrim, N. H., Dec. 25, 1825;
m. (2) Joshua Todd]. He came to New Ipswich soon after
his marriage, and settled near his brother Thomas, on XII :
1, S. R. He did good service in the Revolution, and served
for some years as a captain of militia. Children :
27. i. Mary, b. Apr. 25, 1761 ; d. unm.
Jonathan, b. Jan. 27, 1764.-|-
Ephraim, b. July 30, 1766.-f
Sarah, b. Jan. 16, 1770; d. Dec. 25, 1847; m. (1) Dec. 24,
1789, Williara Burrows (2) ; (2) May 7, 1818, Richard
Wheeler (13).
Joshua, b. Apr. 27, 1772.-|- ?
Francis, b. Feb. M, 1775.-|-
Lydia, b. May 14, 1776.
34. viii. Jeremiah, b. Aug. 10, 1785.-|-
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8. Peter' (Ephraim', Joshua*, Joshua', William^ Robert'),
b. Westford, Jan. 22, 1736; d. Apr. 11, 1812; m. Sept. 8, 1761,
Ruth, dau. of Joseph* (Thomas'), and Priscilla (Warner)
Adams [b. Jan. 14, 1739; d. Apr. 28, 1816]. He came to New
Ipswich soon after his marriage, and settled upon 18, N. D.
He served in the Revolutionary army several times during
the war. Children :
Dorothy, b. Feb. 14, 1763.
Ruth, b. Oct. 10, 1765; d. Feb. 1, 1842; m. Josiah Batchelder
(4).
Peter, b. Jan. 8, 1768.-|-
Ebenezer, b. May 17, 1770.-|-
David, b. Dec. 26, 1772.-(-
SuBMiT, b. Nov. 6, 1774; d. Oct. 15, 1806; m.  Perkins.
Two children.
42. vii. James, b. July 26, 1776; d. Feb. 9, 1778.
43. viii. James, b. Dec. 26, 1778. -|-
44. ix. Lydia, b. Nov. 12, 1781; d. June 17, 1850; m. Mar. 27, 1805,
John Spencer, a farmer at Springfield, Vt., and afterward
at Evansville, Wis. Seven children.
12. Henry' (Reuben', William*, Samuel', WilliamS
Robert'), b. Westford, Aug. 17, 1751; d. Apr. 17, 1829; m.
Nov. 30, 1773, Deborah Parker of Westford [d. May 4, 1826].
He came to New Ipswich in 1772 and settled upon two sepa
rate but neighboring lots near the Rindge town line, (138
and 152, A. D.,) where he lived until 1788, then removed to
Acton and Westford, where he remained but two years, dur-
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ing which his buildings disappeared, and soon after his return
in 1790 he sold his property in New Ipswich and started anew
in Plymouth, Vt., where he became an entirely successful
farmer. He was an earnest Baptist, and during his residence
in Massachusetts was committed to jail for refusal to pay his
"minister's tax." Children :
45. i. Aaron, b. Oct. 14, 1774; d. Jan. 13, 1775,
46. ii. William, b. Mar. 31, 1776; d. Nov. 22, 1847; ra. June 18,
1801, Sally Davis of Reading, Vt. He was a farraer in
Reading and Canaan, Vt., successively. Eight children.
47. Hi. Aaron, b. Nov. 16, 1777; d. Feb. 9, 1867; m. Dec. 16, 1806,
Sarah Neef of Carlisle, Mass. He spent a few years in
Plymouth, Vt., but he passed the greater part of his life as
a blacksmith at Boylston, CarHsle, and Chelmsford, Mass.,
and Nelson, N. H. Seven children.
48. iv. Isaac, b. July 5, 1779; d. Aug. 25, 1786.
49. V. Moses, b. Aug. 21, 1781 ; d. Mar. 9, 1788.
50. vi. Reuben, b. Dec. 7, 1783; d. Nov. 16, 1879; ra. (1) Mar. 3,
1808, Betsey Pratt of Reading, Vt. ; (2) Aug. 21, 1836, Mrs.
Olive Adaras of Cavendish, Vt. Except a few years of
early manhood at Westford, Mass., he resided at Plyraouth
and Reading, Vt. Twelve children.
51. vii. Deborah, b. Oct. 29, 1785; d. Sept. 16, 1870; m. May, 1815,
Simon, son of Jonathan Spaulding of Chelmsford, Mass.
He was a farmer at Ludlow, Vt.
52. viii. Henry, b. July 9, 1787 ; d. Mar. 5, 1813.
53. ix. Isaac, b. Mar. 30, 1789; d. June 10, 1840; m. Mar. 2, 1822,
Dorinda Day of Plymouth, Vt. He learned the black
smith's trade of Ephraim Fairbanks in New Ipswich, and
after a few years' labor in several states he spent his life
in Vermont, locating successively at Plyraouth, Enosburg,
and Berkshire. Four children.
54. X. Moses, b. June 10, 1791; d. Feb. 27, 1811.
55. xi. Rebecca, b. Apr. 16, 1793; d. May 28, 1828; ra. 1815, Henry
Slack of Plymouth, Vt. She also lived at Stratford and at
Thetford, Vt.
13. Sampson" (Sampson^, Samuel*, William', SamueP,
Robert'), b. May 4, 1795; d. Jan. 24, 1847; m. (1) Sarah Beard
of Peterboro [b. about 1803; d. Jan. 10, 1841]; (2) Feb. 9,
1842, Lavinia (D. 5) dau. of Jacob Ames and widow of Eph
raim W. Blood of Temple. In his early days he was a clerk
in the store of John F. Hills, and after the death of his em
ployer he succeeded to the business, which he carried on at
the westerly corner of School street and the Turnpike. Chil
dren :
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John Augustus, b. Sept. 5, 1825.-f-
Charles Rodney, b. Dec. 18, 1827.-|-
William Henry, b. Nov. 4, 1829.-|-
Sarah Beard, b. Feb. 16, 1832; d. Feb. 28, 1902; m. Sept. 11,
1862, George H. Hubbard of Manchester (8).
Samuel Horace, b. Feb. 16, 1832; d. Feb. 28, 1832.
Helen Sabrina, b. Nov. 25, 1836; d. May 1, 1880. She was a
successful teacher in Baltimore, Md., for twenty years or
more.
14.- Ebenezer' (John', Timothy*, Samuel', Francis^
Robert'), b. Feb. 5, 1761 ; d. May 8, 1831 ; m. (1) Feb. 5, 1781,
Mary (Tummings (9) ; (2) June, 1812, Mary, dau. of Asa
Rendall and wid. of Nathaniel Foster of Ashby [b. Dunstable,
Mass., Dec. 29, 1766; d. Winchendon, Mass., Dec. 25, 1851].
At the age of fourteen he went to live with Samuel Cummings,
the owner of the mills at Smith Village, where he remained
two years and then enlisted as fifer, with his uncle Daniel
Foster, in the company of Capt. James Carr for the term of
three years. He was stationed at Ticonderoga, but on the
retreat from Burgoyne at the battle of Hubbardton he was
wounded and taken prisoner. He, however, escaped in a few
weeks and returned home. Recovering from his wounds, he
returned and served the remainder of his time under Gen.
Sullivan against the Indians in the Genesee country. He
wrote a narrative of his army experience, the demand for
which was sufficient to cause the issue of four editions, and
in one edition the story was rendered in verse. He bought the
mills of his father-in-law, which he managed for a considera
ble period, and in his later years he was occupied in the man
ufacture of trunks. He was one of the original members of
the Baptist church of the town. Children :
Ebenezer, b. Oct. 9, 1782.-|-
Cummings, b. July 5, 1784.-|-
JoHN, b. Aug. 14 1786.-I-
Polly, b. Aug. 21, 1788; d. Aug. 27, 1840; m. June 5, 1807,
Peter Felt (2).
Joseph, b. May 22, 1790. -|-
Betsey, b. Dec. 28, 1792; d. May 5, 1842; m. Ralph Roby and
Hved in Boston, New Ipswich, and Grafton, N. H. Four
children.
69. vii. Milly, b. Feb. 6, 1794; d. July 11, 1797.
70. viii. Sally, b. Feb. 6, 1794; d. July 17, 1854; m. Hugh B. Fletcher
(86).
71. ix. Nancy, b. May 22, 1797; d. Apr. 21, 1885; m. Mar. 26, 1818,
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73. xi. SuKY, b. May 30, 1801 ; d. Aug. 13, 1803.
74. xii. Roby, b. June 16, 1803.-f-
21. Josiah^ (Thomas', Francis*, Joseph', Francis^, Rob
ert'), b. June 13, 1758; m. (1) Grace Wheeler (4); (2) Mar.
16, 1790, Rachel Walton [b. Mar. 22, 1764]. His name first
appears upon the tax-list of New Ipswich in 1784, and con
tinues until 1805, when he probably removed from town. He
lived with or near his father in Davis Village, building and
occupying as a store about 1785 the house afterward used as
a bakehouse by Joseph Davis. He also built and carried on
about ten years later probably the first of the little structures
for the manufacture of potash, which for more than half a
century gave value to the ashes left by the huge fireplaces of
early days. Children :
75. i. Josiah, b. Nov. 4, 1787.
76. ii. William, b. June 12, 1789; d. May 8, 1790.
77. iii. William, b. Feb. 3, 1791; d. Oct. 19, 1791.
78. iv. Rachel, b. Aug. 24, 1792.
79. V. Esther, b. July 14, 1794.
80. vi. Asa, b. Sept. 20, 1796.
81. vii. Jonas, b. Mar. 26, 1798.
82. viii. Lucy, b. Apr. 22, 1800.
83. ix. Elizabeth, b. Aug. 13, 1802; d. Dec. 26, 1802.
84. x. James Walton, b. June 18, 1804.
22. Thomas' (Thomas', Francis*, Joseph', Francis^, Rob-
erf), b. May 1, 1760; d. May 7, 1813; m. (1) Apr. 8, 1788,
Betsey Hoar [b. about 1764; d. Sept. 15, 1802]; (2) Peggy
Smith of Peterboro. He resided near his father, but the
identity of their names and the brief interval between their
deaths makes it impossible in many cases to determine
whether the father or the son is indicated in early records.
Children :
85. i. Thomas, b. Feb. 3, 1789.-|-
86. ii. Hugh Brooks, b. Mar. 9, 1791.-|-
87. iii. Benjamin, b. Sept. 18, 1793.
88. iv. Alma, b. Jan. 21, 1796; m.  Bedlow of LoweH, Mass.
89. V. Sally, b. Oct. 10, 1798; m.  Brown of Ashburnham, Mass.
90. vi. Betsey, b. July 20, 1801; d. about 1811.
91. vii. John Smith, b. Oct. 24, 1805. He res. in Lowell, Mass., which
he represented in the Legislature.
92. viii. William, b. Apr. M, 1808; d. about 1813.
28. Jonathan^ (Francis', Francis*, Joseph', Francis^, Rob
ert'), b. Jan. 27, 1764; d. 1844; m. (1) about 1790, Ruth Irish
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of Union, Me. ; (2) Prudence Mero. In early years he went
as one of the New Ipswich settlers in Barrettstown, (now
Hope,) Me., but soon removed to Canaan, (now Lincolnville,)
Me., bought land for a large farm, and there spent his life
as a successful farmer. For more than forty years he was a
Baptist deacon. Children :
93. i. Sarah, b. 1792; d. 1852; m. Robert Moody. Res. at Lincoln
ville. Seven children.
94. ii. Lemuel, d. young.
95. iii. Mary, b. Nov. 9, 1806; d. 1860; m. Francis Fletcher (100).
96. iv. Julia Ann, b. Aug. 20, 1808; ra. Oct. 2, 1828, Abner Knight.
Res. at Lincolnville, and later at Belfast, Me. Nine children.
29. Ephraim' (Francis', Francis*, Joseph', Francis^, Rob
ert'), b. July 30, 1766; d. Oct. 3, 1838; m. Lydia Knight of
Lincolnville, Me., where he settled in 1790, and where he
passed his life, and which he represented in the Legislature.
Children :
97. i. Nathan, m. Harriet Young, who d. soon after marriage. He
was a farmer at Lincolnville, Me. One daughter, Antoi
nette.
98. ii. Ruth, m. Richard Martin.
99. iii. Orinda, m. Thomas Bartlett.
100. iv. Francis.-]-
101. V. William, b. Sept. 11, 1802.-f-
102. vi. Betsey.
103. vii. Sally.
104. viii. Nancy.
31. Joshua" (Francis', Francis*, Joseph', Francis^, Rob
ert'), b. Apr. 27, 1772; d. Feb. 20, 1841; m. 1793, Susannah
Parker [b. about 1775; d. Feb., 1853]. He was a farmer at
Stoddard and later at Washington. Children:
105. i. Joshua, b. July 30, 1794; d. Waltham, Mass., Jan. 6, 1855;
m. Dec. 22, 1818, Eliza Stephens of Goshen. Five children.
106. H. Susan, b. New Ipswich, Feb. 25, 1796; d. Peterboro, Dec. 25,
1876; m. Apr. 7, 1818, Isaac Green of Hillsboro. Four
children.
107. iii. Sarah, b. New Ipswich, Apr. 2, 1797; m. Apr. 7, 1818, Ezra
Miller of Washington. Five children.
108. iv. DiADAMiA, b. New Ipswich, Sept. 16, 1798; m. 1820, Hezekiah
Davis of Washington. Five children.
109. V. Diana, b. Washington, 1803; d. 1806.
110. vi. Francis Parker, b. Washington, June 13, 1808.-|-
111. vii. Diana, b. Washington, June 13, 1808; m. Sept. 20, 1840, Heze
kiah Fuller, a farraer at Lerapster. One daughter.
112. viii. Oilman, b. Washington, Oct. 22, 1812.-)-
113. ix. Dustin, b. Washington, Oct. 22, 1816; d. Unity, Mar. 15, 1872.
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erf), b. Feb. 14, 1775; d. May 10, 1826; m. Hannah Fisk of
Groton, Mass. He settled in Lincolnville, Me., in 1790, and
there passed his life. Children:
114. i. Samuel, b. 1802.-|-
115. ii. Clarissa, ra. Asa Allenwood. Eight children.
116. Hi. Lydia, b. Feb. 19, 1805; ra. (1) Feb. 22, 1825, Benjamin
McAllister of Hope, Me., six children; (2) Benjamin
Barnes, three children.
117. iv. Mary, b. July 14, 1807; m. Joseph Thomas of Palmyra, Me.
One child.
118. V. Harriet, b. Sept. 9, 1809; d. 1849; ra. George Burgess.
119. vi. Ephraim, b. 1812. -f-
120. vH. Sarah B., b. June 10, 1815; m. 1844, John B. York of Her
mon, Me. Two children.
34. Jeremiah' (Francis', Francis*, Joseph', Francis^, Rob-
erf), b. Aug. 10, 1785; d. Dec. 19, 1851; m. 1809, Lucy Davis
of Washington. He was a farmer in that town. Children :
121. i. Mary Ann, b. May 29, 1811; m. 1840, Benjamin Cram, a
farmer of Bradford. Three children.
122. ii. Samuel, b. Feb. 1, 1812.-|-
123. iH. Lucy, b. Nov. 15, 1814; d. Mar. 7, 1852; m. Apr. 9, 1846, Joel
Severance, a farmer. One son.
124. iv. Lydia, m. May 20, 1841, Edmund Dole, a farmer of Clare
mont. Two sons.
125. V. Francis Parker, b. Aug. 25, 1820.-f-
126. vi. Relief, b. Mar. 1, 1822; d. May, 1822.
127. vii. Jeremiah, b. May 2, 1824; d. Dec, 1824.
128. viii. Henry Ames, b. Dec. 8, 1827; m. Apr. 24, 1851, Elvira C.
Cram.
35. Samuel' (Francis', Francis*, Joseph', Francis^, Rob-
erf), b. Mar. 19, 1789; d. July 9, 1845 ; m. 1814, Annie Bodwell
of Antrim. He was a farmer and a prominent citizen of
Antrim until his death. He held all the important town of
fices, and was a deacon. Children :
129. i. Lydia, b. Jan. 8, 1815; ra. Nov. 4, 1834, Reuben Hills. Three
children.
130. ii. Louisa, b. June 26, 1816; d. Aug. 30, 1845; m. Feb., 1842, G.
W. Winship of Nashua. Two children.
131. iii. Hannah Wright, b. Mar. 17, 1818; ra. Oct. 23, 1838, Milton
Hills. Removed to Bunker Hill, IU., and thence to Kansas.
Two children.
132. iv. Joanna Crombie, b. Jan. 24, 1820; m. Sept. 27, 1847, J. H.
Muzzer. Reraoved to Bunker Hill, 111. Four children.
133. V. Rachel Bodwell, b. Sept. 23, 1823; m. Samuel Fletcher (122).
134. vi. Samuel Anson, b. Sept. 27, 1824; m. Apr. 29, 1851, Harriet
M. Crane. Removed to Bunker Hill, 111., 1857. He was a
cattle-broker. Three children.
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135. vii. Sarah Eveline, b. Dec. 27, 1827; m. May 20, 1847, John R.
Gregg, a farmer of Peterboro. Three children.
136. viii. Francis, b. May 3, 1830; d. Apr. 4, 1831.
137. ix. Martha Jane, b. May 15, 1832; m. (1) John Johnson, two
children; (2) 1864, Henry Wise of Summerfield, IH.
38. Peter' (Peter', Ephraim', Joshua*, Joshua', William^,
Roberf), b. New Ipswich, Jan. 8, 1768; d. Jan. 2, 1852; m.
Alstead, July 7, 1799, Thirza Taylor [b. Brookfield, Mass.,
Nov. 15, 1778; d. Feb. 16, 1833]. Until 1838 he lived at Al
stead, where he kept a tavern for nearly the whole time, also
a store for many years, and in addition he was a blacksmith
and a farmer. He was prominent in church and town affairs,
and was a militia captain. In 1838 he removed to Indiana,
and thence to Johnstown, Wis., where he died at the home of
his second son. Children :
138. i. Thomas Oilman, b. June 14, 1801.-|-
139. ii. James H., b. July 18, 1803; d. Aug. 8, 1813.
140. iii. John Adams, b. Apr. 2, 1806.-|-
141. iv. Sophia Emily, b. Apr. 16, 1807; m. Jaraes H. Rogers. Res.
Milwaukee, Wis. Ten children.
142. V. Amelia Calista, b. Jan. 3, 1810; m. 1842, Elnathan Gregory
of Laporte, Ind. Six children.
143. vi. Ruth Bacheller, b. Nov. 29, 1813; m. 1839, Jaraes Bowers
of Racine, Wis. Two children.
144. vii. Hervey Taylor, b. Mar. 2, 1816; d. Laporte, Ind., 1836, unm.
145. viii. George Franklin, b. Feb. 7, 1818; d. Aug. 19, 1850, unm.
He was a merchant.
39. Ebenezer^ (Peter', Ephraim', Joshua*, Joshua', Wil-
liam^ Roberf), b. New Ipswich, May 17, 1770; d. Colebrook,
Aug. 22, 1843; m. Peday Smith. He was a carpenter. Chil
dren ;
146. i. Lucretia Eliza, b. Sept. 6, 1804; m. Cyrus Eames. Res.
Green Bay, Wis.
147. ii. Hiram Adams, b. Dec. 14 1806.-|-
148. iii. Kimball Bacheller, b. Sept. 13, I8IO.4-
149. iv. Mary Hasham, b. Feb. 28, 1813; m. Archelaus Cummings.
Res. Colebrook.
150. V. Lucy Ann, b. Dec. 27, 1823; m. Enoch L. Colby. Res. Lan
caster. Four children.
40. David' (Peter', Ephraim', Joshua*, Joshua', WilliamS
Roberf), b. Dec. 28, 1772; d. Jan. 26, 1834; m. 1795, Sally
Lovell. He was a farmer at Springfield, Vt. Children :
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156. vi. Asa, b. Jan. 27, 1805; d. 1805.
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158. viii. Laura, b. Jan. 25, 1809; ra. 1830, Jacob Stoddard.
159. ix. Peter Emerson, b. Aug. 16, 1810.+
160. X. Josiah, b. June 8, 1812; m. 1849, Mary Raynesford of Ches
terfield. He was a farraer.
161. xi. Aaron Dean, b. Sept. 15, 1817. He was an artist at Keeseville,
N. Y.
43. James' (Peter', Ephraim', Joshua*, Joshua', William^
Roberf), b. Dec. 26, 1778; d. Brooklyn, N. Y., May, 1850; m.
Azubah Gale [d. Sept., 1818]. He was a farmer at Alstead.
Children :
162. i. James Gardiner, d. Detroit, Mich., 1836.
163. ii. Adeline, m. Washington A. Batchelder (21).
164. iii. Horace Rice, b. Mar. 11, 1814. -j-
165. iv. Mary Ann.
57. John Augustus' (Sampson', Sampson', Samuel*, Wil
liam', SamueP, Roberf), b. Sept. 5, 1825; d. Sept. 15, 1902; m.
twice, the second wife being Mary A.  [b. Mar. 15, 1834;
d. Sept. 30, 1908]. In youth he enlisted in the U. S. Navy,
and was upon the first frigate entering the harbor of San
Francisco just before the Mexican War, in which war he did
service. He resided in Boston for a long time, but his later
years were passed in his native town, where he died. Child —
of first marriage:
166. i. Katherine M. F., b. Dec. 3, 1859; d. Oct. 24 1883.
58. Charles Rodney' (Sampson', Sampson', Samuel*,
William', SamueP, Roberf), b. Dec. 18, 1827; d. May 15, 1895;
m. July 2, 1849, Sarah J. Mattoon of Peterboro [b. about 1831 ;
d. July 6, 1886]. He was an able tinworker, and during most
of his life he had his shop in New Ipswich. Children — all of
whom died in early infancy :
167. i. Charles E., d. Mar. 4, 1850.
168. ii. Herbert L., d. Apr. 27, 1851.
169. iii. Edward R., d. Oct. 16, 1854
59. William Henry' (Sampson', Sampson', Samuel*, Wil
liam', SamueP, Roberf), b. Nov. 4, 1829; d. Feb. 23, 1886; m.
Feb., 1850, Mary J. Howard of Temple [b. about 1829 ; d. Sept.
25, 1861]. He passed most of his life as a cigarmaker in New
Ipswich. Children :
170. i. William Henry, b. Nov. 28, 1850; d. Dec. 4, 1880, unm.
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171. ii. Helen Sabrina, b. Apr. 20, 1852; ra. and has two children.
172. iii. George Woodbury, b. Jan. 3, 1855; m. and has children. He
is a mechanic in Maine.
63. Ebenezer' (Ebenezer'*, John', Timothy*, SamueP,
Francis^ Roberf), b. New Ipswich, Oct. 9, 1782; d. Cornish,
Nov. 14, 1834; m. Sybil Spaulding. Res. in Cornish. Chil
dren :
173. i. Benjamin S., b. Nov. 30, 1809.-1-
174. ii. Hiram C, b. June 24 1811; d. Dec. 17, 1868. Res. Eden, Vt.
175. iii. Orrel F., b. June 4, 1813; ra. John Johnson. Res. Cornish.
176. iv. Mary W., b. Aug. 6, 1815; d. Manchester, Dec. 27, 1846; m.
 Little.
177. V. David D., b. Oct. 24, 1817; d. Jan. 25, 1857. Res. Burlington,
Vt.
178. vi. Silas S., b. Apr. 6, 1820. He was an Universalist rainister
at Exeter.
179. vii. Stephen N., b. 1822; d. 1824.
180. viii. John Q., b. Oct. 16, 1824; d. Sept. W, 1846.
181. ix. Sybil L., b. Oct. 2, 1826; m. Peleg Barrows of Brattleboro,
Vt. One son.
182. X. Guildford D., b. Sept. 21, 1829. Res. Baldwinville, Mass.
64. Cummings' (Ebenezer', John', Timothy*, Samuel',
Francis^, Roberf), b. July 5, 1784; d. July 21, 1837; m. Mar.
18, 1804, Sally Wheeler (51). He was a carpenter and builder.
He contracted to build the new meeting-house in 1811, but
sold his contract to Seth Wheeler. He lived at Smith Village
in the house long occupied by Russell Farwell. He removed
to Enosburg, Vt., in 1818, and later to Cleveland, O., but re
turned to Enosburg and there passed his remaining years.
Children :
183. i. Samuel C, b. New Ipswich, 1805.-|-
184. ii. George W., b. Pet. 8, 1812; m. Oct. 15, 1837, Mary Ann Wat
son of Eden, N. Y. He was a farmer at Westerville, O.
Three daughters.
185. iii. Fanny W., b. Oct. 18, 1816; d. Nov. 18, 1894; m. Feb. 1, 1839,
Rev. E. J. Cummings (98) of Enosburg, Vt. Res. North
Kingsville, O. Four children.
186. iv. Elizabeth F., b. May 5, 1818; d. Dec. 4, 1898; m. Oct. 19,
1842, Reuben Taylor (42).
187. V. Edward P., b. Oct. 8, 1821 ; m. Aug. M, 1848, Isabella Wart-
mant. Res. in Canada.
188. vi. John Bartlett, b. Feb. 5, 1824. -f-
189. vii. Mary C, b. Dec. 15, 1825; m. WiHiara A. Cummings (103).
Res. East Berkshire, Vt.
190. viii. Martha P., b. Enosburg, Vt., Aug. 23, 1829; m. Sept. 17,
1849, Rev. A. A. Whitraore, a Congregational minister in
Ohio, Illinois, and Iowa. Five children.
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65. John' (Ebenezer', John', Timothy*, SamueP, Francis^,
Roberf), b. Aug. 14, 1786; d. in Michigan, July 10, 1842; m.
Sarah Smith. He was a wheelwright and res. in Vermont
and in Canada. Children :
Sarah, b. New Ipswich; unm. Res. in Michigan.
John, b. Berkshire, Vt. Res. Lansing, Mich.
Sophronia, b. Berkshire, Vt. ; m. Jesse Miller.
Asenath, b. Berkshire, Vt. ; ra. Timothy Wheeler.
Mary Ann, b. Abbott's Corner, Canada; m.  Clark.
Hiram, b. Sabravois, Canada, 1816; d. 1854.
Matilda, b. Sabravois, Canada; m. Elijah Curtis. Res. Mich
igan.
198. viii. Gardner, b. Sabravois, Canada. He was a farmer in Dans
vHle, Mich.
Jane, b. Sabravois, Canada. Res. Michigan.
William, b. Sabravois, Canada. Res. Ingham, Mich.
Betsey, b. Sabravois, Canada; d. 1857.
Ebenezer, b. Sabravois, Canada. He was a farmer at Ing
ham, Mich.
67. Joseph' (Ebenezer", John', Timothy*, Samuel', Fran-
cis^ Roberf), b. May 22, 1790; d. Feb. 18, 1862; m. Nov. 25,
1813, Nancy Hall [b. Mar. 5, 1795 ; d. Apr. 10, 1875]. He was
a farmer in West Berkshire and later in Enosburg, Vt. Chil
dren: 203. i. Nancy, b. West Berkshire, Vt.; m. Rev. S. S. Hyde. Res. in
Michigan.
204. ii. Almira, b. West Berkshire, Vt.; m. Nov. 27, 1845, Charles
B. Jaquith (2).
72. Dexter' (Ebenezer', John', Timothy*, Samuel', Fran-
cis^ Roberf), b. Apr. 19, 1799; m. Dec. 27, 1832, Mrs. Sarah
Reed. He was a farmer in Stoddard. Child :
205. i. Sarah, d. young.
74. Roby' (Ebenezer', John', Timothy*, Samuel', Francis^,
Roberf), b. June 16, 1803; d. Fitchburg, Mass., Dec. 30, 1902;
m. (1) Apr. 2, 1829, Milly Taylor (40) ; (2) Emily (Davis)
Smith (96). Children:
206. i. Ellen Maria, b. Dec. 5, 1830; ra. June 10, 1851, Samuel J.
M. Weston, a blacksmith of Marlboro, Mass., where three
children were born. She was a dressmaker until her mar
riage.
207. ii. Harriet Amelia, b. Feb. 17, 1833; d. June, 1906; m. Nov. 30,
1854, Charles M. Weston, a cabinetmaker of Reading, Mass.,
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208. iii. Mary Frances, b. Apr. 22, 1835; d. Aug. 14, 1913; m. Nov.
8, 1860, Alfred A. Sawyer, a carpenter of Denmark, Iowa,
but later of Fitchburg, Mass. She was a teacher before
her marriage. Three children.
209. iv. Sophronia Taylor, b. June 12, 1839; d. Dec. 5, 1890. She
was a seamstress.
210. V. George Henry, b. Dec. 15, 1841; d. Feb. 23, 1845.
85. Thomas' (Thomas', Thomas', Francis*, Joseph', Fran-
cis^ Roberf), b. New Ipswich, Feb. 3, 1789; d. Dec. 4, 1846;
m. Sept. 29, 1811, Elizabeth Pratt (3). He first engaged in
business, was then a teacher, and finally a successful Presby
terian minister, laboring in Eastern New York, and during
the last ten years of his life in Southwick, Mass., where he
died. Children :
211. i. Eleanor Read, b. New Ipswich, Nov. 19, 1812; m. May 30,
1838, Dr. John Scoville. Five children.
212. ii. Eliza Smith, b. New Ipswich, Aug. 12, 1816; m. May 8,
1842, Dr. Oliver Wolcott Kellogg. Six children.
213. iii. William Otis, b. Kinderhook, N. Y., July 22, 1818.-|-
214. iv. Harriet Newell, b. June 16, 1828; m. June 16, 1858, Lewis
Rufus Norton. Res. Westfield, Mass. One son.
215. V. Dwight Livingston, b. Nov. 11, 1833; d. Sept. 1, 1843.
86. Hugh Brooks' (Thomas', Thomas', Francis*, Joseph',
Francis^ Roberf), b. Mar. 9, 1791; d. about 1856; m. Sally
Fletcher (70) [d. 1856]. He left New Ipswich when a young
man, and resided for a time in Hanover, N. Y., where his
children were born. He then went farther West, and died in
California. Children :
216. i. Josiah, m.  . Res. in Illinois.
217. ii. Gilman, d. unm. Res. New Ipswich.
218. iii. James, d. unm. Res. New Ipswich.
100. Francis' (Ephraim', Francis', Francis*, Joseph',
Francis^ Roberf), m. (1)  ; (2) Aug. 20, 1829, Mary
Fletcher (95) ; (3) C. C. Perry. He was a farmer in Natick,
Mass. Children :
219. i. Eliza Ann, m. Daniel Bartlett. Res. Hope, Me.
220. ii. Lucy E., b. Nov., 1833 ; m. Dec. 23, 1855, James Kuting. Res,
Natick, Mass. One son.
221. iii. Oscar F., b. 1839; d. 1863, at Hilton Head, S. C, where he
was a sutler.
101. William' (Ephraim', Francis', Francis*, Joseph',
Francis^ Roberf), b. Sept. 11, 1802; d. Oct. 7, 1850; m. Ma
hala Whitcomb, of Hope, Me. Children:
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110. Francis Parker' (Joshua', Francis', Francis*, Jo
seph', Francis^ Roberf), b. June 13, 1808; m. (1) Apr. 19,
1831, Pamelia Frost [d. June 25, 1834] ; (2) Aug. 23, 1835,
Joanna Thompson. Res. at Lempster. Children :
232. i. Francis.
233. ii. Harriet P., b. Oct. 22, 1838; d. 1857; m. 1855.
234. iii. George S., b. Oct. 22, 1838; d. Nov. 21, 1867. He served
during the Civil War, and was severely wounded at Fair
Oaks and at Fredericksburg.
235. iv. Phineas D., b. Sept. 28, 1841; m. Apr. 2, 1864. He served
during the Civil War in the 7th Massachusetts Regiment.
236. V. Eliza A., b. Feb. 25, 1846.
112. Gilman' (Joshua', Francis', Francis*, Joseph', Fran-
cis^ Roberf), b. Oct. 22, 1812; d. June 7, 1852, while on the
way to California ; m. Mary W. Pratt. Children :
237. i. George, b. 1842; d. 1842.
238. ii. Georgiana, m. Dec. 23, 1863, Edward M. Hayden.
239. iii. Charles G., b. Mar. 7, 1847; m. May 19, 1875, Adelaide A.
Wilmarth. Child : i. Charles P., b. June 16, 1877.
240. iv. Herbert S., b. Feb. 7, 1850. Res. Auburndale, Mass.
241. V. Frank B., b. Aug. 22, 1852. Res. Auburndale, Mass.
114. Samuel' (Francis', Francis', Francis*, Joseph', Fran
cis", Robert^), b. 1802; m. Hannah Bicknell. A farmer in Bel
mont, Me. Children :
242. i. Augustus A., m. Helen Knowlton of Northport, Me. He
graduated from Waterville College. Child: i. Elizabeth.
243. ii. Alonzo E., m. Malvina Knowlton. Res. Northport, Me.
Children : i. Anna. ii. Helen.
244. iii. Sarah E., b. 1836; d. 1859; m. Alonzo Wilson. One son.
245. iv. Helen A., b. 1841; m. S. Y. Jordan of Belmont, Me. Two
children.
246. V. Harriet, b. 1843; d. 1863, unm.
247. vi. Francis, b. 1845. A farmer. Children: i. Edward, ii.
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119. Ephraim' (Francis', Francis', Francis*, Joseph', Fran-
cis^ Robert^), b. 1812; m. Julia Philbrick. A farmer in Lin
colnville, Me. Children :
249. i. Edward F., b. Dec. 9, 1838; d. Apr. 20, 1865. He served in
the Civil War, and his death was caused by that service.
250. ii. John M., a physician at Belfast, Me.
251. iii. Sarah J., b. 1851; d. Oct. 20, 1871; m. Oscar Hurry. Res.
Jacksonville, Fla.
252. iv. Abbie Ellen, b. 1853.
253. V. Harriet E., b. 1857. A music teacher.
122. Samuel' (Jeremiah', Francis', Francis*, Joseph', Fran-
cis^ Roberf), b. Feb. 1, 1812; m. (1) Rebecca, dau. of Rev.
Nathan Ames [d. 1852]; (2) Rachel B. Fletcher (133). A
farmer in his native town, Washington. Children :
254. i. Edwin S., m. 1864, Elizabeth A. Stewart of Westminster,
Mass. A merchant in Manchester.
255. ii. Nathan Ames.
256. iii. George Howard, b. Mar. 6, 1844; m. July 8, 1866, Luthera
Barney of Washington. He was in the Civil War, serving
in the 10th New Hampshire Regiment.
257. iv. Margaret R., b. Oct. M, 1848; m. Apr. 20, 1866, George Mel
len of Washington.
258. V. Ida Florence, b. June 26, 1859.
259. vi. Nellie Elmore, b. May 25, 1864; d. Dec. 9, 1865.
125. Francis Parker' (Jeremiah', Francis', Francis*, Jo
seph', Francis^ Roberf), b. Aug. 25, 1820; m. about 1845,
Pauline C. Ingalls. He succeeded to the paternal homestead.
He served in the Civil War as a member of the 10th New
Hampshire Regiment. Children :
260. i. Mandana P., b. 1849; m. 1865, Alvin Ritter.
261. ii. Francis 0., b. 1854
262. iii. Charles W., b. 1856.
263. iv. Herman P., b. 1858.
138. Thomas Gilman' (Peter', Peter", Ephraim', Joshua*,
Joshua', William^ Roberf), b. June 14, 1801; d. Oct. 7, 1839;
m. (1) Almira Barnes of Berlin, Conn. [d. 1835] ; (2) 1848, L.
A. Jenks. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1824,
studied law, and had a successful practice in New York city.
Children :
264. i. Frank Hopkins, b. Mar. 31, 1831; ra. Nov. 3, 1863, Helen,
dau. of Alfred Clapp of St. Louis, Mo. He graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1858, studied law, and practiced in
Laporte, Ind., until the Civil War, when he entered service
in the paymaster's department, and was brevetted lieutenant-
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colonel. Children: i. Anna Wendell, b. Mar. 5, 1868; d.
Aug. 14, 1868. ii. Jennie Clapp.
265. ii. Charles Stewart, d. young.
266. iii. Alice Cunningham.
140. John Adams' (Peter', Peter', Ephraim', Joshua*,
Joshua', William^ Roberf), b. Apr. 2, 1806; m. (1) Feb. 1,
1829, Emily Kent of Alstead [d. 1834] ; (2) Aug. 5, 1835, Eliza
Newkirk. He res. successively in Keene, Parishville, N. Y.,
Laporte, Ind., Rock Prairie and Johnstown, Wis., and Calmar,
Iowa, and was engaged in farming, carriage-making, hotel-
keeping, and lumbering business. He was a deacon. Chil
dren: 267. i. Lucius Lyons, b. July 24, 1837; m. Dec. 9, 1860, Maria Dodge
of Fort Atkinson, Wis. A farmer in Johnstown, Wis.
Children : i. Arthur, d. infancy, ii. Ivan, b. Nov. 24, 1864.
iii. John, b. Oct., 1870.
268. ii. James S., b. July 19, 1839; m. Sept. 2, 1868, Cornelia M.
Moore of Laporte, Ind. [d. July 5, 1879]. Child: i. John,
b. Mar., 1873.
269. iii. George Franklin, b. July 28, 1842; ra. Dec. 28, 1868, Anna
Butz of Milton Junction, Wis. A grain dealer at Clear
Lake, Wis. Child : i. John, b. Aug. 20, 1877.
270. iv. Henry Clay, b. Jan. 5, 1845; m. Dec. 30, 1873, Delia Camp.
A grain dealer at Clear Lake, Wis. Child : i. Nellie Camp,
b. June 11, 1876.
271. V. Emily Eliza, b. Dec. 5, 1851; m. Mar. 10, 1874, Herbert
Palmeter of Clear Lake, Wis. Two children.
147. Hiram Adams' (Ebenezer', Peter', Ephraim', Joshua*,
Joshua', William^ Robert^), b. Dec. 14, 1806; d. Lancaster,
Jan. 30, 1879; m. May, 1834, Persis E. Hunking of Lancaster
[d. July, 1878]. He was a successful lawj'er in his native
town, Springfield, Vt., and afterwards in Lancaster. Children :
272. i. Almira Barnes, b. Feb. 29, 1836; ra. July 5, 1860, Williara S.
Ladd, afterward a judge of Supreme Court of New Harap
shire. Three children.
273. ii. Emily Eliza, b. Dec. 27, 1838; d. Jan. 1, 1851.
274. iii. Richard, b. May, 1840; d. Aug. 15, 1845.
275. iv. Richard, b. May 16, 1844. Res. Green Bay, Wis. He served
during the Civil War in the 5th New Hampshire Regiment.
276. V. Everett, b. Dec. 21, 1848. A lawyer at Lancaster.
277. vi. Lucy Ellen, b. Jan. 28, 1855.
148. Kimball Bacheller' (Ebenezer', Peter", Ephraim',
Joshua*, Joshua', William^, Roberf), b. Sept. 13, 1810; m. (1)
Sarah E. Cummings; (2) 1843, Mrs. Mary Copp [d. Sept. 9,
1864] ; (3) 1865, Mary M. Freeman. Children :
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278. i. Ephraim Sumner, b. Oct. 24, 1834; m. Nov., 1865, Cynthia
Hamilton. He served during the Civil War in the 2d and
23d Wisconsin Regiments, and was promoted from private
to captain. Res. Duluth, Minn.
279. ii. Charles Warren, b. June 30, 1837; m. Carrie E. Moore. He
served during the Civil War in the 2d New Hampshire
Regiment. A lumber dealer in Charles City, Iowa. Chil
dren: i. Jessie M., b. Dec. 25, 1865. u. Ralph Moore, b.
May 11, 1873.
280. iii. Frederic Goodhue, b. Dec. 26, 1842; m. Abby Kimball. A
raerchant in Burlington, Vt.
281. iv. Kimball B., b. Nov. 27, 1849. A raachinist in Lancaster.
282. V. Mary, b. Dec. 4, 1855; d. Sept. 26, 1864.
151. Oliver L.' (David', Peter', Ephraim', Joshua*,
Joshua', William^ Roberf), b. Oct. 15, 1795; m. 1823, Mary
Gould. A farmer. Children :
283. i. Mary A., b. 1825.
284. ii. David, b. 1827; d. Lancaster, Mass., 1849.
285. iii. Dean, b. 1830. A shoemaker.
286. iv. Harriet E., b. 1835.
152. Adams' (David', Peter', Ephraim', Joshua*, Joshua',
William^, Roberf), b. Feb. 9, 1797; m. 1824, Sylvia Martin of
Essex, N. Y. A wheelwright. Child :
287. i. Dean A., b. June 10, 1831; m. Martha Mager of Tennessee.
A lawyer at Lyons, Iowa.
153. Frink' (David', Peter', Ephraim', Joshua*, Joshua',
William^ Roberf), b. Dec. 13, 1799; m. 1836, Esther Olcott.
A farmer in Springfield. Children :
288. i. Charles, b. 1838.
289. ii. Henry, b. 1840.
154. Jehiel' (David', Peter', Ephraim', Joshua*, Joshua',
William^ Roberf), b. Jan. 23, 1801; m. 1827, Verando Misser
of Westminster, Vt. Res. Keeseville, N. Y. Children :
290. i. Nancy Emily, b. May 7, 1829.
291. ii. Henry S., b. Mar. 19, 1832.
292. iii. Augusta E., b. Dec. 30, 1833 ; d. May 1, 1855.
293. iv. Maria A., b. Apr. 26, 1836.
155. David' (David', Peter', Ephraim', Joshua*, Joshua',
William^ Roberf), b. Nov. 2, 1802; d. Nov., 1879; m. (1)
Maria Bosworth; (2) 1846, Ruth Butler. A carpenter in Es
sex, N. Y., for many years. Children :
294. i. David Bosworth, b. Jan. 9, 1839; m. May 5, 1864, Agnes
Robinson of New York city. A merchant in Brooklyn,
N. Y. He served during the Civil War in the 48th New
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York Regiment, and was promoted from private to captain.
He was held for a time in Libby prison. Children : i.
William Harvey, b. Feb. 28, 1866. ii. Mary Agnes, b. July
7, 1868. iii. Grace Isabel, b. Aug. 16, 1870. iv. Henry
Robinson, b. Sept. 9, 1872.
295. ii. James Harvey, b. May 22, 1843; m. Mar. 20, 1872, Mary P.
Robinson of Brooklyn, N. Y. Child: i. Nellie P., b. June
30, 1873.
296. iii. Maria Elizabeth, b. 1848; m. Daniel Armstrong.
157. Lyman' (David', Peter', Ephraim', Joshua*, Joshua',
Williams Roberf), b. Sept. 17, 1807; m. Sept., 1837, Rhoda
Pond of Keeseville, N. Y. A farmer at Chesterfield, N. Y.
Children :
297. i. Jehiel, b. Sept., 1839.
298. ii. Laura, b. May, 1846.
299. iii. Emily, b. June 26, 1850.
159. Peter Emerson' (David', Peter"*, Ephraim', Joshua*,
Joshua', Williams Roberf), b. Aug. 16, 1810; m. Apr. 14,
1842, Sarah A. Messinger. A carriage manufacturer at La
porte, Ind. Children :
300. i. Charles D., b. 1844; d. 1844.
301. ii. George Franklin, b. July 23, 1845.
302. iii. Julia M., b. Aug. 20, 1847; m. Oct. 22, 1873, Frederic A.
Trumbull of Defiance, O.
303. iv. Sarah J., b. Feb. 26, 1852; m. Apr. 28, 1874, Otto C. Sey
mour of Laporte, Ind. One son.
164. Horace Rice' (James', Peter', Ephraim', Joshua*,
Joshua', Williams Roberf), b. Mar. 11, 1814; m. (1) Nov. 15,
1838, Olive Jane Hunt [d. Dec. 24, 1865] ; (2) Mar. 7, 1867,
Frances M. Getty of Geneseo, 111. A builder and real estate
dealer in Brooklyn, N. Y. Children:
304. i. Frank Elliot, b. Apr. 17, 1841 ; d. Nov. 23, 1859.
305. ii. George Horace Elliot, b. Apr. 21, 1845; d. June 18, 1879.
He was a lawyer.
306. iii. Luella Jane, b. Mar. 25, 1847; m. 1868, J. L. Bigelow. Res.
Lockport, N. Y.
307. iv. Florence Gale, b. July 27, 1855.
308. V. Minnie Elliot, b. Oct. 27, 1859; d. Feb. 6, 1860.
309. vi. Horace Elliot Getty, b. Sept. 22, 1869.
173. Benjamin S.' (Ebenezer', EbenezerS John', Timothy*,
Samuel', FrancisS Roberf), b. Nov. 30, 1809. He was a car
penter at Cornish. Children :
310. i. Edwin N., m. Elizabeth A. Fletcher. Res. New York. Chil
dren : i. Caroline L. ii. Charles W. iii. Nettie J.
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311. ii. Hannah A., b. Mar. 2, 1835. Res. Cornish.
312. iii. David S., b. Aug. 5, 1838; d. July 6, 1862.
313. iv. Isabel M., b. Aug. 2, 1841 ; d. July 28, 1870.
314. V. Caroline L., b. Oct. 20, 1846.
183. Samuel C (Cummings', Ebenezer', John', Timothy*,
SamueP, FrancisS Roberf), b. 1805; m. Oct. 9, 1831, M. E.
Barnum. He was a farmer in Enosburg, Vt., whence he re
moved to Ashburnham, Mass. Children :
315. i. Lyman B. Res. at Kane, Penn. Children : i. Frank S. ii.
Elmer H.
316. ii. Bartlett M. Res. at Coldwater, Mich. Child : i. Nelson P.
317. iH. Sarah E.
318. iv. Homer C, d. Nov. 18, 1862, at Alexandria, Va., while serv
ing in the 13th Vermont Regiment.
188. John Bartlett' (Cummings', Ebenezer', John', Tim
othy*, Samuel', FrancisS Roberf), b. Feb. 5, 1824; m. (1) Sept.
3, 1843, Louisa B. Williams (19) ; (2) Apr. 21, 1863, Susan
Appleby of Oberlin, O. Superintendent of National Car Co.,
at St. Albans, Vt. Children :
319. i. Lucy C, b. Jan. 18, 1845; m. June 5, 1865, E. B. Huntington
of St. Albans. One daughter.
320. ii. Martha L., b. July 15, 1848; m. Oct. 4, 1871, Cromwell Bowen,
a lawyer at Des Moines, Iowa. Three children.
321. iii. Nellie M., b. Oct. 28, 1853; m. WilHam B. Hatch of St.
Albans. One son.
322. iv. William B., b. Jan. 7, 1862. He graduated from U. S. Naval
Acaderay in 1882, and is now a captain in the U. S. Navy.
323. V. Arthur G., b. Oct. 5, 1868.
324. vi. Josephine B., b. Oct. 16, 1871.
213. William Otis' (Thomas', ThomasS Thomas', Fran
cis*, Joseph', FrancisS Roberf), b. July 22, 1818; d. Dec. 20,
1876; m. May 4, 1841, Persis Ann Clark [b. 1814; d. Feb. 21,
1854]. He was a banker and merchant in Westfield, Mass.,
also state senator and holder of various positions of trust.
Children :
325. i. Ellen Maria, b. May, 1842; d. 1874; m. Sept. 9, 1861, Frank
Merriman.
326. ii. William Thomas, d. young.
327. iii. Harriet Frances, b. Sept. 5, 1846; m. E. W. Dickerman.
Res. Westfield, Mass. Two children.
FOSKETT.
1. Isaac B. Foskett, b. Stafford, Ct., May 4, 1824; d. Sept.
31, 1899; m. 1845, Roxa Almira Ladd [b. Sturbridge, Mass.,
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1825 ; d. Oct., 1866]. He came from Worcester, Mass., to New
Ipswich in 1860, and soon settled upon the eastern Whittemore
farm, (12, N. L. O.,) where he lived about twenty years. Chil
dren :
2. i. Lucinda Jane, b. about 1846; m. Oct. 27, 1864, John Stillraan
Gibson (21).
3. ii. Louisa Roxa, b. Apr. 30, 1848; d. June 29, 1907; m. Dec. 15,
1875, FrankHn L. Mansfield (31).
4. iii. George Parley, b. Mar. 30, 1855.-]-
5. iv. John Ernest, b. Mar. 8, 1857.-f-
6. v. Albert George.
7. vi. Almira.
8. vii. Nellie Eldora, m. Oct. 17, 1874, Levi W. Newell. Res. on
the Isaac Stearns place, (76, A. D.) Children : i. Waldo
Newell, ii. Ernest Newell, iii. Mabel Newell, iv. Grace
Newell.
9. viii. Ettie Ella, m. George Powers of Greenville. Child : i.
Leonard S. Powers, b. May 10, 1880.
4. George Parley^ (Isaac B.^), b. Mar. 30, 1855; m. (1)
1876, Orie Emma Adams of Townsend, Mass. [b. Dec. 8,
1857; d. Feb. 18, 1881] ; (2) Jan. 18, 1887, Mattie A. Lake of
Pembroke, N. H. [b. July 21, 1857]. He is a machinist at
Reeds Ferry. Children :
10. i. Clarence Newton, b. July 29, 1879; m. June 26, 1907, Eliza
beth A. Hudner of MHl River, Mass.
11. ii. Carrie Adelia, b. June 20, 1880. She is a nurse.
12. iii. Florence Rowell, b. Aug. 10, 1888; m. Oct. 21, 1911, Charles
F. Rogers.
13. iv. Leon Moses, b. June 8, 1890; d. Dec. 25, 1891.
14. v. Earl Lake, b. Dec. 17, 1893.
5. John Ernest^ (Isaac B.^), b. Mar. 8, 1857; m. Leone
He has been a teacher in Arizona, a bookkeeper at

Perry, O., and is now in Chicago, 111. Children :
15. i. Lloyd.
16. ii. Vernett, b. Jan. 3, 1890.
17. iii. Arlo.
FOSTER (John).
JoHN^ Foster, b. at Reading, Mass.; d. Ashby, Mass., May 4, 1825;
m. Dolly Jukins [b. Wilmington, Mass.].
John" (John"), b. Apr. 29, 1778; d. Ashby, Mass., Feb. 29, 1868; m.
Sept. 29, 1800, Dorcas Upton [b. Temple, May, 1779; d. Nov. 28, 1854].
1. Eli' (Johns John^), b. Ashby, Mar. 19, 1811; d. New
Ipswich, Oct. 9, 1880; m. Lucy Sawyer [b. Nelson, Oct. 8,
1811 ; d. Waltham, Mass., Mar. 2, 1884]. Farmer and dyer.
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2. John* (EIP, JohnS John^), b. Marlboro, 1840; d. New
Ipswich, Dec. 31, 1902; m. May 15, 1866, Nellie Webster [b.
Royalston, Mass., Oct. 22, 1844; d. Waltham, Nov. 13, 1898].
Railroad conductor. Children :
3. i. Lena F., b. Waltham, Apr. 28, 1868; m. Oct. 17, 1901, Gleason
Wood.
4. ii. Ethel D., b. Walthara, Sept. 2, 1875 ; m. June 16, 1896, Gard
ner Muzzey.
5. iii. John Harold, b. Waltham, Apr. 15, 1880; professor of
Forestry at New Hampshire State College.
FOSTER (Reginald).
Reginald' Foster, b. about 1595; d. 1681; m. (1) Judith  [d.
Oct., 1664] ; (2) Sept., 1665, widow Sarah Martin of Ipswich, Mass. He
came from England with wife and seven children about 1638, and was
one of the earHest settlers at Ipswich, Mass., where he resided until his
death. Isaac' (Reginald'), b. 1630; d. Feb. 8, 1691; m. (1) May 5, 1658,
Mary Jackson; (2) Hannah Downing; (3) Martha Hale. He resided in
Ipswich near the Topsfield line. He had eleven children of the first
marriage and three of the second.
Eleazer' (Isaac', Reginald'), a son of the second marriage, b. Apr.,
1684; d. Nov. 15, 1771; m. EHzabeth Fiske [b. Oct. 9, 1679; d. Feb. 19,
1758]. He resided in Ipswich and was a weaver.
1. Abijah* (Eleazer', Isaac^, Reginald^), bapt. Jan., 1707/8;
d. 1759; m. Dec. 13, 1733, Mary Knowlton of Ipswich. He
was the first settler in New Ipswich. The date of his coming
is not certain, but it is believed to have been in the spring of
1738. As was to be expected, he made his home upon the old
"country road," then hardly more than a trail and formally
accepted less than a year before. His first house stood near
the site of the former bank building north of Union Hall, a
little way above it on the hill and perhaps a little to the south.
His well higher on the hill still remains, and has been the
source of an aqueduct pipe to the Esquire Preston house with
in a recent period. It is in the road running east of the school-
house and of course is now covered over and not visible.
Here was the home of the earliest settler until after the
assignment of lands under the Masonian grant, in which one
of his eighty-acre lots was 33, N. D., extending from his home
northward across the Saw Mill Brook. Immediately after this,
however, he sold his farm and removed to 45, N. D., building
again, probably at the south end of the lot, and perhaps where
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the foundations of a house may be traced just south of the
present road from the Center Village to Davis Village, upon
the old road now hardly to be traced, but formerly furnishing
a perfectly straight way running due east to the meeting-house
upon the hill. The pioneer spirit, however, was too strong to be
content with the new home more than five years, and in 1755 the
family was established for a third time just across the road
from the present home of Walter S. Thayer, long occupied by
Caleb Campbell, upon the road to Smith Village, which was
the home of "Widow Foster" as long as she remained in town.
Mr. Foster, however, remained there but a short time, as in
1758 or 1759 he enlisted in the military service against the
French and Indians, and while encamped at Crown Point per
ished of smallpox. Children — all probably born in New Ips
wich except the eldest :
2. i. Mary, b. Ipswich, Mass., Aug., 1736.
3. ii. Ebenezer, b. about 1739; d. 1759. He enlisted with his father
in the French and Indian War, and like him, died of small
pox at Crown Point.
4. iH. Elizabeth, b. about 1741; d. Feb. 27, 1800; m. (1) 1759, John
Fletcher (3); (2) WilHam Hodgkins (1).
5. iv. Samuel, b. about 1742; d. 1780; m. Oct. 24, 1764, Tabitha
Hodgkins. His name appears on the tax-list from the in
corporation of the town until 1776, but whether he was
resident in the town all the time is uncertain. He is said
to have corae frora Ashby in 1774 and to have built a house
for his home at the south part of Smith Village on or near
the spot long occupied by Jonathan Taylor, and now the
home of Alfred A. Woodward. Possibly it constitutes a
part of the present structure. He served in the Revolu
tion, responding to the alarm of April, 1775, enlisting for
three years in 1777, and dying while in service. Children :
i. Abijah. ii. Samuel, iii. Eunice, iv. Molly, v. Reform.
6. V. Daniel, date of birth unknown, was a carpenter. He built
for his home the building long known as the "Obear
house" just north of the central graveyard. He lived for
a time on what was known in later years as the "Nicholas
place," at the west end of Davis Village, and also, probably
at an earlier date, at the paternal home on the Smith Village
road, with his mother, who is supposed to have removed
with him to Nelson in the later part of the eighteenth cen
tury. His name appears upon the tax-lists from 1773 and
1791. It also stands on the initial Revolutionary roll of
April, 1775, and he enlisted three times afterward, the last
time for three years. Children : i. Pamelia. He had
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7. vi. Ephraim, date of birth unknown, the remaining son of the
pioneer, was with his brothers in Capt. Heald's corapany at
the birth of the Revolution, and like thera enlisted for three
years in 1777. He was disabled by sickness in 1780, was
brought home by the town, and soon after died.
8. vii. Hepzibah, b. 1759; d. Apr. 25, 1838; m. (1)  TwitcheH;
(2) June 2, 1791, Isaac Appleton (16).
The narae of this earliest pioneer faraily seeras to have disappeared
from town with the reraoval of the widow and youngest son. But in
view of the sturdy service of every raan of the family in the Revolu
tionary and earlier struggles, it may not be amiss to recall that the family
had descended through a long knightly line, frora Alfred the Great and
from King Baldwin "Iron Arm" of Flanders.
FOX.
Thomas' Fox of Concord, Mass., b. 1628; d. Apr. 14, 1658; m. (1)
Rebecca  [d. May 11, 1647] ; (2) Dec. 13, 1647, Hannah Brooks.
Eliphalet" (Thomas'), d. Aug. 15, 1711; m. (1) Oct. 26, 1665, Mary,
dau. of George Wheeler' and Katherine Wheeler [b. Sept. 6, 1645; d.
Feb. 24, 1679] ; (2) Nov. 30, 1681, Mary, dau. of John" (Gregory') Stone,
and widow of Isaac Hunt.
John' (EHphalet", Thomas'), b. Sept. 15, 1682; m. May 29, 1704,
Susanna, dau. of Samuel' (George", William') Merriam [b. Aug. 15,
1677]. He lived in Concord, Mass., where he held a captain's commission.
John' (John=, EHphalet", Thomas'), b. July 18, 1707; d. about 1755;
m. Sarah Hoar. He lived in Littleton, Mass., where he was a captain.
1. Timothy^ (John*, John', EliphaletS Thomas^), b. about
1741; d. Feb., 1827; m. Abigail Dudley [d. 1808]. He came
from Littleton, Mass., to New Ipswich about 1765, and pur
chased a place for his home a little south of the site of Davis
Village, (XII : 1, S. R.,) where he built a small house, but
five years later he removed a mile toward the south to XII :
3, S. R., which farm was occupied by him and his descendants
for a century, but is now at the eastern limit of the land oc
cupied by the Finnish immigrants. Children :
2. i. Timothy, b. Nov. 11, 1764.-|-
3. ii. Nabby, b. Oct. 18, 1766; m. Nov. 27, 1788, fedmund Briant, Jr.
(4).
4. iii. Jonathan, b. Feb. 5, 1769.-|-
5. iv. Peter, b. Sept. 15, 1771; m. May 25, 1797, Submit, dau. of
Joseph and Submit (Cummings) Simonds of Hancock. He
removed to Peterborough in early manhood, thence to
Hancock, when about thirty years of age, and to Marlow
in 1812.
6. V. Samuel, b. Apr. 12, 1773; d. Nov. 27, 1814; m. (1) Sarah,
dau. of James Duncan of Hancock; (2) Dec. 26, 1805,
Thankful, dau. of Nathaniel Breed of Nelson, who is said
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to have been a son of Nathaniel of New Ipswich (2) [b.
May 22, 1786; d. Oct. 22, 1869]. He removed to Hancock
on attaining his raajority, or earlier, and thence to Stoddard
only a short time before his death.
7. vi. John, b. Oct. 24, 1774; m. Nov. 13, 1803, Lavinia Wilkins.
8. vii. Sarah, b. Dec. 10, 1776; m. Mar. 12, 1807, Ellis Pitcher.
9. viii. Lucretia, b. Nov. 9, 1778; d. 1842; m. Jan. 25, 1816, John
Binney (6).
10. ix. Jediah, b. Nov. 30, 1780; d. Sept. 1, 1858; m. Dec. 27, 1810,
Sarah, dau. of Noah and Mary (Butterfield) Wheeler of
Hancock [b. Nov. 9, 1789; d. Nov. 8, 1875]. He resided
in Hancock, to which he reraoved in early manhood.
11. X. Lucy, b. Apr. 29, 1782; m.  Worcester of Stoddard.
Joseph' (John', John', Eliphalet", Thomas'), b. Jan. 20, 1744; d. Feb.
18, 1823; m. Mary Tuttle of Littleton, Mass. [b. about 1745; d. Feb. 14,
1794]. He removed to Fitchburg, Mass., in early manhood, where he
was at first a shoemaker and afterward became a merchant. He acquired
a goodly property and was an influential citizen. He was a delegate to
the Provincial Congress held at Watertown in 1775, and he represented
Fitchburg in the Legislature during several years.
2. Timothy' (TimothyS John*, John', EliphaletS Thom
as^), b. Nov. 11, 1764; d. Apr. 23, 1839; m. (1) Mar. 8, 1787,
Ruth Pollard (4) ; (2) May 16, 1802, Sarah Bartlett (9) ; (3)
Mar. 26, 1807, Hannah Flint of Lincoln, Mass. [b. about 1778;
d. Mar. 28, 1858]. He succeeded to his father's farm and
passed his life upon it. He was captain of the South militia
company of the town, and was chosen selectman thirteen times.
Children :
12. i. Ruth, b. Apr., 1788; d. Oct. 10, 1813; m. Benjamin B.
WHHams (8).
Polly, b. Mar. 18, 1790; d. about 1801.
Clarissa, b. Nov. 15, 1791.
Abigail, b. Sept. 21, 1793; d. July 6, 1815; m. Mar., 1810,
John F. Hills (7).
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Marinda, b. Aug. 17, 1797; d. Jan. 18, 1798.
18. vii. Rowena, b. Jan. 3, 1799; m. Lewis Epps.
19. viii. Sally, b. June 13, 1801 ; d. June 29, 1801.
20. ix. A child, b. and d. Oct. 15, 1803.
21. X. Catherine, b. Feb. 1, 1808; d. Apr. 3, 1811.
22. xi. Emily, b. Dec. 31, 1809; d. Dec. 8, 1846; m. Apr. 27, 1837,
Lieut, (later Commodore) James F. MHler, U. S. N. [b.
Apr. 27, 1805; d. July 11, 1868]. Children: i. Catherine
E. Miller, b. May, 1838; d. Aug. 1, 1874. ii. Caroline Miller,
m. Rev. George J. Prescott of Boston.
23. xii. A child, b. and d. Jan. 26, 1812.
24. xiii. A child, b. and d. Apr. 22, 1813.
25. xiv. Ephraim Flint, b. Oct. 19, 1814-|-
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26. XV. George, b. Nov. 29, 1816.-|-
27. xvi. Caroline Hannah, b. July 12, 1819; d. Oct. 30, 1890; m. Nov.
28, 1849, Lieut. Jaraes F. Miller, U. S. N., her brother-in-
law.
4. Jonathan' (TimothyS John*, John', EliphaletS Thom-
as^), b. Feb. 5, 1769; d. Apr. 7, 1857; m. Sibyl Jackson of
Newton, Mass. He remained in his native town for a few
years after attaining his majority, and then removed to Jaf
frey, where he was a prominent and trusted citizen during a
long life. He was a selectman for fourteen years consecu
tively. Children :
28. i. Joseph, b. 1797; d. Savannah, Ga., Sept. 16, 1820. He gradu
ated from Dartmouth College in 1818.
29. ii. Mary, b. Mar. 13, 1799; d. Oct. 19, 1868; m. Apr. 3, 1822,
Alpheus, son of Alpheus and Elizabeth Crosby of Jaffrey
[d. Dec. 16, 1873]. She Hved in Troy, N. H., and Rock
ford, 111., in which last place she died.
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JoHN, b. Aug. 2, 1803.-I-
Harriet, b. Jan. 6, 1806. She raarried twice. Res. at Con
cord, N. H.
Abigail, m. Alvah Crocker. Res. Fitchburg, Mass.
Charles James, b. Jan. 12, 1813.-1-
Abel' (Joseph', John^ John", Eliphalet", Thomas'), b. Dec. 25, 1782; d.
July 30, 1849; m. Mary K. Farwell of Fitchburg, Mass. [b. Oct. 5, 1805;
d. Nov. 24, 1857]. He graduated from Harvard College in 1801; after
ward studied medicine and spent his life in the practice of his profession
in Charlestown, Mass., and Fitchburg, Mass., in which last named city
he died. 16. Timothy' (TimothyS TimothyS JohnS John', Elipha
letS Thomas^), b. Sept. 2, 1795; d. Feb. 21, 1867; m. 1818,
Mary, dau. of Jonathan Smith of Peterborough [b. May 17,
1799; d. May 8, 1864]. He was a teacher in his early man
hood, and afterward had a store in the long, low building
standing until recently facing the south at the foot of Meeting
house Hill, which was the place of business of no small num
ber of successive merchants in its early days. In 1823 he
removed to Peterborough and continued business with his
brother-in-law for several years, but in 1836 removed to Iowa
and became one of the founders of the town of Denmark,
where he passed the remaining thirty years of his life. He
was made an elder of the church at Peterborough, then Pres
byterian in form, and he is still spoken of in Denmark as
"Deacon Fox" with a noticeable tone of respect. Children :
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36. i. Henry, b. Aug. 30, 1819; d. Jan., 1820.
37. ii. George Frederic, b. Oct. 18, 1820; d. Dec, 1820.
38. iii. Mary Caroline, b. May 12, 1822; d. Mar. 21, 1847.
39. iv. John, b. Sept. 5, 1823 ; d. Feb., 1824.
40. V. William, b. Mar. 13, 1825; d. Aug. 29, 1826.
41. vi. Charlotte Smith, b. Nov. 20, 1826; d. Sept. 15, 1885; m.
Aug. 7, 1845, Charles E. Whitmarsh [b. Dec. 25, 1819; d.
Apr. 6, 1883]. Res. Denmark, Iowa. Children, i. Timothy
Pox Whitmarsh, b. 1846; d. Dec. 20, 1910; m. Ariadne
Hunt; res. Denmark, Iowa; his son, John Charles Whit
marsh, b. Oct. 24, 1869; m. Apr. 2, 1896, Harriet Relief,
dau. of Thomas S. Taylor (62). ii. Edward Whitmarsh.
iii. Eva Whitmarsh. iv. Mary Frances Whitmarsh.
42. vii. Joseph, b. and d. Nov. 5, 1827.
43. viii. A child, b. and d. Jan. 15, 1828.
44. ix. A child, b. and d. Feb. 5, 1829.
45. X. A child, b. and d. Aug. 20, 1830.
46. xi. A child, b. and d. Aug. 5, 1832.
47. xii. Edward, b. Jan. 8, 1834; d. May 29, 1836.
48. xiii. Harriet Frances, b. Nov. 17, 1836.
49. xiv. Edward, b. Dec. 12, 1837; d. Aug. 15, 1843.
50. XV. Nancy Maria, b. Jan. 25, 1840; d. Sept. 24 1840.
25. Ephraim Flint' (Timothy', Timothy', JohnS John',
EliphaletS Thomas^), b. Oct. 19, 1814; d. Apr., 1903; m. July
8, 1847, Helen Maria Newell (38). After his father's death
he remained upon the paternal farm and, together with his
brother George, conducted its industries until 1854, when he
removed to the Center Village and lived with the parents of
his wife, then of advanced age, in their home opposite Union
Hall. He was selectman for several years. His later years
were passed with his sons in Roxbury, Mass. Children:
51. i. Helen Elizabeth, b. May 1, 1848; d. July, 1911, unra.
52. ii. Charles Henry, b. Dec. 24, 1852; m. Sept. 9, 1903, Mary P.
Byron of Jamaica Plain, Mass. He has been engaged in
the livery and express business in Boston since 1879.
53. iii. Edward Marcellus, b. Feb. 15, 1860.-]-
26. George' (Timothy', TimothyS JohnS John', Elipha
letS Thomas^), b. Nov. 29, 1816; d. Dec. 16, 1895; m. Oct. 20,
1852, Mary Jane, dau. of Winslow and Mary (Parker) Ames
[b. Groton, Mass., Jan. 13, 1819; d. June 16, 1894]. He con
tinued to live upon the farm bearing his family name several
years after his brother's departure, but in 1867 he too yielded
to the forces then tending to the abandonment of the ancient
farm homes, and removed to the Dr. Moors Farwell house
at the corner southwest from the Congregational church and
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there lived until his death, the farm passing out of the family
some years later. Children :
54. i. Mary Jane, b. Aug. 6, 1853; m. Dec. 24, 1890, Charles A., son
of George A. Willard.
55. ii. George Timothy, b. Dec. 26, 1857; d. Aug. 31, 1894.
30. Isaac Jackson' (Jonathan', TimothyS JohnS John',
EliphaletS Thomas^), b. Aug. 28, 1801; d. Nashua, May 6,
1852; m. (1) Sophia H. Wilder of Leominster, Mass. [d. Oct.,
1837] ; (2) Pamelia Wilder, sister of his first wife. He was
a merchant in Jaffrey and afterwards in Nashua. He was a
colonel. Children :
56. i. Henry Jackson, b. Aug., 1828.
57. ii. Ann Sophia, b. 1830; d. young.
58. iii. George Wilder, b. Jan. 24, 1831.
59. iv. Sarah Josephine, b. Dec, 1833; m. George D. Jaquith.
60. V. Charles Joseph, d. young.
61. vi. Eloisa Howe, b. Jan., 1837; m. Edward Gay of Maiden.
62., vii. Sophia, b. Dec. 25, 1844.
31. John' (Jonathans TimothyS JohnS John', EliphaletS
Thomas^), b. Aug. 2, 1803 ; m. (1) Eloisa, dau. of Dr. Adonijah,
Jr., and Mary (Woodbury) Howe [d. Feb. 2, 1837] ; (2) Isabel
W., dau. of Dr. Luke and Mary (Woodbury) Howe. He was
a merchant with his brother in Jaffrey for a time, and then
he studied medicine, receiving the degree of M. D. from Dart
mouth in 1835. But after a few years he became a farmer in
Jaffrey, where he was a prominent man, holding, each for
several years, the offices of selectman, town clerk, and repre
sentative. Children :
63. i. Mary Isabel, b. Jan. 1, 1849; unm. Res. in Boston.
64. ii. John Howe, b. June H, 1856. He graduated from Dartmouth
and was a lawyer in East Jaffrey.
65. iii. Kate Woodbury, b. July IS, 1859; unm. Res. in Boston.
34. Charles James' (Jonathan', TimothyS JohnS John',
EliphaletS Thomas^), b. Jan. 12, 1813; d. Jan. 30, 1873; m.
Apr. 29, 1838, Eliza, dau. of Daniel and Sally (Jones) Cutter.
He removed to Rockton, 111., where he was a large dealer in
land. Children :
66. i. Charles Edward, b. Nov. 7, 1840; d. Jan. 29, 1878. He was
a successful grocer in Boston. He served through the
Civil War.
67. ii. Harriet Adelaide, b. Feb. 10, 1844.
68. iii. Jones Cutter, b. July 12, 1846; d. July 16, 1846.
69. iv. Abbie Crocker, b. July 14, 1848; d. Sept. 30, 1852.
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70. V. Mary Elizabeth, b. Aug. 18, 1850.
71. vi. John, b. Feb. 18, 1854.
72. vii. Frank Cutter, b. June 4, 1857.
35. Joseph' (Abel', Joseph', John*, John', Eliphalet^,
Thomas^), b. Fitchburg, Mass., Dec. 16, 1828; m. Mar. 26,
1857, Emily Maria, dau. of Amos and Lucy (Wheeler) Bar
rett of Ashby [b. Aug. 3, 1830] . He came to New Ipswich in
1845 and was employed at Bank Village in the store of W. W.
Johnson until 1859, being a partner during the later years of
that period. He then removed to Cambridge, Mass., where
for several years he was in business as a florist with his uncle
James K. Farwell, and afterwards until 1878 he was care
taker of a part of the Mt. Auburn cemetery. Since that time
he has been a collector and constable, living in Cambridge,
but having his office in Boston. Children — the first one born
at New Ipswich and the others in Cambridge:
73. i. Frederic Joseph, b. Jan. 8, 1859; d. Aug. 7, 1859.
74 ii. Josephine Angeline, b. Aug. 28, 1860; d. Dec 18, 1860.
75. iii. Mary Estella, b. Dec. 10, 1861.
76. iv. Lizzie Ella, b. Oct. 11, 1868; d. Mar. 11, 1873.
77. V. Mabel Barrett, b. Dec. 20, 1870; d. Feb. 3, 1872.
53. Edward Marcellus' (Ephraim F.', Timothy', Timo
thyS Johns John', EliphaletS Thomas^), b. Feb. 15, 1860; d.
Oct. 7, 1912; m. Nov., 1886, Minnie E. Wildon of Roxbury.
He was associated with his brother from 1879 in the livery
and express business in Boston. Children:
78. i. Helen Louise, b. Apr. 4, 1888; m. June, 1911, Edward Stuart,
a sanitary engineer at Brookhaven, Miss.
79. ii. Frederic Thayer, b. Nov., 1890.
80. iu. Charles Ephraim, b. Feb. 8, 1893.
81. iv. Harry Beard, b. Oct., 1895.
GIBSON.
John' Gibson, b. about 1601; d. 1694; m. (1) Rebecca  [d. Nov.,
1661]; (2) July 24, 1662, Joan, widow of Henry Prentice of Cambridge,
Mass. He lived in Cambridge, where his name first appears in 1634 He
was a husbandman.
John" (John'), b. about 1641; d. Oct. 15, 1679; m. Dec 9, 1668, Re
becca, dau. of Abraham and Rebecca (Cutler) Errington of Cambridge
[d. Dec. 4, 1713]. He was also a husbandman in Cambridge. He served
in King Philip's war.
Timothy' (John^ John'), b. about 1679; d. July W, 1757; m. (1)
Nov. 17, 1700, Rebecca Gates of Stow, Mass. [b. July 23, 1682; d. Jan. 21,
1754] ; (2) pub. Nov. 30, 1755, Mrs. Submit Taylor of Sudbury [b. about
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1685; d. Jan. 29, 1759]. His father having died at about the time of his
birth, he was brought up by Selectman Abrahara Helraan of Cambridge,
who removed to Stow, Mass., taking his practically adopted son with
hira. In this town Timothy Gibson passed most of his life, although he
owned considerable amounts of land in the adjoining town of Sudbury
and in Lunenburg, Mass., and seems to have lived for a time in the for
mer town. He was a deacon of the church in Stow.
Arrington' (Timothy', John", John'), b. Sudbury, Mar. 22, 1717; d.
Feb. 24, 1756; m. Mary  [b. about 1717; d. July 15, 1795]. He was
a farmer in Lunenburg.
Stephen* (Timothy', John", John'), b. Sudbury, June 16, 1719; d.
Oct. 3, 1806; m. 1744, Sarah, dau. of John and Mary Goss [b. Lancaster,
Mass., Apr. 13, 1719; d. Oct. 26, 1802]. He passed his Hfe as a farmer
on the horae farm in Stow, and was also a large landholder in Lunenburg
and Ashby, Mass. He gave service in the Revolution, although his age
forbade its long continuance. He was a deacon.
Silas' (Arrington*, Timothy', John", John'), b. Sept. 1, 1747; d. Apr.
25, 1834; ra. 1773, Damaris Bennett [b. Leominster, Mass., Oct. 19, 1755;
d. May 10, 1839]. He removed to Ashby before 1794, and thence in 1800
to Londonderry, Vt.
Stephen' (Stephen*, Timothy', John", John'), b. Mar. 29, 1745; d.
Feb. 3, 1812; ra. Apr. 15, 1766, Rebecca, dau. of Capt. Jabez and Hannah
(Treadway) Puffer [b. Sudbury, Feb. 21, 1748; d. Oct. 7, 1815]. He
was a farraer in Ashby, and a prominent man in town affairs, holding the
more iraportant town offices. In early raiddle life he accepted the Baptist
belief, and became a lay preacher with little if any salary, but in later
years he becarae Rev. Stephen Gibson. He served in the Revolution.
Arrington" (Silas", Arrington*, Tiraothy', John", John'), b. Lunen
burg, Mass., Mar. 14, 1774; d. Londonderry, Vt., Nov. 1, 1857; m. 1803,
Mary (or Nancy), dau. of Dea. David Cochran of Londonderry [b.
about 1779; d. Dec 22, 1844].
1. Stillman' (Stephen', Stephens Timothy', John^, John^),
b. Aug. 22, 1781; d. Sept. 4, 1864; m. May 2, 1804, Rebecca
Chandler (R. 8). He lived in Ashby until 1812, when he came
to New Ipswich, living upon the Dea. Chandler farm, (XIII:
2, N. L. O.,) for several years, and then removing to the large
farm, V: 4, S. R., where he afterward made his home. But
his later years were largely devoted to other duties than those
of a farmer. From the treatment of diseases of domestic ani
mals, in which he had been exceptionally successful, he passed
to those of his fellows, and gained such a reputation, espe
cially in chronic ailments, that the number of patients coming
from a distance caused his name to be placed upon many
guideboards in the surrounding region. Children:
2. i. Charles Stillman, b. Mar. 10, 1805; d. June 17, 1867; m.
May 10, 1842, his cousin Adeline Augusta, dau. of Stephen
and Nancy (Michel) Gibson [b. Boston, 1806; d. Sept. 13,
1858]. He lived in Gibson Village.
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3. ii. George Chandler, b. Mar. 10, 1805.-|-
4. iii. John, b. Mar. 17, 1807; d. Nov. 11, 1811.
5. iv. Mary Jane, b. Sept. 15, 1809; d. June 13, 1878; m. Amos
Wellington [b. about 1802; d. July 15, 1888]. After some
years' residence in Ashby they removed to the West, finally
settHng at Waco, Neb., where they died. Children : i.
Elvira Gibson Wellington, b. Apr. 26, 1832; d. Chariton,
Iowa, Dec. 7, 1894; m. Sept. 6, 1852, Moses T. Howe; four
children, ii. Mary Jane Wellington, b. Oct. 10, 1836; d.
May 10, 1837. iii. Horatio Wellington, b. Sept. 21, 1843;
m. (1) Lancaster, Mo., Sept. 28, 1872; (2) Omaha, Neb.,
Oct. 12, 1894 Mrs. Sarah (Streeter) Coray. iv. Horace H.
Wellington, b. Sept. 6, 184S; m. Lancaster, Mo., July 25,
1867, Frances E. Whitlock; res. Waco, Neb.; six children.
6. v. Joseph Augustus, b. June l4, 1812.-(-
7. vi. Harriet Augusta, b. May 11, 1815; d. Feb. 27, 1881; m.
Oct. 27, 1836, Washington, son of OHver and Atlanta
(Phelps) Shepley [b. Natchez, Miss., Sept. 9, 1813; d. Aug.
24, 1887]. They lived on the farm opposite the road lead
ing southerly on the east of Whittemore Hill, (12, N. L.
O.,) and later removed to Canton, 111., where they died.
Child: i. Henry Oliver Shepley, b. July 4, 1838; m. Aug.
14, 1867, Elizabeth Langstaff; res. on his father's farm at
Canton, 111.; two children.
8. vii. Henry, b. June 9, 1819.-f-
9. viH. Caroline Frances, b. Feb. 2, 1824; d. Jan. 2, 1914; m. Feb.
20, 1845, Dr. Frederick Jones (45). Cultured, refined, and
optimistic, she occupied an unusual position, being the
daughter of a physician, the sister of a physician, the wife
of a physician, and the mother of a physician.
10. ix. Anne Cornelia, b. Sept. 27, 1827; d. Apr. 25, 1902; ra. (1)
Jan. 1, 1849, Jeremiah Chandler (R. 37); (2) July 20,
1882, her brother-in-law, Washington Shepley.
Ruel' (Arrington', Silas", Arrington*, Timothy", John", John'), b.
Londonderry, Vt., June 3, 1811; m. Nov. 3, 1837, Emily Barnard [b. Peru,
Vt, Nov. 27, 1816; d. Alstead, May 27, 1879].
3. George Chandler' (StillmanS Stephens Stephen*,
Timothy', JohnS John^), b. Mar. 10, 1805; d. Jan. 29, 1875;
m. (1) June 3, 1830, Elvira, dau. of John and Elizabeth (Pea
body) Appleton (58) ; (2) Dec. 31, 1858, Mrs. Susan Catherine
(Young) Cooper, who survived him and removed to Oregon,
and afterward to Bangor, Me. He had a sawmill in Gibson
Village, and engaged in other mechanical industries. He was
colonel in the militia. Children:
12. i. George Stillman, b. Mar. 14, 1831; d. Feb. 12, 1897, unm.
He was a teacher in New Ipswich and in Canton, 111., and
then for several years a millwright in Fitchburg, Mass.,
where he was a valued member of the School Board.
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After 1882 he lived in Boulder, Colo., where he was a
business man and an exceptionally valued and trusted citi
zen. The church in which he was a deacon printed a
memorial in recognition of his rare worth.
13. ii. Charles Appleton, b. Sept. 12, 1833; d. Feb. 15, 1912; m.
July 18, 1867, Clara W., dau. of Thomas Egery of Bangor,
Me. [b. Dec. 17, 1843]. He was president of the Hinkley &
Egery Iron Co., Bangor, Me.
14. iii. Samuel Appleton, b. Aug. 17, 1835.-|-
15. iv. John, b. Aug. 6, 1837; d. Sept. 8, 1837.
16. V. A daughter, b. July W, 1839; d. July 14, 1839.
17. vi. A daughter, b. July 14 1839; d. July 22, 1839.
18. vii. Elvira Victoria, b. Mar. 2, 1841; d. July M, 1914. Res.
Bangor, Me.
19. vHi. Frank Young, b. Apr. 16, 1861; d. Apr. 19, 1861.
20. ix. Mary Allie, b. Dec. 14, 1864; ra. (1) Astoria, Ore, Dec. 24,
1883, James Davidson; (2) Feb. 18, 1892, Frederic H., son
of John Appleton (106).
6. Joseph Augustus' (Stillman', Stephen', Stephens Tim
othyS Johns John^), b. June 14, 1812; d. Feb. 22, 1875; m.
Oct. 29, 1835, Miranda, dau. of John and Sarah (Lane) Kib
ling [b. Ashburnham, Mass., Jan. 27, 1813; d. Jan. 21, 1903].
He was a painter living at Gibson Village in the house just
south of the millpond. His children constituted a very musi
cal family, some of the daughters forming a concert troupe
known as the "Gibson sisters." Children :
21. i. John Stillman, b. Jan. 27, 1837. -|-
22. ii. Angelia Miranda, b. Aug. 10, 1838; m. (1) Aug. 27, 1864,
Levi Wright of Fitchburg, Mass.; (2) Sept. 24, 1890, Dr.
William T. Whalley. Res. in Fitchburg. Children : i.
Henry Gibson Wright, b. June 28, 1866 ; m. Apr. 30, 1890,
Mabel Morse, ii. Maud E. Wright, b. May 8, 1876; unm.
23. iii. Henry N., b. Mar. 20, 1840; d. Mar. 9, 1841.
24. iv. Anna M., b. July 10, 1842; d. Feb. 13, 1899; m. Dec 28, 1869,
Richard J. Hargraves. Res. Townsend, Mass., Sandusky,
O., Port Huron, Mich., and Roscommon, Mich. Child: i.
Mabel G. Hargraves, b. Townsend, Feb. 24, 1872; unm.
25. V. Sara R., b. Apr. 8, 1845; d. Feb. 17, 1911; ra. July 6, 1879,
George W Shattuck (130).
26. vi. Frederick J., b. Dec. 28, 1848; unm. He is a photographer
and lives at his early home.
27. vii. Elsie E., b. Dec 19, 1851 ; d. June 27, 1874 unm.
28. viii. Lucy Angenette, b. Mar. 10, 1855; m. Sept. 27, 1888, Carmi
H. Scales of Leominster, Mass.
8. Henry' (Stillman', Stephens Stephen*, Timothy', JohnS
John^), b. June 9, 1819; d. July 25, 1844; m. May 10, 1842,
Sarah Maria Robinson [b. Jaffrey, Apr. 19, 1820; d. July 23,
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1847]. He studied medicine, and received his degree from
Albany Medical College in 1841. He was attaining a very
successful practice, when he died from blood-poisoning con
tracted in a post-mortem examination. Child :
29. i. Mary Henrietta, b. June 6, 1843; m. Alfred Henry, son of
Alfred Cushing and Mary Ann (Barrett) Hersey of Bos
ton [b. Apr. 18, 1841; d. Oct. 11, 1901]. Res. Hingham,
Mass. Children : i. Alfred Cushing Hersey, b. Sept. 18,
1862; d. Sept. 12, 1863. ii. Henry Gibson Hersey, b. Aug.
5, 1863; d. Feb. 11, 1865.
11. Francis Newton' (Reuel', Arrington', Silas', Arring-
tonS Timothy', JohnS John^), b. Londonderry, Vt., Oct. 18,
1839; d. July 11, 1905; m. Nov. 23, 1867, Mary Abby Bellows
(13). He graduated from Dartmouth Medical School, en
listed August 6, 1862, in 9th N. H. Regiment in the Civil War
as second assistant surgeon, was promoted to be brigade sur
geon; mustered out June 10, 1865. He was conspicuous by
his bravery in caring for the wounded on the battlefield. For
more than twenty years he practiced his profession in New
Ipswich, where his integrity, kindness, and skill won for him a
large and increasing practice. To the poor he was a generous
creditor. For several years he used the waterpower at the
Farrar mill site for manufacturing purposes. In Sept., 1887,
he removed to Lincoln, Neb. Children :
30. i. Ellen Champney, b. July 21, 1871 ; d. Nov. 17, 1897. She
graduated from the University of Michigan in 1893, and
taught during most of her brief later life in Lincoln, Neb.
31. ii. Charles Bellows, b. Jan. 22, 1875; d. Jan. 28, 1875.
32. iii. Charles Osgood, b. Oct. 13, 1876; d. Jan. 21, 1878.
14. Samuel Appleton' (George Chandler', Stillman', Ste
phen', Stephens Timothy', JohnS John^), b. Aug. 17, 1835; d.
Jan. 22, 1899 ; m. Oct. 14, 1860, Mary Ann, dau. of Asahel and
Mary (Winship) Farnsworth and widow of William T. Bar-
deen [b. Groton, Mass., Jan. 26, 1828; d. May 20, 1893]. He
was a grocer at Fitchburg, Mass., for several years, but in
1867 he removed to Kalamazoo, Mich., where he passed the
remainder of his life in connection with the Kalamazoo Paper
Company, which he first served as mechanic and bookkeeper,
but rose to the position of president. He was a leading mem
ber of the Congregational church, and a trustee of Kalamazoo
College. Children :
33. i. Alice Gertrude, b. Dec. 28, 1861; m. June 18, 1884, Dwight,
son of Rev. Samuel Haskell. Res. at Kalamazoo, where he
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is secretary of the Kalamazoo Paper Company. Three
children.
34. ii. Susan Edith, b. Feb. 27, 1863; m. June 18, 1884, Frederick
Marvin Hodge [b. Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 4, 1858]. He is
president of the Kalamazoo Paper Company. Four chil
dren.
35. iii. Emma Josephine, b. Mar. 16, 1865; d. Aug. 19, 1865.
21. John Stillman" (Joseph Augustus', Stillman', Ste
phens Stephen*, Timothy', John^, John^), b. Jan. 27, 1837; m.
Oct. 27, 1864, Lucinda J. Foskett (2). Res. Townsend, Mass.
Children :
36. i. Frank P., b. Sept. 30, 1867; m. Nov. 28, 1888, Mabel G. Petts
of Leominster, Mass. Res. in Leominster. Children : i.
Bernice Avis, b. Mar. 27, 1893. ii. Ralph Petts, b. Oct. 15,
1895.
37. ii. Frederick E., b. Mar. 6, 1871; m. Oct. 17, 1888, Harriette
Bryant of Canada. Res. Fitchburg, Mass. Children : i.
Gertrude Agnes, b. Mar. 15, 1891. ii. Marion Bryant, b.
July 27, 1896.
38. iii. Tracy O., b. July 4, 1873; m. Sept. 23, 1896, Cora Bell Lover
ing. Res. in Leominster, Mass. Child: Herman Edgar,
b. Sept. 10, 1897.
39. iv. Florence, b. Oct. 30, 1880.
GILES.
The records of this family are somewhat conflicting, but it is hoped
that the stateraent given below is not greatly erroneous.
Edward' Giles, d. before 1650; m. prob. about 1633, Bridget, widow
of  Very [d. 1680]. He came to New England about 1633 and set
tled in Salem, Mass.
Eleazer" (Edward'), bapt. about Nov. 27, 1640; d. prob. 1726; m.
(1) Jan. 25, 1664/5, Sarah More of Lynn, Mass. [d. May 9, 1676]; (2)
Sept. 25, 1677, EHzabeth, dau. of James Bishop of New Haven, Conn. [b.
July 3, 1657; d. 1733]. Res. in that part of Salem which is now South
Danvers, where he was a farmer. He; was an ensign.
Eleazer' (Eleazer", Edward'), b. July 8, 1698; d. 1749; ra. Elizabeth
 . He removed to Hopkinton, Mass., about 1724, where he was a
mason and farmer. He held the office of constable and was a member
of the school cofnmittee.
1. Joseph* (Eleazer', Eleazer^, Edward^), bapt. Oct. 16,
1743; d. May 30, 1813; m. Mary  . lie removed with his
mother and sisters to Townsend, Mass., whence he came to
New Ipswich, his name first appearing in 1782. He lived
half a mile south from the site of the school-house of the
North district, (No. 7,) on XV : 2, S. R. He removed to Han
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2. i. Joseph, b. Apr. 8, 1773.
3. ii. Rebecca (or Robena), b. June 26, 1775.
4. iii. Daniel, b. May 18, 1778.-J-
5. iv. Polly, b. Jan. 6, 1781.
6. v. Noah, b. Mar. 10, 1783.
4. Daniel^ (Josephs EleazerS EleazerS Edward^), b. May
18, 1778; d. Dec. 31, 1829; m. (1) Mar., 1806, Nancy, dau. of
Nathaniel and Abigail Russell of Rindge [b. Sept. 19, 1776; d.
Sept. 23, 1816] ; (2) Aug. 21, 1817, Mary, dau. of Samuel and
Elizabeth (Appleton) Bartlett (11). He succeeded to the oc
cupancy of his father's farm. Children:
7. i. Daniel, b. 1807; d. Dec. 8, 1883. Res. Lincoln, Mass.
8. ii. Anna, b. 1807; d. Jan. 10, 1874; m. Sept. 7, 1842, James
Davis (49).
9. iii. Alfred, b. 1810; d. Sept. 7, 1872; m. his cousin Betsey, dau.
of Simeon Russell. Res. Rindge. Children : i. Hattie,
ra. Orlando J. Raymond; res. Rindge and Somerville, Mass.
ii. A son.
10. iv. Noah, b. 1815 ; m. Mary A. Brown [m. (2) John I. Reynolds ;
(3) Leonard P. Wellington]. Res. Walthara, Mass.
11. V. John. Res. Springfield, Mass.
12. vi. Lucinda, b. Aug. 9, 1823; d. Aug. 3, 1895; ra. Nov. 21, 1844,
Daniel Farwell (6).
13. vii. Sally, d. Jan., 1843; m. Dea.  Sawyer of Denmark, Iowa.
Eleazer, whose name is on the tax-lists, 1768-69, was perhaps the
elder brother of Joseph, bapt. Jan. 15, 1726.
GODDING.
Henry' Godding, master of the British ship Abigail engaged in the
coast trade, was for a time in Massachusetts Bay in 1628.
Henry" (Henry'), b. 1642; d. Oct. 13, 1720; m. Apr. 7, 1663, EHza
beth Perry. His marriage is the first recorded at Watertown, where he
remained until his death, his home being midway between the sites of
the present stations Belmont and Hill's Crossing.
William' (Henry", Henry'), b. 1669; d. 1746; m. Mar. 26, 1701, Mary
Pease. He seems to have passed his life in Watertown, and apparently
had a considerable property.
Samuel* (William', Henry", Henry), bapt. Mar. 16, 1706; d. Feb.
1, 1761; m. Mary Boyce. He lived in Cambridge. He served in the
French and Indian Wars and also, despite his advanced age, in the Rev
olution, at least in the opening struggles at Concord and Lexington.
Henry" (Samuel*, WilHam', Henry", Henry'), b. Mar. 28, 1736; d.
1795; m. Sarah  . He removed from Cambridge to Lexington, where
he and his wife were admitted to the church, and in 1766 were dismissed
to Rowley Canada, now Rindge.
1. Henry' (Henry^, Samuel*, William', Henry", Henry^),
b. June 15, 1768; d. Aug. 4, 1831; m. (1) Feb. 19, 1790, Mary
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Lawrence of Gardner [d. May 17, 1790] ; (2) Patty, dau. of
Amos Russell of Westford. He removed to New Ipswich
about 1795, settling half a mile from the Rindge line on lot
126, A. D., and there making the farm upon which he passed
his remaining years. Children :
2. i. Ariel, b. Oct. 29, 1794.-]-
3. ii. Mary, b. Mar. 29, 1797; m. Ambrose, son of Daniel and
Betsey (Curtice) Emory of Rindge. Res. Rindge and
Jaffrey.
4. iii. Gardner, b. Nov. 7, 1799; d. 1823, unm.
5. iv. Sylvia, b. July 5, 1803; d. 1818, unm.
2. Ariel' (HenryS HenryS Samuel*, William', Henry",
Henry^), b. Oct. 29, 1794; d. Apr. 14, 1871; m. Dec. 19, 1822,
Eliza Chickering (6). He lived upon the homestead until
1845, when he returned to his native town, Rindge, with which
the social and business relations of his father and himself had
naturally been, while they were citizens of New Ipswich, but
so largely separated from its life by the mountain. Children :
6. i. George Gardner, b. Feb. 12, 1824; d. Ashby, Mass., Sept. 20,
1888; m. Nov. 16, 1848, Nancy Mersylvia Wetherbee of
Rindge. Res. Lunenburg, Mass.
7. ii. Mersylvia, b. Nov. 5, 1825 ; m. Mar. 28, 1848, Nathan A. Hale
of Rindge.
8. iii. Mary Jane, b. Jan. 9, 1828; m. Samuel, son of Samuel and
Nancy (Scott) Teel of Lunenburg, Mass. Res. Lunenburg.
9. iv. Louisa, b. Sept. 28, 1830; m. Apr. 24, 1851, John N., son of
Benjamin and Nancy (Whitcomb) Hastings of Rindge,
who was killed at Bull Run, Aug. 29, 1862, and she m.
(2) George M. Cram.
10. V. Ellen E., b. 1840; d. Apr. 11, 1865; m. Oct. 27, 1858, George
M. Crara, who after her death m. (2) her sister as above.
11. vi. Caroline, b. 1844; d. Feb. 10, 1862.
GORDON.
William Gordon came from Aberdeen, Scotland, to Halifax, Nova
Scotia, at the age of eighteen years.
1. Robert^ (William^), b. Halifax, 1827; d. Apr. 2, 1895;
m. Richmond, Va., Nancy Jones [b. Hubbardton, Vt., 1824;
d. Dec. 21, 1900]. He lived in Virginia, where all his children
were born, but at the outbreak of the Civil War he came
North to Hyannis, Mass., where he enlisted in the 3d Cavalry
Regiment of Massachusetts, in which he served through the
war. In 1870 he came to New Ipswich and passed his re-
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maining years on the farm long owned by Samuel Cook
Wheeler, (57, N. D.,) living in the brick house upon the north
side of the Turnpike. Children :
2. i. Harriet D., b. Jan. 9, 1854. She is a teacher at the South.
3. ii. Alexander J., b. Nov., 1856; d. Aug. 24, 1874.
4. iii. Philip F., b. Nov. 28, 1857; m. June 18, 1884, Plymouth,
N. H., Hattie B. Chase. He has been a merchant at
Winsdor, Vt., Woodsville, N. H., and Gardner, Mass., suc
cessively, but retired frora active business, and has since
made his home in New Ipswich, having bought the house
long owned by Isaac Spaulding, the first dwelHng west
from the town-house on the road to Smith Village.
5. iv. Helen E., b. Oct. 26, 1859; d. Oskaloosa, Iowa, Dec. 13,
1894; m. June 6, 1883, Edwin C. Holman. Children": i.
George Gordon Holman. ii. Bertha V. Holman.
GOULD.
Thomas" Gould, d. Apr., 1674; m. (1) Hannah  [d. May 15,
1647]; (2) Mary, widow of  Hayward (or Howard). He was an
early settler at Charlestown, Mass., where he made his permanent resi
dence, and was a selectman. He was active in the erection of the first
Baptist church in the colony, and was imprisoned for a considerable
time on account of his failure to conform to the prevailing belief.
Thomas" (Thomas'), b. about 1639; d. 1690; m. Elizabeth  of
Salem Village, now Danvers.
James' (Thomas", Thomas'), b. Feb. 8, 1666/7; m. (1) Deborah
 ; (2) Sarah  . He lived in Salera, Mass., probably in that part
which is now Peabody, as his children were baptized in the Third church
which is situated in that region.
Benjamin* (James', Thomas", Thomas'), b. Oct. 2, 1695; d. 1765;
m. 1722, Sarah Parkhurst [b. Dec 6, 1705; d. Apr. 4, 1793; m. (2)
Eleazer Graves]. He lived in Chelmsford, Mass. Two of his nine chil
dren were among the early settlers in New Ipswich.
1. Adams* (JamesS Thomas^, Thomas^), b. about 1711; d.
Plymouth, about 1795; m. (1) pub. Jan. 29, 1729, Elizabeth,
dau. of John and Elizabeth Butterfield of Chelmsford, Mass. ;
(2) Feb. 23, 1758, Jemima, widow of Richard Skidmore of
Methuen, Mass. [d. 1790]. He lived in Chelmsford until
about 1760 and then came to New Ipswich, and according to
the former town history, they "lived in a house built by Col.
Kidder on one of his lots on Kidder Mountain, near the old
Peterboro road, where they seemed to act as shepherds over
the cattle in the mountain pastures." He was exempted from
taxes for several years before his death. On account of their
patriarchal age, and as they lived as it were alone in the world,
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they were usually designated as "Adam and Eve." The prob
able position of their home is still faintly visible fifty rods or
more westward from the discontinued "Todd road," in the
eastern part of 60, N. D. Children — all of first marriage:
5. i. Lucy, b. Feb. 4, 1732.
6. ii. Abijah, b. Dec 12, 1735.-|-
7. iii. Benjamin, b. Aug. 29, 1742.-|-
8. iv. Abraham.
2. Simeon^ (Benjamin*, James', ThomasS Thomas^), b.
Aug. 17, 1733; d. Jan. 15, 1827; m. (1) June 19, 1760, Eliza
beth Pike [b. Dec. 19, 1734; d. Dec. 20, 1778]; (2) Sept. 30,
1779, Susannah (Hastings), widow of his neighbor John Cut
ter (1) [d. Jaffrey, Aug. 5, 1827]. He came to New Ipswich
before 1760 and settled as a farmer a mile eastward from the
home of his uncle Adam on Kidder Mountain, which farm,
(40, N. D.,) remained in his hands and those of his descendants
for more than a century. His name, near to the head of those
who responded to the initial Revolutionary alarm in 1775, is
also found as that of a sergeant on the company rolls of Capts.
Atkinson, Francis Towne, Briant, and Fletcher, testifying to
service at Coos and Trenton in 1776, at Princeton, at Still
water, and at the surrender of Burgoyne in 1777, and at Rhode
Island in 1778. Children :
9. i. Simeon, b. Apr. 27, 1761.-|-
10. ii. John, b. Apr. 23, 1763.-|-
11. iH. Sarah, b. Oct. 5, 1765; d. Dec, 1858; m. Noah Bigelow of
Reading, Vt. Six children.
12. iv. Betsey, b. Jan. IS, 1768; d. Feb. 5, 1847; m. Nov. 12, 1795,
Peter Darby of Reading, Vt. Six children.
13. V. Margaret, b. June 18, 1770; d. June 7, 1848; m. Jan. 1, 1795,
Moses Start (12). Removed to Enosburg, Vt. Eight chil
dren.
14. vi. Ambrose, b. Apr. 8, 1772.-}-
15. vii. Polly, b. July 28, 1774; d. July 12, 1843; m. Dea. Thomas
Farley of Hollis.
3. Nathaniel' (BenjaminS James', ThomasS Thomas^), b.
May 21, 1741; d. Apr. 29, 1808; m. Hannah Shed of Chelms
ford, Mass. [d. Sept. 10, 1828]. He "came to town at the
same time with his brother Simeon, and settled on a lot diago
nal to his, (43, N. D.) He served the town in the capacity of
constable and surveyor, and among other offices was appointed
by vote of the town to 'raise the tune on the Sabbath' at a
time when it was customary to line or 'deaconize' the hymn.
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music, and took a prominent part as a performer and also as
an instructor in psalmody during his life. He was an exem
plary member of the church." He had no children, but he
adopted his nephew, whose name by act of General Court in
June, 1807, was made to be :
16. Nathaniel Duren Gould. -|-
4. Mary' (BenjaminS James', Thomas^, Thomas^), b. Aug.
29, 1746; d. Oct. 16, 1823; m. Jan. 11, 1770, Reuben Duren
[b. Mar. 1, 1747; d. Jan. 1, 1821]. They lived in Billerica and
later in Bedford. Mr. Duren "was a resolute and enterprising
man, of an inventive mind, and was distinguished, in his
vicinity, as a contractor for building meeting-houses and other
large structures. He received a premium for a model of a
bridge over the Merrimac at Pawtucket Falls, against many
competitors. It was constructed of a single arch, the first of
its kind so far as known, in this country, and was regarded by
most persons of the time as a wild scheme. He succeeded,
however, in erecting it." Sh© had fourteen children, one of
whom, 16. Nathaniel Gould Duren, b. Mar. 26, 1781, was
adopted by his uncle, and in later years assumed the family
surname as shown above.
6. Abijah^ (Adam*, James', Thomas^, Thomas^), b. Dec.
12, 1735; d. Hollis, Jan. 2, 1818; m. Oct. 29, 1766, dau. of
Phineas Spaulding of Hudson [b. Aug. 3, 1740; d. Rochester,
N. Y., at her son's home]. He lived a few years in Temple,
and afterward in Hollis. He enlisted from Temple in the com
pany of Capt. Gershom Drury in 1777. Children :
17. i. William, b. Mar. 1, 1769.
18. ii. Abijah, b. Nov. 11, 1771; d. young.
19. iii. Abijah, b. May 20, 1777.
7. Benjamin' (Adam*, James', Thomas^, Thomas^), b. Aug.
29, 1742; d. Jan. 5, 1804; m. Sarah  [d. Feb. 25, 1804].
He is said to have come to New Ipswich, perhaps with his
father; but, if he did, his residence was very brief, as in 1768
he appears in Plymouth, where he passed his life and was a
prominent citizen, holding civil offices of selectman and repre
sentative, that of deacon in the church, and rising through the
inferior offices to that of major in the militia, although his
declination of the last-named office offered him, in one of the
regiments of the minute-men organized in 1775 suggests that
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his political views may have been not unlike those of the in
fluential man of his early manhood. Col. Reuben Kidder.
Mary, b. June 27, 1769; d. Feb. 25, 1790.
Benjamin, b. Apr. 29, 1771.
John, b. Mar. 28, 1774.
William, b. Oct. 16, 1778; d. by drowning, Apr. 24, 1789.
Esther, b. Feb. 10, 1781; m. Amos Webster.
Sarah, b. May 23, 1785; m. Sargent Bartlett.
Daniel, b. Apr. 11, 1787; d. Dec. 8, 1788.
9. Simeon' (Simeon', BenjaminS James', ThomasS Thom
as^), b. Apr. 27, 1761; d. July 21, 1816; m. Feb. 12, 1789,
Rhoda Lane. Children :
Nathan, b. Dec. 7, 1790.-|-
IsAiAH, b. July 16, 1793.-f-
Rhoda, b. Sept. 10, 1795; d. Nov. 25, 1872; m. May 9, 1813,
WilHam Wilson.
Louisa, b. Feb. 27, 1800; m. June 23, 1824, Stephen Wilson.
Stephen Lane, b. July 19, 1803.-|-
10. John' (Simeon', Benjamin*, James', Thomas^, Thom-
as^), b. Apr. 23, 1763; d. Sept. 22, 1858; m. July 5, 1792, Su
sannah Kidder (15). He lived upon the same farm with his
father, building himself a new house a little westward from
that of his father. He served in the Revolution for three
months under Capt. Othniel Thomas, and is believed to have
been the latest surviving revolutionary soldier from New Ips
wich. Children :
32. i. John, b. Mar. 25, 1793.-|-
33. ii. Reuben Kidder, b. May 3, 1795; d. Dec. 19, 1870, unm. He
lived with his father on the family farm, but for many
years was a successful teacher in the district schools of
the town, having taught for a longer or shorter time in
every one of the districts formed in his earlier manhood.
14. Ambrose' (Simeon', BenjaminS James', ThomasS
Thomas^), b. Apr. 8, 1772; d. Apr. 10, 1840; m. Susan Farley.
He was a carpenter in his early manhood, but soon became
a tradesman, keeping store successively in Billerica and Green
field, Mass., and later in Mason, Hollis, and Manchester. In
him the family musical talent was largely developed. Chil
dren: 34. i. Mary Ann, b. Nov. 1, 1802; d. 1880; m. John Parker.
35. ii. Susan Laurinda, b. Jan. 17, 1804; d. Mar. 24, 1804.
36. iii. Susan, b. Apr. 20, 1806; d. Nov. 27, 1807.
37. iv. William A., b. Mar. 1, 1808; m. Frances Prichard.
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38. V. John Bradstreet, b. Nov. 10, 1809; d. Aug. 1, 1870.
39. vi. Susan Elizabeth, b. Nov. 25, 1811; d. Apr. 28, 1881; ra.
Nathan Kendall.
40. vii. Frederic A., b. Feb. 11, 1814.
41. vHi. Sarah Bigelow, b. Oct. 21, 1815; m. (1) Thomas Chase;
(2) A. Prescott.
42. ix. Charles Otis, b. July 9, 1818; d. May 16, 1864; m. Sarah B.
Shattuck.
43. X. George E., b. Jan. 7, 1832; d. June 4, 1876.
16. Nathaniel Duren' (Mary', Benjamin*, James', Thom
asS Thomas^), b. Mar. 26, 1781 ; d. May 28, 1864; m. Nov. 15,
1801, Sally Prichard (15). At the age of ten he was adopted
by his uncle Nathaniel Gould and rode from Bedford to New
Ipswich on horseback behind his uncle. From that time he
made his home on the farm practically as his uncle's son, al
though his name was retained without change until five years
after his marriage. He began teaching in the neighboring
district schools at the age of sixteen, and it soon became evi
dent that he had found his true work. It has been said that
"as a teacher, it may be sufficient to say of him that of the
60,000 pupils who, according to his computation, have at dif
ferent times come under his care, no one ever meets him or
speaks of him but with grateful recollections." He was espe
cially successful, however, as teacher of music and of penman
ship. He was a true pioneer in the introduction of juvenile
singing schools, and he has had very few equals as a penman,
retaining his skill in ornamental work until old age. At the
present day he would undoubtedly be noted as an expert in
questions of penmanship. On one occasion, chancing to be
foreman of a jury before which a suit for the possession of a
farm was brought, his clearly trained vision alone disclosed
the forgery of a deed offered in evidence, and caused a rapid
exit from the state of the claimants presenting the deed. He
was a leading man in church and town affairs, being deacon
for a considerable period, selectman for six years, and repre
sentative for three years. He removed to Boston before
reaching his fortieth year, and pursued the two branches of
instruction in that city, in New York, and in other cities.
Children :
44. i. Nathaniel Perley, b. Nov. 6, 1803; d. Mar. 22, 1804.
45. ii. Augustus Addison, b. Apr. 23, 1805.-|-
46. iii. Charles Duren, b. Feb. 2, 1807.-|-
47. iv. Mary Ann, b. Apr. 4, 1809; m. Elisha T. Coolidge of Cin
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48. V. Child, b. 1813; d. Nov. 17, 1813.
49. vi. Child, b. 1813; d. Nov. 28, 1813.
50. vH. Elizabeth Freeman, b. May 25, 1816; ra. Joshua Lincoln of
Boston.
51. viii. Sarah, b. Sept. 2, 1818; d. July 25, 1820.
27. Nathan' (Simeon', Simeon', Benjamin*, James', Thom
asS Thomas^), b. Dec. 7, 1790; d. Oct. 13, 1879; m. Dec. 24,
1817, Zilpah Ciorey. Children:
52. i. Alonzo, b. Sept. 17, 1818; d. May 20, 1870; ra. July 17, 1846,
Frances M. Harris.
53. H. Cynthia, b. Aug. 7, 1820; m. J. Q. A. Jones.
54. iii. Rhoda, b. May 13, 1822; d. May 1, 1844.
55. iv. Maria C, b. Apr. 21, 1831; d. Apr. 16, 1835.
28. Isaiah' (Simeon', Simeon', Benjamin*, James', Thom
asS Thomas^), b. July 16, 1793; d. Aug. 14, 1858; m. Nov.
16, 1816, Susan Joslin. Children :
56. i. George Webster, b. Aug. 17, 1817.-)-
57. ii. Lyman, b. May 25, 1819.-f
58. iii. Sophronia Louisa, b. Nov. 24, 1820; ra. Nov. 20, 1843, Asa
Davis. Five children.
59. iv. Simeon, b. May 3, 1822.4-
60. V. Susan Selina, b. July 27, 1824; d. Nov. 9, 1866; ra. Sept. 15,
1853, Brigham Niras. Three children.
61. vi. Maria Augusta, b. Sept. 24, 1827; ra. May 4, 1865, Allen
Giffin.
62. vii. Caroline Augusta, b. Sept. 28, 1832; ra. Dec. 1, 1853, Clark
H. Carr. Three children.
63. viii. Augustus, b. Nov. 12, 1834; ra. Oct. 23, 1862, Carrie Gray.
31. Stephen Lane' (Simeon', Simeon', Benjamin*, James',
ThomasS Thomas^), b. July 19, 1803; d. Mar. 23, 1872; m. May
26, 1829, Mary Ann Brooks. Children :
64. i. Frederick, b. Oct. 27, 1831; d. Aug. 24, 1861.
65. ii. Ellen Frances, b. Feb. 7, 1834; d. Dec 26, 1854.
66. iii. William Augustus, b. Feb. 21, 1836.
67. iv. Emily Caroline, b. Feb. 4, 1838.
68. V. Franklin H., b. Apr. 10, 1840; m. Oct. 18, 1866, Margaret L.
Cochran.
69. vi. Charles Bowen, b. Aug. 27, 1845; m. Oct. 15, 1873, Harriet
A. Snow.
32. John' (John', Simeon', BenjaminS James', ThomasS
Thomas^), b. Mar. 23, 1793; d. July 29, 1840; m. Dec. 31, 1823,
Eliza Ann Appleton (51). He was a cabinetmaker, his shop
being the house, now for many years occupied as a residence,
situated just below the Congregational parsonage. Children:
70. i. Henry, b. Feb. 25, 1827.-f
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45. Augustus Addison' (Nathaniel D.', MaryS BenjaminS
James', ThomasS Thomas^), b. Apr. 23, 1805; d. Sept. 15, 1866;
m. Nov. 25, 1833, Harriet Cushing, dau. of Henry and Lucy
(Cushing) Sheafe [b. Sept. 15, 1811; d. May 14, 1893]. He
prepared for Harvard College at New Ipswich, was admitted
at the age of seventeen, and graduated in 1825. His taste for
natural history had already begun to be manifest, and he en
tered upon the work of investigation which he pursued most
successfully throughout his life. After his graduation he
taught two years in Maryland, at the same time beginning the
study of medicine. Then returning to Boston, he continued
his medical studies, completing that work with a year in the
Massachusetts General Hospital, and having taken his degree
he commenced practice in the city where he was to pass his
life, becoming one of the leading practitioners there. The
fidelity to his vocation, completely evidenced by his recognized
medical rank, did not forbid earnest and highly successful la
bor in other somewhat allied fields. He taught botany and
zoology at Harvard for two years, and was one of the found
ers of the Boston Society of Natural History. It is said that
for several years he usually rose at four o'clock to work on
the collections of the society, considering that to be a kind of
recreation preparing him for the professional duties of the day.
He was a charter member of the National Academy of Sciences,
and was also connected with sixteen scientific societies, Amer
ican and foreign, and author of more than one hundred scien
tific books and papers beside those which were strictly pro
fessional. He was a pioneer in many fields of New England
zoology, and his books were accepted as authoritative on the
subjects treated. He was also active in the medical societies,
being president of that of the state at the time of his death.
That his valuable activities were broader than these allied
fields is shown by the result of two years of labor superim
posed upon his professional work which was devoted to the
preparation, in union with Mr. Kidder, of the former town
history, and also by a faithful attendance during fifteen years
upon his duties as a trustee of New Ipswich Appleton Acad
emy, to which, soon after the completion of its present build
ing, he presented a collection of fossils and other valuable
specimens for scientific study, said at that time to be excelled
in New Hampshire only by that of Dartmouth College. He
was an earnest and consistent member of the Baptist church,
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fully testifying to his faith by his works. Few New Ipswich
names will outlive that of Dr. Gould. Children — omitting
three who died young:
72. i. Harriet Duren, b. Oct. 13, 1834; ra. Sept. 17, 1867, Horace
Gooch [b. May 8, 1832]. Res. Louisville, Ky. ChHdren:
i. Lucy Cushing Gooch, b. July 5, 1868. ii. Clara Stoddard
Gooch, b. Oct. 20, 1869. iii. Harriet Bell Gooch, b. Oct.
14 1871. iv. Horace Gooch, b. July 1, 1874; ra. June 19,
1902, Sabine Hamlet Nunn [b. Sept. 6, 1880]. v. Henry
Sheafe Gooch, b. May 26, 1876; m. July 12, 1901, Effie
Hearn Jones [b. Oct. 25, 1878]. vi. Anna Rosina Gooch,
b. Feb. 22, 1878.
73. ii. Lucy Cushing, b. Oct. 18, 1835; m. Nov. 16, 1865, James
Bailey Richardson [b. Dec. 9, 1832]. He is a judge in the
Superior Court of Suffolk County, Mass., and a trustee of
Dartmouth College.
74. iii. Charles Augustus, b. Dec. 30, 1837; ra. July 15, 1865, Sarah
Jane Taylor [b. Apr. IS, 1848]. He has followed a sea
faring life and been captain of vessels engaged in the
coast trade. Children : i. May Agnes, b. Jan. 20, 1873 ; m.
Jan. 20, 1895, Jaraes Willard Cook Esterbrook [b. July 22,
1868] ; one daughter, ii. Clara Augustina, b. June 15, 1875 ;
m. Aug. 4, 1900, John Foster Tufts [b. June 23, 1878];
one son.
75. iv. William Alwin, b. June 25, 1841 ; m. June 6, 1869, Jane
Sophia Brucher [b. Apr. 12, 1840]. He served during the
Civil War in the 44th Massachusetts Regiment. He is a
civil engineer in Boston.
76. V. Julia Nicolina, b. Apr. 23, 1844; unm. Res. Brookline, Mass.
77. vi. Edward Cutts, b. Sept. 10, 1850; unm. He graduated from
Williaras College in 1870 and is proprietor of a boarding
school for boys at Daytona Beach, Fla.
78. vii. Louis' Agassiz, b. June 4, 1855 ; m. June 14, 1888, Florence
Louise Wallis [b. Feb. 2, 1858]. He graduated from Wil
liaras College in 1875 and frora Rochester Theological
Serainary in 1879, was pastor in Holley, N. Y., and Fall
River, Mass. In 1887 he was appointed a missionary of
the American Baptist Missionary Union, and immediately
after his marriage departed to his work in China, where
he remained until 1892. Since that tirae he has been en
gaged in pastoral work in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and
California. Children : i. Margaret Mitchell, b. Dec. 19,
1889. ii. Harriet Sheafe, b. Mar. IS, 1893.
46. Charles Duren' (Nathaniel D.', Mary', BenjaminS
James', ThomasS Thomas^), b. Feb. 2, 1807; d. Jan. 17, 1875;
m. (1) May 28, 1834, Sophia, dau. of Ensign and Sophia Oliver
(Larkin) Lincoln [b. Dec. 27, 1812] ; (2) Oct. 23, 1850, Sarah
Bell, dau. of Abijah and Harriet (Sheldon) Wheeler [b. Troy,
N. Y., Mar. 22, 1826; d. Mar. 9, 1899]. In his youth he was
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in the employ of Ephraim Searle, who was then proprietor of
a store in the building on the Turnpike since known as the
Appleton House, and remained there after his father's removal
to Boston. But about 1823, Mr. Searle also removed to the
city, thus introducing his helper to the mercantile activities
of Boston in which he passed his life, at first being engaged
with West India goods ; but being administrator of the estate
of his wife's father. Ensign Lincoln, who was a bookseller, he
became interested in that line of business, and in 1835 in con
nection with his brother-in-law, Joshua Lincoln, and another
partner, the publishing house of Gould & Lincoln, widely
known for many years for its valuable religious and scientific
productions, began its efficient life. He and his children had the
family aptness and love for music, and for many years he had
charge of the music in the church of which he was a member.
Children :
79. i. Sophia Carey, b. Jan. 23, 1838; d. May 13, 1876; m. George
B. Dyer.
80. ii. Charles Howard, b. about Dec, 1845; d. Apr. 24, 1857.
81. iii. Laura Bell, b. July 2, 1858; m. Apr. 26, 1893, Thomas
Hooper.
82. iv. Elizabeth Lincoln, b. May 28, 1862. She is a writer of
children's books, and is on the staff of the Youth's Com
panion.
56. George Webster' (Isaiah', Simeon', SimeonS Benja
minS James', ThomasS Thomas^), b. Aug. 17, 1817; m. May
8, 1849, Abbie Loveland. Children :
83. i. Webster Vilett, b. May 9, 1854; m. Sept. 16, 1880, Grace
Clark.
84. ii. Florence, b. Feb. 8, 1858; m. Sept. 14, 1880, Donald G.
Perkins.
85. iii. Alice R., b. Aug. 20, 1862; d. Jan. 31, 1871.
57. Lyman'' (IsaiahS Simeon', Simeon', Benjamin*, James',
ThomasS Thomas^), b. May 25, 1819; m. Oct. 1, 1845, Harriet
Reed. Child:
86. i. Harriet Augusta, b. Mar. 17, 1848; ra. June 17, 1874, William
B. Joslin.
59. Simeon" (IsaiahS Simeon', Simeon', Benjamin*, James',
ThomasS Thomas^), b. May 3, 1822; m. (1) May 14, 1846,
Betsey Loud ; (2) May 23, 1850, Sarah Norcross. Children :
87. i. Martha, b. May 31, 1849; d. Mar. 4, 1870.
88. ii. Clara Jane, b. Jan. 13, 1852; m. June 13, 1878, Carlos L.
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70. Henry' (John', JohnS SimeonS BenjaminS James',
ThomasS Thomas^), b. Feb. 25, 1827; m. June 15, 1852, Sarah
C. Flint. Children :
90. i. Sarah Amelia, b. June 22, 1856; ra. Mar. 13, 1877, Charles
L. Bemis. GREENMAN.
1. William^ Greenman, b. Dec. 13, 1821; d. Mar. 18, 1909;
m. 1844, Harriet L. E., dau. of Symonds and Harriet (Gregg)
Nichols [b. 1820; d. June 23, 1896]. He was son of Silas and
Susan Greenman of Warwick, R. I. He came to New Ipswich
in 1843 and passed his later life in the town except for a few
years in California. He was one of the earliest proprietors
of the restaurant maintained for many years beneath the
Union Hall, but during the greater part of his life he was
occupied in the manufacture of cigars. His latest place of
business, in which he continued until his health forbade, was
the small building near his house, just off the Turnpike upon
the old Greenville road, which was built across the street from
the site of the present Baptist church as the law office of John
Preston, Esq., and later was used as a harness shop and for
various other business activities, while standing across the
Turnpike from its present position. Children :
2. i. Georgianna, b. 1847; d. Feb. 26, 1850.
3. ii. William S., b. Sept. M, 1852; d. May, 1875.
HARRIS.
1. Oliver^ Harris, b. about 1752; d. Oct. 30, 1824; m. (1)
Mary  [b. about 1748; d. May 1, 1814] ; (2) Sept. 13, 1818,
Sally Burrows, probably dau. of William Burrows (5). He
came to New Ipswich about 1796 and settled on the farm
previously held by Asa Brown on the long-abandoned road
from the summit of Governor's Hill westward by the outlet of
Binney Pond, (95, A. D.,) where the cellar still remains a
quarter-mile north of the site of the later Harris dwelling,
built on the southern part of the same lot on the present
Rindge road.
2. William^ (Oliver^), b. about 1787; d. about 1843; m.
Hannah Walker, as is believed, but she may have been of
some other family. He succeeded to his father's farm about
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1823 and there passed his remaining years, but he seems to
have occupied the Woolson farm, (IV : 2, S. R.,) from 1810 to
1814, and after that he probably passed a few years in some
other town or towns, as his son Leonard is said to have been
born in Lebanon. The order of birth of his children is uncer
tain. Children :
3. i. William, b. Feb. 28, 1810; d. Jan. 17, 1814
4. ii. Mary Louisa, b. Oct. 1, 1812; d. Dec. 19, 1830.
5. iii. Hannah Almira, b. Jan. 29, 1814; d. 1901; ra. about 1843,
Wilder Butters. Removed to Fitchburg, Mass.
6. iv. William B.
7. V. Leonard Walker, b. Feb. 9, 1816.-)-
8. vi. Amos, m.  Brown. He res. in Woburn, Mass., and was
a dealer in baker's goods.
9. vH. George S., b. about 1822; d. June 22, 1838.
7. Leonard Walker' (WilliamS Oliver^), b. Feb. 9, 1816;
m. Mary Eliza Brown [b. South Reading, Mass., Jan. 13, 1828].
He succeeded to the occupancy of the family farm soon after
his father's death and remained until about 1856, although he
does not appear to have owned the property. He removed to
the vicinity of Boston. Children :
10. i. Mary Cowdrey, b. Sept. 2, 1848.
11. ii. Leonard Walker, b. May 6, 1850.
Other children not recorded.
HARTWELL.
Willlam' Hartwell, d. Concord, Mass., Mar. 12, 1689/90; m. Jazan
 [d. Aug. 6, 1695]. The record of the birth of his son John, Feb. 23,
1640/1, gives the first appearance of this family name in the vital records
of Concord. Samuel' (William*), b. Mar. 26, 1645/6; d. July 26, 1725; m. (1)
Oct. 26, 1665, Ruth, dau. of George and Katherine Wheeler [b. Feb. 23,
1641/2; d. Dec 9, 1713] ; (2) Rebecca  [d. Dec 23, 1721/2] ; (3) Feb.
6, 1723, Elizabeth, dau. of Joshua and Sarah (Willy) Fletcher of Chelms
ford, Mass. [b. June 10, 1698; d. Oct. 4, 1732].
Samuel' (Samuel', William'), b. Oct. 2, 1666; d. Nov. 27, 1744; ra.
(1) Nov. 23, 1692, Abigail Stearns of Cambridge [d. May 11, 1709] ;
(2) Rebecca  [d. Apr. IS, 1714] ; (3) widow Margaret Tompkins
[d. Apr. 5, 1723] ; (4) Experience Tarbox.
Ephraim* (Samuel', Samuel', William'), b. Jan. 14, 1706/7; d. May
7, 1793; m. Nov. 7, 1732, Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel and Elizabeth Hey
wood [b. June 3, 1714; d. Jan. 30, 1808].
1. Ephraim' (EphraimS Samuel', SamueP, William^), b.
Jan. 8, 1745 ; d. May 30, 1816 ; m. June 1, 1769, Mary Brown
(A. 9). He was born in that part of Concord, Mass., which is
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now Lincoln, but removed to Princeton, Mass., and thence
about 1782 to New Ipswich, where he passed an energetic
and successful life. He bought the house and store of Josiah
Rogers facing on the Village Green and since well known as
the "Barr house," and conducted the store twenty-five years.
He was also interested in a scythe factory situated at the place
of the waterpower above Gibson Village since utilized by the
Walker bedstead factory and turning-shop, in the first linseed
oil mill, which preceded the first cotton factory in the Bank
Village, and in works for the manufacture of pearlash near
his own house. He was one of the first trustees of the Acad
emy and only one man made a larger subscription for its sup
port in those days. He was captain of one of the military
companies of the town, and was so evidently a trusted and
popular citizen that it is surprising to find that he held no
one of the principal town offices. Children :
2. i. Mary, b. Aug. 25, 1770; d. July 11, 1846; m. Mar. 6, 1791,
Caleb°, son of Gen. Benjarain Bellows.
Abigail' (Ephraira*, Samuel', Samuel', William'), b. June 9, 1744;
d. Mar. 8, 1809; m. Sept. 6, 1763, Jonas, son of Ephraira Jones (3).
HASSALL.
1. William^ Hassall, b. 1799 at Hillsboro, N. H. ; d. Mar.
3, 1874, at New Ipswich; m. (1) Nov. 26, 1826, Betsy, dau. of
Daniel and Sarah (Shattuck) Butterfield and granddau. of
David^ Shattuck [b. Aug. 9, 1806; d. Sept. 21, 1868] ; (2) May
3, 1870, Mrs. Rhoda C. Powers, sister of his first wife [b. June
18, 1798; d. Oct. 23, 1872]. He was a wheelwright, his shop
standing where is now the public library, and he built for
his own occupancy the house next south of the library. He
was a deacon in the Congregational church more than twenty
years. Children :
2. i. William E., b. Sept. 24, 1827; m. Dec. 27, 1849, Elizabeth F.
Stark, great-granddaughter of Maj. Gen. John Stark [b.
about 1823; d. Nov. 29, 1870]. One dau., Anna C, b. Nov.
26, 1851; m. Dec 26, 1871, Frederic D. Shattuck of Fitch
burg, Mass. ; is prominent in the Woraan's Relief Corps,
D. A. R., and O. E. S.
3. ii. James L., b. Sept. 1, 1829; d. Dec 1, 1880; m. Angeline, dau.
of William Loomis [d. Feb. 16, 1893, aged 62]. Children:
i. Mary, m. Charles Blodgett. ii. Clara, iii. A child, d. Apr.
24 1852.
4. iii. George A., d. Apr. 11, 1842, aged 4 yrs., 6 mos.
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HASTINGS.
Thomas' Hastings, b. about 1605; d. about 1685; m. (1) Susanna
 [b. about 1609; d. Feb. 2, 16S0] ; (2) Apr., 1651, Margaret, dau. of
William and Martha Cheney of Roxbury, Mass. He came from England
in 1634 and settled at Roxbury. He was selectman many years, also town
clerk and representative. He was a deacon.
Samuel' (Thomas'), b. Mar. 12, 1665/6; d. 1723; ra. (1) Jan. 1,
1687, Lydia, dau. of Caleb and Joanna (Sprague) Church [b. Dedham,
Mass., July 4, 1661 ; d. about 1691] ; (2) Apr. 24, 1694 Elizabeth, dau. of
John and Elizabeth Nevison [b. Oct. 22, 1675; d. 1700]; (3) July 10,
1701, Sarah, dau. of Simon and Hannah (Barron) Coolidge [d. 1724].
Res. in Watertown, where he was for a time innkeeper.
Nathaniel' (Samuel', Thomas'), b. after 1702; m. Apr. 16, 1734,
Esther, dau. of Samuel and Margaret (Traine) Perry. Res. in north
part of Shrewsbury, which is now Boylston, Mass.
Samuel* (Nathaniel', Samuel', Thomas'), b. 1735; d. Sept. 9, 1823;
m. Oct. 26, 1757, Anna, dau. of Joseph and Martha (Brigham) Bigelow.
He removed to Princeton, Mass., soon after his marriage and there he
passed his life.
Charles" (Samuel*, Nathaniel', Samuel', Thomas'), b. Nov. 26, 1760;
d. Nov. 28, 1850; m. June 3, 1782, Anna, dau. of Samuel and Tabitha
(Eveleth) Woods [b. Apr. 4, 1731; d. Dec 19, 1825]. He removed to
Ashburnham, Mass., in 1783. He served about two years in the Revolu
tion. 1. Charles' (Charles', Samuel*, Nathaniel', Samuel^,
Thomas^), b. June 16, 1800; m. Dec. 15, 1824, Susan, dau. of
Isaac and Hannah (Russell) Hill of Ashburnham [b. Oct. 3,
1797; d. Dec. 17, 1870]. He was a merchant in Ashburnham,
Mass., until middle life, when he came to New Ipswich and
remained twenty years or more. He engaged in various ac
tivities at the Center Village, being postmaster 1843-45. He
afterward returned to Ashburnham, and there spent his later
years. 2. Leonard W.' (Charles', Samuel*, Nathaniel', SamueP,
Thomas^), b. Aug. 14, 1803; d. Apr. 11, 1883; m. (1) 1832,
Elvira Burrows (11) ; (2) Nov. 12, 1862, Martha Colburn of
Temple. He came to New Ipswich somewhat earlier than
his brother and passed his life as a farmer, for more than
twenty years upon the Wheelock farm, (51, N. D.,) and then
removing for a somewhat briefer residence upon 58, N. D.,
formerly connected to the farm first mentioned by a road
now completely obliterated for the greater part of its length,
and leaving the second farm at the end of a road from the
opposite direction. Children:
3. i. Harriet A., b. 1833; d. Aug. 1, 1854.
4 ii. Emma A., b. 1842; d. Jan. 31, 1865.
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HATCH.
William' Hatch, d. Nov. 6, 1651; m. Jane  . He came from
Sandwich, Kent, England, in 1634, with wife and five children, and set
tled in Scituate. His widow m. Mar. 31, 1653, Thoraas King, and died
the sarae year.
Walter' (William'), ra. May 6, 1650, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas
Holbrook. Israel' (Walter', WHHam'), b. Mar. 25, 1667; m. July 27, 1699,
Elizabeth Hatch.
Israel* (Israel', Walter', WilHam'), b. May 5, 1701; m. Oct. 27, 1725,
Bethia Thomas of Marshfield, Mass.
Israel" (Israel*, Israel', Walter', William'), b. Aug. 8, 1730; d. Mar.
3, 1809; m. Jan. 31, 1755, Mary Hatch [b. about 1730; d. Dec 22, 1802].
Joel' (Israel", Israel*, Israel', Walter', William'), b. Apr. 3, 1771;
m. Apr. 21, 1796, Huldah Truant.
1. Amos' (JoelS IsraeP, Israel*, Israel', WalterS William^),
b. Sept. 17, 1807; d. Aug. 9, 1878; m. Apr. 16, 1829, Lucinda
Sargent [b. Mar., 1805; d. Aug. 27, 1888]. He was a carpen
ter in Boston, where all his children were born, but in 1849
he came to New Ipswich and bought the farm first settled by
Joseph Parker, (44, N. D.,) and lived there about twenty-five
years, after which he removed to the Center Village and
passed the last four or five years of his life in the house on
the Turnpike long the home of Nathan Sanders. His wife
conducted a successful water-cure while residing on the farm.
Children :
2. i. Amos E., b. Aug. 6, 1830; d. Mar. 18, 1832.
3. ii. Edward A., b. Oct. 12, 1833 ; d. June 28, 1836.
4. iii. Abby Sargent, b. July 28, 1836; m. Nov. 19, 1873, Joseph
Addison Wheeler (118).
5. iv. Sylvanus, b. Jan. 15, 1839. Removed to California.
HEALD.
John' Heald, d. May 24, 1632; m. Dorothy  . He came from
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, England, and settled in Concord,
Mass., as early as 1635.
John' (John'), b. prob. in England; d. June 17, 1689; m. June 10,
1631, Sarah Dane (or Dean) [d. July 22, 1689]. He res. in Concord.
John' (John', John'), b. Sept. 19, 1664; d. Nov. 25, 1721; m. Dec 18,
1690, Mary, dau. of Roger and Mary (Simonds) Chandler [b. Jan. 17,
1671; d. Aug. 14, 1759]. He res. in Concord, and is raentioned in Wal
cott's "Concord in the Colonial Period" as follows : "The Revolution
that expelled James II. from the throne of England afforded the oppor
tunity desired by the colonists, who rose almost as one man, to defend
their homes and the rights of Englishmen. In 1689 on the nineteenth of
April, an oft recurring date in American history, the Concord people
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dispatched their military company to Boston under the command of
Lieutenant John Heald to assist in the revolt."
Timothy* (John', John', John'), b. June 7, 1696; d. Mar. 28, 1736;
m. Hannah  .
1. Josiah* (John', JohnS John^), b. Feb. 28, 1698/9. It is
by no means certain that he was the bearer of that name who
was taxed in New Ipswich in 1754, and is said in the former
town history to have been probably the brother of Thomas
Heald of the next generation and to have lived upon the same
lot. But a careful search of the Concord records discloses no
such brother, and gives ground for the inference that the
temporary resident was an uncle instead of a brother of the
next member of the family here named.
2. Timothy^ (TimothyS John', JohnS John^), b. Oct. 14,
1723; m. Elizabeth  . He came to New Ipswich at about
the time of the Masonian charter, and was Proprietors' clerk
for several years. He settled near the east line of the town
upon the lot afterward known as the "Pierce farm," (186,
A. D.,) and evidently was a trusted member of the infant
settlement. But for some reason he remained less than twenty
years, removing to Maine about 1767. Children :
4. i. Timothy, b. May 24, 1749.
5. ii. John, b. Oct. 4, 1751.
6. iii. Sibyl, b. Oct. 25, 1755.
7. iv. Jonas, b. June 23, 1757.
8. V. Joslah, b. Sept. 14 1759.
3. Thomas' (TimothyS John', JohnS John^, b. June 14,
1732; d. Aug. 20, 1805; m. (1) Sibyl Adams [d. 1788]; (2)
Deliverance, prob. dau. of William' and Deliverance (Parker)
Blanchard [b. about 1760; d. Aug. 11, 1845; m. (2) about 1808,
James (1) Chandler]. Apparently he came to New Ipswich
somewhat later than his brother Timothy, and was associated
with that brother until his removal from town. Some years
later he built the house afterward well known as the "Esta
brooks tavern," at the corner of the old Ashby road, (187,
N. L. O.) He was deeply interested in military affairs, and
he rendered excellent service in the Revolution, being in com
mand of the New Ipswich company on Apr. 19, 1775, serving
as lieutenant-colonel on two or more expeditions to Ticon
deroga, and leading the two New Ipswich companies to Royal
ton, Vt., at the time of the raid from Canada in 1780. He
received a colonel's commission in due time, and that title is
borne upon his gravestone. Children :
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Thomas, b. Mar. 31, 1768; d. July, 1821; m. Dec, 1800,
Elizabeth, dau. of Jonathan Locke of Ashby, Mass. [b.
1770; d. May 25, 1843; m. (2) Elijah NewhaH (6)]. He
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1794, studied law,
and practiced successively at Concord, Mass., Montpelier,
Vt., and Blakely, Ala. Later he was judge of the Supreme
Court of Alabama. He inherited a military spirit, and
held a lieutenant's commission in the United States army,
but his service was apparently Hmited to the command of
a troop of cavalry at Concord, Mass. Five children.
Simon, b. Oct. 19, 1773; d. Nov. 2, 1774.
Nathan, b. Sept. 24, 1775; m. 1811, Rebecca Wells of Ken
tucky. He was a major in the United States army, and
in command of Fort Dearborn, situated on the present site
of Chicago, 111., at the tirae of the massacre there in 1812.
Simon, b. June 20, 1777; d. Nov. 2, 1779.
Jonas, b. Apr. 2, 1780.
Oilman, b. Oct. 13, 1790.
15. vii. Sibyl, b. Apr. 7, 1792; ra. Leavitt Lincoln. Res. in Winchen
don, Mass.
16. viii. Polly, b. Feb. 29, 1796; d. Dec. 9, 1874; m. (1) Dec. 25, 1837,
Francis Shattuck (48) ; (2) Leavitt Lincoln. Res. in New
Ipswich.
17. ix. Eben, b. about 1801; d. June 1, 1863. Res. in New Ipswich.
HILDRETH.
Richard' Hildreth, b. 1605; d. Chelmsford, Mass., Feb. 23, 1692/3;
m. (1) Sarah  [d. Cambridge, Mass., June 15, 1644]; (2) about 1645,
Elizabeth  [b. about 1625; d. Maiden, Mass., Aug. 3, 1693]. He ap
pears to have been the ancestor of all bearing the name in America. He
seems to have lived in Carabridge, Woburn, and Chelmsford, where he
bore the title of sergeant. Very possibly his disabled right hand was
due to military service. He was admitted freeman 1643. The family
has been largely in evidence at Westford, Mass., since the time of its
separation from Chelmsford and incorporation as a town. The first
two or three steps in the line of descent given below are not certainly
proven, but they are believed to be correct.
James' (Richard'), d. about 1695; m. June 1, 1659, Margaret Ward.
Res. Chelmsford.
Joseph' (Richard'), b. Apr. 10, 1658; d. Chelmsford, Jan. 28, 1795/6;
m. Apr. 28, 1683, Abigail Wilson of Woburn, who m. (2) Jonathan
Barrett. Richard' (Jaraes', Richard'), m. Dorcas  .
Joseph' (Joseph', Richard'), b. Nov. 30, 1695; d. Westford, 1780; m.
(1) Deliverance  ; (2) Feb. 2, 1743, Abigail HiH of BHlerica.
Ephraim' (Joseph', Richard'), m. Mary  .
James* (Richard', James', Richard'), b. about 1700; d. Cape Breton,
1748; m. Lydia Wright, probably dau. of Ebenezer and Hannah Wright.
Ephraim* (Joseph', Joseph', Richard'), b. 1718; m. Westford, Nov.
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1. Simeon* (EphraimS Joseph^, Richard^), b. 1736; d. about
1776; m. Westford, Feb. 8, 1758, Hannah Spalding. He came
to New Ipswich soon after his marriage, and had a portion of
lot XII : 4, S. R., his house being about thirty rods to the
southwest from the Roger Chandler house still standing, but
upon an old road now long discontinued. His name is borne
upon the alarm list of the morning of April 20, 1775, and
upon the rolls of Capts. Joseph Parker, Stephen Parker, and
Silas Wright, and also upon that of Capt. Benjamin Mann of
Mason, but without doubt his son also served, and there may
have been a third bearer of the name from a neighboring town.
It seems probable, however, that this New Ipswich soldier
was the one named in the list given in the former history of
the town of those who "died of sickness in the army, or soon
after they were brought home." Only one child is recorded :
3. i. Simeon, b. 17S8.-|-
2. Stephen' (James*, Richard', James^, Richard^), b. 1743;
d. Oct. 26, 1800; m. 1764, Esther Manning of Townsend, Mass.
He gave Revolutionary service in the companies of Capts.
Briant and Brown. According to tradition an unmarried
brother lived alone at the foot of the mountain near Pratt
Pond. The spot is probably indicated by the remains of an
old cellar a short distance west from the southern end of the
pond. Only two brothers of Stephen are named in the rec
ords of Westford, Samuel, b. 1735, and James, b. 1748. Both
of these names appear upon the New Ipswich records between
1780 and 1786. Children :
4. i. ZiLPAH, b. about 1774; d. July 4, 1824; m. Feb. 26, 1795,
Benjarain Fletcher (26).
S. ii. James, b. about 1777.-|-
Elijah" (Ephraim*, Joseph', Joseph', Richard'), b. 1750; d. Mar. 17,
1798; m. Mary, dau. of Peter Reed of Littleton, Mass. [d. Feb. 22, 1843;
m. Westford, June 6, 1803, Capt. Eleazer Cumraings (2)].
3. Simeon^ (SimeonS Ephraim', Joseph^, Richard^), b.
1758; d. Meriden, N. H., Sept. 8, 1843; m. Apr. 9, 1799, Mary
(Dustin), widow of William Shattuck (3) [d. Aug. 6, 1832].
After his marriage he removed to Bradford, N. H., and thence
to Meriden. A unique story of his service at Bunker Hill
may perhaps be again related here. " 'See,' said he to a fellow
soldier, 'how I do it ;' and drawing a ball from his pouch, and
then wetting it in his mouth, he let it fall into the muzzle of
his gun ; and then taking deliberate aim at a particular person
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in the British ranks, he sent it through his heart. 'There,' said
he, 'this is the sixteenth that I have fixed in like manner.' "
He had no children.
5. James' (Stephens James*, Richard', JamesS Richard^),
b. about 1777; d. Sept. 10, 1844; m. Nov. 15, 1805, Rebecca
Davis (42). He succeeded to his father's farm and there
passed his life, being known as an exceptionally honorable
and kindly man. He had no children, but he practically
adopted two, Daniel Farwell and Lucinda Giles, who married
and succeeded to his property.
6. Elijah' (Elijahs Ephraim*, Joseph', Joseph^, Richard^),
b. Westford, July 25, 1776; d. Aug. 26, 1853; m. Nottingham,
(now Hudson,) N. H., Isabella Caldwell [b. Hudson, Aug. 5,
1783; d. Westford, Aug. 7, 1884]. He came to New Ipswich
about 1830, and lived at Smith Village the remainder of his
life, his business being that of a cooper. He lived in the house
once occupied by the Locke store. Children :
7. i. Isabell, b. Tyngsboro, Mass., May 26, 1804; d. Westford,
Feb. 12, 1869; m. Amos Day.
8. ii. Elijah, b. Sept. 2, 1805. He was a seaman, and when last
heard from was in South America. Unm.
9. iii. Eleazer Cummings, b. Topsham, Vt., Aug. 12, 1807; d.
Baltimore, Md. He was a stonecutter.
10. iv. John Caldwell, b. Topsham, Vt., Dec. 20, 1808.-|-
11. V. Levi Currier, b. Topsham, Vt., Mar. 15, 1811; d. July 16,
1864, in the military prison at Andersonville, Ga. He was
serving in a New York regiment when captured.
12. vi. Jonathan Hartwell, b. Topsham, Vt., Dec. 18, 1813; d.
Concord, Aug. 16, 1826.
13. vii. Joel Bullard, b. Topsham, Vt., Feb. 23, 1816.-]-
14. viii. Mary Letitia, b. Chelmsford, Mass., Mar. 23, 1818; d. West
ford, Mass., about 1904, unra.
15. ix. Joseph Hartwell, b. Westford, Mass., June 20, 1822; d.
Derry, Aug. 23, 1832.
16. x. Charles Lewis, b. Concord, May 3, 1825; d. Lowell, Mass.
17. xi. Olive Elizabeth, b. Concord, May 3, 1825; d. Concord, June
11, 1825.
18. xii. Asaph, b. Hooksett, Nov. 4, 1826; d. Nashua, July 21, 1837.
10. John Caldwell' (Elijahs Elijah', Ephraim*, Joseph',
Josephs Richard^), b. Topsham, Vt., Dec. 20, 1808; d. New
Ipswich, Jan. 17, 1905; m. Sept. 29, 1836, Harriet Maria
Blanchard (30). He came to New Ipswich in 1839 and bought
the blacksmithy in Smith Village, which he carried on suc
cessfully until advancing years compelled his withdrawal from
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severe labor. He built for his home the house now standing
on the opposite side of the narrow road in front of the smithy.
He was a deacon of the Baptist church fifty-five years. Chil
dren — born in New Ipswich except the first, born at North
Chelmsford :
19. i. John Lewis, b. Nov. 29, 1838.-|-
20. ii. Henry Augustus, b. May 14, 1841 ; d. Auburn, Me., Jan.
19, 1908; m. (1) Nashua, Jan. 26, 1863, Celia Maria Brad
ford, d. Dec 31, 1893; (2) Turner, Me., Jan. 16, 1895, Lura
Frances McKenney. He first learned his father's trade,
but a business training acquired during four years' service
in the commissary department at Washington during the
Civil War turned his later life in mercantile directions.
He was engaged in the grocery business at Turner, Me.,
for several years, and for the rest of his Hfe was a very
successful shoe dealer. The home of his later years was
at Auburn, Me.
21. iii. Harriet Augusta, b. May 14, 1841 ; m. Aug. 13, 1884, Alfred
Reed Tenney (36). Before her marriage she was a trained
nurse.
22. iv. William Hartwell, b. Apr. 19, 1845. -|-
23. v. Charles Willis, b. Sept. 10, 1847.-|-
24. vi. Mary Ella, b. Oct. 7, 1853 ; m. July 3, 1878, Walter Clarence
Frost, who graduated frora Dartraouth College in 1876,
and is a real estate dealer at Colorado Springs, Colo.
Children : i. Hildreth Frost, b. June 22, 1880 ; he gradu
ated from Colorado College in 1901 and from Harvard
Law School in 1904: he is in practice at Colorado Springs.
ii. Hester Frost, b. June 9, 1884; she graduated from
Wellesley College in 1907 and is professor of English
Literature in Hamilton College, Lexington, Ky.
13. Joel Bullard' (Elijah', Elijahs Ephraim*, Joseph', Jo
sephs Richard^), b. Topsham, Vt., Feb. 23, 1816; d. Sept. 25,
1889; m. Jan. 19, 1847, Almira Spaulding (148). When a
young man he was a stage-driver in Vermont, and later
through Manchester and Concord, when the former city was
only a small village. After his marriage he settled in New
Ipswich upon the "Spaulding farm," (XI : 3, S. R.) Children :
25. i. Lucy Jane, b. June 30, 1849; ra. Aug. 8, 1871, Williara E.
Maxwell.
26. ii. Mary Ann Letitia, b. June 20, 1851 ; unm. Res. in Littleton,
Mass.
27. iii. George Carpenter, b. Sept. 18, 1854. -(-
28. iv. Charles Bullard, b. Dec. 19, 1857; d. Jan. 1, 1859.
19. John Lewis' (John C, Elijah', Elijahs Ephraim*, Jo
seph', Josephs Richard^), b. Nov. 29, 1838; m. Mar. 2, 1864,
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Temple [b. July 17, 1837]. He entered Dartmouth College in
1860, but in his second year withdrew and entered the service
of the Sanitary Commission for the soldiers in Virginia and
Louisiana, which service determined his choice of a profession,
so that at the close of the war, instead of completing his col
lege course he commenced the study of medicine, and gradu
ated from Dartmouth Medical School in 1867. Nearly his
entire professional life has been passed in Cambridge, Mass.,
where his success has placed him among the very first mem
bers of his profession in that vicinity, and has been further
attested by the gift from his Alma Mater of the baccalaureate
degree and the replacement of his name upon the roll of the
class of 1864 as though he had formally completed the course,
an action endorsed by his fellow alumni in his election as pres
ident of the Alumni Association. He was for some years dean
of the Medical School of Tufts College, and has received from
that institution the degree of LL. D. He is a loyal son of New
Ipswich, in which he has as a summer home, the "Col. Smith
house" in Smith Village, and he is an earnest worker as a
trustee of Appleton Academy. Children :
29. i. John Lewis, b. Aug. 17, 1870.-]-
30. ii. Beulah Gertrude, b. June 2, 1873; ra. May 31, 1894, Charles
Edward Barrett (24).
31. iii. Alfred Hitchcock, b. Sept. 10, 1874.-|-
22. William Hartwell' (John C, Elijah', Elijah', Eph
raim*, Joseph', Josephs Richard^), b. Apr. 19, 1845; d. Jan.
15, 1903; m. Aug. 3, 1868, Helen Josephine Flagg [b. Dec. 24,
1844; d. Nov. 2, 1908]. He fitted for college in Appleton Acad
emy, but studied medicine without pursuing a previous college
course and graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in 1868.
He practiced at Fitchburg, Mass., for a short time, but most
of his professional life was spent at Newton Upper Falls,
Mass., where he was successful, but feeble health and absences
necessarily resulting forbade the higher position of which his
ability justified the expectation. Child:
32. i. Florence Josephine, b. Sept. 26, 1870; m. Oct. 1, 1902, Alex
ander Hiram Dresser.
23. Charles Willis' (John C, Elijah', Elijahs EphraimS
Joseph', Josephs Richard^), b. Sept. 10, 1847; m. Apr. 6, 1871,
Lucy Maria, dau. of Nathan and Jane (Parker) Colburn of
Temple [b. June 2, 1845]. He is a farmer in Westford, Mass.
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33. i. Henry Willis, b. May 26, 1874; m. Nov. 5, 1907, Harriet
Craven Sargent of Graniteville, Mass. He is bookkeeper in
a bank.
34 ii. Charles Lewis, b. June IS, 1879 ; m. July 24 1907, Elizabeth
Hayward of Westford. He graduated from Dartmouth
College in 1901, and from Harvard Law School in 1904.
He is in practice at Lowell, Mass.
27. George Carpenter' (Joel B.', Elijah', Elijah', Eph
raimS Josephs Josephs Richard^), b. Sept. 18, 1854; m. (1)
May 14, 1876, Eveline A., dau. of Ralph and Azubah Wright;
(2) Nov., 1895, Mary Aker of Townsend, Mass. He lived for
some years upon the northern part of XV: 3, S. R., long the
home of Ezekiel Nutting, but in 1904 removed to West
Townsend. Children :
35. i. Willie Henry, b. Nov. 30, 1877.
36. ii. Eva May, b. and d. about 1880.
37. iii. Estella Isabel, m. Fred Stacy.
29. John Lewis' (John L.', John C, Elijah', Elijahs Eph
raim*, Joseph', Joseph^, Richard^), b. Aug. 17, 1870; m. June
1, 1897, Harriet Maria Bigelow. He graduated from Dart
mouth College in 1892, receiving the degree B. L., and from
Harvard College in 1903, receiving the degree A. B. He is
a civil engineer, engaged upon the Metropolitan Water Works
in New York city. Children :
38. i. Harriet Smith, b. Feb. 3, 1900.
39. ii. John Lewis, b. June 4, 1906.
31. Alfred Hitchcock^ (John L.S John C, Elijah', Eli
jah', EphraimS Joseph', Josephs Richard^), b. Sept. 10, 1874;
m. June 6, 1905, Alice Russell of Winchester. He graduated
from Harvard College in 1896, and from Harvard Law School
in 1899. He is a lawyer in Boston, engaged in patent law.
Children :
40. i. Richard Russell, b. Mar. 21, 1909.
41. ii. Helen Colburn, b. Nov. 19, 1911.
42. Ephraim Hildreth is mentioned in the History of
Westford, Mass., as having left that town and remained in
New Ipswich for a time, but his place in the Westford family
is uncertain. He was a Revolutionary soldier serving in the
companies of Capts. Briant, Joseph Parker, and Thomas, and
his name continues upon the town records until 1792. A part of
his military history is given in "New Hampshire Genealogies,"
in which he is said to have been born in New Ipswich in 1754,
and to have died Oct., 1853, but no memory of him exists in
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the town, nor does the family name appear until much later
than the birth date there given. He married Oct. 6, 1783,
Rhoda Barnes [b. 1763; d. Dec, 1846]. Child:
43. i. Ephraim Barnes, b. July 24, 1784.
HILLS.
Joseph' Hills, b. Billericay, Essex, England, bapt. Mar. 3, 1602; d.
Newbury, Mass., Feb. 5, 1688; m. (1) Rose Clark [d. Mar. 24 1650];
(2) June 24, 1651, Hannah (Smith), widow of Edward Mellows of
Charlestown; (3) Helen, dau. of Hugh Atkinson of KendaU, Westmore
land, England; (4) Anna, widow of Henry Lunt of Newbury. He
came to America in 1638 and settled in Charlestown, of which town he
was a selectman, and also representative to the General Court, where he
was elected speaker. His residence was in the part of the town set off
as Maiden, which he represented a long tirae. He was a magistrate, and
in that capacity performed his own third marriage, for which he was
admonished by the court. He died in Newbury.
Joseph' (Joseph'), bapt. Aug. 2, 1629; d. Apr. 19, 1674; m. Hannah
Smith [d. July 11, 1674]. Res. in Maiden.
Samuel' (Joseph', Joseph'), b. Dec. 16, 1669; d. Dorchester, Mass.,
Jan. 7, 1704; m. Sarah  .
Jabez* (Samuel', Joseph', Joseph'), b. June 4 1699; d. July 18, 1742;
ra. Jan. 31, 1727, Martha, dau. of Eleazer and Meletiah (Fish) Metcalf
[b. Wrenthara, Mass., Aug. 27, 1699]. He res. in that part of Wrentham
which became Franklin.
1. David' (Jabez*, Samuel', Josephs Joseph^), b. Jan. 24,
1737; d. Dec. 18, 1815; m. (1) Hannah Fales of Dedham, Mass.
[b. Apr. 16, 1745 ; d. Sept. 12, 1777] ; (2) Apr. 22, 1778, Sarah,
dau. of Samuel and Abigail (Avery) Manning [b. Townsend,
Mass., June 14, 1755; d. Oct. 2, 1803] ; (3) Jan. 9, 1806, Abigail,
widow of Abijah Smith (1) [d. Dec. 4, 1815]. He came to
New Ipswich about 1772, bought the farm of Joseph Bates,
previously owned by Abijah Foster, and erected, but a few
rods southerly from the place of the first dwelling ever built in
the town, a substantial building which was his home and store
for many years, and which gave evidence of the thoroughness
of its construction, not only by showing no signs of age as
more than one hundred years passed by, but also by the long
continued vigor of the fire which finally destroyed it. He was
a man who was not afraid to follow new ways, in which he
usually was successful. This trait of character was shown in
his improved methods and instruments in farming, his hori
zontal well to supply his house with running water, and in
his manufacture of potash near the site of the bank building
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north of Union Hall, which probably aroused the very con
siderable number of like attempts in many parts of the town.
Children :
2. i. Martha, b. Dec 27, 1772; m. Feb. 25, 1801, Williara HaH of
Rockingham, Vt. Five children.
3. ii. Mary, b. Jan. 26, 1774; d. Oct. 23, 1806; m. Nov. 17, 1799,
Noah Bartlett (6).
4. iii. Hannah, b. May 13, 1775 ; m. June 12, 1796, John B. Wheeler
of Oxford. Five children, of whora the eldest was John,
president of the University of Vermont.
5. iv. Meletiah, b. Oct. 24 1776; d. Aug. 13, 1778.
6. V. Sarah, b. Dec 15, 1778; d. Dec 18, 1819; m. Mar. 9, 1815,
William Hall of Rockingham, Vt.
7. vi. John Fales, b. July 22, 1780. -f-
8. vii. David, b. Oct. 19, 1781 ; d. Apr. 2, 1789.
9. viii. Meletiah, b. July 3, 1783; d. Jan. 13, 1784.
10. ix. Susannah, b. Dec 21, 1784; d. Sept. 16, 1864, unm.
11. x. Samuel, b. Oct. 15, 1789; d. Aug. 9, 1791.
12. xi. Jabez, d. Sept. 6, 1871, unm. He went to Rockingham, Vt.,
as a clerk with his brother-in-law WiHiam Hall, and mani
fested the business abilities of his father and brother suffi
ciently to accumulate a considerable property which he
employed in private banking. But in other matters he was
peculiar, and exceedingly unsocial, being known as "Jabez,
the Hermit."
7. John Fales' (DavidS Jabez*, Samuel', Joseph^, Joseph^),
b. July 22, 1780; d. Oct. 31, 1819; m. (1) M"ar., 1810, Abigail,
dau. of Timothy and Ruth (Pollard) Fox (15) ; (2) Feb. 15,
1816, Esther, dau. of Seth Arnold [b. Westminster, Vt., Sept.
3, 1792; d. Dec. 27, 1877]. He succeeded to his father's busi
ness, which had then for a brief time been carried on in the
house built by his father on the present site of the Appleton
House opposite the end of School street. After a few years
he removed that building across the Turnpike to its present
position opposite the postoffice, and began the erection of the
building now known as the Appleton House, but died before
it was completed. Children :
13. i. Henry Fox, b. Dec. 5, 1810; d. June 18, 1860; m. Rebecca
K.  .
14. ii. Harriet, b. May 1, 1812; d. Feb. 27, 1888.
15. in. Edward A., b. Oct. 19, 1813; ra. and had two sons.
16. iv. David Arnold, b. Aug. 11, 1817.-t-
17. V. Myra B., b. Dec. 31, 1818; d. Mar. 15, 1820.
16. David Arnold' (John Fales", DavidS JabezS Samuel',
Josephs Joseph^), b. Aug. 11, 1817; d. Westminster, Vt., July
19, 1903; m. Dec. 19, 1839, Sarah Elizabeth Heath of Roxbury,
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Mass. [b. Mar. 25, 1818; d. Mar. 15, 1885]. Res. Westminster,
Vt. Children :
18. i. William H., b. Oct. W, 1840; ra. (1) Alice A. E. Graves;
(2) Mary J. Pratt; (3) Lizzie R. Cross. Four children.
19. ii. Edward A., b. Sept. 15, 1856; m. Harriet E. Cobb.
20. iii. Sarah E., b. Mar. 28, 1858.
HOAR.
Charles' Hoar, d. 1638; m. Joanna Hinxman [b. Braintree, Mass.,
Sept. 21, 1651]. He was the son of Charles Hoar, a saddler of Glouces
ter, England, and his wife Margerie. It is uncertain whether he came
to Araerica. If he did, he died very soon after. At all events his widow
Joanna and five children are said to have crossed the ocean as early as
1640. He was an alderraan of Gloucester, and also sheriff.
John' (Charles'), b. about 1622; d. Apr. 2, 1704; ra. Alice  [d.
June 5, 1696]. He Hved for a time in Scituate, Mass., but he was a
proprietor of Concord, Mass., and a lawyer there in 1665. His honorable
and courageous conduct in relation to the "praying Indians," unjustly
accused by his fellow citizens, is noteworthy in the early history of Con
cord. His younger brother, Leonard, whose wife Bridget was a daugh
ter of Lord John Lisle, president of the court which convicted King
Charles I., was president of Harvard College, 1672-75.
Daniel' (John', Charles'), b. 1650; m. (1) July 19, 1677, Mary, dau.
of Samuel' and Mary (Frye) Stratton [b. Concord, Jan. 19, 1656/7] ;
(2) Oct. 16, 1717, Mary Lee.
Benjamin* (Daniel', John', Charles'), b. Feb. 11, 1693; d. Littleton,
Mass., Mar. 22, 1775; m. (1) Esther  [b. about 1695; d. May 15,
1744]; (2) Sarah  [b. about 1697; d. Jan. 10, 1770]. Res. in Concord
and in Littleton.
1. Benjamin' (Benjamin*, Daniel', JohnS Charles^), b. in
that part of Concord which is now Lincoln, May 21, 1717; d.
Feb. 14, 1799; m. Concord, Anna Brooks [b. about 1715; d.
Feb. 19, 1799]. He passed his youth in Littleton, coming
thence to New Ipswich in 1742 or earlier, being preceded by
only Abijah Foster and wife and Jonas Woolson. Probably he
did not marry until several years later, at all events her com
ing to the new home was delayed. He settled upon V: 2,
S. R., and built a house near the river, a quarter-mile from the
earlier structure of Jonas Woolson. The history of that early
dwelling is not unlike that of that earlier neighbor, as in due
time it was supplemented by a large two-storied building, and
when age required further change the older part was rebuilt;
the resulting building standing on its original site, and long
known as the "Champney house," is still a serviceable dwell
ing. Apparently this early pioneer did not lack the qualities
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tending to leadership which have distinguished many of his
kinsmen. The former town history characterizes him as "one
of the most important and useful men of the town, for its first
half century." The first meeting of the Proprietors held in
the town, June 20, 1750, was at his house, and not long after,
in 1752, he is mentioned as an "inn-holder," and he continued
this convenience for the public during the period of more than
forty years. He was also the first blacksmith, his shop being
situated just across the "country road" from his house. The
title of captain appears to have been his as early as 1763. He
was moderator of some of the Proprietors' meetings and also
of town meetings after the incorporation of the town. He
was also one of the selectmen. Children :
2. i. Benjamin, b. Mar. 9, 1751; d. Dec. 13, 1752.
3. ii. Benjamin, b. July 8, 1753; d. Sept. 28, 1753.
4. iii. Anna, b. July 20, 1754; d. Mar. 17, 1755.
5. iv. Rhoda, b. June 24, 1756; m.  Loring.
6. V. Jotham, b. July 6, 1757.-)-
7. vi. Anna, b. Feb. 25, 1760; d. Nov. 8, 1824; m. Nathaniel Pren
tice (1).
8. vii. Benjamin, b. Apr. 16, 1762.
9. viii. Phcebe, b. Mar. 1, 1765; m. Jonas Adams (H. 13).
6. Jotham' (Benjamin', Benjamin*, Daniel', John",
Charles^), b. July 6, 1757; will probated 1815; m. Mary  .
He succeeded to his father's home, but removed to Peterboro
in 1805. He held the office of captain while in New Ipswich,
and later became major. Children :
10. i. Sally, b. June 24, 1787.
11. ii. Jotham, b. Dec W, 1788.
12. iii. Charles, b. Mar. 3, 1791 ; d. July 19, 1794.
13. iv. Polly, b. June 16, 1793.
14 V. Charles Davison, b. May 18, 1795.
15. vi. Anna, b. Apr. W, 1797.
16. vii. Benjamin, b. June 26, 1799.
17. viii. Edith, b. Aug. 28, 1801.
18. ix. John, b. Jan. 26, 1805.
HODGKINS.
Without doubt the early settlers in New Ipswich bearing this family
name were descendants of William of Ipswich, Mass., and a careful ex
amination of the records of that town gives an apparently correct line of
descent to William' and Hezekiah" as presented below. But the frequency
of those two names in the intervening generations forbids the entire cer
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William' Hodgkins, b. 1622; d. Dec. 26, 1693; ra. Grace, dau. of
Osman and Grace Dutch. He carae to Ipswich, Mass., about 1640, and
made that town his home until his death.
Christopher' (William'), m. Jan. 22, 1689, Tabitha Howard [d.
Sept. 15, 1735]. He was ancestor of several New Hampshire Hodgkins
families. William' (Christopher', William'), b. Aug. 12, 1703; ra. 1724 Eliza
beth Clark [ra. (2) 1744, Ezekiel Hunt].
William* (WHliara', Christopher', WiHiara'), bapt. Jan. 30, 1725; m.
Mar. 3, 1748/9, Abigail, dau. of William and Martha (Sraith) Uran [bapt.
July 2, 1721; d. May 5, 1790].
1. William^ (WilliamS William', Christophers William^),
bapt. Feb. 3, 1750; d. 1804; m. 1765, Elizabeth (Foster) (4),
widow of John Fletcher (3). He came to New Ipswich about
1765, and settled at the south end of X : 2, S. R., probably a
short distance north from the site of the cross-roads which
long bore the name "Hodgkins' Corner," and on the east side
of the county road running thence to Davis Village. He
rendered Revolutionary service at the time of the Concord
alarm, and also under Capt. Samuel Atkinson at Coos in 1776,
Capt. Josiah Brown on the Rutland excursion in 1777, and
Capt. Robert Fletcher in response to the call from Rhode
Island in 1778, and finally under Capt. Joseph Parker in the
brief expedition to Royalton, Vt., in 1780. Children :
3. i. Nathaniel, b. about 1768; m. Mar. 11, 1790, Anna Stickney
(6). They removed to Belvidere, Vt.
4. ii. Susanna, b. prob. about 1770; ra. Feb. 6, 1790, Phineas
Spaulding.
5. iii. William, b. about 1772. His narae appears on the tax-list
1793-97.
6. iv. Polly, b. prob. about 1774; ra. May 29, 1794, John Putnam.
7. V. John, b. about 1777. His narae is on the tax-list 1798-1801.
2. Hezekiah' (William*, William', Christophers Wil-
liam^), b. about 1757; d. Oct. 4, 1821 ; m. Dec. 18, 1780, Lydia,
dau. of Peletiah Cummings [b. about 1760; d. Apr. 4, 1843].
His name is borne upon the New Ipswich tax-lists 1780-84,
after which he appears to have removed to Marlboro, and
thence to Troy. He twice enlisted from Ipswich, Mass., for
service in the Revolution, under Capt. Timothy Barnard in
1775, and under Capt. Stephen Jenkins in 1777. It may be
also that the name "Hezek" Hodg" on the roll of the sally
to Royalton, Vt., almost immediately before the date of his
marriage, is an abbreviated form of his name showing that he
was with his brother in that brief term of service. Children:
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8. i. Stephen, b. Oct. 21, 1782; d. Albany, N. Y., 1827; m. 1807,
Arethusa Corbin.
9. ii. Peletiah, b. Mason, Oct. 12, 1784; m. Oct., 1814, Mehitable
Adams of Jaffrey. Res. Troy.
10. iH. Sarah, b. 1786; d. 1817.
11. iv. Lydia, b. May 21, 1790; d. 1790.
12. V. Amos, b. July 2, 1792; d. 1792.
13. vi. Lucy, b. Nov. 15, 1793; d. Troy, Dec 29, 1854; m. Enoch
Garfield.
14. vii. Lydia, b. 1796; d. 1817; m. Oct. 5, 1815, Joseph Corbin of
Rochester, N. Y.
15. viH. Aaron, b. Apr. 25, 1797; d. Troy, Apr. 11, 1856; ra. (1) Rhoda
Perkins; (2) Alfreda Brown.
16. ix. Elizabeth, b. June 7, 1804; d. 1812.
17. X. Sarah, b. 1810; m. Alfred Wright.

HOLDEN.
The early history of this family is very shadowy, the emigrant an
cestor not being certainly known.
1. Samuels "of Ipswich," b. Dec. 16, 1740; d. Mar. 18,
1820; m. 1768, Sarah Hosmer of Concord. He came to New
Ipswich in 1763 and settled on the farm south of Whittemore
Hill since known as the "Holden place." Children :
2. i. Samuel, b. Jan. 17, 1769; d. Mar. 4, 1860.
3. ii. Sarah, b. Apr. 17, 1771 ; d. Mar. 15, 1841 ; m. Feb. 20, 1801,
John Knowlton (8).
4. iii. Reuben, b. July 21, 1773.-|-
5. iv. Betsy, b. Dec. 17, 1782; d. Nov. 16, 1868.
4. Reuben^ (Samuel^), b. July 21, 1773; d. Nov. 10, 1813;
m. Feb. 19, 1801, Hannah Prichard (14). Children:
6. i. Jeremiah, b. Mar. 16, 1803; d. Apr. 1, 1804.
7. ii. Ira Samuel, b. Nov. 17, 1804; d. Jan. 4, 1880; m. (1) Cathe
rine DeHinger; (2) Mary Rogers.
8. iii. Amos P., b. Jan. 26, 1806. -|-
9. iv. Edward Hosmer, b. Mar. 26, 1811. -|-
10. V. Reuben Andrus, b. Aug. 9, 1813.-|-
8. Amos P.' (ReubenS Samuel^), b. Jan. 26, 1806; d. Oct.
2, 1852; m. Mary Jane Goodman. Children:
11. i. Edward G, m. Jean Stansbury.
12. ii. Albert.
13. iii. Henry, for many years employed in the Patent Office, Wash
ington, D. C.
14. iv. Mary, m. Myron F. Near. Res. Erie, Pa.
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9. Edward Hosmer' (ReubenS Samuel^), b. Mar. 26, 1811;
d. Mar. 25, 1842; m. Dorcas Barrett Cragin (29). Children:
15. i. Augusta Hosmer, b. Sept. 13, 1838; m. Nov. 24, 1864, Francis
A. Wright. One child.
10. Reuben Andrus' (ReubenS Samuel^), b. Aug. 9, 1813;
d. May 16, 1900; m. Sept. 19, 1836, Aurelia Wells. Children:
16. i. Emma A., b. July 12, 1838; m. James C. Crane.
17. ii. Louisa A. M., b. Feb. 2L 1843; m. S. P. Cheseldine.
18. iii. Kate, b. Feb. 5, 1845 ; d. Mar. 8, 1901 ; m. William E. Crane.
19. iv. Florence, b. Sept. 2, 1849; m. Charles E. Wilson.
20. v. Reuben Andrus, b. May 23, 1859; m. Grace Hillyer.
HORSLEY.
James' Horsley, b. May 1, 1649; m. Martha, dau. of John Parker.
James' (James'), b. Sept. 4, 1675; d. Feb. 18, 1728; m. Maria  .
James' (James', James'), b. BHlerica, Mass., May 19, 1702; d. Mar.
28, 1745; m. Exercise — — [ra. (2) John Brown].
1. James* (JamesS James^, James^), b. Townsend, Mass.,
Jan. 19, 1734; d. Apr. 19, 1809; m. Dec. 21, 1758, Sarah Shedd
of Pepperell, Mass. [b. 1738; d. Sept. 7, 1804]. He lived until
late middle life in his native town, where he was selectman,
town clerk, and representative, also a deacon. He is said to
have served in the Revolutionary War, and he was afterward
known as Captain. He came to New Ipswich about 1783, and
although he removed to Hancock five years later, he was a
somewhat prominent man during his brief residence, being
elected first selectman and town clerk in 1783, and holding
that responsible position for three years. After his removal
to Hancock he was town clerk fifteen years. His home in
New Ipswich was the farm previously owned by Peletiah
Whittemore, and afterward by Josiah and Moses Wilkins,
[VI:3, S. R.] Children:
2. i. James, b. Dec. 3, 1759; d. Oct. 23, 1776, while in Revolutionary
service.
3. H. John, b. Sept. 21, 1761; d. Nov. 26, 1778, while on furlough,
but of disease contracted in Revolutionary service.
4. iii. Sarah, b. Aug. 8, 1763; d. Jan. 16, 1797; m. Mar. 24 1796,
Benjamin Hadley.
5. iv. David, b. Aug. 18, 1765; d. 1836; ra. (1) Apr. 19, 1789, EHza
beth Chase of Peterborough; (2) Sept. 20, 1805, Hannah
Gates. Res. Hancock, Marlow, Swanzey, and Winchester.
Eleven children.
6. V. Samuel, b. July 8, 1767; d. Dec 20, 1826; m. (1) Aug. 23,
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1791, Polly, dau. of Thomas Dodge [d. Oct. 5, 1822] ; (2)
Kezema  . Res. Hancock. Five children.
7. vi. Rachel, b. Sept. 28, 1769; d. Dec. 3, 1778.
8. vii. Betsey, b. Mar. 5, 1772; d. July 20, 1830; ra. (1) Aug. 30,
1790, John Whitcomb [d. Dec, 1796]; (2) Mar. 4, 1802,
Samuel Morrison. Res. Hancock and Alstead.
9. vHi. Joseph, b. June 5, 1774; ra. Louisa Parks of Temple. Res.
Livermore, Me. Five children.
10. ix. Hannah, b. Aug. 11, 1776; d. Jan. 6, 1855; m. Dec 18, 1794
OHver Whitcomb, for a tirae a blacksmith in New Ipswich,
but resided most of the time in Hancock. Ten children.
11. X. James, b. May 11, 1779; d. Mar. 3, 1851; m. 1802, Prudence
Paul of Livermore, Me. He was a cloth-dresser in Liver
more for a time and later started in Dublin the cloth
business which he sold to the father of Milan Harris, whose
products have been so long known as "Harris cloth." Four
children.
Samuel Horsley and his heirs appear on the New Ipswich tax-lists
from 176S to 1794, but he was probably a non-resident landowner.
HOSMER.
James' Hosmer, b. 1607; d. Feb. 7, 1685; m. (1) Ann  -; (2) Mary
 [b. about 1608; d. May 11, 1641]; (3) Alice  [d. Mar. 3, 1664/5].
He was a clothier at Hawkhurst, Kent, England. He came to New Eng
land in 1635, and settled at Concord, Mass., where he resided until his
death. James' (James'), b. 1637; d. May 31, 1676, killed by Indians in the
"Sudbury fight;" m. Oct. 13, 1658, Sarah White.
Stephen' (James'), b. Nov. 27, 1642; d. Dec 15, 1714; m. May 24
1667, Abigail, dau. of Michael Wood [b. Apr. 10, 1642; d. 1717, or 1718]
He passed his life in Concord.
Thomas' (James', James'), b. July 6, 1672; d. Nov. 2, 1754; ra. Feb.
18, 1695/6, Hannah, dau. of Samuel and Ruth (Wheeler) Hartwell [b.
Oct. 8, 1675; d. Sept. 29, 1753]. Res. in Concord.
John' (Stephen', James'), b. Aug. 31, 1671; d. 1751; ra. May 12, 1699,
Mary Billings.
Thomas* (Thomas', James', James'), b. Feb. 7, 1703; d. Jan. 10, 1787
m. Apr. 29, 1731, Prudence, dau. of Stephen' and Prudence (Billings)
Hosmer [b. Nov. 27, 1707; d. Oct. H, 1791]. He res. in Concord.
John* (John', Stephen', James'), b. July 24 1700; d. Dec. W, 1733
m. Aug. 26, 1724, Mehitable Parker. He passed his life in Concord.
Nathaniel* (John', Stephen', James'), b. Dec. 21, 1701; m. EHzabeth
 [b. about 1704; d. May 28, 1794]. His name appears upon the
New Ipswich tax-lists in 1765 and 1767, and it is possible that he was
with his sons who came to town in 1764, but it appears more probable
that he was a non-resident tax-payer, and that he retained his residence
in Concord during his entire life.
John" (John*, John', Stephen', James'), b. May 17, 1725; d. Nov. 17,
1771; m. Aug. 29, 1750, Martha Webber of Medford, Mass. He res. in
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1. Benjamin*" (Thomas*, Thomas', James^, James^), b. May
18, 1750; d. Jan. 2, 1832; m. Apr. 20, 1792, Sally Miles of Con
cord [b. about 1757; d. Dec. 28, 1792]. This was probably
the Benjamin Hosmer whose name is borne upon the New
Ipswich tax-lists most of the time from 1785 to 1805, but not
upon those of the three years 1791-93, which include the time
of his brief married life. He seems to have lived in the high
way district then extending from the Roger Chandler farm,
(XII : 4, S. R.,) to the southwestern corner of the town. Later
than 1805 his name is borne on the non-resident list as living
in Concord. 2. William' (Nathaniels John', Stephens James^), b. Oct.
19, 1729; d. Mar. 26, 1802; m. June 19, 1753, Ann, dau. of Amos
and Elizabeth Heald [b. Oct. 25, 1732; d. Aug. 6, 1814]. He
was one of the two members of his family whose names ap
peared upon the New Ipswich records as early as 1764, but
it remained for so brief a time that it is by no means certain
that he was an actual resident. If he was, he probably made
his home with his brother Reuben.
3. Nathaniel' (Nathaniel*, John', StephenS James^), b.
Nov. 29, 1731 ; d. Aug. 6, 1814; m. July 1, 1756, Elizabeth, dau.
of Amos and Elizabeth Heald [b. Jan. 6, 1734; d. Aug. 23, 1810].
The identity of his name with that of his father and the fur
ther identity of the given names of his mother and his wife
make the question of his residence almost insoluble. There is
no doubt of his later residence in Mason, and he died at Cam
den, Me. Children:
7. i. Tabitha, b. May 24, 1757; d. Mar. 4, 1841; m. John Sawtelle.
8. ii. Anna, b. Nov. 13, 1759; ra. Job Hodgman.
9. iii. Eunice, b. Aug. 22, 1762; d. Dec, 1832; m. Samuel Russell.
10. iv. Nathaniel, b. Aug. 9, 1765; d. June 3, 1846; m. (1) Jan. 1,
1789, Mary Wheeler; (2) Feb. 3, 1803, Nancy Fay.
11. V. Asa, b. Aug. 10, 1769; m. Oct. 2, 1795, Nancy Eaton.
4. Amos^ (Nathaniels John', Stephen^, James^), b. June 28,
1734; d. Nov. 2, 1810; m. (1) Nov. 22, 1776, Mrs. Lucy Mer
riam [b. about 1750; d. Feb. 23, 1804] ; (2) Apr. 11, 1806, Sarah
Hosmer [b. about 1747; d. Aug. 10, 1820]. He lived in Con
cord, where he was a lieutenant, but the name appears upon
the New Ipswich tax-lists from 1780 to 1803 without any in
dication of non-residence. Later until his death he was re
corded as of Concord. A few months before his death he
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conveyed to his son Amos for "love and good-will" all his
land in New Ipswich, including the "rest of lot 24," a part of
which Amos, Jr., had bought a few years before from his uncle
Reuben, at the time of sale a resident in Mason. Apparently,
therefore, Lieut. Amos Hosmer's home in New Ipswich was
in the region afterward occupied by his descendants in the
southeastern corner of the town. Children :
12. i. Amos, b. about \777.-\-
13. ii. Nathan, b. Dec. 3, 1780; d. Oct. 9, 1805.
14. iH. Asa, b. Sept. 17, 1782; d. Oct. 15, 1844.
15. iv. Rebecca, b. Feb. 7, 1784.
16. V. Nathan, b. Oct. 22, 1785.
17. vi. Ephraim, b. June 29, 1787.
18. vii. Sally, b. Sept. 17, 1789.
19. viH. Betsey, b. Jan. 18, 1792; d. Jan. 31, 1831; m. Dec 6, 1812,
Ebenezer Conant. Seven children.
5. Reuben" (Nathaniel*, John', Stephen^, James^), b. Dec.
5, 1739; d. Acton, Mass., Aug. 15, 1812; m. (int. Feb. 8, 1797)
Lydia Powers of Littleton, Mass. He came from Concord,
Mass., to New Ipswich in 1764, and his name frequently ap
pears on the records of the town throughout his life, although
his residence was not always within its bounds. He is said in
the former history of the town to have settled in its south
eastern part, which harmonizes with his sale, five years later,
of lot 68, A. D., and also with the sale in 1800 of a part of
lot 24, N. L. O., to his nephew, as before mentioned. In the
first of those deeds he is defined as a husbandman of Ashby,
Mass., and in the second he is said to be a mason. He joined
with residents in the southern part of the town in a contest
concerning the location of the meeting-house in 1767. In the
early years of the nineteenth century he paid highway taxes
in the northwestern corner district, and finally in the Davis
Village district. His death in Acton, Mass., is recorded in the
records of Concord. Children :
20. i. Sewall, b. Concord, Mass., Jan. 13, 1798. Very little has been
found concerning this meraber of the faraily, but he is be
lieved to be represented by his narae borne from 1824 to
1832 upon the tax-list of the highway district including the
eastern part of the Center Village and the Adaras farras,
(21 and 25, N. D.)
21. ii. Reuben. This name is entered here without satisfactory evi
dence. But it seems the most probable assumption that the
bearer of this name, borne beside the preceding one dur
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6. John' (JohnS JohnS JohnS Stephen^, James^), b. May
10, 1758; d. Sept. 17, 1839; m. Jan. 21, 1781, Anna Fosgate
of Bolton, Mass. He prepared for admission to college, but
relinquished his intention of taking a liberal education and
became a shoemaker. He resided at Lexington, Mass., and
served in Capt. Parker's company of April, 1775, and continued
similar service in 1776 and 1777. He removed to Shrewsbury,
Mass., and later to Bedford, Mass. His life ended in New
Ipswich. Children :
22. i. Christopher Page, b. May 1, 1782; d. Sept. 19, 1834; m. Feb.
29, 1812, Nancy Thompson. Ten children.
John, b. June 27, 1784.
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Martha, b. Feb. 15, 1788; d. Jan. 16, 1892; m. Benjamin Ager
Clark (E. 5).
Anna, b. Oct. 22, 1789.
Julia, b. June 3, 1791.
Clarissa, b. Sept. 6, 1792.
Benjamin, b. Oct. 20, 1794
Leander, b. Apr. 5, 1796; d. Oct. 6, 1888; m. Sophronia Wil
son of Billerica. Ten children.
31. X. Gustavus, b. Nov. 26, 1798; d. Nov. 24, 1828; m. Julia Wilson.
Three children.
12. Amos' (Amos', Nathaniels John', Stephens James^), b.
about 1777 ; d. June 3, 1842 ; m. Oct. 23, 1805, Lydia Haynes
of Sudbury [b. about July, 1786; d. Apr. 10, 1863]. He was
a farmer in Concord, Mass., in his early manhood, and for a
short time in Billerica, Mass. But, as occasion offered, he
purchased portions of the family estate in New Ipswich, and
of land adjoining it, and in 1820, or a little later, he came to
New Ipswich and there passed his remaining life. He built
the house, the place of which is now marked by its cellar, upon
28, N. L. O. Children :
32. i. Nathan Merriam, b. Billerica, Mass., Oct. 2, 1808.-|-
33. ii. Amos Haynes, b. Feb. 4, 1813. He removed to Mason about
1837.
34. iii. Susan Lydia, ra. Oct. 3, 1844, Benjamin Eaton of Gardner,
Mass.
35. iv. William, b. about 1816; d. Apr. 8, 1842.
24. Castalio' (John', John', JohnS John', StephenS
James^), b. Apr. 6, 1786; d. 1869; m. 1805, Ruth Clark (E. 3) ;
(2) Mary  . He was a shoemaker at Bedford, Mass., and
came thence to New Ipswich about 1832. For some years he
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building long known as "The Forge," using the now aban
doned waterpower of the Saw Mill Brook at the southern end
of the Adams farm, (21, N. D.,) near the Turnpike, and he
lived for a time on the Francis Appleton farm, (38, N. D.)
He was selectman for two years. He returned to Bedford
about 1842. Children— b. at Bedford:
36. i. Ebenezer Clark, b. July 4, 1806; d. Sept. 9, 1896; m. Mary
Ann Muzzey of Lexington, Mass. He was a farmer at
Bedford, Mass. Five children.
37. ii. Anna Fosgate, b. Mar. 28, 1808.
38. Hi. Elias Pool, b. Mar. 11, 1810.
39. iv. Sarah, b. Dec 21, 1811.
40. V. Lucinda, b. May 12, 1814.
41. vi. Walter, b. 1816; d. Oct. 1, 1817.
42. vii. Laura, b. May 19, 1817; m. Leander Clark (11).
43. viii. Castalio, b. May 16, 1819; m. Mary, dau. of Benjamin A. and
Martha (Hosmer) Clark (13).
44. ix. Charles, b. Nov. 6, 1820.
45. x. Granville, b. Sept. 25, 1822.
32. Nathan Merriam'' (Amos', Amos', Nathaniels John',
Stephens James^, b. Oct. 2, 1808; d. Dec. 22, 1854; m. Mary
T. Lawrence [b. about 1816; d. Aug. 1, 1863]. He succeeded
to the Hosmer farm, and made his home upon 24, N. L. O.
Children :
46. i. Mary Jane, b. about 1838; ra.  ¦ Worcester. Res. National
City, Cal.
47. ii. Fannie Louisa, b. about 1841 ; m. Lewis Hodgman. Res.
National City, Cal.
48. iii. William, b. about 1843 ; d. Sept. 18, 1848.
HOUGHTON.
Ralph' Houghton, b. about 1623; d. Milton, Mass., Apr. 15, 1705;
m. Jane  [b. 1626; d. Milton, Jan. 10, 1701]. He is supposed to have
been the younger brother of Sir Richard Houghton of Houghton Tower,
Lancashire, England. He came to America about 1647 and settled in
Woburn, Mass., but remained there but a brief tirae before reraoving to
Lancaster, Mass., where he was an influential man for many years. He
was the first clerk of the town.
James' (Ralph'), b. 1650; d. 1711; m. Mary  . He reraoved to the
place afterward Harvard, Mass., and there established the "Houghton
Homestead," still occupied by his descendants.
Thomas' (James', Ralph'), b. 1696; d. about 1764; ra. Dec 2, 1725,
Moriah Moore [b. Aug. 9, 1699; d. May 2, 1790]. Res. Harvard.
Elijah* (Thomas', James', Ralph'), b. June 2, 1739; d. July 20, 1819;
m. Jan. 8, 1766, Mercy, dau. of Abraham and Sarah Whitney [b. Sept.,
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Thomas" (Elijah*, Thomas', James', Ralph'), b. Jan. 8, 1767; d. May
1, 1846; m. Dec. 19, 1785, Betsy, dau. of John and Lydia (Jefts) White
[b. Jan. 26, 1767; d. Feb. 27, I860].
1. Levi" (ThomasS Elijahs Thomas', James^, Ralph^), b.
Feb. 28, 1794; d. June 17, 1872; m. Eliza Reed. He came to
New Ipswich about 1829, and remained until 1842, when he
removed to Lancaster, Mass. During most of his residence
in New Ipswich he conducted the Benjamin Champney farm
on the old "country road," afterward owned by John Preston,
(VI : 1, S. R.) He bore the title of captain. Children :
4. i. Eliza Ellen, b. about Apr., 1826 ; d. Sept.. 7, 1827.
5. ii. Alvan N., b. about Oct., 1839; d. Apr. S, 1842.
Probably there were other children.
2. John Pearce' (Thomas', Elijah*, Thomas', James^,
Ralphi), b. Oct. 1, 1795; d. Feb. 26, 1864; m. Relief Gould.
He was the first of the family resident in New Ipswich, com
ing about 1826. He was for some time engaged in business
as a butcher on the Ebenezer Champney place, next east of
his brother and on the same lot as originally divided. After
ward he was a teamster to and from Boston. He, too, removed
to Lancaster, Mass., about 1838.
3. Stedman' (Thomas', Elijahs Thomas', James^, Ralph^),
b. Aug. 28, 1799; d. May 9, 1888; m. (1) Nov. 17, 1825, Ann
Cragin (16) ; (2) Harvard, Oct. 24, 1844, Maria Haskell [b.
Oct. 1, 1807; d. Oct. 31, 1890]. He came from Harvard to
New Ipswich about 1829, and soon settled just north from
the Congregational church where he carried on the tanning
industry, and was also a farmer. His house was somewhat
farther north than the present dwelling built by him after the
former one was burned in 1838. Children :
6. i. Charles Emory, b. Harvard, Aug. 24, 1827.-|-
7. ii. Ann Elizabeth Prichard, b. Jan. 28, 1832; d. Oct. 13, 1857;
m. Oct. 25, 1855, James P., son of Jaraes and Cyrene (Put
nara) Davis (102).
8. iii. Louisa Maria, b. Jan. 22, 1834; d. Mar. 24, 1870, unm. She
was a successful teacher.
9. iv. Susan Morton, b. Nov. 28, 1838; m. Sept. 18, 1866, Addison
Howard, son of Benjamin T. and Abigail (Howard) Fos
ter [b. Wilton, Nov. 13, 1838; d. Mar. 3, 1906]. He was a
physician in Chicago. Children : i. Fred Houghton Foster,
b. June 26, 1867; m. June 6, 1894, Laura Maud Hafner; res.
Oak Park, 111. ; one son. ii. Winslow Howard Foster, b.
Jan. 10, 1869; m. Sept. 20, 1894 Anna Mabel Burr; res.
Chicago, 111. ; three daughters, iii. Louisa Houghton Foster,
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b. July 12, 1870; d. Dec. 22, 1871. iv. Charles Stedman Fos
ter, b. Aug. 24 1874; m. June 26, 1901, Mary AHce Wheeler;
res. Spokane, Wash.
6. Charles Emory^ (StedmanS Thomas^, Elijah*, Thomas',
JamesS Ralph^), b. Aug. 24, 1827; d. Baltimore, Md., Jan. 2,
1908; m. Oct. 5, 1858, Caroline Sellman, dau. of Samuel and
Sarah (Sellman) McMurray [b. Freedom, Ind., Sept. 21, 1829;
d. Oct. 22, 1910]. He left New Ipswich in 1844, went West,
and in due time engaged in the commission business at Cin
cinnati, O. About 1867 he removed to Baltimore, where his
later life was passed as the head of a large establishment for
the preparation and sale of canned goods. Children :
10. i. Charles Samuel, b. July 21, 1859; ra. Apr. IS, 1890, Birdie
Baer, dau. of Abrahara and Margaret Adelia Castle [b.
Frederick, Md., Mar. 16, 1868]. Res. in Baltimore. Three
children,
11. ii. Louis Stedman, b. Dec. 4, 1860; ra. Jan. 16, 1890, Annie
Hoffman, dau. of Ephraim Brown and Margaret Ann (New-
comber) Nicewarner [b. Baltimore, Jan. 3, 1869]. Res. in
Baltimore. Four children.
Rowena Sallie, b. Sept. 19, 1862; d. July 18, 1863.
Ira Holden, b. May 7, 1865 ; m. Sept. 18, 1894, Louise Luther,
dau. of John Luther and Jessie (Elder) Ringwalt [b.
Philadelphia, Pa., July 25, 1870]. Res. in Baltimore. Three
children.
Catherine Holden, b. June 13, 1868; d. July 25, 1872.
Sellman Cragin, b. Apr. 14, 1875 ; d. Nov. 12, 1882.
HOWE.
Two families bearing this narae, but apparently not of kindred blood,
have lived in New Ipswich, and are here given in succession.
HOWE (Abraham).
Abraham' Howe, d. Jan. 30, 1695; m. Mar. 6, 1657, Hannah, dau. of
WiHiara Wood [b. 1639; d. Nov. 3, 1717]. He Hved for a few years after
coming frora England in Roxbury and Watertown, Mass., but about 1662
he settled in Marlboro, Mass., where he died.
Daniel' (Abrahara'), b. 1658; d. Apr. 13, 1718; ra. Oct. 12, 1686,
EHzabeth Kerley [d. 1735]. He passed his Hfe in Marlboro, where he
was a very considerable landowner and held the office of captain.
Jonathan' (Daniel', Abrahara'), b. Apr. 23, 1695; d. July 25, 1738;
m. 1718, Sarah, dau. of Thoraas and Judith Hapgood [b. Feb. 10, 1695].
Res. in Marlboro.
1. Ichabod* (Jonathan', Daniel^, Abraham^), b. Jan. 9,
1730/1 ; m. Sarah  . He came to New Ipswich in 1754 and
settled where was afterwards the Davis Village, on the "Nich-
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olas place," (49, N. D.) He seems to have been possessed of
more money than most of his fellow townsmen, as his share
of the "Minister's rate" for 1763, the first year after the in
corporation of the town, was £8 3s. Id., amounting at the
rate for those days to about $3.75, the entire list of ninety-five
names calling for only six larger amounts. In 1757 he was
on "the committee to hire preaching," although he did not
unite with the new church until 1765, five years after its or
ganization. But on the completion of the first meeting-house
in 1759 he was on the committee in charge of the delicate
business of assigning seats with a due regard to the dignity
of each individual. In business matters he was first on the
"committee to examine the Selectmen's accounts," or in the
more modern form he was the first auditor elected by the town.
The next year he was first selectman, and the next he held
that office and also that of town clerk. But his record here
was brief, as in 1769 he was one of a party which left the town
to settle the newer town of Camden, Me. Children :
3. i. Jonathan, b. July 31, 1760.
4. ii. Melicent, b. Apr. 25, 1762; ra. David Foster.
S. iii. Sarah, b. Mar. 15, 1766.
6. iv. Stephen, b. Dec. 9, 1768; ra. Eleanor Turner.
7. V. David, b. Sept. 1, 1771 ; m. Freelove Maxim.
8. vi. Susanna, b. Apr. 13, 1774; m. Joseph York.
9. vii. Eunice, b. Feb. 22, 1776; m. Oct. 1, 1800, Henry Wood, Jr.
2. Isaac* (Jonathan', DanieP, Abraham^), b. Jan. 27,
1734/5 ; d. Oct.. 16, 1800; m. Dec. 17, 1760, Sybil, dau. of Joseph
Proctor. He came to New Ipswich several years later than
his brother, probably about 1762. He settled westward from
his brother, at the distance of a half-mile by a now abandoned
road. His house was burned nearly a century ago, but it
stood on or near the site of the house formerly occupied by
Samuel C. Wheeler, which is still standing on the road run
ning southerly from his later brick residence upon the Turn
pike, (57, N. D.) His ministerial rate was fifty cents less
than that of his brother, but he was equally active in town
matters. He was chosen upon committees supposed to be
formed of the wiser and more discreet citizens for such duties
as giving instructions to the town's representative or for ac
tion in respect to the formation of the state constitution. He
held the offices of town clerk and first selectman five years
of the time during which those positions of responsibility
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were united. He gave service in the Revolutionary times as
a member of the Committee of Correspondence and Inspection,
and also in the field he was a sergeant in the company sud
denly formed in 1775, adjutant in Col. Enoch Hale's regiment
on its expedition to Ticonderoga in 1776, and quartermaster
of the same regiment on service in Rhode Island in 1778. Chil
dren : Sarah, b. Mar. 17, 1762; d. Mar. 29, 1762.
Vashti, b. Apr. 2, 1763.
Sarah, b. Dec. 29, 1764.
Isaac, b. Jan. 22, 1767. He remained for many years at or
near the home of his boyhood, but records concerning him
are few.
Joseph, b. June 1, 1769; d. Sept. 17, 1772.
A son, b. and d. Jan. 10, 1771.
A son, b. and d. Jan. 10, 1771.
17. viH. Sybil, b. Jan. S, 1772; m. (1) Jan. 24, 1793, Ebenezer Stone;
(2) Josiah Sawtell of Rindge [d. Oct. 1, 1825] ; (3) Moses
Hale of Rindge.
18. ix. Susanna, b. Feb. 12, 1774; d. Mar. 18, 1853; m. Dr. Calvin
Ainsworth of Claremont.
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20. xi. SiLVANUS, b. June 4, 1779.
21. xii. Jonathan, b. June 16, 1781. He was a printer in Boston.
22. xiii. Asa, b. Mar. 29, 1784.
19. Joseph' (Isaac*, Jonathan', DanieP, Abraham^), b.
May 11, 1776; d. Oct. 17, 1852; m. 1803, Sarah Sawtell. He
succeeded to his father's farm. Children :
23. i. Rebecca, b. Jan. 8, 1804.
24. ii. Tryphena, b. Dec. 30, 1805.
25. iii. Jonathan, b. Oct. 7, 1807.
26. iv. Alonzo, b. Aug. 29, 1809.
27. V. Silvester, b. Mar. 6, 1812; d. Apr. 17, 1813.
28. vi. Alvin, b. Aug. 15, 1814.
HOWE (John).
John' Howe, d. 1689; m. Mary  . He is supposed to have been
son of John Howe of Warwickshire, England. He was first at Water-
town, then at Sudbury, Mass., in 1639, where he was a selectman in 1642,
and is said to have been the first settler in Marlboro, Mass., in 1657. He
was an inn-keeper for a time.
Samuel' (John'), b. Oct. 20, 1642; d. Apr. 13, 1713; m. (1) June 5,
1663, Martha Bent of Sudbury [d. Aug. 29, 1680] ; (2) Sarah Clapp [d.
Mar. 29, 1726]. Res. at Sudbury.
David' (Samuel', John'), b. Nov. 2, 1674; m. Dec. 25, 1702, Hepzibeth
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David* (David', Samuel', John'), b. June 3, 1717; d. Aug. 3, 1759; m.
Mar. 15, 1744, Abigail Hubbard, probably dau. of Joseph and Rebecca
(Bulkely) Hubbard of Concord, Mass. [b. Feb. 20, 1724/5]. Res. at
Sudbury. Buckley' (David*, David', Samuel', John'), b. July 23, 1746; d. Nov.
1, 1789; m. Feb. 2, 1769, Elizabeth Moore. Res. at Hubbardston, Mass.
Peter*' (Buckley", David*, David', Samuel', John'), b. Sept. 13, 1785;
d. Sept. 16, 1839; m. (1) Jan. 2, 1809, Elizabeth, dau. of Peter and Anna
(Russell) Haynes [b. Sudbury, Mass., Feb. 2, 1785; d. Rindge, Sept. 13,
1828]; (2) Sept. 3, 1830, Sarah, dau. of John and PrisciHa (Battles)
Whitney of Rindge [d. Concord, Mass., Dec 25, 1834] ; (3) Sept. 17, 1835,
Dorcas G., dau. of Caleb and Patty (Murdock) Heath of FitzwilHam. He
settled in Stratton, Vt., in early manhood, but removed to Rindge in 1813,
where he lived about twenty years, then removing to Concord, Mass., and
thence to Westfield, Mass., where he died.
1. Emerson^ (Peter', BuckleyS David*, David', SamueP,
John^), b. Apr. 29, 1811; d. Aug. 7, 1896; m. (1) Aug. 11, 1835,
Sarah A., dau. of Leonard and Sally (Hubbard) Rand of
Rindge [b. Aug. 21, 1816; d. Oct. 26, 1853] ; (2) Apr. 5, 1855,
Louisa J. Conant (21), widow of Jonathan L. Cogswell of
Rindge. He came to New Ipswich in 1848, and remained until
his death. He was a carpenter and occupied the original
Academy building, erected in 1789, as his dwelling and also
as his workshop. He held the office of selectman for several
years, and is also remembered as a police officer who, upon
days when a circus or other similar attraction drew a some
what undesirable crowd to the village, maintained the peace
in a very quiet but yet efficient manner. Children :
2. i. Sarah Elizabeth, b. about June 1, 1836; d. Leominster, Mar.
7, 1871 ; m. June 30, 1860, Charles Marcellus, son of Joseph
and Eleanor Pierce (23). ChHd: i. Will Emerson Pierce,
d. Oct. 31, 1871.
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3. Elbridge Haynes' (Emerson^, Peter', BuckleyS David*,
Davids Samuels John^), b. July 30, 1838; d. June 3, 1883; m.
June 30, 1860, Caroline Hartwell, dau. of Charles and Sarah
(Jones) Baldwin [b. Hillsboro, Dec. 2, 1841]. Res. in New
Ipswich, Fitchburg, and Leominster, Mass. Children — the
first b. in New Ipswich, and the others in Leominster:
4. i. Minnie Aurelia, b. Dec. 5, 1862; ra. Mar. 8, 1881, Edwin
Upton, son of Darwin and Mary Powers of Leorainster.
Res. Leorainster. Children : i. Emma Louise Powers, b.
Dec 17, 1881; m. Nov. 6, 1900, Manley G. Hatstat; res. in
Leorainster; one daughter, ii. Fred Emerson Powers, b.
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5. ii. Charles Emerson, b. June 21, 1867; m. Nov. 26, 1890, Annie
Isabelle, dau. of John and Margaret DeCoff of Leominster.
Res. in Leominster.
6. iii. Wilbur Henry, b. Feb. 26, 1875; ra. Aug. 18, 1897, Lillian
May, dau. of George Leander and Isabelle (Phair) Waters
of Chelsea, Mass. Res. in Leominster, where he is an ac
countant. Child: i. Marion Beatrice, b. Feb. 9, 1899.
HUBBARD.
George' Hubbard, b. England, 1594; d. Jan., 1683; m. Mary, dau. of
John and Anne Bishop [d. Sept. 14, 1675]. He carae from England about
1633 and after a residence of two years at Watertown, Mass., removed to
Connecticut and settled at Wethersfield, frora which town he was the first
representative. He reraoved to Milford about 1639, and thence in 1650 to
Guildford, where he completed nearly half a century of citizenship in
Connecticut. John' (George'), b. England, about 1630; d. 1702; m. about 1648,
Mary Merriara of Concord, Mass. At about the age of thirty he reraoved
from Wethersfield, Conn., to Hadley, Mass., and thence, twelve years
later, to Hatfield, Mass., where he passed his remaining years.
Jonathan' (John', George'), b. Wethersfield, Jan. 3, 1658/9; d. July
17, 1728; m. Jan. 15, 1681, Hannah, dau. of Sarauel and EHzabeth (King)
Rice of Marlboro, Mass. He resided at Hatfield, and later at Concord,
Mass., where he died.
Jonathan* (Jonathan', John', George'), b. Concord, Mass., June 18,
1683 ; d. Townsend, Mass., Apr. 7, 1761 ; ra. Sept. 26, 1704, Rebecca Brown.
He resided in Groton, Mass., and Townsend, Mass., in which last town
he was representative for several years, town clerk, deacon, and raajor.
He was one of the grantees named in the Masonian Charter of New
Ipswich and was moderator of the first meeting of the Proprietors held
in the town, June 20, 1750. But there are no indications that he ever
became an actual resident. One of the four lots which were drawn by
him, situated in the northern part of the town, has never had a permanent
road upon it; the highway through two others, near the Massachusetts
line, has been long abandoned; and only the fourth lot, extending from
the central graveyard to Hodgkins' Corner, now shows any activity. He
was also one of the Proprietors of Rindge, where "Hubbard Pond" per
petuates his name, but neither did he live in that town.
John" (Jonathan*, Jonathan', John', George'), b. Groton, Mass., Apr.
23, 1727; d. Feb. 20, 1759; m. (1) Mar. 20, 1749, Hannah Johnson [d.
Apr. 3, 1754] ; (2) Jan. 8, 1755, Mary BaH of Townsend [ra. (2) 
Baldwin of Templeton, Mass.]. His sister, Mary, b. Apr. 12, 1725, ra. (1)
July 21, 1740, John Jennison of Lunenburg, Mass.; (2) Apr. 21, 1758,
Col. Benjamin' Bellows.
1. John' (John', Jonathan*, Jonathan', John^, George^), b.
Aug. 8, 1759; d. Hanover, N. H., Aug. 14, 1810; m. 1791,
Rebecca Preston (13). He graduated from Dartmouth College
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the ministry. He became a teacher in New Ipswich in 1787,
and upon the incorporation of the Academy in 1789 he was
appointed its first preceptor, which position he held until 1795,
in which last year he was elected town clerk. During the
following six years he was an apothecary at Walpole, and
postmaster in 1799. From 1798 to 1802 he was probate judge
of Cheshire County, principal of Deerfield Academy 1802 to
1804, and from 1805 until his death professor of Mathematics
and Natural Philosophy at Dartmouth College. His musical
ability should not pass without mention here, as his influence
in elevating the musical standard in New Ipswich during his
residence in town as a teacher was very marked; later he
published an "Essay on Music" which he read before the
Middlesex Musical Society, and also a collection of anthems
from composers far in advance of the American standard in
his time. Children :
2. i. John, b. Apr. 7, 1792.-|-
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4. iii. Harriet, b. Nov. 9, 1800; m. May, 1822, Abel Conant (1).
5. iv. George Washington, b. Dec. 2, 1808.-)-
2. John'^ (John', John', Jonathan*, Jonathan', JohnS
George^), b. Apr. 7, 1792; d. Aug. 4, 1860; m. Mary Kennedy
of Mason [b. about 1802; d. May 25, 1884]. Res. in New
Ipswich and Wilton. Children :
6. i. Mary Ann, b. Dec. 29, 1823.
John Preston, b. Sept. 6, 1826; d. Oct. 13, 1827.
George Henry, b. Oct. 5, 1830; d. Mar. 9, 1897; m. Sept. 11,
1862, Sarah Beard Fletcher (60).
Harriet Bellows, b. Jan. 23, 1833.
William Edwin, b. Aug. 19, 1835.
John Seth King, b. Dec. 19, 1838.
Charles Lucius, b. Apr. 2, 1840.
13. viii. Louisa Josephine, b. Oct. 12, 1841.
5. Josiah^ (John', John', Jonathans Jonathan', JohnS
George^), b. July 24, 1793; d. Lowell, Mass., Jan. 9, 1871; m.
(1) Mehitable Zipporah, dau. of Gordon and Zipporah (Wood
ward) Whittemore of West Lebanon [d. July 21, 1863] ; (2)
Nov. 12, 1866, Martha Kimball. Children :
14. i. Harriet Woodward, b. Dec. 19, 1815; m. July 16, 1833, Capt.
Siraon Moody of Limington, Me.
15. ii. Clarissa Whittemore, b. Nov. 20, 1817; d. Dec. 5, 1880.
16. iii. Rebecca Preston, b. Mar. 31, 1820; d. May 2, 1882; m. Nov.
22, 1847, Dr. Moses E. Sweat of Limington, Me.
17. iv. Maria Lucretia, b. Apr. 2, 1822; d. Mar. 25, 1838.
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19. vi. Lucy Bancroft, b. Jan. 17, 1830; d. May 30, 1877; m. Henry
L. S. McLanahan.
5. George W.'' (JohnS John', Jonathans Jonathan', JohnS
George^), b. Dec. 2, 1808; d. Rosas Bar, Cal., Dec. 25, 1849; m.
May, 1837, Emma Burge of Hollis. He was a missionary in
Hindustan for several years and later lived near Durango,
Mexico. Children :
20. i. George.
21. ii. Harriet.
22. iii. Clarissa Ann.
23. iv. Emma.
18. John Gordon' (JosiahS JohnS John', Jonathan*, Jona
than', Johns George^), b. Apr. 6, 1827; m. June 1, 1851, Caro
line Chase Colby of Haverhill, Mass. He was educated in
Lowell, Mass., for the medical profession, but changed his
purpose and became an actor and lecturer. He learned his
proposed occupation in the Boston Museum, and then from
1851 to 1867 he was proprietor of "Hubbard's Varieties," a
traveling entertainment which yielded him a competency.
He then settled in Dracut, Mass., where he has been select
man for several years, postmaster, and chairman of the school
board. Child :
24. i. John Josiah, b. Jan. 26, 1854.
JAQUITH.
Abraham' Jaquith, d. Sept. 17, 1676; m. 1643, Ann, dau. of James
Jordan of Dedham.
Abraham' (Abraham'), b. Dec 19, 1644; d. Feb. 14 1679; m. Mar.
13, 1671, Mary, dau. of Henry and Tamson (Manson) Adford of Scitu
ate. Res. in Woburn.
Abraham' (Abraham', Abraham'), b. Feb. 17, 1673; d. Dec 18, 1753;
m. Dec. 26, 1700, Sarah Jones of Woburn.
Adford* (Abraham', Abraham', Abraham'), b. Apr. 15, 1710; d. July
16, 1791; ra. (1) Margaret  [d. Jan. 24 1776]; (2) Nov. M, 1776,
OHve Davis.
Adford' (Adford*, Abraham', Abraham', Abraham'), b. Oct. 16, 1748;
d. Nov. 19, 1824; m. Nov. 8, 1773, Sarah, dau. of Jonathan and Elizabeth *
(Tarbell) HartweH [b. Nov. 25, 1746; d. Sept. 19, 1823].
Adde° (Adford", Adford*, Abraham', Abraham', Abraham'), b. Feb.
1, 1785; d. Apr. 24 1862; m. July 3, 1808, Abigail Whiting [b. Mar. 4,
1786; d. Dec. 21, 1866]. Res. Ashby, Mass.
1. George Dinsmore' (AddeS Adford', AdfordS Abra
ham', Abrahams Abraham^), b. Nov. 18, 1821; d. Dec. 4,
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1879; m. July 13, 1847, Mary Sivona Davis (108). He was a
farmer in the southern part of New Ipswich for a time on the
Aaron Chamberlain farm, the western part of 56, N. L. O.,
and later for many years on the Ashburnham road, his house
being but a few rods from the Ashby line. Children :
3. i. Frederic Whiting, b. Dec. 5, 1854; d. Feb. 6, 1856.
4. ii. George Richard, b. July 25, 1857.-)-
S. iii. William Sulivan, b. May 10, 1859; d. Sept. 6, 1859.
2. Charles Barrett' (Adde', Adford', AdfordS Abra
ham', Abrahams Abraham^), b. May 4, 1823; d. Aug. 2, 1901;
m. Nov. 27, 1845, Almira Fletcher (204). Children:
6. i. Ossian Chalmers, b. Feb. 26, 1851 ; d. about 1901.
7. ii. Irving F., b. July 29, 1856; d. June 2, 1857.
4. George Richard' (George Dinsmore', Adde', Adford',
Adford*, Abraham', Abrahams Abraham^), b. July 25, 1857;
m. Apr. 1, 1884, Maria Augusta W. Pillsbury (6). He suc
ceeded to his father's farm, upon which he has been an ex
ceptionally progressive farmer. He has held various town
offices. Children :
8. i. Dollie Sivona, b. Feb. 19, 1886.
9. ii. Milo Warren, b. May 9, 1888.
10. iii. Hollis Proctor, b. May 7, 1890.
JEFTS.
Henry' Jefts, b. about 1606; d. Mar. 24 1700; ra. (1) Sept. 13, 1647,
Ann Stowers; (2) Hannah Bieths [d. Sept. 15, 1662]; (3) Oct. 3, 1666,
Mary, widow of Siraon Bird [d. Apr. 1, 1679] ; (4) May 5, 1681, widow
Mary Baker of Concord, Mass. He was one of the first settlers in
Billerica, Mass., coraing thither from Concord.
Henry' (Henry'), b. Mar. 21, 1658; ra. Hannah Hill.
Henry' (Henry', Henry'), b. 1705; ra. Mary Gerry of Stoneham,
Mass. Res. for a time in Mason.
John* (Henry', Henry', Henry'), b. Oct. 2, 1739; d. Dec 10, 1809;
ra. Lois Lawrence. He had eleven children, three of whom, or their
descendants, appear on New Ipswich records.
Jonathan" (John*, Henry', Henry', Henry'), b. June 1, 1767; d. Dec
_2S, 1841; m. Nancy Richardson of Alstead [d. Dec 29, 1854]. His home
was probably in Stoddard.
1. Daniel^ (JohnS Henry', HenryS, HenryS), b. Dec. 17,
1778; d. Aug. 16, 1863; m. Aug. 30, 1802, Susanna Willard of
Harvard, Mass. [b. about 1782; d. June 27, 1852]. He lived
in Harvard, Mass., until about 1813, when he came to New
Ipswich, and passed his remaining years as a farmer on the
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"Prichard farm," (18, N. D.) He was selectman for several
years. Children :
4. i. Mary Prescott, b. Sept. 3, 1803; d. Dec 20, 1893; m. (1)
May 20, 1827, Jacob Blodgett [b. Apr. 21, 1805 ; d. Aug. 18,
1840]; (2) Sewell O. Chandler (W. 19). Children: i.
Mary Abigail Blodgett, b. May 9, 1828; ra. George Chicker
ing (12). H. Maria Clarissa Blodgett, b. June 26, 1830; m.
July 11, 1853, (1) Addison Manning [d. Aug. 13, 1873];
(2) Stephen Barnes; three sons. Hi. George Anson
Blodgett, b. Aug. 31, 1833; m. Feb., 1870, Mary E. Wilson.
iv. Melvina Amanda Blodgett, b. Apr. 30, 1836; ra. Nov. 13,
1860, Stephen Curarains Ketchura of Winchendon, Mass.
V. Roxana Jefts Blodgett, b. Apr. 6, 1839; d. June 29, 1911;
m. Sept. 21, 1862, Cyrus A.' (Gilbert', Jonathan^) Jefts of
Ashburnham, Mass. ; four children.
5. ii. Anson, b. Jan. 26, 1806; d. Quincy, 111., June 27, 1831, unm.
6. iii. Roxana, b. Aug. 3, 1808; m. Elisha F. Davis (88).
7. iv. John Prescott, b. Aug. 6, 1810; d. Sept. 9, 1834.
8. V. Clarissa, b. Dec 31, 1813; d. Nov. 19, 1830.
9. vi. Boynton, b. Mar. 3, 1818; m. Ellen O'Flaherty [d. Mar. 6,
1859]. He removed to Greenville. Child: i. Nellie, b.
Aug., 18S8; d. Mar. 6, 1859.
10. vH. Elmira, b. May 1, 1824; d. May, 1883; m. Willard Jefts (15).
11. viii. Elvira, b. May 1, 1824; d. Apr. 28, 1847; ra. Gates Chapman
(3).
2. Willard' (JohnS Henry', HenryS HenryS), b. May 8,
1787; d. Apr. 28, 1858; m. Jan. 20, 1820, Lucy, dau. of Hezekiah
and Lucy (Townsend) Corey of Ashburnham, Mass. [b. Nov.
20, 1791; d. Oct. 20, 1871]. He came to New Ipswich soon
after his marriage, and being a carpenter, built his home, the
second house southerly from the Barrett mansion, afterward
owned successively by Oliver Boyden and his son, and by
Dea. Charles Taylor. There he lived until 1843, when he re
moved to Ashby, Mass. Children :
12. i. A son, b. and d. Mar. 26, 1821.
13. ii. James Merrill Jackson, b. Sept. 10, 1826.-|-
3. Jonathan' (Jonathans JohnS Henry', HenryS HenryS),
b. 1798; m. May 10, 1820, Almira Richardson. He lived for
a few years soon after his marriage on the Edmund Towne
place in the extreme northeastern corner of New Ipswich, (16,
N. D.) Children:
14. i. Mary, b. June 13, 1822.
15. ii. Willard, b. Sept. 13, 1824.-|-
16. iii. Freeman W., b. Nov. 24 1825.
13. James M. J.' (Willard', John*, Henry', HenryS
Henryi), b. Sept. 10, 1826; d. Dec. 24, 1886; m. May 15, 1853,
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Betsey, dau. of Benjamin and Betsey (Eaton) Foster of
Ashby, Mass. [b. July 18, 1832; d. Feb., 1907; m. (2) Nov. 5,
1889, Jonathan A. Hubbard of Ashby]. He passed his life in
Ashby. Children :
17. i. Melvin Willard, b. July 18, 1855; m. June 5, 1879, Ella
Urania, dau. of John P. and Urania (Stearns) Whitney of
Ashby [b. Oct. 29, 1857]. One adopted daughter.
18. ii. Dora Merilla, b. June 27, 1860; d. May 7, 1863.
19. iii. Lizzie Emma, b. Sept. 19, 1862; m. Dec. 31, 1883, John, son
of Ebenezer and Lucinda (Cutting) Daraon of Ashby [b.
Apr. 12, 1859]. Child: i. Ralph Corey Damon, b. July 20,
1886.
20. iv. Charles Merrill, b. Feb. 19, 1868; m. Feb. 25, 1891, Annie
Marie, dau. of WiHiam J. and Mary Ann (Bartlett) Walker
of Fitchburg, Mass. [b. Feb. 3, 1866]. Res. in Brockton,
Mass. Child : i. Mildred Walker, b. June 30, 1896.
15. Willard' (Jonathan', Jonathan', John*, Henry',
HenryS HenryS), b. Sept. 13, 1824; m. Apr. 18, 1848, Elmira
Jefts (10). He was a mechanic in Bank Village during sev
eral years of his early manhood, and later in Greenville.
Children :
21. i. Julia Elmira, b. Feb., 1849; d. July 27, 1854.
22. ii. Clara Maria, b. about May, 1850; d. June 30, 1854.
23. iii. Lucius Willard, b. about Jan., 1853; d. May 12, 1854.
24. iv. Carrie Amanda, b. about Aug., 1855; d. Aug. 20, 1856.
25. V. Nellie Melvina, b. about June, 1856; d. Sept. 7, 1856.
26. vi. Katie.
27. vii. Hattie.
28. viii. Lizzie,
JONES.
The number of New Ipswich residents bearing this familiar surname
has never been large, but the blood of the emigrant ancestor of that
family naraed below has raingled with that of a considerable nuraber of
farailies of the town, as is here shown.
John' Jones, d. Concord, Mass., June 22, 1673; m. Dorcas  [d.
Concord, Nov. 22, 1709]. He came from England about 1635 and set
tled in Carabridge, but removed to Concord about 1650 and there made
his home. His widow ra. Dec. 24, 1674, Williara Buss. Res. in Concord.
Samuel' (John'), b. Carabridge, Oct. 8, 1648; d. 1717; m. Jan. 16,
1672, Elizabeth, dau. of Luke and Mary (Edmunds) Potter [b. 1652; d.
Feb. 14, 1694/5]. Res. in Concord.
John' (John'), b. Concord, July 6, 1656; d. May 16, 1726; m. May 5,
1681, Sarah, dau. of John and Sarah (Wheeler) Farwell [b. May 2, 1662].
Res. in Concord.
Samuel' (Samuel', John'), b. Sept. 5, 1674; d. Nov. 5, 1755; m. Nov.
10, 1698, Ruth, dau. of Thomas and Ruth (Jones) Brown [b. Oct. 12,
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Nathaniel' (Samuel', John'), b. 1676; d. Mar. 22, 1745; m. 1696,
Mary Reddit [b. 1675; d. Jan. 17, 1749]. Res. in Concord.
Ephraim' (Samuel', John'), b. Apr. 30, 1679; d. Oct. 7, 1710; m. Apr.
15, 1701, Hephzibah, dau. of Roger' Chandler (R.). Res. in Concord.
John' (John', John'), b. Jan. 6, 1690; d. Mar. 12, 1762; m. July 25,
1716, Anna, dau. of Daniel and Anna (Merriam) Brooks [b. Feb. 21,
1695/6; d. June 9, 1753]. Res. in Concord.
Thomas* (Samuel', Samuel', John'), b. Nov. 30, 1702; d. Aug. 3,
1774; m. July 20, 1727, Mary, dau. of John and Mary (Prescott) Miles
[b. Concord, Oct. 18, 1709; d. Sept. 26, 1782]. Res. in Concord. He was
a captain. Elnathan* (Nathaniel', Samuel', John'), b. Mar. 29, 1697; d. May
6, 1739; m. (1) Sept. 22, 1721, Hannah Pierce of Concord [b. 1701; d.
Sept. 19, 1730] ; (2) Jan. 13, 1731/2, Rebeckah, dau. of Joseph' and Re
beckah (Minot) Barrett (Humphrey', Humphrey') [b. July 12, 1710; d.
Feb. 8, 1733] ; (3) Hannah Brown [d. 1779]. Res. in Concord.
Ebenezer* (Nathaniel', Samuel', John'), b. Feb. 5, 1706; m. Priscilla
 . Res. in Concord.
Ephraim* (Ephraim', Samuel', John'), b. Sept. 20, 1706; d. Concord,
Nov. 29, 1756; m. Sept. 12, 1728, Mary, dau. of Simeon and Rebecca
(HartweH) Hayward [b. Dec 6, 1708; d. July 30, 1803]. Res. in Concord,
where he held the office of captain. He served at the siege of Louisburg.
Ebenezer* (John', John', John'), b. Dec. 8, 1726; d. 1799; m. Jan. 22,
1750, Mary Wheeler [d. about 1784]. He removed from Concord to Bed
ford, Mass., and thence to Princeton, Mass., about 1750. He was a
prorainent citizen in that town.
John" (Thomas*, Samuel', Samuel', John'), b. Dec. 7, 1730; d. Ashby,
Mass., Dec 18, 1811; ra. Oct. 24, 1754, Phebe, dau. of Daniel and Phebe
(Locke) Brewer [b. Weston, Mass., July 21, 1734]. In 1762 he reraoved
from Concord to the west part of Townsend, Mass., which five years
later was included in the new town of Ashby, where he passed his re
maining life. He held the office of captain.
1. Elnathan' (Elnathan*, Nathaniel', SamueP, John'-), b.
Dec. 13, 1737; d. Feb. 27, 1793; m. Mary  . The births of
four children, 1780-88, are recorded in Concord, and he prob
ably was the Elnathan Jones who was in New Ipswich for
three years before, but nothing further has been found con
cerning him.
2. Ebenezer' (Ebenezer*, Nathaniel', SamueP, John^), b.
Apr. 8, 1749; d. Aug., 1784; m. (1) Oct. 22, 1767, Hannah
Fay of Lincoln ; (2) May 27, 1769, Sarah Fay of Concord [b.
about 1747; d. Sept. 29, 1821]. His two eldest children were
born in Concord, and the others seem to have been born in
Wakefield, Mass., but his name appears on the New Ipswich
records of a few of the last years of his life, and he probably
lived in Smith Village in one of the houses formerly standing
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on the east side of the road as it begins to ascend the hill back
of the dwelling and store owned for many years by Col. Jere
miah Smith. Children :
5. i. Elnathan, b. Sept. 2, 1770.
6. ii. Nathaniel, b. Dec. 29, 1772; d. Oct. 10, 1829; m. Lois Alley.
7. iii. Hannah, b. 1775; m. Dec 29, 1796, Abijah Smith (A. 2).
8. iv. Simon, b. Jan. 1, 1780; d. 1833; m. Rebecca Pool [d. 1865].
9. V. Sarah, b. Aug. 17, 1784; d. Oct. 12, 1862, unm. She passed
the last twenty-five years of her life in the faraily of her
nephew. Col. Smith.
3. Jonas' (Ephraim*, Ephraim', SamueP, John^), b. July
10, 1736; d. July 15, 1817; m. Sept. 6, 1763, Abigail, dau. of
Ephraim* and Elizabeth (Heywood) Hartwell [b. June 5,
1744; d. Mar. 8, 1809]. He was a tanner at Shrewsbury,
Mass., until about 1790, when he came to New Ipswich, living
first on the "Benjamin Knowlton place," the westerly part of
22, N. D., and later on 51, N. D., afterward on the farm of
Earl Boynton. He had rendered much service in the French
wars, having accompanied his father to the siege of Louis
burg when only ten years of age, and afterward served at
Crown Point and in later expeditions, in one of which he
would have lost his life had not the rind of the pork which
had been served out for food been sufficiently firm to forbid
the passage of a bullet. His death, at the age of 81, was
caused by a fall from his horse. Children :
10. i. Lucy, b. Oct. M, 1764; d. June 2, 1851; ra. Feb. 21, 1788,
Gregory Stone, a farraer of Lincoln, Mass. Nine children.
11. ii. Ephraim, b. Nov. 29, 1765.-|-
12. Hi. Jonas, b. Nov. 29, 1765; d. Nov. 20, 1815; m. May 17, 1807,
Sally Manning of Medford, Mass., where he res.
13. iv. Richard Hall, b. Oct. 1, 1767 ; d. Cleveland, O., July 13, 1813.
14. V. Stephen, b. Sept. 11, 1869; d. young.
15. vi. Hepzibah, b. Dec 22, 1770; d. Oct. 21, 1853; m. Nov. 16,
1798, Isaiah Kidder (18).
16. vii. Stephen, b. Nov. 26, 1775.-)-
17. viH. Henry, b. July 5, \777.-\-
18. ix. Isaac, b. Mar. 2, 1780; d. Jan. 16, 1806.
19. X. Peter, b. Feb. 18, 1783 ; d. Mar. 12, 1824.
Nathan" (Ebenezer*, John', John', John'), b. Bedford, Mass., Apr. 21,
1753; d. Apr. 8, 1827; m. Oct. 4, 1774, Mercy Parmenter of Rutland, Mass.
[b. July 27, 1753; d. Dec. 27, 1835]. He lived in Princeton, Mass., untH
1794, and then removed to Ashburnhara, Mass.
4. Elisha' (John', ThomasS Samuel', SamueP, John^), b.
Ashby, Mass., Apr. 15, 1770; d. Nov. 21, 1809; m. 1793, Persis
(or Pershia), dau. of Abraham Taylor, probably of Townsend,
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Mass. He was a blacksmith in Smith Village, 1797-1804, on
the land afterward owned by Col. Smith, probably a little
northwestwardly from the site of the dwelling and store, and
he lived in Ashby both before and after his residence in New
Ipswich. Children :
21. i. Persis, b. Nov. 16, 1793; m. 1812, Isaac, son of Josiah Wilder
of Gardner, Mass. [b. 1784]. Six children.
22. ii. Elisha, b. Jan. 28, 1796; m. Sept. 10, 1818, Kalinda Watkins
of Kentucky, whither he had before removed.
23. iii. Homer, b. Dec. 24, 1797; d. May 18, 1813.
24. iv. Rebecca, b. Apr. 9, 1800; m. July 17, 1822, Andrew Hall of
Boston and Charlestown, Mass.
25. V. John Taylor, b. July 16, 1802; d. Bangkok, Siam, Sept. 13,
1851; m. (1) July W, 1830, EHza, dau. of Rev. Henry Grew of
Hartford, Conn. [d. Bangkok, Mar., 1838] ; (2) Nov., 1840,
Judith Leavitt of Meredith Village, N. H. [d. on home
ward passage from Siam, 1846] ; (3) Sarah Sleeper of
Guildford, N. H. He was a student at Brown University
for one year, but transferred to Amherst College, where he
graduated in 1825. He studied theology at Andover and
Newton Seminaries, and spent his later life as a missionary
in Burmah and Siam. He received the degree of D. D.
from Columbia University.
26. vi. Abel, b. May 12, 1804; d. Ohio, July 12, 1837; ra. Oct. 11,
1829, Lydia Ann Carapbell. He was probably identical with
Marcus A. Jones, who was a roommate of John Taylor
Jones in Andover Serainary, but that is not certain.
27. vii. Sarah, b. Feb. 15, 1807; d. Ashby, Mass., 1838; m. July 19,
1833, Jonas H., son of Dea. Jonas and Susan (Taylor)
Barrett of Ashby [d. Dec 28, 1853; m. (2) Laura E. Gates].
28. viii. Lydia, b. Mar. M, 1809; m. Feb. 5, 1832, Hobart Spencer of
Ashby.
11. Ephraim' (Jonas', Ephraim*, EphraimS SamueP,
John^), b. Nov. 29, 1765; d. Jan. 25, 1839; m. (1) Oct. 3, 1793,
Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel and Rachel Crosby [b. Quincy,
Mass., Mar. 4, 1720; d. Mar. 30, 1806]; (2) Oct. 19, 1806,
Martha, dau. of Jonathan and Martha Fessenden [b. Quincy,
Mass., June 30, 1760; d. Oct. 25, 1826]; (3) Dec. 6, 1827,
Keziah, dau. of James and Delia Adams [b. Lincoln, Mass.,
Feb. 19, 1773]. He res. in Boston, where he was a distiller,
but abandoned the business in 1820 under the influence of the
temperance movement. Children :
29. i. Ephraim, b. July 12, 1794; d. July 28, 1794.
30. ii. Eliza, b. Sept. 13, 1796; d. Sept. 11, 1826.
31. Hi. Ephraim, b. Apr. 10, 1799; d. Bedford, Mass., Nov. 27, 1861;
m. Rebecca Brown. Child : i. Charles Henry, b. Apr. 7,
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32. iv. Henry Hartwell, b. Mar. 15, 1802; d. Mar. 10, 1876; ra. (1)
Buenos Ayres, S. A., May 19, 1835, Caroline Allen [b.
Townsend, Mass., July 3, 1806 ; d. Dec. 29, 1836] ; (2) June
18, 1839, Mary Stone [b. Lincoln, Mass., 1800; d. May 9,
1875]. Children: i. Henry Stone, b. June 6, 1841; m. Anna
Maria Snow. ii. Mary Caroline, b. July 12, 1846; ra. Daniel
A. Cony.
16. Stephen" (Jonas^, Ephraim*, Ephraim', SamueP,
Johni), b. Nov. 26, 1775; d. Ashby, Mass., Apr., 1842; m.
Lydia Kidder (22). He lived for a time upon the "Knowlton
farm," formerly occupied by his father, but removed to Ashby,
Mass., about 1810. Children :
33. i. Isaac, b. Feb. 3, 1809; d. Sept. 29, 1876; m. June 2, 1834,
Rebecca, dau. of Amos Wellington of Ashby. He was for
a few years a mason at Walpole, N. H., but during most
of his life he was employed in iron works at South Boston.
He was a member of the city council, and also of the
Legislature. Children : i. Charles E., b. Apr. 23, 1835 ; m.
1860, Exie, dau. of Capt. Judah Baker; res. in Boston; two
children, ii. Harriet A., b. Apr. 28, 1837; ra. Dec 16, 1868,
Williaras Sraith; res. in California; one child.
34. ii. Charles, b. June 4, 1810; ra. (1) Feb. 22, 1837, Lucy, dau. of
Nathan Estabrooks; (2) Sept. 30, 1851, Mary E. Heard of
Bedford, Mass. Children : i. Francis, d. young, ii. George
P., b. Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 25, 1842; m. Sept. 17, 1868,
Susanna P. Damon of Lexington, where he res.; he served
during the Civil War in the 44th Massachusetts Regiment.
35. iii. Andrew, b. Feb. 22, 1814; d. May 30, 1880; ra. Apr. 16, 1840,
Sarah Elizabeth Wright. Res. in East Cambridge, Mass.,
where he followed the trade of a mason.
36. iv. Harriet, b. Sept. 15, 1816; m. H. W. Seamans of New Lon
don, N. H. Res. at Boston and at Lexington, Mass.
37. V. Stephen, b. Jan. 29, 1818; d. about 1878; m. May 1, 1849,
Sidney Boggs. He was a doctor in Ohio and Indiana.
Children: i. Edgar T., b. Mar. 7, 1850. ii. Sallie M., b.
Mar. 18, 1851 ; ra. J. U. Webster, iii. Evan, b. May 24, 1853.
iv. Lydia, b. May 25, 1857. v. Charlie, b. Nov. 13, 1859.
38. vi. Francis, b. July 4, 1823; ra. 1851, JuHa A., dau. of Rev.
Horace Fletcher of Townshend, Vt. He went to Boston in
youth, and passed his life in the fruit-jobbing business.
Children : i. Grace, b. Oct. 13, 1860. ii. Francis, b. Aug.
27, 1865.
17. Henry" (JonasS Ephraim*, Ephraim', SamueP, John^),
b. July 5, 1777; d. Feb. 22, 1822; m. Apr. 15, 1804, Mary, dau.
of Joshua and Mary Winship of Brookline, N. H. [m. (2)
Oct. 15, 1829, John Daggett of Buxton, Me.]. Res. in Port
land, Me. Children : 492

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39. i. Mary C, b. Feb. 9, 1806; m. Oct. 17, 1826, John D., son of
Williara and Mary Pearson of Boston. Res. at Boston.
Frances C, b. Jan. 29, 1809; d. Dec 5, 1811.
Frances C, b. May 27, 1812; m. Paul Alden of Boston. One
son.
Abigail, b. Apr. 24, 1814; d. Sept. 13, 1833; m. July 10, 1833,
Samuel B. Dyer of Boston.
Richard Hall, b. May 18, 1818.
George, b. July 24, 1820.
20. John' (Nathan', Ebenezer*, John', JohnS John^), b.
Princeton, Mass., Nov. 24, 1783; d. May 3, 1849; m. Dec. 17,
1809, Lucy, dau. of Francis and Hepsibah (Coolidge) Lane
[b. July 6, 1783; d. Mar. 24, 1873]. He was lieutenant in the
War of 1812, and afterward captain in the militia.
45. Frederick' (John', Nathan', EbenezerS John', John^,
John^), b. July 20, 1813; d. July 6, 1892; m. Feb. 20, 1845,
Caroline Frances Gibson (9). He was a graduate of Harvard
University, 1835, a teacher in Georgia and South Carolina
two years, and also in the Philadelphia Blind Asylum. He
was a proficient student in German literature and translated
from the German Rotteck's History of the World, consisting
of four large volumes, which was published during his resi
dence in Philadelphia. Occasionally he translated from the
German for general publication. He attended medical lectures
in Philadelphia and New York city, and received the degrees
of A. M. and M. D. from Dartmouth College. Dr. Jones
practiced a short time in Ashburnham, Mass., previous to lo
cating in New Ipswich, where he successfully engaged in his
professional duties. For nearly fifty years he occupied a
prominent position in his vocation and was often summoned
to the adjoining towns. Although such a practice necessarily
required most of his mental energies, he did not allow himself
to be so confined within professional limits as to cause his
scholarly habits of mind to fail, or to injure his interest in all
worthy activities of his adopted town, an interest witnessed
by his service on the superintending school committee, as a
trustee of New Ipswich Appleton Academy, as a trustee of
New Ipswich Savings Bank from its incorporation, and as a
representative of the town in the Legislature. He concen
trated his efforts upon history, medicine, and science. Chil
dren :
60. i. Frederic William, b. Jan. 9, 1848.-|-
61. ii. Frances Rebecca, b. June 1, 18S2.-|-
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60. Frederic William, b. Jan. 9, 1848; m. (1) May 31,
1881, Harriet A. Perry; (2) July 30, 1902, Mabel Maud, dau.
of Col. George A. and Susan (Converse) Whitney, of Wa
dena, Minn. [b. June 14, 1873, Rindge, N. H.]. She was a
graduate of Wadena high school, attended two years' course
at University of Minnesota, obtaining a teacher's certificate,
and was instructor. He was graduated from New Ipswich
Appleton Academy, 1865 ; from Dartmouth College, 1869 ; at
tended Harvard Medical School one year ; was interne in Bos
ton Lunatic Hospital and House of Correction; was a teacher
in New Ipswich Appleton Academy six years ; received degree
of M. D. from Medical University of New York city, 1881.
He has served a number of years on the school board of New
Ipswich. He secured a license as pharmacist from the State
Board of Pharmacy of New Hampshire in 1882; has been a
newspaper correspondent for years and member of Boston
Associated Press. He served one term as representative in
the Legislature of New Hampshire, session of 1903. He is a
member of the N. H. Medical Society, County Medical Soci
ety, and American Medical Association; also first vice-
president of Mason Village Savings Bank.
61. Frances Rebecca, b. June 1, 1852; m. Jan. 16, 1893,
George D. Burton (2). Her education was secured in the pub
lic school and at New Ipswich Appleton Academy. She de
voted her attention for some years to art and won a gold
medal for superior skill in flower painting, while a student in
Graves Art Studio in Boston. She also studied in Cowles
Art School of Boston. Many works copied from nature en
rich her large collection, consisting of sketches, crayons, paint
ings in oil and water colors, also needlework and china designs.

KIDDER.
James' Kidder, b. 1626; d. Apr. 16, 1676; m. probably in 1649, Anna,
dau. of Elder Francis Moore. He was son of James Kidder of East
Grinstead, County Sussex, England, and came to America in early man
hood, being at Carabridge, where he married, not later than 1650. He
removed to Billerica as early as 1656, and the family became closely
identified with that town in both civil and railitary capacities, he being
selectraan for several years, and coraraanding the small garrison estab
lished there at the time of King Philip's War.
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John' (James'), b. Cambridge, about 1656; d. Chelmsford; m. Dec
3, 1684, Lydia, dau. of Abraham and Rose (Whitlock) Parker of Woburn.
He settled in Chelmsford in early manhood and there purchased five
hundred acres of land for his home.
Thomas' (John', James'), b. Oct. 30, 1690; ra. Dec 31, 1716, Joanna
Keyes of Chelrasford, and in that part of the town which was afterward
made Westford he passed his life. He had five sons, three of whom
becarae citizens of New Ipswich. Children:
i. Thomas, b. Jan. 2, 1718. He is supposed to have died young.
1. ii. Aaron, b. Dec. 22, 1719.-|-
2. iii. Reuben, b. Jan. 1, 1723.4-
3. iv. Joseph, b. Oct. 31, 1725.-|-
v. Josiah, b. Feb. 20, 1727/8.
Of these sons Aaron, Joseph, and Josiah served in the Indian war
of 1746-48. 1. Aaron* (ThomasS JohnS James^), b. Dec. 22, 1719; d.
Nov. 16, 1769; m. May 19, 1749, Rachel Bush of Marlboro,
Mass. [b. about 1725; d. May 5, 1815]. He came to New
Ipswich not much later than 1750, although he is not named
in the Masonian Grant, but he is entitled lieutenant in 1753,
and probably was the third captain of the military company.
He was selectman in 1767. His home was on XV: 1, S. R.
He was found dead by the wayside. Children :
4. i. Thomas, b. Sept. 16, 1750. -|-
5. ii. Joanna, b. 1752; ra. Luther Heaton.
6. iii. Lucy, b. 1757; ra.  Johnson.
7. iv. Rachel, b. 1759; d. unra.
8. V. Eunice, b. 1761 ; d. unm.
9. vi. Aaron, b. Nov. 18, 1764.-(-
10. vii. Luther, b. June 29, 1767.-|-
11. viH. Submit, b. Feb. 8, 1770; m. Amaziah Jacobs. Res. Water
ford, Vt.
2. Reuben* (ThomasS JohnS James^), b. Jan. 1, 1723; d.
Sept. 20, 1793 ; m. Mar. 21, 1754, Susanna, dau. of Josiah and
Susanna (Jaquith) Burge of Westford [b. Apr., 1736; d. Nov.
27, 1824]. His name appears first in the list of the Masonian
grantees, and although there were two others with larger
amounts of land than he received, apparently his was the lead
ing hand in dealing with the agent of the Grantors. It is not
supposed that he became a permanent resident upon the grant
until two or three years later, but very probably the large
emigration from Chelmsford to the little settlement was to a
considerable extent due to his influence. He made his home
upon the "old country road," in 46, N. D., a mile southeasterly
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from the mountain which bears his name. Many things com
bined to make him the most influential man in the community.
His greater wealth, his shrewd and energetic methods of hus
bandry, his successful cultivation of fruit favored by the va
ried characteristics of the land included in his farm, his offi
cial powers as "His Majesty's Justice of the Peace,'' and as
colonel of a militia regiment, all added to his personal dignity
and courtesy and probably gave him the first place in all
town activities, although the almost complete absence of his
name from the list of elected town officers perhaps suggests a
recognition of a line of distinction between him and his fellow
citizens more clearly in evidence when his relationship to the
ruling powers outside the town naturally tended to make him
adhere to the royal cause. Children :
12. i. Sarah, b. Sept. 24 1758; d. Aug. 26, 1849; m. Feb. 14, 1804,
Daniel Batchelder of Wilton [d. 1848].
13. ii. Miriam, b. Apr. 10, 1760; d. July 30, 1848; ra. Sarauel Dutton.
14. iii. Ruth, b. Apr. 1, 1762; ra. Dec. 29, 1794, Dr. Jonas Prescott.
15. iv. Susannah, b. Aug. 5, 1764; d. July 16, 1855; ra. July 5, 1792,
John Gould (10).
16. V. Abigail, b. Sept. 19, 1766; d. Dec 7, 1853, unra.
17. vi. Reuben, b. Apr. 3, 1768.-t-
18. vii. Isaiah, b. Feb. 3, 1770.-|-
19. viii. Josiah, b. July 27, 1771 ; d. Harapden, Me., Oct. 27, 1848.
20. ix. Betsey, b. June 11, 1773; m. Jan. 24, 1796, Siraeon Stetson.
Res. Hampden, Me.
21. x. Joanna, b. Oct. 11, 1775; d. July 3, 1796.
22. xi. Lydia, b. Feb. 2, 1777; d. Feb. 24, 1862; m. Stephen Jones
(16).
23. xii. Jeremiah, b. Mar. 12, 1781; d. in Maine.
3. Joseph* (Thomas', JohnS James^), b. Oct. 31, 1725; d.
Temple, Apr., 1817; m. Feb. 27, 1752, Rebecca Chamberlin.
of Westford. He was one of the Masonian grantees, holding,
however, but a single right, the principal lot of which, (IX :
1, S. R.,) lay upon the "country road," extending from the old
graveyard upon the hill to the large central one of later years.
It was considered an undesirable tract of land, "as poor as the
Joe Kidder lot" being often used as a type of worthlessness.
His house was on the site afterward occupied by the home of
Judge Ebenezer Champney, since known as the dwelling of
John Preston, Esq., and his family. It was probably one of
the largest houses of early days, as it was the place of public
worship for several years before the completion of the
meeting-house at the summit of the hill near at hand. He re-
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moved to Temple soon after the incorporation of that town,
and there passed his remaining years, his name disappearing
from the New Ipswich tax-lists in 1772. He served in both
the French and Revolutionary wars, being wounded in the
former, responding to the Concord alarm, and appearing on
the rolls of Capts. Abijah Smith, Gershom Drury, and Robert
Fletcher. Children :
24 i. Wilder, b. Mar. 15, 1753. Served in Revolution. Res. in
New York state.
25. ii. Rebecca, b. Aug. 27, 1754.
26. iii. Sibyl, b. Mar. 24 1756.
27. iv. Susannah, b. Oct. 17, 1759.
28. V. Lydia, b. Oct. 17, 1859.
29. vi. Molly, b. Nov. 1, 1761.
30. vii. Joseph, b. Aug. 22, 1763.
31. viii. Calvin, b. Aug. 22, 1765.
32. ix. Rhoda, b. Sept. 12, 1767.
4. Thomas' (Aaron*, Thomas', JohnS James^), b. Sept. 16,
1750; d. Mar. 5, 1827; m. Grafton, Mass., Ruth Page [d. Mar.
4, 1826]. He remained in New Ipswich until 1780, being one
of those responding to the Royalton alarm in that year, but
soon after he removed to Vermont. Children :
33. i. Thomas, b. New Ipswich, June 13, 1777.-|-
34. ii. Benjamin Page, b. New Ipswich, Apr. 28, 1778; m. 1807,
Polly Colson Trufant of Groton, Mass. He was a farmer
in Barnet, Vt. Twelve children.
35. iii. Sarah, b. New Ipswich, Mar. 18, 1780; m. Sylvester Butler
Norton of Weathersfield, Vt. Reraoved to New York state
and thence to Plainfield, 111.
36. iv. Rebecca, b. New Ipswich, Jan. 1, 1783; d. Hancock, Wis.,
1864; m. Weathersfield, Vt., 1804, Asa Spaulding, a farmer
[d. Wautoma, Wis., I860]. Res. at Weathersfield until after
the birth of their six children, and then reraoved succes
sively to Maine, New York, and Wisconsin.
37. V. Ruth, m. Thomas Emerson of New Ipswich.
38. vi. Aaron Keyes, b. Mar. 4, 1787.-]-
39. vii. Luther Heaton, b. July 11, 1793.-|-
40. viii. Timothy Lovell, b. May 31, 1798.-|-
9. Aaron^ (AaronS Thomas', JohnS James^), b. Nov. 18,
1764; m. Elizabeth Bush. Children:
41. i. Aaron Bush, b. July 21, 1788.
42. ii. Luther, b. 1792.
43. iii. Jeremiah, b. 1794.
44. iv. James Carter, b. 1795.
45. v. Betsey, b. 1796.
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47. vii. Thomas, b. 1801.
48. viii. Joanna, b. 1803.
49. ix. Almira, b. 1806.
50. x. Louisa, b. 1807.
10. Luther' (AaronS Thomas', John^, James^), b. June 29,
1767; d. Pike, Pa., Sept. 2, 1831 ; m. Windham, Conn., Sept. 25,
1788, Phebe, dau. of Asa and Abia (Pease) Church [d. Oct. 31,
1851]. Res. at Windham, Conn., and later at Waterford, Vt.
Children :
51. i. Rachel Joanna, b. Oct. 15, 1791; d. July 25, 1879; m. Dec
8, 1814 Friend Corson.
Lucy, b. June 9, 1795 ; d. Jan. 9, 1819.
Sally, b. Dec 1, 1797; d. Oswego, N. Y., Oct. 5, 1863; ra.
Oct. 17, 1817, Elias Colby.
Samuel, b. Dec. 1, 1797.-|-
Phebe, b. Feb. 23, 1800; m. Jan. 16, 1824, Jasper Fletcher,
great-grandson of Tiraothy''.
Lyman Church, b. Apr. 18, 1802.-f-
Sophia, b. Apr. 26, 1804; d. in Michigan, 1851; ra. Mar. 4,
1824, John Barron.
58. viii. Mary, b. Aug. 31, 1806; d. Ann Arbor, Mich., July 29, 1877;
ra. John Kellogg.
Luther, b. Nov. 19, 1808. -|-
Emerenza, b. Feb. 2, 1810; m. (1) Nov. 27, 1831, Samuel
Stevens, Jr. [d. July 17, 185S] ; (2) Oct. 29, 1864, John
Keller. Res. Pennsylvania.
17. Reuben" (Reuben*, Thomas', John^, James^), b. New
Ipswich, Apr. 3, 1768; d. New Harmony, Ind., 1817; m. Lois
Crosby [d. 1809]. He graduated from Dartmouth College in
1791, studied law, and entered upon practice in Waterville,
Me., then hardly more than a backwoods village, where he
married, had a family, and lost his wife by death. A few
years later, attracted by the prevailing enthusiasm for emi
gration to the West, he removed to Indiana, but lived only a
single year after the change of residence. Children :
61. i. George, d. young.
62. ii. Henry, d. Port au Prince, unm.
63. iii. Camillus, b. June 27, 1805. -|-
64. iv. Jerome G, b. 1808; d. Boston, 1882, unm. He went to Bos
ton in 1824 and engaged at once in the grocery business,
but soon after attaining his majority he entered the oil
business, in which he continued until about 1864 and se
cured a large fortune, the greater part of which descended
to his brother Camillus, but he remembered with a legacy
of $10,000 a lady who many years before had declined his
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18. Isaiah' (ReubenS Thomas', JohnS James^), b. Feb. 3,
1770; d. Apr. 28, 1811; m. Nov. 16, 1798, Hephzibah Jones
(15) [b. Dec. 22, 1771; d. Oct. 21, 1853]. His business life,
closed by his early death, showed a versatile and practical
ability of great promise for later years. He taught a few
years in early manhood, but the settlement of his father's
large and varied interests devolved upon him at the age of
twenty-three, and was successfully managed. He continued
his father's progressive methods of husbandry and at an early
age introduced in the region the raising of the merino sheep.
A few years after his father's death he opened a store in that
part of Mason which was afterward detached to form the
town of Greenville, and continued it for six years, when he
closed that business and bought the interest of Charles Bar
rett in the New Ipswich Cotton Mill, and for some time was
the principal manager of that industry, being associated with
Benjamin Champney and Roger Chandler, Samuel Appleton
also assuming an interest with them somewhat later. But the
development in those days of so unfamiliar an industry was
very slow, and he did not live to carry it to the expected
success. He was chosen to represent the town in the Legis
lature at the last two elections before his death, which inter
vened to prevent him from assuming its duties the second
time. Children :
65. i. Anna, b. June 25, 1801 ; d. Boston, July 13, 1858
66. ii. Sophia, b. Mar. 13, 1803; d. Charleston, S. C, 1854; m. Oct.
15, 1832, Christopher G. Salinas. Res. Beaufort, S. C.
67. Hi. Frederic, b. Apr. 16, 1804; d. Dec. 19, 1885; ra. Jan., 1841,
Harriet M. Hagar [d. Dec 22, 1875]. At the age of
eighteen he entered upon mercantile Hfe in Boston, which
had the leading place in his life for nearly forty years, during
eight years of which, in corapany with his brother, he con
ducted business in Wilmington, N. C, with good success,
although the Civil War necessarily terminated Southern
relations and caused heavy losses. During these years he
became greatly interested in historical topics, and devoted
much labor to the preparation of the forraer history of his
native town conducted by hiraself and Dr. A. A. Gould.
After retiring from mercantile activity he devoted himself
to historical and genealogical study and published several
greatly approved works, besides contributing articles to lead
ing periodicals devoted to those lines of research.
68. iv. Edward, b. Oct. 19, 1805.-1-
69. V. George, b. Nov. 22, 1807; d. Mar. 7, 1815.
70. vi. Harriet, b. Aug. 26, 1809; d. in Miss., 1847; ra. Oct. 15, 1832,
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71. vii. Isaiah, b. Mar. 18, 1811; d. Nov. 30, 1822, from the bite of
a rabid animal.
33. Thomas' (Thomas', Aaron*, Thomas', John^, James^),
b. New Ipswich, June 13, 1777; d. in Weathersfield, Vt. ; m.
Eliza Mills. Children — born in Weathersfield, Vt. :
72. i. Aaron, b. 1808; d. in the army, unm.
73. ii. Eliza, b. Aug. 1, 1810; m. 1833, Philip Hardy. She had six
children, three of whom died young, and two of the others
and the husband of the third served in the army during
the Civil War, one losing his life.
74. iii. Reuben, b. 1812; m. Emma Porter. He was a farmer.
Twelve children.
75. iv. Levi, b. Feb. 2, 1814. Two sons.
76. V. Joseph, b. June 22, 1818. Res. Groton, Vt.
77. vi. James M., b. 1820. Res. Bethlehem. Four children.
78. vii. Sarah, b. 1823.
38. Aaron Keyes' (Thomas', Aaron*, Thomas', JohnS
James^), b. Mar. 4, 1787; d. Vienna, Me., Feb. 10, 1872; m.
(1) Weathersfield, Vt., Sophia Barnes [d. Feb. 10, 1837] ; (2)
Harriet Lane. Res. Weathersfield, Vt., Concord and Vienna,
Me. Children :
79. i. Julia, b. Oct. 5, 1814; d. Oct. 6, 1814.
80. ii. Sabrina Sophia, b. Nov. 2, 1815; d. Nov. 8, 1858; m. Apr.
9, 1835, John S. Spaulding, son of Rebecca Kidder (36),
a farmer of Townshend, Vt. Six children.
81. iii. Aaron Isaiah, b. Aug. 7, 1818; m. Warwick, Mass., Apr. 6,
1842, Eveline Morse. He was a farraer at Orange, Mass.
Two children.
82. iv. Henry Willard, b. Sept. 2, 1820; d. July 10, 1864; ra. Fanny
White.
83. V. Hiram Barnes, b. Oct. 27, 1822; ra. May 30, 1850, Angeline
Maria Fitts. Removed to Delaware in 1866. Two daugh
ters.
84. vi. Asa, b. July 10, 1824; d. May 20, 1862; m. Hannah Susan
Hall. Removed to Wisconsin in 1859. Two children.
85. vii. Anna Samantha, b. May 20, 1832 ; d. Topeka, Kan., Dec. 25,
1844, unm.
86. viii. Silas Reade, b. Aug. 9, 1839; d. Jan. 16, 1876; m. 1869, Flora
L. Hilton. He served in the Civil War; went to California
in 1866, and was shot while engaged in mining.
87. ix. Melvin Atlanta, b. July 15, 1842; m. May 20, 1867, 
Griffin. Res. Vienna, Me.
88. x. Nathan Healy, b. Aug. 4, 1845; d. May 14 1851.
39. Luther Heaton' (Thomas', Aaron*, Thomas', John^,
JamesS) b. July 11, 1793; m. Aug. 18, 1819, Hannah Hill Rowe
of Gloucester, Mass. Children :
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89. i. Benjamin Rowe, b. May 15, 1820; m. Jan. 18, 1846, Eliza
Cumraings Butman. A sea captain until he retired to live
at Rockport, Mass. One child.
90. ii. Pamelia Boothby, b. Dec 25, 1825; d. Mar. 2, 1846, unm.
91. iii. Henry Norwood, b. Dec. 11, 1827; ra. Sarah Elizabeth Hodg
kins of Gloucester, Mass., where he res. A stonecutter.
Six children.
92. iv. Elizabeth Parlin, b. Aug. 27, 1832; m. Oct. 27, 1853, Edward
Groton Slocum, an engineer at Newport, R. I. One
daughter.
93. V. George Norwood, b. Aug. 27, 1832; d. Sept. 3, 1832.
94 vi. William Norwood, b. Aug. 27, 1832; d. Apr. 18, 1835.
40. Timothy Lovell' (Thomas', Aaron*, Thomas', John^,
James^), b. May 31, 1798; d. Aug. 21, 1870; m. May 18, 1819,
Hannah Johnson. He lived in Weathersfield, Vt., and Con
cord, Me., and in his later years removed to Augusta, Wis.
He served in the War of 1812. Children :
95. i. Rachel Maria, b. Jan. 11, 1821; d. Oct. 11, 1822.
96. ii. Eunice Rebecca, b. Sept. 15, 1822; ra. Dec. 16, 1838, William
Harlow, a farraer in Maine. Reraoved thence to Augusta,
Wis. Eight children.
97. iii. George Calvin, b. Aug. 4, 1824; ra. (1) May 28, 1848, Rachel
Electa Worden [d. Aug., 1869]; (2) Sept. 19, 1872, Mary
Caroline Gouterraont. Res. Burkeville, Va. Three children.
98. iv. Micah B., b. Feb. 18, 1826; d. Feb. 16, 1827.
99. V. Lovell, b. Apr. 1, 1828; m. Mar. 26, 1849, Jerusha Ann Bother-
ton. Res. in Maine, Vermont, New York, Michigan, Wis
consin, and Minnesota. Ten children.
100. vi. Jesse B., b. Mar. 22, 1832; m. (1) Antwerp, N. Y., July 28,
1852, Maiy Jane Manning [d. Apr. 12, 1873] ; (2) Indepen
dence, Wis., Nov. 11, 1877, Ann Cook. A stonemason, res.
at various places in New York and Wisconsin. Seven
children.
101. vii. Pomeroy J., b. Mar. 22, 1832; d. Apr. 2, 1862; m. Jan. 1, 1856,
Lucy Scott. A carpenter in Wisconsin. Three children.
102. viii. Mason S. C, b. May 29, 1834; m. Jan. 1, 1856, Sally Melissa
Aldrich. A lumber dealer, farmer, and mechanic in Michi
gan. Served during Civil War in 1st Regiment Michigan
Engineers. Five children.
103. ix. Timothy, b. Mar. 30, 1836; d. Oct. 15, 1877; m. Sept. 20, 1860,
Margaret Ann Ainsworth. A mason and general mechanic
at Felt's Mills, N. Y. Six children.
104. X. Squire, b. Aug. 1, 1839; m. Nov. 9, 1870, Mrs. Lucia Sabina
(Hana) Hall. A farmer at Fergus Falls, Minn. Six chil
dren.
105. xi. Hannah M., b. Jan. 30, 1841; m. Sac, Iowa, Mar. 15, 1857,
Charles Rause, also m. a second time. Several children.
106. xii. Eliza, b. June 30, 1843; m. Mar. 25, 1861, Israel Herrell, a
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54. Samuel' (LutherS AaronS Thomas', JohnS James^), b.
Waterford, Vt., Dec. 1, 1797; d. Wilkesbarre, Pa., May 22,
1850; m. Sept. 10, 1826, Sarah Stanley. He was a farmer.
Children :
107. i. Lophemia Letitia, b. May 28, 1827; ra. Aug. 21, 1851, Elijah
C. Blackmer, a farmer and stock raiser at Rochester, Iowa.
Four children.
108. ii. Albert Stanley, b. July 5, 1829; d. Dec 28, 1852.
109. iii. Mary Emeline, b. Aug. 3, 1831; d. Feb. 2, 1877; ra. May 29,
1852, Edwin T. Whitcomb. Two children.
110. iv. Sarah Frances, b. Feb. 1, 1834; d. Jan. M, 1856.
111. V. Susan Esther, b. Apr. 24, 1836; ra. Apr. 2, 1856, Samuel G.
Baker. Res. Scranton, Pa. Four children.
112. vi. Minnie Putnam, b. Sept. 7, 1838; d. Avoca, Iowa, May 21,
1879; m. Oct. 26, 1858, Horace A. Baker. Six children.
113. vii. Augustus Luther, b. Oct. 14, 1840; m. Apr., 1865, Mary E.
Smith. A carpenter and builder in Washington. He was
a captain in the 4th Iowa Regiment during the Civil War.
Four children.
114. viii. Gustavus Adolphus, b. July 27, 1844; d. Rochester, Iowa,
Jan. 2, 1878; ra. May 1, 1869, Mary Canly. A teacher and
bookkeeper.
lis. ix. Samuel Stanley, b. Mar. 24, 1848; d. Jan. 29, 1871.
56. Lyman Church' (Luther'*, AaronS Thomas', JohnS
Jamesi), b. Waterford, Vt., Apr. 18, 1802; d. Janesville, Wis.,
Dec. 10, 1850; m. Mar. 27, 1825, Mary Dean. He was a sur
veyor. He served in the Mexican War. Children:
Samuel Sylvester, b. June 10, 1829; d. June 18, 1831.
Mary Emerenza, b. July 2, 1831 ; m. Feb. 8, 1853, Charles
B. Manville. One son.
Charles Eleazer, b. Feb. 2, 1834; d. Sept. 12, 1834.
Anderson Dana, b. Aug. 8, 1837; d. Apr. 8, 1843.
Clarence Porter, b. May 10, 1839; ra. May 24, 1864, Louisa
A. Parsons. He graduated from Union College in 1863,
studied law, and practiced at Wilkesbarre, Pa. Three
children.
121. vi. Rowland Metcalf, b. July 3, 1842; d. Dec. 25, 1874, unm.
He served during the Civil War in the 6th Regiment Penn
sylvania Cavalry, and for a year was a prisoner at Ander
sonville. He then studied law and practiced in Colorado.
He was also a U. S. surveyor in New Mexico.
122. vii. Louisa Dana, b. Feb. 20, 1845; m. Dec. 20, 1866, Andrew J.
Davis. Res. Wilkesbarre, Pa. Four children.
123. viii. Luther Asa, b. Nov. 19, 1846; d. Feb. 18, 1860.
59. Luther' (Luther', AaronS Thomas', John^, James^),
b. Waterford, Vt., Nov. 19, 1808; d. Sept. 30, 1854; m. Oct. 13,
1835, Martha Ann Scott. He was a lawyer in Pennsylvania,
a judge for several years, and also state senator. Children :
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124. i. David Scott, b. Oct. 20, 1836; d. about 1881, unm.
125. ii. Martha Elder, b. Apr. 27, 1838; d. Nov. 8, 1882; m. May 12,
1864, Col. O. K. Moore of Wilkesbarre, Pa. Two children.
126. iii. Emma Victoria, b. Nov. 14, 1840; d. Mar. 2, 1875.
127. iv. Charles Holland, b. Dec. 27, 1846; ra. Aug. 6, 1868, Clara
Miller. He graduated from West Philadelphia P. E. Divin
ity School in 1877, and became an Episcopalian clergyman.
Three children.
63. Camillus' (Reuben', ReubenS Thomas', JohnS
James^), b. Waterville, Me., June 27, 1805; d. Boston, Jan.
16, 1883; m. Oct. 16, 1834, Sarah Thompson Herrick of Hamp
den, Me. He was in business at Bangor, Me., but at the age of
thirty he removed to Maryland, and in 1842 engaged in a
large commission business at Baltimore, in which he contin
ued during the Civil War. Children :
128. i. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 6, 1835; m. Apr. 18, 1860, John Truslow,
a merchant in New York city. Six children.
129. ii. Jerome Henry, b. Oct. 26, 1842; d. 1889; m. Sept., 1878, Mary,
dau. of Hon. Horace Maynard of Tennessee, ex-minister
to Turkey and ex-Postmaster General. He graduated frora
Harvard College in 1862. He served during one year of
the Civil War in the 10th Michigan Regiment and after
ward in U. S. hospitals. He received the degree of M. D.
from the University of Michigan in 1865, and was com
missioned as surgeon in the U. S. Navy. Later he was
engaged upon scientific work in the Smithsonian Institution,
at the Naval Laboratory, and on the U. S. Comraission.
130. iii. Camillus Gerry, b. July 6, 1850; m. Dec. 3, 1881, Matilda
Cushman Faber of New York city. He graduated from
Harvard College in 1872 and frora the Harvard Law School
in 1875. He entered at once into practice in New York city.
68. Edward' (Isaiah', Reuben*, Thomas', John^, James^),
b. New Ipswich, Oct. 19, 1805 ; d. Wilmington, N. C, Feb. 25,
1885; m. Aug. 11, 1836, Ann Potter. While a young man he
went to Wilmington, N. C, and entered the lumber business
in connection with various partners, the last of whom were
his sons, continuing an honorable, popular, and successful
man until his death. He was also greatly interested in his
torical studies. Children :
131. i. Edward Hartwell, b. Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 12, 1840; m.
Oct. 11, 1865, Mary Lincoln Hathaway. He graduated from
Harvard College in 1863 and entered business life in New
York city.
132. ii. George Wilson, b. Wilmington, N. C, June 15, 1842; ra. Dec
19, 1877, Florence Hill. A native of the South, he served
in the Confederate array. He was a raeraber of the firra
of Edward Kidder & Sons. One daughter.
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133. iii. Susan Smith, b. Nov. 19, 1843; ra. Dec. 17, 1868, James
Ivers Lewis. Res. New London, Conn. Two children.
134. iv. Gilbert Potter, b. May 5, 1845. Res. in North Carolina.
135. V. Frederic, b. Nov. 12, 1847. He graduated from Harvard Col
lege in 1870. A planter in Wilmington, N. C.
136. vi. Anna Potter, b. Sept. 1, 1851. Res. in North Carolina.
137. vii. Matthew Grier, b. Dec. 5, 1853; m. Apr., 1883, Bessie Low.
Res. in North Carolina.
KING.
Two families bearing this name, but not known to be related, have
resided in New Ipswich, and must necessarily be represented separately.
KING (Benjamin).
1. Benjamin^ King, b. about 1722; m. Sarah  . They
came to New Ipswich as early as 1752. He was the first set
tler upon lot 34, N. D., afterward the home of Abijah Smith.
It is not unlikely that he was of the family which came to
New Ipswich almost half a century later, as the name Benja
min is frequent in the records of that family. But his lineage
has not been found. He removed to Mason about 1764 and
probably remained there until 1777, after which his residence
is unknown. He was in Capt. Ezra Towne's company at
Bunker Hill, and on the company roll is said to reside in Ma
son. In the later part of the same year he is credited to New
Ipswich in a record of New Hampshire men in Massachusetts
regiments. Children :
2. i. Elizabeth, d. Dec. 25, 1752.
3. ii. Sarah, d. Dec 17, 1752.
4. iii. Sarah, b. Apr. 7, 1754.
5. iv. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 4, 1757.
6. V. Silence, b. May 10, 1759.
7. vi. Mary, b. Dec. 18, 1760; m. Dec. 11, 1783, Amos Dakin, Jr.
8. vii. Samuel, b. Mar. 1, 1763.
9. viii. Benjamin, b. Feb. 22, 1768.
KING (William).
William" King, b. Ugborough, Devonshire, England, about 1622; m.
Oct. 16, 1642, Agnes Alwill [d. Apr. 7, 1662]. There is no certain evi
dence that he carae to New England, and the date of his death is uncer
tain; but apparently his sons came soon after the death of their mother
before they had reached full manhood, and the father was interested in
fisheries upon the American coast, being drowned near the Banks of
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Newfoundland, which facts perhaps justify the position of his name as
that of the first of his family in America.
James' (WiHiam'), b. Nov. 7, 1647; d. May 13, 1722; m. (1) Mar. 23,
1674, Elizabeth, dau. of John and Elizabeth (Emerson) Fuller of Ipswich,
Mass. [b. May 31, 1652; d. June 30, 1715]; (2) Feb. 27, 1716, Hannah,
widow of Samuel Loomis [d. 1720]. He lived in Ipswich, Mass., where
he learned the cooper's trade, but removed, about 1678, to Suffield, Conn.,
of which he was one of the original proprietors.
Joseph" (James', WilHam'), b. May 10, 1689; d. Mar. 6, 1756; ra. (1)
May 2, 1717, dau. of Phineas WHson of Hartford, Conn., and widow of
David Jesse [d. Sept. 11, 1737] ; (2) June 2, 1740, Hannah, dau. of Rev.
Ebenezer and Hannah (Breck) Devotion [b. Suffield, Apr. 24, 1716; d.
Mar. 4, 1805]. He passed his Hfe in Suffield, where he was possessed of
a very considerable property. He was a leading citizen, holding the posi
tion of selectman and other offices of trust. He was also a captain.
Eliphalet' (Joseph", James', William'), b. Feb. 6, 1743; d. Aug. 29,
1821; m. (1) Nov. 3, 1768, Mary, dau. of Jonathan and Thankful (War
ner) Remington [b. July 12, 1743; d. June 24 1788]; (2) Oct. 2, 1788,
Silence Rumrill [b. about 1768; d. Oct. 16, 1839]. He was a citizen of
Suffield, with the exception of a few years of his later life, during which
he made his home in West Springfield, Mass. He served in the Revolu
tionary War, holding the rank of lieutenant.
1. Seth' (EliphaletS Joseph', James^, William^), b. Sept.
27, 1777; d. July 12, 1851 ; m. Oct. 15, 1808, Anna Preston (25).
He came to New Ipswich in early manhood, and for a long
period conducted business as a hatter, his shop being situated
across the street northerly from the western entrance to the
Academy campus. Later he was engaged in the manufacture
of friction matches, an industry then almost unknown, and for
a time he was a maker of broadcloths, which previously had
been obtained only by importation. He held a marked place
in the various activities of the town, which he three times
represented in the Legislature. He was interested in military
matters and held a major's commission in the militia. After
his marriage he succeeded to the residence of his father-in-law,
situated a few rods easterly from his hatter's shop, and thus
it resulted that his wife during her life of nearly eighty years
lived in the same house, drawing her first and her last breath
in the same room. Children :
2. i. Lucy Anna, b. Mar. 2, 1812; m. May, 1831, Nathan 0. Parlow.
Five children.
3. ii. George Eliphalet, b. June 11, 1814.-]-
4. Hi. Mary Remington, b. July 11, 1817; d. Nov. 25, 1842; m. Oct.
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ham, Mass., where she died. Children : i. Mary Remington
Hoyt, b. Mason, Nov. 12, 1836; d. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 9,
1883; m. (1) Aug. 29, 1855, Charles Edward Dexter; (2)
Jan. 1, 1870, Henry Augustus Wilson; two children of first
marriage, ii. Charles Otis Hoyt, b. Framingham, Sept. 25,
1839; d. Amarillo, Tex., Apr. 30, 1905, unm.; he served in
the Civil War; later he was a miner in Colorado.
5. iv. Charles Henry, b. Nov. 9, 1818.+
6. v. Harriet Hubbard, b. Apr. 25, 1820; d. Oct. 21, 1903, unra.
She passed her life as a teacher in Boston, being the first
in that city to teach the negro children, for whora she con
ducted a school during twenty years. Later for a still
longer period she was proprietor of a fashionable boarding
school.
7. vi. Eliza Bellows, b. Apr. 5, 1822; d. Oct. 1, 1886; m. Aug. 16,
1843, her brother-in-law, Otis Hoyt, M. D., then a resident
at Framingham, Mass., but after service in the Mexican
War, practicing his profession at St. Croix Falls and Hud
son, Wis. She was educated at the New Ipswich Academy
and at Troy, (N. Y.,) Female Seminary. Children: i.
Ella Frances Hoyt, b. Oct. 2, 1845; d. Nov. 15, 1846. ii.
Ella Frances Hoyt, b. St. Croix Falls, Wis., Mar. 3, 1850;
m. May 18, 1875, Charles Frederick" King, M. D. (Williara
P.*, Richard", Jaraes', William'), a physician at Hudson,
Wis. ; she graduated from New Ipswich Appleton Academy
in 1871 ; five children, iii. Anna Preston Hoyt, b. Sept. 3,
1851; ra. June 20, 1877, Frank Williara Epley, M. D., a
physician at New Richraond, Wis.; she graduated from
New Ipswich Appleton Academy in 1873; five children, iv.
Caleb Cushing Hoyt, b. Hudson, Wis., May 20, 1853; d.
Aug. 7, 1854. V. Eliza Bellows Hoyt, b. Apr. 21, 1855; d.
Feb. 11, 1858. vi. Ida Maria Hoyt, b. Apr. 1, 1857; m. Oct.
19, 1888, Edmund Deveraux Sewall; res. at Minneapolis,
Minn. ; two children, vii. Harriet King Hoyt, b. Apr. 2,
1859; m. June 24, 1877, John Alexander Wyand; res. at
Crookston, Minn. ; three children, viii. Eliza Bellows Hoyt,
b. Nov. 12, 1861; m. June 16, 1886, Rev. William R. Rey
nolds ; res. at Cincinnati, O. ; six children.
8. vii. Frances Locke, b. Sept. 2, 1823; d. Oct. 30, 1900, unm.
9. viii. Caroline, b. Jan. 3, 1827; d. Apr. 16, 1910; m. Apr. 13, 1852,
Nehemiah Adams Edson of Chester, Vt. [d. 1899]. Res.
at Chester, and later at West Brookfield, Mass. Children:
i. Fannie M. Edson. ii. Charles O. M. Edson. iii. William
A. Edson. iv. Carrie K. Edson.
10. ix. Rebecca Preston, b. Mar. 25, 1829; d. May 28, 1908, unm.
3. George Eliphalet" (Seth', EliphaletS Joseph', James^,
William^), b. June 11, 1814; d. San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 27,
1897; m. (1) Jan. 23, 1844, Janet Cameron, dau. of Judge
Fletcher M. and Elizabeth Stuart (McLachlan) Haight, and
sister of Henry H. Haight, Governor of California [b. Roches-
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ter, N. Y., July 9, 1823; d. Dec. 21, 1854]; (2) Catherine
Mary Ann (Cunningham) Dunning, dau. of John and Jane
Cunningham of Utica, N. Y. [d. 1889]. He graduated from
Union College in 1839, and became an able lawyer at Roches
ter, N. Y., but in 1862 he removed to New York city, where
he acquired and later lost a large fortune in the stock market.
His later years were passed in California. Child :
11. i. Cameron Haight, b. Lima, N. Y., Dec. 21, 1844.-|-
5. Charles Henry" (SethS EliphaletS Joseph', JamesS
William^), b. Nov. 9, 1818; d. Boston, Feb. 28, 1894; m. Aug.,
1849, Maria A. Clark (E. 16). He was a hatter in Boston.
Children :
12. i. Frederick Henry, b. Sept. 9, 1850; d. Sept. 15, 1867.
13. ii. Martha Eliza, b. May 16, 1852; m. June 21, 1893, William
Russell Wilcox of Minneapolis, Minn.
14. iii. Edward, b. Sept. 15, 1854; d. in California, May, 1888.
15. iv. Harriet Maria, b. Oct. 12, 1856; d. June 2, 1867.
16. V. Anna Cora, b. Feb. 9, 1860; m. Apr. 20, 1890, Frank H.
Babcock.
17. vi. Charles Philip, b. June 20, 1862.-J-
18. vii. Louis Henry, b. Sept. 8, 1867.-t-
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11. Cameron Haight' (George E.', Seth', EliphaletS Jo
sephs JamesS William^), b. Lima, N. Y., Dec. 21, 1844; m.
(1) Apr. 2, 1873, Anna Eliza, dau. of David Forney and Re
becca (Winn) Beveridge [b. June 13, 1851 ; d. July 1, 1879] ;
(2) Oct. 17, 1881, Ella Jane, dau. of Charles Mar and Frances
Sarah (Bridgewood) Brown [b. Mar. 23, 1863; d. Jan. 2, 1901].
He graduated from the University of Rochester in 1863. He
was engaged in mining in Colorado until 1868, and then went
to California, which has since been his home. He studied law
and was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of the
state in 1873. His ability as a student and an advocate has
been abundantly proven by his marked success in court and
by his appointments to positions requiring accurate legal
knowledge. He has the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the state
militia. Children :
20. i. George Cameron, b. Jan. 14, 1874 ; ra. Aug. 9, 1900, Anna, dau.
of Robert Joseph and EHzabeth (McCandless) Carapbell of
San Francisco, and widow of Herbert Stratton [b. Mar. 8,
1873]. He was a student in the law department of the
University of California, 1893 to 1896, but on the opening
of the Cuban War he enlisted in the cavalry regiment known
as "Roosevelt's Rough Riders" and served through the war.
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He entered upon the practice of his profession in San Fran
cisco, but was compelled by the state of his health to seek
a different climate, and removed to Placer County, Cal.
21. ii. Lochiel Montrose, b. Aug. 25, 1875; ra. Nov. 29, 1899, Anna
Mary, dau. of John and Matilda (Corr) Wadsworth of
Vineburg, Cal. [b. June 27, 1878]. He studied chemistry,
assaying, and allied subjects at the University of California,
and is proprietor of a metallurgical laboratory at San Fran
cisco. One child.
22. iii. Cameron Haight, b. July 4, 1877. He was educated in the
, University of California and Leland Stanford Junior Uni
versity and later studied law. He is now engaged in liter
ary and political pursuits largely of a socialistic character.
23. iv. Janet Cameron, b. May 29, 1894.
17. Charles Philip' (Charles H.", Seth', EliphaletS Jo
seph', JamesS William^), b. June 20, 1862; m. (1) Mar. 14,
1886, Josephine, dau. of Philip King; (2) Sept. 2, 1892, Jessie,
dau. of Malcolm and Jessie Buchanan of Prince Edward
Island. He is a mechanical engineer in Boston. Children :
24. i. Mary D., b. May 12, 1888; d. May 16, 1888.
25. ii. Charles Henry, b. and d. Jan. 28, 1894
26. iii. Louis Cameron, b. May 12, 1896.
27. iv. Malcolm Chester, b. Mar. 20, 1899.
18. Louis Henry' (Charles H.', Seth', EliphaletS Josephs
JamesS William^), b. Sept. 8, 1867; m. Sept. 12, 1899, Gertrude
Cole. Res. at Lewiston, Idaho. He is engaged in mining.
Child :
28. i. Cameron Francis Xavier, b. July 2, 1900.
19. George Cameron' (Charles H.', Seth', EliphaletS Jo
sephs JamesS William^), b. Sept. 8, 1867; m. Dec. 20, 1902.
He is a church and house decorator in Minneapolis, Minn.
Child :
29. i. Virginia, b. Oct., 1903.
KNOWLTON.
This family is believed to have come from County Kent, England,
where there are a Knowlton Parish and a Knowlton Hall six miles from
the city of Canterbury. The line in America is given as follows.
William' Knowlton, son of Richard and Elizabeth (Cantize) Knowl
ton, b. 1584; estate appraised, Sept. 18, 1661; m. Ann EHzabeth Smith,
who survived him. He sailed frora London for Nova Scotia about 1633,
and settled at Hingham, Mass., about 1635. He probably died while on a
visit to Nova Scotia, as he was buried there.
William" (William'), b. 1615; d. 1655; m. Elizabeth  . He was
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John' (WilHam', William'), b. 1645/6; d. Aug., 1728; m. (1) Bethia,
dau. of Rice Edwards of Wenham, Mass. [d. after 1707] ; (2) pub. Apr.
11, 1714, Susanna Hutton of Wenham, who survived him. Res. in Ips-
wich,_ Mass., and about 1707 back to that part of Ipswich which is now
Hamilton. His wiH mentions his carpenter's tools. He was a militia
captain. Rice* (John", WiHiam^ WHliam'), b. 1676; d. Nov. 25, 1766; m. (1)
Jan. 2, 1699, Mary Dodge of Ipswich [b. June 6, 1680]; (2) Nov. 26,
1750, Elizabeth Smith of Marblehead, Mass. Res. in Ipswich and later in
Wenham. Rice' (Rice*, John". William^ William'), b. Jan. 27, 1705/6; d. Pelham,
1762; m. Lydia, dau. of Thomas" and Bethiah Adams of Ipswich and
widow of Benjarain Woodbury [b. Dec 16, 1704].
1. Benjamin' (Rice', RiceS John', WilliamS William^), b.
Dec. 10, 1728; d. July 31, 1809; m. Phoebe Wright [d. Jan.,
1813]. He came to New Ipswich about 1751, and was one of
the more fortunate proprietors in respect to property. He
settled upon the lot afterward known as the Chickering farm,
(22, N. D.) He was a member of the first Committee of Cor
respondence and Inspection, and was also a lieutenant in the
first military company of the town. He removed to New York
state with his son Benjamin as early as 1808. Children :
2. i. Phosbe, b. June 29, 1752; d. young.
3. ii. Benjamin, b. Sept. 26, 1753.+
4. iii. Henry, b. Apr. 16, 17S6.-|-
5. iv. Lydia, b. Oct. 23, 1758; ra. Ephraim Adams.
6. V. Esther, b. Aug. 10, 1761; d. Potsdam, N. Y., Apr. 16, 1777.
7. vi. Sarah, b. Aug. 26, 1764; m. Obadiah Coolidge. Res. Potsdam,
N. Y. She had three sons and three daughters. Her hus
band and sons were in the battle of Plattsburg, N. Y.
8. vii. John, b. Jan. 18, 1766.-|-
9. viii. Eunice, b. Jan. 28, 1769; m. Dec. 20, 1791, Luke Price. Two
children.
10. ix. Bethia, b. Apr. 8, 1771 ; d. young.
11. X. Hannah, b. Sept. 18, 1776; m. Ishmael Holcomb. Five chil
dren.
3. Benjamin' (Benjamin', Rice', Rice*, John', William^,
William^, b. Sept. 26, 1753 ; d. Feb. 13, 1810; m. 1776, Abigail
Wright of Hollis. In the Knowlton family history he is cred
ited with considerable service as a Revolutionary soldier from
New Ipswich, but neither the town records nor the New
Hampshire Rolls support the statement. He removed to
Sangerfield, N. Y., as early as 1808, and thence to Manlius,
N. Y., where he died. Children :
12. i. Abigah., b. June 25, 1777; d. Dec. 19, 1864; m. Feb. 10, 1795,
Joseph Stevens [d. Dec. 1, 1846]. Thirteen children.
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13. ii. Charlotte, b. Oct. 13, 1778; m. Aug. 17, 1794 Dr- John Rex-
ford. Nine children.
14. iii. Benjamin, b. Aug. 10, 1780. -f-
15. iv. Amos, b. Jan. 16, 1783; d. Feb. 9, 1864.
16. V. Lucy, b. Jan. 13, 1786; m. John Chamberlain. Two children.
4. Henry' (Benjamin', Rice', RiceS John', WilliamS Wil
liam^), b. Apr. 16, 1756; m. Sybil  . He was a member of
Capt. Atkinson's company in service at Coos in 1776. The
family history credits him with service in the same company
as his brother Benjamin, and it seems not improbable that
they really served together, but not in New Hampshire troops,
and that the disagreement results from that minor error.
Children :
17. i. Henry, b. Sept. 20, \779.-\-
18. ii. Sibyl, b. Aug. 18, 1781 ; d. 1793.
19. iii. Ruth, b. Jan. 25, 1783; d. young.
20. iv. Charles, b. Nov. 13, 1784.
21. V. William, b. Sept. 11, 1786; d. 1791.
22. vi. Timothy, b. July 2, 1788.
23. vii. John, b. May 10, 1790; d. young.
24. viii. Eunice, b. July 3, 1793.
8. John' (BenjaminS RiceS RiceS John', WilliamS Wil-
liami), b. Jan. 18, 1766; d. 1838; mi. Oct., 1794, Sarah Holden
(3). He lived for a time upon the same lots as his father,
and then removed to the Ashby road southward from the Dr.
Gibson corners and near the state line, {76, A. D.) Children:
25. i. Joseph (an adopted son), b. July 19, 1795.-|-
26. ii. Sally, b. May 11, 1797; d. Apr. 15, 1848; ra. Timothy G.,
son of Benjarain and Phebe (Green) Teraple [b. Mar. 6,
1806; d. Feb. 13, 1888]. Res. in New Ipswich and Teraple.
Four children.
27. iii. Eliza, b. July 12, 1799; d. Jan. 23, 1863; m. May 20, 1830,
Shebuel Shattuck (49).
28. iv. John H., b. Aug. 19, 1802; m. Apr. 10, 1834 Mary Rodgers.
Res. in Williamstown, Mass. Two children.
29. V. Sophronia, b. Sept. 18, 1805 ; d. Mar. 8, 1806.
30. vi. Sophia, b. Sept. 18, 1805; d. Mar. 10, 1806.
31. vii. Almira, b. Jan. 15, 1808; ra. Daniel Nutting. One chHd.
14. Benjamin' (Benjamin', Benjamin', Rice', RiceS John',
WilliamS William^), b. Aug. 10, 1780; d. Feb., 1864; m. Lucy
Campbell. Very little is known concerning him. He seems to
have lived in or near New Ipswich for a time, and then to
have removed to Portage, Mich., where he died. He is said
to have been a captain in the War of 1812. Children :
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Ursula, b. June 25, 1804; d. Nov. 29, 1837.
Charlotte, b. July 3, 1806; d. 1809.
Benjamin, b. Dec 8, 1809; d. July 17, 1833.
Charlotte, b. Oct. 17, 1811; m. Jan. 9, 1837, Dr. P. W.
Belknap, Jr. One son.
Emeline, b. Nov. 16, 1813; ra. Freeraan Sraith. Res. at Cato,
N. Y.
Oliver J., b. Jan. 6, 1816; d. July 3, 1840. Res. at Portage,
Mich.
Ernest J., b. Feb. 11, 1818; ra. R. A. Potter.
Maria, b. Nov. 29, 1822; d. Mar. 19, 1874; m. M. M. Emerson.
17. Henry' (Henry', Benjamin', RiceS RiceS John', Wil
liamS William^), b. Sept. 20, 1779; d. 1838; m. (1) Rebecca
Southwick; (2) Matilda Moore [d. June 26, 1844]. According
to the family history he lived and died in New Ipswich; but
the absence of his name from the records and the entire lack
of tradition concerning him unavoidably suggest an error, and
that he left his home in very early manhood. Children :
40. i. Charles A., b. Aug. 14, 1810.-|-
Hannah, b. 1811; m.  . Four children.
Leander, b. May 7, 1814.-|-
Caroline, b. 1817; m. Nathaniel Crofut [d. in Civil War].
Three children.
Henry, b. May 24, 1819.-|-
Clark, b. 1821.-]-
Harriet, b. 1823; ra. E. B. Burt of Oswego, N. Y. Three
children.
Ruth, b. 1825 ; m.  . Two children.
Eliza, b. 1827; m.  . Four children.
25. Joseph' (John', Benjamin', Rice', Rice*, John', Wil
liamS William^), b. July 19, 1795; d. May 2, 1867; m. (1)
Aug., 1820, Harriet, dau. of Benjamin and Phebe (Green)
Temple of Northboro, Mass., and Fitzwilliam [b. Oct. 4, 1799;
d. Oct. 4, 1855] ; (2) June 10, 1856, Sarah Bucknam (9) ; (3)
Aug. 18, 1863, Sophronia Sawtell. He was a wheelwright in
Smith Village, his dwelling and his shop being located upon
the eastern side of the road to the Center Village a few rods
only from the foot of the ascent from Smith Village. Children :
49. i. William Rodolphus, b. Sept. 6, 1822.-|-
50. H. Sarah E, b. 1825; m. 1844, John B. Fuller. Res. Lowell,
Mass. Eight children.
51. iii. Benjamin Franklin, b. Nov. 2, 1828.-f-
52. iv. Laura Jane, b. June 2, 1830; d. June 25, 1855.
40. Charles A." (Henry', Henry', Benjamin', RiceS RiceS
Johns WilliamS William^), b. Aug. 14, 1810; m. Mar. 7, 1835,
Ruby Ingraham. A teacher at Victory, N. Y. Children :
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53. i. Rebecca, b. Feb. 10, 1837; m. July 2, 1863, James Prichard.
54. ii. Adaline, b. Jan. 22, 1840; ra. Dec. 1, 1884, James Stratton.
55. iii. Charles A., b. Dec. 4, 1844; ra. Ellen Shafer. Four children.
56. iv. Delbert C, b. 1848; d. 1858.
57. V. William H., b. Feb. 2, 1851 ; ra. Oct. 4, 1885, Phoebe Pinckney.
A printer at Rochester, N. Y.
42. Leander' (Henry', Henry', Benjamin', Rice', RiceS
John', WilliamS William^), b. May 7, 1814; m. (1) Matilda
Moore [d. Apr. 9, 1842] ; (2) Mary E. Vought. Res. at Mil
waukee, Wis., and Kalamazoo, Mich. Children — only one of
first marriage :
58. i. George E., m. Phoebe Mason. Res. Kalaraazoo, Mich. Four
children.
59. ii. F. Augusta, d. June 1, 1871 ; m. Charles Upton.
60. iii. Josephine, d. Mar. 30, 1873; ra. C. Luscomb.
61. iv. Ophelia.
62. V. Hattie L.
44. Henry" (Henry"*, Henry', Benjamin', Rice', RiceS
John', WilliamS William^), b. May 24, 1819; d. Kalamazoo,
Mich., July 8, 1870; m. Harriet N. Dodge [m. (2)  Fisher].
Children :
63. i. Alsamena, m. Charles Bradwell.
64. ii. Mary, m. Edward Dolman.
65. iii. Rosetta.
45. Clark' (Henry', Henry', Benjamin', Rice', Rice*,
JohnS WilliamS William^), b. 1821; m. Jemima  . Chil
dren: 66. i. Clark. Res. at Weedsport, N. Y.
67. ii. Shepherd. Res. at Cato, N. Y.
68. iii. Nelson. Res. at Cato, N. Y.
Three other children.
49. William R.' (Josephs John', Benjamin', Rice', Rice*,
Jobn', WilliamS William^), b. Sept. 6, 1822; d. Nov. 11, 1895;
m. Oct. 26, 1842, Sarah W. Taylor (55). He passed his life
in his native town, where he was a painter. He built his
dwelling, now destroyed by fire, a quarter-mile south of Smith
Village, upon the Rindge road a little north of the divergence
therefrom of the road to Page Hill. He served in the Civil
War, for a year in the 4th New Hampshire Regiment, and then
after being discharged for physical disability, as a musician
in the Veteran Reserve during the remainder of the war.
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69. i. John F., b. Aug. 7, 1843; d. Newport News, Va., Mar. 4, 1863.
He enlisted in the 13th New Hampshire Regiment, and was
m service at the time of his death.
70. 11. William Alfred, b. July 14, 1845; m. Nov. 28, 1878, Vesta A.
Walker of Nobleboro, Me. Res. in Gardner, Mass. Chil
dren : 1. Alice Abbie, b. Sept. 12, 1879. ii. Frederic Emer
son, b. Nov. 21, 1881. iH. Frank Herbert, b. Apr. 25, 1885.
71. 111. Walter Clarendon, b. Feb. 13, 1848; ra. Nov. 3, 1880, Nellie
M. Swallow. He is a shoemaker at Gardner, Mass. Child :
i. Helen Maria, b. Sept. 9, 1886; ra. Elton Hubbard.
72. IV. Mary E., b. Oct. 24, 1850; ra. Oct. 21, 1868, Edwin F.
Blanchard (60).
73. V. Frank A., b. Oct. 26, 1853; m. Nov. 10, 1883, Cora B. (Carr)
Coleraan of Gardner, Mass. He is a carpenter at Gardner.
74. vi. Laura M., b. Dec. 26, 1857; d. Feb. 22, 1858.
75. vii. Charles L., b. Apr. 18, 1861; ra. Jan. 24, 1889, Carrie E.
Carlton. He is a painter and carpenter in New Ipswich.
Children: i. Laura Minnie, b. Jan. 8, 1892. ii. Ethel
Estella, b. Feb. 17, 1893. iii. Mary Edith, b. Jan. 7, 1902.
iv. Frances Mary Mabel, b. Mar. 1, 1906.
51. Benjamin Franklin' (Joseph', John', Benjamin',
RiceS RiceS JohnS WilliamS William^), b. Nov. 2, 1828; d.
July 20, 1894; m. May 29, 1853, Grace L. Nichols. Children:
76. i. Carrie Grace, b. Aug. 10, 1854; m. Charles Sawyer. Two
children.
77. ii. Fannie Esther, b. Dec. 25, 1856; ra. Walter G. Swartz. Two
children.
78. Hi. Lilla, b. Aug. 23, 1860; d. Aug. 10, 1863.

LEE.
John' Lee, b. about 1621; d. Aug. 8, 1690; ra. 1658, Mary, dau. of
Dea. Stephen Hart. He carae frora England to Hartford, Conn., at the
age of thirteen, expecting his father and family to follow the next year,
which, however, they did not do. Hence he becarae an independent
pioneer at an early age. He was one of the eighty-four proprietors of
Farmington, Conn., and there passed his Hfe. Some of his land, bought
of the Indians, is still owned by his descendants. He was a deacon, and
also a constable, which office in early days was a much greater honor
than now.
John' (John'), b. June 11, 1659; d. Apr. 24, 1723; ra. Dec 27, 1682,
Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas and Mary (Judd) Loomis.
Jonathan" (John', John'), b. Mar. 20, 1686; d. Jan. 16, 1758; m.
June 4, 1713, Mary Root. He lived in Christian Lane, Kensington, Conn.,
where he was a deacon.
John* (Jonathan", John", John'), b. Apr. 22, 1725; d. Jan. 21, 1796;
m. May 7, 1752, Sarah Cole. He continued the faraily line of deacons,
and was also an ensign. 513
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Samuel" (John", Jonathan", John', John'), b. Oct. 2, 1757; d. Mar.
31, 1803; m. 1794 Sarah, dau. of Daniel and EHzabeth (Wheat) Burnett
[b. in Scotland]. He was one of the earHest tinsmiths in the country.
He and two of his brothers served in the Revolutionary War, and he
suffered severely while held a prisoner in New York harbor.
1. Samuel' (SamueP, JohnS Jonathan', JohnS John^), b.
Mar. 18, 1803; d. Aug. 27, 1881; m. (1) Nov. 3, 1834, Emily.
dau. of Samuel and Nancy (Stone) Fiske [d. Mar. 5, 1843] ;
(2) Jan. 14, 1846, Lydia, dau. of Paul and Lydia (Coggswell)
Wentworth [d. Mar. 6, 1855] ; (3) Mary Jane (Smith), dau. of
Samuel and Margaret (Orr) Chandler [d. May, 1881]. He
graduated from Yale College in 1827, and pursued his profes
sional study in the associated theological seminary. He was
pastor in Sherborn, Mass., for six years, and in 1836 was set
tled as pastor of the Congregational church of New Ipswich,
which position he held until 1860. His pastorate has been
considered on a previous page, but his work was not confined
within professional limits. He was interested in all lines of
the town's progress and had many earnest friends among the
citizens outside his church. He was a member of the school
committee for nearly twenty years, and represented the town
in the Legislature three times. He was also trustee of the
Academy during his entire residence in town. Children :
2. i. Sarah Fiske, b. Sept. 14, 1838. The house facing on the
"Village Green" of olden times, and so long owned by her
father, has been the horae of her entire life, and this con
tinued residence has given her a familiarity with the events
and traditions of earlier days invaluable in the preparation
of this book.
3. ii. Samuel Wentworth, b. Sept. 12, 1847.-|-
4. iii. John Wentworth, b. Apr. 3, 1852; d. Sept. 7, 1852.
5. iv. George William, b. June 20, 1853; d. Mar. 10, 1884; m. Sept.
15, 1880, Clara H., dau. of Dr. WilHam F. and Lavinia
(Ford) Clarke of Boone, Iowa. He graduated from Dart
mouth College in 1874, was admitted to the Iowa bar in
1875, and practiced at Des Moines, Iowa.
6. v. Joseph, b. Jan. 20, 1855; d. Sept. 5, 1855.
3. Samuel Wentworth' (Samuel', SamueP, John*, Jona
thans JohnS John^), b. Sept. 12, 1847; m. Indianola, Iowa,
Mar. 6, 1870, Sarah E., dau. of Bennett Wheeler [b. Prenty
Town, W. Va.]. At the age of sixteen he went from New
Ipswich to Chicago, 111., and soon after enlisted in the 6th
Illinois Cavalry, in which he served through the war. Soon
after his marriage he settled in Indianola, Iowa, where he has
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lived to the present time, although the part of the town con
taining his home is now separated as Wick. He was ordained
pastor of the Baptist church of West Indianola, and has been
a successful evangelist. Some years later he was admitted to
the Iowa bar, and he since has combined the duties of the two
professions. Children :
7. i. George William, b. Dec. 18, 1870 ; m. Oct. 4, 1899, Artie Potter
of Denison, Iowa. He graduated frora Des Moines Col
lege, becarae principal of the Sac City Institute, and is now
dean of the Woraan's College, Denver Col. Four children.
8. ii. Ella May, b. Sept. 11, 1872; m. July 12, 1899, Rev. W. P.
Canine. Three children.
9. iii. Royal Wentworth, b. Oct. 30, 1876; ra. Jan. 1, 1908, Helen L,
Level of Bronson, Iowa. Two children.
10. iv. Judson Fiske, b. June 24, 1880; m. Nov. 25, 1909, Jessie
Bacon of Osage, Iowa. He is a professor of Economics in
Lewis Institute, Chicago. One child.
11. V. Clara, b. Feb. 19, 1888. She graduated frora Des Moines
College in 1909.
LOCKE.
William' Locke, b. Stepney Parish, London, England, Dec. 13, 1628;
d. Woburn, Mass., June 16, 1720; m. Woburn, Dec. 27, 1665, Mary, dau.
of WilHam and Margery Clarke of Woburn [b. Watertown, Mass., Dec.
20, 1640; d. Woburn, July 18, 1715]. He was brought to America at the
age of six years. He Hved in Woburn.
Ebenezer' (WiHiam'), b. Jan. 8, 1674; d. Dec. 24, 1723; m. (1) Oct.
18, 1697, Susannah, dau. of Israel Walker of Woburn [b. Mar. 1, 1674;
d. June 13, 1699] ; (2) Oct. 14, 1701, Hannah, dau. of David and Hannah
Meads of Carabridge [b. Sept. 17, 1676; d. July 24, 1739]. He was a
farmer in Woburn.
James' (WiHiam'), b. Nov. W, 1677; d. Dec 11, 1745; m. Dec. 5, 1700,
Sarah, dau. of Richard' and Frances (Perriman) Cutter of Menotomy
(q. V.) [b. Aug. 31, 1673].
Samuel" (Ebenezer", William'), b. Aug. 24, 1702; d. Apr. 13, 1775;
ra. Mar. 2, 1730, Rebecca, dau. of Capt. Jaraes and Elizabeth (Arnull)
Richardson [b. July 4, 1710; d. Sept. 10, 1789]. He Hved upon the family
farm in Woburn until 1742, when he reraoved to Lancaster, where he
was an innkeeper raany years.
James" (James", William'), b. Hopkinton, Mass., June 17, 1703; d.
Ashby, Mass., Sept. 1, 1782; ra, Jan. 11, 1727, Elizabeth, dau. of Dea. Ben
jarain and Elizabeth (Newhall) Burnap [b. Reading, Mass., May 1, 1708;
d. New Ipswich, Nov. 25, 1785, at the home of her son-in-law, Ephraim
Adams (1)].
1. William* (SamueP, EbenezerS William^), b. Aug. 23,
1748; d. Jan. 15, 1827; m. (1) Lancaster, Mass., June 18, 1772,
Mary Fowle [b. about 1746; d. Nov. 17, 1796]; (2) Apr. 13,
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1813, Hannah, widow of Jonas Woolson (5) [b. about 1766;
d. Nov. 19, 1828]. He succeeded to his father's inn at Lan
caster, in which town he lived until about 1798, when he re
moved to Rindge, and then in a few years to New Ipswich.
He bought the Barr farm, (64, N. L. O.,) but soon after his
second marriage he removed to the farm of his wife, (IV: 2,
S. R.) Children — all born at Lancaster:
2. i. Mary, b. May 11, 1773; d. Aug. 26, 1778.
3. ii. William, b. Apr. 2, 1776.-)-
4. iii. Anna, b. Mar. 6, 1777; d. Aug. 23, 1778.
5. iv. Polly, b. Oct. 29, 1778; d. about 1805; ra. June 1, 1801, John,
son of Thomas and Lydia (Porter) Eraerson of Topsfield,
Mass. They reraoved to Norwich, Vt. Two children.
6. V. Josiah, b. Oct. 1, 1780; d. Mar. 28, 1826; m. (1) Oct. 12,
1806, Susanna, dau. of James and Miriam Patterson of
Lunenburg, Mass. [b. Mar. 14, 1785; d. Bloomfield, Me.,
May 27, 1819] ; (2) Sarah Croswell. He was a merchant
in Bloomfield. Four children.
7. vi. James, b. Aug. 28, 1782; d. Feb. 26, 1818; m. Nov. 3, 1805,
Frances, dau. of Capt. Allen Hallett, who lived in New
Ipswich a few years until his death in 1808. Jaraes Locke
was associated with his brother William in his store in the
Center Village. His wife survived hira but a few years.
8. vii. Nancy, b. Aug. 26, 1784; d. New Ipswich, Jan. 2, 1876, unm.
9. viii. Lucretia, b. June 5, 1787; d. New Ipswich, 1872, unm.
James' (James", James', WiUiam'), b. Nov., 1729; d. Jan. 19, 1808;
m. Dec. 17, 1753, Hannah, dau. of Aaron and Hannah (Barron) Farns
worth [b. June 22, 1734]. He res. in Ashby and reraoved thence to Sulli
van, N. H. He was selectraan, town clerk, and representative while at
Ashby. He had fourteen children, among whom were John and Eunice,
the leading characters in the incident related in the forraer history of
New Ipswich, according to which relation it fell to the lot of the brother,
then not sixteen years of age, to serve at once in the Revolutionary army,
for which service he sadly needed new pantaloons, which this younger
sister determined he should have, and despite her raother's assurance of
the irapossibility of success she entered upon the task. With her small
shears she cut the needed wool frora the backs of a black and a white
sheep, carded it, spun, washed and dried the resultant mixed yarn, wove
the cloth upon a neighbor's loom, that of the family then being occupied
by a web of linen, and finaHy the needed garment was cut out and made
within less than forty hours after she learned of the brother's need and
two 01^ three hours before the time for his departure.
William* (James", James', William'), b. Hopkinton, Mass., Apr. 12,
1748; d. Mar. 30, 1829; ra. Feb. 21, 1773, Rebecca Barrett of Carlisle,
Mass. [b. Dec. 26, 1744; d. Dec. IS, 1831]. He was a farmer in Fitz
william, where his children were born, and he and his wife died.
3. William' (WilliamS SamueP, EbenezerS William^), b.
Apr. 2, 1775; d. Oct. 27, 1853; m. Feb. 25, 1796, Eleanor
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Haynes of Lancaster. He opened a store in Smith Village
early in the nineteenth century upon the spot afterward occu
pied by the dwelling of J. C. Hildreth just east from his black
smithy, but after a few years removed to the Center Village,
erected the two-storied house on the southwest corner of the
crossing at the foot of the Meeting-house Hill, and there had
a store for a few years in company with his brother James.
Children :
10. i. William, b. July 29, 1798; d. Ashburnham, Mass., Sept. 7,
1837; ra. Mar. 8, 1829, Jane W., dau. of Caleb and Louisa
Wilder of Ashburnhara.
11. ii. Josiah, b. Oct. 18, 1804; m. Oct. 18, 1827; Elizabeth W., dau.
of Capt. John and Deborah Willard. He was a shoemaker
at Ashburnham, Ashby, and South Reading, Mass., succes
sively.
William" (William^ Jaraes", James", William'), b. Feb. 7, 1778; d.
May 20, 1857; m. Feb. 7, 1804, Mary, dau. of Capt. Joshua" and Mary
(Whitraore) Walker of Rindge [b. Burlington, Mass., Jan. 29, 1779; d.
Sept. 14, 1851]. They lived and died in Fitzwilliam.
12. William Dana' (William', WilliamS James', James^,
William^), b. Fitzwilliam, Oct. 5, 1807; d. Mar. 29, 1886; m.
Dec. 11, 1833, Marinda Adams (82). He was a farmer during
the early years of his married life in Ashburnham, Mass., and
in New Ipswich, then for fourteen years in his native town,
and after 1855 upon the home of his wife's childhood, (61,
N. D.) He was deeply interested in the religious and educa
tional interests of the town, and was superintendent of its
schools for years, and his pen gave broader flow to his views
on other cherished subjects as often as other duties permitted.
His wife was a typical sunshine Christian. The leading
thought of the home was a Christian education for their chil
dren and resulting Christian activity. All their children save
one who died in infancy have been teachers, and their later
work is shown below. Children :
13. i. Sarah Deborah, b. Ashburnham, May 23, 1836; ra. Apr. 7,
1868, Rev. John Murdock, son of Ephraim and Sally (Good-
speed) Stow [b. Hubbardston, Mass., Sept. 7, 1824; d. May
7, 1877]. She graduated from Mt. Holyoke Serainary in
1859 and remained in that institution as a teacher until her
marriage. Mr. Stow graduated from Bangor Theological
Seminary in 1854, was pastor in Walpole and in Sullivan,
and during most of the period after his raarriage was in
charge of the church in his native town, where he died.
She lives in Ashburnhara, Mass.
14. ii. William Edwin, b. New Ipswich, Aug. 14, 1837.-]-
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15. iii. Warren Payson, b. New Ipswich, Nov. 14, 1838; d. June 3,
1864. He enlisted Nov. 15, 1861, in the 32d Massachusetts
Regiraent and served nearly his full terra of enlistraent be
fore he raet his death at the battle of Bethesda Church, near
Richmond.
16. iv. Isaac Newton, b. FitzwilHam, May 25, 1841; d. Severy, Kan.,
Jan. 2, 1882; ra. Oct. 21, 1872, Mary Annie, dau. of Thomas
W. and Amanda M. (Sawyer) Wilson of SaHsbury, N. H.
[b. Dec. 7, 1837]. He early purposed to enter the ministry,
but a weakness of the eyes forced a suspension of his
studies before the completion of his preparation for college.
For three years, however, he was connected with Lookout
Mountain Institute, near Chattanooga, Tenn., as teacher and
foreman of outside work, and he then preerapted a farra in
Kansas. His useful activities in religious work, however,
were so appreciated that he was solicited to give his time to
home missionary work ; and after a brief course of study
he was licensed to preach, was soon ordained, and served
the Congregational Home Missionary Society for three
years before his death.
17. V. Elizabeth Adams, b. Fitzwilliam, Oct. 8, 1843; ra. Sept. 15,
1868, Perley Elijah, son of Hirara and Maria (Stone) Col-
lings [b. Marlboro, Feb. 22, 1844]. She graduated from
New Ipswich Appleton Academy in 1864, and her life be
fore 1880 was largely devoted to teaching in New Hamp
shire, Vermont, Illinois, and Kansas, but since that time she
has been engaged in the work of the New West Education
Society and the Congregational Education Society in New
Mexico, having been stationed in Albuquerque Academy
and at the Cubero Mission. Child: i. Laura Whittemore
Callings, b. Aug. 20, 1869; she entered Mt. Holyoke College
in 1888, but was unable to remain to complete her course.
She has since been engaged in the same raissionary activi
ties as her mother.
18. vi. Mary Caroline, b. FitzwilHam, Aug. 10, 1846; d. May 17,
1903; m. June 11, 1883, Araos Franklin Shattuck (185).
19. vii. Emma Augusta, b. FitzwiUiam, Sept. 20, 1848; m. Sept. 3,
1889, Joseph Elliot, son of Levi and Abigail (Pratt) Clark
[b. Ashburnham, Mass., July 18, 1826]. Res. in Ashburn
hara.
20. viii. Laura Whittemore, b. Fitzwilliam, Aug. 15, 1854; d. Mar.
30, 1855.
14. William Edwin' (William Dana', WilliamS William*,
James', JamesS William^), b. Aug. 14, 1837; m. Mar. 15, 1868,
Zoe Ann Marinda, dau. of Augustus and Persis (Stone) Noyes
[b. Westmoreland, Dec. 11, 1833]. He was educated in Apple-
ton Academy and Amherst College, from which he graduated
in 1864, and after graduation from Union Theological Sem
inary in 1867 he entered upon his chosen work as a missionary
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of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
in Bulgaria, where he served during a quarter-century, resign
ing his commission in 1893. He was pastor at Alstead for
several years after his resignation. His home is now at Wel
lesley, Mass. Children :
21. i. Adelaide Imogen, b. Philippopolis, Bulgaria, Mar. 14, 1869.
She graduated frora Mt. Holyoke CoHege in 1892, from
Hartford Theological Seminary in 1895, received the degree
of B. S. T. after a year of graduate study, and has since
been a meraber of the faculty of Wellesley College, since
1900 associate professor of Biblical History.
22. ii. Marinda Adams, b. Samokov, Bulgaria, Jan. 1, 1871. She
graduated from Mt. Holyoke College in 1893, and after a
brief period as a teacher entered upon preparation for the
duties of a professional nurse, graduating frora McLean
Hospital, Waverly, Mass., and working for another year in
the Massachusetts General Hospital, since which time she
has been engaged in the duties of her profession, her home
being at Wellesley, Mass.
23. iii. Mabel Elizabeth, b. Saraokov, Bulgaria, Oct. 21, 1874; ra.
Nov. 30, 1899, Fred Landale, son of George L. and Sarah
Minerva (Burke) Tucker [b. Greenwich, N. Y., Aug. 21,
1876]. She lived in Newark, N. J., sorae years, but is now
settled upon a farra at Baldwinville, Mass. Children: i.
Beatrice Tucker, b. Apr. 2, 1902. ii. Edwin Locke Tucker,
b. Jan. 25, 1904. iii. Eleanor Blanche Tucker, b. Apr. 27,
1906.
LOVETT.
John' Lovett, b. 1610; d. Nov. 8, 1686; ra. Mary  [b. 1605; d.
June, 1695]. With his wife and one or more children, he came frora
England in 1639, landed at Salera, and settled in the location which after
ward was Beverly, Mass.
John" (John'), b. 1636; d. Sept. 10, 1727; m. Bethia, dau. of Josiah
and Susanna Coates [bapt. Sept. 24, 1648; d. Oct. 26, 1714]. He res. at
Beverly. Benjamin" (John', John'), b. Mar. 7, 1680; d. June 10, 1740; m. Anna
 . He continued in Beverly.
Benjamin" (Benjamin", John", John'), b. Sept. 26, 1702; d. June 6,
1782; m. about 1728, Eleanor, dau. of John and Mercy Ellen Cleves [b.
June 8, 1709; d. June 9, 1788]. The family still reraained in Beverly.
William" (Benjamin', Benjamin", John", John'), b. June 15, 1739;
m. Nov. 1, 1778, Elizabeth Lufkin. He continued residence in the an
cestral town.
1. Benjamin' (William', Benjamin*, Benjamin', John^,
John^), b. Beverly, Mass., Dec. 6, 1791 ; d. Sept., 1866; m. Apr.,
1820, Mary Penn [b. Boston, Nov. 11, 1799; d. Dec. 20, 1870].
He went to Boston when a young man and followed the busi-
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ness of a mason until about 1837, when he came to New Ips
wich and became a farmer, having the farm at the end of the
road next westward from the point where the river enters the
town of Ashby, (76, A. D.) Children :
2. i. Mary Jane, b. July 15, 1821; d. Mar. 18, 1900; m. Nov. 6,
1853, Aaron S. Mcintosh. Children : i. Jennie Mcintosh,
b. June 15, 1858. ii. Aaron Mcintosh, b. July 18, 1860; d.
Aug., 1869.
3. ii. Elizabeth, b. Aug. 17, 1823; d. 1871; ra. Dec. 16, 1852, Augus
tus Gill. Child: i. Annie Curry Gill, b. Dec, 1853.
4. iii. Hannah Augusta, b. Jan. 2, 1825; d. Jan. 17, 1828.
5. iv. Caroline Sophia, b. Mar. 17, 1827; d. Mar., 1830.
6. V. Hannah Augusta, b. July 4, 1831 ; d. Apr., 1903.
7. vi. Benjamin Franklin, b.t Oct. 14, 1832; unm. Res. in San
Francisco, Cal.
8. vii. William Penn, b. Oct. 31, 1834; d. Nov., 1893; m. Mary
Jane Newell of Providence, R. I.
9. viH. Harriet A., b. Mar. 21, 1837; ra. Nov. 18, 1871, William
Keith. Children: i. William Keith, b. Oct., 1872; d. 1900.
ii. Benjamin Lovett Keith, b. 1874.
10. ix. Caroline A., b. Feb. 21, 1840; d. Aug., 1908; m. Apr. 30, 1867,~
Howard Gannett. Children : i. Bertha Gannett, ii. How
ard Gannett, iii. Edwin Lovett Gannett, iv. Caroline Belle
Gannett, v. Gordon Hague Gannett.
11. X. Sarah Josephine, b. Jan. 17, 1843; m. Feb. 7, 1867, Sewall
Stearns Lane. Child : i. Arthur Clarence Lane, b. Nov.
20, 1871; m. Dec, 1888, Elizabeth Gertrude Walmsley of
Dover. Children : i. Marion Lovett Lane, b. Oct. 8, 1900.
ii. Dorothy Hall Lane, b. Sept. 13, 1902.
LOWE.
Thomas' Lowe, d. Sept. 8, 1677; m. Susannah  [b. about 1598;
d. Aug. 19, 1684]. He is believed to have been the son of John Low,
vice-admiral of the fleet that brought Gov. Winthrop's colony to New
England in 1630. He was born in England, but as early as 164l he was
resident in that part of Ipswich, Mass., which was then called Chebacco,
but is now included in the town of Essex.
Thomas' (Thomas'), b. in England, 1632; d. Ipswich, Mass., Apr. 12,
1712; m. (1) July 4, 1660, Martha, dau. of Thomas and Margaret Bor-
raan of Ipswich; (2) Mary Brown. He was an influential citizen and held
the office of deacon.
Jonathan' (Thomas", Thomas'), b. July 7, 1665; d. Feb. 8, 1750; m.
Mar. 8, 1692, Mary Thomson.
Jonathan" (Jonathan", Thomas', Thomas'), b. Ipswich, Mass., Sept.
14 1708; ra. Nov. 18, 1731, Sarah, dau. of Abraham and Abigail (Dodger)
Perkins [b. Ipswich, 1711]. He removed to Lunenburg, Mass., probably
the part that is now Fitchburg, in 1763.
Jonathan" (Jonathan", Jonathan", Thomas", Thomas'), b. Aug. 13,
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Asa" (Jonathan", Jonathan", Jonathan", Thomas', Thomas'), b. 1795;
d. 1862; m. 1825, EHzabeth Frances Goodwin [b. 1803; d. 1858].
1. George Norton' (Asa', Jonathan', Jonathans Jona
than', Thomas^, Thomas^), b. Westmoreland, N. Y., Nov. 25,
1831 ; m. Nov. 3, 1853, Julia Ann Chickering (22). His parents
came to Fitchburg, Mass., while he was a boy, and at the age
of eighteen he came to New Ipswich, learned the trade of a
cigar-maker, and has passed his life in that industry. Chil
dren: 2. i. Julia Frances, b. Oct. 16, 1854; m. Oct. 27, 1881, Horace M.
Nash, a physician in Lancaster, Mass., where she lived until
his death in 1895.
3. ii. George Frederic, b. Mar. 10, 1856; d. Apr. 15, 1905; ra. Lizzie
Baxter of Carabridge, Mass. Res. at Milford. Children :
Myrta B., Catherine, Gertrude, Helen, of whom only the
oldest is living.
4. iii. Abby Ellen, b. Sept. 21, 1857; m. Feb. 22, 1876, Robert L.
Cumnock of Mason. Res. at Anderson, S. C. Six children.
5. V. Charles Henry, b. Feb. 7, 1859; d. Aug. 16, 1859.
6. vi. Herbert Norton, b. Dec. 9, 1870; d. Aug. 11, 1871.
7. vii. Caroline, b. Oct. 1, 1873. She is a teacher at Newton, Mass.
MANSFIELD.
The family carae from Lynn and the earlier generations were as here
given. Robert' Mansfield of Norfolk County, England, came to Lynn in
1640. He d. Dec. 16, 1666, and his widow Elizabeth (Townsend) d. Sept.
8, 1673, aged 87.
Andrew' (Robert'), d. Nov., 1683; m. Sarah Breed.
Daniel" (Andrew^ Robert'), b. in Lynn, June 9, 1669; d. June 11,
1728; m. Hannah Townsend [d. Sept. 6, 1714].
Andrew" (Daniel", Andrew", Robert'), b. April 24, 1692; d. in Lynn
field, Aug. 28, 1730; m. Sarah Breed.
Daniel" (Andrew", Daniel", Andrew", Robert'), b. Nov. 24 1717; d.
Apr. 2, 1797; m. (1) 1738, Lydia, dau. of Thoraas and Lydia (Hawkes)
Norwood; (2) 1777, Ruth NewhaH.
1. Lydia' (DanieP, Andrew*, Daniel', Andre wS Robert^),
b. Sept. 16, 1739; d. Aug. 1, 1828; m. Jan. 15, 1767, Allen Breed
(4). 2. Daniel' (DanieP, AndrewS Daniel', AndrewS Robert^),
b. Dec. 27, 1741 ; d. Mar. 29, 1816; m. Nov. 5, 1765, Lydia, dau.
of Elisha and Jane (Breed) Newhall. Res. New Ipswich.
Children :
5. i. Jacob, b. Oct. 24, 1766.
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7. iii. Lydia, b. June 9, 1769; d. Dec 11, 1826; ra. Feb. 25, 1796,
Ebenezer Brown (J. 2).
8. iv. Joel, b. July 22, 1771.
9. V. Polly, b. May 7, 1773.
10. vi. Thomas, b. Sept. 8, 1775.
11. vii. David, b. Sept. 7, 1777; d. Nov. 22, 1777.
12. viii. Betsy, b. May 26, 1779.
13. ix. Israel, b. Mar. 11, 1781.-|-
14. X. Newel, b. Jan. 11, 1784.
15. xi. William, b. Feb. 23, 1786.
16. xii. Sally, b. Aug. 11, 1788.
3. Ezra' (DanieP, AndrewS Daniel', Andrew^, Robert^),
b. June 8, 1745; d. Feb. 5, 1838; m. Feb. 21, 1769, Rebecca
Kenney. Lived in New Ipswich, Jaffrey, and Alstead. Chil
dren :
17. i. Ezra, b. Oct. 10, 1770.
18. ii. Rebeckah, b. Mar. 14, 1772.
19. iii. Azubah, b. Dec. 3, 1773.
20. iv. Aaron, b. Apr. 1, 1782.
21. V. Elijah, b. Mar. 18, 1784.
22. vi. Baruch, b. Sept. 19, 1786.
23. vii. AsA, b. May 17, 1788.
4. Elijah" (DanieP, Andrews DanieP, AndrewS Robert^),
b. June 22, 1746; d. May 18, 1778; m. May 18, 1769, Rebecca
Blanchard. Children :
24. i. Rebecca, b. Jan. 1, 1771.
25. ii. Patty, b. July 19, 1773.
William" (Daniel", Andrew", Daniel", Andrew", Robert'), b. May 20,
1749; d. Sept. 28, 1809; m. May 31, 1770, Betty Townsend.
13. Israel' (Daniel', DanieP, Andrew*, Daniel', AndrewS
Robert^), b. Mar. 11, 1781; d. Apr. 20, 1825; m. Nov. 8, 1804,
Susanna, dau. of Supply and Susanna Wilson (4). Children:
26. i. Israel Norwood, b. July 23, 1805.
27. ii. Frederick, b. July 29, 1807.
28. iii. Addison, b. June 11, 1809.
29. iv. Edward, b. June 20, 1811.
30. V. Supply W., b. 1813 ; d. Mar. 8, 1889.
Levi' (William", Daniel", Andrew", Daniel", Andrew", Robert'), b. Dec.
18, 1780. Leonard' (Levi', William", Daniel", Andrew*, Daniel", Andrew", Rob
ert'), b. 1825; ra. Mary S., dau. of Nathaniel Manly [d. Dec 2, 1898].
31. Franklin Leonard' (Leonard', LeviS William', Dan
ieP, Andrew*, Daniel', Andrew^, Robert^), b. in Rindge, Dec.
17, 1852; d. Mar. 18, 1905; m. Dec. 15, 1875, Louisa Roxa
Foskett (3). Res. in New Ipswich. Children:
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32. i. Albert Franklin, b. Sept. 12, 1877; ra. Elsie A. Woodward
[d. May 19, 1907]. One child, Arlene Antoinette, b. Apr.
10, 1906.
33. ii. Mary Louisa, b. Oct. 18, 1879; ra. Albro L. Balch (5).
34. iii. George Ernest, b. Sept. 24, 1882; d. June 28, 1890.
35. iv. Nellie A., b. Oct. 8, 1884; m. Sept. 28, 1904, Charles H.
Clark. One dau., d. Aug. 14 1906.
36. V. Frederic L., b. Feb. 22, 1887; ra. Jan. 5, 1910, Ruth Edna,
dau. of Aaron F. Whitney of Ashby, Mass.
37. vi. Willis Foskett, b. May 5, 1890.
MANSUR.
Robert' Mansur, ra. June 6, 1670, widow Elizabeth Brooks [d. June
3, 1694/5]. Res. in Charlestown, Mass. He is believed to have been the
father of John, but the evidence is not quite conclusive.
John" (Robert'), ra. (1) Boston, Apr. 24, 1695, Mary Mirick; (2)
Woburn, Mass., June 2, 1701, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas and Hannah
(Cleveland) Henshaw [b. July 30, 1678]. Res. in Charlestown, Mass.
John" (John", Robert'), b. Nov. 10, 1705; ra. Dec 31, 1732, Hannah
Lovejoy of Andover, Mass. Res. in Andover and Dracut, Mass. He
served in the French and Indian wars.
William" (John", John", Robert'), b. Dracut, Jan. 1, 1737; d. 1808;
ra. 1762, Isabella Harvey [b. Dracut, 1739; d. Dec. 27, 1826]. He removed
before 1762 from Dracut to that part of Wilton which becarae Teraple,
being one of the first settlers in that town, and he there passed his life.
His narae is on the list of the fifty-six men who marched from Temple
in response to the Concord alarra in 1775, and he served later in the
corapany of Capt. Gershom Drury.
1. Ezra' (WilliamS John', JohnS Robert^), b. Apr. 19,
1771; d. June 15, 1834; m. 1803, Susan Treadwell of Peterboro
[b. about 1783; d. Nov. 27, 1835]. He succeeded to the family
homestead in Temple, but passed a few of his last years in
New Ipswich. Children:
2. i. Mary Hay, b. Feb., 1804; d. Nov. 3, 1850; m. Mar. 4, 1829,
Peter Durant of Mt. Vernon. Res. Townsend, Mass.
3. ii. Samuel Crombie, b. Sept. 12, 1805; d. Costa Rica, Central
Araerica, 1845.
4. iii. Eliza Cunningham, b. Oct. 28, 1807; d. 1898; ra. Sept. 18,
1826, Orlando Marshall (1).
5. iv. Helen Maria, b. Aug. 11, 1809; m. May 1, 1834, Jonathan L.
Prescott of Epsom. Res. Bristol.
6. V. William Earle, b. Aug. 2, 1811.-f-
7. vi. Susan, b. Oct. 17, 1813; m. Sept. 21, 1843, Ovid D. Barnes.
8. vii. Nancy, b. Feb. 17, 1816.
9. viii. James Monroe, b. Aug. 12, 1818; d. Apr. 27, 1838.
10. ix. Horace, b. Dec. IS, 1821; ra. May, 1846, Abby Leighton of
Dover. Res. Sacramento, Cal.
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11. X. George Bradley, b. Aug. 2, 1823; m. June, 1850, Mary Wheeler
of Concord. Res. at Chicago, 111.
12. xi. Sarah, b. Dec. 31, 1826; d. Dec. 22, 1852; ra. June 28, 1848,
Albert Brown of Springfield, Vt.
13. xii. Abby, b. May 2, 1830; d. Aug. 16, 1858; ra. July 28, 1856,
George M. Cavis of Bristol.
6. William Earle' (Ezra', WilliamS John', John^, Rob-
erfi), b. Aug. 2, 1811; d. Sept. 25, 1862; m. Oct. 6, 1835, Lu
cinda, dau. of Dea. Parker Maynard of Jaffrey [b. June 2,
1816; d. July 27, 1897]. He came to New Ipswich in his
youth, was employed for a few years in the "Waterloom" fac
tory, and later, after his marriage, for several years conducted
a hotel at High Bridge. About 1850 he removed to the Center
Village and was proprietor of the hotel upon the Turnpike
east from the corner store until 1856. On the outbreak of the
Civil War he disregarded his age of fifty years and enlisted in
the 6th New Hampshire Regiment, was wounded in the sec
ond battle of Bull Run, and a month later died of the wound
at Fairfax, Va. Buried in New Ipswich. Children :
14. i. James Parker, b. Apr. 17, 1837; d. Apr. 17, 1858.
15. ii. Helen M., b. Sept. 3, 1839; ra. Sept. 15, 1860, Fred A. Brooks
(35).
16. iii. Abby L., b. Sent. 10, 1841 ; d. Mar. 9, 1912 ; m. Feb. 16, 1862,
Edwin Woods [b. Mar. 13, 1834; d. July 21, 1901]. Chil
dren: i. Harry L. Woods, b. May 15, 1865; m. Jan. 29,
1891, Edith G. Putnam. Children : Fred Mansur Woods,
b. Dec. 20, 1892; Arlene Putnam Woods, b. June 7, 1896.
ii. Herbert Mansur Woods, b. Oct. 17, 1868; a druggist in
Everett, Mass.
17. iv. Maria E, b. Jan., 1844; d. July 25, 1845.
18. v. Frank R., b. Feb. 29, 1848; d. Sept. 13, 1848.
MARSH.
1. Joseph Ellery Foxcroft Marsh, son of Dea. Shubael
and Elizabeth (Foxcroft) Marsh, b. Aug. 23, 1816; d. Oct. 26,
1904; (seventh in descent from George who came to Charles
town, Mass., in 1635 from Hingham, England) ; m. May, 1841,
Sarah C. Smith, a Quaker. He came to New Ipswich in 1875
and bought the "Silas Cragin place," where he passed the re
mainder of his life. Child :
2. i. J. Ellery F., Jr., b. Jan. 20, 1846. -|-
2. J. Ellery F., Jr., b. Jan. 20, 1846; m. Oct. 20, 1869, Eliza
beth, dau. of Theodore and Sarah E. (Hill) Perkins of Lynn,
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Mass. [d. June 4, 1904]. Mr. Marsh came to New Ipswich
in 1877, was first clerk at the corner store ; then proprietor for
several years ; town clerk 13 years ; postmaster ; for two terms
a member of the State Legislature. In 1895 he returned to
Lynn, where he resides. Child :
3. i. Ella Frances.
MARSHALL.
Benjamin' Marshall, b. at Marblehead, Mass.; d. June 18, 1795;
ra. Sibylla, dau. of Moses and SibyHa (Plympton) Johnson.
Moses' (Benjamin'), b. at Holliston, Mass., Dec. 15, 1775; m. Lucy
CampbeH. He was one of the early settlers of Dublin, a manufacturer of
waterwheels and made the first wheel used in the Bank Village mill.
1. Orlando' (Moses^, Benjamin^), b. in Dublin, Jan. 28,
1805; d. Jan. 13, 1869; m. Sept. 18, 1826, Eliza Cunningham
Mansur (4). Mr. Marshall came to New Ipswich in his boy
hood and spent his life, save three years at Winchendon, Mass.,
in Bank Village, being master mechanic in the mill of that vil
lage. Children :
2. i. Marla Augusta, b. Mar. 20, 1829. -|-
3. ii. Eliza Ann, b. June 29, 1831.-|-
4. iii. Granville, b. Oct. 7, 1833; d. Mar. 14, 1855.
5. iv. Isabella M., b. Sept. 18, 1836; d. Aug. 13, 1855.
6. V. Harriet Ellen, b. Dec. 20, 1838.-|-
7. vi. Mary Jane, b. July 20, 1843; m. (1) Aug. 15, 1862, Henry
Ames Blood (8) ; (2) Robert J. Tabrahara.
8. vii. Lucy Emogene, b. Oct. 6, 1844; d. Apr. 25, 1911; m. May 19,
1863, Orrin Tillson.
9. viii. Edward Orlando, b. July 15, 1847. He succeeded to his
father's position in the raills and keeps the family home.
2. Maria A.* (OrlandoS MosesS Benjamin'), b. Mar. 20,
1829; m. Mar. 20, 1850, Stephen F. Rossiter of Claremont.
Children :
i. Kate Maria Rossiter, b. Dec. 28, 1850; d. July 14, 1889.
ii. Marshall S. Rossiter, b. Oct. 3, 1852; d. Dec 17, 1899.
iii. Ida Belle Rossiter, b. June 28, 1854.
iv. Harriet F. Rossiter, b. Mar. 9, 1864; m. George F. Lewis of
Naugatuck, Conn. One child.
3. Eliza Ann* (Orlando', Moses^, Benjamin'), b. June 29,
1831 ; m. Oct. 28, 1852, Charles W. Tufts of Dunkirk, N. Y.
Children :
i. Ellen M. Tufts, b. Sept. 3, 1857; m. (1)  White; (2)
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6. Harriet Ellen* (Orlando', Moses^, Benjamin'), b. Dec.
20, 1838 ; m. Oct. 9, 1856, G. F. Tindall of Cleveland, O. Child :
i. Harry Brown Tindale, b. Mar. 26, 1859.
MELVIN.
John' Melvin, b. in Scotland about 1653; d. Aug. 11, 1726; m. (1)
Hannah, dau. of John and Mary (Brown) Lewis [b. about 1655; d.May
23, 1696] ; (2) pub. Aug. 27, 1696, Margaret Shanesberg. He carae to
Charlestown, Mass., as early as 1676, and reraoved thence to Concord,
Mass., soon after his second marriage.
Jonathan' (John'), b. May 29, 1688; d. Feb. 11, 1737; m. Feb. 28,
1714, Sarah, dau. of Ebenezer and Sarah (Sraedley) Hartwell [b. July
28, 1694]. Res. in Concord.
Eleazer' (John'), b. June 28, 1703; d. Oct. 18, 1754; ra. Mary, dau.
of Nathaniel and Ruth (Meriam) Stow [d. Nov. 20, 1754]. He lived in
Concord, and was a famous fighter against the Indians. He was in the
company of Capt. Lovewell at the fight well known as "Lovewell's fight,"
and was one of the nine members who, out of the entire number of
thirty-three, received no injury. An account of the contest in his hand
writing is preserved in the Newberry Library, Chicago, 111. He was a
lieutenant at the reduction of Louisburg. Five of his children came to
New Ipswich. Probably there were several others.
1. Josiah' (Jonathans John'), b. June 14, 1727; m. Mar. 3,
1757, Lydia' Barrett (James*, Benjamin', Humphrey'', Hum
phrey') [b. June 6, 1738; d. 1800]. It is not quite certain that
this descendant of the first marriage of the pioneer John Mel
vin was ever resident in New Ipswich ; possibly he was a non
resident landholder. But a comparison with the Concord rec
ords makes it seem possible that he came several years later
than his cousins from the second marriage, and lived a few
years, 1774-78, in the north part of the town, while the younger
line had settled in the southern division. Tradition is silent
concerning him.
2. Nathaniel' (EleazerS John'), b. Oct. 12, 1740; m. Dec.
6, 1770, Abigail Lakin of Groton, Mass. He came to New
Ipswich about 1765, and settled in the southeast corner of the
town on the farm long after occupied by members of the Rus
sell family, (44, N. L. O.) He gave Revolutionary service at
the time of the Concord alarm, and later in the companies of
Capts. Joseph Parker and Josiah Brown. His name disappears
from the town records in 1786.
3. Sarah' (EleazerS John'), b. Mar. 17, 1743; d. May 24,
1814; m. Nov. 27, 1766, Jonathan Davis (1).
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4. Mary^ (EleazerS John'), b. Apr. 9, 1745; d. Mar. 22,
1807; m. Jan. 1, 1765, James Chandler (1).
5. David' (EleazerS John'), b. May 31, 1747; d. Mar. 16,
1834. His name is found on record in New Ipswich for fifteen
years, 1769-84; and he was among those who left the town for
Cambridge on the opening day of the Revolutionary contest,
and also at Bunker Hill. Still the location of his home is not
evident, although it was probably in the southeastern portion
of the town near his brothers. Perhaps he li^ ed with them,
having no separate home, as no mention is found of his having
married. He was one of those who embraced the Shaker be
lief and petitioned to be released from payment of the tax for
the support of the minister. He finally left the town and joined
the community of Shakers at Harvard, Mass., and there after
many years closed his life, after which he was characterized
by his fellows as "a very earnest believer, but very fond of
joking." 6. John' (Eleazer^, John'), b. Apr. 11, 1749; m. Lois, be
lieved to be the dau. of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Heald) Hos
mer [b. July 24, 1746] . He also marched on the alarm of April,
1775, and he has been credited with service on Bunker Hill,
but since the only official record supporting this is that name
upon the roll of a company enlisted a considerable distance
westward of New Ipswich, on which roll the name is marked
"D* June 17," the natural belief is that the John Melvin who
was taxed in New Ipswich until 1787, and who served in Capt.
Joseph Parker's company in 1776, was the one who came to
town sixteen years before that date and lived on the same farm
as his brother Nathaniel. He owned land in Lancaster, Mass.,
in 1792, and while he probably joined the Shaker community
for a time, apparently his sojourn there was not permanent.
A "David Melvin, 2d" who died in Lancaster at the age of
fifteen may perhaps have been a son of John and Lois, or pos
sibly of David, if he had married before adopting the Shaker
belief. The Melvin name perished from town before the close of
the eighteenth century.
MILES.
John' Miles, d. Concord, Mass., Aug. 26, 1693; m. (1) Sarah 
[d. July 18, 1678] ; (2) Feb. 10, 1679, Susannah Rediat. Res. in Concord,
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John" (John'), b. May 20, 1680; d. Aug. 23, 1725; m. Apr. 16, 1702,
Mary Prescott. Res. in Concord.
John" (John', John'), b. Dec. 24 1702; d. prob. Feb. 4, 1781; ra. Eliza
beth  [b. about 1704; d. May 5, 1782].
1. Abel* (JohnS JohnS John'), b. Sept. 9, 1733; d. Dec. 6,
1814; m. Feb. 26, 1756, Lydia, dau. of Capt. DanieP and Eliza
beth (Minot) Adams (Joseph', John^, Henry'). He came from
Concord to New Ipswich about 1771, and settled where the
road now ends on the RamsdeH farm east from Whittemore
Hill, (70, A. D.,) where he lived until his death. Children :
2. i. Lydia, b. Feb. 20, 1757; m. Feb. 25, 1800, David RurariU.
3. ii. Betty, b. Dec 4, 1758; d. Jan, 3, 1798; ra. Dec. 11, 1783, John
Shattuck (10).
4. iii. Polly, b. July 8, 1760; d. Nov. 14, 1804 unra.
5. iv. Rebecca, b. Jan. 3, 1762; ra. Jan. 21, 1781, Levi Mansfield.
6. V. Abel, b. Oct. 17, 1768; ra. Nov. 10, 1794, Betsy Shepley.
NEWHALL or NEWELL.
Thomas' Newhall d. May 25, 1674; m. Mary [d. Sept. 25, 1665].
He was an early settler in Lynn, Mass., and in 1638 he was allotted thirty
acres of land in that part of the town which is now Reading.
Thomas' (Thomas'), b. 1630 or earlier; d. Apr., 1687; ra. Dec 29,
1652, EHzabeth, dau. of Nicholas Potter [d. Feb., 1686/7]. He is said to
have been the first child born in Lynn. He held the office of ensign.
His property at the time of his death araounted to nearly £700.
Joseph" (Thomas", Thomas'), b. Sept. 22, 1658; d. Jan., 1705/6; m.
probably in 1678, Susanna, dau. of Thoraas and Elizabeth Farrar of Lynn
[b. Mar. 26, 1659]. Seven years after his death she m. Benjamin Simonds
of Woburn. He represented the town in the General Court and often
held other honorable and responsible positions. Like his father he was
an ensign. Ebenezer" (Joseph", Thomas", Thomas'), b. June 3, 1693; d. June 22,
1766; ra. 1718, Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph" (Joseph", Allen", Allen') and
Sarah (Farrington) Breed [b. Oct. 6, 1695; d. Feb. 7, 1770]. He was a
clothier, and he too held the faraily office of ensign.
1. Ebenezer' (Ebenezer*, Joseph', Thomas^, Thomas'), b.
Dec. 9, 1725 ; d. 1783 ; m. Dec. 25, 1755, Mary Newhall [b. about
1731 ; d. Mar. 20, 1826], very possibly the widow of his cousin
Elijah' (Elisha*, Joseph') who had died the preceding year,
and if so, she was dau. of Thomas and Mary (Baker) Cheever.
He came from Lynnfield to New Ipswich in 1780 and owned
what has since been known as the "Newhall farm," (76, A. D.,)
where he lived only three years. He was, in accordance with
his desire, buried in his orchard. Children :
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3. ii. Mehitable, b. Sept. 17, 1758; d. Dec. 21, 1821.
4. iii. Ebenezer, b. Oct. 29, 1760.
5. iv. Elizabeth, b. July 26, 1763.
6. v. Elijah, b. Mar. 9, 1766.-|-
7. vi. Lois, b. Mar. 20, 1768; m. Nehemiah Stratton (3).
8. vii. Ezra, b. Sept. 2, 1770; m. Eunice  . Removed to Acton,
Mass.
9. viii. WiLLLAM, b. Aug. 23, 1772.
2. Onesimus' (Ebenezer', Ebenezer*, Joseph', Thomas^,
Thomas'), b. Oct. 12, 1756; d. Apr. 16, 1833. The name of his
first wife, who died 1786, does not appear, but he m. (2) Lydia
 . He served through the entire time of the Revolutionary
War in either the army or in naval service, failing to have a
part at Bunker Hill only because his company did not arrive
until the engagement had ended, doing duty in Rhode Island
and at Ticonderoga ; while serving upon a privateer so wounded
in the face as to cause a severe permanent distortion, and for a
brief time being a prisoner at Newfoundland. He came to New
Ipswich at the close of the war and succeeded to the ownership
of the Newell farm. Children :
10. i. Ebenezer, b. Aug. 5, 1789. He graduated from Harvard
College in 1818.
11. ii. Samuel, b. Nov. 26, 1791; m. Adeline  . One son, Samuel,
d. Feb. 6, 1832, aged 5 months.
12. iii. Seth, b. Feb. 3, 1794.+
13. iv. Sarah, b. Mar. 18, 1796; d. Groton, Mass., Dec. 4, 1873, unm.
14. v. Mary, b. June 11, 1798; m. (1)  Harris; (2) Jan. 15,
1845, Peter Shumway of Oxford, Mass.
15. vi. Lucy, b. Sept. 2, 1800.
6. Elijah' (Ebenezer', EbenezerS Joseph', Thomas'*,
Thomas'), b. Mar. 9, 1766; d. Aug. 7, 1851; m. (1) Hannah
Gill [b. about 1763 ; d. Jan. 21, 1830] ; (2) Elizabeth, dau. of
Jonathan Locke of Ashby, Mass., and widow of Thomas Heald
(9) [b. 1770; d. May 25, 1843]. He lived upon the "Newell
farm," (76, A. D.,) or near that place in 77, A. D., until about
1828, when he removed to the corner house just south from
the town-house, and there passed his later years. Children :
16. i. Wn.LiAM, b. July 28, 1790.-|-
17. ii. Hannah, b. Feb. 2, 1792; d. Mar. 25, 1792.
18. iii. Nancy, b. Feb. 12, 1794; d. June 18, 1858, unm.
19. iv. James, b. Aug. 5, 1795.-1-
20. v. Hannah, b. 1797 or 1798; d. Mar. 30, 1862; m. June 4, 1835,
Gilman Ames (3).
21. vi. Clarissa, b. Dec 25, 1799; d. Feb. 9, 1861; m. May 7, 1845,
Dea. Asa Symonds of Hancock.
22. vii. Louisa, b. Aug. 7, 1802; d. July 19, 1860, unm.
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12. Seth^ (Onesimus', Ebenezer", Ebenezer*, Joseph',
ThomasS Thomas'), b. Feb. 3, 1794; d. Apr. 9, 1867; m. Han
nah Kemp [b. about 1795; d. Aug. 12, 1862]. Soon after his
marriage he settled near the Mason line upon 186, A. D., where
most of his children were born, and then removed to the
"Chickering house," opposite the house which is now the Con
gregational parsonage, which was his home for about twenty
years. Children :
23. i. Milton P., b. Feb. 24, 1823; d. Feb. 27, 1823.
24 ii. Lucy Ann, b. about 1825; d. June 18, 1853; ra. Stephen Pea
body of Danvers, Mass.
25. iii. Sarah C, b. about 1827; d. Aug. 14, 1886; ra. E. W. Hayes.
26. iv. Maria C, b. about 1829; d. Sept. 10, 1850, unm.
27. V. Harriet Atwood, b. 1830; d. Jan. 30, 1872; m. John W. Shep
ard of New Bedford, Mass. One son who died in youth.
28. vi. Mary Jane, b. about 1832; d. 1908; m. Warren Bushby of
Peabody, Mass.
29. vii. Philena, b. about 1834; d. about 1894; ra. Sylvester Adaras,
a dentist in Boston.
16. William^ (Elijahs Ebenezer', Ebenezer*, Joseph',
ThomasS Thomas'), b. July 28, 1790; d. Dec. 26, 1845; m. Dec.
6, 1814, Catherine Foster [b. about 1793; d. Nov. 15, 1875].
He appears to have lived with or near his father in the south
part of the town until about 1823, and afterward for a time
in the nearest house to that of his father at the town-house
corner, on the road to Smith Village. Children :
30. i. Mary Kendall, b. July 22, 1815 ; d. Sept. 3, 1826.
31. ii. Rebecca Foster, b. June 12, 1817; d. Aug. 11, 1848, unm.
19. James^ (Elijah', Ebenezer', EbenezerS Joseph', Thom
asS Thomas'), b. Aug. 5, 1795; d. Apr. 16, 1853; m. June 17,
1832, Abigail Rhoads (5). He left New Ipswich soon after
reaching his majority. For a time he drove a stage between
Boston and Keene, but in his later years he was the proprietor
of a stable in Boston doing a livery, cab, and hack business.
Child :
32. i. Henry Clay, b. Mar. 9, 1843.-|-
32. Henry Clay' (JamesS Elijah', Ebenezer', EbenezerS
Joseph', ThomasS Thomas'), b. Mar. 9, 1843; d. Dec. 11, 1909;
m. (1) Sept. 18, 1876, Georgiana, dau. of Luther and Mary C.
(Corey) Clark [b. July 28, 1854; d. Feb. 2, 1899] ; (2) Jan. 15,
1902, Jennie M., dau. of Willard and Lizzie C. (Derby) Page
of Leominster, Mass. He was a meat dealer and a prominent
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citizen of Ashburnham, Alass., of which he was a selectman
for about ten years, assessor nearly thirty years, and also a
representative in the Legislature. Children :
33. i. Nellie Abigail, b. Feb. 2, 1905.
34 ii. Albert Henry, b. May 21, 1906.
35. Joseph Newhall, b. about 1780; d. Feb. 24, 1862; m.
Elizabeth F.  [b. about 1783; d. Jan. 17, 1856]. His name
is borne upon the tax-lists of New Ipswich from 1803 until
his death. He was before 1820 the first landlord of the tavern
in the Center Village on the Turnpike, just east of the corner
store, and the home of his later years was the house directly
opposite Union Hall. But his relationship to the family re
corded above does not appear. Children :
36. i. Mary Caroline, b. Oct. 7, 1812; d. Oct. 9, 1812.
37. ii. Joseph Fisk, b. about 1815; d. Mar. 21, 1817.
38. iii. Helen M., b. Oct. 8, 1818; d. Jan. 27, 1889; m. July 8, 1847,
Ephraim F. Fox (25).
NICHOLS.
Richard' Nichols, d. 1674; ra. Anna  [d. 1692]. He was a set
tler in Ipswich, Mass., as early as 1648, and reraoved thence to Reading,
Mass. John' (Richard'), b. 1651; d. 1721; ra. Abigail, dau. of Dea. Thomas
Kendall [b. about 1655; d. 1721]. He lived in Reading, Mass.
Richard" (John", Richard'), b. 1682; m. 1706, Abigail Daraon. Res.
in Reading. John" (Richard", John", Richard'), b. 1711; m. 1733, Joanna, dau. of
James and Mary Nichols (?). He succeeded to her father's house in
Reading. John" (John", Richard", John", Richard'), b. 1736; d. 1819; m. 1760,
Bethiah, dau. of Capt. Joseph and Abigail (Bickford) Burnap. He suc
ceeded to the faraily home.
Kendall" (John", John", Richard", John", Richard'), b. 1776; m. Han
nah, dau. of Thomas and Hannah (Daraon) Syraonds [b. 1767]. He
reraoved to Sharon.
1. Symonds'^ (Kendall', John', John*, Richard', JohnS
Richard'), b. about 1798; d. Aug. 19, 1885; m. Oct. 18, 1818,
Harriet Gregg [b. 1802; d. Mar. 12, 1892]. He came to New
Ipswich in middle life and soon made his home in the house
still known by his name, situated on the southern side of the
Turnpike next eastward from the stable of the tavern long
known as Clark's Hotel. Children :
2. i. Harriet L. E., b. 1820; d. 1896; m. William J. Greenraan
[b. Dec. 13, 1821; d. Mar. 18, 1909]. He was a cigar maker
in New Ipswich. Children : i. Georgiana Greenman, b.
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about Aug., 1848; d. Feb. 26, 1850. ii. William Silas Green
man, b. 1852; d. May 15, 1875.
3. ii. Louisa, b. about 1822; d. Oct. 26, 1843.
4. iii. Andrew Symonds, b. about 1824; d. Nov. 14, 1855, unm. He
reraoved to CaHfornia in the early years of gold mining
there, and made that state his home.
5. iv. Clarissa, b. Apr. 2, 1828; d. Jan. 1, 1903; m. Henry Otis
Preston (52).
6. V. Sarah J., b. about July, 1834; d. Jan. 4, 1903.
NUTTING.
John' Nutting, d. Mar. 13, 1676; m. Aug. 28, 1650, Sarah, dau. of
Stephen Eggleton. He carae frora County Kent, England, to Araerica a
little earlier than 1650, and settled at Woburn, Mass., where he raarried.
He removed to that part of Chelmsford which is now Westford, and
thence, about 1661, to Groton, where his house was one of the garrison
houses. He was the first one killed by the Indians in their destructive
attack upon the town.
John" (John'), b. Woburn, Mass., 1651; d. 1717 or later; ra. (1)
1674, Mary  ; (2) Mrs. Maria Parker. He returned to Groton after
the Indians' attack, and there passed his life. His children were of the
first marriage.
Ebenezer' (John'), b. Groton, Mass., 1666. He removed from his
native town before 1707 and settled in Cambridge, Mass., where he was
known as the "learned blacksmith." Later he became a doctor. He
represented the town in the General Court.
Daniel" (John", John'), b. about 1680.
John" (Ebenezer", John'), m. (int. Westford, Mass., Mar. 23, 1754,)
Hannah, dau. of John and Anna (Chamberlain) Read [b. Feb. IS, 1723;
d. Dec 21, 1814].
Ezekiel" (Daniel", John", John'), b. 1720.
Thomas" (John", Ebenezer", John'), b. Westford, Dec. 10, 1758; d.
Plymouth, Dec. 28, 1813; m. (int. Westford, Aug. 31, 1781,) Sybil, dau.
of Jona and Hannah (Bulkeley) Prescott [d. Oct. 29, 1831]. He lived
many years in Westford, where his children were born, but in 1812 he
reraoved to Plymouth, N. H., where he was a farmer and tanner. He
served in the Revolution, enlisting at least three times.
Ezekiel" (Ezekiel", Daniel", John', John'), b. 1751.-|-
1. Jonas' (ThomasS John', EbenezerS John'), b. Oct. 15,
1783; d. Apr. 23, 1842; m. Sept. 7, 1805, Mary Spaulding (20).
He lived in Ashburnham, Mass., on the farm previously owned
by his father-in-law, but so near the New Ipswich line that his
social relations, including those of school and church, were
with New Ipswich, and he is here presented as though he were
legally resident in the town. Children :
3. i. Jonas, b. May 11, 1806.-|-
4. ii. Sally, b. Sept. 20, 1808; d. May 17, 1890; m. Apr. 2, 1835,
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5. in. Phineas S., b. 1810; d. Jan. 1, 1830, unm.
6. iv. Hiram, b. Nov. 1, 1812.-|-
7. V. Mary, b. about Nov., 1815; d. Aug. 6, 1816.
8. vi. John, b. Nov. 6, 1817.-1-
2. Ezekiel' (EzekieP, EzekieP, Daniel', JohnS John'), b.
1806; d. June 19, 1891 ; m. Apr. 2, 1835, Sally Nutting (4). He
came from Groton, Mass., to New Ipswich at about the time of
his marriage, and passed his life as a farmer on the northerly
part of XV : 3, S. R. Children :
9. i. Charles P., b. June 13, 1836.-|-
10. ii. George Henry, b. about 1837; d. July 4, 1864. He enlisted in
the 13th New Harapshire Regiraent, and died at Washing
ton, D. C, frora a wound received at Cold Harbor, Va.
11. iii. Mary Jane, b. 1843; m. Sept. 10, 1862, John H. Whitney (23).
12. iv. James Francis, b. about Feb., 1846; d. Jan. 15, 1862. He en
listed in the 6th New Hampshire Regiment, and died of
disease at Annapolis, Md., while in service.
3. Jonas' (Jonas', Thomas*, John', Ebenezer^, John'), b.
May 11, 1806; d. June 20, 1873; m. (1) Aug. 29, 1828, Lucy
Sylvester (5); (2) 1864, Mrs. Sophia Hayden [d. Apr. 28,
1881]. He remained in Ashburnham until 1837, when he re
moved to Smith Village and after the death of Isaac Appleton
bought his property at the northern end of the village and
there made his home until 1869. The Appleton house, however,
after a few years he removed several rods down the hill to its
present position, and replaced it with the larger and more
modern house now occupying the place. He was a farmer,
and also did a very considerable business for those days in the
manufacture of wooden chairs in connection with the sawmill
and gristmill also dependent upon the waterpower below the
bridge. The home of his later years was in the Center Village,
where he bought the house opposite the Barrett mansion, long
occupied by Moody Adams. At the outbreak of the Civil War
he became active in the enlistment of soldiers for the New
Ipswich and Rindge company in the 6th New Hampshire Regi
ment. He had previously been a captain in the militia, and he
was commissioned lieutenant in this company and, despite his
age, did active service for some months. Children :
13. i. Laura M., b. June 12, 1829; d. Dec. 17, 1898; m. June 19,
1851, Joseph Sylvester Wetherbee of Rindge (1).
14. ii. Mary Louisa, b. Aug. 20, 1831; d. Dec. 29, 1907; m. Apr. 26,
1853, Augustus C. Wheeler (119).
IS. iii. John Chauncey, b. Aug. 5, 1833.-|-
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16. iv. George P., b. Mar. 6, 1836; d. Memphis, Tenn., Mar. 20, 1874,
unm. He served for a time in the Civil War. He after
ward followed various Hnes of business in many different
parts of the country, and died while on his way to Cali
fornia.
17. V. Charles S., b. July 30, 1838; d. Roanoke Island, N. C, Mar.
29, 1862. He enlisted with his father in the 6th New
Hampshire Regiment, and died of disease while in service.
18. vi. Henry William, b. Oct. 20, 1840.-f-
19. vii. Allen A., b. Sept. 25, 1842; d. Washington, D. C, June 9,
1863, unm. He served in the Civil War in the 2d Massa
chusetts Regiment, and was shot while on picket duty.
20. viii. Augusta H., b. Dec. 20, 1846; d. Boston, Mass., May 20,
1884; m. Feb. 25, 1880, Williara Lesure.
6. Hiram' (Jonas', Thomas*, John', EbenezerS John'), b.
Nov. 1, 1812; d. Aug. 28, 1857; m. (1) Dec. 6, 1832, Asenath
Tenney (22) ; (2) Nov. 2, 1847, Mrs. Minerva Nelson [d. Den
ver, Colo., about 1881]. He remained in or near New Ipswich
until 1842, living some years at Smith Village in the house
long owned by Russell Farwell, nearly opposite the school-
house, but a little farther north. At the age of thirty he re
moved to Illinois, settling where the town Preemption now is.
Five years later he removed to Fairfield, Iowa, in 1849 to Des
Moines, Iowa, whence a year later he, with his family, crossed
the plains to California, being nearly five months upon the
way. After two years' labor in the mines he became a farmer
at Bloomfield, Cal., where he passed the last five years of his
life. Children :
21. i. Mary Asenath, b. Sept. 8, 1833; d. Nov. 22, 1873; m. (1)
Nov. 4 1849, Daniel Hickman [d. Nov. 16, 1850]; (2)
Robert Bailey [d. Jan., 1891]. She removed to California
with her father, and her first husband died soon after their
arrival there. She had nine children of her second mar
riage.
22. ii. Rebecca Hildreth, b. Dec. 6, 1835; ra. (1) Apr. 15, 1852,
George Woodson [d. Mar. 19, 1869] ; (2) 1870, Frank Ball
[d. Apr., 1902]. She had nine children of her first mar
riage and one of her second.
23. iii. Horace Clark, b. July 14, 1837; d. May 9, 1908; m. Dec. 6,
1860, Sarah Woodson. Three children.
24. iv. Laura Maria, b. Dec. 6, 1849; ra.  Bailey. She is a
widow with no living child.
25. V. Frank Augustus, b. Aug. 15, 1854; d. in Colorado, Apr.,
1882, having been run over by a team.
8. John' (Jonas', ThomasS John', Ebenezer^, John'), b.
Nov. 6, 1817; d. Mar. 5, 1876; m. (1) Oct. 10, 1839, Cynthia,
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dau. of Abel and Zinthia (Sylvester) (22) Davis of Winchester
[b. Jan. 31, 1816; d. June 18, 1867] ; (2) 1870, Mrs. Elizabeth
(Davis) Hosley, a cousin of his first wife. He was a farmer
on the Simeon Wright farm at the foot of Binney Hill, near
the school-house of District No. 6, (98, N. L. O.,) for several
years after 1845, and later on the next farm to the east, long
occupied by Joseph Tenney. At about the time of his second
marriage he removed to Richmond, and was engaged in the
pail business with his sons until his death. Children :
26. i. George Phineas, b. 1840; d. in infancy.
27. ii. John Phineas, b. 1840; d. in infancy.
28. iii. Cynthia Ann, b. Oct. 19, 1841; d. Mar. 16, 1888; m. 1865,
David Amos [d. July, 1905]. Res. Petaluma, Cal. Children:
i. Edwin William Amos. ii. Elmer John David Amos. iii.
Ellen Cynthia Margreit Amos. iv. Anna May Amos.
29. iv. Mary Eliza, b. May 17, 1844; m. (1) Apr. 30, 1865, John
Adams, a blacksmith in Ashburnham, Mass., and Winches
ter, and a grandson of William Adams (W. 41) ; (2) Delos
Thomas of Worcester, N. Y., who d. soon. Res. Brooklyn,
N. Y. Children: i. Harry Willard Adams, ii. George
Wesley Adams.
30. V. John Phineas, b. Nov. 11, 1846.-|-
31. vi. Oliver Jonas, b. Aug. 9, 1848.-t-
32. vii. Laura Maria, b. June 23, 1851; d. Framingham, Mass., 1889;
m. Oct., 1874, Frederic Barrett. Res. Framingham, Mass.
Children : i. Frederick Eugene Barrett; res. Denver, Colo.
ii. Robert Edward Barrett; res. New York city.
33. viii. Jennie Adelia, b. Apr. 7, 1856; m. George Leander Sprague
of Richmond. Children : i. Vere Nutting Sprague; res.
Denver, Colo. ii. George Leroy Sprague; res. New Bed
ford, Mass.
9. Charles P.^ (Ezekiel', Ezekiel', EzekielS DanielS JohnS
John'), b. June 13, 1836; d. Mar. 9, 1895; m. Sarah J. Manley.
He served in the Civil War in the 4th New Hampshire Regi
ment, and was severely wounded at Petersburg, Va. He
passed most of his later life as a farmer on the "William Taylor
farm" across the road from the town farm, (XV : 3, S. R.,) and
the "Zachariah Parker farm," later occupied by Timothy Carl
ton, (XIII : 3, S. R.) Children :
34. i. Sarah Lilie Josephine, m. Frank M. Dow. Res. Saugus,
Mass.
35. ii. IzziE May, b. 1868; d. 1879.
36. iii. Gertrude M., b. 1869; d. 1886.
37. iv. George F., b. 1872.
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40. vii. Minnie C, b. 1876.
41. viii. Lewis, b. 1877.
15. John Chauncey^ (Jonas', JonasS ThomasS John',
EbenezerS John'), b. Aug. 5, 1833; d. Dec. 12, 1898; m. June
2, 1857, Maria Stone (34). He served during the Civil War in
tbe 4th New Hampshire Regiment, and was made lieutenant
on the day that he was mustered out of service. He afterward
was a farmer in Leominster, Mass. Children:
42. i. Jennie Maria, b. Apr. 24, 1860; m. May 14, 1890, Austin
Presby.
43. ii. William John, b. Mar. 25, 1862; m. Mar. 25, 1900, Gertrude
M. Jarvis. Child: i. Howard Sterling, b. Jan. 21, 1901.
44. iii. Edward Herbert, b. July 6, 1869; m. Nov. 2, 1896, Caroline
L. Rugg. He has been a selectman of Leominster for
several years. Children : i. Gladys Berly Catherine, b.
Mar. 3, 1898. ii. Doris Althea. b. Jan. 16, 1900; d. Aug. 16,
1901.
45. iv. Charles Allen, b. Nov. 11, 1873; m. Apr. 20, 1904, Alice E.
Merriam. Children : i. John Lyman, b. June 1, 1905. ii.
Charles Edward, b. Aug. 16, 1906.
46. V. Franklin Stone, b. Jan. 26, 1877.
18. Henry William^ (Jonas', JonasS Thomas*, John',
EbenezerS John'), b. Oct. 20, 1840; m. Jan. 22, 1868, Annette
M. E. Bemis of Worcester, Mass. He is proprietor of a stable
in Worcester. Children :
47. i. Walter Bemis, b. Dec. 22, 1870.
48. ii. Harriet Maude, b. Nov. 14, 1874.
49. iii. Frederic Temple, b. Sept. 21, 1877.
30. John Phineas'' (John', Jonas', Thomas*, John', Ebene
zerS John'), b. Nov. 11, 1846; m. Elizabeth H. Bullock
of Richmond. He removed to Richmond in 1870 and was en
gaged in the manufacture of pails for several years, but the
shop being burned he went to Lyme and entered the lumber
business. In 1891 he removed to Winchester, where he has
been a successful farmer and dealer in live stock. He has rep
resented the town in the Legislature and has been called to
other positions of responsibility and trust. Children :
50. i. Victor Phineas, b. June 10, 1875.
51. ii. Walter Asa, b. Oct. 21, 1885.
31. Oliver Jonas^ (John', Jonas', Thomas*, JohnS Ebene
zerS John'), b. Aug. 9, 1848; d. June 24, 1889; m. Dec. 2, 1873,
Clara L. Wetherbee (3). He was engaged in the manufacture
of pails with his father and brother, but after the burning of
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their shop he removed to Peterboro and carried on the same
industry until his death, caused by diphtheria, his four children
dying of the same disease at nearly the same time. Children :
52. i. Ora May, b. Apr. 10, 1876; d. May 19, 1889.
53. ii. John Guy, b. Sept. 16, 1877; d. June 18, 1889.
54. iii. Stella Louise, b. Oct. 3, 1879; d. June 17, 1889.
55. iv. Myrta Clara, b. Nov. 15, 1880; d. Apr. 2, 1882.
56. V. Fred Oliver, b. Dec. 21, 1886; d. June 16, 1889.
OBEAR.
Richard' Obear, bapt. Nov. 21, 1641; m. 1671, Abigail Woodbury [b.
about 1655]. He was son of John and Elizabeth (Bucher) Obear of
Abbotsburg, near Southampton, County Hampshire, England, a descendant
of a French Huguenot, the earlier form of the name being "de Auburt."
He came to America in 1662, and settled in that part of Salem, Mass.,
which afterward became Beverly.
Richard" (Richard'), m.  Woodbury. Res. in Beverly.
Josiah" (Richard", Richard'), b. Beverly, 1718, or 1719; m. (1) 1741,
Hannah, dau. of Dea. Jonathan Kimball of Wenham, Mass. ; (2) 1763
Hannah Haskell. He removed from Beverly to Wenham in 1739. His
descendants still occupy the "Old Ober House," built about 1680, and
held by the family since 1747.
1. Josiah* (Josiah', Richards Richard'), b. Aug. 29, 1747;
d. Feb. 17, 1820; m. (1) 1772, Phebe, dau. of Dea. Jonathan
Kimball of Wenham, Mass. [d. 1782] ; (2) 1802, Abigail, dau.
of Abram Carlton of Lunenburg, Mass. [b. 1770; d. Oct., 1863].
He came from Wenham to New Ipswich at some time between
1782 and 1788, and entered business as a shoemaker on the
north side of the old "country road" not far from the store of
David Hills, but in a few years he bought the Daniel Foster
house, just north of the site of the central graveyard, which
was his home during the rest of his life. He kept a daily
journal with a record of public events, especially deaths, which
continued by his family has furnished the writer of this vol
ume many desired facts not elsewhere recorded. Children :
2. i. Whxiam, b. 1773; d. 1825.
3. ii. Samuel, lost at sea while yet a boy.
4. iii. Sally, b. 1778; d. unm.
5. iv. Thomasine, b. 1782.
6. V. Julia Ann, b. 1804; d. 1889; ra. Mar., 1831, Charles Chickering
(8).
7. vi. Abigail Jane, b. 1806; d. Sept. 15, 1853, unm.
8. vii. Clark Hopkins, b. Feb. 25, 1811.-J-
8. Clark Hopkins' (JosiahS Josiah', Richard'', Richard'),
b. Feb. 25, 1811; d. Apr. 11, 1888; m. June, 1848, Lydia A.
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Swasey [b. July 7, 1820, in that part of Meredith which is now
Laconia]. He passed his entire life, except a few years of his
early manhood, in his native town, living in the house which
was the home of his childhood until it failed to afford protec
tion from the winter. He was a public school teacher in neigh
boring towns for a considerable period, and his wife for so long
a period before and after her marriage that she was known in
the surrounding region as "teacher" by an entire generation.
He was a farmer, but was also largely occupied in insurance
business, as deputy sheriff, and as superintendent of schools.
He was interested in the militia of the state and passed
through the lower offices to that of lieutenant-colonel. Chil
dren: 9. i. Annabel Clark, b. June 25, 1852; m. Aug. 2^, 1873, George
F. Conant, a civil engineer. Children : i. Francis Obear
Conant, b. Oct. 12, 1874; he graduated from Amherst Col
lege; he is a real estate dealer at Brookhaven, Miss. ii.
Annabel Henrietta Conant, b. Feb. 9, 1876; d. July 23, 1876.
iii. Clark Carlton Conant, b. May, 1877; d. Oct. 18, 1885.
iv. Alice F. Conant, b. Oct. 17, 1878; m. Howard S. Knowl
ton, an electrical journalist, v. Clarabel Adelia Conant, b.
Mar. 4, 1884; d. Oct. 28, 1885. vi. Hope Adgate Conant, b.
Aug. 4, 1891; ra. Thomas Walsh.
10. ii. Francis A., b. July 7, 1857; m. Sarah J., dau. of Charles and
Helen Jenkins of Mason. He is a letter carrier at Nashua.
Children: i. Harold Clark, b. June 21, 1881; he graduated
from Harvard University in 1905; he spent two years in
Europe, and has since been in a publishing house of New
York city. ii. Alice- M., b. Feb. 12, 1883; she graduated
from Smith College in 1905, and continued her studies at
Columbia University, from which she received the degree
of A. M. in 1907; she is a teacher in New York city. iii.
Donald Francis, b. Oct. 25, 1894.
PAGE.
John' Page, b. about 1586; d. Dec. 18, 1676; ra. Phebe  [b. about
1590; d. Sept. 25, 1677]. He carae frora Dedham, England, in 1630 and
settled in Watertown, Mass.
John' (John'), b. Watertown, 1630; ra. May 12, 1664, Faith Dunster
[d. Apr. 3, 1699]. His horae during the greater part of his life was in
his native town, but for a few years about 1660 to 1676 he res. in Groton,
Mass. He is said to have represented his town in the General Court.
Jonathan" (John", John'), b. June 24 1677; d. Oct. 10, 1751; m. Mary
 . Res. in Groton.
Joseph" (Jonathan", John", John'), b. Oct. 22, 1714; d. Mar. 20, 1799;
m. Nov. 21, 1739, Abigail, dau. of Daniel and Abigail Shedd of Groton
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[d. Apr. 26, 1812]. He res. in Groton until his late years, when he re
moved to Rindge. He was a lieutenant.
Daniel" (Joseph", Jonathan", John", John'), b. July 18, 1745; d. Sept.
14 1831; m. Feb. 9, 1768, Abigail Johnson [d. Aug. 26, 1819]. He re
raoved frora Groton to Rindge earlier than 1780.
1. Nathan' (Daniel', Josephs Jonathan', JohnS John'), b.
probably in Rindge about May, 1779; d. Sept. 4, 1856; m. Dec.
27, 1808, Betsey, dau. of Jeremiah and Martha Towne [b. about
1779; d. May 27, I860]. He came to New Ipswich about 1823
and purchased the Dea. Chandler farm, (XIII : 2, N. L. O.,) at
the summit of the elevation since known as Page Hill and in
its cultivation passed a life of exceptionally constant industry
even for those days. Children :
2. i. Luther. -|-
3. H. John.
4. iii. Lemuel.
2. Luther' (Nathan', DanielS Josephs Jonathan', JohnS
John'), m.  [b. 1817; d. Sept. 5, 1858]. ChHdren :
5. i. Charles M., b. 1854
6. ii. George W., b. 1856; ra. Nellie F. Goodrich.
7. iii. Adaline L.
PARKER.
This name has been borne upon the New Ipswich records during
nearly its entire history, but there is no reason to believe that the numer
ous citizens thus designated are of one family. Apparently five families
are represented, as shown below.
PARKER (Abraham).
Abraham' Parker, b. about 1609; d. Aug. 12, 1685; m. Nov. 18, 1644,
Rose Whitlock [d. Nov. 30, 1691]. He is believed to have been a native
of Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, whence he came to New England
and had settled at Woburn, Mass., in 1644. He removed to Chelmsford,
Mass., about 1653, and there passed his remaining years.
Moses' (Abraham'), b. about 1657; d. Oct. 12, 1732; ra. June 19,
1684, Abigail, dau. of Richard' Hildreth of Chelrasford. Res. in Chelms
ford. Aaron" (Moses', Abraham'), b. Apr. 9, 1689; d. Dec 17, 1772; ra.
(1) Aug. 12, 1712, Abigail Adams; (2) Dorothy Fletcher. He was a
farmer in the part of Chelmsford which is now Westford, where he was
selectraan for several years.
Samuel" (Aaron", Moses", Abrahara'), b. Jan. 1, 1717; d. Aug. 7,
1795; m. (1) Jan. 22, 1738/9, Sarah, dau. of Joshua" Fletcher of Westford
[b. May 29, 1719; d. Oct. 12, 1846]; (2) May 12, 1748; Mary (Proctor)
Robbins, dau. of John" (John') Proctor of Chelrasford, Mass. [d. Nov. 2,
1757] ; (3) Hannah, widow of Ephraim Fletcher.
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1. Joseph' (SamuelS AaronS Moses^, Abraham'), b. May
20, 1742; d. Sept. 22, 1807; m. July 18, 1763, Susannah, dau. of
Zachariah' (Joshua*) and Susannah (Fassett) Fletcher [b.
Oct. 24, 1743; d. 1812; m. (2) Lieut. Jonathan Robbins of
Plymouth, N. H.]. He came to New Ipswich about 1766, and
settled first near the Temple line on the "Stickney farm," lately
for many years the property of Stephen W. Wheeler, (44,
N. D.) Later he removed to the farm long the property of
the Fox famHy, (XII : 3, S. R.,) and thence one lot southward
to the Chandler farm, (XII : 4, S. R.) He did worthy service
in the Revolution, responding to the first alarm and later being
the efficient captain of a company largely from New Ipswich
and rising to the rank of major. Children :
5. i. Joseph, b. July 25, 1766; d. Sept. 25, 1766.
6. ii. Joseph, b. Aug. 13, 1767.-}-
7. iii. Zachariah, b. Oct. 17, 1770.-|-
8. iv. Amos, b. Mar. 24, 1773. He removed to Lempster.
9. V. Susannah, b. Sept. 21, 1774; d. 1781.
10. vi. Asa, b. Jan. 3, 1777.
11. vii. John, b. Mar. 30, 1779.
12. viii. Betty, b. Mar. 17, 1783.
13. ix. Sarah, b. Mar. 27, 1785; d. Preemption, III, Dec. 19, 1854; m.
Sampson Tenney (7).
14. X. Lydia, b. Apr. 27, 1789.
2. Leonard' (Samuel*, Aaron', MosesS Abraham'), b.
Nov. 10, 1745 ; m. Mary  . His name first appears upon
the New Ipswich tax-lists at the same time as that of his
brother Joseph, but as he had not then attained his majority
it is perhaps uncertain whether he was allowed the rights of
manhood at an early age, or his uncle bearing the same name
was briefly a citizen of the town. Records and tradition are
alike silent concerning him save in respect to his Revolution
ary service and his children. He is known to have ultimately
removed from town. He marched to the April alarm in 1775,
was a member of his brother's company in 1776, in the com
pany of Capt. Brown in 1777, of Capt. Fletcher in 1778, and in
the latest military expedition organized in the town to meet
the attack from the north in 1780. Children :
15. i. Leonard, b. June 28, 1769.
16. ii. Ellas, b. May 17, 1771.
17. iii. Abel, b. May 13, 1773.
18. iv. Polly, b. July 3, 1775.
19. V. Sarah, b. May 24 1778.
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3. Jonathan' (SamuelS Aaron', Moses^, Abraham^), b.
Mar. 28, 1751 ; d. Rindge, Mar. 19, 1820, unm. He passed the
greater part of his life in New Ipswich. He was somewhat
eccentric, but maintained the military reputation of the family
by service in the companies of Capts. Brown and Stephen
Parker, and by an enlistment in 1780 until the close of the war.
It seems proper in this place that to the record of the loyal
service of the three brothers just named a brief mention should
be added of a fourth son of Samuel*, not resident in New
Ipswich, who gave equally faithful labor in the days of the
nation's birth.
4. Abel' (SamuelS AaronS Moses^, Abraham'), b. Mar.
25, 1753, was one of the soldiers stationed at Cambridg'e in
the first of the Revolutionary strife, and was wounded at Bun
ker HHl. Later he served at Ticonderoga and elsewhere in
New York, and also in Rhode Island. He held the office of
lieutenant. Afterward he resided in Jaffrey, where he was a
leading citizen. He represented that town in the Legislature
and Constitutional Convention, was judge of probate, and a
Presidential elector. Two of his sons were graduates of Dart
mouth College and prominent citizens : Edmund, of Amherst
and Nashua, representative from both towns and speaker of
the House, judge of probate, and a leading man of business ;
and Joel of Keene, chief justice of the Superior Court of New
Hampshire, and professor of Law at Harvard University.
6. Joseph' (Josephs Samuel*, Aaron', MosesS Abraham'),
b. Aug. 13, 1767; d. Mar. 14, 1825; m. May 1, 1792, Sarah,
dau. of Simeon and Sarah Wright [b. Oct. 2, 1769]. He lived
in the same neighborhood as his father and brother Zachariah,
very probably in the "Underwood house," situated midway
between their homes upon the road now long discontinued
formerly passing a short distance southerly of the house buHt
by James L. Chandler and long his place of residence. About
1802 he removed from New Ipswich to Lempster, where he
passed his life as a farmer. Children :
21. i. Sally.
22. ii. Joseph.
23. iii. Zachariah.
24. iv. Benjamin, b. Aug. 24, 1798.-}-
25. V. Jonas.
26. vi. Almena.
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28. viii. William Bateman.
29. ix. George Washington.
7. Zachariah' (Joseph', SamuelS Aaron', Moses^, Abra
ham'), b. Oct. 17, 1770; d. 1855; m. Nov. 19, 1796, Margaret,
dau. of WHliam and Margaret Clary [b. May 2, 1778; d. June
4, 1808]. He was a farmer on the Rindge road just west from
the crossing of the Fox Brook, (XIII : 4, S. R.,) where he was
also one of the early manufacturers of crude potash from the
abundant store of ashes purchased at a low price from the
surrounding farmers. He removed to Ludlow, Vt., in 1823
or earlier. ChHdren :
30. i. Zachariah, b. Sept. 21, 1797; m. Apr. 8, 1823, Dolly Wood.
He apparently removed from New Ipswich at about the
same date as his father.
31. ii. Cynthia, b. Jan. 30, 1799; ra. Jan. 21, 1819, Timothy Fletcher
of Ashburnham, Mass.
32. iii. Harvey, b. Jan. 25, 1801.
33. iv. John, b. Jan. 28, 1803.
24. Benjamin' (Joseph', Joseph', SamuelS AaronS Moses^,
Abraham'), b. Aug. 24, 1798; d. Dec. 18, 1845; m. Sept. 9,
1824, Olive, dau. of Timothy Nichols of Lempster [b. 1799].
He succeeded to his father's farm in Lempster, where he was
also a maker of potash. He was a prominent citizen, holding
the offices of selectman and representative. Children :
34 i. Emily L., ra. Ransora P. Beckwith. Res. in Claremont.
35. ii. Hiram, b. July 3, 1830; m. Oct. 11, 1854 Helen G., dau. of
Charles and Anna (Beckwith) Moore of Lempster [b. June
16, 1836]. He succeeded to the family farm, and also in
effect to the official duties of his father. Four children.
36. iii. Hosea Washington, b. May 30, 1833; m. May 30, 1861,
Lovisa, dau. of Mark and Lovisa (Curtis) Southgate of
Bridgewater, Vt. [b. Nov. 18, 1831; d. Sept. W, 1904]. He
graduated from Tufts College in 1855, studied law, and has
practiced for many years in Claremont. He has also been
active in educational and other local interests, and in po
Htical movements of state and nation, having held a seat in
the National Congress. One daughter.
PARKER (Nathan).
Nathan' Parker, m. Mary  . Res. at Andover, Mass.
John" (Nathan'), b. Dec. 20, 1653; m. May 24, 1687, Hannah Brown
[d. May 26, 1734].
Benjamin" (John", Nathan'), b. June 10, 1693; d. Dec 31, 1732; m.
Sept. 19, 1727, Sarah Chadwick of Boxford, Mass. [d. Mar. 31, 1779].
Asa" (Benjamin", John", Nathan'), b. Sept. 24 1729; d. May 27, 1820;
m. Feb. 27, 1752, Sarah Marbel. Res. at North Andover, Mass.
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Aaron' (Asa", Benjamin", John", Nathan'), b. June 2, 1774; d. Feb. 2,
1822; ra. Jan. 1, 1801, Lydia Bates [b. Cambridge, Mass., Dec 17, 1779;
d. Aug. 10, 1864]. Res. in Cambridge, Mass.
1. Benjamin' (Aaron', AsaS Benjamin', JohnS Nathan'),
b. Apr. 15, 1804; d. Nov. 17, 1883; m. (1) Jan. 7, 1830, Cathe
rine, dau. of Maj. Zachariah Hall of Chelsea, Mass. [b. Med
ford, Mass., Sept. 8, 1795 ; d. Woburn, Mass., Mar. 23, 1840] ;
(2) Mary Ann, dau. of WHliam and Hepzibath Tucker of
Andover, Mass. [b. Apr. 25, 1817]. He lived in Maiden and
in Woburn, Mass., but in 1856 he removed to Temple, and
thence five years later he came to New Ipswich and settled
upon the "Chickering farm," (22, N. D.,) where he passed his
remaining years, occupying the house upon the eastern side
of the brook. Children :
2. i. Catherine Emerson, b. Oct. 15, 1830; m. Jan. 23, 1854, Harry
S. Hill of Lynn, Mass. Children : i. Henrich Ernest Hill,
b. Nov. 15, 1854; m. Lizzie Allison, ii. Catherine Maude
Hill, b. Sept. 1, 1859; m. Thomas Henry Brewer.
3. ii. Benjamin, b. Mar. 31, 1832. -f-
4. iii. Conant Sawyer, b. Jan. 22, 1834; d. infancy.
5. iv. Aaron Hall, b. Aug. 6, 1836. -|-
6. V. Emily Jane, b. Dec 7, 1842; m. (1) Oct. 27, 1863, WiHiam
WaHace Hawkes of Lynn, Mass. [d. Apr. 12, 1872] ; (2)
Nov. 7, 1888, William B. Gould of Lynn [d. Aug. 9, 1900].
Child: i. Mabel Parker Hawkes, b. Aug. 7, 1864; d. Feb.
20, 1886.
7. vi. Conant Alonzo, b. Aug. 16, 1844.-(-
8. vii. Wilbur Bates, b. Mar. 16, 1846.-|-
9. viii. Arthur Francis, b. Sept. 10, 1847.-|-
10. ix. George Franklin, b. May 4, 1849. -|-
3. Benjamin' (Benjamin', AaronS AsaS Benjamin', JohnS
Nathan'), b. Mar. 31, 1832; d. Mar. 2, 1899; m. July 31, 1856,
Caroline Elizabeth McKown of Boston [b. Oct. 18, 1835; d.
Jan. 12, 1905]. He was a tailor in Boston, living successively
in Charlestown and Roxbury. Children :
11. i. Nellie Hall, b. June 25, 1857; m. Nov. 11, 1878, WilHam H.
Tobey. Children: i. Charles W. Tobey, b. July 22, 1880.
ii. Marion Isabel Tobey. iii. Mildred Parker Tobey. iv.
Doris Emerson Tobey.
12. ii. George Wright, b. Oct. 18, 1859; unm. He is a stock broker
in Boston.
13. iii. Charles Lincoln, b. Aug. 21, 1862.-|-
14. iv. Ralph Eugene, b. Aug. 18, 1872.-|-
5. Aaron Hall' (Benjamin', AaronS AsaS Benjamin',
Johns Nathan'), b. Aug. 6, 1836; d. Jan. 1, 1909; m. Edith
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Kurtz of Boston. He came to New Ipswich at about the same
time as his father, and commenced the practice of dentistry
in the Center Village, having also an office in Greenville.
After several years of very successful practice he removed his
business to Boston. ChHdren :
15. i. Austin H. He is a dentist in the West.
16. ii. Marion.
17. iii. Eleanor.
7. Conant Alonzo' (Benjamin', Aaron', AsaS Benjamin',
Johns Nathan'), b. Aug. 16, 1844; d. Sept. 5, 1913; m. Dec.
27, 1864, Rosetta Amelia, dau. of George and Lavinia (Whit
comb) Jones [b. Mar. 28, 1847; d. Mar. 2, 1904]. He has lived
in Bank Village and later in Greenville in the employ of the
Columbian Manufacturing Company. Children:
18. i. Frederic Conant, b. June 7, 1866; ra. Dec. 14, 1893, Sanara
E. Kelley. Res. Taunton, Mass.
19. ii. Edith Emogene, b. Apr. 25, 1868; m. Apr. 25, 1894, Arthur
L. Sunbury. Res. Ashby, Mass.
20. iii. Harry James, b. May 1, 1870; ra. Nov. 1, 1893, Jeanette (Far-
quher) Green. Res. Methuen, Mass.
21. iv. Willis Whitcomb, b. Oct. 6, 1882; m. Mar. 10, 1904, Lana B.
Flanders. Res. Taunton, Mass.
8. Wilbur Bates' (Benjamin', Aaron', Asa*, Benjamin',
JohnS Nathan'), b. Mar. 16, 1846; m. Dec, 1904, Louise How
land. Child :
22. i. Howland, b. Sept. 25, 1905.
9. Arthur Francis' (Benjamin', Aaron', Asa*, BenjaminS
Johns Nathan'), b. Sept. 10, 1847; m. June 11, 1873, Celia Rus
sell of Lynnfield, Mass. Children :
23. i. Alice Francis, b. Jan. 1, 1875; m. Jan. 1, 1895, Walter D.
Griffin. One son.
24. ii. Emily Russell, b. Apr. 4, 1882; m. Sept. 18, 1906, J. W.
Franklin McDonald.
10. George Franklin' (Benjamin', Aaron*, Asa*, Benja
min', JohnS Nathan'), b. May 4, 1849; m. Feb. 16, 1875, Mary
Helen Rowd of Wrentham, Mass. Children :
25. i. Walter Henry, b. Mar. 26, 1877.-)-
26. ii. Olive Derby, b. Jan. 8, 1885.
13. Charles Lincoln' (BenjaminS BenjaminS AaronS
Asa*, Benjamin', JohnS Nathan'), b. Aug. 21, 1862; m. Apr.
25, 1888, Elizabeth Wade. He is a stock broker in Boston.
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27. i. Harold Lincoln, b. June 11, 1890.
14. Ralph Eugene' (Benjamin', Benjamin", Aaron', Asa*,
Benjamin', JohnS Nathan'), b. Aug. 18, 1872; m. Oct. 28, 1896,
Ethel, dau. of William George and Hattie Patten (Clark)
(18) McKown. He is a stock broker in Boston, and has his
home in New Ipswich on the Supply Wilson farm, (35, N. D.)
Children :
28. i. Donald Clark, b. Oct. 31, 1897.
29. ii. Daphne, b. Sept. 24 1900.
25. Walter Henry" (George Franklin', Benjamin',
Aaron', Asa*, Benjamin', JohnS Nathan'), b. Mar. 26, 1877;
m. Apr. 25, 1907, Sarah P. Cushing. Child :
30. i. Helen Cushing, b. Dec. 30, 1908.
PARKER (Obadiah).
1. Obadiah Parker, b. Groton, Mass., Apr. 19, 1730; d. Oct.
5, 1816; m. Ruth  [b. Jan. 5, 1732; d. Feb. 5, 1818]. He
was son of Obadiah and Hannah Parker of Groton. He came
to Mason in 1751 and settled upon one of the western range
of lots in that town, building his house within a few rods of
the New Ipswich line and thus becoming a near neighbor of
Jonas Wheeler (3), who had settled upon 5, A. D. It is not
certain that he ever was a citizen of New Ipswich, but his re
lations across the town line were so numerous that his name
should have a place here. The births of the first seven of his
ten children are found upon the New Ipswich records, and his
name appears upon the tax-list during nearly his entire life.
He may almost be termed the father of Mason, as he was a
leading Proprietor, was the chosen agent for obtaining the
incorporation of the town, and was authorized to call the first
town meeting, at which he was chosen moderator and select
man, which offices he held in later years, as also that of repre
sentative. Children :
2. i. Hannah, b. July 18, 1754; m. Mar. 15, 1774, James Wilson.
3. ii. Phineas, b. May 11, 1756; m. Dec. 8, 1779, EHzabeth Swan.
4. iii. Obadiah, b. Dec. 17, 1758; d. Jan. 27, 1763/4.
5. iv. Grace, b. Aug. 19, 1761; d. Sept. 5, 1761.
6. V. Sam Stevens, b. Oct. 17, 1763.
7. vi. Ruth, b. Sept. 9, 1765.
8. vii. Sampson, b. Oct. 11, 1767; d. Mar. 18, 1818.
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10. ix. Obadiah, b. Feb. 18, 1772; d. about 1830. He graduated frora
Harvard College in 1799, and passed his life as a teacher
in Massachusetts and New York.
11. X. Joel, b. July 11, 1775.
PARKER (Samuel 1st).
1. Samuel' Parker, b. about 1729; d. Nov. 26, 1806; m. (1)
Abiah Cook [b. about 1728; d. Sept. 15, 1786]; (2) Apr. 15,
1792, Sarah, widow of Abner Howe of Brookfield, Mass. [b.
about 1736; d. Dec. 30, 1795]. He is said to have been born
in Groton, Mass., and was probably a descendant of James
and Elizabeth (Long) Parker, but his lineage has not been
determined. His early manhood was passed in Lunenburg,
Mass., where six of his children were born, but at about the
age of thirty-three he came to New Ipswich, remaining about
twenty-five years, but passing his later years in Jaffrey. He
is said to have lived upon the western part of the "Champney
farm," (VI: 1, S. R.,) but during his residence in town the
farm near the South burying-ground, (XI : 4, S. R.,) seems to
have been occupied by a resident bearing the same name, thus
causing some uncertainty regarding location of residence, and
also, perhaps, in the names of his children. The records of
his family, as given by the historians of the different towns
of his residence, differ very widely, but the following seems
to be best authenticated. Children :
2. i. Abigail, b. June 11, 1752; d. Feb. 11, 1790; m. Nov., 1778,
Ebenezer Champney (1).
3. ii. Phebe, b. Dec. 26, 1753; m. Benjarain Bancroft of Rindge.
Four children.
4. iii. Samuel, b. Aug. 9, 1755.-|-
5. iv. Asa, b. Aug. 6, 1757.-|-
6. V. Ebenezer, b. July 15, 1759. -|-
7. vi. Eunice, b. Apr. 16, 1761; m. Nov. 27, 1788, Eli Ames of
Groton, Mass.
8. vii. Nathan, b. May 6, 1763 ; unm.
9. viii. Mercy, b. July 3, 1765; m. 1791, Benjamin Champney (2).
10. ix. Daniel, b. Dec. 18, 1766.-J-
11. X. Lucy, b. Oct. 25, 1768; d. about 1787.
12. xi. Amos, b. Mar. 1, 1771; d. Feb. 27, 1797; m. Ruth  .
4. Samuel^ (Samuel'), b. Aug. 9, 1755; m. Sarah Bullard
of Dublin [d. Jan. 20, 1816]. He res. in Stoddard. Children:
13. i. Sarah, ra. Mar. 25, 1804, Caleb Farrar (15).
14. H. Phebe, b. about 1782; d. Nov. 20, 1848; ra. (1) Jonas C.
Champney (11); (2) 1826, Ephraim H. Farrar (17).
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15. iH. Samuel, b. about 1787; d. Oct. 3, 1812.
16. iv. Luther. He was a teacher in Boston.
17. V. Abigail, b. about 1795 ; d. Mar. 24 1863.
There were other children of whora no record has been found.
5. AsA^ (Samuel'), b. Aug. 5, 1757; d. Apr. 13, 1838; m.
Lucy, dau. of Oliver and Mary (Stockwell) Gould [b. about
1764; d. Nov. 8, 1844]. He removed to Jaffrey as early as
1800, and until that time he seems to have lived upon the
Champney farm, probably succeeding his father in its occu
pancy. Children :
18. i. Asa, d. 1819. He removed to Cuba.
19. ii. Oliver. He removed to Baltimore, Md.
20. iii. Nathan, b. 1794; d. 1851. He removed to Baltimore, Md.
21. iv. Abner Howe, b. 1796. He removed to Guiana, S. A.
22. V. Lucy, b. 1796, unm. Res. in Jaffrey.
23. vi. Abigail Champney, b. 1799; d. 1859.
24. vii. Mary Stockwell, b. 1801; d. 1841.
25. viii. Eliza, b. 1803; unra. Res. in Jaffrey.
26. ix. Abiah Cook, b. 1808; d. 1873.
27. X. Edwin Llewellyn, b. 1811; d. 1868; m. Cassanda Lewsdale.
Reraoved to Baltiraore, Md.
6. Ebenezer^ (Samuel'), b. July 15, 1759; d. Feb. 16, 1804;
m. Dec. 12, 1790, Lydia Richardson (4). He succeeded Sam
uel Heywood as tavern-keeper in the house since occupied by
the Preston family, opposite the Baptist church. Children :
28. i. Betsy, b. Nov. 27, 1891.
29. ii. Ebenezer, b. Apr. 17, 1795.
10. Daniel^ (Samuel'), b. Dec. 18, 1766; m. Jenny Coch
ran of Peterboro. He removed to Jaiifrey in early manhood,
and thence to Waitsfield, Vt., about 1800. Children :
30. i. Daniel, b. 1798; d. Glover, Vt., Feb. 6, 1850. He graduated
at the University of Vermont in 1826. He was a Congre
gationalist minister.
31. ii. Ithamar. He had three other children of whora no record has been
found. PARKER (Samuel 2d).
1. Samuel Parker, m. Zeruiah  . It is thought most
probable that this owner of the Parker name is designated in
the former history of the town as the first resident upon XI :
4, S. R., unless the grantee of the lot, David Nevins, himself
lived upon it for a short period, of which no evidence appears.
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Parker mentioned above have been confounded. Neither the
town records nor tradition have yielded further information,
except in the official list of his chHdren. In that record the
name of his wife is by no means certainly to be read as given
above. Children :
2. i. Agjies, b. Feb. 4, 1761; d. Sept. 16, 1766.
3. ii. Samuel, b. Aug. 27, 1762; d. Aug. 24 1775.
4. iii. Sarah, b. Nov. 21, 1764.
5. iv. Zeruiah, b. Jan. 21, 1767.
6. V. Anne, b. Apr. 27, 1769.
7. vi. Sampson, b. Apr. 2, 1771.
8. vii. Reuben, b. Dec 11, 1773; d. Aug. 7, 1775.
PARKER (Thomas).
Thomas' Parker, b. 1605; d. Aug. 12, 1683; m. Amy  [d. Jan.
IS, 1690]. He carae from England in 1635, and settled at Lynn, Mass.,
whence he removed to Reading, Mass., where he was deacon in 1644. He
was also selectman. He seems to have been a kinsraan of Abraham, but
the claim that they were brothers is not generally accepted. Probably
they were not more nearly related than cousins. Capt. John" Parker,
in coraraand at the battle of Lexington in 1775, was of this family, by
the line Thomas', Hananiah'', John", Josiah*.
Nathaniel^ (Thoraas'), b. May 16, 1651; m. 1677, Bethia, dau. of
John and Bethia (Cowdrey) Polly of Roxbury, Mass. [b. Feb. 12, 1659;
d. Aug. 23, 1748]. Res. in Reading.
Stephen^ (Nathaniel', Thomas'), b. Apr. 21, 1692; ra. 1713, Elizabeth
Batchelder. Stephen* (Stephen^, Nathaniel', Thomas'), b. Newton, Mass., Aug.
20, 1714; m. Abigail Wright. He resided for a tirae in Roxbury, Mass.,
and removed thence to Shrewsbury, Mass.
1. Stephen' (Stephen*, Stephen', NathanieP, Thomas'), b.
Shrewsbury, Mar. 8, 1738; d. July 4, 1814; m. (1) Dec. 17, 1760,
Mary Morse; (2) Hannah (Morse) Hitchcock. He came to
New Ipswich in 1765, and settled near the Temple line on 36,
N. D., his house probably being at the south end of that lot,
on or near an obliterated path, perhaps never a legal highway,
extending from the home of John Cutter, (32, N. D.,) to that
of Simeon Gould, (40, N. D.) He removed to Nelson before
the close of the Revolutionary War, and later to Walpole,
where he died. His name appears very frequently in Revolu
tionary records, beginning with the roll of men who marched
from New Ipswich in April, 1775, and continuing nearly to
the close of the contest. He was captain of a company mostly
enlisted in New Ipswich and Peterboro. He was a selectman
at Nelson and also a member of the Committee of Safety.
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2. i. Jonathan, b. 1764.
3. ii. Almorin, b. 1764.
4. iii. Stephen, b. Mar. 22, 1766.
5. iv. Molly, b. Aug. 7, 1768.
6. V. Nehemiah, b June 25, 1770.
7. vi. Hezekiah, b. May 16, 1772.
8. vii. Elijah, b. Aug. 31, 1776. -|-
8. Elijah' (Stephen', Stephen*, Stephen', NathanieP,
Thomas'), b. Aug. 31, 1776; d. Aug. 26, 1858; m. June 14, 1814,
Sally, dau. of Rev. Aaron HaH [b. about 1783; d. 1875]. He
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1806, studied law, and
in 1813 entered upon a successful practice at Keene, where
he remained until his death. Children :
9. i. David Hall, b. 1815; d. 1868; m. Elizabeth Britton.
10. ii. Mary Morse, b. 1817; m. Joel, son of Abel" Parker (Samuel',
Aaron", Moses^ Abraham').
11. iii. Elijah Wellman, b. 1819; d. infancy.
12. iv. Henry Elijah, b. Apr. 17, 1821 ; d. Nov. 7, 1896. He gradu
ated from Dartmouth College in 1841, was a pastor in Con
cord for twenty years, and served in the Civil War as
chaplain of the Second New Hampshire Regiment. After
1866 he was professor of Latin in Dartmouth College.
13. V. Horatio G., b. 1823. He was a lawyer in Boston.
14 vi. Charles Edward, b. 1826. He was atj architect in Boston.
PERRY.
John' Perry, b. London, England, 1613; m. Joanna, dau. of Joseph
Holland. Came to America about 1665 and settled at Watertown.
John' (John'), b. England; d. before 1725; ra. Dec 13, 1667, Sarah,
dau. of John and Mary (Cassell) Clary [b. Oct. 4, 1647; d. Oct. 11, 1730].
John" (John", John'), b. Mar. 3, 1670; d. before 1730; ra. July 9,
1693, Sarah, dau. of WiHiam and Mary (Marblehead) Price of Water-
town. Res. Cambridge.
James* (John", John", John'), b. Cambridge, Feb. 27, 1711/12; m.
Lydia  . Res. Cambridge.
John" (James', John", John", John'), bapt. Jan. 19, 1755; d. Rindge,
Aug. 7, 1834; m. (1) Feb. 28, 1775, Persis, dau. of Josiah and Sarah
(Mead) Mizer of Watertown; (2) Nov. 22, 1781, Abigail, dau. of Jason
and Abigail (Whit) Bigelow of Marlboro, Mass. [d. Sept. 11, 1818] ;
(3) Feb. 17, 1820, Lucy, dau. of Isaac Weston [d. Jan. 15, 1857, ae. 98].
1. Chauncey' (John', JamesS John', John^, John'), b. Feb.
8, 1788; d. Mar. 2, 1875; m. June 4, 1818, AbigaH Stearns (10).
They removed from Rindge to New Ipswich in 1823. Chil
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5. Hi. Isaac Stearns, b. Sept. 19, 1822.-|-
6. iv. Maria, b. Aug. 31, 1824; d. Apr. 20, 1902.
7. V. Chauncey, b. June 4, 1826. -|-
8. vi. Timothy, b. Nov. 7, 1829. -f
9. vii. Hervey, b. Apr. 23, 1831 ; d. May 19, 1831.
10. viii. Orpha Fidelia, b. Nov. 6, 1832; d. Mar. 8, 1856.
2. Jason Bigelow" (John^, James*, John', John^, John'), b.
Sept. 27, 1801; d. Feb., 1883; m. Nov. 11, 1828, Sally, dau. of
Supply and Sally (Scripture) Wilson. Children :
11. i. Mary, b. Mar. 18, 1830; m. Dana S. Walker (18).
12. ii. Eliza, b. Aug. 3, 1831; m. Julius A. Hale.
13. iii. Susan, b. Apr. 11, 1833; m. Washington Whittemore.
14. iv. John Wilson, b. Apr. 17, 1835; ra. Mary V. Cutter.
15. V. James Bigelow, b. Aug. 13, 1837; m. Arlette Tuttle.
16. vi. Harriet, b. Sept. 22, 1839; m. Walter M. Flanders.
17. vii. Sarah, b. Sept. 12, 1842; m. Walter M. Flanders.
18. viii. Jason Stanley, b. Jan. 8, 1847; d. Sept. 4, 1909; m. Elsie A.
Page.
19. ix. Jane Sophronia, b. Jan. 8, 1847.
3. John Philander' (Chauncey", John', James*, John',
Johns John'), b. Feb. 23, 1819; d. July 30, 1886; m. (1) Caro
line Thacher of Yarmouthport, Mass. ; (2) 1869, Emma Rusch
[b. at Elsinore, Denmark; d. Jan. 12, 1911]. Although ham
pered by very imperfect sight, Mr. Perry graduated at Dart
mouth College, 1842 ; some years afterward he was settled as
pastor of the Swedenborgian church in Yarmouthport, Mass.,
remaining there eighteen years. The later years of his life
were passed in New Ipswich, "the place most dear to him."
Children :
20. i. John Cromwell, b. Dec. 29, 1870; m. Feb. 21, 1899, Esther
C. Skinner. Res. Los Angeles, Cal. Children : i. Alice
Winslow, b. Dec. 13, 1899. ii. Emilie Rusch, b. Mar. 18,
1901. iii. Esther Parsons, b. Apr. 26, 1903. iv. John Wor
cester, b. July 28, 1909; d. Apr. 25, 1910.
21. ii. Chauncey Rusch, b. May 6, 1872; ra. June 21, 1896, Helen
Mabel Tuttle. He is a structural engineer. Children : i.
John Tuttle, b. Aug. 6, 1897. ii. Helen Margaret, b. Nov. 4,
1898. iii. Chauncey Valentine, b. Aug. 26, 1900. iv. George
Nelson, b. June 21, 1905.
22. iii. Emilie Stearns, b. Dec. 18, 1873. Graduated from the Boston
Normal Art School, 1900. At the present time residing as
artist at Los Angeles, Cal.
4. Albert' (Chauncey', JohnS James*, John', JohnS
John'), b. Dec. 17, 1820; d. at New Ipswich, June 17, 1862;
m. May 12, 1853, Sarah B. MHls. He was pastor of the Con
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the remainder of his life in New Ipswich. Children :
23. i. Mary Alice, b. Apr. 27, 1854; d. Apr. 12, 1883.
24. ii. Herbert Mills, b. Nov. 7, 1855; d. May 8, 1898. Graduate of
Harvard College, 1880.
5. Isaac Stearns' (Chauncey', John', James*, John', John^,
John'), b. Sept. 19, 1822; d. May 2, 1865; m. 1851, FideHa
Taft, dau. of Clark Raymond of Winchendon, Mass. [d. Sept.,
1898]. A Congregational minister. Children:
25. i. Arthur Cecil, b. Apr. 10, 1852; m. May 2, 1872, Anna Marga
ret Owen. Two children : Raymond Lee, Arthur Cecil, Jr.
Ella Evangeline, d. 1875.
Flora Adeline, b. Oct. 1, 1855; ra. H. S. Sawin. Two daugh
ters.
Hattie Fidelia, b. Aug. 15, 1857; d. July, 1906; ra. D. W.
Bennett.
Carrie Maria, d. in infancy.
Albert Joseph, b. July 16, 1861 ; m. Jessie Moore.
Alice Josephine, b. July 16, 1861 ; d. in infancy.
32. viii. James Raymond, b. Apr. 20, 1863; m. Cora Wood.
7. Chauncey' (Chauncey', John', James*, John', John^,
John'), b. June 4, 1826; d. Oct. 10, 1912; m. June 4, 1857,
Martha Frances Loring [d. Sept.* 7, 1889]. Mr. Perry was
admitted to the bar in the state of New York in 1853, and
located in Brooklyn, where he ever afterward resided. In 1857
with his younger brother Timothy he formed the law firm of
C. & T. Perry. He was for many years a member of the city
board of education, and judge of the city police court. Chil
dren: Albert Loring, member of the firm of C. & T. Perry.
Frederic Thatcher, engaged in gold mining in Oregon.
Edward Mills, connected with the law department of the
Title Guarantee and Trust Co. of New York.
Annie Perry, d. in infancy.
Elizabeth Harrington, has been one of the city board of
education.
8. Timothy' (Chauncey', John', James*, John', John^,
John'), b. Nov. 7, 1829; d. Apr. 18, 1909; m. Jan. 15, 1861,
Charlotte Thorne, dau. of William and Permelia (Thorne)
Horton. For some years Mr. Perry taught in the public
schools and later in the Academy of New Ipswich and won
the lasting allegiance of his pupils. In 1857 he was admitted
to the bar in Brooklyn, N. Y., and entered into partnership
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a specialty of the examination of titles to real estate. Since
the death of the two brothers the firm is continued by their
sons, but under the old firm name. Mr. Perry took a promi
nent part in the progressive movements of the city, and was
valued as a counsellor and advisor. Children :
38. i. George Henry, b. Aug. 9, 1862; m. June 28, 1901, Sarah E.,
dau. of Jonas P. Davis.
Carrie Maria, b. Apr. 28, 1864; m. Feb. 22, 1893, Frank E.
Fountain.
Charles Elihu, b. Aug. 24, 1866; d. Dec. 31, 1908; ra. Oct.
24, 1895, Lillie V. Wilson. One daughter.
May, b. Sept. 2, 1868.
Jennie, b. Sept. 2, 1870.
Nellie, b. Oct. 28, 1872.
Frank Jason, b. Jan. 9, 1875 ; m. Sept. 12, 1903, Mabel Burke.
Two children.
Louise, b. Mar. M, 1877; ra. Feb. 21, 1899, Jaraes B. Crane.
Two sons.
Florence, b. Aug. 28, 1879.
Belle Horton, b. Jan. 19, 1882.
PHELPS.
George' Phelps, b. Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England, about 1606;
d. May 8, 1687; ra. (1) 1637, Phillury, dau. of Philip RandaH [d. Apr.
29, 1648] ; (2) Widow Frances Dewey [d. Sept. 27, 1690]. He carae to
New England in 1630 and settled at Dorchester, Mass. He reraoved to
Windsor, Conn., in 1635, and remained there until about 1670.
Abraham" (George'), b. Jan. 22, 1642; d. Jan. 25, 1728; m. July 6,
1663, Mary, dau. of Humphry and Mary (HuH) Pinney [b. June, 1644;
d. July 25, 1725]. He res. at Windsor, Conn., where he held the office of
captain. Abraham" (Abrahara", George'), b. Mar. 6, 1665/6; d. Aug., 1733.
Res. at Windsor and Canton, Conn.
Abraham'' (Abraham", Abraham", George'), b. Canton, Conn., 1690.
Henry" (Abraham*, Abraham", Abrahara", George'), b. probably at
Canton, Conn. ; m. Sarah  . Res. at Sutton, Mass.
Henry" (Henry", Abraham*, Abrahara", Abrahara", George'), b. Aug.
13, 1752; ra. Aug. 19, 1777, Lu^y, dau. of Edward and Ruth Putnam [b.
June 2, 1760; d. Apr. 25, 1848]. Res. at Sutton, Mass.
Simeon' (Henry*, Henry", Abraham*, Abrahara", Abraham", George'),
b. Sept. 11, 1791; d. Aug. 6, 1842; m. (1) Mar. 4, 1820, Lavina, dau. of
Caleb and Judah Putnam [b. about 1799; d. Jan. 15, 1827]; (2) Maria
 . He res. at Sutton, Mass.
1. Lorenzo Corydon Beman' (Simeon', Henry', Henry',
Abraham*, Abraham', Abrahams George'), b. Apr. 21, 1826;
d. July 27, 1898; m. (1) Mary J. Miller of Peterboro [b. about
1832; d. Jan. 13, 1852] ; (2) Oct. 17, 1854, Helen Maria, dau.
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of Joel and Sylvia (Leete) (Thomas) Judkins [b. June 23,
1835]. The early years of his manhood were passed in Peter
boro, whence about 1850 he came to New Ipswich, the home
of his remaining life. For several years he was express mes
senger from New Ipswich to Boston, driving the passenger
stage to Greenville. Afterward he had a livery stable, and
later a stage route between Greenville and Peterboro, and also
between New Ipswich and Wilton. ChHdren :
2. i. Lucy J. M., b. Aug. 8, 1851; d. Feb. 24 1852.
3. ii. Harrie a., b. May 31, 1858; d. Aug. 20, 1862.
4. iH. Wilbur Leete, b. Aug. 28, 1867; m. Apr. 26, 1892, Abbie
Louise Balch (4). He is proprietor of a store in the build
ing at the corner of the Turnpike and the street past the
Baptist church, for many years known as the site of the
corner store. He has represented the town in the Legisla
ture, and for nearly twenty years has been town clerk and
town treasurer.
PIERCE,
1. Stephen' Pierce, b. in New Ipswich about 1738 (?);
d. 1819, ae. 81 ; m. Jan. 1, 1765, Lydia Whitney of Mason [b.
1743; d. 1806]. Children:
2. i. Lydia, b. Jan. 24 1768.
3. ii. Stephen, b. Jan. 4, 1770.
4. iii. Olive, b. Sept. 11, 1771; d. Sept. 29, 1775.
5. iv. David, b. Oct. 22, 1773.
6. V. Olive, b. Oct. 15, 1775.
7. vi. Lucy, b. Sept. 26, 1777.
8. vii. Abijah, b. Aug. 27, 1779.
9. viii. Rebecca, b. July 12, 1782.
10. ix. Nathan, b. Sept. 5, 1784.
11. X. Joseph, b. Apr. 24 1787.-H
11. Joseph^ (Stephen'), b. Apr. 24, 1787; d. Apr. 22, 1872;
m. 1811, Eleanor Gordon, dau. of Francis and Margaret
(Watts) Mitchell [b. Nov. 25, 1792; d. Mar. 28, 1872]. He
was constant in attendance at church on the Sabbath and also
at the weekly prayer meeting. It was said of him that he had
walked to religious service a distance that would have en
circled the earth nearly three times. Children :
12. i. Eleanor A., b. Apr. 25, 1812; m. Apr. 10, 1844, Nathan
Wetherbee.
13. ii. Mary Ann H., b. Aug. 3, 1813; m. Jan. 23, 1839, Aaron S.
Bucknam (12).
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15. iv. Margaret A., b. May 21, 1817; d. Dec. 3, 1828.
16. V. Olive R., b. Mar. 22, 1819; m. WiHiam J. Winch.
17. vi. Elizabeth S., b. Oct. 11, 1821; d. Nov. 11, 1828.
18. vii. Stephen J., b. Feb. 11, 1824; m. Maria Spaulding.
19. viii. Emily P., b. Jan. 27, 1826; m. May 6, 1846, Lysander E.
Russell.
20. ix. Richmond B., b. May 3, 1828; ra. Mary J. Morse.
21. X. Margaret M., b. Aug. 12, 1830; d. Nov. 7, 1877.
22. xi. Lucy Maria, b. Aug. 23, 1832; ra. W. B. Frizzell.
23. xii. Charles M., b. Apr. 5, 1835; d. Mar. 1, 1868; m. June 30,
1860, Sarah E. Howe (2).
PILLSBURY.
William' Pillsbury, b. June 19, 1586; ra. June or July, 1641, Dorothy
Crosby. He came to New England about 1640, and settled at Dorchester,
but reraoved to Newbury, Mass., in 1651.
Moses" (WilHam'), b. 1645; d. 1701; ra. (1) Mar., 1668, Susannah,
dau. of Lionel Worth; (2) Priscilla  .
Moses" (Moses", William'), b. of 1st ra., July 4, 1672; d. Mar. 24,
1738; ra. [pub. Feb. 5, 1698] Abigail Rolf.
Ezra* (Moses", Moses", William'), b. Apr. 16, 1703; d. 1797; m. Nov.
10, 1727, Hannah, dau. of Henry Hale [b. May 8, 1709].
Ezra" (Ezra*, Moses", Moses", William'), b. Apr. 18, 1740; d. Sept. 15,
1820; m. Nov. 29, 1759, Martha Bayley of Roxbury, Mass. He was one
of the first settlers at Weare, N. H., where he lived and died. He was a
selectman, and he gave Revolutionary service.
Joseph" (Ezra", Ezra*, Moses", Moses", William'), b. Newbury, July
11, 1762; d. Jan. 26, 1841; m. Elizabeth Perkins of Weare [b. about 1768;
d. Sept. 21, 1855]. He was a farraer at Wendell, where he died. He also
served in the Revolution.
1. Benjamin C (Joseph', Ezra', Ezra*, Moses', Moses^,
William'), b. New London, Dec. 29, 1804; d. Mar. 10, 1888;
m. Sept. 27, 1832, Tamar Marble of Ashburnham, Mass. [b.
about 1803; d. Mar. 29, 1889]. He was a farmer in Fitchburg,
Mass., and Ashby, Mass., until 1840, when he came to New
Ipswich and purchased the last farm in the town upon the road
from Dr. Stillman Gibson's southerly to Ashby, (78, A. D.,)
on which he wrought successfully for fifteen years. He was
a leading citizen of that neighborhood and was a selectman,
although on account of the location of his home arrangements
were made by which his children attended school in Ashby,
to which town he removed about 1856. Children :
2. i. Mary W., b. Oct. 4, 1834; m. May 18, 1854 J. Cushing Whit
ney, who succeeded to the occupancy of her father's farm.
3. ii. Eliza C, b. Feb. 4, 1836; ra. Jan. 4, 1858, Robert G. Bartlett.
4. iii. Charles Whitney, b. July 28, 1839; m. Dec. 31, 1861, Lucy
J. Booth of Ashby, Mass., in which town he is a farmer.
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Children: i. Levi Burr, b. Dec. 24, 1862; d. Dec. 24 1866.
ii. Maria A., b. Aug. 22, 1864; m. Apr. 1, 1884, George R.
Jaquith (4). iii. Merrick D., b. Sept. 21, 1866; m. Oct. 19,
1887, Lulu E. Alden; child, Blanche Louise, b. Nov. 27,
1891. iv. Martha U., b. Dec 31, 1867; ra. Nov. 29, 1888,
W. R. Burnap of Ashby. v. Laura P.. b. June 30, 1869; d.
Nov. 22, 1886. vi. Frank R., b. Feb. 19, 1871. vii. Carl C.
b. Aug. 2, 1880; d. July 2, 1882.
POLLARD.
Thomas' Pollard, d. Apr. 4, 1724; m. Nov., 1692, his cousin, Mary
Farraer [d. May 3, 1725]. He was son of WiHiam and Mary (Farmer)
Pollard of Coventry, Warwickshire, England. He came to New England
about the time of his marriage, and passed his life as a farmer in Billerica,
Mass. He had fifteen children.
Joseph" (Thomas'), b. May 3, 1702; d. about 1780; m. Abigail, dau.
of Nathaniel and Hannah (Walker) Hill of Billerica [b. Apr. 9, 1714].
Res. in Nottingham West, (now Hudson, N. H.,) and Westford, Mass.,
whence he is said to have come to New Ipswich; but probably this was
not the case; at least the town records give no indication of his residence,
unless possibly for a short tirae in 1771-72.
1. Joseph' (Josephs Thomas'), b. May 4, 1737; m. 1754,
Ruth, dau. of Josiah and Susanna (Jaquith) Burge of Westford,
Mass. [b. 1739]. He came to New Ipswich in 1764 and settled
on the farm at the end of the road long owned by James Barr
and later by WHliam Wheeler, (64, N. L. O.) He removed
to Keene about 1786, and thence to Plymouth, Vt. Children :
3. i. Joseph, b. about 1760. He left town a few years after at
taining his raajority.
4. ii. Ruth, b. Dec 4, 1767; d. June 22, 1801; m. Mar. 8, 1787,
Timothy Fox, Jr. (2).
5. iii. James, b. Oct. 9, 1769.
6. iv. Moses, b. Feb. 29, 1772; d. Sept. 7, 1849; m. Jan. 4, 1796,
Abigail Boynton (21). He removed to Plymouth, Vt., and
there made his home. One of his children was Hon. James
A., of Windsor, Vt., for raany years superintendent of the
State Prison.
7. V. Susanna, b. Sept. 15, 1774; d. Aug. 15, 1847; m. Feb. 5, 1798,
David, son of Aaron* and Tabitha (Upton) Felt of Tem
ple [b. Oct. 31, 1777; d. Ludlow, Vt., Oct. 7, 1852].
8. vi. Sarah, b. Jan. 1, 1777.
2. Benjamin' (Joseph^, Thomas'), b. about 1742; d. about
1776; m. Apr. 2, 1768, Mercy, dau. of Joseph* (Thomas') and
Dorothy Adams of Concord, Mass. [b. Jan. 25, 1746]. He
came to New Ipswich with his brother or a little later, and
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church and the Dix tavern upon the spot now occupied by the
Lee house. Its location, a little east from the brook, can still
be determined. His widow married Jonas Whiting and their
daughter, Mercy Whiting, occupied the house for many years.
Children :
9. i. Milly, b. June 15, 1774; d. 1777.
10. ii. Thomas Mifflin, b. Dec. 2, 1776; m. 1804, Fanny, dau. of
Aranah and Hannah (LefKngwell) Waterman. He lived in
Enosburg, Vt., until 1833, when he removed to Missouri.
PORTER.
1. Charles' Porter, b. 1797 in Bradford, Mass.; d. New
Ipswich, Dec, 1857; m. Susan Rogers of Newburyport [d.
New Ipswich, about 1893]. He lived on Meeting-house Hill
just above John Bucknam's. He was a shoemaker. ChHdren:
2. i. Hannah Merrill, b. 1826; m. E. Chase Brooks.
3. ii. Charles Carroll, b. 1828; removed to Westford 1849. Was
a cigar maker.
4. iii. George Henry, b. 1838; lived in various places, in Greenville
in later years; was a painter; ra. Anna M. Babcock [b. 1839].
5. iv. Albert L., b. 1844; d. ae. two and one-half yrs.
PRATT (John).
John' Pratt was of Maiden, Essex County, England.
Richard" (John'), bapt. in Maiden, Parish of All Saints, June 29,
1615 ; left Gravesend Nov. 20, 1635 ; d. 1691 ; ra. Mary  .
John" (Richard", John'), b. Charlestown, Mass., 1655; d. June 3, 1708.
Thomas* (John", Richard", John') , m. June 24, 1724, Lydia Lynde.
Phineas" (Thomas*, John", Richard", John'), b. Aug. 29, 1740; m.
(1) Mar. 8, 1764, Elizabeth Sargent; (2) Apr. 28, 1782, Phebe Upham.
1. Phineas' (PhineasS Thomas*, John', Richard^, John'),
b. June 16, 1766; d. Jan. 19, 1848; m. Feb. 6, 1788, Joanna'
Bucknam [b. Sept. 11, 1769; d. July 26, 1843]. ChHdren:
2. i. Phineas, b. May 23, 1789; d. Dec. 9, 1865; m. Nancy Batchel
ler (26). Graduated at Bowdoin College; was a clergyman.
3. ii, Elizabeth or Betsy, b. Apr. 17, 1791; d. Sept. 2, 1867; m.
Sept. 29, 1811, Rev. Thomas Fletcher (85).
4. iii. Joanna, b. Apr. 21, 1793; d. Apr. 23, 1878; ra.  Breed.
5. iv. Hannah, b. Nov. 12, 1795; d. June 1, 1847.
6. v. Lucinda, b. Apr. 15, 1798; d. Apr. 19, 1879.
7. vi. Narcissa Tweed, b. Oct. 15, 1800; d. July 20, 1885; m. May
22, 1823, Stephen Brooks (5).
8. vii. Rebecca, b. Nov. 16, 1803; d. Aug. 12, 1829.
9. viii. John Otis, b. June 21, 1805 ; d. May 20, 1808.
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10. ix. Louisa, b. Oct. 21, 1807; d. Jan. 23, 1892.
11. X. Mehitable, b. Oct. 11, 1810; d. July 20, 1844; m. July 17, 1838,
James Bucknam (13).
12. xi. Appha Maria, b. Dec. 21, 1812; d. Sept. M, 1872; m. Almond
Packard.
PRATT (Joshua).
Joshua' Pratt came over in the third ship "Ann'' in 1623, and was
among the forefathers at Plymouth; ra. Bathsheba Fay.
Thomas" (Joshua'), settled early at Watertown. Took the Freeman's
oath. May 22, 1747.
Ephraim" (Thoraas", Joshua'), b. at Sudbury, Nov. 1, 1687; ra. 1708,
Martha Wheelock. "He d. in Shutesbury May, 1804, ae 116. At the time
of his death he could count 1500 descendants."
Ephraim* (Ephraim", Thomas", Joshua'), m. Abiel Leonard.
Moses" (Ephraim*, Ephraira", Thoraas", Joshua'), b. Aug. 12, 1765; d.
June 4, 1855; m. Patty Banks.
1. Willard^ (MosesS Ephraim*, Ephraim', Thomas^,
Joshua'), b. Nov. 8, 1803; d. Jan. 3, 1859; m. Feb. 16, 1828,
Sophronia Goodspeed [d. Dec. 4, 1894]. Removed to New
Ipswich, 1850. Children :
2. i. Mary A., b. Sept. 16, 1830; m. Slocum Colman.
3. ii. Laura E., b. July 26, 1832; ra. Joel Colman.
4. iii. Sophronia C, b. Sept. 18, 1833; m. Stephen Brooks.
5. iv. Catharine W., b. Nov. 20, 1835; m. Philander Colman.
6. V. Charles H., b. July 14, 1838; m. Abbie W. C. Simonds (6).
7. vi. David F., b. June 30, 1840; m. Helen Weston.
8. vii. Otis P., b. May 12, 1842; m. Emma C. BaH.
9. viii. Louisa L., b. May 27, 1844; m. WHHam Hawkins.
10. ix. Edward W. C, b. Sept. 15, 1853.
PRATT (Reuben).
Reuben' Pratt came from Westboro, Mass., to Fitzwilliam in 1768;
d. Jan. 21, 1807, ae. 62; m. Ruth Williams.
Joseph" (Reuben'), b. Aug. 19, 1769; d. July 5, 1857; ra. Dec 3, 1792;
Sarah Hunt of Sudbury, Mass.
Reuben' (Joseph", Reuben'), b. Sept. 22, 1793; d. Sept. 18, 1852; m.
Nov. 9, 1815, Ruth Howe Stone [b. June 25, 1793; d. Nov. 10, I860].
1. Warren* (ReubenS Josephs Reuben'), b. Nov. 17, 1820;
d. Apr. 1, 1909; m. (1) Susan C, dau. of Artemas and Mary
(Chaplin) Beard [b. Nov. 9, 1822 ; d. Aug. 16, 1853] ; (2) Aug.
17, 1854, Seraph A., dau. of Noah and Sophia (Nichols) Miles
[b. Apr. 20, 1833; d. Aug. 10, 1887]. He came from Fitzwil
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sight worked for a time as a carpenter, and then for thirty
years was a manufacturer of cigar boxes at the mill on Starch
Factory Brook. He was representative in 1885-87. Children :
2. i. Francis Warren, b. June 10, 1846; d. May 13, 1847.
3. ii. Susan Maria, b. Oct. 30, 1848; d. Aug. 12, 1875; m. Fred
Rideout. One son.
4 iii. Abbie Frances, b. Dec. 3, 1850; d. May 12, 1886; m. Thomas
G. Hudson. Two children.
5. iv. William Henry, b. June 27, 1853.
PRENTICE.
Henry' Prentice, prob. b. in England; d. June 9, 1654; m. (1) Eliza
beth •  -; (2) Joane  . He was in Cambridge before 1640, and was
also one of the Proprietors of Sudbury.
Henry" (Henry'), b. about 1651; ra. Apr. 7, 1682, Mary Gove. He
lived in Cambridge.
Nathaniel" (Henry", Henry'), bapt. Dec 11, 1698; d. Dunstable,
Mass., Feb. 27, 1737; m. 1724, Mary, dau. of Judge WHliam Tyng of
Nashua, N. H. He was ordained in 1718 as minister of Dunstable, where
he seems to have passed the reraainder of his life.
William Henry* (Nathaniel", HenryS, Henry'), b. Dec. 2, 1728; d.
Littleton, Mass., 1797; ra. Sarah, dau. of Edward Edes of Boston. He
was an "engineer."
1. Nathaniel' (William H.S NathanieP, Henry'', Henry'),
b. Boston, Dec. 15, 1755 ; d. Peterboro, N. H., Mar. 22, 1825 ;
m. Anna Hoar (7). He learned the trade of a clothier in
Westford, Mass., and came to New Ipswich, where his name
first appears in 1777, and very soon he became a partner of John
Warner in the "Clothier's Works and Fulling Mills" then
recently erected on the site of the later "Waterloom" and
"Mountain Mills" factories. Before many years he became
sole proprietor and carried on the business until about 1800.
He removed to Peterboro, where he passed the remainder of
his life. Children — all probably b. in New Ipswich :
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Nancy, b. Feb. 22, 1783; m. Isaac Packard of Stoughton,
Mass.
Polly, b. May 12, 1785; d. 1826; m.  .
Nathaniel, b. Apr. 2, 1787.
Alfred, b. Sept. 2, 1789; d. Jan. 18, 1790.
John, b. Feb. 18, 1791 ; d. Nov. 21, 1802.
Alfred, b. May 5, 1793.
10. viii. Patty, b. Sept. 27, 1795; d. Apr. 15, 1838; m.  Holbrook
11. ix. Sumner, b. Apr. 28, 1798; d. Sept. 18, 1843.
12. X. Lona, b. Sept. 18, 1800; d. June 18, 1846; m.  Perham.
13. xi. Lucy, b. June 20, 1803; d. Aug., 1806.
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2. Henry' (William H.S NathanieP, HenryS Henry'), b.
1763; d. Feb., 1835; m. (1)  [d. soon] ; (2) Mary Read of
Littleton, Mass. ; (3) Hannah Johnson of Andover, Mass. He
came from Littleton to New Ipswich about 1790, but remained
only a few years before removing to Hancock, where he was
a clothier. In 1825 he removed to Jasper, N. Y., where he was
a farmer, although to some extent continuing his former busi
ness. He had eight children, of whom only one was born in
New Ipswich. Children :
14. i. Polly, b. New Ipswich, July 27, 1792 ; m. 1831, Judge L. Hara
raond of Haramondsport, N. Y.
15. ii. Jonathan Reed, b. Sept. 18, 1795; d. Feb. 23, 1880; ra. Sept.,
1828, Maria J. Clark, of Bath, N. Y., d. Jan. 6, 1863. He
was a clothier and a farraer at Jasper, N. Y. He was a
deacon. Three children.
J 16. iii. William Henry, b. June 7, 1798; ra. 1829, Mrs. Paraelia
Whitteraore of Hancock. He also was a deacon. Six
children.
Sarah, m. 1834, Dea. Jacob Manning. One daughter.
Hannah Asenath, ra. Aug. 29, 1830, Earl Stone of Ashby,
Mass. Res. at Jasper, N. Y., where he was a raason. Three
children.
Lucy Emily.
Lydia, ra. B. Franklin Hadley of Lyndeboro. Eleven children.
3. William Henry^ (NathanieP, William H.*, NathanieP,
HenryS Henry'), b. Jan. 22, 1781; m. in Boston, 1804, Sally
Whipple [b. Nov. 24, 1784]. He left his native town soon
after attaining his majority, and entered upon a business life,
in which he in due time won a good success. He with two
of his sons long constituted a firm doing an extensive business
as coal dealers. Children — all born at Boston :
21. i. William Henry, b. Apr. 13, 1806; m. Feb. 29, 1828, Cynthia
Kenna [b. at Boothbay, Me., Feb. 8, 1807]. He was a
farraer at Bristol, Me. Ten children.
22. ii. George W., b. Feb. 22, 1808; ra. Aug. 5, 1845, Lydia Brownell
of Lowell [b. Oct. 22, 1825]. He was a partner in his
father's business. Two children or more.
23. iii. Jane Whipple, b. Aug. 19, 1809.
24. iv. Lucy Young, b. Dec. 25, 1810; d. Mar. 25, 1845.
25. V. John Tyng, b. June 8, 1812; d. July 18, 1819.
26. vi. Sarah Ann, b. Apr. 6, 1814.
27. vii. Adaline, b. Jan. 22, 1816.
28. vHi. Theodore, b. Sept. 8, 1817; m. Nov. 12, 1844, Maria O. C.
Wiley of Lynn [b. Apr. 9, 1824]. He was a partner in his
father's business. One child or more.
29. ix. Susan Tuttle, b. June 8, 1819.
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30. X. Mary Young, b. Mar. 11, 1821.
31. xi. Ann Sophia, b. Nov. 23, 1823.
32. xii. Laura Wright, b. June 2, 1826.
PRESTON.
Roger' Preston, b. about 1614; d. Jan. 20, 1666; m. Martha  [b.
before 1623; d. Mar. 21, 1703; m. (2) May 21, 1666, Nicholas Holt of
Andover, Mass.]. He came to America, probably from County Kent,
England, in 1635, and as early as 1639 he was planter and a tanner at
Ipswich, Mass. He reraoved to Salem, Mass., in 1660, and there was
licensed to "keep an ordinary."
Samuel" (Roger'), b. 1651; d. Andover, Mass., July 10, 1738; m. (1)
May 27, 1671/2, Susannah Gutterson [d. Dec. 29, 1710]; (2) Sept. 24
1713, widow Mary Blodgett [d. Mar. 1, 1739]. Res. in Andover, Mass.
Samuel" (Samuel", Roger'), b. Mar. 16, 1672/3; d. Andover, Mass.,
May 29, 1717; m. Apr. 2, 1694 Sarah Bridges [m. (2) Oct., 1722, William
Price of Ashford, Conn.]. He was a carpenter in Andover.
Samuel* (Samuel", Sarauel", Roger'), b. 1707; d. Oct. 11, 1781; m.
(1) Andover, Mass., Apr. 8, 1728, Hannah Bridges; (2) Sept. 2, 1756,
widow Mary (Ivory) (Frothingham) Symes [d. before 1781]. He resided
in Littleton, Mass., where he held the office of captain, serving in the
French War.
1. James' (SamuelS SamueP, SamueP, Roger'), b. 1730;
m. Mary  , (probably Mary Elizabeth  ,) of Littleton,
Mass. He came to New Ipswich about 1770, and settled on
the southern end of the mountain range, northwestwardly
from Binney Pond, on or near 106, N. D. His name appears
upon the tax-lists until near the end of the century, when he
went with his son Samuel to Whitingham, Vt. No record of
his children has been found, and the order of their births is
uncertain. Besides those given below, there were some who
died in infancy, and their names are not known. ChHdren :
4. i. James.
5. ii. Mary, b. Aug. 24, 1753; d. Mar. 30, 1845; ra. Sept. 8, 1787,
Silas Davis (5).
6. iii. Isaac, b. Mar., 17S7.-|-
7. iv. Jemima, unra.
8. V. Betsey, ra.  Stickney of Whitinghara, Vt.
9. vi. Lydia, m. July 12, 1790; Joseph Burrows (4) of Whitingham,
Vt.
10. vii. Sally, ra. May 12, 1792, Joseph Brown (T. 16).
11. viii. Patty, ra. May 28, 1792, Benjamin' (Benjamin', Benjamin",
Benjamin', Michael", Michael", Michael') Bacon of Bedford,
Mass.
12. ix. Samuel, m. (1) 1797, Sukey Patch; (2) Lucy (Goldsmith)
Winn. He was a teacher in his early manhood. Soon after
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his first marriage he removed to Whitinghara, Vt., accom
panied by his parents. He served in the war of 1812. Chil
dren : i. Sophronia, b. Jan. 1, 1798. ii. George, iii. Abia-
thar Winn. Of second marriage.
2. Hannah' (SamueP, SamueP, SamueP, Roger'), b. 1733;
m. Jonathan Davis. It is stated on seemingly reliable author
ity that they resided in New Ipswich and that, as late as 1781,
she was thus mentioned in her father's will. But official
records of the bearers of that name resident in New Ipswich,
together with the inscriptions on their gravestones and those
of their wives still in the town, forbid the belief that any one
recorded in this work was her husband, and she is therefore
entered only in the family of her birth.
3. John' (SamueP, SamueP, SamueP, Roger'), b. Littleton,
Mass., 1739; d. Feb. 18, 1803; m. Nov. 29, 1764, Rebecca Far
rar (3). He served as a member of his father's company in
the French War, and later, by less formal methods of study
than are now demanded, he acquired such knowledge of the
physician's duties as was then deemed necessary, and at the
age of twenty-two came to New Ipswich, entered into practice,
and continued the leading practitioner of the town nearly until
his death. Despite his youth he was one of the first board of
selectmen, and at different times he was town clerk, town
treasurer, representative, and a member of the convention for
framing the State Constitution. His dwelling and office were
in the house built by him and long known as the "Seth King
house," across the street upon the north from the site of the
present Academy. His office, in the northwestern corner of
the building, remained practically unchanged until within a
few years. Children :
13. i. Rebecca, b. July 16, 1768; d. Apr. 9, 1846; m. 1791, John
Hubbard (1).
14. ii. John, b. Feb. 15, 1770.-|-
15. iii. Samuel Farrar, b. Dec. 26, 1770; d. Mar. 6, 1771.
16. iv. Lucy, b. Dec. 3, 1771; d. Apr. 7, 1859; ra. Oct. 26, 1794
Thoraas Bancroft of Pepperell, Mass.
17. V. Samuel Farrar, b. Aug. 10, 1773; d. Apr. 3, 1774.
18. vi. Lydia, b. Oct. 26, 1774; d. Feb., 1853; m. Nov. 3, 1799, Josiah
Bellows. Res. at Lancaster, Mass.
19. vii. Hannah, b. Jan. 8, 1776; unm.
20. viii. Polly, b. Jan. 5, 1777; d. Nov. 5, 1853, unm.
21. ix. Samuel, b. June 24, 1778; d. Mar. 4, 1852; ra. Esther, dau. of
Timothy" (Timothy*, Abraham", Abraham", William') and
Esther (French) Taylor of Dunstable. He removed to
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Norwalk, O., where he was proprietor of a newspaper.
Children : i. Charles Albert, ii. Lucy, m.  Wickham.
22. X. Stephen Farrar, b. June 2, 1780. -|-
23. xi. Timothy Farrar, b. June 2, 1780; d. Dec. 4, 1857, unm. He
was a physician practicing for a time in Rochester, N. Y.,
in Mason, and in Dover, but relinquishing his profession
in later years.
24. xii. Peter, b. June 20, 1782; unm.
25. xiii. Anna, b. Aug. 10, 1784; d. Sept. 3, 1863; ra. Oct. 15, 1808,
Seth King (W. 1).
6. Isaac^ (James', SamueP, SamueP, SamueP, Roger'), b.
Mar., 1757; d. May 11, 1806; m. Susanna Fletcher (9). He
succeeded to his father's farm, and like his father passed an
uneventful life, leaving little matter for record. Children :
26. i. Susannah, b. Sept. 20, 1782; m. Francis B. Maxwell.
27. ii. Hannah, b. May 15, 1784; d. Apr. 23, 1861, unm.
28. iii. Isaac, b. June 3, 1786.-|-
29. iv. Jeremiah, b. Dec. 18, 1790.4-
30. V. Elhanan, b. Mar. 7, 1798.-f
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32. vii. Lucy, b. Oct. 24, 1805; d. June 6, 1893; m. George RamsdeH
(3).
14. John® (John', SamueP, SamueP, SamueP, Roger'), b.
Feb. 15, 1770; d. Oct. 23, 1828; m. Jan. 21, 1798, Elizabeth
Champney (9). He graduated from Dartmouth CoHege in
1791, studied medicine, in 1794 entered into practice with his
¦father, and followed his profession in New Ipswich throughout
his life. He lived for a time in the house built by Noah Cooke,
upon the north side of the old country road, but upon the
opening of the Turnpike built for his dwelling the house stHl
standing on the north side of that highway opposite the tavern
building long known as Clark's Hotel. That house, later for
many years the home of Henry Otis Preston, was the first
one erected in the Center Village upon the Turnpike, the home
of Rev. Stephen Farrar at the summit of the hill, where the
road from "Farrar's Mill" crossed, having been built long
before the time of the Turnpike. The narrow house next
westerly from that of Dr. Preston was also buHt by him for
use as his office. He served the town as its clerk for a long
time, and was also one of the selectmen. Children :
36. i. Ebenezer Champney, b. May 4, 1799. -|-
37. ii. Rebecca, b. Nov. 4, 1800; d. Oct. 10, 1807.
38. iii. John, b. Apr. 12, 1802.-|-
39. iv. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 4, 1804; d. about 1878; m. Sept. 20, 1826,
Elisha L. Hammond. He was a builder in New Ipswich,
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and testimony to the abiding excellence of his work is borne
by the walls of the present Academy building, erected under
his charge.
40. V. Lucy, b. June 14 1805; d. Nov. 20, 1836; m. Mar. 26, 1829,
Francis K. Cragin (23).
41. vi. Abigail, b. May 3, 1807; d. Feb. 15, 1886; m. Benjamin B.
Brown [b. about 1807; d. May 13, 1832]. Child: i. B.
Brigham Brown, b. about 1832; d. Nov. 4, 1851.
42. vii. Maria, b. June 22, 1809; d. May 1, 1830, unm.
43. viH. WiLLLAM Henry, b. Mar. 1, 1811; d. Jan. 21, 1865; ra. Mary
Catherine Swalzwelder.
44. ix. Thomas Bancroft, b. Mar. 27, 1813.-]-
45. X. Rebecca, b. May 17, 1815; d. about 1880; m. May 18, 1836,
Benjarain F. Whipple of Charlestown, Mass. Children: i.
Elizabeth Antoinette Whipple, ii. Frank Preston Whipple.
iii. Kate Whipple.
22. Stephen Farrar^ (John', SamueP, SamueP, SamueP,
Roger'), b. June 2, 1780; d. Apr. 27, 1863; m. May 4, 1803,
Hannah KimbaH [b. about 1783; d. May 31, 1858]. He was
a hatter. He lived in the Noah Cooke house, previously the
home of his brother. Dr. John Preston. Children :
48. i. Almira, b. Aug. 25, 1804; d. Oct. 2, 1829; m. Sept. 18, 1827,
Jesse, son of Robert and Elizabeth (Gibson) Matthews of
Bedford, Mass. [b. July 2, 1798; d. Sept. 11, 1875]. Res.
at Hancock.
49. ii. Stephen Hubbard, b. Mar. 7, 1807; d. Oct. 27, 1814
50. iii. Edward Francis, b. Feb. 25, 1812.-f-
51. iv. John Hubbard, b. 1814.-|-
52. V. Henry Otis, b. July 26, 1820.-|-
28. Isaac' (IsaacS James', SamueP, SamueP, SamueP,
Roger'), b. June 3, 1786; d. Wilton, Sept. 29, 1869; m. (1) May
2, 1816, Sarah Sawtelle [b. Townsend, Mass., Aug. 8, 1787; d.
Aug. 7, 1844] ; (2) May 27, 1845, widow Hannah Foster [b.
about 1796; d. Oct. 13, 1872]. He passed most of his life in
New Ipswich, but continued only a few years in the same part
of the town. Children :
53. i. Sarah Abigail, b. July 9, 1817; d. Fitchburg, Mass., Nov. 8,
1879; m. Nov. 29, 1840, Luke Crara [d. Fitchburg, Mass.,
Mar. 4, 1879]. He had a general store for a few years in
what is now the Masonic building at the corner formed by
the Turnpike and the Teraple road. Later he lived in
Fitchburg, Mass., and legally changed his narae from Crara
to Remington. Children : i. Charles A. Cram, b. Mar. 22,
1842; d. Dec 21, 1870; he had just fitted for the ministry,
having graduated from Brown University and Newton
Theological Serainary. ii. George L. Cram, b. Aug. 30, 1843.
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Hi. Walter D. Cram, b. July 14, 1846; d. Mar. 22, 1868. iv.
Pharcellus Preston Cram, b. Apr. 14, 1852; d. Aug. 9, 1852.
54 ii. Isaac Fletcher, b. Sept. 30, 1819. -f
55. iii. George Palmer, b. May 5, 1822.-)-
56. iv. Charles Barrett, b. Jan. 1, 1825.-|-
57. V. Samuel Appleton, b. Dec 26, 1827; d. Wilton, Jan. 21, 1876;
ra. Apr. 18, 1848, Charlotte A. Goldsmith of Wilton [d.
Boston, May 24, 1854]. Children: i. Oraetta M., b. Oct. 2,
1850; m. Aug. 6, 1868, Dr. S. L. Moore; ChHdren: Edward
A. Moore, b. May 29, 1869; d. about 1887 by drowning;
Elizabeth L. Moore, b. Sept. 6, 1878; d. young, ii. Estella,
d. young.
29. Jeremiah' (Isaac^, James', SamueP, SamueP, SamueP,
Roger'), b. Dec. 18, 1790; m. Lucy Proctor of Hollis. He lived
in the southern part of the town until about 1840, but is not
easHy located. (Children :
58. i. Horace, m. Lucy Wood.
59. ii. Sybil Ann, ra. Samuel Meriam.
60. iii. Jeremiah, ra. Lucretia Hannaford.
61. iv. Lucy Jane, ra. John Verity.
30. Elhanan' (Isaac^, James', SamueP, SamueP, SamueP,
Roger'), b. Mar. 7, 1798; m. Wealthy Lake. He lived for a
time on the farm afterward owned by Benjamin Wilson on
the "old Ashby road," also in the northwestern portion of the
town and later on or near Knight's Hill. But in middle life
he removed to Manchester, where he was a night watchman
in one of the mills ; his last years were passed in New London.
Children :
62. i. Augustus E., res. New London.
63. ii. Maria, b. about May, 1822; d. Jan. 5, 1829.
64. iii. Martha, b. about July, 1824; d. Jan. 17, 1829.
65. iv. Malissa, b. about 1827; d. June 1, 1832.
31. Seth' (Isaac*, James', SamueP, SamueP, SamueP,
Roger'), b. Nov. 10, 1803; d. Nov. 8, 1890; m. (1) Jane
(Fletcher) Blanchard [b. about 1808; d. Dec. 1, 1857]; (2)
Esther F., widow of Eben Blood of Mason [b. about 1796; d.
Nov. 19, 1879] ; (3) Apr. 26, 1880, Sarah Weston [b. Mason,
Aug., 1793]. He passed the early years of his manhood in the
southern and western states, but after his marriage resided
in Nashua, Greenville, and Mason. He followed the occupa
tion of a stonecutter and later was a farmer. Children :
66. i. Seth, b. about 1840; d. Dec. 19, 1867; m. Sept. 17, 1863, Kate
A. Fulton [d. Mar. 18, 1867]. He served four years in the
Civil War, enlisting from Mason in the 8th New Hamp-
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shire Regiment, in which he was a sergeant. He was
wounded at Port Hudson and served later in the Veteran
Battalion. He afterward lived at Greenville, where he was
killed by a falling tree.
67. H. Melvina, b. Aug., 1841; d. Apr. 21, 1871; m. Abial Currier
of Brookline. Children : i. Emma Currier, ii. Flora
Currier.
68. iii. George Henry, b. Nashua, Oct. 26, 1846; m. (1) 1873, Martha
Jane Eaton of Wilton [d. Sept. 26, 1877] ; (2) Ada L. Ben
son of Norridgewock, Me. He was a cabinetmaker at
Greenville, and later became a farmer at Dublin. Children :
i. Eva M., b. Feb. 16, 1874 ii. Albert A., b. Aug. 21, 1877.
69. iv. Albert Marcus, b. Apr. 19, 1851; d. Aug. 19, 1870.
36. Ebenezer Champney' (John*, John', SamueP, SamueP,
SamueP, Roger'), b. May 4, 1799; d. Apr. 9, 1828; m. Ruby
Bridges. He was an apothecary in Boston. Children :
70. i. Ellen Maria, m. George Main.
71. ii. James Montgomery.
72. iii. Mary Elizabeth.
38. John' (JohnS John', SamueP, SamueP, SamueP,
Roger'), b. Apr. 12, 1802; d. Mar. 5, 1867; m. Oct. 27, 1828,
Elizabeth Smith, dau. of Abram and Elizabeth (Kidder)
French [b. Boston, Mar. 1, 1808; d. Dec. 20, 1882]. He grad
uated from Harvard College in 1823, studied law, and after a
brief period of practice in Townsend, Mass., returned to his
native town, and there passed his after life, during the greater
part of which he was the only lawyer in the town. The house
of his grandfather Champney, on the old country road, was
his home as it still is of his descendants. His office still re
mains at the corner between his dwelling and the Baptist
church. He was always a prominent townsman, representing
the town for several years in the Legislature, and holding a
seat in the state Senate, when all the other members of that
body were of the opposite party. He was an early advocate
of the freedom of the slave, and was the candidate of the Free
Soil party for representative in Congress, and also for United
States senator. He was also an earnest advocate of the tem
perance movement. His place in the town is evidenced by the
following resolutions unanimously adopted at the annual town-
meeting following his death :
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Resolved, That we reraeraber with gratitude to God, and commend
to young raen as a worthy exaraple, his energy and perseverance, his
enterprising spirit, his love for his native town and country, his active
syrapathy in the cause of education and reforra, his cheerful hospitality,
and the purity of his doraestic life.
Children :
73. i. John Lorenzo, b. Nov. 10, 1829; d. June 19, 1836.
74. ii. Elizabeth Antoinette, b. Sept. 8, 1831 ; d. Feb. 28, 1837.
75. iii. William Arthur, b. Jan. 31, 1834. -|-
76. iv. Maria A. F., b. Feb. 10, 1836; d. Mar. 18, 1851.
77. V. Frank Whipple, b. Feb. 17, 1838.-|-
78. vi. Sarah Elizabeth, b. July 30, 1840; d. Mar. 26, 1842.
79. vii. Mary Arabella, b. May 11, 1844; d. Feb. 15, 1869; ra. Sept.
17, 1867, George J.» (William T.', WilHam", Nathan", John*,
Samuel", Samuel", Roger') Chandler of Boston. Child: i.
Elizabeth Antoinette Chandler, b. Feb. 8, 1869; ra. Charles
E. Siraraons; one child.
44. Thomas Bancroft' (John°, John', SamueP, SamueP,
SamueP, Roger'), b. Mar. 27, 1813; d. about 1862; m. Oct. 3,
1843, Sarah W. Woodberry. ChHdren :
80. i. William Henry, b. July 11, 1844; d. 1895, unm. He was a
bookkeeper in Boston.
81. ii. Sarah Frances, b. Mar. 13, 1846; ra. Henry F. Ames.
82. iii. Samuel Thorndike, b. Jan. 1, 1848; d. 1900, unm. He was
a hide and leather dealer in New York city.
83. iv. Jane Rice, b. Oct. 1, 1850; d. Mar. 4, 1853.
84. V. George Woodberry, b. Nov. 3, 1854; m. Anna Kreiling.
50. Edward Francis' (Stephen Farrar®, John', SamueP,
SamueP, SamueP, Roger'), b. Feb. 25, 1812; d. Jan. 3, 1884;
m. Apr. 20, 1843, Mary Theresia Gold Appleton (66). He was
a farmer on the Isaac Appleton farm upon the old country
road, (41, N. D.,) but upon the death of his brother John re
turned to the home of his boyhood, and there passed his later
years. Children :
85. i. Mary Celestia, b. Oct. 3, 1846; m. May 25, 1873, George L.,
son of Lyman and Lucinda (Wellington) Bennett of Rindge
[b. July 19, 1845]. He was a dentist in Winchendon, Mass.,
and removed thence to Chicago, 111.
86. ii. Ella Theresia, b. Nov. 10, 1848; d. Aug. 8, 1863.
87. iii. Edward Appleton, b. Oct. 13, 1852 ; d. Jan. 16, 1873.
88. iv. Francis Eugene, b. Sept. 18, 1854; d. Jan. 4, 1889; m. Ada,
dau. of Sarauel and Parmelia (Whitney) Wheeler.
89. V. William Arthur, b. Nov. 20, 1858; m. Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
June 5, 1884, Hattie G, dau. of Benjamin F. and Lydia F.
(Gimman) Parks [d. Nov. 8, 1907].
90. vi. Guy Henry, b. July 30, 1865; d. Nov. 30, 1902; m. Wickes,
Mont., Oct. 13, 1889, Jessie Blanche, dau. of Chancey and
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Ellen (Grant) Stubbs. He went to Montana in 1889, and
there made his home, living successively in Helena, Butte,
Bigtimber, and Stevenson. He was a druggist, but was
largely occupied by duties as a member of the Montana
National Guard, in which he rose to the rank of captain,
commanding companies in three different places of his resi
dence, and serving with that rank in the Philippine cam
paign of 1898-99. Child : i. Edward Chancey, b. Aug. 3,
1892.
51. John Hubbard' (Stephen Farrar", John^, SamueP,
SamueP, SamueP, Roger'), b. 1814; d. Oct. 15, 1863; m. Han
nah Whitcomb of Boxboro, Mass. During most of his life
he lived in the home of his boyhood. Children :
91. i. Almira, b. Aug. 2, 1842; m. Henry Levi, son of Levi and
Julia Ann (Adams) Willard of Harvard, Mass. [b. Sept.
22, 1837; d. Nov. 26, 1901]. He was a farmer. He served
in the Civil War in the 6th Massachusetts Regiment. Chil
dren: i. Ada Frances Willard, b. Nov. 20, 1862; d. Nov.
8, 1904; m. Fremont S. Vining of Phillips, Me. ii. Frank
Herbert Willard, b. July 15, 1865; m. Cora M. Price of
Somerville, Mass.; he is a druggist and optician at South
Acton, Mass. iii. Alice Preston Willard, b. Feb. 13, 1880;
m. David P. Valley, a contractor and builder at Sandring
ham, Ont.
92. H. Edward Oscar, b. July 27, 1844; m. May N. Fuller of Acton,
Mass. He is eraployed by the Boston Dairy Co. He served
during the Civil War in the 6th Massachusetts Regiment
and later in response to a 100 days' call. Children : i.
Alberta M., m. Hobart Mead of Acton, Mass. ii. Viola,
m. Arthur Anderson of Nashua.
93. iii. Herbert Edgar, b. Jan. 1, 1847; d. Feb. 27, 1908; m. Emma
S. Symonds of Acton, Mass. He served during the Civil
War in the 35th Massachusetts Regiment. Children : i.
Roy S.; res. East Templeton, Mass. Two other children
died young.
94. iv. Florence Maria, b. Apr. 20, 1849; ra. Hanson Littlefield of
Boxboro, Mass. [d. Aug. 28, 1903]. Children: i. Ida Maria
Littlefield, m. John McGregor, ii. Raymond Otis Littlefield;
he has a position in the custom house, iii. Sheldon E.
Littlefield, m. Marian Wood of Acton, Mass. iv. Guy Pres
ton Littlefield, m. Zina Donnie; he is a travelling salesman.
V. Carrie Adelia Littlefield, m. John King of Maynard,
Mass. vi. John Hubbard Littlefield; he is in the telephone
service, vii. Harold A. Littlefield; he is engaged in the
automobile business.
95. V. Alice Caroline, b. July 27, 1851; d. July 27, 1883; m. Eugene
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52. Henry Otis' (Stephen FarrarS John=, SamueP, Sam
ueP, SamueP, Roger'), b. July 26, 1820; d. Dec. 28, 1902; m.
Nov. 25, 1844, Clarissa Nichols (5). He went to California in
1852 and returned in 1854, but with this exception he passed
his life as a resident in New Ipswich, living for a time just
outside the Center Village on 29, N. D., at the end of a short
road extending eastwardly from the "back road" to Greenville,
and later in the house previously mentioned as built by his
uncle. Dr. John Preston, immediately after the opening of the
Turnpike. He was for a period engaged with Stephen Thayer
in the cigar business. He was postmaster for several years,
and also held the offices of town clerk and selectman. He was
valued by his neighbors for his helpful counsel in financial
matters. Children :
96. i. Ellen L., b. Aug. 18, 1845 ; ra. Jan. 1, 1867, Charles E. Robin
son [b. June 5, 1845; d. Mar. 1, 1905]. He was a grain in
spector at East Boston, Mass., and at Chicago, IH., until
1905, after which time he lived in New Ipswich. Children :
i. Mamie Estelle Robinson, b. Aug. 17, 1870; d. July 16,
1879. ii. Henry Otis Robinson, b. Feb. 23, 1876; m. Marga
ret Maloney; he is superintendent of a brick company at
Green Ridge, N. Y.
54. Isaac Fletcher* (Isaac', Isaac", James^, SamueP, Sam
ueP, Samuels Roger'), b. Sept. 30, 1819; d. Dec. 31, 1904; m.
Mar. 28, 1843, Dorothy S., dau. of Asa Fiske of Dublin [d.
Feb. 6, 1904]. He removed to Peterboro in 1847 and there
made his home. He was a machinist for many years, and in
his later life a farmer. Children :
97. i. Sarah Isabell, b. Apr. 14, 1844; d. Nov. 23, 1905; m. Oct. 9,
1870, Frank J. Shedd. Res. Peterboro. Children: i. Cora
Belle Shedd, b. Apr. 28, 1872; d. July 15, 1884. ii. Edith
Maude Shedd, b. Feb. 20, 1874. iii. Ernest Frank Shedd, b.
June 13, 1877; m. May 18, 1903, Anna M. Wheeler; res.
Winchendon, Mass. iv. Harry Preston Shedd, b. Sept. 26,
1885; d. Jan. 29, 1886.
98. ii. Isaac Willis, b. Feb. 6, 1847; d. Jan. 15, 1853.
99. iii. Henry Fiske, b. Dec. 8, 1848; m. Nov. 11, 1875, Belle L.
Bartlett. Res. Athol, Mass. He is a professional musician,
having been a bandleader in different places, and a player
at various summer resorts. Children : i. Alice Maria, b.
Oct. 6, 1876; res. Millers Falls, Mass. ii. Inez Esther, b.
Aug. 18, 1878; d. Nov. 25, 1907. iii. Nina H., b. Apr. 27,
1880; m. June 11, 1904 Charles H. Alden; res. Orange,
Mass. ; four children.
100. iv. Maria Louise, b. Feb. 2, 1851; unm. Res. in Peterboro.
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55. George Palmer^ (IsaacS Isaac', James', SamueP, Sam
ueP, SamueP, Roger'), b. May 5, 1822; d. Jaffrey, Apr. 10,
1879; m. Nov. 4, 1847, Harriet E.* (John', CorneliusS Jere-
miahS Jeremiah*, William^, Edmund^, William') Towne [b.
Dec. 31, 1823] of Jaffrey. Children :
101. i. George, b. Nov. 5, 1848; m. Jan. 1, 1880, Hattie M. Paige. Res.
East Jaffrey. Children: i. John H., b. July 10, 1881; m.
May 15, 1907, Freda Morrow May; child, Eunice E., b. Nov.
20, 1908. ii. Dora B., b. Sept. 25, 1884; m. June 15, 1910,
Henry C. Buckwold. iii. George I., b. June 21, 1887; m.
Dec 25, 1911,  Frye.
56. Charles Barrett* (Isaac', Isaac", James', SamueP,
SamueP, SamueP, Roger'), b. Jan. 1, 1825; d. Jan. 29, 1897;
m. July 15, 1851, Hannah Maria Chapman (6). He passed his
life in Bank Village. Children :
102. i. Charles Albert, b. Nov. 19, 1867; m. Mar. 29, 1892, Hattie
A. Stiles [b. Apr., 1870].
103. ii. William E., b. Apr. 4, 1870; ra. June 10, 1902, Eva Marion
Davis (168). He is a farmer on the Benjamin Hoar farm,
(V: 2, S. R.,) next east from the river on the old country
road. He has been selectman several years.
104. iii. Edward W., b. Mar. 24 1874; d. Nov. 4 1879.
75. William Arthur* (John', JohnS John', SamueP, Sam
ueP, SamueP, Roger'), b. Jan. 31, 1834; d. Dec. 5, 1902; m.
Apr. 6, 1859, Martha Maria, dau. of Charles and Clarissa Page
(Bullard (J. 17) Granger. He graduated from Harvard Col
lege in 1854, and afterward studied law, but did not follow the
practice of that profession. He was principal of Appleton
Academy for twenty-eight years. Children :
109. i. John, b. Feb. 22, 1860. He graduated from Harvard College
in 1882.
no. H. Frederic, b. Mar. 17, 1863; d. Dec 19, 1910; m. May 11, 1891,
Lena A. Brooks (53). He first entered into mercantile
pursuits in Boston, later was proprietor of the corner store
at New Ipswich for a time, and after other business ac
tivities in Columbus, O., he became a dealer in dress goods
in New York city, which business he followed until his
death. Child : i. Elizabeth, b. Feb. 17, 1892.
77. Frank Whipple* (John', John", JohnS SamueP, Sam
ueP, SamueP, Roger'), b. Feb. 17, 1838; d. Aug. 29, 1905; m.
(1) Feb. 19, 1862, Fanny H., dau. of John H. and Catherine
(Granger) (J. Bullard, 17) Coy [b. Oct. 3, 1840; d. Mar. 29,
1865] ; (2) May 13, 1867, Mary F., dau. of Daniel G. and
Randilla B. (Farmer) Murphy [b. Aug. 17, 1845]. He gradu-
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ated from the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard Univer
sity in 1858. He was in the lumber business at Sharon untH
1870, was treasurer of New Ipswich Savings Bank until his
death, and at the same time was a teacher in Appleton Acad
emy. He was town treasurer for twenty years, and like his
father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, was treasurer of the
Academy. Children :
111. i. Katherine, b. Dec. 15, 1862. She studied at Wellesley Col
lege, and has been a teacher in Columbus, O.
112. ii. William Arthur, b. Aug. 2, 1873; ra. Dec. 7, 1905, Bertha T.,
dau. of Henry F. and Sarah F. (Preston) (81) Ames. He
is a farmer and insurance agent in New Ipswich. He has
represented the town in the Legislature. Children: i.  .
b. and d. Apr. 30, 1907. ii. William Arthur, b. Jan. 11, 1911;
d. Apr. 5, 1914.
113. iii. Frank Herbert, b. Oct. 17, 1874; ra. Feb. 5, 1900, Mabel
Louise Thayer (19). He studied at the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology, and is now master fitter of the Wa
son Car Co. at Springfield, Mass. Child : i. Frank Whip
ple, b. June 6, 1904.
114. iv. Herbert French, b. Aug. 11, 1882. He graduated from Har
vard College in 1905, has studied at Munich, Germany, and
is now a teacher at Newport, R. I.
PRICHARD.
William' Prichard, d. Aug. 3, 1675; m. Hannah  . He was of
Lynn, Mass., in 1645, of Ipswich in 1648, and it probably was there that
he was "clerk of the writs." About 1660 he seems to have removed to
Topsfield, and later he was one of the earliest settlers at Brookfield,
where he was sergeant of the railitia. He and his son Samuel were killed
by the Indians the same day.
John' (WiHiam'), b. 1650; d. Feb. 7, 1731; m. Mar. 1, 1681, Mary
Towne [d. Mar. 5, 1730/1]. He was a farmer at Topsfield, where he
seems to have had a considerable extent of land, and for a time he was at
Ipswich. John' (John^ WiHiam'), b. Ipswich, Mar. 28, 1681; d. 1731 or later;
m. Sally  [d. Apr. 28, 1729]. He was in Boston in 1711, and there
mortgaged one-half of his father's holdings. In 1719, he had a ferry at
Portland, Me., but in 1730 he had returned to Ipswich, where he was a
"yeoman and joiner."
1. Paul^ (Johns JohnS William'), b. Sept. 5, 1721 ; d. Sept.
29, 1785 ; m. Feb. 1, 1748/9, Hannah, dau. of Amos and Mar
garet (CogsweH) Perley [b. Jan. 8, 1730; d. Dec. 13, 1810].
He lived in Boxford, Mass., where he was sometimes entitled
"house wright," and sometimes "gentleman," until 1772, when
he came to New Ipswich, settled near the Mason (now Green-
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vHle) line on 18, N. D., and quickly became a leading citizen
of the town, serving on the Committee of Safety and other
important committees, and also as selectman and representa
tive. His wife was noted as a doctress and had no small prac
tice in New Ipswich and the neighboring towns, to which she
travelled, often on snowshoes, in the severest weather. Chil
dren — all except youngest b. in Boxford:
2. i. Sarah, b. 1750; d. 1755.
3. ii. Amos, b. Aug. 25, 1752, or perhaps Sept. 7, 1751.-|-
4. iii. Jeremiah, b. Sept. 24, 1754.-|-
5. iv. Perley, b. June 11, 1757; d. Apr. 2, 1775.
6. V. William, b. Sept. 19, 1759. -f-
7. vi. Sarah, b. Apr. 17, 1762 ; d. June 22, 1787 ; m. Nehemiah Strat
ton (3).
8. vii. Hannah, b. Mar. 8, 1764; ra. Nov. 28, 1786, David Sherwin.
Res. Rindge, Jaffrey, Westmoreland, Temple, and New Ips
wich. Thomas Sherwin, long known as the able master of
Boston EngHsh High School, was her son.
9. vHi. John, b. Mar. 25, 1766.-|-
10. ix. Benjamin, b. 1769. -|-
11. x. Stephen, b. 1772.-]-
3. Amos' (PauP, JohnS JohnS William'), b. Aug. 25, 1752;
d. Nov. 23, 1782; m. Mar. 14, 1776, Anna, dau. of Joshua and
Hannah (Wood) Andrews of Boxford, Mass. [b. Mar. 13,
1748; d. Jan. 1, 1798]. He was a farmer upon the next lot
north of that of his father, (19, N. D.,) and also a carpenter
and buHder. ChHdren :
12. i. Anna, b. Dec 12, 1776; d. July 31, 1838; m. Silas Cragin (5).
13. ii. Perley, b. July 13, 1778; ra. Mrs.  Stone. He graduated
frora Dartraouth College in 1799, taught in Billerica, Mass.,
entered business in Baltiraore, Md., started upon a voyage
to the West Indies, and is supposed to have been lost at
sea. One son.
14. iii. Hannah, b. Feb. 11, 1780; ra. Feb. 19, 1801, Reuben Holden
(4).
15. iv. Sally, b. Aug. 13, 1781; d. Feb. 14 1863; m. Nov. IS, 1801,
Nathaniel G. Duren (Gould 16).
16. V. Amos, b. May 19, 1783.-f
4. Jeremiah' (PauP, JobnS JohnS WHliam'), b. Sept. 24,
1754; d. Aug. 10, 1813; m. 1784, Elizabeth Smith of Hollis.
He had just reached manhood at the beginning of the Revo
lutionary contest, and he served in Capt. Towne's company at
Bunker Hill. The following year he was commissioned as
lieutenant in the 1st New Hampshire Continental Regiment,
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Plains for which he was given a pension. After the war he
lived for a time in Hollis, but soon returned to New Ipswich
and established the tanning industry long carried on near the
foot of Meeting-house Hill, also building for his home the
neighboring house on the north side of School street long oc
cupied by John P. Clark and his family. He afterward re
moved to V : 4, S. R., and built the house afterward the home
of Dr. StHlman Gibson at the four corners, and about 1800
returned to the Center Village, where he had his home in the
house nearest to the Barrett mansion on the south. He was
active in town matters, being elected six to eight times to
each of the offices of town clerk, selectman, and representative.
Through his efforts a company of cavalry was formed in New
Ipswich and neighboring towns, and he was its first com
mander. Children :
17. i. Jeremiah, b. Mar. 30, 1786.-f
18. ii. Moses, b. Mar. 18, 1789.-f-
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20. iv. Oilman, b. Nov. 23, 1795; d. 1831. He was a merchant in
Boston.
6. William' (PauP, John*, JohnS William'), b. Sept. 19,
1759; d. July 25, 1836; m. Deidamia Cummings (16). He did
service in the Revolution, being in the company in which his
brother Jeremiah was a lieutenant. After his return from the
army he occupied the farm previously that of his brother
Amos, whose death was about at that date, twenty-five years
or more. But on the death of his brother-in-law, Charles Cum
mings, who had conducted the saw and grist mills formerly
of John Chandler, he changed his occupation and carried on
the business of the mills, as needed by the town, untH the
"Souhegan" cotton mill secured the waterpower. He was cap
tain of the cavalry company which his brother had formed and
commanded. He lost his life by accident, being thrown from
his chaise. His wife also met with a sudden death caused by
her clothing taking fire. Children :
21. i. William, b. Sept. 19, 1792.-]-
22. ii. Asa, b. Sept. 20, 1793.-f
23. iii. Bernard, b. Aug. 8, 1795; d. 1846.
24. iv. Deidamia, b. Mar. 18, 1797; d. Mar. 11, 1849; m. Feb. 5, 1824,
William Johnson of Boston.
25. V. Charles Cummings, b. Dec 4, 1799; d. Oct. 29, 1800.
26. vi. Charles Cummings, b. July 28, 1801.-|-
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28. viii. Caroline, b. Feb. 4, 1805 ; d. Dec 4, 1806.
29. ix. Adaline, b. Mar. 30, 1807.
30. X. Sarah, b. July 23, 1809.
31. xi. Hartwell P., b. Jan. 8, 1812; d. Oct. 18, 1831.
9. John' (PauP, JohnS JohnS WHliam'), b. Mar. 25, 1766;
d. Jan. 17, 1843; m. Lovice, dau. of Josiah Wilkins [b. Apr.
24, 1779; d. Sept. 9, 1850]. He was a carpenter and buHder,
and being unusually large and strong, was especially efficient
in the heavy work required. He lived for some years in a
house since destroyed by fire, in VIII : 3, S. R., on the south
west side of the road from Walker's turning-shop to Hodgkins'
corner, and afterward in the Center Village. A few years were
passed in Rindge and two of his children, the ninth and tenth,
were born there. Children :
32. i. John, b. Feb. 11, 1800.-|-
33. ii. Josiah, b. Dec. 7, 1801 ; d. in early manhood, unm.
34. iii. Stephen, b. Mar. 17, 1804; d. 1808.
35. iv. Sumner, b. May 16, 1805; d. 1808.
36. V. Francis Perley, b. May 8, 1807.-|-
37. vi. Sumner, b. July 18, 1809.+
38. vii. Wn-LIAM, b. Nov. 23, 1811.-|-
39. viii. Jeremiah, b. Feb. 18, 1814. -|-
40. ix. George Washington, b. Mar. 18, 1816.-|-
41. X. Nancy Jewett, b. June 24, 1819 ; d. July 15, 1856 ; m. Aug. 24,
1844, Stephen D. Wheeler (137).
42. xi. Mary Almira, b. Aug. 7, 1821; m. June 25, 1843, John A.
Wheeler of Ashby, Mass. Children : i. Mary L. Wheeler,
b. Sept. 13, 1844; m. June 13, 1872, James A. Goodfellow;
two children, ii. John P. Wheeler, b. Oct. 28, 1845; d.
Nov. 16, 1880; m. Nov., 1874, Marie L. Couroy; one daugh
ter, iii. William A. Wheeler, b. Nov. 15, 1846; d. Sept. 30,
1847. iv. William A. Wheeler, b. Feb. 20, 1848; ra. (1) May
13, 1879, Mary A. Eraerson of Lowell [d. Sept. 12, 1888] ;
(2) Dec. 13, 1892, Lavinia Johnston of Nova Scotia; three
children, v. Nancy A. Wheeler, b. Apr. 22, 1850; m. Apr.
22, 1873, Herbert E. Carter of Swanzey; one son. vi. Nellie
F. Wheeler, b. Aug. 30, 1851 ; m. James F. Haywood of
Hancock; five children, vii. Abbie J. Wheeler, b. Feb. 4,
1853; ra. Apr. 29, 1876, John L. Adams of Dublin; three
chHdren. viH. George S. Wheeler, b. Dec. 15, 1856; m. (1)
Nov., 1880, Nettie E. Hastings ; (2) Jan. 13, 1887, Flora J.
EHinwood; (3) May 9, 1891, Florence N. Goss; four chil
dren.
10. Benjamin' (PauP, John*, JohnS William'), b. 1769; m.
Oct. 4, 1789, Patty Sherwin of Townsend, Mass. He was a
carpenter, but did not confine himself to that occupation, as
he buHt and used the first saw and grist mills at Gibson Village,
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and also a small cotton factory. He afterward removed to
IX : 2, S. R., building the house on the south side of the road
occupied by William Bucknam. He removed to Bedford,
N. H. Children :
43. i. Alanson, b. July 8, 1792; drowned at Mason Village, 1808.
44. ii. Bernice (a son), b. Mar. 9, 1794; m. at Bedford, and had
children : i. Martha A. ii. Asenath. iii. Eunice, iv. Clara.
45. iii. Cyrene.
46. iv. Dexter.
47. V. Benjamin.
48. vi. SiLVA.
11. Stephen' (PauP, John*, JohnS William'), b. 1772; d.
1802; m. Apr. 19, 1798, Mary Start (10). She m. (2) Jonah
Howe, and removed to Camden, Me., taking her children with
her. During his short married life he occupied the Dix tavern-
house on the spot since occupied by the house of Rev. Mr. Lee,
but probably he did not keep a tavern there. Children :
49. i. William Start, b. Oct. 7, 1799; d. Dec. 20, 1862; m. EHza
Clark. Res. Bangor, Me. Children : i. William H. ii.
Mary A. iii. Artemas H. iv. Eliza A. v. Hattie K. vi.
George A. vii. Nathan C. viii. Clara W.
50. ii. Mary, b. July 4, 1803; d. June 12, 1884.
There were two other children of whom no record is found.
16. Amos" (AmosS PauP, John*, JohnS WiHiam'), b. May
19, 1783; d. Jan. 30, 1847; m. Janet, dau. of Eliphalet and Janet
(McCullum) Dustin [b. Feb. 8, 1783] and great-granddaughter
of Hannah Dustin, the heroine of the familiar Indian adven
ture. He lived in West Brookfield, Mass. Children :
51. i. Caroline Dustin, b. June 1, 1812; d. May 5, 1866; m. Charles
A. Mirick. Nine children.
52. ii. Jane Sophia, b. July 10, 1814; d. Jan. 24 1844; ra. Samuel
Clark
53. iH. George Augustus, b. Dec. 12, 1815; ra. (1) Hannah Colby of
Boston; (2) Sally R. Farren.
54. iv. Sarah Ann, b. Feb. 28, 1817; d. Mar. 24 1818.
55. V. Sarah Ann, b. May 27, 1818; ra. Joseph B. Grout. Two
children.
56. vi. Frances Maria, b. July 10, 1823; d. Mar. 15, 1870; m. Edwin
B. Taintor. Two children.
57. vii. Amos Alexander, b. Feb. 26, 1826; d. Jan. 23, 1830.
17. Jeremiah" (Jeremiah', PauP, John*, John^, William'),
b. Mar. 30, 1786; d. Jan. 30, 1866; m. Nancy Barr (3). He
remained at his boyhood's home for several years after his
father's death, and carried on the tanyard, but when about
thirty years of age he removed to Concord, N. H., and after-
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ward to Boston, but returned to New Ipswich after an absence
of about sixteen years. After his return he lived a consider
able time on the "(k)uld farm," (43, N. D.) He was a select
man for three years during his first period of residence in the
town. Like several others of his family, he was captain of
the cavalry company. Children :
58. i. Sarah Elizabeth, b. Aug. 2, 1809; d. Apr. 10, 1842; m. Rev.
Reuben Bates of Ashby, Mass.
George B., b. Nov. 28, 1810. Removed to IlHnois.
Mary Ann, b. Sept. 29, 1812; m. Dr. Thomas H. Cochran
[b. June 15, 1812; d. Nov. 12, 1882]. Two sons.
Jeremiah, b. Dec. 20, 1814; m. Helen Vila. He was a mer
chant in Boston.
Henry Addison, b. Apr. 10, 1816. Res. Newton, Mass.
Oilman, b. Aug. 10, 1817 ; d. Sept. 8, 1818.
Emily D., b. about 1818; d. Oct. 24 1847.
65. viii. Charles C.
66. ix. William Wallace.
67. X. Martha Jane, m. Jackson Burr.
68. xi. James B., b. about 1826; d. Dec. 30, 1850.
69. xii. Nancy.
18. MosES* (Jeremiah', PauP, John*, JohnS William'), b.
Mar. 18, 1789; m. [int. Dec. 18, 1813] Jane Tompson Hallett.
He was a trader in Concord, Mass., and for a long period
sheriff of Middlesex county. Children :
70. i. William Mackay, b. Oct. 23, 1814.
71. ii. Frances Jane Hallett, b. Aug. 30, 1816.
72. iii. Moses Barnard, b. Sept. 4, 1818.
73. iv. Henry Oilman, b. Jan. 7, 1821.
74. V. Elizabeth Hallett, b. Jan. 17, 1822.
75. vi. Amelia Mackay, b. Nov. 1, 1824.
19. George Washington* (JeremiahS PauP, John*, John^,
WHliam'), b. Dec. 4, 1792; d. Aug. 8, 1867; m. (1) Mar. 16,
1817, Elizabeth Pearsons of Bradford, Vt. [d. Mar. 5, 1853] ;
(2) Feb. 7, 1854, Mary P., dau. of Rev. David Sutherland of
Bath. He settled in Bradford in 1812, and there passed his
life as an honored citizen, being justice for 30 years, town
treasurer 37 years, and also selectman and representative for
shorter periods. He held also the military title of colonel.
Children :
76. i. Adeline, b. Dec. 22, 1817; m. Rev. B. B. Newton of Chelsea,
Vt.
77. ii. George, b. Nov. 19, 1819; m. Elizabeth, dau. of George Brooks
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78. iii. Moses Smith, b. Apr. 8, 1822; m. Betsey Ann True of Janes
ville, Wis. He graduated from the University of Vermont
in 1841. Res. in Janesville, Wis.
79. iv. Edward, b. Nov. 29, 1824; d. Nov. 28, 1870; m. about 1850,
Anne Merrill of Pittsfield. Ten children.
80. v. Amos, b. May 28, 1827; m. Augusta Dearborn. He graduated
from the University of Vermont. Res. in Janesville. Three
children.
81. vi. Arthur, b. Apr. 27, 1835 ; d. Mar. 6, 1856. Removed to Ripon,
Wis.
82. vii. John Brooks Wheeler, b. Sept. 26, 1839; ra. Orissa George.
Two children.
21. William* (William', PauP, John*, JohnS William'), b.
Sept. 19, 1792; d. Apr. 19, 1857; m. (1) Eliza, dau. of John
and Betsey (68) (Wheeler) Butman [d. Oct. 20, 1835] ; (2)
May 8, 1837, Sarah Dane. During the years of early man
hood he lived with or near his father, and was probably en
gaged in the business of the mills ; but in 1822 he removed
to Antrim, where he remained several years. He is said to
have returned to New Ipswich in 1827, but no town records
referring to him have been found. Children :
83. i. William H., b. about 1820; d. 1822.
84. ii. Eliza M., b. about 1821 ; d. young.
85. iii. Emily Wheeler, b. Oct. 22, 1821 ; m. 1847, Sumner Chamber
lain.
William Barnard, b. July 30, 1825; m. Lydia E. Templeton.
John Wallace, b. Feb. 4, 1829; d. Aug. 24 1854; m. Fannie
C. Benjamin. He was a freight conductor on the Fitchburg
railroad, and was killed in an accident.
George H., b. June 17, 1830. Res. Hillsboro Bridge.
Charles H., b. Mar. 5, 1832; d. 1895. Res. Fitchburg, Mass.
Edward M., b. Jan. 28, 1834; m. Annis E. Rathburn.
Augustus Dane, b. Apr. 11, 1839.
22. Asa* (William', PauP, John*, JohnS William'), b. Sept.
20, 1793; d. Aug. 31, 1858; m. Caroline MatHda Barr (7). He
lived most of his life in the family home, the last house on
the right of one leaving the factory village by the river road
to Greenville. He for a time commanded the cavalry com
pany. ChHdren :
92. i. Martha Ellen, b. 1831 ; d. 1890, unm. She was a teacher.
93. ii. Andrew W., b. 1835 ; d. 1836.
94. iii. George M., b. 1837; d. 1839.
26. Charles Cummings* (William', PauP, John*, JohnS
WHliam'), b. July 28, 1801; d. 1846; m. SybH Howe. Child:
95. i. Deidamia, b. Mar. 13, 1845; d. July 16, 1884, unm.
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32. John* (John', PauP, John*, JohnS William'), b. Feb.
11, 1800; d. Sept. 16, 1879; m. 1818, Nancy Hall of Pepperell,
Mass. [b. about 1803; d. Oct. 2, 1885]. He removed to Fitch
burg, Mass., when about 24 years old and lived on the street
which was given his family name. He was a carpenter, and
built the first house on the street which bears his name.
Child :
96. i. John, b. June 7, 1837; d. Jan. 16, 1865. He rendered service
in the Civil War in the 15th Massachusetts Regiment and
the 2d Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, was captured, and
died in Andersonville prison.
36. Francis Perley" (John', PauP, John*, JohnS WH
liam'), b. May 8, 1807; d. Nov. 4, 1850; m. May 8, 1833, Lucy
Wood [d. Aug. 22, 1854]. He was a carpenter, living on the
southerly road connecting the two factory villages, in the first
house on the north side after passing the former Methodist
church and the site of Brown's mills. Children :
97. i. William Perley, b. Apr. 5, 1835 ; d. San Francisco, Cal.,
Sept. 23, 1873.
Sarah Lovisa, b. June 11, 1839; d. Aug. 21, 1840.
Lucy Anna, b. Aug. 31, 1842; ra. Dec. 16, 1868, George K.
Montgoraery. Children : i. Lucy Anna Montgomery, ii.
Florence Prichard Montgomery.
Sarah Lovisa, b. Nov. 26, 1845.
Elizabeth Frances, b. Aug. 21, 1846; d. Sept. 7, 1847.
Mary Frances, b. June 29, 1850; d. Jan. 18, 1889; m. 
Keeney. Child: i. Perley Rockwell Keeney.
37. Sumner* (John', PauP, John*, JohnS William'), b.
July 18, 1809 ; d. Feb. 27, 1855 ; m. Sept. 28, 1834, Mary Mun
roe [b. Stoddard, June 28, 1814; d. Oct. 15, 1862]. He was
an exceptionally skilful carpenter. He lived in the building
which had previously been the starch factory on lot 37, N. D.
Children :
103. i. Romanzo Sumner, b. Feb. 28, 1836; ra. July 15, 1863, Mrs.
Elizabeth Shattuck.
104. ii. Mary Jane, b. July 28, 1837; d. Oct. 23, 1893; m. June 8,
1870, John Burbank [b. July 18, 1825; d. Dec. 30, 1890].
Children : i. Sumner Burbank, b. Aug. 20, 1871. ii. Emma
Burbank, b. Feb. 16, 1875. iii. Avis Burbank, b. Sept. 24,
1877.
105. iii. Arvilla Josephine, b. Feb. 16, 1839; ra. (1) Apr. 10, 1858,
Charles H. Goulding; (2) Nov. 12, 1864 Eugene Cady.
106. iv. Maria Adelaide, b. Apr. 3, 1841 ; m. Sept. 1, 1862, Webster
M. Towne [b. Aug. 30, 1839]. Res. Fitzwilliam Depot.
Child : i. Lillian Towne, b. Feb. 10, 1865 ; m. Lyman Bland-
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107. V. Adelia Ann, b. Dec. 14, 1844; m. Nov. 27, 1862, Lyman Bland-
ing.
38. William* (John', PauP, John*, JohnS WiHiam'), b.
Nov. 23, 1811 ; d. Jan. 7, 1873; m. Apr. 26, 1838, Lucinda Dut
ton of Temple [d. Nov. 9, 1881]. He lived on the "Judge
Champney farm," (VI : 1, S. R.,) in the last house now stand
ing on the right of one passing from the Bank Village toward
the Congregational church. He was a farmer. He held the
office of selectman. Children :
108. i. Francis William, b. Feb. 14, 1851.-f-
109. ii. Maria Lucinda, b. Aug. 22, 1856; ra. Jan. 12, 1875, Stephen
Willard, son of Willard and Jane (Ware) Mansfield [b.
Alstead, Aug. 17, 1850].
39. Jeremiah* (John', PauP, John*, JohnS WHHam'), b.
Feb. 18, 1814; m. Dec. 26, 1839, Elmira Page [b. June 21,
1816]. He was a carpenter at Peterboro during the greater
part of his life. Children :
110. i. William Henry, b. Oct. 29, 1840; d. Nov. 28, 1904.
111. ii. Nettie, b. May 18, 1843; ra. Dec. 23, 1869, Erastus Dickinson.
Children : i. Lee Dickinson, ii. May Dickinson.
40. George Washington* (John', PauP, John*, JohnS WH
liam'), b. Mar. 18, 1816; d. Nov. 1, 1879; m. Jan. 10, 1839,
Lydia Ann Carter of Peterboro [d. Nov. 1, 1879]. Res. in
Fitchburg and Townsend, Mass. Children :
112. i. Arabelle A., b. Oct. 11, 1842; d. Mar. 22, 1907; m. Apr. 9,
1862, James H. Tenney. Children : i. James E. Tenney,
b. Apr. 2, 1863; d. Jan. 6, 1890. ii. Florence M. Tenney, b.
Dec. 31, 1869; d. Mar. 15, 1871. iii. Grace E. Tenney, b.
May 10, 1873; m. Oct. 6, 1897, Charles E. Harrison of
Massillon, O. iv. Blanche M. Tenney, b. Sept. 26, 1876;
m. Mar. 23, 1898, Frank Boutelle of Cincinnati, 0. v.
Ethel P. Tenney, b. Dec. 18, 1879; d. Jan. 6, 1884.
113. ii. Abbie Ann, b. July 12, 1845; m. Aug. 25, 1869, Charles H.
Simonds. Children : i. Minnie B. Si-monds, b. July 30,
1870. ii. Alice M. Simonds, b. Dec. 23, 1873. iii. Charles
H. Simonds, b. Jan. 25, 1881.
114. iii. Dorothy C, b. May 24, 1849; unm.
115. iv. George Mortimer, b. June 14, 1858.
116. V. Hattie V., b. Feb. W, 1862; unm.
108. Francis William^ (WHliam*, John', PauP, JohnS
Johns William'), b. Feb. 14, 1851; d. Sept. 10, 1899; m. Nov.
25, 1875, Laura Louise Blaisdell of Chelmsford, Mass. He
succeeded to his father's farm, and was an enthusiastic and
successful farmer. But although he was thus earnest in his
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vocation, his life was much broader than his farm, and in
recognition of his character he was called to nearly every offi
cial activity of the town. He was moderator, selectman, rep-
sentative, delegate to Constitutional Convention, tax collector,
road agent, and member of the school board, most of them
several times. He was a leader in the Grange and a trustee
of the Savings Bank, and in all these positions his undoubted
integrity, his genial character, his quick perception of the wise
course to take, and his firmness in following it through diffi
culties, these and other traits of character, made true of the
last New Ipswich citizen of the family what was said of its
first ancestor in the town, that "he was one of the most sub
stantial and influential citizens of his day, and his death in
the midst of his social and official activities caused a frequent
expression of the feeling of that the town had lost that citizen
whom it was hardest to spare." Children :
117. i. Effie May, b. Apr. 21, 1885.
118. ii. Lena Frances, b. Jan. 7, 1887.
PROCTOR.
Robert' Proctor, d. Chelmsford, Mass., Apr. 28, 1697; m. Dec 31,
1645, Jane, dau. of Richard' Hildreth. He was made freeman at Concord,
Mass., in 1643, and was one of the original settlers of Chelmsford, Mass.,
in 1654. Peter' (Robert'), b. 1652; d. Aug. 1, 1730; m. Jan. 30, 1689, Mary,
dau. of James and Rebecca (Stevenson) Patterson [b. Aug. 22, 1666; d.
Aug. 12, 1724]. Res. Chelmsford.
John' (Robert'), b. Aug. 17, 1663; ra. 1692, Miriam — . Res.
Chelmsford. Samuel' (Robert'), b. Sept. 16, 1665; d. Apr. 12, 1740; m. Sarah  .
He was an ancestor of Hon. Redfield" Proctor, U. S. Senator from Ver
mont, by the line Jabez", Leonard'', Thomas'.
Peter' (Peter', Robert'), b. Aug. M, 1694; d. Feb. 20, 1772; m. 1720,
Hannah Harwood. He settled as a farraer in Littleton, Mass.
Benjamin' (John', Robert'), b. Oct. 20, 1704; d. Aug. 3, 1794; m.
Lydia Charaberlain.
1. Oliver* (PeterS PeterS Robert'), b. Chelmsford, Mar.
25, 1721; d. Nov. 3, 1793; m. 1744, Mary, dau. of Aaron and
Abigail (Adams) Parker of Westford, Mass. [d. 1789]. He
was an early settler in New Ipswich, his name first appearing
in 1751, but he remained only about ten years. He had 37,
N. D., his house being at the northwest corner of the site of
the first academy building, (long occupied by Emerson Howe,
and now by Dea. Henry WHson). It was a central position
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among the dwellings of that time, and was often used for
town meetings. Children:
3. i. Oliver, b. Apr. 25, 1745.-|-
4. ii. Aaron, b. Feb. 12, 1747; ra. Feb. 17, 1774, Sally Jones of
Milton. Reraoved to Rhode Island.
5. iii. Mary, b. July 15, 1749; m. May 11, 1769, William* Proctor
(Israel', Gershom', Robert').
6. iv. Isaac, b. Jan. 23, 1751; d. 1760.
7. V. Thankful, b. July 18, 1752; d. young.
8. vi. Rachel, b. Aug. 18, 1754.
9. vii. Thankful, b. May 10, 1757; d. young.
10. viii. Sarah, b. June 21, 1762; m. June, 1780, Ephraim Warren of
Townsend. Removed to Lanesboro, Mass.
2. Benjamin* (BenjaminS JohnS Robert'), b. June 5, 1733;
d. about 1817; m. Nov. 15, 1757, Rachel Pierce [d. 1823].
He probably passed his early manhood in Chelmsford, but
came to New Ipswich about 1762 and remained untH 1793,
being a farmer upon 27, N. D. He seems to have removed to
Westford, Mass., and a year or two later to have gone to
Reading, Vt., and there to have made the home of his later
years. Children :
11. i. Benjamin, b. Mar. 24, 1760.
12. ii. Rachel, b. Oct. 10, 1761.
13. iii. Joseph, b. Mar. 14, 1763/4.+
14. iv. Miriam, b. Jan. 20, 1765.
15. V. John, b. Mar. 8, 1767/8.-1-
16. vi. Lydia, b. Dec. 4, 1769.
17. vii. Sally, b. Oct. 9, 1771.
3. Oliver' (Olivers Peter*, PeterS Robert'), b. Apr. 25,
1745; d. July 28, 1842; m. Feb. 15, 1776, Mary Manning of
BHlerica, Mass. [b. Aug. 6, 1748; d. Nov. 4, 1815]. Res. in
Townsend, Mass. He served in the Revolution.
13. Joseph' (BenjaminS Benjamin*, John^, Robert'), b.
Mar. 14, 1763/4; d. Mason, Feb. 20, 1852; m. SaHy Barrett.
He entered Revolutionary service at the age of seventeen. He
appears to have succeeded to his father's farm for a brief time,
but not long after to have removed to Stoddard. Children:
19. i. John, b. Apr. 22, 1791.-|-
20. ii. Sally, b. July 9, 1793; d. Feb. 11, 1821; m. Timothy Barnes
of Washington.
21. iii. Rebecca, b. Apr. 9, 1796.
22. iv. Isaac, b. 1802.
15. John' (BenjaminS BenjaminS JohnS Robert'), b. Mar.
8, 1767/8; d. Lunenburg, Mass., Dec. 21, 1858; m. (1) Rachel
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Shedd; (2) 1801, Betsey Snow of Lunenburg [b. about May,
1775; d. Dec. 28, 1858]. His name appears on the New Ips
wich tax-list only in 1789.
18. Oliver* (Olivers OliverS Peter*, PeterS Robert'), b.
Sept. 30, 1779; d. June 17, 1868; m. (1) Aug. 26, 1800, Sarah
Drake of Lanesboro, Mass.; (2) Mar. 5, 1825, Polly Barber
of Benson, Vt. He res. at Lanesboro, Mass., until about 1809,
and afterward at Schroon, N. Y., and Shoreham, Vt.
19. John* (Josephs BenjaminS BenjaminS John^, Robert'),
b. Apr. 22, 1791; d. Apr. 12, 1884; m. June 2, 1818, Mary
Whittemore of Hahcock [b. May 7, 1793; d. June 2, 1870].
Res. in Stoddard, where all his children were born. ChHdren :
24 i. Harvey A., b. Oct. 22, 1827.-}-
25. ii. Abram W., b. Oct. 3, 1829.-}-
26. iii. Amos J., b. June 10, 1831.-f
27. iv. Hosea, b. Dec. 8, 1832.-|-
29. V. Stephen W., b. Oct. 29, 1834-f
30. vi. Timothy, b. Apr. 4, 1838; d. Dec. 20, 1860, unm.
31. vii. Ira H., b. Aug. 31, 1840.-f
32. viii. Susan M., b. Mar. 14, 1842; d. Aug. 3, 1876, unm.
23. Romeo'' (Oliver*, Oliver', OliverS Peter*, PeterS Rob
ert'), b. Shoreham, Vt., Sept. 3, 1816; m. Aug. 27, 1851, Mari
etta Perkins [b. Dec. 20, 1828]. Res. Fairhaven, Vt. ChH
dren: 33. i. Eugene R., b. July 8, 1852.-|-
34. ii. Ralph J., b. Sept. 19, 1863; d. 1883.
35. iii. J. Ada, b. Apr. 23, 1866; d. 1893.
24. Harvey A.'' (John^, Joseph', BenjaminS Benjamin^,
Johns Robert'), b. Oct. 22, 1827; d. Feb. 25, 1867; m. Mar.
15, 1848, Lucia Avery of Peterboro. He lived for a time in
Dublin, and during the last ten years of his life in New Ips
wich, at first in a house formerly standing on the old country
road a short distance southward from the Reuben Kidder
house of early days, and later in the Center Village. Children :
36. i. Clara A., b. about 1851; m. June 13, 1867, Thomas W.
Blanchard.
37. ii. Henry.
38. iii. Flora E., b. about 1857; m. June 24, 1874, John E. Leighton.
25. Abram W.'' (JohnS Joseph', BenjaminS BenjaminS
JohnS Robert'), b. Oct. 3, 1829; d. Jaffrey, Oct. 5, 1867; m.
Jan. 25, 1849, Mary Lowe of Charlestown, Mass. Children :
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39. i. Josephine, m. (1) Frank Smith of Peterboro; (2)  Holt
of Nelson.
40. ii. Frank.
41. iii. Lilla, m.  Towne. Res. at East Sullivan.
26. Amos J.' (John', Joseph', BenjaminS Benjamin^, John'',
Robert'), b. June 10, 1831; m. (1) Nov. 28, 1850, Margaret
E. Livingston [d. Dec. 20, 1871] ; (2) Oct. 12, 1876, his sister-
in-law, Maria (Messenger) Proctor [d. July 17, 1881] ; (3)
July 4, 1885, Ella Baldwin [d. July 13, 1893] ; (4) June 10,
1896, Mrs. Augusta M. Smith. He lived for seven years of
his married life in Canada, but about 1860 he came to New
Ipswich, and for twenty years or more held the "Phineas
Pratt farm," (XIV: 2, S. R.) Children:
42. i. George A., b. July 9, 1851; m. Feb. 1, 1877, Ada Adams. Res.
Boston and York Beach, Me.
43. ii. Ira J., b. Feb. 14, 1854; m. twice. Res. Boston. Merchant.
44. iii. Marla M., b. Mar. 8, 1856; m.  Wiederbusch. Res. Cin
cinnati, O.
45. iv. WILLLA.M Ellery C, b. Aug. 22, 1858; m. Dec. 14, 1891, Nettie
E. Berry.
46. V. LouviE, b. July 1, 1861; d. Aug. 29, 1889; m. Alton Finney.
47. vi. Mary A., b. May 17, 1863; m. Sept. 18, 1892, Edward M.
Messenger. Res. Winchendon.
48. vii. John F., b. Aug. 4, 1866; m. Nov. 23, 1889, Ada M. Marshall.
Res. Roslindale.
49. viii. Ransom, b. May 7, 1868.
50. ix. Mabel F., b. June 16, 1878; m.  Erkhart. Res. E. Jaffrey.
51. X. Ernest M., b. Mar. 10, 1881. Engineer. Res. Philadelphia.
27. Hosea' (JohnS Joseph', BenjaminS BenjaminS JohnS
Robert'), b. Dec. 8, 1832; d. Stoddard, July 8, 1880; m. (1)
Oct. 11, 1856, Anna Buzzell ol Acworth; (2) Nancy Davis of
Acworth ; (3) Mary Lewis of Marlboro. Children :
52. i. Herbert.
S3, ii. Edward C.
54. iii. William. Res. at Hillsboro Bridge.
55. iv. Clara.
29. Stephen W.' (John", Joseph', BenjaminS Benjamin',
Johns Robert'), b. Oct. 29, 1834; d. Aug. 4, 1862; m. (1) July
1, 1857, Juliette C. Wooster [b. about 1830; d. Dec. 16, 1858] ;
(2) Addie Everett. He lived on the old country road in the
house StHl standing on the "Reuben Kidder farm," (46, N. D.,)
a little southward from the site of the house before mentioned
as the home of his brother Harvey at the same time.
31. Ira H.' (JohnS Joseph', Benjamins BenjaminS JohnS
Robert'), b. Aug. 31, 1840; d. Aug. 24, 1872; m. Mar. 7, 1866,
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Maria Messenger. He also lived upon the old country road,
near his brothers Harvey and Stephen. Children :
56. i. Elton.
57. ii. Clarence. Res. at Hillsboro Bridge.
58. iii. Leon H.
33. Eugene R.^ (RomeoS OliverS Oliver', OliverS PeterS
PeterS Robert'), b. July 8, 1852; m. 1874, Carrie L. Foster of
West Haven, Vt. [b. Whitehall, N. Y., Oct. 4, 1856]. He is
a farmer upon the William Wheeler farm, (64, N. L. O.)
Children :
59. i. Elsie M., b. May 28, 1875; m. July IS, 1896, Clinton W. Max
well.
60. ii. Archie R., b. Dec 1, 1876.
61. iii. Lena A., b. Aug. 12, 1878; m. Apr. 26, 1898, Norman V. Tilton.
62. iv. Edward R., b. Feb. 17, 1882.
63. V. Alice L., b. Oct. 1, 1886; m. Aug. 9, 1902, Bert A. Robbins.
64. vi. Martha U., b. Nov. 14, 1888.
65. vii. Charles E., b. Oct. S, 1893.
RAMSDELL.
1. Amos' Ramsdell, b. Oct. 18, 1768 ; d. Dec. 17, 1852 ; m.
Boston, Aug. 4, 1799, Phebe, dau. of George and Relief (Brad
street) Henry of Lunenburg, Mass. [b. June 10, 1775 ; d. Oct.
23, 1861]. He came to New Ipswich about 1809 and settled
upon the Samuel Whittemore farm, just north from Whitte
more Hill, (1, N. L. O.,) which was his home for forty years.
His later days were spent with his sons in Rindge. Children :
2. i. Amos, b. June 18, 1801.-|-
3. ii. George, b. May 7, 1803.+
4. iii. Daniel, b. Aug. 4, 1805.-J-
5. iv. James, b. June 26, 1807.-f
6. V. Reuben, b. Aug. 11, 1811.-|-
7. vi. Phebe H., b. May 12, 1816; d. Apr. 16, 1838.
2. Amos^ (Amos'), b. June 18, 1801; d. Mar. 5, 1862; m.
Sept. 10, 1830, Harriet, dau. of Liberty and Betsey Wright
of Pepperell, Mass. [b. Sept. 4, 1804; d. Oct. 5, 1874]. Soon
after his marriage he removed to Rindge, where he was a lum
ber dealer and a manufacturer of woodenware. Children :
8. i. Harriet Elizabeth, b. Mar. 16, 1837; m. Nov. 30, 1854, Joel
Wellington of Rindge.
9. ii. Charles Henry, b. Oct. 12, 1841 ; d. Feb. 22, 1864.
3. George^ (Amos'), b. May 7, 1803; d. Oct. 1, 1890; m.
Lucy Preston (32). He was a farmer in the south part of the
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town, at first on the farm afterward long owned by Benjamin
Lovett, now at the end of a short road leading eastward from
the Ashburnham road, and later for many years at the end of
the road on the eastern side of Whittemore Hill. He was a
captain in the mHitia, and held the office of selectman for a
few years. Children :
10. i. George Henry, b. 1825.-1-
11. ii. Mary Jane, b. 1832; ra. May 5, 1861, Rufus Putnara.
12. iii. Lucia Maria, b. 1845; m. May 31, 1864, Charles W. Currier.
4. Daniel^ (Amos'), b. Aug. 4, 1805; d. Nov. 11, 1877; m.
(1) Mary Ann Symonds of MHford [b. May 22, 1807; d. June
16, 1865]; (2) Aug. 12, 1868, Mrs. Helen W. Hale. He was
a carpenter and also a farmer, passing his life upon the home
farm except a few years, 1837-50, when he had the eastern of
the two Breed farms, (80, A. D.) Children :
13. i. Daniel Perley, b. Mar. 12, 1830; d. 1913; ra. (1) Sarah J.
Araes (13) ; (2) Margaret Hays.
14. ii. Mary Ann, b. Nov. 30, 1838; d. Feb. 8, 1842.
15. iii. Ann Elizabeth, b. Dec. 24, 1843 ; d. May 20, 1856.
16. iv. William H., b. Apr. 23, 1845 ; d. Dec. 3, 1907.
5. James^ (Amos'), b. June 26, 1807; d. Sept. 20, 1873; m.
Nov. 16, 1837, Lucy, dau. of Abijah and Sophia (Waters) Rice
[b. June 7, 1818] . He removed to Rindge while a young man
and entered into business with his brother Amos. He held a
lieutenant-colonel's commission in the militia. Children:
17. i. James Gardner, b. July 7, 1841; d. 1913; m. Sept. 30, 1863,
Julia AHce Carter. Res. in Philadelphia.
18. ii. Cassius G., b. Oct. 30, 1845; d. 1913. Res. in San Francisco,
Cal.
19. iii. Eva Josephine, b. Apr. 14, 1854; m. June 17, 1874 D- W.
White of Boston.
20. iv. Lucy F., b. Feb. 13, 1856; d. Mar. 16, 1856.
6. Reuben'' (Amos'), b. Aug. 11, 1811; m. Dec. 24, 1835,
Lavina Piper, dau. of Joshua and Polly Piper Converse [b.
May 21, 1820]. He became a manufacturer of woodenware at
Converse Village in Rindge. Children :
21. i. Henrietta Lavina, b. Nov. 3, 1836; d. Feb. 14 1842.
22. ii. Phebe Amanda, b. Dec 19, 1839; ra. Dec 21, 1855, Edward,
son of Stephen and Hannah (Barber) Jewett. Seven chil
dren.
10. George Henry' (GeorgeS Amos'), b. 1825; d. 1906;
m. Nov. 15, 1848, Sarah A. Conant (26). Children:
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24 ii. Ada L., m. George Clark.
25. iii. Ann E., m. Gardner E. Davis.
26. iv. James B., m. July 19, 1879, Lizzie A. Roberts.
27. V. Willis.
28. vi. Marietta F., b. 1855; d. 1881.
READ— -REED.
Oliver' Read at Westford, Mass., "bought a place as an old deed
shows together with three negroe servants, Dinah, Phyllis and Leah."
Oliver^ (Oliver'), lived at Westford, Mass.
1. James Oliver' (Oliver^, Oliver'), b. at Townsend,
Mass. ; d. at Mason, May 1, 1905 ; m. Jan. 1, 1852, Caroline R.,
dau. of Ephraim and MatHda (Hodgman) HHdreth; was a
merchant at Bank Village and later at High Bridge, 1850-1872.
ChHdren :
2. i. James Oliver, Jr.* (James Oliver', Oliver", Oliver'), b. Mar.
11, 1858. Res. in Mason; has been selectman and held
other offices of trust.
3. ii. Harriet C, b. Mar. 3, 1861; m. George E. Strout. One
daughter.
RHOADS.
Henry' Rhoads, b. 1608. Res. at Lynn, Mass.
Eleazer" (Henry'), b. Lynn, Feb. 6, 1641.
Eleazer' (Eleazer", Henrjr'), m. Lynn, Nov. 21, 1710, Jemima Prebble.
Eleazer' (Eleazer', Eleazer", Henry'), b. Lynn, Jan. 16, 1715; d.
Dedham, Mass., Oct. 4, 1784.
Eleazer" (Eleazer*, Eleazer', Eleazer", Henry'), bapt. Dedham, Aug.
16, 1747; d. Feb. 24 1821; m. Nov. 12, 1769, Abigail Graves [b. about
1749; d. Oct. 12, 1802].
1. Eleazer^ (Eleazer', EleazerS Eleazer', Eleazer", Hen
ry'), b. Dedham, Sept. 11, 1770; d. Amherst, June 27, 1855;
m. (1) 1794, Elizabeth Bullard [b. about 1772; d. May 2, 1836] ;
(2) Nov. 29, 1837, Rebecca Putnam [b. about 1791 ; d. Dec.
16, 1849]. He removed from his native town to Lyndeboro
about 1800, and came thence to New Ipswich about 1814,
making his home in the most southerly house of Gibson Vil
lage, long the dwelling of Joseph A. Gibson. He remained,
however, only about seven years, then removed to Amherst,
where he passed his remaining life, occupied with the varying
activities of innkeeper, farmer, and brickmaker. While in
New Ipswich he was one of the many who entered the enter
prise, then in its infancy, of cotton manufactures, and he
joined with Loammi Chamberlain of Mason VHlage, (now
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Greenville,) in the establishment of a small factory in the
building built a few years before as a saw and grist mill and
using the waterpower near at hand. His experience in that
industry probably did not differ greatly from that of the
greater part of the small factories established prior to the
larger factories then about to appear. ChHdren :
2. i. Clarissa, b. Apr. 2, 1795; m. Benjamin Leavitt.
3. ii. Catherine, b. Sept. 28, 1797; d. Nov. 23, 1814.
4. iii. Lucy, b. Apr. 19, 1801; d. June 9, 1878; m. (1) Nov. 18, 1834,
Joshua Horne of Boston [b. about 1802; d. Aug. 1, 1850];
(2) Luther W. Nichols of Amherst; (3) Nov., 1872, James
Chandler (R. 22).
5. iv. Abigail, b. Aug. 3, 1804; d. Sept. 9, 1871; ra. (1) June 17,
1832, James Newhall (19) ; (2) June 27, 1854, Jaraes Chand
ler (R. 22).
Moses, b. June 30, 1806; d. Mar. 13, 1807.
Warren, b. Feb. 17, 1808.-|-
Charles, b. June 26, 1810; d. Nov. 1, 1872; m. (1) Dec 26,
1835, Jane Taylor [b. Jan., 1814; d. July 30, 1836]; (2)
Jane Wiley [d. May 4, 1870]. He was a painter in Amherst.
Betsey, b. Oct. 9, 1811; d. young.
Harriet, b. May 5, 1813; d. Oct. 28, 1885; m. Feb. 25, 1836,
Henry Tolman. Reraoved to Wisconsin, 1854, and thence
to Eldora, Iowa, where she died. Children: i. Charles
Tolman. ii. Henry Tolman. iii. Josephine Tolman. iv.
Sarah Tolman.
11. X. Alfred, b. Dec. 24 1818; d. May 19, 1848, unm.
7. Warren^ (Eleazer', Eleazer', EleazerS Eleazer', Elea
zerS Henry'), b. Feb. 17, 1808; d. Sept. 23, 1885; m. June 16,
1837, Elizabeth Roach [d. Apr. 9, 1887]. He succeeded to
his father's farm in Amherst. Children :
12. i. Wn.LiAM, b. Mar. 24, 1839. -|-
13. ii. Sarah Catherine, b. Apr. 5, 1840; d. Sept. 23, 1858.
14. iii. David Henry, b. Dec. 24, 1845 ; m. Aug. 17, 1879, Annie Loud
[d. Dec 30, 1902].
15. iv. Albert, b. Jan. 1, 1848; d. July 10, 1903.
12. William* (Warren'', Eleazer', Eleazer', EleazerS Elea
zerS EleazerS Henry'), b. Mar. 24, 1839; d. May 18, 1909;
m. (1) June 29, 1864, Susan J. Weld [d. Feb. 1, 1884] ; (2)
Apr. 9, 1886, Clara J. Eustis [d. Apr. 9, 1891]. He succeeded
to the famHy farm. Children :
16. i. Lizzie Almy, b. Dec. 3, 1865; m. Mar. 2, 1893, Charles A.
Ford. Res. Concord, N. H.
17. ii. Ada May, b. Aug. 24, 1873 ; m. June 30, 1896, Fred E. Cooley.
Res. Milford, where he is manager of Milford Machine
Works. Child : i. Earl Eleazer Cooley, b. Sept. 5,
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RICHARDSON.
The early residents in New Ipswich bearing this name seem to have
descended from two brothers who, with a third brother and four others,
took a leading part in the settleraent of Woburn, Mass.
Ezekiel' Richardson, b. about 1602; d. Oct. 21, 1647; ra. Susanna
 [m. (2) Henry Brooks of Woburn; d. Sept. 15, 1681]. He carae
from England in 1630 and after a brief sojourn in Charlestown settled
in Woburn, where he was one of the first board of selectmen.
Thomas* Richardson, a younger brother of Ezekiel, d. Aug. 28, 1651;
m. Mary  [ra. (2) Michael Bacon, d. May 19, 1640]. He had a part
with his brother in the founding of Woburn.
Josiah" (Ezekiel'), b. about Nov. 7, 1635; d. June 22, 1695; m. June
6, 1659, Remembrance, dau. of William and Sarah Underwood of Con
cord, Mass. [b. Feb. 22, 1639/40]. In the year of his marriage he re
moved to Chelmsford, Mass., where he was selectman for many years,
also town clerk and captain.
Thomas" (Thomas'), b. Oct. 4, 1645; d. Feb. 25, 1720/1; m. (1) Jan.
5, 1669/70, Mary Stimpson [d. June 7, 1690] ; (2) Dec. 29, 1690, Sarah,
widow of Thoraas Patten of Billerica [d. Jan. 16, 1689/90]. He reraoved
from Woburn to Billerica about 1667. He served in a futile military
expedition to Canada by way of Albany in 1690. He was delegate to the
General Court.
John' (Josiah", Ezekiel'), b. Feb. 14, 1669/70; d. Sept. 13, 1746; m
Jan. 31, 1693/4, Elizabeth Farwell of Chelmsford, Mass. [d. May 9, 1722]
Res. in Chelmsford.
Jonathan' (Thomas", Thomas'), b. Feb. M, 1682/3; d. Aug. 13, 1720
m. 1713, Hannah, dau. of John French of Billerica. Res. in Billerica.
John* (John', Josiah", Ezekiel'), b. Nov. 16, 1711; d. Aug. 28, 1764
m. 1733, Esther  -. Res. in Chelmsford.
Thomas* (Jonathan', Thoraas", Thoraas'), b. June 5, 1718; m. 1739,
Abigail, dau. of Henry and Abigail (Parker) Merrow of Woburn [b,
V18]. Res. in Reading, Mass.
1. Silas' (JohnS JohnS JosiahS Ezekiel'), b. Aug. 2, 1734
d. Mar. 25, 1775; m. Dec. 28, 1769, Lydia, dau. of William*
Fletcher of Chelmsford. He came to New Ipswich at about
tbe time of his marriage and passed the few remaining years
of his life at the foot of Kidder Mountain, upon lot 55, N. D.,
previously owned by Archibald White. ChHdren :
4 i. Lydia, b. Oct. 7, 1770; m. Dec. 12, 1790, Ebenezer Parker
(S. 6).
5. ii. Elizabeth, b. Apr. 14, 1773.
2. John' (JohnS JohnS JosiahS Ezekiel'), b. Apr. 8, 1748;
d. before Jan. 12, 1785. He came to New Ipswich at the age
of twenty-one in the same year as his older brother Silas, with
whom he probably lived, but his name has place on the tax-
lists for only two years. He is said to have been a joiner.
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3. Ebenezer' (Thomas*, Jonathans Thomas^, Thomas'),
b. Apr. 14, 1754; d. Mar. 18, 1827; m. Jan. 15, 1777, Sarah, dau.
of Jonathan and Sarah Parker [b. about 1750; d. Dec. 10,
1836]. He lived for some years in Reading, Mass., whence he
came to New Ipswich about 1790. He succeeded to the own
ership of the Ezra Towne farm, (23, N. D.) ChHdren :
6. i. Sarah, b. Nov. 3, 1780; m. Eliphalet Bailey.
7. ii. Lucy, b. Aug. 10, 1782; ra. May 30, 1833, John Robbins of
Mason.
8. iii. Jonathan, b. July 28, 1784; m. Nov. 26, 1807, Sarah Mans
field.
9. iv. Ebenezer, b. Nov. 6, 1788.
10. V. Thomas, b. Oct. 20, 1797. He succeeded to his father's farm,
and later for sorae years occupied the farra at the corner
formed by the Temple and old Wilton roads, afterward the
home of Mark Farrar, (26, N. D.)
Several other residents of the town, probably of this family but not
certainly identified, are named upon the tax-list for very brief periods.
ROBBINS.
True' Robbins, b. Apr. 14, 1789; m. Mar. 24, 1811, Rebecca Hodgman
[b. Mar. 6, 1792].
1. William Parker^ (True'), b. Aug. 14, 1812; m. Nancy
Bucknam [d. about 1890]. ChHdren:
4 i. Charles L., b. Nov. 26, 1837.-|-
5. ii. Harriet, m. Aaron Winship.
6. iii. William Otis, m. Martha J. Barrett.
7. iv. Abbie, ra. Herbert Willard of Ashby, Mass.
8. V. Emily Anna, ra. Frank Foster of Soraerville, Mass.
2. True= (True'), b. Dec. 26, 1814; m. (1) Sarah A. Pike;
(2) Louisa Ames. Children :
9. i. Marcellus.-|-
10. ii. Hattie.
11. iii. Martin.
12. iv. Martha.
13. V. Henry.
14. vi. Frank.
3. Lewis^ (True'), b. Aug. 10, 1819; m. Emily Winship.
Children :
15. i. Lewis Harlan, b. May 10, 1844.-|-
16. ii. George C, b. July 26, 1847 ; m. Elma Hodgman.
17. iii. Fred E., b. Sept. 22, 1850; ra. Julie Fletcher.
18. iv. Lizzie E., b. May 10, 1853; m. George A. Kimball, chief
engineer of Boston Elevated [d. Dec, 1912].
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19. V. Abbie L., b. Sept. 20, 1854; m. O. D. Prescott of Greenville.
20. vi. Addie F., b. Mar. 25, 1857; m. E. C. Sargent.
4. Charles' (William P.S True'), b. Nov. 26, 1837; d.
Aug. 24, 1901 ; m. Apr. 10, 1862, Abbie J. Davis. Child :
21. i. Addie A., b. at Townsend, Mass., Dec 12, 1867; m. (1) 1885,
F. H. Arnold, Jr. ; (2) July 19, 1895, Lauriston M. P. Hardy.
9. Marcellus T.' (TrueS True'), d. Nov. 20, 1909; m. (1)
Lizzie Peckins of Ashburnham ; (2) Nov. 6, 1875, Viola
Florence Fish. ChHd :
22. i. Ida W., m. Sept. 18, 1901, Edward R. Wheeler (173).
15. Lewis Harlan' (LewisS True'), b. May 10, 1844; d.
Feb. 3, 1907; m. (1) Dec. 17, 1867, Abbie E. Wheeler (181);
(2) Georgianna M. Hayward. ChHdren :
23. i. Melville, b. Oct. 31, 1868.
24. ii. Edith, b. July 28, 1878.
ROGER.
David' Roger, d. 1879; m. Janet Bone [d. 1881]. He was a gardener
in Ayrshire, Scotland. He came to America in 1874 and resided in Miller-
town, N. Y.
1. James^ (David'), b. Aug. 18, 1841, Kirkmichael, Ayr
shire, Scotland; m. June, 1867, Margaret Neil [d. June 10,
1913]. He was a clerk in Birmingham, England, and entered
the railway service in 1866, being station master at Rosslyn
Castle near Edinburgh for thirty-one years. He was ordained
an elder in the Established Church (Presbyterian) of Scot
land in 1878 and elected a member of the General Assembly
in 1896. He came to America in 1897 and has since resided
in New Ipswich, where he has a duck farm and has given
faithful service as a member of the school board and a super
intendent of the Congregational Sunday School and a deacon.
ChHdren :
2. i. Mary Ramsay, b. Apr. 3, 1868; d. Mar., 1906; ra. Alex Mair.
3. ii. Jessie, b. Oct. 28, 1870 ; m. John Borland.
4. iii. David, b. Jan. 10, 1873. Res. in New Ipswich.
5. iv. Alice Isabel, b. June 10, 1875 ; m. John C. Cochrane.
6. V. Maiuan Traver, b. July 30, 1879; m. Berkley T. Larrabee.
7. vi. James, b. July 30, 1884.
RUMRILL.
Very few records relating to this faraily in New Ipswich have been
found, and the earlier records are not all complete. It is believed, how
ever, that the brief statement which foUows is practically correct.
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Simon' Rumrill, b. about 1663; d. Apr. 13, 1705; m. Feb. 3, 1690,
Sarah Fairman. He was an early settler in Enfield, Conn., where he died.
Simon" (Siraon'), b. July 26, 1696; d. before 1732. He removed to
Westford, Mass., and bought land there in 1727. He was one of a com
pany of "snowshoe-men" serving against the Indians, and one of the relief
party sent after Lovewell's fight in 1725.
1. David' (Simon^, Simon'), d. about 1803. He came to
New Ipswich about 1763 and settled on the John Knowlton
farm on the Ashburnham road, (76, A. D.,) where he made his
permanent home. He served in the company of Capt. Stephen
Parker in the Stillwater campaign of 1777. The name of his
wife has not been found. He is said to have had fifteen chH
dren, but the names of only five of them have been found and
of only one of that number is the date of birth accurately
known. Children :
2. i. Simon, b. July 1, 1767; m. (1) Jan., 1790, Joanna Kemp; (2)
1801, Hannah Perry. He reraoved to Charlestown soon
after his first raarriage, and there had eight children.
3. ii. Joseph. He reraoved to Townsend, Mass.
4. iii. David, b. probably about 1774; d. Sept. 2, 1861; ra. (1) prob.
Lydia  [b. about 1780; d. Sept. 1, 1820]; (2) 
[b. about 1773; d. Oct. 27, 1857]. He passed his life after
arriving at raaturity as a farmer near the Rindge line, a
mile south frora the northwestern corner of the town, (138,
A. D.)
5. iv. Daniel, b. probably about 1776. His narae is on the tax-list
of 1798, but no longer.
6. V. Benjamin, b. probably about 1778. He was taxed in 1799 and
1800.
SAFFORD.
Thomas' Safford, d. Feb. 20, 1666/7; m. Elizabeth  [d. Mar. 4,
1670/1]. He was a landowner in Ipswich, Mass., as early as 1641.
Joseph" (Thomas'), b. about 1631; d. Aug. 29, 1701; m. Mar. 6, 1660,
Mary Baker. Res. in Ipswich.
Samuel' (Joseph", Thomas'), b. July, 1678; m. Hannah  . Res.
in Ipswich. 1. Benjamin* (Samuel', Joseph^, Thomas'), b. Aug. 3,
1718; d. Apr. 25, 1810; m. Oct. 9, 1754, Prudence Melvin of
Carlisle, Mass. [b. about 1718; d. Sept. 8, 1784]. He came to
New Ipswich before 1754 and settled upon VII : 2, S. R., per
haps thirty rods south from the site of the present Congrega
tional church and a little west from the present road to the
Souhegan river. He was a worthy man whose daily life tes
tified to the reality of his religious convictions, perhaps more
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clearly than his constant attendance at church, noticeable even
in those early days, and stHl maintained when in later years
his eyesight had failed and he groped his way along Safford
lane and the old country road, to the meeting-house upon the
hill. Children :
2. i. Hannah, b. Oct. 31, 1755; m. Apr. 3, 1806, Abijah Spafford.
3. ii. Lydia, b. Apr. 28, 1757.
4. iii. Betsey, b. Jan. 31, 1759; m. Daniel Severance (3).
5. iv. Lucy, b. Sept. 22, 1760.
6. V. Prudence, b. Jan. 9, 1763; d. Apr. 1, 1848; m. Dec. 11, 1783,
Zebedee Whittemore of Hancock [b. 1755; d. Feb. 26, 1825].
Res. at Marlow.
7. vi. Benjamin, b. Dec. 21, 1764.-f
8. vii. Reuben, b. Oct. 28, 1767.
7. Benjamin' (Benjamin*, Samuel', Josephs Thomas'), b.
Dec. 21, 1764; d. 1834; m. (1) Oct. 14, 1788, Hannah Wheeler
of Concord, Mass. [b. about 1762; d. Dec. 10, 1807] ; (2) 1808,
Lydia, dau. of James and Mary (Melville) Chandler (9) [b.
Nov. 15, 1781; d. Feb. 5, 1844]. He Hved upon the paternal
farm until 1834, when with his family he entered the tide of
emigration, then flowing so strongly to Illinois, but died sud
denly while upon his way at Roscoe, O. His family settled in
Quincy, 111. Children :
Three daughters by first marriage.
9. i. Stephen Farrar, b. July 7, 1809; d. Jan. 7, 1860; m. May 17,
1836, Louisa Hunt [b. Oct. 11, 1812; d. Oct. 8, 1896]. Eight
children.
10. ii. John W., b. 1811 ; d. Feb. 10, 1813.
11. iii. Hannah Chandler, b. Sept. 29, 1815; d. May 15, 1894; m.
May 16, 1836, Homer Brown [b. 1812; d. Sept. 29, 1876].
One child.
12. iv. Elizabeth Winslow, b. May 9, 1819; d. Aug. 29, 1881; m.
Rev. Aden H. Fletcher [d. Feb. 15, 1880]. Eight children.
SANDERS.
1. Joseph' Sanders, b. Aug. 17, 1764; d. Dec. 12, 1829; m.
Betsy, dau. of Nathan and Mary (Chapman) Hall [b. Mar. 5,
1766; d. Mar. 15, 1836]. Children:
2. i. Annie, b. Oct. 30, 1788; d. June 12, 1877.
3. ii. David, b. Feb. 9, 1791 ; d. June 1, 1863.
4 iii. Joseph, b. Oct. 13, 1792; d. Nov. 28, 1876.
5. iv. Betsy, b. Sept. 21, 1794; d. Mar. 27, 1883. .j
6. V. Polly, b. July 4, 1796; d. Mar. 21, 1863.
7. vi. Sally, b. July 15, 1798; d. Sept. 7, 1884.
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9. viii. George, b. Mar. 11, 1803.-f
10. ix. Fidelia, b. May 11, 1805; d. Dec, 1881.
11. X. Caroline, b. Oct. 2, 1807; d. Sept. 20, 1826.
8. Nathan^ (Joseph'), b. Sept. 17, 1800; d. Dec. 4, 1887;
m. June 19, 1826, Betsy, dau. of Silas and Polly (Williams)
Shedd [b. Mar. 24, 1805; d. Dec. 6, 1887]. He was a mHl
wright and later, while in New Ipswich, 1836-1866, was a tin
smith. Children :
12. i. Mary Elizabeth, b. Nov. 26, 1827; d. June 1, 1867; m. Nov.
16, 1848, Dr. George Jewett of Fitchburg, Mass.
13. ii. Caroline Elmira, b. Oct. 19, 1829; d. at GrinneH, Iowa, Jan.
7, 1908.
14. iii. Nathan Edwin, b. Feb. 11, 1832; d. Oct. 21, 1849.
15. iv. Silas Luman, b. Oct. 16, 1834.-|-
16. V. Joseph Howard, b. July 20, 1836. -|-
17. vi. George Lucius, b. June 18, 1838.-J-
18. vii. Lorenzo Preston, b. Mar. 3, 1840; d. May 25, 1842.
19. viii. David Albert, b. Feb. 9, 1842.-|-
20. ix. Ellen Frances, b. Jan. 12, 1845 ; d. Mar. 23, 1853.
21. x. Willis, b. Mar. 9, 1847; d. Oct. 18, 1847.
9. George^ (Joseph'), b. Mar. 11, 1803; d. Nov. 3, 1867;
m. (1) Caroline Muzzy [b. July 30, 1804; d. Feb. 8, 1849] ; (2)
Mrs. Susan (Wilson) Kendall, dau. of Supply and Sally (Scrip
ture) Wilson ; (3) Charlotte Clarke. Children :
22. i. Caroline Fidelia, b. Aug. 9, 1827; m. Charles Hastings Allen
of Boston.
23. ii. George Augustus, b. Apr. 23, 1829.-|-
24. iii. Clarendon Muzzy, b. July 18, 1834; d. Aug. 14, 1896; m.
Elizabeth, dau. of Josiah and Henrietta (Ordway) Davis.
25. iv. Henry Martin, b. July 27, 1836; m. Lucy Upton [d. July 31,
1908].
26. V. Mary Helen, b. Feb. 10, 1840; d. Mar. 4, 1842.
27. vi. Edward Arthur, b. June 30, 1843.
28. vii. Eugene S., b. Jan. 1, 1858; d. June 23, 1865.
15. Silas Luman' (NathanS Joseph'), b. Oct. 16, 1834; m.
Jennie Taylor. Res. Grinnell, Iowa. Children:
29. i. Elizabeth Jewett, b. June 5, 1865; m. Clay Gilbert. Three
children.
30. ii. George Luman, b. July 4, 1869; d. Aug., 1892.
16. Joseph Howard' (NathanS Joseph'), b. July 20, 1836;
m. Betsy Taylor. Res. Grinnell, Iowa. Children :
31. i. Nathan Edwin, b. June 28, 1870.
32. ii. Annie Josephine, b. Feb. 23, 1873.
33. iii. Harry Howard, b. Oct. 4, 1874; d. Dec. 12, 1879.
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17. George Lucius' (NathanS Joseph'), b. June 18, 1838;
ni. Mary Steele. Res. Grinnell, Iowa. Children :
34. i. William Steele, b. Jan. 30, 1873; m. Della Andrews. Two
sons.
35. ii. Frank, b. about 1875; d. about 1876.
36. iii. Charles Lucius, b. July 16, 1877.
19. David Albert' (NathanS Joseph'), b. Feb. 9, 1842; m.
Hester Clifford. Res. Grinnell, Iowa. ChHdren :
37. i. Hester Elmira, b. Sept. 10, 1881.
38. ii. Fannie Ellen, b. May 12, 1883.
39. iii. Mary Clifford, b. Apr. 19, 1887.
23. George Augustus' (George^, Joseph'), b. Apr. 23,
1829; m. Jan. 1, 1866, Narcissa M. Harvey [b. Dayton, Ohio,
Apr. 29, 1841; d. at Holden, Mass., May 31, 1900]. ChHdren:
40. i. George I., b. June 8, 1869; d. Mar. 29, 1870.
41. ii. Eddie I., b. June 16, 1871 ; d. Mar. 19, 1872.
42. Hi. Ella Lotta, b. Aug. 16, 1873.
43. iv. Cora Narcissa, b. Feb. 18, 1877.
SEVERANCE.
The record of this family is very obscure, but its service in the
Revolution forbids an omission from these pages. It is hoped that the
statements made below are at least approximately correct.
John' Severance, d. Apr. 9, 1682; m. (1) in England, 1635, Abigail
KimbaH [d. June 17, 1658] ; (2) Oct. 2, 1663, Susanna, widow of Henry
Ambrose. He was a freeraan in Boston in 1637, and one of the first set
tlers at Salisbury, Mass. He was termed a "planter," and also a "victualler
and vintner."
Ephraim" (John'), b. Apr. 8, 1656; m. Nov. 9, 1682, Lydia MorriH.
Ephraim' (Ephraim", John'), b. Nov. 29, 1694.
1. Ephraim* (Ephraim', Ephraim^, John'), b. Ipswich,
Mass., Nov., 1723. This is believed to have been the Ephraim
Severance who settled at an early date on the Mansfield farm
situated on the north road to Greenville, (14, N. D.,) as early
as 1754; there, however, he apparently did not remain very
long, but removed to Camden, N. H. He was one of the first
board of selectmen elected by the town after it changed its
name and became the first to bear the name of Washington,
since assumed by so many towns. In old age he removed with
his son Daniel to Topsham, Vt., where he died. There is very
little doubt that the New Ipswich residents bearing the family
name were his descendants, but probably the list of his chil
dren here presented is not complete. Children :
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2. i. Ephraim, b. about 1749. -|-
3. ii. Daniel, b. about 1751.-|-
4. iii. Ebenezer, b. about 1753.-]-
5. iv. Abel, b. about 1754.-f-
6. V. Rufus.
7. vi. Abigail.
8. vii. Polly.
2. Ephraim' (Ephraim*, Ephraim', EphraimS John'), b.
about 1749. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and although it
has been stated that he was killed at White Plains, the best
authority seems to identify him as having enlisted from New
Ipswich in the company of Capt. Isaac Farwell in 1777. He
was wounded the following October, but was with his com
pany at Stillwater. His name appears on the New Ipswich
records from 1765 to 1774. There is no evidence that he lived
at Washington. 3. Daniel' (Ephraim*, Ephraim', Ephraim^, John'), b. Gro
ton, Mass., about 1751; d. Washington, Mar. 10, 1817; m. Bet
sey Safford (4). He gave Revolutionary service in the com
panies of Capts. Towne and Smith, and on the roll of the
former company he is said to have been at that time a black
smith in Washington. But if that was the case, tradition gives
in detail his later experiences elsewhere. It tells that after the
close of the war he went with his family to Topsham, Vt.,
then practically a wilderness, built a cabin, and began to clear
a farm. Potatoes, being easily raised, formed a larger part of
the table supplies. The table is said to have been merely a
large stump left in the middle of the cabin, upon which the
potatoes were emptied from the kettle, and then with addition
of a little salt the meal was complete. But the hard work
brought better times, until, as an old pioneer said in later
years, they had "all the mush and milk they wanted." But at
this period of secured affluence a near neighbor laid claim to
the new farm on the grounds that Mr. Severance had an im
perfect title, as the claimant had known whHe he had watched
the change produced by labor. The law at that time made no
allowance for improvements, and the old soldier, too old to
repeat the process with another farm, was made penniless.
He returned to New Ipswich and a little more than a hundred
years ago made his home in a house standing on the site of the
Bullard house just north of the Barrett mansion, which was
in so poor repair that the light of the open fire so shone
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through the crevices as to give the house the name of the
"town lantern." Later he lived at some point on the old coun
try road near Kidder Mountain. The closing years of his life
are said to have been passed in Washington. He had eleven
children, but the names of only four are here given. Children :
9. i. Daniel, b. about 1780; m. Aug. 23, 1815, his cousin Abigail,
dau. of Rufus (5).
10. ii. Benjamin, b. 1782 ; d. Sept. 29, 1825 ; m. Betsey Dodge. After
several years' residence in Washington he reraoved to Clare
mont, where he died. Very probably he was the Benjarain
appearing in the New Ipswich records in 1806.
11. iii. Nathan. He perhaps was the resident of that name shown
on the New Ipswich records of 1814 and later, but this is
very uncertain.
12. iv. Abijah. He is found upon the records of about the sarae
date as Nathan, and is subject to the sarae uncertainty.
4. Ebenezer' (Ephraim*, Ephraim', Ephraim^, John'),
b. New Ipswich about 1753. He seems to have removed to
Temple in early manhood, as his name is borne on the roll
of Capt. Towne's company in 1775 as a farmer in that town.
5. Abel' (Ephraim*, Ephraim', Ephraim^, John'), b. about
1754; d. Bradford, N. H., Aug. 26, 1842; m. Martha Bruce.
He lived only a short time in Washington, but is said to have
lived a time in Temple before settling in Bradford. His name
is found in the New Ipswich records from 1777 to 1791, and is
on the roll of Capt. Ezra Towne's company of 1775, where he
is said to have been born in Groton, Mass., and to be a farmer
in New Ipswich.
The name of Abba Severance is found in the New Ipswich
records from 1755 to 1784, and he enlisted from Temple in
1778. The dates connected with members of this family in the New Ipswich
and Temple records suggest that they moved very easily across the town
line, and that it was sometimes almost uncertain of which town they
were residents.
SHATTUCK.
William' Shattuck, b. England, 1621 or 1622; d. Watertown, Aug.
M, 1672; ra. about 1642, Susanna  [m. (2) Nov. 18, 1673, Richard
Norcross, teacher of the Grammar School at Watertown for thirty-five
years; d. Dec. 11, 1686]. WiHiam came from England a little later than
1640, but in 1642 land was granted him at Watertown, where he was
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John' (William'), b. Feb. 11, 1647; was drowned at Charlestown
Ferry, Sept. 14, 1675; m. June 20, 1664, Ruth, dau. of John and Elinor
Whitney of Watertown [m. (2) Mar. 2, 1677, Enoch Lawrence, and re
raoved to Groton]. John was a carpenter at Watertown.
Philip'' (WHHam'), b. 1648; d. in the part of Watertown which is
now Waltham, June 20, 1722; ra. (1) Nov. 9, 1670, Deborah, dau. of
William and Anna Barstow [d. Nov. 24, 1679] ; (2) Feb. 11, 1680, Rebecca
Chamberlain [d. 1728]. He was an able physician and, like his father,
a trusted man in public places.
William' (William'), b. 1653; d. Oct. 19, 1732; m. about 1678,
Susanna, dau. of Stephen and Susanna (Barron) Ramsdell [d. May 8,
1723]. He was a leading citizen of Watertown, holding important offices.
He inherited his father's "loom and appurtenances," but was also engaged
in farming and brickmaking.
John' (John', William'), b. June 4, 1666; was killed by the Indians
at Groton at the same time with his son John, May 8, 1709; ra. Mary,
dau. of Jaraes and Elizabeth (Longley) Blood [b. Sept. 1, 1672; d. Mar.
4, 1756]. He was a farmer at Groton on the horaestead of his father-in-
law, whom the Indians had killed seventeen years earlier.
Samuel" (John', William'), b. Watertown, 1673; d. Groton, July 22,
1758; m. Elizabeth, dau. of James and Elizabeth (Longley) Blood [b.
Apr. 27, 1675; d. Oct. 20, 1759]. He lived at Groton.
Benjamin' (WiHiam', William'), b. July 30, 1687; d. Littleton, 1763;
ra. Martha, dau. of Joseph and Elizabeth (Winship) Sherman. It has
been claimed that he was not the son of William, as stated above, but
of Philip', who had a son Benjamin, b. May 15, 1685, this claim being
supported by his age at death, as given upon his gravestone. But certain
deeds still on record seem to constitute more firmly his descent as here
stated. He graduated from Harvard College in 1709, studied divinity
while teaching in the "Grararaar and English School" until 1715, when
he was ordained the first minister of Littleton, in which town he passed
the remainder of his life, although he retained his pastorate only four
teen years.
Jonathan' (John', John', William'), b. June 29, 1693; d. Pepperell,
Sept. 18, 1771 ; ra. June 25, 1719, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas and Abigail
(Nutting) Chamberlain [b. May 26, 1700]. At the age of sixteen the
death of his father and older brother left him with his mother and six
younger sisters upon the paternal farm in Uroton, to which the court
gave him a clear title ten years later. He removed to Pepperell in 1725.
Jeremiah* (Samuel', John', William'), b. Groton, June 11, 1703; d.
Aug. 2, 1798; m. (1) July 2, 1723, Sarah, dau. of Nathaniel and Lydia
Parker [b. Apr. 12, 1705; d. June 8, 1789]; (2) Feb. 28, 1792, Mrs. Ruth
Bixby. He was a blacksmith in  , where he was one of the selectmen,
and also held office of captain.
1. William* (Benjamin', WiHiamS WHliam'), b. Littleton,
Jan. 1, 1718; d. Jaffrey, Jan., 1806; m. Nov. 20, 1750, Abigail,
dau. of Peter and AbigaH Reed of Littleton [b. 1733 ; d. Beth
lehem, N. H., Feb., 1820]. He first settled in Middletown,
Conn., where he acquired a considerable property, but in 1750
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a man in town matters that upon his removal to New Ipswich
in 1769 it was "Voted, That the thanks of the town be given to
Mr. William Shattuck for his past services as a town officer."
His official services were evidently valued in New Ipswich, as
he was one of the selectmen during a considerable part of the
period of the Revolution, was a member of the Committee of
Correspondence, and represented the town in the fifth Pro
vincial Congress. He is said to have been the teacher of the
first school in the town, but as this school was established five
years before his removal from Pepperell, it seems doubtful in
view of his official position in that town whether this tradition
is reliable. He served in the Revolution, although his name
and that of his eldest son are probably confused in the records.
But as the name appears on the roll of the New Ipswich men
who went to resist the raid from Canada in 1780, which was
after the death of William Shattuck, Jr., there can be no doubt
that this man of over sixty years had a part in that expedition.
His farm was near the South burying-ground, (XI : 4, S. R.)
He removed to Jaffrey about 1795. The record of his children
is uncertain, but it seems to include the following:
2. i. Abigail, d. in infancy.
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9. viii. Benjamin, b. about 1771; m. Sally Acres of Bradford, N. H.
He lived in Bradford and in Bethlehem, N. H., and then
"went West."
John" (Jonathan*, John', John', William'), b. Groton, Mar. 12, 1724;
d. Pepperell, Dec. 31, 1807; m. Aug. 18, 1750, his second cousin, EHzabeth
Shattuck, dau. of Jeremiah* [b. May 17, 1728; d. Apr. 9, 1805]. He was
a farmer and leading citizen of Pepperell, being one of the selectmen and
a member of the Committee of Correspondence, Inspection, and Safety
in 1774. His dau. Elizabeth m. Siraeon Blanchard (2).
David" (Jeremiah*, Samuel', John', William'), b. Pepperell, Feb. 19,
1735; d. Jan. 2, 1820; m. (1) May 20, 1756, Sarah, dau. of John and
Elizabeth (Nutting) Burt [b. June 26, 1731; d. Dec. 19, 1793]; (2) Nov.
21, 1804, Lucy Sawtell of Groton. He was a farmer in his native town.
His dau. Sarah, b. Nov. 22, 1762, m. Daniel Butterfield, a farmer of
Pepperell, and her dau. Betsey, b. Aug. 8, 1806, m. William Hassall (1)
of New Ipswich.
3. William' (WilliamS BenjaminS William^, William'), b.
Littleton about 1753; d. 1777; m. Mary Dustin, a descendant
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(2) Simeon HHdreth (3)]. He served in the Revolution, but
the story of his service seems to have escaped official record.
His name appears on the tax-list of the town only in 1774,
and he was probably absent in service from the commence
ment of hostilities until his death, which is said to have been
in 1777 in the region of Ticonderoga and Crown Point. The
"Shattuck Memorial" states that he was in command of a com
pany, twenty of whom were, killed at the same time, but no
officer bearing his name is found in the New Hampshire Revo
lutionary Rolls. He had only one child :
12. i. William, b. Jan. 5, 1774.-H
4. John' (WHliamS Benjamin', WHliam^, WiHiam'), b.
Littleton about 1757; m. New Ipswich, Dec. 9, 1779, Polly
Farley of Hollis. He removed to Peterboro, thence to Bakers
field, Vt., and thence to the West. Children :
13. i. John, m. Polly Barnes. Lived in Bakersfield, Vt.
14. ii. Nancy, m.  Singless of Peterboro.
15. iii. Susanna.
16. iv. William.
17. V. Jonathan, m. his cousin, Sally Shattuck' (Benjamin', Wil
liam*).
18. vi. Brown.
19. vii. Polly.
20. viii. Sally.
21. ix. Betsey.
6. Peter' (WilliamS Benjamin', William^, WiHiam'), b.
Littleton, 1762; d. Bethlehem, N. H., July 18, 1824; m. (1)
Lydia, dau. of Jonathan Henney, who entered the Shaker
community at Lebanon, N. H., in 1784 and soon died there;
(2) Hannah Hildreth of New Ipswich, probably dau. of Ste
phen (2) [d. Sept. 25, 1792] ; (3) Feb. 16, 1795, Rebecca Breed
(6) [d. Bethlehem, Apr., 1837]. He was a farmer and carpen
ter living upon the Tenney farm, (186, N. L. O.,) for about
twenty years, but in 1800 he removed to Bethlehem, N. H.,
where he was a prominent citizen. ChHdren:
22. i. Peter, b. July 15, 1778.-|-
23. ii. Lydia, b. Apr. 14, 1781 ; m. Samuel Jackman. Lived at Thet
ford, Vt. Eleven children.
24. iii. Ruth, b. Apr. 10, 1783; m. Moses Howe. Lived at Thetford,
Vt. Four children.
25. iv. Abigail, b. June 9, 1786; m. Sarauel P. Sweet, a farmer and
woodcutter at Boscawen, N. H. Twelve children.
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8. Sherman' (William*, Benjamin', WilliamS William'),
b. Littleton, Mar. 26, 1768; d. Whitefield, Vt., Nov. 5, 1837;
m. Peterboro, Feb., 1789, Hannah, dau. of Elisha and Lucy
(Chamberlain) Putnam [b. Sutton, Mass., Jan. 20, 1770; d.
Bethlehem, N. H., Oct. 11, 1835]. He was a carpenter, shoe
maker, and farmer. He lived at New Ipswich a few years
after his marriage and then removed successively to Hancock,
Bradford, Jaffrey, and Bethlehem, and Whitefield, Vt. Chil
dren: 28. i. Vashti, b. New Ipswich, Dec. 4, 1789; m. John Nurse, a
farmer.
29. ii. Richard Prentice, b. New Ipswich, Feb. 15, 1791.-|-
30. iii. Ezra, b. Hancock, Dec 27, 1793; d. Bethlehem, July 23, 1829;
m. Polly Whitcomb. One daughter, Lydia, who m. Ezekiel
Gilbert.
31. iv. Charlotte, b. Bradford, Dec. 29, 1795; m. Nov. 15, 1818,
Alpheus Sawyer, a farmer in Whitefield. Four children.
32. V. Oliver P., b. Bradford, Feb. 17, 1797.-|-
33. vi. Sherman, b. Bradford, Apr. 25, 1799; d. Bethlehem, Nov. 27,
1819.
34. vii. Hannah, b. Bradford, Feb. 15, 1801; d. Feb., 1851, in New
York state; m. William Eaton. Four children.
35. viii. William, b. Jaflfrey, Sept. 21, 1803.-\-
36. ix. Elisha, b. Jaflfrey, Dec. 17, 1805; m. Emily Sawyer.
37. X. Irena, b. Bethlehem, May 11, 1808; d. in infancy.
38. xi. Catarna, b. Bethlehem, May 11, 1808; d. in infancy.
39. xii. Mary, b. Bethlehem, Apr. 20, 1810; m. Amasa Briggs.
10. John' (John', Jonathan*, John', John^, William'), b.
Pepperell, July 7, 1757; d. New Ipswich, Apr. 21, 1816; m. (1)
Dec. 11, 1783, Betsey MHes (3) ; m. (2) Nov. 14, 1799, Sarah
Potter of Rindge [b. about 1760, who survived him and m. (2)
James Sanderson of New Ipswich. She d. Feb. 11, 1851]. He
was a farmer and shoemaker, and in 1783 he settled in the
northwest part of Ashby, but in 1794 he removed to New
Ipswich, buying the farm south of the meeting-house since
known as the "Willard farm," (VII : 3, S. R.,) where he con
tinued to ply both occupations. Children :
40. i. John, b. July 10, 1785.-f-
41. ii. Abel, b. June M, 1788.-H
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43. iv. Betsey, b. Apr. 6, 1792; d. Aug. 26, 1822, unm.
44. V. Lemuel, b. Oct. U, 1793.-f
45. vi. Rebecca, b. July 8, 1796; d. May 4, 1817.
11. David' (David', Jeremiah*, Samuel', John^, WHliam'),
b. PeppereH, Jan. 5, 1765; d. New Ipswich, Mar. 22, 1826; m.
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Dec. 25, 1786, Sybil, dau. of David and Lydia Brown of Ma
son [b. about 1769; d. Lowell, May 13, 1§46]. He was a
mason and farmer in Pepperell, Temple, and Mason. He lived
a few of his later years near Kidder Mountain, on 55, N. D.
Children :
46. i. Charles, b. 1788; d. Woburn, Nov. 18, 1810, unm.
47. ii. Jane, b. 1789; d. New Ipswich, Feb. 22, 1820, unm.
48. iii. Francis, b. Jan. 9, 1794.-\-
49. iv. Shebuel, b. June 12, 1797.-|-
50. V. Daniel, b. June 15, 1801.-f
51. vi. Martha, b. Aug. 13, 1804; m. 1822, Luke Lane of Bedford.
She lived in Lowell for twenty years and afterward in
Springfield, Mass.
52. vii. Brooks, b. Dec. 5, 1805.-f-
53. viii. Charles F., b. Aug. 21, 1810.-|-
12. William* (WHliam', WHliamS Benjamin', WHliamS
WHliam'), b. New Ipswich, Jan. 5, 1774; d. Meriden, N. H.,
Oct. 30, 1847; m. Apr. 10, 1799, Jane, dau. of John and Eliza
beth (Jackman) Stevens [b. Dec. 16, 1776]. He was taken
with his mother and stepfather, Simeon Hildreth, to Bradford,
N. H., when only five years old, and he removed with them to
Meriden in 1830. He was a selectman at Bradford and a dea
con in its church. Children :
54. i. Simeon Hildreth, b. Apr. 9, 1800.-]-
Mary, b. July 13, 1801; d. June 18, 1849, unm.
Dustin, b. Feb. 7, 1803; d. Meriden, Apr. 8, 1833. He was a
grocer in Boston, and afterward in New Bedford, Mass.
William, b. Oct. 16, 1804.-|-
Jane, b. Jan. 24 1807; d. May 13, 1830, unm.
Elizabeth, b. Mar. 3, 1809; m. Feb. 12, 1832, Leonard Stearns,
a scjftheraaker in North Enfield, N. H. Six children.
60. vii. Elvira, b. May 17, 1811; ra. Nov. 20, 1839, Benjarain Wood,
a farmer in Lebanon, N. H. Three children.
61. viii. Maria, b. May 21, 1813; m. Jan., 1845, George W. Stearns,
a farraer and raechanic at Johnson, Vt. Three children.
62. ix. Hannah, b. Feb. 22, 1815; m. Nov. 1, 1841, Cyrus Baldwin, a
graduate from Dartmouth College in 1839, and a teacher
in the academies at Meriden, N. H., and Palmyra, N. Y.,
successively. Six children.
22. Peter' (Peter', William*, Benjamin', WilliamS Wil
liam'), b. New Ipswich, July 15, 1778; d. Apr. 20, 1835; m.
Lunenburg, Mass., Jan. 1, 1803, Ruxbey, dau. of Lemuel and
Mary Whiting [b. Apr. 20, 1782; d. Oct. 23, 1851]. He was a
farmer in Lunenburg, Canaan, N. H., and Bridgewater, Vt.,
successively, and was killed by a falling tree in the last-named
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63. i. Peter, b. Lunenburg, Dec 19, 1804; m. Ruth H., dau. of
Caleb Freeraan of Orford, N. H. He was a leading citizen
of Bridgewater, Vt., and one of the selectmen. Four
children.
64. ii. Roxey, b. Canaan, Oct. 26, 1807; m. Sept. 1, 1835, Cyrus P.
Forbes, a farmer at Lebanon, N. H. Six children.
65. iii. Mary A., b. Canaan, Sept. 24, 1810; ra. Mar. 19, 1833, John,
son of William and Rachel White, a farmer at Lebanon,
N. H. Six children.
66. iv. Lemuel, b. Canaan, Nov. 7, 1815; m. Mar. 8, 1840, Sarah
Ann, dau. of John C. and Harriet Abbot of Hartford, Vt.
[b. Feb. 3, 1819]. He was a teacher at Woodstock, Vt.,
but lived a part of each year at Bridgewater. Two children.
67. V. Lucinda G., b. Jan. 30, 1822; m. Oct. 23, 1849, Charles A.
Martin, a farmer at Lebanon, N. H. One child.
26. Stephen' (Peter', WHliamS Benjamin', WilliamS Wil
liam'), b. New Ipswich, Aug. 27, 1788; m. Jan., 1816, Rachel
Nurse of Littleton, N. H. [b. Aug. 1, 1796]. He was a farmer
at Bethlehem. Children — all born at Bethlehem :
68. i. Abigail S., b. Sept. 8, 1816; ra. Dec. 11, 1842, W. D. Rollins
of Bath, N. H.
69. ii. Persis H., b. Sept. 3, 1818; d. Aug. 18, 1834; m. John Hamlin.
Lived at Milan, N. H. One child.
Peter R., b. June 8, 1820; d. Feb. 25, 1850.
Amanda M., b. Aug. 20, 1822; m. Jan. 17, 1847, Laban Ains
worth of Littleton, N. H.
John N., b. July 2, 1824; d. Aug. 13, 1825.
Francis B., b. Mar. 14, 1827 ; d. Aug. 22, 1828.
Charles C., b. Feb. 6, 1829. He was a farraer at Bethlehem.
75. viii. Susanna H., b. Sept. 1, 1831.
76. ix. Milo F., b. Sept. 11, 1834
77. X. Sabrina H., b. Apr. 14, 1837.
78. xi. William S., b. Feb. 15, 1840.
29. Richard Prentice' (Sherman', William*, Benjamin',
WHliamS WHliam'), b. New Ipswich, Feb. 15, 1791; m. Abi
gaH, dau. of Timothy and Elizabeth (Robb) Farnsworth of
Peterboro [b. Dublin, N. H., Mar. 29, 1793]. He was a farmer
and shoemaker in West Boscawen, N. H. Children :
79. i. Jane White, b. Sept. 15, 1811; ra. (1) Prescott Couch [b.
May 17, 1809, d. Apr. 4, 1837]; (2) Oct. 23, 1838, John
Simpson [b. Apr. 9, 1800]. One child of the first marriage
and two of the second.
80. ii. A son, b. and d. June 30, 1815.
81. iii. Sarah Downing, b. July 11, 1817; m. Oct. 7, 1846, Samuel
Hale, a carpenter and farmer [b. Dec. 9, 1810; d. Apr. 17,
1854]. Two children.
82. iv. Mary Briggs, b. June 25, 1820; ra. Dec. 6, 1842, George J.
Eliot, a farmer. Three children.
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83. V. Timothy Farnsworth, b. Nov. 23, 1822; ra. May 11, 1847,
Permelia C. Sweatt. He was a farmer. Three children.
84. vi. William Eaton, b. Sept. 3, 1824; m. Oct. 1, 1845, Nancy A.
Corser. He was a printer and a stonecutter.
85. vii. Maiah Boyden, b. Apr. 3, 1835.
86. viii. A daughter, b. and d. Apr. 6, 1837.
32. Oliver P.' (Sherman', WilliamS Benjamin', WHliamS
William'), b. Bradford, Feb. 17, 1797; m. 1820, Charlotte
Whittier of Boscawen, N. H. Children :
87. i. Oliver P., b. Feb. 7, 1821 ; m. Feb. 25, 1852, Charlotte S. Shat
tuck (97).
88. ii. Jane, d. May, 1852; m. Whitcomb Nurse.
89. iii. Joanna.
90. iv. Huldah.
91. v. Cyrell.
92. vi. Wesson.
93. vii. Susan.
94 viii. Franklin, d. Feb., 1854.
35. William' (Sherman', WiHiam*, Benjamin', William^,
WiHiam'), b. Jaffrey, Sept. 21, 1803; d. Dalton, May 11, 1840;
m. Sept. 21, 1826, Rebecca, dau. of Josiah and Lydia (Drake)
Page [d. Aug. 31, 1840]. He was a carpenter at Littleton,
Whitefield, and Dalton successively. Children :
95. i. Josiah P., b. Dec. 10, 1827; m. May 28, 1854 Betsey C.
Warner.
Lydia, b. June 26, 1829.
Charlotte S., b. July 22, 1831; ra. Feb. 25, 1852, OHver P.
Shattuck (87).
Richard P., b. Oct. 23, 1833.
Hannah, b. Nov. 14, 1835.
George W., b. Feb. 28, 1839; d. May 6, 1840.
40. JoHN^ (JohnS John', Jonathans John', JohnS Wil
liam'), b. Ashby, July 10, 1785; m. Oct. 14, 1813, Hephzibah
Jones, dau. of Willoughby and Elizabeth (Heywood) Prescott
[b. Sept. 20, 1784; d. Boston, Jan. 17, 1847]. He was a farmer
and stonemason. His youth was spent in Ashby and New
Ipswich, but in early manhood he spent a few years in Con
cord and Lincoln, Mass., and then returned to the home farm,
where his children were born. The later years of his life were
mostly spent in Lowell, Cambridge, Concord, and Marblehead.
Children :
101. i. Marianne, b. Feb. 3, 1815 ; d. East Cambridge, May 28, 1848,
unm.
102. ii. Elizabeth Prescott, b. Sept. 8, 1816; d. Augusta, Ga., Apr.
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103. iii. John, b. May 28, 1818; d. Nov. 4, 1818.
104. iv. John Henry, b. Oct. 24 1819; m. June 13, 1849, Sarah W.
Shattuck (118). He was a merchant in Boston.
105. V. Caleb, b. Sept. 10, 1821; d. Mar. 13, 1825.
41. Abel' (John', John', Jonathan*, John', JohnS Wil
liam') b. Ashby, June 14, 1788; d. June 2, 1842; m. Oct. 22,
1811, Mary, dau. of Stephen Bedlow of Ashby [d. Feb. 6,
1867]. He was a shoemaker. He passed the early years of
manhood in New Ipswich, where all his children except the
youngest were born. He built for his home the house after
ward occupied by Silas Cragin, being the second one from the
meeting-house southward toward the family farm. But in
1826 he removed to Lowell, then hardly more than a small
village, where he was actively interested in establishing prayer
meetings and Sunday schools. Children :
106. i. Mary Eleanor, b. July 23, 1812; m. Oct. 17, 1833, Joseph, son
of Hugh and Elizabeth (Chase) Nahor of Litchfield [b.
June 24, 1807]. Res. in Nashua and Lowell, Mass. He
went to California in 1849. Six children, most of whom
died young. One is living in California.
107. ii. Abel Hervey, b. Oct. 3, 1814; d. Lowell, Aug. 30, 1826.
108. iii. George, b. Nov. 6, 1816; d. May 22, 1818.
109. iv. Harrietts, b. Apr. 29, 1819; m. June 4, 1845, Caleb G., son of
Caleb and Betsey (Clark) Weaver [b. Plymouth, Vt., Sept.
21, 1822]. He was a furniture dealer in Lowell. Child: i.
Caroline Isabel Weaver, b. Apr. 4, 1850; m. Oct. 21, 1886,
Edward Stuart Cragin (60).
110. V. George Waldo, b. May 20, 1821.-f
111. vi. Horace Burbank, b. Mar. 20, 1825.-|-
112. vii. Elmira, b. Oct. 23, 1830; d. Nov. 7, 1906; m. Apr. 19, 1855,
Moses A. Johnson of Lowell, Mass. Children : i. Herbert
S. Johnson; he is a physician in Maiden, Mass. ii. Walter
S. Johnson; treasurer of Essex Trust Co., Lynn, Mass. iii.
Katie E. Johnson, m. Edward Plimpton, iv. Allen Johnson;
professor of History in Bowdoin College.
42. Daniel' (John', John', Jonathans John', JohnS Wil
liam'), b. Ashby, July 10, 1790; d. Aug. 12, 1867; m. Apr. 23,
1816, Sarah, dau. of Abraham and Rebecca (Houghton) Ed
wards of Ashby [d. Aug. 30, 1858]. He prepared for college
at the Academy, but at the age of sixteen plans were changed
and he became a merchant's clerk in Concord, Mass., where in
a very few years he entered into business for himself, and dur
ing his life he was prominent in the financial affairs of the
town. He was president of the bank for a long time. He
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113. i. Charles Henry, b. Mar. 21, 1817; d. Sept. 21, 1837.
114 ii. Sarah Elizabeth, b. Mar. 11, 1818; d. Feb. M, 1844.
115. iii. Henry Livingston, b. Mar. 17, 1823; d. Apr. 4, 1892; m. Nov.
9, 1847, Mary, dau. of Sherman and Mary H. (Worthing
ton) Barrett of Concord. He was a farmer in Concord.
One dau., Kate Elizabeth.
116. iv. Frances Jane, b. Mar. 11, 1829; m. May 15, 1849, Louis A.
Surette, a merchant in Boston.
117. v. Ellen Miles, b. Jan. 6, 1835; m. Mar. 12, 1862, Albert Ed
ward Wood.
44. Lemuel' (JohnS John', Jonathan*, John', JohnS Wil
liam'), b. Ashby, Oct. 14, 1793; d. Boston, Jan. 17, 1859; m.
Dec. 1, 1825, Clarissa, dau. of Daniel and Sarah (White) Bax
ter [b. Boston, Feb. 11, 1793; d. Boston, May 29, 1871]. He
was brought to New Ipswich when a few months old, and this
town was his home until 1815, his farm work being varied by
mechanical employment and the duties of a teacher. He after
ward taught in Detroit, Mich., was for ten years associated
with his brother Daniel in his store at Concord, and after 1834
he was engaged in bookselling and publishing in Boston. He
was a pioneer in Sunday school work ; having taught in a very
early one in New Ipswich, organized what is believed to have
been the first one in Michigan, while he was at Detroit, and
so being called upon as an expert in such matters, he aided in
forming the first one in Concord and was its superintendent
as long as he remained in that town. As a member of the
school committee of Concord he originated the first system of
school records and reports, and as a member of the city council
of Boston and of the Legislature of Massachusetts he accom
plished much in establishing orderly methods. He is best
known, however, as high authority upon statistical, historical,
and genealogical subjects. The publication of his History of
Concord marks an undisputed epoch in local history. He was
a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society and the
American Antiquarian Society, and the meeting for the organi
zation of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society was
held at his house. Children :
118. i. Sarah W., b. July 30, 1827; ra. June 13, 1849, John H. Shat
tuck (104).
119. ii. Rebecca E., b. July 7, 1829; d. Jan. 27, 1851.
120. iii. Clarissa B., b. Aug. 19, 1831; ra. Nov. 1, 1853, Isaac F.
Dobson of Boston. Three children.
121. iv. Miriam S., b. Aug. 4, 1833.
122. V. Frances M., b. Apr. 12, 1835 ; d. June 25, 1860.
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48. Francis' (DavidS DavidS Jeremiah*, Samuel', John^,
WiHiam'), b. Pepperell, Jan. 9, 1794; d. New Ipswich, Apr.
8, 1842; m. Dec. 25, 1817, Polly Heald (16). He was a farmer
and a bricklayer. For some years after his marriage he lived
on the Heald place just east from Whittemore Hill, (12, N.
L. O.,) and afterward in the house at the corner of the Turn
pike and the Starch Factory road, in the house built by Rev.
Mr. Farrar. Children :
123. i. Harriet M., b. Oct. 22, 1818; d. Jan. 17, 1843, unm.
124 ii. Charles F., b. Apr. 13, 1829; d. Aug. 20, 1855, unm.
49. Shebuel' (David', David', Jeremiah*, Samuel', John^,
WHliam'), b. Temple, June 12, 1797; d. New Ipswich, Sept. 19,
1846; m. May 20, 1830, Eliza Knowlton (27). He was a farmer
during the greater part of his life upon the Abijah Smith farm,
(34, N. D.,) and later upon the farm north from the Gibson
schoolhouse, (IV : 4, S. R.,) but between them he lived for
two or three years at Smith Village in the "Felt house," after
ward the home of Joseph Knowlton, during which time he
was associated with his brother-in-law, John Knowlton, in the
ownership of the mills of the village, rebuilt by them after
their destruction by fire. A few of his last years were spent
in Center Village, in the Greenman house on Temple road.
Children :
125. i. Edward H., b. Dec. 6, 1831.-)-
126. ii. Almira Jane, b. Jan. 28, 1833; m. Apr. 23, 1861, John W.,
son of Josiah and Margaret (Whitraars) Crosby of Milford
[b. Oct. 19, 1836; d. Mar. 13, 1898]. He served in the Civil
War in the 5th New Hampshire Regiment, lost his right
arm at Fredericksburg, and was promoted to rank of first
lieutenant. He was postmaster at Milford for twenty-six
years. Children : i. Charles Frederick Crosby, b. Feb. 4,
1862. ii. Ada Eliza Crosby, b. May 17, 1868.
127. iii. John Brown, b. Oct. 21, 1834; d. Aug. 9, 1863, unm. He
served during the Civil War in the 4th New Hampshire
Regiment, and died in service at Morris Island, S. C.
128. iv. Eliza Ellen, b. Dec. 22, 1835; d. June 26, 1901; ra. Sept. 8,
1865, Charles Simonds. Children : i. William H. Simonds,
b. Dec. 10, 1866. ii. John R. Simonds, b. Sept. 9, 1868.
129. V. Harriet Frances, b. Dec. 9, 1837 ; d. Jan. 14, 1838.
130. vi. George W., b. Dec. 18, 1838; m. July 6, 1879, Sara R. Gibson
(25). He was a woodworker in Ayer, Mass. He served
during the Civil War in the 6th New Hampshire Regimen'c.
131. vH. Harrison, b. May IS, 1841.-|-
50. Daniel' (David', David', Jeremiah*, Samuel', John^,
William'), b. Temple, June 15, 1801; m. (1) Boston, May 16,
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1822, Lydia Eliot, dau. of Capt. Ebenezer Woodbury of Salem
[d. Mar., 1842] ; (2)  White of Lexington, Ky. He was
in business in Boston, Lowell, New York, and New Orleans.
Children :
132. i. Frances, d. in infancy.
133. ii. Anson, d. in infancy.
134 iii. Helen Maria, m. James Butters of Haverhill, Mass.
135. iv. Martha Jane, m. William Day of Bradford, Mass.
136. V. Henry, in business with his father in New Orleans.
52. Brooks' (David', David', Jeremiah*, Samuel', JohnS
WHliam'), b. Temple, Dec. 5, 1805; m. (1) Dec. 29, 1825,
Sophia Searls [b. Fitchburg, Feb. 26, 1803; d. Lowell, Apr.
24, 1830]; (2) Nov. 22, 1831, Chloe Abbott, dau. of Capt.
Thomas and Lydia (Abbott) Pevey [b. Oct. 6, 1806; d. Mar.
7, 1838] ; (3) Sept. 6, 1838, Mary Marshall of Lyndeboro [b.
Dec. 12, 1808]. He was a machinist or a factory overseer in
Waltham, Taunton, Lawrence, and New Ipswich for twenty
years and afterward a farmer at Bedford, N. H. Children :
137. i. Charles Brooks, b. Mar. 31, 1827; d. New Ipswich, Apr. 16,
183L
138. ii. George Brooks, b. Sept. 29, 1829.
139. iii. Edward Payson, b. July 24, 1832; d. Dec. 25, 1832.
140. iv. Amos Blanchard, b. June 24, 1834; graduated from Williams
College in 1856; was captain in the llth Regiment N. H.
Vols., and was killed in the battle of Fredericksburg.
141. V. A son, b. Feb. 23, 1838; d. Feb. 24 1838.
142. vi. A daughter, b. Feb. 23, 1838; d. Mar. 7, 1838.
53. Charles F.' (David', David', JeremiahS Samuel',
Johns WiHiam'), b. Temple, Aug. 21, 1810; m. Sarah H. Burn
ham of Rumney, N. H. He was a machinist in Lowell for
some years, afterward was a butcher in New Ipswich, whence
he removed in 1885. Children :
143. i. Horace C, b. Aug. 3, 1834; d. Mar. 19, 1847.
144. ii. Henrietta M., b. May 21, 1836; m. May 23, 1859, Elisha C.
Wheeler. He is eraployed in the U. S. Armory at Spring
field, Mass. One son.
145. iii. Hartley M., b. Sept. 14, 1840; ra. Ellen Sackett of Westford.
He served in the 46th Regiraent Mass. Vols. He is a
commercial traveler.
54. Simeon Hildreth' (WilliamS WilHamS WHliamS
Benjamin', WilliamS WHliam'), b. Apr. 9, 1800; d. Sharon,
Vt., Oct. 4, 1849; m. (1) 1823, Sarah, dau. of Joshua Eaton of
Bradford, N. H. [d. Jan., 1831] ; (2) Oct. 22, 1832, Caroline
A. Richards of Norwich, Vt. Children :
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146. i. William B., b. Apr. 10, 1824; m. May 21, 1850, Elizabeth C.
Richardson of Cincinnati, O. He was a journalist in Cin
cinnati.
147. ii. Joshua E., b. Aug. 8, 1826; d. Washington, Tex., Nov. 7,
1853, unm.
148. iii. Sarah E., b. Mar. 22, 1829; ra. June 7, 1853, Charles D.
Peaselee.
149. iv. Helen Maria, b. Feb. 25, 1836; d. Dec. 26, 1854.
150. V. Simeon Hildreth, b. Apr. 2, 1838.
151. vi. Caroline Augusta, b. July 24, 1840.
152. vii. Levi Richards, b. Oct. 19, 1842; d. May 20, 1845.
153. viii. Adeline Jenette, b. Feb. 12, 1845 ; d. Nov. 16, 1849.
154. ix. Samuel S., b. June 30, 1847; d. Apr. 19, 1848.
155. X. Catherine L., b. June 29, 1849; d. Aug. 26, 1854.
57. William' (William', William', William*, Benjamin',
WHHamS WHliam'), b. Oct. 16, 1804; m. May 5, 1828, Delia
Presby of Bradford, N. H. He lived in Meriden, N. H., until
1850, and after a brief residence in Newport, Vt., he removed
to California. ChHdren :
156. i. David Dustin, b. May 28, 1830.
157. ii. Francis Willard, b. June 11, 1832.
158. iii. John Henry, b. Oct. 28, 1833.
159. iv. Lucy Ann, b. Sept. 1, 1835.
160. V. Martha Jane, b. Mar. 2, 1837.
161. vi. William Harrison, b. Mar. 27, 1840; d. Dec 30, 1846.
162. vii. Charles Curtis, b. Dec. 28, 1842.
163. viii. Rodney Presby, b. Dec. 5, 1844.
164. ix. Harriet Eliza, b. Nov. 12, 1847.
165. X. Milton Harrison, b. Aug. 30, 1849.
166. xi. William Carlos, b. Nov. 30, 1851.
110. George Waldo' (Abel', John', John', Jonathan*,
Johns JohnS WiHiam'), b. May 20, 1821 ; d. California, Jan. 11,
1880; m. Lowell, July 11, 1846, Sarah Jane, dau. of Artemas
and Ann (Bowers) Holden [b. Chelmsford, Dec. 18, 1824; d.
Lowell, June 16, 1892]. He was a teacher at Lowell, after
ward a lumber dealer, held a position in the custom house at
Boston for fifteen years, and then was cashier of the J. C.
Ayer Co. while his health permitted. Children :
167. i. Emma Harriette, b. Mar. 30, 1847; d. Mar. 23, 1905; m. Wil
liam Eliot Barrows, manager of the Welsbach Light Co.
Four children.
168. ii. Jennie Holden, b. May 6, 1851 ; ra. Reginald Canning. Three
children.
169. iii. Mary Annie, b. Sept. 4, 1854.
170. iv. Helen Myra, b. Aug. 2, 1859; m. Arthur M. Parent, manager
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111. Horace B.' (Abel', John', John', Jonathans JohnS
Johns WiHiam'), b. Mar. 20, 1825; d. June 21, 1908; m. Mary
Frances Comins [d. June 14, 1907]. He was a prominent hard
ware dealer in Lowell, Mass., which business he followed for
more than fifty years. He was a deacon and interested in
worthy activities. Children :
171. i. Grace Miles, b. Nov. 21, 1857; d. Aug. 1, 1864.
172. ii. Laura Frances, b. Feb. 15, 1859; d. July 11, 1883.
173. iii. Edward Horace, b. July 2, 1861 ; unm.
174. iv. Bertha Comins, b. May 23, 1864; m. Frederick William Ely,
agent of Columbian Manufacturing Co., Greenville. Chil
dren : i. Joseph Shattuck Ely. ii. Richard Sanford Ely.
175. V. Amy Louise, b. Oct. 10, 1866; d. Nov. 22, 1868.
176. vi. George Burbank, b. Sept. 28, 1869; m. Dec. 16, 1896, Annie
Belle Gibson. He is professor of Geology at Vassar Col
lege. He has received the degree of Ph. D. from Johns
Hopkins University. Children : i. Helen Gibson, ii. Fran
ces Gibson.
125. Edward H.' (Shebuel', DavidS David', JeremiahS
Samuels JohnS WiHiam'), b. Dec. 6, 1831; m. Feb. 6, 1861,
Lizzie A., dau. of William and Mary E. (May) Gassett [b.
Feb. 5, 1842]. He was a cigarmaker in New Ipswich until
about 1868, when he removed to Peterboro. ChHdren :
177. i. Eleonora, b. Dec. 9, 1861.
178. ii. Gertie W., b. Sept. 5, 1864.
179. iii. Bessie A., b. Apr. 25, 1874.
180. iv. Ernest A. (adopted), b. Aug. 27, 1883.
131. Harrison H.' (Shebuel', DavidS David', JeremiahS
Samuels JohnS WHliam'), b. May 15, 1841; m. 1870, Clara
Putnam of Wilton. Children :
181. i. Charles P., b. May 22, 1871; d. Oct. 6, 1872.
182. ii. Arthur H., b. Aug. 6, 1872.
183. iii. Marian I., b. Mar. 17, 1879.
184. iv. George W., b. Apr. 1, 1884.
185. Amos Franklin' (AmosS Zachariah', ZachariahS
WilliamS WHliam', JohnS WHliam'), b. Hollis, July 9, 1832;
d. Nov. 27, 1895; m. June 11, 1883, Mary Caroline Locke (18).
He was son of Amos and Margaret (Ball) Shattuck, but there
being no other New Ipswich members of his branch of the
family his lineage is here given only in the brief form of this
paragraph. He graduated from Amherst College in 1859, from
Union Theological Seminary in 1862, and was pastor for some
years, but after his marriage his home was on the Locke home
stead, which his wife was the last of the family to leave, untH
an attack of melancholia compelled his removal to an asylum.
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SIMONDS.
Samuel' Simonds, m. before 1669, Elizabeth Webster.
Jon.\than= (Samuel'), b. May 8, 1678; d. Apr. 8, 1764; m. Nov. 4,
1707, Sarah Heath, probably dau. of Josiah and Mary (Davis) Heath [b.
June 17, 1685; d. Feb. 10, 1763].
Jonathan' (Jonathan', Samuel'), b. Oct. 11, 1718; ra. June 2, 1742,
Mary Follansbee, probably dau. of WiHiara and Mary (Robinson) Fol-
lansbee [b. July 3, 1724; d. May 24 1764].
Moses' (Jonathan', Jonathan^ Sarauel'), b. May 2, 1764; ra. July 2,
1782, Sarah Follansbee.
1. James' (Moses*, Jonathan', Jonathan^, Samuel'), b. Oct.
7, 1802; d. Oct. 9, 1883; m. Oct. 5, 1829, Flannah, dau. of Ste
phen and Asenath (Shedd) Woods of Groton [b. Oct. 28, 1809 ;
d. May 18, 1888]. His parents died when he was young and
he had his home in Haverhill. He came to Groton in early
manhood, and removed to New Ipswich in 1848, and purchased
the Parker farm, (XIII : 4, S. R.,) upon which he lived until
1856, when he removed to the Adams farm, (31, N. D.,) and
there passed his remaining years. Children :
2. i. Martha Ann Elizabeth, b. June 21, 1830; m. Jan. 6, 1848,
Almon Austin HiH [b. Apr. 27, 1820; d. Mar. 8, 1898]; son
of Daniel Hill. Children : i. Mary Lizzie Hill, b. in Hollis,
Mar. 3, 1851. ii. Nellie Maria Hill. b. in Hollis, Sept. 16,
1856. iii. Ella Mabel Hill, b. in New Ipswich, Aug. 1, 1865.
iv. Willard Simonds Hill, date of birth not known.
3. ii. Mary Emeline Frances, b. July 23, 1834; d. Hollis, Jan. 7,
1911; m. Dec 30, 1852, Charles B. Richardson.
4. iii. James Willard, b. June 11, 1836; d. Oct., 1906; m. June 20,
1871, Lizzie Miller. Served in 6th N. H. Regiment.
5. iv. Josephine Hannah Maria, b. Dec. 1, 1838; m. Dec. 31, 1868,
Williara T. Bucknara (36).
6. V. Abbie Walter Champney, b. Dec. 18, 1844 ; d. ; ra. Sept. 4,
1862, Charles H. Pratt (Joshua 6).
7. vi. Charles Frederic, b. May 4, 1848; d. Aug. 17, 1850.
SMITH (Abijah).
Abijah' Smith, b. 1715 or a little later; d. Jan. 10, 1785; ra. Lydia,
dau. of Rev. John Rogers, rainister at Boxford and at Leominster, Mass.
[b. Aug. 7, 1720]. He lived at Leominster, Mass.
1. Abijah^ (Abijah'), b. Oct. 29, 1740; d. Nov. 13, 1786;
m. 1764, Abigail Wheelock of Leominster [b. 1744; d. Dec. 4,
1815; m. (2) Jan. 9, 1806, David HHls (1)]. He came from
Leominster to New Ipswich at about the time of his marriage,
his name first appearing on the records in 1764, and bought the
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farm previously owned by Benjamin King, (34, N. D.,) now
at the end of the road, and there he passed his life, being a
shoemaker as well as a farmer. He had served in the French
War, which fact tended to give him prominence when the
Revolutionary contest arose, and he served for some months
as a captain. Children :
2. i. Abijah, b. June 27, 1765.-|-
3. ii. Abigail, b. Jan. 5, 1767; d. May 8, 1812; m. Jan. 10, 1792,
Ambrose Arnold of Boston.
4. iii. Cyrus, b. Nov. 20, 1768; d. June 7, 1828; m. Nov. 13, 1794,
Sibbel Whitney.
5. iv. Lydia, b. Mar. 25, 1770; d. Sept. 4, 1785.
6. V. David, b. Sept. 7, 1771 ; d. Gardiner, Me., Aug., 1835 ; m. Jan.
17, 1795, Ruth Eraerson.
7. vi. Sally, b. May 26, 1773; m. Jan. 13, 1799, Levi Farwell, a
farmer of Washington. Children : i. Jofin Farwell, b. Nov.
19, 1800; d. in CaHfornia, May 8, 1883; m. Charlotte  ;
five children, ii. Cynthia Farwell, b. Aug. 9, 1805 ; m. 
Eaton, iii. Levi Farwell, b. June 23, 1807; d. unm. iv.
Sarah Farwell, b. Sept. 28, 1808; ra. Judson Wilkins of
Washington; two children who d. young, v. Abby Farwell,
b. June 28, 1812; ra. George Benjarain of Jaffrey; five
children, vi. Joseph Farwell, b. Jan. 27, 1817; m. Hannah
Warren ; res. in Leominster, Mass. ; engaged in piano man
ufacture; two sons.
8. vii. Elijah, b. Oct. 10, 1774; d. Sept. 23, 1849. He was a hatter at
Troy, N. Y. ChHd: i. George.
9. viii. Rebecca, b. June 14, 1776; ra. William Farwell of Waltham,
Mass.
10. ix. Samuel, b. May 20, 1778.-|-
11. X. Betsey, b. Nov. 5, 1779; d. Sept. 16, 1786.
12. xi. Polly, b. Mar. 6, 1781 ; d. Mar. 27, 1816.
13. xii. Jeremiah, b. Oct. 12, 1782; d. June 10, 1808.
14. xiii. Relief, b. Aug. 3, 1784; d. Oct. 10, 1808.
IS. xiv. Jesse, b. Sept. 30, 1785.-1-
16. XV. Lydia, b. Oct. 30, 1786; d. Oct. 28, 1849; m. Mar. 22, 1807,
John Todd of Temple. Removed to Utica, N. Y., where he
was a cabinetmaker. In later years reraoved to Mobile,
Ala., where their children were Hving. Children : i. John
Todd; he became an influential citizen and mayor of Mobile.
ii. William Todd. iii. Samuel Todd. iv. Martha Todd, m.
her cousin Charles Smith (20). v. Adaline Todd.
17. xvi. Betsey, b. Oct. 30, 1786; m.  Van Bruant, of Troy, N. Y.
2. Abijah' (AbijahS Abijah'), b. June 27, 1765; d. Nov. 9,
1825 ; m. Dec. 29, 1796, Hannah, dau. of Ebenezer and Sarah
(Fay) Jones (7) [b. 1775; d. Oct. 10, 1829]. He succeeded to
his father's business as a shoemaker and lived in the same
house until destroyed by fire. He removed to the Center Vil-
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lage and occupied a house then standing where the street now
passes between the southern end of the burying-ground and
the house near the church since built and occupied by Stedman
Houghton. The street, when first laid out, was farther west
than at present, taking in the land to the row of tombs now
mostly closed. Children :
18. i. Jeremiah, b. Sept. 5, 1797.-|-
19. ii. Jonas, b. Aug. 8, 1799.-|-
20. iii. Charles, b. Sept. 12, 180I.-|-
21. iv. Hannah, b. Apr. 19, 1804; d. July 19, 1806.
22. V. Sally Jones, b. Nov. 9, 1806; d. Feb. 22, 1883; m. Mar. 29,
1824, John Francis, son of George and Nancy (Tarbox)
Verder of Townsend, Mass. [b. Apr. 20, 1800; d. Feb. 28,
1883]. He was a tinsmith in Peterboro, and later for many
years in Jaffrey. Children : i. Sarah Jane Verder, b. Aug.
20, 1825; d. Aug. 9, 1900; m. Apr. 12, 1853, John Brooks
Shedd; res. in Sharon and Jaffrey. ii. John Rowes Verder,
b. Aug. 10, 1827; d. Mar. 30, 1865; ra. Calista Sawyer; he
served during the Civil War in the 21st Connecticut Regi
ment, was captured and confined in Andersonville prison,
and died soon after being exchanged, as a result of his suf
ferings there, iii. Mary Caroline Verder, b. June 7, 1829;
d. Aug. 24, 1889; m. July 17, 1858, Henry R. Stevens, whose
first wife was her cousin Abby M. Smith (38) ; he was a
coal dealer in Boston; two sons. iv. Albert Smith Verder,
b. July 20, 1831; d. Apr. 7, 1906; ra. May 1, 1854 his cousin
Priscilla M. Whitcorab ; he served in the Civil War in the
6th New Harapshire Regiraent, and one year in the Reserve
Corps; he was severely wounded at Antietam; res. at Jaf
frey and later at Vineland, N. J. ; he was a harnessmaker ;
one daughter, v. Myra Jones Verder, b. May 4, 1834; d.
July 29, 1894; ra. Dec 2, 1853, Harvey E. Kidder; res. at
East Jaffrey; seven children, vi. Charles William Verder,
b. July 3, 1838; d. Apr. 7, 1906; ra. May 24, 1863, Mrs.
Elizabeth Sarah (Chadwick) Heald; he was a carpenter at
East Jaffrey; he served during the Civil War in the 14th
New Harapshire Regiraent.
23. vi. Lefy a., b. July 13, 1809; d. July 7, 1841; m. Nov. 17, 1828,
Silas Whitcorab. He was a shoemaker in New Ipswich and
Townsend in succession. Child : i. Priscilla Martha Whit
comb, b. Dec. 2, 1831 ; ra. May 1, 1854, her cousin Albert
Smith Verder.
24. vii. Albert, b. July 20, 1812; d. Mobile, Ala., Sept. 5, 1831.
25. viii. William, b. Apr. 29, 1816; d. Mobile, Ala, Oct. 2, 1843.
26. ix. Edward, b. July 15, 1818; d. New Orleans, La., Feb. 6, 1846.
He had conducted a successful china and glassware business
in Mobile, Ala.
10. Samuel' (AbijahS Abijah'), b. May 20, 1778. He was
a merchant in Philadelphia and in New York city. ChHdren :
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28. i. Adon, b. Mar. 26, 1874; m. (1)  Hunt; (2) Martha
(Todd), his cousin and widow of Charles Smith (20). Res.
New York city.
29. ii. Delia Maria.
30. iii. Jane.
31. iv. Sydney.
32. V. Charlotte.
15. Jesse' (AbijahS Abijah'), b. Sept. 30, 1785; d. Mar. 8,
1852. Res. Gardiner, Me. Children :
33. i. Cyrus.
34. ii. Edwin.
35. iii. Olive.
36. iv. Rachel.
37. V. Charles.
38. vi. Abby, m. Henry R. Stevens, a coal dealer in Boston. Chil
dren : i. Henrietta F. Stevens, b. 1852. ii. Charles E.
Stevens, b. Feb. 14, 1854.
18. Jeremiah* (AbijahS AbijahS Abijah'), b. Sept. 5, 1797;
d. July 4, 1872; m. Apr. 16, 1829, Betsey Spear (20). While
yet a young man he bought the place of Ebenezer Fletcher,
the largest house in Smith Village, situated just north of the
bridge, and made it his home for the rest of his life. For more
than twenty years he had a thriving country store in the same
building. He was a prominent citizen in many respects, as
is evidenced by the village coming to be known by his name,
which is still perpetuated in the postoffice established long
after his death. He was selectman for fifteen years, town
treasurer eighteen years, and representative four years. He
had an interest in military affairs and rose to the rank of
colonel in the militia. Children :
39. i. Jane, b. Oct. 19, 1835 ; d. Feb. 19, 1842.
40. ii. Jane, b. Nov. 18, 1843; d. Feb. 4, 1844.
41. iii. Marcia, b. Jan. 4, 1845; d. Aug. 9, 1845.
19. Jonas* (Abijah', AbijahS Abijah'), b. Aug. 8, 1799; d.
Sept. 15, 1832; m. Apr. 17, 1820, Lucy Bennett [b. Feb. 24,
1795; d. Mar. 3, 1863]. He lived at Troy, N. Y., and later at
Manchester, Vt. Children :
42. i. Daniel Bennett, b. Aug. 17, 1821.-|-
43. ii. Hannah Lowell, b. Sept. 15, 1823; d. 1839.
20. Charles* (Abijah', AbijahS Abijah'), b. Sept. 12, 1801 ;
d. Jan. 19, 1852; m. his cousin Martha Todd, dau. of John and
Lydia (Smith) (16) Todd. He was the first of the family to
remove to the South, whither he went on account of his health.
He entered mercantile business in Mobile, Ala., and amassed
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a considerable property. A few of the last years of his life
were spent at Tampa, Fla. His widow m. (2) her cousin Adon
Smith (28). Children:
44. i. Charles Edward, b. about 1839; unm. He studied in Rens
selaer Polytechnic Institute, and served as an engineer in
the Confederate Army. After the close of the war he
studied law at Columbia College and practiced in Kansas
and in New York city.
45. ii. Helen, b. 1841; m. Theodore F. W. Taylor.
46. iii. Albert, d. young.
47. iv. William, d. young.
48. V. Samuel Todd, b. June 27, 1849; d. May 8, 1850.
42. Daniel Bennett' (JonasS Abijah', Abijah^, Abijah'),
b. Aug. 17, 1821; d. Mar. 9, 1848; m. May 16, 1843, Mary H.
Goodale [b. May 12, 1824]. He was a farmer at Hillsboro.
His widow m. (2) George Jones of Hillsboro. Children :
49. i. Orlena C, b. Mar. 30, 1846; d. Jan. 10, 1875; m. Nov. 8, 1865,
Warren Jones of New York city.
50. ii. Daniel Bennett, b. Apr. 10, 1848; ra. May, 1867, Mary E.
Small. He was a farmer in Concord.
SMITH (John).
John' Smith, b. about 1579, with wife Isabella, lived in Watertown
at an early date, but removed to Lexington, where he d, July 12, 1639,
and his widow d. just three months later.
Thomas^ (John'), believed to be the son of John', b. about 1600; d.
Mar. 10, 1693; ra. Mary, dau. of Williara Knapp. He carae to Araerica
in 1635, and was admitted freeraan in 1637, probably living in Lexington at
that time.
Thomas' (Thomas', John'), b. Aug. 26, 1640; d. at Lexington, Dec.
25, 1727; m. Jan. 19, 1663, Mary, dau. of James Hosmer of Concord
[b. about 1655; d. Oct. 1, 1719]. He removed to Lexington from Wey
mouth in middle life.
Benjamin* (Thomas', Thomas', John'), b. Lexington, Sept. 24, 1689;
d. Dec 9, 1779; ra. (1) July 9, 1713, Martha Comee [d. Nov. 19, 1749];
(2) May 3, 1750, Mrs. Esther Green. He was a leading citizen of Lex
ington and was selectman for twelve years.
Benjamin" (Benjamin^ Thomas', Thomas', John'), b. July 29, 1714;
ra. Nov. 17, 1734, Anna Parker, who survived him and d. at Waltham,
June 10, 1768. His life was passed at Lexington.
Benjamin' (Benjamin", Benjamin", Thomas', Thomas', John'), b.
Mar. 11, 1741; ra. Mary Lee; was the third of his name who was born,
Hved, and died in Lexington.
David' (Benjamin", Benjamin", Benjamin*, Thomas', Thomas', John"),
b. Sept. 29, 1776; m. (1)  Foster; (2) May 7, 1807, Rachel, dau. of
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1. Ira' (David', Benjamin', Benjamin', BenjaminS Thom
asS ThomasS John'), b. Oct. 24, 1813; d. Oct. 3, 1887; m. Dec.
6, 1843, Hannah P., dau. of Francis B. and Hannah (Preston)
Maxwell. He was a farmer and in early manhood came to
New Ipswich and soon settled near the south line, (A. D. 76),
where he lived for more than twenty years, when he removed
to Milford, which was his home for the rest of his life. Chil
dren :
2. i. Frank Ira, b. Apr. 9, 1846.-)-
3. ii. Charles Henry, b. Dec. 26, 1848; ra. Sept. 3, 1866, Jennie,
dau. of Joseph and Mary Tilson of New Ipswich. He is a
janitor in Weyraouth, Mass.
2. Frank Ira^ (Ira', David', Benjamin', Benjamin', Benja
minS Thomas', ThomasS John'), b. Apr. 9, 1846; m. (1) at
Amherst, N. H., Nov. 26, 1869, Esther M. Fuller; (2) Nov. 24,
1884, Martha J. Emerson, dau. of Timothy and Sarah (Foster)
Emerson of Barnstead, N. H. [b. Oct. 1, 1848]. He fitted for
college in New Ipswich Appleton Academy, taught for several
years, then after due study entered into practice as a veter
inary surgeon in Milford, N. H., and removed to Rochester,
N. H., in 1880, where he has since resided. He was chosen
representative from his ward in 1898, and high sheriff of the
county in 1906. Children — all of the first marriage :
4. i. Esther.
5. ii. Frank W.
6. iii. Mary E., ra. Charles Malley of Boston.
SPAULDING.
Edward' Spaulding, d. Feb. 26, 1670; ra. (1) Margaret  [d. Aug.,
1640]; (2) probably in 1642, Rachel  [d. about 1670]. Accompanied
by his wife and two or more children he came to America, probably from
Lincolnshire, England, about 1619, remaining briefly in Virginia, then to
Barbadoes for some years, but settling about 1634 at Braintree, Mass.,
where he was made freeman in 1640. He was one of the early Proprie
tors of Chelmsford, Mass., in 1653, and was upon the first board of
selectraen of that town.
Andrew' (Edward'), b. Nov. 19, 1652; d. May 5, 1713; ra. Aug. 30,
1674, Hannah, dau. of Henry' Jefts of Billerica, Mass. [d. Jan. 21, 1730].
He was his father's youngest son, but received the paternal home by
bequest. He was a deacon.
Andrew' (Andrew', Edward'), b. Mar. 25, 1678; d. Nov. 7, 1753; m.
Feb. 5, 1701, Abigail Warren [d. May 12, 1768]. He passed his Hfe in
his native town, and like his father, he held the office of deacon.
Henry' (Andrew', Edward'), b. Nov. 2, 1680; d. Apr. 4, 1720; m.
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1. Andrew* (Andrew', Andrew^, Edward'), b. Dec. 8, 1701 ;
d. July 1, 1768; m. (1) Hannah  [d. Feb. 11, 1744]; (2)
Nov. 26, 1745, Mehitable Chandler (W. 1), widow of Robert
Crosby. He lived in that part of Chelmsford which was set
off to form Westford. He was one of the Masonian grantees
of New Ipswich, and is said to have had a dwelling-house upon
the southeast corner of XII : 1, S. R., which was one of the
lots assigned him, and he is also said to have owned XI : 3,
S. R., long occupied by his kinsmen. The duration of his res
idence in New Ipswich is uncertain. His name is upon the
list of original members of the church formed in 1760, and it
is found upon the tax-lists from the incorporation of the town
until 1764, but it may have been only as a non-resident land
owner. It seems probable that his advancing years soon left
little vigor for pioneer labors, so that he chose to return to
Westford. His name upon the tax-list cannot be certainly dis
tinguished from that of his son Andrew, who certainly suc
ceeded to his land in due time.
2. James* (Andrew', AndrewS Edward'), b. Oct. 27, 1714;
d. about 1790; m. (1) Anne  [d. May 24, 1770] ; (2) Jan.
15, 1771, Eunice Fassett of Westford [d. Mar., 1812]. He
came from Westford to New Ipswich only about three years
before his death, ancj it is doubtful whether he did not return
to his previous home for many years, even before the close of
that brief period. His place of residence during those years is
uncertain. His wife died in New Ipswich.
Henry* (Henry', Andrew', Edward'), b. Nov. 22, 1704; d. Apr. 29,
1792; m. (1) Feb. 1, 1725, Lucy Proctor [d. June 1, 1742]; (2) Apr. 27,
1743, Marah Adams. He resided in Chelmsford. He served in the relief
expedition to Fort William Henry in 1757.
Thomas* (Henry', Andrew', Edward'), b. July 30, 1707; d. Aug. 13,
1795; m. Mary Adams [b. July 1, 1707; d. Oct., 1788]. He res. in Chelms
ford. 3. Andrew' (Andrew*, Andrew', Andrew^, Edward'), b.
Jan. 6, 1729; m. Mar. 25, 1757, Abigail Martin of Pepperell,
Mass. He came from Westford to New Ipswich, probably at
about the time of his father's death, but appears to have re
mained only a few years before removing to Plainfield. Chil
dren: 6. i. Andrew, b. May 9, 1758.-|-
7. ii. Hannah, b. Mar. 26, 1760; d. about 1807; m. Moses Chase
of Cornish. Removed thence to Waitsfield, Vt.
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Abel, b. Dec 28, 1764.-)-
JoNAS, b. Oct. 23, 1767.+
Abigail, b. May 27, 1770; d. Mar. 9, 1849; m. Dec. 25, 1798,
Jonathan Huggins [d. Sept. 29, 1848]. Res. in Cornish,
except during a few years' residence in Craftsbury, Vt.,
about 1820.
Noah, b. Aug. 27, 1772.-1-
Nathan, b. June 20, 1774; d. June 28, 1778.
4. James' (JamesS Andrew', Andrew^, Edward'), b. Aug.
31, 1748; d. June 6, 1832; m. (1) Sept. 26, 1769, Hannah Bar
ron [b. July 17, 1747; d. Sept. 3, 1814] ; (2) Abigail, widow of
John Wilkins [d. Mar. 3, 1841]. In his early manhood he
settled in Lyme, but according to tradition was so dissatisfied
with his associates that he removed to Ashburnham, Mass.,
and settled upon the elevated range terminating in Watatic
Mountain at so short a distance from the state line that his
social relations were with his New Ipswich neighbors, and his
children were allowed to attend the neighboring New Ipswich
school. He attended church in New Ipswich for sixty-five
years, although he did not live within the town limits until
after his second marriage, when he lived upon his wife's land,
(VII : 3, S. R.) He served in the Revolution at the time of
the Concord alarm, and later in 1777. Children :
14. i. Jonathan, b. Aug. 23, 1770.-]-
James, b. Jan. 17, \772.-\-
Hannah, b. Sept. 26, 1774; d. Aug. 15, 1854; ra. Abel Pres
cott of Groton, Mass. [d. Sept. 18, 1841].
Amy, b. July 29, 1775 ; d. Sept. 10, 1780.
Betsey, b. Aug. 10, 1778; ra. Nathan Jones [d. May 14 1842].
She had earlier gone with her youngest son to Salt Lake,
Utah.
Nathan Barron, b. Apr. 30, 1780.-1-
Mary, b. Nov. 25, 1781; d. May 1, 1854; m. Sept 7, 1805,
Jonas Nutting (1).
Isaac, b. July 8, 1783.-1-
Phineas, b. Jan. 16, 1785; d. Oct. 8, 1800.
Sally, b. July 15, 1787 ; d. about Sept. 1, 1857.
Joseph, b. Aug. 5, 1791.-1-
Samuel" (Henry*, Henry', Andrew', Edward'), b. about Feb. 1,
1726/7; d. Sept. 11, 1797; m. May 3, 1753, Sarah, dau. of Samuel and
Mary (Parker) Woods [b. Mar. 8, 1730; d. Apr. 10, 1815]. He was an
early settler at Merrimack, and was a lieutenant in the Revolution.
Daniel" (Henry*, Henry', Andrew', Edward'), b. June 21, 1746; d.
1805; m. (1) June 8, 1769, Hannah Putnara; (2) Mary Butterfield. He
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Carlisle, Mass., Aug. 28, 1737; m. (1) Aug. 29, 1757, Rachel
Chandler (W. 3) ; (2) Betty Blood of Marlborough, Mass.
He came to New Ipswich about 1760 and settled a little west
from the present site of Smith VHlage, (XI: 3, S. R.,) long
occupied by his descendants. Children :
27. i. Levi, b. Westford, Mass., Nov. 18, 1758.+
28. ii. Rachel, b. 1761.
29. iii. Thomas, b. 1763; m. 1813, Sarah Charapney.
30. iv. Stephen, b. 1766.-1-
31. v. Lydia, b. 1768.
32. vi. Ruth, b. Dec 26, 1769; d. Jan. 17, 1853; m. Zebedee Taylor
(12).
33. vii. Lucy, b. 1772.
34. viii. Haskell, ra. Sally Richardson.
6. Andrew' (Andrew', Andrew*, Andrew', Andrew^, Ed
ward'), b. May 9, 1758; d. Apr. 19, 1846; m. Sept. 1, 1782,
Sarah Jewett [d. Oct. 26, 1841]. He removed to West Wind
sor, Vt., where he cleared a farm upon which he passed his
life. Children :
35. i. Nathan, b. May 15, 1784; d. Mar. 3, 1799.
36. ii. Junius, b. Aug. 29, 1786; d. Apr. 7, 1853; ra. 1808, Elizabeth,
dau. of Eleazer Jordan. He was a Methodist rainister in
Maine, and later settled in Bridgewater, Vt. Nine children.
37. ii. Sally, b. Jan. 12, 1788; d. Sept. 22, 1868; m. June 22, 1820,
Josiah Whitney. Res. Wolcott, Vt.
38. iv. Zebina, b. Jan. 20, 1790; d. Apr. IS, 1810, unm.
39. V. Abial, b. Apr. 5, 1792; d. Apr. 26, 1872; m. (1) Mar. 3, 1814
AbigaH Mack of Woodstock, Vt. [d. Oct. M, 1858]; (2)
Mrs. Martin H. Vaughn. He succeeded to his father's
farm, and there passed his life. Nine children.
40. vi. Sylvia, b. Apr. 6, 1794; m. Jan. 19, 1823, Seth HubbeH. Res.
Wolcott, Vt.
41. vii. Alvah, b. June 21, 1798; d. Sept. 5, 1799.
8. Benjamin' (Andrew', Andrew*, Andrew', Andrew's Ed
ward'), b. New Ipswich, Mar. 24, 1762; d. May 11, 1838; m.
Mar. 18, 1790, Azubah Gates. He removed from Plainfield
to Craftsbury, Vt., about 1805, and there made his home until
death. He was a soldier, doing his part at the time of the
Concord alarm and also in the defense of the Western frontier
in 1780. Children :
42, i. Simeon, b. Feb. 26, 1791; d. Aug. 27, 1866; m. Dec. 3, 1815,
Betsey Chamberlain [d. May 4, 1868]. He removed to
Havana, O., and thence to Roxana, Mich. Seven children.
43. ii. Noah, b. Plainfield, Oct. M, 1792; d. Nov. 3, 1875; ra. Apr.
17, 1817, Phebe PendeH of Saratoga, N. Y. [b. May 6,
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He was a teacher and also a farraer, and in many ways
a prominent citizen. He served in the war of 1812.
44. iii. Laura, b. Oct 28, 1794; m. Nov. 17, 1812, Asher Percival.
Res. at Glover, Vt.
45. iv. Lemira, b. Apr. 8, 1796; d. Mar. 13, 1838; m. Aug. 20, 1816,
Eleazer Record.
46. V. Permelia, b. May 9, 1798; m. Feb. 22, 1817, Frederick Delano.
Res. at Milton, O.
47. vi. Benjamin Delano, b. Jan. 14, 1800; m. June 10, 1830, Judith
Gale Wood [b. Apr. 12, 1810; d. Oct. 30, 1864]. Res. at
South Albany and Glover, Vt. Five children.
48. vii. Delight, b. Nov. 28, 1801; d. Jan. 7, 1864; ra. Dec, 1828,
Henry Babcock.
49. vHi. FiNETTE, b. Jan. 4, 1804; d. Dec. 18, 1815.
50. ix. Lucy, b. Nov. 19, 1S)6; ra. Apr. 17, 1828, Nathaniel Larrabee.
Res. at Craftsbury, Vt.
9. Abel' (Andrew', Andrew*, Andrew', Andrew', Ed
ward'), b. New Ipswich, Dec. 28, 1764; d. June 16, 1845; m.
Hannah Chase [b. Dec. 27, 1769; d. Mar. 8, 1832]. He resided
at Cornish, but as early as 1795 removed to Waitsfield, Vt.,
where he remained more than twenty years, then removing to
Middlebury, Vt., and in 1819 to Norton, O., where he died.
He rendered service in the Revolution. Children :
51, i. Micah, b. June 7, 1791; d. about 1875; m. Apr. 6, 1819,
Wealthy Pratt. He removed about 1830 to Norton, O.,
where he was a teacher of vocal music. Nine children.
52. ii. Prudence, b. July 7, 1792; m. Feb. 25, 1816, Jeremiah Pearson
of Berlin, Vt.
53. iii. Mary Chase, b. May 23, 1795; ra. Feb. 1, 1815, Ebenezer
Baker. Res. Bradley, Mich.
54. iv. Chase, b. Jan. 25, 1798; d. Jan. 8, 1804.
55. V. Martha, b. July 6, 1800 ; d. Jan. 12, 1804.
56. vi. Parnal, b. Nov. 25, 1802; d. Jan. 8, 1810.
57. vii. Chase, b. Apr. 18, 1805; d. Jan. 25, 1810.
58. viii. Martha, b. Sept. 11, 1808; m. Sept. 24, 1829, Matthew Thomp
son. Res. at Elkader, Iowa.
10. Jonas' (Andrew', Andrew*, Andrew', AndrewS Ed
ward'), b. New Ipswich, Oct. 23, 1767; m. Sarah Simonds of
Rutland, Vt. He settled in Cornish, but before 1800 he re
moved to Waitsfield, Vt., and thence about 1830 to Delaware
County, O. ChHdren :
59. i. Franklin, ra. Patience Munson. Res. in Delaware County, O.
60. ii, Ira, b. Apr. 3, 1794; d. 1837; m. Mar. 16, 1820, Matilda EHis
[b. June 20, 1793]. He was a farmer in Delaware County,
Ohio.
61. iii. Abigail, is said to have m. and to have res. in Middlebury, Vt.
62. iv. Lyman, b. 1800; d. Nov., 1886; m. Betsey Farwell. Res.
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64. vi. Stephen, b. Feb. 15, 1803; d. Oct. 25, 1859; m. Olive 
[b. about 1803; d. May 7, 1863]. Res. at Waitsfield, Vt.
Fourteen children.
65. vii. Orinda, b. 1806; d. Sept., 1808.
66. vHi. Polly, b. Feb., 1810; d. Mar. 23, 1810.
67. ix. Martha Almira, b. Sept. 8, 1811; m.  Mathing.
68. X. Mary A., b. Sept. 8, 1811; ra. Calvin Griffith.
12. Noah' (Andrew', AndrewS Andrew', Andrew', Ed
ward'), b. Aug. 27, 1772; d. 1836; m. 1810, Parthenia Root
[d. about 1851]. He graduated from Dartmouth Medical
School in 1800, and soon after removed to Ohio, where he fol
lowed the practice of his profession in Marietta, and later in
Delaware County. Children :
69. i. Rodney, was a banker in Bureau County, 111.
70. ii. Eliza, ra.  Spelman, a lawyer in Hardin County, O.
Helen Mar, m.  Robinson.
Lyman, graduated from Wesleyan University. Delaware, O.,
studied law and removed to the West.
Clare, d. aged seven years.
Hannah, d. aged two years.
There were several other children who died while young.
14. Jonathan' (James', James*, Andrew', Andrew^, Ed
ward'), b. Westford, Mass., Aug. 23, 1770; d. Jan. 3, 1823;
m. 1791, Milly, dau. of Capt. James Bennett of Ashby, Mass. [b.
1772; d. Nov. 2, 1853]. Soon after his marriage he settled in
Lempster, where he remained twenty years clearing his farm,
and teaching the town school each winter during his early years
in the place. He was a prominent man in town affairs, both
civic and military. He returned to Ashburnham in 1812, but
soon was disabled by paralysis. Children :
75. i. Sewall, b. Apr. 18, 1792; d. Apr. 5, 1843; m. 1820, Abigail
Gilman of Underbill, Vt., where he resided. He served in
the War of 1812.
76. ii. Hosea, b. Dec. 27, 1794; d. Oct. 12, 1864; m. Jan. 20, 1820,
Lucy, dau. of John Kidder of Ashby, Mass. He settled in
Jericho, Vt., where he was prominent in business and in
various official positions. He had three sons, two of whom
died unmarried, and the third was a successful banker in
Burlington, Vt.
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78. iv. Alva, b. June 11, 1798; d. Apr. 19, 1856; m. Jan. 28, 1818,
Lydia Taylor. He conducted a large luraber business at
Luzerne, N. Y. He had nine children, most of whom set
tled in New York or Wisconsin.
79. V. Nathan Perley, b. Mar. 27, 1800; d. Jan. 23, 1850; m. Mabel
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80. vi. Emily, b. June M, ,1802 ; m. Feb. 18, 1822, Eber Bartlett of
Jericho, Vt.
81. vii, Amasa Adams, b. May 15, 1806; d. July 23, 1839; ra. Jan. 10,
1833, Isabel L. Hyde. Two daughters.
82. viii. Mary, b. Mar. 1, 1809; m. 1828, L. Woodward of Jericho, Vt.
83. ix. Sophia, b. New Ipswich, Sept. 17, 1814; ra. Harvey Hatch of
Jericho, Vt. Res. at Hadley, N. Y.
15. James' (James', James*, Andrew', AndrewS Edward'),
b. Lyme, Jan. 17, 1772; d. Dec. 10, 1847; m. Jan. 6, 1796,
Sally, dau. of Moses Fairbanks of Dedham, Mass. He set
tled in Lempster near his brother Jonathan. Children :
84 i. Hannah, b. Nov. 27, 1797; ra, 1816, Marshall Rogers. Res.
at Lerapster and Marlboro,
85, ii. Oilman, b. Sept. 9, 1798 ; d. Aug. 28, 1799.
86. iii. Sally, b. Sept. 8, 1800; m. Roderick Way.
87. iv. Betsey, b. Jan. 29, 1802 ; d. Mar. 10, 1807.
88. v. Vesta, b. Jan. 12, 1803; d. July 1, 1867; m. (1) Frederick A,
Blood of Boston [d, Aug. 4, 1840] ; (2) Artemas Wright.
89. vi. Clement, b. Aug. 26, 1804; d. May 7, 1856; ra. (1) Lucinda
StoweH of New Ipswich [d. Apr., 1835] ; (2) Hannah
Youngman. He removed to Wisconsin after his second
marriage. One daughter.
90. vii. James B., b. May 9, 1806; d. Oct. 20, 1836.
91. viii. Phineas Barron, b. Aug. 9, 1807; d. 1849; m. Hannah
Darling, He was a farmer in Goshen, reraoved thence to
Nashua, and in 1849 started on the overland route to Cali
fornia, but was lost near Colorado River, He is supposed
to have been killed by the Indians.
92. ix. Solomon, b. Feb, 7, 1809; ra, Dec, 27, 1839, Mary M. Fletcher,
Two sons,
93, X, Louisa, b. Dec, 10, 1810 ; m, June 4, 1834, Dennis Potter. Res.
Hillsboro.
94. xi. Harriet Eceline, b. Apr. 18, 1812; d. in Acworth; m. 
Tracy.
95. xii. Lorenzo, b. Jan. 1, 1814; m. Mary Ann Sandy of Goshen.
Three daughters.
96. xiii. Sophronia, b. Apr. 25, 1818; ra. June 25, 1840, Nathaniel
Shattuck of Groton, Mass.
97. xiv. Albert, b. Jan. 8, 1821; m. Dec. 6, 1840, Mercy A. Keyes.
Res. Charlestown, Two daughters,
19. Nathan Barron' (James', James*, Andrew', AndrewS
Edward'), b. Ashburnham, Mass., Apr. 30, 1780; d. May 17,
1861; m. (1) Dec. 8, 1807, Sophia Fisk [b. July 5, 1786; d.
Feb. 24, 1844] ; (2) 1844, Mrs. Sophia Hazeltine. He was a
Vermont physician, and practiced in Randolph, Montpelier,
and Hardwick. ChHdren :
98. i. Mary Ann, b. Oct. 3, 1810; d. Sept. 6, 1841.
99. ii. Myra Ann, b. Feb. 1, 1812 ; d. June 25, 1844.
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rill. Res. in Philadelphia.
101. iv. Mary Ann Louisa, b. June 1, 1815; d. Oct. 11, 1844.
102. V. James Monroe, b. Aug. 25, 1818; d. Oct. 29, 1823.
103. vi. George Washington, b. Apr. 6, 1820; d. Aug. 3, 1825.
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105. viii. James Monroe, b. Apr. 14, 1825 ; d. Aug. 28, 1826.
21. Isaac' (James', James*, Andrew', Andrew^, Edward'),
b. Ashburnham, Mass., July 8, 1783; d. Aug. 4, 1871; m. (1)
Apr. 28, 1808, Lydia Brown [b. about 1780; d. Feb. 6, 1836] ;
(2) Apr. 27, 1837, Mrs. Martha Leighton Parker of Westford,
Mass. [d. Nov. 16, 1876]. He passed his Hfe in New Ipswich,
living for nearly fifty years on the road from the Congrega
tional church to Smith Village, in the first house west from
the Newhall house formerly standing at the corner. Children :
106. i. William Safford, b. Mar. 4, l809.-\-
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108. iii. Phineas Brown, b. Oct. 14, 1815.-|-
24. Joseph' (James', James*, Andrew', Andrew-, Ed
ward'), b. Ashburnham, Mass., Aug. 5, 1791; d. St. David's,
N. B., about 1830; m. (1) about 1806, Betsey Hastings; (2)
about 1810, Rebecca Nichols [d. 1856]. He was a brickmaker
in New Brunswick. There were two children of the early
first marriage, both of whom died in early infancy. Children
of the second marriage :
109. i. Joseph Stillman, b. Apr. 30, 1811; d. Mayfield, Cal., 1883; m.
about 1832, Clara A. Chase. He lived in Maine until 1863,
and during his later years in CaHfornia. Eight children.
110. ii. Benjamin, b. Mar. 27, 1814; d. Dec, 1882, unm.
111. iii. William, b. Aug. 27, 1819; d. about 1844, unm.
112. iv. Rebecca Caroline, b. Sept. 11, 1822; d. July 1, 1893; ra.
Tertulla Richardson,
113. V. Stephen, b. Mar. 28, 1824; m. Mar. 4, 1857, Mary O. Berry.
He went to California in 1852 and spent four years as a
rainer. He then returned to the East, and for twenty
years was proprietor of a livery stable and stage route in
Milltown, Me,, and later was a farraer in Alexander, Me,
Two daughters.
114. vi. John, b. 1826; d. 1856. He went to California in 1851, and
died on his return.
25. Isaac' (SamueP, Henry*, Henry', AndrewS Edward'),
b. Merrimack, Aug. 20, 1765; d. June 2, 1830; m. (1) Apr. 9,
1795, Mary Ritter [d. Apr. 27, 1808] ; (2) Nov. 2, 1809, Mrs.
Mary (Flynn) Colburn of Milford. He learned the tanner's
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with Jeremiah Prichard in the old tanyard at the foot of
Meeting-house Hill. But about 1800 he removed to WHton.
Children :
115. i. Isaac, b. Feb. 1, 1796.+
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117. iii. Charles, b. Nov. 4, 1798.-1-
118. iv. Harvey, b. Oct. 8, 1800; d. unra.
119. V. Aaron, b. Dec 28, 1803; d. in infancy.
120. vi. Lyman, b. Dec. 6, 1806; d. Oct. 5, 1854, unm.
121. vii. Mary, b. June 24, 1810; d. Aug. 20, 1848; m. Prescott Kimball
of North Chelmsford, Mass,
122, viii, Emma, b, July 12, 1813; ra, Oct, 5, 1830, David Whiting of
Wilton.
123. ix. Orpah, b. July 5, 1816; ra. (1) Feb. 24, 1839, John Mack [d.
Oct. 27, 1840]; (2) Sept. 5, 1844, SewaH G. Mack her
brother-in-law. Res. Lowell, Mass.
26. Daniel' (Daniel', Henry*, Henry', Andrew^, Edward'),
b. Merrimack, Aug. 18, 1787; d. Jan. 9, 1840; m. Jan. 2, 1812,
Abigail Brown (J. 12). He was a farmer, succeeding to the
farm of his father-in-law, (30, N. D.) He was also a brick
maker. Children :
124. i. Abby Frost, b. Nov. 6, 1812; d. Aug. 19, 1840, unm.
125. ii. Eliza Field, b. Aug. 20, 1814; d. July 26, 1870; m. Jan. 19,
1848, Benjarain Hale of Rindge.
126. iii. Benjamin Daniel, b. Apr. 25, 1815; m. Sept. 13, 1846, Sarah
F. Marston. Res. at Rumney. Three children.
127. iv. Ebenezer Brown, b. Oct. 26, 1817 ; m. Oct. 12, 1845, Samantha
Field. He was a brickmaker at East Somerville, Reading.
and Everett, Mass. Three children.
128. V. Almira Stevens, b. Oct. 30, 1819; m. Apr. 2, 1851, Dr.
Soloraon Blood of HolHs.
129. vi. Samuel, b. Mar. 6, 1821; m. Aug. 27, 1848, Betsey Marston.
Res. at LoweH, Mass. Two children.
130. vii. James Chandler, b. May 31, 1823; d. Nov. 29, 1887; m. Dec
26, 1847, Sarah B. Richardson. Res. at Oshkosh, Wis. Two
children.
131. viii. Mary Ann, b. Apr. 16, 1825; d. Mar. 29, 1847; ra. May IS,
1845, Benjarain Hale of Rindge.
132. ix. Charles, b. Feb. 1, 1827; ra. Sept. 5, 1862, Sarah E. (Holt)
Greenough. Res. at Ruraney. Three children.
133. X. George Putnam, b. Sept. 24, 1828; d. Feb. 8, 1867; m. Jan.
29, 1852, Sarah Whitney. Four children.
134. xi. Sarah Jane, b. Mar. 6, 1830; d. Aug. 19, 1867; ra. Nov. 11,
1852, Edward F. Parker. Res. at Reading, Mass.
27. Levi' (Thomas', ThomasS Henry', AndrewS Ed
ward'), b. Westford, Mass., Nov. 18, 1758; d. Dec. 31, 1822;
m. Aug. 25, 1784, Mrs. Rebecca Robbins [b. about 1766; d.
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May 31, 1821]. He was a farmer at Stoddard, but three years
before his death he removed with his youngest son to Fairfax,
Vt. ChHdren:
135. i. Stephen, b. Aug. 27, 1786.
136. ii. Levi, b. Sept. 15, 1788.
137. Hi. Thomas, b. Sept. 13, 1790.
138. iv. Ami, b. Mar. 3, 1793. Removed to New York state.
139. V. Haskell, b. May 31, 1797.
30. Stephen" (Thomas', Thomas*, Henry', AndrewS Ed
ward'), b. 1766; d. Feb. 27, 1826; m. about 1797, Lucy Farns
worth (16). He succeeded to his father's farm, (XI: 3, S. R.)
Children :
140. i. Isaac, b. about 1798; m. twice. He was a piano raaker at
Saratoga, N. Y.
John, b. about 1800; d. Feb. 8, 1807.
Lucy, b. about 1802; d. Apr. 4, 1817.
Oilman, b. about 1804 ; d. Sept. 19, 1842, unm. He was killed
by his insane brother Charles.
Charles, b. about 1806; d. in insane asylum after 1847, unm.
Sophronia, b. about 1808; m. Dec. 5, 1839, Phineas Carpen
ter of Belvidere, Vt.
146. vii. John, b. 1810; d. Mar. 11, 1811.
147. viii. Henry, b. 1812 ; d. July, 1814.
148. ix. Almira, b. June 19, 1816; d. Aug. 14, 1887; m. Jan. 19, 1847,
Joel B. Hildreth (13).
149. x. Ruth, b. about 1818; d. about 1834.
77. James' (Jonathan', James', James*, Andrew*, Andrew^,
Edward'), b. Lempster, Sept. 11, 1796; d. Aug. 11, 1874; m.
(1) Oct. 14, 1819, Sophia, dau. of John Kidder of Ashby, Mass.
[b. Aug. 21, 1800; d. Feb. 20, 1854] ; (2) Jan. 6, 1859, Caro
line, dau. of Hezekiah and Lucy (Hale) Wetherbee fb. Graf
ton, Vt., July 3, 1807]. He volunteered with his brother
Sewall to meet the requisition for soldiers in 1814, and lost
his hearing from a severe sickness while in service. He passed
the greater part of his life on the Jonas Woolson farm, (IV :
3, S. R.) Despite his deafness he rendered valuable aid in
gathering facts for the town history published in 1852. ChH
dren :
150. i. James Monroe, b. May 19, 1824; d. St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 6,
1854, unm.
151. ii. Harriet, b. Dec 9, 1826; ra. Mar. 16, 1848, Elbridge H.
Amsden.
152. iii. George, b. Dec 16, 1828; d. Jan. 27, 1893; ra. Sept. 17, 1857,
Rosamond (Varney) Nichols. He was a printer in St,
Louis, Mo,, and in Fitchburg, Mass., before the Civil War,
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during which he served in the 9th Massachusetts Regiment.
Afterward he returned to his previous business in San
Francisco, Cal., where he died. Child : i. James Garfield,
b. Sept. 7, 1858; d. 1910; ra. Frances Phelps. Res. San
Francisco, Cal.
153. iv. Henry, b. Feb. 25, 1830; ra. Feb. 26, 1852, Sarah O. Jaquith.
Two children.
154. v. Emily Pingree, b. Aug. 30, 1835; m. Dec. 14, 1854, George
Greenwood. Res. at South Gardner, Mass.
155, vi. Maria Houghton, b. Nov. 7, 1837 ; d. Oct. 24, 1854.
104. George Fisk' (Nathan B.', James', JamesS Andrew',
Andrews Edward'), b. Aug. 4, 1822; m. Oct. 6, 1844, Joanna
M., dau. of Samuel Small of Alton. He was engaged in
journalism, having been connected with the Boston Traveller
for more than forty years, and afterward with the Boston
Globe. Children :
156. i. Mary Ann Louisa, b. July 7, 1845; d. Mar. 14, 1846.
157. ii. Charles Hanson, b. Apr. 4, 1849; m. May 17, 1885, Emma
G. Redding. He was also a journalist in the service of both
of the papers with which his father had been connected.
158. iii, Laura Ann, b, Feb, 19, 1852; m, Dec 10, 1873, Samuel S,
Holton,
159, iv, Clara Ella, b, Oct, 16, 1853; d, Oct, 8, 1854,
160. v. George Albert, b. Feb. 14, 1855 ; m. Sept. 23, 1891. Caroline
Symmes. He has been connected with the Boston Post.
One child.
161. vi. Frank Brigham, b. Dec 28, 1856; m. Dec 1, 1886, Anne L.
Howard. He graduated frora Dartraouth College in 1881.
He becarae proprietor of a teacher's agency in Boston. Two
children.
106. William Safford' (Isaac', James', JamesS Andrew',
Andrews Edward'), b. Mar. 4, 1809; d. July, 1884; m. Dec.
2, 1841, Harriet B. Nettleton of Montpelier,' Vt. He gradu
ated from Marietta College in 1839, and after teaching several
years was ordained as an evangelist. He preached and taught
in various places in Ohio for ten years, and then returned to
the- East. ChHdren :
162. i. William Abiel, b, Oct. 12, 1842; d. Apr. 9, 1845.
163. ii. Harriet Loanda, b. June 6, 1844; ra. Isaac A. Allen.
164. iii. William Abiel, b. Mar. 2, 1846; d. Jan. 10, 1884; m. July 29,
1870, Georgia Davidson. He entered Dartmouth College
but did not coraplete the course of study before entering
Bangor Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in
1870. He was for two years a raissionary in Western
Turkey, and later had pastorates in Maine and Massachu
setts. He had two children, who died in infancy.
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107. Josiah Worcester' (Isaac', James', JamesS Andrew',
Andrews Edward'), b. Nov. 14, 1810; m. Nov. 29, 1832, Eve
line Wright [b. Dunstable, Mass., Sept. 24, 1810] . He resided
in Pepperell, Mass., and removed thence to Ancora, N. J.
Children :
165. i. Caroline Elizabeth, b. Oct. 11, 1833; ra. Feb. 22, 1853, Henry
Wood.
166. H. Ellen Maria, b. Aug. 16, 1835; d. Aug. 16, 1885; ra. June 11,
1861, Josiah T. Wilson of Brighton, Mass.
167. iii. Harriet Annette, b. May 7, 1838; m. Dec, 1855, David B.
Shattuck.
168. iv. Ann Frances, b. Nov., 1839.
169. V. Sarah Brown, b. Jan. 10, 1843.
170. vi. Mary Harriet, b. Jan. 16, 1849.
108. Phineas Brown' (Isaac', James', James*, Andrew',
Andrews Edward'), b. Oct. 14, 1815; d. Beloit, Wis., Nov. 1,
1864; m. Lydia Gould Fisk. He was a furniture dealer in
Boston and removed thence to Byron, 111., and Beloit, Wis.
Children :
171. i. Alfred Foster, b. Sept. 28, 1849; m. Sept. 28, 1874, Stella E.
Perry. Res. Beloit, Wis.
172. ii. Charles Washburn, b. Aug. 12, 1851; ra. Dec. 27, 1876, Jen
nie B. Maxwell; d. Jan. 3, 1896. Res. Chicago, 111.
173. iii. Ann Elizabeth, b. Dec. 25, 1855; m. Ernest E. Evans. Res.
Byron, IH.
115. Isaac' (Isaac', Samuel', Henry*, Henry', Andrew'',
Edward'), b. New Ipswich, Feb. 1, 1796; d. May 14, 1876; m.
May 1, 1828, Lucy, dau. of Nathan Kendall of Amherst [b.
Dec. 13, 1796]. The home of his youth was in Wilton, whither
his parents had removed about 1800, but at the age of seven
teen he went to Amherst and began his mercantile life as a
clerk in a country store. He removed to Nashua in 1826 and
became not only an eminently successful merchant, but for
twenty-five years was deeply interested in railroad matters.
He held many responsible positions in business circles, in
cluding the presidency of the Nashua Bank and of the Concord
Railroad. He was a selectman of the town, and later an al
derman of the city, and he represented Nashua in the Legisla
ture and Constitutional Convention. He also had a seat in
the Governor's Council. He accumulated an estate approach
ing one million dollars, and at the time of his death was said
to be the most wealthy man in the state. The benevolent
bequests in his will exceeded $50,(X)0, including school funds
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of $10,000 each to New Ipswich, WHton, and Amherst, the
three towns of his residence before establishing himself in
Nashua, and he also remembered the Academy of New Ips
wich with a gift of $5,000. Children :
174. i. Edward Francis, b. May 5, 1831 ; d. Aug. 30, 1837.
175. ii. Isaac Henry, b. Mar. 13, 1840; d. Aug. 30, 1844.
116. Moses' (Isaac', Samuel', Henry*, Henry', AndrewS
Edward'), b. New Ipswich, Mar. 10, 1797; d. 1879; m. May
29, 1823, Anna Hunt, dau. of John Kimball of Wilton [b. Aug.
4, 1800; d. May 16, 1864]. He was a tanner, living upon the
paternal home in Wilton. ChHdren:
176. i. Edward Henry, b. Mar. 12, 1825.-1-
177. ii. Isaac Kimball, b. July 21, 1826.
178. iii. Wh-liam Ritter, b. Apr. 8, 1828.-|-
179. iv. John Augustine, b. May 29, 1837.-1-
117. Charles' (Isaac', Samuel', Henr)^, Henry', AndrewS
Edward'), b. Nov. 4, 1798; d. Feb. 15, 1880; m. Dec. 25, 1827,
Lydia J., dau. of Samuel Burns of Milford [b. Jan. 13, 1806;
d. Mar. 23, 1861]. He was a trader in Wilton. Children:
180. i. Harriet Burns, b. Feb. 18, 1829; d. Feb. 8, 1887; ra. Nov. 27,
1856, Corydon D. Keyes of Hancock [d. Apr., 1863, in the
army].
181. ii. Abby Frances, b. Aug. 28, 1834; m. Nov. 27, 1856, Charles
H. White. Res. in Wilton. Four children.
182. iii. Elias Herrick, b. July 5, 1836; d. Feb. 2, 1889, unra.
183. iv. Charles Carroll, b. May 4, 1838; m. May 7, 1868, Emma
C. Parkhurst of Wilton. He served during the Civil War
in the 45th Massachusetts Regiment. Two children.
184. V. Lucy Kimball, b. Mar. 12, 1840; m. Mar. 21, 1860, Gardner
Blanchard. Res. at Wilton.
185. vi. Mary Ritter, b. Jan. 3, 1842; m. Feb. 1, 1866, Asa Blanchard
of Lyndeboro. Three children.
176. Edward Henry' (Moses', Isaac', Samuel', Henrj^,
HenryS AndrewS Edward'), b. Mar. 12, 1825; m. (1) Apr.
5, 1849, Lucy Ann Fletcher [b. Nov. 11, 1826; d. Feb. 13,
1859] ; (2) Aug. 20, 1860, Anna Holt of Lyndeboro [b. about
1838 ; d. Dec. 2, 1860] ; (3) Dec. 6, 1861, Harriet S. Holmes of
Londonderry [b. about 1838; d. May 22, 1866]; (4) Jan. 27,
1873, Judith C. Walker of Fryeburg, Me. [b. July 29, 1834; d.
Sept. 28, 1895]. Res. in Nashua, where he was engaged in
banking and railroad interests. After retiring from such ac
tivities he was occupied in collecting New Hampshire histori'
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191.

vi.

George Edward, b. Mar. 26, 1850; d. Nov. 30, 1860.
Lucy Ann, b. Dec. 7, 1851 ; d. Dec 8, 1860.
Henry Moses, b. May 15, 1854; m. Mrs. Eleanor (Lindsay)
Keller.
Waldo Ritter, b. Dec. 12, 1856; d. Dec. 4, 1860.
Isaac, b. Feb. 3, 1859; d. Dec. 22, 1860.
Elizabeth Combs, b. Dec. 12, 1862; m. Sept. 28, 1887, Charles
R. Buddy. Res. at Dallas, Tex.
192. vii. Harriet Ritter, b. Mar. 26, 1866.
178. William Ritter' (Moses', Isaac', Samuel', HenryS
Henry', AndrewS Edward'), b. Apr. 8, 1828; d. Dec. 29, 1891;
m. Aug. 1, 1850, Mary A. Ham [b. Rochester, Aug. 4, 1831].
He was a merchant in Lawrence, Mass., and also treasurer of
the Lawrence Savings Bank, director of the Pemberton Bank,
and director of the Concord Railroad. ChHdren :
193. i. William Ritter, b. Dec. 29, 1853; ra. Nov. 13, 1878, Etta
L. Leach. Three children.
194. ii. Anna Elizabeth, b. Oct. 8, 1856; m. May 28, 1887, Dr. E. F.
McQuesten of Nashua. Three children,
195. iii. Abbie Kimball, b. Sept. 14, 1858; d. Dec. 14, 1888; m. June
11, 1885, Elmer W. Eaton of Nashua.
196. iv. Mary Ritter, b. May 13, 1861.
197. V. Charles Edward, b. Mar. 8, 1863; m. Mar. 15, 1888, Ida L.
Dawson.
198. vi. Josephine Mabel, b. Aug. 31, 1872.
179. John Augustine' (Moses', Isaac', SamuelS HenryS
HenryS AndrewS Edward'), b. May 29, 1837; m. (1) Oct. 13,
1859, Josephine E. Eastman; (2) Nov. 24, 1878, Anna M.
Learned. Res. in Nashua, where he was a trader and after
ward a banker, and also a leading citizen in public life, holding
the offices of mayor, representative, senator, and Presidential
elector. Children :
199. i. William Edward, b. Dec. 30, 1860; m. May 29, 1889, Forest
Dexter. He is a bank. cashier in Nashua. Two children.
200. ii. Harry Eastman, b. June 11, 1862; d. Sept. 6, 1862.
SPEAR.
1. William' Spear, b. about 1727; d. 1805; m. (1) Mar
garet Boyd, probably dau. of Samuel and Margaret Boyd [b.
Topsfield, Mass., Aug. 22, 1725] ; (2) Letti  . He came
to New Ipswich about 1762, and settled less than a quarter-
mile south from the spot later to be occupied by the "Pepper
mint tavern," (61, N. D.) The road past his dwelling from
the home of Ephraim Adams, built at about the same time on
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the extreme southern end of the same lot, has long disap
peared. Children :
2. i. Samuel, b. May 14, 1755.4-
3. ii. William, b. Dec 11, 1759; d. 1787.
4. iii. Margaret, b. June 25, 1762; m.  Blodgett.
5. iv. Hannah, b. Dec. 29, 1765; m. Nov. 26, 1789, Ephraim Hall.
6. V. Lydia, b. Apr. 25, 1768 ; m. June 2, 1795. Richard Pratt.
7. vi. Mary, b. Nov. 1, 1770; m. Nov. 27, 1788, Joel Hildreth.
8. vii. Joseph, b. Oct. 2, 1775.-1-
2. Samuel^ (William'), b. May 14, 1755; d. Cavendish, Vt.,
Mar. 10, 1813; m. Lydia Walker [b. Sept., 1763]. He was
the only child of the first wife, who died when he was an
infant, and from an early age until after the Revolution his
home was with her relatives at Londonderry. He enlisted in
1776, and a second time afterward; his entire mHitary service
apparently covered nearly three years. He made his home
in New Ipswich from 1780 to 1790, but the location of his
abode is uncertain. He died at Cavendish, Vt. Children :
9. i. Lydia, b. Oct. 15, 1783; d. Nov. 5, 1783.
10. ii. Dorothy, b. May 29, 1785.
11. iii. Samuel Boyd, b. Mar. 26, 1787.
12. iv. Selene, b. and d. 1789.
13. V. Eben, b. Sept. 27, 1790; d. 1791.
14. vi. Eben, b. and d. 1792.
15. vii. Alva, b. 1793; m. Sarah W. Bullard.
16. viii. Sally, b. and d. 1796.
17. ix. Charlotte, b. 1797.
18. X. Eben, b. 1799.
19. xi. Otis, b. 1802.
8. Joseph^ (WHliam'), b. Oct. 2, 1775; d. Aug. 14, 1818;
m. June 21, 1801, Elizabeth Adams (29). He succeeded to
the paternal farm. ChHdren :
20. i. Betsey, b. Apr. 22, 1802; d. May 6, 1885; m. Apr. 16, 1829,
Jereraiah Smith (A. 18).
21. ii. Lyman, b. Jan. 30, 1804.-1-
22. iii. Lucinda, b. Mar. 6, 1806; d. May 7, 1891; m. July 2, 1829,
Ebenezer P. Edwards (1).
23. iv. Joseph A., b. Feb. 6, 1808.-]-
21. Lyman' (Josephs William'), b. Jan. 30, 1804; d. July
30, 1874; m. Apr. 22, 1830, Almerine, dau. of Joel and Olive
Kingsbury of Keene [b. about Sept., 1808; d. Apr. 6, 1869].
His home after his marriage was the dwelling-house now
standing at the foot of the Meeting-house Hill, on the north
ern side of the short street leading westward to the buildings
long used as a slaughter-house. ChHdren :
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24 i. Joseph Thurston, b. Sept. 14 1833; d. Aug. 23, 1872; m. (1)
Dec. 25, 1861, Melissa Phelps Clark of Russell, Mass. [d.
about 1885; m. (2) Walter Burns of Boston]. He served
in the Civil War, first for nine months as lieutenant in the
46th Massachusetts Regiment, and later for a hundred days
holding the same rank.
25. ii. Emily Pierce, b. Mar. 29, 1837; d. Nov. 20, 1907; m. Apr.
25, 1877, Horace Atwell of Grafton [d. May, 1888]. One
child who died in infancy.
26. iii. Mary Kingsbury, b. Nov. 17, 1839; ra. Jan. 6, 1861, Henry
P. Wells of Bristol [b. July 24 1837]. He was a farmer in
South Wentworth for more than forty years, and removed
thence to West Rumney in 1908. Children: i. Mary Etta
Wells, b. Jan. 26, 1863; m. Nov. 20, 1882, Joshua Colburn of
Wentworth; four children, ii. Amy Estelle Wells, b. Sept.
16, 1865 ; m. Dec. 20, 1888, Albert Duncklee of Groton ; four
children, iii. Fred Stephen Wells, b. Oct. 6, 1869; m. Nov.
3, 1897, Myrtie Ena Hills of Boynton, P. Q.; two children.
iv. Lettie Grace Wells, b. Dec 2, 1874; m. Aug. \4, 1894
Job Colburn of Wentworth; three children, v. Alice Al
merine Wells, b. June 22, 1878; m. Dec, 1903, Eugene
Cyrus Downing of Wentworth; two children.
27. iv. Henry Adams, b. Oct. 1, 1849.-1-
23. Joseph A.' (Josephs William'), b. Feb. 6, 1808; d.
Jan. 11, 1848; m. Emily Pierce of Temple [b. about 1811; d.
Mar. 30, 1837]. His brief married life was passed in Center
VHlage. Children :
28. i. Joseph Augustine, b. about 1836. Soldier in Civil War in
Co. D, 8th Regt. N. H. Vol.
29. ii. Edward Henry, b. Mar., 1837.
27. Henry Adams* (Lyman', Joseph^, William'), b. Oct.
1, 1849; d. Feb. 25, 1906; m. (1) Jan. 3, 1871, Susan Eliza
BaHey of Wiscasset, Me. [d. about 1895] ; (2) July, 1897, Mrs.
Emma J. (Wood) Curless. He was a locomotive engineer on
the Fitchburg Railroad for twenty-three years, and during his
later years of labor a stationary engineer. Res. Greenville,
Ayer, Mass., Charlestown, Mass., and finally Everett, Mass.
ChHdren :
30. i. Maude, b. Oct. 25, 1873; d. June'6, 1888.
31. ii. George Henry, b. Feb. 10, 1876; ra. Janet Neil. Res. Maiden,
Mass. Three children.
32. iii. Joseph Bailey, b. Jan. 21, 1881 ; m. Leta Burden. Res. Mai
den, Mass.
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START.
William' Start, d. Nov. 26, 1754; m. (1) Oct. 14, 1717, Mercy Figg
[d. July 8, 1725] ; (2) Feb., 1726, Deborah Loud [d. Jan. 24 1758]. He
was a mariner residing at Ipswich, Mass.
1. George^ (WHliam'), b. Aug. 24, 1718; d. about 1783;
m. May 15, 1744, Sarah, dau. of Capt. John Wilds of Tops-
field, Mass. He was a tailor at Boxford, Mass., but removed
to Topsfield in 1750 and came to New Ipswich about 1763,
settling upon 18, N. D., probably. The length of his residence
in New Ipswich is uncertain, as the identity of his name and
that of one of his sons makes the evidence of town records
indefinite, but apparently he removed to Temple before 1775,
and was selectman there in 1776. ChHdren :
2. i. Sarah, b. July 4, 1745; d. July 1, 1784; m. Daniel Stratton (1).
3. ii. William, b. Mar. 24 1747.-]-
4. iii. George, b. Dec. 16, 1748.-|-
5. iv. John, b. Feb. 12, 1751.-1-
3. William' (GeorgeS William'), b. Mar. 24, 1747; d. Feb.
11, 1781; m. Keziah Bullard (4). He came to New Ipswich
at about the same time as his father, and occupied 26, N. D.,
till his death. He responded to the Concord alarm in 1775,
and was a sergeant in the company of Capt. Briant in 1777.
Children :
6. i. Sarah, b. Aug. 28, 1769; d. 1784.
7. ii. William, b. Mar. 29, 1771 ; d. Aug. 17, 1789.
8. iii. Lucy, b. Aug. 4, 1773; d. July 23, 1780.
9. iv. George, b. Feb. 5, 1776; d. Dec 11, 1842; m. Dec. 23, 1802,
Susan Wood of Pepperell, Mass. He removed to Camden,
Me. Twelve children.
10. V. Mary, b. Mar. 28, 1778; d. Sept. 20, 1851; m. (1) Apr. 19,
1798, Stephen Prichard (11); (2) Jonah Howe, with whom
she removed to Camden, Me. Eleven children.
11. vi. Ebenezer, b. Sept. 29, 1780; d. Feb. 22, 1846; m. Nov. 20,
1802, Betsey Mansfield [d. Nov. 7, 1844]. Removed to
Camden, Me., where he was a farmer. He was a deacon.
Eight children.
4. George' (GeorgeS William'), b. Dec. 16, 1748; d. about
1824; m. Mary Tucker (11). He was a farmler upon 35, N. D.,
during the greater part of his life, but a few years after 1800
he removed to Bakersfield, Vt., and some years later to Ly
sander, N. Y., where he died. Children:
12. i. Moses, b. 1770; d. about 1854; m. Jan. 1, 1795, Peggy Gould
of Temple. Removed about 1802 to Bakersfield, Vt. Nine
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13. ii. Mary, b. May 1, 1771; d. Sept. 23, 1834; m. July 21, 1796,
Robert Nicholas. Nine children.
14. iii. Sarah, b. 1775; d. Dec 24 1873; m. Nov. 11, 1802, Peter
Powers of Temple, in which town she lived until about
1818, when they reraoved to Bakersfield, Vt., where she died.
15. iv. Amos, b. 1777; d. in War of 1812.
16. V. Lucy, d. in infancy.
17. vi. Relief, b. May 1, 1783; d. 1844; m. Samuel P. HuH of Fair
field, Vt. Five children.
18. vii. William, b. Oct. 1, 1785; ra. Anne Spaulding. Removed to
Vermont, where they lived at Bakersfield, Fairfield, and
Sheldon, in which last town she died. Four or more chil
dren.
19. viii. George, b. Feb. 25, 1787; d. Oct., 1853, at Lysander, N. Y.,
where he had lived. Three children.
20. ix. John, b. Mar. 8, 1790; d. 1861; m. 1812, Martha Taggard. He
was a blacksmith in Baldwinsville, N. Y., and in Burr Oak,
Mich., in which last place he died. Six children.
21. X. Isaiah, b. Aug. 19, 1792; d. 1872; m. 1831, Sarah Ervine. He
was a farmer in Baldwinsville, N. Y.
5. John' (GeorgeS WHliam'), b. Feb. 12, 1751; m. about
1778, Jane, dau. of Daniel Emery of Jaffrey [d. before 1824]. He
remained in New Ipswich but a short time after reaching
manhood, but removed to Temple and there passed his life,
serving, however, during the Revolution with his earlier
friends in the companies of Capts. Towne and Briant. Chil
dren: 22. i. John, b. 1779; d. Aug. 1, 1850. Res. Norfolk, N. Y. Six
children.
23. ii. Wn,LiAM, b. 1782; d. Waterford, N. Y., 1837; m. about 1808
Elizabeth Stratton (13). He removed frora Temple to
Londonderry in 1830. Ten children.
24. iii. Sally, b. 1784; d. 1841; m. Oliver Shattuck. Nine children.
25. iv. Noah, b. 1785; d. 1860; m. (1) 1814 Sarah Jaquith; (2) 1830,
Clara Barker. Seven children.
26. V. Lucy, b. 1788; d. Jericho, Vt., 1831; m. 1810, Nathan Hale.
Seven children.
27. vi. Daniel S., b. 1793; d. Feb. 25, 1855; m. Troy, N. Y., Jan. 7,
1824, Lucy Buss [d. 1872]. He was a farmer and merchant
at Troy and Brunswick, N. Y., in which last town he and
his wife died. Three children.
28. vii. George, b. 1795 ; d. about 1803.
29. viii. Elizabeth, b. 1798; m. 1819, Prentice Farnsworth. Three
children.
STEARNS.
Members of two families bearing this name have been residents in
New Ipswich, and the relationship between these famHies is not known.
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Isaac, the founder of one family, raade a bequest of ten pounds to "my
kinsman, Charles Stearns," the founder of the other New Ipswich family.
The "three brothers" tradition is familiar in these families, their names
being given as Isaac, Daniel, and Shubael, the Charles above named and
Nathaniel (the head of a third family) being considered sons of Shubael.
But this is uncertain, and the two New Ipswich families are considered
separately.
STEARNS (Isaac).
Isaac' Stearns, birth not known; d. June 19, 1671; ra. 1622, Mary,
dau. of John and Margaret Barker of Stoke, Nayland, Suffolk, England
[d. Apr. 2, 1677]. He carae to Salera, Mass., in company with Gov.
Winthrop and many others, in 1630, and soon settled in Watertown, where
he was one of the first settlers and was admitted freeman in 1631. He
was selectman for several years.
JoHN^ (Isaac'), b. perhaps in England, 1623, and perhaps in Water-
town, 1631; d. Mar. 5, 1668; m. (1) 1653, Sarah, dau. of Isaac and
Sarah Mixer of Watertown [d. June 14, 1656] ; (2) Dec 20, 1656, Mary,
dau. of Thomas and Mary (Learned) Lothrop of Barnstable, Mass. [b.
Oct. 4, 1640; ra. (2) Capt. William French of Billerica]. He was one of
the first settlers at Billerica.
John' (John^ Isaac'), b. Billerica, May, 1654; d. Oct. 26, 1728; m.
(1) Sept. 6, 1676, Elizabeth, dau. of John and Mary (Warren) Bigelow
[b. June 1, 1657; d. Apr. 19, 1694]; (2) Apr. 22, 1696, Joanna, widow of
Jacob Parker and dau. of Thoraas, Jr., and Joanna (Shepherdson) Call
[d. Dec. 4 1737].
John* (John', John', Isaac'), b. Billerica, Nov. 16, 1686; d. Aug. 2,
1776; m. 1715, Esther, dau. of Capt. Edward Johnson of Woburn, Mass.
[d. Apr. 13, 1786].
Isaac" (John*, John', John', Isaac'), b. June 16, 1722; d. Apr. 23, 1808;
m. Feb. 11, 1748, Sarah, dau. of Obed and Elizabeth Abbot of Bedford,
Mass. [b. Apr. 22, 1729; d. Jan. 9, 1815]. He was a highly respected
citizen of Billerica, served as a soldier in the French war, and was elected
to the Legislature as representative and as senator, and was otherwise
prominent in church, town, and colonial matters. His son was father of
Onslow Stearns, governor of New Hampshire 1869-70.
Isaac" (Isaac", John*, John', John", Isaac'), b. June 13, 1750; d. Apr.
29, 1807; ra. Dec. 18, 1777, Mary, dau. of Jessaniah' (William*, Joseph',
Simon', Simon') and Mary (Hosley) Crosby of Billerica [b. May 16,
1754; d. Oct. 24, 1839]. He removed to Ashburnham in 1778 and there
made his home until his death. He was a Revolutionary soldier, respond
ing to the Concord alarm and having a part in the siege of Boston, the
battle of Bunker Hill, and the capture of Ticonderoga accomplished under
Ethan Allen. Children:
1. i. Betsey, b. Aug. 31, 1778; d. New Ipswich, Nov. 6, 1854, unm.
2. ii. Isaac, b. Mar. 12, 1780; d. June 16, 1781.
3. iii. Isaac, b. Oct. 28, 1781.-1-
4. iv. Mary, b. Feb. 19, 1783; m. Apr. 29, 1805, Job Davis (J. 1).
5. V. Jesse, b. Aug. 29, 1784.-1-
6. vi. Sarah, b. Feb. 4, 1786; m. Dec, 1846, Job Davis (J. 1).
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7. vii. Martha, b. Oct. 19, 1787; m. Apr. 8, 1818, Capt. Sewall Fiske
of Weston, Mass., son of Nathan and Mary (Stearns)
Fiske, and grandson of Isaac' and Sarah (Abbot) Stearns.
8. viii. Orpah, b. May 19, 1789; d. Mar. 9, 1866; m. 1827, Joel Davis
(24).
9. ix. John, b. Mar. 11, 1791; d. Sept. 10, 1824, unm.
10. X. Abigail, b. Jan. 31, 1793; d. Apr. W, 1853; m. June 5, 1818,
Chauncey Perry (1).
11. xi. Alice, b. July 11, 1796; d. May 24 1822.
3. Isaac' (Isaac', IsaacS John*, John', John^, Isaac'), b.
Oct. 28, 1781; d. Dec. 30, 1863; m*. Nov. 7, 1822, Belinda, dau.
of Stephen and Sarah Bedlow. He lived in Rindge for fifteen
years after his marriage and then removed to New Ipswich,
which was the home of his remaining years. He lived upon
76, A. D. ChHdren :
12. i. Sarah, b. Sept. 27, 1823; d. Feb. 12, 1824.
13. ii. Isaac, b. Sept. 24, 1825 ; m. Oct. 21, 1852, Elizabeth C. Duryea.
He was principal of public schools at Hempstead, N. Y.,
for many years, retiring from teaching in 1895 and making
his home in New York city. Three children.
14. iii. Sarah Whitney, b. Dec 24, 1827; d. Aug. 7, 1874, unm.
15. iv. Albert, b. Dec. 20, 1833.-1-
5. Jesse' (IsaacS Isaac', John*, John', John'', Isaac'), b.
Aug. 29, 1784; d. Nov. 18, 1866; m. June 6, 1811, Lucinda
Davis (26) . He was a successful school teacher for more than
twenty years, thus coming to be usually designated as "Master
Jesse." He was acquainted with the methods of the land
surveyor of early days, when the entire professional outfit
consisted merely of a compass and chain, a pair of dividers
and a Gunter's scale, and performed such service of that kind
as the region required. For a long period he was a farmer
upon lot 7, N. L. O., upon which he built a barn in which
he took great satisfaction as being the largest barn in the
town, that of his neighbor, Dr. Stillman Gibson, which had
previously held that honor, but has since been destroyed by
lire, being just one hundred feet in length, which measure
ment the new structure exceeded by five feet. He passed the
later years of his life in the house on the road to Smith VH
lage situated opposite the site of the First Baptist church,
since occupied as a summer home by his grandson, John W.
Cummings. Two of his four sons entered the ministerial pro
fession, and three daughters married ministers, two of them
serving in the foreign missionary field. Children :
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16. i. Jesse George Davis, b. Feb. 24, 1812; d. Nov. 1, 1882; m.
June 27, 1843, Lucy Murdock of Rutland, Mass. He grad
uated from Amherst College in 1836, was a tutor in that
college for a brief period, and then entered the Andover
Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1842,
and entered upon a pastoral service of thirty-three years,
included in two pastorates, one of twenty-four years at
Billerica, Mass., and the other of nine years at Clearwater,
Minn. He had official oversight of the schools of Billerica
for a considerable tirae and was also chosen to represent
the town in the Legislature. The closing years of his life
were passed in Zumbrota, Minn.
17. ii. . Eveline Lucinda, b. Feb. 16, 1814; d. Mar. 27, 1850; m. Nov.
14 1835, Rev. Samuel S. Tappan [b. 1809; d. 1890]. Two
children.
18. iii. Josiah Milton, b. June 17, I8I81-I-
19. iv. Isaac Crosby, b. Feb. 28, 1820.-1-
20. V. Abigail Mary, b. July 24, 1822 ; d. Nov. 16, 1895 ; ra. Oct. 28,
1847, Rev. Seneca Cummings. She was educated at Mt.
Holyoke Serainary and was then a teacher until her raar
riage, after which she was in the missionary service in
China for eight years. Her feeble health compelled her
return to America and, her husband dying soon after, she
passed her remaining years an invalid in New Ipswich.
Three children.
21. vi. Lucy Estabrook, b. Apr. 16, 1826; d. July 10, 1883; m. Sept.
6, 1852, Rev. Charles Hartwell. She graduated from Mt.
Holyoke Seminary in 1849, and her life after marriage was
spent in missionary service at Foochow, China, where she
died. Seven children.
22. vii. John NeWton, b. May 24 1829.-1-
15. Albert" (Isaac', Isaac', IsaacS JohnS John', JohnS
Isaac'), b. Dec. 20, 1833; d. Apr. 21, 1914; m. June 3, 1858,
Martha Louisa Snow. He served upon the police force of
Brooklyn, N. Y., from 1854 to 1870, excepting nearly three
years' army service in the Civil War. Afterwards resided in
Syracuse, N. Y., engaged as superintendent of chemical works.
While upon the police force he was promoted to the position
of captain; and entering military service as captain in the
131st New York Regiment, he rose to the rank of major,
and also did good service as provost marshal and judge in
Louisiana. His loyalty to the home of his youth is shown
by his gift of the sum of $5000, to be held for the support of
an annual course of free lectures. Children :
23. i. Martha Cordelia, b. May 24, 1859; d. Dec. 28, 1863.
24. ii. Flora Elizabeth, b. Aug. 20, 1861; m. Oct. 9, 1888, David
C. Holton, M. D., of Brooklyn.
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25. iii. Gertrude Louisa, b. May 21, 1866; m. Aug. 26, 1896, John
R. Morey of Burnt Hills, N. Y. Two children.
26. V. Albert Wesley, b. Sept. 3, 1868; d. Nov. 13, 1873.
27. vi. James Herbert, b. Sept. 25, 1874; m. Dec. 29, 1897, Abbie
Lenore, dau. of John B. Grover of Red Bank, N. J. He
graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology, 1896, and
is a mechanical engineer at McKeesport, Pa.
18. JosiAH Milton' (JesseS Isaac', Isaac", JohnS John',
Johns Isaac'), b. June 17, 1818; d. June 12, 1853; m. Elyria,
O., May 24, 1847, Freelove PhiHps Mclntyre [d. 1880]. He
graduated from Marshall College, Pa., 1844, studied theology
at Cincinnati, O., and after a brief service as a home mis
sionary in Indiana returned to New England, and held two
brief pastorates at Lunenburg, Vt., and Brentwood, N. H.,
before his death. His widow came to New Ipswich soon after
his death and resided in the Widow Everett house, now the
Congregational parsonage, until her marriage to Charles Bos
well of West Hartford, Conn., in 1861. Children :
28. i. Flora Pierpont, b. Aug. 17, 1849; m. Aug. 17, 1871, Rev.
Marcellus Bowen, a missionary to Turkey. Two children.
29. ii. Charles Cummings, b. Dec. 10, 1850; m. Sept. 20, 1875, Sophie
Dickerman Putnam Seymour. He graduated from Yale
College in 1872, and from Union Theological Seminary in
1875. He is a teacher, and has had professorships in Doane
College, Crete, Neb., and in Hartford Theological Seminary.
Five children.
30. iii. George Milton, b. Apr. 12, 1852; m. Nov. 26, 1877, Annie
McArthur Thompson from Stirling, Scotland. He gradu
ated from Yale College in 1874, and from Union Theologi
cal Seminary in 1877. He was a professor in Washburn
College, Topeka, Kan., for some years, and then entered
business as a banker at Port Richmond, N. Y. Three chil
dren.
19. Isaac Crosby' (Jesse', IsaacS Isaac', JohnS John',
Johns Isaac'), b. Feb. 28, 1820; d. Sept. 6, 1910; m. (1) Nov.
28, 1845, Lucy T. Wheeler (117) ; (2) Aug. 19, 1860, Amanda
P., dau. of James Grover of Bethel, Me. [b. Mar. 19, 1834; d.
Dec. 31, 1872] ; (3) Nov. 30, 1873, Arvilla L., sister of his sec
ond wife [b. Mar. 13, 1836]. He was educated at New Ips
wich Academy, became a teacher and surveyor, and succeeded
to his father's farm. About 1855 he left town and was for a
time associated with his brother John, a publisher in Brook
lyn, N. Y., but later removed to Zumbrota, Minn., which was
thereafter his home. He was a dealer in real estate, and
held various official positions, including service in the Legis-
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lature, the chairmanship of the county board, and a long
period upon the town school board. ChHdren :
31. i. Abby Marietta, b. Sept. 22, 1848; d. May 29, 1860.
32. ii. Lucy Eveline, b. May 10, 1852; m. Jan. 18, 1872, Dr. Edward
L. Mellins of Dorchester, Mass. One son.
33. iii. Isaac Orlando, b. Sept. 5, 1874; d. Nov. 13, 1874.
34. iv. Clarence Grover, b. June 16, 1877. He is a photographer at
Zumbrota.
22. John Newton' (Jesse', Isaac', Isaac', John*, John',
Johns Isaac'), b. May 24, 1829; d. Apr. 21, 1896; m. 1854,
Matilda C. Loring. He was educated at New Ipswich Acad
emy, taught for a little while, and then removed to New York
city, where he soon was actively engaged in temperance ac
tivities, having a leading place in the formation of the Na
tional Temperance Society and being its publishing agent. He
was also engaged in the management of other publications,
being the "Robert Merry" of "Merry's Museum," which he
established together with S. G. Goodrich, long known as "Pe
ter Parley." ChHd :
35. i. Nellie Grant, b. Jan. 18, 1864; m. Rev. J. W. Morey.
STEARNS (Charles).
Charles' Stearns, birth not known; m. (1) Hannah  [d. June
30, 1651] ; (2) June 22, 1654, Rebecca, dau. of John and Rebecca Gibson
of Cambridge. He was admitted freeman at Watertown, Mass., in 1646,
and seems to have made his home in that town until 1681, when he sold
his land there to his son Samuel and removed to that part of Lynn which
is now Lynnfield.
John' (Charles'), b. Jan. 24 1657; d. Feb. 22, 1722; m. (1) 1681,
Judith, dau. of George and Elizabeth (Crispe) Lawrence [b. May 12,
1660] ; (2) Apr. 2, 1713, Mary, dau. of Richard and Mary (Brooks) Nor
cross of Watertown [b. July 10, 1663]. He lived within the limits of
Lexington. George' (John', Charles'), b. 1688; d. June 26, 1760; m. Oct. 23, 1712,
Hannah, dau. of Dea. Jonathan and Abia (Bartlett) Sanderson of Cam
bridge, Mass. [b. May 31, 1689]. He lived in the West Precinct of
Waltham, Mass.
David* (George', John', Charles'), bapt. Sept. 29, 1717; m. (1) Aug.
26, 1741, Bethia (Mansfield) Stimson of Weston, Mass. [b. Jan. 22, 1723] ;
(2) Apr. 9, 1761, Dorothy Fullam [d. a widow Aug. 17, 1790]. He lived
in Weston, Mass.
Nathan' (David*, George', John', Charles'), b. June 1, 1747; d. Oct.
2, 1808; m. (1) Mar. 23, 1772, Lucy, dau. of John and Thankful Rice
[b. Sudbury, Mass., Mar. 10, 1753; d. Aug. 22, 1782]; (2) Dec 11, 1787,
Mary Dunton. He lived in Sudbury for a few years, but afterward for
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1. Leonard' (Nathan', DavidS George', John^, Charles'),
b. 1788; d. Weston, Mass., 1834; m. Sarah Colburn of Lincoln,
Mass. He came to New Ipswich about 1809, and became a
farmer at Davis Village, living in the house now owned by
William Davis at the corner on the west side of the road
from Hodgkins' corner. He also had a store in the wing of
the house. He resided in Ashburnham, Mass., for a short
time about 1824, but returned to New Ipswich, which was his
home untH his removal to Weston, Mass., about 1833. The
record of his family is very imperfect. ChHdren :
2. i. Leonard, d. in New Orleans, La.
3. ii. William C, b. Aug. 7, 1813; d. Feb. 19, 1815.
4. iu. Samuel I., b. 1815 ; d. Aug. 8, 1816.
5. iv. Sarah, b. Feb. 25, 1817; d. young.
6. V. Joseph Colburn, b. Jan. 31, 1819; d. at Lynn, Mass.
7. vi. Julia, d. Bedford, Mass. ; ra.  Vincent.
8. vii. Albert, d. Lincoln, Mass.
9. viii. Richard Hall, b. Ashburnhara, Mass., Dec. 25, 1824.-1-
10. ix. George, d. Boston, Mass., Jan. 30, 1910.
11. x. Elizabeth, d. New Ipswich.
9. Richard Hall' (Leonard', Nathan', David*, George',
Johns Charles'), b. Dec. 25, 1824; d. Aug. 16, 1909; m. Louisa
Maria Waterman of Boston. In early life he entered mer
cantile life in Boston, in which his ability and success are
amply evidenced by the present position of the house of R. H.
Stearns & Co., which has developed from the little store
founded by him in 1847. His energy, however, was by no
means confined within commercial lines, as he was for many
years superintendent of the largest Sunday school in the city,
later a deacon of the Old South church, for a long time presi
dent of the City Missionary Society, and generally prominent
in religious activities. Children :
12. i. Frank Waterman, b. Nov. 8, 1856.-1-
13. ii. William Foster, b. Apr. 18, 1859.-}-
14. iii. Richard Hall, b. Apr. 25, 1862; m. Apr. 22, 1908, Frances
Gould of Brooklyn, N. Y. He is engaged in the business
of the family firm.
12. Frank Waterman" (Richard HaH', Leonard', NathanS
Davids George', JohnS Charles'), b. Nov. 8, 1856; m. Feb.
26, 1880, EmHy Williston, dau. of William Smith Clark, pres
ident of the Massachusetts Agricultural College [b. June 9,
1856]. He graduated from Amherst College in 1878, and en
tered into business life with his father, whom he succeeded
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as head of the firm. He is a trustee of his Alma Mater. Chil
dren: IS. i. Foster Waterman, b. July 29, 1881 ; m. June 22, 1905, Martha,
dau. of Prof. John E. Genung of Amherst College. He
graduated from Amherst College in 1903, received the de
gree of A. M. from Harvard College in 1906, and graduated
from the General Theological Seminary in 1909. He is
rector of Christ Church, Sheffield, Mass.
16. ii. Emily Williston, b. July 18, 1884.
17. iii. Louisa, b. Jan. 6, 1886; m. Jan. 6, 1906, Francis Prescott of
Newton, Mass. Three children.
13. WiLLiAJVj Foster' (Richard Hall', Leonards NathanS
Davids George', JohnS Charles'), b. Apr. 18, 1859; m. May
19, 1886, Fanny Stearns, dau. of WHliam Smith Clark, presi
dent of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. He gradu
ated from Amherst College in 1882, and later from Hartford
Theological Seminary. He has been pastor at Hartford, Vt.,
and Marlboro, Mass., now at Norfolk, Conn. Children :
18. i. Douglas Clark, b. Mar. 23, 1893.
19. ii. William Foster, b. July 18, 1900.
STICKNEY.
William' Stickney, b. Frampton, Lincolnshire, England, bapt. Sept.
6, 1592; d. Rowley, Mass., buried Jan. 25, 1664/5; m. Elizabeth  . He
carae to America probably in 1637, and was one of the original settlers in
Rowley, of which he was an influential citizen, being a selectman and also
having the rank of lieutenant.
Amos' (William'), b. in England, 1635; d. Aug. 29, 1678; m. June 24,
1663, Sarah Morse [d. Dec. 7, 1711; m. (2) Stephen Acreman]. He was
a weaver in Newbury, where he died.
Benjamin' (Amos', William'), b. Newbury, Apr. 4, 1673; d. Rowley,
Mar. 5, 1765/6; ra. (1) Jan. 16, 1701, Mary Palmer [b. about 1673; d.
1747]; (2) Oct. 2, 1750, widow Mary Morrison, who m. (3) Samuel
Duty of Rowley. Benjamin was a farmer in Rowley.
Joseph* (Benjamin', Amos', William'), b. Oct. 8, 1705; d. Mar., 1756;
m. (1) Dec. 26, 1727, Jane, dau. of Capt. Samuel and Elizabeth (Hale)
Pickard [b. Mar. 5, 1704] ; (2) Nov. 7, 1737, Hannah, dau. of Samuel and
Hannah Goodridge [b. Newbury, Feb. 1, 1712; d. Nov. 4 1806; m. (2)
James Barker]. He was a farmer in Boxford, Mass., and also had a saw
mill. He was a deputy sheriff.
1. Joseph' (Josephs BenjaminS Amos^, WHliam'), b. June
23, 1733; d. Apr. 20, 1818; m. Oct. 5, 1758, Anna Sloss [d.
Newfane, Vt., Feb. 13, 1825]. He was a tailor in Boxford,
Mass., for a time, but about 1744 he removed to New Ipswich.
He settled upon 44, N. D., where he remained as late as 1805,
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when his name disappears from the tax-list, and his home is
uncertain. He perhaps, like his wife, spent his later years in
Vermont, but he was buried in New Ipswich. He went to
Nova Scotia as a soldier in 1754, and he may have served in
the Revolution, but more probably the name upon the rolls is
that of his son. Children :
2. i. HiTTE, b. June 10, 1760; d. June 10, 1848, at the home of a
son in Antrim ; ra.  Swain. Eight children.
3. ii. Joseph, b. Apr. 13, 1762.-f
4. iii. William, b. Feb. 5, 1765.-1-
5. iv. Moody, b. about 1767; d. Nov. 15, 1820; ra. Aug. 7, 1794, Sally
Barrett. He succeeded to his father's farm.
6. V. Anna, b. Mar., 1770; d. 1828; ra. Mar. 11, 1790, Nathaniel
Hodgkins (3). They settled in Belvidere, Vt.
7. vi. Jane, b. Apr. 10, 1772; m. Feb. 16, 1800, Daniel Stratton (6).
8. vii. Oliver, b. Feb. 27, 1775 ; d. Rindge, 1812. After leaving New
Ipswich he changed his name to Hall, and settled in Provi
dence, R. I., where he married and had four children.
3. Joseph' (Joseph^, Josephs Benjamin', Amos^, Wil
liam'), b. Apr. 13, 1762; d. Andover, Vt., Apr. 3, 1848; m.
Feb. 27, 1800, Anna Hosmer of Mason [b. about 1773 ; d. Feb.
19, 1851]. They removed to Andover, Vt., about 1806. He
served in the Revolution in Capt. Briant's company, and also
on the march to Royalton. Children:
9. i. Lizzie, b. Jan. 2, 1801 ; ra. John B. Manning of Mt. Tabor, Vt.
10. ii. Eliza, b. Dec. 12, 1802; raarried Barnard Ca:rlton.
11. iii. George W., b. Oct. 25, 1804; ra. Roxalane Barton
12. iv. Joseph H., b. Oct. 8, 1811; m. Achsah E. Haseltine.
4. William' (Josephs Josephs Benjamin', Amos^, Wil
liam'), b. Feb. 5, 1765; d. Rindge, June 17, 1839; m. Jane, dau.
of Simeon Fletcher (11). He removed to Rindge about 1790.
Children :
13. i. William, b. June 1, 1790; d. May 13, 1854; m. July 5, 1818,
Amy Peat. He settled in Edminster, N. Y., and there
passed his life. Eight children.
14. H. Thomas, b. Jan. 9, 1792; m. Feb. 8, 1835, Sarah, Alden. He
was a successful raerchant in Troy, N. Y., until he became
insane.
15. iH. Charles, b. Dec. 31, 1793; m. (1) June 6, 1822, Sarah A.
Baxter [d. June 20, 1824]; (2) Sarah M. Crandall. He
was a merchant in Troy, N. Y. Five children.
16. iv. Jane, b. Feb. 8, 1796; m. Oct. 6, 1825, Norman M. Hopkins.
They removed to some point in New York. Five children.
17. V. Asa, b. Nov. 28, 1797; d. Nov. 28, 1799.
18. vi. Asa, b. Apr. 22, 1800; m. Nov. 29, 1826, Malina Emerson.
He was a farmer and stonecutter in Rindge. Five children.
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19. vii. Nancy, b. July 22, 1801 ; d. Oct. 31, 1819.
20. viii. Lyman, b. Feb. 10, 1804; d. Jan. 9, 1840; m. Sarah Smedley.
He lived in Troy, N. Y. One child.
21. ix. Mersylvia, b. Feb. 11, 1806; m. Thoraas Symonds of Rindge.
Three children.
22. x. Warren, b. Aug. 11, 1808; d. Sept. 30, 1843, unm. He re
moved to New Orleans, La., where he was a stonecutter.
23. xi. Alfred, b. Mar. 10, 1812; d. 1858; m. Jan. 9, 1839, Hannah M.
Parsels. He went to New Orleans, La., where he was a
stonecutter and master builder for twenty years, but re
turned to Rindge and became a farmer for two or three
years before his death. Seven children.
STONE.
Simon' Stone, bapt. Much Bromley, County Essex, England, Feb. 9,
1585/6; d. Sept. 22, 1665; m. (1) Aug. 5, 1616, Joan, dau. of WHliam
Clarke [b. about 1597] ; (2) about 1654, Sarah, widow of Richard Lump
kin of Ipswich, Mass. He carae to America with wife and five children
in 1635, and settled at Watertown, Mass. He was a selectman and deacon.
Simon' (Simon'), b. 1631; d. Feb. 27, 1708; ra. Mary, dau. of John
Whipple of Ipswich, Mass. [b. 1634; d. June 2, 1720]. He represented
Watertown in the General Court for nine years. He was also a selectman
and deacon. He was one of the Proprietors of Groton, Mass., but prob
ably never lived there.
Simon' (Simon', Simon'), b. Sept. 8, 1656; d. Dec 19, 1741; m. 1686,
Sarah, dau. of Matthias' Farnsworth [b. about 1664; d. Sept. 16, 1731].
He removed to Groton, as early as 1694, and there held town offices and,
like his ancestors, was a deacon.
John' (Simon', Simon'), b. July 23, 1658; m. Dec 7, 1698, Sarah
(Nutting), widow of Matthias' Farnsworth [b. May 29, 1663]. Res. in
Groton, Mass.
Simon* (Simon', Simon', Simon'), b. 1686; d. Oct. 22, 1746; m. Sarah
 [d. May JO, 1767]. He was active in the setting off of Harvard as
a separate town, and was prominent in its affairs. He too was a deacon.
Joseph* (Simon', Simon', Simon'), b. Mar. 8, 1702; d. Sept. 10, 1777;
m. May 9, 1728, Mary Prescott [b. Apr. 29, 1711; d. Sept. 5, 1793]. Res.
in Groton, Mass.
John* (John', Simon', Simon'), b. Sept. 23, 1699; m. Dec. 22, 1722,
Elizabeth Farwell. Res. in Groton, Mass.
James* (John', Simon', Simon'), b. Jan. 23, 1701; d. Feb. 28, 1783;
m. Dec 28, 1726, Mary Farwell. Res. in Groton, Mass., where he was a
deacon. 1. Elias^ (SimonS Simon', Simon'', Simon'), b. Apr. 2,
1728; m. before 1756, Sarah Sawyer [d. 1806]. He came from
Harvard, Mass., to New Ipswich as early as 1762, and seems
to have remained about three years, but his place of residence
has not been determined. He is said to have had two children
in Harvard, and in New Ipswich the following chHdren:
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7. i. Simon, b. Nov. 18, 1762.
8. ii. Sarah, b. Nov. 18, 1762.
9. iii. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 15, 1764.
Jonas' (Joseph*, Simon', Simon', Simon'), b. Nov. 11, 1737; d. Apr.
26, 1816; ra. May 23, 1765, Rebecca' Fletcher (Tiraothy*, Paul', William',
Robert'), of Westford, Mass. [d. Jan. 26, 1824]. He res. in Groton, Mass.
2. Nathaniel^ (JohnS JohnS Simon^, Simon'), b. Sept. 27,
1733; m. Thankful  . He came to New Ipswich about 1764
and located upon the farm first occupied by Joseph Stevens,
and in later years by the Supply Wilson famHy, (35, N. D.)
He was a citizen of the town for nearly twenty years, and his
position as a leader is clearly indicated by his election as a
selectman in 1767, and later representative in the third year
in which that officer was chosen, and still more by his mem
bership in the Committee of Inspection, Correspondence, and
Safety. It is, therefore, somewhat strange that no record of
his life after leaving this town has come to light, and that
tradition is silent concerning him. Children :
10. i. Nathaniel, b. Aug. 4, 1764.
11. ii. Jonas, b. Feb. 7, 1767.
12. iii. Noyce, b. June 3, 1769.
13. iv. Isaac, b. Aug. 7, 1771; ra. Grace Whiting [b. about 1773; d.
Nov. 4, 1807]. She was buried in the old graveyard on the
hill, where one of the most tasteful monuments in the yard,
"Erected by her Children to the memory of the best of
mothers," is the only reraaining token of that branch of the
family.
14. V. Thankful, b. July 25, 1773.
15. vi. David, b. Apr. 8, 1775.
16. vii. Asa, b. Mar. 24 1778.
17. viii. Nathan, b. May 4, 1780.
3. Joel' (JamesS John', Simon^, Simon'), b. May 1, 1742;
m. Groton, Mass., Jan. 31, 1765, Eunice Holden. He removed
from Groton to Rindge, and in 1790 came thence to New
Ipswich and remained until 1797. The location of his home
is uncertain. Children :
18. i. Joel, b. 1765 ; m. Abigail McCall. He removed to Luzerne,
N. Y. He followed the ancestral tendencies and was a
deacon.
19. ii. Luther.
20. iii. Molly.
21. iv. Polly.
22. V. Eunice.
4. Jonas' (Jonas', Josephs SimonS Simon^, Simon'), b.
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9, 1770; d. May 27, 1848]. He came to New Ipswich upon
attaining his majority, and passed his life as a farmer on the
farm first owned by Abraham and Jesse Carlton, (85, A. D.)
During the last eighteen years of his life he was totally blind.
Children :
23. i. Jonas, b. June 5, 1799; ra. Dec. 27, 1823, Sally Farnsworth
(24). He removed to St. Lawrence county, N. Y.
24. ii. Relief, b. Jan. 28, 1801.
25. iii. William H., b. Feb. 20, 1803. He removed to St. Lawrence
county, N. Y.
26. iv. Nathan, b. May 2, 1805.-]-
27. V. Silas, b. May 29, 1806. He removed to St. Lawrence county,
N. Y.
28. vi. ZiMRi, b. Sept. 27, 1809; d. Mar. 20, 1859, unm.
29. vii. Timothy, b. Aug. 9, 1813; d. Apr. 8, 1814.
30. viH. John P., b. Jan. 25, 1815 ; d. Mar. 13, 1840, unra.
5. Jesse' (Jonas', Josephs Simon', Simon^, Simon'), b.
.Oct. 21, 1768; m. Susanna Kendall. He came from Groton to
New Ipswich in 1792 and remained three years. His place of
residence is uncertain, but it seems that he was with his
brother Jonas who seems not to have been married until a
later date. Child :
31. i. Jesse.
6. Timothy" (Jonas^, Josephs Simon', SimonS Simon'),
b. Jan. 22, 1773; m. Lydia  . He came from Groton to
New Ipswich in 1794, and remained until 1800, during which
time were born the following children:
32. i. ZoA, b. Dec. 31, 1797.
33. ii. Isaac Newton, b. Dec. 23, 1799.
26. Nathan' (JonasS JonasS Josephs Simon', Simon^,
Simon'), b. May 2, 1805; m. Oct. 1, 1833, Betsy Blanchard
(18). He succeeded to his father's farm, where he resided
until about 1862 when he removed. He was a selectman.
Children :
34. i. Maria, b. July 27, 1836; d. Mar. 28, 1913; ra. June 2, 1857,
John C. Nutting (15).
35. ii. Jane, b. Oct. 19, 1839; d. Jan. 5, 1859.
36. iii. Laura, b. May 9, 1843.
37. iv. Ellen, b. May 17, 1846; d. Aug., 1865.
38. V. Charles N., b. Dec 21, 1851.
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STRATTON.
Two apparently distinct families bearing this name have been repre
sented in New Ipswich, but the one descended from the emigrant Samuel
Stratton of Watertown, Mass., contains nearly the entire number. The
smaHer family, appearing sorae years later and descended from John
Stratton, also of Watertown, very probably is akin to the first, but if
such is the case the relationship is unknown.
STRATTON (Samuel).
Samuel' Stratton, b. 1592; d. Dec. 25, 1672; m. Alice  . He
with his wife carae to Watertown, Mass., about 1647, and lived there until
his death. Samuel' (Sarauel'), ra. Mar. 25, 1651, Mary Frye [d. Oct. 27, 1674].
He settled at Concord, Mass.
Samuel' (Sarauel', Samuel'), b. Mar. 5, 1660; d. Nov. 30, 1717; m.
Nov. 28, 1683, Elizabeth, dau. of Francis' (Robert') and Elizabeth
(Wheeler) Fletcher [b. Aug. 24 1663; d. Apr. 18, 1762].
Samuel* (Samuel', Samuel', Samuel'), b. Concord, 1684; ra. Jan. 19,
1709/10, Sarah Allen.
Hezekiah* (Samuel', Samuel', Samuel'). Nothing except the narae
Hezekiah has been found connecting Sarauel' and Eleazer'
Joseph* (Sarauel', Sarauel', Samuel'), b. Concord, Jan. 31, 1696; m.
Jan. 31, 1717, Rachel, dau. of Joseph and Rachel Wooley of Concord [b.
June 14, 1698]. Res. at Concord.
Hezekiah' (Samuel*, Samuel', Sarauel', Samuel'), b. Sept. 8, 1714;
m. Dorothy, probably dau. of Daniel and Dorothy (Dakin) Hubbard [b.
Mar. 24, 1718/19; d. May 30, 1763]. Two or three of his sons were in
New Ipswich for a time.
Samuel' (Samuel*, Samuel', Samuel', Samuel'), b. Concord, Jan. 1,
1720/21 ; m. 1748, Mary Eaton of Worcester, Mass. Res. for a time at
Rutland, Mass.
Eleazer' (Hezekiah*, Samuel', Samuel', Samuel'), b. Northfield, Mass.,
Apr. 30, 1722; m. Lydia, dau. of Caleb Allen.
Jonas' (Joseph*, Sarauel', Samuel', Samuel'), b. Sept. 18, 1732; m.
Elizabeth, dau. of Ephraim* and Elizabeth (Heywood) Hartwell. Res. at
Concord. 1. Daniel' (Hezekiah', SamuelS Samuel', SamuelS Sam
uel'), b. Concord, Oct. 13, 1743; d. July 22, 1832; m. (1) Sarah
Start (2) ; (2) 1785, Sarah, dau. of Caleb and Elizabeth Brown
Warner [b. Mar. 27, 1753; d. Oct. 5, 1825]. He came to New
Ipswich about 1767 and settled upon Knight's Hill, (9, N. D.)
He served in the Revolution, at least by responding to the
alarm of April, 1775, and he is said to have had mHitary ex
perience ten years earlier in the garrison at Fort Halifax.
Children :
5. i. Sarah, b. May 15, 1771 ; d. May 27, 1790, unm.
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7. Hi. John, b. Nov. 26, 1775; d. Jan. 28, 1842; m. Charlotte Frink.
He was a millwright and reraained in New Ipswich a few
years after his majority. But his name disappears from
the records in 1799, and he soon after reraoved to Oxford,
N. Y., where he was a successful farmer and miHowner.
He had ten children.
Asa, b. Nov. 8, 1777; d. Nov. 9, 1802.
Dolly, b. Mar. 13, 1780; d. Oct. 26, 1780.
Dolly, b. Dec 1, 1781; m. Dec. 21, 1806, Jonathan Webber.
Lucy, b. Jan. 16, 1784; d. Apr. 29, 1784.
William, b. Jan. 17, 1786.-1-
Elizabeth, b. Jan. 17, 1786; d. 1864; m. about 1808, WiHiam
Start (23).
Lydia, b. Dec. 7, 1787.
Polly, b. July 5, 1789; d. Apr. 17, 1790.
Jeremiah.-1-
2. Hezekiah' (Hezekiah', SamuelS Samuel', SamueP,
Samuel'), b. July 24, 1746; m. Eunice Hayward. Tradition
makes him resident in New Ipswich for a short time, prob
ably at about the time of his brother Daniel's arrival in the
town, but if so he did not remain. He went to Maine and
settled at Winslow, the site of Fort Halifax, where his brother
Daniel had served only two or three years before.
3. Nehemiah" (HezekiahS SamuelS Samuel', SamueP,
Samuel'), b. Jan. 15, 1759; m. (1) Sarah Prichard (7); (2)
Lois Newhall (7). His name appears upon the New Ipswich
tax-lists from 1780, when he became twenty-one years of age,
untH 1795, at about which time he removed to Albion, Me.
His place of residence is uncertain, but it is probable that it
was near that of his brother in the Knight's Hill neighbor
hood, the early settled portion of the town. Apparently, how
ever, his arrival in town was some years before he reached
his majority, as he gave Revolutionary service in the com
panies of Capts. Josiah Brown, Stephen Parker, and Robert
Fletcher in 1777 and 1778. In 1781 he enlisted for three years
or during the war. Record of only two children has been
found. ChHdren :
17. i. Sally, b. Feb. 5, 1786.
18. ii. Hannah, b. June 18, 1787; m. (1)  Sprague; (2) 1818,
Stephen Wheeler (72).
Ebenezer' (Samuel', Samuel*, Samuel', Samuel', Samuel'), b. Rut
land, Mass., Nov. 2, 1751 ; m. Tabitha Davis. Removed to Rindge.
Asa" (Eleazer', Hezekiah*, Samuel', Samuel', Samuel'), b. Northfield,
Mass., Sept. 8, 1758; ra. Lucy Woodbury. He served in the Revolution,
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4. Lydia' (Jonas', Joseph*, Samuel', SamueP, Samuel'), b.
Concord, Mass., June 21, 1769; d. Mar. 28, 1849; m. (1) Apr.
22, 1794, Caleb Campbell (2) ; (2) May 9, 1805, Abner Chicker
ing (1).
6. Daniel' (Daniel', Hezekiah', Samuel*, Samuel', Sam
ueP, Samuel'), b. Mar. 23, 1773; d. Oct. 11, 1853; m. Feb. 16,
1800, Jane Stickney (7). He occupied the paternal farm for
a time, but removed to Newfane, Vt., about 1807, and his
descendants may still be found in that town and region. Of
his eight children record of only one, who was born in New
Ipswich, has been found. Child :
21. i. Asa, b. Jan. 29, 1805.
12. William' (DanieP, Hezekiah', Samuel*, Samuel', Sam
ueP, Samuel'), b. Jan. 17, 1786; m. Jan. 10, 1815, Esther Rood.
He settled in Herkimer County, N. Y., where he married.
He was a wheelwright. Child :
22. i. William Warner, an only son, d. 1849, leaving one son,
William H.; res. at Simeon, Neb.
16. Jeremiah' (Daniel', Hezekiah', Samuel*, Samuel', Sam
ueP, Samuel'), b. about 1794; m. Abigail, dau. of Jesse Spauld
ing of Chelmsford, Mass. [b. about 1798; d. May 10, 1847].
He lived upon the paternal farm untH 1827, and then or soon
after removed to Winchendon, Mass. Children :
23. i. George Edwin, b. June 29, 1823.
24. ii. Charles.
25. iii. Elbridge.
26. iv. Caroline.
Ebenezer' (Ebenezer', Samuel', Samuel*, Samuel', Samuel', Samuel').
19. Raymond' (Ebenezer', Samuel', Samuel*, Samuel',
SamueP, Samuel'), b. Rindge, Apr. 6, 1790; d. Sept. 14, 1838;
m. Dec. 16, 1816, Mary J., dau. of John and Sarah (Brooks)
Bonner of Hancock [b. July 23, 1789; d. Oct. 15, 1878; m. (2)
Oliver Prescott of Jaffrey]. He lived during the latest years
of his life in the "Appleton House" on the Turnpike opposite
the end of School street. Child:
29. i. Susan M., m. O. P. Prescott of Fredonia, N. Y.
20. Seth' (Asa', EleazerS HezekiahS Samuel', SamueP,
SamueP), b. Northfield, Mass., Aug. 29, 1792; m. Freedom
Holton [b. 1797; d. Jan. 13, 1890]. He was a wheelwright in
the Center VHlage, and his home was a house formerly stand
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30. i. An infant, d. Jan. 5, 1829.
31. ii. Edward. He married, and had a son and perhaps other chil
dren. Child : i. Charles R.; he lived for a time at Nashua,
and removed thence to Lowell.
32. iii. Sarah Elizabeth, m. Nov. 11, 1873, Allen Ripley. Removed
to California.
27. Stillman' (Ebenezer', Ebenezer', SamueP, Samuel*,
Samuels SamueP, SamueP), b. Feb. 17, 1814; d. Oct. 22, 1853;
m. Dec. 29, 1837, Maria, dau. of Capt. Amos and Eunice (Spof
ford) Keyes of Rindge [m. (2) Capt. Harvey Wyman of
Winchendon, Mass., and d. July 1, 1856]. He lived for some
years in Winchendon, but about 1839 settled upon the Barrett
farm, (1 : 2, S. R.,) which was his home nearly or quite until
his death. Children — all b. in New Ipswich:
34. i. Susan Jane, b. Nov. 2, 1839; d. Oct. 19, 1898; ra. Apr. 16,
1861, William L. Woodcock of Winchendon, Mass. Six
children.
35. ii. James Stillman, b. Jan. 4, 1841 ; d. Sept. 16, 1862. He served
in the Civil War in the 21st Massachusetts Regiment, and
was killed at Antietam.
36. iii. Etta Elizabeth, b. Oct. 9, 1844; m. George W., son of Abijah
and Lucretia (Stearns) Eddy, a merchant in Ashburnham,
Mass.
37. iv. Charles Henry, b. Dec. 17, 1846; m. June 17, 1869, Caroline
E., dau. of James and Asenath (Worry) Groves of Port
land, Me. He served in the Civil War in the 25th Massa
chusetts Regiraent, and lost one leg at Roanoke Island, but
served through the war in the Veteran Reserve Corps. Res.
at Portland, Me., and Maiden, Mass. Seven children.
38. V. Emma Frances, b. Feb. 18, 1853; ra. Dec. 21, 1882, Frederick,
son of Emory and Rebecca L. (Spear) Lord of Orange,
Mass. Res. at Orange and Dorchester, Mass. Two children.
28. George' (Ebenezer', EbenezerS SamueP, SamueP,
SamueP, SamueP, SamueP), b. Mar. 31, 1818; d. Nov. 13,
1896; m. Apr. 8, 1841, Sarah J. Holton [b. Oct. 28, 1817; d.
Aug. 9, 1870]. Immediately after his marriage he settled in
New Ipswich near the Rindge town line on 140, A. D., and
he lived there for many years. Children :
39. i. G. Frederick, b. about 1845; m. Apr. 6, 1869, Martha, dau.
of William and PrisciHa (Blodgett) Moore of Jaffrey [d.
Nov. 23, 1873]. He remained in New Ipswich for some
years after his raarriage, living at or near his father's home.
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STRATTON (John).
John' Stratton, b. 1642; d. Watertown, Mass., 1691; m. Mary, dau.
of Thomas and Mary Smith of Watertown. He was in the expedition to
Quebec in 1690.
Thomas' (John'), b. 1670; m. Dorcas, dau. of Thomas Maxwell of
Boston. David' (Thomas', John'), b. Watertown, 1708; m. Hannah Smith.
Jonas* (David', Thomas', John'), b. Waltham, Mass., July 14, 1746;
d. 1797; m. Anna Barnard of Bolton, Mass. [b. Feb. 6, 1755]. He has
eleven chHdren, one of whom, Jonas, was the father of Henry D. Stratton,
one of the founders of the Bryant & Stratton Business College.
1. Barnard' (Jonas*, David', Thomas^, John'), b. Stow,
Mass., Aug. 25, 1796. He res. in or near Bank Village in 1826
and 1827, but more definite information is lacking. He had
two or more chHdren. Children :
2. i. Levi.
3. ii. Martha.
SYLVESTER.
The form. of this name in Colonial days was Silvester, an orthography
still maintained by some branches of the family.
Richard' Silvester, d. Sept., 1663; m. (1) EmeHne  , who died
later than Sept., 1651, when she acknowledged a sale of land; (2) Naomi
Torrey [d. Nov., 1668]. He came to America in the Winthrop fleet of
1630, and settled in Weymouth, where he was made freeman in 1634, but
later was fined and disfranchised for attempting the organization of a
second church in the town. After this he chose a new home in a location
now included in the town of Marshfield. Apparently he was possessed
of a goodly property for those times.
John' (Richard'), b. Mar., 1635; d. Aug. or Sept., 1706; m. Sarah
 . He lived near the line between Scituate and Marshfield, Mass.
Joseph' (John', Richard'), bapt. Mar. 31, 1674; d. soon after Aug.,
1744; m. Mary  . He appears to have passed his life on his parental
farm. Joseph* (Joseph', John', Richard'), bapt. Oct. 15, 1727; d. Aug. 21,
1818; m. Feb. W, 1755, Bradbury Hatch [b. about 1739; d. June 11, 1807].
1. Lemuel Hatch' (Joseph*, Joseph', John^, Richard'), b.
Mar. 1, 1762; d. Jan. 12, 1845; m. Jan. 5, 1786, Zinthia, dau. of
John and Rachel (Hall) THden [b. Nov. 8, 1766; d. Sept. 26,
1801]. He came from Marshfield or its immediate vicinity
to New Ipswich in 1815, and became a farmer living upon a
road now traced with difficulty, but then extending from
Governor's Hill to Ashby, (90, A. D.,) where he remained
untH his death. He was known as "Capt. Sylvester," but as
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tradition makes him a seafaring man, very probably he held
no larger command than that of a small coasting vessel. ChH
dren — b. in Marshfield, Mass. :
2. i. Zinthia, b. Oct. 13, 1786; m. Dec. 31, 1812, Abel Davis of
Winchester.
3. ii. Stephen Tilden, b. Feb. 27, 1790.-1-
4 iii. Deborah, b. Nov. 2, 1793.
5. iv. Lucy, b. Sept. 30, 1808; d. Apr. 20, 1862; m. Aug. 29, 1828,
Jonas Nutting (3).
6. V. Charles.-]-
3. Stephen Tilden" (Lemuel H.'S Joseph*, Josephs JohnS
Richard'), b. Feb. 27, 1790; d. Oct. 11, 1861; m. (1) Apr. 13,
1814, Eliza Stimson of Ashburnham, Mass. [b. Nov. 8, 1787;
d. Apr. 8, 1847] ; (2) Nov. 25, 1852, Abi A. Adams [b. Feb. 2,
1793]. Apparently he came to New Ipswich about the same
time as his father and lived upon the same farm until his
father's death, being its owner during the latter portion, at
least, of their joint occupancy. The later years of his life
were passed in Smith Village, where he occupied a part of
the house at the corner of the road entering the vHlage from
the east, and facing southward toward the school-house. He
was there occupied in repairing shoes and other activities
suited to the bodily infirmities of his later years. ChHdren :
7. i. Stephen Merrick, b. Jan. 18, 1815 ; d. May 5, 1816.
8. ii. Stephen, b. Apr. 27, 1817.-1-
9. iii. Merrick, b. May 5, 1819.-1-
10. iv. Delany, b. Jan. 20, 1821 ; d. Sept. 3, 1841.
11. V. Edwin, b. Sept. 13, 1823.-1-
6. Charles' (Lemuel H.', Josephs Joseph', JohnS Rich
ard'), m. Nancy  . He was a mechanic in Ashburnham,
Mass., where at least three of his children were born, but he
died in middle life. His widow and younger children lived
several years in Smith VHlage. ChHdren:
12. i. A son, d. in Boston in middle life.
13. ii. Nancy Amanda, bapt. Oct. 9, 1836; d. in Fitchburg, Mass.;
m. (1)  Foster; (2)  Chute.
14. iii. Augustus Eaton, bapt. July 23, 1843; d. in Boston while a
young man.
15. iv. Mary Louisa, bapt. July 23, 1843.
16. V. Adrianna, d. in Ayer, Mass. ; m.  Phillips.
8. Stephen' (Stephen T.«, Lemuel H.', Joseph*, Joseph',
Johns Richard'), b. Apr. 27, 1817; d. Oct. 24, 1871; m. (1)
Eliza Ann, dau. of Joseph and Nancy (Conant) Wetherbee of
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Rindge [b. July 29, 1819; d. Jan. 10, 1851] ; (2) May 12, 1853,
Phebe Jane Hutchinson [b. about Jan., 1819 ; d. Sept. 8, 1864] ;
(3) Augusta P., dau. of James and Parna (White) Bennett,
and widow of Hiram Sewell Buttrick of Rindge [b. July 21,
1830]. He was a woodworker in various lines at Smith Vil
lage, owning in his later years the "red shop" above the
bridge, now occupied by Edwin F. Blanchard. (Children :
17. i. Harriet Adelaide, b. about 1844; m. Nov. 25, 1869, Clarence
D. Proctor.
18. ii. George Barrett, b. about Sept., 1846; d. Mar. 24, 1851.
19. iii. Stephen Alden, b. Aug. 21, 1848.-1-
20. iv. William Hutchinson, b. Aug. 18, 1854.
21. V. Mary Elizabeth, b. about 1859.
22. vi. George Morris, b. May 30, 1861 ; d. Mar. 24, 1863.
9. Merrick' (Stephen T.', Lemuel H.', Joseph*. Joseph',
Johns Richard'), b. May 5, 1819; d. Oct. 23, 1850; m. Delany,
dau. of Abel and Zinthia (Sylvester) (2) Davis of Winchester
[m. (2) Oct. 14, 1852, David Mosman of Westminster, Mass.].
He was a mechanic in Smith Village. Children :
23. i. Henrietta, b. about 1844 ; d. at Fitchburg, Mass., about 1871 ;
m.  Barnes.
24. ii. Lowell M., b. about 1846; d. about 1870. He worked in a
chair factory at Westminster, Mass.
11. Edwin' (Stephen T.', Lemuel H.', Joseph*, Joseph',
Johns Richard'), b. Sept. 13, 1823; d. Aug. 21, 1877; m. Emily
H. Foster of Ashburnham, Mass. [d. about 1898]. He lived
in Ashburnham, Mass., and later in Winchendon, Mass. Chil
dren: 25. i. Fred. He studied to enter the ministry, but his health for
bade, and he died at Lincoln, Neb., aged about twenty-five.
26. ii. Emh-y F., b. June 9, 1854; d. June 21, 1869.
19. Stephen Alden' (Stephen', Stephen T.', Lemuel H.',
Joseph*, Joseph', JohnS Richard'), b. Aug. 21, 1848; m. Mar.
16, 1875, Mary Louise Haskell of Fitchburg, Mass. He
studied in the medical department of Boston University,
graduated in 1875, and entered practice at Newton Center,
Mass., where he now lives. Children :
27. i. Carl Alden, b. Aug. 13, 1879. He graduated from Harvard
College, and is assistant general manager of Boston Subur
ban Electric Company.
28. ii. Philip Haskell, b. Oct. 6, 1880. He graduated from Harvard
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TAYLOR.
William' Taylor, probably born in England, d. Dec. 6, 1696; ra.
Mary, dau. of Joseph and Sarah (Goldstone) Meriam [d. Dec. 10, 1699],
who came with her parents from Hadlow, Kent, England, in 1638. He
first appears on the records of Concord and his "house Tot" adjoined the
land of John Meriam, probably his brother-in-law, at "Meriam's corner,"
since noted as the point where on the nineteenth of April, 1775, the re
treating British troops were attacked by the Provincials approaching on
a different road frora that taken by the British soldiers, and the dis
orderly fight began.
Abraham' (WiHiam'), b. Concord, Nov. 14, 1656; d. June 19, 1729;
m. Dec, 1681, Mary Whittaker [b. Mar., 1662; d. Feb. 18, 1756]. He
seems to have passed his Hfe as a blacksmith in his native town, and to
have occupied his father's "house lot."
Abraham' (Abraham', William'), b. Jan. 11, 1682/3; m. (1) Dec. 9,
1706, Sarah Pellet [d. before 1718] ; (2) Mary  . He was a yeoman,
and had a considerable portion of the farm of his grandfather in the
Bedford portion of Concord. Before 1718 he reraoved to Dunstable and
settled in that part of the town which was separated from Massachusetts
by an authoritative location of the disputed New Hampshire line.
David' (Abraham', William'), b. Jan. 31, 1698/9; ra. Hannah  .
He lived in Bedford.
Samuel* (Abrahara', Abrahara', William'), b. Concord, Oct. 1, 1708;
d. Dunstable, Oct. 23, 1792; ra. 1733, Susanna Perhara of Chelmsford [d.
Oct. 14, 1798]. He was a prominent citizen of Dunstable, "active in town
and church, a justice of the peace and a deacon." He had eleven children,
two of whom were among the early settlers in New Ipswich. He owned
land in the town, but is believed never to have been a resident upon it.
1. Amos* (Abraham', Abrahams William'), b. Dunstable,
Sept. 10, 1725; m. May 21, 1747, Bridget Martin. He was the
youngest child of Abraham' and Mary, instead of the son of
Samuel*, as assumed in the former history. He settled near
the geographical center of the town upon the farm long known
as the "Bucknam farm," (XII : 2, S. R.,) and was a member
of the church at the time of its formation. But he seems to
have removed soon after. He removed from Hollis to Brook
line in 1772, and thence to Stoddard, where his name appears
upon the earliest tax-list in 1784. He responded to the Revo
lutionary call of AprH, 1775, and he was a member of the
company of Capt. Reuben Dow from Hollis, which company
was at Bunker HHl. Children :
4. i. Amos, b. Dunstable, Sept. 7, 1748.
5. ii. Edmund, b. Dunstable, May 4, 1750; ra. Hepzibah, dau. of
John and Mary (Whitcorab) French of Nelson [b. Hollis,
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9. vi. Ephraim, b. about 1765.
Jonathan* (David', Abraham', William'), b. Bedford, Feb. 27, 1729;
d. Ashburnham, Oct. 21, 1815; m. Concord, Aug. 29, 1754, Mary Jones
[d. Dec. 21, 1811]. He lived in Bedford until 1769, when he removed to
Ashburnham, where he was a very prominent citizen holding important
town offices. "During the Revolution his public service was conspicuous."
He was a member of the Committee of Correspondence, and had a seat
in the Provincial Congress which assembled at Concord in 1774, 1775, and
1776. Although he was by no means a young man, he bore a musket to
Concord in April, 1775.
2. Reuben' (Samuel*, Abraham', Abraham^, WHliam'), b.
Mar. 8, 1736; d. May 9, 1813; m. Lucy  [b. about 1738; d.
July 1, 1814]. He came to New Ipswich about 1757 and set
tled at almost the exact center of the town upon the lot next
east from that of his uncle ; his lot, (XI : 2, S. R.,) previously
owned by his father, was occupied by members of his family
for considerably more than a century, but now, like the ad
joining farm, has passed into the possession of the twentieth-
century settlers from Finland. Children :
10. i. Lucy, b. Jan. 10, 1762; d. Mar. 23, 1825; m. July, 1781, Allen
Breed (17).
11. ii. Reuben, b. Feb. 14, 1764.-]-
12. iii. Zebedee, b. Nov. 14, 1765.-1-
13. iv. Rachel, b. Dec. 13, 1767.
14. V. Aaron, b. Dec. 13, 1769; d. Dec. 26, 1769.
15. vi. Hannah, b. Dec. 24, 1770; d. Mar. 2, 1774.
16. vii. James, b. Oct. 21, 1772.
17. viii. William, b. May 16, 1781.-1-
18. ix. Hannah, b. Feb. 5, 1784; d. Oct. 23, 1835; m. May 30, 1802,
Joseph Davis (43).
3. Thaddeus' (Samuel*, Abraham', Abraham^, William'),
b. Apr. 10, 1744; d. Sept. 11, 1825; m. 1767, Bridget, dau. of
Josiah Walton [b. 1746; d. Jan. 22, 1831]. His name appears
upon the New Ipswich record in 1776, and his fifth child, born
in 1777, is the first whose birth is there recorded. He settled
near the southwest corner of the town, (97, A. D.,) where he
passed his life. Children:
19. i. Thaddeus, b. Oct. 25, 1768; d. Feb. 11, 1864. He removed
to Grafton, Vt., and there had a family.
20. ii. Rachel, b. Nov. 8, 1770; m. June 7, 1791, Stephen Brooks (1).
21. iii. John, b. Feb. 26, 1773; m. Dec. 5, 1798, Sally Jones.
22. iv. Catherine, b. Feb. 16, 1775; d. Jan. 6, 1831; ra. Sept. 19, 1799,
Edmond Jones.
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24. vi. Susannah, b. June 5, 1779 ; ra. Apr. 30, 1801, Jonas Barrett, Jr.
25. vii. Samuel, b. Oct. 12, 1781.-1-
26. viii. Oliver Swain, b. Dec. 17, 1784; d. Apr. 19, 1885; ra. Katherine
G.  . He graduated frora Dartmouth College in 1809 and
from Dartmouth Medical School in 1813. He was a suc
cessful preceptor of the Academy for three years, and after
ward entered upon the practice of medicine at Auburn,
N. Y., where he resided until his death at the age of one
hundred years and four months.
27. ix. Hepzybeth, b. Sept. 8, 1789; d. Dec. 8, 1839; ra. June 16, 1814
Benjamin B. WiHiams (8).
Jonathan' (Jonathan*, David', Abraham', William'), b. May 29, 1755;
ra. Sarah Taylor. She lived in Canada, and he made his home there for a
time, and then removed to Ashburnham, Mass., where he made his home.
He served in the Revolution.
11. Reuben" (Reuben', Samuel*, Abraham', Abraham^,
WHliam'), b. Feb. 14, 1764; d. Mar. 13, 1804; m. Dec. 26, 1791,
Nabby Breed of Nelson, who m. (2) Alexander Parker of
HHlsboro. He removed to Hancock about 1780, and thence
twenty years later to Washington, where he died. Children:
29. i. Lucy, b. Nov. 27, 1793; d. Nov. 30, 1882; m. Nov. 25, 1813,
Caleb Campbell (3).
30. ii. Milly, b. Feb. 6, 1795; d. HiHsboro, 1819; ra. Zebediah Shat
tuck.
31. iii. Charles, b. July, 1797; d. Jan. 4, 1850. He resided in the
Davis Village neighborhood for a few years after attain
ing his majority.
32. iv. Nathaniel, b. Oct., 1798. Res. at Hillsboro.
33. V. James, b. June 17, 1800; d. South Boston, Mass., 1872.
34. vi. Sylvia, b. Jan. 1, 1802; d. D'ec. 28, 1856; m. Oct. 5, 1819, David
Campbell of Acworth.
35. vii. Hiram, b. Sept. 3, 1803; m. (1) Feb. 23, 1829, Phebe Shattuck
of Hillsboro [d. May 17, 1839] ; (2) Mrs. Malinda C. Piper
of Danvers, Mass. Res. Newton, Mass. Two children.
12. Zebedee' (Reuben', SamuelS Abrahams AbrahamS
William'), b. Nov. 14, 1765 ; d. Dec. 14, 1845 ; m. Mar. 17, 1796,
Ruth, dau. of Thomas and Rachel Spaulding (32). He suc
ceeded to the family homestead, and passed his life there.
Children : George, b. Feb. 12, 1797.-1-
SopHiA, b. Dec. 10, 1798.
Asenath, b. Nov. 18, 1800; d. July 24 1827.
Ruth, b. May 12, 1802; d. July 24 1882; m. Sept. IS, 1841,
William Bucknam (11).
Milly, b. Feb. 8, 1804; ra. Apr. 2, 1829, Roby Fletcher (74).
Sophronia, b. June 2, 1806; m. 1832, Curtis Shedd.
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Russell Farwell.
17. William" (Reuben', Samuel*, Abraham', Abraham^,
WHliani'), b. May 16, 1781; d. June 6, 1870; m. Feb. 21, 1805,
Betsey Davis (44). He was a farmer upon the farm next east
from the town poor-farm, (XV: 3, S. R.,) for nearly twenty
years, after which he removed to the New Ipswich colony at
Denmark, Iowa. He remained, however, only a few months,
and after his return lived at Davis Village on XII: 1, S. R.,
where his house is still standing, being the first upon the east
side of the road entering the village from the south. But he
went back to Denmark, Iowa, a few years before his death.
Child :
45. i. Lucy K., b. May 18, 1808 ; d. Sept. 10, 1897 ; m. June 10, 1830,
William Brown (12). They removed to Denmark, Iowa,
being one of the first four families forraing a New Ipswich
colony in that place.
25. Samuel' (ThaddeusS Samuel*, Abraham', Abraham^,
WiHiam'), b. Oct. 12, 1781; d. Jan. 4, 1864; m. 1805, Persis,
dau. of Enos and Mary (Whitmore) Jones [b. Nov. 20, 1781 ;
d. Sept. 1, 1869]. He succeeded to his father's farm, occupy
ing it until 1843, when he moved to Smith VHlage, and passed
his remaining years in the more northerly of the two houses
built at about that time by himself and son Charles on the
north side of the river near the waterpower first utilized at
that time. Children :
46. i. Emily, b. June 27, 1806; d. Feb. 17, 1886; m. May 5, 1825,
Joseph Brooks (6).
Warren, b. June 2, 1808; d. Mar. 15, 1826.
Laura, b. July 16, 1810; d. Aug. 14, 1890; m. May 2, 1827,
Flavel Wilder.
Cynthia, b. Oct. 11, 1812; d. Mar. 30, 1816.
Hartwell J., b. Jan. 27, 1815.-1-
Fanny G, b. Apr. 9, 1817; d. Dec. 12, 1892; m. May 9, 1839,
Peter Swallow, a farmer at Dunstable, Mass., and afterward
in business at Worcester, Mass. Child : i. Ellen H. Swal
low, b. Dec. 3, 1842; d. Mar., 1911; m. Prof. Robert Rich
ards of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; she
graduated from Vassar College, studied in the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology, and became a professor of
Sanitary Chemistry in that institution.
52. vii. Charles, b. Mar. 21, 1820. -f-
53. vin. Olive A., b. Sept. 12, 1825; d. Mar. 13, 1865; m. Dec. 31, 1846,
Charles Wilson (35).
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28. Jonathan' (Jonathans Jonathan*, DavidS Abraham'',
William'), b. July 16, 1792; d. Apr. 23, 1874; m. May 7, 1818,
Sarah Wheeler (65). He was a farmer for nearly twenty
years near the south line of the town, (88, A. D.,) and in 1834
removed to Smith VHlage, where he made the home of his
remaining years in the most southerly house of the village,
now occupied by Alfred A. Woodward. Children :
55. i. Sarah W., b. Mar. 25, 1819; d. Aug. 17, 1892; m. Oct. 26,
1842, WiHiam R. Knowlton (49).
56. ii. Mary, b. Oct. 9, 1821; d. July 22, 1902; ra. Nov., 1849, Orren,
son of David (54) and Susannah (49) Wheeler.
57. iii. David M., b. June 7, 1827; d. Jan. 18, 1853.
58. iv. Lydia M., b. Nov. 23, 1829; d. Feb. 5, 1873.
59. v. Hannah C, b. June 12, 1832; d. Dec. 23, 1909; m. Nov. 20,
1855, Eastman C. Long.
60. vi. Elizabeth H., b. Aug. 2, 1835 ; d. Feb. 25, 1914.
36. George' (Zebedee', ReubenS SamuelS Abraham',
Abrahams WHliam'), b. Feb. 12, 1797; d. Sept. 30, 1842; m.
ReHef Nichols [b. 1804; d. Feb. 2, 1842]. He learned the
blacksmith's trade in New Ipswich, and about 1834 he re
moved to Enosburg, Vt., where he was a farmer while also
continuing his trade. Children:
61. i. George Newton, b. 1826; d. young.
62. ii. Thomas Scott, b. 1828; m. Mary Brown. Removed to Den
mark, Iowa, and there made his horae.
Eleanor Sophia, b. 1829; m. Silas Rice. Removed to Iowa.
William, b. Dec. 21, 1830; ra. Sophronia Sophia Isbell. Re
raoved to Iowa.
Harriet Newell, b. 1833; m. Dr. John Rice. Removed to
Iowa.
Emily Asenath, b. 1835; m. Henry Prescott.
James, b. 1838; d. young.
42. Reuben' (Zebedee', Reuben', SamuelS AbrahamS
Abrahams WHliam'), b. Apr. 10, 1809; d. Nov. 19, 1892; m.
Oct. 19, 1842, Elizabeth F. Fletcher (186). He succeeded to
the family farm and there passed nearly all his life. He was
a deacon. ChHdren:
68. i. Martha Fidelia, b. Apr. 25, 1844; m. Mar. 25, 1873, Lucien
B. Downing, a druggist at Hanover, N. H. [b. Oct. 7,
1838]. Children: i. Mary A. Downing, b. Apr. 22, 1874;
m. Oct. 23, 1900, Roy J. Ward. ii. Arthur T. Downing, b.
Oct. 22, 1877; m. Sept. 2, 1903, Mabel R. Moore, iii. Nellie
R. Downing, b. May 25, 1879; d. Sept. 6, 1880. iv. Lillie
B. Downing, b. May 25, 1879; d. Sept. IS, 1880. v. Bessie
F. Downing, b. Aug. 11, 1881. vi. Herbert H. Downing, b.
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well, a doctor at Grafton, Mass.
70. iii. Harriet Lilian, b. Apr. 21, 1854; d. Jan. 27, 1859.
50. Hartwell J.' (Samuel', ThaddeusS SamuelS Abra
ham', Abrahams WHliam'), b. Jan. 27, 1815; d. Dec. 30, 1854;
m. Oct. 4, 1842, Harriet Wilson (20). He removed to Den
mark, Iowa, where he was a farmer. Children :
71. i. Jane W., b. Aug. 20, 1843; m. Silas Luraan Sanders.
72. ii. William, b. May 28, 1848; d. Sept. 29, 1851.
73. iii. Charles E., b. Dec. 22, 1850; d. Aug. 17, 1852.
74. iv. Eugene H., b. Oct. 23, 1853; ra. Mary  . He graduated
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is an
architect at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
52. Charles' (Samuel', Thaddeus', Samuel*, Abraham',
Abrahams WiHiam^), b. Mar. 21, 1820; d. Apr. 12, 1905; m.
(1) Dec. 23, 1841, Harriet N. Weston [b. Nov. 3, 1820; d. Mar.
29, 1867] ; (2) Nov. 27, 1872, Mrs. L. Gipson. He was a car
penter and he also first utilized the waterpower just above
Smith Village, building the shop still in service on the western
road from the south burying-ground to the village, and there
manufacturing cane-seat chairs untH the competition of the
larger establishments made a continuance of the work imprac
ticable. He made his home for a quarter-century in the house
opposite the shop, then removed to the Center Village and
passed his remaining years in the second house southward
from the Barrett mansion, now occupied by his oldest daugh
ter. He was a leader in the church and held the office of dea-
Children :
Charles Clinton, b. Nov. 27, 1842; d. Oct. 17, 1861.
Harrietta M., b. July 16, 1844. She was teacher many years.
Myron, b. July 31, 1846.-]-
Marianna, b. Feb. 17, 1849; d. Feb. 26, 1851.
Emma, b. Feb. 20, 1854; ra. Sept. 3, 1878, Frank H. Hardison
[b. Sept. 3, 1849]. He is state Insurance Commissioner of
Massachusetts. Res. Wellesley Hills, Mass. Children : i.
Matie L. Hardison, b. Jan. 9, 1880. ii. Charles Taylor
Hardison, b. Aug. 22, 1883; d. Sept. 28, 1906. iii. Helen E.
Hardison, b. June 29, 1886.
80. vi. Carrie, b. Jan. 22, 1857; d. Aug. 25, 1886; m. July 2, 1883, S.
Fred Maynard [d. June 23, 1886]. He was a farmer in
Wilton. Child: i. Daniel P Maynard, b. Nov. 2, 1884;
m. Oct., 1912, Susan Perry.
54. George W.' (Samuel', Thaddeus', SamuelS Abraham',
Abrahams WHliam'), b. May 20, 1828; m. Nov. 22, 1885, Eliza
beth Roxanna, dau. of WiHiam and Sally (Blodgett) Moore
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[b. Aug. 23, 1834 ; d. Mar. 14, 1883] . A carpenter and builder.
Res. successively in New Ipswich, Greenville, and Rindge, but
since 1892 in Winchendon, Mass. Children :
81. i. Clarence George, b. June 27, 1858; ra. about 1890, Christine
Anderson [d. about 1905]. He graduated from the Worces
ter, Mass., Technical Institute, and was successively super
intendent of mechanical work in Charlotteville, Va., and
in the State University of Michigan, in which latter place
he also studied dentistry and received his professional de
gree in 1902, then entering practice. Later he has been
manager of a sash and blind factory at Manchester.
82. ii. Adella L., b. May 19, 1862.
83. iii. Mabel Lauretta, b. July 16, 1872; d. Feb. 11, 1874.
84. iv. Erwin Hartwell, b. May 17, 1876. He studied medicine at
the University of Michigan, graduating in 1900. He is in
practice at Pittsfield, Mass.
77. Myron' (Charles', Samuel', Thaddeus', SamuelS Abra
ham', Abrahams William'), b. July 31, 1846; m. Oct. 7, 1869,
Elizabeth P. Crosby. He has been in the service of the Boston
& Maine Railroad since early manhood, and is now its real
estate agent. He is also treasurer of New Ipswich Appleton
Academy. Children :
85. i. Fanny G, b. Sept. 1, 1870; d. Feb. 22, 1879.
86. ii. Harriet M., b. May 16, 1872; m. Nov. 1, 1899, Archibald
Eagleson. Children: i. Gratia Elizabeth Eagleson, b.
May 31, 1901. ii. Esther Margaret Eagleson, b. Oct. 22,
1904. iii. Gordon Taylor Eagleson, b. Feb. 27, 1906; d. Oct.
18, 1907.
87. iii. Albert C, b. Mar. 18, 1875; d. June 11, 1876.
88. iv. C. Ralph, b. Dec. 14 1877; m. June 30, 1906, Irma E. Wing.
89. V. Warren C, b. June 17, 1880; m. Nov. 28, 1905, Amy L. Brain.
Child : i. Elizabeth L, b. Aug. 17, 1907.
90. vi. Philip W., b. July 4, 1885; ra. Sept. 6, 1913, Lena Walker
(57).
TENNY.
Thomas' Tenny, b. about 1614; d. Dec. 20, 1699/1700; m. (1) Ann
 [d. Sept., 1657]; (2) Feb. 24, 1658, Elizabeth, widow of Francis
Parrat. He was one of the party of twenty people under the leadership
of Rev. Ezekiel Rogers which left Rowley, Yorkshire, England, in 1638,
and arrived in Salem, Mass., in Deceraber of that year, but in a few
raonths reraoved a few miles to the north and founded the town of Row
ley. He was prominent in the activities of the new town, being a select
man and holding other responsible positions. He spent his last years
in Bradford, and there died.
John' (Thomas'), b. Dec. 14, 1640; d. Apr. 13, 1722; m. (1) Feb.
26, 1663, Mercy Parrat, his stepsister [b. July 23, 1646; d. Nov. 27, 1667];
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(2) Dec. 2, 1668, Susannah, dau. of Humphrey and Elizabeth Woodbury
of Beverly [b. Feb. 4, 1648; d. Apr. 9, 1716]. He was a leading citizen
in the town of Bradford, being one of its first board of selectmen, and
also a deacon.
Samuel' (John', Thomas'), b. Nov. 20, 1665; d. Feb. 3, 1747/8; m.
(1) Abigail, dau. of Dea. Joseph and Abigail (Trumbull) Bailey of
Bradford [b. Mar. 9, 1671/2; d. Nov. 29, 1689]; (2) Dec. 18, 1690, Sarah,
dau. of Capt. Joseph and Sarah (Swan) Boynton of Bradford [b. Jan.
11, 1671/2; d. Apr. 3, 1709]; (3) Jan. 26, 1710/11, Hannah, dau. of Samuel
Moody of Newbury [b. Jan. 4, 1669; d. Oct. 29, 1745]. Like his father,
he was leader in the town and church, holding official position in both.
Samuel* (Samuel', John', Thomas'), b. Dec. 17, 1697; d. 1777; m.
(1) Jan. 5, 1719/20, Sarah, dau. of William and Martha (Cheney) Wor
cester of Bradford [b. Feb. 11, 1697/8]; (2) Dec. 28, 1749, Elizabeth
Fales of Bradford. He removed to Littleton, Mass., about 1727, and was
a farmer of that town.
William' (Samuel*, Samuel', John', Thomas'), b. Bradford, Jan. 20,
1721; d. Mar. 7, 1804; m. Sarah Proctor. He was a farmer in Littleton,
Mass., owning much land near Magog Pond.
Oliver' (Samuel*, Samuel', John', Thomas'), b. Littleton, Sept. 12,
1736; d. Dec. 30, 1787; m. June 15, 1763, Sarah Reed of Littleton [d. Jan.,
1803]. He succeeded to the paternal farm.
1. Joseph' (WHliam*, SamuelS Samuel', John^, Thomas'),
b. July 18, 1746; d. Apr. 5, 1842; m. PeppereH, Mass., Feb. 7,
1774, Elizabeth Parker [b. May 9, 1755 ; d. June 16, 1831]. His
name first appears on the tax-list of New Ipswich in 1783,
and he passed the rest of his life as a farmer upon lot 89, A. D.,
except a few of his last years at the closely neighboring home
of his son Sampson. His wife in her early years was a woman
of exceptional beauty, but nervous ailments, not then recog
nized, produced lamentable peculiarities in later years, and
she was greatly feared by some of her neighbors as a danger
ous witch. He did good service in the Revolution, marching
upon the Concord alarm, and serving later in the companies
of Capts. Briant and Brown. ChHdren :
3. i. Joseph, b. Aug. 13, 1775.-]-
4. ii. Benjamin, b. about 1778.+
5. iii. William, b. Mar. 20, 1780.-1-
6. iv. Betsey, m. James Emerson of New Ipswich. Children: i.
Julia Emerson, ii. Maria Emerson, iii. George Emerson.
iv. Elizabeth Emerson, v. Luther James Emerson.
7. v. Sampson, b. Oct. 24 1786.-f
8. vi. Elijah, d. young.
Three other sons whose names are unknown died young.
2. John' (Oliver', SamuelS Sam-uelS JohnS Thomas'), b.
Littleton, Mass., Dec. 4, 1769; d. Mar. 10, 1849; m. Mar. 12,
1793, Lucy Reed of Littleton [b. July 9, 1770; d. May 26,
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1872]. He lived for some years in Ludlow, Vt., whence he
came to New Ipswich about 1818 and settled upon lot 19,
N. D., previously occupied by his father-in-law, Nathaniel
Reed, where he lived for a time and then removed to Temple.
3. Joseph' (Joseph', William', Samuel*, SamuelS JohnS
Thomas'), b. Aug. 13, 1775 ; d. Aug. 23, 1866; m. Sept. 8, 1799,
Judith Adams [b. 1774; d. May 11, 1855]. He was a farmer,
his farm including parts of 186, N. L. O., and XII : 4, S. R.
ChHdren :
11. i. Clarissa W., b. Aug. 26, 1800; m. Nov. 30, 1820, Benjarain I.
Brown. She lived in New Ipswich, and afterward in
Townsend. Children : i. Clarissa Brown, b. 1821 ; unm.
ii. Emily Brown, b. 1823; m.  Adams of Townsend,
Mass. iii. Arvilla Brown, b. 1825; ra.  Adams of
Townsend, Mass. iv. Charles Brown, b. 1827. v. George
Brown, b. 1830. vi. Serena Brown, b. 1832; m.  Sher
win. vii. Mary Ann Brown, b. 1835. Others not recorded.
Emily, b. Jan. 12, 1805 ; d. Apr. 27, 1808.
Arvilla, b. July 18, 1807; d. Mar. 22, 1881; m. Aug. 19, 1831,
Seth Chandler (26).
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George, b. June 27, 1817; m. Fanny Adams.
4. Benjamin' (Joseph', William', Samuel*, Samuel', John^,
Thomas'), b. about 1778; m. Mar. 23, 1806, Polly, dau. of
Oliver Richardson of Billerica. Child:
16. i. Martha, b. Mar. 29, 1808; ra. Dec. 13, 1825, Enoch Foster of
Tewksbury, Mass.
5. William' (Joseph', William', Samuel*, Samuel', John^,
Thomas'), b. Mar. 20, 1780; d. Oct. 7, 1845; m. Mary Butter
field of Chelmsford, Mass. [b. Westford, Mass., Feb. 5, 1782 ;
d. Westford, June 29, 1871]. He was a farmer in New Ipswich
for some years, but removed about 1825 to Preemption, 111.
ChHdren :
17. i. Sampson, b. Oct. 15, 1805.-1-
18. ii. Mary, b. July 6, 1806; d. Palmer, Mass., Aug. 21, 1889; m.
Oct. 18, 1825, Horace Clark of Medfield, Mass. [d. Palmer,
Dec. 24, 1874]. Eleven children.
19. iii. Harriet, b. Aug. 13, 1808; d. Mar. 9, 1857; m. Jan. 1, 1834,
Hiram Cram [b. Roxbury, Vt., 1804]. He was a lumber
dealer in Sharon and then in Shirley, Mass. Eleven chil
dren.
20. iv. Luceba, b. May 28, 1810; d. 1815.
21. V. Lucy B., b. Sept. 29, 1811; d. Westford, Mass., Apr. 22, 1880;
m. Apr. 4 1839, Amos K. Fuller [d. Dec. 8, 1888]. Res.
Phillipston, Mass., and Lancaster, Mass. Four children.
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22. vi. Asenath, b. June 7, 1814; d. Aug. 25, 1845; m. Dec. 6, 1832,
Hiram Nutting (6).
23. vii. William Pitts, b. Nov. 17, 1816.-1-
24. viii. Willard E., b. Apr. 23, 1819. He moved to California, where
he died.
25. ix. Samuel, b. May 27, 1821. He removed to the West in early
manhood, and was a large grower of grain at Six Oaks,
Minn.
7. Sampson' (Josephs WilliamS Samuel*, Samuel', John^,
Thomas'), b. Oct. 24, 1786; d. Apr. 16, 1858; m. Sarah Parker
(A. 13). He was a farmer in New Ipswich, (99, N. L. O.,)
until 1827, when he removed to Lempster, and in 1838 to Pre
emption, 111. Children :
26. i. Lyman, b. Oct. 23, 1806.-1-
27. ii. Joseph Parker, b. Aug. 14, 1808.-]-
28. Hi. Almira, b. Apr. 5, 1810; d. Jan. 9, 1887; m. Apr. 28, 1828,
William H. C. Temple of Claremont [d. Feb. 20, 1857]. Res.
Cincinnati, O. Nine children.
29. iv. Irene Luellen, b. Dec. 27, 1811; d. July 19, 1838; ra. Aug. 10,
1837, Rev. James H. Anderson, pastor at Monticello, 111.,
where he d. 1853.
30. V. Lovina "M., b. May 12, 1814; d. Apr. 24 1880; m. Sept. 2,
1834, Samuel Dow of Newport, N. H. Res. Galesburg, 111.
Seven children.
31. vi. Sampson Hale, b. June 15, 1816.-1-
32. vH. Hammon M., b. Nov. 5, 1818.-1-
33. vHi. Sarah Ann, b. Mar. 21, 1821; m. Oct. 1, 1838, James E.
Hasbrook of New York [d. Apr. 12, 1849]. She was a
teacher until 1879 and afterward lived at Rock Island, 111.
34. ix. Sylvia, b. Oct. 18, 1822; d. July 27, 1889; m. Oct. 17, 1839,
Joseph Huntoon. Res. Moline, 111. Six children.
35. X. Lydia Jane, b. June 8, 1830; d. Jan. 18, 1886; ra. Aug. 29,
1850, S. B. Harrington [d. Aug. 25, 1870]. He was a law
yer. Res. Beatrice, Neb. Two children.
9. Alfred' (JohnS Oliver', SamuelS Samuel', John^,
Thomas'), b. Littleton, Mass., Jan. 27, 1808; d. Jan. 22, 1894;
m. Nov. 27, 1834, Betsey W. Whitcomb of Boxboro, Mass. [d.
Mar. 15, 1892]. Immediately after his marriage he came to
New Ipswich, and settled upon lot 19, N. D. His residence
there was not permanent, however, as he twice returned to
his native town and there resided for a few years. After his
second absence he purchased the "WHson farm," (35, N. D.,)
and there had his home until his death. He was a cooper
in his younger days. Children:
36. i. Alfred Reed, b. Oct. 7, 1835; m. (1) May 20, 1880, Ann Shat
tuck [d. Dec. 11, 1881] ; (2) Aug. 13, 1884, Harriet Augusta
Hildreth (21). He is a farmer upon one of the earliest
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farms of the town, that of Benjamin Adams, (25, N. D.,)
where he has passed his entire married life. His only
child, Alfred, died on the same day as his mother, Dec. 11,
1881.
37. ii. Mary E., b. Feb. 2, 1837; m. Dec. 4, 1856, Orren Hanscomb.
She lives in Brookfield, Mo. Six children.
38. iii. Moses W., b. Nov. 4, 1839; d. Feb. 2, 1859.
39. iv. Martha A., b. Jan. 4, 1843 ; ra. Jan. 4, 1863, Thomas Bancroft
[d. July 13, 1885]. He was a carpenter at Pepperell. Two
children.
40. V. Lydia M., b. Dec. 20, 1846; d. Jan. 26, 1851.
41. vi. Charles E., b. Apr. 27, 1850; d. Sept. 29, 1850.
10. Barnard' (JohnS Oliver', SamuelS SamueP, JohnS
Thomas'), b. Acton, Mass., May 15, 1809; d. at the home of
his second son, July 13, 1898; m. Feb. 12, 1843, Harriet Wal
lace (2). In early years he was a cooper in Acton, Mass.,
and also for a time in Boston. He came to New Ipswich
about 1843 and at first lived upon the farm next westward
from that of his brother, (23, N. D.,) but later moved south
erly and made his home upon the Greenville road, (18, N. D.,)
on the farm previously occupied by Daniel Jefts. ChHdren :
42. i. Theodore, b. July 31, 1844; d. May 24 1873.
43. ii. Oliver, b. July 6, 1846.-|-
44. iii. EuRANiA, b. June 6, 1849; d. June 10, 1851.
14. Joseph A.' (Josephs Josephs William', Samuel*, Sam
uelS JohnS Thomas'), b. Sept. 1, 1812; m. Adaline A. Billings.
He was a liquor dealer in Worcester, Mass. ChHdren :
45. i. Charles Augustus.-|-
46. ii. Eugene, b. 1878; d. about 1894.
47. iii. Henry Allen, d. in early manhood.
17. Sampson' (WHliam', Joseph', WHliam', Samuel*, Sam
ueP, Johns Thomas'), b. Oct. 15, 1805; d. Dec. 21, 1880; m.
Joanna Hill [d. Stoughton, Mass., Oct. 27, 1883]. Children:
48. i. Sampson Henry, b. July 3, 1833.-]-
Harriet Augusta, b. Mar. 4, 1835.
Mary Elizabeth, b. Dec. 28, 1836; m. Augustus Davenport.
She lived at Campello, Mass.
Ellen Frances, b. Sept. 25, 1838; m. Thomas Bright.
James, b. Apr. 29, 1840.
Charles, b. Apr. 21, 1843.-1-
Abby Maria, b. Feb. 21, 1844; d. Dec. 18, 1863.
55. viii. William Butterfield, b. Mar. 29, 1846.
23. William Pitts' (WiHiam', Josephs William', SamuelS
Samuels JohnS Thomas'), b. Nov. 17, 1816; d. Aug. 1, 1892;
m. May 26, 1839, Susan Abigail Robinson [b. Mar. 31, 1823;
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d. Nov. 26, 1885]. He lived at Preemption, IU., until 1856,
when he removed to Wabasha, Minn. With three of his sons
he did honorable service during the CivH War. Children :
56. i. George Willard, b. Mar. 2, 1840; m. Aug. 21, 1862. He
served in the 10th Minnesota Regiment during the Civil
War. Five children.
57. ii. Susan A., b. Dec. 25, 1841 ; d. June 27, 1842.
58. iii. Samuel Stillman, b. Aug. 1, 1843. Res. Wabasha, Minn.
He served in the 1st Minnesota Regiment during the Civil
War and was wounded at Gettysburg.
59. iv. Asenath A., b. Oct. 5, 1845; m. July 3, 1862,  Stone.
Res. Winona, Minn. Two children.
60. v. WnxiAM Pitts, b. Oct. 21, 1847.-|-
61. vi. Mary Ellen, b. Dec. 9, 1849; d. aged two years.
62. vii. Mary Ella, b. June 3, 1852; m.  Hammond. Res. Sleepy
Eye, Minn.
63. viii. Sarah Lovina, b. Aug. 24, 1854; m.  Welch. Res. La
Crosse, Wis. Ten children.
64. ix. Roxana Luceba, b. Oct. 19, 1856; m.  Smith. One son.
65. X. Clara Belle, b. Mar. 3, 1859; unm. Removed to San Fran
cisco, Cal.
66. xi. Charles Hackett, b. Feb. 5, 1861.-|-
67. xii. Velora Elias, b. Aug. 4, 1863. Removed to California.
68. xiii. Eddie, b. Mar. 25, 1870; d. Mar. 2, 1871.
26. Lyman' (Sampson', Joseph', William', Samuel*, Sam
uelS Johns Thomas'), b. Oct. 23, 1806; d. Oct. 1, 1845; m. Jan.,
1840, Louisa Wood of Millersburg, 111. Res. Preemption, 111.
Children :
69. i. Emma L., b. Mar. 25, 1841; m. 1858, Theodore Hasbrook.
Res. Hebron, Neb.
70. ii. Frances Irene, b. May 7, 1843.
71. iii. Pamela, b. Mar. 31, 1846.
27. Joseph Parker' (Sampson', Josephs William', Sam
uelS Samuel', JohnS Thomas'), b. Aug. 14, 1808; d. Dec. 1,
1887; m. Apr. 4, 1839, Almira Ross Merryman of Berlin, 111.
[b. Mar. 15, 1815 ; d. Jan. 22, 1863], He was a farmer at Lemp
ster, N. H., Oxford, O., and near Rock Island, 111. Children :
72. i. Sampson Merryman, b. Mar. 2, 1841.-1-
73. ii. Joseph Parker, b. Dec. 13, 1842; d. Mar. 16, 1843.
74. iii. Sarah Luellen, b. Mar. 28, 1844.
75. iv. Mary Elizabeth, b. Jan. 13, 1846.
76. v. Marie Jeanette, b. Feb. 22, 1848. Res. Vallevista, Cal.
77. vi. Lyman Laurie, b. Apr. 5, 1850; unm. A farmer at Ida
Grove, Iowa.
78. vii. Josephine Irene, b. Nov. 27, 1852; d. Nov. 17, 1870.
79. viii. Philena Almire, b. Oct. 10, 1854; d. Nov. 15, 1870.
80. ix. Jennie Lind, b. May 19, 1857.
81. x. Thirza Lovina, b. Oct. 11, 1859; d. Nov. 20, 1870.
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31. Sampson Hale' (SampsonS Joseph', WilliamS Sam
uelS Samuels JohnS Thomas'), b. June 15, 1816; d. Moline,
IH., Oct. 27, 1884; m. (1) Mar. 2, 1843, Marinda E. Jenks of
Preemption, 111. [d. Mar. 5, 1847]; (2) Mrs. Martha Eliot
(Avery) Van Meter. Children :
82. i. Sarah J., b. Dec. 29, 1843.
83. ii. Hammon O., b. Jan. 17, 1856; m. twice. Two children.
84. iii. Homer, b. Apr. 13, 1868; unm. Farmer at Astor, Iowa.
85. iv. Harmon, b. Apr. 13, 1868; d. Apr. 27, 1868.
86. V. Clara Belle, b. Jan. 17, 1870.
32. Hammon M.' (Sampson', Joseph', WilliamS SamuelS
Samuel', JohnS Thomas'), b. Nov. 5, 1818; d. Apr. 6, 1873;
m. May 7, 1848, Lorette Lowther of Preemption, 111. [b. June
9, 1831]. Res. Galesburg, IH. ChHdren:
87. i. Florence Adaline, b. Mar. 3, 1849.
88. ii. Helen Irene, b. Dec. 28, 1850. She graduated from Knox
College, 1872.
89. iii. Clara Maud, b. Jan. 3, 1853.
90. iv. Hammon Morton, b. Aug. 3, 1862.
91. V. Philip Eugene, b. Aug. 16, 1866; d. Aug. 8, 1867.
43. Oliver' (Barnard', John', Oliver', Samuel*, Samuel',
Johns Thomas'), b. July 6, 1846; d. Nov. 20, 1905; m. July 6,
1885, Ella F., dau. of Julius A. and Eliza (Perry) Hale of
Rindge [b. Mar. 17, 1859]. He succeeded to the farm of his
father, upon which he conducted a large milk business. Chil
dren: 92. i. Hattie Ella, b. June 6, 1886.
93. ii. Wallace Oliver, b. July 10, 1889.
94 iii. Wilder Hale, b. June 29, 1892.
95. iv. Alice Florence, b. Feb. 20, 1894.
96. V. Ruth Marion, b. Nov. 16, 1896.
45. Charles Augustus' (Joseph A.', Joseph', Josephs Wil
liamS Samuels Samuel', JohnS Thomas'), d. 1869/70; m.
Emeline E. Webster. He was a successful lumber dealer in
Worcester, Mass. Children :
97. i. Osgood Chandler, d. 1878.
98. ii. Henry Allen, b. Mar. 3, 1862. He is a lawyer in New York
city.
48. Sampson Henry^ (Sampson', WHliam', Joseph', Wil
liamS Samuels Samuel', JohnS Thomas'), b. July 3, 1833; m.
Eliza Ann Gurney. ChHdren :
99. i. Estella W., b. Sept. 2, 1854; ra. Oct., 1887, Frank A. Rich
ards. Res. Weymouth Heights, Mass.
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100. ii. Ada F., b. Aug. 1, 1856; d. Sept. 12, 1882; m. Aug. 12, 1880,
Wendell T. Dizer.
101. iii. Cora L., b. Dec. 17, 1858; m. May 11, 1877, Horace Lincoln.
Res. West Hingham, Mass.
102. iv. Mary A., b. June 12, 1871 ; d. Mar. 5, 1873.
53. Charles' (Sampson', WHliam', Joseph', William',
Samuels Samuel', JohnS Thomas'), b. Apr. 21, 1843; d. May
11, 1897; m. Dec. 21, 1862, Sarah Maria Lunt. Res. Stough
ton, Mass. Children:
103. i. Myra F., b. Nov. 2, 1866.
104. ii. Charles F., b. Aug. 31, 1870; d. Mar. 8, 1898.
105. iii. Sarah J., b. June 29, 1875; m. July 6, 1897, J. Lawrence
Stratton. Res. Stoughton, Mass.
60. William Pitts' (WHliam PittsS William', Joseph',
WiHiam', SamuelS Samuel', JohnS Thomas'), b. Oct. 21, 1847;
m. Nov. 28, 1878, Alvira C. Colby [b. Canada, Oct. 17, 1855].
He removed with his father to Minnesota in 1856. He served
during the Civil War in the 1st Minnesota Artillery. Res.
Redwood Falls, Minn. Children :
106. i. Roy Pitts, b. Dec. 12, 1881.
107. ii. Julia Luceba, b. June 19, 1883.
108. iii. Lorena May, b. May 1, 1888.
109. iv. Ralph C, b. Feb. 10, 1890.
110. V. Marion Ada, b. Nov. 12, 1892.
Ul. vi. Velora Lee, b. June 29, 1896.
66. Charles Hackett' (William Pitts', William', Joseph',
William', SamuelS Samuel', JohnS Thomas'), b. Feb. 5, 1861;
m. Feb. 20, 1884, Kate E. Sinclair. Res. Redwood Falls, Minn.
Children :
112. i. Susan Lida, b. Nov. 23, 1884.
113. ii. Madge Beth, b. July 23, 1886.
114. iii. Flossie Christine, b. June 13, 1891.
72. Sampson Merryman' (Joseph Parker', Sampson', Jo
seph', WHliam', Samuel*, Samuel', JohnS Thomas'), b. Mar.
2, 1841 ; m. Mar. 24, 1875, Anna Baker. He was an officer in
the army during the Civil War. A farmer at Ida Grove, Iowa.
Children :
115. i. Louise May, b. Sept. 11, 1876. She is a teacher of music,
having prepared for that work in Germany.
116. ii. Edgar Lamon, b. Feb. 8, 1879.
117. iii. Charles Parker, b. Nov. 13, 1882.
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THAYER.
Thomas' Thayer, b. Braintree, Essex, England, about 1600; d. Brain
tree, Mass., 1664/5 ; m. before 1623, Margery  . He came to America
in 1630 and settled at Braintree, where he was admitted freeman in 1636.
Ferdinando' (Thomas'), b. about 1625; d. Mendon, Mass., Mar. 28,
1713; m. Jan. 14, 1652, Huldah Hayward of Braintree [d. Sept. 1, 1690].
In 1665 he removed from Braintree to Mendon, of which he was one of
the largest Proprietors and where he was an honored citizen.
Thomas' (Ferdinando', Thoraas'), b. 1665; d. May 1, 1738; ra. 1688,
Mary Adaras. He lived in Mendon, where he held the office of captain.
John* (Thomas', Ferdinando', Thomas'), b. Sept. 17, 1706; d. later
than 1773; m. 1733, Ruhamah Smith of Bellinghara, Mass. [d. after Nov.
26, 1747] ; (2) 1769, Mary Spencer. He lived in Mendon.
Palatia" (John*, Thomas', Ferdinando', Thomas'), b. Nov. 22, 1739;
d. Mar. 23, 1797; m. (1) May 27, 1762, Hannah, dau. of Aaron and
Jemima Thayer [b. Mar. 12, 1739; d. 1790]; (2) Mar. 2, 1793, Hannah
Blake. Res. in Mendon.
Smith" (Palatia', John*, Thomas', Ferdinando', Thomas'), b. Dec.
-15, 1770; d. Mar. 31, 1818; m. Sept. 14, 1793, Abigail Drake [b. Uxbridge,
Mass., 1770; d. New Ipswich, Mar. 13, 1839]. After some years he re
moved from Mendon to Petersham, Mass., where he died.
1. Stephen' (Smiths Palatia', John*, Thomas', Ferdi-
nandoS Thomas'), b. July 24, 1803; d. Jan. 11, 1890; m. Feb.
2, 1826, Johannah, dau. of Joab and Mary (Balch) Pond of
Keene [b. Feb. 13, 1808; d. Apr. 15, 1878]. He came to New
Ipswich at the age of twenty years and began his long and
vigorous business activities in Davis Village, but in two years
removed to the Center Village, where for a long time he em
ployed a larger number of workmen than were required for
any other industry in that vHlage. His cigar manufactory
required over fifty workmen, which at that period made him
one of the leaders of that business in the country. He also
had a match factory with fifteen employees, a bakery, a labo
ratory for the production of essences and various proprietary
articles, a lumber mill, and a country store. During the CivH
War he established a branch house at Washington, D. C,
which furnished a very large amount of bakery products and
other articles desired under the existing conditions. The de
mands of his large business forbade any large activities in
less personal interests, but he served the town as selectman
and as representative, and was a trustee of the Academy dur
ing a large part of his life. Children :
3. i. Joanna Pond, b. Dec. 9, 1827; m. July 26, 1850, Edward A., son
of Curtis and Lucy (Merriam) Lawrence of Groton, Mass.
[b. Feb. 25, 1823]. Res. Orange, N. J. Children: i. Lucy
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Maria Lawrence, b. Rahway, N. J., Dec. 10, 1851; m. Apr.
16, 1873, Henry Hale; res. Orange, N. J.; six children, ii.
Lauretta Frances Lawrence, b. Stamford, Ct., Mar. 24,
1854; d. Clifldale, Tex., July 20, 1885; m. Mar. 12, 1874
George Ames, Jr. ; five children.
4. ii. Permelia Hammond, b. Feb. 23, 1830; d. Apr. 10, 1914; m.
Oct. 11, 1849, Noah Webster, son of Christopher and Con-
sentany (Cummings) Farley of Brookline [b. May 5, 1822;
d. Dec. 28, 1891]. Res. West Newton, Mass. Children: i.
Arthur Christopher Farley, b. Mar. 13, 1851 ; m. Mar. 9,
1881, Helen, dau. of Charles and Emily (Cutts) Judd of
Honolulu, Hawaii [b. Mar. 5, 1862]. Res. Wellesley, Mass.;
four children, ii. William Thayer Farley, b. Jan. 9, 1855;
m. Nov. 11, 1886, Marion Adelaide Thayer (14). Res.
Auburndale, Mass.; with his older brother he is in the firm
of Farley, Harvey & Co., Boston; two children, iii. Fred
erick Webster Farley, b. June 29, 1859; m. Dec. 27, 1883,
Mary Wheatie, dau. of Rev. William and Frances (Jordan)
McDonald [b. June 6, I860]. Res. Waltham, Mass.; five
children, iv. Walter Stephen Farley, b. May IS, 1865; d.
Mar. 13, 1866. v. Edith Permelia Farley, b. May 22, 1867 ;
m. Sept. 20, 1892, Henry, son of Edward P. and Ada
(Holmes) Whitmore of Quincy, 111. [b. Sept. 16, 1867];
res. West Newton, Mass.; two children.
5. iii. Mary Elizabeth, b. May 31, 1832; d. St. Anthony's FaUs,
Minn., Mar. 27, 1857; m. May 31, 1855, George Thomas
Russell [b. Montreal, P. Q., Sept. 14 1832; d. Nov. 2, 1899].
Child: i. Mary Ettie Russell, b. Mar. 20, 1857; d. Aug. 4,
1879.
6. iv. Lauretta Sophia, b. Feb. 8, 1835; d. Marlboro, Mass., July
9, 1883; ra. (1) Jan. 3, 1856, William Vincent, son of
Thomas and Mary F. Yates of New York city [b. Feb. 11,
1829; d. June 4, 1857]; (2) Edward Otis Ballard (2).
Child: i. William Irvin Yates, b. Apr. 30, 1857; d. Mar. 30,
1862; four children of second marriage (Ballard).
7. V. Sarah Abigail, b. Aug. 9, 1837. She graduated frora Mt.
Holyoke Seminary and has devoted her life to teaching.
She went to Charleston, S. C, to teach the freedmen among
the earliest of those going to the South for that purpose.
In 1877 she went to Cape Colony, Africa, as principal of
Midland Seminary, which she organized upon the princi
ples of Mt. Holyoke. She resides at San Diego, Cal.
8. vi. Stephen Henry, b. Dec. 16, 1839.-}-
9. vii. Samuel Allen, b. Apr. 1, 1842.-)-
10. viii. Edward Arthur, b. Feb. 24, 1844.-]-
11. ix. William Sumner, b. Nov. 19, 1845; d. Nov. 4, 1851.
12. X. Frederick Albert, b. June 10, 1848.4-
2. Albert Gallatin' (Smith', Palatia', John*, Thomas',
FerdinandoS Thomas'), b. June 29, 1809; d. Apr. 13, 1880; m.
Dec. 31, 1835, Sarah Boynton (26). In his early manhood he
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served for two years in the army with the Black Hawk expe
dition in the Northwest ; then in 1833 he came to New Ipswich
and made it the place of his life's activities, which, if not as
extensive as those of his older brother, were hardly less di
versified, as for a time the products of his bakery were all
known in a considerable circuit of towns, his brickyard fur
nished bricks of superior quality, and he was also engaged in
blacksmithing, tailoring, tin work and basket-making. Child:
13. i. Albert Sumner, b. Apr. 23, 1842.-|-
8. Stephen Henry' (Stephen', Smiths Palatia', JohnS
Thomas', Ferdinando^, Thomas'), b. Dec. 16, 1839; m. Nov.
25, 1863, Emma Frances, dau. of James A. and Mary (Falk)
Halsted of New York city [b. Nov. 11, 1845; d. Dec. 31, 1906].
He was a broker until 1899, and has since been engaged in
literary pursuits. Res. at Tarrytown and later at Yonkers,
N. Y. ChHdren :
14. i. Marion Adelaide, b. Mar. 19, 1865; m. Nov. 11, 1886, William
T., son of Noah W. and Permelia H. (Thayer) (4) Farley.
15. ii. Alice Emma, b. Nov. 19, 1869; m. (1) Dec. 12, 1891, Frank
Secor, son of Amos and Mary Elizabeth Abbott of An
dover, Mass. [b. Feb. 27, 1856; d. May 27, 1898]; (2) 1909,
Richard Harold Waldo. Res. New York city. One son.
16. iii. Howard Stephen, b. Aug. 25, 1874; m. Oct. 8, 1898, Bertha,
dau. of Dr. George arid  (Holman) Cook of Tarry
town, N. Y. [b. May, 1877]. Res. Cleveland, Ohio.
17. iv. Everett Henry, b. July 19, 1875; d. Mar. 31, 1905.
9. Samuel Allen' (Stephen', Smith', Palatia', JohnS
Thomas', FerdinandoS Thomas'), b. Apr. 1, 1842; m. Dec. 25,
1863, Mary Hannah Adams (W. 110). He is a traveling sales
man living at New Ipswich. Children :
18. i. William Adams, b. July 30, 1865.-|-
19. ii. Mabel Louise, b. Aug. 23, 1870; m. Feb. 5, 1900, Frank Her
bert Preston (104). Res. Springfield, Mass. One son.
20. iii. Grace Joanna, b. Feb. 21, 1872; m. Oct. 29, 1894 Albert Ed
ward Brown (J. 2).
21. iv. Walter Stephen, b. Dec. 30, 1873.-|-
10. Edward Arthur' (Stephens Smith', Palatia', JohnS
Thomas', FerdinandoS Thomas'), b. Feb. 24, 1844; d. Jan. 18,
1891 ; m. Aug. 31, 1865, Margaret Jane, dau. of Levi and
Elizabeth M. (Brickett) Palmer of Charlestown, Mass. [b.
Mar. 21, 1845]. He served for two years during the CivH War,
enlisting in the 2d Massachusetts Cavalry, and afterward serv
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part of his business life he was engaged in the publication of
books for subscription sale. Children :
22. i. Edith Ella, b. July 3, 1868; m. June 9, 1896, Robert Lewis,
son of Robert Lewis and Kate (Yeager) Bodine of Phila
delphia, Pa. [b. Jan. 21, 1866]. Res. East Orange, N. J.
One son.
23. ii. Harry Edward, b. Apr. 3, 1877; d. Feb. 25, 1907.
24. iii. Frank Palmer, b. Aug. 3, 1878.
25. iv. Gertrude, b. May 12, 1880; d. July 17, 1881.
26. V. Everett Sanford, b. June 21, 1882.
12. Frederick Albert' (Stephen', Smiths Palatia', John*,
ThomasS FerdinandoS Thomas'), b. June 10, 1848; d. Mar.
25, 1883; m. Sept. 14, 1876, Martha Jane, dau. of Rev. Jona
than and Martha Rhoda (Richardson) Herrick [b. Warner,
N. H., Feb. 11, 1850; d. Sept. 8, 1901]. He graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1873, and was engaged in journalistic
work upon the New York Tribune and New York Times for
two years, after which he entered upon preparation for the
ministry at Bangor and Andover Seminaries. He was a pastor
at Westboro, Mass., for two years, and afterward at Quincy,
111., where he died. Children :
27. i. Miriam Agnes, b. July 16, 1877.
28. ii. Bertha Jean, b. Jan. 23, 1879; m. Apr. 18, 1896, Albert Eli
son, son of Charles H. and Olive M. (Snow) Flint of Wor
cester, Mass. [b. July 4, 1863]. Res. Worcester, Mass. Two
children.
13. Albert Sumner' (Albert Gallatin', Smiths Palatia',
JohnS Thomas', FerdinandoS Thomas'), b. Apr. 23, 1842; d.
Mar. 9, 1907; m. May 25, 1863, Sophronia Esther, dau. of
Bradley and Mary A. (Pierce) Simonds of Ashby, Mass. [b.
Jan. 13, 1844]. He had a bakery in New Ipswich for some
years, and afterward lived at West Townsend, Mass. Chil
dren: 29. i. Hattie Florence, b. Oct. 14, 1864; m. May 15, 1889, James
Henry, son of Thomas B. and Catherine (Ames) Martin.
Res. Cambridge, Mass.
30. ii. Nettie Agnes, b. Nov. 30, 1866; d. Arlington, Mass., Sept.
8, 1904; m. Sept. 24 1892, Daniel F. Hession.
31. iii. Henry Albert, b. Mar. 10, 1878; m. Aug. 18, 1897, Olive
Gertrude, dau. of Ivory and  (Bryant) Stanchfield.
Res. Henderson, Me.
18. William Adams' (Samuel AllenS Stephen', Smiths
Palatia', JohnS Thomas', FerdinandoS Thomas'), b. July 30,
1865 ; m. Aug. 28, 1888, Frances Amelia, dau. of Henry Adams
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and Frances (Payson) Harrington of Westboro, Mass. Is a
journalist in New York city. Children :
32. i. Beatrice, b. July 14, 1891.
33. ii. Frances Harrington, b. Dec. 29, 1898.
21. Walter Stephen' (Samuel AllenS Stephen', Smith',
Palatia', JohnS Thomas', FerdinandoS Thomas'), b. Dec. 30,
1873; m. Annie Frances Chandler (R. 154). He is a farmer
on IX: 2, S. R., his home being just across the road from the
site of the third house built by Abijah Foster. He has been
selectman. Children :
34 i. Arthur Stephen, b. July 24, 1894.
35. ii. Grace Deborah, b. June 17, 1905.
36. iii. Philip Chandler, b. June 25, 1909.
TIDDER.
James Tidder was a resident of New Ipswich from 1764
to 1786, his home being upon the Giles farm, afterward owned
by Levi Blanchard and later by his son Gilman, XV: 2, S. R.
Tradition gives nothing concerning him, and the town records
hardly name him except on the tax-lists. But he was a loyal
citizen, responding to the Concord alarm in 1775, and serving
in the companies of Capts. Brown and Briant in 1777 and Cap
tain Fletcher in 1778. Despite the fact that his family name
cannot be found in the standard genealogical works and is
probably an unrecognized corruption of some other name, it
rightly has a place in the story of the early days of the town.
The name of his wife is unknown, and no family record has
been found, but it may be inferred that Solomon and Molly
Tidder, who united with the church in the last year of his
residence here, were his children, and there can be little doubt
that James Tidder of "Andover, Vt.," who according to the
records of Temple married Jan. 2, 1794, Polly Patten of that
town, was his son, as the records of Andover bear the names
of James Tidder and James Tidder, Jr., from 1787, the year
of the disappearance of the name from New Ipswich, untH
1799.
TOWNE.
William' Towne, b. 1600; m. Joanna Blessing. He came from either
Yarmouth or Bristol, England, with his wife and several children, and set
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Edmund' (WiHiam'), bapt. June 28, 1628; d. before May 3, 1668; m
Mary, dau. of Thomas Browning [bapt. Jan, 7, 1638; d. before Dec. 16,
1717]. Res. at Topsfield, Mass.
William' (Edmund', William'), b. Mar. 13, 1659; d. Jan. 30, 1750;
m. (1) Eliza  ; (2) Aug. 22, 1694, Margaret, widow of John Willard,
who had been executed for witchcraft.
Joseph' (Edmund', WHliam'), b. Sept. 2, 1661; d. 1717; m. Mar. 13,
1687, Amy, dau. of Robert Smith [b. Aug. 16, 1668; d. Feb. 22, 1756].
Res. at Topsfield, Mass.
Jeremiah* (William', Edmund', WHHam'), b. May 27, 1705; m.
Elizabeth Towne, prob. dau. of John' (Joseph', William') [b. Nov. 22,
1711]. Benjamin* (Joseph', Edmund', William'), b. May 10, 1691; m. (1)
Catherine, dau. of Jacob Towne, Jr. ; (2) Apr. 12, 1722, Susannah Wildes
[d. July 5, 1736] ; (3) May 2, 1738, Mary Perkins [d. Nov. 6, 1760] ; (4)
Apr. 15, 1761, Mrs. Mary Clark [d. Dec. 11, 1782]. He was a wealthy
and prominent citizen of Topsfield, being town clerk, selectman, and
assessor. He had triplet sons, Ezra, Edmund and EHjah.
Nathaniel* (Joseph', Edmund', William'), b. Topsfield, June 1, 1700;
ra. Jerairaa  .
Jeremiah' (Jeremiah*, William', Edmund', William'), b. Sept. 6,
1743; d. June 10, 1830; m. (1) Sept. 26, 1765, Sarah Cree [d. June 13,
1767]; (2) int. Oct. 31, 1769, Mrs. Martha Balch [b. about 1743; d. Apr.
6, 1822]. He removed from Marblehead, Mass., to Rindge in early
manhood. 1. Ezra' (Benjamin*, Joseph', Edmund^, William'), b. Apr.
30, 1736; d. Dec. 24, 1795; m. (1) Elizabeth  [d. June 19,
1767]; (2) Elizabeth (Cutter) (3), widow of Elijah Dutton;
(3) Mar. 20, 1788, Keziah (Bullard) (G. 4), widow of William
Start (3). He came from Topsfield, Mass., to New Ipswich
about 1759, and settled in the northeastern corner of the town,
(23, N. D.,) making that place his home untH his death, which
was caused by a wound inflicted by a hayhook unseen by him,
while sliding down a haymow in his barn. His name has
been especiaHy perpetuated in town tradition, however, by
his service in the Revolution. He was among those respond
ing to the call of Apr. 19, 1775, and on his arrival at Cam
bridge he enlisted a company of sixty-five men, more than
half of whom were his fellow townsmen, which under his
command bore its part at Bunker Hill, and in large degree
remained in service untH the following December. His later
service is stated on a previous page of this book in the history
of Revolutionary activity. After the close of his active service
his military efficiency was recognized by his promotion to the
rank of colonel in the state militia. Children :
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Ezra, b. Mar. 29, 1759.-f
Rebecca, b. July 25, 1763.
Betty, b. May 21, 1765.
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Nehemiah, b, Aug. 11, 1769.
Luther, b. May 5, 1772; d. Sept. 9, 1775.
Rhoda, b. Feb. 29, 1774; d. Sept. 9, 1775.
10. viii. Rhoda, b. June 2, 1776 ; m. Nov. 13, 1794, Ebenezer Grain.
Mercy, b. May 5, 1778.
Rachel, b. June 18, 1780; d. Nov. 2, 1780.
Wilder, b, 1781.
Jeremiah, b. Feb. 11, 1792.
2. Edmund' (BenjaminS Joseph', EdmundS William'), b.
Apr. 30, 1736; d. Feb. 12, 1813; m. 1765, Sarah Cummings. He
came to New Ipswich, probably a little later than his brother
Ezra, and settled stHl nearer the northeastern corner of the
town upon the lots 15 and 16, N. D., reduced in size by the
relocation of the eastern line of the town at the time of the
Masonian grant. If his home was on the only spot now bear
ing traces of a dwelling, it was about a quarter-mile directly
south from the northeast corner. His name appears upon the
tax-lists 1765 to 1795. He enlisted four times during the Rev
olution. Children :
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16. ii. Susannah, b. Feb. 1, 1767; m. Samuel G. Sumner.
17. iii. Anna, b. May 28, 1769; m. and removed to the West.
18. iv. Benjamin, b. Oct. 8, 1771.-f-
19. V. Sarah, b. July 27, 1773; ra.  Stone.
20. vi. Stephen, b. Feb. 10, 1775; m. Susan Gates.
Francis" (Nathaniel*, Joseph', Edmund', William'), b. Topsfield,
Mass., July 28, 1737; d. Aug. 11, 1811; m. Feb. 26, 1760, Phebe' (Gideon*,
Jacob', Jacob', William') Towne. He removed to Rindge in 1771. He
was a soldier in both the French and the Revolutionary wars. He was
deacon at Topsfield and at Rindge.
Cornelius" (Jeremiah", Jeremiah*, William', Edmund', William'), b.
Feb. 13, 1772; ra. 1791, Hannah, dau. of Micah and Betsey (Philbrick)
Chaplin of Rindge. He removed to Dublin in 1804.
3. Ezra' (Ezra', Benjamin*, Joseph', Edmund", WiHiam'),
b. Mar. 29, 1759; d. 1831; is said to have m. at New Ipswich,
June 6, 1775, Rebecca Jenks. But no official record of the
marriage appears, and his youth makes the date rather doubt
ful, although at that time he was sufficiently mature to serve
in his father's company at Bunker Hill. The company roll
makes him only fourteen years of age at that time, but the
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worthy of credence. He became a sea captain and saHed to
foreign parts for many years. Children :
22. i. Eliza, b. Apr. 26, 1796; m. Joseph Morton.
23. ii. Diana, b. Mar. 1, 1797; m. Isaac Williams of Boston.
6. Elijah' (Ezra', Benjamin*, Joseph', Edmund", Wil
liam'), b. Feb. 11, 1767; d. Mason, Dec. 28, 1828; m. Elizabeth
Flagg [b. Jan. 29, 1780; d. Feb. 17, 1868]. He was an inn
keeper in New Ipswich, near the Village Green of the early
days, at first in the house near the present Baptist church
which has long been known as the home of the Preston family
and second in the Dix tavern stand which burned in 1825, and
was replaced by the home of Rev. Samuel Lee. He was a
shoemaker as well as host at the inn. The following state
ment, copied from the former town history, seems to indicate
that he was a man having the "courage of his convictions."
"During the early part of the century, there was very great
political harmony in the town. In choosing governor and
other state officers, the vote was sometimes unanimous. The
citizens were mostly Federalists, coinciding in opinion with
Judge Farrar, who exercised such a leading influence in both
the town and the state. When a difference of opinion on any
measure arose in town meeting, it was customary to appeal to
him for his views; and rarely, if ever, did they fail to be
adopted, without further debate. When war again threatened
and the embargo was laid in 1807, a Democratic party (Jacobin
as it was then called) arose, and gradually gained in strength.
Elijah Towne is said to have been the first who avowed him
self to the party." ChHd :
24. i. Ezra, b. Jan. 22, 1805.
15. Edmund' (Edmund', Benjamin*, Joseph', Edmund",
William'), b. 1765; d. Mar. 6, 1815; m. (1) Eunice Spencer of
Springfield, Vt. ; (2) Nov. 6, 1800, Polly Fitch. Children :
25. i. Abigail, b. July 11, 1790; d. Dec, 1790.
26. ii. Abigail, b. Oct. 8, 1791.
27. iii. Betsey, b. July 20, 1793; d. Mar. 2, 1833.
28. iv. Stephen, b. Feb. 14, 1795.
29. V. Pliny C, b. May 15, 1806; d. Dec. 3, 1806.
30. vi. Almond S., b. Mar. 31, 1813; d. San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 17,
1850.
18. Benjamin' (Edmund', Benjamin*, Joseph', Edmund",
WilHam'), b. Oct. 8, 1771; d. May 15, 1845; m. 1802, Sarah
Burt [b. Oct. 2, 1775; d. Jan. 19, 1849]. Res. in Windsor, Vt.
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31. i. Orinda, b. Jan. 20, 1803; d. Jackson, Mich., Mar. 15, 1875; m.
June 12, 1823, Dr. Oliver Rust. Seven children.
32. ii. Sarah, b. Nov. 26, 1804; d. Aug. 29, 1860; m. Mar. 28, 1826,
Leonard Quimby of Thetford, Vt. Ten children.
33. iii. Mary, b. Apr. 7, 1807; d. Montpelier, Vt., June 26, 1851; m.
Dec. 8, 1824, Dr. Buckley O. Tyler. Six children.
34. iv. Nahum, b. Jan. 9, 1808; d. Mar. 7, 1809.
35. V. Dean, b. Feb. 7, 1810.
36. vi. Benjamin, b. Sept. 12, 1812.
37. vii. William, b. Apr. 9, 1815.
38. viii. Emily Melissa, b. Feb. 5, 1829; d. Worcester, Mass., July 6,
1899; m. Feb. 19, 1839, Samuel S. Ellis.
Greene" (Francis", Nathaniel*, Joseph', Edmund', William'), b. May
25, 1782 ; d. Apr. 23, 1857 ; ra. Feb. 13, 1810, Lucy, dau. of Solomon Rand
of Rindge [b. July 24, 1784]. He was a farmer in Rindge.
21. Cornelius' (Cornelius', Jeremiah', Jeremiah*, Wil
liam', Edmund", WHliam'), b. Rindge, Apr. 18, 1803; d. June
10, 1887; m. (1) May, 1824, Mary, dau. of Dea. John and
Martha (Jennings) Knowlton [b. July 2, 1804; d. May 19,
1836] ; (2) Mar. 15, 1837, Hannah, dau. of Joshua and Polly
(Berden) Farnum [b. Nov. 22, 1798; d. Oct. 13, 1869]; (3)
Aug. 30, 1879, Mary, widow of Ezra Carr. He spent most of
his life in Dublin, but after his last marriage he lived upon the
Carr place, (152, A. D.) ChHdren:
40. i. Cornelius K., b. Jan. 30, 1826 ; m. Lucy A. Seaver. Two chil
dren.
John P., b. Sept. 11, 1828; m. Althea Merrill.
Hannah C, b. Oct. 23, 1831; d. Dec. 25, 1900; m. George W.
Chandler (R. 68).
Mary C, b. Aug. 11, 1833; ra. John Fairman.
Albert C, b. Jan. 27, 1836; ra. (1) Lucilla A. Corey of Stod
dard; (2) Sylvia A. Rice. Seven children.
George M., b. Jan. 18, 1838; m. Delina C. Stoddard.
Clara F., b. Mar. 8, 1839; m. Benjamin A. Sherwin.
39. Pliny F.' (Greene', Francis', Nathaniel*, Josephs Ed
mundS William'), b. 1828; d. 1895; m. Calista A. Brooks (21).
He came to New Ipswich about 1853, and was employed for
several years in the chairshop of Charles Taylor at Smith
VHlage, later in Ashburnham.
TUCKER.
Morris' Tucker is first found on record at Salisbury, Mass., where
he ra. (1) Oct. 14, 1661, Elizabeth, dau. of John and Elizabeth Stevens,
of the first settlers of that town in 1639 [b. Nov. 2, 1639; d. Oct. 16,
1662] ; (2) 1663, Elizabeth, dau. of John and Phebe (Buswell) Gill [b.
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Jan. 8, 1646]. He was a cooper and also a "Planter'' and a brickmaker.
He was made a freeman in 1690. He removed to Tiverton, R. I., where
it is said that he died.
Joseph' (Morris'), b. Salisbury, Feb. 20, 1671/2; d. June 30, 1743;
ra. (pub. Oct. 14, 1695) Phebe, dau. of Joseph and Martha (Dow) Page
[b. Nov. 16, 1674; d. Dec. 29, 1736]. He lived in Salisbury and in 1735
deeded his horae there to his son Moses, receiving in consideration of the
sarae an obligation to provide for his maintenance.
1. MosEs' (Joseph", Morris'), b. Mar. 28, 1704/5; d. Jan.
6, 1769 ; m. Haverhill, Mass., Aug. 18, 1727, Johannah, dau. of
Stephen and Mary (Hutchins) Dow [b. Haverhill, Sept. 26,
1709]. He is mentioned as a "saddler;" but like all his fellow
pioneers he must have been largely occupied in the clearing
and cultivation of his land, and in documents relative to the
division of his property, made soon after his death, he is
styled "gentleman." He is said to have removed to Kingston,
N. H., in 1738, but the places of birth of his children suggest
that for some years it may have been uncertain in which of
the two neighboring settlements, Salisbury and Kingston, he
was a resident. And even after his removal to New Ipswich,
which reliable and well-supported tradition locates at least as
early as 1745, a deed given him by his near neighbor, Benjamin
Hoar, names him as being of Kingston. But it seems certain
that he was the third, possibly the fourth settler in New Ips
wich, his first home being at the southern end of VI : 1, S. R.,
on the short piece of the old country road extending downward
from the road connecting Bank Village with the Congrega
tional church to the road along the river. Perhaps the vestiges
of a cellar still visible there mark the place of that early abode.
He later removed to II : 1, S. R., where the probable position
of his well on the north side of the abandoned road is still dis
cernible. He is supposed to have won his title of captain by
service in the French and Indian wars, and he seems to have
commanded the first mHitary company formed in New Ips
wich. He was the only inhabitant remaining unmoved during
the general withdrawal to Townsend in 1748. He was elected
town clerk and also first selectman at the first town meeting
after the incorporation of the town. Although only in his
sixty-fifth year at the time of his death he is said to have been
the oldest person in the town. Children :
2. i. Mary, b. Jan. 3, 1728/9.
3. ii. Parker, b. Jan. 11, 1730; d. May 7, 1736.
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5. iv. Moses, b. Mar. 6, 1736.-|-
6. V. Sarah, b. Mar. 13, 1739.
7. vi. Elizabeth, b. Apr. 8, 1741.
8. vii. Hannah, b. Sept. 22, 1743.
9. viii. Reuben, b. June 19, 1747 .-|-
10. ix. Joseph, b. Oct. 22, 1748.-|-
11. X. Mary, b. Oct. 5, 1751; d. 1812; ra. George Start (4).
5. MosES* (MosesS Josephs Morris'), b. Mar. 6, 1735/6; d.
1792 ; m. Susanna  . He was a farmer, his home, (III : 3,
S. R.,) being south from the old country road on a road for
merly extending from the Chandler mills to the old Ashby
road east from Whittemore Hill. He did worthy service in
the Revolution, beginning with the first alarm on April 19,
1775, and rising to the rank of lieutenant in the companies of
Capts. Briant and Fletcher, his final service being at the Royal
ton alarm in 1780, in which he held that rank under Capt.
Parker. Children :
12. i. Moses, b. June 9, 1764.
13. ii. Sukey, m. Jan. 14, 1790, Ithamar Wheelock (7).
There were probably other children not found on record.
9. Reuben* (Moses', Josephs Morris'), b. June 19, 1747;
d. June 12, 1803; m. June 4, 1771, Relief, dau. of Lieut. David'
(Samuels Matthias') and Hannah (Hastings) Farnsworth of
Groton, Mass. [b. 1749; d. Feb. 11, 1825]. He remained in
New Ipswich only two or three years after reaching his ma
jority, but removed to Townsend, Mass., where he kept a
tavern. He held loyalist views during the Revolution, and at
the close of the contest he removed to Nova Scotia, where he
passed the final twenty years of his life. He was made a
justice of the peace a short time before his death. Children :
14. i. Relief, b. May 3, 1772; d. Sandy Cove, N. S., Feb. 1, 1825; m.
(1) George Start; (2) John Morehouse. Children: i.
Moses Start, ii. Charles Morehouse, iii. Reuben More
house.
15. ii. Mary, b. Mar. 29, 1774; d. Digby, N. S., Apr. 5, 1858; m.
Nov. 13, 1794, Jaraes Titus. Children : i. Charles Titus.
ii. James Titus, iii. Relief Titus, iv. Maria Titus, v. Lucy
Titus, vi. Reuben Titus.
16. iii. Hannah, b. Mar. 23, 1776; d. Gulliver's Cove, N. S., about
1846; m. (1) WiHiam Smith; (2) Jacob Bums. Children:
i. William Smith, ii. Lucy Smith, iii. Mary Burns, iv.
Edward Burns, v. Clarissa Burns, vi. Charles Burns, vii.
James W. Burns, viii. Robert Burns, ix. Sarah Burns.
17. iv. Reuben, b. Jan. 6, 1778.
18. V. David, b. Aug. 28, 1779; d. Sept. 19, 1779.
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19. vi. David, b. Oct. 20, 1780; ra. but no children.
20. vii. Charles, b. Oct. 14, 1782; d. Marshfield, Mass., Apr. 10, 1864.
10. Joseph* (Moses', Josephs Morris'), b. Oct. 22, 1748;
m. Mar. 26, 1772, Martha Woolson (4). Apparently he re
mained in New Ipswich only ten years after attaining his
majority. Child :
21. i. Stephen, b. Jan. 16, 1773.
UNDERWOOD.
The bearers of this narae in New Ipswich are believed to have be
longed to the Underwood family of Lexington, Mass., concerning which
the Lexington historian says : "There is great difficulty in tracing the
genealogy of this family, both before and after they came to Lexington.
They have left a very incomplete record, and it seems they were rather
migratory in their habits." An error of assumed identity is possible be
low, but the ancestry as given seems most probable.
Joseph' Underwood, b. about 1615; d. Feb. 16, 1677; ra. (1) Mary
 [d. Feb. 13, 1659] ; (2) Apr. 29, 1665, Mary How. He is supposed
to have erabarked at London for Virginia in 1635. He carae to Hingham,
Mass., in 1637, and removed thence to Watertown, Mass.
Joseph' (Joseph'), b. about 1650; d. 1691; ra. EHzabeth  . He
lived at Watertown.
Joseph' (Joseph', Joseph'), b. May 28, 1681; m. Susan Parker. He
was at Lexington frora 1719 to 1745.
Joshua* (Joseph', Joseph', Joseph'), bapt. June 6, 1725; m. June 6,
1765, Abigail Stone. He lived in Lexington.
1. Daniel' (JoshuaS Joseph', Joseph", Joseph'), bapt. Apr.
24, 1774; m. Aug. 1, 1798, Mary Mason. He came to New
Ipswich at about the time of his marriage, and was a farmer
upon the southern Rindge road, his dwelling being on fhe sec
tion of the road now discontinued a little south of the house
long owned by James L. Chandler, (10, N. L. O.) He left
the town in 1837 or soon after.
2. Joshua' (Daniel', JoshuaS Joseph', Joseph", Joseph'), b.
about 1800. In early manhood he built his house a short dis
tance to the east of his father's and there lived until his de
parture from the town a little before his father.
WALKER.
Two families bearing this name are found among the residents in
New Ipswich. They are believed to have descended from Capt. Richard
Walker of Lynn, Mass., but the lines of descent are not established,
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WALKER (John).
1. John' Walker, b. about 1724; d. Apr. 25, 1800; m. Sud
bury, Mass., June 24, 1758, Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph and Anna
(Allen) Goodnow [b. 1730]. He came to New Ipswich in 1760,
it is said from Lincoln, Mass., but it seems uncertain upon
which side of the line dividing that town from Sudbury was
his former home. He settled upon the summit of Binney HiH,
as yet an unbroken wilderness, on lot 100, N. L. O., and there
made his home until his death. No record of his children has
been found, and only two are known. Children :
2. i. Jesse, b. about Feb., 1760. -|-
3. ii. Anna, b. Apr. 5, 1767; d. Aug. 11, 1814; m. June 6, 1793,
John Binney (6).
2. Jesse" (John'), b. about Feb., 1760; d. June 3, 1832; m.
(1) Sarah, dau. of Isaac Hawel [b. about 1760; d. Aug. 18,
1786] ; (2) Oct. 10, 1787, Sarah (Emerson) Spear [b. Dec,
1762 ; d. Nov. 6, 1846] . He lived west of the mountain, on the
old Rindge road, (152, A. D.) He did good service in the
Revolution, enlisting at least five times, but as he does not
appear to have held commission at any of these periods of ser
vice, it must be inferred that the title of captain which he
bore in later years and which appears on his gravestone was
based upon militia service. Children :
4. i. Rebecca, b. Jan. 29, 1785 ; m. George Murphy.
5. H. Sarah, b. Aug. 11, 1786; m. Nov. 27, 1806, Asa Eraerson,
probably brother of her step-raother.
6. Hi. Jesse, b. about 1788; d. Apr., 1800.
7. iv. Nancy, b. Dec. 23, 1789; d. Oct. 9, 1791.
8. v. Betsy, b. July 5, 1791; d. Sept. 18, 1791.
9. vi. Nancy, b. Aug. 28, 1792; d. Dec. 24 1853; ra. Sept. 28, 1833,
David Everett Adams (W. 55).
10. vii. Daniel, b. Mar. 17, 1794; d. Mar. 27, 1802.
11. viH. Nabby, b. Dec. 15, 1795; d. Nov. 3, 1868; ra. Dec. 23, 1823,
Benjarain Lane [b. June 23, 1795; d. Oct. 18, 1880]. Chil
dren: i. Daniel Walker Lane, b. Dec. 4, 1824; d. Mar. 19,
1892; ra. Jerusha E. Berais. ii. Sarah Lane, b. Aug. 8,
1827 ; d. Jan. 13, 1828. iii. Martin B. Lane, b. Sept. 4, 1828
m. Carrie N. Adams, iv. George Lane, b. Sept. 23, 1829
m. Mary Ann Costella. v. Sarah Abigail Lane, b. Mar. 31
1831 ; ra. Joseph Hague, vi. Mary Ann Lane, b. Apr. 5,
1832 ; d. July 5, 1842. vii. Emeline Lane, b. June 20, 1834
d. July 13, 1854. viii. Sophronia Asenath Lane, b. Oct. 20,
1835 ; d. Oct. 16, 1863. ix. Sewell Stearns, b. Aug. 28, 1838
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13. X. Milly, b. May 9, 1799; d. June 28, 1799.
14. xi. Belinda, b. 1801 ; d. Oct. 13, 1873 ; m. Oct. 6, 1842, Ezra Carr
(2).
IS. xii. Milly, b. Mar. 3, 1803; d. Rindge, June 12, 1884, unra.
16. xiH. Daniel, b. Mar. 17, 1805; d. 1848; m. May 6, 1830, Betsey
Emery (5).
17. xiv. Jesse E., b. Sept., 1807; d. Dec. 30, 1807.
12. John' (JesseS John'), b. Sept. 16, 1797; m. (1) Mary
Stratton; (2) Nov. 27, 1845, Hannah, dau. of Ebenezer and
Hannah (Jewett) Colburn of Rindge. Res. Marlboro, Vt.
Children :
18. i. Dana S., m. (1) Arvilla WilHams [d. May 25, 1853] ; (2)
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WALKER (Samuel).
Samuel' Walker, b. about 1615; d. Nov. 6, 1684; his wife's name is
not known. Many claim that he was the son of Capt. Richard Walker,
but others deny it. He came from England and was admitted to the
church at Reading, Mass., about 1650, but removed to Woburn, Mass.,
within a few years, and there made his permanent home. He was an
innkeeper for a time.
Samuel' (Samuel'), b. 1643; d. Woburn, 1703; m. (1) Sarah, dau.
of William and Mabel (Kendall) Reed; (2) Abigail, dau. of Capt. Rich
ard Carter and widow of Lieut. James Fowle. He was an active man
in different town interests, being deacon, selectman, and ensign.
Joseph' (Samuel'), ra. Sarah Wyman.
John' (Samuel', Samuel'), b. July 2, 1665; d. Apr. 29, 1699; m. Ruth,
dau. of Thomas and Ruth (Blodgett) Kendall. He was a farmer of
Woburn, where his entire life was passed.
Benjamin' (Joseph', Samuel'), m. Susannah Baldwin.
Edward* (John', Samuel', Samuel'), b. Oct. 7, 1694; d. Dec. 6, 1787;
m. Esther, dau. of Benjamin and Sarah (Reed) Pierce. He too passed
his life in Woburn, of which he was selectman and representative, each
for several years.
Benjamin* (Benjamin', Joseph', Samuel'), m. Hannah Frost.
Joshua" (Edward*, John', Samuel', Samuel'), b. Oct. 5, 1728; d. Oct.
2, 1798; m. (1) Hannah  ; (2) Mary, dau. of James and Judith
(Nichols) Proctor. He served in the French War, and was a captain
in the Revolution.
1. Zaccheus' (Benjamin*, Benjamin', Josephs Samuel'), b.
BiHerica, Mass., Mar. 12, 1748/9; d. Feb., 1832; m. (1) about
1771, Martha Danforth of Chelmsford, Mass. [d. Ashby, Mass.,
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Feb. 22, 1801] ; (2) July, 1801, Rachel (Pitts), widow of Silas
Bigelow (2). He appears to have lived in Chelmsford, Mass.,
in early manhood, but to have removed to Merrimack, N. H.,
which was his home during the Revolution. Later he removed
to Ashby, Mass., and at the time of his second marriage or
soon after he came to New Ipswich and is supposed to have
passed his remaining years in the "Bigelow tavern" house,
upon which his wife had a claim. He did Revolutionary ser
vice, responding to the Concord alarm in 1775, and with four
of his brothers having a part at Bunker Hill. Later he was
commissioned lieutenant, and served until 1777. In later years
he was styled Capt. Walker. He had a pension of $20 per
month, which he lost in 1822 upon complaint of some of his
neighbors, apparently as the result of a neighborhood quarrel,
but after four years it was restored, and the amount for the
four years was paid him. Children :
2. i. Isaac, b. Aug. 3, 1772; m. (1) Rebecca Wallace; (2) Sarah
Kimball.
3. ii. Patty, b. July 7, 1774
4. iii. Rebecca, m. Sept. 22, 1795, Rev. Joseph Brown.
5. iv. Hannah, b. Dec. 23, 1783; d. Dec. 1, 1835; m. 1805, Reuben
Davis of Ashby. Children : i. Walker Davis, b. Mar. 5,
1806; d. May 29, 1878; m. Ann Damon, ii. George Davis,
b. Apr. 1, 1807; d. Sept. 2, 1875; ra. Nancy M. White, iu.
Charles Davis, b. Apr. 19, 1809; d. Nov. 21, 1906; ra. Almira
Hodgman. iv. Samson Davis, b. Oct. 6, 1811; d. Aug. 9,
1896. v. Sarah Campbell Davis, b. Feb. 20, 1814; d. Apr.
9, 1882; m. Otis Metcalf. vi. John Davis, b. June 16, 1816;
d. Jan. 10, 1900; m. Eliza Ann Taylor, vii. Martha Dan
forth Davis, b. Mar. 10, 1819; ra. Joel F. Metcalf. viii.
Julia Ann Davis, b. May 2, 1821 ; d. Oct. 4, 1901. ix. Joseph
Davis, b. Sept. 10, 1824.
6. V. Danforth, b. July 26, 1785.-|-
7. vi. Leffa, m. Sept. 2, 1813, Royal Stimpson.
8. vii. David, m. Sept. 23, 1813, Milly Bigelow (10).
9. viii. Fanny, b. about 1803; d. about 1819.
Joshua" (Joshua", Edward*, John', Samuel', Samuel'), of second mar
riage, b. Nov. 24, 1751; d, Jan. 25, 1825; m. 1775, Mary, dau. of William
and Mary (Brooks) Whitmore of Medford, Mass. He removed from
Woburn to Rindge when about thirty years old, and passed his life there
as a farraer and innkeeper.
6. Danforth' (Zaccheus', Benjamin*, Benjamin', Joseph",
Samuel'), b. July 26, 1785; d. June 4, 1863; m. 1804, Betsey
Bigelow (10). He was a farmer in New Ipswich. ChHdren:
11. i. Martha Maria, b. Jan. 20, 1805; d. June, 1893; ra. Dec. 5,
1825, George Kenson [b. Mt. Vernon, Apr. 1, 1800; d. Am-
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herst, Oct. 2, 1867]. Res. Wilton, Mt. Vernon, and Araherst.
He was a blacksmith. Children: i. George Danforth Ken-
son, b. Sept. 6, 1826; m. Marion Maria Sherman; res.
Chicago, 111. ii. Eliza Ann Kenson, b. May 13, 1828; d. Oct.
26, 1902; m. Sarauel Eaton; res. Amherst, iii. Martha Jane
Kenson, b. Mar. 19, 1830; m. Edmund E. Skinner; res.
Reading, Mass. iv. Helen Maria Kenson, b. Apr. 9, 1835;
d. Sept. 19, 1868; m. George W. Osgood; res. Amherst, v.
Charles Herbert Kenson, b. Jan. 11, 1842; m. Harriet Ann
Clark; res. Gardner, Mass. vi. Ella Georgianna Kenson, b.
Nov. 23, 1846 ; unm. ; res. Amherst.
12. ii. Eliza Ann, b. June 8, 1807; d. Mar. 31, 1838; m. May 19,
1833, Moses, son of Ithamar and Jerusha (Williams) Fair
banks [b. Ashburnhara, Mass., June 28, 1803]. Res. Wood
stock, Vt., and Fitchburg, Mass. He was an accountant.
Child: i. Martha Maria Fairbanks, b. Feb. 28, 1838; d.
Feb. 21, 1914; m. Sylvester Pierce Litchfield [d. Jan. 6,
1898]; res. Fitchburg.
William Danforth, b. Dec. 23, 1809.-f-
SiLAS Bigelow, b. June 7, 1812.-)-
George Washington, b. July 28, 1814-)-
Addison Augustus, b. Sept. 22, 1817.-)-
Frances Elizabeth, b. Apr. S, 1819; m. June 30, 1842, Charles
Hartshorn.
John Hermond, b. Sept. 24, 1821.-)-
LuTHER Barbour, b. Aug. 8, 1826. -f
Edward Payson, b. Oct. 22, 1832.+
10. Charles^ (Joshua', Joshua', Edward*, John', SamueP,
Samuel'), b. Rindge, Nov. 21, 1795; d. Oct. 23, 1847; m. (1)
Aug. 8, 1827, Martha, dau. of Micaiah and Elizabeth (Gallup)
Porter of Voluntown, Conn. ; (2) Apr. 29, 1835, Hannah, dau.
of Samuel and Sophia (Wheeler) Walker of Hollis. He grad
uated from Dartmouth College in 1823 and from Andover
Theological Seminary in 1826. His first pastorate was in New
Ipswich, where he remained until 1835. Later brief pastorates
at Windsor, Conn., Medfield, Mass., and Wells, Me., extended
until 1844, and then after a year abroad, he retired to a farm
in Groton, Mass., where he died two years later. Children :
22. i. Charles Porter, b. Nov. 12, 1828; m. Caroline Douthit.
Child: i. Joseph Douthit, b. about 1864.
23. ii. Henry Lankton, b. Apr. 29, 1830; d. 1872; ra. Josephine
Milnes Greenough. Children : i. Ariana Josephine, m. 
Sweet, ii. Edward Herbert.
24. iii. Martha H., b. Mar. 18, 1837; d. Sept. 7, 1866, unm.
25. iv. Mary Sophia, b. Feb. 25, 1839; d. Feb. 14, 1904 unm.
26. V. Harriet Sarah, b. July 21, 1841 ; d. Sept., 1842.
27. vi. Harriet Sarah, b. Mar. 15, 1843; d. Dec. 10, 1848.
28. vii. Nathaniel, b. June 2, 1845; d. Aug. 3, 1861, unm.
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13. William Danforth' (Danforth', ZaccheusS Benja
mins Benjamins Josephs Samuel'), b. Dec. 23, 1809; d. Mar.
2, 1883; m. Nov. 27, 1834, Mary G., dau. of John and Olive
(Kelly) Kidder [b. Ashby, Mass., Apr. 6, 1812; d. 1897]. He
passed his life in New Ipswich, a manufacturer of bedsteads
on the north branch of the river between Smith Village and
Gibson VHlage. ChHdren :
29. i. John Kidder, b. Nov. 19, 1835; d. Oct. 21, 1861. He was a
raember of the 15th Massachusetts Regiment in the Civil
War, and was killed at Ball's Bluff, Va.
30. ii. Mary Eliza, b. Mar. 6, 1837; m. Sept. 20, 1864, Lovel H.
Horton [d. Mar. 9, 1882]. He was a hotel-keeper at Gard
ner, Mass. Two children.
31. iii. Martha Ann, b. May 10, 1839; ra. Apr. 1, 1861, George M.
Taylor. Res. at Lowell, Mass., where he was a livery and
sale stable keeper.
32. iv. William Miller, b. Nov. 16, 1841; d. June 17, 1904, unm.
Res. Sterling, Colo., where he was a stock breeder.
33. V. Albert Francis, b. May 25, 1844.-)-
34 vi. Louise Frances, b. Dec. 30, 1849; m. Nov. 5, 1879, Gilbert K.
Rand of Worcester, Mass., where he is a banker.
35. vii. Jennie Lind, b. Jan. 31, 1854; ra. Feb. 21, 1878, Ernest C.
Field. Res. Somerville, Mass., where he is engaged in
transportation business.
14. Silas Bigelow' (DanforthS Zaccheus', Benjamin*,
Benjamin', Josephs Samuel'), b. June 7, 1812; d. Feb. 9, 1867;
m. Jan. 23, 1845, Elizabeth Joy [b. May 4, 1818; d. Mar. 15,
1880]. He was a farmer, and during the last twenty years or
more of his life had the farm near Pratt Pond, the house being
at the end of the road on the south end of XV : 3, S. R. Chil
dren: 36. i. Eliza A., b. 1850; d. Nov. 18, 1874; m. Oct. 20, 1872, George
A. Tarbell.
37. ii. Maria A., b. 1852; d. Dec. 8, 1895, unm.
38. iii. EuLETTA M., b. June 5, 1854; d. May 13, 1875, unm.
39. iv. Alberto S., b. Feb., 1859; d. Apr. 21, 1878.
15. George Washington' (DanforthS Zaccheus', Benja
minS Benjamin', JosephS Samuel'), b. July 28, 1814; d. Mar.
10, 1895; m. Dec. 17, 1845, Sarah Ann Kemp [d. Jan., 1890].
He was a blacksmith at Amherst, where both he and his wife
died. ChHdren :
40. i. Sarah Emma, b. June 16, 1848; d. Dec. 19, 1854.
41. ii. George Kemp, b. Aug. 17, 1850; m. Hattie G Heald.
42. iii. Charles Mortimer, b. 1854.
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16. Addison Augustus' (Danforth', Zaccheus', Benjamin*,
BenjaminS Joseph^, Samuel'), b. Sept. 22, 1817; d. Jan. 16,
1900; m. (1) 1840, Susan Spofford, dau. of Amos and Eunice
(Spofford) Keyes of Rindge [b. Nov. 18, 1818; d. May 3, 1842] ;
(2) Oct. 21, 1847, Rebecca HHl, dau. of Charles and Rebecca
Green (Robbins) Stearns of Leominster, Mass. [b. Sept. 3,
1828; d. Apr. 17, 1900]. He was an esteemed citizen of Ash
burnham, Mass., where he was a manufacturer of wooden
ware. He was selectman several years, a director of the Ash
burnham RaHroad and president of the savings bank. He
served in the Civil War as captain in the 21st Massachusetts
Regiment. Child :
43. i. Susan Josephine, b. Apr. 20, 1842; m. Jan. 3, 1872, James
Edward Thompson, a stationer in Fitchburg, Mass.
18. John Hermond' (Danforth', Zaccheus', Benjamin*,
Benjamin', Joseph^, Samuel'), b. Sept. 24, 1821; d. July 13,
1872; m. Oct. 19, 1843, Mary Leonard, dau. of Winslow and
Mary (Leonard) Davis [b. Gardner, Mass., May 31, 1824; d.
Oct. 23, 1904]. Res. Gardner, Mass., where he was a chair
maker. Children :
44. i. Eliza Janette, b. Sept. 1, 1844; d. Oct. 22, 1845.
45. ii. Henry Orlando, b. Sept. 14, 1846; m. Sept. 5, 1871, Ella Maria
Drury [b. New York city, July 2, 1845]. Res. Idaho
Springs, Colo. Is county clerk and register of deeds. One
child who d. in infancy.
46. iii. Edson Munroe, b. Nov. 26, 1851; d. Aug. 21, 1853.
47. iv. Silas Leon, b. Oct. 26, 1853; m. July 15, 1885, Emma Cross,
dau. of Edward and Emma (Cross) Nims [b. Keene, July 28,
1851]. Res. Gardner, Mass.
19. Luther Barbour' (Danforth', Zaccheus', BenjaminS
Benjamin', Josephs Samuel'), b. Aug. 8, 1826; d. Dec. 4, 1908;
m. (1) May 19, 1845, Silence Rebecca Collester [b. Mar. 4,
1827; d. Oct. 27, 1866]; (2) Oct. 21, 1867, Marion Exorissa
Stickney [b. Apr. 23, 1840]. He was a chairmaker in Gardner
and Fitchburg, Mass. He served in the Civil War as a mem
ber of a brigade band in the Twentieth Army Corps and he
was with Gen. Sherman on the "march to the sea." Children :
48. i. Annette Isabell, b. Mar. 3, 1846; d. Oct. 27, 1875; ra. but
had no children.
49. ii. Charles Herbert, b. Jan. 12, 1850; m. Aug. 24, 1881, Mary
Jane Hackett. He is a house and sign painter at Danvers,
Mass. Five living children.
50. iii. Nellie Gertrude, b. Mar. 13, 1870; m. Sept. 16, 1886, Clinton
G. Foskett [b. Sept. 14, 1865], an electrician at Worcester,
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51. iv. Fred Stickney, b. Oct. 20, 1873; m. Anna Richardson. One
child.
52. V. Emma Louise, b. Apr. 10, 1879; m. Nov. 21, 1896, Arthur
Preston Lesure [b. Sept. 19, 1871]. Res. Fitchburg, Mass.,
where he has a steam laundry. Two living children.
20. Edward Payson' (Danforth', ZaccheusS Benjamin*,
Benjamin', Joseph^, Samuel'), b. Oct. 22, 1832; d. Sept. 27,
1908; m. May 6, 1856, Mary, dau. of Benjamin and Nancy
(Kemp) Gates [b. Gardner, Mass., Oct. 30, 1837]. Res. Gard
ner, Mass., where he was a chairmaker. He served in the
Civil War in the 25th Massachusetts Regiment. ChHdren :
53. i. Alvin Edward, b. Feb. 16, 1857; d. July 13, 1896; m. Clara
Wheeler [b. Oct. 20, 1859; d. June 21, 1898]. Res. Gardner,
Mass. He is a printer and lithographer. Six children.
54. ii. Eliza Gates, b. Oct. 6, 1865; d. Jan. 17, 1888; m. Oct. 6, 1886,
Levi L. Uganst. Res. Gardner, Mass. He is a chairmaker
and poultryman. One living child.
55. iii. Addison Augustus, b. Mar. 7, 1867; m. Nov. 13, 1889, Minnie
Eliza, dau. of Charles Henry and Mary (Bliss) Rice [b.
Aug. 9, 1868]. Res. Gardner, Mass., where he is a chair
maker. Four living children.
33. Albert Francis' (WHliam Danforth', Danforth', Zac
cheus', BenjaminS Benjamin', Joseph^, Samuel'), b. May 25,
1844; d. June 8, 1913; m. Jan. 25, 1883, Ella M. (3) Balch. He
succeeded to his father's business and now conducts the bus
iness of wood-turning in the same location. Children :
56. i. Robert Balch, b. June 19, 1886; m. Sept. 5, 1914, Cora M.
Eaton.
57. ii. Lena Frances, b. Dec. 27, 1887; m. Sept. 6, 1913, Philip W.
Taylor (90).
WALLACE.
This family is probably from Robert Wallace of Ipswich, Mass.,
1639, but a certain line commences somewhat later.
John' Wallace, b. about 1676; d. May 20, 1763; m. (1)  ;
(2) Elizabeth  , [b. about 1693; d. Jan. 25, 1765]. He res. after 1731
in Townsend, Mass., where he was a selectman.
John' (John'), b. about 1694; d. Sept. 30, 1777; m. (1) Sarah 
[d. Mar. 25, 1752]; (2) Mary White of Groton; (3) 1759, Martha Pudney
of New Ipswich. Res. in Townsend, Mass.
Benoni' (John', John'), d. Mar. 15, 1792; m. July 2, 1755, Rebecca
Brown of Lynn, Mass. [d. Aug. 25, 1790]. Res. at Lunenburg, Mass.
David* (Benoni', John', John'), b. Oct. 16, 1760; d. Jan. 12, 1842; m.
Susannah, dau. of John and Ruth (Davis) Conn of Ashburnham, Mass.
[b. June 16, 1762; d. Mar. 24, 1847]. He served in the Revolutionary
War. He settled in Ashburnham in 1786, and there passed his life as a
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1. David' (DavidS BenoniS JohnS John'), b. July 14, 1797;
d. May 29, 1857; m. Roxanna, dau. of John Goen [d. Feb. 27,
1876]. He was a clothier in Fitchburg for a few years in early
life, and afterward for a considerable period he lived at vari
ous places in the part of New Ipswich around Smith Village,
and his later years were spent upon a small farm in Rindge
near the southwest corner of New Ipswich. Several of his
children were born in New Ipswich. ChHdren :
2. i. Harriet, b. Sept. 18, 1821; d. Sept., 1881; m. Feb. 12, 1843,
Barnard Tenney (10).
3. ii. Rodney, b. Dec. 21, 1823.-)-
4. iii. David K., b. Jan. 24, 1826; m. Huldah, dau. of Charles Hart
well of Ashby, Mass. [d. June 23, 1874]. He was a tin-
peddler. Res. Winchendon, Mass.
5. iv. John A., b. Jan. 23, 1829; m. 1859, Susan Jane Drake. Res.
New York.
6. V. Charles E., b. Mar. 7, 1831.-)-
7. vi. George F., b. Nov. 21, 1833; d. July 10, 1874; m. Maria A.,
dau. of Nathan Woodbury of Rindge.
8. vii. Romanzo A., b. Sept. 29, 1836; d. Savannah, Ga., Nov. 6, 1875;
ra. June 25, 1865, Jane S. Morgan.
9. viii. William E., b. Mar. 25, 1839; d. June 20, 1889; m. Aug. 29,
1859, Helen A. Hayward of Fitchburg, Mass. He was an
accountant at Fitchburg.
3. Rodney' (David', DavidS Benoni', JohnS John'), b.
Dec. 21, 1823; m. (1) Dec. 1, 1853, Sophia, dau. of Thomas
and Sophia (Shurtleff) Ingalls of Rindge [d. June 2, 1871] ;
(2) Dec. 28, 1876, Sophia F. (BiHings) Bailey of Woodstock,
Vt. In 1852 he entered business at Fitchburg, Mass., where
he was successively a retail and wholesale dealer in books and
stationery, and a paper manufacturer, in all of which enter
prises he was eminently successful. Later he became inter
ested in several of the large manufacturing companies of the
city, and was a director of several banks and insurance com
panies and of the Fitchburg Railroad. He was a trustee of
Smith College. He presented a fine library and art gallery to
the city, and was a benefactor of the needy to an extent much
larger than was known by the general public. He held the
office of selectman whHe Fitchburg was a town, was also rep
resentative and member of the Governor's Council, and still
later a member of Congress. He was one of the rare men
whose relations to their employees are such that practically
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10. i. Herbert I., b. Feb. 17, 1856; ra. Oct. 23, 1879, Amy Louise
Upton of Fitchburg. He graduated from Harvard College
in 1877. Res. at Fitchburg.
11. ii. George R., b. June 20, 1859; m. Nov. 10, 1886, Nellie Maria
Howland of Fitchburg. He graduated frora the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology. Res. in Fitchburg.
6. Charles E.' (David', David*, Benoni', John^, John'), b.
Mar. 6, 1831 ; d. Dec. 22, 1888 ; m. July 6, 1857, Elizabeth Gil
son of Groton, Mass. He was a cigar-maker, living for a time
in the Center Village, and for some years at Hodgkins' corner.
Children :
12. i. Cora E., b. June, 1858.
13. ii. Hattie E., b. Jan., 1860.
14. iii. George H., b. Feb., 1861.
IS. iv. Delia D., b. Apr., 1862; d. July 8, 1863.
16. V. Charles D., b. Jan., 1864.
17. vi. Mary E., b. Sept. 1865.
18. vii. William R., b. Nov., 1866.
19. viii. Herbert C, b. Jan., 1872.
WALTON.
William' Walton, b. about 1598; d. 1668. He was a clergyman;
came to Araerica about 1635, lived at Hingham and Marblehead; d. at
Reading, Mass.
Samuel' (William'), b. at Marblehead, June 5, 1639; m. 1674, Sarah
Maverick. John' (Samuel', William'), b. Jan. 31, 1685; d. 1774. Res. South
Reading, Mass.
Josiah* (John', Samuel', WilHam'), b. Dec. 5, 1711; d. Nov. 3, 1784;
ra. Ruth Richardson [d. June 2, 1792].
William" (Josiah*, John', Sarauel', William'), b. Jan. 12, 1757; d.
Mar. 22, 1835 ; m. Susannah Mansfield. "He was out in Lexington alarra."
Nathan" (Williara=, Josiah*, John', Samuel', William'), b. Oct. 7,
1779; d. June 28, 1858; m. Jan. 19, 1803, Mary Bates.
1. Charles' (Nathan', William', JosiahS John', SamuelS
WHliam'), b. Aug. 6, 1817, at Rindge; d. July 3, 1896; m. Dec,
1842, Sarah Ann, dau. of Jeremiah and Sarah (Heald) Fisk of
Temple. Res. in Wilder Village. "In October, 1861, he en
listed in Co. K, 6th Regiment, New Hampshire Vols. Two
days later he was elected sergeant of his company. In March,
1863, he was discharged for disability, and came home very
much broken in health." Children :
2. i. Sarah Charlotte, b. Oct. 12, 1843.
3. ii. Emily Arabella, b. May 11, 1846; ra. 1872, Williara P. Bacon.
Res. Fitchburg, Mass.
4. iii. Charles Herbert, b. Aug. 23, 1848; d. 1867.
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5. iv. Millard Fillmore, b. Feb. 21, 1851 ; d. Feb. 3, 1895, in Kings
ton, Jaraaica; ra. 1884, Lizzie Dunbar.
6. V. Ella Gertrude, b. Apr. 7, 1854; ra. 1875, George A. Sanders.
7. vi. Alvah Fisk, b. Aug. M, 1857; d. June, 1885; ra. 1884 AHce
(McConnell) Tarbell.
WEBBER.
1. Josiah Webber, son of William and Hannah (Flagg)
Webber, b. Mason, May 2, 1815 ; d. New Ipswich, July 9, 1898;
m. (1) Dec. 8, 1836, Luseba Conant (20) ; (2) May 31, 1860,
Elizabeth Mathes of Lee, N. H. He Avas the leading tailor in
New Ipswich from 1836 until his death, and was universally
respected and trusted. Child :
1. i. Genevieve, b. Oct., 1861 ; m. 1890, Frederic Hastings. Child :
i. Mildred Hastings, b. 1891.
WESTON.
John' Weston, b. 1631; d. 1723; m. Apr. 18, 1653, Sarah Fitch. He
came from England to Salera in 1644.
John' (John'), b. 1661; ra. Mary Bryant.
Stephen' (John'), b. 1667; m. Sarah Townsend.
Samuel' (John', John'), b. 1689; m. Joanna Upham.
Isaac' (Stephen', John'), b. 1699; ra. Elizabeth Pratt.
Samuel* (Samuel', John', John'), b. 1722; m. 1743, Sarah Rogers.
John* (Isaac', Stephen', John'), b. 1731; m. Mary Atwood.
Rogers" (Samuel*, Samuel', John', John'), b. Sept. 30, 1757, in
BHlerica, Mass.; d. Mar. 9, 1843; m. (1) Apr. 12, 1785, Deborah Lawrence
[d. Oct. 20, 1798] ; (2) Dec, 1799, Anna Frost [d. Sept. 30, 1829] ; (3)
1830, Rebecca Keyes [d. Aug. 15, 1830]; (4) Jan., 1831, Mrs. Lydia
Buttrick [d. Mar. 13, 1837] ; (5) Mrs. Betsy Wright.
James" (John*, Isaac', Stephen', John'), b. 1773; d. 1837; m. Rhoda
Reed. Samuel' (Rogers", Samuel*, Samuel', John', John'), b. 1785; d. 1870;
ra. Feb. 15, 1807, Nancy Wheeler [b. Apr. 2, 1787; d. Sept. 2, 1875].
1. James Allan' (James', JohnS Isaac', StephenS John'),
b. at Ashburnham, Mar. 9, 1810; d. Aug. 18, 1852; m. Dec. 24,
1835, Elizabeth S., dau. of Charles Borman of Winchendon.
He was a carpenter and came here from Ashburnham in 1848.
Children :
2. i. Harlan Marcellus, b. Nov. 4, 1836; d. Oct. 20, 1838.
3. ii. Mary Elizabeth, b. Oct. 31, 1839; ra. Nov. 27, 1862, Edwin
J. Stearns. Two children.
4. Hi. Harlan A., b. May 9, 1844; d. June 6, 1847.
5. iv. Ellen M., b. June 22, 1848; ra. May 27, 1874, Frank E. Well
ington.
6. V. Charles A., b. Apr. 29, 1850; d. Aug. 30, 1867.
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7. George' (Samuel', Rogers', SamuelS Samuel', John^,
John'), b. Jan. 2, 1809; d. Sept. 10, 1887; m. Sept. 4, 1838, Re
becca BaHey [b. Feb. 3, 1817; d. Oct. 3, 1886]. Children:
8. i. George S., b. Mar. 16, 1841; d. July 19, 1911. His remem
brance of old roads and other landmarks has been most
helpful in the preparation of this history.
9. ii. Henry A., b. May 10, 1847; d. Dec. 11, 1847.
WETHERBEE.
John' Wetherbee, d. about 1711; m. (1) Sept. 18, 1672, Mary, dau.
of John' and Mary Howe [b. June 18, 1654; d. June, 1684]; (2) Lydia
Moore. Res. Marlboro, Mass., and Stow, Mass.
John' (John'), b. Mar. 26, 1675; d. about 1720; m. Catherine  .
Res. Stow, Mass.
Hezekiah' (John', John'), d. before 1759; m. Apr. 23, 1728, Huldah,
dau. of Thomas and Mary (Cove) Martyn [m. (2) Dea. Ephraim Pierce
of Lunenburg, Mass.]. He reraoved frora Marlboro to Lunenburg in 1729,
and there lived until his death.
John* (Hezekiah', John', John'), b. Sept. 14 1746; d. Mar. 31, 1838;
ra. Jan. 21, 1773, Susannah, dau. of Joseph and Deborah (Gould) Page
[b. about 1747; d. Aug. 21, 1840]. He was a farmer in Rindge.
Joseph" (John*, Hezekiah', John', John'), b. Oct. 8, 1781; d. Jan. 6,
1867; m. Jan. 23, 1810, Nancy, dau. of Zebulon and Mary (Wright)
Conant (11) [b. Aug. 10, 1793; d. Apr. 11, 1835]. He succeeded to his
father's farra.
1. Joseph Sylvester' (Joseph', John*, Hezekiah', John^,
John'), b. May 12, 1828; d. Jan. 20, 1890; m. June 19, 1851,
Laura Maria Nutting (13). He remained upon the family
homestead twenty years after his marriage, and he was one
of the selectmen of Rindge. After 1871 his home was in New
Ipswich, at first in Smith Village in the early home of his wife,
and later on the Caleb Campbell farm, (IX: 2, S. R.) Chil
dren :
2. i. Ellen Maria, b. Apr. 27, 1852; m. Aug., 1871, Andrew C,
son of Samuel Robertson of Jaffrey. Res. in Rindge.
3. ii. Clara Louisa, b. Aug. 2, 1854; m. (1) Dec. 2, 1873, Oliver
J. Nutting (31) ; (2) May 13, 1891, Charles W. Brown of
Troy.
4. iii. Charles S., b. June 10, 1857; d. Jan. 31, 1858.
5. iv. George E., b. Oct. 19, 1858.
6. V. Charles E., b. July 9, 1861 ; d. Mar. 30, 1862.
7. vi. Susie, b. Feb. 19, 1863; d. Mar. 31, 1863.
8. vii. Henry Lincoln, b. Dec. 28, 1865.
9. viii. Hattie Augusta, b. Mar. 4, 1868.
10. ix. Willis Grant, b. Apr. 20, 1870.
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WHEELER.
The Wheelers of New Ipswich are without doubt descended frora
the early settlers of Concord, Mass., bearing the sarae narae, of whom
Shattuck in his history of that town says "That name was originally and
has ever been borne by more persons than any other in the town. George,
Joseph, and Obadiah were among the first settlers, and Ephraim, Thomas,
and Timothy came in 1639 and were heads of families. Tradition says
they came from Wales, but it is uncertain. Their descendants have been
so numerous, and so many have borne the same Christian name, that their
genealogy is traced with great difficulty." This difficulty reraains, but has
been soraewhat lessened by the persistent labor of later genealogists.
The following lines of descent have been traced with great care, but
it can hardly be expected that they are entirely free from error. It is
hoped, however, that the errors are not serious. Apparently two of the
emigrant ancestors are represented in New Ipswich, but their descen
dants have intermarried so that it has seemed best to present the two
lines together.
George' Wheeler, b. about 1600; d. 1687; m. Katherine  , who is
believed to have been his second wife, and who died Jan. 2, 1685. He
was one of the founders of Concord. Five of his eight children were
born before his removal to Araerica.
Thomas' Wheeler carae to America in 1638 accompanied by his son
Thomas, and also by Timothy and Ephraim, who are believed to have
been his brothers. This entire faraily, except Thoraas, Jr., removed to
Fairfield in 1645.
William' (George'), b. 1630; d. Dec. 31, 1683; m. Oct. 30, 1659,
Hannah, dau. of WilHam and Anna Buss of Concord [b. Feb. 18, 1642].
Thomas' (George'), d. 1687; ra. Oct. 10, 1657, Hannah Harrod (Har
wood). JoHN^ (George'), b. Mar. 19, 1643; ra. Mar. 25, 1663, Sarah Larkin [b.
1647; d. Dec. 29, 1727]. He was a deacon.
Thomas' (Thoraas'), d. Dec. 24, 1704; ra. (1) Ruth, dau. of WiHiara
Wood; (2) Sarah, dau. of Joseph and Sarah Merriam [d. Feb. 1, 1676];
(3) July 19, 1677, Sarah Starnes [d. Jan. 21, 1723/4].
William' (William', George'), b. Feb. 8, 1665; d. May 29, 1752; m.
Sarah  [b. Feb. 22, 1668; d. Sept. 23, 1744].
George' (William', George'), b. about 1670; m. Aug. 14, 1695, Abigail,
dau. of Stephen and Abigail Hosmer [b. Nov. 6, 1669; d. Dec. 27, 1717];
(2) Dec. 3, 1719, Abigail Smith.
Thomas" (Thomas', George'), b. Jan. 1, 1659/60; m. Nov. 13, 1695,
Sarah, dau. of Simon and Mary Davis [b. Mar. 11, 1665/6]. He was
known as ensign.
Lydia' (John', George'), b. Oct. 27, 1675; m. May 19, 1692, Timothy'
Wheeler (below).
Timothy" (Thomas', Thomas'), b. July 24 1667; d. Apr. 14, 1718;
m. May 19, 1692, Lydia Wheeler (above).
Joseph' (Thomas', Thomas'), b. Jan. 11, 1680/1; d. Oct. 15, 1732;
m. Apr. 10, 1705, Sarah Ball [d. June 24, 1748].
Whxiam* (William', William', George'), b. Jan. 9, 1693/4; m. Mercy
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Simon* (George', William', George'), m. Sept. 18, 1739, Dorothy
Wooster. Thomas* (Thomas', Thomas', George'), b. Aug. 4, 1696; d. 1769; m.
Mary Broods; (2) Susannah  . He was lieutenant.
Timothy* (Timothy', Thoraas', Thoraas'), b. Mar. 8, 1696/7; m. June
25, 1719, Abigail Roe (Munroe) of Lexington, Mass.
Joseph* (Joseph', Thoraas', Thomas'), b. Dec. 24, 1705; m. Sarah  .
1. William' (WilliamS William', William^, George'), b.
Concord, Dec. 21, 1732; m. Dec. 8, 1763, Grace, dau. of Joseph
and Grace Wood [b. Dec. 1, 1741]. He lived in Concord until
1778 or later, and came to New Ipswich before 1781, when
his name first appears upon the tax-list, and he may have
been a resident until the close of the eighteenth century. Chil
dren — six born in Concord and one in New Ipswich :
4. i. Grace, b. May 13, 1765 ; d. July 16, 1789 ; m. Josiah Fletcher
(21).
5. ii. William, b. Aug. 24, 1767.-f-
6. iii. Abigail, b. Feb. 22, 1770.
7. iv. Timothy, b. Sept. 21, 1772.
8. V. Susanna, b. May 1, 1775.
9. vi. Joseph, b. June 20, 1778.-|-
10. vii. Polly, b. Apr. 23, 1783; m. Timothy Wheeler.
Josiah" (Simon*, George', William', George'), b. Acton, Mass., Sept.
29, 1743; d. Dec. 14 1826; m. 1773, Huldah Page of Harvard, Mass. [b.
about 1746; d. Sept. 15, 1826]. He lived in Westminster, Mass.
2. John' (ThomasS Thomas', Thomas^, George'), b. Con
cord, Sept. 5, 1733 ; d. 1797. He first appears upon the New
Ipswich records in 1765, before which time he had married
and had at least four children. His farm, (86, A. D.,) still
remains in the possession of his descendants, but his dwelling,
situated only a few rods from the Massachusetts line and near
the old country road along the west slope of Governor's Hill,
has long since disappeared. He served at Ticonderoga under
Capt. Josiah Brown. Children :
12. i. John, b. Dec. 27, 1755.-|-
13. ii. Richard, b. May 17, 1760. -|-
14. iii. Samuel, b. Aug. 11, 1762. -|-
15. iv. William, b. Oct., 1764.+
3. Jonas' (TimothyS TimothyS ThomasS Thomas'), b.
Concord, May 18, 1720; d. Apr. 2, 1815; m. Oct. 13, 1743, Per
sis, dau. of Benjamin and Sarah Broods [b. Aug. 2, 1720; d.
1816]. He came to New Ipswich in 1758 and settled near
the east line of the town, (5, A. D.,) a short distance north of
the later site of the "Wheeler tavern," and passed his life in
that immediate vicinity. Children :
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16. i. Persis, b. Aug. 23, 1744; m. July 16, 1767, David, son of
George and Sarah Dickinson. Res. in Ashburnham, Mass.,
and Shelburne, Mass.
17. ii. Jonas, b. Jan. 25, 1745/6; m. Mar. 28, 1765, Rebecca Maynard
of Concord.
18. iii. Dorothy, b. Mar. 13, 1748; m. Aug. 10, 1776, John Hosmer of
Concord.
19. iv. Seth, b. May 25, 1750. -|-
20. V. Silas, b. Mar. 7, 1752.
21. vi. Amos, b. July 28, 1756.
22. vii. Abigail, b. July 28, 1760.
Joseph" (Joseph*, Joseph', Thomas', Thomas'), b. Concord, May 10,
1724; m. Jan. 7, 1750, Mary Hosmer, prob. dau. of Stephen and MHHcent
(Wood) Hosmer [b. May 23, 1733].
5. William' (WilliamS WilliamS William', WHliamS
George'), b. Concord, Aug. 24, 1767; d. May 9, 1821; m. New
Ipswich, Dec. 25, 1788, Elizabeth Cooke. He passed the
greater part of his mature life in Vermont, although it is pos
sible that during a few of his later years he lived in New Ips
wich. He lived for a time in Windsor, Vt., and removed
thence in 1795 to Waitsfield in the same state, which was his
home for a considerable period. Tradition supported by the
still existing remembrance of a few pieces of furniture some
what defaced by fire, said to have been brought to New Ips
wich by his son, gives an account of the destruction of his
dwelling by fire, and says that his wife, venturing within the
building to rescue some prized article, there perished with a
babe in her arms. Children :
23. i. Samuel Cook, b. Jan. 17, 1790.-|-
24. ii. William, b. Sept. 17, 1791.-)-
25. iii. Silas, b. Sept. 11, 1793.-|-
26. iv. Timothy, b. May 24, 1795. He reraoved to Indiana.
27. V. Mehitable, b. Feb. 28, 1797; d. May 16, 1866, unm.
28. vi. Betsey, b. Sept. 12, 1799; d. Nov. 9, 1811.
29. vii. David, b. Sept. 7, 1801.-|-
30. viii. Joseph, b. May 7, 1803.
9. Joseph' (WHliam', WHliamS William', WilliamS
George') b. Concord, June 20, 1778; d. New Ipswich, May 6,
1859; m. May 29, 1817, Rachel WHson (8). He probably came
to New Ipswich at the same time as his father, as his name ap
pears upon the tax-list the first year of his majority. He was
a farmer upon XV: 1, S. R. Children:
31. i. Joseph Otis, b. May 10, 1818; d. Feb. 23, 1910, unm. He
succeeded to his father's farm.
32. ii. Emily, b. Mar. 2, 1821; d. May 16, 1876, unm.
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33. iii. Almira, b. Oct. 18, 1823; d. Nov. 30, 1857, unm.
34. iv. Louisa, b. Dec. 31, 1825; d. Jan. 12, 1826.
35. V. Charles, b. Apr., 1827; d. Jan. 17, 1829.
36. vi. Louisa, b. Aug. 25, 1830; d. Nov. 8, 1855, unra.
11. Lewis' (Josiah', SimonS George', William^, George'),
b. Westminster, Mass., Apr. 13, 1793; d. New Ipswich, Aug.
12, 1859; m. Westminster, Dec. 25, 1817, Mary, dau. of John
and Susanna (Todd) Stowell [b. Temple, Mar. 11, 1795; d.
New Ipswich, July 26, 1879]. He was a successful farmer in
Westminster, but having lost his property by an unfortunate
endorsement, he afterward pursued his calling in adverse con
ditions. He lived for a time in Fitchburg, Mass., later in the
part of Mason which is now Greenville, and came to New
Ipswich in 1841. After a brief residence near the Temple line,
(52, N. D.,) and also a little westward from the "North school-
house," (XV: 1, S. R.,) he settled on the "Sylvester farm,"
(90, A. D.,) where he passed his remaining years. Children:
37. i. Lewis Gould, b. Westrainster, Oct. 27, 1818.-1-
38. ii. Mary Ann, b. Westminster, May 15, 1820; d. New Ipswich,
Dec. 26, 1881, unm.
39. iii. John Preston, b. Westminster, Feb. 5, 1823; d. Gloucester,
Mass., Sept. 24 1899; m. (1) Sophia Sraith; (2) Abbie St.
Claire from Nova Scotia. He was a fisherman and a
whaleman, and later a clock repairer. Children : i. Nathan;
he had also three daughters.
40. iv. Sarah Elizabeth, b. Fitchburg, June 2, 1824; d. Oct. 23,
1904; ra. Jan. 2, 1844, Gilman Blanchard (21).
41. V. Susan Caroline, b. Fitchburg, Aug. 5, 1826; ra.  Morse.
She lives in Worcester, Mass. Child : i. Wilbur Morse.
42. vi. Moses Stowell, b. Fitchburg, Feb. 2, 1828; d. La Crosse,
Wis., Feb. 4 1904; ra. (1) Lucy Ann Hartwell; (2) Bertha
Bjerke. Children : i. Lucy S., m. George Marble of Ash
burnham, Mass. ; four other children.
43. vii. Joshua Stowell, b. Fitchburg, Oct. 16, 1829. -|-
44. viii. Infant daughter, b. and d. Fitchburg, June 16, 1831.
45. ix. Josiah Page, b. Westminster, May 26, 1832 ; d. Sept. 13, 1864.
He served in the Civil War as a member of the 4th N. H.
Regiment, and was killed in a railroad accident near Ander
sonville prison, where he had been confined several months.
46. X. Harriet Lucinda, b. Westrainster, June 13, 1834; d. Nov. 20,
1909; m. (1) Aug. 4, 1855, James L. Richardson [d. Oct.
10, 1856] ; (2) July 5, 1859, Roderick Munroe [d. Jan. 30,
1881] ; (3) Oct. 19, 1883, James L. Robbins. She was a
professional nurse, and has for several years served in the
Massachusetts General Hospital, and also as a private nurse.
Children: i. James Herbert Richardson, b. Aug. 11, 1856.
ii. Archie Munroe, b. May 1, 1872; d. Jan. 30, 1881. iii.
Gertrude Estelle Munroe, b. July 12, 1874.
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47. xi. Asa Newman, b. Westminster, May 15, 1836.-|-
48. xii. Martha Emeline, b. Mason ViHage, May 1, 1840; d. Boston,
Feb. 6, 1870; m. Nov. 29, 1860, Gilbert H. Godding of
Brighton, Mass. Children : i. Henry Gay Godding, ii.
Charles Gilbert Godding.
12. John' (John', Thomas*, Thomas', Thomas^, George'),
b. Dec. 27, 1755 ; d. Apr. 16, 1793 ; m. Susannah  . He lived
in New Ipswich, probably in the southwestern part of the
town, but the location of his home is uncertain. Children :
49. i. Susannah, b. Feb. 19, 1782; m. Sept. 12, 1802, David Wheeler
(54).
50. ii. Polly, b. May 30, 1784.
51. iii. Sally, b. Mar. 10, 1786; m. Mar. 18, 1804, Cummings Fletcher
(64).
52. iv. Daniel, b. Jan. 12, 1788.
53. V. John, b. Dec. 25, 1790.
13. Richard' (John', ThomasS Thomas', Thomas^,
George'), b. May 17, 1760; d. June 13, 1832; m. (1) Lydia 
[b. about 1753; d. Jan. 22, 1817]; (2) May 6, 1818, Sarah
Fletcher (30), widow of William Burrows (2). He passed his
life in New Ipswich, his farm being upon the south end of
the mountain range, 106, N. L. O., or near that lot, whence he
removed in his later years to the William Burrows farm,
(XIII; 1, S. R.) Children:
54. i. David, m. Sept. 12, 1802, Susannah Wheeler (49).
55. ii. Moses.
56. iii. Richard, b. June, 1791.-|-
57. iv. Amos.
58. v. Jonas.
59. vi. Lydia.
60. vii. Roxanna.
14. Samuel' (John', ThomasS Thomas', Thomas^,
George'), b. Aug. 11, 1762; d. Feb. 14, 1839; m. Elizabeth, dau.
of Jonathan* and Mary (Jones) Taylor [b. Dec. 27, 1769; d.
Jan. 1, 1864]. He was a New Ipswich farmer, at first on 90,
A. D., and afterward on XIV: 1, S. R., which latter farm still
remains in the possession of his descendants. He built for his
home the house now occupied by his grandson George S.
Wheeler, but perhaps he previously occupied for a brief time
the Clary house which stood forty rods farther north upon
the now abandoned road to Davis Village. Children :
61. i. Jonathan, b. 1797; d. Jan. 14, 1830, unra.
62. ii. Daniel, b. July 1, 1800.-}-
63. iii. Elizabeth, b. about 1805; m. William Wheeler (66).
64. iv. George Washington, b. Apr. 8, 1812.-f
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15. William' (John', ThomasS Thomas', Thomas^,
George'), b. Oct., 1764; d. July 30, 1842; m. Mar. 10, 1795,
Sarah, dau. of Jonathan* and Mary (Jones) Taylor [b. Feb.
19, 1764; d. July 8, 1855]. He lived upon the farm adjoining
that of his father upon the west, and previously occupied by
Thomas Emerson, (88, A. D.) Children :
65. i. Sarah, b. Nov. 3, 1798; d. Feb. 11, 1877; m. May 7, 1818,
Jonathan Taylor (28).
6f>. ii. William, b. about 1802. -|-
19. Seth' (Jonas', Timothy*, Timothy', Thomas^, Thom
as'), b. May 25, 1750; d. Feb. 20, 1822; m. Rachel Butterfield
[b. 1754; d. July, 1841]. He came to New Ipswich with his
parents when only eight years old, and passed his life in the
town, becoming a valuable and influential citizen. He lived
for a time upon the old Ashby road, (69, A. D.,) but about
1803 he returned to the region familiar in his boyhood, and
built the "Wheeler tavern" upon the Turnpike, and near the
east line of the town, (5, A. D.) He was selectman for thir
teen consecutive years and also was town clerk. He was a
leading surveyor and a contractor, building a part of the Turn
pike and the meeting-house of 1811. He served in the Revolu
tion, holding a commission as lieutenant in 1775-76, and was
a captain in 1777-78. Children:
67. i. Seth, b. May 6, 1774. -|-
68. ii. Betsey, b. Sept. 6, 1776; d. 1849; m. John Butman [b. 1774;
d. 1840].
69. iii. Persis, b. Feb. 6, 1779.
70. iv. Rachel, b. June 4, 1781.
71. V. Moses, b. May \4, 1783; d. June 4, 1783.
72. vi. Stephen, b. June 25, 1784. -|-
73. vii. Asenath, b. Feb. 25, 1787; d. Mar. 29, 1873; m. Daniel Chand
ler (R. 10).
74. viii. MiLA, b. Sept. 25, 1789.
75. ix. Silas, b. Dec. 19, 1792; d. Oct., 1885; m. (1) May 17, 1819,
Mary Batchelder (28) ; (2) Oct. 1, 1879, Mrs. Armenia D.
Adaras.
76. X. Moses, b. Nov. \4, 1795.-|-
John" (Joseph", Joseph*, Joseph', Thomas', Thomas'), b. Concord,
July 2, 1756; ra. Hannah, dau. of Samuel Lawrence [b. 1765]. He was
a farmer near the South Village in Ashby, Mass. He served in the
Revolution. 23. Samuel Cook' (William', William', WHliamS Wil
liamS WHHamS George'), b. Jan. 17, 1790; d. Nov. 1, 1872;
m. June 17, 1813, Abigail Wilson (9). He was probably a
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native of Vermont, but his place of birth is uncertain. His
name appears upon the New Ipswich tax-list upon his attain
ing his majority. His farm was on lot 57, N. D., and he lived
for some years in a house which is still occupied, situated
about forty rods southward from the Turnpike upon a road
now closed for most its length, but formerly extending from
Davis Village to the "Peppermint tavern." Later he built for
his home the brick house upon the Turnpike at the corner
formed by the old road from the Flat Mountain region now
nearly abandoned. Children :
77. i. Samuel Wh-son, b. July 2, 1814.-|-
78. ii. Wh-liam, b. Dec. 30, 1815.-|-
79. iii. Abigail, b. Sept. 1, 1817; m. (1) Dec. 5, 1839, Josiah Eaton
(2) ; (2) Samuel Grove.
80. iv. Mary, b. Feb. 1, 1820; m. Nov. 27, 1845, Hosea Eaton (3).
81. v. Harriet, b. Apr. 4, 1822; m. Dec. 22, 1842, Otis W. Eaton (4) ;
(2) Eben Tilton.
82. vi. SopHRONLA, b. Sept. 25, 1824; d. Apr. 13, 1825.
83. vii. Sophronia, b. Feb. 28, 1826; d. Oct. 28, 1898; m. May 26,
1845, Joseph Wellington. Children : i. Horace W. Welling
ton, b. Nov. 2, 1849. ii. Edward Wellington, b. Feb. 4, 1855.
84. viii. Horace, b. Oct. 3, 1828.-|-
85. ix. Caroline Elizabeth, b. Sept. 14, 1830; m. Feb. 10, 1853, Wil
liam H. Goldthwait. Children: i. Charles H. Goldthwait,
b. June 15, 1854. ii. Willie E. Goldthwait, b. June 28, 1856.
iii. George E. Goldthwait, b. Nov. 27, 1858. iv. Abbie Isabel
Goldthwait, b. Oct. 13, 1863.
86. X. Henry Bancroft, b. Dec. 13, 1833.-]-
87. xi. Sarah Maria, b. July 16, 1837; d. Sept. 19, 1902; m. Apr. 2,
1860, Richard Rowse. Children : i. Arthur E. Rowse, b.
Dec. 3, 1862. ii. Annie E. Rowse, b. 1863. iii. Walter W.
Rowse, b. Dec. 22, 1870.
24. William' (WHliamS WHliam', WHliamS William',
WilliamS George'), b. Sept. 17, 1791; d. Oct. 9, 1845; m. Aug.
17, 1818, Sophia, dau. of Moses Smith [b. Sept. 16, 1801; d.
Apr. 10, 1887] . He lived in Waitsfield, Vt. He served in the
War of 1812. ChHdren :
88. i. Timothy, b. Dec. 17, 1820; d. June 11, 1909.
89. ii. Mary, b. Jan. 11, 1823; d. Dec. 2, 1898.
90. iii. David, b. Dec. 13, 1824.
91. iv. Louisa, b. Feb. 18, 1827; d. June 5, 1890.
92. V. Melissa A., b. Aug. 22, 1829; m. July 8, 1852, Carlos Barnard.
Res. in Waitsfield, Vt.
93. vi. Elizabeth Cook, b. Jan. 1, 1832.
94. VU. Wn.LiAM, b. June 13, 1834.
95. viii. Joseph, b. Nov. 25, 1836; d. Mar. 5, 1896.
96. ix. Cyrus Wood, b. Sept. S, 1843.
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25. Silas' (WilliamS William', WiHiamS WiHiam', Wil
liamS George'), b. Sept. 11, 1793; m. (1) Mar. 10, 1818, Rachel,
dau. of Thomas and Elizabeth Chase [b. about 1796; d. July
15, 1841] ; (2) Dec. 14, 1841, Tryphena, dau. of Salah and Mary
(Taylor) Smith [b. Mar. 1, 1803]. He was a farmer in Ver
mont. Children :
97. i. Sophia, b. about 1818; d. Dec. 11, 1842.
98. ii. Betsey, b. about 1830; d. Sept. 3, 1853.
There were probably several others.
29. David' (WHliam', William', WilliamS William', WH
liamS George'), b. Sept. 7, 1801; d. June 17, 1861; m. Anna,
dau. of Job and Eleanor (Dana) House [b. Mar. 24, 1810; d.
Aug. 31, 1872]. He was a farmer. Child:
i. Juliette, b. Dec. 31, 1834; d. July 31, 1836.
37. Lewis Gould' (Lewis', Josiah', SimonS George', Wil
liamS George'), b. Oct. 27, 1818; d. Apr. 5, 1896; m. Lowell,
Mass., Mary E. Chandler [d. Reading, Mass., June 19, 1892].
Children :
99. i. Mary E., b. Charlestown, Mass., May 9, 1840; m. Alva Ford.
Children : i. Edith Ford. ii. Fred Ford.
100. ii. Helen Sophia, b. Charlestown, Jan. 2, 1844; d. Mar. 15, 1846.
101. iii. Fannie, b. Charlestown, Nov. 19, 1845; d. Nov. 15, 1846.
102. iv. Benjamin Franklin, b. Charlestown; d. Jan. 8, 1906; m.
twice. Two sons.
103. V. Eva, b. Charlestown, Nov. 28, 1851; d. Dec. 28, 1851.
104. vi. Grace Louise, b. New Ipswich, May 19, 1863.
43. Joshua Stowell' (Lewis', Josiah', SimonS George',
WHliamS George'), b. Oct. 16, 1829; m. Ashburnham, Mass.,
Sept. 5, 1853, Dorothy M. Leathers. He learned the machin
ist's trade before reaching the age of manhood, and has fol
lowed it successfully, being the head of the firm of J. S.
Wheeler & Co., of Worcester, Mass., manufacturers of and
dealers in machinists' tools. Children — all born in Worcester,
Mass. :
107. i. Eugene Lewnell, b. Feb. 28, 1856.
108. ii. Carrie M., b. Mar. 29, 1860.
109. iii. Minnie Maybelle, b. Jan. 19, 1866; m. Elliot Brigham.
110. iv. Lewnell Everett, b. Oct. 1, 1871.
47. Asa Newman' (Lewis', Josiah', Simon*, George', Wil
liamS George'), b. May 15, 1836; d. Somerville, Mass., Jan. 7,
1891 ; m. Sept. 12, 1860, Martha M. Garfield. He was a ma
chinist. ChHdren — all born in Worcester, Mass. :
Ul. i. Ida Josephine, b. July 12, 1864.
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112. ii. Eugene Clifton, b. May 26, 1866.
113. iii. Ernest Newman, b. Oct. 25, 1867.
114. iv. Eva S., b. Aug. 9, 1869.
56. Richard' (RichardS JohnS ThomasS Thomas', Thom
asS George'), b. June, 1791 ; d. May 25, 1882; m. Rebecca Wil
son (10). He was a farmer, at first on the north end of XV:
3, S. R., from which he removed about 1830, having bought
the "Bartlett farm," (XIII : 2, S. R.,) where he remained about
thirty years, when his failing vigor demanded less severe labor,
and he removed to "Hodgkins' corner;" still later he had his
home in Smith Village near his sons. Children :
115. i. Rebecca, b. Oct., 1821; d. May 11, 1889; m. (1) Nov. 9, 1843,
Amos Weston of Ashburnham, Mass.; (2) Aaron S. Buck
nam (12). Child: i. Ellen Weston, d. aged 12 years.
116. ii. Mary Ann, d. June 23, 1893; m. Dec. 10, 1846, Thomas Smith
of Worcester, Mass. Child : i. Ella Smith, m. Frank Foye,
a machinist at Worcester.
117. iii. Lucy Taylor, d. Nov. 10, 1859; m. Nov. 28, 1845, Isaac C.
Stearns (19).
118. iv. Joseph Addison, b. Oct. 29, 1827.-|-
119. V. Augustus Cutter, b. May 11, 1830.-|-
120. vi. Charles, b. Oct. 27, 1832.-|-
121. vii. George H., b. July 24 1835 ; m. Jan. 1, 1862, Sarah Jane Cush
ing. He was a collector in Boston, in later years having
his horae at Lynn, Mass.
62. Daniel' (Samuel', John', Thomas*, Thomas', ThomasS
George'), b. July 1, 1800; d. Apr. 3, 1848; m. Apr. 3, 1823,
Rhoda, dau. of Nathan and Rhoda (Marble) Taylor [b. July
17, 1805 ; d. Dec. 4, 1848] . He was a farmer in Ashburnham,
Mass. ChHdren :
122. i. Samuel, b. Mar. 15, 1824.-1-
123. ii. Rhoda T., b. Jan. 31, 1826; d. Dec. 4, 1893; m. Dec. 6, 1856,
Jonathan Coburn. He was a farmer living for a few years
after marriage upon the south end of XV : 1, S. R., and then
removing to East Jaffrey.
124. iii. Daniel, b. Jan. 25, 1828.-f-
125. iv. George, b. Apr. 30, 1830; d. May 5, 1890, unm. His home for
many years was with his uncle George W. Wheeler.
126. V. Elizabeth, b. Dec. 14, 1832; m. May 6, 1858, William Jeffery
[b. Bridgetown, N. S., Feb. 26, 1820]. She Hved in Hudson,
Mass.
127. vi. John, b. Oct. 9, 1835; d. Sept. 10, 1837.
128. vii. Lois, b. Jan. 3, 1840; d. in Peterboro, where she had lived a
considerable part of her life; unm.
64. George W.' (Samuel', John', Thomas*, Thomas',
ThomasS George^), b. Apr. 8, 1812; d. Jan. 30, 1892; m. Dec.
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4, 1834, Elvira Blanchard (20). He succeeded to his father's
farm, where he was a successful farmer, and conducted a very
considerable milk business. He also for many years owned
a potash manufactory. Children :
129. i. George Samuel, b. Apr. 30, 1840; unm. He continues the
activities of his father, to which he has added an apiary.
He is also interested in citrus cultivation in Florida.
130. ii. Clara Elvira, b. Aug. 13, 1845; m. George Theron Raymond,
a Baptist minister. She lives at Owanita, Fla. Children:
i. Wilfred Wheeler Raymond, ii. Arthur E. Raymond.
66. William' (WiHiam', John', ThomasS Thomas', Thom
asS George'), b. about 1802; d. June 22, 1873; m. Elizabeth
Wheeler (63) [b. about 1805 ; d. July 20, 1884] . He passed his
life as a farmer on the "Barr farm," (86, N. L. O.) Being an
able and careful man in financial matters, he acquired a large
property, at one time paying a larger tax than any other resi
dent in the town, and at the time of his death he owned many
hundred acres of farming and timber land in New Ipswich and
neighboring towns. He was known as a kindly creditor. Chil
dren: 131. i. William, b. about 1831 ; d. Oct. 29, 1905, unm. He succeeded
to the management of the family property, his brothers all
remaining unmarried on the home farm. He served the
town as selectraan for several years.
132. ii. Samuel, b. about 1834
133. iii. Charles F., b. 1837; d. Mar. 17, 1903.
134. iv. George E., b. about 1843 ; d. Feb. 19, 1899.
67. Seth' (Seth', Jonas', Timothy*, Timothy', Thomas^,
Thomas'), b. May 6, 1774; m. Jan. 25, 1795, Polly Stone. He
remained in New Ipswich but a few years after his marriage.
Children :
135. i. Seth, b. Apr. 19, 1796.
136. ii. Polly, b. July 1, 1798.
72. Stephen' (Seth', Jonas', Timothy^, Timothy', ThomasS
Thomas'), b. June 25, 1784; d. Feb. 3, 1859; m. 1818, Hannah
(Stratton) (18) Sprague [b. June 18, 1787; d. Mar. 9, 1871].
He passed his life in New Ipswich, succeeding to his father's
farm and tavern. He held a prominent place in the town, be
ing also selectman and representative, each for several years.
Children :
137. i. Stephen Decatur, b. June 1, 1819.-1-
138. ii. Abby Joy, b. Dec. 28, 1820; d. Jan. 18, 1902; m. Nov. 19,
1839, George Willard (4).
139. iii. Seth La Fayette, b. June 11, 1822.4-
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140. iv. EMttY M., b. Nov. 16, 1823; d. Dec. 19, 1826.
141. V. Charles Munroe, b. Jan. 29, 1826.-1-
142. vi. George Washington, b. June 17, 1828.-1-
143. vii. Maria Jane, b. Apr. 30, 1830; d. Feb. 23, 1865; m. Nov. 29,
1853, Joseph Warren, son of Capt. Eben Willard of Har
vard, Mass. Res. Le Boeuf, Pa.
144. viii. Franklin B., b. Feb. 23, 1832 ; d. Aug., 1895 ; m. 1868, Gorilla
Boyland. Res. Erie, Pa.
76. Moses' (SethS Jonas', Timothy*, Timothy', ThomasS
Thomas'), b. Nov. 14, 1795; m. Oct. 12, 1823, Lucy Fletcher.
Children :
145. i. Albert.
146. ii. Silas J.
Levi' (John', Joseph", Joseph*, Joseph', Thomas', Thomas'), b. 1800;
d. Apr. 3, 1857; m. (1) June 15, 1829, Elizabeth T., dau. of John E. and
Dorcas (Lawrence) Stone; (2) Betsy Wood. He lived in Shirley, Mass.,
where he was a clothier and afterward a farmer. Two of his children
became permanent residents in New Ipswich.
147. i. Ann Elizabeth, b. June 17, 1832; d. Feb. 16, 1907; m. July 5,
1855, James L. Chandler (R. 67).
148. ii. Stephen Wood, b. Nov. 13, 1835 ; m. June 17, 1908, Mary Eva
Burton (3). He served through the Civil War, being a
raember of the 6th Massachusetts Regiment and passing
through Baltimore when the first blood was shed in that
war on Apr. 19, 1861, and also serving in the 26th Massachu
setts Regiment. He was a farmer on 44, N. D., the site
of the former New Ipswich Water Cure, near the Temple
line, until 1909.
77. Samuel Wilson' (Samuel CookS William', WHliam',
WilliamS WiHiam', WilliamS George'), b. July 2, 1814; d.
Dec. 21, 1877; m. Nov. 7, 1838, Abby Harriet HHl [b. Mar. 19,
1813]. He succeeded to his father's farm, but passed his later
years in Peterborough, where he died. Children :
149. i. Frances Lydia, b. July 25, 1842; m. May 25, 1861, George
Thomas Russell [b. Sept. \4, 1832; d. Nov. 2, 1899]. She
taught for twenty years with her husband in two academies
which they founded, one in Eastern Tennessee, and the
other at Oakland, Ore. He had served in the Civil War,
entering as a private, and earning by gallant conduct a
captain's commission. He was also a lawyer. Children : i.
Mabel Frances Russell, b. Aug. 12, 1865 ; d. Aug. 4, 1866. ii.
Lillian Beatrice Russell, b. June 14, 1869; ra. Aug. 2, 1888,
William H. Brown of Oakland, Ore. ; two children, iii.
Edith Florence Russell, b. July 13, 1873; ra. July 9, 1891,
Samuel McT. Kelley of Virginia, iv. Maude Virginia Rus
sell, b. July 23, 1875 ; m. Sept. 7, 1898, Ira Redfern Wishart
of Oregon City, Ore. ; one son. v. Fred A. Russell, b. Sept.
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150. ii. Mary Florence, b. Sept. 25, 1845; d. Jan. 25, 1912; m. 1865,
Charles E. Abbott [d. Feb. 3, 1888]. Res. Peterboro. Chil
dren: i. Jessie May Abbott, b. May 1, 1870; m. Elton
Wood; one daughter, ii. Charles Wilson Abbott, b. May
24, 1872; m. Margaret McDonald; two daughters, iii.
Fannie L. Abbott, m. George Wheeler, iv. Alice Abbott,
m. Charles 0. Parkhurst; one son.
151. iii. Hattie Caroline, b. June 2, 1856; m. Jan. 4, 1877, Fred Joseph
Ames. Children : i. Helen Winifred Ames, b. Feb. 25,
1878; m. Oct. 2, 1902, Ernest L. White, ii. Ethel Josephine
Ames, b. May 9, 1880; m. June 29, 1903, Lyle H. Capron.
iii. Ralph Hill Ames, b. Dec. 16, 1881; m. June 29, 1904,
Agnes Gertrude Young, iv. Anna Green Ames, b. June 4,
1886; m. Victor Giradin; one son. v. Mabel Dearborn
Ames, b. June 5, 1891; d. Mar. 25, 1893. vi. Charles
Wheeler Ames, b. May 1, 1893. vii. Dorothy Gertrude
Ames, b. Jan. 19, 1895. viii. Lillian Florence Ames, b. Aug.
5, 1898.
78. William' (Samuel CookS William', WHliam', Wil
liamS William', WHliamS George'), b. Dec. 30, 1815; d. Dec.
10, 1877; m. July 23, 1837, Sarah Emeline Mansfield. ChHdren :
152. i. William Edward, b. Sept. 14, 1839.-1-
153. ii. Amanda W., b. May 8, 1841; m. (1) Nov. 2, 1859, Charles
E. Latham; (2) July 3, 1866, Joseph Manigan. Children:
i. Charles W. Latham, b. Aug. 20, 1861; d. Oct. 20, 1863.
ii. Caroline P. Latham, b. June 11, 1863; d. Sept. 9, 1863.
iii. Cora M. Latham, b. May 1, 1864.
154. iii. Eunice F., b. May 26, 1849; m. Leander F. Comstock.
155. iv. Martha J., b. Mar. 3, 1858; m. Oct. 29, 1873, Arthur E.
Dwight.
156. V. Samuel E., b. Oct. 27, 1861.-1-
84. Horace' (Samuel Cook', WilliamS WHliamS WHliamS
William', WHliamS George'), b. Oct. 3, 1828; d. Nov. 25, 1888;
m. (1) May 17, 1854, Lydia J. Chapin [d. Oct. 2, 1860] ; (2)
Mary Jane Hawks. Children :
157. i. Anna J., b. July 26, 1855; m. Edward F. King. Child: i.
Horace Wheeler King, m. Aug. 1, 1907, Maud Emily Derby;
one son.
86. Henry Bancroft' (Samuel Cook', WHliam', WHliam',
WilliamS William', WilliamS George'), b. Dec. 13, 1833; d.
Feb. 28, 1884; m. Oct. 2, 1855, Syrena B. Judkins [d. Jan. 11,
1894]. Children:
158. i. Fred H., b. Apr. 8, 1859.
159. ii. Alice J., b. Nov. 2, 1860; d. Sept. 14, 1872.
160. iii. Franklin E., b. Mar. 28, 1862; d. Nov. 9, 1862.
161. iv. Eugene W., b. Dec. 5, 1864.-1-
118. Joseph Addison' (Richard', Richard', John', ThomasS
ThomasS ThomasS George'), b. Oct. 29, 1827; d. Mar. 8, 1912;
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m. (1) Nov. 5, 1852, Harriet Spaulding [b. Jan. 5, 1832; d. Dec.
26, 1867] ; (2) Nov. 19, 1873, Abby Sargent Hatch (4). He
passed his life as a farmer in New Ipswich, for a few years
upon the farm of his father, and then owning successively the
Jesse Stearns farm, (7, N. L. O.,) the Conant farm, (85, A. D.,)
and the Chickering farm, (22, N. D.,) a^d later living in the
Center Village while managing one or more outlying farms.
He was selectman several years and was a judicious worker in
the church. Children :
162. i. Mary C, b. Aug. 20, 1853; m. George A. Smith, a machinist
in Worcester, Mass.
163. ii. Charles A., b. Jan. 6, 1856 ; d. Sept., 1914 ; m. Nannie Brewer
of Brighton, Mass. He was a grocer in Brighton. Child:
i. Howard Kingsley, b. May 28, 1890.
164. iii. Herbert R., b. Mar. 23, 1860; m. Ella Cutting. He has been
a grocer in different localities, for a few years in New
Ipswich; he is now in Worcester, Mass.
165. iv. Daisy D., b. July 3, 1875; d. Dec. 6, 1875.
166. V. Dixon D., b. Oct. 2, 1876; m. Jan. 26, 1897, Martha A., dau.
of Andrew J. Goen. He lives in New Ipswich. Child: i.
Mary Alice, b. Feb. 8, 1900.
119. Augustus C (Richards Richard', John', ThomasS
ThomasS ThomasS George'), b. May 11, 1830; d. May 13,
1911; m. Apr. 26, 1853, Mary Louisa Nutting (14). He has
been a farmer and teamster in New Ipswich, living the greater
part of the time in Smith Village. Children :
167. i. Fred A., b. Oct. 21, 1855.-1-
168. ii. Henry S., b. Aug. 2, 1858; d. May 9, 1859.
169. iii. Allen S., b. Jan. 5, 1860; d. Feb. 21, 1861.
170. iv. Allen E., b. Aug. 29, 1861 ; ra. May 28, 1884, Carrie I. March
[d. Mar. 22, 1912]. He has a hack and boarding stable in
Nashua.
171. V. William C, b. Apr. 1, 1870; d. Apr. 1, 1870.
120. Charles' (Richard', RichardS John', ThomasS Thom
asS ThomasS George'), b. Oct. 27, 1832; d. Oct. 10, 1913; m.
Aug. 20, 1862, Nellie E., dau. of Hiram and Elizabeth S.
Shepard [b. Apr. 16, 1843]. He has made his home in Smith
Village, where he is proprietor of the sawmill and a lumber
dealer. He also kept the gristmill in operation as long as
there was a demand for such an industry. He has been select
man sixteen years, a member of the school board for several
years, and has twice represented the town in the Legislature.
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172. i. Charles Shepard, b. Jan. 2, 1865; m. (1) Apr. 22, 1887, Ella
O. Beard [b. Baltimore, Md., Nov. 17, 1858; d. Oct. 2,
1898; (2) Oct. 25, 1899, Clara E. Wright of Townsend,
Mass. [b. June 17, 1872].
173. ii. Edward Richard, b. Dec. 6, 1875.-1-
122. Samuel' (Daniel', Samuel', John', Thomas*, Thomas',
ThomasS George'), b. Mar. 15, 1824; d. June 7, 1882; m. May
5, 1852, Permelia Whitney (21) [m. (2) Jan. 1, 1883, Hiram
WHliams]. Three chHdren:
174. i. Eugene, b. Apr. 9, 1853; d. Jan. 30, 1878.
175. ii. Adaline Amanda, b. Nov. 7, 1859; ra. Francis E. Wheeler
[d. Jan. 4 1889].
176. iii. Ernest Milo, b. Jan. 21, 1866. Res. Pepperell, Mass.
124. Daniel' (Daniel', Samuel', John', ThomasS ThomasS
ThomasS George'), b. Jan. 25, 1828; m. Dec. 4, 1860, Mary
Drinan. He succeeded to his father's farm in Ashburnham,
Mass. Children :
177. i. Mary Elizabeth, b. Apr. 25, 1862; ra. 1886, David Wesley, a
farmer in Ashburnham.
178. ii. Nathan Taylor, b. Mar. 17, 1864.
137. Stephen D.' (Stephen', SethS JonasS Timothy*, Tim
othyS ThomasS Thomas'), b. June 1, 1819; d. May 19, 1856;
m. Aug. 24, 1844, Nancy J. Prichard (41). Like his father and
grandfather he was proprietor of the "Wheeler Tavern." Chil
dren: 179. i. Caroline V., b. Jan. 23, 1846; m. Sept. 16, 1869, John M.
Moore [b. Waterford, Pa., May 15, 1836; d. Warren, Pa.,
Oct. 27, 1883]. Res. Waterford, Pa. Children: i. D-wight
Kirke Moore, b. May 19, 1871; ra. Jan. 24, 1894, Beatrice
O. McMichael; res. Buffalo, N. Y. ; four chHdren. ii.
Forest Free Aloore, b. Mar. 30, 1875; m. May 19, 1898,
Evelyn Skiff [d. Mar. 13, 1909]; res. Waterford, Pa.; one
son.
180. ii. Nancy J., b. Oct. 3, 1847; m. George P. Brown [d. Feb.,
1895]. Res. Shirley, Mass. Four children.
181. iii. Abbie E., b. 1849; ra. Dec. 1, 1867, Lewis Harlan Robbins (15).
182. iv. Emily Munroe, b. Mar. 23, 1851; d. Dec. 25, 1909; ra. May 3,
1877, George L. Eastraan [b. Oct. 13, 1849]. Res. Townsend,
Mass. Children : i. Perley Munroe Eastman, b. Dec. 19,
1884; m. June 22, 1909, Grace C. Wood. ii. Jasper Fay
Eastman, b. Mar. 17, 1887. iii. Esther Teresa Eastman, b.
May 11, 1889.
139. Seth L.' (Stephen', Seth', Jonas', TimothyS Timo
thyS ThomasS Thomas'), b. June 11, 1822; d. June 23, 1890;
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m. Dec. 28, 1848, Mary D. Dix [b. June 30, 1829; d. Apr. 26,
1895]. For some years he owned the slaughter-house in the
Center Village near the foot of Meeting-house Hill, but re
turned to the family farm and there passed his later years.
Children :
183. i. Charles M., b. Oct. 29, 1854.-1-
184. ii. Frank M., b. Nov. 1, 1859 ; d. Feb. 8, 1875.
185. iii. Mary J., b. May 25, 1865; d. May 22, 1887.
141. Charles M.' (Stephen', SethS Jonas', TimothyS Tim
othy', ThomasS Thomas'), b. Jan. 29, 1826; d. Apr. 26, 1904;
m. Dec. 6, 1854, Sarah Jane, dau. of Eben Clark of Townsend,
Mass. In early manhood he removed to Pennsylvania and
made his life home at Le Boeuf, where he was a successful
farmer and also owned a sawmill and cheese factory and con
ducted a large lumber business. Later he was interested in
the wheat lands of Minnesota. He was a trusted man, held
various official positions of his township, and twice had a seat
in the Legislature. He maintained to the end of his life a
hearty interest in his native town. Children :
186. i. Edward E., b. Jan. 13, 1857; ra. June 29, 1882, Jennie L. Davis.
Resides at Le Boeuf, Pa., and is engaged in the luraber
business in West Virginia. Children : i. Grace L. ^ii. May-
belle F. iii. Marguerite M. iv. E. Everett.
187. ii. Walter S., b. Mar. 13, 1858; m. Mar. 25, 1896, Annette Bur
ton. Resides at Northeast, Pa., where he has a large fruit
farm. Child : i. Ruth A.
188. iii. Orton H., b. Feb. 16, 1860; ra. Aug. 4, 1887, Mabel Brown.
He is engaged in manufactures in Erie, Pa. Children : i.
Charles M. ii. Doris L. iii. George A.
142. George W.' (Stephen', Seth', Jonas', Timothy*, Tim
othyS ThomasS Thomas'), b. June 17, 1828; d. Nov. 15, 1896;
m. Nov. 29, 1855, Mary C, dau. of Noah and Eunice Goen [b.
Sept. 12, 1834; d. Mar. 7, 1870]. He lived at or near his early
home during the greater part of his life, engaged in the pre
vious family activities, but removed in his later years to Hodg
kins' corner, where he died. He was a selectman for several
years. Children :
192. i. Katharine M., b. Aug., 1858; d. Dec. 26, 1894.
193. ii. Bertha, b. June 10, 1863 ; ra. Oct. 25, 1880, Fred W. Chapman
(14).
152. William E.» (William', Samuel C, William', Wil
liam', WHliamS WiHiamS WHliamS George'), b. Sept. 14,
1839 ; m. June 6, 1860, Helen E. Ross. ChHdren :
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194. i. Annie H., b. Mar. 17, 1861.
195. ii. Henrietta F., b. June 15, 1863; m. June 22, 1889, Eugene A.
Dexter.
196. iii. Edward W., b. Aug. 11, 1869; m. Margaret Bryson Tait.
156. Samuel E.' (WHliam', Samuel C, William', WiHiamS
WHliamS WiHiam', WiHiamS George'), b. Oct. 27, 1861; m.
July 16, 1883, Fannie E. Burwell. Child :
197. i. William Samuel, b. July 23, 1885.
161. Eugene W.' (Henry B.S Samuel C.S WHliamS Wil
liamS WHliamS WHliamS WHliamS George'), b. Dec. 5, 1864;
m. June 9, 1898, Ina Harlow Winslow. Children :
198. i. Winslow.
199. ii. Lucille.
167. Fred A." (Augustus C, Richard', Richard', John',
Thomas*, Thomas', Thomas^, George'), b. Oct. 21, 1855; m.
(1) Jan. 31, 1876, Emma L. Blanchard (49) ; (2) June 15, 1893,
Cora R. Watson. He is a farmer and for several years was
superintendent of the county farm at Nashua. Children:
202. i. Arthur Fred, b. Apr. 27, 1879.
203. ii. Myron B., b. Dec. 22, 1881.
173. Edward R.^ (Charles', Richard', Richard', John',
ThomasS Thomas', ThomasS George'), b. Dec. 6, 1875; m.
Sept. 18, 1901, Ida W. Robbins (22). He is engaged as a
teamster and in the mill at Smithville. Children :
204. i. Frank Edward, b. Oct. 17, 1903; d. Jan., 1904.
205. ii. Florence Ellen, b. Oct. 26, 1904.
206. iii. Mabel Ella, b. Oct. 7, 1908.
183. Charles M.» (Seth L.', Stephen', SethS Jonas', Tim
othyS Timothy', ThomasS Thomas'), b. Oct. 29, 1854; m. Jan.
14, 1875, Imogene M. Jowders [b. Jan. 8, 1855; d. Dec. 29,
1888]. He has been a farmer and cattle dealer at New Ips
wich, and also in business at Townsend and at Natick, Mass.
Children :
207. i. Frank S., b. Dec. 21, 1875; m. Dec. 26, 1900, Ina S. Smith of
Natick, Mass. Res. Lewiston, Me. Child: i. Doris E., b.
May 21, 1902.
208. ii. Charles A., b. Feb. 12, 1879; m. Nov., 1904, Stella Cummings.
He is a plumber at Natick, Mass.
209. iii. Stephen P., b. Apr. 27, 1882; m. June, 1905, Irene Gilchrist
of Townsend, Mass. He is a farmer at Gardiner, Me.

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WHEELOCK.
Ralph' Wheelock, b. 1600 ; d. 1683 ; ra. Rebecca  . He graduated
from the University of Cambridge in 1626. He came with his wife to
America in 1637, and settled at Cambridge, but removed to Dedhara,
being one of the signers of the famous "Dedham Covenant."
Samuel' (Ralph'), b. 1642; m. Lydia  . Res. in Marlboro, Mass.,
at an early date, but removed to Shrewsbury, Mass., where he passed
his later years. He was one of the first deacons of the church in Marl
boro. Samuel' (Samuel^, Ralph'), b. Marlboro, 1696; ra. Feb. 15, 1720,
Huldah Rice of Westboro, Mass. He reraoved to Shrewsbury, Mass.
It is possible that he was son of Gershom" (Ralph'), but more probably
his parentage was as here given.
Eleazer, founder of Dartmouth College, was a grandson of Capt.
Eleazer', a third son of Ralph'.
1. Timothy* (SamuelS SamueP, Ralph'), b. June 24, 1724;
d. 1812; m. (1) Sarah, dau. of Daniel and Mary (Keyes) Rand
of Shrewsbury [bapt. Aug. 23, 1730] ; (2) July 30, 1782, Abi
gail (Muzzey) widow of Joseph Sherman, Jr. He came to
New Ipswich in 1768, but after the death of his first wife, he
returned to Shrewsbury. The place of his residence in New
Ipswich is uncertain. ChHdren :
2. i. Sarah, b. Aug. 21, 1748; m. Nov. 23, 1769, John Brooks.
3. ii. Jonas, b. Oct. 19, 1750.
4. iii. Phebe, b. Jan. 18, 1753.
5. iv. Timothy, b. June 12, 1756; d. Sept. 24 1827; m. Feb. 9, 1790,
Matilda Cummings (14). He lived for a time in the south
east part of the town, near the Wheeler tavern, and a few
of his last years on the corner lot just southwest from the
Congregational church. Children : i. Timothy C. C, b.
about 1809; d. Apr. 2, 1813. ii. A daughter, d. young.
6. V. Joel, b. July 8, 1758; ra. Elizabeth  . His farm was to
the east from Kidder Mountain, just separated from it by
the old country road, and later owned by Earl Boynton,
(51, N. D.) He is said to have removed to Vermont about
1800. He had one child who died before his removal, but
its narae is not recorded.
7. vi. Ithamar, b. Feb. 28, 1761; d. Feb. 11, 1850; ra. Jan. M, 1790,
Sukey Tucker (13). He lived upon the farm at the foot
of Kidder Mountain next west from that of his brother
Joel, previously the home of Silas Richardson, (55, N. D.)
He served in the Revolution, but became poor with advan
cing age, and as those days offered to veterans no such home
as a grateful country now provides, his closing years were
necessarily passed upon the town farm.
8. vii. Lewis, b. Aug. 19, 1763.
9. viii. Phebe, b. Jan. 9, 1766.
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WHITNEY.
John' Whitney, b. 1589; d. June 1, 1673; m. (1) Elinor  [d.
May 11, 1659] ; (2) Sept. 29, 1659, Judith Cleraent. He came from Eng
land with his wife and five sons in 1635, and settled permanently at Water-
town, Mass., where he was a prominent citizen, holding the office of select
man for eighteen years. He was also town clerk and constable, which
latter office was far raore responsible than it is at the present time.
John' (John'), b. 1620; d. Oct. 12, 1692; m. 1642, Ruth, dau. of Robert
Reynolds of Watertown. He resided in Watertown until his death, hold
ing, like his father, the office of selectraan.
Richard' (John'), b. 1626; m. Mar. 19, 1650/1, Martha Coldham. He
lived in Watertown until more than fifty years of age and then removed
to Stow, Mass., of which he was one of the Proprietors.
Nathaniel' (John', John'), b. Feb. 1, 1646; d. Jan. 7, 1732; m. (1)
Mar. 12, 1673, Sarah Hagar [b. Sept. 3, 1651; d. July 20, 1722]; (2) Sarah
 [d. May 7, 1746]. He was a farmer in Weston, Mass.
Benjamin' (John', John'), b. June 28, 1660; d. 1736; m. (1) Mar.
30, 1687, Abigail, dau. of WiHiara and Mary (Berais) Hagar; (2) EHza
beth  . Res. in Watertown.
Richard' (Richard', John'), b. Jan. 13, 1660; d. Dec. 15, 1723; ra.
Elizabeth, dau. of Jonathan Sawtell of Groton, Mass. [b. Feb. 3, 1668; d.
Nov. 24, 1723]. Res. in Stow, Mass.
William' (Nathaniel', John', John'), b. May 6, 1683; d. Jan. 24 1720;
m. May 16, 1706, Martha Pierce [b. Dec. 24, 1681]. Res. in Weston, Mass.
John* (Benjarain', John', John'), b. June 15, 1694; d. 1776; ra. (1)
Susan  ; (2) Oct. 6, 1737, Bethia Cutter [b. July 9, 1714]; (3) Nov.
28, 1754, Beriah, dau. of John Berais and widow of Daniel Child and of
Joseph Pierce [b. June 23, 1681; d. 1768]. Res. in Watertown.
Richard* (Richard', Richard', John'), b. 1694; d. Apr. 27, 1775; m.
(1) Hannah, dau. of Josiah Whitcomb of Lancaster, Mass. [b. 1693; d.
Nov. 17, 1743]; (2) int. Oct. 26, 1755, Mrs. Hannah Ayer [b. 1704; d.
Sept. 27, 1775]. Res. in Stow, Mass.
William' (William*, Nathaniel', John', John'), b. July 11, 1706/7; m.
(1) Sept. 10, 1735, Hannah, dau. of George and Hepzibah (Fiske) Har
rington of Watertown, Mass. [b. July 31, 1716; d. Apr. 30, 1740]; (2)
Mar. 30, 1742, May, dau. of John and Hannah (Barstow) Chadwidc, and
widow of Jacob Pierce [b. Oct. 17, 1713; d. Feb. 23, 1756]; (3) Aug. 12,
1756, Margaret, dau. of Amos and Hannah (Oldham) Gates of Fraraing-
hara, Mass., and widow of Thomas Spring of Weston, Mass.; (4) int.
Jan. 14, 1763, Mrs. Sarah Davis of Brookline, Mass. Res. in Weston,
Mass. Ezekiel" (John*, Benjamin', John', John'), bapt. Apr. 12, 1742; d.
1803; m. (1) Dec. 6, 1763, Catherine Draper of Roxbury, Mass.; (2) May
19, 1769, Catherine Anson. He was a cordwainer in Watertown, Mass.
Josiah" (Richard*, Richard', Richard', John'), b. Oct. 12, 1731; d.
Jan. 4 1806; m. (1) int. Sept. 9, 1751, Sarah Farr [b. Jan. 19, 1735; d.
Apr. 21, 1773] ; (2) Feb. 3, 1774, Sarah Dwelly of Bridgewater, Mass.
Soon after his first marriage he reraoved from his native town to Har
vard, Mass., where he soon became a leading citizen. He was especially
devoted to military affairs, serving in both the French and Indian War
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and the Revolution, and rising to the rank of brigadier-general. He
was a selectman, representative, and a meraber of the convention for rati
fication of the Federal Constitution. He had twenty-five children, of
whora, however, thirteen died while young.
Phineas' (WHHam", WHHam*, Nathaniel', John', John'), b. Apr. 23,
1740; d. Dec. 13, 1819; m. (1) Apr. 28, 1762, dau. of Lieut. Moses* (Si
mon', Henry', Simon') WiHard [b. 1742; d. May 20, 1769]; (2) int. May
3, 1770, Lydia Bowes of Bedford, Mass. [d. Oct. 11, 1805] ; (3) Mrs. Jane
Garfield of Fitchburg, Mass. [d. Mar. 4, 1824]. He entered the ministry
in 1762, and was settled as the first pastor in Shirley, Mass., which position
he held until his death.
Lemuel' (Josiah", Richard*, Richard', Richard', John'), b. Sept. 19,
1784; d. July 9, 1853; m. 1804, dau. of Henry and Betsey Hall [b. Feb. 6,
1788; d. Apr. 30, 1852]. He was a farmer in Ashburnham, Mass., and was
a captain in the militia.
1. Charles' (Phineas', William', William*, Nathaniel',
Johns John'), b. Jan. 2, 1794; d. Oct. 6, 1832; m. Sept. 12, 1815,
Dolly Davenport of West Boylston, Mass. He resided in
Shirley, Mass., until about 1824, when he removed to Peter
boro. Probably he never was a resident in New Ipswich, but
his widow came to town a few years after his death, and his
children were intimately connected with its local activities.
Children :
5. i. Charles W., b. Aug. 25, 1817; d. Dec. 13, 1820.
6. ii. Elizabeth D., b. Oct. 25, 1819; d. Dec. 18, 1820.
7. iii. Charles Addington, b. Oct. 10, 1821; d. May 23, 1878; m.
(1) May 11, 1852, Mary Frances Parker of Winchendon,
Mass. [b. about 1828; d. Jan. 11, 1857]; (2) May 11, 1871,
Mrs. Emeline V. Holman. While a young raan, he entered
mercantile Hfe in the store of Henry Isaacs, arid continued
his connection with that enterprise throughout his life, suc
ceeding to its entire ownership after the death of Edward
M. Isaacs. He was town clerk during the last quarter-
century of his life, and was also selectraan for a time. He
was postmaster for a considerable period, and in other
ways was a citizen whose discreet and kindly influence could
hardly receive due appreciation until his death, but is wit
nessed by the inscription upon the stone marking his grave,
"He loved his fellow men."
8. iv. Henry Augustus, b. Oct. 6, 1823; d. Feb. 18, 1890; m. Oct.
24, 1860, Lucretia Fall of Charlestown, Mass. [b. Nov. 8,
1839]. He lived a successful business life in Boston.
9. V. Sarah Elizabeth, b. Nov. 1, 1825; m. Apr. 13, 1852, David
Cotting of Southboro, Mass. After his death she lived for
several years with her brother, Charles A. Child: i.
Hattie F. Cotting, b. May 9, 1853; d. Jan. 12, 1891.
2. Christopher Columbus' (  ', Ezekiel', JohnS Benja
min', JohnS John'), b. Sept. 13, 1795; d. Apr. 24, 1873; m. int.
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Sept. 15, 1820, Betsey Putnam [b. Aug. 29, 1801 ; d. July 31,
1861]. No complete record of the children of EzekieP has
been found, but according to tradition Christopher C. was his
grandson and was cared for in childhood by an uncle, Leonard,
whose name does not appear on the records. He came from
Watertown, Mass., to New Ipswich soon after his marriage,
and was engaged throughout his life as a machinist and over
seer in the cotton factories of the town. He served in the War
of 1812. Children :
10. i. Christopher, b. Oct. 26, 1822; d. Feb. 15, 1823.
11. ii. Albert A., b. Apr. 11, 1824; d. Jan. 7, 1895; ra. Oct. 21, 1846,
Lucena Davis. He was a machinist in Battle Creek, Mich.
12. iii. Mary A., b. May 3, 1826; m. Oct. 21, 1846, Frederic O. Flagg
of Mason [b. June 15, 1821; d. Aug. 6, 1871]. He was a
traveling salesraan.
13. iv. Harriet C, b. Feb. 3, 1828; m. Oct. 5, 1847, Calvin E. Searle
[b. 1825; d. 1903]. Res. in New Ipswich, near the High
Bridge.
14. v. Henry Isaacs, b. Feb. 17, 1830; d. May 5, 1910; m. (1) Mary
Ann Stanley of Dublin [d. 1888]; (2) 1890, Sarah Jane
(Messer) Gould of Washington. While yet a young man
he reraoved to Mason Village, now Greenville, and there
made his permanent abode except during two years during
which he was associated with his brother Albert in Battle
Creek, Mich. He was for many years a machinist and
foreman of the raachine shop connected with the cotton
factories. He was a merchant frora 1880 to 1895. He held
the office of deputy sheriff for about forty years. He also
served his town as selectman, treasurer, and representative.
15. vi. Helen T., b. June 28, 1832; d. July 17, 1891; ra. (1) Cordeha
Griswold, an overseer in the cotton factory; (2) Frederic
Flagg.
16. vii. Elizabeth, b. July 20, 1834; d. Sept. 30, 1835.
17. viii. Catherine A., b. May 21, 1836; ra. Lysander J. Cowdrey.
18. ix. Adeline E., b. Dec. 13, 1838 ; ra. George H. Evans of Hinsdale.
19. X. Emily L., b. Jan. 9, 1842; m. Frank J. Bojmton of Greenville.
3. Henry Hall' (Lemuel', Josiah', RichardS RichardS
Richards John'), b. June U, 1805; d. Dec. 26, 1888; m. Sept.
26, 1830, Caroline F. Bailey. He resided in New Ipswich near
the High Bridge 1848 to 1854, afterward in East Jaffrey. Chil
dren: 20. i. Elnora Caroline, b. Nov. 17, 1831; d. May 2, 1851.
21. H. Permelia, b. June 20, 1833; d. Feb. 18, 1884; m. (1) May 5,
1853, Samuel Wheeler (122) [d. June 7, 1882]; (2) Jan.
1, 1883, Hirara Williams.
22. iii. Amanda, b. Aug. 27, 1836; m. May 21, 1854, Alarie A. Boyce.
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23. iv. John Henry, b. Nov. 21, 1838.4-
24. V. Sophia, b. Nov. 29, 1842; m. Aug. 12, 1868, George W. Bas-
com [b. Oct. 1, 1843; d. Oct 8, 1884]. Res. in CHnton,
Mass., where he was superintendent of the Bigelow carpet
works. Child : i. Frank Preston Bascom, b. Apr. 28, 1876.
25. vi. Luceba, b. Nov. 27, 1845 ; d. Sept. 8, 1848.
4. Otis' (Lemuel', Josiah', Richard*, Richard', Richard^,
John'), b. Nov. 14, 1809; d. 1884; m. May 3, 1840, Hannah
Parker [b. 1819; d. Oct. 7, 1882]. Res. in Ashburnham, Mass.,
until about 1870, when he came to New Ipswich and pur
chased the Heald farm, (186, N. L. O.,) at the corner formed
by the Ashby and Mason roads, eastward from Whittemore
Hill, which was the home of his remaining years. Children :
26. i. Julia A., b. Feb. 17, 1841; m. (1) Nov. 23, 1862, George W.
Cushing (2); (2) Oliver H. Perry [b. 1826; d. Sept. 28,
1906].
27. ii. Newton O., b. June 8, 1844.-|-
28. iii. Herbert W., b. Sept. 6, 1846.-i-
29. iv. Charles P., b. Dec. 8, 1848; m. 1871, Mary O. Thoms. Res.
Fitchburg, Mass. Child: i. Lottie G., b. Feb., 1872; m.
Walter K. Pulsifer [b. Feb. 8, 1873].
23. John Henry' (Henry H.', Lemuel', JosiahS Richard*,
Richard', RichardS John'), b. Nov. 21, 1838; m. Sept. 10, 1862,
Mary Jane Nutting (11). Children:
30. i. Charles, b. Oct. 14, 1869.
31. ii. Leslie H., b. May 20, 1877.
32. iii. Allen, b. Feb. 14, 1882.
27. Newton O.' (Otis', Lemuel', Josiah', RichardS Rich
ard', Richards John'), b. June 8, 1844; m. Nov. 20, 1869, Jennie
A. Hanshaw. Res. New Ipswich. Children :
33. i. Cora A., b. May 23, 1871 ; m. 1888, Everett E. Petts.
34. ii. Waldo D., b. Sept. 3, 1873; m. May I. Parsons [d. Dec, 1912].
35. iii. Myron O., b. Mar. 12, 1877; m. Lucy Francis.
36. iv. Ethel May, b. Sept. 1, 1884; m. Charles Donley.
28. Herbert W.' (Otis', Lemuel', JosiahS RichardS Rich
ard', Richards John'), b. Sept. 6, 1846; d. Dec. 18, 1909; m.
(1) Emma A. Marble [b. Mar. 16, 1852; d. Nov. 16, 1875];
(2) Nov. 1, 1878, Ella M. Atwood [b. June 25, 1849]. Chil
dren: 37. i. Melvin B., b. Mar. 30, 1872.
38. ii. Harry H., b. Aug. 18, 1879.
39. iii. LoRNA B., b. May 17, 1883; m.  Oliver.
40. iv. Wilbur C, b. Apr. 10, 1885; m. Mabel Woodward.
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WILLARD.
Simon' Willard, bapt. Apr. 7, 1605; d. Apr. 24, 1676; m. (3) Mary
Dunster [d. Dec, 1715]. Born at Horsraonden, in the county of Kent,
England; carae to America in 1634, and settled at Cambridge, soon re
moving to Concord, in the establishment of which settlement he was a
leader. He was chosen a magistrate (member of the Court of Assistants)
in 1654 and continued a raember until his death. He was chosen major
(chief military officer of the county) in 1653, and continued to hold
this position twenty-two years.
Henry' (Simon'), b. Concord, June 4, 1655; d. 1701; ra. Mary Lakin
of Groton [d. 1688]. Res. Groton and Lancaster.
Joseph' (Henry', Simon'), b. Lancaster about 1686; d. July 30, 1761;
ra. Elizabeth Tarbell of Groton [b. Aug. 19, 1691; d. Dec. 23, 1763]. Res.
Harvard. Joseph* (Joseph', HenryS, Simon'), b. Harvard, May 17, 1728; d. Sept.
12, 1812; m. Feb. 14, 1753, Elizabeth Hapgood. Res. Harvard.
Joseph" (Joseph*, Joseph', Henry', Simon'), b. Sept. 4, 1760; m. June
10, 1783, Susa Kingman.
1. George' (Josephs Josephs Joseph', HenryS, Simon'), b.
Harvard, Mass., Jan. 4, 1787; d. Dec. 16, 1873; m. Hannah
Simonds [b. about 1791; d. Apr. 7, 1864]. He was a tanner
in Harvard until middle life, when he came to New Ipswich
and continued the same business with Stedman Houghton for
some years, after which he was a farmer half a mile south from
the Congregational church (on VII : 3, S. R.) Children :
2. i. Mary Ann, b. Apr. 17, 1809; d. July 5, 1830.
3. ii. Susan C, b. Sept. 10, 1810; d. Jan. 10, 1841.
4. iii. George, b. Feb. 1, 1812.-)-
5. iv. Jane Maria, b. Aug. 8, 1814; m. Jan. 5, 1842, Edward L.
Noyes. Res. Boston.
6. V. Andrew Hosmer, b. July 12, 1818.-J-
7. vi. A son, b. July 5, 1820; d. Oct. 10, 1820.
8. vii. Maria Nason, b. Dec. 24, 1821; d. Apr. 9, 1893, unm.
9. viii. Henry Augustus, b. Aug. 15, 1829.-|-
4. George' (GeorgeS Josephs Josephs Joseph', HenryS
Simon'), b. Feb. 1, 1812; d. Sept. 12, 1876; m. Nov. 19, 1839,
Abby J. Wheeler (138). Res. in Townsend, Mass., but passed
a few years about 1870 on the paternal farm. ChHdren :
10. i. James A., b. about 1844; m.  Billings. Res. Townsend.
11. ii. Fred A., b. about 1849; m.  Forsman. Res. Ashby.
6. Andrew Hosmer' (George', Joseph', Joseph*, Joseph',
HenryS Simon'), b. June 12, 1818; m. Hannah Farwell of
Lunenburg, Mass. He lived for some years on the Royce
place, about 1850 removed to the Col. Kidder farm, (46, N. D.,)
and removed to FitzwHliam about 1893. ChHdren:
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Augusta Ann.
Adeline, m. Feb. 24, 1869, John W. Snow of Lunenburg, Mass.
One son.
Andrew Hosmer, b. Dec. 7, 1849.-|-
Charlotte Lavina, b. Feb. 2, 1851 ; m. Samuel Thorapson of
Mason, a stonecutter. Res. FitzwilHam. Ten children.
14. Andrew Hosmer' (Andrew Hosmer', George', Joseph',
Josephs Joseph', HenryS Simon'), b. Dec. 7, 1849; m. (1)
Apr. 23, 1878, Mary E., dau. of James McLaughlin [b. Aug.
19, 1855 ; d. June 22, 1888] ; (2) May 23, 1891, Alice C. Blood
(10). Painter at New Ipswich until 1904. Res. Concord.
Children :
16. i. Edwin, b. June 23, 1879.
17. ii. Charles J., b. May 18, 1880; m. June 22, 1904, Florence Had
ley of Temple. Children, i. Mervin Edwin, b. June 6, 1905.
ii. Herbert Andrew, b. June 16, 1906. iii. Raymond Charles,
b. Apr. 26, 1909.
WILLIAMS.
1. Benjamin' Williams, b. Concord, Mass., Oct. 25, 1744;
d. Enosburg, Vt., Feb. 5, 1835 ; m. Hepzibah Brown of Con
cord [b. Feb. 5, 1746; d. Jan. 12, 1814]. He removed from
Concord in 1771, and is said to have come to New Ipswich at
that time, although his name does not appear upon the tax-
lists until 1783. He settled west of the summit of the moun
tain, (151, A. D.,) on the Rindge road of that time now aban
doned, but later the Turnpike road was built passing just west
of his home. He was an inn-keeper, as well as a farmer. He
rendered much Revolutionary service, responding to the Con
cord alarm, fighting at Bunker Hill and afterward in the com
panies of Capts. Archelaus Town, Stephen Parker, Josiah
Brown, and Robert Fletcher, and held the office of lieutenant
in the later times of service. In his later years he was a major
in the militia. He removed to Enosburg, Vt., a few years be
fore his death. Children :
2. i. Abigail, b. May 8, 1770; d. Shrewsbury, Mass., Feb. 1, 1847;
m. Mar. 21, 1792, Simon, son of Dea. Benjarain and Submit
(Lee) Maynard [b. Aug. 25, 1767].
3. ii. Hepzibah, b. May 9, 1772; d. Buckland, Mass., Aug. 17, 1834;
ra. Feb. 9, 1792, Benjamin Carter.
4. iii. Rhoda, b. Aug. 2, 1774; d. Buckland, Mass., Mar. 27, 1842;
m. Feb. 13, 1798, Joseph BaUard.
5. iv. MttiCENT, b. Nov. 1, 1776; d. Sept. 5, 1777.
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6. V. Milicent, b. July 3, 1778; d. Swanzey, Jan. 4, 1817; m. Apr.
11, 1799, Ezekiel Thompson.
7. vi. Lucy, b. July 23, 1780; d. Swanzey, Mar. 20, 1818.
8. vii. Benjamin Brigham, b. June 16, 1782. -|-
9. viH. Hannah, b. Mar. 18, 1784; d. New Ipswich, Feb. 1, 1843; m.
 Wilder. Two children.
10. ix. Ephraim, b. Mar. 19, 1786. -|-
11. X. Isaiah, b. July 5, 1788.-|-
12. xi. Patty, b. Aug. 2, 1791; d. New Ipswich, Dec 19, 1831; m.
 Wilson. Two children.
8. Benjamin Brigham^ (Benjamin'), b. June 16, 1782; d.
Enosburg, Vt., Dec. 4, 1840; m. (1) Ruth Fox (12) ; (2) June
16, 1814, Hephzibeth Taylor (27). He remained on or near his
father's farm until his removal to Enosburg, Vt., and accom
panied him thither. Children:
13. i. Noah Bartlett, b. Jan. 7, 1811; d. Enosburg, Vt., Dec. 12,
1845; ra. Fairfax, Vt., Feb. 5, 1835, Cynthia Pease. He
worked a few years of his early manhood in the laboratory
of Stephen Thayer, but soon after his marriage removed
to Enosburg, Vt., where the reraaining ten years of his life
were passed.
14. H. Saloma, b. Jan. 7, 1813; d. 1844.
15. iii. Ruth Fox, b. June 27, 1815; d. Newbury, Vt., Feb. 14, 1900;
ra. Jan. 20, 1840, George Rawson. Res. in Enosburg, Vt.,
and in Kansas.
16. iv. George Gilman, b. Jan. 10, 1817.-|-
17. V. Lucy Thomson, b. Oct. 28, 1818; d. Enosburg, Vt., June 10,
1845 ; ra. Oct. 4, 1843, Williara Boutelle. Res. Enosburg, Vt.
18. vi. Milly Taylor, b. July 11, 1820; m. May 30, 1845, Theron
Baker. Res. Enosburg, Vt.
19. vii. Louisa Bullard, b. Aug. 30, 1822; d. St. Albans, Vt., Jan. 16,
1862; m. Sept. 3, 1843, John B. Fletcher (188).
20. viii. Isaiah Hall, b. June 1, 1824.-)-
21. ix. Elzina Saloma, b. Oct. 20, 1826; d. Wells River, Vt., Aug.
10, 1871; m. Sept. 13, 1847,  ; (2) Horace Denio.
Res. in Enosburg and Wells River, Vt.
10. Ephraim^ (Benjamin'), b. Mar. 19, 1786; d. Buckland,
Mass., Nov. 27, 1846; m. Conway, Mass., Dec. 22, 1814, Mary
Toby [b. Conway, Mar. 29, 1793]. Res. Buckland, Mass.
Children :
22. i. Rhoda B., b. Dec. 17, 1815.
23. ii. Noah B., b. July 12, 1817.
24. iii.  , b. Feb. 26, 1819.
25. iv.  , b. Apr. 24, 1820.
26. V.  , b. June 1, 1822.
27. vi. George C, b. Mar. 11, 1824.
28. vii. Ephraim D., b. Nov. 30, 1825.
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30. ix. Rebecca, b. Aug. 8, 1828.
31. x. Cordelia S., b. June 21, 1830.
32. xi. Loretta, b. Nov. 1, 1831.
33. xii. Deborah, b. Mar. 13, 1833.
11. Isaiah^ (Benjamin'), b. July 5, 1788; d. Ware VHlage,
Mass., Nov. 1, 1836; m. Pelham, Mass., Feb. 20, 1812, Martha
Tenney [b. West Nottingham, July 23, 1788]. He was for a
time a blacksmith in the shop by the Kidder Brook at the west
end of the Village Green, but about 1824 he removed to Enos
burg, Vt. Children :
34 i. Gibson T., b. Jan. 15, 1813.
35. ii. David, b. Jan. 29, 1814.
36. iii. Mary, b. Aug. 21, 1815.
37. iv. John M., b. Feb. 27, 1817.
38. V. Isaiah T., b. Feb. 12, 1819.
39. vi. Martha A., b. Jan. 31, 1821.
40. vii. Jane P., b. Feb. 1, 1823.
41. viii. Lucy A., b. Nov. 22, 1825.
42. ix. Julia A., b. June 7, 1827.
43. X. Charles C, b. Nov. 30, 1829.
16. George Gilman' (Benjamin B.S Benjamin'), b. Jan.
10, 1817; m. (1) Apr. 1, 1841, Elvira Baker [b. Enosburg, Aug.
25, 1816; d. Oct. 4, 1881] ; (2) Oct. 1, 1884, Mary A. Brooks
(28), widow of George R. Thomas. He was a farmer at Enos
burg until 1871, and later at Craftsbury, Vt. Since 1884 he has
lived at West Rindge. Children :
44. i. Milly S., b. Sept. 15, 1842; m. Jan. 11, 1873, WiHiam P.
Cheney [d. Feb. 14, 1895]. He was a printer at Windsor,
Vt. Children : i. William George Cheney, b. Dec. 24, 1875 ;
d. Aug. 23, 1876. ii. George Prentiss Cheney, b. July 4, 1877.
45. ii. Maria, b. Nov. 11, 1845; d. Mar. 28, 1855.
46. iii. Nelson B., b. Dec. 29, 1849.
47. iv. Lucy E., b. Apr. 30, 1860; d. Oct. 17, 1906, unm.
20. Isaiah Hall' (Benjamin^, Benjamin'), b. June 1, 1824;
d. Rindge, Dec. 9, 1888; m. (1) Enosburg, Sept. 13, 1847, N.
Elizabeth WHder [b. 1828; d. Jan. 2, 1870] ; (2)  [d.
in Florida]. Child:
48. i. Fred Morrill, b. Jan. 17, 1857; d. Sept. 21, 1868.
WILSON (David).
David' Wilson, b. Shirley, Mass., before 1790; d. Sharon, aged 93;
m. Hannah Calton of Sharon. He came to Sharon when a young man
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1. John Steele^ (David'), b. about Feb., 1816; d. Oct. 12,
1895; m. (1) Rebecca Sanders [d. about 1843] ; (2) Mary M.
Holden of Mason. He was a farmer in Sharon during the
greater part of his life, but lived for a few years beginning in
1840 on Page Hill, occupying the "Warren farm," which was
the western part of XIII : 2, N. L. O., and afterward Hving in
Wilder Village and also near the Emery Carr mill south of
the old "white school-house," westward from the mountain.
He was captain of the Sharon militia. Children :
2. i. William Henry, b. Oct. 28, 1840; ra. (1) Nov. 1, 1860, Irene
Perkins of Temple [b. Jan. 1, 1841 ; d. June 25, 1905] ; (2)
Apr. 2, 1907, Nellie (Goss) Spaulding [b. Aug. 1, 1846].
He is the only member of the family born in New Ipswich,
and he has passed the greater part of his life in his native
town, living for a time in Wilder Village, later on the "Chick
ering farm," (22, N. D.,) and at present in the house which
was originally the first Academy building in the Center
Village. He has also resided for longer or shorter periods
in Ashby, Mass., Northboro, Mass., Sharon and Peterboro.
He has been a deacon of the Baptist church in both Peter
boro and New Ipswich. He served during the Civil War
in the 13th New Harapshire Regiment. He had no chil
dren, but adopted Cora Belle Tandy, who m. Frank E.
Hardy.
3. ii. Moses C.
4. iii. Joseph A.
5. iv. Hannah, ra. Williara H. Hardy of Sharon.
6. V. David.

7. vi. Alfred A.
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WILSON (John).

John' Wilson, a Scotch prisoner of war taken at the battle of Dun
bar, was sent to America in 1650. He settled in Woburn, Mass., where
he first paid taxes in 1666. He died July 2, 1687.
Samuel' (John'), b. Dec 29, 1658; d. 1729; ra. Feb. 24, 1682, Eliza
beth, dau. of Robert Pierce [b. Mar. 6, 1658]. Res. at Woburn.
Samuel' (SaraueP, John'), b. Nov. 21, 1695; d. Oct. 11, 1750; ra. Oct.
29, 1719, Sarah, dau. of Jaraes and Susanna (Blodgett) Simonds [b. Dec.
13, 1694]. Res. in Woburn.
Samuel* (Samuel', Samuel', John'), b. July 22, 1720; d. June 21, 1750;
m. June 5, 1744, Abigail, dau. of Edward and Rebecca Johnson [b. July
15, 1723; m. (2) Nov. 13, 1751, Simeon Spaulding of Chelmsford, Mass.].
Res. in Woburn.
1. Supply' (SamuelS Samuel', SamueP, John'), b. Woburn,
Jan. 15, 1750; d. July 21, 1835; m. (1) May 15, 1777, Susanna
Cutter (9); (2) Apr. 24, 1817, Elizabeth, widow of Samuel
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Bachelder (5) [d. Feb. 11, 1835]. He came from Woburn to
New Ipswich in 1769, and passed his life in the northeastern
part of the town, settling first upon lot 36, N. D., and after
some years removing to the farm previously owned by his
father-in-law John Cutter, (32, N. D.) As the years passed,
he acquired neighboring farms and became the large land
holder of that section. He was a man of good judgment and
trustworthy, and was one of the selectmen for nine consecutive
years. Revolutionary service was rendered at the time of the
Concord alarm, at Bunker Hill, and in Capt. Smith's company.
Children :
2. i. Supply, b. July 29, 1778.-|-
3. ii. John, b. May 28, 1780.-|-
4. Hi. Susanna, b. Apr. 13, 1782; m. Nov. 8, 1804, Israel Mansfield
(13).
5. iv. Sarah, b. Mar. 5, 1784; d. Apr. 24 1874; ra. June 16, 1808,
Nathaniel Edwards of Temple.
6. V. Samuel, b. Mar. 29, 1786; d. Dec 23, 1857; m. (1) May 31,
1810, Martha Williaras [b. Aug. 25, 1796; d. Dec 18, 1830] ;
(2) Sarah BeH [b. Apr. 16, 1805; d. Dec, I860]. Res. at
Cambridge, O., and removed thence about 1844 to Princeton,
Ind. Ten children.
7. vi. Isaac, b. Oct. 30, 1788.-|-
8. vii. Rachel, b. Nov. 22, 1790; d. July 11, 1853; m. May 29, 1817,
Joseph Wheeler (9).
9. viii. Abigail, b. Apr. 1, 1793; d. Dec. 10, 1877; ra. June 17, 1813,
Samuel Cook Wheeler (23).
10. ix. Rebecca, b. July 19, 1795; d. May 18, 1882; m. Richard
Wheeler (56).
11. X. Polly, b. July 28, 1797; d. Oct. 1, 1805.
12. xi. William Kimball, b. Aug. 4, 1798; d. in infancy.
2. Supply' (Supply', Samuel*, Samuel', SamueP, John'), b.
July 29, 1778; d. Sept. 12, 1852; m. (1) Sept. 19, 1802, Sally,
dau. of Oliver and Jane (Bartlett) Scripture [b. Oct. 7, 1779;
d. July 3, 1837]; (2) Aug. 19, 1838, Sarah Stephenson of
Lyndeboro [d. Dec, 1866]. His life, typical of the success
ful and honored New England farmer of the nineteenth cen
tury, was passed upon one of the farms previously owned by
his father, (35, N. D.,) and also by his father-in-law. His ac
tivities outside the farm were varied, as he held a major's com
mission in the militia, was active and discreet in church work,
and was relied upon by his townsmen in times of doubt or
trouble. Children :
13. i. Supply Franklin, b. July 8, 1803.-|-
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14 ii. Sally, b. 1804; d. Nov. 14 1875; ra. Nov. 11, 1828, Jason B.
Perry of Rindge, in which town they passed their lives.
Children: i. Mary Perry, b. Mar. 18, 1830; m. S. D.
Walker ; res. Rindge. ii. Eliza Perry, b. Aug. 3, 1831 ; m.
Julius Hall; res. Rindge. iii. Susan Perry, b. Apr. 11, 1833;
m.  Whittemore ; res. in Illinois, iv. John Wilson Perry,
b. Apr. 17, 1835. V. James B. Perry, b. Aug. 13, 1837; res.
McHenry, 111. vi. Harriet Perry, b. Sept. 22, 1839; d. June
18, 1863; ra. Walter Flanders; res. at Warner, vii. Sarah
Perry, b. Sept. 12, 1842; m. Walter Flanders; res. at War
ner, viii. Jason Stanley Perry, b. Jan. 8, 1847; res. at
Rindge. ix. Jane Sophronia Perry, b. Jan. 8, 1847; res. at
Rindge.
IS. iii. Matthias Spaulding, b. Apr. 22, 1806.-f-
16. iv. Mary, b. Jan. 2, 1808; d. Aug. 23, 1869; m. June 6, 1833, Joseph
Breed (50). Res. at Rindge.
17. V. James, b. Nov. 4, 1809; d. May 3, 1840, unm. He was a suc
cessful teacher.
18. vi. Susan, b. Oct. 19, 1811; d. Sept. M, 1855; ra. Nov., 1839,
Nathan Kendall of Nashua; (2) about 1850, George San
ders (9). Child: i. Sarah W. Kendall, b. Aug. 30, 1840;
d. unm.
19. vii. Abby, b. July 25, 1813 ; d. Denmark, Iowa, Sept., 1857.
20. viii. Harriet, b. July 15, 1815; m. Oct. 4, 1842, Hartwell J. Taylor
(50).
21. ix. Sophronia, b. Feb. 10, 1818; d. Mar. 25, 1819.
22. X. Jane, b. Jan. 18, 1820; d. June 25, 1862; ra. Sept. 28, 1848,
Rev. William Ireland. They were missionaries in South
Africa, where she died.
23. xi. Augustus, b. Jan. 13, 1822.
24. xii. Sophronia, b. Feb. 5, 1824; d. July 23, 1852; m. Feb. 12, 1851,
Rev. J. E. B. Jewett.
3. John' (Supply", Samuel*, Samuel', SamueP, John'), b.
May 28, 1780; d. Apr. 3, 1869; m. Dec. 31, 1805, Anna Dale
Holt of Wilton [b. Mar. 4, 1785; d. Dec. 6, 1851]. He suc
ceeded to his father's farm, and there spent his life. Children :
25. i. John, b. 1806; d. young.
John Gardner, b. Jan. 17, 1808.-)-
Ann, b. Aug. 26, 1809; d. May 29, 1870; m. May 16, 1839,
Mark Farrar (23).
Supply Cutter, b. June 29, 1811.-|-
Joseph Addison, b. Mar. 21, 1813.-|-
Betsey, b. July 22, 1814; d. Feb. 6, 1815.
31. vii. Betsey Adaline, b. Dec 13, 1815; d. Jan. 30, 1892, unm. She
lived upon the home farm, with her father after her
mother's death, and later with her brother Edward.
32. viii. George, b. Jan. 17, 1818; d. July 1, 1826.
33. ix. Edward, b. Jan. 11, 1820; d. Aug. 12, 1889, unm. He passed
his life as a farmer on the ancestral farm.
34. X. Edwin, b. Jan. 11, 1820; d. Aug. 2, 1826.
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36. xii. Horace Woodbury, b. Sept. 12, 1824.-)-
37. xiii. George Edwin, b. Aug. 28, 1826.-)-
7. Isaac' (SupplyS SamuelS Samuel', SamueP, John'), b.
Oct. 30, 1788; d. Nov. 21, 1865; m. May 20, 1813, Ruth, dau.
of Nathaniel and Ruth (Powers) Jewett of Temple [b. Jan.
27, 1790; d. July 11, 1868]. For ten years after his marriage
he lived upon the next farm east of the home of his boyhood,
on 28, N. D., but he then removed to Temple, and passed the
remainder of his life on the farm which was the early home
of his wife. Children :
38. i. Mary Ann, b. Feb. 26, 1814
39. ii. Elvira, b. Aug. 18, 1815.
40. iii. Isaac Newton, b. Mar. 5, 1817.
41. iv. Ezekiel Jewett, b. Dec. 6, 1818.
42. V. Horace, b. Nov. 17, 1820.
43. vi. Albert, b. Dec 20, 1822.
44. vii. Ruth Emeline, b. June 24, 1825.
13. Supply Franklin^ (Supply', Supply', SamuelS Sam
ueP, SamueP, John'), b. July 8, 1803; d. Apr. 20, 1862; m. 1836,
Cornelia Clute. Res. at Troy, N. Y. Children :
45. i. James Henry, b. Sept. 5, 1837.
46. ii. Sarah Catherine, b. Apr. 30, 1840.
47. iii. Gilbert M., b. Mar. 26, 1847.
15. Matthias Spaulding' (Supply', Supply', SamueP,
SamueP, SamueP, John'), b. Apr. 22, 1806; d. Feb. 25, 1880;
m. Apr. 9, 1833, Laura Morgan of Wilton [b. Dec. 13, 1811;
d. May 5, 1880] . From the time of his marriage untH 1850 he
lived upon the "Safiford farm," just south from the Congrega
tional church, (VII : 2, S. R.,) upon which he built the brick
dwelling which now faces on the common. In 1850 he re
turned to his father's farm, which he held for twenty years,
and then bought the "Judge Farrar place," (VIII : 1, S. R.,)
which was the home of his later life. He was a selectman for
several years, and a trustee of the Academy. Children :
Augustus M., b. Mar. 8, 1834.-)-
Abbie a., b. July 28, 1836; m. Dec. 28, 1865, J. Kimball
Wheeler of Hudson.
Charles F., b. Nov. 26, 1837.-)-
Alfred G, b. Oct. 10, 1839; d. Sept. 8, 1840.
James A., b. Oct. 25, 1841; d. Dec. 16, 1885; m. (1) Jan. 1,
1867, Mary E. Babcock [d. Feb. 15, 1867]; (2) Maria J.
Brown [d. 1884]. Res. West Townsend, Mass.
53. vi. Samuel G, b. Mar. 16, 1844.-)-
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54. vii. Lauretta M., b. May 16, 1846; m. Jan. 1, 1867, George B.
Boutelle. Res. Fitchburg, Mass., where the children were
born, later at Baltimore, Md. Children: i. William H.
Boutelle; res. Southbridge, Mass. ii. Frank M. Boutelle;
res. Cincinnati, O. iii. Walter W. Boutelle; res. Memphis,
Tenn.
55. viii. Frederick M., b. Oct. 27, 1853; d. Oct. 6, 1854
26. John Gardner' (John', SupplyS SamueP, SamueP,
SamueP, John'), b. Jan. 17, 1808; d. Sept., 1877; m. June 9,
1833, Almira Brown (86). He was a merchant of Mason Vil
lage, Fitzwilliam, and Nashua in succession. Children:
56. i. Anna Maria, b. July 31, 1834. Res. at Boston.
57. ii. Horace Marshall, b. Mar. 31, 1836; d. Jan. 6, 1867; m. Har
riet Putnam of Wilton. Child: i. Almira Janette; she is a
physician in Boston, having received her degree from the
Medical School of Tufts College in 1898.
28. Supply Cutter' (John', Supply', SamueP, SamueP,
SamueP, John'), b. June 29, 1811; d. Apr. 13, 1865; m. Laura
Joanna, dau. of Daniel and Sally (Danforth) Chandler of Mer
rimack [b. Jan. 7, 1827]. He was a merchant at North Chelms
ford. Children :
58. i. Frank Cutter, b. 1853; m. Mattie Sutcliffe. He was a mer
chant in HaverhiU, Mass. One child.
59. ii. Samuel Elliott, b. 1859; ra. Nellie  . He is a merchant
at Haverhill, Mass.
29. Joseph Addison' (John', SupplyS SamueP, SamueP,
SamueP, John'), b. Mar. 21, 1813; m. Harriet Stone of Fitz
william. He was a merchant and farmer at Fitzwilliam, and
later a merchant at Lowell, Mass. He removed to Pensaukee,
Wis., about 1858. Children :
60. i. Francis Rodney. He married and has children. A farmer
in Kansas.
61. ii. Henry Willie.
62. iii. Catherine Augusta Lee.
63. iv. George.
35. Charles' (John', Supply', SamueP, Samuel', SamueP,
John'), b. Aug. 19, 1822; d. July 8, 1897; m. (1) Dec. 31, 1846,
Olive A. Taylor (53) ; (2}" Mrs. Matilda R. Maynard, dau. of
Aaron K. Putnam of Wilton [d. Sept. 16, 1886] ; (3) Mrs.
Ellen (Abbott) Shipley of Wilton. He was employed in the
mills at Greenville, and afterward was a farmer at Wilton.
Children :
64. i. Samuel Taylor, b. Nov. 26, 1847; d. Apr. 17, 1892; m. Rosa
Peterson. He was a jeweler at Decorah, Iowa. Three
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65. ii. Ella Florene, b. June 5, 1852; d. July 6, 1858.
66. iii. Charles Woodbury, b. May 29, 1855 ; d. July 14, 1858.
67. iv. Nellie Augusta, b. May 1, 1860; m. George K. Morris. Res.
in Nashua. Three children.
68. V. Ina Belle, b. July 20, 1863. Res. in Boston.
36. Horace Woodbury' (John', SupplyS SamueP, Sam
ueP, SamueP, John'), b. Sept. 12, 1824; d. 1849; m. (1) Malvina
Rideout ; (2) Janette Burns. Children :
69. i. Adeline L.
70. ii. Etta M.
37. George EbwiN' (John', Supply', SamueP, SamueP,
SamueP, John'), b. Aug. 28, 1826; m. (1) Hannah Barnard;
(2) Mary  . He was employed in the mills at Nashua, and
later became a merchant at Manchester. Children :
71. i. A son, of first marriage; d. in infancy.
72. H. Lena, of second marriage; m. Dr. Theodore B. Sachs.
48. Augustus M.' (Matthias', Supply', SupplyS SamueP,
SamueP, SamueP, John'), b. Mar. 8, 1834; d. West Townsend,
Mass., Feb. 20, 1898; m. Caroline M. Whitney of Gardner,
Mass. Children :
73. i. Alice M., b. May 16, 1862; m. Fred A. Patch. Res. West
Townsend, Mass. Child : i. Edward Patch, b. July 15, 1884.
50. Charles F.' (Matthias S.', Supply', Supply', SamueP,
SamueP, SamueP, John'), b. Nov. 26, 1837; d. Oct. 13, 1901;
m. 1863, Mary Adelaide Bennett. He was a butcher and meat
dealer at the slaughter-house long established near the foot of
Meeting-house HiH. Children :
74. i. Ernest Greeley, b. Apr. 20, 1864.-)-
75. ii. Kate M., b. June 9, 1866; d. Jan. 2, 1887.
76. iii. Grace K., b. Mar., 1868; ra. Ernest G. Young. Res. in Tem
ple. One son.
77. iv. Pearl H., b. Nov. 13, 1871 ; m. Eugene Gravlin. Res. at
Pawtucket, R. I. One son.
78. V. Abbie A., b. Aug. 8, 1874; m. Mar. 2, 1903, Eugene B. Beard.
79. vi. Charles L., b. Sept. 9, 1875; ra. May 7, 1902, Nettie M. For
bush. Res. at Townsend, Mass.
53. Samuel G.' (Matthias S.', Supply', Supply', SamueP,
SamueP, SamueP, John'), b. Mar. 16, 1844; m. Lucy J. MeHen.
Res. at HHl City, Kan., where he is engaged in banking.
Child :
80. i. Fred W., b. Aug. 4, 1882 ; m. Sept. 1, 1906, Clare Cave. Res.
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74. Ernest Greeley' (Charles F.', Matthias S.', Supply',
Supply', SamueP, SamueP, SamueP, John'), b. Apr. 20, 1864;
m. 1885, Anna M., dau. of Daniel G. Murphy. He is a meat
cutter at West Townsend, Mass. Children :
81. i. Harry A., b. Oct. 23, 1885; d. Dec 30, 1901.
82. ii. Agnes A., b. Jan. 5, 1891.
83. iii. Ruth G., b. Feb. 26, 1892.
84. iv. Gertrude, b. July 27, 1895.
WILSON (John, 2d).
John' Wilson, "'son of John,'' landed at Salera, June 17, 1630; carae
to Billerica in 1683; ra. (1) Johanna  ; (2) Nov. 10, 1698,  , dau.
of Thoraas Goodenough, and widow of John Miles of Concord. He was
first pastor of the First Church of Boston and chaplain in the Pequot
War. John' (John'), b. Jan. 3, 1672/3; ra. Elizabeth, dau. of Dea. Joseph
Foster. He was a clergyraan.
John' (John', John'), b. Dec 26, 1695; d. May 6, 1764; ra. (1) Nov.
26, 1723, Jerairaa, dau. of John Shed [d. Sept. 14, 1740] ; (2) Mary, her
sister, widow of Abrahara Charaberlain [d. Mar. 31, 1747].
Leonard' (John', John', John'), b. Oct. 24, 1736; ra. Dec 17, 1761,
Rachel, dau. of Abraham Durant.
Isaac" (Leonard*, John', John', John'), b. Aug. 16, 1764; m. Jan. 6,
1789, Sally, dau. of Thomas Ditson. Removed to Westford.
1. Andrew' (Isaac', Leonards John', John^, John'), b. at
Billerica, Oct. 27, 1795 ; d. July 21, 1840. First taxed in New
Ipswich in 1833.
2. Josiah Taylor' (Andrew', Isaac', Leonard*, John',
JohnS John'), b. in New Ipswich, Dec. 18, 1835; d. June 11,
1890, at Brighton, Mass.; m. June 11, 1861, EHen Maria, dau.
of Josiah W. Spaulding [b. Aug. 16, 1835; d. Aug. 16, 1885].
He was a hotel proprietor. Children :
3. i. Hattie Alina, b. June 1, 1863; m. Frederick Griswold. Res.
Hartford, Conn.
4. ii. Frank Stedman, b. Dec. 10, 1866.
5. iii. Florence Spaulding, b. Nov. 13, 1872; m. Arthur L. Stevens.
Res. Brighton, Mass.
WOOLSON.
Thomas' Woolson of New Cambridge (Newton), d. about 1713; m.
Nov. 20, 1660, Sarah, dau. of Job and Elizabeth (Fuller) Hyde [b. May
19, 1644; d. Sudbury, Mass., Sept. 11, 1721]. He settled at Watertown
Farras (Weston), where he was innkeeper 1686-1708. He was selectman
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Thomas' (Thomas'), b. Feb. 28, 1666/7; d. July 21, 1723; m. about
1693, Elizabeth, dau. of John and Sarah Chadwick [b. May 8, 1673]. He
moved from Weston to Watertown, 1715.
1. Jonas' (ThomasS Thomas'), b. Oct. 1, 1711 ; d. 1790; m.
June 23, 1742, Susannah Wallis of Townsend [b. about 1726;
d. 1796]. He is believed to have been the second settler in
New Ipswich, coming in 1739, probably about one year after
Abijah Foster, but it is said that his permanent residence did
not begin until after his marriage, but that the three interven
ing winters were passed in Littleton, Mass., with his nearest
New Ipswich neighbor, Benjamin Hoar. He settled upon lot
IV: 2, S. R., the present site of the Country Club, upon the
old country road. His first house, of a single story, was sup
plemented some years later by the two-storied house now
standing; and the older portion, after standing unchanged for
nearly a century, bore so decided marks of its long service
that it was torn down, but was rebuilt on exactly the same
spot and with no change of form, the original timbers and
other materials being replaced as far as their condition per
mitted. He seems to have been a man who had the confidence
of his fellow settlers, as his name appears upon some of the
more responsible committees who attended to their common
interests prior to the formal incorporation, and he was the first
treasurer elected by the infant town. His name is not found
upon any roll of Revolutionary soldiers, but according to tra
dition he was present at the surrender of Burgoyne and there
lost a valuable horse. His title as captain evidently antedated
his arrival in New Ipswich. Children :
2. i. Elizabeth, b. Apr. 2, 1743; d. 1794. Hers is the earliest
birth found in the town records. She removed to Water-
town in 1766.
3. ii. Susanna, b. Apr. 2, 1745.
4. in. Martha, b. June 15, 1751; d. June 2, 1773; m. Mar. 26, 1772,
Joseph Tucker (10).
5. iv. Jonas, b. June' 16, 1757.-)-
5. Jonas* (Jonas', Thomas^, Thomas'), b. June 16, 1757;
d. 1804; m. Elizabeth  [b. about 1758; d. Nov. 19, 1828;
m. (2) Apr. 13, 1813, WHliam Locke (1)]. ChHdren:
6. i. Anna, m. Oct. 17, 1802, Reuben Russell.
7. ii. George, m.  Wallace of Townsend, Mass. [d. 1804]. He
enlisted in the War of 1812, and was not found after one
of the northern battles of that war.
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8. Nathan, m. Miriam  , and lived for a time upon
Knight's Hill, probably on the Capt. Tucker place, (II : 1,
S. R.) Child:
9. i. Nathan, b. Oct. 13, 1767.
10. George, appears in private accounts about 1800, but
not in the tax-lists, and very probably his was the name borne
upon the Revolutionary roll of the company of Capt. Benja
min Mann of Mason.
11. Elizabeth, who m. Dec. 23, 1777, Joseph Lowell, Jr.,
was perhaps the daughter (2) of the pioneer, but farther cer
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Abbott, Abraham, 75, 97.
Alice, 698.
Charles E., 698.
Charles W., 698.
Cordelia, 186.
Dorothy, 193, 319.
Fannie L., 698.
Frank S., 666.
Jessie M., 698.
Sarah A., 601, 632.
Abercrombie, Mary E.,
200.
Acres, Sally, 597.
Adams, Abel, 173, 175.
Abraham, 176.
Abigail, 173, 539.
Achsa, 174.
Adeline A., 182.
AHce A., 182.
Alvin, 174.
Ann S., 320.
Asa, 77, 79, 89,
Asenath, 173.
Bartlett, 187.
Becca, 173.
Benjamin, 54, 83,
106, 124, 171, 179,
180, 183, 195.
Benjamin F., 184.
Benjamin S., 181.
Benjamin, Jr., 95.
Betsy, 179."
Beulah, 176.
Burton H., 188.
Caroline E., 188.
Carrie N., 676.
Charles, 174, 184,
187.
Charles A., 182, 312.
Charles K., 184.
Civil, 172.
Clarissa, 187.
Clarissa P., 184.
Cynthia, 181, 187.
Cyrus, 187.
Daniel, 84, 95, 179,
181.
David, 87, 176, 183.
Deborah, 180.

Adams, Dorcas, 174.
Dorothy, 187.
Ebenezer, 173, 179,
182, 183.
Eli, 83, 89, 90.
Eliza, 183.
EHzabeth, 181, 342.
Elizabeth C, 189.
Elizabeth S., 187.
Elizabeth W., 177.
Elvira, 175.
Emily A., 184 185.
Ephraim, 82, 83, 91.
93, 96, 99, 106, 124,
153, 178, 180, 185,
186, 187, 188, 509.
Ephraim D., 96.
Eugene F., 176.
Eunice, 180, 195.
Eunice A., 184.
Fidelia, 186.
Frederic, 184.
Frederic A., 138, 184.
George, 186, 270.
George W., 535.
Grace D., 188.
Hannah, 172, 173,
175, 180.
Harriet R., 183.
Harry W., 535.
Henry, 171, 187, 188.
Henry C, 188.
Henry M., 186.
Hiram, 185.
Ira, 175.
Isaac, 84, 173, 176,
180, 185.
James, 173, 175, 179.
James B., 186.
James D., 189.
Jane, 172, 173.
Jerry, 174.
Joanna K., 186.
John, 95, 96, 98, 175,
179, 181, 185, 187,
535, 573.
John F., 182.
John Q., 361.
John S., 186.

Adams, Jonas, 82, 86, 98,
172, 174.
Joseph, 171, 179, 180,
185, 187.
Joseph G., 176.
Josiah, 187.
Judah, 173.
Judes, 175.
Julia, 186.
Keziah, 491.
Laura, 174.
Levi, 78, 86, 172.
Louisa D,, 188.
Lucinda, 181, 187.
Lucy C, 174.
Luther, 172, 174, 175.
Lydia, 173, 174, 179,
180, 181, 528.
Marah, 615.
Maria, 183,
Marinda, 187.
Marshall, 175,
Mary, 174 180, 185,
187, 194, 615, 664.
Mary H., 188,
Mehitable, 471.
Melinda, 181, 187.
Mercy, 175, 555.
Minerva, 185.
Molly, 174,
Moody, 177.
Myra J., 177.
Nancy, 174.
Nathaniel, 177.
OHve, 172, 413.
Oliver, 175.
Olivia, 183.
Orie E,, 429.
Orson, 174.
Phebe, 173, 175,
Phineas, 79, 88, 91,
96, 172, 173, 174.
Polly, 175.
Priscilla, 179, 180.
Quincy, 179, 183.
Rebecca, 172, 173,
179, 187.
Rebekah, 181.
Rhoda, 173.

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Adams, Robert, 176.
Roxanna, 174.
Ruth, 173, 175, 235,
412.
SalJy, 186.
Samuel, 87, 93, 171,
181.
Sarah, 180, 181, 402,
409.
Sarah S., 189.
Sibil, 173.
Sibyl, 459.
Silas, 172, 173.
Sirene, l75.
Sophronia, 184.
Stearns, 187.
Stephen, 78, 82, 88,
96, 171, 172, 178,
181.
Stephen, Jr., 93, 96.
Stillman, 174.
Susan, 297.
Susanna, 173, 181.
Sylvester, 530.
Theodore D., 189.
Theodore W., 189.
Thomas, 83, 84, 89,
171, 172, 177, 178,
181, 187.
Thomas H., 189.
Thomas S., 186.
Timothy, 171, 296.
Tiraothy K., 181, 187.
Walter C, 188.
Williara F., 177, 181.
William M., 177.
Zachariah, 144, 172.
Adford, Mary, 485.
Aer, Mabelle, 329.
Aiken, Calvin, 200.
Charles A., 183.
George H., 120.
Tohn. 183, 199.
John C, 120.
Mattha, 347.
Ainsworth, Calvin, 481.
Edward, 190.
Frederic S., 190.
Israel, 136.
Josiah S., 190.
Laban, 190, 601.
Margaret A., 501.
Mary M., 190.
William, 190.
William P., 120, 190.
Aker, Mary, 465.
Albro, Caroline A., 255.
Alden, Charles H., 568.

Alden, Lula E., 555.
Paul, 493.
Sarah, 639.
Aldrich, Emeline, 272.
Sally M., 501.
Allen, Abby, 389.
Caroline, 492.
Charles H., 592.
Com.fort, 246.
Eveline B., 296.
Grace, 232, 363.
Kate F., 308.
Kenneth, 375.
Lydia, 643.
Mary, 384
Nancy, 366.
Sarah, 202, 643.
Stephen T., 140.
Allenwood, Asa, 417.
Alley, Lois, 490.
Allison, Lizzie, 543.
Alney, Content, 297.
Alwill, Agnes, 504.
Ambrose, Susanna, 593.
Ames, Amelia, 191.
Anna G., 698.
Arethusa, 191.
Asa, 191, 249.
Bertha P., 570.
Carrie E., 192.
Charles B., 192.
Charles W., 191, 698.
David. 191.
Dorothy G., 698.
Eli, 546.
Elijah, 192.
EHzabeth A., 191.
Ethel J., 698.
EveHne A., 192.
Frances H., 215.
Fred J., 698.
George L., 191, 665.
Gilbert, 192.
Gilman, 191.
Helen G, 192.
Helen W., 698.
Henry T., 566.
Jacob, 191, 192.
Jaraes B., 147, 192,
193.
James B., Mrs., 139.
Tames H., 192.
John, 191, 192.
Jonathan, 192.
Lavinia, 191.
LiHian F., 698.
Leonard H., 191, 192.
Louisa, 588.
724

Ames, Lucv M., 191.
Mabel D., 698.
Martin, 328.
Mary F., 192, 368.
Mary J., 394, 435.
Mary L., 192.
Ralph H., 698.
Richard, 145, 192.
Robert R., 193.
Romanzo, 192.
Samuel T., 139, 192.
Samuel T., Mrs,, 151,
192.
Sarah E., 192.
Sarah J., 191.
W-inslow, 191, 192.
Araos, Anna M., 535.
David, 535.
Edwin W., 535.
Ellen C, 535.
Elraer J., 535.
Amsden, David, 355.
Elbridge H., 623.
Francis, 353.
Jonas, 332.
Anderson, Arthur, 567.
Christine, 656.
James H., 659.
Andrews, Anna, 571.
Delia, 593.
Hannah, 355.
Jeremiah, 78.
Lucy, 404.
Angier, Silas, 87.
Annette, Cecil B., 208.
Elsie C, 208.
Marietta E., 208.
Markwell, 208.
Sarah E., 208.
Thoraas, 208.
Anson, Catharine, 704.
Appleton, Aaron, 195.
Alfred C, 201.
Alice G, 200.
Alice M., 201.
Ann L., 197.
Ashley, 198, 201.
CaroHne F., 197, 201.
Caroline S., 200.
Charles S., 197, 201.
Daniel W., 201.
David, 196.
Dolly, 195.
Dorothy E., 200.
Eben, 196, 197, 201.
Ebenezer, 196.
Edith S., 200, 201.
Edward L., 200.

Index

Appleton, Edward P.,
202.
Eleanora A., 200.
Eliza A., 198.
Elizabeth, 196, 198.
Elizabeth F., 199.
Ellen R., 201.
Elvira, 198.
Eraily, 196, 198.
Eraraa, 196.
Eugene F., IM, 199.
Eunice, 184.
Frances, 201.
Frances E., 197.
Francis, 90, 91, 92,
124 196, 197.
Francis E., 200.
Francis G, 198, 201.
George A., 197, 201.
George W., 197.
Georgianna L. F. A.,
201.
Gladys H., 200.
Harriot, 197.
H. Celestia, 199.
Henry A., 202.
Henry C, 199.
Isaac, 75, 83, 106,
193, 194, 196, 197,
198.
Isaac H., 198.
Isaac H. C, 199.
Jane M., 199.
Jesse, 196, 198.
Jesse R., 142, 198,
201.
John, 196, 198, 199,
202.
John F., 202.
Joseph, 196, 199.
Joseph B., 194 199.
Julia F., 200.
Louise A., 201.
Margaret, 200.
Margaret A., 201.
Marjorie C, 200.
Mary, 196, 197, 198.
Mary C, 201.
Mary E., 201.
Mary J., 197, 200.
Mary M., 199.
Mary T. G, 199.
Moses L., 196, 197,
200.
Nathan, 138, 196, 197.
Nancy M., 201.
Robert, 199.

Appleton, Sarauel, 137,
138, 139, 193, 194,
197, 199, 200, 214.
Sarah, 196, 197.
Sarah P., 201, 202.
Serena, 198.
Sophia, 198.
Thomas G., 197.
W. Stuart, 197, 201.
William S., 197, 200.
Archer, Otis, 174.
Armistead, Walker K.,
200.
Arnold, Ambrose, 610.
Esther, 467.
Ashley, Willmore D., 144.
Atherton, Charles G.,
Mrs., 156.
Atkinson, Helen, 466.
Sarauel, 84.
Atwell, Horace, 629.
Atwood, Betsey, 346.
Ella M., 707.
Mary, 685.
Austin, Albert T., 120.
David, 174.
Dorcas, 174.
H. Nelson, 347.
Avery, Catharine, 231.
David, 79.
Jaraes E., 114.
Timothy, 79.
Ayer, Hannah, 704.
Polly, 273.
Ayers, John, 134.
Mary, 134.
Ayling, A. D., 111.
Babcock, Anna M., 556.
David, 347.
Frank H., 507.
Henry, 618.
Mary E., 715.
Sarah L., 307.
Bacon, Alice, 207.
Ann E., 191.
Benjamin, 560.
Daniel, 202.
Hannah, 203.
Jacob, 203.
Jesse, 515.
Jonathan, 326.
Michael, 202.
Molly, 203.
Patty, 368.
Retire, 203.
Reuben, 326.

Bacon, Reuben, Jr., 326.
Sarah, 203.
Susanna, 203.
William D., 684.
Bagley, David, 199.
Mary C, 199.
N. Gilman, 199.
Baily, Abigail, 657.
Ada, 237.
CaroHne F., 706.
Eliphalet, 588.
George K.. 237.
Helen M., 374.
Kendall, 237.
Rebecca, 686.
Robert, 534.
Sophia F., 683.
Susan E., 629.
Baker, Amos, 95, 96.
Ebenezer, 618.
Eber, 368.
Elvira, 711.
Exie, 492.
George C, 201.
Horace A., 502.
Joel, 96.
Mary, 486, 590.
Priscilla, 193.
Sarauel G, 502.
Theron, 710.
Balch, Abbie L., 204.
Albro L., 145, 204.
Anna J., 204.
Benjarain, 203.
David, 203.
Ella M., 204.
Hazel E., 204.
John, 203.
John J., 203.
Martha, 669.
Mary, 262.
Moses M., 201.
Robert, 204.
Balcom, Lizzie E., 276.
Baldwin, Caroline H.,
482.
Cyrus, 600.
Edwin F., 120.
Nahura, 83.
Reuben, 97.
Susanna, 677.
Bale, Sarah, 409.
Ball, Emma C, 557.
Frank, 534
Hannah, 364.
Levi, 175.
Mary E., 297, 483.

725

History of New Ipswich

Ball, Nathaniel, 226.
Sarah, 687.
Ballentine, Mary, 389.
Ballard, Agnes A., 205.
Catharine E., 205.
Clarence, 205.
Edward O., 205.
Eliza W., 277.
Elizabeth, 252.
Ettie E., 205.
Herbert E., 205.
Jonathan, 273.
Joseph, 709.
Josiah, 136, 204.
Bancroft, Anna, 397.
Arthur K., 208.
Benjarain, 206, 546.
Caroline, 207.
Cecil F. P., 207.
Cecil K., 208.
Frances M., 208.
Henry A., 206, 207.
Jaraes, 206.
Joseph, 206.
Mary E., 208.
Mary H., 207.
Nancy R., 206.
Phillips, 208.
Susan F., 207.
Thomas, 206, 561,
660.
Banks, Patty, 557.
Barber, Alfred A., 283.
Henry A., 130, 283.
Isaac R., 126.
Katharine L., 283.
WiHiara, 354.
Bardeen, Mary A., 441.
BardweH, Maurice, 327.
Barker, Clara, 631.
Hannah, 383.
Judith, 336.
Laura O., 210.
Mary, 632.
Nettie, 292.
Barnard, Anna, 647.
Carlos, 693.
Emily, 439.
Hannah, 717.
Loring, 134.
Sarah, 134.
Barnes, Benjamin, 417.
Elizabeth, 284.
L. M., 133.
Ovid D., 523.
Polly, 598.
Rhoda, 466.
Sophia, 500.

Barnes, Stephen, 487.
Barnett, Hannah, 248.
Barnum, Isaiah W., 226.
Barr, Caroline, 209, 210.
Caroline F., 147, 170.
Caroline H., 211.
Caroline M., 209.
Charlotte, 209.
Charles, 209.
Cummings, 209, 210.
Daniel L., 211.
EHza J., 210.
EHzabeth L., 211.
EHzabeth M., 215.
Ellen, 209.
Ellen M., 210.
Esther J., 209.
Florence G, 210.
George, 209, 210.
George C, 210.
George L., 209, 210.
Helen, 211.
Jaraes, 75, 145. 208,
209.
James C, 211.
James C, Jr., 211.
James H., 209.
James W., 209.
John, 209, 210, 212.
John M., 210.
Julia M., 278.
Laura M., 145, 211.
Mary H., 209.
Mary W., 209.
Moses, 210.
Nancy, 209.
Robena, 209.
Sarah, 209, 210.
Sarah J., 209, 210.
William, 209.
Barrett, Agnes, 216.
Benjamin, 212.
Blanche, 216.
-Charles, 75, 103, 124,
134 194 212, 213,
214, 215, 216.
Charles E., 216.
Deborah, 280.
Dora E, 214.
Dorcas, 213,
Edward A., 215, 216.
EHzabeth M., 131.
Eraily M., 214, 437.
Erama A., 403,
Frances A,, 216.
Frederic E., 535.
George, 157, 213, 215.
George R., 215.
726

Barrett, George R., Mrs.,
131, 156.
George W., 216.
Hildreth, 217.
Humphrey, 212.
Jean, 216.
John, 212.
Jonas, 652.
Jonas H., 491.
Jonathan, 363.
Joseph, 212, 214, 232.
Joseph A., 214.
Julia M., 216.
Juliet M., 215.
Lucy R., 192.
Lydia, 395, 526.
Martha J., 588.
Mary, 242, 604.
Mary A., 215.
Mary D., 216.
Mary N., 214.
Nathaniel, 135.
Oliver, 357.
Rebecca, 213, 217,
489, 516.
Robert, 535.
Sally, 580, 639.
Sarah, 337.
Seth, 214.
Susan F., 302.
Thomas, 212.
Barron, Hannah, 616.
John, 498.
PrisciHa, 460.
Barrows, Peleg, 420.
William E., 607.
Barstow, Chauncey H.,
408.
Deborah, 596.
Bartlett, Belle, 568.
Daniel, 217, 422.
Eben, 620.
EHzabeth, 217.
George E., 217.
Isaac, 96, 217.
James, 355.
John, 217, 218.
Joseph, 217.
Lydia, 217.
Mary, 217, 443.
Noah, 70, 217.
Robert G., 554.
Sarauel, 75, 106, 217.
Sarah, 217.
Sargent, 448.
Thomas, 416.
Barton, Roxelena, 639.
Bascom, Frank P., 707.

Index

Bascom, George W., 707.
Batchelder, Abigail, 219.
Addison, 221.
Adelaide A., 222.
Adeline, 223.
Alva, 221.
Alvin, 221.
Amy, 225.
Arthur M., 224.
Betsey, 220.
Brooks T., 221.
Charles F., 225.
Clara, 222.
Czarina, 221.
Daniel, 221, 496.
Ebenezer, 218.
Edward E., 223.
Eliza M., 221.
Elizabeth, 219, 548.
Emery W., 225.
Estella, 223.
Etta, 384.
Eugene, 222, 223, 225.
Ezra, 388.
Fanny;, 221.
Francis L., 223, 225.
Frederic M., 219.
George H., 221.
Hannah, 219, 221,
253
Harriet M., 221.
Harry, 223.
Henry K., 222, 223.
Hervey, 220, 221.
Hervey B., 222.
Horace, 223, 224.
Ira A., 222.
Isabella, 223, 224.
John, 218, 223.
John M., 219, 223,
224.
Jonathan, 218, 219.
Joseph, 218, 219, 221.
Josephine, 222.
Josiah, 218, 219, 220,
221, 222.
Kimball, 221.
Lucilla, 222.
Mary, 221, 356.
Mary A., 222, 223.
Mary E., 225.
Mary R., 222.
Martha, 222.
Maude A., 225.
Moses, 220, 221.
Nancy, 221.
Oliver, 220, 221.

Batchelder, Oliver M.,
222.
Peter, 220, 223.
Polly, 219, 220.
Ruth, 220.
Ruth A., 222.
Samuel, 138, 147, 154
185, 220, 222, 223,
225, 266.
Samuel F., 225.
Sarah E., 221.
Sophronia, 221.
Theophilus, 253.
Washington A., 220,
222.
Williara K., 220, 223.
Bateraan, Alfreda T., 227.
Amanda M., 226.
Andrew P., 227, 228.
Ann M., 226.
Arabella A., 227.
Arabella S., 226.
Charles, 226.
Charles A., 227.
Charles T., 227.
Clara, 228.
Ernest, 227.
Frank E., 227.
Frederic, 227.
George T., 227.
Gertrude, 228.
Harriet, 227.
Harriet J., 227.
Harry O., 228.
Hattie, 228.
Jennie L., 228.
John, 226, 227.
Jonas, 226.
Josephine A., 226.
Leon H., 227.
Lucy W., 226.
Myra, 228.
Semira J., 227.
Thnmas. •"•?¦",
Walter, 227.
Bates, Anna, 229.
Edward, 228.
Hannah, 229.
Isaac, 229.
James, 229.
John, 228.
Joseph, 75, 106, 228.
Nancy, 229.
Oliver, 229.
Peter, 229.
Reuben, 134.
Sarauel, 229, 358.

Bates, Sarah, 229.
Bathrick, Edward, 383.
Baughart, George G., 280.
Baxter, Albert F., 114.
Clarissa, 604.
Lizzie, 521.
Melvina J., 322.
Sarah A., 639.
Bayley, Martha, 554
Beale, Aaron, 88.
Bearaan, Dinah, 233.
Beard, Ella C, 700.
Eugene B., 145, 154,
717.
Sarah, 413.
Susan C, 559.
Beardsley, Eliza C, 224.
Beckwith, Ransome P.,
542.
Bedel, Timothy, 97.
Bedell, Mary F., 376.
Bedlow, Belinda, 633.
Mary, 603.
Belknap, Ruth, 271.
Bell, Bryan, 210.
Harriet, 276.
Sarah, 713.
Bellows, Benjamin F.,
229, 230, 483.
Caleb, 230, 456.
Charles C, 144, 230,
231
Charles P., 231.
Ephraim H., 230.
Ellen P., 231.
Frances M., 230.
George L., 230.
Henry W., 229.
John, 229.
Josiah, 561.
Laura L., 230.
Mary A., 231.
Mary B., 230.
Mary N., 231.
Polly H., 142.
Richard M., 231.
Sarah E., 230.
Bemis, Annette M., 536.
Charles L., 454.
Frances E, 271.
Jerusha E., 676.
John W., 149.
Sarah, 232.
Benjarain, Fannie C, 576.
George, 610.
Bennett, Arthur, 292.
Damaris, 438.

727

History of New Ipswich

Bennett, George L., 566.
Horace E., 304.
Lucy, 612.
Mary A., 384 719.
William S., 376.
Benson, Ada L., 565.
Arthur F., 238.
George E., 238.
WilHam H., 238.
Bent, David, 231.
John, 231.
Joseph A., 232.
Martha, 481.
Mildred, 232, 404.
Samuel A., 232.
Samuel B., 231.
Sarauel W., 214 231.
Bentley, Mabel, 619.
Berry, Mary O., 621.
Bertholf, Charles R., 329.
Bettes, Cora, 330.
Beveridge, Anna E., 507.
Bieths, Hannah, 486.
Bigelow, Abigail, 549.
Anna, 457.
Betsy, 233.
Daniel, 233.
Elizabeth, 632.
Harriet M., 465.
Joel, 233.
John, 232, 233.
Joseph, 233.
Joshua, 232.
Levi, 359.
Luther, 233.
Milley, 233.
Noah, 446.
Sarauel, 233.
SHas, 233.
Billings, Adeline A., 660.
Clarence, 237.
George, 340.
Mary, 350, 473.
Rebecca, 222.
William, 237, 272.
Bingham, Luther, 344.
Binney, Abigail, 234.
Anna W., 234
Betsey, 234.
David, 234
Edith M., 216.
EHzabeth, 234.
George, 216.
George H., 216.
John, 233, 234.
John W., 234.
Mary, 234.

Binney, Moses, 234.
PoHy, 234.
Sarah, 234.
Thomas, 234.
Bird, Frances M., 360.
Harriet J., 361.
Mary, 486.
Bishop, Elizabeth, 442.
Mary, 483.
Bisland, Margaret, 244.
Bixby, Keziah, 195.
Ruth, 596.
Bjorke, Bertha, 690.
Blackmer, Burt J., 322.
Elijah J., 502.
Blackmore, Mary, 171.
Blair, Williara, 89, 90.
BlaisdeU, Laura L., 578.
Blake, Clarence, 322.
Elizabeth E., 322.
Hannah, 664.
Blanchard, Abby, 341.
Alice M., 240.
Araos A., 239.
Amos M., 236.
Andros J., 237.
Arthur H., 238, 239.
Arthur P., 240.
Asa, 626.
Asenath F., 237.
Betsey, 235, 236.
Caroline, 237.
Carrie B., 238.
Carrie M. H., 238.
Charles G, 236.
Charles M., 238.
Charles R., 236, 238.
Charlotte, 236.
Clarissa, 236.
Cora A., 238.
Cora B., 240.
Cora M., 239.
Dorothy A., 240.
Deliverance, 459.
Eben H., 237.
Edith A., 240, 352.
Edwin F., 114, 147,
239, 240.
Elizabeth, 237.
Elmer, 239, 352.
Elvira, 236.
Eraraa L., 2.38.
Ernest D., 237.
Francella E,, 239.
Frank M., 352.
Fred M., 239.
Gardner, 626.

Blanchard, George E.,
352.
George G., 238.
George H., 237.
George L., 239.
George M., 238, 239,
352.
Gilraan, 236, 238.
Grace A., 239.
Grace E., 239.
Guy C, 147,238,239.
Hannah, 236.
Harriet M., 237.
Helen E., 239.
Henry C, 237.
Herbert J., 238, 239.
Horace K., 236, 238.
Horace L., 239.
Hosea, 236.
Inez, 239.
James, 236, 237.
James M., 239.
Jane, 564.
Jason, 237.
Jennie H., 239.
John, 235.
Joseph W., 236, 237.
Josephine, 239.
Julia A., 236.
Julia E., 238.
Lennie, 239.
Levi, 235, 236.
Levi M., 236, 238.
Louisa, 236, 237.
Lucena B., 237.
Maria, 237.
Marinda, 236.
Mary A., 237.
Mary E., 134 175,
240.
May F., 238.
Myron, 237.
Nancy, 236, 237.
Nelson H., 239.
Rebecca, 522.
Sarah, 236.
Siraeon, 89, 235, 236.
Sophronia, 236.
Susan, 236, 237.
Susan J., 239.
Susie E., 240.
Thomas, IM, 235,
581.
William C, 235, 240.
William H., 237, 239.
Blanding, Lyman, 577.
Blatchford, Paul, 197.

728

Index

Blessing, Joanna, 668.
BHss, Abadial, 241.
Ephraim, 241.
Florence J., 373.
George B., 242.
Harriet N., 241.
James H., 242.
James W., 241, 242.
Jonathan, 240.
Martha A., 242.
Mary B., 241.
Sarah C, 242.
Thomas, 240.
Blodgett, George A., 487,
Jacob, 487.
Lovey, 274.
Luther, 243.
Maria, 487.
Mary R., 325, 487,
560.
Melvina R., 487.
Roxanna J., 487.
Blood, Albert, 243.
Alice C, 243.
Betty, 617.
Caleb, 242.
Calvin, 243.
Caroline J., 243.
Charles A., 243.
Edith M., 243.
Elizabeth, 243, 249,
596.
Ephraim, 243.
Ephraim W., 191,
243.
Esther F., 564.
Eugene N., 243.
Francis, 242.
Frederic, 620.
George A., 243.
Gilbert C, 243.
Henry A., 147, 244.
Henry H., 243.
Jaraes, 242.
John, 242.
Josiah, 242.
Luther, 114 243.
Lydia D., 376.
Mabel E., 243.
Mary, 362, 596.
Orange A., 243.
Oscar, 243.
Polly, 360.
Richard, 242.
Robert, 242.
Royal A., 244.
Sarah, 243.

Blood, Soloraon, 622.
Stephen D., 242, 243.
Timothy, 242.
Waldo, 243.
Boardman, Charles, 226.
Bodine, Robert L., 667.
Bodwell, Annie, 417.
Boggs, Sidney, 492.
Bolton, Alexander, 244.
Charles S., IM, 244,
245.
Cora, 244.
Fred E., 245.
George G, 244, 245.
James, 244, 245.
James B., 245.
Jean, 245.
John S., 244, 245.
Lizzie K., 244.
Margaret, 244.
Oscar K., 245.
Thomas K., 244, 245.
Walter, 245.
WiHiara, 244.
Winnifred, 245.
Bonaparte, Jerorae N.,
200.
Bond, Austin L., 386.
Sarah, 262.
Bone, Janette, 589.
Bonner, Mary, 645.
Boodry, Augustin W.,
114
Leonard, 383.
Booth, Lizzie, 239.
Lucy J., 554.
Borland, John, 589.
Borraan, Elizabeth S.,
685.
Martha, 520.
Botherton, Jerusha A.,
501.
Boutelle, Frank. 578.
Frank M., 716.
George B., 716.
Jonas, 181.
Julia, 322.
Polly, 185.
Rebecca, 187.
Sally, 185.
Walter W., 716.
WilHam H., 710, 716.
Bowen, Cromwell, 428.
Marcellus, 635.
Bowers, James, 418.
Luther, 285.
Bowes, Lydia, 705.
Boyce, Alarie A., 706.
729

Boyce, Charles A., 246.
Diana P., 246.
Frederic P., 247.
Harriet A., 247.
Harriet N., 246.
Jacob F., 246.
James L., 120, 246.
Joseph, 246.
Lucy J., 246.
Lydia J., 247.
Mary, 443.
Moses A., 246.
Paul, 246.
Ruth A., 391.
Sarah A., 247.
Silas, 246, 247.
Boyd, Margaret, 627.
Boyden, Elijah, 247.
Frances C, 248.
George, 247, 248.
Henry K., 247.
John, 247.
Jonathan, 247.
Oliver, 247.
Thomas, 247.
Boyland, Gorilla, 697.
Boynton, Abel, 249.
Abigail, 249, 250.
Abijah, 249.
Albert, 251.
Amos, 75, 80, 96, 250.
Betsey, 249.
Charles, 249.
Charles H., 251.
Earl, 250.
Eli, 249.
Elias, 249.
EHzabeth, 251.
Emily M. B., 251.
Francis, 251.
Frank J., 706.
George H., 251.
Hannah H., 251.
Henry, 251.
Isabel, 250.
Isaiah, 250.
James F., 251.
James H., 251.
John, 248.
Jonah, 249.
Joseph, 248, 250.
Joshua, 248.
Lavinia J., 251,
Lucy, 249.
Lydia, 250.
Martha. 251.
Mary C, 248, 250.
Mary E, 251.

History of New Ipswich

Boynton, Mary I., 251.
Nathan, 249.
Nathaniel, 248, 249.
OHver, 251.
SaHy, 250.
Sarah, 249, 657.
Spaulding, 251.
Susan A., 251.
Theresa 1., 251.
Williara, 248, 250.
WHliam E, 147, 251.
WilHam S., 251.
Bradford, George F., 130.
Maria, 351.
Sarah P., 297.
Bradwell, Charles, 512.
Brain, Amy L., 656.
Breakey, Mary S., 189.
Breed, Abiah, 254.
Abigail, 253.
AHen, 75, 88, 93, 95,
96, 252, 253, 254
255.
Augustus B., 255.
Charles, 253.
Daniel, 254.
Deliverance, 252.
ElTsha N., 252, 253,
254 255.
Elizabeth, 528,
Enoch, 254, 255.
Esther, 255.
George H., 255.
George W., 254.
Hannah, 254.
Harriet, 254.
Harriet W., 255.
Horace A., 266.
Huldy, 255.
Ira, 254
Jane, 252, 254.
John, 79, 95, 106, 144,
151, 252, 253, 254
Joseph, 253, 255.
Joseph B., 255.
Josiah, 253, 254
Lucretia, 254.
Lucy, 254.
Lydia, 252, 253.
Marinda, 255.
Martha J., 252, 255.
Mary, 253, 254.
Mary E., 255.
Mehitable, 253, 254.
Milly, 254
Moses, 254.
Nabby, 652.
Nathaniel, 252, 253.

Breed, Rachel, 254.
Rebecca, 252.
Reuben T., 254.
Sarah M., 255, 521.
Susan, 254.
Susanna, 252.
Thankful, 432.
Thoraas K., 253.
Tirana, 252.
Breeding, Sarauel, 78.
Brewer, Hannah, 316.
Jonathan, 97.
Mary, 319.
Maurice, 699.
Phebe, 489.
Thoraas H., 543.
Briant, Aaron, 256.
Abigail, 256.
Abraham, 255.
Anna, 256.
Benjamin, 256.
Edmond, 75, 88, 91,
95, 106, 256.
John, 84, 256.
Joseph, 256.
Kendall, 256.
Brickett, Moses, 146.
Bridge, Ann R., 174.
Bezaleel, 175.
Dorcas, 292.
Mary, 263.
Bridges, Hannah, 560.
Ruby, 565.
Sarah, 560.
Bridgman, Bertha M.,
373.
Briggs, Albert S., 307.
Amasa, 599.
Harriet N., 264.
Brigham, Elliott, 694.
Bright, Thomas, 660.
Britton, Elizabeth, 549.
Broods, Mary, 688.
Persis, 688.
Brooks, Aaron, 257, 258,
651.
Abigail, 409.
Abrahara, 87.
Albert N., 259, 261.
Araelia E., 258.
Amy L,, 260.
Ansel W., 261.
Anna, 468, 489.
Calista A., 259.
Caroline M., 259.
Charles B., 259.
Charles E., 262,
Edward C, 262, 556.
780

Brooks, Ellen M., 258.
Eraily T., 259.
Euclid L„ 259.
Eveline J., 259.
Frederic A., 261.
Frederic E., 261.
Frederic P., 260.
Gardner T., 260.
George H., 261.
Gertrude, 262.
Hannah, 432.
Harriet T., 259.
Harvey, 258, 259.
Harvey P., 259.
Helen, 261.
Henry, 257.
Henry W., 258, 260,
261.
Horace S., 258, 260.
Ivers H., 259, 260.
Jaraes H., 260.
James W., 261.
Jennie H., 261.
John, 75, 83, 88, 91,
93, 96, 257, 703.
Joseph, 258, 259.
Joshua, 257.
Lena, 262.
Lizzie M., 262.
Lois, 212.
Louisa L., 258.
Lucy H., 260.
Luella, 259.
Lydia, 364.
Mabel R., 260.
Mary A., 250, 450.
Mary E., 261.
Maude W., 261.
Myron D., 258, 260.
Nancy P., 250.
Nathan, 257.
Newton, 258, 259.
Newton V., 260.
Noah, 257.
Oliver, 258.
Oliver N., 261.
Rachel, 258.
Robert M., 261.
Ruth E., 331.
Sarah, 212, 395.
Square G., 262.
Stephen, 257, 258,
557.
Susan P., 262.
Susie S., 278.
Thomas, 259.
Walton, 258.
Walton A., 259.

Index

Brooks, Warren T., 259.
William, 257, 258.
Brower, Isaac D., 407.
Brown, Aaron, 133.
Abel W., 272.
Abigail, 265, 270,
272, 275.
Abigail W., 274.
Abner, 269, 271, 273.
Abner H., 273, 277.
Abraham, 262.
Abram, 271.
Ada, 175.
Addison, 272, 275.
Addison P., 275.
Addison W., 278.
Albert E., 267, 524.
Aldis, 272.
Alfred H., 276.
Alfreda, 471.
Almira, 273.
Amos, 269, 272.
Amos A., 272.
Ann, 380.
Ann E., 275.
Ann J., 278.
Anna, 264, 269.
Arabella A., 268.
Arthur A., 264.
ArviHa, 658.
Asa, 268.
Augustus W., 274
B. Brigham, 563.
Benjamin, 262, 267,
658.
Benjarain B., 563.
Bertha G., 264.
Betsy, 270, 271, 272.
Boaz, 268.
Charles, 265, 267, 658.
Charles B., 266, 270.
Charles K., 264.
Charles P., 341.
Charles S., 145, 155,
267, 268.
Charles W., 275, 686.
Clarence, 265.
Clarissa, 272, 658.
Clement, 271.
Cyrus, 270, 271, 274
275.
Daniel C, 275.
Dorothy S., 277.
Ebenezer, 75, 265,
266.
Ebenezer W., 266.
Edith J., 265.

Brown, Edmund, 271.
Edward, 270, 275.
Edward D., 274.
Edward F., 265.
Edward H., 264.
Eleazar, 265, 266.
EHza A., 266.
Eliza W., 277.
Elizabeth P., 263, 265,
268, 362.
Ella J., 507.
Ellen S., 264.
Elliott, 269.
Elvira E., 266.
Eraily, 658.
Ephraim, 263.
Etalea L., 265.
Eunice, 263, 395.
FideHa O., 273.
Frances A., 275.
Francis F., 278.
Frank L., 264.
Frank O., 264.
Franklin W., 266.
Fred O., 265.
Frederick C, 278.
George A., 266, 270,
274, 275, 276, 658,
70O.
George S., 264 265.
George W., 270, 271,
390.
Gratis, 272.
Hannah, 269, 271,
272, 362, 489, 542.
Hannah E., 275, 276.
Hannah M., 266.
Harriet M., 274.
Harriet R., 264.
Harvey D., 272, 274.
Henrietta, 266.
Hepzibah, 269, 709.
Hermon, 272, 275.
Heywood, 269, 273.
Homer, 591.
Horace W., 266.
Isaac, 262, 263, 265.
James, 265, 269.
James M., 272.
Jaraes P., 271.
Jane A., 273.
Jerairaa, 271.
Jereraiah, 272.
Jesse, 271.
John, 75, 265, 268,
270, 472.
John B., 271.

Brown, John H., 275.
John J., 95, 274.
John S., 272, 276.
John W., 274.
Jonathan, 75, 262,
267, 269, 271, 272.
Joseph, 262, 269, 270,
271, 678.
Joseph A., 275.
Joseph W., 271.
Joshua, 267.
Joshua L., 274.
Josiah, 74 78, 83, 87,
88, 89, 96, 106, 124,
269, 270, 271.
Josiah W., 273.
Laura L., 264.
Lebanon, 273, 276.
Leonard, 272.
Levant R., 274.
Levi, 269.
Lois, 272.
Louisa R., 266, 275.
Louise S., 273.
Lucy, 265.
Lucy A., 266, 270.
Lucy H., 264.
Lurena, 272.
Lydia, 237, 621.
Lyraan L., 271.
Mabel, 701.
Maria L., 370.
Marshall H„ 273.
Marshall L,, 120, 276.
Martha W., 274.
Martin, 272.
Mary A., 263, 270,
272, 273, 443, 520,
654 658.
Marv B., 274.
Mary E., 264, 273,
455.
Mary F., 269.
Mary H., 275.
Mary J., 266.
Mary M., 276.
Mary W., 276.
Mercy, 384.
Milan H., 27o.
MHHcent, 271
Millie, 275.
Moses, 263.
Nancy, 272,
Nathan, 262, 269, 273,
277.
Nathan B., 277.
Nathan W., 277.

731

History of New Ipswich

Brown, NelHe M., 264.
Olive E, 264, 271.
Patty, 270.
Peter, 79, 271, 341.
Philip, 267.
Polly, 269.
Rebecca, 269, 483,
491, 682.
Reuben, 269,270,271.
Rufus, 271.
Ruth, 488.
Sally, 270, 272.
Samuel, 268.
Samuel H., 274.
Samuel S., 227, 267.
Sarah, 230, 263, 265,
266, 325.
Sarah A., 276.
Sarah J., 274.
Sarah T., 274.
Sarah W., 274.
Serena, 658.
Sophia B., 273.
Sophronia E., 276.
Sophronia P., 273.
Susan, 265.
Susan A., 277.
Susan M., 267.
Sybel, 600.
Thaddeus, 268.
Thomas, 75, 84, 87,
88, 91, 95, 106, 268,
269, 274.
Walter W., 264.
William B., 262, 263,
265.
William G., 265, 273.
William H., 268.
WilHam P., 277.
Williara T., 264.
WiHiara R., 276.
Brownell, Lydia, 552.
Browning, Martha, 236.
Mary, 669,
Rebecca, 355.
Bruce, Martha, 595.
Dora B., 334.
Brucher, Jane S., 452.
Bryant, Abigail, 346.
Harriet, 442.
Joseph, 346.
Joshua W., 345.
Buchanan, Jessie, 508.
Sarah, 221, 511.
Buck, George, 400.
Buckrainster, Sarah, 317.
Bucknara, Aaron, 279.
Aaron S., 280, 282.

Bucknam, Alice M., 280,
283.
Annette F., 283.
Arthur B., 283.
Benoni, 279, 281.
Caleb, 280.
Carrie, 283.
Charles E, 281.
CorneHa M., 281.
Deborah, 280.
Dwight L., 281.
Ebenezer, 278, 279.
Edward, 279, 280.
Eleanor E., 283.
Eliza A., 280.
Elizabeth, 279.
Ellen M., 281.
Elvira G, 281.
Fanny H., 281.
Frank A., 283.
Frank W., 283.
Glen T., 284.
Harriet A., 281, 282.
Harriet L., 282.
Harriet N., 281.
Harrison A., 283.
Helen M., 282.
Horatio, 281.
James, 279, 280, 283.
James O., 281.
James P., 283.
Joanna, 279, 556.
John, 279, 281.
John B., 114, 282,
John F., 283.
Joses, 278, 279.
Katharine M., 283.
Magnus J., 280.
Marion A., 283.
Martha J., 282.
Mary A,, 284.
Mary C, 283.
Mary J., 283.
Mary S., 280.
Miranda. 281.
Nancy, 588.
Sally, 279.
Samuel L., 282, 284.
Sarah, 281, 283.
Sarah E., 282.
Susan, 279.
Thomas, 281.
WiHiam, 278, 280.
Williara D., 280.
WHHam O., 281.
William T., 282, 283.
Buckwold, Henry C, 569.
Buddy, Charles R., 627.
732

Bugbee, Alice, 372.
Alvin M., 372.
Benjamin H., 372.
Lucy, 372.
Mary, 372.
Newton K., 372.
Stephen E., 372.
Bulkeley, Elizabeth, 380.
Susan, 310.
Bullard, Abigail A., 287.
Abigail B., 286.
Araasa, 286.
Asa, 284.
Asahel, 285.
Azubah, 285.
Benjamin K., 287.
Caleb, 285.
Caleb E., 286, 287.
Caroline I., 286.
Charles A., 287.
Charles B., 287.
Charles K., 286.
Clarence P., 286.
Clarissa P., 286.
Ebenezer, 88, 284,
285
Eleazar, 79, 88, 93,
95, 285, 286.
Elvira, 286.
Enoch P., 286.
Ephraim, 284.
Franklin K., 287.
George, 284, 286.
George A., 227.
George C, 289.
George F., 287.
George H., 227, 286.
Harriet K., 286.
Isaac, 285, 287.
Jesse, 286.
John, 96, 284, 285,
286.
Jonathan, 284.
Joseph, 209, 285, 286.
Keziah, 284.
Louisa S., 287.
Lucy, 286.
Martha A., 287.
Marv A., 284, 285,
287, 318.
Mary C, 287.
Peter, 95, 96, 285.
Ruth, 285.
Sally, 286.
Sampson, 286.
Sarah, 284, 285, 546.
Sarah J. W., 287, 628.
Silas, 157, 285, 286.

Index

Bullard, Simeon, 82, 173,
284, 285.
Stephen F., 286.
Susanna, 284.
William O., 227.
Bullock, Elizabeth, 536.
Burbank, Avis, 577.
Emma, 577.
John, 577.
Sumner, 577.
Burden, Leta, 629.
Burge, Emma, 485.
Ruth, 555.
Susanna, 317, 495.
Burgess, George, 417.
Lois, 259.
Burk, Caleb, 344.
Burke, Anna, 402.
Frederic W., 402.
Mabel, 552.
Timothy F., 402.
William C, 402.
Burnap, Bethiah, 531.
EHzabeth, 515.
Burnett, Sarah, 514.
Burnham, Elithina, 274.
Joanna, 381.
Margaret, 203.
Mary, 319.
Sarah H., 606.
Burns, Charles, 674.
Clarissa, 674.
Edward, 674.
Jacob, 674.
James W., 674.
Janette, 717.
Lydia J., 626.
Mary, 674.
Robert, 674.
Sarah, 674.
Burr, Anna M., 478.
Francis H., 193.
Heraan M., 192.
Jackson, 575.
Mary H., 192.
Roger A., 192.
Burritt, Jaraes, 372.
Burroughs, Charles H.,
276.
Burrows, Celia, 288.
Elvira, 288.
Hannah, 288.
Joseph, 288.
Laura, 288.
Lydia, 288.
Ruth, 288.
Sally, 454.
Sarah, 288.

Burrows, William T.,
287, 288.
Bursley, Joanna, 361.
Burt, Sarah, 597, 671.
Burton, Annette, 701.
Boniface, 288.
Dexter L., 289.
Edward, 325.
George D., 289.
Ida, 289.
Isaac, 288.
John, 288.
Mary E., 289.
Nellie, 289.
Warren, 134.
Burwell, Fannie E., 702.
Bush, Elizabeth, 497.
Rachel, 495.
Bushby, Warren, 530.
Buss, Hannah, 687.
Lucy, 631.
Butler, Annie, 351.
Butman, EHza C, 501,
576.
Butterfield, Betsy, 456.
Elizabeth, 445.
Mary, 616, 658.
Sarah, 343.
Butters, James, 606.
Rhoda, 251.
Wilder, 455.
Buttrick, Augusta, 649.
Lydia, 226, 685.
Byron, Mary P., 435.
Cady, Eugene, 577.
Caldwell, Isabella, 462.
Mary, 407.
Hannah, 711.
Campbell, Abby H., 290.
Caleb, 289, 290.
David, 652.
EHzabeth S., 312.
Emily F., 290.
Eveline, 290.
George C, 111, 157,
290.
George L., 350.
Harriet A., 290.
Helen E,, 290.
Lucy, 290, 510, 525.
Lydia, 290, 491.
Maria, 290.
Mary A., 289.
Myra, 290.
Robert, 75, 289.
Samuel, 99.
Canine, WHliam P., 515.
733

Canley, Mary, 502.
Canning, Reginald, 607.
Capron, Lyle H., 698.
Martha A., 298.
Carey, Fanny, 292.
Zenas, 27l.
Carkins, Allen, 272.
Carlisle, John, 304.
Carlton, Abigail, 537.
Barnard, 639.
Carrie C, 513.
Guy, 84
Henry, 91, 93, 95.
Jesse, 75, 78.
Nathaniel, 75, 78,89.
Carpenter, Annie, 349.
John W., 301.
Lucy L., 305.
Mirriam, 240.
Phineas, 623.
Rachel, 241.
Carr, Abby Ann, 291.
Amy H., 292.
Clark H., 450.
Edna D., 292.
Edward J., IM, 291,
Eraery, 291.
Erama L., 291.
Ernest E., 292.
Ezra, 291.
Harlan, 292.
Ida A., 291.
Jaraes E., 291.
John E., 291, 292.
John W., 291.
Joseph T., 291.
LesHe J., 291.
Mary, 672.
Rebecca, 291.
Roy D., 292.
Ruth R., 291.
Theodore P., 291.
Thomas, 290.
Carroll, James, 251.
Margaret, 251.
.Sarah, 251.
Carter, Abigail, 387.
Benjamin. 709.
Edward C, 390.
Elizabeth, 409.
Hannah B., 390.
Herbert E.. 573.
Julia A., 584.
Kate, 306.
Lydia, 578.
Susanna, 289,
Case, Leander, 360.
Caskey, Mary A., 389.

History of New Ipswich

Castle, Birdie, 479.
Caswell, Ira, 175.
Caulkins, T. Vassar, 133.
Cave, Clara, 717.
Cavis, George M., 524.
Chadwell, Margaret, 334.
Chadwick, Elizabeth, 719.
Sarah, 542.
Chaffee, Elijah, 347.
Chamberlain, Aaron, 76,
91, 691.
Betsey, 617.
Charles, 114.
John, 510.
Mary, 718.
Rebecca, 496, 596.
Sarah, 249.
Sumner, 576.
Champney, Abby P., 295,
297.
Abigail, 293, 294.
Adrianna E., 299.
AHce C, 295.
Anna B., 299.
Anna L., 295.
Armenia, 296.
Augustus, 296.
Benjamin, 154, 155,
293, 507.
Benjarain C, 294,
295.
Benjamin K., 295.
Betsy, 142.
Charles F., 296.
Clarissa E., 296.
Daniel, 292.
Eben F., 297.
Ebenezer, 103, 292,
294, 296.
Ebenezer N., 294
296.
Edgar L., 297.
Edith, 295.
Edward W., 138, 293,
295
Edwin G., 295, 298.
Eliza M., 296.
Elizabeth, 293, 294.
Elizabeth E,, 298.
Ellen E., 294.
Ellen F., 295.
Erama, 298.
Evelina B., 296.
Fanny, 294.
Ferdinand, 294.
Frances E,, 296.
Frances J., 298.
Francis, 293, 294.
Frank P., 297.

Champney, Fred W., 294,
296, 298.
George, 298.
George E., 295.
George H., 296.
George K., 295.
George M., 293, 295.
Georgianna, 295.
Grace, 295.
Hannah, 293.
Harriet B., 298.
Harvey G., 298.
Helen M., 297.
Henry T., 145, 218,
294.
Horatio N., 295.
Jane E., 296, 298.
John H., 296, 299.
Jonas A., 296, 298.
Jonas C, 293, 295,
296.
Julius B., 294 297.
Julius J., 297.
Lewis C, 295, 296,
297.
Lewis E., 296.
Lizzie P., 297.
Margaret, 298.
Maria L., 293.
Mary A., 297, 298.
Mary J., 294.
Mary L., 298.
Mary M., 296.
Nathan, 93.
Orcelia H., 296.
Oscar, 297, 299.
Preston A., 297.
Richard, 292.
Richard L., 298.
Ruth A., 297.
Samuel, 294, 297.
Samuel G, 297.
Samuel P., 294.
Sarah A., 296.
Sarah C, 299.
Sarah E,, 296.
Solomon, 292.
Susan M., 297.
Walter T., 295.
Chandler, ATbie A., 312.
Abigail A., 302.
Albert B., 309.
Alice E,, 147, 311.
Alice G, 314.
Amanda, 311.
Andrew J., 314.
Anna S., 310.
Annie F., 314
Asenath M., 303.
734

Chandler, Avis B., 316.
Bertha J., 314.
Betsy R., 302.
Carl L., 315.
Charles, 301, 302, 304,
306, 309.
Charles H., 306, 308,
313, 314 316.
Charles P., 306.
Charles W., 310, 312.
Charlotte A., 307.
Clara, 310.
Clarence, 310.
Cora L., 315.
Daniel H., 300, 304,
309, 318.
Daniel L., 302, 312.
David S., 304, 318.
Dorothy C.,.316, 318.
Edith B., 313.
Eliza B., 304.
EHzabeth A., 306.
Ellen, 304.
Elwyn F., 313.
Emily M., 304, 309.
Emma M., 309.
Ernest H., 315.
Ethel, 314.
Eva H., 316.
Eveline H., 304.
Frances, 304.
Francis H., 306.
George A., 302, 556.
George B., 310, 315.
George F., 315.
George H., 312, 316.
George W., 305, 308.
Gertrude E., 312.
Gladys E., 315.
Grace, 319.
Grant, 314.
Hannah, 300, 318.
Hannah J., 303.
Harriet A., 305.
Harriet C, 312.
Harriet E., 312.
Harriet H., 304.
Harry H., 314, 316.
Herbert W., 155,311,
315.
Henrietta, 304.
Henry P., 302, 307,
313.
Hepzibah, 489.
Hiram, 308, 314
Hirara S., 314.
Huldah C, 301, 305.
Isaac M., 303.
Isabella L., 308.

Index

Chandler, James, 75, 81,
96, 106, 108, 157.
James A., 304.
James C, 145, 312,
315.
James G, 315.
James L., 305, 310.
James M., 303, 304,
307, 308, 309.
James O., IM, 319.
James R., 315.
Jamison W., 315.
Jane, 304.
Jefferson, 303.
Jeremiah, 303.
Jeremiah K., 308, 3M,
Jesse L., 307, 314.
Joel, 318.
John H., 144, 300,
301, 302, 307, 313,
3M, 317.
John S., 308.
Joseph, 317.
Joseph S., 307.
Josephine M., 307,
308.
Joshua T., 301.
Josiah, 317.
Keziah, 318.
Larkin T., 314.
Laura E., 310.
Laura J., -311, 716.
Lewis E., 306, 312.
Lucy, 318.
Lucy A., 305.
Lucy E, 312, 316.
Lydia, 300, 318.
Lydia M., 301, 307.
Lyman E., 155, 316.
Lyman M., 306, 311,
315.
Maria F., 303.
Maria H., 311.
Marshall W., 306,
312
Martha A., 301, 303.
Martha J., 310.
Mary A., 300, 304,
305, 308.
Mary E., 304, 694.
Mary F., 307.
Mary J., 306.
Mary M., 301.
Mary W., 310.
Mehitable, 317.
Molly, 318.
Moses, 317.

Chandler, Myra E., 309.
Myron K., 311.
Nancy, 305.
Nancy E., 312.
Nellie, 314
Noah, 318.
Olive E, 316.
Permelia K., 303.
Paul D., 316.
Rachel, 318.
Rebecca, 300.
Rhoda, 318.
Robert L., 315.
Roger, 299.
Ruth J., 316.
Sally, 300.
Samuel, 316.
Sarah, 318.
Sarah A., 301.
Sarah M., 306.
Seth, 301.
Seth v., 310.
Seth W., 304, 308,
SewaH O., Ill, 319.
Stephen P., 301, 304.
Susan A., 307.
Susan O., 307.
Susan R., 303.
Susanna, 318, 410.
Thomas, 173, 316.
Thoraas M., 301, 306.
Vernon V., 315.
WHHam, 316.
William A., 308, 314.
WHliam H., 310, 311,
315.
WiHiam L., 315.
Chapin, EHzabeth, 400.
Esther, 335.
Lydia J., 698.
Chaplain, Moses, 87.
Samuel, 87.
Chaplin, Hannah, 670.
Chapman, Ada F., 322.
Albert H., 320.
Alfred E., 321.
Augtista E., 320.
Benjamin F., 321.
Charles H., 320, 321.
Charles S., 321.
Daniel, 319,
Dudley, 319.
Edward, 319,
Edward H., 321.
Edward W., 320, 322.
Edwin W., 320, 322.
Fred A., 322.

Chapraan, Fred W., 320,
322.
Gates, 319, 320.
George A., 320, 321.
George W., 322.
Hannah M., 320.
Harriet A., 320.
Hattie F., 320.
Ida M., 321.
James W., 320, 321.
Jessie D., 320.
Kate M., 320.
Leda H., 322.
Lilla S., 321.
LiHian I., 322.
Mary A., 320.
Mary E., 320.
Mary I., 322.
Mary L., 321.
Nellie L., 321.
Nellie M., 320.
Percy W„ 322.
Perley G, 322.
Simon, 319.
Sylvia F., 321.
Thomas G., 320.
William H., 321.
WiHiara W., 320.
Zettie G, 322.
Chase, Arthur F., 156.
Benjamin, 290.
Clara A., 621.
Elizabeth, 472.
Frances L., 275.
Georgianna M., 216.
Hannah, 618.
Hattie B., 445.
Marianna, 350.
Moses, 615.
Rachel, 694.
Sarah S., 339, 343.
Thoraas, 449.
Cheney, Charles, 210.
Evelyn, 210.
George, 711.
Margaret, 457.
Maud, 210.
Myra, 210.
Trvphena, 393.
William G, 711.
WiHiam P., 711.
Cherry, Sarauel, 87.
Chickering, Abbie B.,
323
Abby' J., 324.
Abner, 323.
Addie L., 325.

735

History of New Ipswich

Chickering, Anna, 324.
Arthur, 324.
Benson, 324.
C. Frank, 324.
Charles, 323, 324.
Charles A., 324.
Clifford C, 325.
Edith, 324.
Eliza, 323.
Eliza A., 323.
Ellen F.. 323.
Ernest D., 325.
Frank H., 325.
Fred W., 325.
George, 323.
George H., 324.
Harriet A,, 323.
Henrietta, 325.
Horace, 324.
Howard E., 325.
John, 323.
Jonas, 323.
Tosiah B., 323, 325.
JuHa A., 324.
Julia M., 323.
Louise, 324.
Mary, 323.
Mary E., 325.
Melinda, 323.
Nathaniel, 322.
Rebecca, 323.
Samuel, 323.
Thomas E., 324.
WaHace W., 325.
Child, Helen A,, 276,
S, Augustus, 274.
Ursula, 346.
Chilton, IsabeHa, 299.
Church, Lydia, 457.
Phebe, 498.
Churchill, Helen, 284.
Chute, Emma F., 375.
Cilley, Joseph, 85.
ClaffHn, Dolly, 241.
Clapp, Sarah, 481.
Clark, Abbie R„ 329.
Abigail, 203, 326.
Alice, 326.
Ann, 197.
Annie, 330.
Benjamin A., 326,
Benjamin F., 326,
327.
Bunker, 86, 318.
Charles H., 329, 523,
Charlotte, 592,
Clara H., 514
Deborah, 328.

Clark, Ebenezer, 325, 326.
Edmund R., 330.
Eleanor B., 327.
Eliza, 574.
Elizabeth J., 330, 470.
Elvira, 326.
Emily W., 637.
Ernest F., 327.
Ernestine, 327.
Eugene L., 330.
Fanny L., 638.
Frances, 326.
Frank B., 329.
George, 326, 585.
Georgianna, 530.
Grace, 453.
Hannah, 328.
Harriet A., 678.
Harriet P., 330.
Harry O., 327.
Harry W., 327.
Henrietta, 329.
Horace, 658.
Hugh, 327.
Ida, 327.
Isaac, 88, 91, 95.
James, 157, 326.
Jaraes R., 328, 330.
Joan, 640.
John, 326, 328.
John K, 329.
John P., 328.
John R., 329.
Joseph E., 518.
Leander, 326.
Lizzie R., 329.
Margaret B., 329.
Maria A., 326, 559.
Marion, 327.
Martha, 134.
Mary, 247, 326, 328,
364 515, 669.
Mary E., 329.
Melissa, 629.
Orissa, 251.
Persis A,, 281, 428.
Peter, 327.
Peter H., 157, 328,
329.
PhiUbrook W., 327.
Reuben B., 326, 327.
Rose, 466.
Ruth, 326.
Samuel, 574.
Sarah, 181, 326.
Sarah J., 701.
Susanna, 331.
Uriah, 327.
736

Clark, Walter H., 330.
William W., 329.
Clary, Anna F., 400.
Daniel, 75, 87.
Edward W., 400.
Eliza F., 400.
George, 400.
Jacob S., 332.
John, 91.
Joseph W., 400.
Margaret, 542.
Sarah, 549.
Timothy F., 400.
Williara, 91, 96, 400.
Claxton, Lucy B., 261.
Clement, Judith, 704.
Cleves, Eleanor, 519.
Martha, 331.
Clifford, Hester, 593.
Clough, John, 294.
Sarah M., 294.
Clute, CorneHa, 715.
Coalsworth, James, 274.
Coates, Bethia, 519.
Cobb, Harriet E., 468.
Stephen K., 340.
Coburn, Daniel, 294.
J. M., 133.
Jonathan, 695.
Rhoda, 191.
Cochrane, Jenny, 547.
John C, 589.
Mary J., 238, 438.
Peter, 140.
Thomas H., 151,575.
Coffin, Robert A., 140,
141.
Cogswell, Jonathan L.,
332.
Louisa J., 482.
Colburn, Achsah B., 463.
Hannah, 677.
Joshua, 629.
Lucy M., 464.
Martha, 457.
Mary, 621.
Rolins, 86.
Sarah, 407, 637.
Colby, Caroline C, 485.
Elias, 498.
Eliza A., 274
Enoch G, 418.
Hannah, 574.
James K., 140.
Coldham, Martha, 704.
Cole, Charles, 341.
Gertrude, 508.
Sarah, 513.

Index

Coleman, Annie C, 404.
Cora B., 513.
Joel, 557.
Philander, 557.
Sarah, 335.
Slocum, 557.
Collester, Silence R., 681.
Collings, Laura W., 518.
Perley, 518.
Collins, John, 330.
Joseph, 330.
Nancy, 330.
Nathan, 330.
Colton, Isabella, 239.
Colwell, George H., 316.
Combs, John L., 255.
Comee, Jaraes, 333.
Martha, 613.
Comins, Mary F., 608.
Compton, Hermann, 310.
Comstock, Leander F.,
698.
Roxy, 357.
Conant, Abel, 331.
Ada, 334.
Adoniram J., 333,
334.
Albert, 208.
Alice B., 208.
AHce C, 335.
Alice F., 538.
Andrew P., 331, 333.
Ann S., 208.
Annabel H., 538.
Ariel H., 334.
Austin, 334.
Betsy, 332.
Calvin H., 334.
Charles E., 334.
Charles F., 333, 334.
Clark C, 538.
Claribel A., 538.
Ebenezer, 475.
Edward A., 334.
Ella, 334
Ellen E., 333.
Emery, 234.
Emily H., 333.
Francis O., 538.
George F., 538.
George W., 333.
Gertrude C, 335.
Hannah, 332.
Harriet E., 333.
Harriet M., 332.
Harry W., 208.
Henry L., 334.
Hepsibah, 219.

Conant, Hope A., 538.
Horace J., 332.
James E., 332.
Jaraes F., 333.
James Q., 333, 335.
Jesse D., 333.
John B., 208, 331.
Joseph, 332, 333.
Josiah, 331.
Kezia, 332.
LHHan A., 335.
Lot, 331.
Louisa J,, 332.
Lovander W., 333.
Lucy A., 334.
Lucy H., 333.
Luseba W., 332.
Martha E., 334.
Mary A,, 332, 333.
Mary F., 333.
Minnie B., 335.
Nancy, 332.
Nathan, 332.
Nellie F., 334.
Ollie A., 334.
Ossian A,, 334.
Rebecca, 332.
Roger, 330, 331.
Ruth, 332.
Samuel S., 333.
Sarah A,, 333.
Sarah J., 332,
Silas, 331.
Susan E., 333.
Sylvia M., 333.
Zebulon, 332,
Coney, Daniel A., 492.
Conns, Susanna, 682.
Conrad, George, 304.
Conray, Maria, 573.
Converse, Lavinia P.
585,
Cooder, Darius, 360.
Cooke, Aaron, 335.
Abial, 546.
Ann, 501.
Bertha, 666.
Elizabeth, 689.
Josiah P., 336.
Nicholas, 92.
Noah, 335, 336.
Noah R., 336.
Polly, 336.
Westwood, 335.
Cooley, Earl, 586.
Fred, 586.
James, 281.
Coolidge, Elisha T., 449.
737

Coolidge, Obadiah, 509.
Sarah, 406, 457.
Cooper, Carrie E., 321.
Mary, 344.
Susan C, 431.
Coppins, William T., 371.
Coray, Sarah, 439.
Corbett, Martha B., 261.
Corbin, Arethusa, 471.
Joseph, 471.
Cordis, Thomas, 142.
Corey, Hezekiah, 75, 88.
Lucilla, 672.
Lucy, 487.
Zilpah, 450.
Corlet, Elijah, 353.
Corser, Nancy A., 602.
Corson, Friend, 498.
Cortz, Martha, 346.
Costella, Mary, 676.
Cotting David, 705.
Hattie F., 70S.
Couch, Prescott, 601.
Cowden, Sarah, 349.
Cowdrey, Lysander, 706.
Prudence, 380.
Cox, Althea G,, 315.
Coy, Ann, 281.
Fanny H., 569.
John H., 287.
Crackbone, Abigail, 292.
Cragin, Aaron, 337.
Abner P., 113, IM,
341.
Amelia, 340.
Ann, 338.
Anna, 337.
Asenath T., 340.
Benjamin, 337.
Caroline, 338.
Caroline L,, 341.
Charles H., 340.
Charlotte M., 341.
Charlotte S., 341.
Clark, 120.
Dorcas B., 339.
Edward, 339.
Edward S.. 341.
Elizabeth P., 338.
Elvira, 338.
Esther, 337.
Esther M., 340.
Eveline, 338.
Francis, 183, 337.
Francis K,, 338, 341.
Francis W., 340.
Franklin H., 338.
George K., 246, 340.

History of New Ipswich

Cragin, Gilman, 339.
Hannah, 339.
Harriet, 340.
Henry, 341.
Hepzibah C, 339.
Horace S., 341.
Isaiah, 337, 340.
Isaiah L., 340.
James P., 339.
John, 336, 340.
John F., 339.
John W., 340.
Joseph, 337, 338.
Joseph D., 340.
Leonard, 337, 339.
Lorenzo, 341.
Lorenzo S., 338, 341.
Lucy M., 286, 341.
May J., 341.
May L., 340.
May R., 340.
Paul, 337.
Philenia, 339.
Rebecca B., 338.
Rodney D., 340.
Roxanna, 339.
Samuel, 337.
Samuel A., 341.
Samuel S., 340.
Sarah R, 341.
Sarah R., 340.
Seth, 339.
Sibyl, 337, 339.
Silas, 337, 338.
Sophronia, 338.
Stephen D., 337, 338.
William, 339.
Crain, Ebenezer, 670.
Cram, Abraham, 323.
Benjamin, 417.
Charles A., 563.
Elvira C, 417.
George L., 563.
George W., 444.
Harriet M., 417.
Hiram, 658.
James, 552.
Luke, 563.
Pharcellus, 564.
Walter D., 564
Crandall, Sarah M., 639.
Crane, Edward, 402.
Edward B., 402.
James C, 472.
Mary O., 402.
Timothy F., 402.
William E., 472.
Cree, Sarah, 669.

Cressy, Hannah M., 388.
Crocker, Rohanna B.,
393
Sally,' 211.
Crofut, Nathaniel, 511.
Crorawell, Roxanna, 334.
Crosby, Ada E., 605.
Alpheus, 434
Charles F., 605.
Dorothy, 554
Elizabeth P., 491,
656.
John W., 259, 605.
Jonah, 318.
Josiah, 140.
Lois, 498.
Mary, 632.
Mehitable, 615.
Robert, 317.
Sarah, 233.
Cross, John G, 181, 346.
Lizzie R., 468.
Crossman, Edward, 333.
Crosswell, Sarah, 516.
Crowe, Mary, 321.
Crowell, Albert F., 329.
Clarence A., 329.
Frances, 332.
Herbert C, 329.
Marion F., 329.
Crumpet, Eliza F., 251.
Cruse, William H., 378.
Cummings, Aaron, 343.
Abigail B., 343.
Abby L., 350.
Adaline, 346.
Albert G., 345, 349.
Albert L., 350.
Alice C, 346.
Andrew C, 348.
Archelaus, 418.
Barnard, 343.
Belle S., 351.
Benj amin, 343, 344,
348, 349.
Betsy, 343, 344, 345,
347,. 391.
Betty, 344.
Caroline R., 347.
Carrie W., 350.
Catharine B., 345,
347.
Charles, 343, 345,
350.
Charles W., 349.
Charlotte, 344.
Cordelia E., 349.
Daniel M., 345, 349.
738

Cummings, Deidamia, 343.
Delia M., 349.
DilHs M., 349.
Dudley C, 346.
Eben, 344, 346.
Ebenezer, 343.
Ednah, 349.
Elam J., 348.
Eleazar, 76, 81, 106,
124 144, 172, 209,
343.
Eliza, 345.
Emma M., 349.
Erasmus D., 349.
Ernest S., 350.
Evaline A., 348.
Farris, 346.
Fenno L., 344, 348,
349.
Frank M., 351.
Frederic P., 350.
George B., 351.
George P., 346.
George S., 350.
Gilman T., 345.
Harriet, 347.
Harris N., 347.
Harvey, 347.
Hepzibath, 345.
Hermon H., 345.
Hiram S., 349.
Homer H., 349.
Horace, 348.
Isaac, 342.
James M., 351.
James R., 747.
Jane G, 348.
Jerusha M., 348.
John, 342.
John C, 351.
John S., 351.
John W., 145, 345,
350, 351.
Joseph A., 278.
Joseph S., 345.
Joseph T., 346, 350.
JuHa D., 344.
Julia R., 347.
Lavina, 343.
Leonard, 344, 345.
Lucia A., 346.
Lydia D., 345, 470.
Maria, 345, 346, 351,
Marcia L., 346.
Mary A., 349.
Mary J., 350.
Mary L., 348, 350.
Matilda, 343.

Index

Cummings, Millie J., 350.
Molly, 209, 343.
Nancy P., 347.
Nellie P., 346.
Nettie V., 351.
Orrel F., 348.
Orville, 351.
Owen T., 349.
Peninah, 344, 348.
Perley M., 349.
Polly, 344, 361.
Rebecca, 344.
Rosalinda, 347.
Roxalania, 347.
Sally, 344.
Sarauel, 342, 343, 344,
345.
Samuel E., 96, 97,
346.
Sarah F., 337, 343,
345, 346, 670.
Seneca, 350, 634.
Sherman, 344, 347.
Sherraan S., 347, 348.
Sophia M., 344, 346.
Stella, 702.
Sula B., 346.
Susan, 344.
Taylor G., 345.
Uriel, 345.
Ursula F., 346, 348.
Walter D., 349.
Warren S., 343, 344,
345.
William A., 348.
William F., 346, 348.
William L., 345.
Willis J., 350.
Cumnock, Abby E., 521.
Robert, 521.
Cunningham, Elizabeth,
292
Curl, G. M., 136.
Curless, Emma J., 629.
Currier, Abial, 565.
Charles W., 584.
Emma, 565.
Flora, 565.
John S., 367.
Louisa D., 367.
Nellie F., 349.
Curtis, Elijah, 421.
Greeley S., 199.
Cushing, Adelaide, 353.
Ann M., 352.
Ardella, 352.
Arthur W., 352, 353.
Bertha, 353.

Cushing, Bradbury, 353.
Caleb, 351.
Carl, 353.
Charles G., 352, 353,
Daniel, 351.
David, 352.
Erama M., 352.
Fannie, 352.
Frances A., 353.
Frederic A., 352.
Frederic J., 352, 353.
Frederic S., 353.
George W., 352. _
Henry, 352, 353.
Josephine, 353.
Matthew, 351.
MHdred L., 353.
Samuel, 351, 352.
Samuel E., 352.
Sarah J., 352, 695.
Sarah P., 545.
Timothy, 352.
Walter, 353.
Cushraan, Julia, 299.
Cutler, Calvin, 129, 149.
Cutter, Abel, 357.
Abilene L., 358.
Adonija, 359.
Ardilla, 360.
Barnabas, 355.
Benjamin, 83, 354,
355, 357, 360, 361.
Benoni, 354, 359.
Benoni C, 359.
Betsy, 357.
Calista, 361.
CaroHne, 358.
Catharine, 357.
Charles N., 360.
Daniel, 357.
David, 354 359.
Dolly, 361.
Elbridge G, 361.
Eliza, 436.
Elizabeth, 353, 355.
Ephraim, 354.
Hannah, 355.
Hepzibah, 360.
Isaac, 355, 359.
James, 361.
Jane, 358.
Jeremiah, 355.
Jeremiah F., 360.
Joel, 357.
John, 83, 89, 96, 354
355, 356, 358, 359.
John H., 360.
Jonathan, 355, 361.
739

Cutter, Jonathan M., 75,
361.
Joseph, 354, 356.
Louis, 355.
Lucy, 355, 361.
Luke, 359.
Luke H., 359.
Mary, 358, 359.
Moody, 356.
Moses, 354 357, 358.
Nathan, 88, 93, 354
356, 360.
Nawa, 357.
Nehemiah, 357.
Oldist, 357.
Orinda, 360.
Orlando, 357.
Paraelia, 358.
Phebe, 360.
Phebe C, 359.
Polly, 355, 359, 360,
361.
Rachel, 354 355,356,
358.
Rebecca, 356.
Rhoana, 360.
Rhoda, 355.
Richard, 353.
Rosira, 360.
Sabra, 357.
Sarah, 354 358, 361,
515.
Seth, 360.
Solomon, 355, 361.
Susan, 356, 358, 359.
Susanna, 354, 446.
Syrene, 361.
Thomas, 360.
Tryphosa, 357.
WiHard, 358.
William P., 360.
Williara T., 358,360.
Cutting, Ella, 699.
Dakin, Araos, 503.
Archelaus C, 323.
Eunice, 323.
Hannah, 257.
Polly F., 142.
Samuel, 396.
Daily, William, 344.
Damon, Abigail, 378, 531.
Ann, 678.
John, 488.
Lewis, 372.
Ralph C, 488.
Susanna P., 492.
Dana, Anna, 212.

History of New^ Ipswch

Dana, Charles, 212.
George, 212.
Jaraes, 214.
Martha B., 214.
Rebecca, 214.
Sarauel, 212, 214.
Thesta, 214, 263.
Dane, John, 316.
Mary, 316.
Sarah, 458, 576.
Daniels, Mary L., 390.
Danforth, Amanda, 291.
Bethiah, 292.
Martha, 677.
Sally, 318.
Thomas, 363,
Darby, Peter, 446,
Darling, Hannah, 620.
Davenport, Augusta, 660.
DoHy, 705.
Davidson, Abigail, 358.
Jaraes, 440,
Thoraas, 88.
Davis, Aaron, 366.
Abbie L., 376.
Abby J., 371, 589.
Abel, 648.
Abigail, 363, 364, 365.
Abrahara, 362, 365.
Albert H., 113, IM,
376.
Albert L., 370.
Albert P., 374.
Alfred, 368.
Alice, 371.
Alice J„ 372.
Alice M., 374, 375.
Almira, 369.
Araos, 366.
Andrew J., 502.
Anna, 369, 373.
Antoinette, 369.
Arthur V., 374.
Asa, 450.
Barnabas, 354.
Benjamin F., 364,
365.
Benjamin L., 367.
Bernice M., 375.
Bertha H., 375.
Betsey, 365.
Calvin, 368.
Charles, 275, 363, 373,
678.
Charles A., 371.
Charles E., 376.
Charles S., 366, 370.
Clara A., 353.

Davis, Clarissa, 363.
Clarissa H., 367.
Cornelia, 372.
Cynthia, 535.
Cyrene, 313.
Cyrus B., 197, 363.
David, 364.
Delany, 649.
Dolor, 299, 361.
Edward E., 113, 114,
376.
Edward H., 372, 375.
Edward K., 374.
Edward L., 375.
Edward W., 370.
Effie M., 375.
Elbridge F., 372.
Elijah F., 75, 78, 88,
96, 368, 371.
Elisha F., 368, 371.
Elvira W., 372.
Eliza J., 372.
Elizabeth, 370, 392,
592.
Elizabeth F., 370.
Emilie K., 377.
Eraily, 368.
Ernest H., 375.
Etta, 268, 375.
Eva M., 375.
Eunice, 368.
Fannie M., 370.
Florence G., 374.
Florence W., 374.
Franklin, 371.
Fred E., 376.
Gardner G, 372, 374,
585.
George, 139, 363, 367,
368, 373, 678.
George H., 366, 369,
372.
Gilraan, 366.
Hannah, 362, 364,
365.
Harriet A., 372.
Hattie A,, 375.
Heber, 370.
Helen E., 369.
Henrietta R., 371.
Hepzibah, 234, 364.
Herbert J., 370.
Hezekiah, 416.
Horace, 366, 368, 370,
371, 373.
Ida B., 371, 372.
Isaac, 362.
Isaac S., 376.
740

Davis, Jacob, 365.
James, 145, 362, 365.
366, 368, 369.
James B., 369, 374.
James P., 369, 373.
Jemima, 701.
Job, 375, 376.
Joanna, 190, 370.
Joel, 363, 367.
John U., 109, 111,
154, 376.
Jonah, 363.
Jonas B., 360, 376.
Jonathan, 75, 88, 93,
95, 106, 362, 363,
366, 561.
Joseph, 95, 132, 258,
362, 363, 365, 368,
678.
Josiah M., 75, 89,
363.
Julia, 678.
Kendall, 368, 372.
Laura A., 374.
Leander J., 372, 375.
Lelia, 373.
Lewis, 367.
Lois A., 372.
Louisa, 367.
Lucinda M., 363, 376.
Lucy, 275, 363, 364,
417.
Lucy K., 372.
Lydia, 365.
Marcia, 372.
Maria, 369, 372.
Marion F., 375.
Mary, 362, 363, 367,
373.
Mary A., 368.
Mary B., 367.
Mary S., 369.
Mary W., 366, 372.
Milton K., 372.
Minnie B., 374.
Molly, 366.
Moses, 363, 366, 367.
Nancy A., 366, 582.
Nathan A., 366.
Olive, 485.
Onslow P., 376.
Orpah S., 376.
Perley B., 132, 369,
373.
Perley E., 374.
Philip H., 375.
Philo, 376.
Polly, 364, 365,

Index

Davis, Ralph C, 375.
Rebecca, 363, 365,
367.
Relief, 366.
Reuben, 678.
Richard H., 147, 36y,
374.
Robert, 371.
Ruth, 363.
Sally, 413.
Samuel, 362, 368, 373.
Samuel A., 376.
Samuel H., 372, 375.
Sarah, 363, 375, 678,
687, 704.
Sarah E., 552.
Seba, 332.
Silas, 95, 362, 364.
Simeon, 362, 365.
Simon, 362.
Sivona, 368.
Solomon, 363, 366,
368.
Stanley B., 373.
Stephen, 75, 362, 365,
366, 369.
Susan H., 376.
Tabitha, 644.
Thomas, 362, 363,
365, 369.
Thomas H., 367.
Timothy, 366.
Viola M., 372.
Walker, 678.
Walter R., 333, 371.
Wilbur J., 375.
William B., 309.
Williara E., 373.
Davoll, Charles O., 305.
John S., 305.
WilHam H., 305.
Dawes, Sarah, 336.
Dawson, Ida L., 627.
Day, Amos, 462.
Dorinda, 413.
John J., 264.
Lillian A., 264.
Sarah, 378.
Rufus, 344.
Williara E., 606.
Dea, Jefferson, 403.
Dean, Mary, 502.
Dearborn, Augusta, 576,
Decker, Cora E., 379.
De Coff, Annie I., 483.
De Costa, Percy, 352.
Delano, Frederic, 618.
Seth, 318.

DeHinger, Catharine, 471.
Deraond, Elijah, 140.
Denhara, Robert, 274.
Denio, Horace, 710.
Dennis, Mary, 218.
Denslow, Joan, 335.
Densraore, Louisa, 327.
Derby, Maud E., 698.
Deshon, Caroline A., 225.
Devotion, Hannah, 505.
Dewar, Isabella, 308.
Dewey, Frances, 552.
Harry, 348.
Laura F., 349.
OHver, 348.
Dexter, Charles E., 505.
Eugene A., 702.
Forest, 627.
Dibell, Edwin, 132, 133.
Dickenson, Cyrus, 174.
David, 689.
Erastus, 577.
Lee, 577.
Mary, 577.
Mercy, 177.
Dickerman, Clark, 301.
Ellen, 285.
Diemer, Anna, 264.
Diggins, Susan M., 339.
Dinsmore, Abraham, 78.
Austin, 237.
George A., 237.
Hannah, 38, 40, 51.
Maria, 237.
Mary J., 237.
Ditson, Sally, 718.
Dix, Anthony, 377.
Hannah, 400.
John, 377.
Jonathan, 104, 106,
124 377, 378.
Mary D., 701.
Ralph, 377.
Dobson, Isaac F., 604.
Dodge, AHce A., 308.
Betsey, 595.
David M., 273.
George W., 296.
Harriet N., 512.
Lucy, 228.
Mary, 425, 509.
Polly, 473.
Sarah, 205.
Doe, Belle, 327.
Dole, Edraond, 417.
Mary, 248.
Dolraan, Edward, 512.
Donley, Charles, 707.
741

Donley, Michael P., 114.
Donnegan, Margaret,
261.
Donnie, Alvin E., 228.
Zina, 567.
Doolittle, Harriet, 270.
Dorrance, Mary R., 400.
Douglass, Elizabeth L.,
188.
Dow, Emma J., 350.
Frank M., 535.
Johannah, 673.
Samuel H,, 186, 659.
Sarah E., 350.
Downing, Arthur F., 654.
Bessie T., 654.
Eugene C, 629.
Hannah, 432.
Herbert H., 654.
Lillie B., 654.
Lucien B., 654.
Mary A., 654.
Nellie R., 654.
Drake, Abigail, 664.
Susan J., 683.
Draper, Catharine, 704.
Hepzibah, 258.
Drinan, Mary, 698.
Drowthit, Caroline, 679.
Drury, Austin C, 311.
Ella M., 681.
Mary, 231.
Thoraas, 97.
Dudley, Abigail, 432.
Almira J., 264.
Clara, 264.
Mary, 409.
Dunbar, Lizzie, 685.
Duncan, Sarah, 432.
Duncklee, Albert, 629.
Almira, 283.
Dunning, Catharine, 507.
Dunster, Faith, 538.
Mary, 708.
Dunton, Augusta, 275.
Mary, 636.
Durant, Peter, 523.
Rachel, 718.
Duren, Reuben, 447.
Durfee, Jaraes A., 278.
Duryea, Elizabeth C, 633.
Dustin, Janet, 573.
Mary, 597.
Dutch, Grace, 470.
Dutton, Abel, 84, 90, 93,
96.
Elijah, 355.
Jonas, 82, 288.

History of New Ipswich

Dutton, Lucinda, 578.
Samuel, 496.
William, 89.
Dwelly, Sarah, 704.
Dwight, Arthur E., 698.
John S., 287.
DwinneH, EHza F., 313.
Esther, 204.
Dyer, George B., 453.
J. Franklin, 369.
Samuel P., 493.
Eagleson, Archibald, 656
Esther M., 656.
Gordon T., 656.
Gratia E., 656.
Eames, Cyrus, 418.
James H., 221.
Joseph, 272.
Polly, 271.
Eastman, Cora S., 353.
Esther F., 700.
George, 700.
Jasper F., 700.
Josephine, 627.
Luke, 140.
Perley M., 700.
Eaton, Albert, 378.
Benjamin, 476.
Cora M., 682.
Ellen, 378.
Elraer W., 627.
Francis A., 378.
Frederic H., 379.
George P., 379.
Harriet, 378.
Henry W., 379.
Hosea, 110, 378.
John, 378.
Josiah, 378.
Katharine, 380.
Martha J., 565.
Mary J., 378, 643.
Merrick, 378.
Nancy, 474.
NeHie A., 379.
Orrin W., 322.
Otis W., 379.
Samuel, 679.
Sarah, 606.
WiHiam, 378, 599.
William H., 378.
Zetta K., 322.
Eddy, George M., 646.
Henry, 324
John, 114
Edes, Amasa, 140.
Sarah, 558.

Edgar, Newbold, 200.
Edson, Carrie K., 506.
Charles C, 506.
Dwight, 374.
Elwin L., 374.
Fannie M., 506.
Florence, 374.
N. Adams, 506.
WilHam A., 506.
Edwards, Bethia, 509.
Charles, 301.
Ebenezer, 379.
Ebenezer P., 379.
Elijah, 336.
Emily E., 379.
Franklin, 236.
George F., IM, 379.
Jerusha, 267.
Nathaniel, 713.
Sarah, 603.
William A., 236.
Egery, Clara W., 440.
Eggars, Morrison, 211.
Eggleston, Sarah, 532.
Eldredge, C. L., 132, 134.
Eliot, George, 601.
Ruth, 172.
Ellinwood, Flora J., 573.
Elliott, Arthur, 227.
Charles W., 336.
David, 79, 89.
Dolly, 183.
George J., 345.
Grace, 227.
James, 227.
John, 79.
Joseph, 133.
Thoraas C, 339.
Ellis, Matilda, 618.
Samuel S., 672.
Virginia, 349.
Ellison, Linus, 347.
Ely, Frederic W., 149,
608.
Joseph S., 608.
Richard S., 608.
Eraerson, Anne, 381.
Asa, 676.
Brown, 380, 381.
Catharine, 331, 380.
Daniel H., 228.
Edward B., 381.
Elizabeth, 657.
George, 657.
Hiram, 380.
Jacob, 380.
James, 657.
John, 380, 516.
742

Emerson, Joseph, 379.
Julia, 657.
Luther, 657.
Malina, 639.
Maria, 657.
Martha J., 614.
Mary A., 573.
Noah, 380, 381.
Peter, 380.
Phebe, 381.
Ralph Waldo, 215.
Reuben, 380.
Romanus, 381.
Ruth, 610.
Thomas, 81, 379, 492.
Emery, Abby A., 383.
Almira O., 383.
Ambrose, 444.
Amos, 383.
Betsy, 382.
Clarence E., 384.
Daniel, 393.
Edward, 383.
E. J., 133.
Eugene R., 384.
Eveline C, 383.
Fanny J., 383.
Franklin J., 384.
George E., 120.
George L., 384.
Hannah, 382.
Hannah M., 383.
Hiram B., 383.
Horace B., 383.
Jane, 631.
John, 87, 382, 383.
John B., 383, 384.
John C, 384.
Jonathan, 382.
Martha A., 383.
Mary, 382, 383, 384.
Mary T., 383.
Nancy, 382.
Reuben, 174.
Samuel, 382.
Sarah J., 237, 382,
383.
Thomas, 382, 383.
WiUiam G., 382, 383,
384.
Ziba, 382.
Emes, Sally, 229.
Epler, Sarah, 390.
Eply, Frank W., 506.
Epps, Hannah, 327.
Lewis, 433.
Errington, Rebecca, 437.
Ervine, Sarah, 631.

Index

Esbach, Carrie I., 370.
Estabrook, Abel, 80, 83,
87, 90.
Henry D., 351.
James, 452.
Jonathan, 88.
Joseph, 408.
Lucy, 492.
Samuel, 196, 376.
Sarah E., 376.
Susan, 403.
Esty, Gertrude V., 312.
Eustis, Clara J., 586.
Evans, Ernest E., 625.
George H., 706.
Harrison I)., 282.
Harrison E., 282.
Horace E., 333.
Jennie M., 282.
John, 234.
Mary E., 283.
Minnie H., 282.
Prudence, 360.
Everard, Judith, 193.
Everett, Adeline, 385.
Alma A., 386.
Anna G, 386.
Charles W., 385, 386.
David, 195, 385.
Dolly A., 129, 138.
Edward, 384, 385,
386.
Eliza, 386.
Frances J., 386.
George, 385.
George M., 386.
Hannah B., 386.
Inez F., 386.
Innis F., 386.
John W., 155, 384,
385, 386.
JuHa A., 385.
Louis, 386.
Mary A., 386.
Mary T., 386.
Olivia, 183, 385.
Richard, 384.
Sarah S., 386.
Stephen, 385, 386.
Susanna, 179.
William J., 385.
Faber, Matilda C, 503.
Fairbanks, Adelaide B.,
390.
Allen M., 389.
Anna, 389.
Arthur B., 391.

Fairbanks, Arthur D.,390.
Daniel W., 387, 388,
390.
Edward, 389.
Edward B., 388, 389,
391.
Elizabeth, 390.
Ellen M., 390.
Emily M., 389.
Ephraim W., 387.
Evelyn H., 390.
Fanny G, 390.
Georgia M., 390.
Grace, 389.
Hannah M., 388.
Henry, 389.
Herbert A., 391.
Jabez, 387.
James C, 387, 388,
390.
James E., 390.
James P., 389.
Jeremiah R., 388.
Jessie, 388.
John B., 387, 388,
391.
John M., 389.
John W., 391.
Jonas, 387.
Jonathan, 387.
Josiah, 387.
Katie, 389.
Lurana W., 388.
Maria T., 389.
Marion E., 391.
Martha B., 388.
Martha M., 679.
Mary A., 388, 390.
Mary C, 389.
Mary D., 390.
Melvin, 389.
Moses, 679.
Richard H., 388.
Rose, 390.
Ruth E., 389.
Sally, 620.
Samuel A., 387, 390.
Samuel B., 388, 389.
Sarah A., 387.
Sarah C, 388.
Sarah M., 388, 390.
Susan F., 388.
Fairfield, Lalla G., 211.
Fairman, John, 672.
Sarah, 590.
Fales, Elizabeth, 657.
Hannah, 466.
Fall, Lucretia, 705.
743

Faris, Jane, 390.
Robert P., 391.
Sally, 392.
William, 75, 96, 391.
Farley, Arthur C, 665.
Edith P., 665.
Fred W., 665.
George F., 126.
Noah W., 665.
Polly, 598.
Susan, 448.
Thomas, 446.
Walter S., 665.
William T., 665.
Farmer, Mary, 555.
Farnsworth, Abigail, 601.
Asa, 270, 394.
Benjamin, 392.
Catherine, 357, 393.
Daniel, 93, 105, 393.
Ebenezer, 392, 393,
394.
Elizabeth, 242, 393,
394.
Emily, 333, 394.
Eunice, 394.
Hannah, 393, 516.
Harbor, 393.
Isaiah, 394.
John, 394.
Jonas, 392.
Jonathan, 96, 393.
Jonathan H., 394.
Joseph, 393.
Josiah, 392.
Levi, 394.
Lucy, 393, 394
Matthias, 392.
Mary, 393, 394.
Molly, 178.
Moses, 86, 393.
Nancy, 394.
Nathan, 394
Prentice, 631.
Rachel, 393.
Relief, 674.
Rufus, 394.
Sally, 394.
Samuel, 394
Sarah, 393, 402, 640.
Susan, 394
Thomas, 75, 83, 91,
93, 392, 393.
Timothy J., 394.
Farnum, Hannah, 672.
Farr, Dennis, 275.
Nathaniel, 75, 87, 96.
Levi, 96.

History of New Ipswich

Farr, Mary, 392.
Sarah, 704.
William, 91.
Farrar, Ann, 401.
Anna, 399.
Anna B., 402.
Anna F., 401.
Anna M., 403.
Betsy L., 401.
Caleb, 396, 401.
Charles A., 403.
Clarissa R., 401.
Ebenezer L., 401.
Edward W., 401.
EHza, 399.
EHza C, 258.
Ephraim H., 397, 401.
Eunice, 396.
Eveline, 401.
George, 395, 401.
George P., 401.
Harriet A., 403.
Henry B., 401.
Isaac, 395, 400.
Isaac B., 396, 401.
Jacob, 394 395.
James, 396, 397.
John M., 401.
Joseph, 88, 92, 395.
Laura, 401.
Louisa, 400.
Lucy, 125, 399.
Lydia, 396.
Mark, 403.
Martha, 401.
Mary A., 401.
Moses, 396.
Nancy, 397.
Nancy L., 142.
Nellie, 351.
Polly, 396.
Prentice, 396, 401.
Rebecca, 397.
Samuel, 142, 395, 396.
Sarah E., 402.
Simon, 407.
Stephen, 70, 76, 101,
123, 219, 231, 395,
396, 400.
Stephen F., 401.
Susanna, 528.
Timothy, 70, 75, 92,
122, 125, 156, 397,
399, 402.
Farren, Sally R., 574
Farwell, Abby, 610.
Abigail, 677.

FarweH, Albert B., 403.
Almeda, 403.
Alvah, 243.
Cynthia, 610.
Betsy, 618.
Daniel, 403.
Edith L., 403.
Edmund, 96, 403.
Edna M., 404.
Edwin, 404.
Elizabeth J., 404, 587,
640.
Eraily, 403.
Hannah, 708.
Hattie, 404.
Isaac, 75, 86, 87, 96.
Irving E., 404.
James H., 403.
John B., 404, 610.
Joseph, 610.
Levi, 610.
Lucinda, 403.
Lucy A., 404.
Mary, 403, 640.
Mary K., 434.
Mary W., 404.
Moors, 134.
Royal E., 403, 404.
Russell, 403, 653.
Sarah, 488, 610.
Sophia, 403.
Timothy, 75.
William, 610.
Fassett, Eunice, 615.
Hiram, 181.
Fay, George A., 403.
Hannah, 489.
Nancy, 287, 474.
Prescott, 129.
Sarah, 489.
Felch, Annie P., 176.
Felt, Aaron, 404.
Adaline, 406.
Albert, 405.
Alney O., 406.
Alonzo M., 406.
Caroline A., 406.
Charles M,, 406.
Charles W., 405.
Daniel, 404.
David, 555.
Edward A., 405, 406.
Edward W., 405.
Elizabeth T., 405.
Emily M. B., 405.
George, 404, 406.
George D., 120, 405.

Felt, Gilbert H., 406.
Jeremiah A., 406.
John, 286.
Joseph, 79, 88, 92.
Louis W., 405.
Lucius 0., 406.
Mary, 405.
Mary E., 405.
Mary F., 405.
Moses, 404.
Parnal C, 406.
Peter, 404, 405.
Peter F., 406.
Ruth A., 309.
Sarah A., 405.
Thomas, 406.
Fergeson, Sabrina H.,
260.
Field, Ernest C, 680.
Samantha, 622.
Sarah, 405.
Susan A., 260.
Figg, Mercy, 630.
Fisher, Albert G, 114.
Amity, 247.
Eunice, 277.
George N., 306.
Lydia, 322.
Rachel, 247.
Samuel, 338.
William J., 250.
Fiske, Abigail R., 407.
Alonso, 407.
Artemas, 407.
Benjarain W., 408.
Charles A., 407.
Charles H., 408.
David, 408.
Dorothy S., 568.
Elijah, 234.
Eliza, 407.
Elizabeth, 430.
Eraily, 408, 514.
Farnum, 229.
George K., 407.
Hannah, 232, 417.
Horace, 408.
James V., 408.
Jeremiah, 407.
Josiah, 407.
Lucy, 408.
Lucy A., 408.
Lydia G, 625.
Lydia P., 408.
Mary, 407.
Nathan, 406.
Prescott, 407.

744

Index

Fiske, Royal A., 408.
Sally, 407.
Sarah H., 684.
Sewall, 633.
Sheldon W., 408.
Sophia, 620.
Thoraas, 198.
Viola T., 589.
WHliara, 392.
Fitch, Anna, 377.
John, 30.
Polly, 671.
Sarah, 685.
Fitts, Angeline M., 500.
Flagg, Elijah, 76.
Elizabeth, 232, 671.
Frederic O., 706.
Helen J., 464.
Mary, 300, 706.
Flanders, Laura B., 544.
Walter M., 550, 714.
Fletcher, Aaron, 413.
Aaron D., 419.
Abigail, 410, 411.
Adams, 418, 426.
Adeline, 419.
Aden H., 591.
Alma, 4i5.
Almira, 421, 425.
AmeHa C, 418.
Anna, 411, 423.
Asa, 415.
Asenath, 421.
Bela J., 346.
Benjamin, 411, 415.
Benjamin M., 114.
Benjamin S., 420,
427.
Betsy, 414, 415, 416,
421.
Carl W., 312.
Charles W., 426.
Charles R., 146, 157,
4M, 419.
Clarissa, 417.
Cummings, 414, 420.
Daniel, 410.
David, 412, 418, 419,
426.
David B., 426.
David D., 420.
Deborah, 413.
Dexter, 415, 421.
Diadarraia, 416.
Diana, 416.
Dorothy, 412, 539.
Dustin, 416.
Dwight L., 422.

Fletcher, Ebenezer, 86,
96, 98, 410, 412,
414, 418, 420.
Edward P., 420.
Edward F., 424.
Eleanor R., 422.
EHza S., 422.
Elizabeth, 362, 415,
423, 427, 455, 643.
Elizabeth F., 420.
Ellen M., 421, 423.
Ephraim, 410, 412,
416, 424.
Ephraim S., 426.
Esther, 415.
Fanny W., 420.
Frances P., 417.
Francis, 75, 83, 89,
106, 408, 409, 410,
411, 416, 417, 422.
Francis P., 423, 424.
Frank H., 424.
Fred E., 312.
Frink, 418, 426.
Gardner, 421.
George F., 418, 425,
427.
George H., 422, 424.
George S., 423.
George W., 413, 420.
Gershom, 4lO.
Gideon, 4lO.
Gilman, 416, 422, 423.
Guilford D., 420.
Hannah, 539.
Hannah W., 417.
Harriet, 417, 423, 426,
Harriet A., 421.
Harriet N., 422.
Helen S., 412, 420.
Henrietta, 356.
Henry, 83, 412, 426.
Henry A., 417.
Herbert I., 423.
Hervey T., 418.
Hiram, 418, 421.
Hiram A., 425.
Hiram C, 420.
Homer C, 428.
Horace R., 419, 427.
Hugh B., 422.
Isaac, 413.
James, 410, 412, 419,
425.
Jaraes G., 419.
Jaraes H., 427.
Jaraes W., 415.
Jane, 410, 421.
745

Fletcher, Jasper, 498.
Jehial, 419, 426, 427.
Jereraiah, 98, 412,
417.
Joanna C, 417.
John, 411, 4M, 421,
424.
John A., 4M, 418,
419, 425, 428.
John B., 420.
John S., 415.
Jonas, 415.
Jonathan, 96, 412,
415.
Joseph, 408, 409,411,
421.
Joshua, 409, 416.
Josiah, 84 89, 410,
411, 419.
JuHa, 427, 588.
Julia A., 416, 492.
Katharine M., 419.
Kimball B., 256, 418,
425.
Laura, 419.
Lemuel, 416.
Levi, 414.
Louisa, 417.
Lucretia E., 418.
Lucy, 415, 417, 422,
428.
Lucy A., 418.
Lydia, 412, 417, 423,
587
Lyman, 419, 427, 428.
Martha J., 418, 428.
Martha P., 420.
Mary, 412, 416, 417.
Mary A., 417, 419,
421, 426.
Mary C, 420.
Mary F., 422.
Mary H,, 418.
Mary W., 420.
Matilda, 421.
Milly, 414.
Moses, 413.
Nancy, 4M, 416. 421.
Nathan, 416, 423.
Oliver L., 418, 426.
Orinda, 416.
Orvel F., 420.
Paul, 408.
Peletiah. 410.
Peter, 75, 83, 84, 89.
90. 93, 106, 124,
412, 418.
Peter E., 419, 427.

History of New Ipswich

Fletcher, Phineas D., 423.
Polly, 414.
Rachel, 410, 415.
Rachel B., 417.
Rebecca, 413.
Relief, 417.
Reuben, 410, 413.
Richard, 425.
Robert, 83, 93, 408.
Roby, 415, 421.
Ruth, 412, 416, 423.
Ruth B., 418.
Sally, 414, 415, 416.
Sampson, 154, 410,
413.
Samuel, 96, 408, 409,
412, 417, 424.
Sarauel A., 417.
Sarauel C, 420, 428.
Samuel H., 414.
Samuel W., 259.
Sarah, 411, 412, 416,
421, 424, 539.
Sarah B., 414, 417.
Sarah E., 418, 423,
428.
Silas E., 420.
Simeon, 95, 410.
Sophia E., 418.
Sophronia, 421.
Sophronia F., 422.
Stephen, 89.
Stephen N., 420.
Submit, 412.
Suky, 415.
Susan, 416.
Susanna, 410, 540,
Sybil L., 420.
Timothy, 409, 542.
Thomas, 75, 96, 410,
411, 415, 422.
Thomas G, 424.
WHHam, 408, 413.
William H., 414 419.
William O., 422, 428.
Flint, Albert E., 667.
David, 274.
Hannah, 433.
Mary, 379.
Sarah C, 454.
Floyd, Caroline L., 295.
Elizabeth, 279.
Joanna, 279.
Fogg, Gilman, 228.
Follansbee, Mary, 609.
Sarah, 609.
Follett, James, 348.
Lucy, 334.

Foote, Asahel, 140.
Forbes, Cyrus P., 601.
Forbush, Nettie M., 717.
Ford, Alva, 693.
Charles A., 329, 586.
Edith, 693.
Fred, 693.
Forgerson, Henry, 81.
Fosgate, Anna, 476.
Foskett, Albert G, 429.
Almira, 429.
Arlo, 429.
Carrie A., 429.
Clarence N., 429.
Clinton G., 681.
Earl L., 429.
Edward L., 192.
Ettie E., 429.
Florence R., 429.
George P., 429.
Isaac B., 428.
John E., 429.
Leon M., 429.
Lloyd, 429.
Louisa R., 429.
Lucinda J., 429.
Nellie E., 429.
Vernett, 429.
Foss, Joanna, 377.
Foster, Abijah, 2, 4, 6,
10, 24 38, 40, 44,
51, 54 430.
Addison H., 228, 478.
Betsy, 488.
Carrie L., 583.
Catharine, 530.
Charles S., 479.
Daniel, 75, 86, 90,
431.
David, 480.
Ebenezer, 431.
Eleazar, 430.
Eli, 157, 429.
Elizabeth, 431, 718.
Enoch, 758.
Emily H., 649.
Ephraim, 75, 86, 99,
432
Ethel' D., 430.
Frank, 588.
Fred H., 478.
Hepzibah, 432,
Isaac, 430.
Jonathan, 355.
John, 429, 430.
John H., 430.
John T., 303.
Lena F., 430.
746

Foster, Louise H., 478.
Mary, 4M, 431.
Molly, 431.
Permelia, 431.
Reforra, 431.
Reginald, 430.
Samuel, 75, 86, 99,
249, 431.
Sarah, 247.
Susan C, 225.
Winslow H., 478.
Fountain, Frank E., 552.
Fowle, Mary, 515.
Fowler, Archibald C,
114.
Clarissa, 272.
Daniel, 272.
John H., 114.
Fox, Abbie C, 436.
Abel, 434.
Abigail, 433, 434.
Ann S., 436.
Caroline H., 434.
Catharine, 433.
Charles E., 436, 437.
Charks J., 434, 436.
Charles H., 435.
Charlotte S., 435.
Clarissa, 433.
Edward M., 145, 435,
437.
Eliphalet, 432.
Eloisa H., 436.
Emily, 433.
Ephraim F., 433, 435.
Frank C, 437.
Frederic J., 437.
Frederic T., 437.
George, 434, 435, 436.
George T., 436.
Harriet, 434.
Harriet A., 436.
Harriet F., 435.
Harry B., 437.
Helen E., 435.
Helen L., 437.
Henry, 435.
Henry J., 436.
Isaac J., 434, 436.
Jediah, 435.
John, 347, 432, 433,
434 436, 437.
John H., 436.
Jonathan, 432, 434
Jones C, 436.
Joseph, 433, 434 435.
Josephine A., 437.
Kate W., 436.

Index

Fox, Lizzie E., 437.
Loren, 348.
Lucretia, 433.
Lucy, 433.
Mabel B., 437.
Marinda, 433.
Mary C, 433.
Mary E., 436.
Mary I., 436.
Mary J., 436.
Nabby, 432.
Nancy M., 435.
Peter, 432.
Polly, 433.
Rowena, 433.
Ruth, 433.
Sally, 433.
Samuel, 75, 432.
Sarah, 433.
Sarah J., 436.
Sophia, 436.
Thomas, 432.
Timothy, 75, 89, 96,
124 432, 433, 434
Foye, Frank, 695.
Francis, Lucy, 707.
Frank, Mary P., 260.
Freeman, Barlow, 388.
Mary, 201.
Ruth H., 601.
Sherwood A., 114.
Susan, 387.
French, Elizabeth, 565.
Elizabeth S., 283.
Hannah, 587.
Hepzibah, 650.
Isaac, 344.
Josiah, 269.
Lucy, 271.
Mary, 241.
Orren, 372.
Sarah C, 370.
Frink, Alice, 182.
Charlotte, 644.
Frizzell, WiUiam B., IM,
554
Frost, Ann, 685.
Charles, 251.
Esther A., 295.
George, 87.
Hannah, 677.
Hester, 463.
Hildreth, 463.
John, 181.
Nettie M., 261.
Permelia, 423.
Walter C, 463.
Frothingham, Ruth, 255.

Fry, Elizabeth, 406.
May, 643.
Frye, Ida M., 155.
Fullam, Dorothy, 636.
Fuller, Andrew C, 114
Anna K., 658.
Elizabeth, 504.
Esther M., 614
Ezra, 78.
Granville L., 120.
Hezekiah, 416.
John B., Sll.
Lovander F., 332.
I^ucena, 272.
Mary N., 567.
Sylvia C, 407.
Fulton, Kate A., 564.
Gage, Phebe, 356.
Rebecca, 289.
Gale, Azubah, 419.
Margaret E., 276.
Sullivan F., 405.
Gallup, Harriet J., 274
Gambell, Robert, 96.
Gannett, Bertha, 520.
Caroline B., 520.
Edwin L., 520.
Gordon H., 520.
Howard, 520.
Gardner, Anna, 331.
Henry, 83.
Sarah, 203.
Thomas, 293.
Garfield, Anna, 262.
Enoch, 471.
Jane, 705.
Martha M., 694
Garland, Ella F., 311.
James, 114
Garlock, Carrie, 275.
Gassett, Lizzie A., 608.
Gates, Azubah, 617.
Elizabeth A., 378.
George L., 330.
Hannah, 472.
Laura, 491.
Mary E., 349, 682.
Polly C, 309.
Rebecca, 437.
Susan, 670.
Gay, Edward, 436.
Elizabeth, 323.
Michael, 392.
Genung, Martha, 638.
George, Orissa, 576.
Gerry, Mary, 486.
Gibbs, Asa, 84, 86.
747

Gibbs, Benjamin, 75, 93,
106.
Gibson, Adeline A., 438.
Alice G, 441.
Angelia M., 440.
Anna C, 439, 440.
Annie B., 608.
Arrington, 438.
Caroline F., 439.
Charles A., 440.
Charles B., 441.
Charles O., 441.
Charles S., 438.
Ellen C, 441.
Elsie E., 440.
Elvira V., 440.
Emma J., 442.
Florence, 442.
Francis N., 144, 441.
Frank, 440.
Frank P., 442.
Frederic E., 442.
Frederic J., 440.
George C, 302, 439.
George S., 439.
Harriet A., 439.
Henry, 439, 440.
Henry N., 440.
John, 437, 439.
John S., 440, 442.
Joseph N., 439, 440.
Lucy A., 440.
Mary A., 440.
Mary H., 441.
Mary J., 439.
Rebecca, 174, 636.
Ruel, 439.
Samuel A., 157, 440.
Sara R., 440.
Silas, 438.
Stephen, 438.
Stillraan, 157, 438.
Susan E., 442.
Timothy, 437.
Tracy O., 442.
Giddings, Dorothy, 265.
Giffie, Allen, 450.
Gilbert, Clay, 592.
Ezekiel, 599.
Gilchrist, Irene, 702.
Giles, Alfred, 443.
Anna, 443.
Daniel, 443.
Eleazar, 442.
Hattie, 443.
John, 443.
Joseph, 442, 443.
Lucinda, 443.

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Giles, Noah, 443.
Sally, 443.
Gill, Anna C, 520.
Augustus, 520.
Elizabeth, 672.
Hanna, 521.
Silas, 79, 86.
Gilraan, Abigail, 619.
Charles G, 358.
David, 84.
Lydia, 351.
Polly, 404.
Gilraore, Roger, 89.
Gilson, Elizabeth, 684.
Giradin, Victor, 698.
Gleason, Eleanora, 330.
Glover, Margaret F., 193.
Gnider, Sarah J., 240.
Goddard, Mary, 279.
Godding, Ariel, 444.
Caroline, 444.
Charles G, 691.
Ellen E., 444.
Gardner, 444.
George G, 444.
Gilbert B., 691.
Henry, 443.
Henry G, 691.
Louisa, 444.
Mary, 444.
May J., 444.
Mersylvia, 444,
Sarauel, 443.
Sylvia, 444.
Williara, 443.
Goen, Elizabeth, 385.
Martha A., 699.
Mary C, 701.
Roxanna, 683.
Gold, Maria T., 197.
Goldsmith, Anna A., 147.
Betsy, 273.
Charlotte A., 563.
Jeoffard E., 241.
Goldthwaite, Abbie I.,
693.
Charles V., 693.
George F., 693.
Tohn, 320.
WilHam H., 693.
WilHs F., 693.
Golopen, Rachel, 333.
Gooch, Anna R., 452.
Clara S., 452.
Harriet B., 452.
Henry S., 452.
Horace, 452.
Lucy C, 452.

Goodall, Ezekiel, 81.
Mary H., 613.
Sarah, 218.
Goodenough, Mary, 272.
Goodfellow, James A.,
573.
Goodman, Mary J., 471.
Goodnow, Elizabeth, 676.
Goodrich, NeHie F., 539.
Goodridge, Hannah, 638.
Mehitable, 294.
Goodspeed, Sophronia,
557.
Goodwin, EHzabeth F.,
521.
Gordon, Alexander J.,
445.
Harriet D., 445.
Helen E., 445.
Jeannette, 324.
Philip F., MS, 445.
Robert, 444.
William, 444.
Gore, Mary, 194, 558.
Goss, Florence N., 573.
Sarah, 438.
Gott, Lydia, 252.
Gould, Abigail, 360.
Abijah, 446, 447.
Abraham, 446.
Adaras, 445.
Alice R., 453.
Alonzo, 450.
Ambrose, 446, 448.
Augustus, 450.
Augustus A., 139,
449, 450, 452.
Benjarain, 445, 446,
447, 448.
Betsy, 446.
Caroline A., 450.
Charles A., 452.
Charles B., 450.
Charles D., 139, 449,
452.
Charles H,, 453.
Charles O., 452.
Clara A., 452.
Clara J., 453.
Cynthia, 450.
Daniel, 448.
Edward C, 452.
Eliza, 450.
Elizabeth F., 450.
EHzabeth L., 145,
453.
Ellen F., 450.
Emily C, 450.
748

Gould, Esther, 448.
Florence, 453.
Frances, 637.
Franklin H., 450.
Frederick, 450.
Frederick A., 449.
George E., 449.
George W., 450, 453.
Harriet A., 453.
Harriet D., 452.
Harriet E., 452.
Henry, 450, 454.
Isabel, 287.
Isaiah, 448, 450.
James, 445.
John, 95, 96, 446, 448,
450.
John B., 449.
Julia N., 452.
Laura B., 453.
Louis A., 452.
Louisa, 448.
Lucy, 446, 547.
Lucy C, 452.
Lyman, 450, 453.
Margaret, 446.
Margaret M., 452.
Maria A., 450.
Maria C, 450.
Martha, 453.
Mary, 426, 447, 448,
452.
Mary A., 448, 449.
Nathan, 448, 450.
Nathaniel, 446.
Nathaniel D., 139,
156, 447, 449.
Nathaniel P., 449.
Peggy, 630.
Polly, 446.
Relief, 478.
Reuben K., 448.
Rhoda, 448, 450.
Sarah, 446, 448, 450.
Sarah A., 454.
Sarah B., 449.
Sarah J., 706.
Simeon, 75, 84, 91,
92, 93, 446, 448,
450, 453.
Sophia C, 453.
Sophronia L., 450.
Stephen L., 448, 450.
Susan E., 449.
Susan L., 448.
Susan S., 450.
Thomas, 445.
Webster V., 453.

Index

Gould, WiHiam A., 447,
448, 450, 452.
WiHiam B., 543.
Goulding, Charles H.,
IM, 577.
Gouterraont, Mary C,
501.
Gove, Mina, 260.
Gowing, John, 96.
Joseph M., 274.
Peggy, 319.
Gozaldi, Silvio M. de,
224
Granger, Caroline E., 287.
Catharine A., 287.
Charles H., 287.
George E., 287.
Jaraes W., 287.
Martha M., 287.
Mary Ann, 287.
Graves, Abigail, 585.
Alice A., 468.
Cora B., 309.
Edwin, 266.
Rebecca, 171.
GravHn. Eugene, 717.
Gray, Carrie, 450.
Ethel M., 311.
Florence C, 311.
Gertrude, 311.
Mabel H., 311.
Williara, 311.
Greenleaf, Calvin, 133.
Paul, 114.
Gregg, Harriet, 531.
John R., 418.
Gregory, Daniel A., 303.
Elnathan, 418.
Green, Esther J., 261.
George C, 214.
Isaac, 416.
Jeannette, 544.
Theodore F., 190.
William, 326.
Greenraan, Georgianna,
454
Williara, 454.
Williara S., 454.
Greenough, Josephine
M., 679.
Sarah E., 622.
Greenwood, George, 624.
Joshua, 88.
Moses T., 274.
Grew, EHza, 491.
GriflBn, Sarauel, 79.
Walter D., 544.
Griffith, Calvin, 619.

Griggs, Sarah L., 262.
Grisnold, Cordelia, 706.
Frederic, 718.
Grout, Isaac, 340.
Joseph B., 574
Grove, Sarauel, 693.
Grover, Abbie L,, 635,
Amanda P., 635.
ArvHla L., 635.
Mary E., 251.
Groves, Caroline E., 646.
Guernesey, J. W., 135.
Gutherson, Susannah,
560.
Hackett, Mary J., 681.
Hadley, Benjarain, 472.
Franklin, 559.
Rebecca A., 274.
Hafner, Laura M., 478.
Hagar, Abigail, 704.
Harriet M., 499.
Sarah, 704
Hague, Joseph, 676.
Haight, Janet C, 506.
Hailston, Margaret, 408.
Hale, Benjarain, 622.
Cleraentina M., 261.
Dorothy, 409.
Ella F., 662.
Enoch, 83, 84, 86, 89,
93, 95.
Hannah, 554.
Helen W., 584.
Henry, 665.
Jemima, 207.
Julius A., 550, 7M.
Lucy, 293.
Martha, 430.
Moses, 87, 481.
Nathan, 631.
Nathan A., 444,
Samuel, 601.
HaH, Andrew, 491.
Betsey, 591.
Catharine, 543.
Clara A., 335.
Daniel, 98.
David, 79.
Ephraim, 628.
Hannah, 500.
Horace, 400.
Jonathan. 135.
Lucia, 501.
Lucy F., 400,
Mary, 203.
Nancy, 421, 577.
Richard, 125, 152,
749

Hall, Richard, 399
SalHe, 549.
William, 467.
Hallet, Frances, 516.
Jane F., 525.
Halsted, Erama T., 666.
Ham, Mary A., 627.
Hamilton, Eraily M., 349.
Hamlin, John, 601.
Hararaond, Elisha L.,
562.
Judge L., 559.
Hannaford, Hannah, 246.
Lucretia, 564.
Lydia A., 320.
Hanscomb, Orren, 660.
Hanshaw, Jennie A., 707.
Hanson, Amelia K., 294.
Hnpgood, Elizabeth, 708.
Sarah, 479.
Harding, George, 304.
Ruby E., 389.
Hardison, Charles T.,
655.
Frank H., 655.
Helen E., 655.
Matie L.. 655.
Hardy, Charles, 240.
Frank E., 712.
George H., 135.
Lauriston M. P., 145,
589.
Noah, 378.
Persis, 380.
Philip, 500.
William H., 120, 712.
Hargraves, Mabel G,
440.
Richard, 440.
Harkness, John, 78, 89,
Robert, 76, 91.
Harlow, William, 501.
Harmon, Mariam, 240.
Harrad, Hannah, 687.
Harrigan, Michael, 251.
Harrington, Edward, 284.
Eliza, 323.
Frances A., 668.
Hannah, 704.
Harris, Amos, 455.
Bridget, 248.
Frances M., 450.
George S., 455.
Hannah A., 455.
Harriet A., 405.
Leonard W., 455.
Mary C, 190, 455.
Mary L., 455.

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Harris, Oliver, 454.
Susan J., 307.
William, 454
^yilHam B., 455.
Harrison, Charles E.,
578
Hart, Abby B., 215.
Mary, 513.
Hartshorn, Charles, 679.
Hannah, 247.
Hattie S., 349.
Jonathan, 284.
Rachel, 279.
Hartwell, Abigail, 456,
490.
Charles, 634.
Elizabeth, 643.
Ephraim, 145, 230,
455.
Hannah, 473.
Huldah, 683.
Lucy A., 690.
Mary B., 456.
Sarauel, 455.
Sarah A., 485, 526.
William, 455.
Harvey, Charles L., 120.
Isabella, 523.
Narcissa M., 593.
Harwood, Hannah, 579.
Sarah, 342.
Hasbrook, James, 659.
Theodore, 661.
Hase, Nathaniel, 86.
Haskell, Dwight, 441.
Hannah, 537.
Koralia E., 298.
Maria, 478.
Mary J., 372.
Mary L., 649.
HassaH, Anna C, 456.
Clara, 456.
George A., 456.
James L., 456.
Mary, 456.
William, 456.
William E., 456.
Hassell, Abiah, 235.
Hastings, Betty, 621.
Charles, 154, 457.
Emma, 457.
Frederic A., 685.
George F., 188.
Harriet, 457.
John N., 444.
Leonard W., 457.
Mildred, 685.

Hastings, Nathaniel, 457.
Nettie E., 573.
Samuel, 457.
Susanna, 354.
Thoraas, 459.
Williara H., 390.
Hatch, Abby L., 458.
Amos E., 458.
A. P., 135.
Bradbury, 647.
Edward A., 458.
Elizabeth, 458.
Harvey, 620.
Horace, 140.
Israel, 458.
Joel, 458.
Mary, 458.
Phebe, 181.
Sarah A., 309.
Sylvanus, 458.
Walter, 458.
William, 458.
WilHam B., 428.
Hathaway, Mary E, 503.
PhHander V., 401.
Hatstat, Manly G., 482.
Hawes, David, 93.
Sarah, 676.
Hawkes, Huldah, 267.
Mabel, 543.
Mary J., 698.
WHHam W., 543.
Hawkins, WilHam, 557.
Hay, Mehitable, 267.
Nabby, 279.
Hayden, Edward D., 295,
423.
Sophia, 533.
Hayes, John B., 346.
Hayle, Almira J., 298.
Haynes, Dorcas, 290.
Eleanor, 517.
Elizabeth, 482.
Lydia, 476.
Hays, Margaret, 584.
Hayward, Charles E.,
339.
Cornelia, 339.
Emily, 200.
Eunice, 644.
George E., 339.
Georgianna M., 589.
Hannah, 395.
Hattie, 291.
Helena, 683.
Huldah, 664.
James, 339.

Hayward, Joel A., 376.
Mary, 201.
Susan M., 147.
Sylvanus, 136.
Haywood, Adeline, 333.
EHzabeth, 455.
Jaraes F., 573.
Mary, 489.
Rebecca, 361.
Sarauel, 75, 89.
Sarah E., 375.
Hazeltine, Achsah E.,
639.
Sophia, 620.
Hazen, Ethel, 306.
Hermann S., 306.
Thomas, 142.
Hazlebarger, Bessie, 291.
Hazzen, Richard, 24.
Heald, Anna, 474.
Deliverance, 300.
Ebenezer, 460.
Elizabeth R., 299.
Elizabeth S., 474
529, 611.
Eunice, 289.
Gilman, 460.
Hattie C, 680.
John, 458, 459.
Jonas, 459, 460.
Josiah, 459.
Josiah G, 323.
Nathan, 460.
Polly, 460.
Ruth, 337.
Sibyl, 459, 460.
Simeon, 460.
Simpson C, 149.
Thomas, 75, 83, 89,
93, 106, 124 248,
459, 460.
Timothy, 459.
Heard, Mary S., 492.
Heath, Dorcas G, 482.
Hepzibah, 481.
Sarah E., 467, 609.
Heaton, Luther, 495.
Hecox, Brittania, 406.
Hedge, John F., 247.
Hemingway, Joanna, 189.
Henchman, Bridget, 316.
Henney, Lydia, 598.
Henry, Andrew, 242.
Anne C, 242.
James W., 242.
Phebe, 583.
William C, 242.

750

Index

Henshaw, Elizabeth, 523.
Herbert, John, 140, 141,
142.
Herrel, Israel, 501.
Herrick, Jeannette M.,
329.
Martha J., 667.
Mary, 218, 271.
Sarah F., 503.
Hersey, Alfred C, 215,
441.
Alfred H., 441.
Henry G, 441.
Hession, Daniel F., 667.
Hewitt, William, 86, 91.
Hewins, Abel, 381.
Heyward, Relief, 641.
Hickman, Daniel, 534.
Hickock, Thomas, Jr.,
116.
Hieland, Sarah E., 357.
Higgins, John, 401.
Hildreth, Abel, 16.
Abigail, 539.
Alfred H., 464, 465.
Asaph, 462.
Beulah 0., 464.
Caroline R., 585.
Charles B., 463.
Charles L., 462, 465.
Charles W., 463, 464.
Dorothy, 410.
Eleazar C, 462.
Elijah, 461, 462.
Ephraira, 91, 96, 97,
460, 465, 466.
Estella I., 465.
Eva M., 465.
Florence J., 464.
George C, 463, 465.
Hannah, 340, 598.
Harriet A., 463.
Harriet S., 465.
Helen C, 465.
Henry A., 463.
Henry W., 465.
Isabelle, 462.
James, 460, 461, 462.
Jane, 579.
Joel B., 462, 463, 628.
John C, 462, 465.
John L., 147, 463.
Jonathan H., 462.
Joseph, 460, 462.
Levi C, 462.
Lucy J., 463.
Mary A., 463.
Mary E., 463.

Hildreth, Mary L., 462.
Olive E., 462.
Richard, 460.
Richard R., 465.
Simeon, 75, 80, 82,
89, 90, 98, 461.
Stephen, 88, 91, 461.
William H., 120,463,
464
Willis H., 465.
Zilpah, 461.
HiH, Abigail, 460, 555.
Catharine M., 543.
Florence, 503.
Hannah, 486.
Harry S., 543.
Heinrich E., 543.
Jane S., 20O.
Sarah, 278.
Susan, 456.
WiH S., 609,
Hills, Abby H., 697.
Almon A., 609.
David, 228, 466, 467.
David A., 467.
Edward A., 467,468.
Elizabeth, 235.
Ella M., 609.
Hannah, 467.
Harriet, 467.
Henry F., 467.
Jabez, 466, 467.
Joanna, 660.
John F., 2M, 467,
Joseph, 466.
Martha, 467.
Mary, 467.
Mary L., 609.
Meletiah, 467.
Milton, 417.
Myra B., 467.
Myrtie C, 629.
NelHe M., 609.
Reuben, 417.
Samuel, 466, 467.
Sarah E., 467, 468.
Susanna, 467.
William H., 468.
Hillyer, Grace, 472.
Hilton, Flora L., 500.
Hinman, Joanna, 468.
Hitchcock, Hannah, 548.
Hitchings, Jaraes, 243.
Hoar, Anna, 469.
Benjarain, 75, 106,
468, 469.
Betsy, 415.
Charles, 468, 469.
751

Hoar, Charles D., 469.
Daniel, 468.
Edith, 469.
Esther, 410.
John, 468, 469.
Jothara, 89, 90, 96,
469.
Phcebe, 469.
Polly, 469.
Rhoda, 469.
Sally, 469.
Sarah, 432.
Hobart, Deborah, 327.
Rachel, 356.
Hodge, Frederic M., 442,
Roswell B., 340.
Hodges, Andrew, 262.
Hodgkins, Aaron, 471.
Amos, 471.
Christopher, 470.
EHzabeth, 471.
Hezekiah, 96, 470.
John, 470.
Lucy, 471.
Lydia, 471.
Nathaniel, 470.
Peletiah, 471.
Polly, 470.
Sarah, 471, 501.
Stephen, 471.
Susanna, 470.
Tabitha, 431.
WilHam, 75, 84, 88,
93, 96, 470.
Hodgman, Almira, 678.
Elma, 588.
Hannah, 326.
Job, 474
Lewis, 477.
Rebecca, 588.
Hoff, Nelville, 325,
Hoffnagle, Edith, 206.
Hogan, Peter, 321.
Holbrook, Cynthia, 266.
Elizabeth, 458.
Joanna, 327.
Holcomb, Ishmael, 509.
Holden, Albert, 471.
Amos P., 471.
Augusta H., 339,
472.
Betsy, 471.
Cora L., 307.
Edward G, 471.
Edward H., 471, 472.
Edward J., 312.
Emma A., 472.
Eunice, 641.

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Holden, Florence, 472.
Hannah, 242.
Henry, 471.
Ira S., 139, 471.
Jeremiah, 471.
Kate, 472.
Leon C, 307.
Louisa A., 472.
Mary, 471.
Mary M., 712.
Otis, 351.
Reuben, 471.
Reuben A., 471, 472,
Samuel, 471.
Sarah, 471.
Sarah J., 607.
Seth C, 312.
Stillraan P., 307.
Holland, Joanna, 549.
Holman, Bertha V., 445.
Edwin C, 445.
Emeline V., 70S.
George G., 445.
Holmes, Harriet S., 626,
Holt, Anna, 626.
Anna D., 714
Asa 197.
Holton, 'David C, 634.
Freedom, 645.
Samuel S., 624.
Sarah J., 646.
Hooper, Thomas, 453.
Hopkins, Auretta, 347.
Barrett, 216.
George, 216.
Mary, 381.
Norman, 639.
Horne, Joshua, 586.
Horsley, Betsy, 473.
David, 472.
Hannah, 473.
James, 472.
John, 472.
Joseph, 473.
Lucy, 272.
Rachel, 473.
Samuel, 472.
Sarah, 472.
Horton, Charlotte T., 551.
Ernest, 208.
Level H., 680.
Louisa, 376.
Sarah, 330.
Hosley, Elizabeth, 535.
Hosmer, Abigail, 687.
Amos, 474, 475, 476.
Amos H., 476.
Ann, 639.

Hosmer, Anna, 474, 476.
Anna F., 477.
Asa, 474, 475.
Benjamin, 474.
Betsy, 475.
Castalio, 476, 477.
Charles, 477.
Christopher P., 476.
Clarissa, 476.
Ebenezer C, 477.
Elias P., 477.
Elizabeth, 234.
Ephraira, 475.
Eunice, 474.
Fannie L., 477.
Granville, 479.
Gustavus, 476.
James, 473.
John, 473, 476, 689.
Julia, 476.
Laura, 477.
Leander, 476.
Lois, 527.
Lucinda, 477.
Martha, 476.
Mary, 613, 689.
Mary J., 477.
Nathan, 475.
Nathan M., 476, 477.
Nathaniel, 473, 474.
Prudence, 473.
Rebecca, 475.
Reuben, 475.
Sally, 475.
SaHy B., 326.
Sarah, 471, 474, 477.
Sewall, 475.
Stephen, 473.
Susan L., 476.
Tabitha, 474.
Thoraas, 473.
Walter, 477.
Williara, 474 476.
Houghton, Alvan N., 478.
Ann E. P., 478.
Catharine H., 479.
Charles E., 478, 479.
Charles S., 479.
Elijah, 477.
Eliza E., 478.
Ira H., 479.
Jaraes, 477.
Janette H., 320.
John P., 478.
Levi, 478.
Louis S., 479.
Louisa M., 478.
Ralph, 477.
752

Houghton, Rowena S.,
479.
Sellraan C, 479.
Stedman, 171, 478.
Susan M., 478.
Thomas, 477, 478.
House, Anna, 694.
A. H., 133.
How, Mary, 675.
Howard, Anna, 625.
Bela M., 348.
Johnson, 133.
Mary, 251.
Mary J., 419.
Samuel, 87.
Tabitha, 468.
Howe, Abraliam, 479.
Alonzo, 481.
Alvin, 481.
Asa, 481.
Buckley, 482.
Charles E., 483.
Daniel, 175, 479.
David, 480, 481, 482.
Eldridge H., 482.
Eloisa, 436.
Emerson, 111, 482.
Eunice, 147, 480.
Hepzibah, 319.
Ichabod, 479.
Isaac, 75, 83, 93, 106,
480, 481.
Isabel W., 436.
John, 481.
John D., 358.
Jonah, 630.
Jonathan, 479, 480.
Joseph, 481.
Marion B., 483.
Mary, 395, 675, 686.
Melicent, 480.
Minnie A., 482.
Moses, 439, 598.
Peter, 482.
Rebecca, 481.
Samuel, 481.
Sarah, 480, 481, 546.
Sarah E., 482.
Sibyl, 576.
Silvanus, 481.
Silvester, 481.
Stephen, 480.
Susanna, 480, 481.
Sybil, 481.
Tryphena, 481.
Vashti, 481.
Wilbur H., 483.
Howland, Louise, 544.

Index

Howland, Nellie M., 684.
Howlett, Sarah, 342.
Hoyt, Anna P., 506.
Caleb C, 506.
Charles O., 506.
EHza B., 506.
Ella F., 506.
Harriet K., 506.
Ida M., 506.
Mary E., 360.
Mary R., 506.
Otis, 505.
Richard, 358.
Hubbard, Abigail, 363,
482.
Charles J., 261.
Charles L., 484.
Clarissa A., 485.
Clarissa W., 484.
Dorothy, 643.
Elisha, 78.
Elizabeth, 196.
Elton, 513.
Emma, 485.
George H., 151, 157,
481 484
George W., 484, 485.
Harriet, 484, 485.
Harriet B., 484.
Harriet W., 484.
John, 116, 140, 194
483, 484.
John G, 485.
John J., 485.
John P., 484.
John S., 153, 484.
Jonathan, 483.
Josiah, 484.
Louisa J., 484.
Lucy B., 485.
Maria L., 484.
Mary, 331.
Mary A., 484.
Rebecca P., 235, 484.
Sarah T., 147.
Susanna, 207.
WilHam E., 484.
Hubbell, Seth, 617.
Hudner, Elizabeth, 429.
Hudson, Ella M., 352.
Thomas G., 558.
Hueitt, William, 86.
Huggins, Jonathan, 616.
Hughes, Charles, MS.
Hull, Charles H., 116.
Humber, Mary, 380.
Hume, Robert H., 389.
Humperly, Mary, 358.

Humphrey, Emeretta,
348
Hunt, Abby H., 199.
Ariadne, 435.
Louisa, 591.
Mary, 432.
Sarah, 557.
Hunter, George M., 201.
Huntington, Mary, 348.
Huntoon, Joseph, 659.
Hurd, Anna, 339.
Hurry, Oscar, 424.
Hutchins, John S., 357.
Samuel, 79.
Hutchinson, Phebe J.,
648.
Sabrina, 275.
Hulton, Susanna, 508.
Hyde, Anna L., 301.
Ezra, 385.
Isabel A., 620.
Mercy, 217.
Sarah, 718.
Ingalls, Amos, 87.
Jonathan, 87.
PauHne C, 424
Sarah, 317.
Sophia, 683.
Ingraham, Ruby, 511.
Ireland, WHliam, 714.
Irish, Ruth, 415.
Isaacs, Charles E., 116.
Edward M., 154.
Mrs. Henry, 151.
Isbell, Sophronia G, 654.
Jackman, Sarauel, 598.
Jackson, Beulah, 267.
Elizabeth, 248.
George S., 402.
Lydia, 346.
Mary, 430.
Sibyl, 434
Jacob, Jael, 351.
Jacobs, Araaziah, 495.
Jacques, John C, 303.
James, Clarence G, 224.
Frances B., 224.
Mary I., 224
Montgomery, 224.
Thomas P., 224.
Janes, Amanda, 348.
Jaquith, Abraham, 485.
Adde, 485.
Adford, 485.
Annis, 257.
Charles B., 486.
753

Jaquith, Dollie S., 486.
Frederic W., 486.
George D., 426, 485.
George R., 486.
HolHs P., 486.
Irving F., 486.
Milo W., 486.
Ossian C, 486.
Polly, 273.
Sarah, 631.
Sarah O., 624.
WiHiara S., 486.
Jarvis, Gertrude M., 536.
Jeffrey, WilHam, 695.
Jefts, Anson, 487.
Boynton, 487.
Carrie A., 488.
Charles M., 488.
Clara M., 488.
Clarissa, 487.
Cyrus A., 487.
Daniel, 486.
Dora M., 488.
Elmira, 487.
Elvira, 487.
Freeman W., 487.
Hannah, 614.
Hattie, 488.
Henry, 486.
James M. J., 487.
John, 486.
John P., 487.
Jonathan, 486, 487.
Julia E., 488.
Katie, 488.
Lizzie, 488.
Lizzie E., 488.
Lucius W., 488.
Mary, 487.
Mary P., 487.
Melvin W., 488.
Mildred W., 488.
Nellie M., 488.
Roxanna, 487.
Sybil, 406.
Willard, 487, 488.
Jenkins, Charles, 282.
Desire, 352.
Sarah J., 538.
Jenks, Marinda, 663.
Rebecca, 670.
Jenne, Mercy, 346.
Jennings, Deborah, 318.
Lydia, 358.
Jennison, John, 483.
Mary H., 229.
Jenny, Chauncey P., 346.
Jewell, Grissles, 408.

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Jewett, Edward, 584.
George, 592.
Hibbard, 184.
Luther, 179.
Margaret, 331.
Maximilian, 248.
Mercy, 319.
Moses, 196.
Ruth, 715.
Sarah, 617.
Johnson, Abigail, 539,
712.
Allen, 603.
Arthur E., 341.
Burt, 341.
Esther, 632.
Franklyn, 209.
George W., 130.
Hannah, 483, 501,
559.
Helen, 384.
Herbert S., 603.
John, 86, 418, 420.
Katie, 603.
Moses A., 603.
Sibylla, 525.
Walter S., 603.
WiHiara B., 341, 572.
WiHiam W., 112, 157,
191, 215, 328.
Johnston, Lavinia, 573.
Jones, Abel, 491.
Abigail, 493.
Almira, 270.
Andrew, 492.
Anna M., 200.
Catharine, 401.
Charles, 492.
Charles E., 492.
Charles H., 491.
Charlie, 492.
Ebenezer, 489.
Edgar T., 492.
Edmond, 651.
Effie H., 452.
Elisha, 490, 491.
Eliza, 491.
Elnathan, 489, 490.
Ephraim, 489, 490.
Evan, 492.
Frances C, 493.
Frances R., 493, 494.
Francis, 492.
Frederic, 493, 494.
Frederic, Mrs., 134.
Frederic W., 493.
George, 493.
George F., 492, 493.

Jones, Grace, 492.
Hannah B., 233, 385,
490.
Harriet A., 492.
Henry, 490, 492.
Henry H., 492.
Henry S., 492.
Hepzibah, 409, 490,
499.
Homer, 491.
Isaac, 490, 492.
John, 488, 489, 493.
John T., 491.
Jonas, 490.
Lucy, 407, 490.
Lydia, 491, 492.
Mary C, 212, 492,
493, 651.
Nancy, 357, 444.
Nathan, 490, 616.
Nathaniel, 489, 490.
Persis, 491, 653.
Peter, 396, 490.
Rachel, 310.
Rebecca, 491.
Richard H., 490, 493.
Rosetta A., 544.
Sallie M., 492.
Sally, 357, 580, 651.
Sarauel, 488.
Sarah J., 322, 485,
490, 491.
' Sarah R., 408.
Siraon, 490.
Stephen, 490, 492,
496.
Susan, 368.
Thomas, 489.
Warren, 613.
Jordan, Ann, 485.
Elizabeth, 617.
Joslin, Charles, 120.
Samuel, 343.
Susan, 450.
William B., 453.
Joslyn, John, 181.
Jowders, Alexander E.
Imogene M., 702.
Joy, Elizabeth, 680.
Judd, Helen, 665.
Judkins, Helen M., 553.
Samuel F., 116.
Syrena B., 698.
Judson, Mary, 322.
Jukins, Dolly, 429. ,
Kayser, EHzabeth B.,211.
Eugene A., 211.
754

Kayser, George B., 211.
Paul B., 211.
Robert B., 211.
Keeler, Seth H., 140,405.
Keeney, Perley R., 577.
Keith, Benjamin L., 520.
Bezaleel, 403.
William, 520.
Keller, Eleanora, 627,
John, 498.
Kellogg, John, 498.
Oliver M., 422.
S. G, 135.
Kelly, Samara, 544.
Samuel M., 697.
Kemp, AbigaH, 257.
Emily, 425.
Hannah, 530.
Joanna, 590.
Sarah A., 680.
Kendall, AbigaH, 531.
Clarissa M., 310.
David, 142.
Elizabeth, 283, 317.
Henry A., 197.
Lucy, 625.
Mary, 255.
Nathan, 449, 714.
Ruth, 617.
Sarah W., 207, 714
Susan W., 592.
Susanna, 642.
Williara, 75, 88.
Kendrick, Augusta C,
320.
Charles A., 320.
Kenna, Cynthia, 559.
Kennedy, Hirara, 264.
Mary, 484.
Kenniston, Deborah, 205.
Kenny, Daniel, 93.
Hattie, 324.
Rebecca, 522.
Kenson, Charles H., 679.
Eliza A., 679.
Ella G, 679.
George D., 678.
Helen M., 679.
Martha J., 679.
Kenworthy, Thoraas, 300.
Thoraas C, 300.
Kerley, Elizabeth, 479.
Ketchura, Stephen C,
487.
Keyes, Avis, 285.
Betty, 410.
Corydon D., 626.
Israel, 87.

Index

Keyes, Joanna, 495.
Laura, 273.
Lucy A., 191.
Maria, 646.
Mercy A., 620.
Polly, 253.
Rebecca, 685.
Susan S., 681.
Kibbling, Hannah, 173.
Miranda, 440.
Kidder, Aaron, 495, 497,
500.
Aaron B., 497.
Aaron I., 500.
Aaron K., 497, 500.
Abigail, 496.
Albert S., 502.
Almira, 498.
Anderson D., 502.
Anna, 499.
Anna P., 504.
Anna S., 500.
Asa, 500.
Augiistus L., 502.
Benjamin F., 497.
Benjarain P., 497.
Benjarain R., 132,
501.
Betsy, 496, 497.
Calvin, 497.
Camillus, 498, 503.
Camillus G, 503.
Charles E., 502.
Charles H., 503.
Clarence P., 502.
David S., 503.
Edward, 138, 499,
503.
Edward H., 503.
Eliza, 500, 501.
Elizabeth, 503.
Elizabeth P., 501.
Emerenza, 498.
Emma V., 503.
Eunice, 495.
Eunice R., 501.
Frederic, 138, 499,
504.
George, 498, 499.
George C, 501.
George N., 501.
George W., 503.
Gilbert P., 504
Gustavus A., 502.
Hannah M., 501.
Harriet, 499.
Harvey E., 611.
Henry, 498.

Kidder, Henry N., 501.
Henry W., 500.
Hirara B., 500.
Isaiah, 496, 499, 500.
Jaraes, 494
James C, 497.
James M., 500.
Jeremiah, 496, 497.
Jerorae H., 503.
Jessie B., 501.
Joanna, 495, 496, 498.
John, 494.
Jonas, 95.
Joseph, 122, 146,495,
496, 497, 500.
Josiah, 495, 496.
Levi, 500.
Lophemia L., 502.
Louisa, 498.
Louisa D., 502.
Lovell, 501.
Lucy, 495, 498, 619.
Luther, 495, 497, 498,
502.
Luther A., 502.
Luther H., 497.
Lydia, 496, 497.
Lyman C, 498, 502.
Mark, 274.
Martha E., 503.
Mary, 498.
Mary E., 502.
Mary G, 680.
Mason S., 501.
Matthew G, 504.
Melvin A., 500.
Micah B., 501.
Minnie P.. 502.
Miriam, 496.
Molly, 497.
Nathan H., 500.
Pamelia B,, 501.
Phebe, 498.
Poraeroy J., 501.
Rachel M., 495, 501,
508.
Rebecca, 497, 498.
Reuben, 75, 103, 256,
495, 496. 50O.
Rhoda, 497.
Rowland M., 502.
Ruth, 496, 497.
Sabrina S., 500.
Sally, 498.
Samuel, 498. 502.
Samuel S., 502.
Sarah, 496, 497, 500.
Sarah F., 502.
755

Kidder, Sibyl, 497.
Silas R., 500.
Sophia A., 498, 499,
623.
Squire, 501.
Submit, 495.
Susan E., 228, 502.
Susan S., 504.
Susanna, 496, 497.
Thomas, 96, 495, 497,
498, 500.
Timothy, 501.
Timothy L., 497, 501.
Wilder, 78, 497.
WiUiam N., 501.
KimbaH, Abby, 426.
Abigail, 593.
Anna, 377, 626.
Betsy, 407.
George A., 588.
George S., 208.
Hannah, 218, 537,
563.
Isaac, 354.
Martha, 338, 484.
Phebe, 537.
Prescott, 622.
Sarah, 678.
Sophronia, 287.
King, Anna C, 507.
Benjamin, 77,78,504
Cameron F., 508.
Cameron H., 507,
508.
Caroline, 506,
Charles F,, 506.
Charles H., 506, 507,
508.
Charles P„ 507, 508,
Edward, 507.
Edward F,, 698.
Ella, 185.
Eliphalet, 505.
Eliza B., 506.
EHzabeth, 504.
Frances L., 506.
Frederick H., 507.
George C, 507, 508.
George E,, 505, 506.
Harriet H., 505.
Harriet M., 507.
Horace W., 698.
Jaraes, 505.
Janet C, 508.
John, 567.
Joseph, 505.
Josephine, 508.
Lochiel M., 508.

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King, Louis C, 508.
Louis H., 507, 508.
Lucy A., 505.
Malcolra C, 508.
Martha E., 507.
Mary, 504.
Mary D., 508.
Mary R,, 505.
Rebecca P., 506.
Samuel, 504.
Sarah, 504.
Seth, 505.
Silence, 504.
Virginia, 508.
William, 504.
Kingman, Susa, 708.
Kingsbury, Alberta G,
374
Almerine, 628.
Esther A., 374
George E., 333.
Henry L., 374.
Olive, 393.
Polly, 272.
Kingsley, Elizabeth, 342.
Hannah, 235.
Lucy J., 347.
Kinney, Jonathan, 83, 93,
348.
Sarauel, 75, 97.
Kinsraan, Edna B., 303.
Elizabeth, 265.
John, 290.
Lydia, 178.
Kirkwood, Arthur, 77,
78.
Kittredge, Anna, 302.
Fannie A., 208.
Knapp, Mary, 613.
Kneeland, Miriara, 377.
Knight, Aaron, 181.
Abner, 416.
Asa, 181.
Benjarain, 363.
Dorcas, 380.
Ebenezer, 96.
Elizabeth, 252.
Enos, 96.
Frederic I., 201.
John, 88, 90, 93.
Lydia, 416.
Margaret, 226.
Martha, 380.
Knower, Hannah, 278.
Sarah, 278.
Knowlton, Abigail, 509.
AdaHne, 512.
AHce A., 513.

Knowlton, Almira, 510.
Alseraana, 512.
Amos, 510.
Benjamin, 106, 509,
510, 511.
Benjamin F., 511,
513.
Bethia, 509.
Caroline, 511,
Carrie G., 513.
Charles, 510.
Charles A., 511, 512.
Charles L., 513.
Charlotte, 510, 511.
Clark Sll, 512.
Deborah, 177.
Delbert C, 512.
Eliza, 510, 511.
Emeline, Sll.
Ernest J., 511.
Esther, 509.
Ethel E., 513.
Eunice, 509, 510.
Fannie E., 513.
F. Augusta, 512.
Frances M., 513.
Frank A., 513.
Frank H., 513.
Frederic E., 513.
George E., 512.
Hannah, 199, 509,
5n.
Harriet, 511.
Hattie L., 512.
Helen M., 423, 513.
Henry, 84, 509, 510,
511, 512.
Howard S., 538.
John, 83, 89, 93, 509,
510.
John F., 113, 118,513.
John H., 510.
Joseph, 510, 511.
Josephine, 512.
Laura J., 511.
Laura M., 513.
Leander, 511, 512.
Lilla, 513.
Lucy, 510.
Lydia, 509.
Maria, 511.
Mary, 430, 512, 672.
Mary E., 513.
Nelson, 512.
Oliver J., 511.
Ophelia, 512.
Phcebe, 509.
Rebecca, 512.
756

Knowlton, Rice, 509.
Rosetta, 512.
Ruth, 510, 511.
SaHy, 510.
Sarah, 509.
Sarah E., 511.
Shepherd, 512.
Sibyl, 510.
Sophia, 510.
Sophronia, 510.
Timothy, 510.
Ursula, 511.
Walter C, 513.
William, 508, 510.
William A., 513.
WiHiam H., 512.
WilHam R., 116, 511,
512.
Kreiling, Anna, 566.
Kurtz, Edith, 544.
Ladd, Dinnis, 393.
Roxa, 428.
Lake, Jane E., 373.
Mattie A., 429.
Wealthy, 564.
Lakin, Abigail, 378, 526.
Mary, 708.
Lamb, Howard P., 261.
Lampson, Abiah, 254.
Esther, 255.
Lane, Anna S., 242.
Arthur C, 520.
Benjamin, 676.
Daniel W., 676.
Dorothy H., 520.
Elvira L., 242.
Emeline, 676.
George, 676.
Harriet, 500.
Ida C, 308.
Lucy, 493.
Luke, 600.
Marion L., 520.
Martin B., 676.
Rebecca C, 378.
Rhoda, 448.
Sarah A., 676.
Sewell S., 520, 676.
Sophronia A., 676.
Lang, Moses C, 302.
Langstaff, Elizabeth, 439.
Langley, Araos E., 383.
John, 383.
Laporte, Maud, 245.
Larkin, Sarah, 687.
Larrabee, Benjarain, 387.
Berkeley T., 589.

Index

Larrabee, Nathaniel, 618.
Latham, CaroHne F., 698.
Charles E., 698.
Charles W., 698.
Law, Artemas, 358.
Elizabeth, 337.
Lawrence, Anna, 207, 401.
Charles A., 120.
Deborah, 685.
Eben, 142.
Edward A., 140, 145,
664.
Eliza A., 375.
Elizabeth M., 210.
Hannah, 692.
Hattie E., 239.
Judith, 636.
Lauretta M., 665.
Lois, 486.
Lucy M., 664.
Mary, 409, 444.
Miller, 274.
Sarah, 342, 407.
Leach, Adrianna, 406.
David, 296.
Etta L., 627.
Prudence, 247.
Lear, Nathan C, 251.
Learned, Anna M., 627.
Leathers, Dorothy M.,
694
Leavitt, Benjamin, 586.
Judith, 491.
Lee, Clara E., 515.
EHa M., 515.
George W., 5M, 515.
John, 513.
John W., 514.
Jonathan, 513.
Joseph W., 514
Judson F., 515.
Mary, 468, 613.
Robert E., 102.
Royal W., 515.
Sallie, 332.
Samuel, 104127,129,
157, 226, 513.
Samuel W., 120, 514
Sarah F., 151, 170,
514
Le Francis, William J.,
383.
Leighton, Abby, 523.
Leonard, Abial, 557.
John G., 155.
Lepingwell, Tabitha, 235.
Leroy, David, 116.
LeSure, Arthur P., 682.

LeSure, William, 534
Level, Helen L., 515.
Levine, Mary B., 384.
Lewando, Helena, 210.
Lewis, Asa, 363.
Hannah, 526.
Helen M., 349.
Herschel W., 140.
James, 89, 93, 504.
Samuel, 90.
Lewsdale, Cassandra, 547.
Lincoln, Joshua, 139, 450.
Leavitt, 460.
Sophia, 452.
Little, Jerusha C, 274
Littlefield, Carrie A., 567.
Elizabeth A., 334
Guy P., 567.
Hanson, 567.
Harold A., 567.
Ida M., 567.
John, 567.
Raymond O., 567.
Sheldon S., 567.
Livingston, Edward E.,
240.
Harrison M., 120.
Ruth H., 240.
Locke, Adelaide I., 519.
Anne, 516.
Ebenezer, 515.
Elizabeth A., 460,
518.
Eraraa A., 518.
Isaac N., 518.
Jaraes, SIS, 516.
Josiah, 516, 517.
Laura W., 518.
Lucretia, 516.
Mabel E., 519.
Marinda A., 519.
Mary, 516.
Mary C, 518.
Nancy, 516.
Polly, 516.
Rebecca, 178, 407.
Samuel, 515.
Sarah D., 517.
Warren P., 113, 116,
518.
William, 515, 516.
WHHam D., 517.
WHHam E., 517, 518.
Lockwood, Amy A., 345.
Long, Brian, 209.
Eastman C, 654
Frances B., 209.
Lois, 209. 757

Long, William J., 209.
Longfellow, Henry W.,
197.
Loomis, Angeline, 456.
Elizabeth, 513.
Hannah, 505.
H. H., 130.
Lord, Frederic, 646.
Henrietta, 384.
Orlando M., 130.
Loring, Charles A., 512.
Martha T., 551.
Matilda C, 636.
Nellie, 371.
Sarah A., 340.
Susan C, 371.
Lothrop, Mary, 632.
Loud, Anna, 586.
Betsy, 453.
Deborahj 630.
Lovejoy, Abiel, 361.
Hannah, 523.
William, 209.
Loveland, Allen, 453.
Lovell, Sally, 418.
Lovering, Abigail, 290.
Cora B., 442.
Lovett, Benjamin T., 519,
520.
Caroline A., 520.
Caroline S., 520.
Elizabeth, 520.
Hannah A., 520.
Harriet A., 520.
John, 519.
Josephine, 676.
Mary J., 520.
Sarah J., 520.
WiHiam P., 520.
Low, Charlotte, 370.
Lowe, Abby E., 521.
Asa, 521.
Bessie, 504.
Caroline, 521.
Catharine, 521.
Charles H., 521.
George F., 521.
George N., 521.
Gertrude, 521.
Herbert N., 521.
Julia F., 521.
Myrta B., 521.
LoweU, Joseph, 720.
Peter, 79, 104.
Samuel, 90.
Lufkin, Elizabeth, 519.
Lumraas, Ann, 381.
Lumpkin, Sarah, 640.

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Lund, Elizabeth, 614.
Lunt, Anna, 466.
Lyman, Moses W., 278.
Lynde, Lydia, 556.
Lyons, Kate A., 298.
Mack, Abigail, 617.
Emily P., 391.
Helen F., 313.
John, 622.
Sewall G, 622.
Mackintosh, Robert J.
197.
Main, George, 565.
Mair, Alexander, 589.
Mallet, Grace, 302.
Mallery, Charles, 614
M along, Margaret, 568.
Manigan, Joseph, 698.
Manley, Mary S., 522.
Sarah J., 535.
Mann, Benjarain, 80.
Manning, Addison, 486.
Esther, 461.
Jacob, 559.
John B., 639.
Mary J., 501, 580.
SaHy, 490.
Sarah, 466.
Mansfield, Aaron, 522.
Addison, 522.
Albert F., 523.
Andrew, 331, 521.
Asa, 522.
Azubah, 522.
Baruck, 522.
Bethiah, 331.
Betsy, 522, 630.
Daniel, 75, 521.
David, 75, 522.
Edward, 522.
Elijah, 84 522.
Ezra, 522.
Franklin L., 522.
Frederic, 522.
Frederic L., 523.
George E., 523.
Israel, 522.
Israel N., 522.
Jacob, 521.
Joel, 522.
Jonathan N., 116.
Leonard, 522.
Levi, 522, 528.
Lydia, 521, 522.
Mary L., 523.
NeHie A., 523.
Newell, 522.

Mansfield, Patty, 522.
Polly, 522.
Rebecca, 522.
Rebeckah, 522.
Robert, 521.
Sally, 522.
Sarah E., 588.
Supply W., 522.
Susanna, 684.
Thomas, 522.
Williara, 522,
Willis F., 523.
Mansur, Abby, 524.
Abby L., 524
Eliza C, 523.
Ezra, 523.
Frank R., 524
George B., 524.
Helen M., 523, 524.
Horace, 523.
James M., 523.
James P., 524.
John, 523.
Maria E., 524
Mary H., 523.
Nancy, 523.
Robert, 523.
Samuel C, 523.
Sarah, 524
Susan, 523.
Williara, 523.
Williara E., 113, 116,
523 524.
Manville, Charles B., 502.
Marble, Dorothy, 317.
Erama A., 707.
George, 690.
Sarah, 542.
Tamar, 554.
March, Carrie I,, 699.
Marcy, Mary, 190.
Marlett, Charlotte, 277.
Marrow, Daniel, 318.
Marsh, Charles, 216.
Charles R., 216.
Edith B., 216.
Ella R, 525.
John, 525.
Joseph E. F., 524.
Joseph E. F., Jr.,
524
Lydia, 347.
Mabel M., 216.
Sarah, 335.
Marshall, Benjamin, 525.
Betty, 175.
Charles, 383.
David, 78.
758

Marshall, Edward O.,
149, 525.
Eliza A., 525.
George, 308.
Granville, 525.
Harriet E., 525.
IsabeHa M., 525.
Jonathan, 88.
Lucy E., 525.
Lydia, 301.
Maria A., 525.
Mary, 606.
Mary J., 525.
Moses, 525.
Orlando, 525.
William, 354
Marston, Betty, 622.
Sarah F., 622.
Simon, 92.
Martin, Abigail, 615.
Bridget, 650.
Charles A., 601.
James H., 667.
Lucinda, 272.
Richard, 416.
Sarah, 430.
Martyn, Huldah, 686.
Marvin, James H., 116.
Mason, Abbie S., 201.
Hannah, 257.
John, 22.
John T., 29.
Louise, 201.
Marshall M., 296.
Mary, 675.
Phebe, 512.
Mathes, Elizabeth, 685.
Mathews, Granville, 351.
Jesse, 563.
Milton O., 390.
Matthews, Frank, 120.
Mattoon, Sarah J., 419.
Maverick, Sarah, 684.
Maxime, Freelove, 480.
Maxwell, Clinton W.,
583.
Dorcas, 647.
Frances B., 562.
Hannah P., 614.
Henry F., 120.
Jennie B., 625.
Warren B., 655.
WiHiam E., 463.
May, Freda M., 569.
Maynard, Daniel P., 655.
John M., 286.
Lucinda, 524.
Matilda, 716.

Index

Maynard, Mary, 503.
Rebecca, 243, 689.
Sarah E., 370.
S. Fred, 655.
Simon, 709.
McAllister, Benjarain,
417.
McAlpine, Mary, 366.
McCall, Abigail, 641.
McConnell, Jonathan,
116.
McConnellogue, Katha
rine, 206.
McCuraber, Annie L.,
313.
McDonald, Margaret,
698. ,
Mary W., 249, 665.
Michael, 116.
McGregor, John, 567.
Margaret, 244.
Mcintosh, Aaron S., 520.
Jennie, 520.
Mclntyre, Freelove, 635.
McKenney, Henrietta F.,
340.
Lura F., 463.
Mary, 340.
McKown, Annie, 330.
CaroHne E., 543.
Ethel, 333, 545.
Williara G., 330.
McLanahan, Henry L.,
485.
McLaughlin, Frank J.,
205.
Mary E., 709.
McLean, William, 282.
McMichael, Beatrice C,
700.
McMurray, Caroline S.,
479.
McNabb, Isabella, 268.
Mead, Hannah, 515.
Hobart, 567.
Howard E., 335.
Maria L., 336.
Means, Elizabeth, 198.
Mary J., 184.
Meddows, Mary, 362.
Mellen, Lucy J., 717.
William, 388.
Mellins, Edward L., 636.
Mellows, Hannah, 46o.
Melvin, David, 75, 79, 88,
527.
Eleazar, 526.
John, 75, 526, 527.

Melvin, Jonathan, 526.
Josiah, 526.
Mary, 527.
Nathaniel, 75, 82, 89,
526.
Prudence, 590.
Sarah, 526.
Merriam, Abigail, 226.
Alice E., 536.
Asaph, 132, 133.
Ezra, 97.
G. Ernest, 131.
George F., 130.
Lucy, 474.
Mary, 483, 650.
Samuel, 564.
Sarah, 687.
Susanna, 432.
William, 234.
Merrick, Edward W.,
320.
Lula F., 320.
Merrill, Althea, 672,
Araos, 135.
Ann, 576.
Edwin R., 621.
Merritt, Loren, 372.
Merrow, Abigail, 587.
Merry, Elizabeth, 218.
Merryman, Almira R.,
661.
Metcalf, Elizabeth, 207.
Joel F., 678.
Martha, 466.
Nancy, 201.
Otis, 678.
William, 346.
Mevis, Lyraan, 130.
MichalHs, Rosa M., 386.
Miles, Abel, 75, 91, 528.
Betty, 528.
John, 142, 527, 528.
Lydia, 528.
Mary, 489.
Polly, 528.
Rebecca, 528.
Seraph A., 557.
Miller, Caroline, 433.
Catharine E., 433.
Clara, 503.
Elizabeth, 227.
Ezra, 416.
Farrah, 79.
James F., 433.
Jesse, 421.
Lizzie, 609.
Mary E., 244.
Mary J., 552.
759

Miller, Matilda, 238.
Ruth, 267.
Milliken, Alexander, 229.
Arthur N., 216.
Elizabeth, 229.
Mills, Eliza, 500.
Emma R., 347.
John M., 308.
Newton L., 264.
Sarah B., 550.
Sophia E., 265.
William, 290.
Minot, Beulah, 182.
Hepzibah, 292.
Lydia, 212.
Martha, 214.
Mary, 190.
Rebecca, 212.
Mirick, Charles A., 374.
Mirrill, Mrs. F. A., 141.
Mitchell, Eleanor G, 553.
Margaret, 192, 223.
Samuel, 79.
Mixer, Sarah, 632.
Mizer, Persis, 549.
Monsal, Eunice, 257.
Montgomery, Florence
P., 579.
George K., 577.
Lucy A., 577.
Mary, 222.
Moody, Hannah, 657.
Robert, 416.
Simeon, 484.
Moore, Anna, 494.
Dwight, 700.
Edward A., 564.
Elizabeth, 482, 564,
655.
Ferris, 133.
Forrest F., 700.
Frederic H., 287.
Helen G, 542.
Israel, 270.
James W., 287.
Jessie, 551.
John M., 700.
Joseph, 97.
Lucy, 231.
Lydia, 686.
Mabel, 654
Martha, 646.
Mary, 32, 51.
Matilda, 511, 512.
Moriah, 477.
Sara, 442.
Sarah M., 347.
Morehead, Susan, 267.

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Morehouse, Charles, 674.
John, 674.
Reuben, 674.
Morey, John B., 635.
Morgan, Hannah, 266.
Jane S., 683.
Laura, 615.
Morrill, Lydia, 593.
Morris, George K., 717.
Morrison, Mary, 638.
Sarauel, 463.
Thoraas, 79.
Morse, Daniel, 88, 93.
Dester, 284.
Elijah, 78, 88, 91.
Ella A., 408.
Eveline, 500.
Ezra, 87, 93.
Hannah, 247.
John, 87.
Jonathan, 344.
Mary, 548.
Mary J., 554
Nancy, 400.
Sarauel, 92.
Sarah, 638.
Thaddeus, 198.
Wilbur, 690.
Mosher, Alvah B., 312.
Chandler B., 312.
Edna F., 312.
Elva H., 312.
Minta J., 312.
Ruth L., 312.
Mower, Josiah, 356.
Mudgett, Abigail, 205.
Mulliken, Joseph, 140,
141.
Munroe, Abigail, 262.
Mary, 577.
Roderick, 690.
Munson, Patience, 618.
Murdock, Lucy, 634.
Thomas J., 182.
Murphy, Anna M., 718.
Edward, 325.
George, 676.
Mary F., 569.
Muzzy, Anna, 401.
CaroHne, 592.
Gardner, 430.
John, 397.
Mary A., 477.
J. H., 417.
Myrick, George W., 338.
Stanley C, 338.
Nahor, Joseph, 603.

Nash, EHza, 335.
Horace M., 521.
Lucy M., 221.
Nay, David, 270.
Needhara, Nicanor, 360.
Neef, Sarah, 413.
Neeley, Zachariah, 301.
Neil, Janet, 629.
Margaret, 589.
Nelson, Minerva, 534.
Nettleton, Harriet B.,
624
Nevison, Elizabeth, 457.
Newell, Ernest, 429.
Grace, 429.
Levi W., 429.
Mabel, 429.
Mary J., 520.
Waldo, 429.
Newhall, Albert H., 531.
Clarissa, 529.
Ebenezer, 528, 529.
Elijah, 529.
Elizabeth, 529.
Ezra, 529.
Hannah, 529.
Harriet A., 530.
Helen M., 531.
Henry C, 530.
Jaraes, 529, 530.
Jane, 252.
Joseph, 528, 531.
Joseph F., 531.
Lois, 529.
Louisa, 529.
Lucy, 529.
Lucy A., 530.
Maria C, 530.
Mary, 528, 529.
Mary C, 531.
Mary J., 530.
Mary K., 530.
Mehitable, 529.
Milton P., 530.
Nancy, 529.
Nellie A., 531.
Onesiraus, 528.
Philena, 530.
Rebecca F., 530.
Samuel, 529.
Sarah, 529.
Sarah C, 530.
Seth, 529, 530.
Thomas, 528.
WilHam, 529, 530.
Newman, Cynthia V.,
339.
Newton, Abby J., 290.
760

Newton, Frank A., 283.
Nicewarner, Annie H.,
479.
Nicholas, Robert, 175.
Warren C, 113, 116.
Nichols, Andrew S., 531.
Clarissa, 531.
Grace L., 513.
Hannah, 236.
Harold M., 210.
Harriet L., 454 531.
Joanna, 531.
John, 531.
Kendall, 531.
Louisa, 531.
Luther W., 586.
Mary, 187, 393.
Olive, 542.
Rebecca, 621.
Richard, 531.
Rosamond, 623.
Sarah J., 531.
Syraonds, 531.
Nickles, Sarah, 296.
Nims, Brigham, 450.
Noble, Daniel W., 274
Lorette R., 274
Norcross, Mary, 636.
Sarah, 453.
North, Judith, 278.
Norton, Lewis F., 281.
Lewis R., 281, 422.
Norwood, Lydia, 521.
Noyes, Edward L., 708.
Joseph, 198.
Zoe A., 518.
Nunn, Sabrina H., 452.
Nurse, John, 599.
Rachel, 601.
Whitcomb, 602.
Nutting, Abel, 358.
Allen A., 113, 116,
534.
Augusta H., 534.
Charles A., 536.
Charles L., 113.
Charles P., 116, 533,
535.
Charles S., 116, 534.
Cynthia A., 535.
Daniel, 510, 532.
Ebenezer, 532.
Edward H., 536.
Eliza, 238.
Ezekiel, 532, 533.
Frank A., 534
Franklin S., 536.
Fred O., 537.

Index

Nutting, Frederic T., 536.
George E., 226.
George F., 535.
George H., 113, 116,
533.
George P., 116, 534
535.
Gertrude M., 535.
Harriet M., 536.
Henry W., 534, 536.
Hiram, 533, 534.
Horace C, 534.
Izzie M., 535.
James F., 113, 116,
422, 533.
Jennie A., 535.
Jennie M., 536.
Joanna, 242.
John C, 97, 116, 533,
536.
John G, 537.
John P., 535, 536.
Jonas, 111, 116, 532,
533.
Laura M., 533, 534,
535.
Lewis, 536.
Mary, 392, 533.
Mary A., 534
Mary E., 535.
Mary J., 533.
Mary L., 533.
Maud A., 535.
Minnie C, 536.
Myrta C, 537.
Oliver J., 535, 536.
Ora M., 537.
Phineas S., 533.
Rebecca H., 534.
Sally, 532.
Sarah, 392.
Sarah L., 535.
Stella L., 537.
Thomas, 532.
Victor P., 536.
Wallace S., 535.
Walter A., 536.
Walter B., 536.
WiUiam J., 536.
Obear, Abigail, 537.
Alice M., 538.
Annabel C, 538.
Clark H., 537.
Donald F., 538.
Francis A., 538.
Harold C, 538.
Josiah, 537.

Obear, Julia A., 537.
Richard, 537.
Sally, 537.
Samuel, 537.
Thomasine, 537.
WiHiam, 537.
Odiorne, Francis R., 405.
O'Flaherty, Ellen, 487.
Oliver, Aaron, 79.
Lucius C, 116.
Mary, 193.
Olmstead, Chester, 347.
Olney, Mercy, 181.
Ordway, Henrietta, 370.
Osborne, Diana, 274.
Osgood, Elizabeth, 396.
George W., 679.
Owen, Anna M., 551.
Oxley, George B., 273.
Packard, Almond, 557.
Alpheus S., 199.
Isaac, 558.
Lizzie J., 389.
Packer, Sarah C, 304
Padgett, Martha, 408.
Page, Adaline L., 539.
Charles M., 539.
Daniel, 539.
Elmira, 578.
Elsie A., 550.
George W., 539.
Huldah, 688.
Jennie M., 530.
John, 538, 539.
Jonathan, 538.
Joseph, 538.
Lemuel, 539.
Lucy A., 381.
Luther, 539.
Mary, 228.
Nathan, 539.
Phebe, 673.
Rebecca, 250, 602.
Robert, 183.
Ruth, 497.
Susannah, 686.
Paige, Hattie M., 569.
Paine, Abigail, 288.
Elizabeth, 212.
Hannah, 233.
Robert, 251.
Palmer, David, 140.
Margaret J., 666.
Mary, 638.
Parent, Arthur M., 607.
Parker, Aaron, 539, 543.
Aaron H., 543.
761

Parker, Abel, 540, 541.
Abiah C, 547.
Abigail, 292, 546, 547.
Abigail C, 547.
Abner H., 547.
Abraham, 539.
Agnes, 548.
Alice F., 544.
Almena, 541.
Almorin, 549.
Amos, 540, 546.
Anne, 548.
Arthur F., 543, 544.
Asa, 88, 540, 542,
546, 547.
Austin H., 544.
Benjamin, 541, 542,
543.
Betsy, 348, 547.
Betty, 540.
Catharine E., 543.
Charles E., 549.
Charles H., 311.
Charles L., 543, 544.
Conant A., 543, 544.
Cynthia, 542.
Daniel, 546, 547.
Daphne, 545.
David H., 549.
Deborah, 258, 412.
Deliverance, 235.
Donald C, 545.
Ebenezer, 234, 546,
547.
Edith E., 544.
Edmond, 356.
Edward F., 622.
Edwin L., 547.
Eleanor, 544.
Elias, 540.
Elijah, 549.
Elijah W^, 549.
Eliza, 547.
Elizabeth, 145, 657.
Emily J., 543.
Emily L., 542.
Eraily R., 544.
Eunice, 546.
Frederic C, 544.
George R, 543, 544.
George W., 542.
Grace, 545.
Hannah, 250, 545,
707.
Harold L., 545.
Harriet N., 273.
Harry J., 242.
Harvey, 542.

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Parker, Helen C, 545.
Henry E., 549.
Hezekiah, 549.
Hirara, 541, 542.
Horace, 130.
Horatio G, 549.
Hosea W., 542.
Howland, 544.
Itharaar, 547.
Jaraes, 249.
Joel, 221, 546, 549.
John, 87, 97, 448, 540,
542.
Jonas, 541.
Jonathan, 90, 94, 549.
Joseph, 75, 82, 83,
94, 96, 540, 541.
Leonard, 75, 82, 88,
93, 96, 540.
Lucy, 546, 547.
Luther, 547.
Lydia, 249, 494, 540.
Marion, 544.
Martha L., 472, 621.
Mary A., 250, 373,
403, 579.
Mary R, 256, 705.
Mary M., 357, 549.
Mary S., 547.
Mehitable, 473.
Mercy, 293, 546,
Molly, 549.
Moses, 539.
Nathan, 542, 546,
547.
Nathaniel, 548.
Nehemiah, 549.
NelHe H., 543.
Obadiah, 545, 546.
Olive D., 544.
Oliver, 547.
Phebe, 546.
Phineas, 545.
Polly, 540.
Ralph E., 149, 543,
545.
Rebecca, 540.
Reuben, 548.
Ruth, 545.
Sally, 541.
Salome, 185.
Sara S., 545.
Sampson, 545, 548.
Samuel, 82, 91, 539,
546, 547.
Sarah, 412, 540, 546,
548, 588.
Stephen, 75, 83, 84,

Parker, Stephen, 89, 90,
97, 197, 548, 549.
Susan, 675.
Susannah, 416, 540.
Thoraas, 548.
Walter H., 544, 545.
WHbur B., 543.
Williara B., 542.
Willis W., 544.
Zachariah, 540, 541,
542.
Zeruriah, 548.
Parkhurst, Charles, 698.
Emma C, 626.
John, 133, 288.
Sarah, 445.
Parks, Hattie G, 566.
Louise, 473.
Parlin, WilHam D., 276.
Parlow, Nathan 0., 505.
Parmenter, Mercy, 490.
Parret, Elizabeth, 656.
Mercy, 656.
Parsels, Hannah M., 640.
Parshley, Lydia, 294.
Parsons, A. L., 130.
Ella, 370.
Keziah, 335.
Louise A., 502.
Mary I., 707.
Partridge, Frances, 267.
Ida A., 239.
Patch, Agnes, 203.
Edward, 717.
Fred A., 717.
Lydia, 173.
Sukey, 560.
Patten, David R., 370.
Hannah, 338.
Jane A., 372.
John, 88.
Sarah B., 329, 587.
Patterson, Ira H., 386.
Nancy, 328.
Sarah, 197.
Susanna, 516.
Thomas, 79.
Paul, Prudence, 473,
Susan, 186.
Paulding, Thomas, 304.
Payne, Huldah, 300.
Payson, Seth, 124.
Peabody, Elizabeth, 198,
210.
Hannah, 278.
John H., 154, 404.
Joseph H., 383.
Stephen, 530.
762

Peacock, Charles E., 408.
Charles R., 125, 130.
Pease, Cynthia, 710.
Hannah, 262.
Mary, 443.
Peasley, Charles D., 607.
Pearsons, EHzabeth, 575,
Jeremiah, 618.
John R., 493.
Peat, Amy, 639.
Peckins, Lizzie, 589.
Peebles, Jaraes, 272.
Joseph, 272.
Pell, EHen, 248.
Pellet, Sarah, 650.
Pendell, Phebe, 616.
Penn, Mary, 519.
Pepper, Elizabeth, 384.
Percival, Asher, 618.
Perhara, Asa, 84, 86, 99.
Elizabeth, 234.
Hannah, 248.
Sarauel, 54.
Sarah, 186.
Susanna, 650.
Perkins, Donald G, 453.
Elizabeth, 330, 524,
554
Hannah, 203.
Irene, 712.
Leroy, 296.
Mary, 669.
Rhoda, 471.
Sally, 186.
Sarah, 520.
William, 180.
Perley, Hannah, 570.
Nathan, 186.
Perry, Albert, 549, 550.
Albert J., 551.
Albert L., 551.
Alice J., 551.
Alice W., 550.
Annie, 551.
Arthur C, 551.
Arthur C, Jr., 551.
BeHe, 552.
Bertha, 210.
Carrie M., 551, 552.
Charles E., 552.
Chauncey, 549, 550.
Chauncey R., 550.
Chauncey V., 550.
Cheseldon, 290.
Edward M., 551.
Eliza, 550.
Elizabeth, 443.
Elizabeth H., 551.

Index

Perry, EHa E., 551.
Elsie B., 210.
Emilie R., 550.
EmHie S., 550.
Esther P., 457.
Flora A., 551.
Florence, 552.
Frank J., 552.
Frederic B., 210.
Frederic T., 551.
George B., 210.
George H., 552.
George N., 550.
George S., 210.
Hannah, 590.
Harriet A., 494 550,
714
Hattie R, 551.
Helen C, 210.
Helen M., 550.
Herbert M., 551.
Hervey, 550.
Isaac S., 128, 550,
551.
James, 549.
James B., 550, 714
James R., 551.
Jane S., 550, 714
Jason B., 550, 714
Jason S., 550, 714
Jennie, 552.
John, 290, 549.
John C, 550.
John P., 549, 550.
John T., 550.
John W., 550, 714
Louise, 552.
Maria, 550.
Martha G, 176.
Martha W., 176.
Mary, 550, 714.
Mary A., 173, 551.
May, 552.
Mirey, 250.
Nathan, 269,
NeUie, 552.
Oliver H., 707.
Orpha F., 550.
Raymond L., 551.
Ruth B., 210.
Sanford B., 210.
Sarah, 550, 596, 714.
Sarah B., 210.
Sarah T., 192.
Stella E., 625.
Susan, 550, 655, 714.
Timothy, 131, 550,
SSL

Perry, William N., 210.
Peterson, Rosa, 716.
Pettengell, Mary, 176.
Petts, Mabel G, 442.
Everett E., 707.
Pevey, Chloe A., 606.
Wallace, 116.
Phelps, Abraham, 552.
Eleanor, 316.
Frances, 624.
George, 552.
Harrie A., 553.
Henry, 552.
Lorenzo C. B., 552.
Lucy J., 553.
Milo, 404.
Phyana, 357.
Siraeon, 552.
Wilbur L., 154, 553.
Phetteplace, Lucretia A.,
321
Nettie M., 321.
PhiUbrook, Lilla, 327.
Phinney, Robert J., 294
Pickard, Jane, 638.
Pierce, Abijah, 553.
Beriah, 704.
Charles M., 554
David, 364, 553.
Eleanor A., 553.
Elizabeth S., 554,
712.
Emily P., 554, 629.
Esther, 677.
Franklin, 199.
Hannah, 489.
Joseph, 553.
Levi, 355.
Lucy, 553.
Lucy M., 554.
Lydia, 553.
Lydia E., 553.
Margaret A., 554
Margaret M., 554.
Martha, 704.
Mary A., 392, 553,
704.
Nathan, 553.
Olive, 553.
OHve R., 554
Rebecca, 553.
Richmond B., 554.
Stephen, 83, 96, 553.
Stephen, Jr., 554
Susan S., 186.
Warren, 140, 396.
Will E., 482.
Pike, Elizabeth, 446.
763

Pike, John, 113, 116,330.
Sarah A., 588.
Pillsbury, Benjarain C,
554.
Blanche L., 554
Carl C, 555.
Charles W., 554.
Dolly, 358.
Eliza, 358.
Ezra, 554.
Frank R., 555.
Joseph, 554.
Laura F., 555.
Levi B., 555.
Maria A., 555.
Martha U., 555.
Mary W., 554
Merrick D., 554
Moses, 554
Williara, 554
Pinckney, Phcebe, 512.
Pingrey, Araanda, 273.
Nancy, 173.
Pinney, Mary, 552.
Piper, Arethusa, 259.
Elihu, 385.
John A., 377.
MaHnda C, 652.
Sibyl, 337.
Pips, Polly, 360.
Pitcher, Nazareth, 351.
Pitts, Rachel, 233.
Plaisted, Sarauel, 197.
Platts, Abel, 87.
Plimpton, Esther B., 306.
Plummer, Daniel, 350.
Poindexter, Samuel, 281.
Poleicho, Joseph, 251.
Pollard, Benjamin, 75,
555.
James, 555.
Jaraes A., 555.
Joseph, 75, 88, 91,
93, 209, 555.
Lydia, 344.
Milly, 556.
Moses, 250, 555.
Ruth, 555.
Sarah, 555.
Susanna, 555.
Thomas, 555.
Thomas M., 556.
Polly, Bethiah, 548.
Pond, Johannah, 664.
Pook, Mary, 352.
Poole, Elias, 326.
Lucy, 359.
Mary A., 326.

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Poole, Rebecca, 490.
Ruth, 326.
Sarah, 207.
Susan F., 360.
Poor, C. P., 140.
Pope, Mehitable, 186.
Porter, Albert L., 556.
Anna, 327.
Augustus, 313.
Charles, 556.
Charles C, 556.
Elvira, 134.
Emma, 400.
George H., 556.
Hannah M., 556.
Henry, 326.
Martha, 679.
Sarauel, 134 326.
Potter, Ann, 503.
Artie, 515.
Dennis, 620.
Elizabeth, 268, 528.
George F., 116,
Jacob, 86,
Lois, 331.
Mary, 212.
Sarauel, 86.
Sarah, 599.
Poulter, Rachel, 268.
Powers, Asahel, 94.
Edwin U., 482.
Eraraa L., 482.
Fred E., 482.
George, 429.
Leonard, 429.
Lydia, 475.
Obed, 346.
Peter, 123, 631.
Rachel, 354,
Rhoda, 456.
Whitcomb, 75, 82, 88,
90, 93.
WilHam, 356.
Pratt, Abbie F., 558.
Appha M., 557.
Asa, 88, 95.
Betsy, 415, 556.
Catharine W., 557.
Charles H., 116, 145,
557.
Daniel F., 116.
David R, 559.
Eben, 78.
Edward W., 95, 557.
Elizabeth, 556.
Ephraim, 557.
Francis W., 558.

Pratt, Hannah, 556.
Jabez, 401.
Joanna, 556.
John, 95, 173, 556.
John O,, 556.
Joseph, 557.
Joshua, 557.
Laura E., 557.
Louisa, 557.
Louisa L., 557.
Lucia, 192.
Lucinda, 556.
Mary A., 336, 423,
557.
Mary J., 468.
Mehitable, 557.
Moses, 557.
Narcissa T., 556.
Nathaniel, 75, 87, 91,
95.
Otis P., 557.
Phineas, 556.
Rebecca, 556.
Reuben, 557.
Richard, 556, 628.
Sophronia C., 557.
Susan M., 558.
Thomas, 556, 557.
Warren, 144, 557.
Wealthy, 618.
Willard, 557.
Williara H., 558.
Pray, E. W., 133.
Preast, Lucy D., 330.
Prebbles, Jemima, 585.
Prentice, Adaline, 459.
Alfred, 558.
Ann S., 560.
George W., 559.
Hannah A., 559.
Henry, 558, 559.
Jane W., 559.
Joan, 437.
John, 558.
John T., 559.
Jonathan R., 559.
Laura W., 560.
Lona, 558.
Lucy, 558.
Lucy E., 559.
Lucy G, 559.
Lydia, 559.
Mary 0., 560.
Nancy, 558.
Nathaniel, 558.
Patty, 558.
Polly, 558, 559.
764

Prentice, Sarah, 559.
Sarah A., 559.
Sumner, 558.
Susan T., 559.
Theodore, 559.
William H., 558, 559.
Presby, Austin, 536.
DeHa, 607.
Prescott, Abel, 616.
Cynthia, 174.
Eliza, 247.
Elizabeth, 271.
Francis, 628.
George J., 433.
Henry, 654.
Hepzibah, 602.
Jaraes, 293.
Jonas, 496.
Jonathan R, 523.
Lydia, 387.
Mary, 392, 528, 640.
Rebecca, 410.
Sophronia, 275.
Sybil, 532.
Williara, 97.
Preston, Abiathar W.,
561.
Abigail, 563.
Abner, 84, 86.
Albert M., 565.
Alice C, 567.
Alice M., 568.
Almira, 563, 567.
Anna, 562.
Augustus E., 564.
Betsy, 560.
Charles A., 462, 469.
Charles B., Ill, 564,
569.
Dora B., 569.
Ebenezer C, 562,
565.
Edward A., 566.
Edward C, 567.
Edward F., 563, 566.
Edward O., 567.
Edward W., 569.
Elhanan, 562, 564.
Elizabeth, 562.
Elizabeth A., 566,
569.
Ella T., 566.
Ellen L., 568.
Ellen M., 565.
Estella, 564.
Eunice E., S69.
Florence M., 567.

Index

Preston, Frances E., 566.
Frank H., 154 157,
570.
Frank W., 142, 145,
149, 278, 566, 569,
570.
Frederic, 569.
George H., 565.
George I., 569.
George P., 120, 564,
569.
George W., 566.
Guy H., 566.
Hannah, 561, 562.
Henry F., 568.
Henry O., 155, 157,
563, 568.
Herbert E., 567.
Herbert F., 570.
Horace, 564.
Isaac, 82, 95, 560,
562, 563.
Isaac F., 564, 568.
Isaac W., 568.
James, 560.
James M., 565.
Jane R., 566.
Jennie A., 560.
Jeremiah, 562, 564.
John, 109, 140, 154
157, 293, 561, 562,
565, 569.
John H., 567, 569.
John L., 566.
Katharine, 570.
Lucy, 561, 562, 563.
Lucy J., 564.
Lydia, 560.
Melissa, 564.
Maria, 563, 564.
Maria R, 566.
Maria L., 568.
Martha, 564.
Mary, 560.
Mary A., 566.
Mary C, 566.
Mary E., 565.
Melvina, 565.
Nina H., 568.
Oraetta M., 564.
Patty, 560.
Peter, 562.
Polly, 561.
Rebecca, 561, 562,
563.
Roger, 560.
Roy S., 567.

Preston Sally, 560.
Samuel A., 560.
Samuel F., 561.
Sarauel T., 566.
Sarah A., 563.
Sarah E., 566.
Sarah R, 566.
Sarah I., 568.
Seth, 120, 562, 564.
Sophronia, 561, 562.
Stephen F., 336, 562,
563.
Stephen H., 563.
Susannah, 562.
Sybilla, 564.
Thomas B., 563, 566.
Timothy F., 562.
Viola, 567.
William A., 140, 157,
566, 569, 570.
William E., 569.
William H., 563, 566.
Price, Cora M., 567.
Luke, 509.
Sarah, 549.
Priest, William, 84.
Prichard, Abbie A., 578.
Adaline, 573, 575.
Adelia A., 578.
Alanson, 514.
AmeHa M., 575.
Amos, 89, 91, 571,
574, 576.
Amos A., 574.
Andrew W., 576.
Anna, 571.
Arabella A., 578.
Artemas H., 574.
Arthur, 576.
Arvilla J., 577.
Asa, 572, 576.
Augustus D., 576.
Benjamin, 571, 574.
Bernard, 572.
Bernice, 574
Caroline D., 573, 574.
Charles C, 572, 575,
576.
Charles H., 576.
Clara W., 574
Cyrene, 574.
Dexter, 574.
Diedamia, 572, 576.
Dorothy C, 578.
Edward, 576.
Edward M., 576.
Effie M., 579.

Prichard, Eliza A., 574.
Eliza M., 576.
EHzabeth F., 577.
Elizabeth H., 575.
Eraily D., 575.
Eraily W., 576.
Frances M., 574.
Francis P., 572, 577.
Francis W., 157, 448,
578.
George A., 574, 575.
George B., 575.
George H., 120, 576.
George M., 576.
George W., 572, 573,
575, 578.
Gilraan, 572, 575.
Hannah, 571.
Hartwell P., 573.
Hattie K., 574.
Hattie V., 578.
Henry A., 575.
Henry G, 575.
Jaraes B., 512, 575.
Jane S., 574.
Jeremiah, 79, 86, 95,
134 571, 572, 573,
578
John' B., 570, 573,
576, 577.
John W., 576.
Josiah, 573.
Lena F., 579.
Lucy A., 577.
Maria L., 578.
Martha A., 577.
Martha E., 576.
Martha J., 575.
Mary, 574.
Mary A., 573, 574
575.
Mary R, 577.
Mary J., 577.
Moses, 572, 575.
Moses B., 575.
Moses S., 576.
Nancy, 134, 573, 575.
Nathan C, 574
Nettie, 578.
Paul, 106, 570.
Perley, 571.
Romanzo S., 577.
Sally, 571.
Sarah A., 571, 573,
574.
Sarah E., 575.
Sarah L., 577.

765

History of New^ Ipswich

Prichard, Silva, 574.
Stephen, 571, 573,
574.
Sumner, 573, 577.
William, 86, 96, 109,
294, 570.
WilHam B., 576.
William M., 575.
WiHiam S., 574
WilHam W., 575.
Proctor, Aaron, 580.
Abram W., 581.
Adeline A., 187.
Alice L., 583.
Amos J., 116, 581,
582
Archie R., 583.
Benj amin, 580.
Charles E., 583.
Clara A„ 581, 582.
Clarence, 583.
Clarissa D., 649.
Edward C, 582.
Edward R., 583.
Elizabeth, 409.
Elsie M., 583.
Elton, 583.
Ernest M., 582.
Eugene R., 581, 583.
Flora B., 581.
Frank, 582.
George A., 582.
Hannah, 175.
Harvey A., 581.
Henry, 581.
Herbert, 582.
Hosea, 581, 582.
Ira H., 581, 582.
Ira J., 582.
Isaac, 84, 93, 580.
J. Ada, 581.
John F., 579, 580, 582.
Joseph, 96, 580.
Josephine, 582.
Lena A., 583.
Leon H., 583.
Lilla, 582.
Louvie, 582.
Lucy, 270, 564, 615.
Mabel R, 582.
Maria M., 582.
Martha U., 583.
Mary, 677.
Mary A., 582.
Miriara, 580.
Oliver, 579, 580, 581.
Peter, 579.
Rachel, 580.

Proctor, Ralph J., 581.
Ransora, 582.
Rebecca, 580.
Robert, 579.
Roraeo, 581.
Sally, 580.
Sarauel, 579.
Sarah, 285, 580, 657.
Sarah A., 210.
Stephen W., 581, 582.
Susan M., 581.
Sybil, 479.
Thankful, 580.
Timothy, 581.
William E., 582.
Prutzman, Clifford, 374.
Ernest R., 374.
Pudney, Martha, 682.
Puffer, Frank W., 228.
Nancy, 333.
Rebecca, 438.
Purcell, Alice, 264.
Lester A., 265.
Putnam, Clara, 608.
Cyrene, 368.
Edith G, 524
Hannah, 599, 616.
Harriet, 716.
John, 87, 470.
Jonathan, 87.
Lavina, 552.
Lucy, 552.
Rebecca, 585.
Rufus, 140, 584.
Quimby, Elihu T., 113,
140, 141, 149, 157.
Leonard, 672.
Rarasdell, Ada L., 585.
Amos, 583.
Ann E., 375, 585.
Cassius G., 584.
Charles H., 583.
Daniel, 583, 584.
Daniel P., 584.
Eva J., 584.
George, 583.
George H., 584.
Harriet E., 583.
Helen, 584.
Henrietta, 584.
Jaraes, 583, 584.
James B., 585.
James G, 584
Lucia M., 584
Lucy F,, 584.
766

Ramsdell, Mary A., 584.
Mary J., 584.
Marietta F., 585.
Phebe A., 584.
Phebe H., 583.
Reuben, 583, 584.
Susanna, 596.
Williara H., 584.
WiHis, 585.
Rand, Gilbert K., 680.
Jonathan, 234.
Lucy, 672.
Margaret, 328.
Sarah A., 483, 703.
Randall, Phillury, 552.
Rathburne, Annie E., 576.
Rause, Charles, 501.
Rawson, George, 710.
Ray, Benjamin F., 130.
Walter, 113, 118.
Rayraond, Arthur F.,
696.
Fidelia T., 551.
George T., 696.
Mary, 331.
Ruth, 218.
Silas, 376.
Susan M., 181, 376.
Wilfrid W., 696.
Raynesford, Mary, 419.
Raynor, Edwin R., 239.
Fred I., 239.
Harry W., 239.
Herbert C, 239.
George E., 239.
WiHiam A., 239.
Read, Hannah, 532.
Jane L., 230.
Record, Eleazar, 618.
Redding, Eraraa C, 624.
Redditj Mary, 489.
Reddy, Patrick, 113, 118.
Rediat, Susannah, 527.
Redington, Louise R.,
184.
Reed, Abigail, 596.
Caroline E., 340.
Charles, 237, 287.
Eliza, 478.
Frances L., 340.
Harriet C, 453, 585.
James, 74, 82.
James O., 585.
James O., Jr., 585.
Lucy, 657.
Mary, 202, 378, 461
Nathan A., 75, 309.
Oliver, 585.

Index

Reed, Rhoda, 685.
Sarah, 343, 421, 657,
677.
Remick, Bertha, 295.
Henry T., 295.
Remington, Elizabeth,
409.
Mary, 505.
Revere, Paul, 151.
Rexford, John, 510.
Reynolds, Francis B., 210.
Mary J., 260.
Ruth, 704.
William R., 506.
Rhoades, Abigail, 586.
Ada M., 586.
Albert, 586.
Alfred, 586.
Betsy, 586.
Catharine, 586.
Charles, 586.
Clarissa, 586.
David H., 586.
Eleazar, 585.
Harriet, 586.
Henry, 585.
Lizzie A., 586.
Lucy, 586.
Moses, 586.
Sarah C, 586.
Warren, 586.
Williara, 586.
Rice, Abigail, 291.
Cynthia, 192.
Hannah, 483.
Huldah, 703.
Jason, 88.
John, 653.
Lucy, 584, 636.
Martha, 231.
Minnie E., 682.
Salmon, 345.
Sarah E., 260.
Silas, 653.
Solomon, 234.
Sylvester, 672.
Sylvia A., 672.
Rich, Henry M., 275.
Richards, Caroline A.,
606.
Eliza, 266.
Nicholas, 181.
Robert, 653.
Sarah G, 176.
WilHam, 89, 91.
Richardson, Alma, 386.
Almira, 487.

Richardson, Anna, 682.
Betsy, 302.
Charles B., 609.
Ebenezer, 588.
Elizabeth C, 587,
607.
Ezekiel, 587.
Jaraes B., 452.
Jaraes H., 690.
John, 587.
Jonathan, 587, 588.
Josiah, 587.
Lucy, 588.
Lydia, 587.
Mary, 257.
Nancy, 486.
Olive L., 201.
Osram, 367.
Polly, 658.
Rebecca, 515.
Ruth, 382, 684.
Sally, 617.
Sarah B., 588, 622.
Silas, 587.
Thomas, 587, 588.
Richraond, Mary, 245.
Rideout, Fred, 558.
Malvina, 717.
Righter, Betsy M., 349.
Ringwault, Louisa L.,
479.
Ripley, Allen, 646.
Mary, 197, 276.
William Z„ 371.
Richie, Margaret, 339.
Ritter, Mary, 621.
Roach, Elizabeth, 586.
Robb, Williara, 87.
Robbe, Alexander, 89.
Robbins, Abbie, 588.
Abbie L., 589.
Addie A., 371, 589.
Addie F., 589.
Charles L., 371, 588,
589.
Cynthia J., 349.
Edith, 589.
Eraily A., 589.
Frank, 588.
Fred E., 588.
George C, 588.
Harriet, 588.
Hattie, 588.
Henry, 588.
Ichabod, 394.
Ida, 589.
John, 588.

Robbins, Lewis H., 588,
589.
Lizzie E., 588.
Marcellus T., 588,
589.
Martha, 588.
Martin, 588.
Mary, 539.
Melville, 589.
Rebecca, 622.
True, 588.
Williara O., 588.
William P., 588.
Roberts, Lizzie A., 585.
Lucinda, 234.
Robertson, Andrew C,
686.
Robie, Thoraas S., 130.
Robinson, Charles, 118,
568.
Elijah, 175.
Hannah, 175.
Henry O., 568.
Luvana, 388.
Maraie E., 568.
Mary, 427.
Mercy, 337.
Sarah, 338, 345.
Sarah M., 440.
Susan G, 660.
Roby, Mary B., 384.
Ralph, 414.
Rockwood, Betsy R., 370.
Mary E,, 328, 335.
Rodgers, Josiah, 75.
Mary, 510.
Rogers, Alice I., 589.
Charles T., 429.
David, 589.
Jaraes, 125, 589.
James H., 418.
Jessie, 589.
Josiah, 89.
Lydia, 609.
Marian T., 589.
Marshall, 620.
Mary, 471.
Mary R., 589.
Sarah, 685.
Susan, 556.
Rolf, Abigail, 554
Susanna, 385.
Rood, Esther, 645.
Root, Mary, 513.
Parthenia, 619.
Rose-Troup, John, 225.
Ross, Helen E., 701.

767

History of New Ipswich

Rossiter, Harriet T., 525.
Ida B., 525.
Kate M., 525.
Marshall S., 525.
Stephen T., 524.
Rowd, Mary H., 544.
Rowe, Elihu T., 140.
RoweH, Dolly, 361.
Rowse, Annie E., 693.
Arthur E., 693.
Richard, 693.
Walter W., 693.
Rugg, Caroline L., 536.
Clara R, 268.
Daniel, 389.
Warhara H., 266.
RurariU, Benjamin, 590.
Daniel, 590.
David, 90, 528, 590.
Joseph, 590.
Simon, 590.
Rusch, Eraraa, 550.
Russell, Alice, 465.
Arteraas, 280.
Betsy, 443.
Celia, 544.
Charles L., 372.
Charlotte, 400.
David W., 345.
Edith F., 697.
Eunice, 367.
Fred A., 697.
George T., 665, 697.
James, 403.
Jason, 403.
Joel, 91.
John, 279.
Jonathan, 403.
Lillian B., 697.
Lois, 271.
Lysander E., 554.
Mabel F., 697.
Mary, 343, 403.
Mary E., 665.
Maude V., 697.
Mehitable, 317.
Nancy, 443.
Patty, 444.
Phebe, 249.
Polly, 364.
Reuben, 89, 719.
Samuel H,, 89, 474.
Sarah S., 193.
Soloraon A., 251.
William, 136.
Rust, Oliver, 672.
Rutherford, Susan, 332.

Sachs, Theodore B., 717.
Sackett, Ellen, 606.
Safford, Benjarain, 89,
90, 590, 591.
Betsy, 591.
Elizabeth W., 591.
Hannah, 591.
Hannah C, 591.
John W., 591.
Joseph, 590.
Lucy, 591.
Lydia, 591.
Prudence, 591.
Reuben, 591.
Sarauel, 590.
Stephen F., 591.
Thomas, 590.
Salinas, Christopher C,
499.
Sampson, Mary, 326.
Samson, Charles B., 371.
Sanders, Annie, 591.
Annie J., 592.
Betsy, 591.
Caroline, 592.
Caroline E., 592.
Caroline F., 592.
Charles L., 593.
Clarendon M., 592.
Cora N., 593.
David, 75, 84, 91, 591.
David A., 592, 593.
Eddie I., 593.
Edward A., 118, 592.
Elizabeth J., 592.
Ella L., 593.
Ellen F., 592.
Eugene S., 592.
Fannie E., 593.
Fidelia, 592.
Frank, 593.
George, 157, 592.
George A., 592, 593,
685.
George I., 593.
George L., 592, 593.
Harry H., 592.
Henry M., 592.
Hester E., 593.
Joseph, 591.
Joseph H., 592.
Lorenzo P., 592.
Mary C, 593.
Mary E., 592.
Mary H., 592.
Nathan, 157, 591.
Nathan E., 592.

Sanders, Polly, 591.
Rebecca, 712.
Sally, 591.
Silas L., 592, 655.
Williara S., 593.
Sanderson, Elisha, 133.
Hannah, 636.
John, 358.
Sandy, Mary A., 620.
Sargent, Eleanor M., 284.
EHzabeth, 556.
George W., 284.
Harriet C, 465.
Lucinda, 458.
Lynde, 173.
Marjorie J., 284.
Nancy A., 309.
Robert W., 284.
Sartel, Carrie B., 405.
Satterlee, Ida, 408.
Sauble, Susie, 352.
Sawin, Mary, 353, 383.
Sawtelle, Edmund, 88, 90.
Elizabeth, 709.
Hezekiah, 93.
John, 75, 89, 97, 474.
Josiah, 481.
Lucy, 597.
Sarah, 181, 481, 563.
Sophronia, 511.
Sawyer, Alfred, 422.
Alpheus, 599.
Calista, 611.
Charles, 513.
EHzabeth, 189, 193.
Emib', 599.
George M., 323.
Lucy, 429.
Patience, 333.
Sarah, 640.
Saxton, Edmund F., 210.
Scales, Carmi H., 440.
Scammel, Alexander, 84.
Schmidt, Catharine, 314.
Theresa, 314.
Schuster, Christian, 275.
Scollay, Lucy, 394.
Mary, 291.
Scott, Bernice M., 238.
David, 77, 79, 99.
Harold R, 238.
John, 91.
Lucy, 501.
Martha A., 502.
Myron R, 238.
William, 79, 82, 86,
89.

768

Index

Scoville, John, 422.
Scripture, Oliver, 399.
Sally, 713.
Scamons, H. W., 492.
Searle, Calvin E., 705.
Gardner, 360.
Joshua P., 355.
Searles, Azubah, 267.
George, 333.
Sophia, 606.
Seaton, Mary L., 406.
Seaver, Lucy A., 672.
Seavey, Carlos L., 453.
Sever, John, 212.
Severance, Abel, 79, 594.
Abigail, 594.
Abijah, 595.
Benjamin, 88, 595.
Daniel, 79, 594 595.
Ebenezer, 79, 88, 594.
Ephraim, 86, 96, 593,
594.
Joel, 417.
John, 593.
Nathan, 595.
Polly, 594.
Rufus, 594
Sewall, Edmund, 506.
Seymour, Bela N., 130.
Sophia D., 635.
Shafer, Ellen, 512.
Shaley, Eliza, 358.
Shanesberg, Margaret,
526.
Sharp, Mary, 322.
Shattuck, Abel, 599, 603.
Abel H., 603.
Abigail, 598.
Abigail S., 601.
Almira J., 605.
Amanda M., 601.
Araos B., 606.
Araos F., 608.
Aray L., 608.
Ann, 659.
Arthur H., 608.
Benjamin, 596.
Bertha C, 608.
Bessie A., 608.
Betsy, 598.
Brooks, 600, 606.
Brown, 598.
Caroline A., 607.
Charles, 600.
Charles C, 601, 607.
Charles F., 600, 606.
Charles H., 604.
Charles P., 608.
so

Shattuck, Charlotte, 599,
602.
Clarissa B., 604.
Cyrell, 602.
Daniel, 599, 600, 603,
605.
David, 599.
David B., 625.
David D., 607.
Dolly, 179.
Dustin, 600.
Edward H., 605, 608.
Eleonora, 608.
Elisha, 599.
Eliza, 605.
Elizabeth, 235, 577,
597, 600.
Elizabeth P., 602.
Ellen M., 604.
Elmira, 603.
Elvira, 600.
Eraraa H., 607.
Ernest A., 608.
Ezra 599.
Francis, 600, 605.
Francis J., 604.
Francis M., 604.
Frances W., 607.
Franklin, 602.
Frederic D., 456.
George B., 603, 608.
George W., 118, 603,
605, 607.
Gertie W., 608.
Grace M., 608.
Hannah, 599, 600,
602.
Harriet F., 605, 607.
Harriet M., 605.
Harriette, 603.
Harrison, 60S, 608.
Hartly M., 606.
Helen G., 608.
Helen M., 606, 607.
Henrietta M., 606.
Henry L., 604.
Horace B., 603, 608.
Horace C, 606.
Huldah, 602.
Jane, 600, 602.
Jane W., 601.
Jennie H., 607.
Jereraiah, 596.
Joanna, 602.
John, 596, 597, 598,
599.
John B., 113, 118,
605. 769

Shattuck, John H., 603,
607.
Jonathan, 598.
Joshua E., 607.
Josiah P., 602.
Laura F., 608.
Lemuel, 599, 604
Levi R., 607.
Lucy A,, 607.
Lucinda G, 601.
Lydia, 598, 602.
Maiah B., 602.
Maria, 600.
Marian I., 608.
Marianne, 602.
Martha, 600, 606.
Mary, 262, 599, 601,
607.
Mary B., 601.
Mary E., 603.
Milo F., 601.
Milton H., 607.
Miriam S., 604.
Nancy, 528.
Nathaniel, 620.
Oliver, 631.
Oliver P., 599, 602.
Persis H., 601.
Peter, 82, 88, 91, 597,
600.
Peter R., 601.
Phebe, 652.
Philip, 596.
Polly, 598.
Rebecca, 599, 604.
Richard P., 599, 601.
Rodney P., 607.
Roxey, 601.
Ruth, 598.
Sabrina H., 601.
Sally, 598.
Samuel, 596, 607.
Sarah B., 377, 499.
Sarah D., 601.
Sarah E., 604, 607.
Sarah W., 604.
Shebuel, 600, 605.
Sherman, 597, 599.
Simeon H., 600, 606.
Stephen, 598, 601.
Susan, 602.
Susanna, 598, 601.
Timothy F., 602.
Vashti, 599.
Wesson, 602.
William, 96, 106, 595,
599, 600.
William B., 598, 607.

History of New Ipswich

Shattuck, William C,
607.
. William E., 602.
WiUiam S., 601.
Zebediah, 652.
Shaw, Hattie G, 314.
Sheafe, Harriet C, 451.
Shedd, Abel, 179.
Abigail, 392, 538.
Betsy, 592.
Charles, 140, Ml.
Cora B., 568.
Curtis, 652.
Edith M., 568.
Elizabeth, 245.
Ernest F., 568.
Frank J., 568.
Hannah, 446.
Harry P., 568.
James A., 184.
Jeraima, 718.
John B., 611.
Sarah, 472.
Susan, 184.
Sheldon, Charles B., 118.
Milly, 408.
Shepard, Elizabeth, 237.
John W., 530.
Nellie F., 699.
Martha, 393.
Shepley, Betsy, 528.
Eunice, 249.
Henry O., 439.
Washington, 308, 439.
Sherraan, Abigail, 703.
Grace, 290.
Maria M., 678.
Martha, 596.
Sarah, 372.
Sherwin, Asa, 87.
Benjamin A., 672.
David, 571.
Jonathan, 237.
Patty, 573.
WHliam, 142.
Shipley, Noah P., 251.
Short, Sarah, 176.
Shumway, Peter, 529.
Shurtleff, Susan A., 277.
Siemers, Luise O., 193.
Silver, Charlotte, 307.
Simmons, Louise,
341.
Simonds, Abbie W., 609.
Charles F., 578, 606.
James W., 609.
Jonathan, 609.
Josephine H., 609.

Simonds, Martha A.,
609.
Mary E., 219, 299.
Moses, 6(D9.
Samuel, 609.
Sarah, 618, 712.
WiHard S., 118.
Simons, WHlard, 118.
Simpson, Jaraes, 118.
John, 601.
Skeldon, Mary, 274.
Skelton, Deborah, 336.
Skiff, Evelyn, 700.
Skinner, Alice, 279.
Benjarain, 133.
Edmund D., 678.
Esther C, 550.
Warren, 394.
Slack, Henry, 413.
Slade, Isabel 201.
Slater, Julia' M., 304.
Sleeper, Charles, 383.
Sarah, 491.
Slocum, Edward G, 501.
Sloss, Anna, 638.
Slyter, Ada L., 278.
Small,, Joanna M., 624.
Mary E., 613.
Smart, Betsy, 347.
CaroHne S., 349.
Rebecca, 348.
Smead, Polly, 271.
Smedley, Ann, 362.
Sarah, 640.
Smiley, Charles M., 553.
Smith, Abby, 313, 612.
AbigaH, 466, 610.
Abijah, 83, 178, 609.
Adon, 612.
Albert, 611.
Ann E., 508.
Anna, 381.
Augustus, 118.
Bandana, 347.
Benjarain, 79, 613.
Bertha L., 206.
Betsy, 610.
Carl, 206.
Catharine E., 206.
Charles, 611.
Charles E., 613.
Charles H., 390, 614.
Charlotte, 612.
Clarinda, 313.
Cyrus, 610.
Daniel B., 400, 612.
David, 345, 380, 613.
Delia M., 612.
770

Sraith, Deliverance, 123.
Earl, 140.
Edward, 611.
Edwin, 612.
Elijah, 610.
Elizabeth, 509, 571.
Emory D., 206.
Esther, 614
Frank I., 582, 614
Frank R., 228.
Frank W., 614
Frederic B., 383.
Freeman, Sll.
George A., 118, 699.
Gideon H., 118.
Hannah, 406, 466,
647.
Hannah L., 612.
Helen, 613.
Ina S., 702.
Ira, 614
Jane, 612.
Jereraiah, 611.
Jesse, 140, 610, 612.
John, 368, 613.
Jonas, 611.
Lefy A., 611.
Lucy, 249, 674.
Luther, 140.
Lydia, 241, 610.
Mary, 434 514, 647.
Mary E., 502, 614.
Melissa, 383.
Moody, 344.
Olive, 612.
Orlena C, 613.
Peday, 4ia
Peggy, 415.
Polly, 610.
Rachel, 612.
Rebecca, 205, 335,
610.
Relief, 610.
Ruhamah, 664.
Sally, 610.
Sally J., 611.
Samuel, 611.
Sarah C, 421, 524.
Sydney, 612.
Thomas, 88, 613.
Walton B., 206.
WHliam, 492, 674.
Snell, Catharine, 385.
Thomas, 389.
Snow, Anna M., 492.
Francella, 236.
Frederic E., 260.
Harriet A., 450.

Index

Snow, Hosea, 236.
Louise B., 280.
Martha L., 634.
Mary, 228.
Snyder A., 133.
Soper, Samuel, 75, 79, 90.
Sophia, 270.
Southgate, Lovisa, 542.
Southwick, Rebecca, 511.
Spafford, Abijah, 591.
Sparhawk, Esther, 171.
Hannah, 351.
John, 142.
Spaulding, Abbie K., 627.
Abby R, 622, 626.
Abel, 616, 618.
Abial, 617.
Abigail, 616, 645.
Albert, 620.
Alfred R, 625.
Almira, 623.
Almira S., 622.
Alva, 619.
Alvah, 617.
Amasa A., 620.
Ami, 623.
Andrew, 124, 614,
615, 617.
Ann F., 625.
Anna C, 470.
Anna E., 627.
Anson, 270.
Benjarain, 95, 318,
615, 617.
Benjamin D., 618,
622.
Betsy, 616.
Caroline E., 625.
Charles, 622, 626.
Charles C, 626.
Charles E., 627.
Charles H., 624
Charles W., 625.
Chase, 618.
Clement, 620.
Daniel, 616, 622.
Delight, 618.
Ebenezer B., 88, 622.
Edward, 214 614
Edward F., 626.
Edward H., 626.
Elias H., 626.
Eliza, 619, 622.
EHzabeth C, 242, 627.
Ellen M., 625, 718.
Emily, 620.
Emily P., 624.
Emma, 622.

Spaulding, Finette, 617.
Frank B., 624.
Franklin, 618.
George, 623.
George A., 624.
George E., 627.
George F., 621, 624.
George P., 622.
Gilman, 623.
Hannah, 371, 461, 615,
616, 620.
Harriet, 623, 699.
Harriet A., 625.
Harriet B., 626.
Harriet E., 620.
Harriet L., 624.
Harriet R., 627.
Harry E., 627.
Harvey, 622.
Haskell, 617, 623.
Helen M., 619.
Henry, 89, 90, 614,
624.
Henry M., 627.
Hosea, 619.
Ira, 618.
Isaac, 616, 621, 622,
625.
Isaac H., 626.
Isaac K., 626.
Jacob, 136.
James, 616, 619, 623.
James B., 620.
James C, 622.
James G, 623.
Jaraes M., 623.
John, SOO, 621.
John A., 626, 627.
John W., 332.
Jonas, 616, 618.
Jonathan, 616, 619.
Joseph, 616, 621.
Joseph S., 621.
Josephine M., 627.
Josiah W., 154 621,
625.
Junius, 617.
Laura, 618.
Laura A., 621, 624
Lemira, 618.
Levi, 82, 90, 617, 622.
Lorenzo, 620.
Louisa, 620.
Lucy, 617, 618, 623.
Lucy K., 626.
Lydia, 617.
Lyman, 618, 622.
Maria, 554.
771

Spaulding, Maria H.,
624
Martha, 618.
Martha A., 619.
Mary, 357, 616, 620,
622.
Mary A., 619, 620,
622.
Mary C, 618.
Mary H., 625.
Mary L., 621.
Mary R., 626.
Micah, 618.
Moses, 622, 626.
Myra, 620.
Nathan, 617.
Nathan B., 616, 620.
Nathan P., 619.
Nellie G, 712.
Noah, 616, 619.
Orpah, 622. ,
Parnal, 618.
PermeHe, 618.
Phineas, 616.
Phineas B., 621, 625.
Prudence, 618.
Rachel, 617.
Rebecca C, 621.
Rodney, 619.
Ruth, 617.
Sally, 616, 620.
.Samuel, 616, 622.
Sarah, 337, 342.
Sarah B., 625.
Sarah J., 622.
Sewall, 619.
Simeon, 413, 617.
Solomon, 620.
Sophia, 620.
Sophronia, 620.
Stephen, 617, 619,
621, 623.
Sybil, 420.
Sylvia, 617.
Thoraas, 93, 96, 617.
Vesta, 620.
Waldo R., 627.
Willard, 269.
WiHiam, 621.
WiUiam A., 624
William E., 627.
William R., 626.
WHHam S., 621, 624
Zebina, 617.
Spear, Alva, 628.
Annie B., 629.
Betsy, 628.
Charlotte, 628.

History of New Ipsw^ich

Spear, Dorothy, 628.
Eben, 628.
Edward H., 629.
Eraily P., 629.
George H., 629.
Hannah, 628.
Henry A., 629.
Joseph, 628.
Joseph A., 118, 628.
Joseph B., 629.
Joseph T,, 629.
Lucinda, 628.
Lydia, 628.
Lyraan, 628.
Margaret, 628.
Mary, 629.
Mary K., 629.
Maude, 629.
Otis, 628.
Samuel, 95, 628.
Samuel B., 628.
Sarah, 676.
Selene, 628.
WiHiam, 75, 88, 89,
91, 93, 96, 627.
Spencer, Eunice, 671.
Hobart, 491.
John, 412.
John C, 255.
Mary, 664.
Susanna, 202.
Sperry, James, 344.
Spafford, Clarissa O.,
289.
Hannah, 145, 176.
Mary, 282.
Phebe, 176.
Polly, 355.
Sprague, George L., 535.
Hannah, 256, 696.
Lyman C, 312.
Mary, 279.
Rebecca, 278.
Vere N., 535.
Waldo W., 312.
Spring, Margaret, 704.
St. Armand, DeHa, 321.
St. Claire, Abbie, 690.
Stacy, Mary A., 272.
Stanchfield, OHve G., 667.
Standen, Anthony, 199.
Edith A., 199.
Marjorie, 199.
Richard F. H., 199.
Stanford, Fanny, 174. ¦
Mabel, 353.
Stanhope, Isaac, 79.
Stanley, Joseph, 87.

Stanley, Mary A., 706.
Sarah, 502.
Stansbury, Jean, 471.
Stark, Clifton C, 251.
Elizabeth F., 456.
Ellen, 251.
Henry, 251.
Starnes, Sarah, 687.
Starr, Elizabeth, 275.
Florida, 275.
Mary, 378.
Start, Amos, 631.
Daniel S., 631.
Ebenezer, 630.
Elizabeth, 631.
George, 630, 674
Isaiah, 631.
John, 79, 630, 631.
Lucy, 631.
Mary, 630, 631.
Moses, 446, 630, 674
Noah, 631.
Relief, 631.
Sally, 631.
Sarah, 630, 631.
William, 75, 91, 630,
631.
Stearns, Abbie M., 636.
Abigail, 229,455,633.
Abigail M., 634
Albert, 152, 157, 633,
637.
Albert W., 635.
Alice, 633.
Betsy, 632.
Charles, 636.
Charles C, 635.
Clarence G., 636.
David, 636.
Douglass C, 638.
Edwin J., 685.
Elizabeth, 180.
Emily W., 633.
Eveline L., 634.
Flora E., 634
Flora P., 635.
Foster W., 638.
Frank W., 637.
George M., 635.
George W., 259, 600.
Gertrude L., 635.
Isaac, 632, 633.
Isaac O., 636.
Isaac C, 157, 634,
Jaraes H., 635.
Jesse, 633.
Jesse G D., 634.
John, 120, 632, 636.
772

Stearns, John N., 634,
636.
Joseph C, 637.
Josiah M., 634 635.
Julia, 637.
Leonard, 600, 637.
Louisa, 638.
Lucy E., 634 636.
Martha, 633.
Martha C, 634.
Mary, 375, 632.
Mary M., 190.
Nathan, 636.
NeUie G, 636.
Orpah, 367, 633.
Rebecca H., 681.
Richard H., 637.
Sarah A., 375, 632.
Thoraas, 181.
Thomas A., 181.
Timothy, 75, 83.
William F., 637, 638.
Steele, Mary, 593.
Stephen, Eliza, 416.
Stephenson, Sarah, 713.
Sterling, Lizzie, 245.
Stetson, Siraon, 496.
Stevens, Arthur L., 718.
Arvilla, 186.
Charles E., 612.
Deliverance, 408.
Elizabeth, 672.
Ephraim, 78, 88, 90.
Henrietta R, 612.
Henry R., 611.
Hiram, 303.
Jane, 600.
Joanna, 318.
John, 47, 153.
Jonathan, 75.
Joseph, 509.
Levi, 249.
Lucy, 357.
Mary, 304.
Samuel, 498.
Sarah, 343.
Stevenson, Margaret, 295.
Steward, Ida L., 276.
Stickney, Alfred, 640.
Amos, 638.
Anna, 639.
Asa, 639.
Benjamin, 638.
Charks, 639.
Eliza, 639.
George W., 639.
Hitte, 639.
Jane, 639.

Index

Stickney, Joseph, 91, 95,
638, 639.
Joseph H., 639.
Lizzie, 639.
Lyman, 640.
Maria, 681.
Martha, 248.
Mersylvia, 640.
Moody, 639.
Paul, 97.
Oliver, 639.
Richard, 90.
Thomas, 639.
Warren, 640.
William, 638, 639.
Stiles, Harriet E., 205.
Hattie A., 569.
Henrietta F., 315.
Stimpson, Mary, 587.
Royal, 678.
Stinson, Bethia, 636.
Eliza, 648.
Stoddard, Delina C, 672.
Martha, 404.
Stone, Abigail, 675.
Abijah, 393.
Asa, 641.
Charles M., 642.
David, 641.
Earl, 559.
Ebenezer, 481.
Elias, 640.
Elizabeth, 697.
Elizabeth F., 641.
Elizabeth H., 385.
Ellen, 642.
Elmira, 186, 347.
Eunice, 641.
Gregory, 490.
Hannah, 231.
Harriet, 716.
Helen M., 347.
Isaac, 641.
Isaac N., 642.
James, 640.
Jane, 640, 642.
Jesse, 642.
Joel, 641.
John, 640.
John P., 642.
Jonas, 641.
Joseph, 640.
Josiah, 78.
Laura A., 225, 384,
642.
Luther, 641.
Maria, 642.
Mary, 257, 492, 642.

Stone, Nathan, 236, 641,
642.
Nathaniel, 75, 83, 91,
106, 641.
Noyce, 641.
Polly, 696.
Relief, 642.
Ruth, 557.
Salmon, 89.
Sarah, 641.
Silas, 642.
Siraon, 640, 641.
Sophia, 270.
Thankful, 641.
Tiraothy, 642.
WilHam H., 642.
Zirari, 642.
Zoa, 642.
Storrs, Reuben, 347.
StoweH, Elizabeth, 263.
Lucinda, 621.
Mary, 690.
Nathaniel, 274.
Stowers, Ann, 486.
Strate, William, 83.
Stratton, Asa, 644.
Barnard, 647.
Caroline, 644.
Charles, 644.
Charles H., 118, 646.
Charles R., 646.
Daniel, 643, 645.
David, 75, 647.
Dolly, 644.
Ebenezer, 644.
Edward, 646.
Elbridge, 644.
Eleazar, 643.
Elizabeth, 644.
Eraraa F., 646.
Emogene A., 646.
Etta E., 646.
George E., 646.
G. Frederic, 646.
Hannah, 644.
Hezekiah, 643, 644.
James S., 118, 512,
646.
Jeremiah, 644, 645.
John, 644, 647.
Jonas, 643, 647.
Joseph, 643.
Levi, 647.
Lydia, 644, 645.
Martha, 647.
Mary, 468, 677.
Nehemiah, 88, 90, 93,
96, 644. 773

Stratton, Raymond, 645.
Sally, 644.
Sarauel, 643.
Sarah, 643.
Sarah E., 646.
Seth, 645.
Stillman, 646.
Susan J., 646.
Susan M., 645.
Thomas, 647.
William, 644, 645.
Streeter, Hannah,, 318.
Strong, Harrison W., 133.
Mary A., 378.
Phebe, 230.
Strout, George E., 485.
Stuart, Edward, 437.
Stubbs, Jessie B., 567.
Sullivan, John, 80.
Sumner, Harriet C, 197.
Samuel G, 670.
Sunbury, Arthur, 544.
Surette, Louis A., 604.
Sutcliffe, Mattie, 716.
Sutherland, Mary P., 575.
Sutter, Martha, 264
Swain, Elizabeth, 256.
Nathaniel, 75, 89, 91.
Swallow, Andrew S.,
113, 118.
Ellen H., 653.
Nellie M., 513.
Peter, 653.
Swalzwelder, Mary C,
563.
Swan, Elizabeth, 545.
Sarah, 248.
Swartz, Walter G, 513.
Swasey, Lydia A,, 538.
Sweatt, Moses E., 484.
Permelia C, 602.
Sweeney, Erama, 274.
Sweet, Alice, 408.
Samuel P., 598.
Sweetser, Charles H.,
368.
Swett, Eddy B., 205.
Sykes, Frances C, 370.
Syles, Mary, 248.
Sylvester, Adrianna, 648.
Carl A., 649.
Charles, 648.
Deborah, 648.
Edwin, 648, 649.
Eliza A., 386.
Fred, 649.
Harriet A., 649.

History of New Ipswich

Sylvester, John, 647.
Joseph, 647.
Lemuel H., 647.
Lucy, 648.
Mary E., 649.
Mary L., 648.
Merrick, 644, 649.
Philip H., 649.
Richard, 647.
Stephen, 649.
Stephen A., 649.
Stephen T., 648.
William H., 649.
Zinthia, 648.
Symes, Mary, 560.
Symmes, Caroline, 624.
Symonds, Asa, 529.
Eraraa L., 567.
Hannah, 531, 708.
Mary, 319, 584.
Melia, 191.
Rebecca, 369.
Thomas, 640.
Tabrahara, Robert J.,
545.
Taft, Herbert J., 149.
Taggard, Ira, 136.
James, 86.
Martha, 631.
Tainter, Edwin B., 574
William, 221.
Tait, Margaret B., 702.
Talbot, Sarah H., 320.
Talcott, Hart, 140.
Tapley, Harriet R., 251.
Tappan, Samuel S., 634.
Tarbell, Alice M., 207,
685.
Bessie M., 155.
Betsy, 181.
Candace, 366.
Charles L., 155.
George A., 680.
Sarah, 192, 272.
Tarbox, Experience, 455.
Sarah, 218.
Taylor, Abraham, 650.
Adella, 656.
Araos, 355, 650.
Asenath, 652.
Betsy, 592.
Bridget, 650.
Carrie, 655.
Catharine, 651. ,
Charles, 652, 655.
Charles C, 655.
Charles P., 327.

Taylor, Clarence G, 656.
C. Ralph, 656.
David, 650.
Edraund, 650.
Eleanor S., 654.
Elias, 286.
Eliza, 404 678.
Elizabeth H., 331,
654 691.
Emily, 653.
Emily A., 654.
Emma, 655.
Ephraira, 651.
Erwin H., 656.
Esther, 561.
Eugene H., 655.
Fanny G, 652.
George, 652, 654.
George M., 680.
George W., 653, 655.
Hannah, 651, 654
Harriet L., 655.
Harriet M., 656.
Harriet N., 654.
Harrietta M., 655.
HartweH J., 653, 655.
Henry, 653.
Hepzybeth, 652.
Hiram, 652.
James, 651.
Jane W., 586, 651,
655.
Jennie, 592.
John, 651.
Jonathan, 654
Laura, 653.
Lucy, 403, 651, 652,
653.
Lucy K., 653.
Lydia M., 619.
Martha F., 655, 660.
Mary, 344, 376, 651,
654, 655.
Milly, 652.
Myron, 655, 656.
Nathaniel, 652.
Olive A., 653.
Oliver S., 140, 652.
Persis, 490.
PhiHp W., 656.
Rachel, 651.
Reuben, 96, 651, 652,
654.
Rhoda, 695.
Ruth, 362, 652.
Samuel, 650,652,653.
Sarah, 243, 452, 652,
692. 774

Taylor, Sarah W., 654.
Silas, 90.
Sophia, 652.
Sophronia, 652.
Submit, 437.
Susannah, 652.
Sylvia, 652.
Thaddeus, 651.
Theodore, 613.
Thirza, 418.
Thomas S., 654.
Warren C, 656.
William, 265, 650,
651, 653.
Zebedee, 651.
Tebbitts, George B., 118.
Teel, Samuel, 444.
Teraple, Betsy, 269.
Harriet, 511.
John, 78, 79.
Mary R., 272.
Timothy G., 510.
Williara H., 659.
Templeton, Lydia C, 576.
Tenney, Abby M., 660.
Ada R, 663.
Adaline, 348.
Alfred, 659.
Alfred R., 659.
Alice F., 662.
Almira, 659.
ArviHa, 658. •
Asenath A., 659.
Barnard, 660.
Benjamin, 657, 658.
Betsy, 657.
Blanche M., 578.
Charles A., 660.
Charles R, 663.
Charles H., 661, 663.
Charles P., 663.
Clara B., 661.
Clara M., 662.
Clarissa W., 658.
Cora L., 663.
Edgar L., 663.
Ellen R, 660.
Erama L., 661.
Estella W., 662.
Ethel P., 578.
Eugene, 660.
Florence A., 662.
Florence B., 663.
Florence M., 578.
Flossie C, 663.
Frances, 661.
George F., 120, 658.
George W., 661.

Index

Tenney, Grace E., 578.
Hammon M., 659.
Hammon O., 662.
Harriet A., 658.
Hattie E., 662.
Helen I., 662.
Henry A., 660.
Homer, 662.
Irene L., 659.
James, 660.
James E., 578.
James H., 578.
Jennie L., 661.
John, 656, 657.
Joseph, 75, 89, 91,
657, 661.
Joseph A., 658, 660.
Joseph P., 659, 661.
Josephine T., 661.
Julia L., 663.
Lorena M., 659, 663.
Louise M., 663.
Lovina M., 659.
Lucy B., 658.
Lydia J., 659.
Lydia M., 660.
Lyman L., 659.
Madge B., 663.
Marie J., 661.
Marion A., 663.
Martha A., 660, 711.
Mary A., 658.
Mary E., 660.
Moses W., 660.
Myra F., 663.
Oliver, 657, 660, 662.
Osgood C, 662.
Pamele, 661.
Phila F., 272.
Philena A., 661.
Philip E., 662.
Ralph C, 663.
Roxana L., 661.
Ray P., 663.
Ruth M., 662.
Sampson, 657, 658,
659, 660.
Sampson M., 661,
663.
Samuel, 657, 661.
Sarah A., 659.
Sarah J., 662.
Sarah L., 661.
Susan L., 663.
Sylvia, 659.
Theodore, 660.
Thirza L., 661.
Thomas, 656.

Tenney, Velora E., 661.
Velora L., 663.
Wallace O., 662.
Wilber H., 662.
WiHard E., 659.
Wiliam B., 657, 658.
WiHiam P., 659, 661,
663.
Thacher, Caroline, SSO.
Thaxter, Elizabeth, 351.
Thaver, Albert G., 665.
Albert S., 666, 667.
Alice E., 666.
Arthur S., 668.
Beatrice, 668.
Bertha J., 667.
Edith E., 667.
Edward A., 118, 665,
666.
Everett H., 666.
Everett S., 667.
Ferdinando, 664.
F'rances H., 668.
Frank P., 667.
Frederic A., 665, 667.
Grace D., 668.
Grace J., 666.
Hannah, 664.
Harry E., 667.
Hattie F., 667.
Henry, 667.
Howard S., 6(£.
Joanna P., 664.
John, 664.
Lauretta S., 665.
Mabel L., 666.
Marion A., 666.
Mary E., 665.
Miriam A., 667.
Nettie A., 667.
Palatia, 664.
Permelia H., 665.
Philip C, 668.
Samuel A., 665, 666.
Sarah A, 665.
Smith, 664.
Stephen, 664.
Stephen H., 665,666.
Thomas, 664.
Walter S., 666, 668.
William A., 666, 667.
WilHam S., 665.
Thomas, Bethia, 458.
David, 333.
Delos, 535.
George R., 259.
John, 80, 82, 88, 91,
93. 775

Thomas, Joseph, 417.
Margaret, 327.
Mary A., 711.
Othniel, 97.
Thompson, AnnaM., 635.
Bessie T., 155, 353.
Czarina, 226.
Ezekiel, 710.
Jaraes E., 681.
Lottie A., 243.
Mary, 232.
Matthew, 618.
Nancy, 476.
William R., 133.
Thoms, Mary O., 707.
Thorn, Walter, 244.
Thornton, Caroline A.,
223.
Thurston, Esther, 247.
Lydia, 331.
Tibbeth, Dallas D., 264.
Tidder, James, 75, 87, 91,
93, 668.
MoUy, 668.
Solomon, 668.
Tilden, Zinthia, 647.
Tileston, Hannah, 351.
THlson, Orrin, 525.
Tilson, Jennie, 614.
Tilton, Eben, 693.
Tindall, George T., 526.
Harry B., 526.
Tingley, James W., 133.
Titus, Charles, 674
James, 674.
Lucy, 674.
Maria, 674.
Relief, 674.
Reuben, 674
Tobey, Charles W., 543.
Doris E., 543.
Marion I., S43.
Mary, 710.
Mildred P., 543.
WiHiam H., 543.
Tobin, Albert S., 372.
Arthur P., 372.
Todd, Adaline, 610.
James B., 196.
John, 610.
Martha, 610.
Williara, 610.
Tolman, Charles, 586.
Eliza, 359.
Henry, 586.
John, 326.
Josephine, 586.
Mary, 280.

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Tolman, Sarah, 586.
Tompkins, Margaret, 455.
Toms, Florence, 372.
Tory, Mary, 242.
Tower, George, 383.
Nancy C, 383.
Towne, Abigail, 671.
Alice, 405.
Almond S., 671.
Benjamin, 669, 670,
671.
Betsy, 539, 671.
Betty, 670.
Catharine, 669.
Cornelius, 670, 672.
Diana, 671.
Edraund, 84, 91, 96,
669, 670, 671.
Elijah, 670, 671.
Eliza, 671.
Elizabeth, 669.
Ezra, 75, 253, 669,
670.
Ezra, Jr., 670.
Francis, 670.
George M., 672.
Greene, 672.
Hannah C, 672.
Harriet E., 569.
Jereraiah, 669, 670.
John P., 672.
Joseph 669.
Joshua C, 259.
Lillian, 577.
Martha, 311.
Mary, 570, 672.
Mary C, 672.
Mercy, 670.
Nathaniel, 669.
Neheraiah, 670.
Phebe, 670.
Pliny R, 672.
Rebecca, 670.
Rhoda, 670.
Sarah, 670, 672.
Stephen, 671.
Susannah, 670.
Wilder, 670.
Williara, 668.
Townsend, Betty, 522.
David, 88.
George, 347.
Hannah, 521.
Lydia, 410.
Sarah, 380, 685.
Trask, Elizabeth, 263.
Treadwell, Susan, 523.
Trirable, Albert E., 238.

Trimble, Elmer, 238.
Frederic E., 238.
John, 238.
Mabel F., 238.
Walter H., 238.
Trowbridge, Abigail, 292,
294.
Evelene, 304.
Truant, Huldah, 458.
True, Betsy A., 576.
Trufant, Polly, 497.
Trull, Darkin, 303.
Hannah, 221.
Truslow, John, 503.
Tucker, Beatrice, 519.
Charles, 675.
Charles H., 307.
Edwin L., 519.
Eleanor B., 519.
Elizabeth, 674
Eraraa L., 134.
Fred L., 519.
Freeraan S., 238.
Hannah, 674.
Harriet M., 266.
Jonathan, 221.
Joseph, 673, 674 675.
Mary, 673, 674.
Mary A., 543.
Morris, 672.
Moses, 75, 80, 89, 90,
91, 93, 96, 673,674
Moses, Jr., 124
Phebe, 673.
Relief, 674
Reuben, 674
Sarah, 674.
Stephen, 675.
Sukey, 674.
Tufton, Thomas, 78, 79.
Tufts, Carrie, 525.
Charles W., 525.
Ellen M., 525.
Harriet M., 321.
John F., 452.
Turner, Asa, 153.
Ebenezer, 406.
Eleaner, 480.
James, 97.
Joseph, 135.
Rachel, 358.
Turrell, Electa, 396.
Tuttle, Arlette, 554.
Elizabeth, 392.
Helen M., 550.
Mary, 433.
Phebe, 278.
Twist, Jonathan, 96.
776

Twitchell, Samuel, 93.
Sarah, 196.
Tyler, Buckley O., 672.
Humphrey M., 120.
James A., 408.
Susan, 341.
Tyng, Mary, 558.
Uganst, Levi L., 682.
Underwood, Daniel, 675.
Jeremiah, 75, 95.
John, 356.
Joseph, 675.
Joshua, 675.
Reraembrance, 587.
Upham, Joanna, 685.
Phebe, 556.
Upton, Amy L., 684.
Charles, 512.
Dorcas, 429.
Eli, 95.
Lucy, 592.
Tabitha, 404.
William, 90, 95.
Uran, Abigail, 470.
Valentine, Eliza, 359.
Valley, David P., 567.
Van Meter, Martha E.,
662.
Van Syke, Clara, 265.
Varder, Hannah, 279.
Verder, Albert S., 611.
Charles W., 611.
John R, 611.
John R., 611.
Mary C, 611.
Myra J., 611.
Sarah J., 611.
Veren, Hannah, 203.
Verity, John, 564.
Verrill, Luther, 339.
Very, Bridgett, 442.
Vickey, Elizabeth R, 407.
Vila, Helen, 575.
Vining, Fremont S., 567.
Mary R, 322.
Vinney, Eugene M., 567.
Vosburg, Charles P., 225.
Vought, Mary, 512.
Wade, Elizabeth, 544.
Winthrop H., 211.
Winthrop, Jr., 211.
Wadsworth, Annie M.,
508.
Wagstaff, Martha A.,
347.

Index

Waite, Mary, 217.
Waitt, Mary, 365.
Walcott, Sarah, 404.
Waldo, Richard H., 666.
Walker, Abigail C, 346.
Addison A., 679, 681,
682.
Albert F., 145, 680,
682.
Alberto S., 680.
Alvin E., 682.
Anna, 676.
Annie W., 488.
Annette I., 681.
Belinda, 697.
Benjamin, 677.
Charles, 126, 132,
679, 681.
Charles M., 680.
Charles P., 679.
Dana S., 677.
Danforth, 678.
Daniel, 677.
David, 678.
Edward, 677.
Edward P., 679, 682.
Eliza A., 679.
Eliza G, 682.
Eliza L., 182.
Eraraa L., 682.
Euletta M., 680.
Fanny, 678.
Frances E., 679.
Fred S., 682.
George K., 680.
George W., 679, 680.
Hannah, 454, 678,
679.
Harriet S., 679.
Henry L., 679.
Henry O., 681.
Isaac, 678.
Jennie L., 680.
Jesse, 88, 91, 96, 676.
John, 75, 676, 677.
John H., 679, 681.
John K., 113, 118,
680.
Joseph, 677.
Joshua, 677.
Judith C, 626.
Leffa, 678.
Lena F., 682.
Louise F., 680.
Luther B., 679, 681.
Lydia, 627.
Maria A., 680.
Martha H., 679, 680.

Walker, Martha M., 678.
Mary E., 517, 680.
Mary S., 679.
Milly, 677.
Nabby, 676.
Nancy, 676.
Nathaniel, 679.
NeHie G, 681.
Patty, 678.
Rebecca, 270, 676,
678.
Robert B., 682.
Samuel, 88, 90, 96,
677.
Sarah, 676.
Sarah E., 680.
Silas B., 679, 680.
Silas L., 681.
Susan J., 681.
Susanna, 515.
Vesta A., 513.
William D., 679, 680.
WiUiam M., 680.
Zaccheus, 677.
Wall, Sarah B., 338.
Wallace, Andrew, 345.
Benoni, 682.
Charles D., 684.
Charles E., 683, 684.
Cora E., 684.
Cranmore, 140.
David, 682, 683.
David K., 683.
George F., 683.
George H., 684.
George R., 684.
Harriet, 683.
Hattie F., 684.
Herbert C, 684.
Herbert I., 684
John, 682.
John A., 683.
Mary E., 684.
Rodney, 683.
Romanzo, 683.
William K, 683.
Williara R., 684.
Wallis, Florence, 452.
Susanna, 719.
Walmsley, Elizabeth, 520.
Walsh, Thomas C, 538.
Walter, Henry, 400.
Walton, Alvah F., 685.
Bridget, 651.
Charles, 118, 684.
Charles H., 684.
Elizabeth, 331.
Ella G., 685.
777

Walton, Ellen M., 283.
Emily A., 684.
John, 684.
Josiah, 88, 90, 93,
95.
Nathan, 684.
Rachel, 415.
Samuel, 684.
Sarah C, 684.
Willard F., 685.
William, 684.
Ward, Elizabeth, 233.
Emily F., 289.
Levi, 222.
Margaret, 460.
Roy J., 654
Thankful, 392.
Ware, John, 141.
Warner, Abner S., 140.
Betsy C, 602.
John, 89, 180, 227.
Laura, 274.
Sarah, 643.
Warren, Abigail, 614.
Hannah, 610.
Jonathan, 198.
Joseph, 75, 96.
Wartraant, Isabella, 420.
Washburne, Frank, 351.
Marian G, 225.
Washer, Sarah, 281.
Waterraan, Ada C, 260.
Fanny, 556.
Louise M., 637.
Waters, Lillian M., 483.
Watkins, Kalinda, 491.
Watson, Hannah, 231.
Jean, 372.
Mary A., 232, 420.
Way, Roderick, 620.
Weaver, Caleb G., 603.
Caroline E., 341.
Caroline 1., 603.
Webb, Asenath L., 251.
Webber, Annie V., 316.
Christopher, 90.
Ezra, 135.
Genevieve, 685.
Hannah, 357.
Irene, 327.
Jonathan, 644.
Josiah, 685.
Martha, 473.
Porter B., 386.
WiHiara, 93.
Webster, Abigail, 134.
Araos, 448.
Elizabeth, 609.

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Webster, Jonathan, 134.
Julia, 200.
Mary, 207, 382.
Nellie, 430.
Peter, 87.
Weeden, Charles K.,330.
Welch, Prudence, 267.
Weld, Anna, 200.
Chester, 344.
Dorothy, 200.
George F., 200.
George F., Jr., 200.
Sumner A., 200.
Susan J., 586.
Wellington, Amos, 439.
Darius, 339.
Edward, 693.
Elvira G, 439.
Frank E., 687.
Henry B., 339.
Horace H., 439, 693.
Horatio, 439.
Joel, 583.
Joseph, 693.
Mary J., 439.
Rebecca, 492.
Wellman, Althea, 349.
Wells, Alice A., 629.
Araelia, 472.
Aray E., 629.
Fred S., 629.
Henry P., 629.
Lettie G, 629.
Lucy M., 349.
Lydia F., 351.
Mary E., 621.
Rebecca, 460.
Samuel, 197.
Wentworth, Benning, 43.
Lydia C, 514
Mark H., 50.
Samuel H., 147.
Wesley, David, 700.
Wesson, Nathan, 88.
West, Daniel, 401.
Westgate, Earl W., 140.
Weston, Amos, 695.
Azubah, 404.
Charles A„ 401, 685.
Ellen M., 685, 695.
Frank, 118.
George, 686.
George S., 686.
Harriet N., 655.
Helen, 557.
Isaac, 685.
Jacob, 133.
James, 685.

Weston, James A., 685.
John, 685.
Mary, 685.
Mary E., 685.
Nathan, 78.
Rogers, 685.
Samuel, 421, 685.
Sarah, 564.
Stephen, 685.
William L., 113, 118.
Westwood, Sarah, 335.
Wetherbee, Ann E., 275.
Caroline, 623.
Charlotte, 339.
Clara L., 686.
Daniel, 175.
EHza A., 648.
Ellen M., 686.
George E., 686.
Hattie A., 686.
Henry L., 686.
Hezekiah, 94, 686.
John, 686.
Joseph, 332, 686.
Joseph S., 686.
Nancy M., 444.
Nathan, 553.
Phebe, 234.
Sarah, 255.
WiHis G, 686.
Whalley, William T., 440.
Wharton, Charles, 264.
Wheat, Abigail, 268.
Benjarain, 124.
Jonathan, 75, 82, 99.
Wheaton, Elizabeth, 319.
Sybil, 241.
Wheeler, Abbie E., 700.
Abbie J., 573.
Abby J., 696.
Abigail, 688, 693.
Adaline A., 700.
Albert, 697.
Alice J., 698.
Allen F., 699.
Almira, 690.
Amanda W., 698.
Amos, 89, 90, 689.
Ann E., 697.
Anna, 226, 568.
Anna J., 698.
Annie H., 702.
Arteraas, 337.
Arthur F., 702.
Asa N., 694.
Asenath, 692.
Augustus C, 695,
699. 778

Wheeler, Benjamin F.,
694.
Bertha, 701.
Betsy, 692, 694.
Caroline E., 693.
Caroline V., 700.
Carrie M., 694.
Charles, 144,695,699.
Charles A., 699, 702.
Charles F., 696.
Charles M., 697, 701,
702.
Charles S., 700.
Clara E., 682, 696.
Cyrus W., 693.
Daniel, 695, 700.
David, 689, 691, 693.
Dixon D., 699.
Dixon D., Mrs., 134.
Dorothy, 689.
Edward E., 701.
Edward R., 147, 700,
702.
Edward W., 702.
Elisha C, 606.
Elizabeth, 408, 409,
691, 695.
Elizabeth C, 693.
Emily, 689.
Emily M., 700.
Ernest M., 700.
Ernest N., 695.
Eugene C, 695.
Eugene S., 694.
Eugene W., 698, 702.
Eunice F., 698.
Eva S., 695.
Frances L., 697, 700.
Frank M., 701.
Frank S., 702.
Franklin B., 697.
Fred A., 699, 702.
Fred H., 698.
Florence E., 702.
George, 687, 698.
George E., 696.
George H., 695.
George S., 353, 573,
613, 696.
George W., Ill, 691,
695, 701.
Grace, 257, 688.
Grace L., 694.
Harriet, 690, 693.
Hattie C, 698.
Henrietta S., 702.
Henry B., 693, 698.
Herbert R., 699.

Index

Wheeler, Horace B., Ill,
120, 693, 698.
Ida J., 694
J. KimbaH, 715.
John, 75, 87, 96, 688,
691, 692.
John A., 573.
John B., 467.
John P., 573, 690.
Jonas, 75, 84, 89, 91,
93, 688, 689.
Jonathan, 691.
Joseph, 688, 693.
Joseph A., 142, 695,
698.
Joseph O., 689.
Joshua S., 690, 694.
Josiah, 688.
Josiah P., 113, 118,
179, 690.
Katharine M., 701.
Levi, 697.
Lewis G., 690, 694
Lewnelle E., 694.
Lois, 695.
Louisa, 690, 693.
Lucile, 702.
Lucy S., 379.
Lucy T., 695.
Lydia, 179, 185, 687,
691.
Mabel E., 702.
Maria J., 386, 697.
Martha E., 691.
Martha J., 698.
Mary, 432, 474 479,
489, 524, 695.
Mary C, 699.
Mary E., 694 700.
Mary R, 698.
Mary J., 701.
Mary L., 573.
Mehitable, 689.
Melissa A., 693.
Mila, 692.
Minnie M., 694.
Moses, 692, 697.
Moses S., 690.
Myron B., 702.
Nancy A., 573, 685.
Nancy J., 700.
Nathan, 179.
Nathan T., 700.
Nellie R, 573.
Orton H., 701.
Persis, 689, 692.
Polly, 688, 691, 696.
Rachel, 692.

Wheeler, Rebecca, 695.
Rhoda T., 695.
Richard, 89, 90, 217,
691, 695.
Roxanna, 691.
Ruth A., 455.
Sally, 691.
Samuel, 90, 93, 691,
695, 700.
Samuel C, 340, 689,
693.
Samuel E., 702.
Samuel W., 693, 697.
Sarah, 433, 452, 692.
Sarah E., 514 690.
Sarah M., 693.
Seth, 97, 692, 696.
Seth L„ 696, 700.
Silas, 692, 694.
Silas J., 697.
Simon, 688.
Sophia, 694.
Sophronia, 693.
Stephen, 692, 696,
702.
Stephen D., 157, 696,
700.
Stephen W., 289, 697.
Susan C, 690.
Susanna, 688, 691.
Thomas, 687.
Timothy, 421, 687,
688, 693.
Walter S., 701.
William, 573, 687,
696, 698.
William E., 701.
William S., 702.
Winslow, 702.
Wheelock, Abigail, 609.
Eleazar, 703.
Ithamar, 86, 703.
Joel, 75 83.
Jonas, 703.
Jonathan, 91.
Lewis, 703.
Martha, 557.
Pezinah, 703.
Phebe, 703.
Ralph, 703.
Samuel, 703.
Sarah, 703.
Timothy, 75, 83, 703.
Whipple, Benjamin F.,
563.
Clarissa B., 270.
Elizabeth A., 563.
Frank P., 563.
779

Whipple, James, 94.
Kate, 563.
Mary, 640.
Sally, 559.
WiHiara M., 349.
Whitcorab, Betsy, 659.
Edwin F., 502.
Elizabeth, 387.
Hannah, 567, 704.
John, 473, 480.
Oliver, 473.
Polly, 599.
Priscilla M., 611.
Silas, 611.
White, Archibald, 78, 90.
Benjamin, 140.
Betsy, 478.
Charles H., 626.
Daniel, 79.
Ernest L., 698.
Fanny, 50O.
John, 88, 601.
Margaret, 245, 388.
Mary, 682.
Nancy M., 305, 678.
Sarah, 473.
WiHiam, 382, 384.
Whiting, David, 622.
Fanny, 243.
Frank H., 525.
George, 111.
Grace, 641.
Jonas, 556.
Mary, 200.
Mercy, 556.
Patty, 243,
Ruxbey, 600.
Whitlock, Frances E.,
439.
Rose, 539.
Whitman, Alfred, 276.
Whitmarsh, Charles E.,
435.
Edward, 435.
Eva, 435.
John C, 435.
Mary F., 435.
Timothy F., 435.
Whitmore, Henry, 665.
Mary, 678.
Whitney, Abigail, 485.
Adeline E., 706.
Albert A., 706.
AHen, 707.
Amanda, 706.
Benjamin, 704.
Carl R., 707.

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Whitney, Caroline M.,
216, 717.
Catharine A., 706.
Charles, 236, 705.
Charles A., 155, 705.
Charles P., 707.
Christopher C, 705,
Cora A,, 707.
David, 236.
EHzabeth, 392.
EUa, 488.
Elnora C, 706.
Emily L., 706.
Ethel M., 707.
Ezekiel, 704.
George F., 236.
Harriet C, 236, 706.
Harry H., 707.
Helen T., 706.
Henry A., 705.
Henry H., 706.
Henry I., 706.
Herbert W., 707.
Jaraes, 236.
J. Cushing, 554.
John, 704.
John H., 118, 707.
Josiah, 617, 704.
Julia, 707.
Lemuel, 705.
Leslie H., 707.
Lorna B., 707.
Lucius M., 236.
Lydia, 553.
Mabel M,, 494.
Mary A., 706.
Mary C, 236.
Melvin B., 707.
Mercy, 477.
Myron O., 707.
Nathaniel, 704.
NelHe E., 261.
Newton O., 707.
Otis, 707.
Permelia, 706.
Phineas, 705.
Rachel, 613.
Richard, 704.
Ruth E., 523, 596.
Sarah E., 482, 622,
705.
Sibbel, 610.
Sophia, 707.
Waldo D., 707.
Wilbur C, 707.
William, 704.
Whiton, Elizabeth D.,
205.

Whittaker, Mary, 300,
650.
Whitteraore, Frank H,,
374.
Mehitable, 484.
Peletiah, 78, 87.
PermeHa, 559.
PoHy, 337.
Samuel, 75, 106, 233.
Washington, 550.
Zebedee, 591.
Zebediah, 89, 90.
Whittier, Charlotte, 602.
Wiggin, H. N., 133.
Wight, Deborah, 322.
Wilcomb, C. J., 133.
Wilcox, Mary J., 284.
William R., 507.
Wilde, Ruth, 325.
Wilder, Edward R., 261.
Flavel, 653.
Isaac, 491.
Jane M., 517.
Lavinia J., 251.
Mary, 387.
Permelia, 436.
Sophia H., 436.
Susanna, 669.
Wildon, Minnie E., 437.
Wilds, Sarah, 630.
Wiley, Jane, 586.
Maria O., 559.
Wilkenson, Elizabeth,
404.
Prudence, 278.
Wilkes, Henry, 244.
Wilkins, Abigail, 616.
Betty T., 233.
John, 75.
Judson, 610.
Lavinia, 433.
Louise, 367.
Lovice, 573.
Nabby, 289.
Sarah, 337.
Willard, Ada R, 567.
Adeline, 709.
Alice P., 567.
Andrew H., 708, 709.
Augusta A., 708.
Charles A,, 436.
Charles J., 709.
Charlotte L., 709.
Dorcas, 229.
Edwin, 709.
Elizabeth W., 242,
517.
Frank H., 567.
780

WiHard, Fred A., 708.
George, 708.
Henry, 708.
Henry A., 708.
Henry L., 567.
Herbert A., 588.
James A., 708.
Jane M., 708.
Jonathan, 86.
Joseph, 697, 708.
Lucy, 344.
Margaret, 669.
Margery, 361.
Maria N., 708.
Mary A., 708.
Sarah C, 345.
Sarah S., 400.
Simeon, 708.
Susan C, 708.
Susanna, 486.
Willey, Charles T., 404.
Daniel, 347.
Sarah, 280, 408.
Williams, Abigail, 709.
Ann, 710.
Arvilla, 677.
Benjamin, 78, 83, 87,
90, 93, 95, 106, 709.
Benjamin B., 7iO.
Charles C, 247, 711.
Cordeha S., 711.
David, 711.
Deborah, 711.
Elzina S., 710.
Ephraira, 710.
George C, 259, 710.
George G, 710, 711.
Gertrude, 327.
Gibson T., 711.
Hannah, 710.
Hepzibah, 709.
Hiram, 704, 705.
Isaac, 671.
Isaiah, 711.
Isaiah H., 710.
Isaiah T., 711.
Jane P., 711.
John M., 711.
Julia A., 711.
Loretta, 711.
Louisa B., 710.
Lucy, 710.
Lucy A., 711.
Lucy E., 711.
Lucy R, 710.
Martha A., 713.
Mary, 711.
MHHcent, 709.

Index

Williams, Milly S., 711.
Milly T., 710.
Nelson, 711.
Noah B., 710.
Patty, 710.
Rebecca, 365, 710.
Rhoda, 709.
Rhoda B., 710.
Ruth T., 557, 710.
Salome, 710.
Susanna, 365.
Willis, Delia, 376.
Wilmarth, L. M., 133.
Wilraet, Eleanora, 176.
Wilson, Abbie A., 715.
Abby, 714.
Abigail, 460, 713.
Adeline L., 717.
Agnes A., 718.
Albert, 715.
Alfred A., 712.
Alice M., 717.
Alraira J., 716.
Andrew, 718.
Ann, 714
Annie, 393, 716.
Augustus, 714.
Augustus M., 715,
717.
Betsy A., 714.
Braman 1., 282.
Caroline B., 282.
Catharine A., 716.
Charles, 715, 716.
Charles E., 472.
Charles R, 715, 717.
Charles L., 717.
David, 711.
Edward, 714
Elvira, 715.
Ernest G., 717, 718.
Etta M., 717.
Ezekiel J., 715.
Florence S., 718.
Francis R., 716.
Frank C, 716.
Frank S., 718.
Frederic W., 717.
George, 716.
George E, 715, 717.
George W., 118.
Gertrude, 718.
Gilbert M., 715.
Grace K., 717.
Hannah, 712.
Harriet, 714.
Harry A., 718.
Hattie A., 718.

Wilson, Henry A., 506.
Henry W., 372, 716.
Hirara C, 382.
Horace M., 716.
Horace W., 715, 717.
Ina B., 717.
Isaac, 713, 715, 718.
Isaac N., 715.
James, 82, 545, 582,
714
James A., 715.
James H., 715.
Jane, 714
John, 712, 713, 718.
John G, 714 716.
John S., 712.
Jonas, 75, 91.
Joseph A., 7M, 716.
Josiah T., 625, 718.
Julia, 476.
Kate M., 717.
Lauretta M., 716.
Lena, 717.
Leonard, 718.
LilHe v., 552.
Maria, 359.
Mary, 487, 714.
Mary A., 518, 715.
Matthias S., 714 715.
Moses C, 712.
Nellie A., 717.
Pearl H., 717.
Peter J., 712.
Rachel, 713.
Rebecca, 713.
Ruth R, 715.
Ruth G, 718.
Sally, 550, 714
Samuel, 713.
Sarauel E., 716.
Sarauel G, 715, 717.
Samuel T., 716.
Sarah, 713, 715.
Sophronia, 476, 714.
Stephen, 448.
Supply, 75, 83, 712,
713.
Supply C, 714
Supply F., 713.
Susan, 7l4.
Susanna, 522, 713.
WilHam H., 118, 134
138, 142, 712.
William K., 448.
Winans, Sarah, 275.
Winch, Mary, 384.
Molly, 345.
William J., 554
781

Winchell, Charles, 281.
Harriet, 280.
Wing, Ebenezer, 318.
Frank A., 291.
Ichabod, 318.
Irma E., 656.
Moses, 318.
Winn, Eliza M., 271.
Lucy, 560.
Winship, Eraily, 588.
Mary, 268, 492.
Submit, 236.
Winslow, Ina H., 702.
Wise, Henry, 418.
Wiseman, Joseph, 347.
Wishart, Ira R., 697.
Withington, Jennie, 243.
Wolcott, Sally, 273.
Wood, Abigail, 473.
Albert E., 604.
Benjamin, 600.
Bethia, 354
Betsy, 697.
Charles, 499.
Cora, 551.
Dolly, 542.
EHzabeth, 248.
Elton, 698.
Gleason, 430.
Grace C, 688, 700.
Hannah, 479, 609.
Harriet, 192.
Henry, 480, 625.
Judith G, 618.
Louisa, 661.
Lucy, 564, 577.
Marian, 567.
Mary E., 176, 224,
229
Ruth,' 687.
Sumner G., 130.
Susan, 234, 630.
Vianna L., 237.
Williara P., 327.
Woodberry, Sarah M.,
566.
Woodbury, Abigail, 537.
Elizabeth, 220.
Irene, 270.
Lucy, 644.
Lydia, 509.
Lydia S., 606.
Maria A., 683.
Susanna, 657.
Woodcock, Williara L.,
646.
Woodraan, Florence, 352.
John, 352.

History of New Ipswich

Woodman, Mary, 382.
Woodmansey, Elizabeth,
379.
Woods, Anna, 457.
Arlene P., 524.
Caroline, 243.
Edwin, 524.
Fred M., 524.
Harry L., 524.
Herbert M., 524.
Milly, 142.
Myron M., 370.
Robert M., 389.
Sarah, 616.
Sibbel, 242.
Woodson, George, 534.
Sarah, 534
Woodward, Anna, 322.
Charles, 240.
Elsie A., 523.
George H., 238.
Mildred M., 240, 707.
Wooley, Rachel, 643.
Woolson, Anna, 719.
Elizabeth, 719.
George, 719.
Jonas, 147, 719.
Martha, 719.
Nathan, 720.
Susanna, 719.
Thomas, 718.
Wooster, Dorothy, 688.
Fanny, 201.
Worcester, Samuel, 140.

Worcester, Sarah, 657.
Worden, Rachel E, 501.
Worth, Susanna, 554
Worthington Rhoda J.,
345.
Wright, Abigail, 508, 548.
Albert R, 118, 142.
Alfred, 471.
Bertha, 189.
Betsy, 685.
Charles A., 118.
Clara E., 700.
Clarissa E., 302.
Daniel C, 340.
Dorothy, 257.
Edward, 118.
Ella, 315.
Ellen M., 315.
E. Urania, 261.
Eveline A., 465, 625.
Flora, 258.
Frances A., 472.
Frances W., 339.
Harriett, 583.
Henry G, 440.
Isaiah, 236.
Jeannette W., 260.
Joseph, 75, 83.
Levi, 440.
Lucy R., 260.
Lydia, 460.
Mary, 300, 332.
Maud, 440.
MHHcent, 271.

Wright, Nettie C, 243.
Oliver, 89, 90, 172.
Patty, 270.
Phcebe, 508.
Sarah, 269, 492, 541.
Simon, 235.
Wyand, John A., 506.
Wyatt, Mary, 404.
Wyer, Alice B., 295.
Arthur C, 295.
Wyman, Abijah, 97.
Alfred A., 258.
Elizabeth, 263.
Franklin, 258.
Johannah, 345.
Samuel, 269.
Sarah, 257, 667.
Susan, 292.
Yarmon, John, 86, 88.
Yates, William I., 665.
William V., 665.
York, John B., 417.
Joseph, 480.
Young, Agnes G, 698.
Anna S., 183.
Charles A., 183.
Ernest 0., 717.
Harriet, 416.
Inez, 319.
Ira, 183.
Youngman, Hannah, 620.

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